A Eulogy for Carbonation.

Goodbye dear friend you will be missed, all the lovely tin cans that I have kissed.  You quench my thirst on hot day, but the next days exercise I will surely pay.   You woke me up when I was tired, sometimes at night you made me wired. This is my very fond farewell, I'll break the chains of addiction hell.  

I know, I know, how many times have I tried to quit caffeine and carbonation?  More than I can count with all fingers and toes, but alas, I must continue trying.  I have been food journaling for the last couple of weeks and I figure it does no good to go to Subway and get a 32 oz. Dr. Pepper.  Do you know how long I have to run to work off those fabulous 400 calories that are in that soda?  I don't even want to say it, it makes me tired!

Great news this week, I have been consistently going to the gym and I even went and played Tennis on Tuesday night.  I truly suck at tennis, but I had a lot of fun sucking, and my arm is sore which means I did some good for myself, physically at least.   Me and a couple of my friends are thinking of making it a weekly effort and I am excited to get outdoors and keep myself busy.  

I'm sure many of you are wondering about optifast.  I have taken a hiatus and have not been attending my classes.  I am burned out on optifast, it helped me shed 30 pounds and that is nothing to scoff at.  It has helped me gain some good eating habits and going to the classes have helped immensely.  I still do the shakes throughout the day, but let's be honest a liquid diet is not very feasible .  Dustin made a comment the other day to the extent of "do you think they might be angry because your bringing down there average weight loss?"  this was meant to be funny and we both had a good belly laugh.  I've had a rough couple of months and I have been losing small amounts of weight, but I can lose small amounts of weight on my own.  Anyway, the point is that I still have weight goals and I am still working towards them.  I am still planning on sharing the experience, good or bad, every week.  Thank you for the support to anyone who reads this blog, you have no idea how much support you lend to me.  Everyday is a struggle when you have had a never ending goal that seems to be the only goal you have a hard time conquering.  It is good to know that there are people helping you along the journey! 

Watters Family Reunion 2009 & Quick Update!

What a wonderful couple of weeks I have had!  This last weekend was the Watters Family Reunion 2009, and good times were had by all.  We kicked the weekend off by having an adult dinner at Los Hermanos,  I'm going to go ahead and speak for everyone when I say it was the worst food, and the worst service I've had in a long time.  It will make a great memory for years to come, I'm sure, and for that it was worth it.  It was especially great to see all the Watters extended family that we only get to see every couple of years, if we're lucky!  Day two started for me with meeting all the golfers at Aunt Cathy and Uncle Ron's for brunch which was delicious.  It started to rain a bit but of course in true Utah fashion the weather changed in 5 minutes and continued like that throughout the day.  It didn't take much for Ryan and Tyler to talk me into all you can eat sushi at the Sushi House for a top off from brunch.  I was so stuffed that when we went to the park at 6 for Dinner and games I wasn't very hungry, but that didn't stop me from having some of gramma's baked beans (yum)!   What a fun reunion!  I am so thankful that I have such a wonderful and close extended family!

Here's a little update for my dear Shauna on weeks 12 and 13 of Optifast.  I know you are all on the edge of your seats.  I've had so much fun with Fourth of July and the Family Reunion I have been off the wagon for a couple of weeks!  But never fear, I did work out diligently last week and I have nothing planned for a couple of weeks so good things should come to pass in the upcoming posts! I am to the transition phase of the program and that means I get to start introducing food back into my diet.  This shouldn't be to challenging considering that I have been "slowly" introducing food into my program since about week 3.  Eh?  What are you gonna do but move forward, right?

Love you Shauna!