Happy New Year!!

I can't believe it's 2007 already.  I'm glad to have the chance to start a new year with a new attitude and a new, clean slate.  I've also started a new job and I'm going to take all these new things and make a great new ME!!

Weight loss isn't the only thing I want to work on this year.  I also want to work on making my family better.  I want us to be happier, closer and spend more time together. 

My actions (goals) for making my weight loss happen:

Walking (min. 30 min.): daily

Find an eating plan that will help me lose weight and control my diabetes

Keep a positive attitude

Keep track of my exercise

Journal my eating

I'm sure there are many other things that I need to do to lose weight, but for right now I'm going to concentrate on those things and then add more when I'm ready.  I don't want to give myself too many expectations and set myself up for failure. 

I hope everyone has a great New Year and all of our goals and wishes come true!!!

I've started exercising

I've been exercising 2-3 times a day for the last few days and it feels good.  I either go 20 minutes on my Gazelle or take a walk around my block 2x for a total of a mile.  Now that it's dark early I'm feeling a little more comfortable walking outside.  I like that people can't see me.   It's getting colder here in Utah, but that's what coats, hats and gloves are for.  When there's snow on the ground (like we're supposed to get next week) then I'll do more on my Gazelle. 

I've been getting up early so that I can get a good 20 minutes of exercise before my kids get up, then after they're all at school I try to do another 20 minutes and I do my last 20 min. in the evenings...my alone time. 

I'm amazed at how much more energy I have.  I LOVE IT!!!!  I also love that I'm eating less.  I don't have the cravings for sweets and junk food that I normally have.  I guess I don't want to eat the junk and cancel out the exercise I've been doing. 

Now, If I could just get the energy to do housework...no amount of exercise is going to make me want to housework. 

I've been a slacker

Wow, it's been a long time since I've updated and worked on my weight loss. 

I'm finally back on track, but I'm not doing WW any longer.  I'm trying to get control of my diabetes, so I'm doing a low-carb way of eating. 

I've done pretty good the last couple of days and I'm hoping to stay on track for the rest of the week.  I'm taking this a couple of days at a time.  If I look too far into the future I'll get discouraged and I'll fail...yet again.  I'm going to do this in little pieces and goals and not give into the thought that I've got too much to lose, so it's useless. 

I'm on my way.

Camping

My family and I went camping over the 4th and I'll admit...I didn't eat well.  We did do some walking around the campgrounds, but not enough to counteract all the food I ate. 

We're back home and now I'm back on track. 

Now, for the good news.  I start classes at the Salt Lake-Tooele Applied Technology College on the 17th and I'm VERY excited about it.  I'm in the phlebotomy program.  I should be done in December.  I'll be in classes Mon-Wed (for a total of 10 hours a week).  I set my schedule up that way so that I can go to the Thursday night WW group that I love. 

My brother and his family are going to be visiting for the next 2 weeks, so I probably won't have time to update until after they leave.  Having 4 adults and 7 kids in the house for 2 weeks will probably put me over the edge, but I'll make it.  :) 

See you on the other side.

My first weigh-in

I completed my first week of eating the Weight Watchers way and it was good.  I messed up a few time, but I got right back on track and moved forward.  I lost 2.4 lbs. the first week.  I'm hoping I can keep it up. 

I've been doing pretty good at exercising and I'm feeling GREAT!!  I've been doing either an exercise video or walking.  I prefer walking, but when I can't get out there I work out to the video. 

My husband is being very supportive also and that really helps.  He's trying to lose weight also, not as much as I need to, but it's still hard for him. 

Tomorrow is a new week for me and I plan to be really strict with myself and stick to my points and use my flex points only when I really have to.

I'm doing it!

Yesterday was great.  Rick and I took the kids to go see Ice Age: 2 at the dollar theater in the morning and then to the Gateway Mall in the afternoon to see the sidewalk chalk festival.  Lots of walking, it was great. 

There was one really scary sight that will be forever imprinted on my mind.  As we were driving to the movie theater I was watching the traffic on the other side of the freeway, 2 motorcycles in particular.  As one of the cycles was switching lanes he fell off the bike and flipped and rolled across the freeway.  It was the strangest and most frightening thing I have seen so far in my life.  Luckily, he wasn't hit by a car and there were a lot of people on the freeway at the time.  I watched the news last night, but didn't see anything about it, so I'm assuming he survived the accident. 

As for my WW, I'm doing pretty good.  I kept in my points yesterday and I'm feeling really good.  I didn't do any real exercise, but the walking at the Gateway in the heat is what I'm going to count as my exercise.  We walked for about 45 minutes. 

Tonight my friends are coming over for fathers day dinner.  Sundays are NOT my good nights.  We play cards and eat the whole evening, so today I'm going to be cutting up a lot of veggies so I have something to snack on besides candy, cake, pie or whatever else junk food is brought.   I just hope I can do it. 

I started WW on Thrusday

I'm come to the point that I have to do something about my weight.  I'm a 34 year old insulin dependent Type-2 diabetic with gall bladder disease.  If I don't do something now I'm going to have even more serious problems soon. 

I tried to lose weight at home, but I just couldn't seem to find a plan or stick to anything long enough to have it work.  I need someone to report to, someone to tell me "good Job" when I have a loss and "you need to try harder" when I have a gain. 

Yesterday was my first day of WW and I did great until 4pm hit.  I totally caved in to all of my cravings and wants.  It's so frustrating, I can't believe I messed up my first day.  The only good thing is that I realize that at 4pm I need to be out doing something away from food.  I can do this.  I have to do this. 

My ENTIRE family is going on a vacation together next August.  We're going to Silverwood amusement part and the water park in Idaho.  I refuse to go on vacation and have to stand and watch everyone having fun because I can't fit on a ride.  I want to be able to have fun with my kids, go on the rides with them and play in the water and not be embarrassed because I'm the biggest one in the park. 

This is my year to get healthy.