Fresh start

Cookies. Candy. Holiday meals. Alcohol. Yeah, a fresh start is coming. The damage on the scale isn't looking good, but I also haven't been drinking my water, so the fluid retention is pretty high. I'm trying not to overdue it now that Christmas is actually over, but I received an overwhelming amount of food gifts this year. I can't just throw this stuff away. But, when the shit gives me a major tummyache every time I eat it, I should know to stay away.

Fresh start. January 1st. I've already gotten my sister Jen to participate in a challenge and I'm going to get my future SIL to join as well. I read about it on another blog but for the life of me , I can't remember who it was! Basically we're all going to chip in $2 a week at weigh-in. Each challenge will last for 8 weeks. Whoever loses the most, wins the pot. We'll see how it goes. All I know is that I need some sort of motivation. Jen will be TTC in March, so she wants to lose before she conceives. Of course, if she conceives right away, she won't be able to lose weight anymore, but it'll still be Mercy and I. (if I can get her to agree) Mercy has her wedding in October '06 and mentioned at Christmas that she needs to get back to losing weight.

I'm contemplating trying the Core Plan. I'm scared to though. I know I'd be fine for breakfast and dinner but lunch has me worried. I enjoy salads but the stuff I put on it would need to be counted. And I don't like tuna or anything else I could eat thats on the Core list. We'll have to see on that one.

I haven't gone to the gym for 2 weeks. Need to get back to that but I had shoulder problems. First my left shoulder....Jen said it sounded like my rotator cuff. My left started feeling better and then my right shoulder started hurting. To the point where I was taking some sort of pain killer around the clock. Even a muscle relaxer at night. Finally today though its started to feel better. And I know that my legs aren't broken, but when I'm in constant pain, the last thing I want to do is be walking on the treadmill. (The elliptical was out because of the moving arms, and holding on to the handles would have pulled on my shoulder)

So, like I said....Fresh start. Cheers to everyone on a fresh start if you've fallen off, and a Happy New Year!!!

Christmas goodies

I'm surviving the holidays so far. Its been quite awhile again since my last post, so I'll catch anyone reading back up. Last week I lost 2.8 pounds, and haven't counted points or anything this week. So far the scale is showing that I'm maintaining, which is absolutely fine with me.

Yesterday I survived a trip to A.C. Moore, Marshalls, Home Depot and the MALL, with 4 KIDS, and lived to tell about it! So really, when I want to, I can handle taking all of them out, but really would prefer not to. We visited Santa (did you notice he was the last stop at the mall?) and I think the older two kids may have been persuaded just the tiniest bit that he was actually real. But I know that they know, as long as they don't tell the little ones.

I actually have a WW meeting tomorrow that I'm making time for. I seriously need it to stay semi-on track. I'm not expecting anything close to perfection this week at all. Thats unrealistic. But I will enjoy myself, both with family and with food, because really, its only once a year.

I've made 2 types of cookies so far, with 3 more waiting in the wings. Also whipped up some homemade salsa last night in between cookie batches. I'm going to try to make an apple pie tomorrow for Christmas day, but need to finish shopping first ;)

I'm allowing the two older kids to go with the wacked out biological father tomorrow for half the day even though its not his weekend. And.... I even bought gifts for him, his wife, and his wife's kids. Aren't I nice??

A mish mosh post.... more so about my kids than my weightloss. As soon as things get back to normal I'll be posting more often.

Hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas!!!

From bad to worse

This weekend has not been a fun one. I really didn't think I'd end up flat on my back for 3 days. This is even the first time I've come on the computer since Saturday morning. Chills, sweats, aches, fever, headache. Fever has been as high as 102.5, and thats just not normal for me. I can't even remember the last time I had a fever. I've eaten three things since Saturday....a banana, chicken noodle soup, and 4 bites of pudding. I'm down 8 pounds on the scale. Sure, I wanted to see the 170's, but this wasn't how I wanted to do it.

I'm home from work today. There was no way I could handle driving a bus with a fever, etc...Chris left early for work, and I stumbled my way through getting the kids ready for school. I need to wait till 9am to call the Dr. and then if I don't need to go right in, its naptime for me! I'm hoping what I have is something antibiotics will take care of, because I can't take much more of this. I'm thinking I either have the flu or a bad case of strep throat.

Anyway, thats all for now. Hope everyone's day will be better than mine.

Saturday weigh-in

Had a good weigh-in this morning! Down 2.2 pounds. Current weight is 184.2 (just ignore the sidebar) I was really surprised with this weeks loss since I had a devil dog, some chocolate covered caramels and some mozzarella sticks last night. Almost as if I'm not deserving of the loss. But I did workout 4 times this week. Monday- Thursday, plus I really pushed myself. My goal for December is to get under 180(again) by Christmas.

I think this week might be a piece of cake. I finally got a cold! Not that its a good thing, but my throat is so sore I can barely swallow. It just hit me last night, and although my nose isn't stuffed up or anything, the throat is keeping me from really eating. I even skipped my donut this morning, which is saying something! (its supposed to be my one treat of the week) I think I'll be pms'ing this week, which is usually hard since I crave the munchies, but maybe I can get through another week.

Going to go at it at the gym this week again. Hopefully this cold doesn't get any worse though. Matt's 7th birthday is this Thursday, so I'll have to contend with the cake too.

One day at a time. Hope everyone is having a great weekend!