The Great Weight Loss Journey is DISCONTINUED Until............

Further Notice..................

I just can't deal with these crazy scales.  Now my new ones are acting up; weighing different.  Not as much as the old original scales but 2-3 different weights each morning.

ALSO........the stress of trying to lose weight during the holidays is too much.  My plan now is to TRY to use self-control when around food during the Christmas holidays. 

As matter of fact Tyler and I are going to a friend's Christmas Party tomorrow afternoon and I KNOW she is going to have so many goodies because I was at her party last year and it was great!

SO.............no more weighing in every morning until the beginning of the new year, 2011.  Wow its hard to believe its going to be 2011 in just a few weeks

We're supposed to have some precipitation and cold frigid temps moving in tomorrow (Sunday).  I just noticed that its after midnight so my blog will be dated Sunday the 11th of Dec.  but I am writing it Saturday night so I am still speaking/writing as if its Saturday the 10th.

Anyway I got plenty of wood in and took some pictures of my faithful Faith; she and Pookie stayed outside with me but wimpy Riley had to stay in the house after only one trip to the woodpile!

Got one picture of little Pookie and her tail is wagging so fast its a blur in the picture!  LOL..........she's as faithful as Faith is when it comes to being with me!

Day 8 - Or Second Day of New Start

 138.6

Well about all I can say is here we go again!  I am trying to watch what I eat and I am still going UP on the scales.  At least these scales are consistent and it doesn't matter which way I lean, back on heels, or forward on my toes, it weighs me the same, whether I like the number or not.

It has been giving me consistent numbers although when I first weighed this morning it was 138.2 and went to grab my phone to snap a picture and when I got back on, I kept weighing 138.6 over and over so I decided that is what the real number is and the first one was a fluke!

So no matter if I like it or not, I am up 2 tenths of a lb.  For what its worth that's the number.  And I used this picture because Pookie is almost always right there at my feet when I am getting on and off the scales.  She is always right under my feet waiting patiently for me to do whatever it is that I am doing.

Not much of anything to write about today; its been so cold I have been staying inside keeping the fire going; filling up the woodbox and taking care of bills and paperwork!   This cute picture of  Pookie girl was outside in the dry leaves; she blends in with them so much you can barely see her!  She was watching Riley & Faith sniffing around for something under the barn.

There's my little cart waiting for me to fill it up with wood.  That building back there is the well shelter or well house as we sometimes call it.

Maybe something better and interesting will happen tomorrow.  I'll fill in with a few pictures to liven this blog up a bit!  I'll end tonight's blog with a picture of my two males that I miss so much, Mark in Indiana and Lil Man (Rylan) in Arizona!  This picture of Rylan is cute with his Pop, even though Rylan's eyes are closed from the sun being in his eyes!

Day 7 - Starting All Over Again w/ NEW Scales

 138.4 lbs

Today is the first day using my brand new scales! Yeah!   I guess I am celebrating but not sure WHY because I weigh almost a WHOLE LB more than I did on my old ones yesterday.  But I am going to start over and say this is the new beginning of my weight loss journey so tomorrow will be DAY 2 since I am starting over!

Yesterday I got so tired of weighing myself over and over that I went out and bought a new set of digital scales. This should be very interesting because when I got them home (after eating during the day and having my main meal of the day), I weighed 2 lbs heavier than I reported yesterday which was 140 lbs............shhhhhh don't tell anyone, I don't even like typing that out here.  

I am trying to convince myself not to get upset because here I am a week after starting this "journey" and I am doing worse than when I began on December 1st.  I weighed EXACTLY one lb lighter (137.4) on the first day I started than I do today, the "second first day"!!  I hope you follow that but don't worry I am starting over now so you can forget all that.  I've just starved myself a whole week and now I am a pound heavier.  No one said it was easy to lose weight when you get older; everyone always told me how hard it was to do but I never believed them until now! 

Merry Christmas!

There's not much other news tonight.  I tried to be good about eating today; I pigged out on apples, I had a raw apple and peanut butter; then I baked some apples with cinnamon.  That sure did have the house smelling good!

                    

    I love Granny Smith apples so this picture looked the most like them; I cut them up in pieces and spray with "I Can't Believe Its Not Butter" and sprinkle cinnamon on top and cover it with tin foil then bake in the oven so this picture looked the most like what I made.  Boy did it make the house smell good!

Day 6 of the GREAT WEIGHT LOSS TRIP!

Yep I changed the name from Weight Loss "Journey" to "Trip" cause I feel like I am on a BAD TRIP with these darn scales!

