January 4, 2016

It's the first day back to school for my kids and the first day back to reality for me.
Yikes....
162.5 lbs
There was a bit too much partying this holiday season. We were out of town for Xmas, a two day wedding and New Year's! Not to mention the constant house guests for the time before Xmas and after the wedding!
There was too much family and too much good food. It shows. Oh boy does it show!

So here I sit with a warm cup of lemon water in hopes that I can benefit from all the good stuff I've heard it can do. I really need the caffeine from my morning tea to get me going but this is part of my new resolutions and today is the day that I start them.
The tea can wait until I'm done with the lemon water.

Today I hope to start weighing and measuring my food and get back to my old eating plan/habits. I've neglected it for so long and the weight has slowly crept back on.

It's a new year and it's time for a new plan (or old) and it's time for a new me (again)....

I agree.. I've slipped too. Just not exercising regularly helped me go off track.. I stopped paying attention to what I've been eating.. :(. I'm now 166.6. lbs.. I haven't been that high in months. Thank goodness the exercise classes start this week. Now I hope I get to go too all the classes.

We can do this together. What have you heard about lemon Water?

I think besides not exercising my eating has gone down hill cause I'm frustrated. Hubby will need hip surgery.. he's in a lot of pain and is very cranky.

My problem starts when I sleep late and then forget to eat.. then I over eat at night thinking well I have a lot of calories left I can eat more... Huh. I shouldn't do that. I should say Oh well, I'm not going to eat all those calories.

I don't make resolutions. I find It just frustrates me ... So , I only try to do what I can. Just stick to what I 've planned and try to see why I don't follow at times.

How was the wedding? did you have lots of fun and good food?

Wow. It's been four days since I posted. I wanted to come on and post and make myself accountable but I was too busy. What else is new? right?

Anyways, I kept everything in mind of what to document....

I weighted and measured everything on the day of my post and (although I was hungry) I didn't let that deter me. I ate everything from all the food groups and guess what? I lost 2lbs overnight!!!
so that brought me down to 161.5 lbs. ( I wrote down the wrong weight on my post)
Then, of course, I had to go to look for blinds with MIL...DH volunteered me to go that day. I wanted to go today as I'm free and I am more rested. But, no.... she wanted to go asap... there is an urgency in everything she does. (old age?)
So... I ended up eating stuff that I would not normally eat as I'm trying to get back to routine. I did manage to maintain the weight so I was happy about that.
The next day I tried my best to weigh and measure again. I did not get all my food in... and I ate things i shouldn't have but I managed to lose 0.5 lbs!
Again, circumstances didn't allow me to eat what I would have like to yesterday but I did my best to try and figure out the amount of food I was eating (visually) and I did manage to get in all my food/food groups.
I'm happy to say that I have maintained my weight.

So.. today... Friday January 8 my weight is 161.0 lbs
I have lost 2.5 lbs since starting all of this on Monday. Not bad. I know that my body is getting rid of all the junk in it.

You are doing great 2.5 lbs in 1 week is fantastic.

you are still under a lot of stress with doing things with your MIL. I hope that starts to slow down now that they are in the house. Yet , you lost all this weight Fabulous. Maybe, I'll get back on track with you. I am so proud of you. Did the brother in law who leaves near by every help out?

I've been off track and not measuring as much as I should have been the last week. yesterday I had a real binge after my exercise class and a walk. I didn't measure the wheat thins and just kept chomping on them. then late , really late at night i had ice cream. :( it was like i had no self control. I tried to put the ice cream off and then i was up very late. midnight... just couldn't resist. Oh dear, at least, I should have measured it out.
whoever said waiting the craving will go away.. doesn't work ... at least , not for me. i've tried it hundreds of times. once, in a while it does work, that's why i keep trying it.. but now I just have to learn to accept the craving and say ok. measure a portion or part of a portion , hopefully that will work better .

i'm 166.8 lbs right now. gained almost 3 lbs. So your weight & then some went to me .

Hope you are having a great weekend.

I'm back down a bit. I was up to 167 lbs. now 166,2 lbs. so I had to mark it down to see if after this weeks exercise classes I lose more weight.

I hope you are having a great weekend and don't have a lot of errands to run with your in laws.
How are your children doing now that vacation is over?

166.6 lbs.
Not allowed to exercise .. .Going for a stress test today.

