we should start bloggin again

I'm up to 140 and need to get this weight off.

good Light dessert

I made pudding pie last night. Basically you buy a graham cracker crust and fill it with pudding. Light enough, eh!

I got ot get back in the game!

OK I we went out for lunch yesterday and then went to a birthday party last night and had ice cream cake. I didn't even want it and I ate it. It didn't even taste good. Then I just went to lunch with Gerry and came home and had a brownie and milk. I must get back to my diet!

Jan 19

so I am down 2 lbs, actually 3 if you count last weeks GAIN. The weight is coming off SLOW this time around. But I'm not going to give up and let food get the best of me!
Ok, Off to work out!!!

My tip of the day

Get a hot air popcorn popper! It is 15 calories per cup, spray a little butter spray and salt and it is a delicious snack. Santa brought the popcorn maker for Jane and we love it.

my fat azz...

I'm posting these pics, well for one, to show off my beautiful niece who was born Sunday.... NO Mike and Allie haven't have their baby:) also to show how chubby i let myself get. The first one is definitely more flattering, the 2nd is YUCK!!! I'm on my way to a skinnier me!!!!:) I have more to share, but those will be done when i have started to lose weight.

Update

Mike weight has been given
Katie down 2.15%
Liz down 1%
Cherie down 1.83%
Megan up 1%
Susie 0%
Toni down 1.31%
Tom C starts Friday


$50 to enter. The diet ends March 15th. The person with the highest percentage of loss wins $250. Second place wins $50. Percentage is to the tenth in case of a tie, so be sure to get your initial and ending weight to the closest tenth (ex 142.6). Good Luck!

Results 1/12

Hello!

Here are the players and their results as of 1/12:

• Mike waiting on weight
• Katie down 2.15%
• Liz down 1%
• Cherie down 1.83%
• Megan up 1%
• Susie waiting on %
• Toni waiting on %
• Tom C not sure if he is in
• Tom P not playing

As soon as I hear from Tom , we can decide on prize amount.

how do you add pictures?

I know you can add pics to a blog. I took some from last wee and this and will continue to do so. I want to show my progress.

the scale didn't reflect....

I'm about the same. the scale did not reflect my success of the week. I know i had to of lost weight. So anyways, next week should be a blow out.... watch out my lovies:)
Still working out a lot. I don't think i missed a day last week... maybe one. My fitness coach (wii game) wants me to be working out 45 minutes a day for 2 days and 60 for the last. I'd rather work out 6 days a week at 30 minutes. I did 45 yesterday and it was a but much. I'm thinking maybe 30 in the afternoon and 15 later in the day. Anyways, been working out pretty hard!!

Monday, January 12

I'm just figuring out how to post to this blog. My weight is down, but I know I can do better. I hope I"m over my sore throat tomorrow so I have some energy again!!!

now that we have more people..

what is the consensus with having a 1st and 2nd. Where 2n gets their money back and $50.00. Thoughts!!!????!!

Keep losing weight!

Down to 143 this morning. I have lost almost 5 lbs sonce last weekend, but by the time I weighed myself on Mondat, I already lost 2 lbs. I am hoping to be in the 142's tomorrow!

Sarha Jerutis knows how to cook....

So today we went to my moms to celebrate her birthday. I made a salad. Not the lightest thing ever but certainly not too fattening.
Sarah on the other hand made this delicious vodka pasta. Oh dear lord, was it GOOD and FATTENING!!!! and GOOD!!!! and she made a cheese cake for dessert. SO today wasn't great, but like Liz said, it could have been worse. I cold have had 3 plus servings of pasta and cake.
I did however have a really great workout!! I worked extra hard knowing i would pig out tonight.
Mike is cracking me up , he is in the "bulking up phase", his diet doesn't officially start till Monday!

Day whatever

OK so Pat and Polina (Pats's girlfriend) have been in town so I have not been doing really well with the diet. Polina made a delicious dinner last night and yesterday for lunch had a slice of Chicago style pizza. It was delicious. After two days of not doing great, I was only up .2 pounds. What I learned is that it is possible to eat foods you like, but not indulge. My thinking before would have been, well I ate pizza I blew my whole day and then continue to eat crapy food all day. Instead, I had one piece of pizza and ended at that until dinner time when I tried to load up on salad so I wouldn't eat as much of the otherstuff, but I did eat a brownie. Today, back on target!

