My life has been very wacky lately. I don't like change which is why I haven't really done anything in the past few years to try and get ahead. I've always let the negative things keep me down. Usually it comes down to having limited funds but as of recently, I've been sort of really trying to ignore that huge fact. I mean....maybe God didn't want me to do things differently in times past?? I dunno but I've really been trying to get this little business idea off the ground. I've gotten my tax ID number to sell items in the state of CA. I went to an auction yesterday where I was able to buy 3 very large white marine style coolers that I desperately needed to be able to move forward with my venture. I also paid for and attended a Food Handlers class to get a certification for handling food. It was originally $190 for this certificate but I was able to find it on a Saturday AND in Spanish for $114. I'm not sure if I passed the exam and won't know for 3-4 weeks but I am about 95% certain that I passed it. It was extra hard because it was in Spanish. I am fluent in Spanish BUT some of the words they used very not in MY spanish vocabulary. We had 2 hours to take this test and when I opened it up the very first question was about 3 senteces long and I was petrified because I was not clear on what they were asking. I felt my blood pressure instantly creep up and I started sweating! I believe this is where I closed my eyes and said another little prayer...I proceeded THEN I noticed there was a right column and it was translated to ENGLISH!! That same question was ONE sentence long in English! The relief was overwhelming! I can't do ANYTHING if I don't get this certification and I need to get it ASAP so I could not afford to wait 3-4 weeks to be notified that I flunked it THEN reschedule it and wait another 3-4 weeks to get the certification.....geez now I'm really praying I passed it! I am pretty sure I did like I said. I was the first one to finish.
Anyway, this is the stage that I am at in my life as of today. Last week I knew it was going to be too stressfull and didn't start my liquid diet. My mind is not right in that area and I know I need to get it right but I have too many things going on up in my little brain. Strategizing on my next step...which I think for now will be gathering more necessary supplies. God Bless.
I'm back! I've been away for a while and of course that means I was naughty with my eating. I'm back on though and can't wait to continue my weight loss journey. A journey it is....and a hard one at that. I've been working on getting organized at home all weekend since being back from a little vacation we took. This year I actually had vacation time and we went camping to Lake San Antonio by Paso Robles. It was totally relaxing and we had such a great time. Especially the kids! I had bought a 3 burner heavy duty camping stove and I am SO glad I did. It came in really handy. I bought it for my up and coming business but thought I'd try it out camping. It worked like a charm.
I've been thinking about my business a lot and how I REALLY want to get it off the ground but lack of funds is really holding me back. It's going to take aT LEAST $3000more dollars to be confident in what I'm doing. God has really blessed me already and I know He will continue to help me!! Let me tell you that He blessed me with a F R E E generator (portable gasoline powered electric output machine). Yep it's true! This was going to be one of my more major expense at roughly $500 for a high powered one and I got it free. My husband was at the chiropractor, I was early from picking him up so I stoped off at a yard sale and right next door I see this guy setting stuff outside the curb, I spotted what I *thought was a generator but thought "Naw, now way"...I walked over, asked him if it was a generator, he said "yes and it works". He said "take it it's FREE". WHAT!!!??? My husband called me and said he was ready and I told him what was going on, he was only around the corner and I told him I was trying to load it onto the van but it was heavy. He walked over and we put it in. Yesterday he tested it and it runs! I mean you can't tell me there is no God. WHAT ARE THE ODDS??? If He doesn't want something to happen it won't happen. The quality of life on this earth is dependant upon your obedience to Him. I already know I'm going to heaven when I die but I want to make my life on this earth a bit more pleasant.
I was sitting in church yesterday.....and as the preacher was preaching....I thought....wow...we are so not being faithful to Him. He's so faithful to us and we just disregard it. TV has been a MAJOR distraction in my house for the past few months. Last night my husband said NO TV...and I was really struggling with it. It's like an addiction in a sense. That TV does need to be off! We need to study more...we need more focus in our lives. I am confident that if that TV stays off, we'll be able to get so much more accomplished.
My small kids do need some "duh" time as I call it..only for 1 hour a day though! So I am putting up their small TV in their room so they can watch TV in there and the rest of us don't get distracted. Wow...sorry this post is totally scattered all of the place. I'm getting to a good place though I promise. God Bless.
