More Stuff!

My good friend Amber (pictured above with me) came down for a visit this past Sunday. We had a great time hanging out and visiting the tourist hot spots. It was nice seeing her, we havent seen each other in around 12 years! She brought some pictures of my children when they were itty bitty, and of course some of me also. My how we change through the years!

Weightloss has slowed dramatically, but now the inches are coming off. I guess the inches have to catch up with the weight loss. I am now down to 155lbs and a comfy size 12/14. I have learned that food is my friend, and we are much closer friends when I make better choices.

I am losing my hair, big clumps of hair every morning. It kinda scares me because I dont wanna wake up bald one morning. I have been considering getting a wig just in case. Brieanna told me she would get me a Hannah Montana wig, Uhmmm honey its cute for her, but she is 16 years younger than me! LOL!! Anyhow that is something I have been giving some serious thought to. Hopefully it wont come to that.

My hormones have been all whacky! One minute I am happy toodling along and the next I am bawling my eyes out. I guess with the weightloss my hormones also have to readjust. So until them I am Sybil.....

Next Friday is the 4th of July! Man it has come upon us so darn fast. Erin, Brie and I will be doing a 5 mile marathon at 8am on the 4th. I am super nervous, this is the first marathon I have ever been in. But with exercising and all that I have been doing it shouldnt be too hard on me. Anyhow wish me luck and think of me at 8am next friday!

Another Day

On Monday I started walking 5 miles. 3 in the morninr and 2 in the evening. Kinda tough on the body but Im adjusting. I also bought some weights and have been exercising my arms. Ya wanna talk about sore, wooowee they are sore, LOL.
I have been eating lots of protein. Since my poor hair is falling out I have upped the amount I am eating in a last ditch effort to decrease the amount I will actually lose. Losing hair is scary, when I wash it handfulls come out, I swear one day I will wake up bald!
The girls are going with their Dad this weekend. He is coming up tonight and leaving on Saturday morning. Another eat your heart out cuz this is what your missing visit with him, LOL.
I am nearing my goal of 100lbs. Only 23lbs left until that goal is a reality! I am sure I will have to work harder for these 23 than the first 23! But once I get there it will be bittersweet when I think of everything I have gone through to get where I am.
I am happy. For the first time in my whole adult life I am happy. I dont need a man to complete me, although a man would be nice for other reasons, but not necessary. I love my job AND I am good at it. For the first time in my life I am healthy and active. I love being outside and doing outdoor activities. In fact I am going to learn how to fish!!!

Walking & Weightloss

So I have been doing this crazy walking thing every morning. Pulling my fat butt out of bed at the crack of dawn and walking for 3+ miles. Today I actually feel good. I dont feel sore and tired and super cranky from lack of sleep. In fact we left at 6am but I was awake checking my clock from 5:30 to about 5:45. It gets light so early up here. It starts getting light about 4am. I am so not used to that! My sweet little doggy, Pongo, walks with me. Sometimes I feel bad cuz 3 miles is alot for me, I just wonder what he is thinking sometimes, Geeze mom are ya trying to kill me?? Its been almost two weeks that I have been walking 3 miles in the mornings (every day), I was starting to get very discouraged last night when I stepped on the scale and was still at 160. Then this morning I stepped on it and it said 158, I was so happy! Its paying off, it really is. My legs are getting stronger and I do feel better. The blisters are finally gone, thank god for that! The soreness in my legs is finally gone. I have been stretching every morning before I go and when I get home also. It is so cute, Pongo see's me stretching and he puts his paws up and it so looks like he is stretching too, LOL.

P.S. The pic is of Bridgeport. Yes that is the WHOLE town in the picture!

OK.....

Whoever said that exercise gives you more energy LIED! I have been walking 3 miles (yes I made a mistake on the distance calculation before) every morning and I am getting more and more tired and increasingly sore! My body is screaming at me to stop but my mids is saying, Ok fat ass keep moving or else your goona be fat forever! Yes I admit it that is my motivation. Maybe today is just a bad day and I need to go back to bed. I hurt, i ihave cramps, I am so sleepy I can hardly keep my eyes open and my day doesnt end until ten o'clock tonight.

