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Today’s Weight= 298.4

If I had drank my min of 10 cups of water yesterday, I could’ve given myself a gold star on the w8challenge website. But I already knew playing catch up last night wasn’t an option because I didn’t want to spend the next three hours trying to sleep and having to get up to use the bathroom.

I did terrible this month, as well as building up to it in the past couple months. But I’m trying to get back to it. One of the things I’m trying to do is blog more regularly. In the beginning when I was all fired up over this, I had a hard time refraining from updating the blog more than once a day!

I’m up 3.4 lbs from August 1st. Thanks to my tracking sheet on Eileen’s w8challenge page I can see that I only ate right (according to my own set and stated rules) on 6 days! 6 days of the last 31!? And exercise was only a total of 8 hours.

Here comes September. The anniversary month of when I started this a year ago. The month of my 37th birthday. One of the greatest months of the year. I love when the heat starts to die down and we do more things outside, have the windows open, take day trips to parks and recreation. October is equally awesome.

The Black Mountain Aquatic Complex is only open one more weekend. Too bad I waited until the last two weeks to take them. The crowd wasn’t bad and hopefully that is the usual because otherwise, I’d lose interest in going there. Little Joey (age 2) did amazing…although slightly scary. (They don’t allow floaties and they didn’t really need life jackets for this shallow area) The water comes up to his hip area and he would stumble forward and go in face first. He’d get up and turn and look at me with surprise, glee, and seeking approval. He knows mom wants the kids to be ‘her little fishy’. I love that he isn’t afraid to put his face in the water. Then he started doing it for fun. He’d just squat down and stay under. I could see his eyes open, and it looked like a drowing kid. So I stayed near him and let the lifeguards see that I’m paying attention and not to freak out.

Today’s Weight= 298.4

This weeks’ loss= -.8 lbs.

ooh I lost twice as much as I did last week, yet it’s still under a pound. I like that it’s not a gain. Let’s see this more often!

Did some swimming yesterday. It’s been really hot here. I thought we were past that but I guess not yet. At least when the sun starts to go down, it’s not so miserable. Today after church, we’re headed to a water park/pool that these two youngins’ have never been to and I haven’t been there since my teen was little. I tried to take them on Monday (first day of school) thinking the crowds would be gone. They were GONE alright. They’re now only open on weekends. I hope it won’t be too crowded…maybe pics to post later.

Today’s Weight= 297.0

OOps I had some carby binges going on last night. The weight doesn’t reflect it yet.

Today’s weight= 297.4

Today’s exercise = 43 min weights, 17 min elliptical

It’s a quiet morning. My husband is at work, the two older kids at school… Fridays will be the only day like this, though as Tue, Wed, and Thurs hubby is home (at least in the morning), Mondays, Sat and Sun there is no school. So really only Friday ends up being the one day I only have our youngest.

After dropping off Joshua at kindergarten, Joey and I went to the gym. He was the first one there and stood in the middle of the room with his head tilted sideways and downward and even though I couldn’t see it, I’m pretty sure his bottom lip was pouting out. I checked the tv monitor at least 4 times during the hour and every time he was in the same spot and hardly doing anything. When I picked him up and we went out side, I asked him why he didn’t play, and he said, “I want my brother”. Awwww isn’t that cute? BUT THEN WHY MUST THEY FIGHT WHEN THEY ARE TOGETHER!? argh.

I was catching up on a few blogs yesterday and I noticed that a few of us seem to have ‘bounced’ back. What was it about the summer of 2009? Or is every summer like that? DO people regularly fall in and out of this diet and exercise thing? Is it being back to a schedule? Is it the upcoming Holidays? Whatever it may  be, it’s nice see the fire being fueled again. My own included!

I think maybe my prayers have been answered because (and dare I say it too soon?) I have not had to hang on to the wall or sit down, and I haven’t wobbled since shortly after I took a nap yesterday… I’m thinking this vertigo, dizzy thing is gone already. Thank you Lord!

