I dont think during my time here I will ever get used to these cold temperatures…..

And to top it off when I was watching the news we are right in the middle of the floodzone so I had to look it up the red river flood. The red river is about 5 min away from where I live and in 1997 they were under 40 feet of water… ugghhh….

Well yesterday even though I am walking like a little old lady from all the pain I am in from working out I just opped a couple of advil and I did an easier workout I only did the 1 mile of walking off the lbs which was 20 min. i dont know whether I should take a couple days off to let my muscles heal or not I am scared I wont go back into it but I am sore.. What do you gals do when this happens ? I know when I did the biggest loser dvd I have never worked my thighs or my butt calves etc to that extent especially with weights and lunges so I did expect a bit of tearing….

Weigh in this am was 147 so I am down 1.9lbs. and I thought that I would gaincause i have had two pieces of carrot cake. but I was still within my points so I am assuming that it is the exercising that is helping

Was bringing out my log of how much weight I have lost as of Jan 01/09 I weighed in at 153.9

and as of today March 18/09 I am 147 so that is only 6.9lbs in 10 weeks which really doesnt seem great…

But I am going to take it cause it is a loss and not a gain.

Today dd#1 woke up with a sore throat a cold and her ears paining it is that time of year again  gave her some dayquil and we will wait the 7 days and see what happens last night I had given her nyquil and she has said mom it made me feel drunk although she has never drank… It does have quite a high alcohol content..

Tongiht it is helping my oldest to study for her history test and my youngest has girl guides and also soccer registration. So that will put me up to tuesday and thursday soccer and then wed girl guides and she would like to do swimming.. uggh girl guides is over in may or june and soccer is may and june as well. i just dont want to say no to any physical activity my youngest is almost 10 and she is 103lbs she doesnt look huge but she is stalky i will have to try and post a pic on here of her but for those of you that have facebook you have prolly seen her on facebook .

I feel if she is ambitious to be active I am going to let her be active so many times she just wants to play barbies or watch tv and I remember when I was al ittle girl and it was nice out I dont think I was ever allowed in side maybe for a drink of water or meals but I was always shooed out to go and play and we made out own entertainment hanging off of trees um jumping through tires etc..lol

Well chickies I think that is about all the excitment I have for you today.. thanks for listening all of you are such a big part of my life. I wish I had enough money to take us all on a vacation to just take a week and enjoy all of our company but I dont but I can still dream. All of you are such a support / friend/ listener it is just amazing that we have such a close group here.

well off to switch the laundry and back to comment cause tommorrow morning I have customers..

Ok so I need to realize I cant push my body too hard just starting out.. I dont know how they do it on the biggest loser man oh man and wake up so they can still walk??

I did the cario blast from the biggest loser and the first one without the warm up or cool down was 20 min and I used 5lbs weights then I could only do 17 min of it and now I can barely walk I have never done lunges skipping rope and jumping jacks with weights.. so I think today I will just do a walk away the lbs dvd until my body doesnt ache so bad.. I figure if I take all my negative energy that I feel just from life or from moving to a different place and put it into working out and eating right I am going to have better results in life then just whining all the time about it. I cant move back to nova scotia right now so as holly would say suck it up princess..lol All I can do is take one day at a time and work towards goals in life.

tookdd #1 out driving for an 1 1/2 yesterday here for their learners liscence they have to drive 24 hours with parents. dd#2 went to play at a friends house yesterday then her and I made carrot cake with cream cheese frosting i had a littlepiece yesterday and may have a little piece tonight. My downfalls in the food department I would have to say is cheesecake and plain chips.. and sometimes choc chip cookies.. but we only buy 2 bags of chips a month so that isnt bad .I want to have a lifestyle change that I can change forever if I am an emotional eater or like snacking once in awhile then that is something I need to budget into my lifestyle cause this is long term…

weigh in this am was 148.2 do I am down 2 lbs I’ll take it….

my Next goal will be 140 I would like to be about 125 but I need to realize that I will be 36 years old in may I am 5.2 or 5.3 and I am not a kids anymore..

I am about a size 10/12 and i want to be that size 3/5 but I dont know if that is a realistic goal.

dd#1 stayed home from school this am she is so stuffed up I just got her off to school as she had a study prep class and wanted to be there and has drivers ed tongiht. DD#2 is exciting about planning her b-day party this weekend we are having it at build a bear.. well chickies must go see who has journaled or blogged today so I can say hello then off to accomplish the rest of my day..

