Recovering

Hi people!

So here are the latest updates from my world.

After finally reaching 135 lbs, I did go back up to about a solid 138 (even 142 after Thanksgiving, but after water retention was eased, I would say 137-138 is my stable weight now). I intended to work my ass off hard this week, as well as very hard in preparation for Thanksgiving, but some fairly painful soccer injuries and overall fatigue prevented that. This week I started to get a cold/flu, so I have held back from doing anything more than walking around my apartment and sleeping/reading... I'd love to get back to it, but I need my body to recover.

In the meantime, I finished Ce que le jour doit a la nuit, and it was phenomenal. I am now reading The Kite Runner. I have cried through about half of the 250 pages I've read in the last two days. It is not as carefully written as my last read, but it is powerful no less.

Beach volleyball (indoors at least) seems to have fizzled out and may be closed for good. I am kind of down about that lately, but looking forward trying to figure out what else to do. That was the perfect sport for me, and I was so looking forward to starting 2x2, since I am getting very good at it. I would have eventually liked to compete in tournaments and such... for now, I am playing indoor soccer and my extremely muscular thighs are happy about that and becoming nicely defined. I always hated my big thighs, but thanks in part to a boyfriend who practically worships them, and to having a new appreciation for curvy and even chunky bodies (now that mine is quite lean!), I have begun to embrace my athletic build.

I am off for a quick escape from my dungeon of disease to eat some Lebanese healthy fast food with my boyfriend before he goes to class. Then it's back home for more rest and early sleep.

Did I mention I am starting Portugese classes in less than two weeks? I cannot wait. It will be a challenge, but since it is voluntary, I think I will be up for it, knowing that if I felt like giving up I could and it would take nothing away from my life. That mindset helped me commit to losing weight, eating well, exercising, staying focused on health, etc...

Got to run. Hope you are all staying on track. It' a lifelong ride we're on after all...

oh the rain.

I don't hate rain. but as an outdoor sports and runnning girl, I am feeling pretty blue. I was on a roll with my exercise, and finally reached 135, and now, after days of doing barely any exercise because it's simply too cold and wet (I'd be fine with one or the other, but not both), I am back up on the scale. I've been careful enough food-wise, but every day I wake up and the weather is crap I get more and more frustrated.

The real problem is that I haven't been playing beach volleyball because the management keeps changing, and thus keeps changing the league information, prices, start dates, etc. It now looks like I'll only be playing 1 night a week, 2x2. Luckily, I MIGHT have a great partner, and fingers crossed they stick to the latest info they gave me.

So for the time being, I'm playing indoor soccer once a week, have been trying to run a couple times a week (not with this weather though), and have been subbing on court volleyball and/or playing drop-in beach for the last few weeks. I try to walk at lunch, but this weather (and having to buy my lunches this week) has taken that from me as well.

I am almost done my book, and it is amazing. I am sad that it's ending.

Oh, and I can't wait for my Thanksgiving weekend with my family this weekend. It's also my dad's 65th / retirement party on Saturday, weeeee! I'll probably get one game of squash in, with him, this weekend, but wont have time for much more. Weather permitting I will run. I will!!!!!!