It's time...

Argh!!

julie99s — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:31:39 +0000

My blood is boiling right now and my hands shaking! I hate the neighborhood we live in. I mean, it’s a nice neighborhood, but the kids are always so mean! My oldest daughter was on her bike, and I was watching out the window, and this neighbor boy BLATENTLY ran into her. I’m not kidding. He came from the house across the street just to plow into her. Now her bike tire is screwed up. I am fuming. I went outside (pissed, I’m sure everyone could tell), and made my kids put their bikes away. And right away he starts apologizing to her. I made it known I saw what happened from the window and came inside with my kids. There’s always stuff like this happening. I like this boys sister though. So pissed!

If anyone’s reading, what would you do? Tell him to stay out of our yard? What???

julie99s — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:37:01 +0000

Vacation’s over. Kids are back to school. Boyfriend’s back to work. I’m back to logging and exercising. I didn’t just let my diet and stuffs go haywire while on vacation. I logged on paper, if only to see what I was eating and how much, since I didn’t know calorie/fat/etc content for everything I ate. I did a little bit of jogging up north at the property. And by “a little bit” I mean I jogged to the back half of the property, in intervals, and back. Maybe a whopping 1/2 a mile. Ugh. But I didn’t gain. I stayed at 235. And today I see 231 on the scale. So let’s hope that number (or lower!) shows come Sunday.

Oooh, went to a Detroit Tigers game last Sunday. Had a freaking hot dog and a beer. Ugh!!! Plus whatever I ate on the bus. Plus 2 more hotdogs when we got back to town after the game. OOPS!!!!!!! I’m writing off that day. I had fun. The Tigers won an awesome game. And it’s the first day I’ve REALLY screwed up. Didn’t do too much damage. I was eating the hotdogs at the bar when we got into town, and I was thinking I don’t remember the last time I had a hotdog. Well worth it IMO. As long as it’s few and far between lol.

The girls are so excited to be back in school. They’re so cute. I think they’re more excited about the new clothes they get to school, than actual school itself lol.

So, gosh, I guess with all the time I’ve been away, I’ve not been up to much. Nose back to the grindstone for everyone in this house.

I’m a little cheesepuff…

julie99s — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:03:09 +0000

This has nothing to do with food or dieting whatsoever.

Today when I was driving home from the store, a song came on that made me think of my boyfriend. How lucky I am. I am in complete awe and adoration of him. How I still, after a year and 3 months, get butterflies when he comes home from a long day of work to hug me. How he’s taken in my kids as his own, makes sure that whether they succeed at the tinyest things, or falter, that they’re always learning. He loves them like his own, and it kind of breaks my heart that they’re real “dad” can’t even do that. But I think it’s for the best. They deserve someone that loves them that much, all day, every day.

I hate songs like that… They make me cheesy.

And not the good kind of cheesy, like on nachos. lol

I’ll make sure to get pics of the fam while we’re on vacation.

Almost vacation time!

julie99s — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:14:27 +0000

Shh, don’t tell the scale I know, or it’ll give me a nasty weigh in on Sunday again… It gave me a lovely number this morning… 234. I’m excited, but gonna take it with a grain of salt, Sunday’s 4 days away still.

Saturday we leave for up north (that’s what us MI peoples call going to northern MI) for 4 days. We’ve not had a vacation since April, it’s long overdue. I hardly get to see Aaron… He leaves for work at 7 and doesn’t get home till 6:30 M-F, and works till noon Saturday. A whole week of sleeping in and hanging out is going to be glorious.

Off to do chores and make my list for packing!

Really now…

julie99s — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:34:03 +0000

What’s the point of eating good and exercising if I not only don’t lose weight, but I gain a pound?? I was down to 235 Friday, and I was excited to weigh in today. Well, the scale played a cruel joke on me and showed me 237!! I was almost to the 10 lbs lost mark

I took my measurements again, just to reassure myself. Down 3.5 inches in waist, down 1.5 inches in hips. But still…

