10 pounds by March 19! Can She Do It & other random thoughts!

Back Story: Hubby surprised me with a trip to Long Beach area for a fundraiser benefit dinner dealio. He's gone to it the last couple of years and last year determined that wives were invited this year.

He was planning to surprise me with this trip on Valentine's day, which IS surprising since I'm not a big fan of surprises. Well, I should say I wouldn't have been hip to the idea if he'd say, sprang this on me within a week of the trip! As it turns out, he was planning to let me know on Valentine's day. However, he recently invested in a fancy wireless printer so that we can more easily share the printer. However, the printer is in my office, so I saw things like airplane reservations with my name on them, a flier for the benefit dinner event, etc.

Why does all this matter & what does it have to do with weight loss? Well, I'm still lingering around 190. The other "wife" in this equation, was preggo the same time I was and has recently shed 90 pounds! That is not a typo. She's not big on exercise so she's done it purely with her diet. She's now posting daily diet tips on her Facebook. While I am very happy for her, I am not looking forward to standing next to her size six self at this event.

I know there is no way I will EVER be a size 6 again and I'm fine with that. What I CAN do, is seriously commit to drinking my minimum water every day, taking my fiber and detox tea, and doing some form of exercise every day! Mostly that will be my Wii because I can keep better track of it. Plus, the weather's been crappy and not very conducive to walking.

Other random thoughts:

I was feeling quite depressed this morning. I won't get into details, but I have a lot going on right now that would cause a person to have such feelings. It's no suprise and certainly not considered "clinical depression" because it is due to overwhelming circumstances, not a chemical imbalance in my brain. Anyway, so I was having some really ugly thoughts and comtemplating a donut or six...I took a break and got a small bite to eat (love them Lara Bars!), and started up the Wii Fit Plus.

Wow! What a DIFFERENCE! (Side note: My Wii fit age was significantly higher today than earlier in the week. I find that interesting considering the difference in my mental/emotional state between the two fitness tests! Just sayin'!)

So I'm not meeting my commitment 100% yet, but every day I am drinking more water and have exercised more days than not this week. That's a pretty good start. Oh, I'm also down almost 3#, according to the Wii scale. I think I like the Wii scale better than my bathroom scale! Not just because it reflects a lighter weight, but it shows improvement even when my bathroom scale seems to report the same numbers!

There ya have it. I'll try to post more often!

Gonna boogie my way...

From a size 18+/2XL to a size 12!
Hubby got me the Just Dance 2 Wii game. I've been on the mild program for a week and am exceeding the objectives.
It is so much fun. It gets a little embarrassing shaking my sigurd in front of Hubby and/or Chuck, but a mama's gotta do what a mama's gotta do.

Today I even danced with Munchie. I tried to get her to follow along, but she didn't quite get it. it won't take her long though! She's a sharp cookie!

Getting back in the Wii of things.

My goal last week was to do one 10 minute Wii work out each work day. I figured I can take a much needed break and do something good for myself. The idea was to then build and add 5 minutes once I got in a routine...Well I did two workouts last week. They were both over 10 minutes.

Baby steps, baby steps!

Oh! Hubby has also changed from a Venti to a grande Starbucks, sugar free, fat free, no whip! Yeah! I'm so proud of him! Small changes are sustainable changes!

Pedometer malfunction

Google maps shows safeway as. 7 miles away. Pedeometer measured 700ish steps round trip including shopping (.25 miles). Sooo irritating! It was $20. I paid extra for better clip, which is still falling off, and different modes like steps, distance & pulse.

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I dont always get it right....

Im still working on the water thing. I got a couple of containers from BB&B to help with that. I'm not at 8/day yet but I am drinking more water than before.

I got a pedometer from work but it fell off. Now I have a new one that clips on & put the tether on it.

This morning I was faced with the choice between light maple flavored syrup & "the good stuff." 200 calories or 40? I chose 40. I didnt even look at the real mapke syrup in the cupboard. I know it isnt much, but Im celebrating every small victory these days.

~*~Sara~*~
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You know it's time...

...to get back on the Wii Fit wagon when:

- You and hubby BOTH mistake your khaki shorts for his (he's 6' tall and weighs 300+)
- You look at a pic of yourself with your daughter and your initial thought is "Who's that chubba bubba holding my daughter?"
- You tire of mom and mom in law commenting about being around long enough to watch daughter graduate, get married, etc...because you know they're right.
- You discover thanks to a "lame" health screening program at work, that not only are you obese (I prefer "pleasantly plump"), but your cholesterol is high.
- Your doctor says "You're under 200..." as if that's a good thing.

We are back to menu planning, with the help of http://www.sparkpeople.com. My goal will be to drink my 8 cups of water/day...I even havea handy dandy app on my iPhone that helps me track it. That is my goal for the next week. Starting Sunday my goal will be 15 minutes on the Wii Fit three times a week. Any "Avon walks" (distributing Avon materials while walking with my munchkin) will be bonus and not replace my Wii workouts.

Thanks for sticking it out with me! I'll send my current weight via email later. I didn't pay any attention to what the nurse said at my physical this morning.

Thought Provoking Quote

"If hunger isn't the problem, eating isn't the answer." ~ author unknown

This quote came to me in a newsletter from a friend of mine in Wisconsin who has lost a bunch of weight. She sends updates on her weight loss journey to her friends and family on just about a weekly basis. She also started a challenge for her chubby buddies who also want to lose weight. We all send our weekly weigh ins to her. She sends tidbits of motivation and encouragement, and sometimes includes a healthy recipe.

This quote showed up on a particularly timely email from my friend. My husband and I had just spent the previous evening, eating our cares away. Granted, it was sushi, which for us was a relatively healthy path. The unhealthy part of the sushi-fest was the motivation behind it: we basically took a one-two-three punch in the gut that day when we discovered the house we've been trying to buy since last June (we've been renting it, the owner is in over his head, we put in a short-sale offer, which took B of A six months to approve...our Realtor at the time was incompetent, etc.). We also learned that same day that our plan B and plan C home options were no longer available to us.

To "solve the problem" (drown our sorrows) we bought over $100 in sushi "appetizers." We knew it was wrong, we knew it didn't solve our problem, but we did it anyway. Actually we never really stopped to think about it. We just knew we were devastated.

When I read that quote the next morning, it really hit home. Hunger was not our problem that night, and $100+ of sushi certainly didn't get us the house we've been working so hard to buy for the last several months. Also, in the grand scheme of things, not getting the house is NOT that big of a deal. We are both relatively healthy, as is our beautiful daughter. Things could be a LOT worse.

The GOOD news is, I have a very vivid situation in my mind that I will hopefully return to in bad times. I try to remember "hunger is not the problem, so food is not the answer here."