Heather In Onederland

As you already know if you're a reader, I've been in the onederland for a while now.  I never had an official onederland post, but I've subsequently had the epiphany that this might be more indicative of a minor speed bump that I didn't even realize I was experiencing...

As I recently told you, my goal is to average a weight loss of about 5 lbs per month.  This puts me on track to be at my goal weight by my 40th birthday in May.  What I didn't tell you is that I haven't really been on that track thus far.  I just got to 195 on the WW books this week and it took me almost 2 months to get there.  That's because when I got to the onederland, I think there was a part of my brain that freaked out.  And was waiting for the other shoe to drop.  I sabotaged myself a little here and a little there, but mostly I just wasn't taking it seriously.  Or maybe I was just too afraid to truly embrace that it was really starting finally.

Or maybe I needed to ease into the next phase.

Whatever "it" was, I'm over it.  I'm ready to go forward with this and get where I want to be.  I am in the onederland now.  I'm here.  I'm staying here.  I LIKE it here!

As for my APA today -- I did 30 minutes on my stepper and got a 20 minute walk in with the hubby and the d-o-g.  So, I'm staying on track with my activity.  And that is how I'm going to get to my goal!

:::gulp:::  And then what?!

Heather

APA

30 minutes battling the wet lawn. You'd think that would be worth more than 3 AP even with a power mower. :)

APA

(I'm going to abbreviate activity points accountability from now on because hello it takes forever to type out the whole thing.)

I was this close to skipping the whole thing and then I couldn't let myself. We were watching my favorite show (Suits) and during the last half hour I pulled out ye olde faithful stepper and got a 30 minute home made work out I'm! Won't Julia be proud?!

But then I had the glass of wine you see I the second photo. I was excited that it was "only" 7 PPV.

Activity Points Accountability

20 minute walk on Rec Island
Took this pre-hair fry.

Haters Gonna Hate

Tonight in our meeting, our fearless leader Sherrie talked about having a song that motivates you to stay focused during your journey. This really resonated with me. I'm sure you could guess since I've had so many prior posts about the music I listen to during my workouts. And when she said this my old mantra was the first thing to pop in my head. I downloaded at the first stoplight and immediately started feeling empowered.

My song? 32 Flavors. It's an Ani deFranco song but I prefer the version by Alana Davis because it's more up tempo. If you don't know the song, it's basic theme is "haters gonna hate.". I particularly like it because of the Phoenix reference - a symbol I identify with. (It's what my weird tattoo is supposed to be.)
Here's that line:
God help you if you are an ugly girl
Course too pretty is also your doom
'Cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room
God help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from ash
A thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past


I mean - isn't that what you face so often on your weight loss journey? Haters gonna hate. You've been doing the work to get where you wanna be and people will sabotage you and undercut every step of the way.

And this song is the anthem of look haters - I'm not building myself up by tearing YOU down, so how about returning the favor??

Thanks Sherrie for the suggestion!

What's YOUR anthem?

Activity Point Accountability

Another crispy hair day brought to you in the name of those darned activity points.
20 minutes outside on "Rec Island" at work

Monthly weight log

That's better than expected! Woot!