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Hey Ladies. I’m kind of excited. A friend of mine on Facebook just joined and started a blog of her own. It’s kind of exciting because this is the only person I actually know offline that has done this. (or knew- we went to the same jr high school/high school way back when, and are getting re aquainted through the wonders of FB.) Anyhoo, thought I’d plug her and share it with you. It’s a New Day, by dmarie

Today’s weight= 297.8

Today’s plan was to go to the gym and eat right. I had no qualms about it. But last night, I leapt out of bed and almost hit the wall from lack of balance. I was dizzy. Like vertigo dizzy. One time…years ago, I had this terrible thing happen to me. I was sick. Dizzy, nauseous…it started pretty mild. I thought it was soemthing I ate. Then I left work, too dizzy to continue working. I hit a curb on the way home. There was plenty of room, but my perception was way off. It continued for days, got worse, turned into weeks. It took about 4-5 doctors of all kinds, regular, ear, hearing aid, and ER before I finally got someone to diagnose it correctly.(I reckon!) It was like a middle ear virus or something, and not something that antibiotics can cure. it had to ride out its’ course. During that course, one of the drugs prescribed to me for the dizzyness actually made it worst! I was totally and literally floored. I could not get off the floor, lift my head, let alone go downstairs to get a phone.

Needless to say, it was the worst experience I’ve had. I’ve had this feeling at least once since that happened and it went away, so I’m just hoping and praying that it goes away again. My husband wants me to go to the doctor but I’m pretty sure they won’t have an answer for me. I’m not a doctor and yes, I have a great lack of faith in them from past experiences. I just don’t want to waste my time and money, and I don’t want them giving me drugs that actually make it worse.

I found something online about calicum deposits from having moved to quickly or something. I’m going to try the steps that’s mentioned with that. I was going to go do weights today but I guess I’ll put it off.

Just a heads up, that Eileen is ok. I don’t think anything serious is happening, just life in general, work, and stuff. She says, sorry and she’ll be back soon.

Yesterday’s Weight=296.2

Today’s Weight= 295.8

No exercise the last two days but I did eat right. I think I got something right 5 days in a row. It’s nice to have that and be able to see a downward descent rather than upward on the scale. But I’m not gonna get too excited and gung-ho over it just gonna keep going. That’s the motto for now. It does help that I don’t buy coke and baked lays anymore. I did have a bag in my cart yesterday and put it back at the check out. My husband brought me home a little snack bag of it later that night; he didn’t even know about the grocery store trip yet. It was a nice snack and when it was gone, it was gone, and I didn’t have to worry about eating 2/3 of a regular size bag!

I did David’s hair more last night and I’m afraid it didn’t seem to make much of a difference. If I can get a better pic, I will, but for now this is the first one from the first round a few days ago. You can see the silver streak where none of the green was put in the first round.

Took the kids to a water park the other day and I’m planning to take them to another one that has a little slide, a waterfall, a bigger pool and bigger slides too on Sunday after church.

Today’s was Joshua’s first day of kindergarten. (and David’s first day of his Junior year in high school. No video games or online ‘play’ for David until we get the first progress report. He has to have NO grades less than a C in order to regain his priveledges. He failed at least 2-3 classes last year and has to take 7 classes instead of 6 this year. Even at that, I think he still might be behind some credits.)

After the school aged kids were dropped off, hubby and I took our youngest, Joey, out to breakfast and played in the arcade. Today was Joey’s first trip into the men’s restroom, as usually when we went out, I would take Joey and papa would take Joshua.

Friday’s Exercise= 10 min stairmaster, 30 min treadmill, 20 min weights

Yesterday’s Weight= 299.2

Yesterday’s Exercise= 1 min stairmaster, 29 min treadmill

Today’s Weight= 296.2

This weeks’ loss= -.4 lbs.

I’m happy. I finally have a loss again for the week. I spent most of the week not taking it seriously and then tried to play cath up the last couple days. Yesterday was difficult. I kept wanting to eat something I didn’t need but I just kept reminding myself of the weigh in today. Even the exercise part of yesterday was hard to get through. 5-10 min of the stiarmaster has been easy and even enjoyable lately but I guess maybe not two days in a row or maybe yesterday was just difficult. I only made it through 1 minute of it and then went to the treadmill.

As for my sons’ hair…After having his head highlighted and dyed, we were sent to Sallys’ Beauty Supply to get the purple stuff and he came out with green instead! His hair is black, and has some silver and green streaks in it. We have to work on the green part again, there’s not supposed to be silver. It makes him look like an aging man with black hair that is starting to grey.

