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I Was Expecting This, but That Doesn’t Mean It’s Not Frustrating

Starting Weight: 282.8

Get to Fifty in Sixty Starting Challenge Weight (April 30, 2012): 257.2

Last weigh in: 254.2

This Week’s Weigh in: 254.2

Total Loss: 0

Total Overall Loss: 28.6

I am trying to get out of my head this week.  I immediately want to change something up, or tweak a few things.  I do know that I do need to watch my eating more carefully.  ALWAYS WITH THE EATING!

I will say that this would be one of those times where I know that there are other things contributing to me not losing anything and it seems I could go on, and on with excuse after excuse, but I’m just going to keep on chugging away.

I’m going to continue on with my exercise regimen because I am liking the way I feel and my muscles are STILL VERY SORE from Tuesday’s workout (some of the not losing is due to water retention from repairing muscles), and I can see a difference in my body, which is another reason why you can’t always trust the scale.

But I can’t help be a little frustrated considering I am sick of being in the 250′s.  I am dying to see a new number, and I am tired of bouncing around the same 5 pounds.

So this next week will be a focus on eating the right foods, tracking everything, and getting my weekend eating under control. I may will be doing stat post’s at night to keep myself honest.

Have a Happy Thursday everyone!

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by Shrinking Carrie on May 24, 2012  •  Permalink
Posted in Frustration, Weigh in

Posted by Shrinking Carrie on May 24, 2012

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Unbalanced

I have fallen off of the weight loss wagon hard this week. So hard in fact that it rolled over me, reversed, and then rolled over me again.  Today especially.  I just could not get enough food.  All I could think about was the next meal I was going to eat.  I have had no desire to post and then I realized that a lot of people experience the same things when trying to lose weight, and I owe it to my blog to talk about these issues.  I hate to sound vulnerable and dramatic and so I suppress the urge to be a whiny writer, and spare you all the pity party.  But this is also what we sign up for when we decide to put our lives out in the open and offer our support to each other.

I had a friend (who reads the blog), who made a comment on my Facebook page once. It said “It seems unfair that I can exercise for hours and only burn X amount of calories yet I can literally eat 5000 calories in less than 10 minutes”.  This is probably the most frustrating thing for me when it comes to weight loss.  I can be perfect all day, plus workout, and sabotage it in just a few minutes with poor eating decisions.

I am attributing this to hormones.  Weird thing happened this week.  Yes, I am going to talk about menstruation again, so buckle up.

I talked recently about how my period has become like clock work, which is great!  But randomly, I got it for the second time this month only 10 days after finishing the first time.  After thinking back on my diet I am attributing it to the increase in Soy in my diet, and after doing some research I found that it can affect your menstrual cycle.  For the last 3 weeks I have had some sort of Soy Milk daily and it increased at the beginning of this week when I had a certain craving for cereal (and found out that Peanut Butter Captain Crunch is in fact Vegan, google it), and ended up ingesting quite a bit of soy.

Nothing like going through PMS twice in one month!  Needless to say, I have an abundance of soy milk that is now useless.  Soy is out.

The truth of the matter is this:  I am having a battle between my body and my mind.  My mind wants to continue on with old habits, but my body is screaming for the new healthy way that I have been eating these past 3 weeks.  Self-sabotage is in full force right now, and I don’t really now why, or how to stop it.

Fact:  I am a food addict.  The only difference between a food addiction and a drug/alcohol addiction is that you have to eat to live.  Very unfair.  I recognize that I have addictive tendencies, and I tend to go 100% into something until I lose interest and move onto something else.  The only thing is that I need to fix this addiction and find a way to cope with my feeling without having to eat!  I’m hoping that a light bulb will just go off one day and it will all make sense.  Until then, I have to get over the bad weeks and turn them around.  I just have to keep repeating to myself I can do this.

I’m hoping to get out of this funk and back to regular posting next week.  I just have to make it through the weekend!

