Another week another start to the diet

It's Monday and unlike normal I was actually on my diet today.  I started a new week for my diet.  Okay now for the apologizing.  I kinda flaked on day three last week and I haven't been on here since.  I have been super busy and I know that isn't an excuse but still.  Also I guess I didn't really have the drive to get on here.  I really should have it probably would have kept me on my diet more, but hey you live and you learn.  After I did the last day of my diet I weighed myself the next morning and I weighed 237.9.  That put my diet at helping me lose 8.4 pounds and brought me back down to my ending weight form the last time I was on my diet, before I was horrible for almost two weeks. 

 

On Friday we had a really big day.  We ended up doing 4 things on our list.  We played balloon Ping-Pong.  That was fun.  We mostly just threw the balloons at each other but Love Bug went and tried to beat everyone up with balloons.   We had a dance party that had to end with the Despicable Me 2 Minions singing the banana song.  We always have to listen to that song whenever we can.  After that Pumpkin made dinner.  We chose a recipe out of one of the Hungry Girl Books.  It was a Hawaiian pizza thing.  It called for English muffins for the crust, marinara sauce instead of pizza sauce.  She used 98% fat free ham and I cut up some pineapple.  We used a reduced fat mozzarella cheese to top it with and I just omitted the red onion since we don't like them before they are cooked and I don't want to cut up an onion.  After they are cooked I love onions.  I love how sweet they are and as long as they are soft they are delicious.  However the cutting them up part I hate.  I don't like the tears or holding my breath and they make my house stink forever.  But we baked the pizzas and Pumpkin did almost everything and she was so proud of herself.  They were delicious.  I would honestly say that I would make that dinner again.  She did a really good job.  I was glad that she had fun.  I kept them up a little late that night and I let them have a fun bath with glow sticks.  It was really easy and they stayed in the bath for a lot of time.  I just made the room dark and threw a few glow sticks into the tub.  They slept really well that night after we did all of those things. 

 

Saturday was pretty quiet.  We didn't do much but clean up and I went grocery shopping in the morning.  We stopped at McDonald's on the way back home.  We have had to stop there more often right now.  Our McDonald's has minion toys right now and our walmart doesn't even have those so the only way for Love Bug to have a minion to carry around is to go to get her a happy meal.  We also got a Ba Ba poster for her.  I put it above her bed so since then she has had to say goodnight to the Ba ba's before going to bed at night. 

 

Yesterday my hubby and I actually had some date time.  We dropped the girls off at his parents house so they could go and swim.  While they were doing that my hubby and I were going to go up to Michael's up close to the city but since we had to be back by a certain time to go to a certain movie we ended up not going quite as far and ended up at a goodwill store.  He got a golf club and I got a book and a couple of really cool things for my kitchen.  They are like shadow boxes with small little sculptures of wine bottles and a wine glass and the other has bread and groceries and spices and more wine bottles.  I am so going to have to take a picture of them and post them on here.  I found them for $4.99 a piece and I love them.  I kind of really want a French style kitchen with French decorations.  When we got back into town we went to the movies and saw Grown Ups 2.  We saw Grown ups in the theater when it was out and bought it when it came out on DVD.  The second one was better.  We were laughing almost constantly.  He got his popcorn and I got my normal nachos which I so shouldn't have.  I knew better and I didn't quite finish all of them.  Still after we went and got the girls we went back home and had dinner.  I had the last couple of pizzas. Afterward I got sent out for Dairy Queen which is so not on my diet but it was delicious.  I always get Mint Oreo blizzard.  I am the only one in the house that likes mint.  Pumpkin hates it with a passion and anytime I have something minty she always says "Mint yuck" and wrinkles her nose. 

 

So having done all of that and eating horribly I weighed myself this morning and I had gained 4.4 pounds.  I felt horrible and I know better but I can't seem to keep on the diet on my days off.  But as long as I keep going down I should be okay.  So this morning I weighed 242.3 which is a huge difference from when I went to the doctor a couple of months ago with bronchitis and I was exactly 260.  So yay for the little victory.  I had breakfast this morning of one slice of toast and two tablespoons of crunchy peanut butter and instead of the orange or the yucky grapefruit (because the grocery store was out of them) I had pineapple pieces.  Not too many only like a third of a cup sliced.  I had a slice of toast and a can of tuna with a little bit of mustard and Mrs. Dash for lunch.  Dinner was a probably less than 3oz. piece of chicken breast tenderloin, one cup of steamed green beans, one small apple sliced, and one half of a banana.  I had the normal one cup of vanilla ice cream for dessert.  I got plenty of exercise today.  A friend invited us over to go swimming at her pool today so we went and spent a few hours out there.  Granted I wasn't swimming back and forth the whole time but I did get my heartbeat going a few times.  We are going to go back tomorrow.  I am excited.  The girls are too. 

