185 and counting...

I am happy today. After having only one soda in the last two weeks, and having relatively healthy meals for the last week (OK, yesterday I had pizza, which is also the reason for the soda, who eats pizza with something other than soda?!!!), I am now back to 185 and going down. I have incorporated a lot of small bursts of exercises during the day, specially while at work. It has been a learning experience to get used to locking myself in my office and working from home. But the structure of the job makes it very easy for me to work and give 100%. I have only two priorities for this month: my healthy body and my job. Both are on track. This is a short post because today I go to work early and get off early, which is great because I have all kinds of plans for myself for this weekend. I am spending the night in, first time in almost four months that I stay home on a Friday night. I intend to get a lot of work done organizing my office tomorrow. Tomorrow night I have to study and review my vocabulary. Then on Sunday I plan to take it easy, wake up late and if I have money, take my daughter out to lunch. Another advantage of working from home, housework gets done during the week and I actually can have the weekend to myself. Keep trying.

Finally, I get to walk again

As promised, posts are now every other day. I can tell you that for the last five days I could not go walking. My right calf muscle was acting up again. But I have spent Monday and Tuesday without going for my usual walk, and my body was not happy. Last night I was woken up at 4:00 AM in the morning with the toughest cramps I have experienced in a very long time. Today I went to the beach and walked for 45 minutes.
As far as the diet is concerned, you know that I am not dieting, just trying to eat better quality foods. I was able to find several things at the local Costco. I got Organic salad, organic grape tomatoes (EXCELLENT!!!), organic spinach and organic tomato soup. The soup is to die for. Monday and Tuesday I had soup for lunch and salad for dinner, with either chicken or shrimp. I have smaller portions now. I am having the equivalent of three meals and two snacks each day. I am not feeling hungry most of the time. I have lost three pounds, but I gained ten in the last three months, which means that I started at 190. It is very disturbing that I am fighting the same damn ten pounds all the time. But now, with the need to exercise firmly controlled and my diet choices improving, I hope that I start seeing some great results soon. We'll see. Keep trying!

Changes and the future

Hello. It has been three weeks since my last post. I started working on Feb. 19th, this is the first day of my fourth week on the job. I work as an interpreter. And I love it. I am having a lot of fun and learning a lot. I also started exercising more than usual. I am making sure that I exercise five hours a week. The only thing I have not taken under control is my eating habits. They suck. But that is about to change.
I am in the middle of many changes in my life. I have taken a lot of negative energy out of my life, by eliminating certain people that were not giving me peace. I discovered why God placed this one person in my life after years of not seeing him. It took me a while, but I figured out that although I loved this person a lot in the past, his passing in my life this time had to do with what I was not happy within myself, and changing that. Now I can let him go, for his purpose in my life is over. I finally decided what I am going to do and how I am going to do it. Nobody will stop me. And so this little experiment needs to change as well.
In the next few weeks you will see some changes to this blog. All the changes have to do with my future plans. I have the next 18 months figured out to the day. And on June 2009 I am going back to Italy. So I have until then to get back to 120 lbs. The first change that I am going to make is that from now on I will only post and check this blog every other day. That should keep me up to speed on my writing and will allow me to share more info. with all of you. Make sure to write any suggestions or comments. I do appreciate them. Well, I have a ton of things to do before 10:45 AM which is when I go to work today. Hope your day is as bright as mine feels right now.