New Years Resolutions

Happy last day of 2009. I don't know about you guys, but its been a rough and busy year. I won't go into listing all the good and bad things that happened in my life this year, because really, this is a blog about weight loss, not Days of our Lives. LMAO!

Every year for as long as I can remember my NY resolution was to not weigh as much the next NY. I failed every single year. BUT as we all know that will NOT be the case this year. I've made a life changing choice, one of the best of my life so far, so that will not be my resolution this year. Here is the list I made for myself. I hope you ladies (and gents) help keep me accountable. And if you need to put me in check, go right ahead cuz that's what real friends do ya know?

2010 Resolutions

Excercise at least 2 times a week
Cook more, eat out less
Get rid of clothes that are too big (I won't be that size ever again, so why keep them?)
Spend more time playing with my son (like chasing at the park, or going for walks etc)
Spend less money, SAVE SAVE SAVE
Don't hold grudges, learn from them and move on


How does that sound? I don't think its too tall of a order. I can do all of those things, but they will require effort. I've been seeing other bloggers/bandsters choosing a word for themselves for the New Year. After a lot of thought I've chosen two because I just can't choose.

Patience- because I need it. I have a lot going on in my life and without it, I can lose focus.

Persistance- Because this year is going to be full of changes for me. I can't give up. I deserve the happiness and I'm going to be persistant to get it.


So that's my post for the last day of this crazy ass year. We are staying in tonight, making lots of snacks and will watch the ball drop. The only plans I have for the weekend are to CLEAN CLEAN CLEAN. I love going thru old boxes and seeing the clean end result. Maybe I'll take before and after pictures.

Thank you all for your support this year. I look forward to it in 2010!

Love ya's!

Comparison Pics!

OK here we go. It's only been 37 pounds, but I already have comparison pics to share.

Oh, also, I'm in a 22/24 now, so if anyone has any clothes they are dying to share, let me know! I have a TON of 26/8 stuff if anyone is in that size, or knows of anyone who is.


Before-Week before surgery. 316lbs

Christmas 2009-278 lbs

Face

Before-316 lbs

This was the night before surgery. Wow I look rough with no makeup on. Ugh!

















After- 278 lbs

Weigh in & Pictures

Happy Monday to you all. I hope you had a safe and happy holiday weekend. I did.
First weigh in. I was down 2 lbs this week, to 279 for the first time in about 4 years!!!! So that is 37 lbs lost since surgery. Not to shabby! :-)

Christmas was nice. DH and I got along all day (which is rare), Peyton had a great time and was a good boy at the stops we made. Here are some pics from the day.

Peyton on his horsey. Notice how its dark in the windows, it was 6am!

My mommy crying when I gave her the picture you guys helped me pick out for her.

Peyton got a Mickey Mouse Laptop!

Me and my mom looking cute

Christmas night, in a 22 shirt and pants!

Me and my Dad.

Love ya's

VLOG! Sorry it's LOUD!

My diet plan

This is something I came up with today and starting Monday Dec 28th I am going to use this as my guide for the week and see how the loss goes.Of course this is just a list of items for me to choose from. I won't be eating ALL the items. LOL
 Tell me what you think.

Breakfast
Eggs
Yogurt
Fruit
String cheese
Lunchmeat rollups
Turkey sausage
½ toasted English muffin
Quiche


Lunch
Lunchmeat rollups
Salad w/ protein
Sandwich
Tuna/chicken salad w/ crackers
Quiche
Fish & veggies
Soup w/ crackers
FF Refried beans w/ sauce and sour cream
Grilled/baked chicken

Dinner
1 cup main food
¼ cup veggies


Snacks
String cheese
Reduced fat triscuts
Hummus
Fruit
Veggie slices w/ hummus
Yogurt
Fat free pudding
Pretzels
Coffee

DO NOT EAT

Chips
Dips
Ice cream
Cakes
Cookies
Slider foods-mashed potatoes, creamy sauces, milkshakes etc

Guess who I am today?

The OLD me! I'm emotionally eating and have had CRAP CRAP CRAP today and now have calorie regret, along with sausage fingers from the salt and sugar. If I can't dump it here, where else can I? Anyone who is my friend on facebook can read about my no-good-very-bad-day yesterday on my page. I won't be posting about it here, for legal reasons.

