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October Measurements

Pretty cool to compare where I am now opposed to where I was in February when I restarted things after a sizeable gain following the holidays (which I hoping planning to avoid this year) or even to look back at January 2017 (in red) which is when I started Weight Watchers. 

I’m now 3 weeks into sleeping with my phone charging in the guest room and it’s made such a difference. I’m falling asleep earlier, sleeping better, and getting out of bed sooner because I have to go into the other room to shut off the alarm.

For most of this timeframe I’ve completely kept my phone out of the bed and it’s great. I have been able to notice my mind look for an excuse to check my phone which could lead to me getting lost in a rabbit hole or mindless scrolling.

“They” say it takes 21 days to break a habit, I know I’m not fully “cured” but I am on my way!

My Body Pump initial instructor training is a week from Saturday. Yesterday I was sent the new release and my assigned tracks to learn: 5 – Triceps and 6 – Biceps.

I did the whole release as a student then watched and took notes yesterday. Today I did tracks 5 & 6 three times with my verbal cues. I feel really great about Triceps and only need to fine tune my cues for Biceps. It’s crazy how it all sort of comes to you while you are doing it.

Regardless practice makes perfect and I plan to get these tracks in at least 25 more times before the training weekend!
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This personal development journey has really been something else, something extraordinary. To read something on a page (or hear it on a podcast) and to think YES! THAT, EXACTLY THAT! It’s both comforting and humbling and upsetting.
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We are society of broken people putting on a happy face at all cost. I’m tired of paying that cost, I’d rather spend that energy healing and filling my cracks.
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Book: The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller

Working on my relationship with my Higher Power.
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I grew up Catholic, like Catholic school 1-12th grade, Altar-Serving, Rectory-working Catholic. My mom is also the queen of “Catholic Guilt.” I stopped going to church in college and it wasn’t until a year I to my Measuring Life journey did I begin to explore churches again, but this time not Catholic. I was living in Alabama & a coworker’s husband was a Methodist preacher. I liked John so I figured I’d like him as Preacher John too. I was right! However his church was like 40 min away & I knew I couldn’t make that drive a habit so I explored other Methodist churches in my area and found one I loved. They had great contemporary music. I love all music & being able to sing awesome praise music & listen to a great band at church, SCORE! I attended there for a year before I moved up to the DC area.
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In 2014 after 18 month of living in DC I decided to church hop again & found another Methodist one I really liked, it was also a very laid back service, the music was okay, but the Preacher was great. I attended for over a year, but life got in the way.
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We’ve lived in our current town for ~2 years & I had been curious about churches in the area & did a bunch of research, but didn’t work up the courage/make the time to go until this month. My Sunday’s have been pretty tied up lately, but I made it to a Saturday late afternoon service Labor Day weekend. It was quite traditional & there was a substitute preacher filling in for the new preacher who joined this church in June. I was disappointed & saw it as a bad sign, but after the service one lady encouraged me to come back to see the new Preacher & since I told her I like music she said come to the 10:30am service. She didn’t pressure me, but just wanted to tell me it had a different vibe than the service I was at. So today was the day I had time to go and wow I’m glad I did.
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It was a great service with good music & a laid back feel that I am most comfortable with. I also really liked the Preacher & the message. It was less about letting go of “stuff” and more about letting go of the baggage that weighs us down. I’ll def be back!

I wore this dress yesterday to work as pictured on the right, but I bought this dress on NYE aka December 31, 2017 which is right before I fully re-committed to @ww, as pictured on the left.
My #weightlossjourney has been full of ups and downs, but I’m thankful to be where I am today and I know this time not to take my progress or body for granted.
There is about a 20 lb difference between these two pictures.