Giddy-up

Yes, cowpokes, Giddy the fuck up...pardon the cowgirl references, but last night, I actually got back in the saddle. Literally. I rode a horse. A tall one at that. I had last been on a horse, last summer I think, before this journey started. It was Jack, our shorter, older, tamer, has one speed and that is walk-horse. I needed a bucket to get on him. I could not put my foot in the saddle and swing my other leg over him. Last night, I put my foot in the stirrup on the saddle that was on Star, our younger MUCH taller, has more spunk-horse and swung my leg right over, no hesitation, no hop, no needing a bucket. SO, while in the back of my mind I am still thinking of my miserable failures in the last 6 weeks, at least I have SOME semblance of a victory. We only rode for about 20 minutes, but it was nice. Something I haven't been able to do in a long time, so it felt good.
I was on plan yesterday, all day. Which also felt good. I ate mostly liquids in my five and one. Two puddings, a chicken noodle soup and a bar. I had a broccoli/squash mix and a piece of flat iron steak for my l&g. The flat iron cooked wasn't enough protein, so I had a boca burger about an hour after that, with mustard, pickles and WF BBQ sauce. I was reminded that while I don't mind boca burgers, Morningstar Farms are much better. I think its the fact that the Boca patties are a funny tannish grayish kind of color that doesn't even remotely look like a burger and they are quite mushy. In fact it kind of looks like what we feed Drew's 4-h pigs, formed into a patty. yummy, huh?
Today, I had a chocolate pudding, planning to have another one in about a half an hour. I also have a chicken noodle soup and am hoping I can do some pretzels this afternoon. While the steak and veggies went down okay, my stomach still wasn't happy to meet them. My L&G for tonight is going to be a taco bake, the recipe which I found on that blog I mentioned the other day. I plan to top it with an assload of lettuce and fresh tomatoes. If it turns out I will post the recipe here.
I know I am not to exercise at this point, because frankly kids, I am a newbie again. I am starting fresh, so, I am to wait until week three which is May 16 before I am to exercise, BUT, I plan to do the Wellness Walk on Friday, I will walk at a leisurely pace, not over doing anything and I will feel good about it. Damnit. I also encourage any of you, if you are free, or if you can get away for any amount of time, to join me. I think we may even close our office for the hour and a half that the walk lasts so we can all participate and help the students reach their goal of 1,000 walkers. It starts at approximately 10:15.
Today's reason for losing weight: I want to be the "She's YOUR wife?" again, when I'm with Big D, that was a pretty good feeling. Yes, he's a lucky son of a bitch.
Today's goal: Increase my water. I'm pretty good with water intake, but I haven't made it back up to the peeing every 20 minutes all afternoon level that I once was at.