Can I just say I’m really happy right now?

There are so many things to be happy with!

FAMILY

First off, I have the most amazing family ever.  Sammi is simply the most incredible child in the world!  Not only does she have a fun personality, but she is incredibly beautiful and super intelligent!  She just amazes me every day.  She isn’t even two yet but she knows her alphabet and can count to 20 AND recognizes by sight many letters and numbers!

HEALTH

I also have an amazing trainer that deals with all my shit – and it’s not easy.  I’m not easy.  I get grumpy, I complain, and I resist this change like you wouldn’t believe.  Not just that, but I’m moody and an emotional roller coaster. If I was Lynndsey I’d probably kick me.  But she is amazing and knows how to tame the beast lol.

I feel more in control now!  I can do this.  I can stick to a meal plan (especially when they are this amazing-I seriously don’t loathe my meal plan anymore which is awesome).  I know I can do it and that is exciting.  That is EVERYTHING.

After all you won’t do it, if you don’t believe you can do it, eh?  Maybe that is the secret – not that it is a secret!  You have to find a meal plan you can follow, exercise, drink water, believe you can do it and then you can.

WOOT!

A True Test of Will

It is so hard over holiday weekends.  Not only is it Memorial Day tomorrow, but my birthday the following day. 

So being realistic I do not want to gain.  If I can just stay the same weight that will be good.

Tonight some of my family came over for a bbq.  We did really good though as we had none of the usual pasta salads and only had a green salad with it and no desserts.  So we didn’t do so bad.  I should have had more water though.  My goodness we had a fun party though!  Teagan and Sammi swam in the pools in the back and afterwards the adults played cards.  It was seriously a blast!

So tomorrow Adam’s family is having a Memorial Day luncheon and celebrating my birthday.  I’m pretty sure I’m getting a carrot cake for my birthday.  So that will definitely be my cheat meal.  Adam says I should take all day for my birthday but I think that is a bad idea.  So here is what I think will help:

·       I will continue to follow diet all other meals on Monday & Tuesday

·       On my birthday we are going to go to the Zoo and maybe swimming because these are really active!  (The zoo has a lot of hills now that I love/hate!)

·       I will also continue to exercise

·       I will be perfect the rest of the week

Let’s hope it works!

TGIF....Tomorrow!

I was having a hard time with the food today, so I decided I needed my cheat meal.  MMMM.  We went to Chillis and I even got dessert and I don’t feel bad about it.  I enjoyed it so that is what matters.  Now let’s just hope I don’t regret it this weekend.  Stupid holidays and my birthday. OK not really – those are GOOD things but hard on the diet.

But holy cow I’m noticing changes.  I can tell I’m losing around the middle so I must be good.

Humpety Hump It's Wednesday

Can I just say I am LOVING my laptop-not to brag but thank you Wendover.  Oh my stars I never even told you…..

WENDOVER

My in-laws invited me to their bowling group’s activity to hop on the Wendover bus.  I figured why not –they are fun and so is gambling.  Adam was so worried cuz I tend to spend one to two-hundred when I gamble, but thankfully I only go about once a year lol so I don’t consider that a problem.

Anyway on the ride over I was telling everyone his concern & I told them I was going to call him and say I went to the ATM, but don’t worry I only spent $800 honey!

Well instead, I ended up winning that much-actually $875.  It was like I couldn’t lose.  It was crazy.  And 800 of it was from the PENNY machines.  I did win $75 from 5 minutes of Roulette lol.  Oh my it was so much fun.  Yeah me. And I NEVER win peeps so it was just my day.   So that’s how I got my laptop which just makes it so much easier to blog!  And when I blog, I do better.

TODAY’S PROGRESS

So this morning I forgot to put sweetener in my oatmeal and blueberries and that wasn’t very tasty.  It keeps me nice and full though.  I am very tired, but that is because I only wore the apnea machine for two hours-whoops!

Lisa wanted to work out this morning but I was all icky crampy-again gotta love surfin’ the crimson wave.  I can’t wait to hear all about her trip to Florida!

FUNNY MOMENTS OF THE DAY

I firmly believe you must laugh every day.  These are things that made me giggle.

·       At Harmon’s, Sammi got some stickers from the pharmacy (1^st stop) and she insisted we wear one on our nose, so yes, this devoted Mama walked around the store with a hippo on my nose!

·       Sammi kicked the soccer ball at me and said “I’m gonna kick your butt”

Totally Tubular Tuesday

TUESDAY

Have you ever noticed that it’s totally hip to be gay these days?  Not that there is anything wrong with that (gotta love Seinfeld).  The Gay parade is coming up and I swear I see adds for it everywhere.  It’s turning me gay.  Lol j/k.  I could never be gay, although I have to admit I have a slight woman crush on Scarlet Johansson. 

And now that you are shocked and appalled –bwa ha ha ha!  How was your day?  I never even ask do I?  It’s all about me every day lol.  Ha ha, that reminds me of my first journal that sadly got thrown out.  I was 5 and I think someone in church told me that you write for your kids, so I wrote directly to my kids or at least to someone.  There was more asking about how many brothers and sisters the reader had and so forth, than there was actual information…until Laurie was born and then its all about ‘my baby’. 

Oh I wish I had it still, but I’m grateful I read it a lot so I can picture some of the details.

TUESDAY MORNING

I have to admit I was kind of tempted to just have cereal instead of making my oatmeal and then I

laughed.  It’s instant oatmeal-oh SO HARD lol.  Just have to slap myself in the face a little.  I’m used to lots of butter and brown sugar in my oatmeal, but I have to tell you a little skim milk, blueberries, and Splenda and it is deliciously fruity (like me if I went to the Gay parade lol jk)

EXERCISE

I’m such a wuss.  I got on the elliptical and I could only do 15 minutes lol.  Oh goodness.  Well I’m getting there.

