Back on Track

This week was the last straw. I weighed myself this morning and I have gained 12 lbs back of the weight I lost. I blame my new job and my lack of will power. The employee cafeteria always has a dangerous assortment of desserts and besides the salad bar, no healthy choices for hot food. I was talking with one of my co-workers and she is desperate to lose weight before a wedding she has to go to in August. I told her about the Six Week Body Makeover diet that I had been on and she wants to try it and I figure, maybe having someone else to do this with will get me started. Besides, I had told myself, once I hit the 10 lbs mark (gain back) I was going hard core back on the plan.

I like the plan because it was a matter of changing my eating habits and not necessarily a diet. You eat alot (5 times a day), you just eat healthy food, so you are not hungry or craving things. My biggest obstacle is cutting back on sodium. I had no idea how much sodium I took in until I started paying attention to it. Once I got used to it, it didn't feel like a diet. After being on it for a while, your metablolism speeds up so when you splurge a little (I started going out one night a week) you didn't gain weight. I even kept losing! I was continuing to do well until I moved to South Carolina and suffered through a crappy job and adjusting to a new place and eating out and getting all the good southern style food. Now that I am settled, I will be able to go back to precooking my meals and cutting back on the drinking and ice cream.

I think I am going to set my goal at losing 22 lbs. by July 14th. I want to lose the 12 lbs I gained and then an additional 10 lbs. I think I am reasonable. Thats about 3 1/2 lbs a week. Last time I started this plan I lost 30 lbs in 8 weeks.

Feeling So Fricken' Old

Yesterday I had to attend Orientation for the new hotel I'm working at even though I have been there for 3 weeks and have pretty much figured it out. It is mandatory though. Because it is the beginning of the summer and our hotel uses TONS of interns, I had the distinct pleasure of being one of only 3 people over the age of 22.

By about 11:30am I was ready to slap some of them. So annoying. The girls were talking during the presentations and SO loud while we were doing the hotel tour. I had to tell them to quiet down and respect the fact that we were walking on guest floors and may disturb someone (me maybe). The tour including looking at examples of suites and standard rooms and when we went in the rooms they were jumping on the beds and "checking out" the mini bar. I mean, come on people! This is not college or some stupid field trip at school, this is going to be your place of employment for the next 3 months! While we were on the tour, I was talking to the HR Coordinator who was leading the tour, a 50ish year old black woman, and she said to me, "Honey, this is why I quit teaching." I told her that this group made me feel like an old lady myself. My eye sockets hurt from rollig my eyes so much...

The interns at the hotel are from all over and the hotel puts them up in these villas across the island, so they are pretty much still living the college life. God, I miss those days. They were talking about keg parties and being up all night and going out. While they were talking about what they were going to wear to the bars that night, me and the other new sales manager discussed housing developments and builders and the cost of living here vs. South Florida (she had just moved from there). When did I get so old? I have no reason to be mature. I have no children. I still take pleasure in tormenting my beloved cats and think fart jokes are funny. I always thought of myself as the funloving, carefree, up-for-whatever kinda girl. What happened? How did I get to be almost 30 years old!

Just Chillin' in SC

Nothing much has been happening lately. I am still enjoying my new job. Hubby and I are still house hunting. We have a decent shot at getting a house built in this really nice community. We are just trying to fenagle a couple of things with the builder. I'm still in amazement that a bank would be silly enough to approve us for a loan. Silly bank... Other than that, nothing really exciting has been happening.

One bad thing about my new job is the accessability to food. The employee cafeteria is pretty much open all day and always seems to have an assortment of cakes and pies. My weakness has always been dessert. And I have very little will power. My new position also has me sitting at a desk a majority of the day and by the time I get home from work, I am too tired or its too late to get to the gym. I would go to the gym before work, but I have to get up by 6am to get to work on time as it is and the gym opens at 5:30am. I'm going to try to suck it up and regain some form of will power before gaining 5 pounds bakc turns into 15 or 25. A couple of the girls I work with are talking about walking on our lunch break, which would be awesome. When I do get to the gym, I am still jogging and doing the stairclimber or recumbant bike.

I found this picture from when we went to Memphis to see hubby's family. This was taken at the riverside park. I can't get over how big the kids are getting. We don't get to see them that often (maybe once a year if we are lucky). Hopefully, we will get to see them more often as we settle down. That will be another plus of having a house. The floorplan we are looking at will have 3 bedrooms, so there will be plenty of room for visitors...

So Far So Good

Things have been going well recently. I have a new job that I know I will enjoy. It is a little bit of a drive to get to and from work, but that will only be temporary. Hubby and I have been looking for houses in an area that will cut both of our commutes in half.

Last weekend we went up to Charleston and were invited to be on one of the shrimp boats for "The Blessing of the Fleet". I had a blast. It was a little chilly on the water, but we had a lot of beer and tons of food. Here are some pics: