Happy Labor Day!
Well, ladies, I was thrilled to discover when I weighed on Sunday (for end of the month) that I actually had lost a couple pounds in August! That was a miracle! I think it only happened because I've been sweating so much. Honestly, I have spent alot of time going up and down stairs dragging stuff out of the old house and going from the car into the house with boxes at the new house. I think I just sweated off a few pounds! It definitely has NOT been diet! So, I guess occasionally exercise is more of the equation than diet! LOL!
We are still eating out a ton but I am hoping in the next week as preschool gets started, our house gets on the market and we are not making so many trips back and forth and as we get more moved in, we start eating in more (which will only happen if I start planning and executing meals as well, lol!). The junk/fast food still tastes good to me but I'm not nearly as excited about it anymore. I'm actually getting tired of it but not yet tired enough to get my act together in the kitchen!!! Soon, soon.....
We spent most of today running errands, unpacking some things and hubby set up a pretty big train track in the living room. It was sort of funny to me because in our old house when he set that up (usually only at Christmas) it took up the entire floor space of our living room. In this house (which has kind of a ridiculously large living room) it takes up about 1/4th of the room. I unpacked all of the boxes that were in Olivia's closet today - stuffed animals, some books, musical toys, etc. - and wow, her very neat room exploded! I am going to start purging some of her toys as we get closer to Christmas. I've been trying to sneak out some of the ones that she doesn't play with as much and some of the younger toys so I can pass them to my sister-in-law to store for my soon-to-come niece. I have not unpacked one single box in my (all mine) craft room yet. I'm not sure when I'll get to that room but I have some fall projects I'd like to get to so I need to start thinking about it plus hubby is going to a kite making workshop (actually sewing kites) in 3.5 weeks and I have my annual sewing retreat in early October. I have two closets I really want to organize (hall and laundry room cabinets) and then I think I'll start on that. The garage is FULL of stuff.....it can wait longer, lol!
Oh, also at the new house I have a bigger lawn and more landscaping (plants and shrubs) to care for and I know NOTHING about gardening so I need to research the plants and find out what needs to be done in each season, etc. There are a lot of dead leaves in the plants around the mailbox and the front of the house. I have been working on pulling the dead stuff out in the evening when the sun goes down and before I put Olivia to bed. Tonight Mark was out riding around the lawn on the lawn mower spraying weeds and I was pulling dead stuff out around the mailbox and Olivia was riding her (battery powered) 4 wheeler around the yard - that was kind of fun! I'm really glad we found a place with a yard we can enjoy! I am not looking forward to all the leaves to rake in the fall though - we had ZERO trees at the old house. Thankfully the lady we got our used lawn mower from also sold us a trailer that attaches to it so I can haul the leaves easily. I told Mark tonight we need to pay the money to get the "compost" bin that the city will pick up - we need it with this yard!
I used to have a goal of a new swimsuit in my signature line but I removed it because I actually got one a while back (in roughly the same size but not all stretched out) and haven't lost enough since then to need one for our beach trip coming up on the 14th. Obviously, I am not adding this to my signature but I did just order new bras! The cup size I ordered is the same but my rep (these are high end bras for those of us who need them, lol!) told me that in the band size I ordered (smaller) that the cup is actually one size down even though the letter stays the same. So, we'll see - they have to ship to me. Normally she does the fittings in person but I had to work with her in email since we've moved away so I described my weight loss and she estimated the size to order. She promised if they don't fit I can return them for another size so we'll see! On the topic of the beach trip - my sister-in-law who will be there is overweight as well and earlier this year she challenged my hubby to lose 50 lbs before the trip. Of course he hasn't lost much - the last time he weighed he had actually lost a little (probably for the same reason I did - sweat!!) - and I don't think she has lost any - so, I am actually the only one who has lost - YAY ME!
Oh, and I thought I'd share a link to an article on a cooking blog - this is a blog I get some of my recipes from and this blog post features a lady I've met through a couple low carb Facebook groups - just thought you might enjoy it too
http://fluffychixcook.com/low-carb-k...ames-gismondi/