My motivation has arrived

I guess this is a once a month thing with me...it was 4 weeks ago that I wrote last! Since that time I was infused with a new motivation..how did that happen you ask!?   I WENT DRESS SHOPPING! I have a new dress (three actually) that I bought for the wedding of the year.....but my favorite is two sizes too small. Why would I buy a dress two sizes too small you ask (your asking a lot of questions!) ......because it is so much cuter that way! I answer...oh and it was the only size (being a great deal and all) I had to get it.

So there you go...instant motivation.

So Monday i began THE diet. It would consist of two protein drinks in the day, and then a meal of meat and veggies in the evening. Have I mentioned that i am starving ALL the time!? I hope that will go away after the first two weeks. I am trying to do something physical (vitamin E Matt calls it :-)  ) and have succeeded every day this week so far. So here we go....can she do it...twenty pounds by July 25th (that gives me a few days to get a different dress if I don't make it)

I think I can... I think I can......she says with hope in her voice!
The trick is keeping my motivation, so pray for me that I will preserver in the face of good food!
Well that about covers it for this update.....Thanks for all your encouragement, this is definitely a "team" effort :-)

walkin..

I did it!! She says in her best Caleb imitation! So today while gchatting with Val, she "encouraged" me to walk today..since I failed to do it the day before when I said I would. I started to say it was too ugly outside when I changed my mind..and said I would "just dooo it!" So where did I walk you might ask...well I walked for 45 minutes around and around the center wall of our house, down the hall, through the kitchen and up and down the stairs :-) The only thing that kept me sane was the fact that I knew the way without looking so I was able to read while walking :-) Kinda cool since I usually have to look at my feet to keep from spraining my ankle on some unknown dip in the walkway. So there you go... I had a walk :-) Maybe tomorrow I can do it again...2 walks in a week might be a bit over the top though, so we will see :-) Love you guys!!!!

What!???

No I refuse to believe it has been 2 months since I last wrote here..it was suppose to be like a weekly thing.....well there is no time like the present they always say!

My dear sister wrote me today asking what ever happen to the diet blog..and I have to admit it has seriously fallen prey to the " I just don't want to think about it" bug. So here I am climbing back on the horse (thought I would throw that in , in honor of our birthday boy Mattie Matt) and pickin up the reins to restart the infamous diet blog.

I am thinking I have been getting a bit out of hand lately, I am NOT gaining weight, but I am not losing either. So walking you say, is the solution, I agree, but I just don't like it! I lost 1 pound over Easter week end, and all I can attribute it to is the little walk we all took to Mark Twain to fly Greg's airplane..guess it doesn't take much!?

So I am thinking....if it would just stop raining...OK, I know that is just a excuse. I will walk this week..I will walk this week..I will...so that is the message of this little post...I will, and if I don't you can all have permission to...well I don't know what you have permission to do, but you wont have to cause, I WILL.

I Love you all...God Bless you!

Oh and may I say in a official web post that I am SO happy about the ring that rests on a certain someones finger!? No, not mine (though I do like that one) but the one on my future daughter in laws finger....Yea!!!! For Katie and Jon getting engaged!!! Your wedding is my motivation by the way :-)

I admit it

OK I admit it...the jelly beans were calling me and I ate two handfuls. The good news is I didnt continue down that slippery slope and I had a good day today so I am still on my way to health. I havent really lost any weight but I I have been doing better with my stomach issues..I havent had to take tums since I started this eating plan and after I blew it the other night I had to go straight to the tums. If nothing else my stomach is keeping me accountable :-).

All that to say Im still doing OK and I am moving forward. Thank you all for your encouragement and prayers.. please keep it up :-)

Cleaning closets with a woman with a beach ball belly

Jennifer came over today and we clean out all the closets, we organized, sorted and she told me where to put things. Organization is the most overwhelming thing I can think of...so Jenn came over to focus me, and she did a great job!

Now if I can just take that same motivation and use it to loose weight! I started this blog in September and was going to write in it daily..well it is January and this is first entry. Well better late than never right!

So I have been sick since November when I got Swine flu, then it never fully went away and it apparently weakened my lungs because while we were in Aruba visiting Ryan I got pneumonia and have been battling that for 3 weeks. I am still weak and coughing but I hope I am almost better because I am about to get a new grandson..Jude Michael Land! I cant wait to meet him and today was his due date..

Matt and Whitney fly in tomorrow and I am convinced he has been waiting for them to get here. Jenn has been thinking he was coming for over a week now and she is getting quite impatient!

Well my house is all ready now for all the family that will be coming and going for the next 8 weeks...Matt and Whit now, Ryan on the first of February, Jon and Katie, March first and Marce sometime in march, Mom might come up as well..we will see if she feels like she can make it.

Well that is where I am at right now...lots of family coming and going till the end of March...can I be successful and loose weigh during a time like that ...well let see what happens should we???

Tomorrow I think I will put away all the food that I shouldnt be eatting and make hot oats for breakfast... or maybe I should do Atkins thing, that is a bit simpler...well stay tuned and we will see what the next day brings