Days 11 and 12

Well I weighed myself yesterday and I am happy to say that I lost a total of 5lbs my first week, yay!!! Only 35 more to go. Now I'm just hoping that I won't gain it right back. It's easy to lose a few pounds but it's even easier to gain them back. I have just started taking the Advanced Acai and the Pure cleanse that goes with it. Hopefully it works the way it's supposed to. I guess only time will tell. I haven't had a chance to do any kind of workout today yet but it's still early. Yesterday I tried some swing dancing. Again it wasn't my finest hour, lol. It may not have been very pretty but I was atleast able to keep up with this one. It was fun too so that's always a plus. Well the baby's cryin for me so got to go.

Days 8,9, and 10

Wow, I didn't realize how far behind I was on updating this. My apologies. Having for kids does not give you very much time to do anything for yourself during the day between getting kids ready for school, picking them up, homework, making dinner and picking up the house (which they destroy in 5 min, lol). Oh well, what can you do? I may not have had time to write but I have been keeping up on my exercise and dieting which is going well so far. I haven't weighed myself again yet but I will probably do that tomorrow. Hopefully I will have lost a few more pounds but we'll see. Yesterday I worked my butt off doing 50 minutes of cardio, I haven't done that in a long time. I was getting my groove on let me tell you. I just hope none of my neighbors could see me because it wasn't pretty, lol. Well I will hopefully see you tomorrow with some good news. Talk at you later.

Day 7

Well since today was my son and daughter's birthday party, I decided to take a break. I will have to double my efforts tomorrow since I had cake, lol. I was worth it though. Well I'm going to hit the sack. Night Peeps.

Day 6

Today was a good day, well as far as exercising goes, lol. I was finally able to 'get my grove on' with my new dance dvd. I really had no idea how much rhythm and coordination I lost when I had kids. I suck at dancing, lol. If I went to a club now, I'd probably make a complete fool of myself, lol. Hopefully I'll get some moves back. I will say it kicked my butt though and I only did 2 dances at 10 minutes a piece. Is that sad or what? I at least kept up with it even if I didn't always get the moves right, plus it was a little hard to remember the steps when my daughter was trying to get me to hold her. lol. It was fun though. I ate really good today too. I've changed a lot of the food I eat and I eat a lot smaller portions now. I'm very proud of myself. Let's just hope I can keep it up, lol. Well that's all for now. See you tomorrow.

Day 5

Today has been a long day. It started off being pretty busy. I woke up and got my oldest son ready for school and had to take all the kids with me to drop him off since my husband was on 1st shift today. That part wasn't bad, but I had to take the remaining 3 with me to the grocery store. Now if you've never had the experience of taking 3 kids (ages 4, 3, and 1 1/2 months) I wouldn't recommend it. The main reason I went to the store was to get some stuff for my other sons lunch to take to school. After about an hour of dragging my kids through the store and filling up the cart with a bunch of crap that I didn't need ($150 bucks worth to be exact) we head home from the store. After I drag in all the groceries I realize that it's getting close for my sons bus to come so I hurry and make his lunch, all while my son is screaming at me because he doesn't want to go to school. Before I go any further let me tell you a little bit about my son. I love my son with all my heart but that boy has a temper on him. He is the most stubborn little boy on the face of the planet, lol. I'm not exaggerating either, most parents will say that about one of their kids but I bet my son would win hands down in the worst temper and most stubborn catagories. He is enrolled in the Harold Lewis Center with the Department of Developmental Disabilities and he hates having to go, once he's there he's fine, but trying to get him dressed and on the bus can be a nightmare, especially if he's had a few days off. Well he's had about 3 weeks off because he was sick, then it snowed a lot, ect... well after I got my sons lunch made I finally got him to settle down long enough so we could go "shovel" the snow while we wait for his bus to pick him up. We took turns shoveling and I noticed that we had been outside for quite some time now, so I go inside to check the time and it's a quarter to 12, that's about 20 mins later than when the bus normally arrives. So we go inside and I call the school. It turns out they are on winter break this week. WTF!!! I just spent 150 bucks at the store that I didn't need to spend and listened to my son scream and fight with me about going to school, all to find out he doesn't even have school! I really need to start looking at the calender more often, lol.

Well after that I decided to finish shoveling the driveway which was mostly ice and heavy slush and now my back is hurting, so I figure that was a pretty good workout on its own, considering I haven't shoveled a driveway in about a year because my husband usually does it. I used muscles I haven't used in years, lol. I'm hoping tomorrow I can do something kind of fun. We bought a new cord for the blue ray so maybe I can tryout that new dance dvd. Well that's all for tonight, see you tomorrow!

Day 4

Well today is day 4. I told myself that I wasn't going to get on the scale until the end of each week, but I couldn't help myself. I'VE LOST 4LBS!!! I know 4lbs isn't a lot but it's a start. I'm really excited and now it will just give me more motivation to keep up with it. I would really like to go back to my home town to see my family and not feel like I'm being looked at as fat. It would be really nice to feel comfortable in my own body again. I don't want to complain or blame anyone else but it would be really nice. I'm done bitching now so I will tell you about my day. I had my traditional breakfast (instant breakfast) for lunch I had a cup of noodles (yum, lol) and for dinner we had hamburger helper with garlic bread and mixed veges. Not exactly my most creative meal ever but it was the best I could come up with on a school night. As more my exercising, my husband helped me out with that one, lol. Well that's all for tonight. See you tomorrow.