TUESDAY SUMMARY

I did awesome today!  I was very tempted to get ice cream as we went and got a new table – yeah! 

Which by the way it was hilarious because Sammi was so mad that we wouldn’t buy her this huge

mounted goat head.  She really really really wanted it lol.  Anyway I had 85 ounces of water which is my goal but eventually I need to get 100.

Yeah me!

IT IS SO EASY!

Isn’t it funny how when you start something it is literally easy the first few days???!!!  And I know that will change soon lol.

What is that magic that keeps you going?  Is it just the newness – that oh so fresh feeling lol.  I don’t know what it is, but I want to bottle some of it up for later use!

MOVIN’ DA BOOTY

I met with Lynndsey today and told her how much I like the plan so far, well except for the Larabars.  She was surprised saying most people like them.  Perhaps it is power of suggestion, but the one I had tonight was actually good (PB cookie).  The workout was great as always (a combination using bands for arms, rowing machine & dumb bells (yeah those were some really dumb bells!)  I was hating it after that workout so that is good.  And I have to say that I am so in love with the rowing machine (don’t tell Adam).  I didn’t at first, I was playing hard to get big time – but that fella has really grown on me. He can really row my boat…oh too far!

I still need to work on getting enough water in.  That part is tough for me.

CHALLENGES I OVERCAME:

·       I went to the grocery store and didn’t even THINK about getting treats (also found out I’m not preggers thank heavens-not ready yet)

I’M BACK BABY!

Did you miss me?  I know you did lol.  KISS KISS

And I bet you thought….oh man that girl is clueless and is never going to get it together (geez you big jerk!).  I think I thought that too for a while lol, hence why I keep falling short.

It’s tough.  But I’m sick of making excuses.  Just because I feel like I “NEED” something so bad, I’m not going to let that ‘TRAP’ me in this fatsuit anymore.  NO MAS! 

I’m so excited to have Lynndsey oversee everything now.  Now nothing was wrong with Thomas, but I just didn’t feel a friendly connection there anymore and I didn’t like how he ‘managed’ things – very hands off.  I need someone with a whip lol.

DAY ONE:

It was today.  I need to get some sweetener as breakfast with the oatmeal was pretty interesting lol.

I had a great test too.  I had breakfast pretty late as Sammi and I slept in.  Thankfully it was very filling because we didn’t eat again until almost 3:30!

Laurie came over with the kids (Hay-Max as Sammi likes to call Hailey & Max lol) pretty soon after breakfast and we went to the South Jordan Rec Center to go swimming which was way fun!  Those kids are awesome.  I’m still trying to get Sammi to get used to the water more though without holding on to me with a deathgrip lol.

But anyway they didn’t turn on the ‘splashy’ water & the big slide until 2 so despite that we were STARVING (look at me I’m starving lol), we wanted to wait.

I declined going to McD’s afterwards and ran home to get lunch which was a turkey sandwich with avocado and turkey bacon and then carrots and hummus.  It was quite delicious actually!

I’m really not minding my new meal plan at all.  Dinner is this homemade lasagna that she gave me the recipe for that was really hearty and filling so how cool is that!  I really think she gets it.  We actually want tasty food.  No bland!

I am trying to get used to the protein bars-I forget the brand but they taste pretty icky to me lol.  I’m eating quite frequently to boost the metabolism.

No exercise today as Sunday is my day off, although I believe I was kind of active in that I went swimming so that is at least something.

THINGS TO LOOK FORWARD TO:

·       Yellowstone trip is coming up!  Being in better shape will help me to keep up with everyone else J  Less embarrassment

·       SKINNY clothes:  I have a lot of shirts that are just shy of fitting.  They are just a bit too tight and just a few inches will do it.  That will be pretty quick so I’m stoked about that

CHALLENGES:

·       I got some really sobering news from a love one that I can’t share details of.  It kept me in tears last night to see a loved one suffering so.  I have hope though and I will be there for you dear one every step of the way

·       I’m still dealing with a lot of back, shoulder, & neck pain but I do have therapy starting tomorrow so we’ll see how that goes

·       Exercise:  It will be a challenge getting things in this week, but Lynndsey is going to send me an exercise plan for at home so that will be awesome.  I’m ready for the pain.  BRING IT ON!

 

 

Stranger Here

Holy cow.

I feel like it's been a hundred years since I've blogged.  It's probably really only been a month or so.

I'm happy to say I will probably blog a lot more because I'm the proud owner of a new touch screen laptop!  Yesterday at Wendover I scored big ($875), so now I have a laptop.  I'm so excited that it's touch screen so Sammi can keep learning.

So I can totally blog more now.  Don't say you weren't warned!!!

SAMMI:
I know I'm biased but my child is seriously a genius (and I couldn't even spell the word without spellcheck lol).  It took her 2 weeks to learn the basic colors.  She sings the ABC's now and knows her numbers.  She even can recognize several of them.

I think if I keep practicing with her I can have her reading WAY before she starts school.
My favs:

• How she calls Hailey & Max Hay-Max for short
• How hippos are hippoawesomes
• Her telling me she loves me
• Telling Grandma Susan's picture she loves her and wants her (my late mother)
• Yelling shutup even though it's naughty
• Her shoe obsession
• Cuddling with her and playing with her toes
• How she loves me to kiss her toes and kiss her ouchies better

HEALTH:
Starting afresh tomorrow.  Lynndsey got me on a new program so I'm stoked.  I'm going to do it!