Footprints on the Moon

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there! I spent the morning being lazy around the house, and then making some cookie dough dip to take to the cookout we had this afternoon. And then of course, I went to said cookout.

I wore my league t-shirt, so there was some conversation about roller derby. I tried to talk Elena into joining with us, but since she broke her arm the last time she was roller skating, I didn’t get too far. (Hmm… maybe this is why people keep asking me about insurance quotes when I talk about joining a roller derby league?)

Anyway, it was a nice afternoon. I got to see some family members that I don’t see very often. Now I’m at home, watching Remember the Titans on ABC Family and thinking about getting myself to bed early.

Edit to add: I almost forgot to add my weight loss update. I lost .8 this week, for a total of 18.2. I need to take my measurements again because I feel like the weight loss has slowed down (the garbage I’ve been eating may have something to do with that), but I also feel like there have been some other changes in my body just from skating 2-4 times a week!

The positive side is that I don’t really need to invest in any fitness equipment outside my skates and requisite protective gear… but sometimes I feel like I’ve signed myself up not for roller derby, but for systematic organized torture. At least that’s what I was proclaiming (amidst mutter the F word under my breath) during the second half of practice last night.

We started out practice with some on-skate endurance stuff, including knee falls, which absolutely kick my butt. My thighs will be screaming from those by the end of the day, I’m sure. Then we took off the skates and gear, swapped them for tennis shoes, and returned to the rink floor for the torture, I mean, core exercises. There were crazy crunches and planks and a whole lot of shaking arms while I held my 230 lb self off the floor with a foot and one hand.

I’ll post at some point my thoughts, feelings, observances about roller derby so far, but for now let me just say this:

Ouch.

Sunday again already? Wow… I really did mean to post something else during the week, but I just never managed to do it! The biggest problem is that I’ve been meaning to compose a post about this whole roller derby thing but I’m having a hard time putting everything into words.

Anyways, life has been busy, between work and derby and just life in general. I was definitely ready for the weekend to decompress. (I didn’t have much of choice– my thigh muscles hurt so bad from our league practice on Thursday night that I could hardly move until Saturday night!) Friday, Sarah came over and we had a very good, very needed vent fest.

Saturday, as I posted on Facebook, was a little bit of cleaning, a little bit of relaxing, and a lot of blowing my diet. Not too bad, but I definitely used all my daily points, the rest of my weekly points and half of my activity points. All on Saturday afternoon. Whoops LOL But I also got the dishes washed and the bathroom mostly cleaned.

Today I have been cleaning and purging in my bedroom. I have two big garbage bags of clothes to pass along to goodwill, and a whole stack of clothes on the shelf in my closet that I can’t wait to get skinny enough to get back into! One more size down and I’ll have some really cute pants to wear lol

I was going to go to the open skate at the roller rink this afternoon, but when I got there the parking lot was completely empty. So I figured either they canceled the skate, or else it was full of teenagers who had been dropped off. Either way, I knew I didn’t want to bother going inside! Instead I came back on and continued on the clean and purge. I still have piles of clutter, and boxes from ordering all my skate stuff, in the living room… I just need to clear all that stuff out and then I can vacuum the floors and I’ll have a pretty clean apartment! Feels good, it was out of hand for awhile!

And to keep you posted on the Weight Watchers thing… I’m down .6 this week, for a total of 16 pounds in 8 weeks. If it hadn’t been for the last 2 days, it would have been more than that, but I’ll take it. Mom saw some pictures on Facebook of me at one of the derby events and said that she can see that I’m losing weight, so that was awesome! It’s always encouraging when other people can start to see the difference rather than always being like, no really, I’m less fat, I promise!