Busy busy busy

With me going back to work and Tom starting college 2 days later, I'm trying to organize our life and home to make the transition easier.  I have a list of a thousand things to do in the next 2 weeks!  I don't know HOW I'm going to get through it all!

I'm cleaning and organizing the girls bedrooms, emptying out the cradle so we can give it back to my brother and bring Tom's dresser out of the closet so we can make room for work clothes, uniforms and such (we've been sharing a dresser since Zaryah was born and it doesn't accomodate us very well!).  We don't have a ceiling in our family room right now, so that needs to be totally cleaned out so my nephews can finish in there, the furnace room is half organized but we need more room to sort garbage from garage sale stuff and still store other stuff! The list goes on and on...

I'd like to get the majority done so we don't have to spend our precious weekend time on it when the kids are in daycare full time during the week.  I'll let you know how much of it actually gets done!

Annie made goal!

It was weigh-in day today and both my sister and I had a great loss!

This week she lost 1.4 lbs and made goal!  She's lost 26 lbs since starting Weight Watchers one day shy of 6 months ago, October 11th 2011!  What an amazing difference!  Annie I'm so proud of you!!!  Now her struggle will be to stay within 2 lbs for the next 6 weeks and then be on maintenance.  Oftentimes people keep losing after reaching goal and find it hard to reach a balance where the weight will stabilize.  So good luck Annie!  I'll be there to help!

August 2011 vs April 2012

As you know, I've been trying to stay on plan.  Renewing my commitment to Weight Watchers and sticking to the guidelines laid out.  I've been getting a lot of exercise lately and ate back all of my activity points/calories burned.  Previous to this I wasn't really tracking and probably not getting enough to keep losing at a healthy rate.  So, with all the effort, even over Easter, I'm down 3.2 lbs!  For a total of 41.8 lbs lost since October 11th 2011!   

Go us!

Surviving Easter.

As I wrote about yesterday, I was going to my husband's family dinner.  I did well I have to say!  I portioned out everything, had some of that awesome veggie dip my mom makes, but I stopped before I gorged myself. :)  I brought along a salad to get more veggies in too.  I did have a small piece of apple pie, a little smidgen of vanilla ice cream and a bite of chocolate.  


When we go home, kidlets went to bed and my sister and I went for an almost 6 km walk!  I was cold when I got home, but it felt good!


On another note...  Life is going to get really busy for the next year and a half...  My husband was accepted into the Paramedics program at Trillium College!  He starts the week after I go back to work :/  He's on top of the world right now!  He's been a stay at home Dad for the past 3 years, but has felt that he wasn't contributing and we have had some financial struggles.  He's excited to be a man and provide for his family, lol!  


I'm so proud of him!  


So the next 2.5 weeks are going to be super busy with purging crap from the furnace room and separating it into sellable crap and crap crap, re-drywalling the family room, organizing a meal plan, making freezer meals etc...  


If anyone has any great ideas for healthy freezer/crockpot meals I'll gladly take them!

Happy Easter!

This morning has been fun!  The girls found all of the toys and candy the easter bunny hid for them in the living room!  Interestingly enough, neither girl is eating candy or chocolate right now.  Zaryah shared Daddo's banana and Lara is asking for eggs and toast, lol!  I'd like to think my influence is rubbing off, but I'm sure they both will be covered in chocolate at some point today :)

So far I'm doing pretty well staying on plan.  I've tracked absolutely everything since Tuesday.  Yay me!  Even through a dinner party on friday!  (I ate a small burger with no bun and only a little BBQ sauce and brought 3 different kinds of salads).  I've gotten lots of exercise, walking everyday, doing my thing at the gym and even cleaned out the furnace room!  It no longer looks like I belong on that show hoarders, lol!

Easter dinner with Tom's family is this afternoon and I'm armed with veggies and sparkling water.  Mum's dinners are notoriously high calorie.  I just have to try and avoid her yummy (and full fat) veggie dip!  We'll see how that goes!