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by Shrinking Carrie on April 26, 2012  •  Permalink
Posted in Frustration

Posted by Shrinking Carrie on April 26, 2012

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A Loss and a Gain

‎”Things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.”

Thank you again Livestrong.com for another inspiring Facebook status!  I sure needed it after the past week.

In the wee hours of the early morning on Wednesday, Dustin, Hanna, and I set off for Las Vegas after getting news that Dustin’s Grandmother had a stroke. My husband has been truly blessed in his life, and although I do not feel it is my place to give out information about his past, I have to say that his family is amazing.  In high school the Larsen/Beighley clan started feeding my husband, and ended up not being able to get rid of him.  I call his family Dustin’s “surrogate” family, but to Dustin they are thicker than blood.  So when his granny went to the hospital from pneumonia this past week, it was not a hard decision that we needed to be with the family.

After many twists and turns throughout this week Granny decided it was her time to go this morning.  She (along with every. single. member of the Larsen/ Beighley Family) was one of the most selfless people I was blessed to know.  She gave service to anyone who needed it and always put others before herself.  I celebrate the life that she lived, and also the work in the after life that she will be doing.  I am so blessed to know that there is a heaven above and a Heavenly Father waiting with open arms.  I will miss you Granny, and I can’t wait until the time that we will meet again!

And in regards to the “gain” portion that I mentioned in the title….

In stressful times I eat.  You can tell how stressed I am by the amount of food that I eat.  This week started out great, and by Tuesday  I was down 3 pounds ready to win this weeks weigh in for Monica’s Birthday Challenge, and then the week started to go South quickly.  As soon as I knew we were going to be traveling I started to crave food.  Spending time in a hospital made me crave food.  Being in a place that had thousands of options to choose from made me crave food.

So what did I do?  I ate.  I ate my feelings.  I ate my sadness.  I ate my frustrations with eating too much by eating more.

And then I had a little break down, and a pity party for myself.

Then I put on my big girl panties and I weighed myself. If you do the crime, you do the time, and I needed to see the number that was going to show up:

That my friends is a 13 pound gain since the beginning of February.  Wait.  Wasn’t my goal to lose 5 pounds a month?  Hmmm.  I seem to be going the opposite direction.

I tried to tell myself it’s because I have only pooped twice in the last 5 days (going out of town in hard on my digestive track), or that I have a lot of water retention and salt hanging around in my system.  While all of these things are true, and the weight loss will come quickly with those first few pounds once I get back on a healthy track, it is still a gain.  It is still a step backward, and it is still frustrating.  My first thought is that I have to come up with a plan of action, but the plan is simple and needs no long thought process. Track food.  Exercise.  Drink Water.  Sleep 7-8 hours.  Repeat.

 

 

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by Shrinking Carrie on March 4, 2012  •  Permalink
Posted in Challenges, Commitment, Distractions, Dustin, Family, Food Binge, Frustration, Indulgence, Poop, Weigh in

Posted by Shrinking Carrie on March 4, 2012

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Isn’t A Reward Suppose to be GOOD for You?

Life has been hectic lately (hence, the no posting).  One of the reason’s I have this here old blog is to keep myself accountable, and for that reason I am writing this post.

When I say I have had a “bad day” it usually means eating wise, and I don’t usually go any further than that.  My hub’s was wonderful enough to watch the baby while I got an early gym session in this morning, and he also had a chance to catch up on all 2 of my blog post’s this week.  His comment to me was this: “you tend to keep things really positive on your blog, but you have to remember that the negative is there and sometimes you have to write about it”.  I totally agree.

We have both noticed that I have kind of gone of the deep end these last couple of weeks, and it all started when I got that stomach bug a few weeks ago.  Since then I have eaten what I want, when I want.  This includes things like:

  • Hagen Daaz(sp?) Dulce De Leche Ice Cream
  • Discounted Valentines day Chocolate
  • Cake
  • More Ice Cream
  • Olive Garden
  • Cafe Rio

The list goes on and on.  Sometimes the only consistency I have is inconsistency.  I’m doing awesome one day and then jumping off a cliff another.  It just seems in times of stress I turn to food.

