The New Mrs. Carter!
OMG what a crazy busy time! Tammy lol you are so funny! NO! It doesn't feel different! Just calmer as the wedding and Christmas madness calm down. I am happy to remember why we wanted to get married to begin with though. With all the stress of planning and getting things together we were fighting a whole lot and we didn't have a lot of time together. I missed him!! So now he is in the house and we are back to how it used to be and it is so nice. I was worried there for awhile! But things are wonderful. The only thing missing right now is my son. He is with his dad for a week because his dad is moving to Denver (good riddance

). I miss him a lot though. He left on Christmas day and isn't coming home until Monday. I am going to call him today. I have tried to let his dad have space with him but I want to say hi and I love you

So diet has sucked big time. I compare it to a thirsty man in the dessert finding water. I just can't get enough!! I fill myself up until I am ill and then I cram in some more. No wonder I have gained so much. It isn't even good food. Just ice cream and chocolate and crap. So after many days of lamenting my expanding waistline I am going to be accountable starting today! Back with my food journal and writting down every single thing I eat and then putting it into fitday. I am going to work on working out soon but I really feel I have to get my eating under control first. My problem is that I don't know what calorie count to aim for. I would like enough to lose weight but also enough so that I don't feel deprived. I am thinking 1800 calories but the urge to do the 1200 calorie thing is hard to break because it worked so well in the beginning. Getting active continues to be a stress for me. I really wish I had a piece of home equipment but I know that even then I might not use it. That is the way it goes: If I don't have a gym membership I want one, if I do I don't use it regularly, if I don't have a home workout thingie I want one and if I have one I don't use it. I have to figure out how to break this!
It is amazing that for the year I have been doing this I am still tweaking and still trying to figure things out. I will get it and at least I have had success. It really keeps me going. It has been a long time since I have lost weight. Just trying to get into a livable routine. Saw Wishes avatar today and damn she looks so good!! She is only 10lbs away from her goal and I know she will make it. Also Mal's slow but steady progress that makes room for real life. She is so tenacious and I admire her for what she has done and how she handles the reality of it!!
There are so many people who have done so well and I can see myself in that category sometimes but recently I have been very down on myself for being so weak and falling so easily into bad habits! I am ready to pick myself up again and continue my journey. I feel silly that this post is Mishi's last fifteen as it is over 20 now but it should motivate me to get back down so that there is no false advertising! lol
Thank you Cinderelly and Tammy for keeping my diary relatively dust free
There is still lots to do getting my house back in order. There are room fulls of laundry to do! I am going to commit to keeping my fitday current and posting here more often!
HOpe you all had a wonderful Christmas!!! And you all have a great new years!! It's time to get down to business after all that holiday food!!

