slept in a garage on a 3rd row seat to a Lincoln Navigator? Well I have! So here is what happened...We look out the 3rd row seat that goes to my vehicle a few days ago cause we had some big stuff to move. So that is why it was in my garage. Anyway, about 11pm last night I was going to go to bed. As I started to get inot bed I felt something wet...my puppy had pottied in my bed! I said "Oh No!" and it woke my husband up. He told me to lay in "his spot" and he would go sleep on the couch and off he went to the living room. Well there was NO WAY I was gonna do that. I was not gonna sleep in a bed with dog pee. So I strip the bed down and start washing the bedding. Then I realize now I have to take my feather bed to the dry cleaner...that isnt cheap either. So now I have to figure out where I am gonna sleep. My kids are both in thier beds and both have a cat and a dog in bed with them so no room there. The husband is on the couch...crap on a stick, I have no where to sleep. So then I remember the seat is out in the garage. I grab a pilow and a blanket and went out to the garage to sleep. It wasnt the most uncomfortable thing in the world but lets just say that I did not get a good nights sleep.
My husband has had some medical stuff going on lately and yesterday we finally figured out what was going on...you know they run about a million dollars worth of tests now adays before they tell you whats wrong with you...he was diagnosed with FIBROMYALGIA. He has been so tired and in so much pain. On one hand I am glad we finally know what it is but on the other hand I wish it were something else. He didnt go to work today. He was just too weak to go. I know that there is nothing I can do but I am kinda the "fix it" person in the family and there is no way for me to fix it and/or make it better. It just sucks not being able to help.
On the weight loss front...I am 1 pound away from the 160s. I am pretty excited about it. I am worried that I will not even lose that much this week because of how much I lost last week. And I know. I know it takes time and blah blah yada yada...but I WANT IT NOW...there I go sounding like that spoiled little girl from Willie Wonka again.
Well I should have a fairly easy day at work today so I think I should be able to make it around to everyone today. I sure will be glad when work slows down...hope you are all having a fabulous day!
Good afternoon ladies (and Kevin). How was everyones weekend?
Well its WI day and...down 4.4 pounds this week! Dont ask me how that happened. Now I am totally expecting a loss of some stupidly low number this week...like 1 pound. But a loss is a loss and I will take whatever I get. This puts me only 16 pounds away form my EP goal...I say it that way cause I still havent decided what my goal really is.
Today also is the start of our FIT challange. I really hope to be at goal by the end of it. 16 pounds in 12 weeks? I think its doable.
OK well it has been a busy day for me and I thought I would take a quick break and say hey...I'll be back later to check in on everyone...have a great day!
So if you have been here with me from the start you know that as I gained those 103 pounds, I kept all of my jeans. So I took them all and put them into totes. You know size 20s in one tot eand size 18s in another tote. And as I lost more and more wight I have been moving on to the next tote and getting rid of the jeans that are too big. So yesterday I look under my bed and realize there is only one tote left. It contained a pair of Ralph Lauren size 12, a pair of New York size 12, a pair of LEI size 11 and a pair of dress slacks that I bought at the mall about 10 years ago that are a size 9/10. So I figure what the heck..I should try them on and see how close I am to fitting into the size 12s. I put my legs in and I am totally confused cause they arent tigh at all...I pull them up...button them...holy shit if I were any smaller they would be too big! WTF? I wear a 12? Now imagine me doing the happy dance cause thats what happned next! And now I have no totes full of jeans under my bed. The size 11 LEIs you ask...well I can get them on but if I want to breathe then I am outta luck. I did hang them up in my closet however. I want to look at them every moning when I get into my closet...you know for exra motivation. Now I used to have some smaller sizes...I think I must have sold them at a yard sale a few years back. I probly never thought I would be able to wear them again and just sold them. So it wont be long now and I will have to do a bunch of shopping...oh darn :)
Well the scale said 176.6 this morning. I dont think it is right. The reason I say this is because I always weigh myself at 6am. I slept in today and I didnt get up until 8am. Tomorrow is my WI day and I will def be up and on the scale at 6am...so I guss we will see tomorrow.
OK...I am gonna go see how ya'll are....oh...have I mentioned lately that I love this sun shinny weather?!
I want to ride my bike...remember that song? Well that is how I feel today. The weather is beautiful here and I want to get out there and ride. I havent been on my bike since October...maybe it was September. OK now I am not talking about a bicycle, I am talking about my motorcycle. This is the first time in forever that the sun has been shining and there is no snow on the ground and I just wantta go! I cant wait for the weather to be like this all of the time...*sigh*
Well I hope you ladies are having a great weekend. I dont have much planned. I cleaned the house this morning and now I am not sure what I am gonna do...maybe take the kids to the park like Meryet. Anyway, enjoy the sunshine ladies!
Thanks for all your advise on my last post. I do think I will just wait and see. I know that I am not happy with my weight now so I will keep trying to lose until I am happy.
Now alot of you mentioned a scary word...maintaince. I obviously have not been able to do that (EVER) or I would not be here. I am kinda scared about it. How am I gonna stay true to my new lifestyle FOREVER? How am I gonna maintain my goal weight? I have not be able to do this before...why is now different? It is a scary thought. I mean I put all this hard work in and loss 90 or 100 pounds and then what if I gain it right back? I just dont know how to maintain. I know I will have to learn how...its just scary.
Sorry I wasnt here yesterday. It has been a crazy week here in my office and I havent had a chance to get on here much. But next week should be back to normal. It had better be cause I have a FIT challange that starts on Monday!