Day 3

I'm a little late posting day 3. Yesterday was a busy day and I was pretty exhausted at the end of the night. My workout was pretty simple yesterday, I worked mostly on my arms and did a little cardio with the ab circle pro (I love that thing). I will have to work a little harder today though because I ate some homemade french fries yesterday, I know I'm horrible, but they were really good. So today I'll just have to workout a little longer and a little harder. That's all for now better get started on Day 4.

Day 2

Today is day 2 of my plan and it's been an exciting day.  I went to the store and bought some dumb bells to help strengthen my arms a little bit and I picked up the dvd '10 Minute Solution- Dance off fat fast'.  Well when I got home I was going to get my grove on when I suddenly remembered that my kids pulled the cord that connects the blue ray to the tv out and broke the wires in it, so that idea was shot, lol.  Plan B- I used my dumb bells and did some arm excersizes and now my arms kind of feel like jelly along with my legs from doing more lunges and squats.  I also used my ab circle pro for about 20 mins.  Unfortunately that was all I had time for because after I write this I have to clean my house that my kids destroyed.  They literally got into everything that they possibly could.  I have baby powder all over my kitchen floor, I already vaccuumed the mess my 2 year old daughter made on my stairs (powdered pizza sauce mix that you use to can your own pizza sauce, nice dark red powder) Nice!!!  That happened after I caught them all trying to take a bath in the kitchen sink!!!  You'd think I was making this shit up, but I'm not, lol.  So it's 10 o'clock at night here in Marysville and I still have an entire house to clean, good thing I just exercized and have some energy, lol.  The good news is that I ate fairly well today (at least for me anyways, although anything other than fast food is an improvement).  I had a glass of instant breakfast for breakfast, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch and for dinner I made french toast on wheat bread made with egg whites only and one scrambled egg.  I was pretty proud of myself, I walked right past the candy and soda isles in the store and didn't pick up a thing for myself.  I won't lie though, I really wanted to, lol!!  Well it's time to clean, maybe I'll burn some extra calories while I'm doing it :). See you tomorrow.

Day 1- The Ugly Truth

Ok, so today is day 1.  Day 1 of my not so much fun diet and exersize plan.  Today was the day I weighed and measured myself and found the ugly facts.  I thought about not sharing it with everyone but then it would be too easy for me to cheat if I did that, so here are the facts:

Weight- 162lbs (for my height they say I should weigh about 95-125lbs.  I haven't weighed that since Jr high and the first year of high school, lol)

Waist- 42 inches

Hips- 43 inches

Bust- 38 inches

Now that I told you the embarrasing facts here's my goal.  I would like to lose around 40lbs and be back to the size I was in high school.  I know I won't be as slim around the belly until I could have a tummy tuck but I would be thrilled to lose a couple inches or atleast get rid of some of the excess fat.  I'd like to be able to fit into a size 8 pants again and actually have some shape to my ass other than flat, lol.  I don't think my goals would be too hard to achieve as long as I can stick to my plan.  My biggest struggle is going to be to cut out the fast food.  With four kids, I'm all about convienence.  I'm also a pig so cutting portions is going to be another struggle and sweets, lol.  If I could live off fast food and chocolate I would be a happy woman.  A very very fat woman, lol. 

I told you part of the reason that I want to lose weight, but here's another fact.  I had to have a health assessment done for our new insurance.  They checked my cholesterol levels and a bunch of other crap (not that I know what most of it means, lol).  When the results came back they put me in a High Risk catagory (a high risk of what, I'm not sure).  Now I have to see some kind of health counselor and follow a program that they give me.  I don't mind doing this, they are paying my insurance and if I was putting out the money for someone's health I would want to keep the costs down.  The thing that pisses me off is the fact that my husband's results came back and it said he was just fine.  What horse shit!!!  He's the one that always uses a crap load of butter and salt.  Drinks a 24 pack of Mountain Dew in a 48 hour period (and that's stretching it) and doesn't usually drain the grease when he makes hamburger (in fact he fries it in more butter).  And he's the healthy one?  His cholesterol levels are just fine, while my good cholesterol is low and my bad cholesterol is borderline high.  What gives?  Now I know I just had a baby not that long ago which is why I'm not too worried about it, and if you knew how much I weighed right before I gave birth you'd be shocked I don't weigh more, lol.  I'm not your typical pregnant woman.  I get huge and I'm not exagerating, I wish I was, but I'm not.  It was actually painful for me to carry my last 2 children.  "If it hurt you to have the 3rd one, why did you have the 4th you ask?"  Well oops!!!  I was planning on being done with the 3rd but it obviously didn't turn out that way.  Now my tubes are tied and I am officially done.  Four I think is good.  I don't know how some women have like 17 or 23 kids, I think they're out of their minds, personally.

Ok, now that I've gone on and on, I'll tell you what my day was like to prove that I'm sticking to my "plan".  For breakfast I had a glass of instant breakfast, for lunch I had half of a chicken breast with steamed zuccinni and for dinner I had half of a package of ramen noodles (I know, not exacty gourmet right :)  Then I spent 20 minutes on my new ab circle pro.  I also did some push ups, lunges, and jumping jacks.  Unfortunatly I had to stop because I had to feed my daughter and my other kids decided to dump cereal and water all over the kitchen floor.  My kids are soooo much fun, lol.  Well that's all for tonight.  See you tomorrow.