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jenn_unplugged) wrote2007-04-02 10:42 am
jenn_unplugged) wrote2007-04-02 10:42 am
Diet update
Weight loss at eleven pounds and holding. And that's not bad at all, because I stopped being really careful in the last week. Actually, after Doug came home Wednesday, I wasn't really careful at all. :-P
Considering that my goal was to lose ten pounds before IVF, that's pretty good. I'm more interested in making sustainable changes in my diet than I am in losing another twenty pounds at this point. I'm hoping to be pregnant in June, so losing a lot of weight in the next couple of months would be a bit pointless. But if I can be a little healthier by the then, all the better, and that's definitely happening. My clothes are all looser, and I can even squeeze into jeans the next size down, which is cool. (They aren't wearable yet, but I can zip them up. ;-))
In other news (and perhaps contradictory to the above), we finally bought a BBQ grill! We haven't had one in almost five years, and spent a lot of time going back and forth on where we'd put it, how nice of one we'd get, whether we'd have it hooked up to the natural gas or just buy a propane-fueled one. We decided to just buy a medium-priced one and see how much we use it. If grilling out becomes a big part of our life, then maybe we'll save up for the awesome outdoor kitchen set-up in another five years.
We found our grill at Home Depot a couple of weeks ago. (It's amazing how much the prices on grills have come down since the last time we bought one!) It was delivered while Doug was OOT, and then this weekend it finally stopped raining long enough to move it out of the garage. We have it out on the patio by the pool in an out-of-the-way spot. So last night we grilled and ate out at the table by the pool, something I've wanted to do for almost five years. Hee! Tonight we'll grill hamburgers and watch The Game. See how my diet is about to go wrong?
<cryptic>*hugs* to my cousin Ryan, though I'm not sure if he ever looks at this journal. Hang in there, okay? I totally understand the frustration you're feeling now that there's nothing to do but wait and see if any of those lists clear, and worry about what you'll do if they don't. It completely sucks to have no control over your immediate future, and no words anyone says are going to change that. So go ahead and be frustrated, okay? People mean well when they say, "It will all work out", but the truth is, no one knows how it will work out. If you think it will make you feel better, go ahead and make alternate plans, but don't feel like you have to give up on what you really want. In my experience, perseverance really does pay off -- maybe not in the way you expected, but sometimes that turns out to be even better. </cryptic>
Considering that my goal was to lose ten pounds before IVF, that's pretty good. I'm more interested in making sustainable changes in my diet than I am in losing another twenty pounds at this point. I'm hoping to be pregnant in June, so losing a lot of weight in the next couple of months would be a bit pointless. But if I can be a little healthier by the then, all the better, and that's definitely happening. My clothes are all looser, and I can even squeeze into jeans the next size down, which is cool. (They aren't wearable yet, but I can zip them up. ;-))
In other news (and perhaps contradictory to the above), we finally bought a BBQ grill! We haven't had one in almost five years, and spent a lot of time going back and forth on where we'd put it, how nice of one we'd get, whether we'd have it hooked up to the natural gas or just buy a propane-fueled one. We decided to just buy a medium-priced one and see how much we use it. If grilling out becomes a big part of our life, then maybe we'll save up for the awesome outdoor kitchen set-up in another five years.
We found our grill at Home Depot a couple of weeks ago. (It's amazing how much the prices on grills have come down since the last time we bought one!) It was delivered while Doug was OOT, and then this weekend it finally stopped raining long enough to move it out of the garage. We have it out on the patio by the pool in an out-of-the-way spot. So last night we grilled and ate out at the table by the pool, something I've wanted to do for almost five years. Hee! Tonight we'll grill hamburgers and watch The Game. See how my diet is about to go wrong?
<cryptic>*hugs* to my cousin Ryan, though I'm not sure if he ever looks at this journal. Hang in there, okay? I totally understand the frustration you're feeling now that there's nothing to do but wait and see if any of those lists clear, and worry about what you'll do if they don't. It completely sucks to have no control over your immediate future, and no words anyone says are going to change that. So go ahead and be frustrated, okay? People mean well when they say, "It will all work out", but the truth is, no one knows how it will work out. If you think it will make you feel better, go ahead and make alternate plans, but don't feel like you have to give up on what you really want. In my experience, perseverance really does pay off -- maybe not in the way you expected, but sometimes that turns out to be even better. </cryptic>