This past week has been frustrating.  Hanna has been sick and the drainage from her sinus’s created a double ear infection.  She has been ornery and whiny.  She won’t eat, and it just seems that if she won’t eat it then I will put it in my mouth instead.  Her naps have been short and so has my fuse.  Sometimes I feel inadequate as a mother (I know all of you mom’s are nodding your heads in agreement).   Why won’t she drink milk?  Why won’t she eat regular meals like the rest of us?  Why is she whining so much?  Why is she sucking up juice from a straw and then just letting it fall out of her mouth onto the floor?  Argh, where is a spoon, I’m eating Ice Cream because I deserve it after the day I have had.

Why is it that we feel we deserve crap to eat when we are trying to reward ourselves?  Isn’t the point of a reward to do something GOOD for yourself?  Not to mention the fact that I feel like shit after I’ve eaten it anyway!

I have to say that the beginning of this year is when I felt the best I have felt in a LONG time.  I know that perfecting my healthy diet will be my ultimate challenge this year.  Eating Plant-based has really made me feel good about myself, but change is sometimes hard to maintain.  I know that there will be times when I want to eat crap just because that is what I’m use to, but those are the exact habits that I need to change.

I need to use this time in my life to help me grow new, healthy habits.  I CAN lose weight in times of stress and I need to stop telling myself that I can’t.  My body believes what I tell it too.  

Boohoo.  Wah.  Pout.  

Ok, I’m done.  

New Challenge!

I’ve decided that a new challenge is just what I need to get me out of my eating funk, and so when I saw that Dacia from Thirty-four & Fabulous was hosting a weight loss challenge I jumped at the chance to participate!  It is called Monica’s Birthday Challenge (click to link).  It will last 8 weeks and that starting date is TODAY!  It also requires a picture documenting your weight.  So here it is (did I mention that I have gained over 7 pounds in the last 3 weeks?).

I will say this about this mornings weigh-in:  I’ve been doing HEAVY lifting this week and I know that I have quite a bit of water retention from my muscles trying to get repaired, and I ate Cafe Rio/Ice cream last night at a pretty late hour.  I also say this because I know that the scale should be showing quite a difference next week, and a lot of it will be water weight.

Anyway…..

Non-Scale Victories

I have not noticed any of my clothes feeling tighter (phew!).  I also did 3 strength training sessions this week, and I have noticed some major changes in my muscles already.  I also did 2 60 minute sessions on the Elliptical and 45 minutes of the Elliptical on the strength training days.  Good week for the gym, bad week for eating.

But we’re going to fix that.

 

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by Shrinking Carrie on February 25, 2012  •  Permalink
Posted in Challenges, Distractions, Frustration

Posted by Shrinking Carrie on February 25, 2012

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#Fail

Sweat it Out (Tuesday’s Workout):
Elliptical 1 Hour
Treadmill 25 Minutes
Foam rolling 10 Minutes

Do you ever have those days where you think to yourself “man, I am failing at life right now.”?  I’m having one of those days.  I’d like to think that my positivity 99% of the time, will make up for this 1% that I’m going to throw at you in this post.

I am frustrated at life and for the first time it has nothing to do with my weight loss or exercise routine.  Do all mom’s just go through this every now and again where you love your child more than anything in the world, but are having a hard time resisting the urge to chuck her across the room (Please note: I would NEVER do that).  I remember when I didn’t have kids and my friends would tell me that their kids were making them insane and say crazy things (like I just did) and I would think “I would never think that way about my child”, I was wrong.  I’ll admit it.

I’m pretty sure that Hanna is teething, but it seems that everything, lately, requires a melt down.  All I have to do is look at her the wrong way and she starts to scream cry with hyperventilation and all.  It takes forever for her to nap and then she only sleeps for about 40 minutes, and then yawns ALL. DAY. LONG.  I know she’s tired, but she won’t sleep.