B- sausage egg and cheese McGriddle
S- handful of almonds, two cookies
L-loaded mashed potatoes, piece of double chocolate fudge cake with peanut butter
S- bag of white cheddar cheezits, piece of candy

Woah mama! I can honestly say that I haven't had a day this bad since BEFORE surgery. Tomorrow is another day, so while I won't go overboard for dinner, I'm going to let myself be comforted and pick it up as I rise from my pillow tomorrow morning.

And that's all I have to say about that! :)

Weigh In

I'm down 1 lb week officially. It's crazy to me how on Friday morning it showed I was at 278 and today it says 281. I barely ate anything this weekend because I still am getting full very quick and not eating much in the way of carbs. Hmmmm....

Ok, I'll be back tonight or tomorrow. Love ya!

HELP! I need opinions TODAY!

I'm having a really hard time deciding between two pictures. I'm having one of these blown up to 16x20 size and framed for my mother for Christmas. It's me and my two brothers.
One is smiling, one is serious. Please vote TODAY as I have to print it tomorrow! Thanks!


#1 Sexy Serious

#2) Smiling

I love them BOTH for different reasons.

My Favorite Things

I want my blog buddies to do this too. It's not only informative, it's FUN!

Here are my top 5 favorite things.

1) My MP3 player. I listen to it ALL.THE.TIME

2) Strawberry Carmex

3) My cell phone- I text a LOT!!!

4) String cheese

5) Criminal Minds- My new favorite show. I watch it ever time I see it on. It's sooooooo good!

Weigh in

I'm not sure how this happened, seeing as I was unable to really eat more than 2 bites of anything this week.
I'm even. No loss, no gain. On thursday at my fill I showed a 2 lb loss from Monday, but not today. Oh well. Another week begins.
Have a good day

Fly by posting...

I don't normally post on the weekend but I felt the need.
I'm still pb'ing when I eat anything with texture, or if I drink too much. I really really REALLY doubt I'm too full or too tight, it has to be more swollen this time or something. Here is what I tried to have today.

B-coffee-kept it down, but had a lot of tightness
L-2 bites lunchmeat turkey-PB'd, 2 tbsp hummus (fine, but no crackers)

I'm going to a Christmas party tonight and there are going to be some dips, so I'm sure I will stick with those. If this doesn't calm down by Tues or Wed I'll call the dr. I wanted restriction, but not being able to even drink could be a sign of a problem. (I'm sure it's nothing and in a week I'll be back to overeating :P )

Love ya's

Holy restriction Batman!

Um.... I got my 3rd fill yesterday as you all know. This is what I had today.

B-pumpkin spice coffee
L-2 bites ham and beans(minus ham,super mushy)-PB'D!!!!
S-water- PB'D!!!!!


I've PB'd 2 times today. Once after I took two slurps of my bean juice from lunch, i got this pain in my chest and felt dizzy. So off to the bathroom I ran and up the juice came, then the heaving. :::sigh:::

When I got back I got a cup of ice water to soothe my throat. Took two sips and had to run for it again.

I KNOW I'm not too tight, so I must be swollen this time or something. I haven't experienced this before. After my last two fills I was eating mashed potatoes the same night for dinner. Now 24 hours later soup and water and making me PB. I've read this won't last, which is a good and a bad thing. Hmmmmm, interesting.

Have a great weekend. Love ya's!

Vlog and recipe!

Hey everyone! Here is the written recipe for the cookies I talk about in the vlog.

Cake Mix Cookies

1 box cake mix (any flavor)
2 eggs
1/3 c vegetable oil

350 degrees.

Mix till thick. pinch off small pieces and roll into a ball. place on cookie sheet and flatten slightly. Top with whatever you like. I use chocolate chips, nuts would work too!

Bake for 10 mins and let cool. Enjoy!

Christmas Shopping

I'm about half done with my shopping and have some thoughts to put out there.

I may be delusional because I only have one child, but I don't see the need to spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars on one kid. I have a friend at work that spends $200-$300 per kid! WTF! My son is 3 1/2 and it is true that he doesn't want or need a XBox or Guitar Hero right now, but still people. Isn't that a little excessive?
We got Peyton these things and I think its enough, however I've had people ask me why I got him so little.

