Wednesday, March 25, 2009

The Dreadful Scale

Well tomorrow is the weigh in and I hope I did better this time. Sometimes you body just doesn't want to cooperate with what you are doing or want it to do. This week has been hard I don't know why but I am more hungry than I usually am. I get shaky and a headache. We went to a baseball game last night and I forgot my snack at home, so I ate sunflower seeds, now usually I don't eat sunflower seeds so I don't know how to get the seeds out of the shell with my mouth, I was picking the seeds out with my fingers, so trying to get those seed out of the shell took forever. I told my son if I had to eat these to survive all of my meals would run into each other. When you are trying to fit everything in meaning your family and their activities along with diet and exercising it doesn't leave any time. I think I need more hours in the day. I am not a night owl so I go to bed by 9:00 but I'm up at 5:00 for the day. Now you might say "She's nuts she's a stay at home mom, She should sleep in!!!!" Well, that is the only time of day that my house is quiet and I like to watch the news and get everything ready for the kids when they get up. Well, anyway I think I just needed to get some things off my chest or off my waist. I hope everyone has a great weigh in. Hang in there. Literaly everything seems to be sliding south.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

I can't believe it!!!

I can't believe I am not the one who was eliminated, I put on a pound last week. I put this experience right up there with child birth and quitting smoking. I think I finally have my house in order at least for now. I thought everything was falling apart at first and all I could think about was getting to the gym and everything else could wait. I realized my family has to come first so, if I can't get to the gym, I can't get to the gym. It will always be there tomorrow. I think I finally got my thyroid meds fixed, at least I feel better. I also put red meat back in my diet. For some reason my body needs that. Well, I have been getting some positive feed back from some people and I so appreciate that. It makes you feel good because I know how hard I have worked and so I need to know it is working. For some reason I can't see the results myself, I can feel it in my clothes but I still look the same. Well, the next weigh in is a week from today. The week are just flying by. Thanks for everyones support I really appreciate it.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

What How Did That Happen?

Well today was weigh in day and I gained a pound. What is going on? I had a thyroid test done last week and I got the results back it is very low so now I'm wondering if that contributed to this gain. I had been following the program and exercising more than I had to and I still gained a pound, I'm so disappointed. I'm not giving up I upped my meds and hopefully it will help. Problem is it takes the meds some time to work. Well, I'll write more when they post the results. God has a plan and I need to be patient and do my part remembering He is in control.

Friday, March 6, 2009

Wow!!!!! That's A Lot Of Weight

Well what a long week. We were so nervous about the weigh in but I made it to the second round. Two of my kids have been sick all week and trying to take care of them and fit in exercise has been very hard. With the help of my Mom I did it but now she is sick. I have to say I am just taking it one day or one minute at a time. I was sitting on the bench at the gym yesterday and I was looking at the dumbbells it dawned on me that one of the dumbbells weighs as much as the weight I have lost. I picked it up and couldn't believe that I was carrying around that much extra weight. When you watch those weight loss shows on TV they always say to look how much 10, 15, 20 pounds looks like and feels like, well it makes a huge impact on you when you actually lift it. I would encourage anyone to lift the weight you have lost. What a different and encouraging way to look at it. It makes you never want to go back. I do have to admit I hate doing cardio, Oh I do it but I hate it. I would much rather lift weights instead. One week to the next weigh in. Lord give my strength.