I made it through Halloween without gorging on candy!

Please note that I updated my progress measurement chart and I also added a new photo of me at 187.5 and just about a month of weight training using Joyce Vedral's Fast Forward tapes.  I can see a little bit of difference.  Can you?

I ate 2 tiny Tootsie Rolls last night and that was it!  I am so proud of myself for being good! So today is the begeinnning of a brand new month and I just simply can't wait until the end of the month to see my new results!  This weight loss and finess journey jus gets more exciting to me all the time!

I was looking at the new Muscle and Fitness Hers magazine last night and I think I wouldn't mind looking like the gals in the magazine.  I am going to try to find a fitness contest so I can see what they look like in real life.  It is hard to tell from a magazine since all pics in magazines are carefuly lighted and airbrushed and all that to make them perfect.

Yesterday, I also started a personal 6 day challenge for myself.  During these 6 days, I will eat very strictly.  At least 8 glasses of water.  I will stay at the low end of my weight watchers points program.  I will do at leat 45 minutes of aerobics each of the 6 days and I will also do my FF tapes every day of the six days.  

Yesterday I did a 45 minutes step aerobic tape, I did cycles 1 and 2 of Fast Forward tapes.  I even raised my weighs to 3lb, 5lb, and 6.6lb weights.  On the lunges and squats for Cycle 3, I have been using 2 15 lb dumbells.  When I squatted with a 1 lb dumbell, I felt nothing and I felt a little silly!

So that is my plan for this week!

Hello!   I haven't written for a few days.  Things are still gong great!

I wanted to talk about something that sounds really weird bu I have heard others say the same thing.

Many people reach a plateau so they decrease their calories even more and exercise more and the weight just doesn't budge for awhile.  They cut back to 1000 calories and then 900 calories and add another hour or so of exercise and still nothing happens.

I have read many articles say tha when you do this your body goes into starvation mode and your body resists losing the weight.

So instead of reducing calories when you get to a plateua they say you are supposed to increase your calories.  This seems to work as I start feeling run down and overly tired from all the low calorie and exercising so I take the day off from exercising and then I eat about 1800 to 2000 calories and then the next day I get on the scale and my weight has dropped.

This is what I did yesteday.  I took the day off from exercising and ate about 2000 healthy calories and this morning I got up and the scale was down another pound.  

So from now on I am going to eat my 1200 calories 5 or 6 days a week and then eat 2000 calories on 1 or 2 days a week to mix things up a bit.

Good Morning!  Today is supposed to be my Weight Watchers weigh in day but I am thinking about changing to Saturday meetings.  That means I will have to wait until Saturday to weigh.  My reason for changing is that I don't care for the current leader we have. She is often rude to the members in the meeting.

Had a great weekend.  I got back on track big time Sunday.  I didn't do any exercise at all on Wednesday, Thursaday, or Friday.  I didn't eat all that great on Thursday or Friday.  I was down to 186.5 on Thursday I think but that may have just been some water loss.  I am still steady at 187.5 this week.  I have lost 3 more inches since last week! 

Great news!  I am going somewhere!  Yes Yipee! I am getting out of this house and I am going somewhere!  A road trip!  My Mom and I decided to go out and visit my sister who lives in Phoenix, Arizona for a few weeks.  She is going to have a baby and is due on November 27th. 

My Mom called yesterday and she seemed so sad.  She knew that I was going out but she didn't think she should go because of her health and her age.  My Mom is 73 years old. Then she said something about going along if I was driving and so I said that would be great! I told her I would ask my daughter if she would come down and stay with Dad while we were gone. That was another main reason she didn't want to go as she can't leave my Dad there by himself.  He has severe arthritis in his knees and other joints and if he falls he can't get up off the floor by himself.  My Mom is too frail to help him up so they have to call the rescue squad out to get him off the floor.

I haven't heard from my daughter for awhile which is not unusal as her bf doesn't want her to hang around her friends or family.  Anyway , she called me last night which I was surprised.  She told me some more great news!  Last time she was over here she applied to college on the computer and she told me that Saturday some information came in the mail! So today I am taking her over to her old high school to get transcripts and all that sent to the university. She is going to my old university.  :-)  I asked her how the bf felt about moving to another city and she told me that she was going just her and the baby and he wasn't coming with her!  ipeee!! Hurrayy!!! You all can tell I don't like him much.  I don't.

I asked her if she would be willign to stay with her Grandpa while we were out in Arizona and she said she would so Yipeee we get to go!

I plan to bring one set up weights and write my workout down on paper so I can do it while I am out there.  They just have an efficiency so there isn't much room but I think I will be able to squeeze in a few sets.  Also I am really excited about all the trails to hike!!  I want to hike that trail at the Superstition Mountains Park!

