The amazing shrinking woman (I hope!)

Thanks for the comments Flumes and Jjjay!

Warning: Girlie post to follow. Guys feel free to skip.

Today I finally got around to giving myself my half way reward. Since I had to work in the city I made an appointment to get my hair cut and styled at a salon. Normally I cut my own hair (trim anyway) and it was just below my waist. I have always loved long hair. I got about 8 inches chopped off so it's just below my bra strap in the back. I hadn't planned to get QUITE that much cut off. And the way the girl cut and styled my bangs was a huge disappointment. I have NEVER been happy with how my hair turns out when I get it professionally cut. Maybe I go in with too high of expectations of what they can do and am crushed when I walk out with the same old hair? Anyway, I had shopping to do afterwards and I felt embarrassed to be seen in public with may hair in ruins (as I percieved it) - even though no one really looked twice at me. As I was driving all the way home on the 75 mile commute I was alternating between near tears and anger at myself for never learning my lesson after all these years.

When I got home I changed into running clothes and figured I'd run until I wasn't so upset about my hair any more even though it was 96 degrees outside. I ended up going 2 miles! The first mile I went the whole time without stopping. The last mile my pace was REALLY slow though, and I did slow to a walk 3 times when vehicles drove past me because I didn't want them watching me as I ran and once to hack and gag and spit because a bug flew in my mouth while I was running. Needless to say I sweated BUCKETS!!! I'm sure the 3 liters of water I'd drank thru the day added to it.

Anyway, when I got home I went and looked in the mirror at my hair again to see if I could do some damage control. With it all wind blown and sweaty and not styled like the girl did it earlier it actually doesn't look half bad! Go figure!

Something odd this time after my run - I've been having cramps (sort of like menstral cramps) and I swear it feels like my uterus is going to fall out! And it's not even close to that TOM. Now I'm wondering if it's possible for a person who is as out of shape as I am to shake their uterus out of positon just from the jarring of running? Maybe I need to concentrate for a little while on strengthening my core so that my guts stay where they are supposed to?

Foods today:

Morning
6 oz Blue Bunny Lite 85, yogurt, strawberry 80
1/2 each apple 36
Total 116

Afternoon
1 Wendy's, chili, small 210
2 Tbsp Wendy's, cheddar cheese, shredded 70
2 crackers Wendy's, saltine crackers 25
Total 305

Evening
1 each Subway, western egg breakfast sandwich 286
Total 286

Snacks
1 Clif Bar, Builder's Bar 270
2 c coffee, brewed, prepared 8
8 tbsp Coffee Mate creamer, 10 calories 80
1 c Milk, skim, fat-free 88
1/2 c carrots, baby 26
1 stalk celery, raw, stalk 20
Total 492

Daily Total - 1199

I was supposed to take my first of the month pictures tonight, but certain children in my house were playing with my digital camera and the battery is completely dead now. Guess updating pictures will have to wait till tomorrow.

Night night everyone!
 
Well, it's been a nice relaxing few days. The in-laws took the kids to the lake on Friday, so hubby and I played hookie from work in the afternoon and drove up to the city for the afternoon. It was nice to get away for a few hours. Instead of having supper, I chose to have a tiny salad (no dressing) and a medium strawberry cheese quack blizzard! I couldn't finish it though - I just can't take that rich sweet stuff any more. It's just too much! So hubby finished it for me. I think I was still pretty close to my allowable cals for the day though.

Saturday and Sunday we loafed around home. I went a bit over my calorie limit, especially on Sunday morning. The kids begged me to make my famous special pancakes (I haven't made them since I started my weight loss journey). I was just going to eat them plain because they taste that good and they would have only been around 300 cals (for 3 cakes 4 inches wide) but I was busy chatting with my kids and before I knew what I was doing I had slathered on the butter AND the butter flavored maple syrup! I think that meal was around a total of 800 cals. But it was SOOOOOO GOOOOOOD. I think since I've been trying to eat healthier the stuff that's not so healthy tastes so much better when I allow myself a treat.

