That always seems to be a surprise to realize I still need to lose weight!! Another Monday, with more big hopes of a new diet. Well lets call it the cool lifestyle change term that sounds better but never seems to work either. I am going the one day at a time route. Small changes to keep from shocking the old system too much. I joined Weight Watchers again last week so really ready to rock this again. So tired of looking like Im fixing to pop out a new addition to the family any day. Lets get this going and strive for a little less junk in the trunk next week!!
Well I just like that saying but I am trying to get back on plan yet again. Life seems so much easier when you just eat whatever you want without any thought or regard but alas I can't seem to live with that for very long. I don't know if such a thing as fat and happy actually exists. I may be fat but Im never happy about it. I have started to get weekly B-12 shots which seem to be helping with my energy level and I also have some of the diet pills call Tenuate but I have yet to take any of them, those things just scare me. I am just taking this one step at a time....As of 12:56pm I have not messed up yet, baby steps!
Ok the happy cow is not me so don't get confused with that question. I have heard several of you mention the happy cow cheese or is it laughing cow? Some type of happy cow. Anyway, I looked for it in Publix today because it sounds good but could not find it anywhere. Any suggestions on where to buy it and where the grocery store normally keeps it? I looked with the regular cheese and also in the deli cheese section and no luck. I need the Happy/Laughing Cow!
Its been a while since I have blogged. You can always tell when Im being good or bad by my lack or blogging when I have been munching. I guess the nice thing about this time is I never give up. I dust myself off and get back on. This is probably the longest I have stayed on Weight Watchers in a long, long time. Hopefully by going the slow way I will be able to maintain my weight better instead of losing it faster and gaining it back even faster. I have been trying so hard to get to the 25 pound mark for that cute little star you get and also just a milestone. I was .06 away from it today so come on next week!! My saving grace still seem to be the workout routine I put together which I do every other evening. It really seems to keep me from gaining even when I go off plan which is amazing. Without it I would probably have already gained part of my weight back. Its doing a good job at making the junk in the trunk look at little better as well. I mean baby still got a lot of back but it doesn't jiggle quite as much now!! I will hit that 25 next week!!
I have taken Phentermine in the past, actually it was the only time I have been able to lose a big amount of weight. I am considering going back on it for a few months. I just can't seem to get control of my appetite and it really helped me so much with that. I only took 1/2 of a pill per day, the whole one was way too much. Im just worried about it making me a complete bitch (more than usual) because I think it used to. Anyone else taking it now?
I think the one thing other than my weight that I obsess on the most and never do much about is exercise. Now don't get me wrong, I do work with weights for 15-20 minutes every other night and actually can really tell results from that but cardio......Forget about it! I am even a member of Curves that is like 5 inches from my office, seriously, I can walk out the front door and see it down the street. Here is my problem or excuse in a nutshell. I have two small children (yeah, Yeah I use them as an excuse a lot) and I work full time so I have very little time for myself. I have an hour at lunch most days and an hour before they get home in the afternoon. Now being a 41 year old mom of a 18 month old and a 3 year old is damn exhausting. On a good night I get maybe 6-7 hours of sleep and that is with interruptions usually so I don't feel that refreshed every day. At lunch I normally just want to chill for a bit and after work for that one hour, I want to put my feet up and get ready for the hurricane that happens when my little ones hit the door wide open. Sooooooo, its hard for me to think of giving that time up to exercise even though I must to take this to the next level. Any ideas on motivation would be wonderful! Also, anyone take any great, miracle vitamins or food that gives you some energy so there is something left for exercise? I will mention that we leave every morning at 6:30 so there is no time there and I can't get up at 4am like Tatumsmom (you are my hero for doing that, you are)!! Its late when everyone goes to bed as well so count that out.
Ok, so that probably sounds dirtier than it actually is but McDonalds being the nice place that they are now has added a line of good coffee finally. I have fell in low with the new Hot Mocha drinks that they have. I am a coffee lover but of course only the fattening kind. Now I have this option staring me in the face every time I go there. Of course we spend a fair amount of time there with two small kids and busy lives. I know in a perfect world I would be making good healthy dinners for the family every night but alas there is only one of me and that one is damn tired a lot. It would be nice to drive through a drive-thru one day and them have a sign posted that said "get anything you want, everything is calorie free today'! A girl can dream can't she?!
I have bought yet another pedometer. I have like a pedometer grave yard at home so I probably didn't need yet another one but hey, I can't resist a new gadget. I must say, I do like this one. It doesn't have a lot of the fancy bells and whistles of some I have bought in the past but it seems to be more accurant and I have yet to knock it off so it has a good grip. These things really work if you can stay with wearing them. I find myself making tons of side trips just to get more steps in. Needless to say, Im about to wear a hole in the floor in the bathroom logging some extra jogging in place before I come out. I know they love me here. Im really going to try to wear it every day so I can get a little more exercise in my daily office routine. Anyone else wear one?
Does the urge to Splurge ever leave us? Are we ever able to sit down in front of a full plate at a restaurant or home and actually leave something on it or do we always want to just literally lick that plate? I find myself just having to beat myself off my plate when we dine out. Most of those portions are so big you know you shouldn't be eating it all but yet you can't get over that urge to clean your plate and everything else off the table. Even when you know that mentally and physically you will feel bad afterwards, you still want to do it. How do we retrain ourselves to know when to say when? I have the hardest time with that line because that is something I have not manged to do yet. No matter what Im eating, even if I don't really love it, I think I need to eat all of it. Any tips for retraining the brain on this one would be appreciated!
I think when you are of a certain size, it takes a loss of several pounds before any notices it. Usually when I reach the 20 pound mark, people will start to notice. That is a good feeling. Lets face it, when you are "fluffy" the compliments don't seem to come your way that much, especially from men. I work around a lot of men and although Im always one of the guys here, I think that is basically the only way they see me, sort of genderless. In the past week or so I am starting to get some compliments and I think some of even surprised to see that I may be female after all. While I don't take any of it to heart, it does give you a little added confidence and encouragement to keep going. Hey, you got to take those compliments wherever you can get them!
