After the weigh in

I weighed myself this morning after the girls came and woke me up together, before 7am.  So yay.  Then I got yelled at because I didn't turn on their Disney junior shows and I set up my wii fit so that I could weigh myself.  I lost a total of exactly 2 pounds yesterday.  So I'm at the lowest that I have been since before I got pregnant.  And if I lose more I will be back to where I was just after high school.  I didn't hit 200 pounds until after high school.  So I am hoping that I can get there and past it again so that I can have the ability to say that I finally weigh less than I was in high school.  I almost can't wait to be able to do that.  So this week my weight loss was 4.3 pounds.  Not as good as last week but I have kept some of the weight off and actually lower than I was last week.  So all in all I'm happy with the weight loss.  I really am going to try to make sure that I don't overdo it this week and that I either maintain the weight loss or try to keep it under three pounds for the week or a longshot hope that I will lose some more. 


We went and got Hardee's this morning.  I had a regular coke zero and I didn't finish all of the hash browns.  So it could have been worse.  After breakfast we went to Big Lots and I go these two terra cotta pots and put sand and shells in them. 

 

 

I love them.  I so very much miss the beach.  This is the first time I have ever lived inland.  I don't really like it.  I always imagined when I would have kids I would take them to the beach and no offense the beach is not attached to a lake.  The beach is salt water and endless ocean and burning your feet in the sand, looking for seashells, and seagulls dive bombing you for any food you have, and fighting the undertow.  I just miss the ocean breeze you feel everyday.  If it weren't so outrageous then I would have at least one if not more rooms decorated in all ocean stuff.  On our way back we stopped at a yard sale and I finally found a blender for one dollar woo hoo.  A really, really old blender but hey it will serve it's purpose.  And when I say old I mean

But at only a dollar I really can't complain.  Now if I can just find the smaller table everything would be great.  I mean I really don't want to pay an arm and a leg for a table that my kids are probably going to tear apart.  Not that I am upset about them for that I mean they are kids and while they got into trouble I am not going to get overly angry for something that is normal for children. 

Well I'm going to go for now.  But don't worry I will be back on tomorrow!!! XOXO

Last Dinner this week

Okay maybe not for the entire week, just for the diet part of my week.  So I had one cup (2 cans) of tuna with the constant accompaniment of mustard and Mrs. Dash, and one half of a banana.  The combination seems kind of weird but it is actually not as bad as it sounds.  The calorie count for this meal was 245. 

Honestly I completely forgot about the ice cream until after I took the picture and ate the dinner.  But it was one half of a cup of ice cream.  If you guys need a visual look at yesterday's picture.  The calorie count for the ice cream was the same as yesterday too which was at 120.  So all together today I ate 716 calories.  But back to regular food tomorrow.  I can honestly say that I'm not sure if I am looking forward to it.  I feel better and have fewer stomach issues when I am on it. 

We got to mark one of the items off our list today.  We played on the table with shaving cream.  It ended up everywhere.  It took Love Bug a little while to get into it but once she did it was all over her face, clothes, hair, up and down her arms, even on the wall behind her. 

Pumpkin had no problem and took to it right away.  Even after Love Bug got done playing and was ready to take a shower Pumpkin still stayed out and played until the shaving cream had just basically become liquid.  This was one of the easier activities to clean up.  Plus I think my table was cleaner afterward.  I've read all about what kind of a cool cleaner that shaving cream is.  I got the raspberry smelling kind from the dollar tree.  So they smelled good afterward.  Plus my house smelled like raspberries after we were done for a little while so overall I can't complain.  We were going through my cookbooks to find out what Pumpkin was going to make on the kids make the dinner night and she has decided on a Hawaiian pizza with the pineapple and ham.  It's kind of hard because there are so many things that she tells me that she doesn't like. I tried to keep it healthy and we looked exclusively in the Hungry Girl cookbooks.  That way we have a lower calorie meal so that I can continue to lose as much weight as I can.  My hubby who is also trying to lose weight said this morning that I probably weigh less than him now and to be honest that made me feel pretty good.  I mean the woman is supposed to weigh less than the man and I never have.  Even when I was at my thinnest he was in the navy and able to work out way more and had to keep himself in shape for his job. 

