Thursday Weigh In

Weight Loss: -0.4

Ok, so it isn't a pound but like I said before all those little weight losses add up to pounds.

Do you remember my challenge for the week? Do you think I did it?

Of course not! I have the hardest time tracking, I couldn't even do five days. My leader challenged our entire group to track for three days. I have no trouble tracking while I'm at work but once I leave I quit. Maybe it is because when I get home I'm hungry and open that big bag of pretzels and munch until dinner is done. Maybe I'm afraid to find out how many points I really am eating. MAYBE if I actually tracked I would lose a whole pound.

Alright, Mrs. M, I accept your challenge! I'm gonna give it my best shot!

I'll let you know how it goes.

Operation 'Let'sMakeABaby" Phase I

COMPLETE!

I had my doctor appointment this morning and took the first step to making this family addition a possibility. Now I get to start taking ginormous pills on a daily basis. Yeah Me!

Wordless Wednesday - WORK WORK You better WORK!

Family Decision

About a month or so ago Tiger and I had made a big decision to add to our family. I called the doctor for a checkup and to get things rolling in the right direction. I go in on Thursday to have an outpatient procedure done so that we can make that decision come to life.

Tiger is overly excited! I on the other hand seem to be very calm and not excited at all. I'm wondering if my excitement will come later, as in when I take that little test and see that plus sign indicating that we have indeed created life. Could it be that I have plans for the week of September 13-19th? I want to run a 5K and if there is in fact a softball tournament I want to play! I know that I can run a 5K while expecting but I can't do any high impact sports.

I remember being pregnant with our "little guy" and recall having a good pregnancy. I ate anything I wanted, took plenty of naps, and had no morning sickness. I also recall the heartburn, water retention, and being as big as a house. I'm serious about the "big as a house" part, my "little guy" weighed in at 10 lbs. 6 oz. when he was born!

My hopes for my next pregnancy (I know I'm dreamin')

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  No water retention
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  No heartburn
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  No morning sickness
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  I only have one in there
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  It is as smart as the "little guy"
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  It is as well behaved as the "little guy"
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  I don't give birth to a toddler sized baby (The Princess always teased me about having a toddler during my first pregnancy.) 
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  I secretly would love another boy. I wanted a girl my first time but ended up with a boy and couldn't be happier with him.

 All kidding aside I know that I will be perfectly happy even if my hopes are just me dreamin!

Weekly Weigh In

It was not a bad weigh in. Loss this week is 0.8. Not a lot but at least it is a loss and all those add up.

Today we talked about filling foods. I was instantly reminded of a conversation I had with an older guy at the softball field.

After watching me open my cooler full of water, strawberries, honeydew melon, apple slices and turkey.

Guy Drinking Beer: "You must have a lot of kids."
Me: "Hmmm, no." (Looking puzzled)

Guy Drinking Beer: "What you eat that?" (Gesturing to my over abundance of fruit)
Me: "Yes, Its good."

Why in the world would he think this? Do adults not eat fruit or was it that I had apple slices and other stuff nicely cut up into bite size pieces?

I'm afraid that this week we will be saying goodbye to our "At Work" Weight Watchers sessions. We only have 9 people willing to continue and we need at least 12. No one new came to the open house meetings and no one has even expressed an interest. While it is sad for those meetings to end it doesn't discourage me because I have a local meeting that I will attend.

This week I am setting a goal to track at least 5 days! I should track all 7 but I have be struggling to track at all. I hope to report to all of you next week that I did actually track for a change.

Wordless Wednesday

Sweet Season Ending

Yesterday was an absolute exhausting blast! Our coed softball team participated in our leagues season end tournament. We started out day with an 11:00 am game. The whole team came prepared with coolers full of water, gatorade, pop, luNchables, fruit, etc. We figured we would play at least two games since it was a double elimination tournament so we made sure to bring enough food for lunch.

Game 1 - 11:00 am - The game was pretty entertaining with two of our players taking nose dives in the dirt. This was not due to sliding to make it safely to base but was rather a case where their upper body was going way faster than their feet. Let's just say that a lot of us got down and dirty that first game. WIN

Game 2 - 1:00 pm - This game we figured would be a challenge considering we were playing the team that took home 3rd place from our regular season. That was not the case, they were tired and hung over from a party the night before and well they played horrible. WIN

Game 3 - 4:00 pm - Another good team! This team had some cocky players and some sore losers calling it a fluke WIN. We were hoping for the best and while this was one of our closest games we still made it out with another WIN.

Game 4 - 6:00 pm - What a great team we played! While this team did give us our first LOSS they were great sports. No cocky comments just great fun! They hit the ball in all the right spots. Found a hole no matter where it was and dropped a ball in there. We played this team again later in the night.

