After 3 months of stalling, I am finally moving again. I am down 7 pounds this week to my goal weight of 140 lbs. I dont know if my body will stop now or not. I would be happy at this weight but we will see what my body wants to do. I am at a normal BMI of 24.0 now. I feel great and and in NO WAY regret any part of my experience. I would do it all over again 1000 times. It is so worth it.
I know im a bit late seeing as today is the 27th December 2008. Gosh the new year is almost here! I just updated my measurements as far as inches lost. I have been stuck bouncing around 147-150 for the last few weeks. I need to get my butt back exercising. That will break the plateau. I am stil losing inches though as i had to buy new jeans yesterday as my 10s were getting really loose and saggy. Im in an 8 now they are a bit loose everywhere but my hips. Thats because I have those “birthin hips” even though neither of my children has been birthed thru them hips~! LOL anywho — my parents are in town this weekend and we have lots to do.
I am really looking forward to going to Mississippi and seeing everyone again. I am a bit nervous about foodstuff so i will be taking a supply of food. I am going to take a mini loaf of wheat bread and a jar of simply jiff as well as a box of Special K protein plus cereal and mini boxes of organic raisins for my breakfasts. I will have to buy a half gallon of skim milk when i get to Forest so that I wont dump on the 2% momma and daddy keep at their house. I dumped last night on jalapeno peppers with cheddar cheese stuffing. Not fun. No bathroom issues but man my heart was racing for awhile and I was feelin really faint. Wont be trying that again for a while. Auburn has stayed home with me the last two days. Shes pretty low maintenence during the day, usually plays in her room all day. Today is the short work day. I get to run to the bank and the post office after 1 pm and be back by 3 pm to get Taylor. got my vitamins in for the morning. iron, b12, and vit d are all done for the day. Next is the calcium and multi 2 times and im done for the day. ill do my next dose at lunch (noonish) my last dose at night. anywho, not much else going on today. weighed this morning and im at 156.0 so hopefully tomorrow I will see 155. That would be nice. I dont mind this 1-2 pounds loss per week. even at this rate thats about 5 pounds per month so not too bad. If it continues that will put me in the 140s at the end of the year. Not too bad i dont think. Oh well, off to work now….
Yep, its getting cold– our high today was 72 but i dont think it ever got higher than 65. Now its drizzling outside. YUCK! I was planning on going to Kroger and getting some egg roll wrappers and cabbage and stuff to make egg rolls tonite but with it nasty like this outside, I think we will be staying home and changing the menu. Instead we will be having Manwich (aka Sloppy Joes) YUCK! nasty crap if you ask me. I may have to go out by myself and find me something else to eat as our pantry is getting bare. Cheese isnt going down as well as it used to and neither is water. I have forced the water today and feel pretty good but I still think im a bit dehydrated. I need to force the water for the rest of the week/weekend to make sure i get back to normal. I dont know whats going on with me. Im getting complacent again.
Its raining again today. Thank goodness. As much as I love the temperate weather here in SE Gulf Coast Texas, We have our times when there is hardly any rain. It hasnt rained good since Ike hit 2 months ago. It rained all day yesterday and looks like its going to rain all day today. its been steady with a few occasional downpours. The thunder started this morning. That is fine with me if it continues today. Its veterans day so the mail wont run today so i dont have to worry about getting the mail in the rain. I made a new dish last night for supper. Low carb, Low fat and high protein. DH liked it. Its called grilled chicken piri piri. I made the sauce from scratch. It was really easy to make. Quite yummy as well but pouch didnt like it too much. I didnt get toilet visiting sick but i was laid up in bed not feeling well rubbing my stomach for over an hour. The sauce had bell peppers, serrano peppers, lemon zest, lemon juice, red wine vinegar and olive oil as well as fresh parsley and paprika in it. Basically you food processor the stuff up and just use it as a marinade on the chicken. I let it marinade from about noon until 5:30 last nite. The chicken was very moist and tender and fell off the bone. Other than that, it was decent day yesterday. Got a lot done work wise. I am going to have to find a second job, our electric bill this month was 430 bucks. Its because they UNDER estimated last months bill and made up for it on this months bill. We only have 250 budgeted for electricity. Its aggravating to say the least. That is one thing i miss about mississippi. Regulated energy costs. In MS even if i worked from home and ran my ac 24-7 at 72 degrees, my bill would never have gotten over 200 bucks. and that bill would have included water and sewer and garbage pickup. Instead i get a separate bill here for water sewer and garbage pickup for another 65 bucks a month. one of my coworkers bills in an Austin apartment is always under 75 bucks a month - usually under 50 and that includes her water and sewer and garbage pickup. That would be nice to see on a regular basis here. This Energy Star home is a bunch of bullshit if you ask me. Just a way to sell houses to make people think that their bills will go down. We have been in this house 2 years and I have yet to see a bill under 200 bucks a month for electricity alone. Oh well, enough ranting about the bills, I need to get dressed and get the kids fed so we can go to school.
