Weigh - in Wednesday

Hey friends!!

I can’t believe it’s almost June!! Where did the month of May go??

Whew…time is flying by!

Well it is also time for weigh in Wednesday….Since I neglected blogging last week this was my weight last week.

243

And this week

241!

Yes! 15 pounds down!

So that means that I am one little pound away from reaching 20 percent of my goal!

It has definitely been a long learning experience so far and I’m excited to continue on it till the goal is reached!

Well stay tuned on Friday for the weekly update of whats been going on in my life this week!

Thanks for your encouragement and support!

Y’all Rock!!!

No more Jean dancing....

Heyyyy there my friends!

Well, I have some fantastic news! Are you ready??

Ok here we go.

So…I bought these really nice (and a little pricy) pair of jeans about a year and a half ago. I wore them for a couple of months and then started growing out of them. I was devastated because I really loved them.

But of course I kept them to prove to myself that I was going to fit back into them eventually.

When I started this journey they wouldn’t even button. It was not a pretty sight and I felt pretty discouraged about it. Then I tried them on again back in the winter months and they still wouldn’t button.

Fast forward to Friday.

I went out jeans shopping because I desperately needed just one pair to get me through the summer….my other jeans have completely worn out and are no longer wearable.

Now, I will admit, I do love to go shopping for fabric and craft stuff…but not for clothes. Even when I was younger and my mom would let me go shopping, she would have to tell me to buy clothes and not face glitter, scrunchies, novelty socks, etc. (That makes me sound like such a cool kid….haha).  I really don’t like clothes shopping because it usually ends in me walking out of stores with tears in my eyes and empty handed.  So for me to venture out and go clothes shopping….it’s a big deal.

Let’s just say…Friday was yet another shopping day of tears and empty hands. I was out shopping for several hours and went to over 7 different stores and found NOTHING! I gave up and came home so I could sulk.

After I got home, and after debating with myself whether or not I should drink a big Dr. Pepper and eat something unhealthy (which in the past I would have…but I didn’t!! Score points for me!!!), I just stood and stared in my closet.

I stared down at the corner of my closet and saw my jean collection (yes, multiple pairs of jeans that no longer fit but I keep  in hopes that they will one day be wearable again) I thought to myself….well you have already had a pretty unsuccessful day so you might as well try them on. How could it get worse?

And let me tell you….it got better!

I pulled on those jeans AND got them buttoned AND there was extra room!!!! I didn’t even have to do the jean dance….you know what I’m talking about…that thing you do after you wash your favorite jeans and need to stretch them out a little bit-dance around and do a couple of squats…ah good times.

So they fit!! This is the first time that I have really felt a change in my body. It was such a blessing, like I was rewarded after working so hard!

I convinced my sweet, sweet husband to leave a few minutes before church started and stop by the park near our home and take some victory photos of me in my pants! And here are some of my favorites!  

 Thank you for your encouragement and love!! I appreciate every single one of you! Please keep praying for me to see more success!

Where have I been!?

Hello!

So….first off I would like to apologize for my absence lately. I have been busier than usual, but that is no excuse for me to ignore my readers.

Let me just say that I have had a rough month working out and eating right. I have been lazy and gotten too comfortable again. Having said that, I am officially out of my funk and back to being motivated and inspired.

My current weight is 243 lbs.

I still have one more pound to lose before I am back to where I was when the lazy month began.

I have been fluctuating the past couple of weeks and it has been discouraging because it feels like I am a different weight every single day.

So I have started a new plan. Would you like to hear it? Ok, ok, I will tell you.

After chatting with my hubs about what I could do to shake things up I have decided that I need to work out more than once a day.

Part 1 of the plan is to increase the amount of time I am spending at the rec. I was spending about 45 minutes working out, but now I am working out 2 hours each morning. I am doing a lot of cardio and some weights.

Part 2 of the plan is to work out again each day. The second workout will be something like yoga, a walk to the park, or swimming! Yay! I’m excited about the latter one! Less intense, but still intentional. The point is 

to keep my body moving.

Part 3 of the plan is to do something to help me stay organized and on top of my eating, my daily to-do list and my blog.

Enter…these.

 

I found all of these really great free printables online and went and had them laminated at Kinko’s so I can use markers on them and then erase them fresh for a new day!

These things are awesome!

I have been using them every day and they help keep me motivated! It has all the things I need during the day and weekly schedules for my blog!

