Hey! Where's My Feet?

OK... so I started this blog about 4 months ago with the hopes that it would hold me accountable and really step off the lazy train and get back into shape - well, at least a better shape than what I'm in right now.  I can honestly say that I'm still under 300, even under 290... but that 280-290 range is a bouncing yo-yo. In just a short two weeks I'll be facing the firing squad... Weight Watchers.  The good folks at work have brought in WW, so now there's no excuse... can't say I'm to busy for check in's and weekly meetings now cause they're coming to me - which is usually a great option, but dang.  I'm actually quite excited about it...  because I know I always do well with their program, but mostly because I usually drop 20ish pounds faster than Snoop Dogg can drop it like it's hot!  Which means what?  It means within the next month I should be 260-270 range and that's roughly only 20 pounds heavier than what I was before all these babie

Think, think, think…. Re-think.   That’s what I’m doing, re-thinking this whole healthy eating diet scheme I’ve been attempting.   Weight Watchers (WW) has always worked fairly well for me, as long as I stick with it.   So that’s kinda what I’ve been doing…   using WW as a foundation to my healthy eating plan… worked for the first 20 pounds but now I’m stuck again and thinking maybe WW isn’t the way to go anymore… plus there are other potential health issues that could possibly benefit from what I’m proposing as a change. Several months ago my sweet cousin Robin mentioned the possibility of me having gluten intolerances… as usual I brushed it off and said whatever.   Now, just because I pushed the thought aside doesn’t mean I forgot about it… in reality, I probably just didn’t have the time to take on a new research project – still don’t.   It has to be done… off & on I’ve been reading about all this gluten free “hype” and based on what I’ve read, it might not be hype.   Seriously,

Ahhh, the holiday season is upon us.   What’s the thing I look forward to the most during the holidays… FOOD!   All the yummy delicious food!   Turkey, ham, sweet taters, green bean casserole pies & cookies galore!   Ugh… it wreaks havoc on everyone’s healthy eating plan – especially mine!   I’d be willing to bet that most people, whether dieting or not, go hog wild from Thanksgiving through New Years with the over eating. 80% of the time I’m really trying to to the right thing, eat the right things and 20% of the time I have a little wiggle room to falter and “enjoy” my food – it allows me to keep my “stick with it” mentality.   I’m gonna call this my 20% rule… so I don’t go nuts during the holidays, so I can relax & enjoy without worry.   Of course that means the other 80% I’ll have to really focus on eating healthy and perhaps find some new low fat recipes or meal ideas which is ok with me cause I LOVE LOVE LOVE new recipes!   I’m addicted to the FoodNetwork © Channel!!! Ooo

I had the opportunity to try something tonight that I’ve been wanting to do for months now – Zumba!  It was a tossup between that and Jazzercise, which I’m thinking are fairly closely related. ZUMBA is a trade name for a dance fitness program created by dancer and choreographer Perez in Colombia during the 1990s. The program combines Latin and international music with dance in an effort to make exercise fun. (Thanks Wikipedia)  So how did I like it?  Well…. Let’s clear the air right now, it was fun & I liked it… that’s it, plain and simple.  You won’t ever hear or see me get excited about anything that makes me move for 50 minutes straight, sweat like a pig and smell like one too!  Whether it is Zumba, Jazzercise, moving furniture etc… it’s just not going to make me jump up and down and say WooHoo!  But it’s necessary… if I want to get my old svelte pole dancing body back, I must exercise, and I must sweat in the process… It’s just one of those things you don’t want to do but ha

Next on the list is… exercise.   I know I know, I talk about getting out and walking and how I want to start an exercise program blah blah blah but this time I’m doing it!   Weight loss is  at a stand still and I need to jump start it again... this will help me burn more calories, tone up and help me get my groove back! It really shouldn’t be hard to do… if you think about it, I’m already spending a couple hours   a day exercising when you take into account, all the typing, walking to the kitchen to refill my icey water, yawning & stretching.   Adding an exercise program will probably add another hour or two a day… sigh… losing weight is quite the time consuming activity. Between the exercise, time spent preparing healthy foods and other daily necessities, my free time is shrinking… shrinking , shrinking ….

Needless to say, I fell off the wagon – again. Boo, bad Tami.   But if you’re in tune with me I think you can understand why & how it happened.   Trips to Urgent Care & the ER for Julia’s eye (scratched cornea)… then at the same time I had not one but TWO pink eyes, which resulted in a big time scratched cornea in lefty and some scarring in righty.   I won’t go into the gory details (cause you may be eating lunch) but after not being able to see properly for 1.5ish weeks I’m finally on the mend… 6 more weeks of night treatment for lefty.   My bionic eyesight may never be the same again but at least I can see again.   So you can imagine life’s been a tad stressful and haven’t paid much attention to what I’ve been eating…   let me rephrase that…   I’ve paid attention to it, I just haven’t cared about it. Losing weight is H-A-R-D and I need to learn some flipping discipline!!!   I need to stop buying crap food.   Hungry Howie’s I’m looking at you!   Shame on you for making an oh s

Willpower. I’ve decided I hate this phrase, at least in how it applies to dieting. It's thrown around a lot, usually by people who are not or never have been fat. “If only she had more willpower, she wouldn’t binge like that.” Usually it’s used to blame a fat person’s obesity on their own weakness... Basically, I think it's bullshit.