Well I'm getting sleepy so I am going to go.  I'll probably be back on tomorrow to let everyone know how my last weigh in went.  XOXO

The good and the a little bad

I woke up at around 7am this morning.  I actually slept in but I had a feeling that it would.  At some point after midnight last night we got so much rain, thunder, lightening, and wind that I would have almost sworn that there was a tornado.  It was really loud but I honestly fell asleep through it.  I could sleep through just about everything.  Even when I would fall asleep in the living room so that I would hear if anyone (i.e. my husband coming or from work) came in the door and I still didn't hear him most of the time.  It was just easier to just go to sleep in the bedroom since I didn't hear my hubby come home and if I am sleeping well he won't wake me up to move me.  Which is sweet.  As soon as I came into the living room I heard Love Bug making some whiney noises from her bedroom to let me know she was awake.  I always make sure that her bedroom door is closed at night because if no she would wonder around the house and enevidably end up in either my bed or her sister's and there's no telling what she will get into so it's just easier to go and close her door.  That way she'll get a full nights sleep.  But anyway back to the whole diet and weight loss thing.  I did what I set out to do I lost 0.8 pounds which put me at 239.9.  So right now I am at what I was at the end of the diet last week.  Whatever I lose today will just be extra so I am excited for tomorrow morning.  So that was the good.  The little bit of bad is that since it is Friday and I went yard saling I stopped and got a large vanilla coke zero.  But I don't feel to bad about it.  I have been eating a lot of ice.  And I'm sure it won't add too much.  Breakfast this morning was one small apple sliced, one slice of American cheese I tore into quarters, and 5 saltine crackers.  The calories for that meal was 221.

Pumpkin so wants to be so like me sometimes so she had to have the same breakfast that I did.  But if she is eating better I am not going to complain.  I have really tried with them lately.  I don't want to deny them the right to be kids and have some junk food but I try to limit to only once a day.  Like the day before yesterday they had a chocolate brownie for a snack so I gave them a frozen banana for dessert.  I know it's not going to be perfect but I am going to try.  Lunch was one slice of white bread toast and one hard boiled egg and one slice of toast.  It contained 130 calories and it was obviously a very light meal.  It's the only one I have on this diet that feels kind of small. 

And a plus, no burned toast today and the egg doesn't look as bad as yesterday's did.  After I took the picture I cut the egg up into really tiny pieces so that I would be forced to make more bites so that it would take more time to eat it.  So I only really have one more meal of my diet left. 

We went yard saling this morning.  It was fun.  We didn't get to leave until about 9 am.  But I went to go and get cash and then we started.  At the very first yard sale we found like a huge plastic bottle thing filled with cookie cutters for $2.  There has to be at least 80 in there and they are for all different seasons or no season at all just all kinds of them.  The only cookie cutters I have are Christmas and a few stars.  So I'm excited to be able to make some cookies with the girls that aren't Christmas themed and I don't have to wait until Christmas to do it.  However I want to try to find a recipe that maybe isn't too bad calorie wise.  If not we'll still make cookies but I probably will end up giving most of them away to my in laws and my neighbors.  I also got myself two books.  The Blind Side and Message in a Bottle. I loved the movie The Blind Side and Message in a Bottle was the first movie I ever cried to.  After that all the waterworks seem to spill out anytime someone else cries on tv.  If I see them cry most of the time I am going to start tearing up too.  The girls each got themselves a little toy and a Barbie doll.  That way they didn't come home empty handed when I got stuff.  I still haven't found a smaller kitchen table or a blender but I have been looking. 

I got to Skype with my best friend Debra today.  She just moved so I haven't been able to talk to her much.  Sadly the move wasn't closer to me :( But I'll be okay.  At least she gets on Skype now so we can actually see each other even though I hate seeing my face on there.  I always think I look horrible.  Looking down at a computer isn't the best angle so my hair always looks bad and my face always look HUGE. She texted me pictures earlier and they were really old pictures.  We were in 9th grade.  It was our last day of school and I can't believe I ever went out of the house like that.  There was a group of six of us that hung out together and we were all in it.  But it was so funny to see those pictures that I haven't seen since I was 14.  It's amazing how much has changed.  I mean the only one of us out of the six that are friends are me and her.  Every one went their own way.  I just couldn't believer how different everything was back then and we were the cool kids in our grade. It just brought back a lot of memories. 

