What a great long weekend I just had at home in Edmonton. I was able to get out golfing a couple times and was able to spend time with some friends at a BBQ and even had time to get out to a movie, not to mention the 15 hours spent playing Xbox Rainbow 6. On top of that the weather was absolutely phenomenal! I was able to finish up in Calgary by 10:30 and head to Red Deer for a meeting there to look at some equipment. I was home in my house by 5pm Thursday night so my long weekend started right on time.
I had a little surprise waiting for me when I got home a register letter from the city because my lawn had too many weeds. Well I fooled them, I had no lawn, and my lawn was ALL weeds, none the less they had no sense of humour. I even called the city and said “I am the guy with the weed”. So I need to get someone over to cut and spray all the weeds so I don’t infect the world! Of course being away i received the notice on the 31 July written on the 24 July and they want it fixed by 3 August. I was able to get a week extension so hopefully I can call my dealer....er ...my lawn care expert over to cut and bag my weed and spray the land.
As I stated i was also able to have people over for a BBQ and I had a wonderful choice of food, like 6 choices...no not because I am a great host that allows people to eat what ever they want, it was because I left the freezer door open on the fridge, and everything defrosted around the outside edge of the freezer. See my fridge has an annoying alarm when you leave the door open, so annoying I turned off a while ago. Now I understand the annoying alarms purpose. The Frigidaire Gods have taught me a valuable lesson in meat management. Good thing it was just the fridge freezer and not my stand up one or we would have been eating buffalo for weeks!
I have let myself go again the last 10 days with staying in a hotel in Calgary, and the long weekend home, I did not eat right or controlled all week. I even drank twice. So I need to get back on track with the weight loss. I was fortunate that the damage was only minimal, I think I am .5 lb heavier this morning than I was the Saturday I left to come home, tight on the 240.2 mark. I feel good about one thing though , and that is that I can eat normally, and even splurge a bit now and it does not turn into instant weight gain. I hope once I shed a few more lbs that my weight maintenance program will be fairly easy if that is the case. I think I eat fairly decent and not overly indulge, and with me working and golfing, I am active enough to burn a lot of calories during the day as well. My new short term goal is to be down to 234 by the log golf tournament on 19 August. That gives me two weeks to lose 6 lbs which is very achievable.
One thing though I have found I have been a little stressed out lately with the job interviews and the travel etc and my blood pressure has been slowly climbing back up. My resting heart rate has been average to good. I think once I sign up to the YMCA this weekend and start going 2-3 times a week that will help with that.
Well time to get ready for work, I will try and update this more often again. Have a great short week!
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