WI Day

Yep it is that time again..the dreaded weigh in day. I am at 185.6 as of this morning. That is a 3 pound loss from last Monday.  I am happy with it.

I know that the further I go in this journey the slower things will go. I don't like it but I know it. I am used to the 3.5 to 4.0 pounds losses every week. Now I think I will be pleased as punch with 2 to 3 pounds gone every week. I just have to keep telling myself  "30 more pounds...I can do this".

I am wearing my size 14s today...go me. They fit just fine. Of course all the other size 14s I own are too tight to wear but lets not focus on that today. Lets focus on all the good things (lol)

I hope you all had a great weekend. I am off to see if you did!

Shopping with the DH

Well my husband and I spent the day together. It was nice. The kids are gone this weekend. So we did our taxes (yes I know that sounds like big fun). Then we went shopping. I bought a couple shirts and a pair of jeans. I told him that I didnt want to buy any more clothes until a lost a little more weight but he just would not give up. He said that I needed to get some stuff. Anyway, the jeas that I bought are a size 14. Woot Woot! I have some 14s that dont fit but like you guys all told me a few days ago...different brands fit differently. I am pretty happy about it.

After shopping we went to dinner. I had a salad. Basically it was lettuce with grilled chicken and ranch dressing on the side. But it was good.

My weight loss...ugh...it just isnt moving along as fast as I would like. My WI is Monday and I am not sure that I am even gonna lose 2 pounds this week.  I know, I know, a loss is a loss. And I'll take the loss but as always I want more (lol)

I hope you ladies are having a nice and relaxing weekend!!!

15/16s

This morning I decided to try on my "dont fit yet pants". I discovered a khaki pair of 15/16s. They are cargo-like pants. Anyway, I figured that they would be closer to fitting than my 14s...and I was right. You know when you start to put on a pair of pants and you can kinda tell from the way your legs fit that the pants will (or wont) fit. Well as I started to put my legs in I could tell there was all this room around my legs. I pulled them up and sure enough...they fit. I have them on today.

But I also found a pair of 15s (they are Levis) and they dont even come close to fitting. I can get em up but they will not even come close to buttoning. I have a pair of 14s that I can get buttoned (but they are still way too tight).  I just thought that was weird. But I guess that different brands fit differently. Which could suck for me cause I think all but one pair of my 14s are Levis. I stopped buying Levis after 175 pounds or so. But Levis used to be just about all I owned. I think that was because that is all my husbands wears and at one point I could wear his jeans. So some times I would buy a mens pair (I think they were 32X32) and we both could wear them. I know that probly sounds stupid but it kinda made my wardrobe bigger.  Sidenote...he wears a 30x32 now, I think the 32x32s were a little big on him at the time.

Its still colder than a well diggers butt crack here. With the wind chill its -15 degrees. Yuck!

My husband was kinda poisined yesterday. He is working at the Honda Plant that is being built in Greensburg. Well the past few days he has had a headache. He and anthor guy have been working in this one particular part of the plant and the rest of the guys are elsewhere. Anyway a bunch of Honda guys were walking around with this "equiptment" all morning yesterday. He didnt think anything of it cause they are always walking around and taking pictures and stuff. Well when he and Brad (they guy working with him) came back from lunch yesterday they were told they had to leave. Aparently the carbon monoxide level was 145. Being exposed to a carbon monoxide level of 50 for 8 hours will kill you. They had been working in there for almost two weeks. Now I dont know when the levels reached a dangerous level but at the latest it was yesterday morning and they worked in there for 4 hours. How lucky is he that he didnt die? Very if you ask me. I do worry about him at work. I worry that he will fall while hanging an HAVAC unit four stories up or that he will fall out of a scissor ligt or that he will cut off his finger. But I never thought this would happen. It is just scary. Of course he tried to blow it off and said something along the lines of well I have four pensions...you would be rich if I were dead. I punched him in the arm for that comment. So be sure to tell the people that you care about that you do care about them. You just never know what is gonna happen over the course of the day. The strangest things can happen.

Alright, I am off to see how all of you lovely ladies are doing.

Happy Weight

OMG you guys have to go check out TATUMSMOMs blog. She has posted an article from SELF magazine and it is SO cool.  It takes your height and age and if you've had kids and all this other stuff into consideration and then it tells you your happy weight. Mine is 149. Which is pretty cool cause my goal is 155 and my doctors goal for me is 140 so its right in the middle.  Its neat...go check it out!

TBL...did you cry? I did. I have gotten my husband (who HATES any kind of reality TV) hooked on the show.  It was so sad last night. Is it wrong that I want the black team to leave? I just think the older brother is a butt head!

