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FMM & FUFF

Sweat it Out:
Elliptical 5 minute warm-up
50 Minutes weights

This day has kind of gotten away from me.  I’ve been busy trying to plan meals for the week, doing grocery shopping, and trying to watch Dexter online which was finally a success!  The cable company has finally figured out that we have had free cable for the last year and a half, and because I like to have noise going on in the background, I’ve been watching old seasons of The Office  to tide me over until we get out cable back on Friday.  Boo to having my internet bill double, but yay to having more kid channels for Hanna to watch when I let her watch tv.  Spongebob Squarepants is getting  a little old.

Since it is the last day of Fire Up For Fall, I’d thought I begin participating in Friend Making Mondays again, so here goes!

If you’ve taken part in FMM then you know the rules. If you’re new, please take a moment to answer this week’s question on your own blog then add your link in the comments section here at: www.alltheweigh.com so we can all see your FMM questions and answers. Please invite your blog readers to add their links here too so everyone has to opportunity to be seen. The idea is to connect with other awesome bloggers so take a moment to post your own FMM post and comment on a couple of other posts. Now it’s time for this week’s topic!

 

FMM: Thanksgiving Plans

What are your plans for Thanksgiving this year?  Does your family have traditions?  If so, share them…(I know that some of you live outside of the US so  feel free to fill us in on other holiday traditions!)

I LOVE Thanksgiving!  A holiday based around food?  YES, PLEASE!  We have only one tradition on Thanksgiving and it is that we go to my husband’s families home every year.  My family gets Christmas (because my mom is a spazz about Christmas).  We don’t get to see the hub’s family too often, but luckily we only live about 2 hours away and can make it a fun day trip!

One thing I know that my hub’s is excited for is Black Friday.  I on the other hand, would much rather sleep and stay FAR away from the mall.  The weekend after Thanksgiving is when you put up Christmas decorations and blast traditional Christmas music (my fave is John Denver and the muppets, just in case you were wondering).

The one thing that I will be doing differently this year is that I will be going to the gym the day of Thanksgiving!  My gym is open from 7-2 and I plan to be there right at 7 so I can get in a good workout for the day.  This is something I have never done before, and I am starting a new tradition!

This week I am just thankful that my hub’s gets a few days off and we get to spend time with family, nothing better than that!

Last week was the final week for Fire Up For Fall, and I am happy to report I made all but 1 goal.  the only goal I missed was to hit my 10% mark, but I know it will happen soon enough!  This really is a tough time of year.  Normally, I would just say “whatever” and wait it out until January to get started on losing more weight, but I really want this year to be different!

Day 2 of no caffeine!  I’ve got a slight headache, but I’ve taken some Tylenol and it has helped dull the pain.  I will be headache free by Thursday!

I started Phase 5 of “The New Rules of Lifting for Women” today and have decided that while Hanna is still in her morning nap phase, I will have to get the best workout possible within an hour.  This is the only way it seems to work for our schedule.  Hopefully, I only have another month or two of her napping like this and then I can put a little more time in it.  Until then, I will really have to watch what I am eating and not go over my calorie budget.

How is your week so far?  Any plans for Thanksgiving?

“The New Rules of Lifting for Women” Phase 5, Day 1, Workout A

  • Single arm dumbbell snatch: 3 sets of 8, 17.5 pounds
  • Dumbbell single leg romanian deadlift: 3 sets of 8, 30 pounds (my legs are already MAJOR sore!)
  • Barbell Bent over row:  3 Sets of 8, 40 pounds
  • Dumbell single arm overhead squat: 3 sets of 8, 7.5/10 pound weights
  • Dumbell incline bench press: 3 sets of 8, 40 pounds
  • Plank: 3 60 second holds
  • Reverse Wood Chop: 3 sets of 8, 60 pounds

Body Weight Matrix: (this is the section that I accidentally skipped in phase 3)

  • 24 Squats
  • 24 Lunges
  • 24 Jump lunges (I did these without the jump, because I couldn’t keep my form)
  • 24 Jump squats (hurts so good!)
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by Shrinking Carrie on November 21, 2011  •  Permalink
Posted in Fire It Up for Fall, Friend Making Monday, The New Rules of Lifting for Women

Posted by Shrinking Carrie on November 21, 2011

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Fire Up For Fall: Week 9

This quote sums it all up.  Be true to yourself and the things you want and you can accomplish anything and be happy. I can’t believe that the challenge is only a week away from being over!  I have decided that I love this segment so much that Mondays will be dedicated to motivation.  I will be starting my week off with inspirational pictures or quotes, and an update of how my own personal goals are going. Motivational Mondays!!!

