Wow-I keep forgetting

Wow-I keep forgetting to blog. This isn't as easy as I thought it would be. Well I guess it's not that it's hard it's just I never seem to remember to sign on until it's late and then by then I just want to go up to bed. So I am aiming for an even better week this week with my weigh in. I have been super careful and not even eating the "extras" that are allowed. I'm hoping that by just sticking to only what is allowed, nothing more, no extras, that I will see a bigger loss this week. My "friend" is due this weekend so I'm not sure how this will affect my weight. To be honest, I never really paid attention to it. I never really paid attention to my weight weekly. I knew I was overweight but just didn't want to see those numbers on the scale. All it did was confirm, yes-you are overweight and need to lose weight. But maybe that's what I needed...to be aware. I am not strictly going to pay attention to the numbers but more of how I look and feel. If I was a size 6 but weighed 180 pounds I wouldn't care...but that's not the case. I would love to be a size 6 again, those clothes are so cute. I went shopping the other day and noticed that the clothes for "smaller" women is cute. Then I went to my size and the clothes aren't really cute. I want to wear cute clothes. I used to "live" in summer dresses. Well I haven't worn a cute summer dress since before my daughter was born and that was almost 4 years ago. Wow. That's what I am aiming for...cute, summer dresses! (Even though summer is almost over) But then by winter I won't have to hibernate in big sweatshirts! Well I hope everyone has a good day!

Weigh in day

So this morning is my weigh in. To be honest, I wasn't really looking forward to it. Last week I lost 3 pounds. Yes, it is a loss but I was hoping for more. But I was still happy that there was a loss so I really shouldn't complain. I waited for about 10 minutes after waking up. I stepped on the scale and saw a 3 pound loss. I got off and got back on again to see if my scale was playing tricks on me. Nope, it was definitely 3 pounds less than last week. So I put my contacts in and went and made my bed and then went back to the scale. Hopped on again and it said the same number. Wow! I have to admit once again that I was hoping for a higher number but I will take 3 pounds. After all, 3 pounds is 3 pounds! I have to say this and I'm hoping I don't sound strange so here it goes. The other day as I was walking through the mall with me girls I felt like I was lighter. I'm wondering if it's from losing water weight? I didn't feel like it was such an effort to walk. I was moving right along just fine. Now I never had problems walking before but I felt lighter. I guess I don't know how to explain it. Maybe it's also my brain telling me I am changing and I like the sound of that! I just worry that once I get to my goal that I will gain the weight back. Part of me is worried, the other part isn't. I don't have a problem maintaining my weight. So I am hoping, really hoping that when I am done with Medifast I can keep my weight where I want it and not get back to how I am now.

Another few days down

So as the time goes by being on Medifast does get easier. Don't get me wrong there are times when my kids are eating something I would love to take a bite of but then I tell myself, I've come so far (okay almost 2 weeks) and I'm not going to give in now. I went to dinner with Jennifer last night and it was yummy. I had her help me pick out my entree and sides as well as help me at the salad bar. She used to do Medifast so who better to ask than her. I was glad to see that what she picked and the portions she told me to eat were very similar to what I was already doing so I feel better about that. I was worried that I was over doing it on my lean and green but I am not. Yay! Now I am trying to figure out exactly how much or how little I should be exercising. I read somewhere that you don't want to exercise too much for fear of putting your body in starvation mode. So how do I figure out how much to exercise? Hmm.. I do swim once or twice a week as long as it's warm enough outside. I don't do laps or anything like that, just swim around and play with the kids. Oh and jump off the diving board every once in a while :) So I'm hoping for more than a 3 pound loss when I weigh tomorrow but will take anything. I'm guessing I'm just going to lose slower than others. Losing is good but I wish and hope for big numbers. We'll see and only the scale will tell.

Here I Am

Hi there. I'm still here. I keep forgetting to blog and then when I finally remember, it's late and I just don't feel like typing. So getting through the days is getting easier and for this I am glad. As I stated before it was quite hard, harder than I thought it would be. I guess I thought this whole thing would be easy for me since I don't eat much. But when you are allowed to only eat certain things, all of a sudden you want everything. Things that you don't normally eat you find yourself wanting it. Weird how that works. But I've been good and been sticking to what is allowed. I'm still trying to figure out this lean and green thing as I don't want to eat too much or eat something I shouldn't. So tonight I decided to try something different. I had tuna with Olive Oil Mayo (thanks Jennifer). That was good. I ate a little bit of it at dinner time with my salad. Then I put it away for later. See the hardest part of my day is at night. I'm so used to eating something while watching my TV shows. Now let me say that when I was eating something it wasn't junk. It was apples and peanut butter or celery and peanut butter. And every once in a while I would have some cheese and crackers or even some plain popcorn but that's it. I wasn't eating candy, cookies, ice cream etc...the stuff I was eating was pretty much good for me. So tonight when felt that urge to eat something I pulled out the rest of my tuna and ate away. I didn't realize I could do that (eat some at one time and eat the rest later) Why didn't I think of that? I love tuna. I've always loved it and it's easy to split it and enjoy it twice. I think that will get me through the "night-time urge" to eat. I just hope that the scale is nicer to me this week. We shall see! I can't wait to go to dinner with Jennifer tomorrow (Wednesday)