I'll be back on later to tell you guys about dinner and about how much fun playing in shaving cream was.  Talk to you guys soon. XOXO

Yay Dinner Day 2

This is going to be short tonight.  I'm already getting tired, it's getting late, and my contacts are starting to bug me.  For dinner tonight I had 2 Jenny-O turkey hot dogs, one half cup of crinkle cut steamed carrots, one cup of steamed broccoli, and one half of a banana.  Plus all the water I can drink. 

Again using the small plates makes it looks like there is so much there and I wasn't hungry today really at all.  My stomach didn't growl once today.  The calories in the dinner are 241.  Then again I had ice cream but only one half of a cup this time.  The calories for that is 120.  So in total for the day I had 840 calories.  Which is 136 calories less than yesterday.  Yay!!  So here's hoping for 0.8 pounds lost for tomorrow.  I found that I ate so well on this diet last week going back to eating the crap I was eating before kills my stomach and I can't eat as much of it.  So that is always a good thing.  If my stomach shrinks then I will loose the weight and get my food portions under control.  Tomorrow I am going to be on my last day and I will eat the least amount of food.  Although the only meal that I really notice it at is lunch when I will only have one hard boiled egg and I believe either the toast or the crackers.  I'll have to look at the meals tomorrow.  This is honestly one of the better diets I have ever tried.  It's really not that hard to stay on.  I feel better while I am on it.  I during the day feel like I have more energy than I did before but when it is bedtime I get so tired that I fall out pretty easily.  No headache today even though I didn't have a drop of soda or tea. Just the water so awesome.  However if I don't go to bed soon there is a really good possibility that I will have a headache soon.  Tomorrow I get to work on our grocery list for the next two weeks which will be fun since I am going to take a week off of the diet.  I'm nervous but the hubby has the week off so tuna will be off limits so that's two meals that I would have to change.  But I'll be back on it the week after.  But I'll still be on here keeping you guys posted about the day to day things that go on or how I feel about things.  Talk to you guys tomorrow. XOXO

3 Meals, 3 Pictures

I really meant to get on here yesterday to talk about my dinner and dessert.  I really meant to but I didn't feel too well last night.  But I had dinner last night obviously.  It consisted of one 3 ounce turkey burger patty with no bread or condiments, one half of a banana, one small apple cut into slices, and one cup of steamed green beans. 

Oh and one cup of vanilla ice cream.  Since I used this small plate it looks like so much more.  I was stuffed after I ate this.  The dinner itself had 290 calories and the dessert had 240 calories.  So for an entire day I had 976 calories.  And that was the day that I get to eat the most.  So this morning I got up and weighed myself.  I weighed 240.7 which meant that I lost a total of 1.5 pounds which isn't that bad since I am kinda bloated right now.  Not because of the diet, because once a month, every month, I get bloated but I usually gain weight during that time so I am still very happy with losing over a pound.  So I had breakfast this morning consisting of one large egg scrambled, one slice of white bread toast, and one half of a banana.  This had a total of 179 calories.

The bread was less burned today woo hoo.  This still filled me up.  I was still full when it came time for lunch.  Which today lunch was one cup of fat free cottage cheese, one large hard-boiled egg, and five saltine crackers.  Lunch's calorie total was 300.  The one cup of cottage cheese is a LOT of cottage cheese so it's a good thing that I like it. 

I had a really hard time getting the shell off of the egg so that's why it looks so funky.  And you know you all want my Twilight cup.  I got that cup from the movie theater when I went to see breaking dawn 2 with Pumpkin and my little sister when she came to visit.  I'm not an obsessed Twilight fan.  I'm more of a Harry Potter fan but I do like the Twilight movies and I have read all of the books. But it is a huge cup.  It holds 6 cups of water so if I have that and drink from it all day and if I drink at least two of them I get the amount of water I need for the day.  So only one more meal today and then tomorrow and then I am done.  I so hope that I lose at least 0.8 today so that I can be where I was at the end of my diet last week and I'll still have another day to loose so that I am below that number.