I hope you all are having a wonderful day!!!

Lay down, suck in your gut...

and hold it in and zip them up. Yeah that was about what it took for me to get those 14s on last night.  I did get them on. They were TIGHT. And there is no way that I would wear them out in public now but like I said, I did manage to get them on. So maybe another 10 pounds or so and I will actually be able to put them on without the help of the National Guard (lol)

Its still cold here. I woke up this morning and looked outside and the ground was covered with snow...again.  I am SO ready for spring. I am just sick of all this cold weather. I want to go outside and actually be able to do something other than just run out to my car. I want to go for a bike ride or go swimming or something. I think I am even looking forward to cutting my grass.(lol)

My scales are on my nerves...Sun 187.2, Mon 188.6, Tues 187.6...I guess I should be glad that they went back down today. And I am. I just wish they never would have went up. I think I'm getting impatient. I want to be in "maintain" mode. I want to be a size 8. I want to feel thin. I know I didnt put it on overnight and it wont come off overnight and all that stuff...I think I need to set a mini goal for myself. It just seems like my goal is so far away and maybe it will help if I set a goal that is smaller. I have done this in the past...like lossing 25 pounds, hitting onderland...kind of like something to look forward to in the near future. OK so I think I am gonna aim for Valentines Day.  Yup, I want to be in my 14s by Valentines Day. That means I will probly have to be at 175-180 pounds.  So I am giving myself 23 days to lose 8-12 pounds. I know that alot of people dont agree with setting dates for weight loss but I am just kinda bla right now and I think I need to give myself something to look forward to...something that isnt months and months away.

Alright, I am gonna go say hey to my FIT girls and make my rounds around EP...have a good day girls!

Weigh In Day

For some weird reason I gained 1.4 pounds between yesterday and today. Of course my WI was today...go figure. I am not sure what the reason for this is. I stayed well within my calorie limits yesterday and I exercised. I even ate dinner an hour earlier than normal. And I drank 60oz of water. Normally I drink more than that but dang! I am not gonna stress over it today. I know that I did what I was suppose to do and I guess my body is just having a
"moment".  I still lost 2 pounds (and TOM was here)  this week so I cant complain too much...ok I could but we all know where that gets us.

In regards to yesterdays post...thank you to all of you who sent your kind words. It is something that I have learned to deal with over the years. My childhood was not a happy one. I know most people complain about thier childhood and that thier parents were strick or didnt understand them...but growing up for me was pretty bad. Once my mother sat on top of me and punched me in the face (Lord only knows how many times). It was a Saturday...I remember casue I was suppose to go to church the next day. Needless to say I did not get to go to church or school for over a week. My face had to heel before she could let me go back to school. I was 11. Once my sister got caught with cigarettes and I got grounded for 6 months. I still am not sure why.  I was 15 then. And yes the whole thing with my uncle...he lived across the steet. Back then we didnt lock our doors...one night I went to the kitchen to get a drink of water and he was hiding in the closet in the dinning room...I was 11. That was when it started. A few years later I just didnt see the point in life at all and I did try to kill myself. And yes my mother did send me to live with him afterwords. This is the root of my weight problem. It is when I started gaining weight. I still carry issues from my childhood around with me now. It is something that I try to work on everyday.  I know this will sound stupid but I check every closet in my house everynight before I go to bed. I have done this everyday for the past 16 years.  And I could go on and on about things that happened to me but I think you all get the point.

Well on to happy news...my new puppy is doing well. I was worried about what my other dog was gonna do. But they seem to be getting along just fine. That little guy is such a cutie pie! I love him to pieces!

I hope all of you have a nice day...and deep down inside I want you to wish me luck that the scales were wrong this morning (lol)

Ottis

This is Ottis. He is a new addition to our family. I have lost almost 60 pounds and I havent really "rewarded" myslef yet. But yesterday I decided to get Ottis. He is 2 months old and he is a BOGLE. He is 1/2 Beagle and 1/2 Boxer. We already have an 18 month old beagle named Jackson. I was looking for a beagle but when I saw this little guy I just knew he needed to come home with us. He is taking a nap on the couch with my husband right now. He is a pretty good nap taker (lol) But then again, all the boys in my house are :)

I went shopping Friday night. First my husband and I went to Chilis for dinner. I had the Guiltless Chicken Platter. I had never had it before but I had heard alot of the ladies here say that it was pretty good. And they were right. I was suprised by how good it really was. Anyway, after dinner I went to get some new shirts. I am starting to run out of shirts to wear. So Fashion Bug was having a buy one get one sale...I dont see the point in buying and spending alot of money on clothes that hopefully arent gonna fit for too much longer...so I thought that kind of sale would be a good idea. Anyway, I pick out about 6 shirts I liked and I was off to the dressing room. I had picked up all size XL like always...they were too big. So I take them back to the racks and get all size larges. I go back and try them on...they are too big. So now I go back and get all mediums...they fit!!! I stood in the dressing room crying. I have not been abe to buy a size medium anything in about 3 maybe 4 years. I was so happy. I have been thinking about trying on some of my size 14s pants today. I know that they will not fit but maybe it is time to start trying them on once a week to see the differnce in how they fit from one week to the next.