Man I sound like a whinner..lol it is just -43 with the windchill and groceries are about 35 min away but it is always easier to get it done withought kids…lol

weigh in the am was 149.2 I didnt do any exercise yesterday just did a little housework and had some sitz baths and got my rugrat ready for girl guides. and I did scrapbook her grade 4 pic.

Not too much planned for today just going to maybe do groceries as old mother hubbards cupboard is getting bare . Have any of you chicks ever dabbled in digital scrapbooking> I have been doing some reading about it and i was wondering if there was any good programs out there..

Oh yes Tammy your baby is one handsome little guy. wish I was closer so I could borrow him…lol

Well off to start my day if I have any news breaking news here in Winnipeg I will let you know..

Hugs gals

Hey there chickies… Yesterday hmm what happened.. I tried to get ahold of my gyn yesterday as I have new lumps down below( I know too much info) but I am hoping only you 3 fat chicks can see my life story..lol

I had came to Winnipeg as you all know last summer and they had a walk in pap test clinic here in october so I thought that I would go and get it done as I hadnt had a pap test in 10 years since my youngest daughter.. Then They send me to a gyn cause things didnt look right… So the gyn tells me that within the last 10 years-15 years I have been in contact with someone who had hep V and it went untreated because I didnt have my pap test I said thats funny I have been with my ex husband and 2 others in 15 years.. So he took a biopsy and it came back that i had 72 percent cancer cells so he scrapped the cervix and then retested and it was down to 49 percent.. I am suppose to follow up in 6 months and that would be june but you will have to excuse me I think it scared the hell out of me so now that I am seeing 2 little lumps I am scared crapless i called my sister last night she is  a nurse and she said it could just be boils to put hot compresses on it. So I have been but I tell you they are sore…

I did walking off the pounds one mile yesterday it was 18 min and i was able to fit it in 3 times yesterday .. I should be doing something more but I figured if I could do 18 min am afternoon and pm then it was better than nothing at all…

Today my youngest has girl guides my oldest has a field trip to the city for a carear choice day she would like to be a chartered accountant or a school teacher..

Thank you so much for the input about my business … I just found in nova scotia i had hours but it still seemed as if I worked 24/7 cause I never stuck to my business hours I just wanted to make all my clients happy.. It took me about  6 months to accumulate a full clientele there maybe 8 months but within the first year. here I had a good first week second week was a little slower third week I did 300 and now I am on my fourth week and I am being back to having a slow week I guess that is one thing that you cant rely on in any business is what is coming through the door. i called yesterday about getting a second line but it was going to cost me another 50.00 so I decided to wait until I am fully established.. At home we had this thing you culd get another number put on your phone and it would ring differently they have that in Winnipeg but since we are out in the country we are unable to get call forwarded the extra ring call waiting all that stuff.. Man how I miss it..

Well thats about it for today i will check back in in a bit to comment and also to let you know if there is anything else exciting happening in the life of canadagirl…lol

have a great one

shelly

Good Morning

Weigh in this am was 149.9 no loss but no gain but I was worried about a gain for all the baking soda and water I have been drinking for the heartburn…lol

I dont want to be back in the 150.s but I am so close that I will probably hover for a bit. Yesterday i did one page of scrapbooking Alot of stuff to yank out for one page I just havent been able to get back in the swing of doing it I havent scrapbooked in almost a year…I did a page of my daughters school pic this year Grade 11 WOW

Then My van had a vechile appointment and the shocks were shot so yes more money but cdn tire had a special this week 25 percent off shocks and 25 percent off the labout until wednesday so I did charge it and get it done. Here in town it would have cost me 300.00 and I took it into the city and with taxes and everything it cost me 153.00 It is hard to know who to go to and who not to as in Nova Scotia i had a mechanic I trusted and when you go to a new place you never know who will scam ya..