Sorry Zee...
I've had a lot on my plate recently. I'm still getting through them and I should be done and back to living my life again. lol

I just wanted to say a quick 'hi'. If I stay and post, it will take a long time and I don't really have any time.
I've finally motivated myself to get my house clean and in order. I've been tackling the downstairs for days now and it looks pretty good. There are still major areas that need decluttering but my carpet, counters and floors are clean. That makes a huge difference.
So, I want to go and get done what I can upstairs. I hope to clean the bathrooms and at least vacuum the carpet.... it will look better. The kids have all been told that they need to pick up their stuff and put it away. DD2 is becoming quite lazy and she never used to be like this.
DS needs my help to get his in order and I haven't been around. We can work slowly on things but it needs to get done. How long can i keep my house this way and live like this? agh

My room will be the last one done at some point. I need to focus on the baskets and piles of laundry everywhere... they all need to be folded and put away.

So, anyways, I'm motivated to get a lot done today!
I will talk to you tomorrow.

I hope you are catching up on your cleaning. I have the same problem. .I 'm going to have de cluttered and maybe move some furniture.. Hubby is getting his hip surgery soon. I've been so stressed that I'm eating more than I should at times. I 'm doing ok with my weight. Today I'm back up to 166 lbs. not too bad.. wish I was down the 1.8 lbs. lol.

Good luck with everything.

I've been away from DS for a bit. tot here. I guess check in. Sorry to see you are not here. I guess your still very busy with catching up with your household and the in laws. Hope all is well.

I've been sick with a cold , it's really knocked me out. Hubby's hip surgery .... we cancelled it. didn't like the surgeons attitude. went to another surgeon and found out it's a good thing we canceled ..... he had a hip injection for the pain. you can't do hip surgery for 3 to 6 months after that or the person can get an infection.

one good thing about being sick i'm eating less.
Weight 163.6 lbs.

I just hope this stays off .. Sometimes after being sick I get really hungry and eat my way back to the previous weight :(.

I hope you are doing well.

Hey hey....
Obviously, I've been missing as well.
I've been keeping an eye on my weight the best that I can.
I actually ended up finally doing a detox about 11 days ago and I was doing so well. I actually saw 157.5 lbs on the scale and I haven't seen that number for a long time. I was excited. Then the weekend happened and we had to go out of town for our long weekend. I ended up gaining it all back.
I did try to lose some and then I got sick. I couldn't really eat ... just like you.... but, afterwards (as in over the weekend) I seemed to have made up for my lack of eating. lol

The weight is back up again. I'm at 162.0 this morning.
We are neck and neck now.
We have to do this together.

I was so excited to post about my detox and wanted to get back into posting everyday... but stuff happened... yup... I'm still so busy with the inlaws. Agh.

My mil is so focused on getting all her stuff unpacked and settled. Sure. At the expense of my own stuff not being dealt with... everyday stuff. Things aren't put away. There is clutter everywhere! I'm just lucky if I can keep my kitchen clean and be on top of the dishes!

I have clothes all over the upstairs railings... the floor in my room. They are clean but no time to even fold them!
At least I somehow get to the bathrooms and clean them once in a while.

This is crazy. And it doesn't help that I've been sick twice now! I even had to go on antibiotics.
I'm so tired most days that I don't even have the energy to come on here and post. I know that sounds crazy but it is the truth. I used to love to come on DS but that was seeming like a chore as well. lol

I guess that I was kind of bummed that I lost all that weight... 7 lbs in 5-6 days! I was pumped. Then it came back and was really hard to maintain anything as my mil kept calling us for dinner most of last week. My BIL came down on Wednesday to do some work for her. Finally. He needs to pull his weight. My hubby stayed home and got a lot of his own work done but then had to go in the late afternoon to help with stuff that required two people. It was like we finally got a break.
But she insisted that I also come for dinner. I had just ate with my kids. She doesn't get that we eat earlier than her. I went over finally and ended up eating two dinners! The next day I was bed ridden with my head cold.... it was coming for two days but it finally knocked me out. I don't think I should have gone out of the house.
We saw them again on Friday and on Saturday. MIL's Brother came into town with other family members... to see her house and visit. Again, we had to go. I mean, that was nice that she called us for dinner, but the kids all had serious homework to do. It was almost last minute. It would have been nice to know ahead of time so that they could have planned their day a little bit different. Oh well. It all worked out... I brought my daughters home a little while after supper and went back.
I guess that's the good thing about them being so close.
Unfortunately, DD2 fell sick. She was already fighting off a head cold (I must have given it to her) and she got worse. She looked aweful yesterday and I told her that she is not going to school today. So, she's upstairs still sleeping.

