Holy Crap, it's 2019

I can’t believe it’s almost a month into 2019!  

Things are going well.  I’m still working full time, although my duties have changed slightly.  For the past several years, I've been just in the office doing computer work.  About a month ago, due to our office being very short staffed, I was asked to also do some new construction inspections as necessary.  So I'm basically back doing what I did when I first started in our department 30 years ago. I do like it, as long as the weather is not too nasty.  I enjoy the interaction with contractors and the fresh air. 

Monday, my husband will be discussing selling his business with a gentleman who has been interested for several years.  They’ve been doing the “dance” around what it’s worth, etc.  I think they are getting close to an agreement.

Once the deal is finalized, this would mean that I’d be giving a year’s notice at my own job.  A year is obviously not required but I had promised that I would give a year so that I could start training another person to make the transition.  I’m also not sure I’m ready to retire yet, so it would be nice to give myself a year to mentally prepare.  Retirement would also mean I’d not be working out with my trainer 4 times a week.  I’ve gotten very dependent upon his guidance and motivation, so I’d have to figure out how to go forth with that part of my life, a part that I’ve come to enjoy so much.

So I finally weighed myself about 3 months ago, more out of curiosity than anything.  I was feeling good and I could kind of guess where I was at weight wise.  I was a little off, but close...I thought I weighed about 173 but was actually 175. 

About that time, I purchased a Motiv ring which you wear all the time.  It tracks your activities, calories expended, sleep trends, heart rate, etc.  I’ve found it is a really good way to keep me motivated to be active and eat right.  So this is a typical day for me:

There are other screens which show how your heart rate changes during the day, such as during exercise, and at night while you are at rest.  You can look at how your heart rate changes at night, on the nights when I've eaten sugar, my resting heart rate is almost always higher.  Sugar...BAD!

(The Motiv app calculations are based on the BMR for a 65 year old woman of my height and weight, which is calculated to be around 1360.  I wonder how much it will change when I turn 66 next month LOL.) 

With my workouts and being relatively active, I’ve found (according to Motiv) I usually “burn” around 2000-2500 calories a day.

So over the past 3 months, I’ve consistently tried to keep my calories around 1800 a day (occasionally I'm under but I also do go over on weekends).  But that’s all I’ve done, and I’m currently weighing in at 168.  So it's taken 3 months to lose around 7 lbs, but those size 8’s a mentioned a few posts back fit now.

So my intention now is to lose 5 more lbs and then stay there.  I think 163 is a good weight for me.

I hope everyone is doing well, and enjoying 2019 so far.