Phew... been a couple of weeks since I last posted anything and let me just say - ROLLER COASTER!!!!! So you know how I'm an emotional eater right? Well if that was going to be tested any time, it was during the past two weeks... The morning of the 9th I checked our bank account only to find that Roy's unemployment check was HALF what it should have been - that alone was enough to send me into an eating tailspin! Then later that day I was tooling along minding my own business when, WHAMO. Let's just say it wasn't a very good day.... and to make a long story short, between then & now the loaner car overheated, Julia scratched her cornea & got an ear infection, I have TWO pink eyes, my leg is infected from the accident AND we're still waiting on the other half of that check - good news on that one though, should be here tomorrow and if all goes well, my car will be done Friday!! So as you can see... it wouldn't be any big surprise to see that scale to

Woot!  13 pounds down and 115 more to go! I’ve lost 13 pounds so far and I can’t tell.  When you’re so overweight, 13 pounds is such a small number – it’s easy to see now how I never noticed if I was gaining or losing weight, 13 pounds could sneak on or off and I’d never know! It was a rough week and the long holiday weekend made it even more hard!  Although I will say, being busy all weekend with activities & such has kept me occupied and not eating as much garbage!  Friday night was a liquid dinner mixed with some massive carpet cleaning – WooHoo!  Saturday, back to cleaning and off to my MIL’s for a delish whole grain spaghetti dinner with 7 layer salad… I would have been just fine with the salad, it was AWESOME!  Sunday… I’ll admit I was a piggy & finished off that salad – is it wrong to eat salad for breakfast?  Oh, I did have a bacon egg bagel from Tim Horton’s too… than half a wrap for lunch and finished the day off with grill pork chops & grilled zucchini!  All

It’s no wonder there are so many fat asses in America – losing weight is HARD! The weekend was rough, but I made it… and I think I may still have an ounce of sanity left too! Between all the weekend activities, the kids being terrors and Roy being laid up feeling ill on top of the broken back I’m surprised we all came out alive – Sunday was sketchy at best. As you can see in the post below, week 1 results were fairly decent with a 10 pound loss, but it didn’t come easy! I’ve been working on an exercise plan and even that hasn’t been easy… I want to start going to Fit Zone or Jazzercise but with Roy out of commission it makes it hard with little ones. Although, I did see that Jazzercise had a sign for available childcare so maybe that would be feasible – I’ll have to give them a call. Otherwise it’ll be good old fashion walking – wait, walking really isn’t old fashion now is it, it’s pretty hip and current, everyone’s doing it! Then there’s the little things… They’ve always said it’s

I hate the weekends!  Well, except for when I'm dieting... it sure makes it hard to stay focused when you're busy busy but then again at least I wasn't sitting on my tush all day and was at least working some of it off - right? OK here it is folks, my first Monday weigh in!  And considering all the fun food I had this weekend I'd say I did fairly well... but the first week is always a good one, this will be the challenge week - watch for lots of blogs this week, I'll be channeling my hunger & frustration into the blog instead of by putting food in my mouth. :o) Beginning weight - 303 Today's weight - 293 To date loss = 10 pounds!  Pay no attention to the gnarly looking feet.... those will get pampered later.

Today I indulged. It’s the last day for a fellow employee - she’s moving on to a new chapter in her life and we had cake to wish her well. No I didn’t fall off the wagon, no I didn’t fail on only day 3 – I indulged and I liked it! I’m not usually a cake person but having been deprived of the sweets for 3 days I figured this would be a good way to feed the craving and end the torture – not to mention taming the beast that was brewing inside me from said deprivation. So there. I had my cake & ate it too! Not to worry nay-sayers… I took the smallest piece on the table!

Up & down, up & down just like a yo-yo best describes not only my life long battle with my weight but with probably 95% of Americans. Seriously, I’ve weighed more, I’ve weighed less & I’ve done every diet known to man from a very young age. I remember doing the crazy cabbage soup diet way back in middle school(or maybe it was elementary), although I don’t remember actually eating the soup – but I do remember having to eat something like 10 bananas in one day! I attended my first Weight Watchers meeting when I was in the 9th grade, grapefruit pills in the 11th, Atkins, kombucha tea diet, I even tried making myself throw up – yeah that one wasn’t happening. So why can’t I lose weight? Well I’m an emotional/stress eater… at least I have been over the past 20ish years. As for why I gained so much when I was just a weee child, well I’ll probably have to see a shrink to figure that one out and I just don’t have time for that. Besides, at this point I could care less why I weig

First full day down, 711 to go!  That' how long I'm figuring it will take to lose what I need to lose.... So about yesterday.... I hate diets, I really do.  Why is it that every time you can't have something, is when you want it the most!  I swear I could smell every one of my favorites yesterday right down to the Thanksgiving feast!  Every time I turned around I had an urge to snack... carrots were gone in no time flat!  All in all though I think it went fairly well... even bought a fancy new digital scale that weighs up to 440 pounds!  Not that I'll ever need one that goes that high, just sayin' is all.  I know it won't be a full week but I think I'm going to make Monday's my weigh in day... the thinking there is maybe I'll keep my weekend food excursions in check knowing I'll be weighing in on Monday... thankfully summer is about over and the cookouts will slow down. Today's goal... devise an exercise plan.

That's right... I'm blogging.  This is my latest attempt to lose weight and hold myself accountable - no holds barred... Throughout my blog I'll be going over things like, why I'm fat, reasons I want to lose weight, my plans to lose weight and the crazy adventures that go with it all.  Want to ride along with me? Grab a drink & get comfy cause here we go... Phew, a little nervous here... I'm about to lay it all out on the line, about to do something NO woman does or at the very least likes to do.  I'm giving you my stats... I don't want to, but I have to.  I mean really, how will you know that I'm improving and on track if we don't have a starting point to measure from right?  It's not the heaviest I've ever been (yeah I know) but it's enough to make you say, ddddaaaammmmnn! Day one STATS... Starting Weight: 303 pounds (it's mostly boob) Goal Weight: 175 pounds Weight to Lose: 128 pounds (Holy crap!) Goal Rate of Loss: