I have very few followers, but thought I should update those of you still with me. I was MIA in 2018 because I got a new job that took me out of the house and got me moving! It is a great change of pace. I enjoy it (most of the time)! I became a Shipt Shopper!
It also took me away from meal planning, cooking dinners most nights, counting anything points related, and blogging, social media, etc.
I'm not going to lie....there has been a huge shift in this house due to my absence. A huge struggle actually. My husband is no cook. That still fell to me despite being gone most evenings. The peak shopping times are from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m.--straight through dinner. As a result, there was a lot of not-so-good choices being made in this house for dinner, as well as late-night eating for me anywhere from 10 to 11 p.m. when I got home, but I still lost weight!
The homefront struggles aren't all limited to dinners either. Everything else related to kids and home falls onto my husband in my absence, and it is stressful on him too after working his full day. Twenty pounds in 11 months with a couple of big chunks of time off due to vacation and family emergencies. I'll take it! Hell, I got it and I'm loving it!
Now I am trying to get my organization skills back out and figure out a plan of attack to get things in order here at home for everyone else while I am away and on the run out there and everywhere. I will get it eventually.
This "job" (since I am self employed, as all Shipt shoppers are), requires a ton of walking and pushing heavy carts and a lot of lifting, sometimes up to 40 pounds (think bags of water softener salt pellets, dog foods, and kitty litters, as well as 24-count packs of heavy bottled water). My muscles have made a comeback. I suffer less back problems from strengthening my back muscles in a way working out never seemed to do for me. Overall, I see improvements all around.
I have been injured a few times as well. There are risks involved in this line of work believe it or not and being self employed means you pay the price. This old bird has fallen on an icy driveway and has had an emergency tear-filled doctor-visit day trying to figure out what I did to my shoulder (inappropriate lifting of 2.5-pound jugs of water did the trick), but I am learning as I go what NOT to do as well. For instance, I created a list of orders I will not take again...the lady with 400 pounds of this and the one ordering 40-lb bags of dog food to be delivered in dangerous terrain. Plus, I can overlook a lot of the annoyances that come with this job by simply reminding myself that I am earning money as I lose weight and tone-up my body! Win!
My confession is not eating well throughout the year. By making a conscious effort this year to do so combined with this physical job of mine, I'm interested to see how 2019 ends!
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