Momma4alex’s adventures in surprising my man….

hello to everyone.

thank you trusylver for stopping by my diary.

I found another quote that I think has a lot of meaning on how we percieve things in our journies towards losing weight and getting in shape.

“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.”

Hope you all find it as inspiring as I have. Keep up the good work and thanks for dropping by.
 
Good Afternoon/Evening Everyone,

Today has been somewhat good. I had a strawberry banana shake for breakfast, a egg salad sandwich on wheat bread for lunch and the rest of my calzone which was like a 1/4 of what a normal size one is. Tonight for dinner I am having a salad, and maybe a turkey sandwich not really sure as i didn't take anything out to cook and we have left overs for alex to eat since he didn't eat all of his food for lunch.

Exercise today: strength training although not sure what exercises i'm going to do. Will update that later.
 
momma4alex said:
thank you trusylver for stopping by my diary.

I found another quote that I think has a lot of meaning on how we percieve things in our journies towards losing weight and getting in shape.

“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.”

Hope you all find it as inspiring as I have. Keep up the good work and thanks for dropping by.
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I love it!! Looks like another good day for ya!Those shakes must be yummy!!
I eat alot of the same foods to because I find something I like and eat it everyday
like my chicken soft tacos I make and now I am piling on the lettuce which is smoething I never liked.Your doing a great job!Tammy
 
Hello all today was a so so day for me. I really didn't exercise as i have not felt like it due to not sleeping very good during the night but that comes with the territory when your worried about your hubby as he's been in the hospital the last few days due to dehydration and possible overdose on his meds due to his body not being able to digest food and stuff right since he's been throwing up everything he ate or drink for 24 hours before they put him in the hospital. He's now doing a little better although the docs over there are taking very good care of him. He has called me twice in a row the last two days and woke me up from a sleeping.. lol :) gotta love good morning calls.. anyways enough of that. He's doing good and getting better so i need to stop worrying about what I can't really control or take care of myself right now. Anyways, food today:
Breakfast was raspberry/banana shake.
Snack: 100 cal pack of beef jerky
Lunch: a reduced fat string cheese and 4 chips ahoy cookies that were in a 100 cal pack.
Dinner 1/2 a pepperoni calzone
Desert: 1 small slice of apple cream cheese pie

So not sure on total cals as i can't find any info as to the calzone or the pie online and the place we got the stuff from doesn't have it on their sites either.. :(

I'm estimating about 1700-1800 cals for the day though but maybe not since i didn't have a big lunch as i wasn't hungry or feeling that good due to having a headache since i slept horribly last night.

Exercise: 2.6 mile walk.
Water: 3- 24 oz bottles of water.

Tomorrow's plan is to get 45-60 minutes of cardio in and 30 minutes of weight training in. and start to plan out the rest of this week and next weeks food so i can have a plan in place for next week. as we are heading to disneyland on friday and won't be home until saturday night but only staying in disneyland for the day. Then saturday will be spending time at my sis's place and possibly swimming.. as her apartments have pools.. woohoo and a gym yeah me.. lol so maybe i can do some running or something if i can get them to watch alex for a bit.. Well hope everyone had a great day today and sorry i didn't post in your diaries today things were just kinda on a offday for me today. hope to be back to normal tomorrow.. lets hope anyways. at least as far as food for sure. :) well going to bed now see you all tomorrow.
 
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hey hon !!

congrats on the weight you have lost so far ! Thought id say hello to a fellow Halloween team 1 member :)

keep up the good work

faye
 
Hello faye and thanks for stopping by my diary. I posted or tried to post in yours today but the server went down on me so i'm not sure if it got posted.

well today was kinda rough as far as feelings good but food wise it was good. I only ate 1,316 cals for the whole day and walked about 2 miles today.

We are going to disneyland tomorrow and then spending part of saturday at my sister's apartment. So I will probably only been on late at night to check in with you all on your diaries and update mine. I made sure to pack my healthy snacks so i don't eat a bunch of bad food for me when we are in disneyland and i'm also going to try to get the healthiest stuff while there and only drink water or diet sodas as its suppose to be hot tomorrow. anyways going to bed now as i should have already been asleep since we are getting up at 4am to head out. I'll try to update friday night if i'm not to tired if not will update sometime on saturday. Hope you all have a great weekend and Good luck to all fellow team members on the halloween challenge that may stop by as well as everyone else on their weight loss journey.
 
Howdy Heather,
Sorry about your hubby I am sure he will get better soon!
I am glad to have you on my team your a great supporter and have been kicking butt,hope you enjoy disneyworld and have fun Tammy
 
Life totally sucks right now... :cry:

Thanks everyone. I'm sorry but not sure if i am going to be really posting as much as i would like to so hopefully that doesn't make the challenge hard to complete. Things have been going crazy here since i learned of whats all going on with my husband. Things are not good and i'm not sure when they are going to get better as far as he's concerned. He has kept a lot of things from me that are seriously scaring the crap out of me and I am really hoping that the new meds they are putting him on and the docs can help him without kicking him out of the army. Right now all we know is he's not going to be in afghanistan anymore so he's out of danger as far as that but where he stands as far as the army itself is still up in the air. :( anyways I'm going to try to continue to manage my feelings and not turn to food as a comfort during this time of major stress and try to turn to you guys and my family and friends but my family really i don't think would understand right now as they told me he wasnt' that stable to begin with or thats what they thought before i married him so if i talk to them right now about this then they will say i told you so type shit and i just can't handle that right now.

Sorry to be such a downer but Life is just really rough right now. I'm hoping things get better once he starts seeing a doc regulary and can feel like he can talk to me and tell me things that he's feeling instead of hiding it from me. I am really hoping we can make our marriage work cause i don't want to get a divorce and i sure as hell don't want to be a single mother no offense meant to single mothers at all as i know quite a few very great ones but thats just not how i pictured my life going nor my son's. anyways i'm going to be using my weight from monday's weigh in to do the challenge.

So start weight for the challenge is 246.2 lbs and still not really sure what my goals are as i'm not going to be buying any new clothes or things since i gotta get my credit cards paid off incase we do end up losing our income due to dh recent problems. I just hope that i can keep this weight loss up and get healthy and then we will go from there as to whether i can decide to try for another baby or put that on the back burner where right now that's seems to be the place its going to be for a while now that we don't know whats going to happen here in the next days/weeks months or possibly years for that matter. I really hate feeling the way i do and if it wasn't for the fact that I am spending time with my mom and sis and my son and don't want to ruin their weekend I wouldn't have even bothered coming to disneyland let alone doing anything they have planned for the little bit of time we are spending together tomorrow before me, alex and my mom head back to the house we are living in.

Ok well enough of that sorry to be a downer and hope everyone has a great labor day weekend. i'll try to post more tomorrow or sunday but not sure whats planned for the weekend just yet. anyways I walked a total of 12.86 miles from the time i got up this morning till just a few minutes ago when i climbed in the spare bed my sister and her boyfriend have at their place. so i'm going to head to bed and get my little on to sleep as he hasn't slept much today.

Heather
 
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Hi Heather,
I'm sorry to hear about everything that's happening with you and your hubby. I hope everything gets better for you. Just try and keep your spirits up hun.
xoxo
 
You don't have to apologize for telling us how you are feeling. It's the only way we can lend support. I hope your husband is able to keep his army income, at least until another option opens up. Do what you can to keep level headed for your little boy, he is the priority in all of it, as I am sure you know. No one wants to have to become a single mom, so I am sure you offended no one.

I hope things get better. I am sorry your family is not very supportive.
 
Thanks ladies it means a lot to me that I know i can come here and talk about how i'm feeling and not be judged on it let alone just having the support from you all means the world to me. I got an email from my hubby today saying that right now he doesn't know exactly where things stand with the army yet but he'll keep me up to date and he does have a plan to put into action if they do end up sending him home. So we won't be totally out of luck with things. He also said that he was very sorry for keeping things from me and for letting things get this out of hand with how and what he kept from me after talking to the docs, He realized he was wrong for hiding it from me in the first place. As he knows communication is one of the keys to making our marriage and my trust for him continue to grow back to where it was before his affair in 2005. Anyways thanks again.

I truly hope that you all feel the same support from me as I do from you all. Hope you have a great labor day weekend. lots of hugs and love to everyone that supports me.
 
Ok today went well. I feel a lot better now that i got my feelings out on here and also got some much needed sleep. woohoo.. lol anyways today went pretty good as far as food too. Breakfast wasn't what I would call a normal thing but i had a sandwich with turkey and turkey/ham on a sourdough roll with mustard instead of mayo which is a big change that got a funny look from my mom and sis as they knew before that i didn't care for mustard but have started eating it more so then mayo lately. Lunch was a slimfast meal on the go bar and a small 90 cal bag of granola bites. Dinner was a grilled chicken bacon ranch salad from mcdonalds w/ 1 package of ranch dressing. and a small 16 oz mr. pibb. Oh yeah i also had 1 coke this morning as i needed some much needed caffine as i had a major headache from being out in the sun all day the day before.

well i feel great with my exercise and water intake also as i went swimming today at the pool at my sis's apartment with my mom and son for 2 and half hours. We had a blast but i do have a tiny bit of sunburn on my arms and face from forgetting to put sunscreen on today before the pool time. lol anyways i'm thinking about going down to visit my sis more often on her days off so alex can spend some time with his auntie and i can get some much needed exercise in either by going swimming some more before it gets too cold to use the pool or by using the gym they have there at their place.. woohoo.. now if i can just make myself drive the hour and a half to get there and the hour and half to get home everytime i she has a day off then i will really get in shape.. woohoo.. lol and she's a lot more supportive of the whole weightloss thing then my mom is although my mom also is kinda doubting how much i can really do this on my own without going to the gym everyday for hours since I have always quit when i started trying to lose weight before.

well at least i got some good news today about things on my end as far as hubby and stuff so far. and got some great exercise in while having fun at the same time which is exactly what i needed to feel a lot better. Hope everyone has a great weekend. Good luck to everyone that is in the halloween challenge whether on my team or not.
 
