05/26/2007 14:40
Still here!
I'm still here, thanks for asking. I've just been busy. What, me? Busy? I only have a 3.5 year old and 1.5 year old twins to follow around!
Anyway, the weight loss went on a bad streak for a while, and I put some pounds back on --- but it's okay. I was weaning the girls (we only nurse 1x per day now), and the food cravings were really tough to contend with. Now that I'm past that transition, I'm finding food easier to manage again. Good chocies! I lost a little bit a couple weeks ago, and only gained .2 this past week. I'm working on it again!
On the good news side, I'm getting more exercise again. I joined a volleyball league that played in the spring. We'll pick up again in the fall. I didn't know how much I had missed it! I'm also out and about walking a lot more, and my son keeps a pretty good pace when he wants to on his bike --- while I push 75 pounds of stroller & twins behind him!
Keep up the good work everyone!
03/09/2007 14:00
Hey there!
The good news? I expect a loss this week.
The bad? I gained 3 pounds last week. Yup, 3 pounds! I wasn't too upset, though, as WI came at the worst possible day of my cycle. Not really a big deal, just natural.
I've been doing a good job eating this week. Good portions. Good choices. I'm happy about that. I need to maintain these choices for a month and see what happens. But let's start with just one day.
In other news, my twins are nursing a lot less. They're down to 4x per day, from 8x just 6 weeks ago. (That's 4x each and 8x each) Simply not gaining weight through this transition makes me happy! In some ways, I'm eager to finish nursing, so my transition will be over.
In other ways, I find weaning to be very sad, as these, in all liklihood, are my last babies. When you have 1 the first time, 2 the second time, you have to wonder, will the third time bring 3? Or for those of you who like geometric growth, what about 4 babies? 
My Great-Grandma had 3 sets of twins, so I have reason to be afraid, huh?
Have a great day. Make great choices. Do what is best for you.
02/24/2007 07:51
I CAN do this!
Stepping back on the WW bandwagon again. Not that I've really been off, but just not as dedicated as I should be.
I was pleasantly surprised to find I had lost .8 over the last two weeks (I didn't WI last week). That puts me .4 pounds shy of a 25 pound loss, and with <4 pounds to get below 150. I'll do it!! No stopping now!! I'm officially 1 pound below the weight I got married at. I felt good at that weight. I do now. I just need to get to where my weight is healthy. I'll do it.
Anyway, just want to say that sleep deprivation stinks. 2 15-month olds getting a cold. Ugh. a 3 year old, hearing the commotion, wanting to "rest with mommy & daddy". Ugh.
Oh well, that's what naps are for, huh?
02/20/2007 18:32
The fat mom
I've come to realize that one of my biggest motivations for REALLY wanting to lose weight is not wanting to be the fat mom.
(I say REALLY wanting to lose weight, as compared to the times I said I'd like to drop some weight and never did anything about it).
My son enters preschool in the fall. I don't want to be the frumpy fat lady picking her son up. I want to be the youthful looking, somewhat stylish mom, getting her son.
I don't want to feel like Desparate Housewife Lynette Scavo, in the first episodes. I want to feel put together, human, and worthy of looking at.
Shallow? You betcha. But school starts after labor day, so I'd better keep going!
02/11/2007 08:31
Plateau be gone!
I did it. I took the plunge and jumped head-first off of my (greatly self-imposed by not paying attention) plateau.
Woo hoo!!
It feels great. So great that I wonder why I "paused" in the first place.
Time to keep moving, keep tracking, keep it real.
I will say, this week has not been without struggle. We, in the midwest, have been in the deep freeze, with single- digit high temperatures. It is getting harder to go out with my kids, as they're more adventurous by the day. It's frustrating to bundle everyone up, go to a public area with little ones, where they can play, only to return home after 25 minutes, because 3 kids choose 3 different directions to go to (outside of the play area), and I can't keep up. 2 of the 3 don't understand my directions yet (15 months old), and the 3rd? Well, he's disobedient because it gets him some much needed attention. Ugh. I'm hoping summer will be better! At least we won't have to get bundled up to leave the house.
02/03/2007 08:04
Renewal
While it's not yet spring, a typical time for renewal, it is MY season. Right now.