My scale is new and initially, I thought weighed a few pounds lighter, but I went for my check up and it is accurate. So I lost about 2 pounds, but realistically I always do that after I return from holidays/vacation. I am trying to exercise and eat mostly protein with fruits and veggies.

so here i am, blogging all by myself....

things are going well. I definitely think i have been eating too much fiber , though. But the problem is , to get the most out of a food you need high fiber and most foods that are high fiber are lower calories/fat. Maybe after this week i will be back to normal, or some sort of normalcy.
I'm down 2 lbs as of today. So that's good.
I wore a pair of my skinny jeans to work last night and let me tell you, I have no business wearing skinny jeans right now, NONE. I don't know why I thought it would be a good idea. I was uncomfortable all night. And after wearing the jeans i felt discouraged. Hopefully those jeans will be fitting me nicely in another week or two.
I need to get on the wii and i just don't have the motivation. Hopefully i can find some energy before Cayden wakes from his nap!!! adios!

What, no one has anything to say?

Come people! this is supposed to be our support system, bragging rights and just to have fun, so some on out of hiding and brag away.
I'm doing ok. I ended up weighing myself yesterday after lunch and much to my surprise , I had not lost weight. BUT it WAS after lunch. So who knows what it would HAVE been in the morning before breakfast.
Anyway, I'm doing ok. NOT great and NOT terrible. But don't forget, slow and steady wins the race:)

UGH! I need to workout...

but cannot find the energy. I need some motivation , people:) and I don't have a lot of time as Pete get's home at 4pm (it's 2:11pm now) and when he gets home, I leave for work. So i need to work fast!!!:)

Day 3

Hate to brag, but I am now at 143.4. That is down 4 pounds since last week. By the way are we doing this for money? Michael E wants in.

resolutions....

So i know this is NOT weight related but my new years resolution this year was to start going to church regularly. so far I have made it to all two masses :) and of course Christmas day.
I was taking a very long break from the church. For one, I just wasn't getting it. Going to mass every Sunday was not sinking in with me. I wasn't getting anything out of it.
Well things changed a few weeks ago. My IL's are very involved with their church. They are in the choir, my FIL is the deacon there and they do a lot for the church.
We went to IL's for Thanksgiving this year. We always take extra food (leftovers)with us when we leave to give to the homeless guy that stands right as you enter off the expressway. So MIL made up a huge plate of food for the guy. We got to his spot and he was there. Which was a relief , as there were times we made a big plate for one of them and they weren't there. So he was there and we gave him the food. He was carrying something in his hand and with food , he fumbled with it all and it dropped. The plate we had made the food on was not a real secure one and the food fell to the ground. I choke up even thinking about it now. So anyways, i couldn't see , but Pete said he was able to recover all the food. I started to to cry . I was a mess. I just cried and cried. and Pete, who does not choke up a lot , did. so that hit me really hard, too.
Anyways, we got home, I turned on the TV and there was a commercial on about volunteering etc. and i just know that commercial was on for me. I had wanted to do it (serve food to the homeless in the past and just hadn't gotten around to doing it) So I saw this commerical and It inspired.
I emailed MIL about my experience (she is pretty religious) and told her I wanted to serve food to the homeless, NOW. I didn't want to keep putting it off. Mil's church (St Vincent Depaul) serves food to the homes less and her and FIL go every once in awhile. So she said YES, let's go next week.
So we went , it was an experience for sure. I worked the head part of the line where i greeted them and asked them what they wanted. It was very heartbreaking and totally empowering all at the same time. Like little old me was able to help these people and it felt good. I know i chocked up a few times. But i just tried so hard to keep a bright smile on my face. I know in my heart they liked the warm touch i added. Some told me how pretty i was, some wished me a merry christmas and yes, some were bitter. but i just kept a smile on my face and a warmth in my voice. So, anyways, I chocked up a few time. Just thinking to myself how ef'en lucky I am and how unlucky these guys are. what ever the reason is, something went terribly wrong for these people.
anyways, it ended being a very spiritual day for me. Lots of thinking and reflecting.... which I suppose is what you're supposed to get out of something like this.
So , I made a vow to myself that day, that serving the home lees would be something I would start to do. And you ask, maybe, where does church come in.
So days , maybe even weeks went by and MIL and I would talk about the experience from time to time. And the moment it hit me was when she told me that St Vincent Depaul supports the homeless, that it is their mission to serve them. And when i heard that, I knew I was sold. I want to be part of a congregation that I believe in and this I do. Oh wait , the moment hit before that. It was Christmas sunday. And we went to mass at DePaul. The Priest (pastor) was amazing. Everything he said, clicked with me. He broke things down into human terms. And I sort of knew at that moment. After Christmas mass is when MIL told me about De Pauls mission and that is when it all clicked for me!!!
So anyways, I think this is something I'm going to stick with. I go by myself and it very peaceful for me. And for some reason, I'm not sure why, but i get very emotional while i'm there. When i pray i just get all choked up...I feel so embarrassed , but hey, who cares, right!!! maybe i'm just emotional because this is all new to me and i have so much in my life to be thankful for and it's overwhelming.
So , sorry that this was so long. But i thought my story of re finding Jesus was very important. And wanted to talk about it.