 

Well I'm going to go for now.  It's bedtime for the girls so I am going to go and do that.  I'll be back on tomorrow I promise.  XOXO

 

Day 2 military diet

I started day two of my diet this morning by weighing myself.  Yesterday I lost 3.1 pounds yesterday which is like yay.  So that gave me motivation to go on with day 2.  We didn't go and workout (aka run around with the girls) this morning.  My hubby was really sore and he knew he was getting ready to have a bad day at work.  But back to my point.  I had one scrambled egg, one half of a banana, and one slice of toast for breakfast.  Lunch was one cup of cottage cheese, one hard boiled egg and 5 saltine crackers.  Dinner was 2 Jenny-O turkey hot dogs, one cup of broccoli, one half of a cup of carrots, and one half of a banana.  Then the standard half of a cup of ice cream.  All of that for 840 calories.  But this is going to be short today guys I am honestly really, really tired.  So I will be back on tomorrow bright eyed and bushy tailed.  Talk to you guys then. XOXO

Military Diet Day 1 Take 2

So yesterday starting the diet so didn't work.  I had a major headache.  It felt like it radiated up from my mouth to beside my eye up and giving me a huge migraine so when my hubby asked me to stop and get KFC for lunch it sounded really good so I got it.  After that I just gave up the diet and had cheeseburgers with the girls for dinner with macaroni and cheese.  So yesterday was a bust.  Eventually my migraine went away and I felt bad for the food choices that I made.  But the only thing I could do is say that tomorrow is another day to start over.  So I did start over today.  We woke up early this morning and went to go workout.  Pumpkin and I started racing each other back and forth across the field.  So I definitely got a workout in.  I was sweating like mad and breathing hard.  When we got back home I had one slice of toast, two tablespoons of peanut butter, and one very small cutie orange all with one glass of iced tea.  Lunch was one can of tuna and a slice of toast with another glass of tea.  Dinner I switched up the usual.  Instead of a turkey burger patty I had a chicken breast tenderloin that I seasoned with pepper and garlic.  I didn't think to weigh it but I am sure it was less than 3 ounces.  It was pretty good and I got to use my new cooker.  Anyway with the chicken I had one cup of green beans, one sliced apple and one half of a banana.  Finally dessert was one cup of ice cream. Breakfast was 286 calories, lunch was 160 calories, dinner was 222 calories, and dessert was 240 calories.  All that made for a day with 908 calories.  My fitness pal yelled at me like it always does when I come in under 1200 calories.  But the bigger point is that I stayed with it today.

I promised you yesterday that I would put a picture on here of my new ready, set, go, express cooker that I got at a yard sale for $2.00.  Here it is:

This shows the two inserts but they both come out and there is a circle flat plate that is bigger.  But the one on here that is the two halves I used this weekend to cook the omelets.  The were delicious and they cooked really well.  The only real problem is that the non-sticky stuff is wearing off.  Also I can make little bites of stuff.  I really want to make stuffed mushrooms in there.  It came with the cook book and I honestly want to make most everything in there. 

I also wanted to post a picture of the cookies we made last week.  These are the firecracker cookies.

We today just finished the last two cookies and by we I mean the girls.  I cross my heart that I didn't have one.  While they were good I was proud of myself for being strong and not over eating them.  So yay me!!! 

Yesterday of our List of stuff to do we made Frozen Bananas.  No pictures because it wasn't really a picture kind of activity.  I cut up the bananas early in the morning and threw them in the freezer so when they were done with their dinner they could have their dessert.  Pumpkin ate all of them, but Love Bug left a little bit in the bowl.  But to be fair she's smaller and I gave her just about the same amount as pumpkin.  Today we went to the library.  We apparently chose the absolute wrong time to go because there was nowhere to park near the building.  Our library has only like five parking spots in front of it.  When we went inside we saw that they were in the middle of some kind of program and there were people dressed as pirates.  But the bad part is that there was a hoard of people in there.  But we toughed it out and the girls played and they each got a couple of books.  I got a couple books on blogging so hopefully soon I will figure out what I should do to get some followers or maybe just a little help to make this blog better.  I also got a book on ribbon crafts and a few other things.  All in all I ended up with like 6 books before I made myself stop.  I really do have a love affair with books.  It's kind of sad really.  I would almost rather read than do anything else.  Which is good right now considering I don't want to get overheated.  The hotter it is outside then the hotter it is in my house.  Inside it's 83 right now at 8 pm inside the house.  It's just the way our house is.  It sucks but what am I going to do about it.  So reading right now is a good thing. 

I will be back on tomorrow to talk about the diet and how it is going.  Talk to you then. XOXO