I am so sick and tired of these scales I want to sling them out the door!
I weighed myself at least a dozen times and took a dozen pictures with my iphone and kept getting different numbers! I am seriously thinking of buying a new set of scales and starting over!
Guess it wouldn't hurt nuthin' for Santa to come early and bring a pair of bathroom scales..........YEP that's just what every woman wants for Christmas or Birthday or any occasion when we could be getting something WE REALLY WANT!

This weight (137.5) is what I picked to show because its about the average of the weights I got when I weighed a dozen times. It could be anything from 128 to 138 but I was getting more consistently high numbers between 136-138.

Okay, changed text color to show you its later in the day (8pm); okay that makes sense to no one but me but since no one is reading this blog but me I will do things that make sense in my head!

I went to Kohls today and got a NEW SET OF SCALES. They are digital and seemed to work tonight CONSISTENTLY! YEAH!!
I won't submit the weight I was tonight because its not your true weight. I have always heard that your true weight is what you weight first thing in morning (after going potty cause as anyone knows that's what we women do as soon as our feet hit the floor!). My weight tonight, though consistent, was higher than I like to see but whatever it is in the morning that is going to be my TRUE weight and my new starting point!
Okay enough of that..........

Okay NEW subject, new text color! RED is the color I associate with Santa Claus so that's why I am using it.
Tobey sent me some pics of her, Rylan and Santa Claus today. No info from her yet but it looks like they are eating at some restaurant.

I think she is holding a sucker inn his mouth; not sure but maybe she will write and give me the low-down on these pictures before I publish this blog.

Day 5 - THOSE DARN SCALES!!

It took every bit of 15 minutes to try to get a decent/consistent reading on these digital scales! They varied from 130 to 139 lbs; if I lean back on my heels I get a 130 or something in low 130s.........I would love to take those readings but I know they aren't right! If I lean forward on my toes it goes as high as 139!!
What is up with these things? I want some new scales but I can't justify buying news ones unless these break! Maybe I could take them out and smash them in the woodpile!

Day 4 of "Whatever this is; I'm CLUELESS!"

I don't even KNOW what to think!! I am back and forth, back and forth 137 point something to 138 point something. I sure hope I see some movement DOWN on these darn scales soon; this is getting depressing and I am not cheating and eating anything GOOD!! Boohoo!!

I'm trying to eat healthy but I do know ONE THING I am not doing and that is exercising! That's what's missing and I know it. I have a treadmill on the back porch, a big yard to walk around in, a membership at the YMCA and I am still sitting here on my butt Unmotivated!

I know the weather has had me in a "funk" so to speak, but this is ridiculous! Its about to get colder and I keep sitting here; at least I walked to the mailbox this morning.

Okay I am gonna get out and get some wood in for the night before dark and I am going to wear my pedometer and at least log a mile around the yard. I should make Tyler go to the YMCA with me but too lazy for that. I would like to go to Trader Joe's in Athens tomorrow/Sunday so maybe my motivation then will be to get Tyler up and ready to go and we'll go to the Y for a short cardio workout on the bike and treadmill then go to Trader Joe's............I am so glad we have one of those close by now and I'm ashamed to say I have only been once for a quick trip in there after a race. I have been meaning to go back so maybe by writing this down I will be motivated to go tomorrow!

I have made a conscious decision to attack my blogging in a different manner. In the mornings after I weigh myself (so much fun) then I will go ahead and post the scales and write a little bit and then later in the day or all along the day I can add more a little bit at a time. I think this will work better than me trying to do the whole blog late at night when I am too tired to think

I am back in the house from filling up the wood box and I didn't even know before I went out that its misting rain out there and ground is wet. Oh well, I have been living in my turtle shell today!
I made a few laps around the yard then my feet got wet so came in; made it almost a mile..........LOL!! I took some pictures with my cell phone so I will post those in a little bit.

This is the gate looking down the long driveway to the road.......dreary looking!

Faith is sniffing something out at the bottom of the fence.
Part of front pasture; you can barely see a house in distance; its the one that borders our property on Kilcrease Road, at least I think I see it. Well at least I know that's Faith down there still sniffing out a rat or something!

Looking toward the end of the house where basement door is; heading around the house. Some parts of the grass is so brown and some is still green. Wonder which is the weeds and which is REALLY grass?

This is side pasture looking toward the back of our property; there are some houses in Country Meadows subdivision on the right.

This is backside of property; not much to see other than pasture.

I am standing near basement end of house looking up toward the woodpile; I sure do need to be raking leaves in this area. We have maple and oak trees back there. There's lots of branches that have fallen that I plan to pick up tomorrow if its not raining.


