Monday April20, Day 1  Goals for the week

Journal daily and check in with buddyslim.

Exercise 3 days this week at least

Eat breakfast daily.

PS sorry to all those buddies I just up and disappeared on

Well I think it safe to say my June Vacation goal isnt gonna happen, so for me it will be another fat filled summer. Im not looking forward to it, not looking forward to carring around all this regained weight. You know, I dont know how I ever did it with my starting weight. The other day I was babysitting my 9 month old nephew and decided to strap on one of those baby backpack thingys and walk next door to my MIL house. He weighs 25 lbs, He’s a cute little tanker. The fact is I realized as I was starting to get worn out that I was carring around about 3 of him in extra weight in January 07….WOW its a shock to feel it and see it in real terms. I have to get ahold of this mess.

So here we go. Day 1 started.

Starting Goals

 Hit the gym 3 times next week.

Food journal daily.

Blog Daily.

So this is me starting again. Ready Set Go!

 Goals for this week

1. Go to the gym at least 4 days this week, preferably 6.

2. Blog Daily, even if its just to check in.

3. Journal my food daily, Keep under 1500 calories daily.

4. Go Swimming or do Tae-Bo once weekly, preferably both.

5. No sweets.

So far so good. Hopping for a win this week.

Hope everyone is on a better roll than me!

Yesterday was a day strait from &^$% I swear. Started with me feeling like drap when I got up, on my way to the gym before work hubby called nad said we did not have any hot water at the business. Hot water is a major issue  in an adult foster care home, have to have it. So I changed directions and skipped the gym (this did not break my heart at all) Get to the business and as Im walking in the door the the screen door hardware breaks. Then come in to find a note from staff that the kitchen lights stopped working. Then a resident comes out and tells me the yellow bathroom shower will not drain, and in turn when they went to use the green bathroom the shower knob broke off. All the water started the ants coming into the house. Needless to say I was overwhelmed. At work and on top of it, its a babysitting day as well. So I get all that accomplished and fied and leave work feeling pretty satisfied that everything is in its place and working. I then, baby in tow pick up my two friends and their toddler to go to NEw Baltimore, about 40 miles away. We no sooner get their and my friend noticed the hood of my truck steaming. So we pull over and low and behold the water pump blew, this is at 4:45 so of coarse there is no one that can fi it. And of coarse there is no rent a car places anywhere close. So I call my husband, great lot of help he is, he says “yeah”. So I hand up on him and call my brother, who is on a run in canada (he drives truck, and its his son I babysit) so he has to come all the way back to the yard drop off the semi and borrow his bosses suv to come get us, as his truck is not big enough. So while all that is going on I am trying t juggle a hungry baby and handle the phone call to my insurance, which of coarse only pays 15 miles of the tow. Then to further find out I have to wait for the tow truck. So My brother takes all them and I get to wait for the tow truck and of coarse ride home with him. So its not 7:30 and im freezing my arse off waiting for the tow, My loving hubby then calls to see whats happening…mind you this is nearly 3 hours later. I am so upset with him adn the situation I tell him where to go and how to get there….And im none to happy about having to ride with a stranger 40 miles….anyway I finally make it home at about 9pm only to find my husband has not watched the dogs (our girl is in heat) and find that the dogs have in fact done it, stuck together and everything. Puppies…just great. The find that our roommate, whom I asked NOT to drink my other friends beer he left here…not only drinking it but nearly 1/2 the 30 pack…did I mention he is an alcoholic? At anyrate Im was pissed and went strit to bed with out eating…oh yeah all I had all day was an orange. I sleep untill noon today and am still upset about everything. The damn business cost me about300 to fi yesterday and now the truck, started with a tow of 78$ after the part the insurance paid and of coarse were loooking at about 300 more to fi that! ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG I am taking today off from everything. Ill be back tomarrow in hopefully better form. Love to you all. Sorry about the bitchfit.

I want to feel good when I look in the mirror. I want to go shopping and not have to worry about IF  Ican find something that fits, let alone looks nice. I want to go to an Cedar Point and ride all the rides I choose, not those I will fit in. I want to put my seat belt on with out effort. I want boots that fit my calves. I want to take an airplane ride without having to worry about the size of my ass.I want to go shopping for the buisiness (I own an adult foster care and when I shop I shop) and not have people stare at the size of my cart piled high and see their looks that imply “no wonder she is fat”. I want to walk in the gym door with out the construction workers snickering. I want the cute vday nighties and know one of them will fit me. And most of all damn it I want a baby. I am just plain &^^*$$#& sick of being fat. I just want to scream. 1200-1600 Calories a day, low fat everything and gym 6 days a week should be moving the needle of the scale down, not back and forth.

Sorry for the rant. just a mood. I do beleive TOM is coming in for a visit. Great as if I need that! GRRRRR

 Oh and get this my sister slipped on the ice and fell the other day on the way into the gym. She hurt herself and went tot he doctor. This charming fellow informed her she was fat (yes he said fat) and that she needed to go on a diet. She again repeated…”i was on my way into the gym..” when he inquired what gym, she told him Curves and he said “Curves will work if you are an 80 year old woman but it wont do you any good” you need to reduce your calories. She, though stunned at his comments said I have been watching my calories, I eat around1200 a day, and he inturupted and said you cant cheat…and thats not nesisary if you reduced them to 2000 you would lose, just dont cheat. Mind you she had just had her first big loss of 7lbs the week before! So she was mad, but discouraged. What an asshole. I am so outraged.

 I am also unsubscribing to some of my buddies who have not blogged in awhile. It take s me forever to get thru them all and find those of you who do write and read! If you come back to blogging drop me a line so I can catch up with you!

Later all

Hope you are having a good day!

WebMD Feature from “Good Housekeeping” Magazine

By Kate Torgovnick

It’s scientifically proven: The key isn’t just what you eat, it’s what you write.

If you’re anything like me, you have no idea how much food you inhale on a day-to-day basis. Thanks to multitasking, grabbing grub on the go, parking myself in front of the TV while munching, and various other weight-loss crimes, I often barely register that I’m eating. Take last week: I was totally oblivious that I was popping jelly beans into my mouth until my nephew complained that I was about to polish off his bag (sorry again, Jake). It’s tough to watch every mouthful you eat, even if you’re an expert. Researchers at Louisiana State University asked dietitians to estimate their daily caloric intake — and even the professionals lowballed the number by 10 percent. That may explain why it’s so hard to shed pounds, no matter how good the plan is.

But there’s a simple solution: Keep a food diary. Studies show that a journal doesn’t just aid weight loss — it turbo-charges it. When researchers from Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research followed more than 2,000 dieters who were encouraged to record meals and snacks, they found that the single best predictor of whether a participant would drop weight was whether the person kept a food diary. It trumped exercise habits, age, and body mass index. The number of pounds people lost was directly related to the number of days they wrote in their log. (It’s no coincidence that Weight Watchers, one of the most successful diet programs, asks participants to track what they eat.)

Click here to read the full artical

http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/single-best-way-lose-weight

 I just love this web site, lots of really intresting articles!

http://www.webmd.com/diet/default.htm

Thought this was a really cool little tool.

http://mypyramid.gov/mypyramid/index.aspx