No worries, none of the above happened, well maybe I kind of dropped off the face of the planet. for the past month I've been doing a lot of traveling, first I was at my sisters house for a week helping her out with her kids... really all I did was set up my office there and worked from home while her kids did their own thing, her teenagers are the best! And then for the last 2 weeks I've been in Utah eating as much Cafe Rio as possible, and visiting as many friends and family as I could. I was fairly successful, but I didn't get to see my cousins Katie and Barbara and that really bummed me out.
So with all my traveling I didn't really think much about updating my blog, and honestly I was a little disappointed in myself with how much I didn't pay attention to my new goals. I took my swimsuit with me, but never used it. I'm comfortable now using my pool and maybe sometimes the Norton Commons YMCA pool, but going to a pool I don't know for some reason was incredibly intimidating to me. I could have easily taken walks every day, but I didn't, I enjoyed taking naps and playing with my cute little niece Natalie. I also ate out way too much. I did go grocery shopping when I got to Utah and bought food that I could have for breakfast and stuff, but I didn't make much effort to make good decisions for lunch and dinner. Because of that since I've been home I've been too scared to get on a scale to see how much damage was done.
With all the things that I failed at while on vacation, that doesn't mean I've failed, or I should give up. The morning after I got back to Kentucky I sat down and did my weekly meal planning, and made a grocery shopping list, because I came back to an almost empty refrigerator (I had a stalk of celery and 2 bell peppers). I've been doing a lot better with my goals since I got home, but it's hard for me to go from eating out a lot to not at all. It helps that I have practically no money haha.
Not only have I worked hard to get back to eating better, I've been trying to get back to exercising, yesterday I swam 25 laps and today I walked 1.3 miles. I'm thinking about doing this Iron Man challenge thing at the Norton Commons YMCA, it's where you complete an entire Iron Man over the course of a month. It's only $5 to participate and that gets you a t-shirt, so any of my local YMCA member friends that want to join me I'd love support :). And even my non-local friends if you want to join me you could just keep track of your progress at home. I feel like the swimming part and the walking part won't be too difficult, but honestly I never bike, or use the stationary bikes so that part is going to be the hard part to fit in I think.
So guys, I'm back, I'm still figuring out this whole blog thing, I'm open to suggestions if y'all would like me to post more often, post about other things, anything like that, I'd love to hear ideas. I'm hoping to change the look of the blog, but that may take a little time.