Part 4 of the plan is that the hubby and I have made a weekly menu…where we write down everything we are going to eat for dinner…so there is no indecision when it is time to eat. Part of the reason we are doing this is to keep us from eating out on impulse.

So that is it my friends….Now I will leave you with a few photos of what I have been doing lately!

Lots of Tea and Quiet time outside!

Spending time with my sweet nephews!

 My Nephew!

 Spending time with these sweet ladies was a BIG HIGHLIGHT!

Thank you all for reading….I’m sorry for being absent for so long. The absence is over.

I’m back!

Where have I been you ask?

Hello!

Whew! It has been some time since I have posted a blog!!!

Well I wanted to assure you that although I have been absent for the last month that I have not given up on my journey.

We will just say that I took a slight detour. I have been working on getting back into my regular routine since my toe was worked on and I was out for a while nursing my foot back to a place where I could wear shoes.

Here are a few things that happened while I was "detouring"

*I finished my chair! 

HUGE SUCCESS!!!!

* I finished knitting my throw blanket! I know right in time for summer! HAHA! But Seriously... SO comfy!

* I made some artwork

for our Hobbies room!

(The multicolored one is made 

with paint samples!)

*Aaron and I got to spend our first Easter together as a married couple!

 * I got to spend the whole day with these lovely ladies doing girly things and having so much fun together!



 So...Much happened while I was absent from you. But I must admit...I did miss my blogging!

 And I am happy to report that it is feel much better! I have one last appointment with the Doctor this coming Monday and I am hoping that this will be the last visit to him.

So a little bit about my journey detour...Well I wasn't able to work out or really do much walking there for the first couple of weeks so naturally I turned to comfort foods and didn't get much exercise (I was not even able to walk down and get the mail!)

So I had gained some weight back during that time.

I was pretty discouraged but there was not too much that I could do for that time.

Well luckily it started feeling better....and I got to go back to the gym!!!

YAY!

Who knew that I would actually miss going to the gym?!?

So now after all this time (like over a month!) I am back to my normal routine! And it feels fantastic!

Since I got back into my routine I have lost the weight that I had gained back during my "detour" (which was about 4.5 pounds)

And now my weigh-in Wednesday

And my current weight is....

242!

YES!!

So that means that I am now 14 pounds down!

I know during my little detour I did lose a lot of time that I could have been losing but it was a learning experience for sure!

And now I'm very motivated!

Where I have been Lately...

Hey friends.

Well it’s been a pretty crazy week for me.

And it’s Weigh-in Wednesday

And my current weight is…..

I don’t know.

And here is why.

Recently I had to go to a foot doctor to get a very painful ingrown toenail taken care of-if was actually ingrown on both sides.  I will spare you all the gory details about the procedure but I will say that it was not pretty.

After all the numbing wore off….it is painful….really painful to walk and I can’t put any weight on my left foot so I limp everywhere.

My doctor  told me that I was to wear open-toe shoes for a couple of days while I still have all the bandages on it…so sadly I have not been able to work out.

When I had the procedure done I told the doctor that I worked out 5 times a week and that I needed to still work out after the procedure.  He told me that for the first 2 days I couldn’t work out,  but after that it would depend on how my foot felt in regular shoes.

Well today is 10 days after the procedure…and my toe still hurts…badly..

Now, I know you are wondering why I can’t weigh in….

Well, my husband has the fancy digital scale that can tell if you are not distributing your weight evenly…and I can’t do that with my gimp foot. So it keeps giving me a misreading and/or telling me to move to the left.  I tried 4 different times today and never got a reading.

I will say that the later part of this last week has not been the best for me. I have not been active. I have been on the couch taking pain meds and elevating my foot…because it feels better that way. So I have not been cleaning, getting the mail, taking out the trash, working on the chair, etc. So basically I have been a slug on the couch for the last 10 days.

My doctor told me that today I can take the dressing off my toe and clean it and put a new one on. So I’m hoping that here in a day or two I can get my foot into my shoe and I can get back to working out!

I thought about posting a picture of my toe without the bandage….but that would be gross and I don’t want to scare you all off….so here is a photo of the bandage I have to wear on my foot.

Stylish…I know.

Well thank you for reading….please pray that this heals quickly and that I am not in so much pain.

Weigh-In Wednesday!

Hi friends!

Its weigh-in Wednesday...

Ok so I know its not Wednesday but I am posting my weight from Wednesday today...

And my current weight is...

243!

Woohoo! Down another pound!

I'm really pumped to be 3 pounds away from making my 20% goal!!

Stay tuned later today for a post about my goal for this week!