To all of you who gave advice on my last blog...I have made some calls and of course since it is the weekend I cant get ahold of the person I need to speak with but I am going to find out how it is possible that this man can work near children. I also found out that in the state of Indiana CHILD SEDUCTION baically means that there was some kind of sexual act between this man and a child who was either 16 or 17. There would have been no crime of course if the girl were 18 and if the girl was 15 years old or younger it is called something else. I have the case number and I am looking into the details of the case. If he were 18 and he had a 17 year old girlfriend then I do understand. I am not saying that it is right but that is (IMO) alot differnt than if he were 40 and the girl was 16. This is not a subject that I take lightly. I was abused by my step-uncle starting when I was 11. I tried to commit suicide when I was 13 because of this. After getting out of the hospital my mother sent me to go live with my uncle as punishment. So like I said, this is not something that I take lightly. But an 18 year old boy wih a 17 year old girlfriend is not something that would cause me to stop letting my kids go there. But I need to know what happened...until I find out for sure we will not be back. And thank you to all of you how gave me advice.

Well I am gonna go see how all of you are this weekend. I know the weekends are hard for alot of us to stay OP but I have faith that you've been good :)

I have a problem

Man it is gonna be cold here this weekend. It is gonna get below zero! I really am ready for spring to get here.

I did not go to the gym last night. I went to the grocery store instead. I didnt want to be carrying in all those groceries in the freezing cold. So I will go to the gym today, tomorrow and Sunday.

OK so I have a dilemma...as you all know I go skating with my kids every Wednesday night. There are about 5 people that work there and we see them every week. We found out some information about one of the employees last night. I am not sure what to do....My husband and I go to this website called www.familywatchdog. You can go and see all of the sex offenders in your area. It gives you a picture of the person and lists what they were convicted of. The man that works in the Pro Shop at the skating rink has been convicted of CHILD SEDUCTION.

I truely believe that once you have committed a crime and "do your time" then you have paid your debt to society. HOWEVER, these are my kids! Yes I am there with them but they are not by my side the entire time. They go off and skate and sometimes go play some games and go to the bathroom and...well you get my point. I seriously think we should stop going there. We could find another place to skate. The closest rink is about 30 minutes away but I would literaly KILL someone if they hurt my child. What would you do?

Well I am gonna get back to work. Boy oh boy I am glad its Friday! Have a nice day ladies!!!

I'm back

at work today...boooo!! I did have a nice day off though. I spent about 4 hours cleaning and I had a nice nap. Its good to have alone time every now and then.

I didnt however, make it around to your blogs yesterday. I was reading one and getting ready to post a comment and the phone rang and I ended up on the phone FOREVER. BY the time I was done on the phone I knew I had better go take my nap or I would not get one in before the kids come home from school. So sorry for that but I REALLY wanted a nap. I will make it around to everyone today...promise!!!

Eating and exercise and all that stuff have been good. Its getting close to the time when I will be completely off the Adipex and I am starting to get scared. I have heard so many people say that they have gained the weight (and then some) right back after they have stopped taking it. I have been slowly taking myself off. I havent been taking them everyday and sometimes I only take 1/2 a day. I will probly only get one more prescription from my doctor. I have been eatting right and exercising and all that fun stuff but I am afraid that it will not be enough once I stop taking the pill. If I lose 90 pounds and then gain it all back I dont know what I will do. I have worked hard. And I know that the pill has helped but I HAVE WORKED HARD to lose this weight. Guess we will see in a few months.

Alright I am going to see what all of you are up to...have a great day!!!

Must have been right

Well the scales say 189.0 this morning. I guess they were right yesterday. It just seems weird that the scales would go down like that with TOM in town...but I'll take it!

I am home from work today...nope I didnt get sick. I am just playing hooky. I had some things to get done and about twice a year I just say to heck with it and spend a day at home by myself.

So I am off to see what all of you are up to and then...I am taking a nap!!!