Yum-O

My father made some homeade chicken/vegetable soup today. What a delicious excuse to eat some vegetables. In the words of Racheal Ray ... "YUM-O"!

Cool site :)

http://www.mvm.com/en/index.htm

You can make a virtual model of what you look like now and your current weight, and then change it to see what you'd look like at goal weight. Kinda cool! Plus you can try on clothes and everything with your model.

It's kinda like playing Barbies lol

Pommegranate juice

So I've been reading here & there about the health benefits of certain foods.  My favorite new thing happens to be pommegranate juice. Check this out:

http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/05/09/28/the_power_of_the_pomegranate_the_9_health_benefits_of_this_wonder_fruit_and_how_to_eat_them.htm

http://www.healthcastle.com/pomegranate-juice.shtml

http://healthpsych.psy.vanderbilt.edu/PomegranateJuice.htm

Very cool, huh? Well I tried some tonight and it was quite tasty - kinda smells like apple juice. I think there is something about warm weather that just makes you wanna try new fresh, healthy things. *Raises her glass* "Here's to good health for us all!"

*Happy dance*

 I managed to lose 3.6 lbs this week!!!

Little moments like this...

As I said in a previous post, my dad has been staying with us now. I'm enjoying our time together. It's been nice. He loves Westerns, and on our Dish line-up there is a whole channel dedicated to Westerns. I think I've since more Westerns in the last couple days than I have since I was little watching them with him. We've been watching a lot of "Bat Masterson". I don't know if any of you remember that, but it was a Western that aired in the late 1950's. To my suprise, it's actually quite entertaining.

http://www.networksplus.net/caseyguy/batmasterson.gif

And tommorow, we are making soup together. I'm in the mood for some good vegetables. It's getting hottter and hotter outside and you just start craving something fresh! Oh, and I tried the Hostess 100 Calorie Pack Carrot Cakes today. Small but yummy!

Life can be so busy...

Sometimes I just want to stay in my bed all day and rest, cuddle my husband and watch TV. This, of course, never seems to happen. There's always somewhere to go, something that can't be put off.. and I'm exhausted at the end of each day.

My dad is staying with us now for a while as well (he had 2 strokes and was hospitalized for almost a month). I'm glad he's with us, but I kinda feel like I need to keep him entertained too. He's a little depressed I can tell because things in his life have been so out of whack since his stroke. He's going to be okay I hope now. I have to take him to Physical Therapy and everything, so I'm hoping he'll be better. He just doesn't seem the same lately. I just keep telling myself that he's been through a lot lately. (I'm not sure how I got off track, but it feels good to talk about this.) I'm only 24, and I want my dad to be with us a lot longer, so keep us in your prayers please, especially him.

But back to my original subject...

I even had reduced my hours at work, and it still seems like at the end of the day so many things are left undone. I feel stressed out when I feel like I have nothing to stress about. It's very strange. However, Weight Watchers has been going well for me. Today is my 3rd day on WW, and things are going well. I had tried Slim-fast for about a week, and it looks as if I'm going to gain the little I lost back since I'm eating more now on WW. That's a little disapointing, but I expected this - going from eating VERY little calories on slimfast and now eating more regularly on WW.

Well wanted to give an update. Hope every1 has a great day! I think the moral of this whole story is that I cannot expect myself to be "everything to everyone" all the time.

1,000 calories was not doing the trick! Big suprise!

So I had made a decision 3 days ago that I would do the Slim-fast plan (Shake for breakfast, one for lunch, Sensible dinner). Problem was... it was the 3rd day, and yea I made it, but I was starving (well not literally, but it sure felt like it). I have never been so cranky and irritable either. And then tonight, it all fell to pieces. I got hungry, I got cranky, and I cheated.  Now I just feel sad, but there's nothing I can do to change it now I suppose.

I did, however, join Weight Watchers Online after this all went down. It's obvious the extremely low fat/low cal thing isn't for me. I really wanted it to be because I wanted to lose faster and be closer to my goal of having a baby. But at the same time, I know it's not healthy for me, and it probably isn't something I would have stuck with.

So tommorow is Day 1 of Weight Watchers. I've done it before and had good results but it was a slow proccess. I just hope I'm doing the right thing now!

Help me not fall victim to my own scale!!!

I know you should just weigh once a week (well that's what I was going for). But I'm one of those people who want to sneak in there and weigh "just to see" if I've lost anything else. THIS IS A BAD THING TO DO! I ALWAYS have fluctuations, and when the number is a little higher, I end up feeling a bit discouraged. Why do I do this to myself? Why can't I just wait for a measley week?

Well I can't change it now, but I will wait until next Friday before I weigh in again - I promise!   Now tell me all the reasons that you shouldn't do this but once a week! I need to hear them AGAIN. hahaha

Hope everyone's having a great day!

Easy as riding a bike...

 So I was feeling a little adventurous and bored today and decided I would go out bike riding. I probably haven't ridden a bike since I was 10, but it's one of those things that just stay with you right? Wrong... well kinda wrong. I was so proud. I climbed on the bike, got to pedaling really good, got some speed up... and that's where my story changes. For after those great things happened, I started to get wobbly, then I started to get tired, and then I realized that when you are out of shape riding a bike is not as easy as one might think. I gave it my all for about 20 minutes and then headed towards the house with my husband. THEN... as I was getting off the bike, my pants got tangled on some part of it and the bike crashed to the ground, with me under it of course. I skinned a big ole place on my leg, it started bleeding like crazy, I laid there stunned for a second, then I sobbed like a 3 year old as I stumbled into my house. 

How dramatic, huh?  Needless to say, I'm going to be just fine. (haha) BUT, I think tomorrow, If I get that urge to exercise, I might just do something ... we'll say... "Safer".. and just go for a walk. hahah

OH, and Gold star for me, I ate well today again. 3rd day and so far so good!

I feel sleepy most all of the time...

I'm not sure what is wrong with me. I wake up feeling pretty good but then in a couple hours I feel like I'd just like to nap again. I'm always yawning, and have low energy most of the time. Hopefully starting to eat better will help me out. I just wanna feel like myself again and not always so friggen sleepy!  I wish there was something magic I could take to pep myself up. I take a daily multivitamin everyday, but it doesn't seem to be doing the trick.