Dear Aunt Flow...I Strongly Dislike You

Well as you can tell from the title the bitch decided to come and visit, like she does every month at this time.  However this time she came with all force, I think she has been working out too cause holy hell it feels like she is kicking the shit out of ovaries and everything down there.  Well I knew last nights weigh in was going to suck because I not only was I super sore but I was bloated and pretty sure I resembled a beluga whale of some sort.  I tried having a hot bath before weigh to reduce some of it but no such luck.  Stepped on the scale and up 2...I was pretty upset about it cause I worked my butt of this week and stayed on track and this is what I get in return.  Yesterday afternoon I even took my last 3 of 8 kids I had left for the day for a walk.  So after figuring it out  the 3 of them together would have weighed in just shy of 100lbs and took the dog with us so I had a 35lb dog pulling my other arm.  As someone mentioned to me, I likely felt like Gumby and too think of it I kind of did.  Oh well ce la vie ce la vie.  Stepped on the scale this morning and I am down 5lbs to what I weighed in at yesterday so that makes me feel better knowing that and hoping that I likely lost 2 lbs this past week.   I have taken up using resistance bands this last couple days and wow I sure feel it is my arms and legs lots but no pain means you are not doing a whole lot so bring it on.  I also love the nice weather as I get double the workout- 1 taking 25 minutes getting all the kids bundled up and 2 playing outside with them in the snow or taking them for walks.  I know this weather is leaving us on Friday but take advantage of it while you can, remember our bodies love atleast 30 minutes of physical activity in a day, even if our minds like to tell us different.  So lets get up and go!

Good bye 30

Well it is about frickin time I finally lost 30lbs.  It has been a long fuckin haul but worth every meeting let me tell you.  I have a very long ways to go but this is a huge goal for me.  My goal for July is to be down another 30.  I wanna feel good and look partially good for some of the summer.  I know it won't be till next summer when I hope that I feeling amazing and won't be shy to wear shorts or tank tops.  Right now I am a t-shirt and yoga pants kind of girl when I am at home.  They make me comfortable.  For the longest time I refused to wear jeans cause I felt so gross in them and I did not like the way I looked.  Well thanks to weight watchers I bought a pair of jeans that fit me properly and I felt ok in.  Well hooray those are now in the fat bag of clothes and I went out and bought 2 more pairs of jeans that are 2 sizes smaller and I bought a belt.  A belt I never thought I would ever need one of those as I always had my spare tire of a gut to hold them up.  Well although I don't see it just yet it must be starting to shrink.  Soo high 5 to smaller jeans and being able to use a belt for more then a fashion look.  Here is too another week my friends, even though I just lost 1 lb this week it was a loss and not a gain.  Now I just have to work out my poor fiance who had a pretty rough week and time to get him back on the healthy boat.  He had a rough Sunday and did way too much snacking and went out last Friday with the boys and drank lots of beer and had nachos.  So here is to each of kicking each other in the butt and to an amazing week and a better weight loss then last.

Sure wishes for spring and summer to come

Well this week I started back at the gym and it made me really miss being able to exercise outdoors.  Nothing beats being able to go for a nice long walk or bike ride after supper on a nice warm summer evening.  However I guess I must let reality check in and stick with the gym until atleast April as I am sure that is going to be when we start getting some warmer temperatures.  I am not one who is big into weight training but I do love my cardio work outs.  The other night I did 12 minutes on the eliptical on the weight loss setting and holy crap it kicked my butt and then from there I went and did 35 minutes on the treadmill with every 2 minutes at 4.0 speed I would increase the incline by 2 till I hit 15 and then I did a nice slow the heart rate down session.  It felt fantastic and I felt really good when I got off of it.  However I went in with knowing I need to take it easy as I have a mean head and chest cold.  After I got ready to go home it really kicked in how soar the old lungs were.  So I have decided to take the rest of the week off and get over this cold before I end up having to go to the doctor or hospital.  I am still going to continue to use my eliptical at home just maybe at a lower pace or I might even dig out my wii fit and dust it off and get my butt back on it.
Well I only lost .4 pounds this week but I have to smile and remember it was a loss and not a gain and just to keep on going.  It is only going to get better from here on in.  So keep smiling and remember "Success is not a race, be patient".  So cheers to another week my friends.

