scale moved down again - yahooo!

I'm very pleased with my progress this week.  I'm down again, finally. This is actually the lowest I posted in several months.  I feel good.  

I'm just waiting today till it's time to go to the hosptial for an endoscopy.  I'm already sleepy and I'll get to sleep the day away after it's done.  It's a perfect day for it too.. dreary with a cold front moving across.  I think I'll go sleep at my mom's which will make her happy.  I told her I would sleep here and she didn't have to watch me but you know how mom's are.. she's probably afraid I'll go off and do something silly while I'm crashed out. 

I haven't eaten since midnight and I'll probably sleep through lunch.   I'm going to miss my big fruit and salad bowls I have been eating at work.   I have fruit here but it's always better when someone else makes it for you.

Scale is moving downward.....Yippee!!

i don't know if I'm the only one that does this but I don't like to change my weight on here unless it has gone down... sometimes I just got to be honest and put the higher weight after awhile but usually the little blips up I wait until it drops before I post it again... that's just how vain I am!   Anyway I'm  happy to post a loss on the scale today.  I feel good - I tell you healthy eating is a good thing. I don't know why I don't do it continuously.  This is day 4 of having my lunch catered.  I haven't exercised much the last two days and I need to step that up some today and this weekend.   Today a bunch of my coworkers are going out to eat at The Boarding House.  It's a local throw it on the table and lets eat it all plus dessert place... I'm resisting.   i don't need something like that to throw me into a tailspin...I'm going to be healthy, feel healthy and fit.     Tomorrow is my scheduled off day from work, but I've scheduled a endoscopy to look down my throat and into my tummy  - why didn't I do this on a work day so I can enjoy my day off.    It will be a good thing to nap all day afterwards.   Me and the critters will be curled up on the couch or in bed probably most of the day.

Hope everyone has a beautiful, healthy day!

On a roll now

After a not so spectacular eating-wise weekend I seem to have gotten back in the groove.  One of the cool things is that I'm now having my lunch (awesome veggie salad and more awesome fruit salad) catered by the wife of a man I work with.  This little enterprise has caught on. At first it was just for me and another coworker.. but word has spread and she will be making these healthy salads for 6 of us next week. She is thrilled and I'm definitely more thrilled.  So nice to have my lunch prepared for me every day.   I'm not so sure how long Dave will want to be a pack mule for our food.  

I got in a nice long walk last night and a one mile walk at work. Somehow i developed a blister on the bottom of my big toe.  I'll have to find moleskin and try to either walk or ride my bike tonight. 

I never did use the chocolate fountain. Didn't  have time to test it out... I may have to save that for later or do what I usually do with all bad things to eat in my house.. send it out to a neighbors.  But it's not harming anything as long as I don't have chocolate.

Things I've been successful at the past few days:

No soda of any kind since Friday

No vending snacks in over a week (this is a big deal for me since we have an "honor" vending table a few cubicles over).  They will notice a steep drop in profits..  On a normal day I might spend $1-$2 in snacks on a bad day it would be much more.   I have not even been tempted by it.  YIPPEE!!!

Drinking more water than I have been in recent weeks. 

Good Day!!!

I wish all my eating/exercise days could be like this!!!!

First i woke up early and got to work just after 7 which makes my 9 hour day end around 4:30.  Leaves me a little daylight.  I'm trying not to work a lot of O/T this year. I say that every year but for not I'm sticking to it.  Anyway.. I made soup on Monday and took that for lunch along with yogurt, strawberries and some sugar free jello.  I made my cereal and took it with me and ate it shortly after I got to work.  I ate all my food with NO vending excursions, no sodas, just coffee, water and green tea..... supper was more veggie soup. 

Tonight I did a little over 3 miles of a WATP 4 mile tape and then walked my dogs about a mile.  I'm sure I will not be able to move... but I feel soooooo good getting in that exericsing and sweating some.    It's just now 10 and I'm ready to get my bath, get and bed and do it again tomorrow.    I feel good....

Now if I can just keep this up for a year or so then we will be getting somewhere....really would like to keep this up until March 10.  I have a week long conference in Atlanta and want to get about 25 pounds off before then... I want to weigh less than the last time all those people saw me.  Most of the people in my security group are fit , trim and athletic.  I wanna be!

Hope everyone is having a successful start to the new years.

I forgot.. for some reason I bought a chocolate fountain that was on sale today at CVS...... I have a 50th birthday party I'm helping plan for someone.. it was only $10.  I have no business getting one even at just $10... but I plan to make fruit tray and wouldn't this be fun way to dip strawberries

Day 2/2008 Shedding my fatsuit

This morning I got up and the scale stayed the same.  I ended up going to the movies - with a better date ----three girlfriends.  Never did hear from the guy.  We saw National Treasure which was pretty good... I ate popcorn and had a slurpee, so kind of expected a little weight gain.  Today I woke up had a nice breakfast, making a lucious looking veggie soup to eat in the evenings when I get home from work. I want a quick easy meal so I can go right into exercise mode.  Walking the dogs (Buddy - my black lab has his chin on my leg as I type asking me please take him now) and also will dig out my walk away the pounds tape.