1.  What have you done this week to help get you to your goals?  

  • Goal 1 has been reached!  Fit into post pregnancy jeans I bought for motivation!  I hit this goal about 3 weeks ago and I now wear those jeans a couple of times a week.  My next goal is to buy a new pair of smaller jeans for a new goal size.
  • Goal 2 has been reached!  Finish phase’s 2 & 3 of NROLFW!  I only have one more week and then I start phase 5!!!  This program has FLOWN by and I can’t wait until I’m done so I can do a recap!
  • Goal 3 is within reach!  Get to 10% Goal of 28.2 pounds lost!  I only have 1 pound until I meet this goal and I have until Monday November 20th to do it!  Then I can have a nice Thanksgiving week, stress free!
  • Goal 4, Go to the gym 6 times a week.  I hit this goal all but 2 of the weeks.  The week of my vacation I only got in 4 times and this last week I only got in 4 because I have been sick and so has the baby.
  • Goal 5, motivate and make friends.  double-check!  I will be checking in on my new friends regularly and hope that we all have a new challenge to support each other with soon!
2. What have you done this week to make yourself feel fabulous?
This week I wore make-up 4 days in a row!  Not going to work everyday makes it hard to get totally ready all the time.  I ALWAYS shower, but rarely do my hair and make-up.  I felt a difference and will make more of an effort in the future to dress myself up a little.
3. What is the most positive thing you have taken away from this challenge?  
I think having to answer the first 2 questions every week have been eye-opening.  I find that I don’t do things to make myself feel fabulous and I need to check in with my goals more often.
4. It’s the last week, your run to the finish, what is your priority?  
That damn 10% goal that has been taunting me for weeks.  If I could just perfect my eating I could be losing much faster than I have been.
5. Fun Stuff:  Desert Island, you can take 1 person, 1 famous person, 3 items (besides food and water), who and what do you take?
My husband (obviously), famous person would be Will Ferrell (because the hub’s and I love Anchorman, and everything else he’s in.  Hello?  Elf?  Hilarious.).  3 Items would have to be my phone (which doubles as an iPod), my laptop, and some sort of internet connection device so that I could download anything I was missing.  That should satisfy most of my needs.
How have all of your weeks been going so far?
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by Shrinking Carrie on November 14, 2011  •  Permalink
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Fire Up For Fall, Week 8!

24 Days of Thankfulness:  Today I am thankful that Hanna hasn’t had a fever for over 24 hours, which means she is getting better, and I can still take her to the gym!

FIre up for Fall week 8!

I saw this on another blog this last week (unfortunately I forgot which one, sorry if you are it!), but I also found it on Pintrest which has some of the greatest inspirational messages!

5 Questions:

1. What have you done this week to achieve your goals?  Honestly, I am lost this week!  Not in a bad way, I’ve been losing weight pretty steadily, but I don’t know how!?  My routine has not changed, nor has my eating.  In fact, I think I had an even harder time knowing that my Body Bugg was coming in the mail on Friday, which gave me the “I’ll start again on Monday” mentality.  It’s probably a good thing because now I can start this week off in the green!

2. What have you done this week to make yourself feel fabulous?  Don’t worry, I really will shut up about this soon, but trying out my new Body Bugg has helped renew my motivation for healthy eating and helped me feel fabulous.  I have found that exercise is not the issue considering that I have no problem going 6 days a week and working out hard.  My problem is the eating, so I am hoping that this new purchase will help with this side of the program.

