WI and some pics

I did better this week. I had a loss of 1.8lbs (165.8) so I lost the stay the same and the gain that I had the week before, plus a little bit more. I should have been down by more already since I was dumb and ate like a pig and had a gain and STS but I'm not going to be beat myself up about it.

I have been going strong with FLYlady. I decluttered my lazy Susan and my bedroom now. I've been on a mission! It feels great to get rid of a lot of junk that I don't need. Here's some pictures! I don't have before pictures but I'll explain each picture.

This is my lazy susan. It looks so empty now! I don't think that I have ever emptied it all out like this before. To get an idea, it was so full that I had to pile stuff on top of other stuff, just to make it fit! There was some things that expired years ago, that were way in the back!
This is our bedroom. Before, there was a pile of crap that didn't belong under the window, and a pile of crap (like a punch bowl!) in front of the dresser. Now all clean! And DH's night stand was full of some stuff too.Our closet! The thing I'm most proud of! The blankets, sheets and towels on the top shelf were just thrown in cause I was too lazy to get a chair since I couldn't reach them. So now they are all organized and nicely folded! Even arranged in size of bed! The floor of the closet used to be full of stuff, and the vacuum and carpet cleaner were outside of the closet, usually being tripped over! And the stuff used to come out past the doors. Pretty nice eh?
The dresser DH did the other day but it was covered in crap and dust. Not so clean!

And just a cute picture to add in! My favourite toys in the world!!!
I'm really proud of how well I'm doing. I know that a lot of you are probably laughing at the fact that I'm excited about a clean house, but it's true what FLYlady says, it makes you in a better mood to see the house clean. It's taken my almost 6 years of living here to get like this. And because I like how it looks, and it's so much cleaner, it's easier to keep clean! Now, to get the kids to help pick up toys more often......

WI

Blah! I stayed the same this week and I totally knew that I would or gain. I had a bad week with lots of bad food. I need to stay away from crap and I need to do that now. Ugh.....

Anyways, FLYing is going great! I decluttered the bathroom the other day and today I went at the freezer, fridge and our lazy Susan. I don't think I have every cleaned that out since we've lived here, other than the odd thing. I pulled everything out, threw out expired or old stuff and ended up with another garbage bag full. I was having trouble fitting stuff in there and the freezer lately but now, both are pretty empty! My next task is the hall closet. We use it as a snack/storage for appliances closet and I know it really needs to be cleaned out. It's funny yet sad at the same time that every time my husband sees something else that I've done, he says "Ok, who are you and what have you done with my wife!" LOL! I've wanted to do all of this for so long but it always really overwhelmed me and I never did it. I would just do the usual cleaning and if we had company coming, I'd declutter obvious areas and usually put stuff where it shouldn't go just to get it out of site. But now I'm actually cleaning it all out! It feels really good to get up in the morning and see my kitchen spotless and my kitchen sink shiny! And then once we get up and get going for the morning, I go right to my bed, make it then do the "Swish and Swipe" (clean the counter off with a cloth, the sink and then swish the toilet with the brush and wipe down the lids etc) in the bathroom and then go unload the dishwasher. I spend so much less time doing dishes now. I used to wait and do them once a day, sometimes every other day if I was busy and I would spend 1/2 hour at least doing them. Now I spend about 5-10 mintues unloading the dishwasher in the morning, then after each meal I throw the dishes in, that takes maybe 10 minutes tops and then at night before bed, I run it. I'm loving this!!!!!

Anyways, gonna go crash. Oh and for inspiration for anyone who is interested in FLYlady, but hasn't done it yet, here's my sink!

I'm FLYing!

Sorry it's been so long since I've posted but I have come across FLYlady and am loving it! It's a website that gets you organized with housework and decluttering your house. I am the queen of clutter. I hate to throw things out and instead of finding homes for them, they usually end up on the bar or in my bedroom. So this website focuses on 1 zone in your house each week of each month. Last week was the kitchen and this week is the bathroom and extra room. I spent about an hour this morning going through all the cupboards and drawers in the bathroom and I threw out a whole garbage bag full of old stuff. I even found a bottle of Midol that expired in May....... 2003!!!! I feel so ashamed! LOL! The one thing I really like is she tells you to set a timer for 15 minutes and declutter as much as you can in that time. When the timer goes off, set it again, or stop. I found that it really helps it feel less like a chore. So I haven't been spending much time on the computer.

I'm having a bad feeling about my WI this week. I had a run in with some homemade brownies and vanilla ice cream yesterday. I was up quite a bit today. I'm hoping that the amount of water I've had will help, but I have a feeling it won't. I've got to get my motivation back again or I'm going to be a whale forever!

Kayla only has 4 full days of school left!!! (She only goes M, W and every other F) I can't believe that this school year is almost over! It feels like it was just yesterday that I was all nervous about her starting and now she'll be in SK next year. Next thing I know, Zachary will be starting school!

Anyways, kids are in bed, Jeff is at work and my cross stitch is calling my name, toodles!

WI

I had a gain today, blah. But I know that it is most likely water weight cause I have felt so bloated the past few days. I'm not sure why, I haven't changed my eating or anything. Anyways, I gained back what I lost last week, 1.4lbs (167.6). I'm not too upset cause I have been doing pretty good. I'll just have to work harder this week to lose it and more!

Sorry I haven't been posting much again, it just seems like life is crazy hectic lately. Jeff has been working a lot so it's just been me and the kids. Next week should slow down a bit. Then I'll be back!

WI and an update

Wow, it's been a whole week! Don't worry I haven't abandoned this blog like I did the other one (hehe). I've just had a crazy week! My parents came down last Wednesday night and built the playhouse for the kids (I'll upload pictures later). They left Monday afternoon. I took Kayla to a field trip most of the day on Monday and then we had soccer last night and I had Totnastics with Juliana this morning and then Jeff worked tonight. Plus I've been nursing myself back to health. I ended up going to the doctors with Kayla on Thursday and he gave me an antibiotic cause I have a sinus infection. And then I took Zachary tonight cause he's been fighting a fever for the past 3 days and he's got an ear infection and a little sinus infection maybe too. So he's on an antibiotic too. His fever was 103.6 when I put him to bed tonight! Man, it seems like our family is certainly keeping the companies that make antibiotics in business lately!

Now for my WI! I was down 1.6lbs today, so I am now at 166.2lbs! I am so happy that I had such a large loss today! While my parents were here we had burgers, pasta, steak, pizza, apple crisp, strawberries and angel food cake. Plus I didn't exercise once and I ate lots of other stuff too. Plus AF came today so I'm feeling bloated. I am really surprised I had that big of a loss! So I am only 6.2lbs away from the 150's!!!!!! If I do ok, I could possibly be there by vacation (July 4th) That gives me 4 WI's to lost the 6.2lbs, which is 1.6lbs per week. It'll be pushing it, but we'll see!

Kayla has been having a really tough time with hearing me lately. Actually for the past couple of months. She had an ear infection and I guess it probably didn't heal all the way or something like that cause she had some fluid in it still. I thought it was just built up ear wax but when I took her to see the doctor last Thursday, he said that she can't hear because her ears aren't functioning properly because of the fluid and mucus that's in her ears. So he referred her to a ENT to possibly have tubes put in to help with the draining. I don't know much about it, so I've been Googling it a bit and it seems like a pretty common thing. I'm not worried at all but just curious. He did say that it could clear up on it's own by the time we go but he doesn't like to take chances so just to be safe, he wants us to go see the ENT.

And I got my appointment for my referal to go see the vein clinic!!! I don't think I've mentioned it before but I have some varicose veins and spider veins from being pregnant. They aren't horrible but I really don't like them either. So I asked my doctor at my last appointment and he said that he would refer me and he said that because they really hurt during pregnancy (I could barely stand up they hurt so much) and still bug me sometimes, they could possibly be covered my OHIP or at least partially! So woo hoo! I've been wanting to get them taken care of but didn't want to spend the money. But Jeff said he wants me to be comfortable in my own skin so he wants me to do it. I know my legs will never be pre-baby shape again, but that doesn't matter to me. I'm not a young teenager with perfect skin anymore. I'm a 27 year old mother of 3 who has the battle wounds of pregnancy.

Anyways, Jeff just got home from training so I'm gonna go crash with him!

WI

Well, I totally screwed up this week. With me not feeling well and not drinking even half the amount of water that I should have with my sore throat, it kind of went out the window. I still managed a .2lbs loss. Not great, not awful. I am feeling a bit better today so I'm hoping this is the end of it. Off to crash for a bit before my parents get here!

Something great, something not so great

Well, I haven't Shredded since Thursday cause I feel like crap again. I was finally starting to feel better and then Thursday evening I started feeling yucky again. I went for an hour massage and that was wonderful but for some reason my whole body ached later on. My muscles and my joints all really hurt. I wasn't sure if it was from Shredding or my massage or both or being sick but I felt yucky. And then Thursday night Zach hardly slept. We went to bed around 12 and he woke up just as we were crawling into bed. I went down and tried to get him to back to sleep just by hugging him but that didn't work. So because I was tired, I thought I'd lay down beside the playpen like I have done before. Well that didn't work either. He kept sitting up and looking to see if I was still there! So finally around 2:20 he fell asleep and I crawled back into bed. After getting comfy and almost falling asleep I hear him crying again around 3. GRRRRR!! So this time I just grabbed him and sat in the recliner and let him fall asleep on me. Well of course I don't sleep well when we do that cause I'm worried he'll fall off of me. So he woke up around 6:30 and I was able to get him to still cuddle until almost 7. After that we went upstairs. Well Friday I felt awful so I just took the day easy. I didn't even do any house work! Last night thankfully he slept the whole night. I think it must have been his molars. Anyways, I'm feeling a bit better, but that is probably just because of the 2 Tylenol and 2 Advil I took! That seems to be the only thing that works.

On a good note, my dad is coming down next week to build the kids a playhouse!!!!! Can't wait!!!! We have wanted to get them one for quite a while but I've never really liked the look of the ones you can buy. I always thought they looked cheap. So my dad designed one for us and we got it all priced out and it's a little more than what we wanted to spend but with Jeff working so much, we said go ahead. And we got the slide for $25 on Kijiji! It's a 10 foot slide, and new they are worth $150-200! Here's a drawing of what my dad designed. Excuse the colours, he did that so he would know which is what kind of board. They are supposed to be coming on Wednesday and he thinks he can have it done in 2-3 days. The playhouse is 6'X6' just so you know how big it is!
That's all I have to say for now, have a good weekend everyone!

Sweaty!

Wow, it's warm out! I'm glad we have our basement finished so I can exercise down there cause it's awfully hot upstairs! Last time I checked it was 76F (25C). Not bad when you are just taking it easy but when your Shredding, not fun!

I did my DVD for the 4th time today and it is definitely getting easier every time! I was actually able to do the push ups in the beginning without feeling like I was dying! I did notice today that my calves are really starting to get some definition in them! Yay for muscle definition and not just squishiness!!!!!

I took all 3 kids out grocery shopping today, boy that's a lot of work! I usually get a few looks like they are saying "Wow, she's crazy for having so many kids so close together!" It actually went better than the last time. A couple of weeks ago I took them and Kayla and Juliana fought the whole time! It was so embarrassing! This time, I threatened them beforehand that if they fought I would not let them have dessert tonight and I'll tell Papa not to build them a playhouse (my dad is going to build us one!). It seemed to have worked perfectly! Although once we got home, then it was all let loose!

Zach is still sick. His nose is running so much that it's starting to crack from wiping it so much! I've even switched to lotion Puffs but that doesn't help. I've just stopped wiping it unless it's really bad. Poor thing! This morning I went to get him when he woke up and I brought him into bed with Jeff and I. He laid on my chest just cuddling and he ended up falling asleep for about 1/2 an hour! It was so nice. Especially after the Tori Stafford case, I've been really hugging my kids lots lately. So sad!

Anyways, enough babbling, off to do some dishes! We're having yummy BBQ'd burgers and Taco salad tonight! Yum!

10% goal and 20lbs lost!!!

Today was an awesome day for weighing in!!! I not only hit my 10% goal (169.2) but also passed that and reached a total of 20lbs lost!!!!! I am so happy! 20lbs is a good bench mark, because if people ask how much I lost, 20lbs just sounds good, lol!

I really love that I've got my motivation back finally. I did so well the last time that I did WW (back in 2007-2008) and I kept failing this time that it was really frustrating. But I know that there is no looking back now cause I'm in the groove! LOL! I'm really hoping that I can be in the 150's in about 5 weeks or so.

Off to celebrate!!!!!!!

Water is wonderful!

Well, I hopped on the scale this morning and I was down to 170.4! So if I keep up with the water today, and eat well, I'm hoping I'll see a loss tomorrow!

I'm not sore at all from doing the Shred yesterday so I'm very happy! I'll be able to keep going daily (or at least when I'm able to) and hopefully it'll help me lose more weight and start running soon!