I did run 1 mile on Friday night (that's all I had time for before it was too dark to see) and got the crap scared out of me. I swear it took 10 years off my life. I was in the zone running along when this deer that was laying in the ditch jumps up and runs off. I don't know who was more startled, the deer or me! Then I ran another mile on Sunday. However, I thought I was gonna die before I got back. One of the neighbors must have sprayed some sort of herbacide or something because my throat was burning and my tongue was feeling tingly and almost numb. And it was getting hard to breathe so I figured I better call it quits.

Today I felt like I did worse on foods than I really did. Ended up being quite a bit under my daily allowance, but I just finished 1/2 hour of aerobics and I'm too pooped to go find something else to eat. Plus I'm not really hungry, so I figure why bother, right?

So foods for today:

Morning
1 c Cheerios 90
1 c Milk, skim, fat-free 88
1/8 c Oceanspray, craisins 49
5 each nuts, almonds, ea 35
Total 262


Afternoon
1 oz bacon, Canadian 58
2 Tbsp Kraft Oil-Free, salad dressing, Italian 6
2 each egg, whole 150
4 c Dole, lettuce, Spring Mix 32
Total 246


Evening
1 c Home made Lentil Stew 244
1 biscuit, medium 185
Total 429


Snack
1 c honeydew melon 54
Total 54

Daily Total: 991

All weekend I've been bouncing around 155 to 158. I know I wasn't drinking water like I should have been on Friday thru Sunday, but I've done better today. Hopefully I'll start to see the weight start to go down again some more this week. I only have 1 more week till my best friend from college is back to visit.

I was doing laundry today (I had the day off because of independence day yesterday) and was putting away my clothes. I can barely fit them all in the closet, but that's because I still have all my size 16 clothes in there, along with the size 14 and 12 that I've dug out and can fit into again. I even have a few size 10s in there. And my skinny jeans right now (the ones that fit nice and snug and look smokin' hot!) are size 8. I was debating whether I should pack up the bigger clothes and put them in storage in case I ever go the other direction again or do I take a leap of faith and permanently get rid of them? Maybe when I get to my goal weight I'll have a garage sale and use the money from selling them to buy myself a new wardrobe? So far I haven't bought much in the way of new clothes because I never got rid of my smaller clothes that I used to wear. I kept then thinking someday I'd fit into them again. Well, now I'm glad I did because I'd hate to buy all new stuff to only wear it for a short time as I keep losing. Some of them may be a little out dated, but I think they'll do for now. I've never been one to buy the new 'trendy' stuff. It seems like I have to see it on other people for a long time before it grows on me and I try it myself. I go for mostly the plain stuff - black, navy, and khaki slacks, mostly solid colored tops I can mix and match. A few dresses and several long flowy skirts. Most of the tops I have can go with any of my pants, or most of my skirts as well. I one of those freak females born without the shopping jean and that HATES shopping! So if I have to take time to buy stuff, it better be versatile so I can get a lot of miles out of each piece.

Well, once again I've stayed up way too late reading journals and such. I have to get up in 4 1/2 hours to work in the city.

Hope you all in the states had a super independence day yesterday!
 
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GAH! What a day! Got home really late from work tonight. Took forever to get all the kids in bed. Hubby left to meet some guy in town to swap parts for some machinery or other. About an hour after I SHOULD have been in bed I finally got around to getting my work out in. I was alternating lifting some weights with some low impact aerobics (my knees have been hurting today for some reason) and was really in the zone with my music going and the sweat a-flowing when I heard screaming coming from my husband's bathroom. I went running in and found my 3 year old twins - one of them with blood running all over the side of her face and the other looking VERY guilty! They had found one of my husband's jack knives which he had taken out of his pocket before throwing his jeans in the hamper and must have left it on the sink. They had gotten it open and the one used it to cut her sister from her hairline on her forehead (near her temple) to the corner of her eyebrow. There was so much blood! I was trying to figure out how bad it was to determine if I needed to rush her to the hospital an hour away or if it was something we could handle at home. I put a paper towel over it and told her to hold it while I got the first aid kit. As I was running to the other bathroom to get it I grabbed my cell and called my husband to come home in case I ended up having to take her to the hospital.