3.  How important is a social life to you?  Are you a loner or a butterfly or somewhere in between?  I really could be happy with just my hub’s and I (and of course Hanna) for the rest of my life.  I like to have a social life, but I like to have my hub’s involved.  It is always a bonus when we find a couple that we can BOTH be friends with.  I am definitely in between loner and butterfly.  I enjoy being alone, I feel like it is a really good quality to have when you can enjoy spending time with yourself, but I also love having a group of girlfriends and having a girls night out like once a month.  Since I had the baby, a year ago, my social life is few and far between. Luckily, I get to go to church every Sunday and see most of my friends and socialize, and through some volunteer callings I get to interact with some pretty incredible people.  That seems to be enough for me!  As long as I get a date night out with the hub’s every couple of weeks, I am set!

4.  How do you balance healthy living outside of your home?  I am blessed that I get to stay at home with my daughter so if temptation comes my way, it will usually be because I put it there.  I haven’t learned how to go out to eat and be healthy because I always have thought of going out as a reason to indulge.  I’m working on it.  This is also a reason why we don’t go out very often.

5.  What do you like to do for fun?  This sounds ridiculous, but I like to run errands with my hub’s and window shop.  We love the holidays because it means that we get to go shopping for family and each other.  My husband works a LOT and so it gives us time to spend together and walk around, and just enjoy each other’s company.

For those of you who aren’t participating in FUFF:

  • Are you a social butterfly or a loner?
  • What is you idea of fun?
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by Shrinking Carrie on November 7, 2011  •  Permalink
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Fire Up For Fall: Week 7

Hello and Happy Monday!  Just a side note for those of you who didn’t have a chance to catch a read over the weekend, check out Faith, Fitness, Fun for my Self Love Reflection guest post!  And if you are a new reader thanks for reading, let’s be friends, K?

For those of you who are new I am apart of the FIre Up For Fall brought to you by Weight Wars.  You can read about the challenge here.

Today I have 2 inspirational messages, the first is more for my Monday:

This is the best message for me since I am getting back from vacation, and the first day back is always the hardest.  it doesn’t help that today is Halloween and I have to pass out candy.  It also didn’t help that I ate HORRIBLE for the last 4 days.  But I am putting that in the past and focusing on the future!

And my message for everyone else:

There is no such thing as instant gratification when it comes to weight loss!  Slow and steady wins the race.  I have to keep telling myself this every time I forget that this is a lifestyle change, and it is for-ev-er (insert kids voice from Sandlot).  Which is fine, I’ve come to terms.

Five Questions!

1. What have you done to help achieve your goals?  I’m not gonna lie.  Being on vacation my goals kind of took a backseat.  The good thing is that I have already made most of them and so I am thinking a reassessment is in order for next week.  I did go to the gym 1 day out of the 4 I was gone.  The gym I went to was disappointing, and no matter of me saying “suck it up” to myself made me go again.  No excuses, no B.S., I just plain didn’t go.    I should have adapted to the situation and just went.  Live and learn!

2.  What have you done this week to make yourself feel fabulous?  My hub’s bought me boots that I have wanted for about a year.  As I have mentioned in the past,  when I had the little munchkin a year ago, the hub’s and I didn’t make a budget, and ended up in some hefty debt.  We tightened up, and made some difficult (but good) changes and I am happy to report that we have dug ourselves out finally!  We had rewards credit for Nordstrom, and he surprised me by buying me the boots I have been wanting.  I can honestly say that the boots paired with my new jeans that finally fit make me feel fabulous when I look in the mirror!

3.  How do you pull yourself out of a slump, or prevent yourself from falling into one?  I try not to lose time on wasted emotions.  When I say emotions I mean feelings that are counterproductive, and there is nothing I can do about them. A good example is stress when sleeping.  I can usually turn my brain off if I have a conversation with myself like “its the middle of the night, there is nothing you can do to fix that problem right now.  Sleep is the best thing for this issue”.  This way of thinking usually prevents slumps.  For me either I am working towards my goals or I’m not.  I try not to get down on myself, because that just makes it worse.

4. Are you naturally positive, or do you have to work at it?  How do you keep yourself positive?  I am a naturally positive person, but I think it helps that my hub’s is always questioning everything.  One of us has to stay positive!  I believe positivity is the only way to achieve your goals.  Without it I would get nothing done.

5. If you could go anywhere in the world where would it be?  I have not been that many places in my lifetime, but I think my dream destination would be a European tour.  I have always wanted to go abroad, but just haven’t had the chance.

