celtsprincess

I think I’m coming down with little miss germie’s cold aka my 3 yr old DD. I felt great earlier today. Did my 2 mile walk, had a great lunch, I even weighed in this morning and lost 1.4 lbs this weekThen about an hour after lunch, my sinuses started draining and just feeling yuck! Wonderful. So, took a nap today.

That’s not the only thing going on either. I think I pulled something during my walk today. Leave it to me to injure myself on a simple exercise like walking I did something to my hip I think. It started getting kind of sore about halfway through my walk. But, continued to worsen after that. It feels fine when I am sitting down but as soon as I stand up, OMG…I am limping like an old granny. *sigh* Hopefully the pain will lessen tomorrow. It’s supposed to rain tomorrow so I might take a rest day on exercising but on the other hand, I want to keep walking because it seems to get worse if I sit too long. Probably just pulled a muscle or something. I wish I could just rub that area but I have too much fat in the way

Hope everyone is having a better day than I did

Don’t know what THAT’s all about but man was I starving this morning! Had my coffee, and I was STILL hungry. Usually coffee suppresses my appetite in the am which is why I don’t eat breakfast until around 9:30-10am after my walk but this morning, I had oatmeal and 1/2 of banana and haven’t taken my 2 mile walk yet. I didn’t hit my target points last night so that might have a lot to do with it. I was only 2 pts short, but I earned 3 AP’s which would make 5 pts. I need to add and adjust my food journal to make sure I am eating enough. I’m not hungry during the day and feel very satisfied. Didn’t realize how much walking 2 miles a day boosts up the ’ol metabolism. Yay for me!!! As for my healthy 8’s ( WWer’s will know what I’m talking about ) I am getting in almost all of them. The oils I don’t think I’m getting in enough because I only cook with oil so it really doesn’t count because I don’t use enough. I should be taking a vitamin everyday but man…I HATE taking pills. I could use one more serving of milk, but other than that, I think I am doing pretty good! Well, need to get my big butt off this computer and go walk. Have a great day everyone! 

Where do I actually start? LOL….Dh comes home Thursday night. Grilled a steak for him and chicken for me, and hot dogs for the girls. Had a very nice evening. Next morning ( Friday), we decided to take the girls to the zoo and have a picnic there. It was supposed to be the “best weather” day out of the whole holiday weekend so we figured if we were going to do anything, we would do it that day so we decided the zoo ( since it’s the closest, about 5 min away..LOL ). Got to the zoo about 1pm. Left the zoo around 5pm. Decided to stop and get pizza on our way home since we had left over salad from the previous night. So, we are on our way to the pizza place, and we get to the intersection where Dh normally parks his truck when he has a trailor on the back. As we are waiting for the light to turn green, my Dh says to me…”where is my truck?”..I was like..what do you mean? I look over to where it’s “supposed” to be and sh*t you not, it was GONE!!! Of course, sheer panic sets in and just in shock. First thing comes to mind is that the truck was stolen…nope…second thought, impounded…yep! Apparently, what happened was, the property owner sold the property and apparently the “new” owner doesn’t want trucks parked on his property. SO, instead of giving my husband OR any other truck that decides to park there a heads up, he just has them towed. No signs, no note on the windshield, no call to the company to let Dh know he needs to move his truck, NADA. All this place is, is a strip mall with a grocery store, dollar store, hallmark store, ect. The strip mall is about DEAD except for the grocery store but where trucks park, is on the opposite end where NO ONE parks AND it’s infront of an abandoned building ( used to be a pharmacy store like CVS or something like that ). My Dh isn’t the only one who parks there. The previous owner didn’t care and the business owners never had a problem because it’s not blocking their business. Anyway, couldn’t do anything about it til this morning so Dh’s truck sat in truck jail all weekend long and bail cost us $600. The company paid up front, and is nice enough to let my Dh make payments out of his paycheck. I think my Dh was more embarrassed than anything because he just started with this company 2 weeks ago so you can only imagine how and what he was feeling all weekend long. BUT, they reassured him to not worry about it, that these things happen and there wasn’t anything he could do until Tuesday morning so they basically told him to enjoy the rest of the weekend. So, that’s what we did.

On top of all that, AF FINALLY came ( perfect timing of course ) and then of course getting the girls ready for their first day back to school today. BUT,  after all that, I pretty much stayed on program and got my 2 mile walks in, and lost 1.2 lbs this week. WOOHOO!!!!

to Mondays. Don’t laugh Missy…I see you snickering as you read this Anyway, I didn’t have time to blog yesterday, but did a weigh in yesterday and have lost those 2 pounds I gained from Friday. So, apparently increasing my water intake helped TREMENDOUSLY. I am still amazed at myself though. Being the water hater that I am, I would have never DREAMED that I would be successfully drinking 80oz of water a day. What’s even more shocking is that, it’s not even that difficult for me to even drink that much now! Just proves that you can do ANYTHING if you put your mind to it. Sounds like a cliche’ but it’s actually true!

I’m still puzzled about AF. Still not here. I wonder if the change in diet affects your mentrual cycle. I KNOW I’m not pregnant, or better not be or we’ll be making a trip to hubby’s doctorHmmmm…I wonder if my cycle is readjusting itself again. It usually happens once a year, but it’s usually around May when it does. Who knows. I’m 36. Both my sisters started going through perimenopause at age 38 so it might just be my time. 

