Injury and Illness!! What a drag!! : (

This has been a ridiculous week for me. I haven't posted since last Tuesday because I have been either SUPER busy with work or not feeling well still!!

I feel like such a cry baby whiner but Im going to share this with you anyways because I want to be able to look back and see what happened when I think to myself why I haven't lost any weight the past week!!

Well after my chicken nugget issue last week I still tried to keep to my diet as much as possible!! I had a shoot on Wednesday that I supplied lunch, donuts, coffee, soda, etc. for everyone. I didn't eat any of the junk, drank mostly water, and only ate half of a sandwich with no condiments.

Little did I know that the next day I would wake up in EXTREME pain from my shoulder hurting. Yes, I am stupid because I lifted over a 100lb lighting kit by myself!! I should have known better but when Im in work mode no one can tell me otherwise!! UGH!!!!

Well I ended up layed up in bed pretty much until yesterday!! But, yesterday I ended up with some weird stomach bug. That on its own was not pleasant at all!!

So here I am today!! Hoping to start things back up!! Any advice will be HIGHLY appreciated as to how I can jump start this weight loss thing back up!!! LoL

Couldn't wait!

Well I couldn't wait the full month to post pics because I'm pumped! I never thought I would have progress like this! My husband is at work, so I couldn't get the full body pics, but my belly is really what I'm most proud of so far :0) Still have a ways to go, but I like where I'm headed!!!! For those of you who didn't see my before pics, they are in the first post on the blog!

Addicted!!

I'm completely addicted to being healthy lol. I'm dropping weight like crazy now, and every day I notice a difference :0) I never thought it would be this fun or easy. The fun is coming up with new food ideas (healthy ones), and the easy is just because I'm use to doing it now. Plus being a vegetarian is easier than I ever though for me. I still eat fish, so last night I made the best dinner!!!! A curry rainbow trout, roasted brussel sprouts, and rice. So yummmmy! I'm eating breakfast EVERY morning right when I get up, eating a sensible lunch (sometimes just a protein shake), and then dinner is a normal dinner with my hubby eaten before 6pm, with no snacks after. Well I've still been drinking my wine so that's like a snack lol. Ive had more energy, and been happier! Other changes I made, were switching from 2% milk to Low fat milk, and not letting myself get to the belly rumbling hungry. I drink at least 2 18oz cups of water a day. Usually 4 though. I'm really enjoying this!!

I went to lunch with my Mom on Friday, and there were NO vegetarian meals. I decided to eat the only thing without meat (well land meat) and got this shrimp over pasta. I ate most of the shrimp, and only a few bites of pasta. It was way to heavy for me! I was so proud, because before it would have been gone!!!

My husband is also sticking to healthy foods! He loves what I cook, but I still bought meat for him. So far hes not asking for it though! Last night sitting on the couch,  he was grabbing what belly fat rolls I still have left, and saying "I'm just enjoying them before there gone" lol. Hes nuts, but it made me feel good knowing he knows they are outta here!!!!!

Here's to another healthy day :0)
(Alaina)

Calories!

Well I never really thought about calories before, but now that I found out how many I'm supposed to have a day, and I'm really trying to stay around that, I realize how many I was probably eating before. (OMG) Even the healthiest things are calories, and I was eating some junk! No more "oh I only ate 10 pringles today", or "I just had a hand full of Mrs. Fields popcorn". And then when I find out that the wine I drink at night counts as 200 calories a glass for me, another (OMG) came out of my mouth. Well 3 glasses of wine a night is being counted as 600 calories. that's almost half of my daily amount. Good thing I'm eating REALLY well during the day lol. Ive also decided on a very small dinner every night. I'm going to eat bigger, earlier meals instead of eating a lot at night! Hopefully another small change in the right direction!!

(Alaina)

We all need to know were not alone :0)

First off I want to say thank you to Missy for being there to talk to this morning!!! Its really nice to know that another woman goes through the same stuff I do! It had nothing to do with weight loss, just family (husband) stuff lol. I was thinking of starting another blog just for the stay at home Mommy and Wife, but we decided to stick to just this one, and incorporate our daily Mommy/Wife challenges too! So here goes my post for yesterday :0)

My husband and I barely slept the night before last because my daughter was up screaming for over an hour straight at times. Teething sucks!!!!! Its hard enough when I don't get sleep, but add my husband (who sleeps in another room) to the mix, and he is miserable the next day at work. I feel so bad, but sometimes there's nothing I can do to quiet her. I had started to sleep train her right before Christmas, and she did great for 2 nights!! 8 hours of sleep Woohoooo! Well then she started teething lol. Its worse than waking up for feedings every 3 hours :0( Now not only are we both tired, but when he punches out from work, and gets home he wants to unwind and play some computer games with his friends. Ive never had a problem with that, but when I'm just as tired, and my job doesn't end with the punch of a time card I may get a bit attitudy (if that's a word lol). Well yesterday was just like that. I felt bad for him, but after a day of Rowan fussing in my ear, I got snippy. I just wish I had a happy medium, because my husband is a hard worker, and just an all around great guy, so I cant really complain, but of course I get overwhelmed sometimes, I'm only human right?!? We had to talk and come up with a plan of action. We have been GREAT at communicating through our 5 year relationship, so fighting about stuff doesn't happen often, and when it does it usually ends up in laughter!! He decided that right after work, he showers, and then its Rowan and Daddy time for a bit. Mommy can run to the store, take a shower if I haven't, or maybe just sit and stare at a wall if I want haha. I LOVE THIS IDEA :0)

