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I am still here....losing slowly....but no internet at work makes it hard to keep up daily. My daughter broke her wrist friday night and started Kindergarten on Monday. Its been a busy month so far.

Check in when I can!

Day 12 - Finally Friday

Its been a crappy day at work the past couple days. Wednesday I got a virus that crashed my whole computer at work and of course it was from my hotmail acct which we are not really supposed to be on. So I sat around most of the day weds and half the day thurs with no computer and no being watched like a hawk, so I cant get online at work for any reason! WAHH!

So here I sit at my kitchen table with my mini laptop eating a few cups of popcorn.

My eating has been really good the past few days, I even saw 210 on the scale this am...granted it was 210.8, but whatever it was 210! I am hoping that I can continue to lose about 3 lbs a week, I know it will slow down once I hit around 180, at least it did last time I lost weight. I had to basically change up everything I was doing to get over that hump, then it came off slower, but still CAME OFF.

I am feeling so much better about myself that I know this time is IT! The time I will lose 70lbs.

Day Eleven - Weigh In

So today I weighed 211.7. I think it would have been even less, but I had a date last night with my hubby. I ate light at breakfast and lunch so I could enjoy (much smaller portions) of dinner. We went to Outback. We shared the Melbourne steak, a side salad, garlic mashed potatoes and some bacon cheese fries. I ate about 700 calories all together. It felt GREAT to sit back after dinner and not feel like I was going to blow from being so STUFFED!

We went to the movies after and I had half a small popcorn and half of a sprite. So all in all I went over my calories by 250, but I did walk/run and made WAY better choices than I used to.

So I started AGAIN on July 26th.....so in 11 days I have lost 5.3lbs. Not as much as I had hoped, but I cant complain. I am hoping for a bigger loss tomorrow morning when I get some of this sodium outa my body!

Day 10 - Really only ten days

So I feel like I have been eating better and working out for months LOL but its been 10 days. Ten small days with some big victories, which is a good thing.

nothing to exciting to report today. Ate well and walked.

Day 9 - Another success

Had another good day yesterday. Went to The Elephant Bar with a bunch of friends. Luckily for me they had the nutritional information INSIDE the menu, so really no excuse to eat something and claim I didn't know how BAD it was. Nothing was really that healthy there but all sounded so good! I got a salad with apples, gorgonzola cheese and walnuts. 410 cals. I had 3 french fries, one small lettuce wrap and a few chips with artichoke dip. Now the dip and the french fries were not the greatest, but I counted them in my calories for the day and was still under my 1500 max. I felt in control, didn't eat them JUST to eat them. I wanted a taste, had one and moved on. That makes me feel REALLY good!

My son was up a ton last night, I got really crappy sleep so when the alarm went off for working out, I didn't get up. BUT tonight is night one of NO TV, so I will have plenty of time to listen to my ipod and get out walking!

The scale was down another pound....feeling really good about my progress this past week. I changed my weight loss ticker to reflect my goal for Disneyland.

Have a Blessed day!

Laughing cow

Wow so I have read about Laughing Cow all over the diet blogs. Um ok why did I wait SO long to try it! DELISH! Having a couple wedges with my lunch today and wow for 70 cals its so creamy!!

Weekend One...day 6 & 7 & 8 - Dehydrated Much?

Very proud to report I did really good this weekend with everything except water. That will have to be my goal for next weekend, STEP up the water! I didn't drink much other stuff, I just didn't drink anything. I had one coffee and one diet A&W through out the weekend.

Last night I went to Applebees with my parents and sister. I had a salad = good....and then had one mozzarella stick, 2 buffalo chicken bites and one small quesadilla. I felt in control, I didn't CHOW down majorly on anything, but ugh I felt SO SICK after I got home. To the point of wanting to throw up LOL! So that helps to keep my head clear about my eating. I didn't over indulge, but I still feel WAY better when I am eating clean. Tonight I am meeting a bunch of friends at The Elephant Bar. So going to make sure to eat something small before I go so I don't get there starving and blow it!


I was down to 212 this morning, last Monday I was back up to 217, so I am happy with the 5 lbs I lost this week. Now I am going to work my butt off this week to lose another good chunk so my weigh in on Thurs is nice!


We are taking the kids to Disneyland in Sept. I want to be able to swim and not feel like a whale, ride rides and be comfortable, walk without being winded. I know 8 weeks isn't a huge amount of time, but even losing 2lbs a week, is still 16 less I have to lug around Disney and I will be down into onerland before my vacation!

The other night I watched the movie Fireproof. I have read and done some of the book, but something in the movie hit me when Kirk Cameron (male lead) smashed up his computer. He was spending to much time on there doing BAD things LOL Anyhow, it got me thinking about the amount of TV I watch in an average day/week. TO MUCH...all the dumb reality shows, cooking shows etc. Thinking ok, if the kids went to bed and I spent 2-3 hours scrap booking, sewing, organizing a closet or baking (all things I love to do), I could get SO much accomplished! So starting tomorrow I will have a no TV week...which means cutting it out for my kids as well. I think the time we can spend together playing and reading will be worth it!



Goals for last week:
1. Get up and work out for 30 mins each morning - I worked out Tues-Fri. I havent decided if I am going to step it up and do weekends too??
2. Drink at least 50oz of water a day - I did this Mon-Fri, weekends not so much!
3. No soda or dessert - I had one diet A&W and some plain popcorn last night, other than that NADA!


Goals for this week:
1. Drink my water - EVEN on the weekends!
2. No dessert or soda
3. No TV!
4. Workout at least 150 minutes!


Total side note...but my son slept from 9:30 - 7:20 when I had to wake him up to get ready for the day!! Talk about feeling good this morning! All things are way more tolerable when you are rested!