By the time he got home I had the bleeding stopped and her face cleaned off. It didn't seem quite so bad then - I'd forgotten how badly head wounds bleed! We have both been trained in emergency first aid so I shaved her head near the top of the cut so that the butterfly closures wouldn't pull her hair, and we used 4 of them to pull the cut closed after we cleaned it. She was a very good patient and is now ecstatic to have something butterfly related stuck to her forehead. Her sister hid in their room the entire time sobbing with guilt. After we finished patching up the injured one, the guilty one came out and told her sister sorry and gave her a hug. We didn't have the heart to punish them beyond scolding them about playing with knives.

After they were both tucked into bed we went back into the family room where I promptly fell apart. My knees started shaking and I felt like I was going to throw up. I'm always calm and collected during emergencies, but after the crises is over I turn into a quivering puddle.

So that was my excitement for the day. Now that I have recovered and my nerves are a bit back to normal hopefully I can get some sleep. The alarm goes off in 3 1/2 hours. :sleeping:
 
Oh my goodness! Hope your kids (and you are ok!) Well done on the first aid too!
We have two boys (7 and 9) and the youngest has to learn by experience. It really makes me sick to my stomach whenever one of them gets hurt...so I know exactly how you feel.

Hope you have a better day today and also hope your child's wound heals without a trace.

Take care
 
Well after getting less than 3 hrs of sleep last night I feel like my sorry butt has been dragging but a few inches from the ground all day. I was happy to see the scale read 153.8 this morning though! I haven't been that weight since before I had any kids!

Normally I work out after supper, but I want to get to bed earlier tonight, so decided that I should do it before supper. I was really dragging my feet about it though. Finally I told myself that since I was low on calories today anyway I would treat myself to a small milky way candy bar if I went for a run. On the way out the door I weighed myself and the stupid scale said 157 even though I thought I had done good food wise. I even had one of the kids step on to see if it was off or something. They weighed the same as always. So I stepped on again and it still said 157. GGGRRRR!!!!

So I started out and that first half mile was HELL! My right knee has been hurting for about 3 or 4 days now, and it's getting steadily worse. I kept thinking THIS SUCKS! What am I doing this for? Why torture myself like this? I could probably walk and lose weight just fine, why do I want to run and torture myself. I thought I'd never get to that half mile marker on my road. Then I was telling myself that I wasn't going to get that candy bar unless I RAN at least 1 mile without slowing for walking breaks. I've done it before and then some, so no reason why I shouldn't today.

At that point I was so hot and sweaty I think I was becoming delerious. I don't know about other runners, but my inner 'self talk' got a little weird. Plodding along I had this little rhythym thing going in my head - hate this, hate this, hate this, hate this. Then I sternly told myself that the stinky attitude is NOT going to help me get that candy bar. Then I was telling myself to pretend that there was chocolate waiting for me at the corner (which is exactly half a mile from the end of my drive way). I was visualizing a giant candy bar the size of a car waiting for me. :drool5::drool5:

At this point the voices in my head became 2 different ones (split personality maybe?): Good Me and Bad Me. GM was saying oh come on! A car sized candy bar isn't going to help you one bit. Besides, you like this! You really do! It's not so bad. What's 10 minutes out of your life with a little discomfort? You can do this! BM then grumbled back that I suppose there are worse things than running 1 mile in 10 minutes. Like being in labor without painkillers for 36 hours (did this with my first child)! At least with labor pains you get a little break in between contractions!

