Such a klutz I am!

Seriously, when will it ever end?  Between my sore wisdom tooth causing the entire right side of my face to swell, the usual aches and pains, and the work-out soreness (I will explain that in a minute), I really didn't need anything else.

Last night was grocery shopping night, and as has become routine, Mandy and I went to Souper Salad.  If you do not have a Souper Salad near you, you are missing out.  For about $10 a person, you can get all you can eat soup, salad, baked potatoes etc.  If you make wise decisions, which is NOT hard to do there, you can get away with an amazing filling dinner for very few calories.  In fact, most of my calories last night came from the pepperoni I put on my salad, the tiny portion of macaroni and cheese I got, and the little 2x2 square of blueberry bread I had for dessert.  I even passed on the chipotle ranch for some fat free italian. 
Dinner was great and after, we headed out to the new Sprouts market that just opened up in town.  Their weekly dollar deals happened to be on some of the produce that we eat a ton of, but can never buy enough of due to price.  For about $40 we got 6 cartons of cherub tomatoes, 4 fresh pineapples, 20 lbs of the little cutie mandarin oranges, cucumbers, avocados, grapes, bulk bin brown rice (.49 a lb!!!!) and some ginger snaps and lemon snaps for hubby and the kids.  It was great!  I really look forward to going there each week to snag some great produce. 
After Sprout's it was to the usual big box store for the rest.  We had to get diapers and the usual, as well as groceries.  We made the "dry trip" in, and then took it all out to the van.  While unloading, I of course managed to find the ONLY crack near my van, and ever so slightly rolled my left ankle.  Luckily, I felt it giving and let myself fall on the grocery cart.  That was not pleasant but I think it saved me from major damage.  I am just lucky it was my left, the stronger ankle.  Had it been my right, I think it would have been the end of the trip and the boot for me!
It was a little sore but we headed back in to get the rest of the groceries.  We rolled back home around 1 in the morning, got everything unloaded, the cold food put up, and then CRASHED.  We were so tired.

Today my ankle was a little swollen but not sore, so I got up, nursed my awfully swollen face until it settled down some, and then hopped on the treadmill.  I did a little jog for about a third of a mile (about all I can handle) and then started in to workout number 6 in my "Get Fit" series with Jillian on the treadmill.  I finished the most recent episode of the "Half-Size Me" podcast, and then listened to my iHeart station until I was done.  I am REALLY enjoying the workouts with this program.  They are not too hard, are each different, but a little challenging, and always leave me guessing as to what it is going to do next. 
6 days in a row I have been on the treadmill.  Tomorrow I will post a time, miles, incline feet, and calories burned for the last 7 days. 

This has been a really good week.  I know the scale is not showing it right now, but it will soon. 

Life is crazy

So I am back.  I know I have not posted anything in a while but things have been crazy around here as always.
I just wanted to pop in and say that I have managed to spend time on the treadmill each day this week.  Today will be day 5.
I have been doing an iFitLive workout that is incline training.  It has been pretty fun and I am actually starting to look forward to it each day, as it isn't the same thing each time. 
I stepped on the scale this morning and reminded myself that I cannot control the scale.  I know I am eating better than I have been.  I know I have been exercising more.  I had to remind myself that I can be expected to gain a little weight when I start exercising again and not to panic at the fact that I have done everything right this week and still gone up a few pounds.  I will not panic until next week, if it doesn't start going down again.

Foot and ankles feel good so far.  Lets hope it all keeps going up from here.
Backed off of weight watchers and instead have gone back to standard portion control.  Sometimes I just cannot control what I have available to eat, so right now I am just going to work on controlling how much I am eating, and not binging on everything I can.