Shocked!

I was very suprised and happy that when I weighed in yesterday I had lost 2.2lbs this past week. I could not believe it. I did not have the best of weeks, and I went home. By home, I mean, back to Viriginia. Back where my mom and other members of the family cook really good food for every occassion. So we ate on the road Friday for lunch - Zaxbys. My parents took us to Hops for dinner friday night. Saturday for breakfast and lunch I ate food my parents had at their house. Saturday night me and some other girls through a shower for our friend Kelly. The shower food was my dinner food. Their I drank some wine and good punch. We then went out with our significant others to a local bar. Sunday morning I ate a small breakfast at the house. My mom then had her whole side of the family over for lunch. We grilled out with hamburgers and hot dogs. We had potato salad, deviled eggs, green bean casserole, chips, fruit and a veggie tray. And for dessert, we had strawberry cake or chocolate pie and ice cream. On the way home we stopped at McDonalds for dinner about 8 oclock. Needless to say I could have eaten a lot better. But still, I managed to lose weight! Crazy!!!!! It makes me think though, if I had not gone home and had all the food, etc. I wonder what my weight loss would have been.


Stay tuned .. pictures of my parents new dogs sometime this week!

Battling the weekends

Time for my weekly update! Yesterday was weigh in day. Down another 1.2 pounds! That brings my total to 8.8 pounds in 4 weeks. That is right around 2 pounds a week, which is what I am aiming for. I wish it could have been more, but I know why it wasn't more. I do great on the weekdays, its the weekend that really get me. I think its all about the routine. Monday through Friday is the same old stuff. Breakfast, lunch and dinner at relatively the same time and place everyday. Snacks are usually around the same time too. Then the weekend comes. Sometimes I sleep through breakfast. Well I am always up early with Tank, but then I may stay up for an hour after I feed him and take him out, but a lot of times I end up falling back asleep on the couch or back in bed. Then a lot of times on the weekends there is a lot of eating out for lunch and dinner. This past weekend we did not eat out for dinner, but we did go to some friend's houses both nights. Not only do I munch when there are dinner parties, but I drink too. I am not an alcoholic or anything by any means. But if you just have a couple drinks the calories and in my case the "points" add up. I am still working on my social aspect of this life style change.


This weekend I am going home to Virginia!! I cannot wait! But it will be a challenge with the food again. Mom always wants to cook for me. We are also throwing a shower for my friend Kelly on Saturday (more munching.) And of course Sunday being Mother's Day, we will head to my grandma's for what I am sure will be a feast - as always!

I hope everyone has a great week and weekend! Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there!

Three's company too

Okay, I weighed in yesterday and much to my surprise, I lost another 3lbs!! Wahoo!! I am so excited!! I could not believe. I thought for sure I had had a rough week. Lots of eating out (I made good choices though) and a wedding with drinking and wedding cake. I did not pass up that wedding cake!! I was real nervous. We do not have a scale at home, so I have had no idea going in, if I am up down or level. So far my total weight loss is 7.6 lbs. Some ladies at work say they can tell. I cannot yet, but hopefully soon.

My goal for last week was to move more. I did not move as much as I wanted to, so that is my goal again for this week. However, I do go a lot at work and its been an exhausting week, because I am training a new girl. Training is just exhausting I think no matter if you are the trainee or the trainor.

Also if I lose one more pound, I lose a point. I think I can work with losing one. If I lost like 5 at a time I would be in trouble.

Thanks to everyone for all the support!!

Tuesday... with a twist

So weight in was yesterday, and I am down again! Wahoo! 1.6 pounds. Was hoping for another 3, but some is better than nothing. Besides I knew it was not going to be as good of a week. I stayed within my points, but I do not think my points were as healthy as the points from the past week. I also was not as active. Lots going on! My goal for this go round is to be more active. I am not talking running a marathon here. Just walking a couple nights a week around the block. With my weight, if I push too much I could do more harm than good. So again, slow and steady. One foot in front of the other. I do with my foot was not killing me so much. I have a stress fracture in my left foot. My doctor just told me to stay off of it as much as I can and gave me a note to wear tennis shoes to work. I wear them, but I am up and down and round and round all day. It is hard to stay off my feet at work. I think I will just have to start icing it at night and hopefully that will help.

