Totally worth it.

So yeah, I'm up a little today, but I don't care. Our night out on the town was totally worth it. :)

This is me back in the day when my hubby and I first started dating 7 years ago. (It will be our 7 year "together" anniversary on July 7th.)



I'm pretty sure in this picture I am about 175 and wearing my super-awesome-#1-jeans that I loved back in the day (and are also the small pair in my profile picture.)

This is what I want to get back down to. 175 has always been my magic number. It's near the top of my healthy weight range and I look pretty good there. I don't look too skinny - but I don't look bulgy or lumpy either. Clothes actually fit and I can still eat on occasion. (I got down to 166 at one point, but if I even looked at a plate of pasta I gained 3 pounds.)

I have to do this. I'm getting sicker and sicker and I'm just ignoring it. I'm too young for this shit.

Rachel
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Pad Thai....mmmmm.....

Well, we got some good news in the house that we had been waiting for quite a while now, and it's our 5 year anniversary this weekend. So we are having a good week and we are looking forward to Friday - we are getting a hotel room downtown and having dinner at our favorite date spot we used to go to when we still lived in the city, and then actually going to see a movie that doesn't include animation or talking animals. ;)

I can tell you already that I am NOT going to be having a low cal dinner at the restaurant we are going to. I am getting Pad Thai, cheese rolls, and probably a roll of sushi on the side! We haven't been to this place in like 3 years and I am getting all my favorite stuff! So that means for the rest of this week I should at least eat in a low cal way so I don't spend the night feeling guilty.

Oh and also - we are staying at an Embassy Suites! So that means AWESOME FREE BREAKFAST!!! Woot woot!! ;)

I have a feeling that Sunday might not be a good weigh in day. ;)

Rachel
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South Dakota

FYI - I just booked a flight to South Dakota to go see my family. It's on July 2nd, so that gives me 46 days.  About a month and a half....

Let's see if I can hit 238, shall we?

Rach
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5 months + no sleep = ZOMBIE!!

So like I said on my last post, my hubby and I have been on Weight Watchers. I obviously have not been taking it very seriously up to this point, which is really dumb considering it is costing me about $40 a month on our very tight budget!

I'm a stay at home mom (a victim of the 2008 layoffs) but I am enjoying my time at home and we used it as an opportunity to have our second child while I would already be home to take care of him and my daughter at the same time. Daycare is EXPENSIVE!!!

After my son, Kyle, was born, we were all ready to get on the healthy bandwagon. We joined WW and vowed to start exercising. But things didn't go totally to plan considering it's MUCH harder to keep up with a 4 year old and a newborn at the same time. My poor house was never spotless to start with, and now it looks more like a hurricane hit pretty much all the time. Usually it's all I can do just to keep us in clean clothes and dishes to eat off of. ;)

Then for me the big problem is this - my husband has an hour long commute in the mornings, so we decided together that in order for him not to kill himself falling asleep at the wheel back and forth to work, I would need to to be the get-up-at-night-gal for the kids. He gets up around 6:00 and feeds them while I sleep in till he leaves at 8:00, but most nights I'm up a minimum of twice or a max of 4 or 5. Even if you are only getting up for 5 min to grab a lost binkie or talk about a nightmare, you are still interrupting your deep sleep and I end up tired ALL THE TIME.

But, finally, after 5 months, Kyle is starting to only wake up once a night and goes right back to sleep after I find his pacifier. So I'm starting to be at least a little less tired on a daily basis. Hopefully this means I'll be able to make a little smarter decisions about what I eat and be able to keep up with the housework enough I have time to make a healthy dinner for all of us. And maybe.... just maybe.... actually get some exercise in. ;)

Rach
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Let's Start With A Quicky....

A few years ago (well, seven years ago) I lost 72 pounds. Hooray for me!
Here is a picture of my size 22 jeans under of my lovely juniors size 11 jeans.



(I am very tall - I don't think I could possibly ever be under a size 8 even if I was just a skeleton. ;)

I loved those jeans. I was able to wear them for about 6 months...
Then life happened.

Moved to Florida....
meet my super cool boyfriend....
ate and ate....
got a good job...
got engaged to super cool boyfriend....
ate some more....
got married...
had a girl...
bought a house...
ate...
diagnosed with fatty liver....
got laid off...
stay at home mom....
ate...
got Type 2 Diabetes...
had a boy....
high cholesterol...
possible kidney issues....

Hey, I don't like where this is headed. So I joined Weight Watchers.

And I kept telling myself, "Well, I'll just eat a few things bad. I mean, pretty soon I'll never be eating it again, right?" And 4 months pass and I am actually up 5 pounds from when I started.

Crap. I guess I gotta quit kidding myself, eh?

Rachel
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