Right about that time I hit the half mile corner and I turned to head back towards home. My inner chant went from hate this, hate this, hate this to get done, get done, get done. I don't know if it was because home was in sight or what, but it all of a sudden seemed like it got easier to run. I wasn't gasping for breath so badly and my knee wasn't killing me any more but was just a dull ache. By the time I was nearing home I was thinking hey! This is easy! No problems here man! I can totally do this! Heck, I can do MORE! And promptly turned around at my driveway and headed back down the road towards the half mile corner to do another mile. When I was almost halfway to the corner a car came down the road. Normally I hate for people to see me running and I slow to a walk until I am out of their sight. Instead tonight I forced myself to keep running, and in fact I sped up a bit.

But by the time the car had driven out of sight I was dying and thinking ok, whose stupid idea was it for me to run another mile when I had only planned to do 1????!!!??? I really need to get back to make supper for the family - what was I thinking??!!??? Before I knew it I had hit the half mile corner for the second time and was turning for home. My inner chant became I can do this, I can do this, I can do this. And guess what? I DID!!!! And I ran the WHOLE 2 MILES!!!!! :party:

I walked 2 laps around the outside perimeter of our yard to cool down, did a few stretches and headed towards the house. I was so pumped that I'd actually ran the entire 2 miles without walking any of it! My mother in law stopped me to talk to me about my work schedule for the rest of the week (she helps my husband care for the kids during the day while I work). After standing and chatting for a few minutes I went to take a step and my knee almost gave out on me. I had shooting pains from my knee up my thigh and down the side of my calf into my ankle. I managed to limp into the house and sat down for a few minutes with an ice pack on my knee. It stopped the worst of the shooting pains, but I've been limping around all evening.

I don't expect to be able to just go out and run without some 'growing pains' till my body gets used to it. No pain no gain, right? But I'm not sure how much pain is normal? Does it go away like the pains in my shins went away after the first week? At what point do I need to have a doctor involved if I'm having that much pain? Exactly how much pain is too much pain?

On to foods for the day:

Morning
1/4 c dry fruit 108
1/2 bagel, whole wheat, medium 114
2 Tbsp cream cheese, regular 99
Total 321

Afternoon
1 c Lentil Stew (homemade-YUM) 244
2 stalk celery, raw 40
1 can, 5.5 oz V8, juice, vegetable cocktail, 100%, low sodium 35
Total 319

Evening
2 fillet (2 oz.) fish, tilapia 184
1 cup green beans 36
1/2 c Rice-A-Roni, Chicken flavor, prepared 155
1 1/2 c Milk, skim, fat-free 132
Total 489

Snack
1/4 c dry fruit 108
5 crackers, wheat, Keebler Toasteds 80
Total 188

Daily total: 1317

I would just like to point out that I did NOT have the candy bar that I was promising myself, care sized or any other size for that matter. And now I'm going to be, so won't be tempted any more today!
 
Just read through your whole journal and you are making excellent progress especially while looking after 4 kids.
I loved the bit where you were going out and managed to fit into your old size 8 clothes. At the end of last year I had a clear out and through out all of my skinny clothes. They had been hanging there so long that I thought that I was kidding myself to think that Iwould ever be slim enough to fit into them. I'm really annoyed with myself now as I would love to have had them as goal clothes. I've just remembered that my wedding dress is hanging in my wardrobe. I'll have to give that a try and see how it looks.
Nice to have so many people notice your weight loss at work but I am like you I find the attention embarassing and like you most people I talk to don't want to know when I tell them that I have lost it the healthy way. They all want quick magic results and I haven't managed to convince one person otherwise.
Nice to see that Jjjay has converted yet another one of us to running. Amazing progress running 2 miles without slowing and well done on not eating the chocolate bar at the end :)
 
