Sorry its been so long!!!

Updates

Hi everyone.  Thank you all for the wonderful comments and words of encourage ment on my blog.  I have not had the chance to write back to everyone so this new post is to tell everyone thank you!

I am in my 5th week of pregnancy and have already gained 4 pounds back.  I hate it (an don't think it is baby weight) seeing as thought they say my baby still is a grain of rice and has a tail!  I've looked at many sites on the internet and a lot of them say exercising is great for pregnancy although I don't want to over-do-it.  It seems that exercise is the only way I can really loose weight but I have to bust my butt to do it.  I don't want to "bust my butt" now since this is my first baby and I'm really not sure what I'm doing! lol 

I have a huge hill by my house that I love to walk but by the time I get to the top, I'm grasping for air and I don't want to continue to do that if it could hurt the baby.  Any suggestions or ideas? 

My husband and I have been throwing around ideas on names.  I wanted to hear from some of you on kids names (both boy and girl - first and middle) to see if there might be other suggestions that I like before I let you know what we were thinking on.  Let me know!!!

Thanks for being there for me!

Baby On Board

• Well, so much for trying to lose all this weight before the end of the year.! LOL  Brian and I found out yesterday that I'm pregnant.  We are both extremely happy and have waited for this for almost 2 years!!!   Instead of losing the weight, I'll be gaining my pregnancy weight.  I'm so happy and excited that I just can't control myself. 
  
•  Sorry for not keeping you guys updated.  I've been busy trying to call everyone and keep them all updated.  I went and surprised my mom last night.  Brian and I had taken a few pictures with the test and when we went to see my mother, I pulled out the camera and showed her.  She was really happy for us and excited that there would be a little one in the house again!
  
• We are currently going to be moving back in with my mother.  We are going to move into her basement (which is like a mini apartment on its own).  We first were going to do it to save on money and get some of our "bills" paid off but now with a little one coming it will be easier so that my mom can be part of this!  I'm excited!  
• I've already started to feel some morning sickness and I hate it!  Any suggestions on how to get rid of or tone it down? lol I could use it! 
• Well there is the big news and I will keep you guys updated as it continues. 
• Until next time… 
  

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop

• Well, this week wasn’t the best for me. I ended up not losing anything but then again, I didn’t gain anything either. My husband gained 5 pounds. EEEK! I wasn’t able to get in any exercise and I hate when that happens. I feel so busy all the time that my running around should be all the exercise I need but I guess it just doesn’t work that way! 
• I have really been thinking about weight watchers. I really think it is something I could stick to and have there to “hold my hand” basically. It’s just so expensive and I really don’t have the money for that right now. It stinks because I would love to try it out. Seeing as I want to loose 25 pounds by the end of the year, I need to do something! I can’t keep “maintaining” my weight. That isn’t going to get me anywhere!   Anyone have any advice on Weight Watchers or the program? I would love to be able to get the books off of someone without actually joining and take a month or 2 to try it out.  
• Well with a little help from a recent new “friend”, my husband and I decided we are going to get out of the house every Saturday and go to the local park. I don’t care if we go and just walk 1 mile, it gets us out of the house and working our bodies. We are going to try to make this happen until the first snow fall enables us to do so. There are nice trails in the park that might take a few hours to walk but that also give us the time to spend together. Although this morning, that was the plan, we are still at home and it’s almost 2 in the afternoon. I think we are going to grab an early dinner and head there tonight.   
•  This last week I thought I did pretty well with lunches at work. Since I have an 8 hour sit-down job, it is hard to get any exercise at work. I picked up a few 100 calorie pack boxes and took them to work if I need a snack. I’ve been eating a lunchmeat and cheese sandwich everyday for lunch with pretzels and water. I haven’t really been getting dinner from running around so much but my husband makes smoothies with fresh fruit, yogurt and ice so that I at least have something in my stomach. I think my downfall was the 2 Starbucks Carmel Frapps had this week. I need to stay away from that place! I get sucked in. 
•  Well, I guess that is all from this week. I am going to try to get exercise in for this week but I’m going to play with it one day at a time! 
•  Ohh - Good news… I was able to get my belly button ring back in and it doesn’t hurt anymore. I had one a few years ago and took it out when I got bigger because it hurt from being too fat. Well, I was able to get it back in and I was shocked it didn’t close up. It did a little but I poked it back through and it is good as new. I think that is an extra little incentive to do good because I want to be able to show it off eventually! 
• Other News: My cat, Fred, clawed my right foot up last night. My husband thought it would be a good idea to turn off all the lights in the house when he went up to bed and on my way up, I (yes, you don’t have to say it) stepped on the cat. I have 4 nice deep claw marks and scratches that bled like crazy last night. My foot is a little sore today though. 
• Until next time… 

A Pirates Life For Me

• Well. I started this Blog to help me with my weight loss.  I'm tired of being fat, as most people on this site probably are.  So, let me start off by telling you the story of  my life this last year.
  
• I got married September 22nd 2007.  Being married is great, but like my husband says, "It feels just like how we were when we were dating only with a new piece of jewelry!"  Ha Ha...I love him so much and our one year Anniversary is coming up here very soon.  I can't believe I've been married a whole year already.  It’s crazy how time goes by so fast!
  
• It's also crazy how when we fall in love, our weight just goes out of control, (if you aren't watching it)  All it took for me was to get our wedding pictures back and realizing that this is serious and I really need to do something about it.  I weighed a whopping 263 pounds and I hated the way that I looked.
  
• In January of 08, I started exercising and dieting.  10 pounds came off really easy.  February the same thing... down 20 pounds.  I thought, "Heck - this is easy!"  Boy was I wrong! lol March - another 10 came off.  I was thinking to myself - If I could continue this and loose 10 pounds a month for a whole year, I'd be down to my goal weight in no time.  Again, I was sooooo wrong! 
  
• April and May turned out to be bad months and I stopped my diet and only exercised a few days here and there.  I actually gained some of my weight back.  June turned out to be a good month.  I lost about another 5 pounds.  July - My husband and I took a vacation to Myrtle Beach where, of course, our diets didn't stand in the way of us having fun.  Surprisingly, I didn't gain that much.  Only 3 pounds...
  
• Now it is August and I see that I really haven't been doing what I should be to loosing the weight.  My husband and I went out and got a treadmill and started eating better.  At first I was doing really well on it.  I was getting up early to walk 2 miles in the morning and then coming home from work to walk 2 miles in the afternoon.  That caught up with me really fast and then all I ever found myself doing was sleeping.  
  
• It's the middle of August and I'm down to 226.  I'm happy about my loss but it could have been so much more if I would have just stuck with it from the beginning.  Being down on myself is not the way I want to be so instead, I am writing about it.  
  
• I've set my first goal.  To get down to 200 pounds by the end of the year.  I want to bring in the New Year being less than 200 pounds.  I know that gives me 4 months to loose right around 25 pounds and it seems a lot easier than said and done.  With the holidays and stuff coming around, I'm really going to have to buckle down and discipline myself.  I want to be in a size 18 again soooo bad!  I am so close I can taste it.
  
• This anniversary, my husband and I really can't afford to do anything really special.  So, we talked and by our next anniversary, we want to take a cruise and we want to be at our goal weights.  So, we have that to look forward to if we really bust out and start exercising and loosing the weight we need to loose. 
  
• I think for my first post, this is pretty good and I shall keep you updated every month or few weeks or so.  I hope you all keep up the great jobs you are doing and I'll leave you with these words of wisdom....