Happy Friday Everyone! (although it seriously feels like Saturday to me)

DH's interview sucked. Grr...

My calories are OP for the day but probably not what I ate. I had Burger King for breakfast, a stupid BLT that I didn't even want for lunch and Ice Cream for dinner.

On a happier note, I did 83 minutes of zumba. (not all in a row) 20, 17, then 46. Some day my hips will actually be able to move the ways those ladies do on the dvd--I think I need to lose some inhibitions. :-)

OK, It's been a sucky past few days. DH is miserable, I'm freaked out--this is not how we were supposed to be spending our summer. He was supposed to get a job in June and work the rest of the summer while I played Molly Homemaker. Life sure does throw you some curve balls....

~*~Happy Saturday Everyone~*~

I bought jeans in a size smaller than I'd normally wear today, very exciting!! They're a bit tight, but that's just motivation to keep going!!! Plus they make my butt look good!! Lol!!!

Happy Saturday! I had pizza yesterday. I really enjoyed it and had a great time with the family and another family going bowling and to the arcade!

Weigh in at the center yesterday was 153.5. That was a 0.5 gain from last Friday. Usually I weigh in first thing in the morning and I have been hovering around 153-153.5.

This morning my first weigh in was 150.5!!!!!! I hope this is a good sign!!

Getting ready soon for my brothers party and found out their pool will be up and running... if I attempted to go swimming the confidence I am counting on will go straight out the window!! No bathing suits for me YET!

Good luck to all for a wonderful weekend!!

= 5 pounds lost

Yesterday:

1. Take a Multivitamin daily - Yes
2. Drink 12.5 cups of water a day - Yes
3. Check in here every day - Yes
4. Stick with food plan (no specific diet just make healthier choices, eat smaller portions) - Not overeating but not drinking enough water or eating enough greens the last couple of days. Need to watch that, it's an important part of the plan!
5. Do not obsess over weight fluctuations - Resigned and staying positive.

Thanks everyone for your kind comments! It really helps me to keep on or get back on the right track!

We've had some curve balls this summer too, I wish life was more straight forward sometimes! I hope things work out for you and your dh and that your summer gets better!

Hallelujah today was completely uneventful!!!!

Cleaned the house, got the new floor for upstairs---absolutely ordinary, mundane things and I am completely happy about it.

OP for the day and I did 55 minutes of zumba! and 61 minutes of wfp. I'm tired!

Happy Sunday Everyone, I hope you have a nice peaceful day.

Hello ladies,

I've missed a few days posting. Last week was good and I lost 1.4 pounds at my W/I on Wed but then I lost it over the weekend. I was feeling lonely and I was really tired from a super busy week at work so over the weekend I turned to food for comfort . Today I feel AWFUL from the junk I ate. I'm trying to turn it around and get back on track today. I plan on having a 100% OP day. I just need to take it 1 meal at a time. I keep asking myself what is wrong with me that I let food have such control over me!!! I really do want to lose weight but when food calls my name, I answer.

I hope you all are having a good week so far.

Yesterday:

1. Take a Multivitamin daily - Yes
2. Drink 12.5 cups of water a day - Yes
3. Check in here every day - Yes
4. Stick with food plan (no specific diet just make healthier choices, eat smaller portions) - Doing better after a few bumps in the road last week.
5. Do not obsess over weight fluctuations - Feeling good.

Feeling accomplished because I came back from a couple of days of not eating well but am now on plan. I did not let it overwhelm me. I looked forward and didn't give in and keep overeating #winning.

I have no good advice but I know exactly what you mean. All you can do is just keep getting back in the game again after your slip ups.

Hello Everyone!

Moderately OP for the day. Did 65 minutes of zumba! and 60 minutes of wfp. On top of that I painted the upstairs bedroom with primer, painted the trim and the some of the ceiling tiles. Phew! I'm tired!

Happy Tuesday Everyone!

Hello girls,

I'm still not doing very well. Yesterday was another off-plan day but I had such a blast with DH and my family at the amusement park. We got there before it opened and left when they closed - 8 full hours of walking, rollercoasters, laughing and simply having fun! I must've taken thousands and thousands of steps. However, I ate 3 pancakes with Nutella, 2 ice cream bars, a whole thing of chocolate and just a few chips.

