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I am still jounraling my food, but not on here like I was. It was really taking up a lot of my time (which seems like I don’t have much of lateley)! Journaling what I eat makes me a lot more of what I am eating, when and why so I will keep doing it. Maybe I will do it on here again soon, but for now I am just doing it on paper.

Crappy rainy weather here, so I won’t be doing much outside today.

I have been eating a lot more fresh veggies and fruits. It is so much easier when I cut them up and put them in containers in the fridge so all I have to do is grab them. I bought a whole bunch of containers yesterday all different sizes. I am also going to cook extra and freeze me some meals and then when time is tight I have a good nutrisous low cal. meal and have one less excuse for eating the wrong things.

Hope you all have a great day!

I went to a cook out at my oldest brothers yesterday. I had all good intentions of sticking to plan. I didn’t I ate junk! I ate chips and stuff I don’t normally eat, and I was sick to my stomach. I was still sick to my stomach this morning. I don’t ever want to feel like that again. Today is a new day and I am back on plan. I know there will be slip ups, but never again like yesterday!

Thanks buddies for your comments on my last blog. I appreciate the feed back on the problem I am having concerning my granddaughter.

Hope you are all having a great day!

I am doing pretty good sticking to plan, but not getting in the excercise I should be. I am realy having a lot of problems with my legs lately, but I do what I can. I am hoping as the weight comes off I won’t be having the pain I have been having.

I am having a little dilema that I am hoping some of my buddies on here will give me some advice on. It concerns my 4 yr. old granddaughter. Her mom who is a little skinny size 6 and her other NaNa seem to think she is getting “Chunky” it bothers me. I am worried that if they make to big a deal out of it, that it could eventually lead too bullimia or anerexia ( excuse my spelling).  I bought her some play clothes the other day at the thrift store and my daughter in law called me back later to ask me what size I bought her, I told her size 5 like I had been getting her. She tells me her Mom has had Natasha all week and was tired of squeezing her into her clothes so she went and bought her 6 and 6 X. She went on about how her mom says that Natasha eats all day long. I did not want to get into it with her, but I did tell her when Natasha is here she eats 5 or 6 times a day, but not a lot at a time and I don’t give her soda, she drinks water, juice and milk. My daughter in laws mother is also very thin, and Natasha looks and acts so much like me they call her little Bette Jo, I think she is just afraid Natasha will end up as fat as I am. It realy bothers me. I think if they leave her alone and don’t make a big deal out of it and let her choose to eat the way she does she will be fine. She eats good foods when she is here. She eats fruits and veggies and very little meat. What do you think?

We went out to eat tonight and I only ate half of my dinner and brought the other half home for my son. I had sweet and sour pork and if I figured everything out right with my food journal on here I am still under my calories for the day. I ate pretty lite throughout the day, because I knew we were going out to eat. I even surprised my hubby by only eating a half a roll and half a butter instead of a whole one, I love butter! I also had my dressing on the side and dipped my fork into the dressing then my salad. I am surprised with myself, but I know this is truly not a diet, but a totaly new way of eating for life for me. I know when I lose it I will have to keep up with eating right and watching my portions so I never ever go back to the way I was!

Well good night wonderful buddies!

Have a good one!

I am still staying on plan. Most days it is not to bad, but the past few has been harder. It is evening while I watch hubby go to the freezer two and three times for an ice cream. I have no sugar 40 calorie fudgesicles but his ice cream sure looks better!

I have just been so tired and drained since going back to work for the summer. I don’t get to come home during the middle of the day as summer school is a half day! I am done with the day 2 hrs. earlier but I am so use to being home for a couple hours in the middle of the day to get some things done and now I am just beat when I get home. I just can’t seem to get my sh#t together and it feels like I am not getting any ME time! I am trying to get things all balanced out and it just doesn’t seem to work out.

Well I guess I will head off to bed as 4 am comes early……

Have a good one!

I had to buy a new bathing suit yesterday! My boobs were falling out of my old one! The old one is a size 24 and my new one is an 18/20, it is a little snug, but that gives me some incentive to make it fit better before vacation over Labor Day Weekend! Hubby liked it though……..

I am so pschyed I have lost 11 lbs. over the last 3 weeks! I have joined a weight loss challenge group ….THE FEARCE GRIZZLIES, we took first place this last weigh in…..WHOO HOO, I am doing the happy dance!

I hope you all are having a great week!

My hubby worked a lot this weekend with his 2nd job! He didn’t get home until 4:30 am on Saturday (took a group bar hopping for a Birthday) and then he had a wedding yesterday so he left home at 10:30 and did not get home until almost 6:30. I knew he planned to go out to eat, so I was careful with my calories all day. What I didn’t know was he would want to go have pizza! I still didn’t do to bad. I had 2 sl. of pizza and we shared an order of fries! If I had stopped there I would have been okay, but last night, he was a bottomless pit with his little debbies, so I had a granola bar and some rice cakes. Over all I had a couple hundred extra calories, but today is a new day and I am right back on track!

