Much Much Better

This weekend was world’s away from what my weekends have been like lately. It was great for a number of reasons:

1) I took Friday off to run errands and get a head start on the cleaning. I can’t do this every Friday, but I can plan an easy meal (or eat out), run a couple of errands and have that out of the way.
2) I did my grocery shopping on Saturday. I front loaded “chores” and saved Sunday as a day for me. The store was dead at 9 am just like it is on Sunday morning, and this made Sunday less busy. And I had food for the weekend :-)
3) I did housework on Saturday, and took help when it was offered. Hubby cleaned the bathrooms while I was doing the shopping. That and the vacuuming helped a lot.
4) I had time to do stuff I wanted! I made myself a vintage-style apron! I mended the pile of clothes that had been dragging me down. I made home-made wheat rolls with my son. We made flan just because he wanted to. I did more housework on Sunday (like cleaning up the pile of junk in the corner of the dining room), but because I wanted to do it, I didn’t mind.

I don’t know if it was because I was finally able to relax, or my good eating helped me to relax, but my eating was really good this weekend. I didn’t get in as much exercise as I would have liked, but hey – 2 rest days instead of 1 isn’t a huge deal. For the first time in a long time I feel that my weekend eating didn’t hinder my weight loss efforts! Big smiley face for me for that!