Today’s Weight= 297.6

I got up and showered this morning, ready to go to the gym early to start the day off right, but… I came down stairs and found out that Joey, the 2 yr old had just put a BB in his ear. Plus he had a big red mark on his cheek from falling on the sidewalk. I’m thinking oh great, that sounds like a lie and now I have to take him in to the doctors office. Sure enough, the doctor was more concerned about the mark on his face. They flushed the BB out with no problems and put some ointment on the gash/scratch.

Now my teenager wants to go get his hair dyed for school. The whole head purple! I think NOT! But we will consider black with purple streaks. I said, I have to be seen in public with you, and I don’t think I can stand all purple, especially in church. Fashion statement? A cry out? He says no, it’s just how he wants to look.

TWO neighbors called to borrow my $100 pool key. I think NOT! So now I’m going swimming with my neighbors and my kids. I hope the one neighbor doesn’t plan to bring her kid because I’m only ‘allowed two guests’. What a mess. They need to get their own key. There’s only so much I can do.

What’s next? Oh yeah, dinner and the gym… right, where’s the time for everything?

Today’s weight= 293.8

Sunday was a low day for me. One of those crappy days when everything seems to go wrong. I don’t care to rehash it. It’s over now. On Saturday, though, thoughts started to form of abandoning it all. The diet and exercise mainly. But those days have passed and I never officially said ‘I give up’. The gym membership was up for renewal and I’m happy to say I shelled out the dough for another year for myself and my husband. The teenager rarely used his and it was always a push thing to get him to go, so I guess I do give up on that one.

My husband has been doing great. I wish I was doing the same thing he is and yet it often seems to go this way. It’s rare that we’re on the same page for very long.

Enough people have told me to stop drinking Coke. As aggravating as it is to have them tell me that, I think I’ve finally decided to at least stop buying it on a regular basis like I have been. No more limiting it to one a day on days that I am ‘eating right’ and drinking up to 4 cans on days that I’m ’screwing it up’. Like any addict, I should just dump them down the toilet or something but no…I’ve already decided to finish the last 4 cans over the next couple days.

On Sunday’s post I blocked comments. That was a first. I almost deleted some pages, too but after looking at them, I thought they still ring true for me even though the enthusiasm that was behind it when it was written is pretty much gone.

I lost a pound without even trying. That’s fun to see rather than to step on this morning and see 300.

A couple nights ago, hubby sent me out because I was stressed out. So I did a lot of walking in The Venetian and The Palazzo casinos but mostly in their Shoppes section. If anyone ever plans to comes to Vegas, be sure to wear your walking shoes. The plan was to get my free $15 slot play credit, my free water bottle and free Nathan’s french fries, and walk it off. The walking part was easy since I had to walk a mile to get to the store that had the free water bottle and a mile back to where I was parked. But I did end up buying other food from Nathan’s, gambling an additional $9, and buying a frozen pina colada. Ultimately, I spent about $12 more than I planned to but still not as bad as my past/usual spending habits.

I was draggin my butt and just feeling flippin’ fat and tired. I’m slower now. I’m doing the one at a time step thing on the stairs, things hurt, and I needed heartburn medicine 3 times last week. I’ve been able to see that giving up would make me really unhappy. So that’s not an option.

Anyways, it was good to get out. I’d like to do that more often, once the temps cool down. There’s lots of things to do for little-to-no cost and lots of walk. I even want to take the kids to see some things. Like watch the volcano in front of the Mirage, or see the Fremont Street Experience, or go up in the Stratosphere tower.

The 15 yr old (junior in high school) and my 5 yr old (kindergarten) start school in less than two weeks. An early intervention case worker was here yesterday for our 2 yr old and saying he could probably qualify to get into a preschool early next year. I’m freaking out because all of a sudden everyone could be at school and what would I do with myself! I’m also feaking out because I don’t really want my ‘baby’ to go just yet. I was thinking it would be just me and him time. We’ll see where the next few evaluations take us on it. I’m neutral to it now. But I do lean towards the fact that he is barely 3 and it’s too soon. A year from now would be good, though. I just don’t want to miss out on ‘free’ preschool because we put it off.