The scales were at 172.6 this morning. I am not sure that I believe that. But its what they said. Every time the scales go down I always question it...kwim? But I guess I will wait and see what they say tomorrow.
Well girls I am gonna try to make it around to everyone today. I cant wait to see what is going on with everyone. Hope ya'll have a great weekend!
Hey Brandi...I dont have a scanner at home and so I will try to scan one here at work next week...take care
Yup tha s right. I have less than 20 pounds to go until I reach my goal. I was thinking about that this morning. I was thinking about how much I want that last 20 pounds gone. I was thinking and wishing that the last 20 would come off as fast as the first 20 pounds did. I know it will not happen that way but I can still wish right? Then I started thinking about my goal weight...155. What if that isnt low enough. What if I need to loss more? What if I am not less than 20 pounds away from my goal? What if I have been lying to myself for the past 6 months? I think I am just gonna have to wait until I get to 155 and see how I feel about it. I know that there are weight charts and BMI charts all that crap that tells you what you are "suppose" to be but I want to decide for myself. I dont want to rely on the advise of a medical study that was done in 1979 to tell me what I should weigh. Does that make any sense at all? Anyway, I think I am just gonna have to see how it goes. When I got married and weighed 142 my husband said I looked sick and he didnt want me that little...that is why my original goal was 155. Now I am not setting my goal weight at a certain number because of someone elses opinion but I dont want to look sick either. Now that I say that I am not doing this based on anyone elses opinion...I want your opinion (lol). I posted a new pic a few days ago so it is pretty current...do you think I need to lose another 35 pounds? Honestly, let me know what you think.
I hope you ladies (and gentlemen) are having a great day!
So last night my husband and I had to make a trip to CVS. We needed to get a few prescriptions filled. Anyway, while we were waiting we walked around the store. He finds this Fat Loss Monitor. You enter your age, height, weight and gender and hold on to the grips and it tells you your BMI and you body fat percent. He knows how I am about being healthy so he shows it to me. I tell him how cool it is blah, blah blah and the next thing I know he is buying it. Well we get home and I am ready to check it out. I read the instructions and put the batteries in and enter all my information. Then I enter my husband as user number 2 and tell him to give it a try...I hate him by the way. He has a body fat percent of 8! Thats right 8% body fat. He only has 13 pounds of fat on his entire body. It just isnt fair. Wannta know why...he eats whatever he wants. As a matter of fact while we were waiting for our meds to get filled he ate 2 chocolate Reeses eggs and a snickers bar. We couldnt have been there more than 30 minutes and he wolfed down all those calories...then we went home and had dinner! Heck if I look at a candy bar for too long I gain a pound and he is eatting em three at a time and doesnt gain an ounce. Whats my body fat percent you ask? Well I am not sure I am ready to share that information. I was in shock when I saw how high it was. I think I am gonna have to rethink my weight loss goal because if I have this much fat on me then I really need to lose more than another 20 pounds. So does anyone know what a healthy/normal body fat percentage is? I am not trying to be a professional athlete or anything I just want it to be healthy and believe me it is not healthy right now.
but somehow I managed to lose 3.4 pounds this week. I am a little shocked. But I will take it! I posted a new pic. It says "70 pounds down". Now technically I have lost 69.6 but...now I dont know about you ladies but I get up in the middle of the night to go pee. So when I got up at 4am I thought I would jump on the scale and see what they said...heck they were sitting right there so why not. They said 174.8. I was excited. Then when I got up at 6am (my normal wi time) they said 175.4. So a difference of half a pound. You would think that it would have went down not up. Scale fluctuation sucks! So anyway I figure posting the pic now would be alright. I have to post a "before" pic for a challange I am doing with the FIT girls so I figured I would kill two birds with one stone.
How was everyones weekends? Good I hope...guess I should go check out your blogs and see for myself!
WooHoo! I am so happy that the weekend is here. Not that I have anything extrodinary going on this weekend but I am ready to sleep in and not have to be at this desk all day. I am going to Fort Wayne tomorrow for my nephews birthday party and on Sunday we are going to go pick up the new (not new but new to us) car that we got for my husband. We ended up getting a 1999 Lumina. We had looked at a few other cars/trucks/SUVS and got this one because of the gas savings. My husband drives about 70 miles a day and we figure this will get way better gas mileage than some big ole truck. We also got it cause it was cheap. We have money left to plate it and title it and all the other stuff you have to do when you buy a used car...oil change, tune up, stuff like that. I know DH really wanted the Jeep Wrangler we looked at but...my sensible side over ruled!
The scales lied to me today. They said 177...yesterday they said 178. So I am pretty sure that I did not lose a pound in one day but...whatever. I am also sure they will be back at 178 tomorrow. My official weigh in is Monday. I will be doing the happy dance if I am at 176.8 because that would be a two pounds loss for the week. I guess we will see on Monday.
OK I didnt really have a tilte for this one. Not much to report today. The scales were down just a bit today. They say 178.0. Who knows what tomorrow will bring.
My lunch with my daughter yesterday went well. They served subs with three differenent kinds of lunch meat on them and three different kinds of cheese, chips, blue juice, cake and there were these little chocolate candies all over the tables we were sitting at. So I get a piece of the sub...I would say it was about an inch or so wide...and I remove the cheese. I had no candy, no cake, no chips and no sugar-filled blue juice. I think I did the best I could.
Well like I said there isnt much to report today. I think I will go see how all my girls are today...take care ya'll!
