Regularly Scheduled Life Full Steam Ahead

In the process of having a two week vacation from life, I have gotten terribly of schedule. The hubs had to wake me up at 10:30 this morning. I was in a dead sleep. It doesn't help that after a 2-3 hour nap on the couch last night, I suffered a bout of insomnia from midnight to approximately 3:30am. I really should not have taken that nap. So here I sit at 11:45am still in my pj's and drinking coffee. Tomorrow morning I have to be bright-eyed and bushy tailed for a mass of children at 8:45am. Dear Lord, the amount of coffee I will have to consume is terrifying.

On another hand, it is New Years Eve. My plans are to get some regular sleep and make it to work on time tomorrow. I also have a couple of projects I need to finish (start), take down all of the Christmas decorations and wash some laundry. Exciting times in this house.

My goal for the new year is to lose the 10 lbs I rapidly gained as a result of going off all medication I was on. Also over indulgence has played a huge part in the weight gain. Seriously, 4 lbs was overnight. Due to one medication, I was able to eat whatever I wanted, not exercise and not gain a pound. This was the only upside to the medication. It was like a consolation prize for the other side effects which included memory loss and a compromised immune system. It is like the makers marketing slogan was "So what if you can't remember your address, child's name, if you paid bills or missing complete blocks of time and you are constantly sick...At least you're skinny!" So now, after years of trying to keep my weight up so I didn't have to drink the horrible, nasty vitamins in a bottle weight gain shakes, I am now welcomed into the club of regular women who are trying to lose the excess holiday weight. This is where the plan for The Couch to 5K in 10 Weeks comes in to play. Below is the plan and it seems easy enough to follow. I even have a treadmill, so there should be no excuses.

I wish you all a very happy and safe New Year's Eve! Let me know your plans for New Years Eve. It is fun to live vicariously through others. I am off to do shopping, laundry and to de-holidayize (yeah, I made up that word) along with various projects I wanted to have done by now.