How has a week come and gone, its seems like time this week flew by and suddenly its my weigh in day, I am down 1.2 pds this week for a total of 9.3 pds of my 50 pd goal. This week was a cold wet week, it has rained and rained and the ground is slippery and the wind has blown, some days quite hard, while doing chores were of course needed to be done but otherwise most of the week was not the kind that anyone wanted to be out in it.. even the hounds didn’t want their runs, in fact on some of the parts of the day, it was hard to convince them to out go, they would ask and then refuse to see if the next asking might have better weather yet.

It was the kind of week that I made lots of soups and felt like I wanted extra naps, my energy this week just plunged, little to no sun, no clean white snow to perk me up, just grey and rain, I have been cheating on most meals, just dipping into my canned soups and stews, I did make one soup that was half fresh and half farm prepped that turned out fab, I took one big onion, chopped it up, simmer till clear, added four potato’s in cubes, veggie stock to cover, simmer till tender, and mashed them, added in a pint of homecanned local corn kennels with the juice included, a handful of dried spinach crumbles, black pepper and a can of evaporated milk, then simmered till thick and heavenly.. it was without a doubt my yum of the week!

However, I am going to have to try and adjust my eating in order to bump my energy levels, so I am going to start going back to my winter Green Drinks, I really notice the different when I can’t have my fresh greens daily out of the garden.

Past Goals for the week

■Daily dose of apple cider vinager -Yes, and been enjoying them..

■Walk daily – Farm work yes, on the inside wii walk it out 4 out of 7 days

■No eating after 8pm -Yes 6 out of 7 days

■Kettle Bell workout 3x in the week- Yes-done and did a few extra hand weights workouts as well..

So yesterday Dh forgot to lock the gate between the big pasture and the house yard and I woke up to find my whole herd of sheep happily grazing the outside line around the farm fence, on the other side of the farm pasture, which means that the buggers had been walking along that line right past the road at one of its twice daily “mini” morning rush hour.. grrrrrr, even worse they didn’t want come when called, the look was mom, there are bits of green here and we are not coming till we eat it all! Mahaaaaa.. Finally had to take my bucket of grain and slog my way down the fence line, put it over the fence and give some of the lead girls and then walk them back up the fence lines till I could get them to come in the big back gate in the back corner pasture.. so I should have been cold/wet but no, four of the young girls went right past the gate and headed down the small pasture fence line.. they were spooky, and I had to keep arking out to not trigger their flight zone, and I slipped in the mud and hurt my left foot doing so.. finally got them in, what should have took a few min, took close to an hour, I should have gone to the house and gotten a hound to help but as much as my foot hurt, I didn’t want to do the extra walking when in the end, I would have saved the walking but didn’t know that at the time.. O well.. Needless to say the rest of the day was a bit of the taking it easy and I got a nice foot massage from Dh, and while sore this morning, its much better but certainly not go for a walk better so I will be adjusting my coming weeks goals based on this..

Goals for this coming week

• Apple Cider Vinager daily
• Daily Green Drink starting with the basic version
• Upper body weights-3x this week
• Crunches-3x this week till the burn makes me stop
• Leg lifts-3x this week
• No eating after 8pm

The only other goals for this week is to pressure can some extra beans up, and re-do on my extra medical box and organise my front line med cupboard, my med tool kits and see what I need to replace in my med storage box, I have been buying things but they are a bit scattered at the moment in different parts of the house and need to be put in one place, same with Xmas presents, I have different ones I have gotten thoughtout the year on sale, across the house, and I need to grab a tote and start putting them all in it each time I find one, plus I have a couple box’s ready for the mail but need to get to town and the post office.. So while I won’t put it on my goal list per say, I do plan on working on the house a bit in that way.

So how was your week?  Did you have a good weather week or if you have had grey as well, have you noticed that the lack of light is effecting you? Are you getting into the mood for fall’s soups and stews? When you are feeling bla, do you find yourself reaching more for your canned meals that just need a heat and go? I guess it would be equal to farmgal fast food but a heck of lot better for you!