Mala Weight

As some of you know, I was totally excited before I left that I was starting to lose weight. A couple years out of kickboxing, and I had gained a few too many. So thanks to my awesome sister Erinn, I got on the WeightWatchers bandwagon, and it really worked for me. I'm not a "meetings" person, just the online version, and keeping track of the food and exercise on a daily basis was just the kind of order and structure I needed. Those of you who have witnessed some of my more OCD tendencies in my old age can understand why.

Keep your comments about my drawers and closet to yourself please.

So anyhow, I was working out with Erinn as much as we could (Jakey also liked to "extercise", some of my favorite moments living in Hollister), and by September of last year, I hit my 25 pound marker. Yeah!





Umm.....anyhow, then I got a job at this resort restaurant.





Yeah, the combination of working full time in the middle of a resort kitchen, and going to school left me with not much brain power or time to be eating well or exercising at all, and I gained back 20 of my hard-earned 25 pounds. Lame.





Take a look at the attached pictures, and you'll see just a few of the reasons that I've gained my 20 pounds back. The Marriott chefs like to spoil us....



So I've been telling myself since June that when I graduated, I would take the first month and really focus back on my health and well-being. And I have...I'm happy to report that as of today, I've lost 5 pounds, and I'm feeling like I'm on a good path to permanent change.

One of the things I'm most grateful about with massage, is I now have a marketable, and TRADEABLE skill. I put an ad on craigslist to trade massage for personal training, and within the week I had several responses. Some were a little weird (like Ozzie, the spiritual guide who wanted me to travel to India with him as his personal "therapist". Uh-huh.), but others were totally legit, and I found one that I actually like pretty well. This weekend I also put up an almost brand new hanging bag on the lanai - thank you Bradley for finding the bag at a garage sale, for buying it for me, and for being awesome - so I plan to start kickboxing drills in the mornings.

Time to get ON it.