  • What about you?  If you are not participating in FUFF, tell me an answer to one of these questions in the comments!
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by Shrinking Carrie on October 31, 2011  •  Permalink
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Fire Up For Fall: Week 6

Holy cow!  Is it already week 6!?

Inspirational Photo:

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Yup.  Because we should always think awesome thoughts about ourselves.  Plus, Shatner is just the coolest, and I should find more reason’s to post pictures of him.

Weekly Questions:  

1.  What have you done this week to help achieve your goals? 

  • I’ve met my first goal, and now fit into the pair of jeans that I bought for motivation post-pregnancy.  Woot woot!
  • Just finished phase 3 of NROLFW, so that goal has also been checked off.  New goal:  Finish Phase 4
  • I am 4 pounds away from hitting my 10% with Weight Watchers, and I have been going to the gym 6 days a week and tracking all of my food.
  • Made it to the gym 6 days a week.  CHECK.
  • #5. Make friends and find inspiration in others.  DOUBLE CHECK!!!  I am loving the people I am meeting by doing this challenge!  You all have been inspiring and it has been so motivating to me!  I love checking in with all of you on Mondays!
2. What have you done this week to make yourself feel fabulous? 
I wore my new gym clothes to workout in, and I didn’t feel self-conscience!  This is huge, and it makes me even more excited to go to the gym everyday!  And it made me feel fabulous.  With the tight fitting clothes I can really tell where I’m seeing progress, and it feel so good!
3. Do you listen to music when you work out?  What gets you fired up?
Music is huge for me when working out, and I have to change out my playlist every couple of weeks so that I don’t get bored with what I’m listening to.  Lately, my go to album has been David Ghetta’s (SP?) new album “Nothing But The Beat”.  It is a collaboration album, so all of the songs sound like a mish mash of different albums by different people.  My go to gym music has to have a good beat to keep tempo to and keep me entertained.
4.  What is your guilty pleasure music?  How does it make you feel?
I’m not really embarrassed by any music I listen to, because I love all genre’s besides country,  I LOATHE COUNTRY.  I would say my guilty pleasure would have to be music like Billy Joel, or Lionel Richie.  I don’t listen to them very often, but when I do it takes me back to my childhood when we use to play music in our house.  ”Dancing on the Ceiling”, and “Uptown Girl” immediately take me to a different time.
5.  If today were a song what song would it be?
Ha!  I just totally looked through my itunes to find some inspiration, and I found a good one!  ”Seize the Day” from the movie Newsies, with Christian Bale.  That would definitely have to be guilty pleasure movie/music for sure.  And yes, I totally have the soundtrack for it.  I am really giving you guys a skewed vision of what kind of music I like.  I promise my taste is much more different than what this is displaying.
I hope everyone is having a great start to their Monday!  Stay Tuned for Friend Making Monday!
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by Shrinking Carrie on October 24, 2011  •  Permalink
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Fire Up For Fall Week 5! New Challenge

Fire Up Fall Week 5!

Inspirational Quote and Photo:


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Do you believe this quote?  I do.  I am all about positive affirmations.  Self talk is the most important talk that comes out of your mouth.

Now here are the 5 questions:

1. What have you done this week to achieve your goals?  I went to the gym and completed my first 5K in 5 years!

2. What did you do this week to make yourself feel fabulous? I bought new workout clothes, and it is making me excited to get to the gym.  No more heavy cotton that doesn’t breathe!

3.  It’s halfway through the challenge, you can change 1 or more of your goals (no more than 3) what are you going to do?  I think I am still doing well with my original goals.  They are plain and achievable so I am going to no change a good thing!

4. What’s your worst bad habit and have you ever tried to tackle it? Do you want to?  I think its pretty obvious that my worst habit is diet.  i am trying very hard to tackle it, but it will be a challenge I face for the rest of my life.  It will never go away and I have come to terms with it.  There could be worse things to have an issue with I’m sure!

5. Fun question:  Would you rather have burgers for feet, or sausage for fingers?  Ha!  Probably burgers for feet since I wear a size 12, the transition would be easy!

