Admittedly, this was not my best week in regards to my continued efforts to lose weight. Since I was mostly better, I was eating more. Enough to gain a piddly pound back. Still, that isn't so horrible. I figure it is my body coming out of starvation mode. The real challenge will be to see how I did this current week. We had our itty bits away for the weekend, so we did a lot of yard work, a lot of loafing about and a lot of pigging out. Oof. I only went over by a couple of points on a couple of days but I still feel a little guilty knowing that I was eating things that were bad for me.
On the business end of life, I did get my Etsy shop up and running and things are already looking much better this time around. More traffic to my site, people actually enjoying the things that I create. Sales to individuals around town are up as well, but no luck with the local spas and boutiques so far. One battle at a time though!
My plan for now is to speed through the "non-denominational holiday presents" for my husbands office and pick out what I will create and put up next on Etsy.
Monday, October 14, 2013
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Week Four: Weight Watchers, Small Businesses and Illness
This week has been invigorating and exhausting at the same time.
My husband returned home from a college football game with whatever flavor of illness this is going around, and promptly gave it to the baby and me. Booooooo! However, this has made sticking to my points count with Weight Watchers very easy because all I have wanted is hot tea, juice and soup. This is doubly good seeing as how I went into junk food over drive while he was away at the game and almost blew through an entire weeks worth of treat points in a day and a half. I was much more determined to eat better afterwards though. Really, if I was not ill I likely would have maintained the flubby weight from the week before rather than losing two pounds. Go me? I am not sure on that one yet.
Not so new NEWS FLASH! Babies do not like bulb syringes. Poor Mini Moose has Daddy's plague worse than he or I do and has to be suctioned out ever few hours. At first he wasn't so cranky, now he is unless there are big, group snuggles. This is a problem since we do not co-sleep with itty bits, and both my husband and I need naps too. If we are not all in the same place, screaming ensues. My head with the sinus headache does not appreciate this. Such is life.
The excitement of the week though is that I am going to be selling things again, and opening up my Etsy shoppe once more. This time it will be with things that I make specifically to sell rather than just whatever knit and crocheted projects that I wanted to make and had no use for and no one to give it to. Also, I will be adding handmade soaps, dead sea salt scrubs and the like to my repertoire of retail goods.
My husband returned home from a college football game with whatever flavor of illness this is going around, and promptly gave it to the baby and me. Booooooo! However, this has made sticking to my points count with Weight Watchers very easy because all I have wanted is hot tea, juice and soup. This is doubly good seeing as how I went into junk food over drive while he was away at the game and almost blew through an entire weeks worth of treat points in a day and a half. I was much more determined to eat better afterwards though. Really, if I was not ill I likely would have maintained the flubby weight from the week before rather than losing two pounds. Go me? I am not sure on that one yet.
Not so new NEWS FLASH! Babies do not like bulb syringes. Poor Mini Moose has Daddy's plague worse than he or I do and has to be suctioned out ever few hours. At first he wasn't so cranky, now he is unless there are big, group snuggles. This is a problem since we do not co-sleep with itty bits, and both my husband and I need naps too. If we are not all in the same place, screaming ensues. My head with the sinus headache does not appreciate this. Such is life.
The excitement of the week though is that I am going to be selling things again, and opening up my Etsy shoppe once more. This time it will be with things that I make specifically to sell rather than just whatever knit and crocheted projects that I wanted to make and had no use for and no one to give it to. Also, I will be adding handmade soaps, dead sea salt scrubs and the like to my repertoire of retail goods.
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