Thursday Jan, 7th

Another day down. Haven't touched a scale. Proud of myself for that. It's actually a good feeling knowing that I am doing this a reason other than weight loss. Managed to keep up some form of exercise every day this week. Yesterday I met up with Anna at the gym on post to do mainly weights. However, we walked around the gym looking for the weight machines and only saw free weights. So we ended up doing 1 mile on the treadmill and 6 miles on the bike, and a whole lot of talking lol. It wasn't until we were sitting in the lobby area enjoying a smoothie and what did I see? The weight machine room. Imagine that! Oh well. At least now I know.

I don't know if it's a detox thing since i'm not eating crap or what but good lord I feel like I have a case of roid rage. The first person to even ask if I could be pregnant will end up stabbed. Chance has had a really horrible attitude since he started back to school on Monday. He does fine at school and karate, but he comes home so whiny and I just can't deal with him. He actually drove me to the point of going to bed at 6pm the other night.
So glad we're going to go out Saturday without him. It's much needed.

Tonight they are calling for snow. Of course it will probably be a good snow since Chance is back at school but hopefully it's not too good to keep us from going out Saturday. That's about how my luck works.

Tuition was paid today. Which means my lovely vacation from school will be coming to an end in just about a week and a half. Damn, damn, damn! This full time school business is no joke and I'm just going to a community college. I mean maybe if I didn't feel the need to overachieve, I wouldn't feel so overwhelmed-but I know the minute I start letting myself slip the tiniest bit...helloooooooo snowball effect!
Hopefully I can handle it all while keeping up the workout schedule. I have an hour and a half between two of my classes on Tues and Thurs, so I am hoping to use that time to walk oooooooor maybe even run? Although I am not sure the people in my last two classes wouldn't appreciate that very much. I only have one class on MWF and it's early in the morning so my plan on those days is to hit the gym as soon as class is over for a couple of hours which would leave me plenty of time to walk the track hopefully and pick up Chance on time. That's the plan anyway.

I talked to my mom tonight and she told me she was going to the doctor tomorrow to get help to quit smoking. This is a huge thing. My dad quit after his heart attack which I had hoped would be the motivation for her to stop as well but she hasn't. So I am really really hoping this helps her. It's been a hot button issue between her and I for YEARS. So we'll see how that goes. I know it's hard for her, but she's never made an honest effort and that's all I have been begging her to do for years is to just TRY.

Alright time to wrap this up and get my azz on the treadmill. I only have today and Saturday to do Week 1 on the Running Mate program and then on Sunday I am *supposed* to start Week 2. Eeek! Tuesday it did seem easier but I was still happy to be finished, we'll see how today goes.