Changes.... My weight loss journey....

thank you so much for checking up on me at a time when i wasn't even here.

I've had a really hard time recently. my mom was sick and in hospital. we thought it was something to do with her heart - but after many tests they have discovered that hear heart is healthier than most peoples. It's been extremely stressful.

Then in the last two weeks i've been sick - this week the kids are sick and its suspected H1N1. (They aren't even testing here anymore)

BUT... what i'd like to know is why I am not one of those people who doesn't eat when they are sick - if anything I want to eat more... more cracker and such type things.

The good news is through this all i managed to lose another 9 lbs - I'm down 20. It's been 2 months. I figure that's pretty good - especially since I'm simply approaching it as a healthy lifestyle and not as a diet. I'm simply making better choices.

I'm sorry I haven't been around.. I'm going to take some time to check up on you all now!
 
But I'm not off the wagon so to speak - we just stalled for a little.
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You just had to get off and change the tires, yeah? :D

Big congratulations on sticking to your goals despite the onslaught of stress, and I am wishing you have a healthy Halloween weekend. Hope your little ones feel better!

:gnorsi:
 
lol - a smiling face post? sweet.

thanks for welcoming me back - its easy to say "to heck with you" when someone is gone for awhile I really appreciate you sticking around!
 
I miss my friends. It really comes down to that fact that when people come in and take the time to post, we end up becoming friends on some level. I'm greedy, I like having friends. This journey is easier with good people around to help out.

So, when one goes missing for a bit, and then comes back, I just wanna hug them.
 
Awww.... well hugs right back.... I do get what you mean....

:)



Now, getting through the next few days will be tough - halloween.... now my kids wont be going out as we are still recovering from H1N1 BUT my sister dropped off a tonne of treats last night.

Sigh.

Anyone have any great tips for not going crazy with the candy?
 
damn the halloween candy! damn it all!
i want to eat every last morsel! (except the ketchup chips and scor bars!)
sigh
grrrr
 
It's November - time to step it up!

:willy_nilly:

Seriously. It's two months before Christmas.. Less than 2 months in fact.

:willy_nilly:

I have got to get serious about getting some more of this weight off. My plan is to go wedding dress shopping in January before work starts back up. Yeah, that's going to be a fucking nightmare. Sigh. I wonder how long I can put it off for a March wedding?

But more than that - I'm getting worried about my health. With my mom having issues with her heart and then we've all been sick with H1N1 its making me think way too much. I look at my kids and I think about how their father is with them and those boys need me. My husband to be - their step dad is more of a father to them than their "dad" ever was. But of course, if something happened to me my ex would end up with the kids. That, in itself, scares me more than anything since my oldest will not even go to spend the night with his father.

ok going off on a tangent. sorry.

anyway - I want to get back on this thing in full force.

I can't focus on the exercise part right now as we are all housebound with H1N1 BUT I can try to eat better.. it's so damn hard :banghead: - being at work keeps me in check (too busy to eat crap).

I will do this. I will I will.

Anyone else "turning it on" this month?

:party:
 
I'm with you in the whole "running November on all eight cylinders" thing.

I am participating in National Novel Writing Month with my roommate (50,000 words in 30 days), I have to handmake most of my Christmas gifts before next month, we are in the middle of starting our fall crops AND converting as much of our trailer to alternative energy as humanly possible.

We're also preparing for some grand failure of infrastructure because we're just mad artists/inventors/conspiracy theorists like that.

On top of all that, I would like to get at least to 175 pounds before December 1st. That means surviving Thanksgiving.

Good luck on surviving the plague of the Aporkalypse!!!!

And you don't like ketchup chips? What the heck is wrong with you? :p
 
I have no idea why - but it is the one type of chip i just can't stand - which is good since my kids love them and we can but them for movie night and i wont touch them.

interesting to note --- currently love the baked lays - ceddar and sour cream.... only 5 g of fat for 1/3 of the bag! great for a treat for movie night.


yesterday was good - except that i didn't eat breakfast - dropped DF off at work and the kids begged for mcd's. man i love their kids burgers. so i ordered two. all being said they aren't horrible - and since i hadn't had breakfast it was ok. ate really really well the rest of the day - i think having those burgers was the motivation... makes no sense i know.

made a yummy - light homemade soup for dinner - it was so good and while i wanted to eat before bed i refained. yay me.


So far today:

Breakfast -- 750 ml water, 2 clementines, 1 apple
 
I like lays too...

uh, what? oh sorry, not that kind...

Tangents are acceptable here in your little corner of the forum. tangent away my dear...
 
hey girl,
just wanted to say thanks for passing by my diary while i was away. i feel like it's been forever since i was here. somehow in all the madness i managed to maintain my weight, but now i have to get back to the difficult task of loosing...it's just feels so DIFFICULT sometimes and i just wish i could snap my fingers and wake up thin. but i guess it doesn't always work like that. so i'm getting back on the wagon and continuing where i left off.

i'm glad to see i'm not the only one shocked about the end of the year just being round the corner...where did all the time go? i want more time...correction i NEED more time lol!

otherwise so sorry to hear about the whole H1N1 fiasco and about your mum's heart problems. wishing you and your family all get better soon. :grouphug: xoxo
 
I think we both have the same task at hand. I just can't seem to get restarted.. I'm still down by 19 lbs. But now I am starting to panic at having try try to find a wedding dress in 5 weeks. ARGH! HELP ME!

:(
 
back to 20 lbs gone.

but just can't be motivated to do more

I just ate a bunch of chocolate covered cookies.

how the devil do i stop myself?
 
changes said:
back to 20 lbs gone.

but just can't be motivated to do more

I just ate a bunch of chocolate covered cookies.

how the devil do i stop myself?
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It's the winter, so motivation will be harder to come by. Personally, I just look outside at the snowmen decorations and go, "Eww, that's what I look like. A big, fat, lumpy white guy with layers and layers of rolls. Oh, and also, kids poke me with sticks and dogs pee on me a lot...just like a snowman." Then, I get motivated enough to go hop on the treadmill for a while.

No, but seriously...it's always harder to find motivation when it's cold, dark and gloomy outside. You just have to find something in your life that makes you want to get up off of the couch and do something. Me? I tried on some dress clothes of mine a week or two ago and I looked and felt sooooo fat; that's my motivation - to NOT look or feel like that again. Seriously, I felt like one of those Pillsbury biscuit tubes that you find in the grocery store. You know, the ones that are all forced inside of that cardboard tube, just waiting to bust out and show it's true girth? And, the second you twist it, it explodes in a furious fit of fatness? Yeah, that's what I felt like. Only, I didn't feel as buttery and delicious.
 
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