Back to military diet day one

Well as I predicted before this week didn't go as well as I would have hoped.  I did gain weight, but I was hoping that if I did it would only be around five pounds.  Well here I am Monday morning and I gained 5.7 pounds.  So it is bitter sweet.  I mean I am no where near where I started and I kept it in my goal so yay, but boo that I gained.  This morning I weighed 243.7.  And if you remember when I ended my diet last time I weighed 237.9.  Don't get me wrong losing just over 20 pounds in a few months is pretty bad ass but we had a lot of family time this week since the hubby was off and when we have family time it is more difficult to eat well since we are usually out.  Although I have noticed myself trying my hardest to make the better choices for me and my girls.  Even on the fourth instead of the candy and other crap they could have had I brought star shaped marshmallows instead since they love those and could devour them.  Also it has been 4 days and there are still cookies left that we made on the third.  That never happens.  That being said I did have a box of dark chocolate raisinettes last  night.  I am not really a big chocolate fan but I really like it with raisins.  And the dark chocolate ones have extra antioxidants or something.  However the second helping at dinner I knew was a bad idea as soon as I got up to get it.  But I am starting back on the diet this morning since my hubby goes back to work today.  So I'll get a late lunch but at least I will be feeling better. And I do.  Whenever I am on the diet I feel better not only about myself but health wise.  Since I have been on the diet I'm good while I am on it but as soon as I come off if I eat anything greasy or not really all that good for me my stomach hurts and I usually spend a lot of time in the bathroom.  So it's more advantageous for me to eat better.  Which is a good thing.  This works better for me.  I have read how some people don't like it and either don't lose weight or they only lose like 1 or 2 pounds but for me this is better than anything else I have ever tried. And I've tried my fair share along with all the diet pills on the market. I just never really had any significant weight loss or enough to make me want to keep going.  I get discouraged really easily.  I always want something to work the first or second time and when it doesn't then I'm usually done and trying to move onto something else.  But this came around and I decided to give it a try.  I haven't really been exercising while on it which I should but I am still losing a decent amount of weight and it seems for the most part to be staying off.  Or at the very least not gaining it back as fast as I should .  On Friday I got to go yard saling with my hubby and we found one of those ready set go machines for $2.  It's a really cool little gadget.  I will post a picture of it on here later but it is really kind of cool it cooks stuff faster and healthier with no oil and I made for dinner omelets in it with tomatoes, salsa, and cheese and they turned out great.  Plus it really helps with the portion size.  The timer is broken on it but hey as long as it still heats up I know that I can still cook with it. 

Well I'm going to go and get my breakfast.  I'll be back on later talk to you guys then. XOXO

Busy, busy, busy

I know I missed a day again.  But yesterday was a holiday and it's not like I have anyone on here actually following my blog.  It tells me that I have a big, fat zero under followers.  If I did have some I probably would have taken a few minutes to get on here. 

Yesterday was the fourth of July.  We woke up bright and early and I had to start making the deviled eggs.  The night beforehand we made cookies.  The firecracker cookies and they turned out pretty good even though I had the wrong size French vanilla cake box.  Anyway, so we started on the lower calorie sugar cookies.  I followed the recipe exactly and I didn't realize that they had to sit in the fridge for an hour.  So we did it and I let it sit in there for a little over an hour.  When I got the dough out and started to roll it I thought that it was weird because I had to work to roll it out since it kept on almost springing back to where it started.  But I stuck it out figuring maybe that was what was supposed to happen and they would be fine once they cooked.  So we cut out and decorated like 15 cookies and I baked them and noticed that they didn't really brown up but I was still willing to give them a chance.  When they finally got done I tasted one and it was sooooo rubbery.  Not that it tasted bad. I mean it wasn't horrible but I couldn't get over the rubbery feeling when I was chewing the cookie.  So that recipe is going into the trash.  Yesterday I made the deviled eggs that were red, white, and blue.  It took a little extra time but it wasn't too bad.  I had to hold the eggs into the water, vinegar and dye  since I didn't want to dye the entire egg.  But they turned out really good and the vinegar didn't effect the taste of the egg like I was nervous about.  Although when I planned on making them at first my in-laws were going to make burgers and hotdogs on the grill.  But those plans changed.  They decided, after I got everything for the eggs, to make spaghetti instead.  Now spaghetti and deviled eggs don't go together but I had already told Pumpkin about the eggs and she loved them so we made the eggs and took them out there and ate them with the spaghetti. 

But enough about food.  I mean I keep trying no to think too much about the food so I don't over eat.  I finally weighed myself this morning and I have gained.  It was 4.6 pounds but it's not as bad as I thought that it was.  I haven't been anywhere near as careful as I should have been.  We got a small pool from walmart so that the girls could swim a little bit since they haven't really been in a while.  They loved it.  The went out to the pool two times to play.  I just wish we could bring the pool to our house here.  They said that I could bring the girls out to swim in the morning, but it will probably be only on the weekends.  I only go out there once a week and that's enough.  But we lit the smoke bombs which are Pumpkin's favorite.  They have been since she was little and realized she could run around in the smoke.  We had a total of 36 smoke bombs.  We also had a bunch of poppers which were almost as fun.  Finally when it got dark we started to do the fireworks.  We got a pretty good amount and it was really fun.  Love Bug got scared of the noises but she was fine once she was inside staring outside the door.  We left right after the fireworks were done but we have to go back out today to clean up from yesterday.  We left a bunch of stuff out there.  But hopefully it won't take too long since we have a bunch of stuff to do at home.  I was hoping to get through some of our things and do a pretty much spring cleaning.  I throw more stuff away when my hubby is there.  We also have to figure out what we are going to do today from our summer fun to do list.  But mostly cleaning is going to get done. 

Well I'm getting off of here XOXO.

I missed another day

Any other week than this one I am on here at least once a day.  But since my hubby has this week off we have been going nonstop.  He wants to cram as much family time into this week as possible. Yesterday we were barely at home until it got to be the evening just before dinner. But my house still looks like crap.  It's amazing since we weren't even here most of the day.