When i was a kid, if the animals werent fed in the mornings/afternoons, I didnt eat until they were. I couldnt do anything until the animals were taken care of. Well this is gonna start at my house this week. I am sick of having to remind the kids and then them not listening to me. They are too freaking glued to the tv especially taylor. Auburn could care less about the tv for the most part. I am going to make a chore chart and before they eat breakfast/dinner, all the animals must be fed and all the kids crap must be picked up. I am sick of having lazy ass kids and a dirty house and cats screaming for food. This is ridiculous. Ok enough with my rant. Otherwise I am feeling good and doing great. 157.2 was the weight this morning– it sure would be nice to see 156 in the morning. that would be awesome. I must be losing inches because my “tight” size 10 levis (last weeks jeans) are getting loser. So are the size 10 cargo pants i just got at walmart. I hope to get the carpets cleaned and some other parts of the house cleaned today. I got a lot of laundry done yesterday and just need to do a little bit more and everything will be clean. My kitchen is cleaner than usual today and i mopped the floor yesterday morning. I want to get my counters cleaned off. There is crap everywhere on my counters. I need to have a garage sale and get rid of some of these small appliances we dont use or need. I have a pile of crap i need to take to the donation box today — i will get that done when my bank opens so i can deposit DH’s check from the bar. At least his check was over 300 bucks this week. I am still looking for a second job that i can do at home either while im working or in the evenings. Since sports is going to be totally over starting next weekend, I will have a lot more free time and SIL can actually earn the money i pay her to watch both kids for a bit longer if i have to get a job outside the house.
Today started out ok. We were able to sleep in since there were no early morning games for the kids sports today. Taylors last football game was supposed to be at 1 pm at Centennial Park and Auburns game was at 11 at Resoft Park. No biggies– those are within 5 miles or so of each other. Auburn woke up in a good mood but refused to do anything but play this morning. Then when DH got tired of her not minding he spanked her ( i wanted to do it way earlier but didnt want to deal with her incessant crying and whining crap) so now auburn was pissed off. We still went to soccer, she stood on the sidelines and CRIED the entire time. I hate when she gets like that. Of course SIL came and i told Auburn before we left that she couldnt go to SILs house if she didnt play in the game. She didnt play at all. just cried the entire time. im so glad that next sunday is our last soccer game. This is so not worth the hassle. So after the soccer game we headed to Centennial. We didnt go to practice Thursday evening for football because they had open house at taylors school. No biggie as they told us Tuesday that our last game was at Centennial Park at 1 pm and he had to be there by 12 noon to warm up. We got to Centennial Park at 12:10 and didnt see any other players from our team. We waited until 12:45 and after leaving voicemails with the coach and team mom (with no response) met SIL at McDonalds. 1:15pm team mom calls me back and said oh i didnt tell you, they changed the game to FHS and the game is now in the 4th qtr. WTF?! needless to say, we shouldnt have left the house today all we did was waste gas and time. I could have had the house so much cleaner instead of watching my daughter cry/pout for an hour and waiting to find out that the football game was almost over and we werent informed of the time/location change. I am so glad football is over and soccer will be over next weekend. I can be at home on weeknights and actually cook dinner. Im not doing this sports crap next year. I am not dealing with the agony and pouting and crying from the kids about it every practice/game. ughh — going to bed now….