The Incredible Shrinking Woman

I’ve been spending the last 2 weeks decluttering my home, when we thought we were moving, but now we aren’t.  But anyway it forced me to go through endless piles of clothes and toys.  And you know what, all my clothes from last summer are too big!!  How exciting is that??  I remember how elated I was when I fit into a size 16 for the first time, and then a size 14.  Now I’m a size 14 for the most part, but a few size 12’s fit, so I’m claiming that as my size but only for 2 pairs of pants!  Also all my XXL tee’s are way too big, which blows my mind too.  I bought a few XL tops that fit good.  I’m not used to wearing clothes that are a little clingy and not hanging all over the place.  I’ve got my weight loss MOJO back everyone, YEAH!!  I think I was in a funk due to the terrible snowy winter we had.  I just felt blah. 

But I am done making excuses.  If you read yesterdays blog you saw my quote of the day.  It was very powerful, so powerful I will post it again!!!

EXCUSES ARE LIES DISGUISED AS REASONS

How true is that???  SOOO  true in my life, and I’m tired of the excuses and the lazyness that I am doing.  I know I am totally capable of losing more weight, and I intend to do it.  I am going to bust out all my tools and helps and use them instead of eat!!!  Today I plan on exercising either this afternoon or tonight.  I might drop my daughter off at the gym’s daycare after my ds goes to his friends house to play.  I am going to stick to my food plan and stay positive.  I’ve eaten so many off program things this past month or 2, and I’ve had a different excuse for all of them.  Well I’m sick and tired of it.  I’m on a mission girls.  And also I am on a mission to declutter my thinking along with my house. 

Happy Friday Buddies!!!

Hi everyone, I’ve been struggling, you all know, the past fewmonths with my eating, exercising, etc.  I’ve gained about 5 lbs, not much but it can easily add up.  I’ve exercised the last 2 mornings, plan on going again tomorrow, and its made a world of difference with my attitude and my eating.  I am feeling like my mojo is coming back, how exciting is that??

I’ve made lots of excuses, and I was doing my Bible study a few days ago and it was talking about excuses.  It said that

EXCUSES ARE LIES DISGUISED AS REASONS

Sounds right, huh??  Think about it before you use your excuse as to why you should eat something off program, I have been doing that and its working.

I only have a few minutes to type all, but I hope to blog a long profound blog soon!!  Love you all!

I’m posting another blog, in the same week???  THats a change for me this month, its been a crazy month.  My DH and I had put our home for sale by owner, but after looking all all around in the city that had the “better” schools, we couldn’t find anything that we liked.  Nothing felt right, and after a lot of discussions we decided to stay where we are.  We both feel very good about the decision, I’m glad we realized it before we moved and were miserable!!  So I put my exercise on hold for a while since I was so busy getting the house ready to “sell” and we did even have an open house.  So now my life is getting back to normal, and I am so glad.

I got a short workout in this morning.  My goal is to get up early the rest of this week and so I get my 10 workouts in this month.  YOu get incentives at my club if you work out 10x a month, so that is my goal.

My DH’s birthday was yesterday, I made a fancy dinner, it was lots of fun.  I spoiled him this year, got him new golf clubs, which he’s never had.  He was giddy likea kid, it was so fun to surprise him!  My dh was sad since his jerk of a father didn’t even acknowledge his birhtday. I can’t imagine forgetting my child’s birthday, thats just pitiful.  Remember this is the same father who threatened us last fall to cancel our insurance he supplies us because we only called him on his birthday.  Talk about a double standard.  What can you do?  What I did is made his birhtday here the best possible.  The kids got involved too, it was a hoot!

Well today I am commited to following my food plan, and drinking my water.  I’ve been maintining, but in order for me to lose I need to give up my snacks and sweets, so I am going to do it everyone.

Hope you all have a great day, miss all of you and I plan on coming back more often!

Hey everyone, sorry its been soooooooo long, we’ve been getting our house ready to sell, had an open house today with a few interested parties.  SO anyway its been crazy here, a bad excuse I guess, its an excuse though!!!  I feel like I’ve been a terrible buddy, so I will try to keep in contact some more.

Food wise its been tough.  I’m just the same, up a few then down a few.  I’m not trying that hard, though, so its hard right now.  We are eating out a lot since we need to keep the house clean.  Talk about stressfull.  THe 2 kids get into stuff all the time, its really hard!!  So if I don’t lose a ton, thats ok.  Also I’ve been kinda burnt out on this “gotta lose more weight” mentality.  Ive lost so much, that I’m not allowing myself to enjoy where I am at.  And that doesn’t mean I am quitting, its just OK that I’m not aggressively losing right now.  This weight feels good on me and my size feels good.  And thats OK.  So maybe thats a nother reason why I haven’t been on here.  I don’t want to feel like a failure.  And I don’t feel like one at all.  I just don’t want people to think I am quitting.  I am not at all, I am still on a health kick, but I’m not actively trying to lose weight, just enjoying my new size and maybe in a few months lose some more.  I don’t know, but I don’t want to put so much pressure on myself that I am never happy/  I am very happy with mybody right now, and I’ve never been able to say that.  I feel great, and I can shop in the misses dept!  So thats awesome!

Well thats an update on me, sorry its been a while.  Miss you all

HI DAWN!

Tina

Hi buddies, its been a long road this past week or so.  I’m finally feeling better, I went to the gym today for the 1st time in 2 weeks.  Thats too long!!  I got exhausted on the elliptical in 20 minutes, so I did some weights also.  I was very tired.  I’m still not 100%, so I am going to slowly work back up my stamina at the gym.  It felt so good to do something I normally used to do.

On a bad note, we had to spend $700 on my dh’s car today.  UGH!!  Its been a very, very expensive month.  We’ve all gone to the doctor, dh and I both went to the dentist (no dental insurance) had the car worked on, plus got 2 new tires on it earlier in the month, lots of expenses!!  But even though we had to spend all this money, we didn’t have to charge any of it because we have been very good with our money so far.  So even though we have to spend a bunch of $$, we don’t have to worry about dipping into our savings.  Even though I would have rather paid more to our van loan instead of dr visits, but its ok.  We are going to make it!!

So my food has been a roller coaster.  I gained weight, and I need to stop it.  I’ve been trying to be more accountable, Dawnie thank you.  And thank you to all of you for your encouragement.  It doesn’t get any easier when you have less to lose, who would of ever thought??  So my apologies to you that want to lose 45 lbs, I thought you just were lazy.  now I know it is ALOT harder than losing lots of weight.  Its a struggle!!!  So I am OP today, Ive been journaling my food, and doing my study for my first place group.  Hopefully next week will be a loss instead of a gain, especially with me exercising again.

Well buddies, I had to blog since its been a while.  Its been crazy here, like always.  Time to put the kids to bed and have a few moments undisturbed!! 

Tina