I weighed in 2 days ago and I was 141.6 lbs before poop and 140.6 lbs after breakfast and poop so I actually didn't really gain anything from all those off-plan days. Today the scale said 142.6 lbs (?) - somewhere around that and I'm having some bad BM's which I'm sure are from all the horrible food. I looked at all the pictures we had taken and boy oh boy am I NOT happy with the way I look. My clothes weren't flattering at all - Jeans and 2 wide tanktops and my arms and face looked so big! I had to think twice about posting them online but ended up doing it anyways because I thought: "I want people to see how I look now. My aim is to lose weight and tone up so once I hit goal I will post new pictures and everybody will be able to see the difference and be amazed!"

The H&M-online shop over here has a coupon code for free shipping so I had to get a bathing suit, some flats and I bought a pair of dark-blue pants in size 36 (6) to motivate me to keep working out and eating right. I can put them on, though they're REALLY right, but I can't button them yet. I'm so determined to fit into them! I actually like them so much that I ordered them again yesterday in size 38 (8) so I can wear them now. Hopefully I will be able to wear the size 6's by the time my birthday rolls around :fingerscrossed:

Hope all is well with everyone!

Have been away for a couple of days, and have also been totally off plan. I went out to eat three days in a row for work stuff and while I didn't eat anything too awful, it was definitely more food and more carbs than I would normally eat. Eating more sweets than usual, too. And then yesterday I had a carby breakfast (french toast on white bread) and didn't have a morning snack which I know makes me too hungry, so then I was too hungry in the afternoon. True confession - I ended up making boxed macaroni and cheese and hot dogs. I'm not proud to admit it, but there it is. I have been exercising, even though it's been so hot, and took yoga classes both Sunday and Monday. I did get on the scale this morning and thought it would be really bad from several days of off plan eating and so much sodium in my mac-and-cheese/hot dog meal yesterday. I was at 193, which isn't as bad as I thought it would be. I'm back on track today, and had scrambled eggs for breakfast with whole wheat toast smeared with avocado - good fat and protein. Planning to make chicken and zuchinni (from the garden!) for lunch, and baked fish and more veggies for dinner. I am out of my usual routines since my break-up with DBF and haven't really been intentional about food. But I know eating sweets and carbs isn't good for my mental or physical health or make this transition any easier. So - back on track!

Hoopty - thanks for your kind words! Oh, my goodness - Nutella is like a drug to me. I can't even be near the stuff. That is definitely a challenge of being back in Germany, I imagine.

Julia - good to see that you are moving along with your goals!

GettinFit - I am in solidarity with you!

June - you are almost out of the 150s! Awesome!

Lilmiss - congrats on the pants! Way to go!

Yesterday:

1. Take a Multivitamin daily - Yes
2. Drink 12.5 cups of water a day - Yes
3. Check in here every day - Yes
4. Stick with food plan (no specific diet just make healthier choices, eat smaller portions) - Did well
5. Do not obsess over weight fluctuations - Staying positive.

Blah, blah, blah.

That's how I'm feeling right now. I do tons of exercise and the stupid scale goes up. UP! annoying. I know, building muscle....but it still sucks to see the numbers up 2 1/2 pounds. This stupid second mammogram thing is weighing on my mind, I know that I'm fine--I just wish that it was done and over with. And DH is still freakin' out about not getting a new job, he's convinced that he's doing something wrong during the interview, personally, I think it's his weight. No one wants to hire a fat guy. I know he can do the job but people look at the outside first. Stinks.

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Kaitie - sorry to hear you are feeling so frustrated! I hope you can get the second mammo done soon and get positive results so you can put that stressful situation behind you.

Julia - keep up the good work!

I got into the kitchen yesterday and started cooking with good stuff from the garden - I made red cabbage and green onion slaw with a lime juice and olive oil dressing, some potato salad with cucumber and red onion, gazpacho (hooray!), and some beet salad. So, needless to say, I had a healthy dinner with lots of veggies. So I was OP yesterday, then I went out to a movie with a friend and had a popcorn. It was a small, and it was really my only carbs for the day, so even though it's off plan it's better than the previous five days have been. OP so far today and had my morning snack not long ago. Had a lot of frustrations this morning at work and was crabby for a bit but I'm feeling better now.