I am so excited for the fourth of July.  We bought fireworks and have our shirts and bows ready and I am thinking of make deviled eggs with red white and blue stripes to take over to my husbands parents because that is where we set off the fireworks.  We are going to Dollar Tree today to see if we can find any poppers.  If the do I will get a bunch of them if not I am going to go to Wally World tomorrow and I know they do.  And since they are the girls' favorite we have to get a bunch.  The fourth usually entails us going to the nearest fireworks stand and getting more because we ran out too fast.  Plus we are very patriotic in our family.  A lot of the men in our family were in the military including my dad, my father-in-law, and my hubby.  Actually they were all in the Navy.  The all loved the time they were in.  We still wish we were.  My hubby has an uncle who was a Colonel in Air Force and my nephew used to be in a Marine, but it wasn't a good fit for him.  I am very proud to have family members who have served.  I even still watch those videos of soldiers and sailors coming home and surprising their families.  Those bring me to tears just about every time I watch them.  Of course I know what it is like to have my military family member gone on deployment and missing them and wishing they were back so bad and the joy when I got to see him again.  When my hubby was overseas on deployment, I was miserable at first but then I got busy and then I got proud that I was actually doing stuff by myself for the first time and then I broke my ankle and had to be in the hospital and somehow I got lucky enough that my husband got to come home for two weeks.  When he left we moved and then when he got back if I could have ran at him I would have.  But as it was I still had my cast on my leg.  So when I watch the videos I get transplanted back into that time when I missed him and how happy I was to see him.  But I gladly support all the troops and love the military.

But I will try to be back later to talk about my dinner.  Hope to see you there. XOXO

Breakfast and Lunch on day 1

Good I guess now here it is afternoon.  I had to eat a late lunch today since it consisted mostly of tuna and my hubby had to leave for work before I could eat that.  But anyway I weighed myself this morning and it was 242.2.  Lost 0.2 in two days but gained 2.3 in four days which isn't as bad as it could have been.  I mean I could have gained it all back and then some.  So while I wish that I didn't gain at all, it could have been worse.  But I had breakfast this morning and just like I promised there are pictures.  Breakfast was ones slice of white toast with two tablespoons of chunky peanut butter on it and one very small orange.  Plus a glass of splenda sweetened iced tea.

Okay the bread looks all jacked up because I forgot about it while peeling the orange so it got burned a little and I had to scrape the burned parts off and a little of the crust came off with it.  Besides I never claimed to be the best picture taker but at least I try.  And you know that you guys are jealous of my laminate blue countertops.  Oh plus my kick ass snowman ice cubes.  I know it's almost July and honestly I got the tray at Christmas a few years ago from the dollar tree and it's like one of those silicon trays and it is so much easier to get the ice out of there than a conventional ice tray.  But anyway back to the food.  The diet just called for peanut butter and I like chunky better.  I looked at the calories and they are exactly the same for chunky and creamy.  So I went with what I like.  Also I was supposed to have half a grapefruit but like I probably mentioned before I can't stand them.  Even trying grapefruit juice kinda makes me sick.  But with what I made counting the calories on my fitness pal online it came out to 286 and mostly from the peanut butter.  I probably would have saved even more if I had chosen to have whole wheat or reduced fat or another type of bread but that's what I have to get for my family so I had to adapt.  Besides it didn't specify what kind of bread.  Okay lunch was fun.  I had 1/2 cup of tuna just a little bit of mustard and a dash of Mrs. Dash and again one slice of toast.  Not burned this time.

 

 

Now it's water from now on for the next two days.  I really am not good with presentation.  But it's had to make one can of tuna and a slice of toast.  I didn't realize my lunch looked so yellow.  But I love these bowls though.  They look like cupcake cups and they came with matching spoons.  I got them from the dollar tree too.  Come to think of it so did the cup and the plate from above.  Seriously that is my favorite store.  The calorie count for just lunch is 160 calories.  So far today I've had 446 calories and I was only hungry because lunch had to be postponed. But that's okay since that just means I won't be that hungry when dinner gets here.  I was a little hungry but it wasn't unmanageable. 

