Christmas done...

So I'm trying out blogging from my iPhone so this is kind of a test.

Hope your holidays were jam packed with fun like ours were. New years will be quiet for us though. We usually stay home with appetizers and movies.

So I got a huge hungry girl cookbook for Christmas. I am loving the simplicity of it. And so far everything is good!

I am sure I have gained a pound over the Christmas feasting. But I'm ok with it. We made lots of good memories. It was our baby boys first Christmas and he made out with some awesome toys! Out daughter got what she asked Santa for too! It was a good year. I'm very proud of my family.

I have caught the cold. I don't feel too bad just drained. Keeping moving and keeping on with the food logging on My Fitness Pal and I will conquer all! And lots of water!

So let's see if this blog post will go through... I'll blog more later.

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Wednesday Weigh In and other tidbits...

The number today...(drum roll) 182! Loss of 1 lb!  I am steadily losing in a healthy fashion and it is great! I feel great!  I have to say seeing this weight is a big relief.  I haven't seen this number since before I was pregnant. 

I would like to thank My Fitness Pal for their continuous support and positive actions to get me to the lowest number on the scale.  I would like to thank my blogging friends Prior Fat Girls, Tricia, Real Fat Blog, and all my twitter friends.  Of course I would love to thank my family for their continued support and putting up with all my crazy meals! Oh, I am running out of time, I will have to just thank all my fans! Que the music! HA!

This time of year is a sneaky calorie one.  All the goodies and parties!!! I must plan accordingly and so far so good. 

So my husband took a try at my roasted Kale chips again and I told him the last time I made them I did it wrong that this batch would be better.  He loved them!  I kept catching him eating more and more!!!  I had to stop him or I wouldn't have any to snack on today!!  What a funny thing, to make a family member stop eating veggies!  Never thought I would see the day!

So I must go and log my kale chips into My Fitness Pal... until next time!

A fantastic week!

So I am on Twitter and I love it...especially on my new iphone! I have been able to update easily and not have to wait forever for the page to load like on my blackberry. And then I have my fav healthy people on there and the opinions and tips are great! Not only is Twitter helping me stay on track, so is the application My Fitness Pal.  This has been a life saver in food tracking and the ease of it makes tracking very slick. I can also track my cardio and strength training and water.  It has a friends area where you can hook up with other fitness pals and see what they are up to.  It lets you enter your weight and it gives you kudos for doing well.  At the end of the day I submit my daily tracker and it tells me what I would weigh in 5 weeks if I continue on that same eating track.  The whole thing is very sweet!

With these new ways and new tools, I have seen the scale drop!!! So tomorrow should be a good weigh in day!!!  :)  Stay tuned!

Tonight I am going to get some kale roasted for some snacks.  In the afternoons, I am dying for something to snack on so I think that would help me tremendously.  The other night we had roasted broccoli....YUM!  Next I will try roasted cauliflower! :)  Even my daughter loved the broccoli! 

Christmas time is hectic around my house.  Lots of family and lots of crafting! I think I have most of my crafting done, just a few little things.  I am excited to see every ones reactions when they open their gifts!!! I got my husband some snowshoes for hunting...speaking of hunting...so I have went with my husband coyote hunting.  This was the funniest thing I have ever done!  We are crouching, walking, quietly, sneaking up on them.  I am behind my husband who slowly turns around and signals me to crouch lower and to shush (like finger to lips shush).  I bust up laughing...I feel like a Elmer Fud cartoon!!!  He looks at me like I am crazy and motions "what?" I quietly tell him about Elmer Fud and he shakes his head and tells me again to shush.  LOL!  I can't stop laughing!!! Tears are rolling down my cheeks cause as we sneak up to where we will aim at the coyotes, all I can think about is "Rabbit season, Duck season, Rabbit season, Duck season"!!! HA!!!  Heck, no my dear hubby it is Coyote season!!!!  He hasn't taken me again since. 

Wednesday Weigh In

Lost another pound to bring me to 183! I have been doing The Shred at lunch and I am noticing a difference and I guess others are too! I have been getting compliment after compliment about how good I look!  I must be toning in places! :)  My butt still looks big but maybe it is a little higher up! LOL!  Thank you squats!

The holidays are coming close now and the stress is on!  I stayed home from work yesterday to go to appointments and such and I got so sick in the morning!  But it passed as I went to my appointments.  I think the stress finally got to me.  I sat for about 30 minutes and watched a show on my DVR and I just got so nauseated! 

I have been doing some craft swaps and have been getting some awesome stuff!  I just got a package from my crafting partner in England and oh my did she spoil me!!!  I got all sorts of pouches and some cool wooden colored pencils.  All sorts of yummy low cal/low fat goodies that they only sell in England!!  Can't wait for the next swap!!! 

Last night we made our gingerbread house. My daughter did an wonderful job!  She is so creative...she must get that from me! LOL! Then we wake up to find that the cat ate part of the head off the gingerbread man during the night!

Well on to tomorrow...after tonight.  :)

I lost something....

A POUND!!! LOL!  I lost a pound this week to be at 184.  What a wonderful thing to lose!!! :)



A non scale victory (NSV) for me today was getting up early to exercise! My treadmill is on the frits it seems so I did a weight program from the Oxygen Magazine I purchased a few weeks ago.  It is the Off the Couch issue.  And I have learned a ton from it.  Heck, I carry it around in my purse to flip through for motivation!!! 

I have been having people ask me if I have been losing weight cause there is something different about me.  I want to tell them, "Yep, I have lost weight, in my feet! It's nice you can tell that when I have my shoes on!"

But I do feel different.  I feel happy with myself.  :) I have been clapping my hands cause I know I'm happy!! 

I think that I am going to switch things up a bit.  Move things around, try new ideas. I am going to have weigh in's be on Wednesday's.  I think that will help me switch gears when needed.  I can't always be perfect on the journey, I have figured that out! 

Oh and I did something nice for myself yesterday!  I took a nap!  My hubby took baby boy to town and I slept! I always feel like I am missing out on my day and on doing something when I nap.  But you know, I was doing something, something nice for me.  And darn it, I deserve it! And the hubs deserves some quality time with baby boy! He never gets one on one time because he works all the time, 7 days a week. But he does have some things that he is responsible for when it comes to caring for our little one.  But I often feel so sad because he misses out on a lot of the growing up stuff.  I take a TON of pics and send them to him all day on the weekends! :)

Weekends are crazy...this weekend will be a busy one too!  I enjoy the holiday season of making presents and goodies for everyone and all the activities!  I have a cookie swap to attend!!!  I am going to make a low cal cookie to share. My daughter will be home from her dads, and I have an idea for the kids to do for grandparents for Christmas!  I will share with you after the holidays as to not spoil it for the grandparents that read here!!!  :) 

On to lose more, move more and drink more! ;) Water that is....