Both Zachary and Juliana slept the whole night last night! I thought for sure that Zachary would be up lots but I plugged in a humidifier before bed so that helped with his breathing.

We have soccer tonight for Kayla, so it'll be a hectic night and then Juliana goes to Totnastics tomorrow morning so I'll be back tomorrow to update either my loss or my gain!

Beef, beef and more beef!

Well, since we were leaving Friday night after Jeff got home from work, we decided to hit Wendy's on the way, that way we could get to my parents in time for bed time. So I had a burger (I know, I should have ordered something better, I was just sooo hungry and a salad wouldn't have cut it!). It was good, and I don't feel too badly about it. Saturday morning, I had some dry Mini Wheats for breakfast that equaled 2 points. Lunch we were going to some friends for a BBQ. And did we have??? Burgers! They were very yummy ones actually! So we stayed there and visited for a while, and then left to go to my sister's house for a family get together and to pick up our boat. My whole family was going there so we could all see each other. And what did we have???? BBQ'd burgers again! LOL! They were all yummy, but I think I'm done with burgers for a few days!

I stepped on the scale this morning and I was up to 172. Not bad but not great. Considering I had probably 2 glasses of water the whole weekend, that is probably a lot of water weight. So I've been drinking lots today and hopefully I'll be able to get back down the the 169's and even lose my .2lbs so I can hit my 10% goal.

I've been turned onto this awesome treat from someone on a board I belong to. You take a 1L tub of Fat Free Cool Whip, let it thaw a bit and stir in about 1/4 cup of peanut butter. Don't mix it all the way just so you have kind of like a ribbon of peanut butter through out. Now she said to put them into about 8 muffin tins and drizzle some chocolate over top and then refreeze. They work out to 1 pt per "muffin". I did it a different way since I'm a huge sucker for ice cream. I just mixed in the PB and then some chocolate sauce and then refroze it that way. So when I want some, I just scoop it into a little bowl and I'm fooling myself into thinking I have some ice cream, and for way less points! And it's very yummy! Tastes kind of like PB ice cream!

I did the 30 Day Shred again today. It took until Sunday for me to be able to walk properly again from doing it on Thursday! I was able to do it today a lot easier than the first time. It was still difficult, but it felt easier. And I'm not shaking like I was after it the first time. We'll see how I'm feeling tomorrow, if I'm sore at all!

Zach and Juliana are both sick right now. Zach's got a major runny nose and a little fever, plus he's teething his 2 bottom molars right now. Juliana has a fever and is kind of whiny. I'm hoping they feel better soon. It seems like our family can't go longer than a couple of weeks without someone being sick. I know it's just cause Kayla is in school now, but it's annoying! I'm still fighting whatever it was that I had. My head still feels a little foggy and my nose is still a little stuffed but I'm feeling a bit better.

Well, that's all I have to say today, I'll check back in either tomorrow or Wednesday for my WI. (That is if anyone even reads this, LOL!)

ETA: A picture of the Cool Whip dessert!

Ouch!

So I did the first workout of the Shred DVD and wow! That is a hard workout! I think it's definitely the hardest one I've ever done! It's really fun in a way though too. It starts out with 2 minutes of warm up with some different stretches. Then it goes into the 1st of 3 circuits. 3 minutes of strength -- some pushups and other things, but I can't remember. 2 minutes of cardio -- some jumping jacks and can't remember (LOL!). Then 1 minute of abs. And without any breaks at all, you jump right into the 2nd circuit with 3 minutes of strength etc. There are 3 circuits in total and then 2 minutes of cool down. Wow, my arms were about to fall off when I was done. I only used 3lb hand weights but it was still very tough. Especially when I had to do side lunges while lifting the weights up to chest level (can't remember what it was called, LOL!) I know I'm going to be very sore tomorrow, but it is so worth it! She said in the video that you won't get results without basically kicking your butt! So I did some measurements and I'm going to see in a few weeks if I've lost anything. I'm going to try to do it again tomorrow but we'll see how sore I am! LOL!

Almost time to Shred!

I'm finally starting to feel a bit better. Last night I had a pretty sore throat but I find I'm always worse at night. This morning I feel pretty good!

I checked the shipping status of that DVD and it's in my mailbox waiting for me! I take the girls for a hair cut at 11 so I'll pick it up then!

DH paid me a huge compliment last night. He always thinks I'm hot, even when I was big. But last night he told me that I'm starting to get my curves back. I even noticed that in the mirror last night too. My waist is starting to thin a bit and I actually look like I have some curves now I never was one to have the nice big hips and tiny waist. I always had a stick figure. I always wanted those sexy hips. And I think Zach may have given some to me!!!!