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eyckmans said:
At the end of last year I had a clear out and through out all of my skinny clothes. They had been hanging there so long that I thought that I was kidding myself to think that Iwould ever be slim enough to fit into them. I'm really annoyed with myself now as I would love to have had them as goal clothes. I've just remembered that my wedding dress is hanging in my wardrobe. I'll have to give that a try and see how it looks.
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Thanks for the comments Eyckmans! I always meant to get rid of my old clothes but about 5 years ago we bought a bigger house and moved it onto our farm. Our old house is still there and we just use it for storage now, so it's not like they were in the way! I still have my wedding dress as well, but I don't think I'll ever fit into that again unless I become unhealthy skinny. I weighed 107 lbs back then and I've had 4 kids since then. Unfortunately our bodies are NEVER the same again after 1 kid, let alone more, no matter how much weight we lose or how in shape we get.

Stop in again anytime! I enjoyed having you!
 
Well, I finally got around to getting the pictures I took the 1st of the month out of my camera.

I am 5' 5" tall. Left side was me at 185.8 lbs on 03/01/2010. I used to always take my monthly pictures in the same bra and undies, but I'm finally to the point where I can't do that any more and had to get smaller sizes. I tried to find the exact same style in the smaller size, but no such luck. Right side is me at 155.4 lbs on 07/01/2010. So basicly this is what a 30 lb loss looks like.
 
Boy, are there rumors flying about me! At work the latest is that I've had a breast reduction surgery done. Which is REDICULOUS because I sure as heck would have gone a lot smaller than what I currently am! In my small town word is that I am pregnant again. When my husband and I had a night out together a few weeks ago apparently many people noted the fact that I was not drinking any alcoholic beverages. Combined with the fact that most people around here know I got really sick with all my pregnancies and lost weight from throwing up so much. So of course between these 2 observations of course everyone now assumes I am expecting again. I guess the fact that I had my tubes tied over a year and a half ago never made it thru the rumor mills.

Such are the joys of small town life. Everyone knows your business better than you do yourself!

Had a pretty good day today. I had to work in the city because we had both internal and external project close out meetings for the project I've bee working on for the last year or so. The first meeting someone brought donuts to celebrate. The 2nd meeting someone brought giant cookies to celebrate. Even though I got to take the majority of the credit for the success of the project, I didn't have any of the treats! I was so proud of myself! The other members of the project team commented that they didn't know how I could meet temptation like that and not cave in.

Foods today:

Morning
6 oz Blue Bunny Lite 85, yogurt, peach 80
1 nectarine 67
Total 147

Afternoon
1 Wendy's, chili, small 210
1 Wendy's, side salad 60
2 Tbsp Wendy's, cheddar cheese, shredded 70
2 crackers Wendy's, saltine crackers 25
Total 365

Evening
4 piece(s) McDonald's, Chicken McNuggets, 4 piece 190
1/2 pckt(s) McDonald's, hot mustard sauce 30
1 Wendy's, side salad 60
Total 280

Snack
1 Clif Bar, Builder's Bar 270
2 c coffee, brewed, prepared 8
8 tbsp Coffee Mate creamer, 10 calories 80
Total 358

Daily Total: 1150
 
That progress looks great! Keep going!!!

I'm envious, I WISH I could run 1km let alone 2 miles!!!
 
knyt said:
That progress looks great! Keep going!!!

I'm envious, I WISH I could run 1km let alone 2 miles!!!
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Thanks! It sure didn't happen overnight, that's for sure! And I'm not sure if I'll be able to continue with it because my knees have been giving me trouble this week. My sister, who is a physical therapist, thought I might need to have my stride evaluated while running to see if I may need to wear some sort of knee brace while running. I'm going to give it another week or so and see if it gets worse or better.

I'm sure you could run too if you really set your mind to it! Jjjay was a big inspiration to me and got me started. The key is to start small and work your way up!

Good luck!
 
