Real Quick Hello!

Just a real quick dash in here to tell you Happy Saturday and wish you all a terrific day.  I got up ready to go this morning as I have a full agenda planned.  I started my day off with the WW work-out and loved it.  I had it for a while now but finally decided to put it in the DVD player and use it.  Yea for me! 

I will be going to a ladies luncheon shortly and don't have to worry too much about what I am going to eat.  My SIL (sister-in-law) is also doing WW and prepared the salad.  My MIL (mother-in-law) is preparing the chicken salad so I know it is reduced fat and I only have to worry with dessert BUT it will be fine.  I am really looking forward to my day. 

Tonight is the date night with dh (dear hubby).  What a way to end my day.  DH all to myself for one whole evening without the kiddo's.  LOL (lots of laughs) . 

Check ya later...........

TGIF

TGIF my friends ~ I am doing very well.  The scale showed a loss of .4 this morning so that puts me at about 1.8 loss for the week (since Monday).  I am very happy. 

Dinner was good last night.  I had salad, chicken breast and a baked potato.  The others around me had chicken fried steak with fries and sopping with cream gravy and I wasn't bothered what-so-ever. 

Tonight I plan to get the laundry finished, on Saturday I have a ladies luncheon to go to which is always fun and then in the evening I have a DATE!  Yes, you heard me correctly, dh and I are going out on a date, probably to dinner and then dancing.  Nothing fancy, some friends get together, hire a band and invite all of their friends so we are the lucky ones.  My sweet SIL agreed to keep the kiddo's overnight so we can stay out as late as we like to. LOL - we are such home bodies that we will probably last until 10:30.  heheheeeee

That's all that's going on with me today.  I have a good lunch planned of

grilled salmon

garden salad w/ranch dressing

and a 2 pt. snack dessert

coke zero

Later my friends,

Lunch Update 12:20 pm ~ I had decided to stay in for lunch today and check out EP and the support group so I was in the process of getting my salmon, salad and lunch together when I noticed the salmon didn't look very hot; meaning it had a brown spot (large one ) on it - so I said - hmmm.....better not mess with that - 'cuz I didn't know (dummy me) is it spoiled or does salmon do this after it is cooked and refridgerated and is fine to eat.  Oh well, back to my story , so I said no problem, I have a WW dinner in the freezer so I pulled that out....weeeeeeeeell it was severly freezer burned!  *(&^%!!@#!  Okay, now what????????????  STOP RIGHT THERE SISTER! 

Here is where I would say "Forget it" and head to Whata-burger or Taco Bell right down the street - BUT NO...No I did not - I hopped in my suburban, passed those 2 places up and headed straight for Subway.  I am very proud of myself!!!!

Thanks for listening.  Ü

Good Day!

Today is a good day.  I have been eating well and drinking my water.  I have a little fridge in my office and I stocked up on bottled water the other day and I tell you - having that water readily available makes all the difference.  I did go to the WW meeting last night and was very glad I did.  I was up a lb. from the last weigh-in but that was before the holidays so needless to say I was very pleased I was only up a lb. through the holidays.  The meeting topic was every interesting - it was about "Following the way of the Goose" - and I know that may sound strange - but WW friends are like geese - we stick together, fly together, and if one of us gets down, we stick together....just like geese do. 

On the weight note - the scale was very nice to me this morning.  I guess all of this water is paying off.  I am ashamed to admit it but I have never made it to my 10 % goal yet.  I keep see-sawing back and forth so I have a goal to make that 10% weight loss in the next few weeks.  Wish me luck and kick my butt to cross that 10% line.  With your support I can win this 10% race. 

Today is my sister's birthday and we will be going out to dinner tonight.  She has chosen a place that I can get a chicken breast or decent salad so I am thrilled.  So, really looking forward to that. 

Until next time,

Tracy

Wednesday - Happy ~HUMP~ Day....

