Shock of the day...

Today was my son's birthday and we took him into town to get some ice cream. I didn't get one but I did have a few bites. We went shopping and then decided to go out to eat for a birthday dinner. The reason I am sharing this with you is that I had a shocker today! We went for Mexican food and when we got there they seated us at one of those dreadful circular booths that everyone has to scoot around in it to sit. Ok...I'll be last and sit on the edge. Well, everyone had a different idea than I had and of course wanted me to sit in the middle. Oh no....I can't do this....I do not want to squeeze into that booth and be so uncomfortable that I can not breath. Shock, shock....I fit...and I was able to scoot around the table with room to spare...about 2 inches even!! Well, that was my shock of the day. I didn't order healthy though. I ordered sour cream chicken enchiladas....I did only eat half of it.

Weigh-in Day...feeling tired, grumpy, and puffy!

I weighed in on thursday and gained .5 of a pound. Not feeling too good about it but, I did eat healthy this week. I haven't been drinking water like I should. I am feeling really tired, everyone in my family has been sick. I'm also a bit grumpy and puffy.....not a good combination. Christmas is coming so fast and I am not prepared at all. Oh well, I'll get everything done and all will turn out good I'm sure....it always does.

Bad habits gone forever....

I started thinking about the "bad sour cream habit" that I no longer have and it lead me to thinking other habits that I have given up this year. Mayo is one of them and butter on toast. I rarely even eat toast any more. When I was in highschool I used to love to come home and make 2-4 pieces of white bread toast slathered in butter......mmmmm it was so good and it really smoothed over all the problems that I had a school that day and I felt so much better (I thought anyway). What I didn't realize was that that good tasting toast was really making things worse for me at school by making me gain even more weight. I still like toast but it is not my comforter and usually If I'm even going to have a piece it will be whole grain and very little or no butter. I do eat whole grain bagels a few times a week. Back to another bad habit dropped.....creamy salad dressings like bleu cheese or ranch dripping all over a wonderful salad. Cheese....cheese on everything at every meal. My whole family used to eat so much cheese we would buy 20 pounds every month. I cut everyone back. Now it is a treat rather than a staple.

These are just a few of the bad habits that I no longer have this year. If I had more time I could think of a few more....Oh another one....a big one...if you read my blog in the beginning the chips were always calling me and jumping in my mouth when I least expected it well, no more of that! I am in charge of those chips now!!

Please tell me about some of your bad habits that you have changed and the ones that are still hanging around. I challenge you to write about it in your blog and link back to mine to get the word around. Please leave me a comment letting me know if you did it so I can go read it.
Have a GREAT day! Hope to hear from everyone.

*OH...I can't believe I forgot about the chips and cream cheese. I did the same thing as Cara only it was nacho cheese Doritos (or any chips if I didn't have those....especially jalapeno chips) and cream cheese. I started it in high school and it was my favorite snack food every time we went on vacation or had a special thing to celebrate or just when I wanted to celebrate! I did have some this summer with mango salsa over the cream cheese....that counts as a little healthy doesn't it?? :) I haven't done that in so long that I forgot about it.

Weigh-in Day...

I lost .5 pound this week. I thought I was going to lose more but I'll still be happy with .5. I am so close to getting that 30 pounds lost badge....I just want to get there so bad.
I had a great week. I am up and moving a lot lately. I have been eating healthy. I have not been drinking as much water....maybe thats the problem. ??
I have to share with you something that has NEVER EVER happened before in my house. I went to get out the sour cream for dinner last night and it was bad! Spoiled sour cream......growing mold.....I have never in my life ever seen such a thing! I am so amazed at this because I used to eat so much sour cream on everything that it NEVER had a chance to go bad!!! I always used it so fast that it couldn't even think of going bad. I threw it out and didn't even miss it!! I am so happy about that! One bad habit gone in the trash!
I have a lot to do today and better get going on it.
Have a great day!

uuugghhh!...

My sister got married last night. I have mixed feelings about it. I want her to be happy but I've seen her be miserable with him for the last 5 years. God can do miracles though.....I do believe that. I had a few comments from some people there last night. The good one first...."You sure are looking good!". But the one that bothered me was the....."So now that you are getting skinny you can wear something pretty". Not sure how to take that one. My husband and my friend both say it's just jealousy talking. This is one of the reasons I didn't want to tell people that I am trying to get healthy, I have a hard time with the rude comments. It wouldn't be so bad if it were just strangers that I didn't know and didn't have to see again but......it's my family. Then they start making judgment on what I should and shouldn't eat at every family gathering. I have found myself overeating or eating the wrong things just so I won't get any comments from them....I try to make it look like I am still eating unhealthy just so they won't feel guilty about what they eat and take it out on me. Is this CRAZY or what? And I'm the one who always stands up for myself in most other situations....especially with my family. uuugghhhh!
The dress I wore was cute. It was dark blue and short....well, to my knees, I usually wear dresses that are pretty long so this was different for me. It felt fun on and I did feel good in it. But after I saw some pictures of me in it I felt terrible. I said " am never wearing that dress again". It is sleeveless but I wore a t-shirt under it kinda like a jumper hoping to somewhat cover my arms. Well, I should have wore a sweatshirt under it......my arms looked so huge.....I'm embarrassed now. I cropped my arm out of the photo. So here I am .....armless! lol

I got the final results of my test and had a few excellents on it and mostly goods! I was a bit shocked considering the person that was scoring me. She was a very small young skinny girl and I felt really intimidated. I had the best testing partner though!

Great test...

My test went GREAT! It was the most challenging one yet! I did it and I think I did well! I will get official results on Monday. I felt so good afterwards.
Yesterday we went hiking up in the woods to get a Christmas tree. It was so much fun. And I didn't get out of breath as much as I have in the past.....I have always loved going hiking though, tromping around in the woods. No snow this year, the kids were a bit bummed. The sunshine was beautiful! I'm kinda glad there was no snow. The kids always talk me into getting on a snowboard or something and I just know I'm going to break my neck! They love it and think it is the best thing to watch mom try to do what they are doing.
Well, my sister is getting married tonight so lots to do today.
I'm working on a plan of healthy eating for the entire day, won't get in any exercise today I don't think. I'll just be busy!
Have a great day!

Busy week...

I had a good week. I've been real busy again this week and not much time to post. I stayed the same on the scale this week. I am glad not to have a gain. I didn't really over eat on Thanksgiving Day but I had a hard time with left overs and then we had a banquet on Sunday to go to and TOM is here all in one week. So I'm really happy I didn't gain.
I have a test tonight and I am not feeling up to it. I hope I feel better after a shower and getting ready to go, maybe a cup of coffee. I know that I can only do my best and that will have to do.....I just get so worried about it.
I am working on getting more activity and drinking my water this week. I am one pound away from getting a new HYC badge and I really want to make that goal. I wanted to get to 30 pounds lost by today but, did not happen. It's ok.....I'll do it but, just not by today obviously.
Hope everyone is having a good week......if anyone even still reads anything here.......I barley have the time to post anymore. There are so many good blogs out there.