Hi! I'm baaack... I feel so much better and I can't believe how sick I was! So now that I am better I can start my liquid again...I'm looking forward to it..and within 2 days I will begin going to the gym...I need to feel lighter so I need to drop this water weight. I'm going to weigh myself in a sec. I am going to TRY super hard to do strictly shakes until we go camping on the 29th. We're going to camping from the 29th to like the 2nd or 3rd...which reminds me...I need to submit a time off form.
I was just thinking...OK I'm gonna end up cheating while I'm there but I can eat so healthy while I'm there. Just try and stay away from chips and junk. I can cut up fruit every morning so I have it handy to snack on while everyone else hits the chips.We're going to grill everything so I should be ok! Planning is the key. So we'll see. I really want to order more New Lifestyle stuff but I'm not letting myself until I finish what I have and loose more weight! I feel like I'm starting to look pudgy again. Not that I was thin before but I started to feel better...anyway, today is Monday and "the massive report from you know where" is due today.
Today is Wednesday right? I'm totally off. I feel better today but I'm just barely getting my strength back. The really weird thing is my chest area, like chest bones, they hurt! They are so sore. It hurts to take a deep breath. I know it has to do with the violent throwing up and all that but jeez. I guess I was a little rusty on throwing up since the last time I think I threw up was when I was pregnant with Gabriel. He's going to be 2 in September. So other than the chest pains and muscle spasms (I got one on the other side as well) I am feeling better. No throwing up for the past 12 hours or so. My fever is down but still there....definitely food poisoning. Since I am feeling better I'm not going to the Dr today....unless things take a turn. That happened yesterday after I got off work. I got some more sleep and when I woke up I was hungry so I ate...BIG BIG mistake. I felt frustrated and tired and sick...by the evening though I was better again. So I'm taking it easy. I feel really weird, really really tired. I'm working today at home cause I have more than one crisis with several of my accounts. I should take the day off again so I can just be in bed. Believe me, I thought about taking my laptop into my bed but I would probably fall asleep. I even got dressed this morning, shoes and all so I could feel more professional. Yes I think I'm going crazy too. Till later. God Bless!
*Grosse Post*
Yesterday as I was typing my blog post I felt a little nauseaus but nothing significant. After I posted I worked for another hour or so before making some coffee and while I was making it I started to feel it more. I sat back down at my desk and suddenly had the urge to puke! I went but since my stomach was empty nothing came out. Well, within an hour I was throwing up like every 30 minutes. I started getting warmer and warmer. I laid on my couch on my lunch break and I could feel myself getting worse. Alani was sick too so I kept her home with me. I don't need an outbreak at my babysitters house. She was just laying on the floor all day..... I cut up some fruit for her for lunch and within 5 minutes of her eating it, she ran to the bathroom. I couldn't even keep water down! I am SO dehydrated right now you don't even know.
Anyway, I signed off work 1/2 early. I just could not take it anywmore. My head was pounding, I got a muscle spasm on my left shoulder/neck area from getting so stiff when I was getting sick, it's not been fun.
So all I have been able to keep down is some chicken broth and pretzels (very little chicken broth). I went to bed right after I ate them so I wouldn't get sick. I was up most of the night tossing and turning. I was sweating like crazy and my temperature went up to almost 102. Not too too bad. I am feeling a tad better but still very queasy, migraine headache and the spasm is still there. I took an ibuprofen 600mg right now hoping it will help. Breakfast of champions, pretzels, water and an ibuprofen!
Well...I'm off, I'm only going to work 4 hours today. If I don't improve today I'm going to the dr. God Bless.
Oh Jeez today is really really Day 1 for me. I have been so off track! I so totally did not want to be discouraged this morning so I didn't weigh in what the damage has been from eating badly for a whole week! I got into one of my depressed-weird moods for some reason. I have to come up with a lot of money for lots of different things (Alexis and Alani's school registration being one of them), car registration is due next month for both my Envoy and my van....and a few other MAJOR commitments. But can't really stress on that...I need to focus and stop using that as an excuse to eat brownies and ice cream ;-)
So I say "I'm back up and running"! I will weigh in tomorrow and post the results. Basically I know I'm going to have to loose what I gained which is a huge bummer! Totally expected of me though. I sabotage myself when I see a nice much lower number on the scale.
