Feeling better

This week has been so much better. I don’t know what my problem was last week but I was just depressed. Maybe because I had missed going to the gym so much and hadn’t been eating well…I don’t know. Anyways, I’m back on track this week.
My work is actually doing a little contest for whoever loses the biggest percentage of weight between today and May 18th. The top 3 get a bottle of wine. I’m not really a wine drinker but thought I would join because I figured a little competition might make me work even harder to lose some weight. I did lose last week but it put me back to the weight I was at the week before. I guess that’s good though since I didn’t gain at least! So, we will see how I do – my starting weight is 232lbs…
Joe’s work is doing one also that they call Fit for life that’s sponsored by the YMCA. His boss volunteered him to join because the YMCA said they would give them a deal if they had one more team. He’s not too happy about it. Not because he would have to try and lose weight or anything. He’s been going to the gym with me once in a while and will eat whatever I make for dinner. But he hasn’t really been trying to lose weight like I have. He just doesn’t have time to weigh in and be measured whenever the YMCA wants them too. Oh well, maybe it will be good for him and he could win something if he does well! I got frustrated with Joe’s Mom the other night though. She asked me if he had lost any weight?!! Didn’t say anything to me! I’ve been working my ass off and know I’ve lost weight and nobody even notices. He barely does any work. Eats fast food every day at lunch and snacks on junk food and every body asks if he lost weight! ARGGG!!! Some days I just want to give up and have a big bowl of ice cream and a bunch of Oreos or just whatever sounds good that I haven’t eaten since November! But, I also want to lose this weight and be happy and healthy again so I continue on.

We had a nice thunder storm come through last Saturday evening. It was probably the worst we’ve had this year but no tornado threats - just a lot of rain, thunder and lightening. Our dog, Violet, is scared to death of thunder storms. We had gone out to meet Joe’s parents for dinner and go see the progress on the house they started having built so we put her in the garage while we were gone. She usually does better in there. Otherwise, she breaks her way out of the back yard. And I literally mean BREAK, because she breaks the pickets on the fence to get out. She doesn’t knock the picket out either she actually puts a hole in the fence. The vet gave us some pills to give her that calm her down but the weather is so unpredictable it’s hard to tell when to give her one or not. The forecast had said thunderstorms for several days and we never got one so didn’t really think it would on Saturday. Well, we had to hurry home to check on her. We brought her in and stayed in the rest of the night because the rain was coming down so hard we could barely see the road to drive home. She does fine when she’s inside with us. She’ll just lie down under the coffee table near us and sleep. The next day Joe went out to do something in the garage and noticed she did TRY to get out through the back door. It’s a metal door and she had destroyed all the wood around it and had started peeling back the top layer of the door! I don’t know how she’s never hurt and bleeding but she was just fine. I don’t really like giving her that medicine unless we know for sure there will be a storm while we’re out but we may have to start using it anyways.