Even though I was exhausted all day, I still ate right, and drank lots of water! I was proud of that! I started with 2 eggs, and a piece of toast, and then I had a protein shake for lunch. Around 3 I got a little hungry so I ate a few pringles BOOOOO lol. Probably only 10 of them. For dinner I had leftover pasta with the spinach wine sauce. I was craving chocolate for some reason last night though. Thank god I had none in the house or it would have been bad lol. No exercise, but like I said exhausted!

Well here's to a new day, and so far its going good!!

“It’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

(Alaina)

My husband the dinner time vegetarian LOL

Well last night my husband told me that he is going to be a vegetarian too. He loves everything I'm making so much that he wants in, "until he wants ribs on the grill" in his own words hahaha. Then he said, he will be a dinner time, or night time vegetarian lol. I guess its his way of saying hes cool with eating healthy :0) That works for me!!

Yesterday was a great day for eating and exercising! Cereal in the morning, tuna fish sandwich for lunch, and a nice pasta with spinach and wine sauce! Oh and roasted asparagus on the side! Then I snacked on spinach chips, and only a handful of my Mrs. Fields popcorn :0) Couldn't help myself! Around 330 I took Ms. Row Row for a walk around the neighborhood, and if I haven't said it before, my neighborhood is all steep hills. My legs were burning, and I went further than I usually do. Then after that we did some yoga, and some squats! Gotta love squats NOT lol. It feels good to be doing all this though. Before I would eat whatever, sit on my butt most of the day, and I didn't feel like I was giving my all to Rowan. If you don't feel your best, I feel like your kids don't get your best either.

I still want to learn how to make things with tofu, but I'm really scared lol. Ive never tried it, and can only picture it tasting gross. I'm willing to try it though!!

I'm off to hang with my little angel, and I'm already feeling great about today!!! Lets see how it goes :0)

“Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.”
― Marilyn Monroe
(Alaina)

Cheating on your diet will come back to haunt you........somehow!! HAHAHAHAHA

Some days can be challenging to stick with a diet and the bad foods can be super tempting to eat. Sometimes we give in. I think I was being told somehow that giving in is a bad idea.

I was having a pretty successful day today even though I wasn't feeling very well all day. I drank my juices made with 100% veggies and fruit and made sure to stay kind of busy today. Cleaned a little, worked in my office, chatted with Alaina!! Nice calm day.

Once I picked my son up from school after my daughter got off the bus I decided to go to the store and try out Alainas roasted brussel sprout recipe. I had never even TRIED a brussel sprout in my life so I didn't know what to expect. I made them and maybe burned them a little but still edible. LoL I ate almost all of them because I was super hungry and craving FOOD not juice. They weren't bad at all. I wasnt a fan of the after taste but that may have been because I burned them. LOL

Anyways, after eating them I had to clean up from the kids dinner. I put all the left overs in a tupperware container. (Rice, corn, and chicken nuggets). It was making me want to eat it even though I was full from the brussel sprouts and corn. I am trying so hard not to eat anything to unhealthy for me and chicken nuggets are not good for you at all. But they looked so tasty!! I couldn't resist.

I grabbed one out of the container. Not like normal people eat them but with a fork. They are finger foods so why with a fork you ask?? Well, I thought stupidly to myself, "Well if I eat it with a fork I can't just shove a bunch of them in my mouth. That first bite is always so good I'll ending up grabbing them all and eating the rest of them. Its more effort to eat with a fork then your hands. Ill go with the fork." I know, what an idiot I am. And it makes it even worse that I am sharing these stupid thoughts!! hahahahaha

Well that's when it happened. I took a bite. While that bite was worth every ounce of taste on my tounge, it hurt like a son of a bitch. So now your probably asking yourself why it would hurt. Well I will tell you. I stabbed the shit out of myself on the inside of my cheek with that stupid fork!!! Once again, I'm an idiot! hahahahahahahahaha

After chewing the up that chicken, with it coated in that blood taste, I stood there feeling like the idiot that you are all probably thinking I was. I had just realized that Karma EXISTS!!!!! I was trying to cheat and lie to myself by letting myself eat the crap I was attempting and some what successfully eating. There fore karma gave me a nasty little punch in the, um, errrr.......cheek!!!

I felt horrible because I just cheated myself and now back to square one!! Maybe I sound like an addict trying to kick a habit. But I am trying so hard to eat healthy after years of doing nothing. And changing those habits are just as hard!! I guess the moral of this story is, if you are going to be on a diet and make the right choices DO IT ALL or don't do it at all. Or something bad will happen. It may be weight gain, health problems, or getting stabbed in the cheek with a fork. But whatever it is you won't be happy with the end result!!

(Melissa)