New Challenge:

After coming off of a horrendous weekend (seriously, my feet are swollen from salt right now) I think a new challenge is in order!  I seem to do better when I take weight loss in small bouts.  I am going to Utah to visit family on October 26th, so I am starting a 9 day perfection challenge, that starts tomorrow.  The rules are the same as the past:

  • Track every bit of food that goes into my body
  • Drink at least 100 ounces of water a day
  • Get all of my healthy checks in
  • Post nightly stat’s
  • Get in all of my vitamins and supplements
  • Go to the gym everyday except for my rest day on Sunday
I really want to hit my 10% Weight Watchers goal before I go to Utah so I am going to have my weigh in Tuesday the 25th so that I have no distractions from this goal.  Then I won’t have to go to a meeting in Utah and I can be a little bit more stress free while spending time with family.
Challenge starts……..NOW!


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by Shrinking Carrie on October 17, 2011  •  Permalink
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Fire Up For Fall Week 4!

Fire Up Fall Week 4!

I am so ready to start a new week!  After feeling ho-hum for the last couple of weeks, I got a surge of motivation yesterday and I am ready to get my head back in the game.  I’m hoping that it stays with me throughout this week, because I planning on amping up my cardio at the gym amongst other things.

My inspirational photo for the week:

This is a current pic of my baby girl Hanna (also known as my driving force).  The inspiration is this:  She has just recently learned how to walk, and of course I use this as a metaphor to life.  No matter how many times you fall on your butt, you have to get back up and try again.  Babies are truly an inspiration when it comes to taking baby steps.

Five Questions:

1. What have you done this week to achieve your goals?  I know I’ve used this quote before, but here it comes again:“The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that’s when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it.”
-John C. Maxwell

That is EXACTLY what I did this last week to achieve my goals.  I have lacked motivation big time these last couple of weeks, but I pushed through.  I went to the gym even though I wasn’t feeling it, I ate pretty good even though I fought tooth and nail.  The weird thing is that I have just now started to get back my motivation, thus proving that this quote is true.  I’m sorry that I had to test the theory, but at least now I know it works!

2. What have you done to make yourself feel fabulous?  I don’t know if fabulous is the right word, more like accomplished?  I made all of my daughters 1st birthday invites, and I am finally following through with some of my grand plans.  I feel good when I do things that I know my daughter will appreciate later on in life.  She may not care that I homemade her invites today, but when I scrapbook them (another lofty goal) she will be able to have a memory to look back on, and I made that happen.

3. What is your go to food or activity when you’ve had a bad day?  Ice cream for sure.  Activity would be watching tv because I can zone out and not think.  These are old habits that I am trying to break.  I don’t have a bad day very often now that I stay at home with Hanna and don’t have to deal with disgruntled clients so it’s really helping me kick those old habits.

4. What’s the last thing you did that you were really proud of?  Check out the picture above!  That’s right, I made that cute, smart, funny, little girl. And I am proud of myself every time I look at her! She is a part of me after all, I can’t help but feel responsible!

5. Fun Time:  What was your favorite/least favorite subject in school, and why?  I loved art!  In college I took an art course every semester, and I would spend more time on those projects than any other class.  I like it because I get it.  I am teachable in that subject, and I always got an A. I am totally left brained all-the-way.  I just wish I would have fed that side of my brain more.  Least favorite was math.  I don’t get it, not one bit.  I quit college because of it and I let it defeat me.  I get frustrated just thinking about it.

I haven’t been tracking my food as well has I have been these last couple weeks.  I am committing to myself that I will track everyday this week and post my eats at night like I was a week ago.  I know it is the key to my weight loss so it is something I NEED to do!

Check you guys later with a Friend Making Monday post!

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by Shrinking Carrie on October 10, 2011  •  Permalink
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Fire it Up for Fall: Week 3!

Weight Wars

Week 3!