I am so sore today! I detailed our Envoy yesterday. It needed it BAD! I don't know how many times my kids spilled juice, got crackers all over the place and finally the killer was spilled milk. OKAY....THAT does not smell good! I vaccumed it (which took me like seriously an hour), then wiped down all the doors and dash, the stick shift ma-bobber was so grosse. Alexis washed the floor mats and she said those were filthy. Then I sprayed Spray & Wash on the carpet stains and while that soaked I washed it. We all stayed home from church, well except for my hubby. He drove up and gave me this look like "what is going on"? He saw all the spray bottles of cleaning stuff. The end products is a REALLY clean truck. Now I can drive it. Nobody really does.
So we stayed home from church because my kids are all sick. Gabriel is like a little exorcist. He ate well last night but he was playing with Alani, fell and hit himself pretty hard so the crying made his nose run, then the coughing started and well...let's just say his stomach was empty by the time he was done.
We watched The Debaters after I gave him a bath and put him and Alani to bed. It was pretty good. One of those 'feel-good' kinda movies but with things that bother you. Well I have reports due today and just lots of things to do at work so here's to a great week! God Bless!
Hi! I stuck to walking with Leah last night although she switched it up on me and we ended up in Signal Hill. I took my son with me in the jogging stroller and he fell asleep so it was fine. We talked and got out some emotions. Work was super super stressfull on me yesterday. One gal making things hard. I stress on this person because I get along with everyone and if there is strife somewhere it my life it streses me out. Anyway, I took a nap yesterday after work to get some relief. I was not in good shape at all. I just feel attacked and I asked God for His protection. Once I handed my problem over to Him fully I got that instant relief in the pit of my stomach and from the heavyness in my heart. I could actually feel the relief! Merciful He is.
I'm working on trying to get my blood pressure down. I need to help my poor little heart out. Drinking lots of water and just sticking to what I know is good for me! No weight loss to report. In fact I have a gain but that's the least of my worries. The weight will come off. Priorities.
My kids are well and growing. Alani is becoming a little diva. She likes to dress is "beautiful dresses" as she says. She always tells me I look beautiful. What more can you ask for? My son and the million kisses he gives me a day and Alexis just loves me loving on her. I'm not a hugger but I try hard to be. God and my family wants love and more love from me so this is why I need to be happy, relaxed and at peace with my surroundings and the people surrounding me. Yes even the people at work ;-) God bless.
I haven't weighed and I wish I would of now because I today is the start of my "scheduled" workouts with Leah. She read somewhere that we should schedule workouts and keep them like we do our appointments. So I made a commitment with her to work out for 6 weeks, Mon, Wed and Saturday. I am going to try REALLY hard to workout in between those days even if it's just for 20 minutes. This is the schedule:
Monday -Meet @ the beach at 7pm to walk and go up and down the beach killer stairs.
Tuesday - Walk 20 minutes
Wednesday - Signal Hill Walk
Thurs - Walk 20 minutes
Friday - Do Jillian Michael workout
Saturday - Meet @ beach at 6:30am - walk/stairs.
So that's the plan. I'm doing all day shakes today and tomorrow then all days this week will be shakes and L&G for dinner.
I really want to see new numbers on that scale soon and with these workouts and sticking to my shakes I know it can be done. Till later God Bless!
Nothing really much to say today except that everytime I *think about cheating or eating more than my portion of things I think about how little time I have to drop this weight. I haven't had time to workout which is a bummer but I am MAKING time today. I'm going to the gym on my lunch break since it's just around the corner. If I can't for whatever reason, I'm going AT LEAST start with taking a walk around the neighorhood. I still have painful gas in my back and I think I just need to walk it off.
I got my first official star on the Liquid Diet Discussion board the other day. I met my first goal and when I loose 2 more pounds, I will get my first 25 pound Loss banner :-) Hopefully weigh in day tomorrow will bring me that! Alright well, lots of work to do as always. Chat later, God Bless!
