A moment of frustration

My sister's gone vegetarian. Which is fine. Tons of people do it. She makes sure to get all her protein other ways.

But it still got me going on the thought that there are SO MANY 'diets' that require you to give something up. Give up meat. Give up carbs. Give up this or that. And I said, "If people just eat the food pyramid, we'd all be fine."

And I realized, thats a good idea. So that's what I'm doing. Its a heck of a lot easier to count servings than points.

I spent hours online trying to figure out a game plan. I finally came upon the Mayo Clinic... which I had heard of before. I was able to type in my weight, age, height, and they gave me more of a personalized food pyramid plan. I then typed up a monthly chart to hang on my fridge and keep track.

I also spent hours trying to find a food pyramid for kids Erica's age. Finally did find one for ages 2-6. So we bought her a dry erase board. I drew the pyramid on it, and in each section drew a sample food: piece of bread, brocolli, grapes, milk, chicken nugget, ice cream. She knows each of them, and so when she eats something she gets to put a dot in that spot. She's liking it. And I'm liking that she won't be eating junk all the time anymore.

I'm a horrible blogger

Yes, it is true. I am a horrible blogger. Not only do I neglect making regular posts, but I hardly ever visit my other blogging friends.

I've been conflicted over how I should be using my time. My sister told me that I REALLY need to work on my book and get it submitted soon. I have quite a bit written [somewhere between 120 and 180 pages, depending how it would be translated into book format], but still have so much to go. There's lots of plot points left to cover, and most books today are 300+ pages.

But yet, even with that in mind, I haven't been putting enough time into writing. Like I said, I've been conflicted, b/c adding into that mix is the fact that I'm a SAHM. My daughter needs attention and loving. I should probably be working more on alphabet and numbers with her. And, even though its been cold and rainy the past few days, the weather will be warming up, meaning more outside time.

Yes, conflicted.

I need to come up with a scedule and stick to it. I was originally thinking Mon, Wed, Fri work on book; Tue, Thur, and weekends [as permit] on blogging.

But as I sit here thinking, I'm realizing that that really isn't enough time dedicated to writing. It'll break the creative/writing process, taking days inbetween.

I won't give up my blog altogether. I may just have to say, once a week. Find an hour or two on weekends, perhaps, that I can dedicate to blogging. Maybe Sunday afternoons; Andrew has baseball practice and Erica takes naps.

I don't know what will happen, but I need to figure something out.

Not so good

Wow, my tonsils [or tonsels?] aren't looking too good. This morning, I had left a comment under my post at Adventures of Mommyhood that said I was doing better and that the white spots were gone.

Uh... Not so much. I guess this morning when I first looked, there wasnt enought light. Using a flashlight now, I can see back there and its horrid!

I'm having awful trouble eating. Swallowing is painful beyond description. So for breakfast I only had yogurt. [Of course, Light and Fit yogurt, sweetened w/ Splenda.] I tried sharing a banana with Erica, but it stung so bad.

Now I'm eating soggy Cheerios w/ skim milk. Woo-hoo for soggy cereal! And even that is stinging some.

I'm leaving for vacation in TWO HOURS!!! What am I gonna do?

Just pray, I guess, that these antibiotics kick in soon!


Vacation Goals:
-Make good food choices. [If I can actually eat anything!]
-Swim some laps in the pool w/ Andrew. [This depends, if Andrew's parents will watch Erica for a little while]

I feel AWFUL!

I think I'm getting strepp throat. Stinks.

If it continues to get worse, I doubt I'll be exercising b/c I'll just feel like crud. Not a good thing, but I'm being honest with ya.

I can still continue to eat according to WW points. In fact, it should make it easier b/c I wont feel like eating. Hence, no overeating.

Unfortunately, I'm supposed to go on vacation Wed night thru Fri night. I REALLY don't want to be sick for that.

Ugh.

Moving on... I haven't lost any weight this week. Granted, my scale STINKS and I can hardly tell what the arrow is pointing at. I really need a digital scale!!!

Goals:
-Eat according to WW points
-Try to spend some time outside every day. [It has been raining though]
-Not sure what to put as a third one... Wow, I'm really out of it!


[Gonna use this post as my Tuesday Check-In even though its monday]

overwhelmed

I've been overwhelmed with how many people have visited by my blog. Thanks!

When I was with Tales from the Scales, I didn't have that many visitors. But with Healthy You Challenge, so many have come by.

Thank You!

I've tried visiting most of y'all, but I have such limited internet time. I'll try to catch up with the rest soon!

Weight Watchers has been okay. I've been kinda lazy, which isn't good; I've been guessing points instead of really really keeping track. That's not a good thing. But I'm back on track today.


Goals:
-Continue eating allotted WW points. COUNT THEM ACCURATELY!
-Get enough sleep at night. I've spent some nights staying up until 3 AM reading books. Not good for me, b/c then I want to nap during the day, which takes away from being active
-Get outside at least once each day w/ Erica. Okay, so I haven't done too well with that, but in my defense its been rainy. But today we were out for awhile, even though it was chilly-willy

Weekend Whoopsie

Sometime soon, I'll write about my weekend over at A of M, so I won't give specifics. It'll suffice to say that Sunday was a BAD BAD day. We did so much traveling to NJ and back, which meant eating out.

Oops.

But Saturday had been great. And Monday was great too. [Technically its Tuesday; just a bit after midight.] So only one little setback.

Goals are:
1) Continue eating allotted number of WW points
2) Try to rest... I'm getting sick. This might be odd, to set a goal to take it easy. But I don't want to risk getting really really sick
3) Spend time outside w/ my daughter at least once each day

Back On Board!

You know, its much easier to blog about dieting than to actually do it.

That's what I had been doing. All those previous posts about joining online groups and whatever. Nope, didn't actually follow through.

I've done it now! Yippee!

I didn't really say anything on blogs or to other people, b/c I didn't want to jinx myself. But its been 3 weeks now. I've lost between 8 to ten pounds. [My scale stinks, so its hard to really tell. I need to get a digital one!] What caused the change? I'm not completely sure. I had a conversation with my sister, and I admitted how much I weighed. She was shocked! Told me that was just unacceptable and that I needed to do something about it. After a few days of thinking that through and convincing myself that it really was time to start, I DID! I kept pushing it off with lousy excuses: Its a pain to keep track of points; its so hard to start b/c I'll be hungry all the time; its impossible to eat healthy while living with my husband. But to my amazement, starting off was so easy!

My favorite indulgence? Turkey Hill's Fat Free / Sugar Free vanilla icecream with sliced strawberries. ONLY ONE POINT for a serving of ice cream! How awesome is that?!?!?

Tales from the Scales is now obsolete. So I'm joining in with the Healthy You Challenge. It looks like a similar blog, and I'm excited about joining in.