Weigh-in Day...

I weighed in yesterday. Ok...I have to say it.....I gained this week. I gained .8 of a pound. Ok now I said it and now I can move on. Yesterday I fretted about it and then overate....and it wasn't even a big gain! I usually give myself a day to eat whatever I want or have been craving through the week and that day is weigh-in day. I've noticed that if I loose any amount it motivates me to eat healthy even if I eat a bit more than I do during the week. But yesterday I didn't do well. I ate a big breakfast and then a big dinner and ice cream after that. I did have a healthy lunch though.
So, today is a new day and I am looking ahead and not back.....I can make it a healthy day today!
Off I go to take my daughter shopping today so she can spend her birthday money....and I already have a healthy plan for lunch!!
Hope everyone is doing good and can find their "Mo-Mo!"
This is going to be my goal for the week to focus on my Mo-Mo. Check it out!!

Every little bite counts...

The pot luck BBQ went well!! I made good healthy food choices and kept myself busy painting faces. The next day was my daughters birthday and I made some not so good choices for a few days last week. But over all I still had a loss of .2 pounds for the week. Not a good loss but never the less a loss and not a gain.
I have been trying to keep track of all the food I eat as recommended by Mama Bear June. This is so hard sometimes!!! How do you calculate a" bite" of something??? Anyway I am working on getting it down. I have been doing more activities too. Swimming feels so good on these hot days. I have to have the fan on in the house though when I try to do any kind of work out.....I get so hot!
One thing I really need to work on is getting enough SLEEP! I have read that lack of sleep is not good for loosing weight.
So off to bed I go.
Hope everyone is doing good this week!!

making good choices....

Today is looking good! Hot though! I need my water again.....the weather helps me remember.
Hope you are all doing good this week. I'm off to a potluck BBQ tonight.....planning on making good choices!
Have a great weekend!

Another week gone by....

The summer is going by so quick! Today is HOT! give me water!!!
I'm in shock today.....The scale said I lost 4.8 pounds this week!!! That is huge for me....I never loose that much!!
So how did this happen this week? Well, first of all, at least 2 of those pounds were the ones I gained last week.
Now for things I did different this week.....I did try to track my food a bit closer. I am using an application on my iPod touch to try to track everything. Sometimes it takes so much time though to get the calorie count looked up on each and every food. The other thing I did was I got in more exercise this week. And with the weather being so hot I am really trying to eat light so I don't get too sick with the heat. I did feel sick for a day and a half last weekend and barely ate but I figured that the weight that I might have lost then would come right back as soon as I started eating again the next day. Who knows it may have helped me loose this week but I can't get sick every weekend just to loose.
No matter what it was that worked......it feels good to have a big loss!

I have been thinking of doing a "give away" for all of you out there. Can anyone give me some tips on how to go about this. I have a few ideas but I've never entered one before. I have come across some interesting things and just want to share. Let me know if you have all the ins and outs of these "give aways"

Weigh-in Day...

Weighed in last thursday and was up 2 pounds this week. A bit disappointed but, I can think of various reasons why it would be up.......not going to focus on them though.......I just want to move on. What I really want to do is to move on down to the next lower set of numbers on the scale......I'm so tired of being here.....I feel stuck. Not sure what I need to do but reading a lot and getting a lot if inspiration from other blogs not to give up.
My eating, although not perfect, is not too bad most of the time but, I think I can improve on my activity. I worked out for 2 hours today and plan to go to class tomorrow and Wednesday too. I have been swimming on hot days with my kids that was my plan to beat the heat and still get in some exercise. Hoping for a better week. :)

Strange day....