Thinking that I dropped her to one nap too early I decided to go later to the gym so that she could take a morning nap, and then we would go when she woke up.  She fell asleep fast, but then woke up a 1/2 hour later crying (a good indication that she didn’t get enough sleep).  I got ready for the gym (with her crying and whining the entire time) and put her in her car seat where she FLIPPED out and started bucking to get out.  After about 4 blocks of scream crying, I decided that I couldn’t do this to the kid’s club ladies, turned around and came back home.

I did a couple of loads of laundry, prepared my music for my church activity tonight, paid some bills, tried to pick up the house, all with a crying and whiny baby following me around the house.  I can’t just sit and hold her like I have the last couple of days.  NOTHING IS GETTING DONE!

It just seems that the day started off bad to begin with.  And along with some other things that I won’t go into, I’ve pretty much been crying on and off all day.  I just feel like I can’t do anything right today.  That is the hard part about being a positive person, for the most part.  When things go wrong, they REALLY go wrong.

What do you do on a day like this?  Make pumpkin cookies.  Then you realize that you don’t have any of the ingredients and you have to go to the store.  CAN’T ANYTHING GO RIGHT TODAY?!?!

Allow me my moment, and come back tomorrow for a positive end, hopefully.

Thanks for listening to me vent.

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by Shrinking Carrie on November 16, 2011  •  Permalink
Posted in Frustration

Posted by Shrinking Carrie on November 16, 2011

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The Reality

Sweat it Out:
Elliptical 1 hour

As of yesterday I weighed myself and the scale has not moved. Disappointing, I know. And now I am on my way to Utah, and let’s be honest, I am in vacation mode. I am also frustrated with myself, and how me and the Weight Watchers Points Plus system is going. We don’t seem to get along. As you can see, my exercise schedule is on point, but exercise is only about 30% while eating makes up the rest. I feel like I’m tracking all of my food and staying within my points, but I am not really losing like I should be. It’s too early for a plateau, and I don’t think that is the reason why anyway.

As I have mentioned in the past, my mom is getting me an early Christmas present while I’m in Utah and getting me a Bodybugg. I am hoping that it will help me to see exactly how many calories I am burning throughout the day which can help me pinpoint the reason I am not losing. Bodybugg has its own tracking system, so at this point in my weight loss I have to ask the question “is it really necessary to do Weight Watchers and the Bodybugg tracking system?”.

Besides, Weight Watchers monthly fee is $40 and I feel like I have been wasting money by not continuously losing every week. I think that it has helped me start my journey, but now I maybe need to move onto something that helps me to see results. I started it for the accountability of having to weigh in, in front of somebody, but now I have the blog, which helps me WAY more than a meeting once a week. Anyway I seem to have a lot to think about in the next couple of weeks.

Vacation Time!

Dustin and I have been watching our pennies for the last 6 months and we have finally gotten ourselves out of our financial woes. Now we are going to do a little shopping for ourselves and the little one, and try to enjoy the fruits of our (mostly Dustin’s) labor. I am going to make some realistic goals. I’m not going into this nieve and thinking that I can achieve great things while being on vacation. It just won’t happen.

Vacation Goals!

  • Go to the gym. I’m already in the habit and I use to go to the gym that I would be going to so it isn’t anything scary or new. Just do it.
  • No soda. I don’t drink a lot of soda, but there is something about vacation that makes me do things I don’t normally do.
  • Drink plenty of water. I will take my Nalgene every where with me.
  • Wear my pedometer. Try to get over 10,000 steps a day.
  • Don’t over fill. The reality of the situation is that we are going to go out to eat. What I can control is the amount of food that I eat. I want to make sure that I don’t go overboard and stuff myself at every meal. I will eat slow and stop when I feel myself getting full.

I want to come back and still fit into my pants that just started to fit, so my goal is to maintain my weight loss, thus far.

