Hmmm- this isn't so bad after all

Last week was our first weigh in for Weight Watchers.  I lost 3 lbs and Mandy lost 5!!  I am so pleased with us.  We have started to adapt everyone's meals to a healthier way, and no one is complaining.  Mandy has stepped up and has been cooking a ton of amazing foods that we all love.  We are trying new recipes and loving it. 
We have our third meeting tomorrow.  I am actually looking forward to it.  My scale has already started going down and it excites me. 

Ahhhh that damn scale.  I really have to stop getting on it so much.  We all weigh at least one time a day.  We have to stop letting those damn numbers control our day to day attitude.  We get obsessive over it. 
I understand the importance of weighing in once a week at WW but come on.  Still for some reason, I just cannot stop.  Every morning I step on, hopefully for even a tenth of a pound change and every night I get on to see how much higher it is-- how much fluid I am holding and if I over did it.  I know, logically, it makes no sense in any way, but I still do it.  AND as much as I sit here, writing this, saying I should stop and saying I don't need to do it ever day, I know tomorrow, before our WW meeting, I will still step on that scale and see what I am in for. 

Somehow I am still doing pretty well on food.  I have my days but once again I managed to keep it between the lines, and I am STOKED!  For the first time we feel like this can happen!

I am still in school and still busting my tail.  I have a rare three day weekend because we start going on Saturdays now.  I will now be in school Tuesday through Saturday which kind of sucks, but it will be really nice to have a week day available for doctors appointments and other things that are not open on the weekend.

Hopefully I will update tomorrows weight before next weekend. 

67.8

67.8

67.8

I have 67.8 lbs to lose before I hit what I consider to be my goal weight, which in actuality, is 13 lbs more than a BMI chart says I should be. 

It was time for something different.  Something with more structure.  Something with community that might actually help.  Something proven. 

Enter Weight Watchers. 
I know, I know.  Yet another magic method to try and fail at.  Maybe this time it will be different?  Mandy and I both signed up yesterday because they were running a special.  I am not one to believe in such things as divine intervention, but we happened to get an escrow return check the same day that we were not expecting, so the money literally fell into our laps.  Sale, extra money, all at the right moment.  We took a flying leap off of a VERY high cliff.  A cliff that will take us 3 months to land from.  That is how long our initial term is for. 

We decided to go to the Sunday morning meetings.  It is very early for us, but it is the only one I know that I will always be available to attend.  I am so glad we picked that time.  Everyone was a riot.  I like to say we got the heathens that do not attend church.  I feel like there will be a higher sense of accountability for me.

So this is where we stand.  I am going to school 5 days a week still, and it is getting harder.  I am stretching myself thin and my business is starting to suffer for it.  This is not the best time to start a new way of eating, but I can no longer afford to stay at this weight.  I had a great doctors appointment about 6 weeks ago.  My cholesterol is awesome.  The bad is low and the good is high.  Everything is within normal range.  Oh-- with the exception of my blood pressure and my risk of a cardiac event.  It was through the roof. 
At 31 years old I am at major risk for having a heart attack or stroke. 

I have 6 children.  I cannot afford to take that much time off from life.  They need me.  Everyone needs me.  I need me to be here still.  Dying would be a drag.

I cannot afford to fail.

Help me....


XOXO
The worst blogger in the world.

The Worst Blogger in the WORLD!!!

I really am the worst blogger ever.  In the past months, I have improved my business, lost 10 pounds, kicked that awful phobia of needles in the snatch, had my gallbladder out, gained 10 lbs, flaked on two 5k races I registered for, and decided to go to cosmetology school.

I am no longer the Skinny Sister.  Not really anyway.  My oldest sister has gotten suspiciously thin.  I will talk about that in another post.

I am on a quest to lose some weight again.  I am not as healthy or as fit as I was.  I know I am about to be standing up all day, and I need to increase my stamina.  I do have to say that my over all fitness has improved- I have stayed on my meds.  I have worn a FitBit for almost a year now and I can say that I move a lot more most days than I did at the beginning of the year. 

Moving more won't help a ton if you don't change the way you eat.  I can do well for a while, and then I just sink into a pit that I cannot seem to drag myself out of.  I can never blame anyone but myself but I do often.  I need to take more responsibility for what I am eating and doing. 