Today was a strange day. My daughter was up sick last night most of the night so I didn't get much sleep and I was sooooo tired today. I laid on the couch with her most of the day watching movies and eating things I wouldn't normally be eating any more ......since I have started to live a healthier life that is.
By about 2:00pm I realized I had eaten all my calories for the day (plus some probably) and I still wanted something more to munch on. Ok....I had a bagel with sausage and an egg white on it for breakfast and 1/2 cup orange juice.....I did try to start out good this morning. Then I had the cream cheese danish with my coffee. I had a hotdog for lunch and I ate chips and mango salsa with it (and cream cheese under the salsa)....oh this is looking really bad!!!! Then I ate 2 cookie bars and I found myself going in the kitchen looking for that "just right something to munch on" that doesn't really exist, you know the snack that you just keep searching for by eating everything you can find to satisfy the craving that just never ends. I felt myself wanting something salty this time and realized that I was doing the sweet salty thing today as well as just not eating healthy at all. I also was munching on cherries every time I opened the fridge. I don't know why I just didn't get a cup of them and munch on those instead of cookie bars. !?! Ok....are you ready....here is the strange part......I grabbed my water bottle and filled it with ice water and started sucking on it. It felt good to be drinking water after all the junk I had eaten. Then I got off the couch and laid the floor. Weird huh??? And you will never believe what I did next.....I started to exercise. I was doing leg lifts and crunches then I saw my weights and started using them for my arms.........before I knew it an hour had passed!! I got up and filled my water bottle again and felt pretty good......a little sore but, good.
After all that I went in to take a shower and guess what I realized.....I did all that without forcing myself or giving it any thought...it was fun and just what I felt like doing. Strange, I know! I would have never done that in the past....you would have had to force me to have water instead if a snack!! And exercise when I'm watching a movie....are you crazy....I might miss something!!
Then I had a salad for dinner and it was really good. I did want to have a few pieces of chocolate but I resisted mostly, I did have one little bit of dark chocolate then I finished my water.
I started the day good.....got in a bad rut by the middle of the day and by the end I had gotten myself back out.....amazing!
After my shower I stared going though a pile of clothes trying them on and seeing that most of them are too big for me now. What a great feeling.
I learned a couple of things about myself today....lack of sleep, feeling blah, and tv/movies are bad food triggers for me. I hope to catch this next time before things get outta hand.
Speaking of lack of sleep....I'm up too late.....again!
I had a good 4th of July and hope you all did too!

Warning....

! Warning ! Do Not Go To COSTCO this week!!
I stopped by there this morning and they are having a huge "4th of July" sample extravaganza. They are offering over 15 different samples of yummy food! after going through that I decided that would be my lunch. I have no idea how many calories are in each sample but I was full by the end of it and then got a cup of coffee to go. They did have some healthy things like green salad with balsamic vinegar, veggie burgers, vitamin water, and some not so healthy ones like ice cream with chocolate sauce and trail mix on top, chicken wings in 3 different flavors, potato salad, chocolate covered almonds. Wow, there were so many things to try and yes, I tried them all.
I had a loss for the week.....it was only .4 of a pound but it was a loss. It may have been more if I hadn't have gone to Olive Garden last night......who knows?? I do need to bump up my activity level for the summer though, it is hard to work out in the heat!.....I will be working on this.

plan ahead...

I got up this morning thinking I was not going to work out this morning because I had about 4 hours of sleep last night. Well, I took my shower and had a cup of strong coffee and decided to go. I did get a workout in and learned some new things today but I was in a slow motion bubble this morning because of the antihistamine I took last night hoping it would help me to breath today. I could not focus all morning and now here I am up late again.....this is not a good cycle. I did breath easier today but I don't know if it was worth trading my brain in.
Today was my hubby's birthday. We took him out to eat at Olive garden. I tried to research their nutritional info ahead of time so I could make a wise choice for dinner. I chose the stuffed chicken marsala because I thought that I read that it was the lowest in calories and fat. It was high on the sodium though....it really tasted salty. I ate a good portion of salad with about 1 teaspoon of dressing it was good and I could not pass up the breadsticks, I ate 2. I had a plan to eat healthy and I think I did about half way....not as good as I had planned in my head. I did bring more that half home because I got filled with salad.
Oh boy........it is late and I have the munchies....just ate half of a cookie and some crackers with artichoke dip on them. yum, yum.....I better go to bed before this gets outta hand!

It's summer....

The weather is warm and I am miserable. My allergies are so bad this year. Today I could not breath I used my inhaler as much as I possibly could just to breath.....inside the house even. I feel a bit better tonight. I'm hoping I can get to class to work out tomorrow. I went on Monday and found out that they have canceled the second class that I like to do back to back with my first one, so now I will have to find another time or have less classes to attend. The most activity I got today was taking a nap and then tonight I played Guitar Hero with the boys and Hubby. I read a lot of blogs this morning and was very inspired by them....I miss having the time to get on here and read what people are up to.
Well, for my weight I am up .6 lb since I was on last. I am still trying to eat healthy and made it through a family BBQ Sunday without get into the chips. I made a grilled chicken sanwich....no mayo or dressing....lots of lettuce, tomatoe, and red onion though. I had a green salad with a small amount of raspberry dressing. I did try the potato salad made with reduced fat mayo....it was ok....but I would have seasoned it up with garlic and onion powder and some pepper. I had a piece of cake too. I scraped all the frosting off of it and ate about 3/4 of the piece. Drank lots of water too......no pop....I'm not a pop drinker. Oh and I snacked on some cucumber slices. Over all I ate pretty good and felt good about the choices I made when faced with all the junk food that was there.
Hope everyone is doing good this week...it looked like it this morning when I was reading....keep it up!!

