Sinus!

Oh how I loathe the change of seasons! Ok so in upstate New York we were enjoying a very nice Indian Summer as both I and Chrissy have commented on, however that ended at the start of this week much to my dismay. Thus resulted my downturn. I have a horrible reaction to the change of seasons, especially when it's so drastic. One day its bright, sunny, and 70, next day it's cloudy, snowy, and hovering around 30 degrees. So for the past week, and mainly the last two days I've been dealing with my sinus' and how much they hate the flip-flopping weather.

As a result unfortunately I have barely done anything at all except watch TV, sleep, and ponder what to put on my Christmas list for the bf. The later I loved doing, but after a while the former gets pretty boring. Fortunately, I felt ok enough today to venture back into work and am hoping to make it to the gym tonight. Trust me, even the thought of the gym the last few days made my whole body hurt, let alone actually attempting it.

So better news...this weekend my bfs best-friend, his wife, and a whole bunch of their friends are having a pre-thanksgiving dinner together. Now, I have yet to meet these people simply because every time we were suppose to meet up something on their side happened or something on my side happened. I am extremely nervous about this, as I have never met any of these people, but mainly because this is my bfs BEST-FRIEND!!!, so of course I want to make a great impression. But outside of just trying to put on the best outfit and attitude, I also have to make a 'Thanksgiving' side dish to bring. I DO NOT know any side dish recipes to cook! HELP ME PLEASE!!!! It's times like these where I wish my bf was one of those famous 'Iron Chefs' on tv.

Monday Flip....

So although my blog is about an overweight girl trying to lose a substantial amount of weight, I've come to realize that just informing you about my weight and dieting is beyond boring and does not fully encompass all that I am while dieting. Thus, as you may have noticed, I'm focusing on both my life and my dieting and weight issues more in my posts. I figure that this provides a little more excitement then just what I ate for the day, and allows you all to see that although I am dieting, I'm also enjoying a life at the same time.

That being said, onto my day yesterday. It being Monday is always a little rough, especially after the amazing weekend I enjoyed with my relatives, but particularly because I was dreading this weekend already. I know, right? How could I be dreading a weekend? Simple. I have to work on Saturday. Now I know that some of you probably work two jobs like I do, but I've seriously come to dread the days where I have to work my second job, so much so that it puts a damper on my whole week. Drastic right? But such it is. So I finally made a decision yesterday as I was thinking of how that one day will mess up my whole week - I'm quitting my second job! Yup, after 8 years of being a cashier in a local grocery chain part-time I'm finally hanging up my name tag!!! And I feel great! I had originally gotten the job in high-school, kept it through college and beyond for some extra cash. But now, I am no longer in need of the second job, and quite frankly I simply can't stand it. Don't get me wrong it was a great company to work for, but the job itself was boring and took no brain power to do. So ladies, I am free and so excited!

So with that decision the rest of my day suddenly brightened up. I headed home with a new sense of excitement, explained the decision to my bf, who in his infinite wisdom agreed it was about time, and then I promptly showed him just how much energy I had and how he could help me get rid of some of it. ;)

I do love it when Mondays turn around like that!

'No Calorie' weekend.

Don't you just love when you have such a fantastic weekend that it goes by so fast you can't believe it's already Monday again? Ok, well maybe the later happens all the time but not always the former. My weekend was fabulous!!! I had such a great time just enjoying a girls weekend with my mom, aunt, and cousin. As my cousin stated when we were all finally together for dinner or Friday, "I'm here to inform you that according to news reports, calories do not exist this weekend." So with that statement our weekend kicked off into an amazing whirlwind of shopping, wine, gambling (casino), girl talk, and some amazing memories to last until our next weekend together arrives.

Now although I whole-heartedly agreed with the 'no calories' weekend I definitely did not go overboard. I think my stomach is adjusting to eating less and eating less junk food definitely. It would just get to a point where I was like, 'eww that thing I use to inhale looks so disgusting right now.' Which even though I was not sticking to my diet this weekend, still made me feel good. It's great to know that you're body's adjusting to the change you've decided to make as well as your mind, so at least if one's not keeping you in check the other one is.

Back to the gym and diet plan tonight....but I must admit the 'no calorie weekend' was fantastic and I recommend that everyone enjoy one of those with some of their best girlfriends every once in a while.