Missed it by that much! 16 weeks down!

Maybe it was the gyro pita I had for lunch!  I weighed in today at weight watchers and missed my 30 lbs by 0.4!  I was still down 1.8!  Woo hoo!  I got my 16 week clapping hands charm too!  Next week should be good though, I'll get that, plus my 10% in meeting keychain and my 25 lb ring! (If this doesn't make sense, it's because I started Weight watchers online and lost 6 lbs before going to the meetings and they don't count that 6 lbs.  But I do!).  I love getting attention at the meetings, lol!

Well, I promised I'd post progression pics often, and since it's February tomorrow and I'm now down 30 lbs, Here it is!

I do see a difference!  It's amazing what 10 pounds can do!  Wow progress pics are a good idea!

I also took my measurements

I've lost 3 inches from my chest, an inch from my waist, 3/4 inch from each thigh, 1/2 an inch from each calf!  I gained a half an inch on my hips/butt, but that means the squats and butt workout is working!  I have no butt, lol!

Well here's to a new month, a whole new set of goals, a new workout top, (this one is pretty baggy now :), and lots more weight and inches lost!

Onward and downward!

Home scale vs weight watchers scale

According to my home scale I'm down 30 lbs!!!  In 3 months and 20 days!

I started weight watchers meetings a week after starting online and lost 6 lbs in between, which do not count in the meetings.  Which really sucks!  Because, online I've gotten my 25 lb star and my 10% milestone, but I'm still a ways off getting that recognition at the meeting.  There is also a 2.6-2.8 lb discrepancy between my home scale (Naked as a jaybird, after pee, before morning coffee) and the weight watchers scale (6pm weigh in.  Clothed, after eating all day).  I know it's just numbers, and is trivial,  that the WW's scale will catch up, but 30 lbs is a big accomplishment!  I've WORKED HARD for it!  My love/hate relationship with my home scale is a big part of my life and all of my goals are based on that scale, not weight watchers.

So.  I'm saying I'm down 30 lbs!  Cuz I am down 30 lbs!  Meaning that by all extents and purposes, my goal weight is only 86 lbs away!  Weightwatchers is just a method and support system (Not JUST, it's definitely worth it's weight in gold!  But you know what I mean!).  The scale number there is for them to track my progress.

So I'm down 30 lbs!  Only 21 lbs to Onederland!  Yay me!

MY BABY IS THREE! 15 weeks down!

I'm really having a hard time coming to terms with the fact that Lara is now 3 years old!  She had a wonderful day yesterday, Mama's homemade waffles for breakfast, lots of presents, mostly clothes and everything princess!  We took her and her little buddy Emmet to an indoor playground and they and the baby played steadily for 2 hours!  She asked for Swiss chalet for dinner, she loves their rotisserie chicken, fries and dipping sauce!  She ate almost an entire drumstick!  We ended the day with Angel food cupcakes, light whipped cream and strawberries and watched the Leafs game with Daddo!  (They won!)

It's been an incredible and difficult 3 years with her.  She was born 3 weeks early after I fell and did the splits down the stairs.  I had a placental abruption and she was born very pale and lifeless, having to be resuscitated for 90 long minutes before we could even hold her! It took her a few weeks to figure out how to eat and gain weight.  Thankfully she has no lasting effects!  I however, will carry the scars of that for the rest of my life.  Physically and emotionally.  You never forget the helpless feeling of seeing your brand new baby in someone else's hands, lifeless, and you can't do anything, when you would give everything for her to be ok!  She's now 3 years old and weighs 22 whole pounds!  My skinny little mini me!

Besides the emotional scars of her birth, I have complications from the fall, my pelvis broke, and I tore the ligaments on the outside of my right ankle, both wreaking havoc on my body during a second pregnancy (thankfully a healthy baby and no complications!), and up until now, rendering me unable to do much without a ton of pain.  Or at least they gave me an excuse not to exercise.  In the past couple of months though I have decided to push past the pain and just do it!  I have to lose the weight to lose the pain!

I'm doing pretty well in the weight loss department!  WI yesterday revealed a 3 pound loss!  Over my birthday week too!  Awesome!  That brings me to 27.8 pounds lost!  I'm really impressed with this weight loss.  almost 30 pounds down already!  I'm still in shock even though it's been coming down over the last 3 months.  Every time I get on the scale my mind goes to the 240's, not the 220's!  My hubby is really proud of me too!  He's quick to say it when I make a good food choice over a bad one and every time I run into the room yelling what the scale says!

I've motivated him to start losing weight too!  He's probably got about 20-40 pounds to lose.  He went and got the P90x videos from iTunes today!  He's even signed up for My fitness pal and has been counting calories all day!  I guess I really have to get my butt moving if I want to stay smaller than him!  Sheesh!!!

I'll be on the treadmill later :)

Birthday madness!

My birthday was two days ago and I'm only getting a chance to blog about it now!  Phew!  What a busy weekend!  

Thursday the nineteenth was my actual birthday.  My hubby and I woke up together for a change and the kids were still asleep at 9:30 am!  So we cuddled for a while then got them up.  He made me breakfast, eggs and pea meal bacon on a wrap, yum!  

