We've got this lovely expensive camera and yet we still can't manage to get a photo in focus! I don't know if that's because the girl is always moving or we are just really bad at taking photos with an auto-focus camera. (How can you be bad when the camera focuses for you?)
Anyhow, this was E heading to school last week. We put on the new coat but she put on the hat. Now that she can put them on herself, she likes to wear them. We had to laugh because she looks like an old British lady. ;)
The irish contingent are upstairs while I am working. E is with them and I can hear the irish music and E dancing away. She gets this look of concentration on her face when she's dancing (since it involves doing a circle) but she loves it. She is hilarious. Needless to say, the endless clapping for her isn't hurting her ego one bit! She should be fun to be around when her grandparents head home in a month! NOT!
I debated mentioning this or not because I've gone down the weight loss path before on the blog only to quit once I started to make some good headway. (Beware, posting poundage can be hazardous to your health). Anyway, last January I started watching what I was eating and cutting out alcohol. By the end of March (February), I had lost 15 pounds (from 195 to 180). Because that was my pre-baby weight, I guess I thought it was an okay benchmark, in which to adjust my eating and went back to a normal sort of eating pattern. For the last 2 months I have held steady at 180 with workouts and limited drinking, not snacking too much. Two weeks ago I decided to join We1ght Watcher$. I had been debating for a long time about what the best course of action would be for someone having a problem with how much food she eats, rather than WHAT she eats. I have been too comfortable for too long with this number on the scale... telling myself that I still look fine... that I hadn't weighed what the guidelines suggest I weigh for years.... but I also knew that if I kept going the way I have been going, I'd be 200 pounds before you know it. It used to be that 180 was my upper limit but 200 became the upper limit when I was pregnant. See how easy you can move the bar up?! Anyhow, my 10% goal, which WW uses as the first benchmark regardless of what you need to lose, will take me to 162. I haven't weighed 162 since I don't know when. My head can't even wrap around the number 162! I have to change that line of thinking because we all know the power of positive thinking. I WILL BE 162! And possibly less than that. Who knows? I know I have a lot of work ahead of me. And besides the work, I have to think of it as a change of lifestyle, which has always been the hard part... but should not be impossible! Wish me luck!
And by the way, I probably won't be mentioning the weight loss but will put a little calendar at the bottom of each post to record it for myself. :)
5/14 180.4
5/21 176.4
Friday, May 23, 2008
another day in the month of may....
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I've been thinking of joining weight watchers to get that last 20lbs off. I kinda stopped working at it over a year ago and I'd really like to get to my goal.
Little E is so darling. I think I wrote this in one other recent comment, but we need to schedule a barbeque or something.
Oh my. She is growing up so quickly. I know I keep saying that, but I'm just constantly in awe.
Good luck with the WW thing. I'll be watching to see if it helps. My eyeballs just popped out of my head this evening when I saw 139. (But remember I'm almost a food shorter!)
Goodness she's too adorable. I love the pose (and the hat, of course). And when you're that cute, having a large ego is not a problem.
Good luck with the weight stuff! Email me if you want any ideas, or if you want me to send you some of those smoothie recipes.
E is growing so fast. I had to laugh at your old British lady comment. So true! hehe She needs a clutch handbag. :p
I saw on some channel that you use calories each time you drink a cup of ice cold water. Your body uses calories to warm the water to body temp. Its not a lot of calories but they said that if a person were to drink two glasses of ice water each day(without changing their diet), they'd lose two pounds a year.
I know the number is small but don't they say the average American gains about a pound a year?
Since the radioactive therapy worked, my metabolism is low so I have to exercise to just eat normal. I've gotten use to overeating when my metabolism was way high. I hate the change but I like the feeling I have after exercising.
Good luck!
ps
E is soooo cute! I can't say it enough!
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