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I had ordered a new workout DVD by Leslie Sansone.  I have her workouts on VHS and wanted to move to DVD and have them all on one, so I ordered Walk Slim, 5 Really Big Miles. I just did the warm up section and mile 1 to see what the DVD was like.  I was expecting it to be pretty much like my old tapes.  Wrong.  It was BETTER.  More fast paced, more intense 1 mile.  So, I am expecting even bigger things when I get to the 2 mile which I  plan on doing tonight.  I was really amazed at how much she changed it up.  I am really glad I bought this DVD and it put me in a good frame of mind for the day.  Like I said yesterday, I have a goal date in August, my 25th wedding anniversary and I want to get this weight off by then.  I haven’t told my husband what I am doing, 1) want it to be a surprise and 2) see if he even notices.  He hasn’t even noticed that I changed my nail polich 2 days ago  LOL.  Hope you all have a great day.  We CAN do this!!

Well, January started out a bit rocky, but have gotten it back under control.  I have been maintaining, but not gaining.  This week I decided this is stupid to keep trying to lose weight by just going thru the motions.  So I decided it was time to take it serious.  So, I have upped my water intake, and lowered my calorie intake.  Then I went and did something that got me somewhat motivated.  I cleaned out my closet of all my fat clothes for spring and summer.  I figured if I want to be able to wear clothes this spring and summer, then I better get moving to fit into the clothes I left hanging.

I have been fooling myself all this time thinking I was really watching my weight.  But I knew I wasn’t because my weight tracker moves up and down over and over again.  Never a steady decrease.  It is time to stop making excuses and start actually doing.  I have now moved on to my dresser drawers.  Cleaning them out as well.  So either I have to lose weight to have clothes to wear, or I will be running around naked.

I don’t care what the size tag says.  I just want to be able to walk into the closet and put on anything and say, that looks nice, instead of saying, I can’t wear this, it shows my roll or fits too tight or whatever.  Tired of trying on several items before I finally settle on something that I feel don’t look too bad on me.

I have been trading in my chips for fruit.  I have been trading in my diet dews for water. I need to make consistant little changes until it all just becomes natural to me.

I have a goal date in mind…..August 22, my 25th wedding aniversary.  by golly, I am going to make it!!

So what I need from my buddyslim friends is some accountability.  Make me tow the line please!!

Well, my daughter has come on board and wants to lose some weight and my husband had a doctor’s appointment over the holidays and he was told to lose some weight, so the whole house is wanting to lose weight.  This will make things easier.  Don’t have to worry right now that I am not going to be hearing that there is no junk food in the house. Since none of us need it anyway.  I have been watching what we have been eating for the past week, but have not weighed in yet.  I am afraid the scale won’t be as friendly as I think it should, but I will weigh in soon.   I hope everyone is off to a good start at losing weight, but not only that, just a good start at making the right choices whether it be food or exercise.  It’s time to get healthy and if weight loss is a benefit then so be it.

OMGOODNESS!  I was taking a nap and woke up because I was dreaming I was stuffing my face with cookies.  It was sort of startling.  So I got up and had this urge to actually stuff my face with cookies.  I tried fighting the urge but it was just too great.  So I ate a 100 calorie pack of shortbread cookies.  Amazing what we can dream and how it will affect our eating habits.  This was no scarey dream, but yet it is a dream I don’t care to repeat.

well yesterday wasn’t a bad day, but I bet it could have been better.  I made a pot of chili and left it in the slow cooker overnight to get my pinto beans more tender.  So today I will enjoy a bowl of chili and then freeze the rest so I can have some meals handy.

I have discoverd over this process of trying to lose weight is that I am not turned off by giving up some junk food or adding more water to my daily intake, but I have discovered that I don’t like cooking for one person.  So I turn to the junk food for a quick food fix.

so, with making meals up ahead in the freezer so all I have to do is pop in microwave, I shouldn’t be eating popcorn for dinner anymore.  I plan on making up some stew and other foods that I can freeze in my single serve containers and have meals at my finger tips.

I have to stop being LAZY,  I will make sure my husband has a good lunch box.  I will make food up on weekends my college girls come home so they can take back some home cooked foods, but I don’t worry about me.  I guess that is the wife and mom in me.  I need to find the Natalie in me and take care of her too.  I have put that off for so long.  Time to find me and bring me back.

I hope everyone has a great Tuesday,  raining here, but will make the most of it.

Well, I am not surprised at my scale today.  I didn’t gain and I didn’t lose.  My brother-in-law came to town and we had a great weekend, but we did eat.  I really think it was the quantity of food, because we grilled/smoked our meats.  We just made sure we had all the trimmings.