Then he gave me my present!  Totally not what I was expecting (not that I was expecting anything in particular).  He got me Apple TV!  It's a little box that you can rent movies, subscribe to TV series and I can view my podcasts on the big TV now!  He was really intuitive this time, our town now has no video stores anymore and we used to rent movies all the time!  There are also a ton of kids shows on it, lots of veggie tales which our daughters love!  

We had a quiet afternoon where the falling snow threatened the rest of our plans.  We were planning on going out to Imperial Buffet which is about an hour drive give or take.  The snow cleared up and we did manage to get there!

This is a chinese buffet kind of like the Mandarin (for my fellow Canadians) except they have all you can eat crab all year round!  They have an amazing dessert bar too!  I had a game plan and I stuck to it!  I ate a bunch of crab (you can eat a lot for a very little amount of points!)  I ate a lot of fruit, veggie dishes and a few pieces of sushi (not a fan, but I promised my DH I'd try, with Wasabi!).  I did grab quite a few things off of the dessert bar but the only thing I really liked was the lemon meringue pie, everything else was too sweet so I didn't eat it!  Funny how eating healthy for a long time changes your palate!  So I had more fruit instead!

We got home, left the kids with my niece and went out to the bar!  A few of our friends are in a band and they were doing a jam night at our local pub.  We had a great time!  I had 3 pints of cider and a half pound of Honey Garlic wings as a treat.  It was a great day!

Yesterday we went to our friends house.  Every month or so we get together with the same two couples and our kids.  It's a ton of fun because the oldest is ten and he entertains the three year old, two year old and 9 month old and we get to have adult conversation!  My friend made a healthy dinner of chicken cacciatore, caesar salad with incredible garlicky home made dressing (yum!), cheese bread and sparkling wine.  I made a Little Mermaid cake as we were celebrating my 3 (on tuesday) year old's birthday as well!  I brought frozen yogurt to go with the cake.  I ate sensibly, had a couple glasses of wine and a small piece of cake with the frozen yogurt.  

Today we had Tom's family over to celebrate Lara's birthday!  I spent all morning cleaning, making and decorating cupcakes etc...  We had chicken hot dogs, fruit and veggie trays and potato chips.  

I did eat on plan for every other meal this weekend :)  and my baby Zaryah started walking!  So I've been chasing after her!  I stepped on the scale this morning praying that it still said below 225 and had a nice surprise when I looked down!  222.8!!!  YES!!!!  I ran and got Tom and made him step on the scale.  224.6! I'm smaller than my husband!!!  One of my personal goals I've been chasing since he's been losing weight too!  I'm walking on the moon today!  I just hope the (measured out) crap I've been ingesting this weekend doesn't catch up with me!

Wow that was longer than I thought it was going to be!  Now it's bathtime for kiddo's and then bedtime right after!  Gonna rent a movie on my Apple TV!

Here's a pic of the cake!  The face part of the cake didn't come out of the pan in one piece!  So I had to freehand, lol!  

Onward and downward!

My birthday present

My husband has gotten me a birthday present.  He went out a few days ago and said he couldn't find it.  Then he tried to order it buy it would take 7 days.  Today he came home from work and scooped up our almost 3 year old and  said he was going out to see if he could find my present, it was first come-first served.  What the heck?

He found it, brought it home and wrapped it.  It's now sitting beside me on the coffee table.  It's square, each side about 5x5 inches.  It's light and doesn't rattle.  My birthday isn't until tomorrow.  I made a comment to him how unfair it was to put it beside me when I couldn't open it until tomorrow.  His reply was "Well if we had a babysitter you could open it at midnight".  Lol!

I couldn't possibly guess!  It's fairly small, not very heavy, it was available on a first come first served basis and it requires a babysitter if it were to be opened at midnight.

I'll post tomorrow after I open it what it is!

Almost. But not quite. 14 weeks down.

Well I nearly made the 25 pounds lost.  I missed it by 0.2!!!  I still was down 0.4 pounds so it's still a victory!  Oh well, by next week the bloat will be gone and I'll smoke that 25 pounds!

Shopping last night

My sister and I went clothes shopping for me last night!  An early birthday present from her because she's tired of watching my pants fall down!  We went to Reitman's, the clearance racks have been picked over seriously!  I usually wouldn't bat an eye at $29 pants (If they fit I'd get them!) but this time I couldn't justify (my sister) spending money on something I'll be out of in a couple of months!  So we went to Walmart.  I avoided the plus section like the plague for the first part, tried on a pair of size 14 pants and alas they were too small.  I could get them up though!  Just not quite over my belly.  I was super happy about that though!  I was in a size 20 pants a few months ago!  I do have a weird body style though, no hips or butt and my stomach hangs over, with skinny legs.  Hard to find pants.  So I went into the plus size section and looked at the 16's and they were huge!!! They would fit around my waist but hang everywhere else!  So I didn't get pants (however I desperately need them) I did get a really cute blouse in an XL though!  Sweet!  I'm going to wear it on my birthday when we go out to Imperial Buffet!  (All you can eat crab legs!).  Maybe I'll post a picture in my new outfit!  Hopefully I'll find pants before then :)

Oh, it's weigh-in day!  Not too optimistic for a huge number, I've been fighting a bug and am bloated.  The scale at home says I'm up a pound from Friday, still down from last Tuesday though.  I'll post the results later!