Ok.  1 year old is trying to thwart my attempt to blog with a strategic heel to the escape button!  Gotta run!

Zaryah is one!

So I promised to blog more often to keep myself on track.  So what better thing to blog about than my baby girl's birthday!!!

Our baby girl Zaryah Phoenix turned one yesterday!  We had a great day!  The kiddies slept in until almost 9, woke up happy!  We gave Zaryah her birthday presents, she was so excited!  Her and big sister Lara played with the new musical table!

We then went to the Disney store and they made a big deal about Lara's "unbirthday", she was feeling a little left out!  Lara pee'd on the potty TWICE in the mall (first and second time ever!).  We had bourbon st grill with lots of veggies for lunch.  Zaryah was a tired girl on the way home :)

After a short nap in the car Zaryah loved watching Lara summersault in the livingr oom and tried to copy :)  Cute little bum!

Happy birthday girl!

We had the traditional "first birthday dinner" of spaghetti and chocolate cake and Zaryah got covered!

I made the spaghetti sauce from scratch, that way I know what's in it.  Cake too.  I had a small piece and only a few licks from the bowl!  I used an extra 10 weekly points.  not too bad!

I'm down on the scale today too!

MOTIVATED AND ON PLAN!  To the gym for another beating then some easter shopping after that!  Ta taa!!!

25 weeks down! On top of it!

As you can see I've not kept up with my monthly stats and progress pic.  My work hasn't shown much on the scale or in measurements.  So I've decided to measure and take pics every 10 lbs lost.  I'm 1.2 lbs off from 40 lbs lost officially with weight watchers so hopefully that'll come soon!

This week at weigh-in I was pleasantly surprised I was down 0.2 lbs!  My resetting myself last week didn't work :(  I had a wedding to go to and I made the wedding cake.  I didn't eat a lot of cake (I know you were thinking that :P), I was so busy making it I didn't have time to eat most days!  And when I did eat, it wasn't well.  Yesterday was hubby's birthday as well and we went out for ribs.  I ate half a dessert too.  Didn't track.

I was definitely struggling with tracking again too.  Today I've tracked.  My goal is to track tomorrow.  I am going with it one day at a time right now and hopefully I'll make it a habit again.  I feel in control today but I think I need to take more steps to kick things up a notch.

I started this blog almost 6 months ago to hopefully keep me accountable.  If people are reading it, I need to write something for them to read and since this is a weight loss blog, I should be writing something weight loss related.  Right?  So I'm going to try writing more often.  Maybe that'll help me :)

Words of encouragement greatly appreciated!

Bridesmaid dress hell, recommitment, 24 weeks down!

I'm now determined to get my butt in gear!  I went with a few girlfriends to pick out bridesmaids dresses for a good friends wedding in November.  I hate bridal sizing!  I was a size 20.  So depressing!  We're not ordering the dresses until June, so I'm hoping to get down at least another 2 sizes before then.  They say they can take in a dress 2 sizes....   If I order the dress that fits me, it might be a sack when the wedding rolls around.  If I order a couple sizes smaller (which the store won't do) I run the risk of it still being too small come september.  Ugh.  Well, time will tell how things are going to go next fall!  Oh the joys of steady weight loss :/

Weigh-in was yesterday and I was up 0.8 lbs.  I'm thinking I was up because I had a big work out, big smoothie, lots of water, lunch, right after, about 2 hours before WI, but I wasn't as good this week as I wanted to be.  Next week I'll be doing the same thing after the gym so I should have a good weight loss, hopefully.

My best friends wedding is this weekend, then DH's birthday.  I'm determined to fall back into my routine from a couple of months ago when I was losing 1.5-2 lbs per week.  I know I can do it again.  The past couple of months I've let myself have a little more junk, not tracking if I'm eating out, you know how it goes.  One week good, the next a write off.

So as of this week I'm recommitting to weight watchers.  I know it works.  When I put in the effort it works, when I don't, it doesn't.  My goal for April is to lose more than 1.4 lbs each week.  I'll keep ya posted!