Healthy Time

Update:

Weight: 251.8 lbs
Net Cal: -252 cal
Exercise: walk the dogs 10 min x2,

Good Day.  All in all it has been a quiet weekend.  Time spent with my family and my beautiful Kat.  With birthday celebrations, I have been less stringent on my calorie monitoring.  While I have given myself permission to have the yummy cheesecake with lime curd that was made by my Dad, the chocolate chip mint ice cream cake that the four of us enjoyed watching Spongebob Squarepants together.  I have not pushed to go out to walk.  I have enjoyed taking time to be with my girls.  To me, this time is healthy too.

I have to remind myself that I won't succeed if I am overly stringent and prevent myself from enjoying my life.  Kat and I spent last night pitting 15 lbs of cherries, then made 5 cherry pie fillings to freeze and 9 jars of cherry jam plus 19 jars of strawberry jam.  Kat and I enjoy jamming together.  Again, this is healthy, but is it rejuvenating?

In some ways it is.  I find it relaxing, have fun joking around and working with Kat.  At the same time it is physically taxing and there is a limited amount of time once the process is started to actually finish the process.  In the end, I will be tired but happy with what we did.  I feel that my birthday weekend was perfect even though we didn't "do" anything but be a family and chill.

Defining healthy time vs. busy time is hard.  I'm not very good at it.  I still feel the drive to get moving and be productive.  I am finding though that the projects I am embarking on are projects that I love and that I find relaxing.

Time to make more strawberry jam.  We are up to another 9 jars of jam today with 2 more batches to go.

Successes: found time to have space with my family
Barriers: my birthday weekend