Down 3.2 oz

Yesterday was Why Weight. This week the speaker gave us a new formula to find our target heart rate. Turns out I have been working below even 65% of my max. This week I'll focus on getting to that and then a little higher next week.

I lost .2 pounds over the week. I'm going to say that's probably because I went with an emptier tummy but I'll still take the .2 loss over a .2 gain.

As of yesterday I have about 28 pounds to get to the ideal weight my dietician gave me. And I really think I can get there. It will just take time. Ideally I'd like to be there by early March. Then for my birthday I could get new clothes!

As always, I'm open to suggestions on how to do this. If you've found something that's worked for you or didn't work for you please let me know.

That other Twilight book

I recently read Breaking Dawn. Is it weird that I pictured Bella as Miley Cyrus in the first half and then as Anne Hathaway in the second? I thought so, too.

It was a good, light read. I won't read it again but I'm not sad that I spent the better part of four evenings ignoring Jeremy, housework, and the gym.

Have you guys read it? What did you think?

I'm more fluffy these days.

Yesterday after work I went to Why Weight?, a program offered through Mayo Clinic’s gym, The Dan Abraham Healthy Living Center. The intranet describes the class as a weight management series that meets all Mayo Clinic employees right where they are on their wellness journey. The program offers weekly weigh-ins, group discussion and skill building. Topics discussed include goal setting, keys to successful behavior change, healthy eating habits, fitness and stress reduction.

So I got weighed yesterday. It wasn’t as bad as I thought though I have gained a bit more than I would have liked since I got married. I think losing five pounds the week before (I got sick) and then moving here and not having a job, friends, or anywhere to go for nearly three months added to that. It’s going to take a while to get it to come off.

I’ll be going every Monday and it will be nice to be accountable for my weight again. I’ll try to post each Tuesday how the previous meeting went. And, if I get brave, I’ll post what I gained/lost and, maybe, what my current and goal weights are.

Anyone have any advice or encouragement for me?

Knee high happiness.

I went to SockDreams.com and visited their clearance room. I got these. I got them in pearl and mist gray. I'm wearing the mist gray right now. Heaven. And there's no shipping costs. So they're really just $5 (no tax, either). This site rocks.

Feel free to look around, check it out. I wanted to get Wendy the socks with whales on them. I thought they would be fitting. (Pun on whales intended, fitting was not.) They are, as of right now, out of stock. Sad.

I like the way he thinks.

I don't know this guy. I found this site by reading a blog I found on here, linking to this one, finding this one, and then to here.

For sure read this post.

Candice, this one's for you. Or: I miss being thought of as funny by more than just me.

Last week Jeremy and I went to our niece's birthday party. Thanks to the awesome weather here it got all foggy and misty around 8:00 at night. As we were walking to the car, wading through the mist, I said:

This is how horror movies start.

Jeremy didn't respond correctly. Rather, he didn't respond the way I wanted him to. Candice, why don't you tell him what the correct response is?

In my past life I was a magpie.

Or a niffler. Even CNN knows this. At the bottom of CNN.com's page there is a list of stories they currently have they feel you may be interested based on what you've been reading.

I *heart* shiny stuff!