On the road again....

I can't wait to get on the road again.... (Willie Nelson suddenly was singing in my ear!)

Well, I'm on the road to recovery this week. I started it with some walking. And no, not laps around my living room and bedroom. I mean honest to goodness walking.

Put one foot in front of the other ( can you hear the Christmas special Kris Kringle singing? No? It's just me then... Um. Ok. )

Yep I even walked a mile and a half today with my man. It was nice. Just the two of us on a rare sunny winter day. Of course it took us an hour to do what normally takes us less than half that time but whatever! I'll take it.

I started back to my shakes! Been pretty easy this time. It makes it easy when you see people all around you dropping pounds like nothing! My friend that I started with has gone down several pants sizes. I am a little jealous.

But I'll get there soon enough. I've already lost another inch since the last time I measured. And that's without using the product for 2 1/2 weeks. All in all since I started December 2nd I have lost a total of 13 inches. 3 inches off my waist alone!

Of course I measure top to bottom by the plan's recommendation. Neck, chest, arms, waist, hips, thighs, calves. Some have budged fast. Others not so much. And then wham! A half inch! Or an inch! Weird.

I can't wait to be able to add a work out into the mix again. Man I miss working out!

Let's get physical, physical. I wanna get physical... Sing it Olivia! Let me hear our body talk! Your body talk!

Nice to hear the soundtrack in my head again. It's been missing for a while. N

Speaking of 80's music. I walked past Xanadu street today on my outing. It always makes that damn song get stuck in my head while I see purple and pink glittery haze and blonde hair.

So distracting.

Now where was I? O yeah support system for doing this has been awesome. I have another friend that just started this week as well. She was feeling discouraged today. She was hungry. Not a good thing. We talked it out and I was able to offer her some tips that I hope will be helpful to her. The main ones being to drink plenty of water, allow some green tea if she's getting a caffeine withdrawal and to eat a full 400-600 calorie meal at dinner.

So easy to think you can eyeball a meal and get the calories you need but in reality it's hard. That's why I like using My Fitness Pal. It counts calories for you. I started using it again after a few days into my own 30 day. It allowed me to see that I was only getting 200-300 calories for my meal. Way too little. Once I adjusted, I was happier and felt great! And the weight still was coming off.

It's easy to get over zealous and restrict ones self too much. And as I told her-- if you're miserable, you will not stick to it. You should enjoy what you're doing to be successful at it!

In other news ladies and gents, I spent the evening watching Guinness world record videos with the kidlets. It still held my attention much as it did when that stuff was on regular TV in the 70's and 80's. The first reality TV shows. Haha!

God I loved TV shows then: Riley's believe it or not, Guinness records, in search of. All weird and spooky at the same time.

Breaking limits, doing the impossible... It was inspiring! And guess what? It was the perfect way to end the night.