Spiderman Scooter
DVD's
pajamas
Color Wonder paper and markers
Candyland game
Hi Ho Cherry-o game
small tv for his playroom

We only spent $120 bucks on him and I think its enough. My sister has two kids, both she and her husband work, but sometimes they struggle with money, especially in the winter when he is laid off(brick layer). Yet every Christmas she spends money like its going out of style because they "deserve" a good christmas since they struggled all year. Hmmmmmmm. I can totally see how the meaning of Christmas is completely gone in this scenerio, and while I'm not dogging my sister, I think that extra money she is spending so frivolously should be put away for those rainy weeks when he gets no paycheck. But then again, that's me.

When I was a kid, my parents would go broke filling the living room so full of gifts, we couldnt walk in the room at all. Now don't get me wrong, I loved that as a kid. But as I've gotten older I guess to me it's more important to get the "perfect" present and have fewer, than to just buy to excess to fill a room.

We are doing christmas this year for 21 people for about $550 total! I'm a thrifty shopper, using ebay and craigslist to find things brand new for way cheaper than a store. Also I got up on Black Friday because to me, the 50% savings on almost everything I got, was way worth the loss of sleep.

I guess this post was a vent, as well as me just getting my thoughts out as I finish making my list of last minute things to get. I'm a christian and believe that Christmas is supposed to be about the birth of Christ, and that presents and the tree are just tradition, so it can be hard for me sometimes to see people acting as though the presents are the whole reason for the season.

Love ya's

OMG really??

Obama Chia Pet......SERIOUSLY? This is tacky and funny at the same time.

I have a case of the Monday's

It's Monday. Bleh. I don't feel like being a whiner today so here is the short short version of my update.

First, thank you for all your wonderful comments on my singing vlog. I watched it like a million times and cringed putting it on here because I was sooooo nervous what people would think. There goes my self conscious ways again.

Second, weigh in today. Nada, zip, zilch. No gain, no loss. I have my 3rd fill this thursday afternoon and will probably only get 2 more cc's, which will bring me to 6 in a 17 cc band. I wish my dr would get moving on this restriction business.

Third, sinuses suck. Mine go bezerk this time of year and today may be the worst sinus headache I've had in recent memory. My eyes are squinted so much they are almost closed.:::sigh::: Oh the joys of living in a place where today's temp is lik 24 degrees.

Ok, I'm gonna try to work today. Nothing exciting in this post, so if you read it. Thanks:)

Love you's!

Singing Vlog!

Be kind, the microphone on my webcam is TERRIBLE! So if you listen too loud it will crackle a LOT. Sorry! Enjoy. Comments are welcome.

Kids say the darndest things

Last night Peyton yelled down the hall for me to "Come to my room quick mommy". So I ran down the hall to see what was wrong. He says "Do you smell something?" So I take a big sniff. He fell on the floor laughing and says" You just smelled my FARTS!"

Weirdo!

I LOVE this...

Instant relief for 8 hours. I'm going to get more after work. The best part? NO SMELL like when you use the cream. WOOHOO!

In a pinch...

I have a pinched nerve in my back and it hurts like HELL! It makes it hard to move, sleep, even breathe and Iwant it gone gone gone. I got out of bed too fast and twisted wierd yesterday and bam! :::sigh:::

I'm going to try the IcyHot Patch and see how that goes, otherwise I have a heatingpad and some tylenol. Too bad I don't have any percocettes left from my pneumonia :-P

Food for today:

B-coffee & tylenol
S-2 slices turkey breast, string cheese
L- thick slice ham, small baked potato insides w/ lite sour cream and spray butter
S-FF yogurt, baked chex mix
D-? going to my moms, so who knows!

Alrighty, off to work. Love ya's!

What am I thankful for today?

~Tylenol-my (.) came a WEEK early and I'm hurting like a mo-fo
~Coffee w/ pumpkin spice creamer
~my MP3 player-so I can drown out the bitching lady that sits behind me at work.
~waking up snuggling with my little man, his "Good morning mommy" makes my day
~tennis shoes-because I refused to wear heels today to work
~ponytail holders-because my hair would look a hot mess without it.


Food for today:

B-coffee w/ sweet n low & pumpkin spice powder creamer
S-2 slices jennie-o turkey breast, string cheese
L- 1/2 c. spaghetti w/ meat sauce, small cup peaches in pear juice
S-1/2 c. baked cheddar chex mix
D-1 thick slice baked ham, small baked potato w/ lite sour cream
S- glass of skim milk w/ sugar free chocolate syrup

Love ya's!