Well, no exercise this morning since I woke up late. That 2 mile walk yesterday pushing Aleia in her stroller just about killed me over  I think my body needs rest today

Well, I increased my water intake to 80 oz and it seems to be working well! I got on the scale this morning again ( normally I get on the scale weekly but wanted to see if increasing my water intake would help) and I lost those 2 pounds of water weight I gained. AF still hasn’t showed her ugly head and I wish she would hurry up so I could get it over with. I am dragging butt this morning. It’s raining outside, gloomy, and overall I just feel ICK! If I start AF,  my gloomy day would be complete I’m going to try to get on my recumbent bike later to see if it perks me up some. Right now, I just want to crawl back in bed. 

Bought a new scale and KNOW this scale is very accurate. I ended up buying another digital with a lithium battery. After getting on 10 different scales ( THAT was an experience! ) and found this one and it was reasonable in price. I WAS going to get the scale with all the bells and whistles but if you look at it like buying a car…the more gadgets, the more things could go wrong with it…so, I kept it simple.

I am up 2 pounds this week. I expected it..it is water weight. I can feel it. AF is due anyday…actually she is overdue now ( go figure ) so today I am going to up my intake on the water. I am already drinking 64 oz a day, but may need to drink an extra bottle today. I will sure try. And hopefully I won’t feel so bloated.

Next week I should see a good drop if AF shows today. I have been eating well ( except for a few mishaps but used some of my flexpoints and didn’t go overboard), getting all my water in and walked 1-2 miles almost everyday this week. Today is a new day!  

I wish she would make up her mind on when she wants to show up! I’m tired of this bloating and cramps. The chocolate craving just WON’T go away and have been trying VERY hard to resist! UGH! Well, at least my WW chocolate ice cream bars are only 1 pt a piece so if I keep eating them, I guess it’s better than having 2 big bowls of ice cream.I thought she was coming early this month but she never came but her presence is here now, and I can DEFINATELY feel her. I’m not looking forward to weighing in on Friday because my shorts feel snug right now, mainly because I am bloated. I have been eating very well lately except for a couple of mishaps earlier in the week BUT I have been getting in ALL of my water in and have walked almost everyday this week. I’m still going to buy me a new scale, probably tomorrow since the one I have is garbage. I think Aleia broke it since she is CONSTANTLY trying to jump on itI don’t know what I’m going to do with that child…if only I had HALF of her energy

I am SURE glad the weekend is to an end and I can get myself BACK into my normal routine! David left this morning back onto the road and even though I miss him terribly already, I am SO glad he’s gone so I can get the house back in order

I am going to copy and paste from another site what I wrote about this weekend because I just don’t feel like typing it all out twice Some of you may have already read it, so you can probably just skip the next section of reading

Well, all was going well til the movie theatre on Sunday. I had it all planned out how I was going to do it and EVERYTHING. My plan was…bring my own popped popcorn, vs. theatre popcorn. Did that, no problem..even took my own bottled water ( of course, had to sneak it all in the theatre ). Well, I also bought the girls candy ( MUCH cheaper at the store than theatre also ) and brought that in also. FIRST mistake….bought my girls my FAVORITE candy ( Junior Mints ) ( and theirs..they are SO like there mom ), so they each had a king size box, plus Ashley had a hershey bar, and Andria had reeses PB cups and Aleia had a 3 muskateers bar. So, of course I am surrounded by candy. Everything was fine until about the middle of the movie, and Andria is sitting next to me and says “Mom, do you want the rest of my junior mints?” First I said “no, honey…you can save them for later”. SINCE that little conversation, I am DROOLING over the thought of having those STUPID junior mints ( did I mention how much they are my FAVORITE candy? ) so, about 20 min go by, and thought…ok, I’l just have a few pieces…those few pieces turned into the rest of the box  There was about a half of box left over  So, of course, afterwards I keep telling myself…it’s ok…this little slip up is not going to ruin my day. Just get back on track.

Fast forward to cake time. Now, I had already planned to have pizza. I have already counted those points into my plan but for some reason, I forgot that the junior mints were going to take me WELL over my points for the day total. At that point, I decided to have regular cake ( a small piece ) and a very small scoop of ice cream and call it a day .

So, …that is basically how my day went. Even though I survived, and slipped up, I am being accountable for what I ate. It could have been a LOT worse…really…I have done MUCH worse in the past than a half a box of junior mints, and cake and ice cream . So, yesterday is yesterday, and today is a new day.  Not gonna beat myself up over it. If I don’t lose any weight this week from it, well, at least I KNOW why instead of being in denial. Learn from it and move on. It takes practice at this and practice makes better

Down another 3 poundsSo, I am down 6 pounds total in 2 weeks. I am really proud of myself for a change! I haven’t said that in a very long time. Although, I didn’t get as many fruits and veggies as I wanted, I stayed within my points. Today was a challenge, but I did it! Woke up late and it threw my whole schedule off but that’s ok, my husband is worth it Tomorrow and Sunday will be challenging also BUT…I know I can do it if I made it through today.