Howdy Heather,
Wow remind me to NOT read your diary afterhours I saw sourdough mustard lol drools:rofl:.I am sorry you had to go through a rough thing 2005 grrrr mine did it to BUt we were engaged and I was 7 months preggers with my son 2001 and he messed with a co worker that was 17 and married with a child and a phycho hubby grrr what an idiot but we worked through it and even married and had out 4th child,it gets brought up at times but not nearly as much as the 1st couple years it took a while and he knows NO MORE CHANCES!!!Hope things get better for ya!
On another not CONGRATS with your dieting and exersicing you have done great and you will continue to!Have a gr8 day Tammy
 
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niapage said:
Howdy Heather,
Wow remind me to NOT read your diary afterhours I saw sourdough mustard lol drools:rofl:.I am sorry you had to go through a rough thing 2005 grrrr mine did it to BUt we were engaged and I was 7 months preggers with my son 2001 and he messed with a co worker that was 17 and married with a child and a phycho hubby grrr what an idiot but we worked through it and even married and had out 4th child,it gets brought up at times but not nearly as much as the 1st couple years it took a while and he knows NO MORE CHANCES!!!Hope things get better for ya!
On another not CONGRATS with your dieting and exersicing you have done great and you will continue to!Have a gr8 day Tammy
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Sorry tammy but I don't know what you mean by afterhours? I'm sorry you had to go through all that too. I couldn't imagine what I would have done if I had been preggo when he told me about the affair let alone about her having a baby due to it. I sure hope it gets easier dealing with the fact that it happened and we can get thru it. He also knows that there are no more chances if it happens again. I couldn't deal with that again as it hurt like hell when he told me about it. Ok, i hope to continue to do well with eating and exercise and hope to rock this challenge with weightloss and getting tons of pts for our team.. hope you have a great day too.
 
HI Heather!!
I hope you had a great time in Disneyland despite the fact that your emotional health took a blow earlier this week!!
I am glad you are working things out and DH has a plan of action. You sounded more positive with you latest post and I am glad you have the strenght and patience to work through it all and also to stick to your weight loss journey.
I am sorry about Thursday, I left msn w/o signing off: we had a storm and I lost internet connection.
Yesterday Iaccidentally left my msn signed on when I went to bed, that is why i did not answer, sorry.
I will be on and off today and it is my frenzy cooking day with some rest in between. So hopefully I see you on later!!
How did you do with the water? I actually had a hard time drinking my 80 oz yesterday as we were out and about. went grocery shopping and by the time we got to the store I had to run to the bathroom (literally) people were looking at me : what a lunatic.. HA-HA
Hoping you have a great Sunday!!!
Talk to you soon
Hajni
 
Hi Heather!
I responded to you in my diary but I figured I'd stop by here and say hi as well. :]
Hope you have a good sunday and start of the week if I don't talk to you before then. Take care hun!
xoxo
 
LOL heather I keep forgettting we are alot of hours off it was abourt 1 AM when I was on here lastnight lol!
Enhoy your Sunday and hope you have a gr8 sunday DRINK UP.:beerchug::jump:
 
Hello everyone, hope you all had a great Labor day. I didn't do much except veg out with my son most of the day watching movies. I did however get in my 30 minutes of exercise and my 123 oz of water today.. wooohooo I hate having to run to the bathroom so much but am sure my body will adjust to it again.. as i haven't quite been as active the last day or so due to a headache cauase i forgot to take my meds yesterday which is a big no no unless i want to deal with really bad headaches.. yuck :( anyways I feel pretty good. Tomorrow I am thinking about going to Sports Authority and checking out the ellipticals and treadmills and seeing what I can workout as far as buying one since I need something new to spice up my workout besides what I have been doing. Today i totally forgot it was monday and had already drink some water before weighing in so it showed 246.2 on the scale this morning but I am going to weigh in again tomorrow morning to change my ticker and stuff if it shows any loss. since i totally forgot today was monday due to the holiday and my mom being home all weekend. lol :) anyways hope you all had a great day.
 
Hi Heather :hug2:

I'm sorry I havn't been around for you... thank you for all of your continuous support. I have to say that you are such a strong amazing woman. Alex is very lucky to have such an amazing mommy! I am sorry for everything you have been having to deal with :hug2:

You're diet and exercise have been soo good! Keep up your great work... and I'll definitly be around a lot more now.

~Jenna
 
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