There's More Than One Way To Skin A Cat

One of the hardest things for me to do is find that 'routine' that includes healthy eating and exercise.  I think I was starting to actually find that groove, and then that nasty little thing called real life kicked in.

Last Friday, I had do the band director thing - all day, late night attending an All Region event.  Watch bands, help the kids, do that thing.  Had a good time, especially since I had Caleb with me, but it meant no gym (we left early, didn't get home until after 11:00pm.  Then, Saturday we were on a school bus at 6:45am to do the same thing. 

Then, on Sunday we traveled to Jay, OK to attend the funeral of Melissa's great Aunt Helen.  I never got to meet her, but she was a great woman by all accounts.  It was good to make the trip, but then again - no gym, eating all your meals on the road... recipe for disaster.

On the drive home, a funny (ok, not funny at all) thing happened.  We all decided to get violently sick.  Flu bug, sniffles, runny noses - and the worst is that dang pounding-the-chest cough that doesn't even allow you to get out of bed.  You know the one.  There was only one sole survivor - Meghan.  The rest of out, down for the count.

If there's ANYTHING good that come out of the flu, it's that I just didn't feel like eating.  I felt absolutely horrible and haven't wanted to eat.  That's DEFINITELY not my character.  

So, I say all of this to say, I'm back down to about that 10 pounds that I lost. 

If I end the month saying that I lost 10 pounds in January, you'd think I'd be happy about it.  But I lost that 10 pounds in 10 days (and it's the EASY water-weight pounds) and haven't done anything else since to show for it.   When I can shake this bug, I've been wanting to get back into the gym.  It's something that I started to actually enjoy again.


Hope everyone else is doing well in their weight loss adventures.  Stay tuned, I'll actually have a blog not filled with excuses sooner or later ;)

PS:  I google for my images.  The one up top is problem the nicest one I found for this blog.  When I searched "skin a cat", I didn't think they'd actually show us the actual process.  I just wanted a cute or funny picture of a cartoon cat.  Gross.