So I have a few goals that I decided to set for myself. They are just little ones. I want to be at or past my 10% by next week (it is 169.2). I want to be at 163, which would be 25lbs total by June 17th. That gives me 5 WI's to lose 6.4lbs, which is an average of 1.2lbs each week. That may be pushing it, but I'd like to at least try. When I did WW last time, I averaged that each time. Some weeks would be more, some weeks way less. So that's my goal. And when I get to 25lbs lost, I'm going to celebrate by getting myself some new bras!

Weigh In

Well, I lost .6lbs (down to 169.4) but I'm still .2lbs away from my 10%. I'm happy that I lost but I bet if I would have stayed away from the stupid Rice Krispie squares that I bought for Kayla's soccer snack for all the kids, I'd be there, LOL! Those things are evil!!!!!!!! I'm not sure exactly when, but I do know that I haven't been in the 160's since I was pregnant! I've tried looking back on my old blog but I never posted my weight (and I can totally see why -- 70lbs + gain!). I know I was about 149 when I got pregnant and I gained about 15lbs in the first couple of months, so I'm sure it was around my 3rd to 4th month! I can't wait to get to the 150's!!!!

On another note, I've heard tons of rave reviews about Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred so I ordered it yesterday. It should be here tomorrow! Lots of girls from a board I'm part of have been loving it and the way it's changed their bodies just from doing a couple of weeks. And the thing I love is it's 20 minutes! Most of my videos that I have are at least 40 minutes and it's hard to fit that in during the day, especially when I want to do without Zachary around! He tends to get in the way and I don't like kicking him, lol! I've heard this video is really tough and you want to scream at her the whole time, but it's a quick and very effective video, so it should work for me. I really want to start running again but I don't want to go from doing nothing to running. So if I do this and get a bit more in shape then maybe in the next couple of months (when I'm not sick anymore and Zach sleeps good!) I can start again! Toodles for now!

Blah

Well, I haven't done that great this week. I had some major computer issues and I was kind of in a funk. Our computer crashed Tuesday night and Outlook wouldn't open on Wednesday. I spent quite a while trying to get it to work. Well I ended up reinstalling it 3 times and it would finally open once I moved the file that it saves everything to. I think that file had been corrupted somehow. Anyways, I've lost everything - emails, contacts and all my appointments and things in the calendar. I was pretty upset at first but am now over it. Plus I got AF and felt like crap and I started getting a pretty bad cold. So I let my eating go out the window, bad I know! As of yesterday I was up a couple of pounds. But yesterday and today I've got my eating back on track and am trying to drink lots of water. I still feel like crap though. My head is really congested and feels like it's going to explode. I hope that I can overcome my many failures last week and still manage to lose .8lbs so I can get to my 10% goal.

I thought I would post some pics of the kids since I haven't done that in a while.

Zach is obsessed with the broom lately and I snapped this picture the other day. I love the look on his face!
The kids all watching daddy cut the grass
The girls riding on a toy together (they are actually getting along here!)
The Sears portrait we got of all 3 of them!
Zach being cute!
Cuddles with daddy!
Zach was acting goofy when he was playing with his music toy!
My beautiful Mother's Day bouquet
Kayla's 5 year portraits

I have my WI on Wednesday so I'll be back to update you all if I made it!

Here's my new blog!

I just haven't felt the motivation to update my other blog and I'm really sorry, but I thought maybe if I started another blog, it might help.

I kind of feel like I started over with my weight loss so I kind of didn't want to keep being able to look back at where I was the last time I did WW and feel bummed knowing that I am so far away from where I was. So I thought that if I started over, it might feel like a new fresh start!

So here's my stats!

Started WW October 8th, 2008 at...... 188lbs!

Screwed up lots, had some good WI's, and am at 170 as of today for my WI. So that puts me at 18lbs down. If you are at all interested in reading my other blog, here's the address. http://ahomefullofloveww.blogspot.com

I plan on updating this blog regularly to keep me accountable. I really truly hope that I can do it this time. I have started and failed and restarted and failed WW so many times since October, it's not even funny. But I have really succeeded this week with self control and it paid off with a loss of 2.2lbs. So I'm hoping that I can be at my 10% goal (169.2) or better next Wednesday.

Stay tuned for my smaller me!!!