On another note. My parents, again MY PARENTS, went to Drag Queen Bingo last night. Now my parents are not super conservative or anything. My brother and I just always joke that my dad is a little homophobic. I mean the man was finishing his very first Iron Man in Panama City and did not want to cross the finish line because YMCA was playing. My mom sent me a picture text, it was hilarious. And my dad was smiling. They are in Sarasota (one of my fav places) visiting my dads family. My aunt apparently goes a lot. She is funny and laid back and just great!
I just thought I would share that with everyone.

Start of a new week today!! Goal - be more active and eat healthier points!

Slow and steady..

Okay, so I know I have not posted in a while. Things have been busy and crazy and I cannot foresee them slowing down anytime soon. I have decided that I am going to start using this blog to track the progress/battle of my never ending weight loss. My whole life has been a constant fight to lose weight. Some may or may not know that right after high school I lost 120 pounds in 9 months. That's right 120 pounds. Unfortunately, I lost the weight too fast. My body went into shock. I was eating plenty, I was just working out 6 days a week and 2 hours a day. I lost the weight too fast. I then developed a heart condition called Vaso Depresser Syncope. I had put so much shock and stress on my heart that I started passing out. After seeing some doctors and running multiple tests this is what they told me had happened. So.. I was depressed. Here I was trying to make myself healthy, but in fact I made it worse. I stopped working out so much. Not only did I need to slow down, I was afraid I would pass out while working out. (Episodes are brought on by heat and other things.) Little by little the weight started to pile back on. So here I am.. almost 8 years later. Finally, I know I need to do this for myself. I want to have kids some day and I need to be healthy to have them and healthy to raise them.


So last Tuesday, the 7th. I joined weight waters. Some ladies from work already went and so I joined them. We went again this tuesday, and I lost 3lbs. in the first week! Wahoo! I think I can do it. I just need to take it easy. I know the slower it comes off the easier it is to keep it off. I also know this is a lifestyle change. Although I will not deprive myself from things I want or things I want to do.

So here goes nothing...What do I have to lose? Other than pounds??

I Love Lamp

And our new furniture!!

We were lucky to be able to have a return/reselct with Rooms to go. We were not exactly thrilled with our old furniture. We found out that since it was still under warranty we could actually switch it and get something completely different as long as it was the same price. We decided to get something that was not so bulky and masculine. It's a little more formal but I like it!! We found the rug at walmart, which seems to tie it all together.

And since we now have two end tables, we needed another lamp. So.. I found these at TJ Maxx for only 20 a piece. And do not worry the cigar box lamp has been moved to the man room, I did not throw out my hard work!

The lamps are red and gold and really seem to go with the pillows that came with the sofa. Mike even likes them!!

And a little late, but last weekend we bought two matching lamps at the pottery to go with our bedroom decor.

It has been a lot of fun redecorating!!

What to do...

Okay, I have been moving things around I cannot decide what to with a bunch of my wedding stuff. I would like to display some things, but I do not want to over do it. And, as most of you know all my stuff has snowflakes on it, so I am not sure if it will look weird or not.

Here is what I have to work with:

-A frame where you put the invite in one side and a picture in the other
- a copy of the program (do not have to have it displayed)
- guest book
- pen that goes with the guest book
- ring bearer pillow
- flower girl basket (although not in my possession just yet)
- Unity Candle
- the 2 candles used to light the unity candle
- a book jamie made me with pictures from the wedding
- a guest book from the rehearsal dinner (which, I was not expecting to have one..)
and of course plenty of pictures some in a box, some in a flip frame...

I had originally had it all on top of this china buffet thing in our "dining room". I have now moved it all to a shelf over by the window. Everything just looks so cluttered.

Suggestions???.....