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. 

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....