Week Nineteen

This was another fat week so I guess I should be lucky to weigh in at 202.8 this morning. By fat week I don't mean that I have strayed from.my diet or exercise plan. I mean that no matter what I do my weight will not budge and even goes up a little. I have been track these periods and as far as I can discern they are related to hormonal changes and water retention during the female cycle. So I don't get upset anymore and actually have decided to use this period as a slightly higher calorie time. Then follow it with a lower Cal period. If you can't beat it utilize it.

I have been doing a lot of yard work and gardening and more planned for this long memorial day weekend. Oh we, the unions, won our fight in court against the governor. Now he has to stop his illegal actions. No more threats of furlough. We get our pay raises and next week should be a bigger check with the Retro pay.

Week Eighteen

This felt like a really long week. A lot going on at work, like I said, with the Governor on the attach against his own employees. This coming Wednesday will be court day. If the Governor does not get a decision in his favor he has vowed to attack us in other ways. It is pretty much a vendetta at this point. He continues to be shown a hypocrite. This week he cut a ribbon at a park opening while he is closing over 40 other parks that already exist. He has said that he may violate the agreement he reached with us last year when we gave concession, that he would not lay off until January 2011. Apparantly, contracts and agreements mean nothing to him, so why should be try to bargain or reach an agreement.

Anywho, I weighed 203.8 this morning. Still going down and getting closer to being under 200. I think it was be only a couple of more weeks.

Week Seventeen

I am pretty amazed I lost 4 1/2 pounds while I was away for a week. That is a lot for a week. I was starting to get worried this week because the scale was up and down and did not show any loss until Thursday morning. Given that, I was happy to see the scale at 205 this morning. With another 1 1/2 lb. loss. Any loss is a good week. I have been keeping up with working out 4 times a week, and walking. Although I only walked three days at lunch because it was rainy on Thursday and Friday. I have enough points already to win the socks at Curves, but I am going to keep on logging as many as I can.

On Mother's day I bought an outfit in my new smaller size. So I am going to wear that today. It is smaller than what I wore for sure, but it is still a large size. Of course, I am still over 200 lbs. I will be so happy when I can get down to even smaller sizes. I would really love to fit into a size 10 again. That may be a dream or just a really long way off, but I think I can get there.

There has been a lot going on at work. Well about work anyway. The Governor is trying to get back at state workers because we would not give him what he wants. It is not our fault he tried to balance his budget with illegally gotten gains. So because we would not give in to his extortion scheme, he tried to furlough (a day off without pay) us one day a week. That would really hurt a lot of people who are struggling in this economy. I'm one of them! The unions took him to court over it and won a temporary restraining order. The judge also ordered him to start paying our raises that he has been withholding. On May 26 we go back to court on the issue. I hope we win. He thinks that he does not have to honor contracts and can do what he wants. Then he thinks we are going to sit at a table with him and make a deal (well what he calls a deal which is doing what he wants). Why would you make deals and trust someone who does not respect or honor them? It is just more political posturing. He is trying to force the hand of the legislature to pass the budget he wants, and screw over his own employees at the same time. It sounds like political suicide right? Well he apparently does not care because he is a lame duck governor. His own party doesn't even want to associate with him and are running a different candidate. When he is the incumbent! I guess he has no future political aspirations after this, at least he better not. The guy is so incompetent I would not let him run a 7/11. Of course amidst all his talk about having to furlough because the state just does not have enough money to pay us, he gives several members of his staff hefty raises. Other members of his staff have previously received hefty raises and the legislature recently voted themselves in hefty raises. Yes, apparently there is no money for the people who actually do the work, just the fat cats at the top doing nothing. The most important part of their high paid jobs is to pass a budget and they cannot even do that. I am sick and tired of the private sector people who buy into the Governor's propaganda that we are all suffering and state employees have to share in the sacrifice. We are citizens of this state the same as everyone else and are just as affected by the economy. State agencies have already given back by slashing budgets and staff to the bone. Any more give and there will be none of the services that these people rely on. I say if any private sector employee thinks that sacrifices should be made to the governor, then by all means they should send a day of their pay every week. Don't worry the government will do good things with the money. It's not like they have incompetently squandered our tax money before with wasteful spending. Go ahead. Me, I think my money is better spent in the local community helping to keep small business afloat.

Week Sixteen

I am back from my trip and was happy to see my weight at 206.4 this morning. I had a great time workout some at the hotel gym but the equipment didn't really offer much for upper body. I did do a ton of walking every day and stuck to my diet like glue. We saw and did a lot. We went to the spy museum, crime and punishment museum, Ford theater, Ghost walk, bureau of engraving and printing, and Kennedy center. Of course we had training during the day but when not in training we were on the go. It was a good time. I got back last night to severe rain and thunder storms. I was a little worn out but I got up and went to curves this morning. I am up to 20.2 miles in the Marathon.

Week Fifteen

I have been working hard for the last couple of weeks. Mostly because of the contest at Curves. It is called a Marathon and you have to log 26.2 miles. You don't have to actually run a marathon, you earn points (or miles) from certain activities. For example a workout at Curves in worth .2 mile. If you go 3 times a week you get a .8 bonus, 4 times a week a 1.2 bonus. Also for walking 30 minutes you earn .2 mile. There are several other things that can earn you points, such as weigh-ins, losing weight/fat, getting a friend to join, etc. So to earn more points I have been working out 4 times a week and trying to walk on most days. In fact, I have to go workout this morning to get my 4 days in this week.

After all that extra exercise you would think my weight loss would be doing well. Ummm, no! For the past week and a half it has been in stall mode. I did start my food journal again on Monday. My weight this morning is 211, so I did lose some from last week. I just thought it would be more with the extra exercise, no less. I was really hoping to be a least in the single digits before I left for DC on Sunday. Close but no cigar. That just means I have to work harder and not screw up while I'm out of town. I have a feeling it won't be easy. Wish me luck.