Sum It Up Saturday

Whew, I got behind on updating here the past few days. I have been so tired and have been dealing with some extreme back pain the past few days. I hope you all had an AMAZING Thanksgiving. I know I certainly did. Not all of my family could get together, but we still had a great time. I woke up super early to start prepping dinner and get the turkey in the oven (which barely fit into my mall oven). We started our Thanksgiving off with a 1 mile walk (and my youngest ran the 5k course)

It was chilly, but we had a lot of fun doing this together!

Afterwards I went home and started cooking our feast. Family arrived and we had an awesome meal together.  I was STUFFED and couldn't even enjoy my pecan pie indulgence until much later that night!

After everyone left, I propped my feet up and relaxed.

I did manage to earn quite a few activity points Thursday!

Friday, my boys were ready to decorate for Christmas. We had a lot of fun getting the house and tree all ready for the holidays. Here are a few pics!

He just couldn't resist getting into box and smashing his face against the plastic!

And even though I didn't quite reach my goal, I was close!

Today has been spent sleeping in, laundry, grocery shopping and packing for mine and hubby's trip to Las Vegas. I am so excited that I found a Santa Run (or walk for me) while we are in Vegas. I signed up right away!!!! And it is on Fremont Street which is so awesome. 

For anyone interested in trying the Plexus Products, they are having a great Black Friday special through tomorrow. Visit my link for more info or feel free to email me. 

http://karigoodman.myplexusproducts.com

Well, I'm gonna say bye for now. Sending you all love and healthy wishes!

Keep Losing,

Kari

What A Wednesday

Wow! What a crazy day it has been. Got up early and cooked turkey, gravy, corn, green beans and stuffing for all of our employees. Everyone pitched in and we had a wonderful lunch together. 

We had so much food and so many desserts. We don't all get to sit down together very often. 

BUT while I was cooking, my large oven went kaput. It got way hot and then started beeping some error. I got it to work again, but it did the same thing. And of course no one can come look at it until next week. And I have a dinner to fix tomorrow using only my small wall oven. But we will make it work!

After lunch I caught up on office work since we will be gone for a week. Then it was errands in town and then back home to clean up my kitchen and finish the housework I hadn't completed yet. 

And our plans for tomorrow have changed. I am not going to share all the details yet, but I do ask for some prayers for my family over the next few days. We are still having a dinner with the family that can make it and it will still be a good day! 

I also have a 5k to walk tomorrow before preparing another Thanksgiving dinner. However, I am feeling pretty mellow. Might help that I ended my evening with the hot  tub and a glass of wine!

And even though I didn't get an "official" workout in, I still managed to earn 5 activity points!

Well, time to watch Survivor and get to bed. Have an early start in the morning!

Sending you all love and healthy wishes and a wonderful day tomorrow!

Keep Losing, 

Kari

Crazy Tuesday

Today has been a CRAZY day!  Got up and started my routine and before my first cup of coffee I had to pick my sick son up from school. Managed to drink a cup quickly before my chiropractic appointment. My chiropractor is still concerned about how tender and sore both of my si joints and sacrum are. They would like to refer me out for two other possible treatments. One involves steroids and I won't try that until a last, last resort. The other is a pain management specialist where he would do localized injections. I have decided to wait for my new insurance at the beginning of the year to try this. In the meantime, they gave me a TENS unit to use on my back. I used it this evening and it did feel good. I am just tired of hurting so bad I can barely sit. 

After the chiropractor, I headed to the gym. I did 20 minutes on the elliptical and  a 30 minute training session with Sam. She even made me a protein banana smoothie afterwards since I was headed to Walmart 😱. Walmart was a madhouse, but I think I finally have everything I need to cook two Thanksgiving dinners. 

Came home and cleaned, cleaned, cleaned. Washed windows, scrubbed baseboards. Definitely hit my activity goal for today. 

Just finished a nice hot Epsom salt bath and getting ready to curl up to a good book. Gotta get up early to cook turkeys for our dinner at work tomorrow. 

Well, I'm signing off for tonight. Sending you all love and healthy wishes!

Keep Losing