Down

Down 2 lbs. this week. Today (memorial day) is going to be bad. Food and social situations are a bad mix. On the plus side, I didn't eat those plastic cookies, or their real counterpart, last week :-).

one dozen cookies, please

You know you're in trouble when the sight of your daughter's plastic cookies send you into a ridiculous craving for the real thing.

down

Down 3.5 lbs today. :-) Having a theoretical "end date" for my diet has helped thus far. Its been easier to turn down pasta and home-made cookies when you know its only a matter of 3 weeks before you can eat them again.

Exercise has been nonexistent. I was gone every night last week; a rarity. I feel stupid exercising in front of anyone else at this point, so this week ill take the open evenings to do so.

Ugg. Ive been gaining and loosing the same 3 lbs over and over, so its time for something more drastic:a 30 day challenge. Ill start right after i eat some of Aarons bday cake for breakfast :-). Exercise via the recent post by Alli on Pinterest, food via eat to live, with some mods; ie, lean animal protien. See you next monday.
P.s. potty training sucks, and our computer is broken :-(

Week 2: Post Easter weight-in

Up 6 lbs?! I hope my scale is wrong. I was off the wagon for a few days, but still... I'll hit the bricks extra hard this week. I'm still battling eating at bedtime. I think I'll budget food specifically to eat late and see how it goes. I'll be in the house a lot this week potty-training Liz, and I think that will be a challenge snack-wise. Another goal for this week: more water!! 8 cups a day, at least. I'll measure it out.

Week one: Down 0 lbs?

Ok, so probably not down zero pounds this week. I was afraid to weigh myself just as the week stated, so I'm probably down about 2 lbs. I'm 230 exactly this a.m.

Worst part of the week: getting hungry or "hungry" around bedime.
Best part of the week: Not too many sweets cravings.

Baby is coming, you are getting fat.

We had a good lesson in Sunday School 2 weeks ago, which included a reading of the blessing Emma Smith wrote for herself at Joseph's request (he was in Carthage at the time.) It struck me that all she asked for, I would ask for: a spirit of discernment, wisdom is raising her children, a willingness and ability to act in union with her husband, and "that I may not...abuse my body and cause it to become prematurely old and care-worn."

Oh, dear.

That last one has really stuck with me. I've always been really bad about asking God for help with temporal things. But I need help with this. And I fear my weight will soon be getting in they way of things God would have me do, like having another child. Aside from that there's a list of benefits that I can't ignore:

• New eyeliner and jeans won't take off 30 lbs. I can't look any better than I do now until I loose weight.
• Someone's gotta take Liz in the ocean at playgroup this summer.
• Clothes and shoe shopping would be fun again.
• and more, I'm sure.

So, as baby Jemima Puddle-Duck (my working title for baby girl Cobabe) is coming in August, and as Aaron, Liz and I will all be seeing you around that time, I figured August is a good goal line. Loosing 31 lbs. by the end of August would be about 6 lbs. a month - not too bad. Why 31 lbs.? I want to see a "1" at the beginning of my weight when I step on the scale, and that will get me there. (Yep, you did the math right...oy.)

I'm setting a goal now of blogging every Monday night. Even a line or 2. I'll weigh in on Monday and post weight changes here.

Ok....go!