I only have a moment for a quick update but I am ready to get back on schedule. I weighed last Thursday morning, the 19th, instead of Friday since we were heading to Spokane, WA that night to visit my sis and family. I weighed in again at 169.4. I didn't even think about losing weight on our trip, just enjoyed being with my family and eating yummy food. I weighed this past Friday, the 26th, and was up to 170.4. But I'm really okay with that and am ready to get focused again and try to keep up with my success. My first quarter weigh-in is coming on Wednesday, at the end of March. I'm really excited to have finished 25% of this challenge!
I need to run because I finally have sleeping boys and I need to get a nap!
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Friday, March 12, 2010
Weekly Weigh-In Day
This morning I'm so excited to report that I weighed-in at 169.4. I can't believe I'm leaving another "decade" of weight behind! Good-bye 170's! I'm not sad to see you go at all!
It feels so good to have made this much progress. I've lost a total of 13 pounds since January 1. I still have 19.4 pounds to go to reach my goal weight by December 31. I know that the closer I get to my goal, the harder it is going to be, but I feel so great about my success already that I hope it will give me the motivation to keep it up.
We're very excited to see Mom and Dad Murrill in a few days. They are coming into town to help Mark and Steph with some painting (and of course to see everyone). I think they could be professional painters by now with all the painting they've done for all of us. As a bonus, they're helping us out by watching the kids for us while us mom's go to work. That is a big help with the cost of daycare. It's so great that they are close to both of our families now.
Today the boys and I are headed to pick up some groceries for the "potluck" we're having with Mark and Steph tomorrow. We're contributing a salad, bread and the dessert.
I hope each of you has a wonderful Sabbath!
It feels so good to have made this much progress. I've lost a total of 13 pounds since January 1. I still have 19.4 pounds to go to reach my goal weight by December 31. I know that the closer I get to my goal, the harder it is going to be, but I feel so great about my success already that I hope it will give me the motivation to keep it up.
We're very excited to see Mom and Dad Murrill in a few days. They are coming into town to help Mark and Steph with some painting (and of course to see everyone). I think they could be professional painters by now with all the painting they've done for all of us. As a bonus, they're helping us out by watching the kids for us while us mom's go to work. That is a big help with the cost of daycare. It's so great that they are close to both of our families now.
Today the boys and I are headed to pick up some groceries for the "potluck" we're having with Mark and Steph tomorrow. We're contributing a salad, bread and the dessert.
I hope each of you has a wonderful Sabbath!
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Time for Girl-Time
I'm finally feeling better after 3 weekends in a row of suffering with the icky stomach/abdominal issues. I'm so glad to be finally on the mend and definitely getting better.
I did weigh last Friday, but hadn't found time to form a new post until now. I weighed in at 171.6 lbs and am VERY excited about it. This means... JEN!!! I earned my prize of hanging out with you! I hope you are reading this because I'm ready to plan!
If you remember, Jen offered herself up as my prize for losing my first 10 pounds. Anyone else who thinks they could put up with me for a short evening or even just a quick trip to Starbucks, I'd love your company if you want to volunteer to be another one of my prizes!
Speaking of prizes, since I realized how much my final goal prize of a flat screen TV is going to cost, I've decided to let my prizes consist basically of enjoying the way I feel with each weight loss goal reached. I don't think it's a good time for us to be spending any extra money and I really don't need "things" for my motivation anyway. I'm actually more excited to spend time with friends and try to save money for my grand prize.
Have to share a picture with you! Mason did us proud today at Miss Shelley's. He went potty on the big boy toilet!
I did weigh last Friday, but hadn't found time to form a new post until now. I weighed in at 171.6 lbs and am VERY excited about it. This means... JEN!!! I earned my prize of hanging out with you! I hope you are reading this because I'm ready to plan!
If you remember, Jen offered herself up as my prize for losing my first 10 pounds. Anyone else who thinks they could put up with me for a short evening or even just a quick trip to Starbucks, I'd love your company if you want to volunteer to be another one of my prizes!
Speaking of prizes, since I realized how much my final goal prize of a flat screen TV is going to cost, I've decided to let my prizes consist basically of enjoying the way I feel with each weight loss goal reached. I don't think it's a good time for us to be spending any extra money and I really don't need "things" for my motivation anyway. I'm actually more excited to spend time with friends and try to save money for my grand prize.
Have to share a picture with you! Mason did us proud today at Miss Shelley's. He went potty on the big boy toilet!
Monday, March 01, 2010
Again...more than you probably ever wanted to know...
I'm trying to figure out what has happened to my usually-stable and reliable health. Admittedly, I've always been a relatively sickly person...growing up I constantly had colds, the flu, ear infections, sinus infections, bronchitis, struggles with asthma and a persistently bad cough. Since becoming an adult, I still get hit with sickness harder than most, but I've been much more healthy and able to rebound more quickly. I had a difficult time about 4 years ago when I got chronic bronchitis for one summer, but other than that I've been doing pretty well until lately. As you know from my last post, I struggled with a very bad case of GI troubles the weekend of Feb 20, complete with a visit to the ED. Well, this past Saturday, although it didn't last 24 hours, I had 12 more hours of diarrhea. I was so exhausted Sunday that I spent most of the day in bed, drinking water and eating bananas, toast and yogurt. I thought it had gone away, but then early this morning I was awakened with it again and am going on several more hours of continued sickness. Also, yesterday I struggled with blurred vision in my left eye and also vertigo. Needless to say, this morning I'm working on picking out a primary care doctor to go visit.
Probably about the only positive to all this is how it's helped me get back on track with my weight loss. When I weighed Friday for my weekly weigh-in, I was 176.6 pounds. By Sunday morning, for my end of the month weigh-in for February, I was down to 173 pounds. I'm sure much of that was water-loss from getting dehydrated, but I'm still hopeful to keep it from going up too much once I get myself better.
Any extra prayers would be helpful, and if you have called me lately and I haven't returned your call, please know that I would love to talk to you, but I haven't had the energy to do much other than taking care of the boys and trying to get myself well again. I'm really starting to get frustrated because I want to figure out what is going on!
Probably about the only positive to all this is how it's helped me get back on track with my weight loss. When I weighed Friday for my weekly weigh-in, I was 176.6 pounds. By Sunday morning, for my end of the month weigh-in for February, I was down to 173 pounds. I'm sure much of that was water-loss from getting dehydrated, but I'm still hopeful to keep it from going up too much once I get myself better.
Any extra prayers would be helpful, and if you have called me lately and I haven't returned your call, please know that I would love to talk to you, but I haven't had the energy to do much other than taking care of the boys and trying to get myself well again. I'm really starting to get frustrated because I want to figure out what is going on!
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