I have a great menu lined out for the next few weeks.  I have a lot of great ingredients and I am taking a lot of effort to keep the bad foods out of the house.  I figure if I can make it through the holidays, then I can find a way to keep it going. 

I am changing up the blog a little to reflect how I look. 

As far as business goes things have been going GREAT.  I will try to update a little over the next few days and weeks about everything that has happened, including that little phobia ass-kicking and gallbladder surgery I mentioned.  That alone has made it a good year. 

Fighting a Binge

I am fighting a binge so hard right now.  The 13 year old has been a monster today, and has very intentionally been driving me mad and now I want to eat.  I want cheese.  Fried cheese, cheese dip, cheese pizza, cheese on chips, cheese anything on top of cheese everything with a side of more cheese.

When things get hard I want to eat but I have been doing SO good lately, I just cannot.  I cannot slip.  Not this time...

My body is in One-derland!

What?  What's that?  Oh yeah.  Yeah it is.  199.7 this morning.  I could not be happier if I tried.  I got a pair of jeans via FitStudio that I am waiting on, and I happen to know they will be a little small- FOR NOW.  I went and tried on a 14 today.  I can get them buttoned, but they are way too snug.  I think in 10 lbs or so, they will fit perfectly.

Review on FitStudio/Sears freebees are coming soon.  As well as my take on the Biggest Loser fiasco, an app that we all must use, and some info on Binge Eating.  For now, I am off to the treadmill. 

Walk this way

Sometimes I wonder just how much one person can walk.  I seems like I check my Fitbit app 100 times a day just to see how many steps I have taken.  I may be getting a little obsessive about it, but if it helps me lose weight, then I am all for it.

One of the websites I joined for fun was Walkadoo.  There really is no point to it other than to encourage each other to get up and move more.  You earn points for talking to other people, encouraging them, and taking your own steps.  Each day it gives you a "card" and you must meet or exceed those steps for points.  Unlike FitStudio, these points are not really worth anything, but it is fun anyway.  You can even compete in derbies with your friends.  Again, it isn't really for anything but fun, but fun it is.

Today is a short one.  But, since you took the time to read this, I think I will give you a little more fun.  This is one of my favorites from when I was little and the catchy little song stays in my head sometimes all day long.

Land of a thousand... 5ks?

520 calories burned, 2 hours, and 5 miles.

Getting to the 100s has been a lot harder than I anticipated.  Between getting sick and the husband being home for a long weekend and bringing a thousand things of junk food in the house, I have not lost anything else.  Of course, I have not gained anything else either.  My exercise and steps were down over the weekend, but I am back and raring to go.  I managed to do a lot on the treadmill a few days ago; see the photo?  That is a lot in one session for me.  I was watching Hoarders, and decided to just keep going.  I was super happy with how my day turned out.  Today was not as good but I still logged over 10,000 steps and did 2 miles on the treadmill.  My left hamstring is bothering me again, so I decided to take it a little easier.  I am hoping I can stretch it out a little and maybe start running off and on again soon.  I would love to be able to go for more runs with the man.

For a while now I have been really attracted to the 5k distance.  It seems like just a good "race" length to start out with and I really want to start doing more races and walks and runs.  I have been super impressed with Mandy's drive to get up and move on the treadmill lately too.  Today she got on it again, on her own accord, and the next thing I know, she was almost to a 5k.  She decided that she was so close she would just keep going.  It was awesome.  Maybe I can make a runner out of her yet.  Or maybe not, but either way, I am glad to see she is working on it.
I would love to do the Gritty Goddess run in Galveston later this year, as well as the Renaissance Run, and the PCOS walk/run again, but I would love to RUN it this time, or at least walk it much much faster.  I must start looking for things to walk and run for soon. 

We went and picked up my first freebee from FitStudio this last weekend as well.  I totally love my pants.  In a day or two I will take a photo and do a review on them.  I do wish they had an XL, but the L fits okay, if a little snug in the waist.  More on that later.  Mandy has ordered her first freebee too, and I cannot wait to go pick it up.  My next one will be amazing- I already have my eye on it and I am already half way to the points I need.

Nothing much new going on around here otherwise.  I am just getting ready for a few work things.  Aside from that, just trucking along.