I'm heading off to bed so this won't be much of a post.

I kept on plan, all day pretty much. I skipped lunch again. I'm just so busy in the day right now that I'm getting hungry for lunch. I did work out this morning, although it was a struggle to get out of bed.

I'm finding that lately, I can really feel muscle under my fat. The fat's starting to disappear and the muscle will be popping through soon. I love the way I can feel my muscles in my arms, it's a great sensation.

Anyway, I'm off to bed, this would be more newsy but I'm brain dead. Happy Tuesday all.

It's so easy to stay on program when you literally forget to eat. I forgot to eat again today, I didn't get hungry at all. I didn't even eat my banana. It was weird. I don't feel weak or anything right now but I do feel tired. It was a long busy day, and it's only Monday. yikes!

Here's today's Progress Prompt:

What is your ideal goal weight? How many pounds do you need to lose in order to reach your goal weight? Do you think your goal weight is realistic enough for your age and your body frame? Why?

It depends on whose "Ideal" you choose to listen to. If I look at things like BMI and insurance charts, my ideal weight would be around 140 I guess. If I ever got down to 140, I'd probably look like a skeleton, I can't imagine it. I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing for the rest of my life. Eventually, my weight will plateau. Wherever that happens, it'll be way healthier than what I started at and it'll be the weight my body is meant to be. If I could get below 200 ("one-derland" as some of you call it), that would be cool. If it doesn't happen though, I won't be upset. Where ever I end up is better than where I started.

I had a very lazy day today. I did not go into the office, I did not work, I did sleep in, or rather, tried to.

I felt like hammered shit last night. Really ill and achey. I did a couple of loads of laundry in the early evening in between curling up in a ball on my bed. This morning, I woke up and finished the laundry, between cat naps. I'm feeling better now although a little tired. We went out and did some errands this afternoon and had lunch out. Since we've been home, we've been lazing around watching tv and I feel better for it.

This week is going to be really busy at work but I'm going to workout every morning. It's one of the things that will keep me sane this week, I know it. This time next week, it'll all be over for another year. I'm looking forward to that. Hope you all had a lazy sunday too!

Blah...I feel blah. I'm having major cramps right now and I feel yucky. I went into the office for a few hours this morning and was able to get a bunch of stuff done. Since I've been home though, I've sort of been dragging my butt around the house. I haven't worked out yet but I think I'll do something in the exercise vein this evening, it should help my cramps go away if nothing else.

I had a goooood weigh-in this week. After last week's maintain, I'm down 2 pounds this week. Even with our eating routine thrown off slightly, the regular exercise is helping me keep on track. So, this week's weigh-in puts me at 74 pounds gone since January 6. I'm feeling pretty good about that!! The other day I wore my new brown cords to work and a couple of my co-workers commented on how my slim my legs were looking. That was nice to hear! I also measured up and have lost another inch from my waist and a half-inch from my hips.

I may go back into work for a bit tomorrow. I have a tonne of laundry to do too but I may try to get at that later today. Right now, I think I'm going to try a nap and another ibuprofen. Cramps suck!

Just a quick note. Today was a really really long day. I did workout this morning but I managed to not get lunch again today. We went out for dinner tonight after work and I didn't actually eat much. Partly because I was really pooped and partly because I was wearing a pair of jeans that are a little tight on the waist. Nothing like snug pants to keep you appetite in check huh?

I'm going to pop some ibuprofen and head to bed. TOM started when I got home tonight and I'm crampy and sleepy. I'm probably going to get into the office for a couple of hours over the weekend but I'm going to take it easy too. I need a rest!!

So I don't have my computer back yet but I do have a loaner laptop from our help desk. I can't print or get my email but I did get a tonne of stuff accomplished this afternoon. Hopefully, I'll have it back tomorrow. It was a huge exercise in frustration.

Speaking of exercise, I've been doing really well at keeping with my morning workout routine this week. I'm managing to get out of bed a few minutes earlier each day too. This is such a switch after the other week when I was having a really tough time dragging my butt out of bed. Tonight, we were watching Will & Grace (the season premiere -- I love that we can watch the Maritimes broadcast at 7 and not have to wait until 9 for it!) and I got up during the commercial to get our blue box stuff together. I was half-way to the kitchen and my knee went all wonky. I'm not sure what that's all about exactly. On Sunday, I knelt on a patio stone briefly and my left knee was bugging me that night. This is my right knee and I'm not what I did to it but it's sore. It's sore when I put weight on it anyway. Sitting here with it bent, it's okay. Hopefully it'll pass by morning.

Eating has been very good over the past couple of days. Partly because I've been forgetting to eat lunch. Yep, me...Forgetting to eat. Odd sounding isn't it? I got sort of hungry around noon and grabbed my banana and some water but other than that, I didn't eat all day. It's not good and I'm going to try my very best to eat during the day tomorrow. As I've mentioned before, skipping meals can lead me to over-eating and I want to avoid that if I can.

Anyway, with Will & Grace out of the way, I'm heading off for an early night. I'm really pooped right now for some reason. Fortunately, the insanity at work will let up in just over a week and I'll be back to my normally schedule posts, workouts, meals, etc. I've not had time to read a lot of the journals I normally read recently and I'm looking so forward to getting caught up. I really miss reading about how everyone's doing. Maybe this weekend I'll have a couple of free hours for some inspirational reading! I know I can use the inspiration!

I had a weird day. This morning, it started out great. I'd had a fabulous sleep last night, got up, worked out, had a great breakfast, got to work early and had a super productive morning. Productive until 11 a.m. or so anyway. My computer has been acting up recently and no matter what I did, I couldn't get it sorted. Eventually I called the help desk. The operating system is basically pooched and the machine needs to be rebuilt. Charming. 7 working days until our big huge event that we work on all year long and I have no machine. They hope to get it back to me sometime tomorrow...sometime. At this point, I'd take anything, a crap loaner, anything that will run so that I can stay in my area and work. Unfortunately, I can't do any of the stuff that needs doing at home or really, at any other desk in the office. I'm trying to not stress about it too badly and will remain positive. I feel bad about bitching about it because our help desk guys are understaffed and overwhelmed most days. I only bug them when I've exhausted all other resources. Keep your fingers crossed for me, I really need to get my machine back, pronto!

Wednesday already? Wow...here's this week's Wednesday Weigh-In:

What has been your most memorable (or important) non-scale victory to date?

mmm...I've had a few good ones and I've reported them here, for the most part. The most memorable one for me was the night I realized that I could cross my legs again. It was so weird...we were sitting on the sofa watching tv one night and I looked down and realized that my legs were crossed. I hadn't been able to do that in I don't know how long. It was just one of those things that I almost didn't realize I couldn't do until I could do it again. It was very cool.