Took My dd #2 to the appointment I should have done groceries and everything all at once but by the time I got out of the appointment it was 7:10pm and it was a school night and a 45 min drive home so I will have to waster more gas ..lol

Today I dont have any appointments booked as of yet but that could change by the time I finish journalling thats one things about having your own hairdresssing business you never know what to budget for you never know if your going to have a good week or a bad week you cant really guantee what sort of income is coming in if that makes sense.. Also I need to make some business hours for here in my old shop I worked Monday -friday 9-5 an then evening and weekends whenever anyone wanted that time slot. Does anyone have any good suggestions for business hours? I just find that it doesnt matter what you say your business hours are when you have a shop out of your home some people feel just because it is out of your home they can just drop by and you will fit them in or you work everynight until midnight or they can call you at 11pm to book that hair appointment . I nver turn anyone away if I have to work until 10pm i do. I find it hard because at home I had a separate business number here I have it the same as the residential number so i cant just let it go to the answering machine.

Well chickies off to clean the kitchen do laundry and figure out what I will make for supper tonight

Have a great day

First of call congrats to Tammy and Family on their new little bundle of joy…. sooo exciting

Havent weighed in this am have a couple more min of being able to lay in bed I have only slept about 1 hour total I have had three occurances of totally painful heartburn this weekend and first I tried pepto bismol then I tried antacids and then the last three night i have been drinking baking soda and water it has seemed to help but i am sure my weight will be up a bit sodium… I am not sure what is causing it so bad.. I have had heartburn before but not to a point where I feel like I have having a heartattack and in tears.. I dont know if it comes with age or if it is something I am doing wrong but it seems everything now adays is setting it off.. coffee, anything tomato certain veggies..

This weekend hmmm

Friday I had rented beverly hills chiuwawa (spelling?) and gotten the kids some chips. I didnt even have any well cause i had heart burn or I am sure I would have weighed out a serving.. Saturday I worked and I tried to lay down for an hour but it didnt work body wouldnt rest it was in overload. then I watched a movie with my oldest and it was scary so my youngest went to play barbies in her bedroom… Then sat night was up most of the night with heart burn woke up with an upset belly so just sort of laid low key doing stuff around the house had the youngest go through all her totes of toys barbies polly pockets littlest pet shop etc to see if she could donate anything but she did part with her dr sets..lol well i guess when she is ready to part she will…lol

Well it is almost 7 am must get up showered and start my day… I guess if I wasnt up due to heart burn last night my sleeping pattern prolly would have been messed up with the time change

have a great day gals

Yesterday was a hard day…..

I got the water stopped in the basement for now yeah me…lol

I didnt have any customers yesterday but I do have two in a couple of hours..

I didnt get any scrapbooking yesterday done I cleaned up the kitchen took out a ham for today . Made a chili sat with my oldest at lunch time and just chatted. I went out and got a movie for me and the girls Beverly Hills Chihuahua and a bag of chips and made some homeade dip . I watched ghost whisper with my oldest and i knit one of those homade dishclothes I am not one for sitting down I cant sit cause i thinkthat I could be doing something better I have never been able to sit so in 18 months I have 15 dishclothes..lol

Then excuse my language ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE….

My oldest daughter which will be 18 in October and my youngest daughter which will be 10 on the 24th of this month. This am it was about cereal I buy them each there own kind and the oldest wanted some of the youngest cereal and there was a tiff. Then the oldest says the youngest shouldnt b crawling into bed with me she is a baby and then there was a tiff then the oldest says she is a whine baby and that she will never grow up I try to make her understand at that age it is hard especailly on girls with all their hormones changing that she was the same way at that age and about 12 she grew out of it…

Then my oldest is hanging onto ALOT of anger issues She talks to me all the time but I am in fear that I am not helping her she wont go and talk to anyone else..

I met her dad when I was 16 and 1/2 and we had my oldest when we were 18 I married him when I was 21 and we divoced when I was 26 then we got back together and then stayed separated since 2002 . He was mentally and physically abusive to both myself and my oldest but not our youngest because he left when she was 6-8 months we did get back together but he never lived in the house when we tried to work things out. She is angry because she was abused and my youngest wasnt she is angry because she has almost been gone from ns for a year (in June) and her father has only called her a handful of times she is angry that he gave her a car for her 16th b-day and said he would get it too her and he is now driving it . She is angry that her grampa (my ex dad died of cancer ) and she has never dealt with it she is angry that my father died three years ago and she has never dealt with it she is angry at Jamie because he is in the military and we got posted here and she wants to go home but knows nothing will be the same and her and her dad dont have the greatest relationship. but nova scotia is a security / She is angry that she lost some of her child hood years and had to grow up so fast. She is angry because I am now trying to treat her like an adult and I havent structured her to be an adult as I have always sheltered her. She is angry because she wants to go and be a teacher next year after grade 12 but doesnt want to have the debt load. She feels she doesnt belong anywheres she is mouthy well wait not mouthy just ignorant not to me but to Jamie I think because he is a male and with everything that has happened in life she doesnt have the time of day for men…