We started out in the morning going to the 3.2 mile round trip bike path.  My hubby went for a walk and since the girls won't make it that far walking we played in the sports fields beside it.  They ran back and forth as far as they could.  They loved going down the hills.  But they got plenty of exercise and so did I following them.  Then we went for a short drive by the military base so that they could make the airplanes fart.  Okay, okay I know that is gross but it is kind of a tradition for us.  It started when Pumpkin was small.  My hubby loves airplanes and passed that love onto her and so he would drive by the airplanes and one day he asked if she could make them fart and now every time we pass by the airplanes they make them fart and then we all say who the fart is most like.  Then we went and looked at the camp site over here so that we could drive by and look at the campers.  Which is something else we like to do.  After coming home to change and get stuff ready we went to mark another thing off of our list.  We went to a further away park and had a picnic and let the girls play afterward.  Love Bug climbed the ladder which I didn't think that she was old enough but she made it all the way multiple times by herself.  I even got it on video.  After we left there we made an impromptu visit to a dealership that sells campers so that we could look inside them.  That is another thing we do every once in a while.  If we were rich we would absolutely go out and get a camper and then go on vacation more.  But right now it's just not in the cards for us.  When we finally got home it was around 4 and dinner is usually around 5.  So all we really had time to do was play UNO with Pumpkin. We just taught her the day before yesterday while we were waiting for the satellite to be set up.  She loves it and is already pretty good at it.  She loves to throw down her draw three's and wild draw four's.  I know it's normally draw two but my UNO set is Harry Potter themed and fluffy the three headed dog from Harry Potter 1 is on the card so it's draw three for the three headed dog. 

Today the plan is to make cookies from scratch.  We are going to make lower calorie sugar cookies, firecracker cookies, and for the hubby chocolate chip cookies.  Tomorrow I am going to make red white and blue deviled eggs.  I found on pinterest where you can dye the white part of the egg different colors after they are cooked.  My girls love deviled eggs and I thought that it would be really cute to make those.  They'll be gone before we even come home.  I also have a lot of cleaning this morning.  The guy that works on our house is coming by this morning to work on the light in our living room.  However we are thinking of getting some lamps and using those instead of the overhead lights because we have had to call him over a bunch of times for lights and he doesn't really fix them he just makes it so they will work for a little while.  The light in our closet has gone out like three times already.  He fixed the light in the bedroom once and now it's back to not working.  I swear it's not us.  If anything I try to be super easy on the lights so they don't break.  I just get so tired of calling him back once a week just to fix the lights because there is something wrong again. We also might go on a hike today.  Just for fun. We haven't gone on a hike in a few years.  Not since I was just barely pregnant with Love Bug.  I also need to make a schedule so that we can make sure that we do everything on our list.  Plus that way I know when I need to get something for it.

Well I'm going to get off here for now.  I'll try to get back on today or tomorrow. XOXO

Sorry about yesterday

I really did mean to get on here yesterday.  We had a really busy day.  I went grocery shopping and took both of the girls.  You parents out there with more than one kid know what a nightmare that can be.  Love Bug was yelling because she thought that it was funny and trying to grab everything both in the cart and off of the shelves that we got too close to. Pumpkin was trying to yell back at Love Bug thinking it was funny too, kept on running back and forth down the isles we were on and then most everything we passed she asked if we could have it and when I told her no she made a face until the next thing she wanted came along.  But I finally got out of there I got some poppers so yay.  It took me forever to find them.  Plus I got everything I need to make three different types of cookies.  I found a lower calorie sugar cookie recipe for sugar cookies that uses Splenda.  I also saw a recipe on pinterest called fire cracker cookies.  They looked really fun and patriotic and I wanted to make them last year but I didn't have the opportunity.  And finding the right color sprinkles this time of year was pretty much impossible.  Finally I got one that has a multicolor, brown, blue, and red white and blue sprinkles.  Then I am making chocolate chip cookies since that is my hubby's favorite. 

After lunch we went out to my in-laws house.  We wanted to make sure they didn't care that it was okay that we came over there and shot off fireworks on Thursday since we really can't do it where we are at.  While we were out there my mother-in-law kept telling me that Emily's cheeks were starting to get chubby.  That was kind of making me upset.  I mean I see her everyday.  Her cheeks aren't getting chubby.  If anything I think she is thinning out and losing some of her baby chunkiness. And I have been trying to have them eat better and healthier so when she says that the baby's cheeks are getting chunkier it kind of hurt. 

When we finally got back home for good I had to start cleaning the house.  I didn't do anything on Saturday so my house was a disaster.  It looked like a tornado went through it and left all of the girls' toys in the living room.  We are getting rid of cable tv and switching to satellite.  We will be paying less a month and my hubby will get the NFL Sunday ticket so he'll be able to watch all his Patriots football games this year and I will get a DVR for shows that we don't get to watch at night because my hubby works evenings and we like to watch certain shows together.  So we'll be able to see them pretty much new and skip the commercials and it won't be on a computer screen that is more pixilated.  Also the girls will have Disney Junior channel that plays their Disney junior shows all day and night.  The girls have been wanting to see a show on there that is only exclusively on that channel called Henry Hugglemonster.  So Pumpkin is getting a receiver put in her room. 