I did however go to Kroger and get me some fruit for the week.  They had berries on sale if you can call it that.  Anyway, I came home with berries, apples, bananas and clementines.  I am hoping that by spending this small fortune, that I will eat a little healthier this week.

Right now I am doing something I haven’t done in a long time.  I am actually cooking me some meals up ahead.  I figure if I can have healthy food available at my fingertips, maybe I won’t be prone to eating the bad stuff.  Right now I have chili cooking.  I used 93/7 ground turkey for my meat and some kidney beans and pinto beans.  I even bought just the right size serving containers for freezing.  Figure one way or another, this weight has to come off.

My husband has decided he wants to lose weight.  I AM SO EXCITED!!   Could you tell.  Now, I can sort of have a buddy.  He really needs to lose weight and I am trying to make sure he gets nothing but good food in his lunch box and that I have something good here.  Stocked up on some ground turkey and chicken breasts.  However,  come Saturday I will let him have a steak; it’s his birthday.

I know the Holidays are fast approaching, and I know we all will be fighting temptations like crazy, but if we stick together we can overcome the over indulging.   Have a great day today!!

I thought it ironic this morning as I logged in my little ole 1 pound weight loss that there was a link for Chili’s to get free chips and queso if you signed up for their e-mail list.  Here I am slowly trying to get the hang of weight loss and Chili’s is offering me free chips and queso on buddyslim.  Granted I don’t have to go to Chili’s and eat those chips and queso, but it got me thinking about all the advertisements and commericials for food and not one bit of it is healthy; with the exception of Jenni-O turkey burger commerical.  We really are faced with lots of temptations and we really have to have the mindset to fight those temptations.  You don’t see them anymore, but Jell-O used to advertise their jell-o cups and how low in calorie the single serve cups were.  I am sure you are like me, you go to the grocery store and want to buy fresh produce and then have a heart attack when you have to pay the bill.  Food prices are on the rise.  I paid over $5 for some grapes.  This is just crazy!!  The First Lady is on her kick about the Nation needing to get healthy.  Ok, I agree with that, this country as a whole is obese.  However, food has to be affordable.  The “junk” shouldn’t be 99cents while grapes cost $5.  I am just on a rampage this morning, sorry about that, but I am just fed up with high food prices.

I was looking over my food journal (just started it for the week) and no wonder the weight isn’t coming off.  I do so good until late afternoon and then it’s like all is food is fair game for the rest of the day.  I have also started to look at the reasons why I do that and I have figured out big reason.  LONELIENESS!!    I eat for comfort.   Husband goes to work at midnight, comes home at 4pm  is in bed by 5pm.  The weekends come and go and he is trying to do everything he couldn’t do during the week.  So I DON’T get the quality time I am looking for and needing.  So, I substitute food.  It can’t hurt my feelings; alwasy there when I need it.  So, looks like I need to fix a few things in this department before the weight is going to come off.  Food can NO longer be my best friend.  (it would be great if I ate just fruit, veggies, and nuts but that is not the case).  So I think a long talk with the hubby is in order to get me in order.

Well it’s Halloween and that means before we know it, it’s Thanksgiving and then it’s Christams.  This means gatherings and parties and meals with way too much food.  Can I make it thru this Holiday season?  Of Course I will.   When I came back here to buddyslim, I weighed 207.4 according to my scale.  (one week ago)   This morning I weighed in at 206. That means a 1.4 pound weight loss.   Now that may seem like nothing to some of you, but I Have to start somewhere.  I went to the store this weekend and I didn’t stock up on chips and junk.  I stocked up on fruit and veggies.  Salad fixings and meat for protein.  I got me a little something to add some flavor to my water.  I have a goal in mind.  I have an outfit that I want to be able to wear for Thanksgiving dinner and I have another outfit I want to be able to wear for Christmas Eve.  They seem like brand new outfits to me because I have barely worn them.  So, that means I have to get myself moving.  I am still feeling strong like last week and I am hoping the momentum will continue.  I don’t want to start the new year off with another promise of “I will lose weight”  I just want to continue on my journey and not just be starting.  So here’s to are weight trackers and let’s hope they are counting down the pounds we lose.

I did it again this morning.  Did my 2 mile video while the kids were eating breakfast.  I feel so good and my motivation is really on a high, but my concern is will it last?  I am hoping so, but one never knows.  I am hoping that changes will start to take place and that my motivation level will continue.  I want to get this exercising to become a regular thing before I make any drastic changes like giving up/cutting down on my diet pop intake.  Right now I drink 3-4 cans a day.  I would like to drop that to 1-2 a day and incorporate that with more water intake.  I know this is all a mind set for me.  I know all the benefits of water, but yet water is somehow taboo for me.  I do drink water, but not the 6-8+ glasses I should a day.  Small and steady changes will win the race, right?

Here’s to a great Thursday for everyone.