Weigh-in Day...

I had a great week this week.
First off I have to tell you I lost 2.2 pounds. I am so happy to share this because I had lost it a couple of weeks ago and then gained it back because of stressful times in my life. I can now feel good again about having my "35 pounds gone" badge.
I still have some stress but I am dealing with it better than ever before! I am trying to take care of me in all this mess. I ate well this week even though we went camping I did try to not pig out on junk food. I walked a lot when I was there and had a great time over all.
My mom is back in the hospital, oh wait, not now she was moved today......let me change that......she is now over in a nursing home for a couple of weeks this time till they can figure out if she is strong enough from her heart attack to withstand a back surgery. Crazy....no one seems to know any details and I am just staying out of it as much as I can to keep my sanity. Don't get me wrong...I love my mom and my family and I would be the first one down there finding out information and getting things done right for her but, you have to understand that's not what she wants....she loves the sympathy and attention so I back off and join the never ending circle of catch 22s.....if I do this, I'm wrong......if I don't do that, I'm wrong! So I am trying to keep my distance to take care of myself. I hope this doesn't sound too harsh.
More news...my friend with cancer is doing well. She has gotten herself a couple of really cute wigs and is moving on with life and dealing with things as they come....I'm so proud of her and how she is handling everything.
I have been real busy working out this week....we have a test tomorrow. I have been working hard at everything on it and I think I will be able to do it all and pass with good scores. I'm so excited that my friend is moving up to my class next week too. I think we will have a good summer working out together. Well, I better get off to bed to rest up for tomorrow's test. Wish me luck! :)

Weigh-in Day...

I did weigh in on thursday but didn't have time to post. I'm sitting up in the middle of the night because My sister just called me to tell me that my mom is back in the hospital sooooo.......I thought I would at least post my weight-in.
I lost .8 of a pound. A loss is a loss. I had hoped for more but I can see where I could improve to get better results.
Ok....off to bed now I can't think straight.

Things are looking brighter.....

First of all I have to thank you all for all of your prayers and concern it really means a lot to me.
The day before I last posted I had just got a call from my best friend telling me she has 3rd stage breast cancer. I was in shock and really could not think straight for a week. She was just told a few weeks earlier that every thing was fine and she only had fluid filled cysts. Then the doctor calls her out of the blue and tells her they were wrong and she has 3rd stage cancer. How can this be??? She is taking it very well and is well on her way to treatment. She has had several procedures done already and has already had her first dose of chemotherapy in just these two weeks since she found out. I got a call from my doctor saying I missed my suggested mammogram recheck 6 months ago.....thats nice to hear.....I wish they would have let me know I was suppose to go in at 6 months.....I scheduled it for 1 year like they told me to. Now I am stressing out about missing my check up and wondering what they are going to tell me when I go in. I have to call tomorrow to get an appointment.
Last week I found out my Mother was in the hospital........guess how I found out......her neighbor called me to say she thought I might want to know that she was in the hospital. What kind of family does that??? No one called me......they said it was no big deal and they were just running tests on her and didn't know what was wrong with her but, still I would have liked to know that she was there in the first place....I guess that would be too logical for my family. They are not capable of thinking the obvious.(or maybe even thinking at all)
Ok..... enough ranting.
Good things that have happened since I last posted......I got my bike out a couple of weeks ago and have been riding around the driveway. One day I rode 2 miles (50 laps around the drive way...I clocked it on my car once for fun with my kids). Mostly I have been helping my daughter to learn how to ride her bike though and not getting in the riding time I had hoped for. I'm hoping she will start riding with me sooooooon!!!! I have been going to workout on Mon. and Wed. and last week I went, for a third time that week, to thursday morning class with another lady from my class. The instructor/owner even asked me.....me, like I am good enough...to teach a few moves to a young guy that was there. I couldn't believe it! We are coming up for another test real soon here too. This term has been so full of new stuff and not a lot of time to practice. I'm sure it will go just fine though. I can't get too nervous about it, I just have to do my best. I have been choosing fruit for snacking and eating more veggies with dinner. The scales have not showed anything good....I have gained 3 pounds over the last 3 weeks ( and that means I don't really deserve to have the badge that I have posted right now).
Oh...I have to tell you this....it is not good but weird....one day last week I woke up with these huge water pockets on my eyelids I could barely see......it was the strangest thing!!!! One day I wake up all puffy and the next day I'm not....I can't figure this out...even when I am drinking my water I struggle with this.