I'm glad that I'm feeling better and that I finally got caught up on some things yesterday. Some things. As in... the dishes are up to date. There are no longer dirty dished on my counters. The dishwasher is not stacked with dirty dishes and there isn't a dirty dish in my sink and there aren't any dishes that need to be hand washed. I must have done 5 sessions on Saturday and Sunday of just washing a pile of huge dishes and letting them dry and put them away only to wash the next stack.
Agh.
Things get messed up so much when you're sick and when you're not around to keep up with them.

DH says that his mother is now done unpacking all the boxes and that things should settle. Let's see. There's always going to be something. DH is there quite often sometimes. I don't mind as long as things are getting done in my home as well. Things that we put aside. We have our own boxes to unpack and deal with in our basement. We just moved in with all this stuff and never had a chance to unpack and sort through stuff. Who has time? We are only now cleaning out the filing cabinets and drawers in DH's office so that we can be more organized with our important papers! We never even did that!
It's coming together nicely. DH was off last week and we worked on that in between him being at his parents helping them. At least it's almost done and there is a lot of progress in the last three days. Things still need to be put away ut it is much better. We're almost there and it feels like a big chunk of weight has been lifted... as in stress.
He gave me an entire drawer and now I can file other important papers (kids) and get rid of the clutter on my small desk in the dining room. It's a homework station really. But I have so much stuff that I don't know what to do with. I've been working on it as well but there is so much. It's overwhelming. This stuff didn't accumulate overnight so it will take some time. Besides, at least I have a place for things now.
Baby steps.
It's getting there. And when it's all put away, it will be structured and organized finally! It will work like clockwork!
I've got stuff scattered all over my dining table that the kids are taking a small corner to do homework or going to the kitchen table and then it's causing us to eat in front of the tv. I need to get the table clean!

Sorry.... I'm rambling. I feel like I'm documenting my life. lol

Anyways, I'm back and hope to stay here and post every day like I've always done.

I'm sorry to hear about your hubby and his surgery. It is a good thing that the surgery got cancelled... sometimes things just work out in a different way. At least you now have a surgeon that you feel comfortable with and who has your hubby's best interest at hand. I hope hubby is feeling comfortable and that the surgery can be a go ahead in 3-6 months. The time will go by so fast.

I hope that you are feeling better soon....
And I also hope that you don't catch up with your missed calories like I did. lol

I'll talk to you tomorrow.
Again, sorry for the long post. Once I got started, it just kept coming out.

So.... day 2 for "I'm back!"

Seriously..... I'm back.
Life is too short to wait for things to get done so that you can start to enjoy life and relax. Why can't I do things and make time to enjoy and relax? All in the same day? This is my new attitude. I've done things for myself today... let myself roam around the internet just looking for things to inspire me. I sat here tired and overwhelmed and then got a burst of energy to start cleaning exactly where I left things when the in-laws moved in.
It's in the kitchen.... maybe that explains why I can't seem to put things away properly and there is useless clutter around always! It's the 'stuff' that I never finished dealing with that I shoved into a box and left in the basement and the items have been making their way back upstairs. Clearly I need them and I never finished organizing the space they go into.
I don't know if you remember that I had got new countertops in early October? Beautiful granite and quartz. My whole kitchen was torn upside down and I took advantage of that fact and reorganized stuff, cleaned stuff, moved shelves and lined drawers. It was great.... a facelift from the inside. Except that I never really finished.
So here I started today. What better place? 4 months later but at least I have drive and ambition now.

lol... btw... DH is out with FIL getting things that he needs.
I think I have to jump start this whole organization/cleaning stuff or else it will pile up again. I know that DH wants to get things done at home as well but, sometimes, his hands are tied.

And I'm tired of waiting around.

Sorry.... here I go again with the long posts.
lol

My weight today is 161.5 lbs. gone down 0.5 lbs but I'm not jumping happily about it because it's been like that all winter.

How are you doing?

ouch....163.5 lbs
I'm going the wrong way! lol

I guess it didn't help that DH and I went out last night to watch a movie and had a huge bag of popcorn and a can of coke... the real stuff, not diet.
We watched Race. What a great movie. I really liked it. If you get a chance to watch it, I highly recommend it. Either now in the theatres or when it comes out on Netflix or DVD.

I hope all is well with you and that you are feeling better now and are getting stronger.
I also hope that your hubby is doing well. Have you finalized the surgery yet? They are going to need time to book it and then you are going to have to wait.