We have talked about these issues everyday or every few days and I think that she is getting better about things.. and then when she get angry at someone or something it is all blown up again. She is scared I understand that she is scared to grow up she is scared to face the scary world but I wont make her do it on her own I will be there every step of the way.. I told her I hate it here where we are I wish I could snap my fingers and go back but I cant at this time in my life. I have to make the best of it Like she said in nova scotia there is nothing for us now and nothing would be the same if we moved back today… But it is familair surroundings.. Maybe she is just going through normal teenagers stuff where she hates everyone I just havent dealt with this before last night we were up till 12:oo midnight talking trying to help her but in my heart I will know it will be the same yet again today. I had chest pains all night trying to think of a way to help I didnt sleep and was up to stay at 6am . Has anyone else ever went through stuff like this??

Well I didnt weigh in this am

i didnt have any chips last night but I did end up watching the movie with my youngest dd

while my oldest went to her bedroom and just didnt want to deal with the world I did tell her to call her dad onthat issue and tell him how she felt and she did say he wouldnt care or say he didnt know and not doing anything about it. Which I know that is exactly what he would do but never told her this..

he dad is remarried now with one step child and two more biological children and I see from the outside that he treats his boys 100 percent better than he had ever treated our girls or spend the time with them etc when we had our second daughter he was like oh man not another girl…

I really dont know what to do if I call him and tell him to call her more to talk to her she will know I have done that because i have to call and remind him about alot of things. I feel in my heart that I should just let him fly on his own I have stuck up for him soo much in the last years to try and make my children see he is a hero but maybe it is time for his true colors to shine through

thanks for listening

off to shower and get ready for my morning clients

have a great day gals

This blogging thing is going to take awhile for me to get the hang of . I was so used to seeing who hand posted by just going through the daily Journals Yesterday was an eventful day water in the basement yet again…. So I was pretty peeved…..

I tried to add as many 3fc journal gals as i could to my list if I forgot anyone let me know..

Weigh in this am was 150.0 yesterday was 149.2 maybe it was the banana muffin that I had at 8pm who knows.. I need to get in the right frame of mind and start pushing my body I noticed I started loosing a little when I went to eating three meals a day oviously my body was in starvation mode…. Sometimes it is a habit not to eat breakfast and just grab for that can of diet coke i presume it is just an additition that I have been doing for about 20 years but it needs to change.. and I am the only one that can change it

I have a couple of customers tommorrow so todays plan is to get the water STOPPED….

and also straighten up.. I have been saying I want to scrapbook ever since I have moved to manitoba which was 8 months today I need to get my rump in gear..

Good luck to Tammy in the delivery dept. today…. I have faith your labour will proceed and you will not be sent home cause that would just suck>>>>>

Have a great day gals

Canadagirl

Man I am so not used to blogging or what to do I have just been poking around trying to learn the hang of things I have tried to add some of the 3fc to my blog havent quite figured out if it has worked let me know and if I havent added you give me a backhand.. I am hoping it will et easier when I know what I am doing I dont even know how to get to my blog yet but I am working on it I did figure out this am how to comment go me..!!!!!lol

For those who dont know me my name is Shelly I am from Nova Scotia Canada recently I have move to Winnipeg Manitoba and I am 35 years old. I am a hairdresser and I have my own business . I have two daughters My oldest is 17 and my youngest will be 10 at the end of the month. I have three dogs one is a beagle one is a rottie and one is a collie / austrailian shepard. I have struggled with my weight all of my life. I was anerexic when I was younger and I beat the disease and now I am 5′2 and 149.9 lbs I have been a member of the 3Fc Journals since shortly after it opened. I look forward to getting to know all of you and helping you as well with your day to day life;s challanges and of course you helping me as well

canadagirl