Goals for the rest of the week is to: plan my meals eat my plan.

 Walk the dogs every night - the full long walk they desire

Do at least every other night an exercise tape

 Remember how to get to the gym down the street.... even if it's just a little bit on the eliptical.

Thanks for the sweet comments Becki and Joy.....

Happy New Year oh and MEN HMPPPFF! GRRRRR

Happy, Healthy New Year to all of my EP pals.  I pray (and I did pray for lot of you individually this morning) that this is the year that we will finally free ourselves of the excess pounds.

Well... I was suppose to have a new years eve date with Michaelf.. someone I met online and have talked to a long time. Early yesterday he emailed me that he could not make it because his daughter and grandkids had planned a surprise going away (He leaves this week for Iraq) party.  He had told his sister about our date and she had to break the surprise to him.  I completely understood this and was fine with it, said we would reschedule for today... have I heard from him today?  NO, not a peep...not sure if he is on his way and just will get directions when he gets here or if he's coming at all.  I don't mind being cancelled... I would just like a courtesy of a phone call because I could have made other plans...  and someone else wanted to make plans with me to see a movie but I told her I was seeing it with Michael and couldn't go... I've called him.. no answer, no returned phone call, etc.....  I've never had much luck with men named MIchael... I'm strarting to think the trend is continuing.   HMPPFFFT!    I haven't been stood up for a date by a man in 15 years.  I'm not happy.  He has 30 minutes untill he becomes a complete butthead!  

Rainy Saturday down a pound

What a nice surprise on the scale this morning. I wasn't expecting it. I haven't done much exercise this week but also haven't eaten too crazy in the last few days either.  Just trying to do real good on portion control.  Tonight I"m going to eat out mexican so I need to think about what to have before I go.

I finished my closet gave away 2 bags of stuff to goodwill and freecycled a few nicer things. 

I bought a new MP3 today and need to start loading it up with music... music to work out buy, music to walk and walk to.  

I have a date New Years Eve - it's a meeting with someone I've talked with on line for quite a while. He's going to Iraq next week for 6 months and wants to meet before he leaves.  What to wear what to wear.

Cleaning out closets...

The last week of every year I try to organize my closets and get things ready for donation to goodwill or some other charity. Ssome years I get it done and sometimes I don't .  I'm doing it tonight....I need you guys to remind me when I lose 30-40 pounds I will have a brand new wardrobe of casual clothes, jeans, shorts, cute tops and even nice undies....  I spent the last hour or so going through a plastic tub of clothes and I can't bear to part with any of them because they are perfectly good, just smaller than me.  I did transfer them to space bags so at least I can see what is in there.   My sizes now range from 16 petite to 22 petite... that's the jeans I had to buy tonight... I really want to get into the 16 petite by summer....  I have a ton of work out wear too.     One of the interesting things is that I found a dress that my mom bought me from walmart and it still had the receipt attached.  I wonder if I can still return it.... it's only 5 years old.  I may try it just for kicks... the goodwill is not far away if I can't.    Only 5 years ago I was wearing 16 petites.... ahhhhhh I long for those days again.  Well back into the closet...

Dust myself off and start again.....

I thought I had posted since thanksgiving but I guess I didn't.  I've just been a voyeur to everyone elses blog... well lots has happened.   I went to the doc and had lost the 10 pounds... I've gained some of it back due to holiday gorging.   Ready to get back on the straight and narrow path of healthy eating and more exercise.....I was 242 this morning.

At the doc visit my blood pressure was normal but she said I was diabetic. Said it's like being " a little pregnant" you are but your at the very early stages. Gave me a prescription and told me to read up on it and decide if it is what I want to do..... I'd rather control it by exercise but she said that the gluophage or whatever would probalby help me lose weight too... hmmmmm.     gave me a monitor and most times I've taken it it's been below 100  don't know if it is the monitor or the other reading was false.  anyway will have to deal with that... yet another reason to eat well, exercise and lose weight....

Going shopping with my mom to the malll.....  will write more later...

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

I have so much to be thankful for:   my most current thanks is that the scale is down some and that's with being stressed out all week.  Usually when stress hits so does bad bad eating.  I got up this morning and I want to eat healthy. I'm having a veggies and eggs and juice.

My week at work ended great! Mom is better.  We're not having a big ole spread for thanksgiving.  I'm cooking a roast (my uncle doesn't eat turkey) and lots of veggies.  I'm making a sweet potato pie with splenda.  I'm taking everything to my mom's house.  I feel so good that there won't be a ton of leftovers tempting me in my house. 

I so want to be down 10 more pounds by Dec 13th when I go back to the doctor.  And I want my blood pressure to be normal.   I don't want drugs and this has been kind of a kick in the pants to get me back in gear. 

Goal for Jan 1 is to be 220.  The only way I can do that is to be diligent, not let the goodies get in my system and walk my butt off.  But I can do it!

I better get off here and get started   Happy and Healthy Eating Thanksgiving everyone!!

I've got to tackle the housework

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