New Year's Eve

My official weigh-in for today was 203. I've knocked off 3 of the 10 lbs. I gained over Christmas.

My sis (H) and I have our own little Biggest Loser competition going to see who can lose the most weight each month. We both gained over December. At least I don't owe her any money! ;)

I haven't exercised today and chances aren't good that I will. I've gotta change up the way I'm doing things if I'm gonna see some results. I know what needs to be done: eat right, exercise, and drink plenty of water. If I can get the hang of the exercise, I think the other 2 will fall into place.

That's all I have for now. I'll be back in 2010!

Happy New Year!!

I'm still alive.

No, I didn't just fall off the face of the planet. I'm still here in my little corner of the world. Just didn't blog. For a LONG time. I've been Facebooking instead!

Weight loss has been sporadic. At the beginning of December, I was down to 196. I know! YAY! As of this morning, I was 206. How depressing is that. :(

I totally let myself go over Christmas. No exercise. Eating whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. Drinking soda and NO water. Ugh!

So, yesterday, I started back with exercising again. I'm doing Jillian Micheals' 30-Day Shred. I can't do all of it, but I do what I can and take a break when I need to. Today I made it farther than I did yesterday though, so I feel pretty good about that.

I REALLY want to be at my goal (150) by my birthday this year (September). 56 pounds in 9 months is doable....if I'll stick with eating right, exercising and drinking my water!

So, there's my goal. Out there for ALL the world to see (if they stop by to read). Now, to get with the program and get it done!

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That really sums up my day and how I feel.

I need to clean the house, but I don't feel like it.

I need to stay OP, but I don't feel like it.

All I really want to do is curl up in the recliner with a good book and read for the afternoon, but I don't have anything to read. I've been wanting to get to the library for a few weeks now, but it's just not worked out for me.

Yesterday, I'm not sure what happened. I made chocolate frosting. Then ate most of it throughout the day. I finished it today.

Actually, I do know what happened. It's the week before TOM. I get like this. I don't really care what happens. I just feel blah. Don't want to do anything, go anywhere, nothing.

I did exercise, but I quit about 3/4 of the way through instead of sticking it out.

The scale is still stuck at 200.5. I SO need to break this plateau.

We ate with my family over the holiday weekend. My cousin's hubby has lost 45 lbs. on a low-carb diet. He does so good with it too. So, of course that made me want to go back to low-carb. I can drop the weight pretty quick on low-carb, but it's hard for me to stay on. Let's just face it, any diet is hard for me to stay on.

My basic problem is this: I want the results, I just don't want to do the work.

However, low-carb seems to be the thing that is easiest for me to stick to. And even that's hard.

Whatever. I just needed to vent. I don't know what I'm gonna do. But I am done with this for now.

Just a quick post

...before we head out to church.

I've stayed steady at 200.5 for the weekend. I suppose considering that I haven't been OP, that's allright.

I had some pics saved on my computer that were before pics. I can't remember when they were taken, but I think it was sometime in 2007, maybe. Anyway. I took some new ones a couple of weeks ago. I just put them on my computer and compared them. I don't think there was any difference. Just that we've gotten a better camera since the last ones were taken. I thought about posting them here, but I'm not ready to be that open.

So, that's the update for now. We've been really busy this weekend, so I haven't really had time to post until now.

I told J (my hubby) that we are going to measure in the morning. Hopefully, I've lost some inches and I'll feel better about no loss. AND I'm kicking it into high gear this week.
My goals for the week: Exercise everyday
100 oz. of water everyday
OP everyday!

I gotta run for now. Be back for a measurement update sometime Monday!

Survey says....

200!!!!

YAY! YAY! YAY!

Yep. I know. Total freak out over half a pound. Big whoop. Well. To me it is a big whoop!!!!

I'm SO close to Onederland now, I can taste it.

Earlier, Bob Harper kicked my butt on the Biggest Loser Workout. I hung in as best I could, but now I have something to work for: being able to do the whole workout! I started out with the low intensity cardio. The DVD has 4 different workouts: low intensity cardio, strength and sculpt, high intensity cardio and boot camp. Each workout has a warm-up and cool down. Or you can mix and match what you what to play. It's pretty neat. So, I figure I'll start easy and work my way up.