Ok enough with my whining. I found out today that one of my best friends is pregnant. How exciting is that? Another one of my best friends is starting In-Vitro this summer. And my final best friend is getting married this summer. Exciting things happening. I almost feel like I am missing out on all this stuff going on with my friends and their lives, but I am not willing to sacrifice my happiness just to move back to be there. I would seriously be miserable if I moved back to fairfield. Anyhow those true friends of mine understand and support my decision, even though they miss me.

Thank you to all who read my blog. XoXoXo!

Another Update!

Well this week I hit 160lbs(and its the first day of my cycle)! It feels wonderful to be able to say 160lbs! 25lbs until I hit my goal of 100lbs. It is so close I can almost reach out and touch it, well thats how it feels. Eating is a breeze for me now. I eat almost whatever I want at this point, just no sugar, I dont eat alot of fruit either because it is very high in natural sugars. But veggies are my favorite friends right now! Salads, I eat them almost every day. Beef Jerky and Atkins shakes have also become very close friends of mine. I have started to lose my hair. It is falling out all the time. Just a side effect from the surgery, but mad it sucks! Consuming more protein will help with the loss but nothing will prevent it. Thank the good Lord he gave me a TON of hair.

We have started our 2.5 mile walks in the mornings. We get up at 5:15am, walk 1/4 mile to the airport, walk all the way down the 1 mile runway, walk back up the 1 mile runway and walk the 1/4 mile back home. Let me tell you my legs are sooo sore, my body is so tired and getting up at 5:15 just sucks butt majorly! We can complete the whole walk in 30 minutes, which for someone as out of shape as I am is pretty darn good. The elevation also makes it harder to exercise, the air is so much thinner up here. Our 3 mile marathon is in 3 1/2 weeks so we need to step up the pace and get our butts moving!

The kids are doing so well. The last day of school is on Wednesday and Bobby will be coming up for his girls the following weekend. He misses them and will be taking them for a week or so. I sure am going to miss my baby. But it is not going to be for very long, so I think we will survive.

Brieanna's BFF is coming down tomorrow. She will be spending the week with us. Not much else is new and exciting in my life. Just the same ol same ol going on here. No drama, no stress and life is grand!!

Love and hugs to all who read this! XoXoXoXo

Finally~~~Doing The Happy Dance!!!

Well I have Finally hit the major goal I had been pushing for, 165lbs! Doing the Happy Dance! That means from my highest point I have lost 77lbs! I am super de duper excited. I weighed 165lbs when I met Bobby 10.5 years ago. Also all my 16's are too big I am officially a size 14, yippeee!! I have seriously 6 garbage bags of clothes that I am going to be donating because they are all TOO BIG for me! I can not believe how amazing this feels. **Doin The Happy Dance**

We had an amazing weekend and an even better Memorial Day. A friend of ours, Dave, took us out for a drive around the local countryside yesterday. I can not believe how incredilby beautiful this area is. I knew it was beautiful, dont get me wrong, but this was just amazing. The picture I have posted is of the creek above Leavitt Falls. it is amazingly gorgeous. I cant wait to go back on a clear day and take many more photos.

We bbq'ed yesterday and had some friends come over. It was really nice. Even though our house is small we still fit like 15 people in here last night! We had hot dogs, egg rolls, cheese tots and potatoe wedges. I had an egg roll and a slice of ham. It was just nice to hang out with my friends and just do nothing. We all hung out and then everyone left around 8:30pm. I went upsatirs and finished unpacking my room and cleaned it up. Finally went to bed around 11pm.


Everyone have a wonderful Tuesday. Love to all my friends XoXoXoXo

Heat, Snow & Another Goal Almost Met

The weather has been so incredibly unpredictable this last week. It was in the nineties last weekend and then yesterday we woke up to snow. It really was beautiful to watch, just kinda weird cuz it was so hot just two days before. Here is a picture I took.

I am officially down 68lbs now. It seems since I started drinking the protein shakes every day for breakfat the weight is coming off again. Not bad, not bad at all. Even though I do have to gag down the protein, it tastes horrible.

I found this SmartWater at Trader Joes the other day. It tastes sooo good and does not nauseate me at all. Which is very important since I hate being nauseated, lol.

Anyhow my sister and her kids have come down for a visit. They got here last night around 9:15. It is nice to see them, I havent seen them in the two months since I moved.

Well that is it for this morning. I hope everyone has a wonderful Memorial Day! XOXO