Great job on the 2 miles Tigger! You are doing awesome!
Sorry to hear about your knee tho...take it easy. You might have hyperextended it or something. I hope its temporary....so take care of it and again...take it easy!!! (Still very impressed tho :) )

And well done on the donuts and cookies. I had the same temptation a week ago at work....(Whats with these vendors that think a 6 dollar box of donuts will get them a 40,000 dollar contract?!?!? How bout a nice veggie/fruit tray next time! lol)

Have a great weekend!

I have to add....Your pics look unbelievable! What a huge difference! The pic of your back comparison says it all I think. (Not that the other pics are bad) But the first pic is like two different people!! Fantastic!
Keep up the great work!
 
Flumes said:
I had the same temptation a week ago at work....(Whats with these vendors that think a 6 dollar box of donuts will get them a 40,000 dollar contract?!?!? How bout a nice veggie/fruit tray next time! lol)
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I know what you mean! But have you seen the price difference in a healthy veggie, fruit, or even meat and cheese tray compared to cookies or donuts? It just seems unfair that it costs less eat junk than to eat healthy!
 
I'm exhaused, so just gonna post foods quick and get my sorry behind to bed!

Foods today:

Morning
6 oz. Yoplait Original 99% Fat Free Yogurt, all flavors 170
1 nectarine 67
10 each nuts, almonds, ea 70
Total 307

Afternoon
1 c Lentil Stew (recipe) 244
2 stalk celery, raw, stalk 40
Total 284

Evening
3 oz chicken, breast, skinless, grilled, 1 oz 144
1/2 cup rice, brown, long grain, cooked 108
1/2 c carrots, cooked 28
1/2 cup celery, raw, chopped 10
1/4 cup onion, raw 15
4 onion rings 137
Total 442

Snack
1/4 c. fruit, mixed, dried 120
1 c Milk, skim, fat-free 88
3 oz Blue Bunny Lite 85, yogurt, strawberry 40
Total 248

Daily total: 1281 calories

Have a good weekend everyone!
 
Wow, congrats, huge difference in your photos. How many sizes have you gone down?
I hope that your problem with you knees gets sorted. I would be devastated if I got an injury and couldn't exercise. I get general leg ache after running but so far my knees and ankles have been fine. I worry about my knees as once I climbed onto a wall when I was at my fattest and injured my knee just because of my weight putting too much pressure onto it. I could barely walk for a couple of weeks.
Have a great weekend
 
eyckmans said:
Wow, congrats, huge difference in your photos. How many sizes have you gone down?
I hope that your problem with you knees gets sorted. I would be devastated if I got an injury and couldn't exercise. I get general leg ache after running but so far my knees and ankles have been fine. I worry about my knees as once I climbed onto a wall when I was at my fattest and injured my knee just because of my weight putting too much pressure onto it. I could barely walk for a couple of weeks.
Have a great weekend
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I started out in a US size 16 (I probably could have gone up because most of my size 16 clothes were too tight). The size that I am currently wearing most often is size 12 or 10 , depending on the cut. But they are getting pretty loose. Mostly I need the bigger size on top because my chest hasn't shrunk as much as I'd hoped it would. I need to take the time to either dig smaller sizes out of storage or else go shopping (which I hate). I have a couple pairs of jeans that I'm wearing right now that are size 8 and are nice and snug the way I like them. I can easily get them closed and can breathe in them though! So that means they fit, rignt?

I'm hoping my knee pain goes away too. I'm going to give it a little longer to see if it's just from my body needing to get into shape. My sister (who is a physical therapist) thinks I need different shoes. I'm not sure where to go for shoes though. I live out in the middle of nowhere and the nearest city is over 70 miles away. I'll have to ask around to see if there is a store I should go to because I've NEVER bought that kind of shoe in my life! From what everyone has told me on here the salesman should watch me run, then recommend a shoe based on how my feet fall. I don't know if there are places that do that around here or not. I hope to find out in the near future though!
 