Suddenly I feel like my time to drop this weight is totally dwindling! AHHH! I have 65 days to loose 60 pounds. Is that right? Well I am down to 229.4 so I've broken into the 220's! So far I'm down 23 pounds. I was SHOCKED to see that number and I'm busting out my jogger today and everyday this week to start a jogging program. It's that Couch to 5K thing that lots of people are raving about. I'm sure I can do it. Sounds very do-able. I was going to order more products from New Lifestyle BUT I need to finish the Vanilla and Strawberry because they are not my very favorite but they are not bad. I just natually flock to chocolate and mocha shakes. I do love the sloppy joe so I might order a box of those.
I'm taking a vacation day today. I need it. I'm so tired. We had a good time in San Jose but I feel like there's just not enough time for me to spend with each of my siblings and mom and dad. When I'm there, I talk to my mom for 20 minutes, then I run off and talk to my sister Nancy for 20 minutes then I go talk to my sister Lorena for 20 minutes. I think I might've spend too much time with Nancy and not enough with Lorena so I'm going to try and call her a few times this week just to talk. My husband had a talk with my brother and he confessed to what was going on with him. He's been trying to get better for two weeks on his own. He knows we went out there to specifically talk to him and that touched him. He knows we love him and that we're worried about him. I'm going to try staying in touch with him as well in between my visits.
Well I need to unpack and clean up my house a bit. I have painful gas, like in my upper back and it's killing me! I need to take more gas X to try and get rid of it. Anyway, till later. God Bless!
We went to another Dodger game last night but this time my little man stayed home. We saw a couple there with about a 18 month old and she was screaming her head off. When I took my my son to the last game, he wasn't that bad but he was crying. I was making him stay on my lap and he didn't like that very much. It's hard taking small kids to those types of events, even if it is loud. They want to run and be free..LOL.
Man I have been such a witch in the evenings. I really need to try and be more mellow. I just freak out at the smallest things and then everybody's mad at me (yes including my little ones). I mean I don't go crazy (like yelling and crying and all that) but I guess I can be mean and not very like-able. I can't wait for AF to go away. I've been so moody. I've had a headache for 2 days too and I hate to keep taking exedrin but I'm going to have to cave in today and take some. My hands are swollen today too and I'm not sure why. I had Subway for dinner which is probably why I'm only down to 232.6. OH and the other day I had a burrito for lunch with chips and salsa because I was "stressed" at work. I'm so tired of making excuses for myself. I guess I should be happy that I even lost almost 1/2 a pound today. I broke into the 232's and that's great but I wanted to be 224.8 by today and here I am 7 pounds too heavy for that goal. So...I know what I need to do. I'm just letting stress take over me. I seriously need to make it my goal to go to bed at like 8pm. The evenings are my absolute weakness. Once 5pm starts rolling around, I start to struggle. I'm not eating anything during the day BUT New Lifestyle shakes and foods.
I'm going to San Jose this weekend to see my family. You know what that means...struggle struggle struggle. That's life for me though. We're staying in a really nice hotel though because my hubby is supposed to sit and talk with my brother which I am so happy about. I'm going to have to spend these few days in prayer about that whole situation and pray that the Lord show my brother that drugs will keep leading him in the way of distruction. Pray for us please?!
Till later God Bless!
I'm trying to stay positive. I don't like feeling down but I do. I just keep thinking of all my blessings....like I say all the time. I don't have much time to post today. I came in to work today again because of our weekly meeting and I have to meet with each member of our team and try and squeeze in a separate meeting within out department to discuss many issues we are having.
Weight wise. Weight is back down to 233 with a 1% loss in body fat which is nice. I feel like I am retaining tons of water. My fingers feel like sausages comparared to what they've felt like in the past few weeks. I am totally dehydrated too so I brought a huge water jug to work to drink water out of. I'm going to go for a walk later today to clear my head.
We went to a Dodger Game last night and it was ok. I took my kids and my son was of course was a little pain in the butt. We have tickets to Wednesday game as well but we're going to try and get a babysitter for him. If not I'm not going. I'll tell my hubby to invite some of the guys and they can enjoy the game. Alrighty well till later. God Bless!