Have you ever really thought about why people say that?  Happy "HUMP" Day?  Well, my oldest son who just turned 11 yrs. old is really getting curious about these kinds of things....I am like "honey, it's a figure of speak, k?  Wednesday is in the middle of the week and (curving my hand in a hump way motion) I tried to explain to him)  Young minds right???????  He is also really asking a lot of questions about the political primaries going on right now across the nation ~ I don't think i took an interest in that till I was in my 30's <big eyes>  I know, I know, bad american - but it just never interested me until I was much older ~ I do remember being VERY annoyed when my Brady Bunch or other sitcom didn't come on because of those president people talking.  LOL ~ boy, how times have changed.  This is good though and I am very happy that he is taking such an interest in our nation and is in tune as to what is going on.  One more thing and then I will get off of this subject ~ I do think the media plays a larger role in broadcasting more then we did back in my childhood days.....

Okay - onto me ~ first of all for those of you that wish to see some of my craft booth pictures ~ Yea!  I finally have them loaded ~ click on the photo gallery and Album #2.  The booth pictures are from the craft show last month and the others are odd and ends from years past.

I am planning to go to my WW meeting tonight.  This will be the first meeting since before the Christmas holidays - so I know I am up on the scale.....I am really hoping tonights meeting will give me that much needed spark.  I haven't been eating as well as I had hoped I would ~ I do very well through lunch and even the afternoon snack but lose it around dinner/evening time.  So, hopefully the meeting is what I need to get me back on track.  My SIL (who is already a member) and a friend (thinking about joining) are going with me - so I am some friendly support ~ and this is good!

If you are following the WW plan and are looking for additional support ~ check out the newly formed Support Group right here at EP created just for us WW Friends and Followers.  http://www.extrapounds.com/group/wwfriends/

Until next time....

Hugs!

WW Friends Support Group

I have created a WW Friends Support Group here at EP. 

This support group is targeting those of us who are using the weight watchers way of eating to lose these pounds.  This includes anyone is currenlty a member, attending meetings, online member, doing it alone or anyone thinkiing of joining WW's.  I am hoping that we can share tips, ideas, recipes and just maintain a support for each other. 

Please join us...... http://www.extrapounds.com/group/wwfriends/

Tuesday ~ the 2nd Day of this grrrrr Eating PLAN! Ü

I lost it last night.  I did - I went capoooey at dinnertime.  I messed up and this is how....I had all of my meals and snacks planned out - but FORGOT to prepare myself for something after my Curves workout.  I did well - even made it through the 3 pm "snack attack" and went to Curves to work out after 5pm so this was tooo long to go without food.  After my workout I had to stop by the store to pick up some diapers for my youngest and picked up the fresh chicken breasts that I had planned on cooking ~ OMG - I didn't get home until close to 7 pm (and usually have had dinner by this time) and still had to prepare dinner - so yes, I was famished!  I raided the cookie jar and snacked on a few chips until I could get my chicken breast, steamed broccoli and rice cooked.  So - I considered this a lesson learned.  I have an apple in my workout bag as I am planning to go to Curves again tonight because I will not be able to Wed. or Thurs. night.  Given this binge - I was the exact same weight this morning as I was yesterday morning - so I will take it. 

Chargail ~ I am saving my money for an IPOD ~ could I download Joel's messages onto my IPOD?  If so - OH - MY - GOODNESS!!!!!  Yeee Haaaw!

Kristy ~ I loooooooooove paint on wood and do other decorated crafts.  My passion is painting and creating wood crafts.

godsglory ~ I have 2 children.  My oldest is 11 and my youngest is almost 17 months.  Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh ~ all I can say is we waited a looooooooong time for my youngest son and I tell him that all of the time.  He is such a blessing! 

Until next time, my friends....

Hugs!

I will not let anyone steal my J-O-Y today!

On a very positive note ~ yes, I am prepared for the day.  Yea for me!  Lunch and snacks are planned out for the day ..........as well as a case of bottled water available for me to grab throughout the day.  So, yes I am prepared and it feels good to know that I am prepared. 

