Nearing the end: Don't give up!

We are nearing the end of the contest, but there is still 14 days left and a lot can happen in two weeks. The final weigh-in is on May 20. Please come even if you have not made all of the weigh-ins because you can still win some nice door prizes and we would love to have you at the weigh-in for a lunch and a final photo.

I went to my doctor yesterday just to check in. She thinks I am ready to increase my activity  level and I think she is correct. The best way for me to lose weight now is through good regular physical activity. Walking will probably be the best for me. I have been avoiding walking on a regular basis, but I know that I need to do it.

I feel I have my eating more in check, although on occasion I still do slip up and overeat. It is not so much that I eat the "wrong" things, but that I eat too much. That is one thing I still need to work on. I am getting better at managing my portions.

Another piece of advice I am offering you, is to keep up your water intake. I let that slip for about a week. I was only drinking 2-3 glasses of water a day and I could tell. I am back up to the 8 glasses a day and I feel better.

I wanted to blog a little more about my coffee drinking experience.

Last Friday, April 30, I drank coffee for the first time in a couple of months. Granted, I overdrank by downing about 8 cups of coffee, but I had done that before and figured it wouldn't hurt me.

I don't know if it "hurt" me or not, but I sure did get sick. I felt dizzy, disoriented and just generally ill-at-ease. My stomach reeled and rolled and I felt awful.

I thought back over some of these feelings, although not this intense, that I had experienced in the past years of life as a coffee drinker. It began to make sense to me that perhaps coffee was causing some of the problems I had been experiencing. I can't say for sure, but I have vowed to not drink coffee again.

Hope you are all having a good week and continuing to work on your goals of becoming healthier.