Game 5 - 7:44 pm - Remember game 3? They are back again! Was it a fluke win after all? NOOO. We beat them again. Cockiness was still present at this game and I was surprised to find out that at the end of this game one of their players refused to shake hands with our team. SORE LOSER! WIN

Game 6 - 9:00 pm - If you have followed along at all you may have figured out that we play the same team we played that gave us our first loss of the day. Look at game 4. Did we come out victorious this time? Yes, but we didn't win this game. We were victorious in the way we played all day long, no other team that day had to play 6 games, we were good sports, we cheered our team on, we helped each other out, and we congratulated the champions on their win. LOSS

Our team has a lot to be proud of! While our season record (3-10) doesn't show how good of a team we are I think we proved it with our SECOND PLACE spot in the tournament.

Thursday Weigh In

Weigh in went well today! I lost 2 lbs. this week.

Last week my leader asked if I could bring in a picture. This all came up because she asked what my starting weight was. I had been attending a meeting at my hometown before my office decided to do a Weight Watchers at work meeting. So, my office leader didn't know my starting weight. I have been going to WW for some time so none of my books had my starting weight. She was surprised to hear that I started my weightloss journey at 230 lbs.

I'm on the left.

My journey has been a long one but having to pull this picture out again has been a major motivator. I'm a lifetime member currently not at goal. I'm 6 lbs. away from being at goal again. I hope to lose thos 6 lbs. by the end of September.

Here I am today.

Wordless Wednesday: "Mom I want more tatoes!"

(Borrowing this Wordless Wednesday idea from "Random thoughts of a super mom")

 

Participation is Key!

After an exhausting Relay for Life I came up with a list of accomplishments from this year's relay.



1) Cookies Ate: I think that I could walk away with a prize for the most cookies ate for the night. One team member made peanut butter M&M cookies and another brought store bought peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. My biggest trigger food is peanut butter! I love peanut butter and could eat it right out of the jar.

2) 10 Miles Walked: Yes, I did walk at least 10 miles! It could be more but I happened to walk a little bit before I bought my lap beads. Lap beads where another teams fundraiser in which after every lap you were given a bead to place on your necklace to keep track of how many laps you walked. What a great idea!

3) CPS3 Participation: CPS3 is a study being done by the American Cancer Society. The basics are that you fill out a survey every few years, they measure your waste and draw your blood. If at anytime in the next few years you develop cancer they go back and pull your blood to do tests on it. I figure it is the least I could do!

4)Least amount of sleep: Out of all the team members I got the least amount of sleep. I slept a total of 2 hours that night. In Tiger's (My hubby) defense he did ask me to wake him up but I let him sleep.

5)Lost & Forgotten: For the second year in a row I have forgotten to bring a belt for my jeans and I forgot my MP3 player that I loaded with the best songs. I lost my cell phone on the track twice!

While I had made an excellent effort to participate I am left a little disappointed in some of the others on my team that didn't.

Two were in Mexico so they have a valid excuse. A few others just didn't show up, had a dinner party with friends, or just didn't feel like it. I can honestly say that I'm going to ask one person to not join us next year. We have to pay for our participation and we could have had someone else participate for them or we could have used that money toward our team total.

Anyways, to end on a positive note, hopefully all our hard work will pay off one day so that we can celebrate more birthdays.

Relay For Life & Thursday Weigh In

I found a quick minute today to post!

Today is our county's Relay For Life. I am a captain of the Friendly Soles team and we have 10 members this year. That is way better than the four that we had last year. This year has been pretty decent with a few members not really pulling their own weight at the fundraisers, but overall not bad.

I'm in charge of getting our campsite setup this afternoon since the rest of my team is busy. The relay is set to start at noon but about half my team is not able to come and the other half is working. The half that can attend should arrive by 5:00 pm. My sister, who shall be known as Monkey, is going to help me out today even though she isn't on my team. What a great sister!

Yesterday I attended my weekly Weight Watcher meeting. I weighed in 3 pounds lighter this week! That is such a great thing. To give you a little background I'll tell you my story. I have been overweight for as long as I could remember until I walked into my first weight watcher meeting back in 2004. I had followed the plan with my college roommate before that and was successful. However, after I graduated college I started to see some of that weight creep back on. So, I joined Weight Watchers. I lost about 30-35 lbs before I became pregnant in 2007. I put a lot of weight back on during my pregnancy but as soon as I was allowed I went back to Weight Watchers. I do believe that I hit my goal weight in 2009 and became a lifetime member.

Today I'm sorry to say that I am not at my goal weight. I have about 10 pounds to get rid of to get back there. Problem with this is that I struggled with that last 10 pounds before I hit goal and it looks like I'm going to do it again. I have been struggling with this last 10 pounds for close to a year. I know the program works but I think my problem is that I'm comfortable with myself so I 'kinda sorta follow the plan so it kinda sorta works.'

I may give you weekly updates of my weight loss journey. Hope you don't mind.