Hey y’all. I have so much to update here. I’ve written several posts to y’all over the past week in my head. Didn’t you get them? No? Oh, right, I’m still not good at telepathy.

Anyway, it’s been a really really rough few days. Mentally and physically and emotionally rough. It’s hardest to be kind to yourself during those times and do things that will not perpetuate the situation. However, last night, in tears, frustration and complete breakdown mode, I made my list of reasons to change my habbits. I realize my lifestyle is not helping my mental health or helping me be a good wife and mother. There is so much more at stake now and so many bigger reasons to be healthy besides “to fit into my old jeans.” Now, I’m doing it for my heart, body, mind and family, not just the mirror.

And that’s all I have time for tonight because number one on my action list is to go to bed on time. So I’m signing off for the night. Mhuwa.

I have been doing NS for a few days.  Ok, I haven’t been consistent, but I have been doing it.     I realized, I don’t like most of the lunches.  They are all add water and let stand.  They aren’t bad, they just aren’t good.   I like the dinners and most of the breakfasts, just lunch, not so much.
I am eating them beacause they are easy, but weekends are a problem.  And when I go home this weekend, not bringing them.   So I am doing it without doing it a lot.  Yeah, it’s not the right way, but it’s my way.

Ok… so last Friday I posted that I was going to a scrapbooking retreat for the weekend and that I’d tried to choose healthier snacks this time around (as opposed to the last crop I went to, where all I took was junk food!).

Can I just say that I rocked!?!?! Not once, the entire weekend, did I go on a binge and pig out on chocolate and chips. Instead, I munched on grapes, grape tomatoes, and carrots and drank plenty of water and Crystal Light peach tea. You would not believe the amount of junk food other people brought… OH MY! It would have fed a small army!! But I held strong (and really, wasn’t even tempted)! Saturday night around 2 in the morning, they actually made ice cream sundaes!! YES, at 2:00 in the morning!! I didn’t even eat so much as an M&M.

I got lots of the, “wow, I’m impressed!” comments and some “way to go” ones too. I even made my husband give me a WHOOP WHOOP over the phone! LOL It wasn’t a totally wholehearted whoop whoop but he did it!

So this morning when I weighed myself, I am down another pound or so (my scale wavers back and forth b/t two numbers). I know if I would have given in and junked myself out this weekend, the scale would have gone the other way at least a few pounds.

Oh, by the way, I ended up getting 45 pages done in my scrapbooks (minus the journaling… I suck at that!). My two year old’s album is caught up (except for Christmas~ I still need to develop those pictures). And my five year old’s is caught up to summer. Not too shabby, huh?!?!

For two weeks straight now, I have exercised every day Monday through Friday. The first week it didn’t start out as a conscious, “I’m going to do this everyday” thing. One day I took the dogs for a walk, another I walked by myself. After the first trip with both dogs I learned to rotate the dogs on the walks because they don’t have manners when they walk together. Several days I danced my way through the Wiggles with my kids and even Jack’s Big Music Show too.

By the end of that first week I added strength training using SparkPeople.com’s fitness tracker. Last week I did my cardio (increasing my walking times/distances/speeds) every day without fail. I did my strength training every other day.

Today, I’ve already done my strength workout and I danced for 20 minutes to a workout show. I’m waiting my husband’s homecoming from work so I can leave on a walk while he cooks dinner.

I’m starting to wonder what bug crawled up my butt. Whatever it was, it was definitely a good one as opposed to that nasty bitchy-depressed-bug of the past two years.

It feels good.

Oh and Ya’ll, I bought a new pair of jeans this weekend at Lane Bryant and they were a size smaller than the last couple of pair of pants I bought there! I’m hoping that the next 4-6 weeks will find me returning to buy another pair in yet a smaller size. I’m going to keep this up, so I know I will, just in time for Spring. Oooo Ooo! I know, I’ll wait 3 months and see where I’m at (complete with safety pins holding my pants up I hope!) and go buy some new outfits for our trip to Disney World, the first of June.

Now that’s something worth looking forward to, don’t you think?

I weighed in this morning. I am at 130, a loss of 2 lbs. This gives me the motvation to keep going. I have been really good this past week. It seems my appetite has decreased since T’s only nursing twice in a 24 hour period (can i hear a woot woot).

Sorry I haven’t been around but if I sit T wants to nurse so I have had to keep busy and distract him.

Good morning, fellow P2G’ers! :wave:

I had a very good weekend and was rewarded with another pound loss this morning, making 9 total (unofficially…weigh in day is Wednesday).  My hubby, who has been following along with me and has about 75 P2G, is down 14 pounds!   :clapping:

Everyone have a good week — how were your weekends?