We tried to watch a movie after the girls went to bed last night called Mama.  We heard that it was really scary.  That it was the scariest movie that people have said they have seen in a while.  Well I beg to differ.  45 minutes into the movie I had not even jumped once.  My hubby and I were actually kind of bored.  I mean it was kind of obvious what was going to happen before it did.  So we ended up turning it off early and went to bed and I read more of my new book Inferno by Dan Brown.  It's the fourth book in the series and it starts out slow but once you get into it, it starts getting pretty good. 

But anyway that is why I didn't write on here yesterday.  For any followers that I may have I apologize but hey I've already been on here once today maybe you'll get a second time.  Talk to you guys soon. XOXO

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

Okay, okay

Okay, okay I know this is my first and only post today.  I am finding that the diet is the easiest to do in the last half of the week.  I didn't even have the option to start the diet today.  Last night for a lack of a better word SUCKED.  I finally fell asleep around 11.  About 12 Love Bug woke up crying her scared cry so that meant that she probably had a bad dream.  So she came into the living room to sleep with me and she is SOOOOOOOO not the easiest person to sleep with.  She kicks and rolls constantly.  Not even long enough for me to fall asleep.  The most sill she stayed was when I had to get up a little bit later.  Anyway about 3 am Pumpkin wakes up and comes in the living room to tell me that she has had a nightmare too.  Since I already had Love Bug on the couch with me I told Pumpkin she could turn on her television to comfort her to sleep.  About that time I can see my bedroom light come on and I think that they have woken my hubby up so I go in there to apologize and find out he had been getting sick for a little while.  So basically I was awake since around midnight.  My hubby finally stopped getting sick around 6 am.  So being tired anyway I didn't think that today was a good day to start.  Plus my hubby was so sick he didn't go into work and with him here I can't eat tuna.  He can't stand the smell of it.  Seriously whenever I have it I have to make sure I spray febreeze everywhere and take a shower and brush my teeth like twice.  I take the can of tuna outside, wash all the dishes that had tuna on them and make sure the counters are clean.  It's better if I can open up the windows but right now that isn't an option.  It's been constantly in the 90's and just so muggy that I try to keep the house as closed and dark as possible to keep out the heat but it still gets kind of warm. 

I weighed myself today and I had gained 2.4 pounds.  Not as bad as I thought or as bad as it could be.  I will weigh myself again on Wednesday when I start the diet.  I will have to take a week off because my hubby thankfully has the week of the Fourth of July off.  I am so excited.  We went and got some fireworks to set off.  We always have to get a bunch of smoke bombs and the little poppers that you throw on the ground and they make a snapping noise.  Pumpkin has always loved running through the smoke bomb's smoke.  Ever since she could walk she would go in a circle around the smoke bomb laughing and cackling.  Still even now.  Love Bug can actually join her this year.  Last year she was barely 1.  I think she will enjoy a lot more now. 

I made both of the girls two matching bows each.  I will try to post them on here tomorrow.  The really turned out cute.  I am so excited for them to wear their new bows.  Both of them are so different, but they are both made out of just the red, white, and blue ribbon I got.  When I make bows I am so glad that I have two little girls who get to wear them.  They are mostly who I have made them for.  I have only sold a handful of bows.  I would love to sell more, however. I don't want to used a site like ebay or etsy that make you pay a fee for your items.  I only really sell them for at the most $5 each so by the time the site takes out their fee I am barely left with any profit if any at all.  Plus I am still at the beginning stages of making bows, there are still a lot of techniques I don't know yet.  I try to make different types of bows so that I can learn and have a variety of different types for potential customers to choose from.  I try to sell them on facebook but it seems that even when I post on the site I still only have one or two people like my page, but don't order anything.  Honestly I would love to have enough orders that it would take me more than one day to complete all the orders I have.  The very first person who ordered a bow from me kept in contact because she said that her mother-in-law used to make bows and had some extra craft supplies that I could have.  After a few months she asked me if I could make a couple bows for a charity auctions she was putting together and I didn't mind so up until I had to give her the bows she kept telling me that her daughter hid all the stuff and she couldn't find them.  At first I was like okay, whatever, she was giving me them for free so if it took a while I wasn't going to complain.  Well, that was the last time I had heard from her and then all of the sudden on facebook she posted pictures of some bows that she made.  Now it didn't bother me that she made the bows or even that she used the stuff her mother-in-law didn't use anymore.  What did bother me is that she lied about it.  If she had said that she had changed her mind that she wanted to keep it to try her hand at it then I would have been okay with it.  The bows she made were very different than the ones that I made.  I really don't understand why she lied about it.  I know I was not, am not, and will not be the only person to make bows.  Everyone's styles are different so no two bows are the same.  But since I don't feel the necessity to lie to people or break promises I kind of hope people who after they have met me would show me the same courtesy.  I know that it is not the way it goes.  That a thought like that is naïve.  It just kind of upset me.  But it usually does when that scenario presents itself.  It's like when we moved into this house it was covered on the inside with cobwebs.  The people who lived here before had moved out a while before we got here and her uncle paid the rest of her rental agreement money while she was gone.  Then when the lease ran out they went ahead and changed all the carpet in the house and the linoleum in the bathrooms and entrance.  However, there were cobwebs and dirt and dust and even the walls needed washed when we moved in.  When we were first looking at it they were in the process of getting ready to change the carpet and the linoleum so we thought that they would at least clean it up before we moved in.  We were very mistaken.  If I were the Landlord or responsible for a property and a new family was going to move in I would make sure that the house was cleaned well.  No matter how long it took or how many long nights it took I would be embarrassed if someone moved into a filthy house that I was responsible for.  I even before we move out of a house make sure the house is cleaned to the best of my ability.  Every floor is vacuumed, swept, mopped all surfaces wiped including the windows, all fans dusted.  Anything I can clean up I do.  I expect it clean when we move in so I try to leave it as clean as possible when we move out.  So anyway I just wish some people would show me the same courtesy that I would show them. 

Today was relatively uneventful.  I didn't do much since my hubby was sick and like most men he needed taken care of all day.  We didn't go anywhere and I got my cleaning done early so that I could make the bows this afternoon.  The only person I talked to on the phone was my mother and that was only for less than five minutes.  I went out to the car but only to get a cd that we needed inside.  Even though I didn't get much done I felt like I was busy all day long.  Probably because it took more energy because I was so tired.  Even now my eyes are drooping but it didn't feel right to miss a day on here.  I kind of makes me feel good to see that people whom I don't even know reading my blog.  Feel free to leave comments I would love to hear from you guys.  Any tips or pointers or what I do that you like.  I'll be back on here tomorrow.  XOXO

Just Today

Well I didn't weigh myself this morning, however, I will tomorrow and let you guys know how much I have probably gained.  I'm nervous.  I have tried to be good today.  I have had a slim fast shake and a mostly veggie sub sandwich, but I always worry when I am not on the diet.  When I am on it I know I am losing so off I get more nervous.  Today has been pretty uneventful.  My hubby decided to go golfing today which I am okay with because he loves to golf and while it is something that I really don't know how to do it gives him something that he can go and have some guy time and do.  He says that he wouldn't mind teaching me so that we can play together but I am not sure.  I mean not that it wouldn't be good to learn something for us to do together but in a good marriage you need something that the two of you can enjoy separately.  My hubby is very big on family.  He spends as much time as he possibly can with me and the girls.  He only gets to play golf roughly once a month and I don't think that it is too much for him to have a one thing that doesn't have anything to do with me and the kids. 

Anyway, after he left I finally finished making the fourth of July t-shirts for the girls:

I tried to make red and blue almost fireworks around it.  Honestly the pictures don't really do the shirts justice.  I think they turned out really good.  Even if they just wear them the once they were worth it.  Pumpkins shirt will be huge on her but she will be able to wear it a while.  Even for the next year or two.  It was the only shirt close to her size they had at the dollar tree.  It's a small.  Love Bug still has a little bit of the paint left in her hair from a couple of days ago. 

I finally got ahold of my best friend Debra this morning.  She is moving this weekend so it has been next to impossible to get ahold of her.  We have honestly been best friends since I was a freshman in high school when I changed schools when my family moved.  So that would be all of about 16 years now.  There was a group of about 6 of us that hung out together and she and I are the only ones who still talk to each other.  We had lost touch for a couple of years after high school .  She had her oldest son and then I got married and moved away.  But then all of the sudden while My hubby and I were trying to take a mattress up the stairs in base housing all of the sudden I got a call from a mutual friend at the time and there she was again.  Since then We have pretty much always talked.  Although a lot of the time it is hard to get her on the phone and she'll go through times when it will be a month or more before we talk again but we just sit there and pick the conversation back up like we never left it.  We haven't actually been able to see each other since about a year after I graduated high school.  She says she's going to finally be able to visit me in February.  I really hope she does.  I really miss having her around.  Especially when female friends are so scarce around here.  I may have one that I can talk to, but it's different with a best friend. 

This is a pic of all the water balloons that we took outside.  They took forever to fill up but the girls had fun throwing them everywhere.  I picked up some red, white, and blue ribbons from the store today.  I really need to stay on it and make the girls 4th of July hair bows to go along with their shirts.  I am actually excited again I was looking on some websites for ideas and I think I got a few and not just patriotic ones.  Well I'm going to go. I'm getting ready to make stuff for our pizza party. I'll talk to you guys tomorrow. XOXO

Final weigh in

I weighed myself this morning and woo hoo I lost 1.5 pound which is exactly what I was hoping for.  So in three days I lost 2.9 on day 1, 1.1 on day 2, and 1.5 on day 3 for a grand total of, drumroll please............. 5.5 pounds.  Not too bad considering I didn't really exercise. It's not 10 pounds but I'll take it.  However if I go and weigh myself tomorrow it probably won't be good.  I can almost guarantee that I would gain weight.  We had breakfast at Burger King.  That KILLED my stomach it has hurt for most of the day.  For lunch I had a grilled classic chicken sandwich.  I got the meal and gave the fries to my husband.  I stopped and got a small bag of twizzlers for the movies and I had about a cup full of leftover taco salad.  I am done for the day.  I feel so stuffed.

Our trip to the city was okay.  I mean we forgot the stroller and it is so hard to take the kids in places. They are the types to have to run around and touch absolutely EVERYTHING.  Plus yell at each other while they are doing it.  So walking through Best Buy wasn't that much fun.  Then we went to Barnes and Noble.  I love books.  I could honestly spend all day looking around and browsing around a bookstore.  For multiple days in a row I could go back and still never see or get to look through all the books I want to see.  Even the little book area in Wal-Mart I tend to avoid because I almost never leave that section without a new book.  But lately I have been on a mission to find one book in particular.  The Hungry Girl Happy Hour Cookbook.  I don't drink a lot unless it's socially and even then I only get barely tipsy.  But this was the one book I didn't have and my bestie is supposed to come and visit me in a few months and she likes to party more than I do.  So this way I'll be able to try a couple of drink recipes.  Plus there's a huge chapter on appetizers.  I so could have used that a couple of weeks ago.  But, I'm so excited I finally found it.  Now if it wasn't $15.00.  But I had to get it.  I searched everywhere and that has been the general price of it.  After that we went to the mall.  We only went into a couple of stores.  Game Stop because my husband was looking for a game and Petland.  We don't have any pets and aren't allowed to have any where we live but I miss having a pet.  I used to have a St. Bernard.  She was my puppy I did and still do love her very much.  Her name was Daisy and my parents bought her for themselves when I was 17.  However they went through a divorce and I moved out and Daisy never liked my father.  She always was a good judge of character even as a puppy.  She would always tear apart his stuff and leave the rest of our things alone.  So when he decided to move away and take the older dog with him I gladly took Daisy. It was just me and her for about a year. I didn't go anywhere except for work and to the grocery store without her.  She protected me and I really knew that my hubby was the one when the first time she met him she loved him immediately.  She would get more excited to see him then see me.  Then after we got married and moved up to Maine she tagged along and kept me company when he went on deployment.  I always felt safe in the house by myself with her in it.  Even when she accidently broke my ankle when we were out walking in the snow.  She was just trying to play and it wasn't her fault my foot stayed planted when she spun me around.  Then we moved here and I got pregnant and we went through some hard times and didn't have a lot or a place for her to run.  It took me months to find a place for her because I refused to take her to a shelter. I had to know that if I couldn't have her someone did that would give her lots of love.  Eventually I did and I felt horrible.  I still miss her terribly even though I try to play it off and say that I didn't like her whenever I am feeling really sad about it.  My hubby obviously sees right through it.  But anyway we went to Petland so that the girls could see the puppies. The love looking at the puppies there. 

This afternoon Pumpkin and I went to go and see Monsters University.  That was a really cute movie.  And it was cool that it was just me and Pumpkin.  She had fun.  There were plenty of funny parts and they showed previews for Smurfs 2, Despicable Me 2, a My Little Pony movie, and a new movie called frozen.  The preview was pretty funny.  The next movie that we are going to go see is Grown Ups 2. Hopefully we can get my hubby's parents to watch the kids for a couple of hours.

Dinner and Dessert Day 3

Okay, okay I know this post is a little later than usual, but I have a good reason.......I was busy cleaning and being a mom.  We went out today and had a water balloon fight.  The aqua ball was fun but it lasted all of two water balloons.  After that all they wanted to do was throw them at each other and me.  We had about 70 balloons filled and to get them in the spirit as soon as I got the balloons outside I busted one on the top of Pumpkin's head to soak her.  Then it was all out war we kept throwing at each other and mostly missed so they popped all over the ground.  But they had a blast and that is all that matters.

Down to dinner: I had one cup of tuna with just a little bit of mustard and Mrs. Dash seasoning since it is allowed and one half of a banana. To be honest the banana wasn't my favorite part.  It had gotten way too ripe.  I'd almost rather not have it but I didn't want to mess with the system and I wanted true and honest results.  Then I had the one cup of ice cream.  And frankly I haven't been hungry at all really today.  My stomach has growled a couple of times but it kind of surprised me since I didn't feel hungry.  It was nothing like my hunger from yesterday.  Before I finally got lunch yesterday not matter what advertisement for food I saw I wanted it.  And I had to go to the store to get the cottage cheese.  Even the deli smelled wonderful whatever they were cooking.  It felt like I either heard or saw 1000 different things to eat.  I could smell the fast food restaurants as I went by them.  I was strong and I didn't stop but I really wanted to.  I realized after a little while that earlier I went off on some tangent when I said that I cheated today.  I forgot to say how I cheated.  Whenever I go yard saleing I stop and get us drinks from sonic.  My husband is a definite soda addict.  I am too, just not as much.  But I stopped and got my vanilla coke zero.  It tasted soooooo good.  And I am also addicted to chewing ice and Sonic's ice is just at the perfect size for that.  But hey ice is water so I count that. 

We had a fun time potty training today.  Love bug had a diaper (butt) on for a lot of today.  She managed to go into her closet and poop on her floor when I was calling her to put a butt on her so that we could take a game back to the movie rental place.  Pumpkin was the one that found it.  She had to tell me about it while holding her nose. 

So now as promised our list of summer things to do:

1. Make 4th of July shirts
2. Slumber party with the girls
3. Make countdown to Pumpkin's Birthday
4. Picnic in the park
5. Balloon Ping Pong
6. Make homemade blizzards
7. Play out in the rain
8. Kids plan diner night
9. Dessert for dinner
10. Go to the movies
11. Handprint art projects
12. Get pedicure with Pumpkin
13. Play in the mud
14. Make cookies from scratch
15. Homemade pizza party
16. Have bubble bath eruptions
17. Go on a hike
18. Make an end of the summer scrapbook
19. Favorite movie marathon
20. Make homemade icees
21. Write and mail letters to Grandma
22. Make Kool-Aid bath paint
23. Make take home craft kit from the store
24. Make our own bouncy balls
25. Disney movie night with matching treats
26. Glow in the dark bath
27. Make frozen bananas
28. Draw in shaving cream
29. Glowing puffy paint
30. Eat diner outside
31. Fun bath with lights
32. Build a fort in the house
33. Nighttime bowling with glow sticks
34. Make baked cotton balls
35. Makeover night
36. Canvas wall art
37. Go to the library
38. Pillow fight
39. Make scented cloud dough
40. Water Balloon fight
41. Make glow dough
42. Drive in movie with cardboard boxes
43. Finger Paint
44. Make cupcakes
45. Glowing bubbles
46. Make flubber
47. Do face painting
48. Camping in the yard
49. Make s'mores bites
50. Shaving cream slip-and-slide
51. Go bowling
52. Go cloud watching
53. Dance Party Play salon
54. Have a pillow fight (I know I know it's the second time it's on here..sorry)
55. Have black light fun
56. Watch fireworks
57. Make foam dough
58. Disney movie marathon
59. Go to the park
60. Take lots of pictures

So there it is. The whole list.  All 60 items.  It was so hard to finish getting all of that list I got different colored markers and made three lines down a piece of poster board and then I did twenty things in each column.  With a box beside each one so that when we finished one Pumpkin could check it off.  But it's on here like I promised.  But now it's getting kind of late and I'm probably going to bed soon.  Just a warning I will probably only be on here once tomorrow as we are going out of town and we always spend family time together on the weekend.  I don't even talk on the phone that much.  Family time is very important to us.  So until tomorrow. XOXO

Breakfast Day 3

So I woke up this morning with my back killing me.  I've had back problems for the past 14 years since I fell when I was 15.  Plus it probably doesn't help that we have had our mattress for almost 10 years so it is way time to get a new one.  Be that as it may if it didn't cost an arm an a leg for a decent mattress we would get one.  It's going to be one of those purchases that we are going to have to save up for.  Until then I just have to keep going out to sleep on the couch when my back can't take the bed anymore.  I weighed myself this morning.  I lost 1.1 pounds.  Not as much as yesterday but hey I'm not going to feel bad about that. Weight loss is weight loss.  So in two days I've lost 4 pounds.  I highly doubt that I am going to lose the promised 10 pounds but as long as there is some weight loss I will be fine.  Now hopefully I will keep it off.  Well the third days food is by far the least amount.  For breakfast I had one sliced up apple, 1 slice of American cheese, and 5 saltine crackers.  For lunch which I will have when I get off of here I am going to have my lunch of one hard boiled egg and one slice of white toast.  It so doesn't seem like it is enough. I really hope that I don't get a migraine again today. 

I have cheated today a little though.  Every Friday morning I take the girls and I go yard saleing.  There is always a few things I look for like cheap crafting items and a few weeks ago I needed a different stroller that was taller before our vacation. I found one for $4.00 that was taller and the only problems were a few stains and some of the padding on the top bar were coming off, but it is pretty good and it is working for what we needed it for.  I don't have to bend over to push it.  Next I'm looking for a blender.  We honestly don't use a blender that often but there are a few things on our list that I need a blender for.  I have one of those one cup blenders but it just won't be big enough. 

Tomorrow we are supposed to go up the city just so that we can get out of town and hang out and then when we get back Pumpkin and I are going to go to the movies to see Monster's University.  Love Bug isn't big enough for the movies yet or else we would all go.  I'm probably going to stop and get something for the theater beforehand. My diet won't allow the nachos which is what I usually get and I really don't want to spend $4.50 on a box of chocolate covered raisins or twizzlers.  I just don't like popcorn so that isn't even an option.  Luckily we live close to one of those really nice theaters with theater seating. So we have the nice big seats with the moveable arm rests and plenty of room for our feet and bigger screens.  I'm so excited for us to go and spend time together just me and her.  For us it's important to spend time one on one with each of our kids when we get the chance so that they feel that they are both special to us.

I haven't decided exactly when I am going to do the diet next week.  The beginning of the week or the end. I will be better next week when I do the diet.  I'll input in the calorie counts of everything and I'll probably even take pictures so that you all can see exactly what I'm eating.  When I get on here later I'll post the list of summer stuff we plan to do so that maybe you guys can get some ideas for a summer to do list for your families.  See you guys soon.  XOXO