I’m bummed

Everybody else is doing it…

julie99s — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:03:40 +0000

Virtual me at 245

Virtual me at 150

I started this a couple weeks ago, then just forgot about it. Today I figured, what the hell, I’ve got a long ways to goal, but the future virtual me is pretty damn motivating.
Worked out this morn. Turbo sculpt and turbo jam 20 minute workout. Holy crap that sculpting thing kicks my butt. Then the kids and I went to the farmers market and got a lot of yummy veggies. The sweet onion, oh my god… *drools*
Been busy in the yard today. Painting anything I can find with this awesome chrome paint. A cabinet, the mailbox, a toolbox… My boyfriend shouldn’t be surprised if he wakes in the morning and the house is painted chrome! lol. It’s stupid really. I’ve still got friggen dishes to do. Maybe I should go do that now…

A rarity

julie99s — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:25:32 +0000

I cooked with butter tonight. This is a blog-worthy, big deal for me. I haven’t used butter but for one other time during this current weight loss journey. I was a butter junkie. We’ve had the same stick of butter in the fridge for a month, so I don’t feel guilty for using a couple TBS to saute onion, garlic and seasonings for my taters and mushrooms. Yummmmmmy. House smells so good right now. And some ocean perch with the best breading I’ve ever found. The breading actually tastes better baked than fried!

So, that’s all, I’m excited for dinner. I screwed up and haven’t eaten since 11:30. Thank God I didn’t start eating junk and just decided to make dinner instead!

Breaking stuff is fun!

julie99s — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:17:20 +0000

Last night was the third time we’d been to dad’s to work on the garage downstairs. Holy hell. It’s neverending. Moved more boxes last night. Emptied the cupboards. Burned a bunch of crap. Took a 2 pound sledge to the cupboards. HOOO BOY! Talk about a workout and a stress reliever!! I think I came close to screwing up my back again, but higher up this time. Would make sense since I was swinging the hammer over my head mostly. God that was so fun lol. Feeling it in my body this morning. It actually feels good to me. And that workout was on top of the strength training, turbo sculpt and 20 min turbo jam yesterday. It was a good day

Pushed through my workout this morning. 40 mins turbo jam. I’m kinda looking forward to weigh in this weekend.

Vacation in 8 days. Hoping I can manage to log things on paper and not just eat anything/everything in sight. Aaron’s been pretty good about keeping me in check though.

Success!

julie99s — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:32:57 +0000

I decided to try my workout this morning to see what my back had to say about it. I made it through all 45 minutes of tae bo! AND I already feel better today than yesterday. If that’s not a reason to not miss workouts, I don’t know what is

Went to walmart this morning. I love back to school sales. Cheap supplies!! 22 cents for 2 pack of glue sticks. 24 cents for crayons. 88 cents for markers. 60 cents for colored pencils. So, I bought the kids some of each, put them into crayon boxes, and I’ll give em to them the day before first day school. They love that sort of stuff. I also bought a bunch more to stock up for the rest of the year. Crayons, glue, markers galore! I hate walmart, but I suppose if it’s the only time of the year I go, I’m kinda okay with that.

My babies are growing up (kidnergarten and 1st)… When did that happen??

Cleaning up after slobs

julie99s — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:03:21 +0000

I’m a little peeved right now. My boyfriend and I worked Sunday at dad’s to clean out the downstairs garage. When his ex wife decided a divorce was in order, she didn’t take anything but what she wanted at that moment for her new house. Pictures of her kids thrown about. Old items of her dad’s everywhere. Pictures of her two deceased siblings on the floor. Just momentos everywhere. And maybe it’s crude of me, but if she couldn’t think to grab this stuff then, four years later it’s not going to be important either. So, I’m tossing it. The garage is tore up (shoulda got before pics). Oil on the floor because her youngest son would change the oil in his car, put the oil in milk containers, and just leave it. So after so many years, they’ve busted open and the floor is an oil slick. Beer bottles EVERYWHERE. I think we boxed up around 30 bucks in bottles (at 10 cents each, that’s a lot!). Just crap everywhere. It’s unreal. Though, I did get a nice set of pans that are in surprisingly, perfect condition.

Anyway, that’s not why I’m peeved. I messed up my back in the process. I didn’t feel it much yesterday morning, so I forced myself to exercise anyway. Well, I felt it in the afternoon. And today. I’ve been on the heating pad this morning and I feel sooooo lazy that I didn’t get my workout in. It’s kinda dragging me down. It’s the first one I’ve missed so far. It’s a bit of a bummer, but I’m terrified of throwing out my back and being bed ridden like 7 years ago. And I got a new workout and some dumbbells yesterday!