In Continuation

Hello again! These last couple of weeks have been absolutely insane...at work....at home...in general.

Thankfully, Ryan's last game will be on Friday so no more Fall Baseball.  As much as he enjoys to play the sport & I like watching him play....every now and again I get exhausted from being Mommy Chauffeur.

What's really killing my mojo and draining me of what little energy I have left is work.  I am not saying I hate my job or the company I work for or anything of the sort.  It's just the industry I am in.  It's finance, it's dealing with people's money, with their nest egg, with their fears...it's exhausting!  Day in and day out I am talking people off ledges, comforting their fears while I see my own 401K tank & the only people who call me on a daily basis are creditors.   It's stressful.  Listen the economy sucks, you don't need me to tell you that.  Frankly, I am not thrilled over this whole Occupy Wall Street movement because since it began my workload has doubled (not complaining, I am just human and could do only so much).  I come home from work & all I want to do is collapse on the couch & my brain is absolute mush.  Just the other day I stopped at my local supermarket after working a 10 1/2 hour day so that I could pick up a few things for dinner.  I was so tired I left my phone there and wasn't until I got home that realized it so I had to go back out to retrieve it.  The very next day I worked a 10 hour day and realized when I got to my car that I had left my keys on my desk so I had to go all the way back to get them. I actually never ate dinner on either of these days because I was too tired and just went to bed.  Funny thing is, these are days I did not have Ryan, on those days I can't work late but my evenings are just as exhausting & most nights the kid eats and so does the dog...I only have the energy to nibble on something.

The long and the short of all this is...I have not had the energy to write about my daily dieting rituals but that does not mean I am not still giving it an effort.  In all honesty, I have not worked out in about two weeks (I hurt my leg and then when it started to heal went on two very long walks, which made me sore for days).  I am watching what I eat, and trying to make sensible choices (I keep forgetting to track my points sometimes).  The whole eat breakfast like a king and have dinner like a pauper theory seems to be working though.  I have a big breakfast and it seems to sustain me through the day and into the evening,  In summary since I started my journey I lost 10 pounds. Perhaps it could have been more if I stayed more consistent, but hey the pounds did not add up overnight and they won't come off overnight either....baby steps!  But I just have to keep on going.....
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