Amy

Let's bring in the New Year with whole new goal

Well as I sit here thinking and preparing for our New Year's gathering that we are having tonight I think to myself wow I am going to have to walk all day tomorrow to wear off what I am going to consume tonight between beverages and appetizers.  I have to remember if I ever want to achieve any of my goals I cannot just put them on the back burner for nights like tonight.  So I have decided to have a super healthy lunch full of vegetables and fruit.  The salad dressing was the only thing I had to count.  I am not doing this so I have more points to burn tonight but I know now that I will likely not get in my fruits and vegetables tonight.  I also volunteered to make a lot of the appetizers as I know what is in them and I use all fat free ingredients or atleast low fat ones if I cannot find fat free ones.  I also went out and bought a huge veggie tray so there will always be those healthy options to chose from.  So when you are out and about tonight or just hanging at home with your family I want you to remember that even though tomorrow is a New Year and today will soon be the past let not throw our life changing habits on the back burner.  Let stick with them, if I can do it so you can you.  Hope you all have a wonderful New Year and please please please do NOT drink and drive!

Amy

The beginning from what I can recall

Well about 3 months ago Chadd and I decided enough is enough it is time to get on the healthy wagon and stay on it until we are happy with ourselves, rather then moping around hating what we look like in pictures.  I think my huge breaking point was looking back at my sisters wedding pictures and feeling super depressed and thinking to myself, I cannot believe I ruined her pictures with how gross I look.  I know some of you can understand what I blog about and others of you think I am exaggerating to the max just to hope you will feel sorry for me.  Well that is not what this is all about I am going to blog the truth and let you know that you are not the only one out there feeling the way you do.
I sent Chadd a message one day just out of the blue and said "honey I think I am ready to give Weight Watchers another go, and this time there is no slacking off."  To my surprise he sent me a message back saying "honey I was thinking the exact same thing".  Wow maybe it is true when they say great minds think alike.  So the following Tuesday we hit up a meeting in our area.  We were both shocked and overly saddened when we stepped on that scale for our first weighing, but we knew that we were going to stick with each other to make that number go down, go way way down.  We were not too fond of our leader she was a pre school teacher and she did our meetings in the same mode which me thought was strange, but that was not going to stop us.  We followed the books tracked everything we ate and that brought us to week 2.  Hooray we both lost between 4 and 7lbs which brought huge smiles to our faces. 
Well to make a long story a little bit shorter we ended up switching meeting to another location as we could not handle our leader and a couple that joined ww drove us bonkers.  We now have an amazing leader and actually someone I know.  Her face was very familiar to me but she dropped over 120lbs so it was hard to put a name on her.  Seeing how dramatic her weight loss was gave me that much more of a boost.
Well through our journey so far we have had our ups and our downs and just helped each other back on the good ol' weight loss wagon.  Gaining a pound or two makes you a little sad but you look back and smile and say you are going to have those kind of weeks and you just have to remember that you just turn around take that step towards a new and better week.   Through the fall months exercising was so much easier the trying to exercise in the winter.  Having to get all bundled up to go for a 20 minute walk seems like so much, but we have to remember if we want to succeed we have to do what we need to do to get in that physical activity.  I am trying to work myself to joining a friend in aquasize but classes start at 6 and it is in the north end and I fear that by the time the parents pick up the kids which sometimes is 545 I will never make it on time.  I am one of those people that do not believe in being late and don't believe in the lame excuses of people being late.  Oh well I guess I still have a few more days to decide what I wanna do.
Well I just wanted to get this blog going and let you know you are not the only one out there struggling.  Feel free to post any thoughts or recipes or questions.  I know tons of people who have either joined or re joined weight watchers so I thought I would throw something like this together so we can all help each other out.

Here is to a good week and hope you all have a very Happy and safe New Years.

Amy