Day 808: Time To Work

🖤 Get well soon Tommy ! #teamrivs #RageOn 🖤



"It's a new week. It's time to rise 

up. Time to work. Time to chase 

down your dreams."  





Today is day 808 of Nutrisystem. I chose this quote because it seems like a good inspirational start for the week, after a weekend of being a bit lazy and out of sorts. I always have great intentions for the weekend but when I'm out most of the day it's just really hard to motivate myself enough to exercise. I either don't get up early enough or I'm too tired when I get home. My sleep schedule gets thrown off too and that doesn't help. If I'm home all day I am much more successful with the exercise so that's why I work really hard Monday through Friday. I'm doing the best I can but there will always be room for improvement and I think that's a good thing ! I look at this weekend as one of those times I wandered off track and tomorrow I will return to the route I started on January 4, 2019. Tomorrow I will get back to chasing my dream !


Today was another "off Nutrisystem" food day. After a Nutrisystem cinnamon roll and a creme brulee yogurt for breakfast I was out the door for the day.


I went to Boscov's in New Hartford with my older sister and my mom. My younger sister was going to go too but she wasn't feeling the shopping vibe today. Hopefully she will go with us next time ! I picked up a couple pair of denim shorts for summer and surprisingly enough I had to get a size 8 because a 10 was too big ! I love when that happens ! So even though the scale may not seem to be moving my waistline clearly is ! I also picked up a couple tops, some new slippers and a couple pairs of summer shoes. I also picked up some different flavored k-cups: coconut mocha and macadamia cookie ! Looking forward to adding them to my daily rotation of coffee flavors ! We had our lunch/dinner at 99 Restaurant. I had beef tips smothered in onions, peppers & mushrooms and they were to die for ! They came with broccoli & mashed potatoes which were also delicious ! This place is definitely a hidden gem ! All in all I had a completely relaxing and wonderful weekend and I don't regret one second of it. Life is meant to be lived and yet again I'm trying to hold myself to unrealistic goals. Goals I put behind me more than once. Long ago I decided if I was home on the weekend there was no excuse not to exercise. If I was out most of the day exercise was going to be handled on a case by case basis. So expecting myself to exercise yesterday or today was unrealistic. It all started with the missed workout Friday night. I tried to push that into Saturday and when that didn't work I tried to push it into Sunday. That didn't work either and now I'm disappointed in myself. Yet again I'm setting unrealistic expectations and putting pressure on myself for no good reason. That might motivate some people but it has the opposite effect on me. So this was a good reminder that I need to back off a little and be flexible. I sometimes worry about being too flexible and abandoning my exercise program, so that is what drives this tendency to be unrealistic. I'm still a work in progress ! That being said, it's about time for a shower and bed.

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