So I've been sort of down since Friday. I've been on the verge on tears just about all weekend. I got a call from my sister on Thursday about my brother. He's been struggling with addiction to pain killers and who knows what else. He's a young guy has everything going for him but this addiction is getting to be quite noticeable. Everyone is calling me to talk to him about it but I'm 400 miles away and he won't answer my calls. I'm the only one he'll really talk to. My husband talked to our Reformer's Unanimous Director about what he thinks we should do. Should we drive out there and try to get him into a drug program? Should we stage an intervention so that he realizes that we care about him and he needs to see that his addictions are hurting him and his family? Well, he recommended that my husband fly out to San Jose alone so that my brother realizes that he went out there, on his own, just to talk to him about what is going on. My husband is pretty raw and I think that's what he needs. So that's the plan. I called a couple of drug recovery counselors and one highly recommended that we read a book called "Get your loved on Sober: Alternatives to nagging, pleading and Threatening". I tried looking at Border's but they didn't have it so I'm going to run to Barnes & Nobles on my lunch. Hopefully they have it. Once my husband talks to him about it. I'm going to make a special trip out there alone as well. I don't want him to end up in jail or hooked on drugs for the rest of his life.
So besides that, my husband has been a little on the edge lately as well. He's ready to be in a house. I think he's outgrown the fact that we are still renting. His job is not a steady one and with his back, he can't really go back to working as a Carpenter. He's gotten to the point where he makes great money - when he works. The Union is slow in work but when he does work his back totally goes out on him so it's not like we can really afford a mortgage. He wants to REALLY move to Clovis. I'm ready for my kids to have a home too BUT I'm not moving unless God gives us the ok on it.
There's just so many things that are bugging me right now and I just have to keep giving it to God and pray that everything works out the way He intends it to work out. He is so merciful and continues to be so I really should not let any of these things bother me.
The weekend also brough on a 1 pound gain. AF is here and I am hoping it's mostly water weight. I scrubbed my house down on Saturday and was sweating like nobody's business. Then we went to my co-workers house so my husband could do more plumbing work. He has a really nice house with a pool so we went swimming to cool off from the 100 heat weather! I got a little tan on my super white shoulders. I have a total farmer's tan so I got a little color to match my arms...LOL. I came to work today to get some things worked on that my boss requested us to do before tomorrow's meeting so till later. God Bless!
Day 1 of 77 was a good one! I woke up feeling a bit thinner today. My wedding ring turns and turns on my finger and when I am super cold it actually falls off my finger!! Pretty soon I'm going to get to the point where I have to wrap a bandaid around the band in the back to keep it in place. Good problem! I actually need to get an actual ring size adjuster so I don't look totally ghetto :-) I'll look for one on Ebay.
I decided to not wait and weigh in early this morning so I don't start drinking things like water and coffee. Guess what? I am down to 233!! I am SO happy and I'm glad that God gave me the strength to get through these days where I am sticking to my shakes and New Lifestyle products.
I need to start taking my vitamins today again. I felt really dizzy before bed last night. I think I was just really tired. It was 11pm and I get up early to work so I'm sure that had something to do with it. It was also hot, and I was on my feet for a few hours. I decided to make more meals ahead of time and use my Food Saver thing to preserve the food. I made my ground turkey Pita mix with black beans a little bit of corn and some other yummy things. We stuff this mixture in the Western Bagel Alternative Pita which has less than 15 carbs per pita! Then I made Steak Fajita mixture as well for lunches and use the Low carb tortillas to eat them as "Fajita Tacos". I made my little ones some Spanish Rice and mexican soup because they don't always like to eat the low carb stuff I make for Serg and Alexis.
I'm a happier camper today. I've been spending more time with the Lord, I've been sticking to my Liquid Diet and I'm seeing the results. Now I need to work on sticking to it! God Bless!
I finally weighed in and I am at 234.8! Relief. I had not gained but a pound or two of water in the past so last night I started to worry. I re-read my post, felt like I was being a bit braggy about not gaining. I wasn't, it's a relief but I'm not bragging by far! My belly and fat legs tell me I have nothing to brag about as of yet! LOL.
