LET'S RECAP, SHALL WE?

November has not been a stellar month for me. I'm not sure what happened, but I definitely got off-track. At the end of October, I was down 11.8 lbs. Then all this bullshit happened:

11/8: +3.2
11/15: +0.2
11/22: would have been a loss, but I never got to weigh-in
11/29: +4.0 (damn you, Mr. Turkey!)

So, in the span of a month, I gained 7.4 lbs back. WHAT THE HELL? I have no idea what happened to me, but I was hella mad last week and decided to kick my own ass.

This week, I ate really well. There's an organic/health-food place right outside my building, and I started getting their 100% veggie soups for lunch - and they were delicious. I also had Poland Spring start home delivery so that I would ALWAYS have water - no excuses, and no more diet soda in the house. Then, I did what I needed to do: I added in a lot more exercize and got my ass MOVING.

It didn't even take very much. I did the following program:

*4 walks per day with Julip (my dog)= 2 miles
*20 mins on the treadmill every morning
*5-7 mins of ab crunches immediately following the treadmill
*5-7 mins of weight training for arms

In total, I probably did about 60 mins of exercize each day, but it was broken up into smaller/more bearable increments. I walk Julip 3-4 times a day anyhow, so that wasn't a huge change in the schedule. The other 40 minutes I did at about 10:00 every morning after I had my coffee and breakfast.

And I didn't die from it. In fact, I kind of look forward to it now. I set my laptop up on the bookrack of the treadmill, take out my Netflix movie, and watch a movie for 20 minutes while I walk. It couldn't be easier. And each week, I'm going to try and add a few more minutes.

And it paid off: I lost 3.6 lbs this week. Now I'm back down a total of 8 lbs. 3.8 lbs to get back to where I was and moving forward again. Probably two more weeks for me to do that.

I'll be going into 2007 proud that I'm a loser, not a gainer!