  • Do you set goals for yourself when you are on vacation?
  • Have you ever used the bodybugg system?
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by Shrinking Carrie on October 26, 2011  •  Permalink
Posted in Challenges, Diet, Family, Frustration, Goals, Indulgence, Weight Watchers

Posted by Shrinking Carrie on October 26, 2011

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Some Things Sunday (A Week in Review)

This week I….

1. finished a few of my party invites  for Hanna’s bday, and I have to admit they turned out pretty cute:

I made it HUGE so you could see all the fine detailing.  This  is a pretty big deal for me considering that I am not that crafty of a person. It’s a good thing that I have friends who are.  My friend Vanessa helped me come up with some ideas.  She actually sells party supplies that are custom-made over at Overdramatic Party Girls.  Check out her site, they have some CUTE stuff!

2. got 5 days in at the gym, and started “New Rules of Lifting for Woman” Phase 3.

3. Started adding more veggies into my diet and I’m seeing some good results so far.

Which is so sad, but true.  And in case you didn’t know homemade carrot cake with cream cheese frosting is my favorite kind of cake (no nuts, no raisins).  Side note:  I hate eating anything that has nuts or raisins in it.  I like nuts plain and I like raisins plain, but there is just something about when you use them to bake that makes me want to wretch.

4. Wrote my most personal post to date about my first food binge.

5. Read an awesome article on foods that help to build lean muscle mass on Livestrong.com.  I am pleased to see that I eat most of these foods already, and that chocolate milk is a good post workout replenisher.  Did I go out and buy some chocolate syrup right away?  I sure did!  And yes, I know moderation in all things.  Blah, blah, blah.

6. Started getting excited to come to Utah at the end of the month, and I am already starting to plan where we are going to shop and do other things.  We have some gift cards to spend and people to see.  I’m so excited!  My hub’s has been working his himself to the bone, and it was all so that we could enjoy ourselves on our mini vacation, and enjoy the holidays.  We are also going to be visiting my brother in Arizona for Christmas this year and we bought our tickets this last week. I get so excited to see family!  I am also excited to be able to take Hanna to some pumpkin patches and do some fun Halloween activities!

7.  Made a goal that my attitude needs to change.  I’ve been so frustrated these last couple of weeks from having no weight loss, and I know I need to buckle down and just get it done.  I have a goal to hit my 10% goal by the time I go to Utah in 2 weeks.  That’ s 4 pounds in 2 weeks which is totally doable.  That way I can go to Utah feeling good and motivated to keep it up.

What is something you did this week?

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by Shrinking Carrie on October 9, 2011  •  Permalink
Posted in About Me, Challenges, Frustration, Goals, The New Rules of Lifting for Women

Posted by Shrinking Carrie on October 9, 2011

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Kicking & Screaming

I have read weight loss blog success stories that said they “kicked and screamed” their way through losing weight.  I never really understood this point of view…….until today.  I always kind of thought either you were motivated and you just did it, or you weren’t motivated so your day got tanked.  I had no idea there was actually a third option of kicking and screaming, paired with just getting it done.  I have been mad all day long.  I have made good eating choices all day, but that doesn’t mean that I’ve been happy about it.  I tracked (begrudgingly) my food all day long.  I went to the gym this morning and did not enjoy the endorphins, and I couldn’t wait to get home to get back into my pajama’s and snuggle with my baby on this gloomy day.

So why did I do it?  Because I know there will be a day that I will be happy I did it.  And for that, I hope in the future that I have more days like this, and less of the happy-eat-what-I-want-and-don’t-exercise-because-I-do-what-I-want kind of days.  It’s not always about what I want, but what I need, and I know that eventually those days add up to a LOT of happiness.

Sometimes you can’t always do what you want to do , and you have to do the things you need to do.  But don’t get me wrong, I’m still gonna whine a little on the way.

Now that I’m done whining, here are today’s stat’s:

Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner

Snacks

Macro’s

Healthy Checks

What did you kick and scream through today?