The worst constipation/bloating

I've ever experienced in my life occured yesterday. I ate a boar load of fiber and I guess I didn't drink enough water and I was working....so I coudln't just get up and go an time i pleased. So holding in gas etc is never good on the system. I got home from work at 10:30pm last night and i was in immense pain. My stomach felt like it was in a knot. Anyway, all is well today. I'm feeling better. But WHEW was that not fun!
Other than that things are going WELL!!! Worked out yesterday doing 'my fitness coach' and that was a great workout. My muscles are all very sore. Which i find weird, since I've been using the game since christmas!

Started with good intentions, an hour of Tae Kwon Do, but my plumbing is under major repair, so eating out was easier.  The key for me is to get back on my regular exercise program, portion control and limiting carbs.

Tuesday

OK. I lost .5 lbs. I know I shouldn't weigh myself everyday, but I need to for a few days to keep going. I was going through the stations yesterday and saw Dr Phil talking ot someone who was trying to lose weight and he said, do it now so you don't have to worry about it for the rest of your life. Sounds so easy, but they are words I am living by. I am turning 42 next month and am hoping to be down to 140 by then. by the way I said this contest would last 6 weeks. I had it all wrong. If we do it for 6 weeks, that will be until February 8th.

it's day 2! what I'm doing to take it off!

So today is day two. And I feel good. But the mornings and afternoons usually are not my real problems....it's evening. So let's see how this evening goes.
I'm sorta doing Weight Watchers. On my own though. I have the tools to be successful, it's up to ME to actually do it!!
I'm also doing Wii fit. I got a game for Christmas called 'My fitness coach' and it is a great work out video.

Yo yo yo, it's Meggy here!

Wohoo!!! I'm on. I'm here.
Soooo, big day yesterday , real . Big. day. It was the sort of start to the Escudier Biggest loser contest. I say sort of because there is some question as to if this thing will even take off. But now today it looks like it is.
Anyway, enough about me, a little more about me. So I know what to do to lose weight, been there , done that. It's just there are times where things get out-of-control and then you don't know how to get back in control again. That's what happened to me.

I weighed in yesterday at 137.2. This may not seem like a lot to you. But geez lousie, just one month prior i was like 133-osh. Oh and I also would like to add this is my biggest since along time... since I guess when i took the weight off with having cayden. Actually this is more than when we BL'ed last summer. anyways, I blame the holidays. From like the beginning of December and on. I blame you!! I blame the people who thought they were being so kind to me and sending me cookies. Yeah, that was nice of you! but YOU probably thought I would share with my family. I was all up for shaing, but i had no takers, so I ate them all. But enough blaming already. I could blame blame blame till i'm purple in the face. The only one who has control over being what i want truly, is me! as soon as a person stops blaming and starts realizing.... things will change in their life. So I'm off the 7-8 cookies a day and back on track.
Yesterday was tough, I ain't' gonna lie!!! it's tough when your body is use to eating whatever you want , when ever you want. But ....I made it through the first day, andI feel goood!!!

By the way, I weighed in at 145.6 today. Lowest weight since I had the baby. Last year at this time I was 143.

First Day of dieting

So far so good. Didn't excercise, and probably wn't be abe to until the weather gets nicer.