As for eating. So far today I'm OP. I'm hoping to stay OP for the rest of the day. We are having a family cookout Saturday for July 4th. I'm dealing with myself (and publishing it): if I stay OP for today and Friday, I'll eat what I want in moderation at the cookout! Pretty good deal. I've been wanting a hot dog!

That's it for now. E's awake. Off to feed her before my snack time....

The verdict is....

guilty. I'm guilty of not being POP today.

There. I said it.

When I got home from church tonight, I had some cheese and crackers. Then a couple of handfuls of popcorn. Both definite no-nos on the 6WBMO. *sigh* I'm pretty sure I got all my 100 oz. of water in today.

So, we'll see how it goes on the scale in the A.M.!

I exercised this morning

and that is an achievement. YAY!!! I walked one mile with Leslie Sansone. I love her Walk at Home DVDs. I can walk anytime I want no matter what the weather is!

Weigh-in this morning was the same....200.5.

My goal for today is to be Perfect On Plan (POP) and HOPEFULLY get that .5 pound gone for good!!!

So there you have it. I'm off to have a POP-tastic day!!!

i've missed a few days

my plan was to post everyday, but whatever.

this morning, i weighed 200.5. not too bad. i've been stuck at this weight for the weekend. hoping to move into onederland this week. it'll be SO good to get out of the 200's!

yesterday, i woke up with a fever. yuck. my wonderful hubby stayed home to take care of the kids so i could rest. i slept until 10, got up, ate some toast (totally not OP), then went back to bed. i woke up around 3pm and decided i'd better stay up if i wanted to sleep last night. i didn't eat anything OP yesterday; i hardly ate anything actually.

i'm trying to do better today, but my throat is still really sore and i'm not really hungry, so i'm doing the best i can. i'm at least eating every 3 hours even if it's not OP food.

there you have it. my goal for the week: to get into the 1oo's!!!

my story

i decided to make this blog so i can keep up with my weight loss efforts. i'm sure i'll never have a readership, but this is just for me anyway.

okay. my history.

the most i've ever weighed is 260 lbs. at 5'2", that's a lot of weight to carry around. and it doesn't look good either.

in high school, i weighed 250 lbs. i lost weight on an atkins'-like diet. i didn't adhere strictly to atkins' principles, all i knew was meat, cheese and salads. and it worked for me. i walked every morning during the summer before 12th grade along with the dieting and dropped to 180 lbs. i was still over weight but i looked and felt better about myself than ever before. boys started to notice me and i dated for the first time ever. it was a great year.

i maintained that weight (within about 10 lbs.) for 2 years. during that time, i got married and we decided to try for a baby. so, i got pregnant and ALL the weight came back on. by the time my son was born, i weighed 243.

i tried over the next few years to get it off. i tried weight watchers, atkins', south beach and lots of other fad diets.

at the beginning of 2007, i was my heaviest, at 260. i was trying to lose weight before we started to try to have another child. i started a low-carb diet and was going to the gym. i lost 20 pounds in about 3 months with that. but, circumstances changed in my life and quit going to the gym.

later that year, i heard about the 6 week body makeover (6WBMO). it was working for a friend of mine, so my husband and i ordered it. when we got it, we did everything we were supposed to and i lost another 20 pounds in 6 weeks on that. at 220 lbs, i found out i was pregnant. i had a great pregnancy with no complications. once my daughter was born, i was even more determined to get the weight off.

now, almost a year since my daughter was born, i've lost 29 lbs. to put me at 201.

just this past monday, my hubby and i started the 6WBMO again. on monday morning when i weighed, i was 209; thursday morning, i'm 201.

i'm pretty excited about all of the weight loss so quick. i know that it's just water weight because the biggest thing about the 6WBMO, is that you cut out salt, fat and sugar. i'm having some problems staying on plan (OP) and hope that i can make it for the whole 6 weeks, like i promised hubby!

that's it for now. i'll be back when i need to talk to someone though. that's what this is for, to help me through at least the next 5 1/2 weeks!