Accountability Partner found???

I MAY have found an accountability partner. 

It's HUBBY! 

I never asked him, I never told him that he needs to change what he is doing, but this past weekend, he said to me that he's going to make an appointment to see his doctor but he wants to kick start a bit of weight loss before he goes. 

Say what??? 

I've been on him for years and years, but he has not wanted to do it. Ever. 

But I think he finally realizes it's time. SO I will be his support and he will be mine. 

We came across our first challenge this week with a trivia night on Tuesday at the pub, so I took it upon myself to cancel. We don't need to start off the week with a failure. 

I'm so excited for his journey.  I need to reel myself in a bit as I can get a bit controlling etc, but it's exciting to see him taking care of himself. 

Let's go!!! 

My Test Worked and then...

Lol... the 2 weeks that I tracked and drank my water and limited snacking were great! The scale even moved and I felt great! 

YAY!!!! 

But then I stopped. Stopped Tracking, stopped drinking water and started shoveling food into my mouth whenever I seemed to walk by the kitchen! 

I need an accountability partner. Someone to remind and push me... hubby is useless when it comes to that and I my two very close friends won't be of much help. One is on Ozempic so never eats and the other doesn't have any kind of issue with food so she doesn't feel my pain. 

Maybe I'll put some reminders on my phone to "remind me to drink and track" and to "put that cookie down!". 

Round 500 let's go. 

Update of the update

 So I wanted to do three things to reign in the bad habits and see if the scale would start moving - how did I do? 

1) drink more water  - I think all in all I did better with this. Still not great, but at least I was filling up my water bottle a few times during the day, rather than filling it up in the morning and then not taking a sip until I was going to bed.. True story! 

2) No snacking after dinner - I did really really good with this one. I want to add in trying to remove that mid afternoon snack now... 

3) tracking my food - started off really good and then stopped tracking on the weekend. I did notice when I started tracking HOW MUCH food I was actually eating. When I would have to stop to add the food into my little app, I realized how quickly those calories add up. Seeing the numbers add up made me want to stop shoveling food into my face, but when I stopped tracking, the accountability went out the door and I found that I was eating more and more. So baby steps. 

I am going to keep up with the 3 this week and see how I do. My weight was starting to drop by end of the week but then it started creeping up for no real reason. 

At least no real reason I thought until yesterday morning when my period arrived. It's been about 4 months since I've had one and so it came out of the blue but at least the weight gain made sense at that point. 

I am still weighing daily - I watched a youtube a few weeks back and the creator had gone to the doctor and the doctor had told her to weigh herself each day, same time, wearing the same thing if possible. She asked him why and said she had always heard it was not good to weigh every day. He said, if he had a patient that had high blood pressure he would tell them to monitor it by taking a blood pressure reading daily so it really is no different asking someone with a weight problem to monitor their weight daily with a scale.  That made so much sense to me so I don't feel guilty about weighing everyday and I do think it keeps me on track. 

So continuing with the plan... will report a loss/gain after I get through this TOM or time of year in my case! 

Little changes

So I've been good the last week, but no movement on the scale. Yes, it went down a few lbs and then back up right away. 

It's time to make some changes. I know that my weight only changes when I make adjustments in the kitchen. It won't matter how often I ride the bike or go for walks so it's time to change the kitchen habits. 

Things I want to improve or change this week:

1) more water 

2) no snacking after dinner - I want to limit snacks in the day as well but current goal is after dinner

3) track my food - this will be the hardest but if I can get back into the routine, I can at least see what I'm eating and more importantly HOW MUCH I'm eating. Cause it's more than I think it is. 

Let's see if this can kick start something.... 

Where oh Where did the summer go?

 It's been a hot minute since I've updated and even though it's been extremely busy, it hasn't been overly interesting and note worthy! 

LOL - but here we are at the edge of another fall season. I like fall. I used to love fall but our falls have been dreary lately, with lots of rain and colder days. It is the start of football season which I love because it means family time. Yes, I like the game too, but I LOVE sundays with the family, hunkered down, yelling at the TV. It's my happy season for that reason. 

A little update on me. Nothing much new. I've been a little slacking on the exercise front, although we had been doing lots of bike rides, it's now the time to dust off the old Peloton and get some regular cycles in. I was doing min of 1 ride a week but I want to ramp that up to 4 a week with a few strength sessions as well. 

My weight is up. As expected. It's always up in September - which is another reason that I no longer love Fall! :) I'm hovering between 183 and 185. I thought it might just be water weight after our 2 week holiday but it's still there after a week so it's not water weight. Time to get rid of it though. 

Hoping to do more updates as I do think they keep me more accountable. Also catching up on youtube pages and other blogs that I regularly read for motivation. 

Here we goooo again. 

Wedding down... next stop 100km bike ride

The wedding is over and it was absolutely beautiful. I chose the green dress and I loved it BUT.... I got zero pictures in it. Don't know what I was thinking. So stupid. 

It was super hot that day - 36 Cs or 97 F.  I had antiperspirants over my entire body!! 

But it was lovely and we had a great little vacation getaway to wine country. 

Now we are back for a few weeks and then plan for our 100km  or 62 mile ride to Sooke, BC. I'm not overly concerned about the ride as it's fairly flat terrain and our ebikes should get us there without having to charge but I am concerned about my buttocks! I will purchase a pair of padded bike shorts to help with the cushion. 

I'm hoping my peloton rides will help my endurance and allow me to turn off the motor on my bike and ride without assist. We will see. 

A little update on the Peloton. Do I still love it? I do.... I started a strength training program as well but with vacation etc, I get interrupted doing it so I will wait until our vacation is over to pick it up again. You have to do it on certain days or you don't get credit for it so I'll wait until my days are free once again. 

My weight is still the same - 180 but I have drastically reduced carbohydrates again and limited my wine consumption so I hope to see that number start to drop in the near future.  We had two friends in the last month have big scares. Our friend Bobby, had a stroke. This was his 3rd one and it's a bad one. He's been in the hospital for over a month and is not yet ready to move to the therapy ward. He lost the ability to swallow so he is on a feeding tube and has a trach. So hard to watch a friend go through this. Bobby is 52. 

And then another friend had a massive heart attack a few weeks ago. She had 5 stints placed in her and is back home recovering. She is 51. 

Just gotta take better care of ourselves. More activity and less crappy food!  I really want to be around for my kids' weddings (should that happen) and hopefully one day grandbabies! 

I have a small dress shop at my house....

I have purchased so many dresses for this darn wedding....most have been returned but I've managed to narrow it down. I first bought this one.... but found the color washed me out. 

So then.... I bought it in these two colors. I really liked the fit and I could get away with wearing a halter bra so didn't need to worry about dragging out the strapless, which I hate!! Nothing like constantly pulling up a bra that naturally wants to fall down to my waist! 

The green arrived but it's quite a bit more muted than this green below but I still like it. 

And before I make a decision I'm waiting on pink too.... 

And when I was checking out the status of my delivery,  I found these two below. Soooooo bought them too and they arrive today so will give them a try and get it all figured out before the weekend. 

  and   

It is a summer wedding so I could get away with a summer style floral dress but I like the elegance of the top 3 dresses so I think I will stick with one of the top 3 ones and maybe just keep one of the bottom ones for myself for a dinner out etc. 

 I love dresses... I wish I could keep them all but I just don't have enough occasions to wear them!