Would you believe...?

Hi there.  Well, so much for my amazing 30 day challenge.  I fell off the wagon and into a bottle of wine.  LOL  It would appear that I can only last 2 weeks maximum on any "challenge" now.  I'm not happy about it, but on the good-job-Holly side of things I only had 1 piece of pizza this whole month! Which, if you know me, is quite an accomplishment. *pats self on back*

My Pacer app mocks me daily with helpful little comments like, "You haven't logged your weight in awhile" and "You really need to get your fat-ass to the gym".  Okay, so the second one isn't true, but it feels true...  Stupid app.

In an effort to collect swag from all the gyms in Southern California I signed up for yet another one last night.  Planet Fitness.  I get a t-shirt for signing up. Daniel wants to get back into shape so we're going to start going to the gym together.  If he's not into it, then I don't get into it.  It's hard to stay motivated alone.  #truth  It is for me anyway.

That's all I got for now.  We did install baseboards in our bedroom finally.  We haven't had baseboards since we put in the new flooring, 11 years ago...  And you wouldn't think they'd make a big difference but they do!  I love them and I wonder why we didn't do them years ago.  Better late than never, right?

Hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving and have a great week!

♥ Holly ♥

***UPDATE*** (5 hours later)
I've been thinking about this post and realized that I took a very flippant attitude about giving up on my goals.  I don't like it.  I'm actually quite disappointed in myself.  I'm sitting here thinking about how terrible my skin is right now, how overweight I've allowed myself to become and it's got me down.  My only hope is that I can start again (going to the gym tonight will help) and give it another go.  Back on the aforementioned wagon! 

Howdy!

I have no idea why the cowboy theme, okay?  Why do I do anything? 

We had a very productive weekend.  I put the hubby to work, big time.  He painted our mantel, spray painted our back door which was gross, the list goes on.  All because we got a new TV.  Ours was 10 years old and the sound was finally starting to go out on us.  It was time.  Costco had a great one on sale and they also had this great TV stand on sale...  So of course we had to get both.  Which meant, taking the old TV off the wall and patching holes from the TV hanger thingy.  Then we starting moving art and discovering more holes to patch... 

So what started off as just replacing our TV turned into a whole thing.  Anyway, the living room needed it and it's done now (for now).  We can move on to the next thing which will be our bedroom.  We actually started on stuff in there too, come to think of it.  Got rid of our giant armoire, moved our hope chest which was at the foot of our bed, moved my dresser into the armoire's spot, etc, etc.  AND now that I'm thinking about it, we also moved 3 bookshelves into our office/kids playroom and created a little library.  Wow!  We did more than I originally remembered! And all between 2 soccer games and an end of season soccer party.

I've got bruises all over my legs from moving furniture and bumping into all sorts of junk that was displaced in all the hubub and my whole body aches from heavy lifting.  Good workout for sure.  Here are a few pictures.  Was too busy to take a bunch but I will tonight.

Patching holes in the drywall

Mantel, before.

 I don't think I've ever mentioned it before but Daniel and I did the stonework on the fireplace surround ourselves when we moved in.  This was before the days of those handy pre-fab stone tiles, etc.  We actually went to The Rockery and picked out each stone, cut them down, made a frame to hold them up, stacked and attached them.  It was a pain in the butt but now we feel that much more pride about it since we did it the old fashioned way. ;)   Anyway, here is after the paint job we did this weekend:


It's a really dark brown color.  It came out a little darker than I anticipated but we love it.  

Anyhoo, I hope y'all had a great weekend (back to cowboy speak for some reason) and have a wonderful week!

♥ Holly ♥

Hola my peeps!

Well, it's Day 11 and while I haven't been as strict this week as I'd hoped, I am still down in weight.  To date, since the 1st, I'm down 6 lbs.  I'd say that's progress!  I took some pics this morning and I don't know that I see a difference yet but at least I'm heading in the right direction.  Still haven't had a drop of alcohol. Yay!  So here's this morning's picture and the 1st picture I took below it:

139.4 lbs

146.8 lbs

I've been drinking a ton of water and have reached my goal of 10k steps or more 8 out of 10 days.  The last two days I've gone above and beyond with 15k and 16k steps each!  That's what happens when you have nothing to do at an hour and a half long soccer practice. 

I really want to add more exercise besides just walking but it's really hard to get motivated.  This weekend our goal is to DE-clutter the house and turn in our cans/bottles.  Should keep me moving at least.  Perhaps I can move our free weights to a new spot in the house.  That counts, right??  LOL

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!  And THANK YOU to all our veterans!!! ♥

Love love love,
Holly