This summer just is NOT going as planned. I had really hoped that I would be starting the school year about fifteen pounds lighter than I ended it, but it is not to be. I do still have four weeks from today until the first day of school, but my working out is still going to be iffy. I had thought that this week would be "mine", that after Monday with the boys I would be on my own after my company left. But my company hasn't left yet. Our friend who came to visit is on no particular time frame, and after we've assured her several times that she's welcome to stay as long as she likes, she is in no hurry to leave. It's nice to see her, especially since we haven't seen her in several years, but it's a little strange to not have any idea when she's planning on leaving. It means I have to be sort of "on" as a hostess all the time, to to mention the fact that she has plenty of time to evaluate my questionable parenting skills. *sigh* She's been invited to participate in a dog show in Denver on August 15, so she's planning on being in Colorado by then, but she doesn't yet know when her friend in Denver would like her to arrive. She is considering driving back through western Montana and also through Wyoming to do some sightseeing before going on to Colorado, but again, since she doesn't know a hard target date for Colorado yet, she hasn't really made other plans. My husband did show her some possible routes to take, and she's realized that she might end up spending 3-5 days on this longer drive, which means she might need to leave August 10 or so, but that means I still have 11 days left to host, feed, and entertain. Since we've been cooking dinner pretty much every night since we got back from our Yellowstone vacation, I've been eating more than I would have otherwise. We ate a lot on our vacation as well, so since we got back, I have tipped the scales at 240 lbs. We haven't done much physical activity either, so no exercise. I'm not comfortable going down to the basement to use the elliptical machine in the mornings, since my guest is staying down there. I don't want to go for an extended walk, because even in the mornings it's very warm outside and I also don't want my friend to wake up and come upstairs to find there's no one here. We could walk her dog, but her dog isn't used to walks and pulls quite a bit, and my friend is worried that she might pull out of her grip and get loose. Taking her to the dog park just doesn't give me the same exercise. I need to just start doing those Leslie Sansone walking workouts in the morning, upstairs, but I do feel a little weird about the possibility that my friend might walk upstairs mid-workout, and starting today we also have roofing guys working on the house (and the siding guys should be next) so I need to draw the curtains on all the windows so they don't watch me working out. That would be creepy. And I've got to start eating better, too. More veggies, less everything else.
My new goal is simply to lose five pounds before the first day of school. I hope I can do it. It seems like such a simple thing, to lose just over a pound a week, but I haven't been able to do anything like it for years.
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