I'm renewing my commitment to WW this week. No excuses. I've been slacking for about a month now, and I have maintained my weight. While maintenance is good if you get to goal, I'm not yet at goal. I'm not yet at what is considered a medically healthy weight. So I have to persist.
So, today I ate a 5 points breakfast. Dinner is 11 points. I have 15 other points to spend.
I'm commiting to you, those who are reading my blog to be REALLY honest about my 31 daily points ( 35 flex, if I use them) If the scale doesn't change, I need to get rid of some of those 10 nursing points.
Off to write down what I recorded.
The days are already growing longer.
It's my season for renewal.
01/27/2007 08:35
Updated weight graph
Before you look at my weight graph and say "whoa", let me explain. I just updated it to "show all" and I included some entries as far back as two years ago, when I got pregnant with my daughters. I put on 24 pounds during that pregnancy (with full term twins -- pretty good!), and droped it all immediately upon delivery. It was during the next 9 months, as a nursing momma that I saw my weight creep upward.
Well, I've bucked that trend, though now I seem to have leveled off for the time being.
Anyway, my girls are now 15 months old and drinking 1 gallon of cow's milk every 3-4 days, so I'm clearly not nursing as much as I had been.
Any nursing mommies out there? Any who follow WW? What did you do as far as points go, once your weight loss leveled out? What worked?
Have a great weekend
01/19/2007 15:09
Another Friday
I got a new recipe for green beans from this site (I forget who, but it was a person on my "buddy list". So, I'll pay it forward to anybody who reads with one of my favorite easy recipes:
Crockpot Salsa Chicken
place 3-4 chicken breasts in crockpot.
sprinkle on 1 package taco seasoning
pour 1 cup salsa (I like mild) over the top
Cook ~8 hours. At the end, take out the chicken and add 1/4 cup reduced fat sour cream to the sauce. Stir in, and enjoy!!
It's 5 points for a 4 ounce chicken breast.
Sometimes, I like to add a can of black beans and a cup of roasted corn (Trader Joe's - freezer section), along with an additional 1/2 cup of salsa, to make it a more substantial meal.
Prep time? About 3 minutes. Delicious!
But I digress. It's pizza night in our house. 
01/18/2007 10:15
content
I really need to shake this feeling of contentment. I'm at a weight that I'm not unhappy with. In fact, I was married at this weight in 2000. I feel pretty comfortable in my body at this weight.
I need to shake that feeling. I really WANT to be healthy, and that involves at least 10 more pounds, for the sake of my BMI.
Just looking at me, I know there's still some excess padding I'd like to shed.
So, why do I feel okay with what I've done? How do I shake this feeling and get my butt in gear to keep going? I do want to lose more, I'm just finding it hard. 
01/13/2007 06:56
100 Calorie Packs? HA!
I would like to argue that 100 calorie packs don't exist for me. Because, in theory, they are 100 calories. And, Entemenn's (sp?) now makes them with delicious baked goods wrapped up inside. However, when one eats 4 packs at a time, they quickly become 400 calorie packs, and that's not really a good thing.
Needless to say, I won't be buying those anymore. I truly have no control when it comes to sweets. For me, the control part is possible when I'm at the grocery store, deciding not to make the purchase. Once I've done that, I've won. If I make the purchase? I'm just kidding myself, thinking I won't eat it all, far too quickly.
So - add that to my lessons learned. Control over sweets starts at the grocery store. I'm much better off buying 1 full-calorie item (3 Musketeers bar?), and having it gone, than I am buying a bag of minis, fooling myself into thinking I can eat "just 1 or 2".
Okay, enough of that. On to the good news. I lost 1.6 pounds this week. So, last week I was up 1.2, this week down 1.6. That's a good thing. I'm at a new low, and intend to keep going down. Seeing a nice loss like that is exactly what I need to keep going! Starting last week, I wasn't motivated. At all. I hadn't tracked for a week (was coming off the stomach flu) So I bought a new journal and started behaving my way into my motivation. Sometimes we're motivated. Sometimes we have to suck it up and behave, and the motivation will follow. Well, now I have a bit of motivation again, so that's a good thing.
New BMI? 26.8. Great. Still getting better!
Have a great weekend! I'm going treadmill shopping today!