I am standing in back near woodpile looking toward the house. I thought you would be able to see and tell that Mark and Torrey put up the plastic on the back porch for me before Mark left for Indiana. It sure does help to keep the house warmer with the plastic over the screen porch. Of course the dogs have already torn out a place next to the door to go out. They won't go outside THRU THE DOOR like a normal dog would, they think they have to tear the screen and plastic and go out that place!

Before I forget, I wanted to make a note in my blog that when I talked to Mark this evening he said there was 6 inches of snow up there in Indiana where he is working. They did some drilling today to try to make up for the days they couldn't work in the rain. He said the snowplows do a good job up there! I'll be reporting tidbits of info I get from him about how he is doing here on my blog too.

Well its getting late and there's not much else going on tonight. Tyler and I just watched TV and he did his "thing" in with loading/unloading the dishwasher and rearranging the dishes in the cabinets.
Maybe tomorrow will be more interesting!

Day 3 of the Great (not so great) Weight Loss Journey!

Well at least I didn't go HIGHER AND HIGHER today!! The scales went back down but not even to the starting weight! But at least its in the right direction!
Sure wish I were lower than Day #1 but there's always hope for tomorrow!

I fixed Tyler & myself crock pot of vegetable soup with grilled chicken strips added. I am a real good cook out of the can (Progresso Weight Watcher soup) and frozen grilled pre-cooked chicken strips from a bag. Oh and I added one large can of stewed tomatoes. It sure was good for supper tonight!

I'm getting pretty bored around here with Mark gone 24/7 until week before Christmas. No adult to talk to; Torrey is in and out constantly with work, college and his social life! Tonight he rushed off to a frat house Christmas party! He is finally getting to wear the UGA Christmas Santa cap I bought him at the after Christmas sales/discounts last year. He didn't even stay long enough for me to get a picture of him wearing it; he was in and out and gone! He looked at my veggie soup and said it smelled good but he didn't have time to eat...........oh well that is the life of a young adult in college!

Think I'll go see if I can get a picture of my soup for you, whoever "you" is out there in "internet land".............

Its delicicous and I'm sure I'll be eating it all weekend. The can says its ZERO Weight Watcher points but that's if you eat only one bowl/one serving. I just checked the can and it has 60 calories per cup/serving; zero Fat, 4g of fiber. I plugged these into my WW calculator and sure nuff, ZERO PTS!! But if you eat more than one serving, it will add up the points. I probably had a cup and half for my supper. Still not bad and I am full. Oh of course I forgot the chicken I added but grilled chicken breast is very good for you and low in calories so I still think I am doing pretty good eating this soup.

Day 2 of the Great Weight Loss Journey is a BUMMER!

WHAT IN THE WORLD HAPPENED??
This is no way to start off Day 2 of my Weight Loss Journey/Challenge!
As you can see I gained, 0.8 LBS to be exact. I thought I did good with my eating yesterday but somehow my body decided to hang onto every calorie it possibly could and it showed on the scales this morning!
I promised myself no matter what I would take a photo of the scales each & every morning so I can be accountable to what they show!
So onward we go on this trek to lose weight.
I would post something else tonight but I am kinda "bummed out" for lack of better phrase.
I have tried to be good today too but darn those scales if they are higher tomorrow, I think they will be thrown up against the wall!!
P.S.
I forgot to mention that Pookie is VERY INTERESTED in what I am doing standing on that white thing so she was right there at my feet; I didn't have the heart to crop her out of the photo. She's my "Mama's Girl"!!

My NEW Weight Loss Journey Starts TODAY

I promise to weigh myself every morning and post the picture here on my blog. I will be including other stuff but I am gonna start my blog with my scale picture each day. This is to MOTIVATE ME!! Otherwise I will get lazy and the Christmas holidays will come and go and I will need to lose an additional 5 lbs over the 10 lbs I want to lose right now. I will be happy when I get UNDER 130 but I would love to weigh 125! We'll just wait and see what happens.

I hope no one gets bored with my "blogging" about this but this is the only way I figured out that I can hold myself accountable.
Almost 3 years ago I went on this journey when my weight had climbed to almost 150 (149 to be exact) and that was what I weighed when I was 9 months pregnant with my third and last baby (he's now 21 yrs old). I was mortified because in my mind "this just can't be right"!!

I lost the weight using Weight Watchers but I never joined online or attended a meeting. I had a friend give me her old books and I asked her lots of questions, researched online and found that the info is out there all a person has to do is look for it and anyone can do it.

Well that's about it for tonight; I was going to swipe some pictures of Rylan from my daughter's Facebook page but its getting late. I'll try to do that tomorrow night.

Well I am going to bed hungry but trying to drink lots of water so we'll see what the scales show in the morning!!