I'm looking forward to being in new weight territory. I asked my husband "do you think it's too much to ask if my goal is to loose 10 pounds this week"? He said "Absolutely not". I felt even more confident that I could do this. If I really set my mind to it, stick to my shakes 100% this week and throw in some workouts, I CAN be 224.8 next week! Is that crazy or what!!!???
One thing that has been going through my mind is a line from the skit I worked with the bus kids on memorizing for their performance this past Sunday...."I am what I am becoming". I mean the skit is like 2 pages long and that's what stuck in my mind.
Today I am excited about actually trying the New Lifestlye Diet Sloppy Joe. It sounded disgusting and looked pretty nasty in the package. How good can it actually be right? Well, let me tell you...........I took someone's recommendations on the Liquid Diet Forum and cooked it on the stovetop instead of in the microwave..it is SOOO SOOO SOOOO good. I'm not kidding. It's such a wonderful break from the shakes and it's almost as low in calories and everything else as the shakes. I have to admit, yesterday work drained me. I came home with a toothache, tired, cranky (but trying hard not to be). I seriously did not want to cook but decided on what to make until Alexis BEGGED me to let her cook something. She made these.... (this is a sample pic but they looked pretty much like this). Quesadillas with low carb tortillas, jalapenos, grilled chicken (she made it and it looked very moist) and a bunch of other yummy things.
My sister in law came over later in the afternoon asking me to put some tires and stuff on Ebay for her....ugh..I don't even want to put my stuff on there. I'm making my hubby do it though. I really don't have the time. My husband ran off to school and after my sis-in law left, my kids watched the Bee movie with what's his name...Seinfeld? I haven't even seen it. I took that opportunity to escape to my room to read my bible and pray about a few things. After I was done, I put my head back to "rest my eyes" and totally knocked out! My husband woke me up and asked me if I was ok. I had been asleep for at least 2 hours. My unfinished shake was sitting next to me and he was trying to make me drink it but I refused and crawled under the covers.
Alright well I need to work for another 1/2 hour or so then I am off to the store to stock up on some low carb stuff for the fam. GOD BLESS!
Today has been full of revelations for me. It's hard to describe how this all came to me, I know it's from God because it's all stuff that I don't like to "hear". I haven't been the best Christian, wife, mom and person overall. My walk with God has got to improve. I haven't been spending ANY time with God. I've been too involved in my own head. I asked God for help. I just get myself locked in a box and don't care what's going on around me. I'm not upset, sad or angry, I'm actually elated that I sincerely asked God for help and He's extenting His hand out to me even though I have been so unfaithful (like He woulnd't).I just felt like I ask and ask and ask and after a while He wasn't going to respond. You know??
I kinda see this as a spanking (it sounds funny I know) but I do. I'm like at the stage where I am over being hurt by the spanking and now realize that it was for my own good. I just think who would I have gone to if I did not have Him? All I need to really say is I feel so blessed.....I AM so blessed.
Weight related: I'm going back to stricly shakes for at least a week. No L&G. I just can't handle that. My willpower has slowly been dwindling. I don't gain when I cheat so I continue to push my limits. It's done a number on my stomach and my energy levels. Food is outta sight for me right now (eating wise, I still have to prepare food for my family) so I can focus on many other things. I feel good about this. Actually......I feel like a new me. God Bless.
Luke 13:23-25
Then one said to Him, "Lord, are there few who are saved?" And He said to them, "Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able. When once the Master of the house has risen up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open for us,' and He will answer and say to you,'I do not know you, where you are from,'
Gosh I really really struggled this morning to stay on plan. I know it's all those leftover carb cravings from bread. I didn't weigh today because it was a little weird morning. We went to a bon fire last night with another family from our church. It was really nice. The kids had a good time but I am tired. We didn't go to bed til really late. I got up to work and I drank my coffee and REALLY REALLY wanted to eat cereal. Not sure why. I'm not really a cereal person. I know I was waiting too long to eat breakfast so I just made myself fight the cravings and drank my shake.
I'm finally catching up a bit more at work. I worked an hour of overtime with the OK from my boss and once the time came to sign off...I was off! Not like I usually do. I probably work like 10 hours a day (2 unpaid by choice). One of my accounts is California and they are so so busy all the time. I just off loaded my South Carolina accounts which has helped TREMENSOUSLY. They are also very busy and I spoiled them rotten so they are a bit demanding.
