Wonderful Birthday....

I had a wonderful Birthday! I slept in for and hour or so in the morning. When I got out of the shower the kids were all doing their school work and the house was quiet and in order......wow....things always go a bit better when Dad is home and no one was expecting it. My hubby took me into town for lunch.....we went to Mucho Gusto's. This was a great little Mexican restaraunt and the food was sooooo good. I got a tostada and a strawberry mango smoothie. The smoothie wasn't much of a smoothie it was more like a slushy.......no fruit in it at all.....but it was good. We ate outside and both of us had a nice lunch......we hope to go back there sometime. After lunch he took me shopping....I got some much needed new makeup and some jeans that fit and aren't falling off of me.
The kids were all glad to see me when we got back they all had things for me. My oldest son(15) that is still home made me a nice card with a poem in it about how much he loves me. I cried. :) My youngest son(13) made me a card with a coupon for house work help next time I am too tired. And he made me a large coupon for a lunch date. My daughter(8) made me a necklace and earrings and gave me some dark chocolates and a beautiful card she made....she is very creative like me!
After all that we were off to the TEST! I was really nervous to start but it went really well....I had a great testing partner. It was very physically challenging as usual but I didn't get hurt and I think I did well. I will get official results on Monday. When we got home we had ice cream to celebrate my birthday....no cake just ice cream with a piece of waffle cone on it and whipped cream on top. Yummmmmmy! I had 2 big scoops!
I did great on my eating and felt really good yesterday, and drank lots of water! Today I did not do as good....it's never good when you get so busy you forget to eat and then you think you're starving. And I had ice cream again today!

Weigh-in Day...

Weigh-in day today.......I didn't want to weigh today because I have been so depressed about retaining water. Well, I did it and I was very shocked! I lost .6 of a pound. Not a big loss by any means but, certainly not a gain!!!
I so appreciated the comment left by Connie. She has helped me to remember to rejoice in any amount of loss. She is right....I may not be down to what I wanted by my birthday but I am down 32 pounds since last year at this time. Last year at this time I wasn't even thinking that losing weight was ever going to be in my future...I was feeling like I was stuck at where I was and I was never going to make any progress. Then something happened in me around May and I decided I was worth giving it a try.....and here I am down 32 pound so far! Connie thank you for helping me to see the positive side of things!!
So about tomorrow....it's my birthday and I had planned on taking it easy till the evening when I have my test....maybe practicing a bit at home first, but not doing much. Well, my husband just told me he took the day off and was planning on taking me out to lunch (since we can't go to dinner because I will be testing at that time and don't want to eat much before it).....I wonder where to go??....where would be fun for me???.......where would be healthy for me???? I don't know....it makes me nervous.
Hoping to have fun tomorrow and not be too uptight. (I am a bit tonight)
Hope everyone is having a great week!!

HYC check in

I have been getting in more exercise this week. Everyday I have been trying to do something......mostly walking when I hurt so much but I did do 90 minutes at class on Monday, not my best but I was practicing. I have a test this Friday and need to be at my best for it. I am pretty nervous about it because it is at 8:30 pm and I am used to doing class at 10:00 am. There is a big difference in how I feel at these times of the day. I am praying to be in good physical condition at 8:30 Friday night. Oh....and I didn't mention.....it is also my birthday Friday.....what a fun birthday to be looking forward to. Well, I guess I won't be over eating on my birthday or I won't be able to move. I think I will drink some coffee though before I go. I survived the last one and it was at 7:30 p.m. and I really had a great time and it was the most challenging for me so far. This test is a significant one and very important to me. I was put on the spot Monday in class and I blew it! I have to be better on Friday.

I have been drinking a lot of water but I am still retaining fluids more than usual. I am drinking a half gallon of measured water...is that enough?? I'm not sure? What else makes you retain water? I never use table salt to salt things and I stay away from fast food most of the time and processed foods. Do carbs and sugar make you retain water? I have had a weakness to sweets lately. I had a fruit filled danish last night and a half of a truffle. I had planned on doing the hot tea thing when I was wanting something late at night but I forgot and messed up the plan. And speaking of last night...I really messed up on my food intake too. I did good all day and then when I got home my hubby had to work on the electricity to fix a switch. Well, I got really hungry and could not fix dinner yet so I got a couple of wheat thins....then a couple more and some cheese to go with them....and then some more cheese and a few more wheat thins and a small glass of mango juice. All in all I ate about 2 ounces of cheese and about 20 wheat thins and 4oz of mango juice over a couple of hours time. That in it's self could have been ok for dinner but it was just a snack and then we ended up eating pizza at 9:30 pm. I had 2 pieces of pizza and a hand full of baby carrots. Then after that is when I ended up eating the danish. I could have made better choices first of all with the snack and then I was not prepared for the electricity to be out most of the evening.

Things will be better today and I will move past my bad choices and not dwell on them but, I do need to work on being prepared or at least be able to improvise without blowing it. Think healthy...what will be a good choice for me??? Think, think, think before I eat!

I have been laking motivation and really pressuring myself.....which backfires everytime!!! I wanted to be down 40 lbs down by my birthday this week and that is not happening!

Hope everyone is doing good this week!