I love team competitions. I love cheering other people on and having people boost me when I need a boost and cheer with me when I have a success. This is one of the reasons I was drawn to the GAG2009 challenge. It’s a personal competition (which weight loss really is anyway) but we’re broken in to teams to support each other. So, here’s my team:
Team Comet (isn’t the name awesome — all the teams are Santa’s reindeer names!)
Jones
Me – Fat Chick
Manda
Jon
Laurie
Melisa
Kim
Today was a pretty good day. The temperature dropped a good 20 degrees since yesterday (insane I tell you). I ended up getting invited to my brother’s for dinner. They were having fajitas. I ate some. No big deal, right. They were steak fajitas. I don’t usually eat any meet of any kind. But, they looked good today so I had some. No big deal. Of course the tequila in the margarita I drank before dinner probably helped me get the nerve to eat it.
It kind of ended up being a cheat day. I probably stayed within or very close to my calories range. For me a cheat day is a day when I don’t worry about what the log says. I’m still mindful of what I eat, just don’t worry about how accurate my food log is on the calorie side. Some days you need that type of day.
I’ve been having some MAJOR stomach issues lately. Like really uncomfortable. 
I know why and I called my doctor (natural dr) yesterday and she mailed me something to fix it (the doctor that I like and trust is in California I live in Idaho). She knows me well enough to know my body so hopefully next week I’ll be feeling better. Honestly, much more of this and I’ll be not a happy person.
My mom arrives tonight (actually, I guess she already arrived) so it’ll be an interesting week. (You can read some of my past posts to see how great I do when my family’s in town.) She texted me this afternoon to see if I wanted to get a pedicure while she was here, which was completely out of the blue. They’re pretty expensive here and I don’t want to spend the money so I said no. I could tell she was disappointed. I ended up texting her back and asking if the point was that she wanted to spend time with me. Which it was. So, I’ll plan some time with her while she’s here. It’s weird, really, I’ve always been close to my parents (actually my whole family) but lately I feel myself drawing away from them. Some of it really is this new journey I’m on and their lack of support of it. But more than that I just don’t know. Oh well, something to ponder another day.
FYI, Team Comet — I’ve put your blogs in my blog roll over there —–> well, actually it’s at the top but it’s still over to the right. If you’d prefer to not be on my blog roll just let me know and I’ll remove your link. Everyone else — visit my team members and cheer them on too!
03 September 2009, 9:29 PM
Holla!! Team Comet in the house! Woot woot! I’m so excited. We’re going to do awesome! Sorry about you not having support from your family, but you’ve got all the support here you need! Keep up the great work!
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