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by Shrinking Carrie on October 4, 2011  •  Permalink
Posted in Cheat Day, Daily Stats, Fear, Frustration, Goals, Health, Motivation, Weight Watchers

Posted by Shrinking Carrie on October 4, 2011

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Re-start, Re-think, Re-energize, Reduce

Sweat it Out:
Elliptical 1 hour

“You never regret a workout!”  This was totally the case this morning.  Hanna has decided that she is a morning person, and has been getting up at 5:00-30 in the morning.  I use to let her cry it out and she would go back to bed, but lately it’s been happening almost every morning so I decided to just get up.  I felt like a Zombie on the way to the gym at 8:00.  I told myself that I just had to do an hour and then I could go home and take a nap if I wanted.  Funny what exercise does to your mentality.  I am totally awake and energized.  We’ll see how I feel by the afternoon.

One of the reason’s I love Weight Watchers is the fact that they have meetings once a week.  I weekly kick in the a** to remember what you’re doing and keep you on the right track.  I feel like I am having more of these lately.  Is anybody out there afraid of change?  I’m at the weight that, in my mind, is a fork in the road.  When I get under 260 pounds, that is when I feel actual changes to my body.  It takes me out of my comfort zone, and that is usually when I get scared and give-up.  I get panicky feelings for who knows why.  Shouldn’t I be happy that I’m getting stronger and healthier?  Is it the self-saboteur in me that gives me feelings of anxiety?

I’m not sure really.  I do know that I have been hovering these past few weeks.  Every week the scale has gone up and down.  I can’t say that I have given it 100% of my energy and I feel really bad about that.  The one thing I do know is that it is ALL in my food choices.  We all can see that I am killing it at the gym, but I wish the food would come a little easier.

I am a future thinker.  I’m already thinking of the next weigh in, when I need to be thinking about the present day that I am in, and surviving the choices I am up against in the now.  Starting today, that is my new way of thinking.  I am committing to better food choices.  I will take this process one day, one meal, one hour, even one minute at a time.  I will ask for help when I need it, and I am at my weakest.  I will use this new solution and use it to weigh in under 260 next week.  I need to get this ball rolling and stop hovering over the numbers that have been plaguing me these last few weeks.

This week I lost 1.4 Pounds.  At least the scale is moving in the right direction! I’m back at 261.8.  My goal for this next week is to lose at least 2 pounds.  I know I can do this.  I am a strong-willed person and have the power to make good choices every minute of everyday.

Notice that the blog is getting a new look.  Eventually I will have a more personalized look and I’m in preparation for that day.  I’m trying to clean it up a bit, because I hate clutter.

Have you ever had to make a big change and were resistant?  How did you get through it?

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by Shrinking Carrie on September 15, 2011  •  Permalink
Posted in Frustration, Goals, Good Food, Health, Motivation, Power, Weight Watchers

Posted by Shrinking Carrie on September 15, 2011

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FMM: Favorite Things & A Little Rant.

I thought that I would give myself a break from posting until after Labor Day, but I feel frustration brewing and I need to vent somehow. And its Friend Making Monday, so I’ll start with my rant and hopefully end on a positive note with Friend Making Monday.

As You can see there is no “Sweat it Out” portion of my blog today.  The kid’s club at the gym is closed, and so I had to forgo my last workout b, and will skip straight to the fitness test portion on Wednesday and Friday.  For any of my new readers, I’ve been doing a Weight lifting program called “The New Rules of Lifting for Women”, and I am in the last week of phase 1.

I have mixed feelings about not being able to go to the gym, and it bothers me. I would say I eat strictly good about 4 of the 7 days of the week.  The days that I have ho-hum eating are usually Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.  I get back on track on Monday and usually have lost weight by Thursday.  The problem is that I use the gym as a cushion just in case I go a couple of points aver my daily allotment.  I started getting a little anxiety on Sunday knowing that I wouldn’t be able to go to the gym today,  and I’m getting paranoid already that I won’t lose any weight by Thursday.