Fail to Plan ~ Plan to Fail

  For those of you that catch the sermons of Joel Osteen, paster of Lakewood Church in Houston you know what I mean about "do not let anyone steal your JOY!"  This was his message yesterday.  We are our own person and it is up to us to continue to be Joyful!  I let my weight effect my mood and therefore - this steals my JOY.   If I am having an off day, everything is wrong and everyone should do things just the way I want them to go.  This will be the hardest thing for me to overcome.  I have to.  For my sanity and for the sake of my wonderful family. 

Yesterday afternoon ~ I got all of the outside Christmas decorations finally put away and also cleaned up my craft room.  I have mentioned before but to my new friends I loooooove to craft.  I used to go to craft shows throughout the year but with the birth of my 2nd child I had to put that on hold and now only do a huge craft show at Christmas time (I promise I will post some pictures of my booth soon).  To get prepared for the next year I hit the after Christmas sales at Wal-Mart and the craft stores to stock up on lights, trees, picks, berries, garlands, and all of the other goodies I can find.  I was very fortunate this year to find lots of good after Christmas sales so I put all of this away on Sunday evening, cleaned and vacuumed and now I am set for another year.  A few years ago I turned an extra room into my craft room so I am very fortunate to have the space to work and store extra items.  I have the BESTEST hubby in the whole wide world ~ he set me up a nice little pad to work out of. 

On the scale note - I weigh the same today as I did yesterday so this is good! I'll take it.  I didn't totaly go overboard but I had some extra's yesterday since I knew I was starting again today.  So, it's all good.

Until next time...........

Tracy

Sunday....Sunday

Despite the several pieces of cake I had at the b-day party yesterday I am doing okay today on the scale.  After church and Sunday School, I made it to the grocery store and stocked up on some good WW friendly foods and am doing okay on my eating today.  The store I shop at had buy 5 Lean Cuisines and get a package of Skinny Cow ice cream free - so I am like oh yeah!  My sweet MIL gave me a stove top grill pan for Christmas (just like I asked for) and I plan on putting it to good use this week and from now on.  If anyone has any suggestions on grilled chicken breast toppings, seasonings or other WW friendly ideas for a stove top grill pan I'd love to hear them.  Now.........I am off to catch up on some of your blogs and then I have to get the last of that outside Christmas decorations put up.  It's more fun to put it up than to take it down.  Till next time............Hugs!

Oh it's Saturday....

I didn't do it.  I didn't pull it off.  I didn't kickstart my weight loss yesterday like I had hoped to.  I did plan though ~ but only 1/2 way and I realize this is not going to cut it.  I attempted to go grocery shopping but had my little one with me and of course this did not work.  I couldn't stop the basket for 2 seconds and he was trying to crawl out or grab something....grrrrr.....so I informed hubby that I need to go grocery shopping by myself to get the essential tools and food I need to kickstart again.  My oldest DS has his birthday party today and so this is taking up the majority of my day.  I baked his cake this morning and decorated them too.  I say "them" because I had a #1 cake pan and since he is turning eleven I baked two individual cakes in the #1 pan and made an  11.  They turned out neat.  It a skating party at the roller rink and they do not allow you to bring in extra outside food items so I don't have to stress too much.  I know I will have cake today so tomorrow is a new day. 

I wanted to stop in an wish you all a great day.....much success and we will do this together. 

It's hard to start over!

When I started WW in March 2007 I weighed 265 lbs.  I dreamt of losing 100 lbs. by March 2008 but I have realized it "ain't gonna happen".  Today I weigh 245 lbs.  I should look at the bright side right?  I weigh 20 lbs. lighter than I did last year at this time but d*mn - If I would have only followed the plan......if I had been faithful, disciplined and perservered - I would have been more successful.  Okay, enough with the pity party.  I need a major refocusing.  Not this pissy-anny crap that I have been doing for the past several months.  A real committment.  I enjoy going to WW - when I go.  I enjoy the plan - when I do it.  I lose weight - when I plan.  I know you girls are so tired of me - up and down and all around this place ~ but I need to plan.....Planning is the key! 

Okay, tomorrow Friday 1/4 starts a new year for me.  I will plan my meals and snacks and also start on my grocery shopping list to get some healthy food back into this house. 

Hugs!