Happy Mother's Day

I'm back!!!

Wow - what a trip!  I'll post some pictures as soon as I download them.  Italy was everything I expected and MORE.  Beautiful country, lovely people and AMAZING food.  This logs as one of my favorite vacations ever.  I'll post some of the fun details when I do a picture post this week.

As for today's post ... I need some tough love to get back into the swing of things.  I'm withdrawing from pizza, wine, cheese, sugar and coffee.  Oh boy!! (But worth every bite - no regrets and I rarely say that!)  We walked everywhere and I worked out so the damage is easily correctable IF I correct it quickly.  Staying this eating course will be devastating to my pants fitting if I don't.

I'm giving myself the weekend to move back on track.  Why?  Well, I might die from withdrawing all at once lol and my boys (plus my eldest's girlfriend) are hosting a Mother's Day lunch for me today (probably more her than them lol).  I didn't want any restrictions and didn't want to insult their effort.  They've never done this before and I want to be a good, gracious guest.  So some healthy mixed with some indulgences.  Baby steps.

Monday I've scheduled a massage and nail appointment.  A little bit of fun as I start back to healthy habits.  I'm considering another quick blast of Whole30 days to get back to feeling great.  These next 2 weeks are going to be really busy and I need to get on my game.

Back to regular workouts will feel great too.  I used a gym in Rome - really nice.  Tested my math in the morning converting from metric numbers lol.  Ran outside along a river in Florence - perfect weather, beautiful scenery and I used my GPS watch to track distance (I was much faster than I expected).  I didn't workout the 2 days in Venice.  I twisted my back on the train and was in bad shape.  Almost back to normal (but I need to clean this week - yea massage though!).  Today is supposed to be back at it, but (I kid you not) I stepped funning walking down the stairs and hurt my calf.  Good Lord!!  I hope it feels well enough to run.  Otherwise, I'll lift.  I desperately need a good sweat!!

The time difference in this direction is much easier for me to adjust.  I feel no jet-lag this time - it's all food coma energy issues!  I have a mountain of house stuff to get done this week.  No surprise, but it feels like I just did all this stuff before I left (and I did).  Clean house, pay bills, grocery shop, cook ... the usual suspects.  I'm grateful for my work hiatus.

My INTENTION for today is to ENJOY the day - not get overwhelmed by my to-do list, ENJOY the efforts from the kids and be grateful for a safe, wonderful trip.

I loved the trip and I love being back.  It can't get much better than that.  Later gators.