That is the frustrating part about losing weight.  When it happens celebrate it, but then the pressure’s on (from myself) to get to the next goal as quickly as possible.  And we know how much my all or nothing attitude helps that out.  I feel like if I’m not working out the day is shot, why even try.  It gets hard when weight loss is CONSTANTLY on the brain.

There are certain things that I cannot eat, even if I count them into my points.  I have a hard time with this portion of the “Points Plus”  system that Weight Watchers introduced last year.  If you eat any processed foods, you are screwed.  I have never had this hard of a time losing weight with Weight Watchers before, and I’m wondering if it is because I am in my thirties now, just had a baby, or if there is a learning curve with this program.

If I stay in my points, workout for an hour and a half a day I only lose a pound.  I feel like I am k-i-l-l-i-n-g myself for every pound I lose.  Have I messed up my metabolism from yo-yo dieting so badly, or does everyone have this hard of a time?  And I forgot to mention that after the 4 days of eating good and working out, I feel like I’m going to pass out from lack of nutrition, but if I eat anymore I don’t lose.

So as you can see, I’m trying really hard to get my head back in the game.  I know everyone is different in the way they lose, and I just need to stay focused. BTW, has anyone noticed a trend on when I get these feelings?  It’s usually within the days after I have a huge success.   I just need to harness these feelings, and then clean the crap out of my house with them.  If I can’t go to the gym, I have to get a workout in somehow.

If you made it through my frustrated rant, thanks for hanging through the negativity.  Now onto some positivity with Friend Making Monday!  This fun post comes courtesy of Kenlie over at All The Weigh.  If you are a fellow blogger you can play along with your own post, but remember to link up in the comment section at All the Weigh (or leave me a comment so I can check out your site!).

Favorite Things:

1. What is your favorite food?  Unfortunately, pizza and ice cream.  No certain flavors, I love it all.

2. What is your favorite childhood memory? Any Christmas.  My family is VERY traditional, and we would get together with our entire extended family and put on talent shows.  Then we would take turns opening presents from Gramma and Grampa.  They always got us exactly the toy we wanted.  Then we would do fun things like caroling.

3.  What is your favorite way to burn calories? (keep the comments clean Dustin)  Right now I am loving spin class.  But the best way to burn calories is when you are not intending to burn them like walking around at a Farmers Market, or going shopping.  So I guess spending money is my favorite way to burn!

4. What is your favorite mode of technological communication? Right now it is through the blog.  I have a hard time saying what I want to say when speaking.  Writing this blog has helped me to think about what I want to communicate and helps me to collect my thoughts.

5.  Who is your favorite actor/actress?   Will Ferrell.  Just thinking about him makes me laugh. Anchorman is one of my most favorite movies, and my husband and I quote it OFTEN.  In fact, my blog tag line has a quote from the movie (glass case of emotion).  Plus, if you’ve ever seen him in an interview he is a very down to earth lovable guy.

6. What is your favorite lip color? Clear?  I am a less is more kind a gal.  When I do wear make-up, that is more than just eyeliner and mascara, I usually do a light smokey eye which means you should wear a more nude lip color (I use to work at Nordstrom’s cosmetic department).  If I do wear something on my lip it’s usually lip gloss, but carmex chapstick is always number 1.

7. Who is your favorite historical figure?  I have no idea.  I would really have to think about this question.  I’ll get back to you.

8. Who is your favorite athlete? Once again no idea.

9. What is your favorite tv network? NBC.  I live for the Thursday night line up and I own every season of The Office.  Parks and Recreation is slowly becoming my second favorite.

10. What is your favorite site on the web? Probably my google reader.  It has all the blogs that I follow.  They help to motivate me on a daily basis and I’m starting to make some fun blog friends that I like to keep in touch with!

Now its your turn!  Pick a question from above and tell me something about yourself!

Have a great Labor Day everyone!

 

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