Day 3....
162.5 lbs. lol..... see what I mean?
There's no point in my weight right now. It's all over the place.

I'm not doing anything about it right now until after the weekend.... perhaps Monday.
I'm going to a dear friend's birthday party. He's throwing himself (with help from his wife) a 50th birthday party at a hall. It's the same hall that he and his siblings threw a party for their parents 50th wedding anniversary last year.
It will be so nice to see them. I can't believe that I haven't seen them in one year!

Anyways, I'm not going to portion etc until after this event as i see nothing else in the horizon and then I can stick to it. Last time my attempts didn't have a chance to become habit. lol

Unfortunately, I had wanted to lose some weight before this party. I'll be seeing so many people after a long time. Mind you, I don't look bad.... I carry my weight quite well. I mean, I'm not obese or drastically overweight (I think) lol.

how are you doing?

I'm glad you are back. Phew. You are doing what I need to do. Get organized.. I've got no real excuse but I've fallen behind in organizing my house. Hey, maybe you should have the in laws help you organize your Kitchen LOL wouldn't that be a kicker. :). The weight loss was great. I know how you feel it seems i'm working on the same 5 lbs for awhile now. lol. Glad you are feeling better too. I know how you felt. I couldn't do much when I was sick.. then Now that I'm getting better I had a couple more days where I felt even more exhausted. I hope this doesn't happen to you

It's great to take time for yourself. it's so important. I think it recharges your battery and helps you get back to what is important. we always say, we don't have time for that Especially if it's something for us to do for ourselves, however, i've been finding that seems times just taking the time gets our mind working in what and how to organize ... then what we really are trying to get done gets done faster.

Don't worry about your weight fluctuating right now.. I've had that happen often.. sometimes it's just before I start to lose.. other times it's because of stress and I'm retaining water or just not eating exactly right, you are getting there... hang in , dont' give up.

I'm going to have to look up the movie RACE i haven't heard of it. you got me interested.
Enjoy the party.. It's good you've decided what you want to do before you go. have lots of fun that will help you get back on track. enjoy your food and don't feel guilty :).

I'm doing ok. still a bit tired. the ringing in my ears seems to get worse at times. oh well, weight is good today it's 163.2 lbs. however, it'll probably go up tomorrow. I went out to lunch with my friend and we had soup (i had a crock of onion soup with the cheese on it, thought it was a small bowl instead i ordered the big one) we shared a pizza I had 2 slices with mushrooms and meatballs. also had garlic bread with my soup. oh boy. good think I didn't eat all my starch for breakfast. I'm going to try to cut down on dinner too. We shall see. I'm drinking a lot of water as i'm very thirsty.. the pizza or soup must have been very salty. So , I'm hoping not to gain but expecting the scale to go up. :(. my own fault.. I could have ordered a salad with chicken lol but i figured the dressing was just as bad ha ha ha. could have gotten something a little less fattening. Had a great time but the pizza to me was just ok. lol

catch you soon. Yes I read all your comments. & no you don't write too much .. i love to read them.

Awe... what a nice thing to say!
I love reading about your life as well.

Don't worry about the pizza. Sometimes we have to listen to our bodies. Obviously you were wanting something different than your usual or healthy choice. So what! It's okay to want to indulge in some things.... as long as it's legal! lol

You can have a salad with chicken today, or some other time.
I just feel bad that the pizza wasn't all that great :(
I hope that the soup was good. Something had better be good. lol
I'm sure that the company was good, though?

Yes, please check into that movie. It was really good. It's in the theatres now... you could wait until it becomes available in Netflix or whatever. It really is worth it. It's based on a true story.

Yeah... I never thought about it. I AM tired. I can't explain this tiredness... it's so unlike me to be this fatigued and to want to sit around and do nothing.
i was starting to think that I was suffering from depression. Seriously. IDK!
Now I have to consider that it is the lingering feelings from being sick. I don't know if I mentioned that I was sick a couple of weeks earlier and had to go on anitbiotics. I just feel that I've been sick since the new year started. Agh.
I need spring to peek it's head through now. It's cold today but I heard that it's going to warm up by Sunday. Maybe then the snow can start to melt... again. And let's hope that this (today) is the last of the awful weather systems.

My weight was 161.5 lbs this morning! I can't figure this out but I'll ride it, as long as it keeps going down. lol
At least I'll be a few pounds lighter for the party tomorrow.

Talk to you soon.