I have always loved traveling and road trips but my husband hates traveling.  He doesn't like to go anywhere anymore.  I stopped going out to dinner with him several years ago as he couldn't stay sober during the dinner and he would stagger around, and get lous and embarass everyone so I told him I wasn't going out to dinner anymore with him and I haven't. He won't go anywhere at all anymore anyway.

So a typical story about how when a woman gets married, she gives up many of the things she likes to do.

I have written way too much so I will see you all later!  Have a great week!

Hello!   Long time no post! 

I just got back from my trip to see my sister on Sunday and I have spent the past day resting up from all the driving.  On the second day of the drive, I came down with a cold but I just forced myself to keep driving as I wanted to get home.

My Mom and I where originally intending to stay in Arizona until my sister had her baby but when my Mom called Dad on Wednesday, he told her that the doctor had called him in all of a sudden and he found out that he has prostate cancer.  My Dad was at home all alone with just the cat so I just said we were going back first thing in the morning.

I would like to thank all of you who have wrtten me with encouragement.  I appreciate you sharing your stories with me. I also want everyone to know that if you write to me, I will write you back.  It make take me a little while to get back to you if I am out of town and since I only use the email for this weight loss page, I sometimes forget I have it!  LOL!  Silly me!  So if you write, I promise to write you back.

I would also like to thank Nancy for adding my site to her links page.  Nancy is such an inspiration!!! My traffic has increased greatly since doing that.  I have attempted to sign up for several web rings but have not heard back from any of them.  

So how is my weight loss journey going?  I am very please to say that I am now at 183.5 pounds!  I am approaching the 170s and I am thrilled.  I was hoping that I wouldn't gain any weight while I was away and was pleasantly surprised that I had lost several more pounds!

I wasn't able to stick to the WW diet but I didn't overeat much either.  I wasn't able to keep up with my weight training routine as once when I started to do it my sister told me to stop as it was annoying her.  I did stay outside most every day and did a bunch of walking.

It was good to get home and sleep in my own bed!  My kids and the pets were very happy to see me and I was very happy to see them too!  My husband was sleeping when I got home.  It was only 6pm.  My son went up and told him I was home and about 10 minutes later he finally comes downstairs.  He didn't act like he even missed me at all.  I had to go give him a hug as he just sat in his chair.  He just asked me how the car ran and that was it.  I just sat there and blabbed and blabbed about the trip back and he just sat there saying nothing. I felt like a fool going on and on to a brick wall so I just went upstairs and went to bed.

The next day he came home from work and yelled at me first thing he walked in the door about the house not being cleaned up.  This morning I had weighed myself and put on my exercise shorts and I had to re pin the waist band.  It started off maybe pinned it a half inch but now it is pinned about 5 inches!  LOL!  I showed it to him said something about losing several more pounds and he just sat there and ignored me.   You know, I have lost almost 17 pounds and he hasn't even noticed.  I said to him, "You really don't care, do you?"  and I walked into the kitchen.  

I supposed I was fishing for a comment or something.  I am tired of being ignored except to be yelled at.

I did my first Joyce Vedral Fast Forward workout this morning; the first time in weeks!   I was smiling through the entire tape!  It felt wonderful!

See ya later!

Here it is the end of another month already!  Time flies by so fast!  It is hard to believe that this year 2000 is almost over too!

I did not work out at all yesterday.  I have fallen into depression since I have returned home.  I am going to workout today if I have to force myself. I remind myself how great I am doing and how much weight I have lost already so I need to keep it up no matter if I feel like it or not as time will pass right on by whether I workout or not.

I got great fantastic news yesterday from my Mom.  My Dad went back to the doc for more tests and today they called him and said his PSA test was normal and they didn't think he had cancer!!!  They think something else was causing a false positive.   This is the best news for my entire family!

We are still waiting for my sister to have her baby.  Her due date was Monday November 27th.  I was fortunate enough not to go over my due date both of my pregnancies.  It must be hard to be over you due date and waiting and waiting.

I am back eating my regular WW diet.  I haven't been drinking all the water that I should be so I will work on that today.

I would really like to say something to my husband about our marriage. I have tried to in the past and it is like talking to a brick wall.  I think that I should just end it with him.  He is never going to stop drinking.  I am the only one who seems unhappy in this marriage.  Why should he be unhappy?  I am here  247 to take care of the house and son.  He has a clean house, food to eat, clean clothes, etc.  He comes home from work and sits in front of the tv and drinks.  I handle everything so he doesn't have to. While I was gone, he just let our son do whatever he wanted to so he wouldn't have to be bothered with anything.  Maybe I am just getting up enough nerve to atually leave.

Well time to get my son off to school!  Have a great day!

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