I hope all my buddies are having a good weekend!

I am so excited! I have now lost 63 lbs. ! I have set my next mini goal at my half way point of my total to lose!

I want to thank all of my buddies who have stuck with me when I was about ready to throw in the towel. I have gotten only support, motivation and inspiration! I have gotten words of wisdom and tough love from my buddies! I think joining the Fearce Grizzlies also gave me more motivation, knowing there was a whole team counting on me to help them kick butt with our group weight loss!

I am amazed how well I have been able to stay at or under my calorie level each day! Using the food journal on this site has made that so much easier for me than I thought!

I am off to try to catch up on my buddies blogs!

Have a good one everybody!

I wasn’t to bad yesterday, but I did have a small piece of cake. I did my usual little of this and little of that. I took my turkey burgers with me of course, turkey burgers cut half the calories and I think they taste great!

I found an excercise bike yesterday for free! I was with my sister-in-law and I saw it in a yard with a free sign, so I asked her to stop! Hubby not to enthused, we have a small place and we are working (have been for awhile) on the spare room it is going to be his sports watching room/grandkids overnite room/excercise room! Well it is still in the Blazer I have to figure out where to put it before we can bring it in! I am so excited for my find! It is a small older one, but I don’t care!

Well I gotta go, we are grocery shopping tonight, hubby is working tomorrow night and Saturday.

Gonna check a few blogs, before hubby gets home!

Have a great night buddies!

Yesterday was not a day I would like to re-live! Word of warning buddies, do not I repeat do not ever work for the same company as your husband! For those of you who are new buddies, my husband and I work for the same company! My husband is the dispatcher/office manager/bus driver/(if the boss doesn’t want to do it my husband does) I am a bus monitor for special needs children! Last week my driver and I did a dry run to figure out how long and what time our pick ups would be and I did a trip sheet with our time and children. Yesterday my daughter-in-law (she is also a bus monitor) and her driver did there dry run and found out that one child is a wheel-chair disabled child that must be transported in his wheel- chair, something the county should have told the company. Well anyways they have to many children to use a wheel-chair bus, so I had to give up one of my children and add that one to our route. Not so bad except our base needed to get a wheel-chair bus from another base. So last night hubby and I went in to get my carseats from my old bus for this one. At first I could not find them and I was pissed. I use certain carseats for certain children, I am very particular on my carseats. I am very particular on my carseats that they are what I need for certain children. I have a very supportive one for one of my children who uses a wheel-chair, but she gets transported in a carseat! Hubby and I got into a fight because I got upset and thought someone else had taken my carseats. I looked and looked and finally hubby checked a bus in the garage, and my carseats were on another bus. My youngest son(18 yr. old), was there and he helped me take them out and put them on the new bus. I take my responsibility as a bus monitor serious, I love my kids and I want them safe and comfortable during there transportation. I was so pissed that my hubby didn’t get that! Everything is good now!

On to the good parts of my day!

I did my challenge yesterday for the Fearce Grizzlies! I drank 128 oz. of water, I exceeded the challenge!

I got my flowers weeded and some transplanting done! (My legs were killing me last night from all that kneeling, but last year at this time, I could not have done it at all)!

I stayed on plan even with my added stress!

My plans have changed for today! I am going to my oldest brothers and hubby is coming there after he is done with 2nd job today! The weather here is going to stink, rain, rain, rain! The grandkids are spending time with D-I-L family!

Well I better go run and check on my buddies blogs!

Have a safe and Happy 4th of July!

Hubby took a couple vacation days this week and guess where he is? You got it work! He had to go in a for a couple hours (it had better be only a couple hours)! Yesterday the boss called to find out where some folders where and for other reasons, and then he got a call about from another employee who has his checked mailed who did not get it. He had called and talked to the boss and it didn’t get resolved so he called hubby at home last night, like what was hubby going to do about it at home! It seems like every time he takes a day off he doesn’t actually get it! He doesn’t understand why I get upset, it just seems his job rules our lives. He complains about his job, but I know he loves it, and likes that he is needed there so much! It strokes his ego!

Hubby is working tomorrow for his 2nd job, he is doing a wine tour, so I will probably spend the day at my moms and then meet my son and his wife and the grandkids at the lake for fire works later when he gets done.

Now that I am done complaining, I have made some revelations about my diet. I have always had a really hard time when counting calories, but this time I am having a lot easier time of it. I am finding some good foods that are lower in calories and taste good too! One thing I was really surprised at was Turkey burgers. I always thought YUCK! I actually think they taste pretty good and are a good alternative to a hamburger and a lot less calories and fat!

I think switching to counting calories was a good choice for me. I have lost 8 lbs. in the past 2 weeks and it has not been as difficult as I thought it would be!

I also think that joining a challenge group has helped to motivate me. Another motivational thing I have started in the past couple weeks is to do a food journal. Food journaling has helped to really keep track of what I am eating and all the changes have made me more accountable for what I eat.

I hope everyone is having an awesome day!