My chest size didn't go down much until the last month or so. I was starting to despair that it would ever go down but have now gone from a g cup to an e cup so don't give up hope. The problem with big boobs is they make you look fatter than you actually are. I'm hoping that with the last 15 lbs they will go down to a D or at least DD.
Good luck with the shoes.
 
Just been catchign up on your journal, and wanted to say WELL DONE on the running!! 2 miles is definitely getting there! It will get progressively easier from here on in...you just run for a bit longer and a bit quicker and the distance increases without you really noticing it.
 
Thanks for the posts peeps!

Boy I'm pooped tonight! My husband is helping some friends build a house along a nearby river, so today when he went to go work on it the kids and I went with and went swimming/wading in the river. All that wonderful sunshine just sucked the energy right out of me though. I could barely keep my eyes open while I made supper tonight!

Foods today:

Morning
1 cup strawberries, raw 44
1 c Kellogg's, Bran Flakes 126
1 c Milk, skim, fat-free 88
Total 258

Afternoon
2 Tbsp peanut butter, creamy smooth 190
2 ea Bread, whole wheat, slice 138
2 Tbsp syrup, caramel, fat-free 100
10 cherries, raw 50
1 can, 5.5 oz V8, juice, vegetable cocktail, 100%, low sodium 35
Total 513

Evening
3 oz beef, ground, lean 237
1 c carrots, cooked 56
1 c potatoes, boiled 136
Total 429

Snack
10 cherries, raw 50
Total 50

Daily Total: 1250

Lately it seems like I get stuck at a weight for several days and feel puffy and squishy and then POW! I drop a good 5 lbs in a matter of a day or so. I've been holding pretty steady around 154 give or take a pound on either side for quite a while now (or so it seems). It'll be that TOM for me any day now, so I think my body must be storing up for that. I have the munchies SO bad tonight. I feel like I want to nibble on everything in sight. Especially the chocolate I know my husband has stashed. Wouldn't take me long to find it - I think I can hear it calling to me. It's tiny little voice will lead me right to it I think! It's saying eat me! Eat me! Eat me!

I'm taking the kids to the city tomorrow to meet up with my best friend from college and her kids so we can spend the day together (hitting the zoo and parks). We have to be on the road early in the morning and my kids have been begging me to let them have McDonalds for breakfast when we get there instead of eating before we leave. Right now that sounds SOOOOO good to me, but it would be SOOOO bad for my diet. We'll probably eat fast food for lunch, and supper as well. I hate to eat badly for all 3 meals tomorrow. It's been sort of a tradition to have either lunch or supper at Denny's. I looked on their website tonight to try to plan ahead what I should order that won't put me totally over my calorie limit for the day. I looked at what I usually order and almost choked! HOLY SMOKES!!! No wonder I've gotten so fat over the years! One meal has more calories that I eat in 2 days now!

I'm thinking I'm going to be treading in very dangerous territory tomorrow food-wise. Especially this time of the month for me. It's going to be really hard for me to stay on the old wagon.

I also haven't been exercising like I should be the last couple of days. The kids and I have gone for a mile walk each day over the last few days, but I was supposed to go for a run yesterday and didn't. It was raining a little bit and my knees were killing me, so I told myself that I'd go today instead (today is supposed to be my rest day). But I never got around to it (unless you count all the hiking we did around the river and the swimming - which didn't really feel like much of a work out to me - even though I carried 1 or both of the twins on my back piggy back style a good part of the way). I was also WAY low on water today. I drank maybe 1/4 of what I normally do.

While I'll be walking all day tomorrow, I doubt I'm going to have time for my usual workout because we'll be getting home right at bed time. And next Friday my mother and nieces are coming to stay with us for a few days, so it's going to be hard to find time to get my work out in then too.

It's just not going to be a good week or 2 coming up for weight loss I think.
 
It brings back so many memories of my childhood hearing about you wading and swimming in the river:) Where I have lived for the past 30 years is a small island so we are surrounded by sea but haven't got any rivers.
Hope you get a weight loss woosh soon :)
 
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