The one thing I am loving about Fire it Up for Fall, is the people that I am making contact with, and looking for inpirational photo’s/quotes every week.  I am finding so many motivators, it is hard to narrow it down to one.  I love this saying because losing weight and feeling healthy is on my mind everyday.  Whether I’m successful at my day, or not, as long as I don’t give up, I will get there!
This weeks questions:
1. What have you done this week to help get you to your goals?  I feel like I have had about 3 days of total fail, but the one thing that stands out is my Friday workout.  I am stiffer than I have been in a while and I know that if I have more workouts like that I will reach my goals.
2. What did you do this week to make yourself feel fabulous?  I went on a much needed date with my husband for our 9th anniversary.  My hub’s has been working so hard lately that it is hard to have alone time, and he makes me feel fabulous
3. Where do you see yourself in 5 years?  What are your goals?  Ambitions?  I know it may sound plain and traditional, but I see myself with more kids, having healthy pregnancies, and living an all around healthier life.  My goals are to lose the 120 pounds I set out to lose from the beginning, completing my first marathon, and hopefully beginning a program to get my personal training certificate.  I have some lofty goals I want to achieve!
4. Give us a tip or a fact.  About anything, what is something great that you think everyone should know?  ALWAYS EAT BREAKFAST!!!  The day’s that I do the best eating is when it has started out with a good breakfast.  It is truly the most important meal of the day, and starts your whole day off right.
5. Fun Question:  What was the most recent dream you remember?  The only dreams I remember are bad ones, so I will not scare you with the details of my last one.  I can always tell when I have a good one, I am in a good mood when I wake up.  I wish I could remember more details :(
After basically falling of the healthy eating wagon the last almost 4 days (seriously!?), I am ready (and need) to have a good week.  I am hoping that a lot of it is water retention and that I can shape back up by weigh in day.  If not, at least I will know why.
Happy Monday everyone!  Check back later for Friend Making Mondays!
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by Shrinking Carrie on October 3, 2011  •  Permalink
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Magic is Something That You Make!

This post kicks of week 2 of the Fire it Up for Fall Challenge! If you missed the first post you can read it here.

I know it doesn’t LOOK inspiring, but it’s inspiring in the fact that it helps remind me that a 1 pound loss is still 1 more pound less that I have to lose.  Looking at a 120 pound goal weight loss is overwhelming, and this little picture helps remind me that with time I will get there.  And maybe one day I will strike a pose like that on the scale!

Here is a great quote that describes my entire attitude towards weight loss:

“The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that’s when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it.”
-John C. Maxwell (Source)

When I found that, I thought to myself, this is me in a nut shell.

5 Questions of the week:

1. What have you done this week to help you achieve your goals?  What haven’t I done?!  I currently have 4 challenges going on right now.  One that started this last week was the Gold’s Gym 8 week challenge.  Then I extended the 6 days of perfection challenge  where I track everything I eat everyday and get all of my healthy checks in.

2. What have you done to make yourself feel fabulous?  I’ve eaten better everyday, and in turn it has made me feel good about myself.  It has made me a happier person all week-long.

3. What is your talent (generally everyone has something big or small)?  I feel like a lot of my talents are hard to explain.  A simple one is I can sing.  This next one I never believed until a few years ago, but I am a leader.  I have the power of persuasion (not to be confused with manipulation), and I have very good communication skills (and help people who can’t communicate, or won’t, to open up).  I was in retail management for almost 10 years and I ALWAYS got along with my staff, even when it wasn’t easy.  I never really looked at any of that as a talent, until I started looking around and noticing that I was better at it than a lot of other people.

4. What’s been the highlight of your week, toot your horn, what are you proud of? My 3.4 pound weight loss!  I have moved down a decade of numbers and am now in the 250′s.  I am only 5 pounds away from my 10% Weight Watchers goal and this will be the first official time that I have not quit  WW before I got to my 10% goal!

5. Fun Question: What’s your guilty pleasure TV show?  I don’t think I really have a guilty pleasure TV show, at least none that I am embarrassed by.  A weird one is probably “Keeping Up With the Kardashians”.  They drive me INSANE and it only makes me angry when I watch it because they are so out of touch with reality, but I find myself glued to an episode if I haven’t seen it.  My only hope is that the other people watching it share my attitude towards them.  Man I hate that show.

Monday’s are full of fun post’s so check back for Friend Making Monday!



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by Shrinking Carrie on September 26, 2011  •  Permalink
Posted in About Me, Challenges, Fire It Up for Fall, Goals, Inspiration, Motivation, Power, Weight Watchers

Posted by Shrinking Carrie on September 26, 2011

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