Back at the beginning of the year, I didn’t make it an official goal, but when we booked our trip to Ireland for this fall, I made a mental goal to try to lose 20 pounds by then. That would put me comfortably into my clothes (some of which were too tight) since I had some creep happening.
Anyway, this morning I officially made that goal! Yay! I’m wearing my size 10s easily again, which makes me happy. I really did it by just staying around 1500 calories a day with more on long ride days in the range of 2200 to 2500. One thing that helped was to keep my exercise on the non long ride days to an hour. Doing more than that was counterproductve and trying to force weight loss with exercise just doesn’t work for me. Anyway, I actually acheived a date goal, which I almost never set.
That cooler weather blew in this week with a vengeance! Overnight the temps dropped 20+ degrees along with lower humidity. We had an overnight temperature of 47 degrees, too, which is crazy. I had to jacket up for morning riding.
It’s been nice not sweating profusely all the time, too. I was getting really tired of wiping my upper lip LOL.
It even called for warm evening drinks.
One of my favorite snacks when it is cooler.
Even though it feels like fall, it’s not and I don’t want to be seeing this in the stores.
Gah! I took this picture when it was sweltering hot, too. Go away.
We have a house project we are working on now. Over the winter, we noticed a leak in one of our basement rooms that is directly below the garage. We kind of freaked out and had a couple structural engineers come in to make sure our garage was okay. They said the house was very solid, but there are a couple depressions in the garage floor where water pools under the car tires and seeped through some cracks to below. The solution is to level the depressions and epoxy coat it. Phew! Of course, in leveling the depressions, we removed some loose concrete skim coat and now have a bigger project.
That’s getting patched:
The sticks are there to prevent anyone walking across this. And by anyone, that would be me because I almost did! Once all this is dry, we can do the epoxy floor coat to seal it up. That will make it look nicer, too.
Some plants are arriving as well!
These are some heuchera. There are 9 plant plugs in all here, surprisingly. Most of these are going to go by our water feature since it is semi shady.
So there is no shortage of projects going on around here.
It’s back to the warm weather now. I sure enjoyed that coolness while it lasted!
Congratulations on reaching your goal! What a great feeling. Ireland here you come!
Thank you!
WooHoo, way to go Lori. Setting a goal and actually accomplishing it is awesome. Can’t wait to read about Ireland. I need to get there. I read a hilarious blog about a girl cycling in Ireland and she had such a terrible time understanding them. Her friend kept saying, “THEY’RE SPEAKING ENGLISH”.
We are getting excited. One month away!
Congratulations on reaching your goal! You were really diligent and it paid off. You should feel good about that. AND just in time for your trip. 🙂
I do feel good about it because I have been stuck for so, so long. It was nice to finally have some results.
20 pounds is really significant, Lori! Congrats.
I’m with you on the pumpkin display. Nooooooooo!!
I love fall. It’s my favorite season, but I want to enjoy it when it’s actually fall – NOT August.
MAJOR KUDOS on the weight loss goal! It’ so hard to do and you should be very proud of yourself.
If you think Fall stuff is bad, about a month ago Hobby Lobby had all their Christmas trees up for sale. I can understand the crafts because those take time to make… but the fake trees? Who buys one in late July!?
Christmas? Get out! LOL.
Slow and steady wins every time but I think it’s just sometimes hard to wait it out, but you did. Awesome! I’m so happy for you!
Seems like the seasonal/holiday creep gets worse every year. Go away, indeed.
It feels like it took forever to get this off, a couple years with no progress. It does feel good.
We are having cooler weather too, and I am loving it. Still warm enough to swim though 🙂
Congrats on your loss–I can hardly wait for your Ireland report!
Haha – I can’t wait for Ireland either!!
I miss fall here BUT dang, those are cold temps early!!!!
I know – it was shockingly cold considering our overnights have been in the upper 60s!
Woohoo! Congratulations sweety, so proud of you!
Can you believe it that we haven’t had much Summer all season till now? 89 degrees the past couple of days and not liking it at all. I can’t handle this heat very well and haven’t exercised or walked Bella the last days. For Bella long walks are too hot, not good for her paws to walk the hot streets. Heat drains my energy and can’t wait till it cools off a little, forecast says tomorrow it will be 78 degrees.
When it is terribly hot, I just go out really early knowing I will still be sweating buckets LOL!
We are still in the 70’s-80’s here at night. Congrats on meeting your weight loss goal.
Yay, congrats!