This morning I threw on a pair of bermuda shorts I bought a while ago but were a bit on the tight side. Today they are loose on my legs and waist. I was pretty shocked and happy because they are SOOO comfy! I'm supposed to hang out with my husband later today which will be nice. I'm going to clean my house a bit more during my lunch break (since all I will be doing is driking my shake) and we should be able to spend some quality time together.
Well nothing insteresting really to talk about so I will see ya later. God Bless!
Oh man what a weekend! Nothing out of the ordinary but just busy. Me and my husband ate Quiznos last night (the bus kids performed and we all the workers throw them a party afterwards and buy them dinner) so insted of getting them pizza we got them Quiznos but I think we *might of got food poisoning! My husband was up hugging the toilet last night and I've been doing that this morning. I dunno, it's weird! I woke up with a major migraine too and so did he. He took my kids to the babysitter and my daughter to school but he was scared to leave the house. He's coming back home after he's done so we'll see if he feels any better. I feel a tad better but still. I told him, that's what we get for cheating.
On Saturday morning I weighed in and was down to 234.8 so I am hoping I will be relatively close to that when I weigh tomorrow. I can't wait to be in the 220's! That will be a huge for me....I know once I get into the 220 I'll want to be in the 210's but one step at a time...
Once I am off for the day I will need to scrub my house down. I didn't do anything this weekend and you can totally tell.
I hope you all had a wonderful Mother's Day! I had a super great one and I felt so appreciated. My husband bought me a Coach purse...which scares me cause I know that they are not cheap! I used it yesterday and I told him I didn't want to put it down anywhere because I felt like I was going to mess it up. By mid afternoon I was yelling at him and told him it was too much responsibility to "take care" of it!! The most I pay for my purses is usually like $20-$30. He didn't want to tell me how much he paid for it so I went online (I just had to know) and the stinkin' thing is like $450!!!! I am really praying he didn't pay that much because I am SO cheap, and I'm going to resent that purse if he did!
Anyway, gotta get back to work. Til later. God Bless!
I've finally increased my Metformin to 1500mg. I haven't had the guts to do it because you basically get the symptoms of morning sickness and you also get the runs. Ew. I know. I've known that my dosage was not enough and I thought, why keep taking it if it's not helping me 100%? So..I just went for it. I take a 500mg pill in the morning and 2 in the evening. I felt so sick later in the afternoon though. Like just blah. Work is super stressfull right now. I just have lots of work and not enough time. I didn't even take a lunch break yesterday.
So another short post because I really have to get going. Need coffee too! I had not had any because I wanted to weigh myself and guess what? Some good news! I am down another pound to 235! I am so happy to be coming into unchartered territory and the good news is that I do snack on healthy things throughout the day so I totally do not feel deprived. Down 17.4 pounds...PRAISE GOD!!
I made a new soup from the "15~Minute Low Carb Recipes" book by Dana Carpenter and it was really really good. In fact, even though the tomatoes and green chiles I put in it were a bit spicy, my 3 year old LOVED it. It was so funny cause she would take a bite and say "MMM" but would yell "Mom why did you put hot and spicy in it"??!! She would say this in an angry tone over and over again everytime she took a bite. It was hilarious. Next time I will have to find less spicy canned tomatoes so she can thouroughly enjoy it. My son liked it too but he couldn't take it. He would scream when he took a bite and clean his tongue off.. LOL... I'm so bad. I thought it was funny. Ok well gotta go...looking forward to the weekend finally!! God Bless!
I don't have much to say today except that I am doing an all day shakes day and a L&G for dinner OR lunch. I weighed in today and there was only a .5% drop in my BMI, weight stayed the same at 236 which I am pleased about because I sort of did the snacking thing AGAIN but on healthy stuff. I know I can easily overdo it, even on healthy stuff. I was not bad but still. I rather see that scale go down so that's what I am going to aim for today. We have church tonight so I am going to try working out at home today. I got Jillian's workout DVD from Blockbuster so I am going to check it out. Hopefully I can keep up.
Well I hope you have a great day. Chat later. God Bless.