 

I so don't want to clean up today.  Not that I don't have the energy I just know that it is getting kinda warm in the house since it is like 100 outside.  Even with a fan going in the living room it still says that it is 82 in the house.  What I really need to do is go through stuff in my bedroom but that is the hottest room in the house so I know that I am going to be sweating a bunch.  Although that isn't always the worst thing.  I still have my childhood wish of having a maid.  Probably even more now that I have kids and they make a big mess.  My dryer has been running today since I had to wash my sheets and blankets since Love Bug peed all over them.  I know it was an accident but I wasn't planning on washing those today.  But in trying to keep the house cool all of my blinds and curtains are closed so my house is kind of dark.  We only opened the door once when my hubby had to leave and he kind of ran outside so that we could close the door. 

 

But I will be back after dinner.  It will probably be a short post since I don't expect much to happen between now and then.  Talk to you guys soon. XOXO

Late again

I know, I know I'm late posting on here again.  Everyone felt better today.  Thank goodness.  The hubby is still a little weak and he had to go into work but other than that he felt pretty good.  Plus, no nightmares for the girls. Very happy about that.  We caught our fifth mouse this season.  They somehow found a way into the walls and then made a hole in Pumpkins room.  It sucks royally but we are going to get something to take care of the problem tomorrow.  Probably some steel wool and tape so they can't get back in.  I really don't like mice.  Thankfully I have only heard them running around but I haven't actually seen one except for on the trap.  I won't even take those out.  I make my hubby do it.  I just get too nervous that I think that they will somehow jump out at me.  I know if they could do that then they wouldn't still be in the trap they would have gotten free, but I just don't want to take that chance.  I really hate bugs too.  I made the hubby go and kill a bug that was sitting on my glasses I found when I went to take my contacts out for the night.  After he got the bug off and killed it I wouldn't even put the glasses on my face until they were thoroughly cleaned.  And of all bugs spiders are the worst.  I won't even go near one if I can help it.  My fear is so bad that I won't even look at the screen when in Harry Potter 2 they have the giant obviously fake spider on screen.  What's sad is that I have a lot of fears.  Bugs, Rodents, Snakes, Most rabid animals like opossums or raccoons, I have a fear of the dark.  That one really sucks.  I never go anywhere in the dark.  There haven't been very many incidence where I've had to turn on my lights because it was getting darker.  If I am in a new house I start shaking.  Even in this house that we have been in for almost a year I still have to go to sleep with the television on or I am awake for hours.  I have a total of 6 nightlights in my 3 bedroom house.  I can't see anything in the dark and my eyes never really adjust so I can never see where I am going or if someone or something is out there with me.  For a while when my hubby was on deployment I carried a knife around with me through the house for just in case and we lived in a very safe place.  Luckily no one has ever been hurt.  It's just kind of embarrassing being almost (boo) 30 and still afraid of the dark. 

I finally finished the patriotic bows today.  Here are the ones I made for Love Bug:

I'm going to put her hair in pigtails.  Her hair is so fine that really that is all I can do with it right now.  Pumpkin is my mini model for the bows so everyone can get an idea of the size.  Here is the one I made for Pumpkin:

This is more of a flag bow.  I made two of them I'm going to be doing her hair in like a two tiered pigtail.  We'll see how it goes.  I haven't tried it before.  Then there is the bow that I finally got around to making for myself today:

I hope they will look cute on the fourth considering how hard we have been working on our outfits.  Well.....Mostly theirs I didn't make a shirt for myself.  Just the bow.  I finally went through my craft cabinet today and got rid of the scraps and trash and leftover stuff I wouldn't use.  I had to make room for the girls' DVDs.  They really don't like to take care of them which I understand to an extent I mean they're kids.  It just gets annoying when they whine because they can't find the movie they are looking for because last time they watched it they don't take care of it.  So at that point it could be anywhere.  So we are implementing a system where she almost checks them out and can't get a new movie unless she brings the old one back in its box.  We'll see how well this goes over.  I know that I posted it on here before but the link to my facebook page so the you can see ALL the bows and jewelry that I have made is:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Elizabeths-unique-creations/287420431319927?ref=hl

You guys should come and check I'm about done for the night.  I am going to start on the diet again tomorrow so I will be on more than once and hopefully with some pictures of the plates of food.  Until then XOXO