Weekly Weigh In Week 6

Beginning Weight (12/20/2012) - 330.6

Last Weeks Weight - 309.2

Today's Weight - 310.0

Total Weight Loss- 20.6

Well...I gained...I forgot to take a picture of the scale this morning and didn't remember until AFTER I had eaten my breakfast...Meh it doesn't really matter...

I am up .8 from last week. For those of you whom are on MyFitnessPal with me know that I have been failing struggling this week. Beatrice (my lapband) has gone on vacation the last few weeks....I have been eat WAY more then I should and the only person I have to blame is myself...

Anywho, today is typically my cheat day, but since I have pretty much been cheating for the last week I haven't earned one...it is a privilege NOT a right.

So today I have take control of my eating and with the help of my new Body Media band I am gathering more information that will help me for next week!

Oh...and here was dinner at Panera...

280 Calories 23g of protien

New toys!!!

I FINALLY broke down and bought myself a new phone...by broke down I mean my husband basically begged me for his own mental sanity that I spend the $500 bucks to get me a phone that I like instead of bitching about the piece of junk shitty brick of technology that even though I got it for free I felt I got ripped off and paid too much for! *takes a breath*

Anyways...I got a Samsung Galaxy SIII...Some people might think I am nuts since next month T-mobile (I LOVE YOU!) starts carrying the iPhone5 (I HATE YOU!)...but I hate apple products...and I will leave it at that....I am SO SO SO excited about my new phone.

My second toy is a replacement for something else I already own...my bodybugg!...I have recently purchased a new Body Media Core for $120 bucks...My main reasoning for this was a few things. I currently pay $10 a month for the online subscription service. For that I get to know my calorie burn, steps, and physical activity. With the new Body Media Core sensor I pay $7 a month and I get calorie burn, steps, sleep patterns and efficiency (I am a shitty sleeping so I am most excited about this), activity, activity intensity, AND AND I get to use myfitnesspal to log my calories instead of the SHITTY logging system on the Bodybugg....I am so excited and I will update you when I get to use it...which might not be until August!
:(...but I digress...Have a GREAT Thursday night!

Wacky Wednesday Weigh-in... Week 5!

Beginning Weight (12/20/2012) - 330.6

Last Weeks Weight - 312.2

Today's Weight - 309.2

Total Weight Loss- 21.2

Well....I have to admit that I am a bit shocked by the scale this week. That doesn't happen often. Typically I am either happy with/surprised and giddy/or saddened by the scale. A lot of time I am also disappointed in myself when the scale confirms how I felt about my progress over the week....That is how I thought I would be feeling this week.

I wouldn't go as far as saying that I was horrible...it wasn't like I ate an entire pizza and six gallons of ice cream every day...but my average calories intake was 1900 calories. According to my bodybugg, my average calorie burn was 3071. Giving me a deficit of 1171. According to the "Calorie in/ Calorie Out" theory I should have lost 2.2 pounds. So I guess it wasn't as off as I thought it was!...lol (Totally only did the math while I was writing this post)

In other news:

I GET TO GO BACK TO JAZZERCISE ON FRIDAY!!!!!

Weekend in review...

Friday -  Spent the day at the Zoo with L and her best friend MG. They...had...a...blast! Which was amusing to me because it was cold. I mean it wasn't like we were in risk of losing fingers or toes or anything like that but it was still on the chilly side. That didn't stop the little darlings from running and jumping around the animals...We rode the train, the carousel ..went to the Children's Zoo, had lunch. I was EXHAUSTED by the time we got home.

That night...The kids went to Grandma's house (my in laws)...My husband and I got a date night. They are SO rare! We saw Silver Linings Playbook which is by far the BEST movie I have seen in forever. Then we went to Qdoba for dinner at 10:00pm. It was great to just spend some time with my hubby and know that the kids were having fun!

What I haven't told you is that when I woke up my throat felt off. My voice was raspy...my glands were swollen and sore...and I had gunkies. By the time I got home from the movie...I was miserable, cold, achy...had the chills...I took two Tylenol, crawled under my heated blanket and went to bed...

Saturday - Woke up at 8:30 am...knowing that the local Take Care Clinic opened at 9 AM. Got dressed which sucked. All the hair on my skin was SUPER sensitive and everything hurt. Anyways, I drove myself there early so that I could hopefully be the first one in line...I was...

The Nurse Practitioner checked me out and determined that I have strep...STREP! I don't have time for strep. Now I have to keep a look out to see if L gets it. I know DJ won't he has been on antibiotics for two days and still have eight more to go. I go home after filling my script and crawl back into bed. Where I remained for five hours ( Thank you Grandma for keeping the babies until D got home from golfing!).

I felt (and I kids you not) like I would have had to get a little better in order to die!

I love my hubby...He took great care of me until my fever broke at 10 PM. Even after that he made sure that I was comfy and took my meds.

I was quite irritated by being ill...I had so many things that I had wanted to get done this weekend that just wasn't gunna happen...

Sunday - I woke up feeling AWESOME...well less like I had been by a bus. I am no longer contagious!

We headed out to my dad's house where my daughter L was spending the night. We also had the master plan of selling girl scout cookies around his neighborhood (What supposed to happen on Saturday...) I felt great...which was good because my darling daughter drug me up and down every driveway of almost half the houses around my dad.

The planned work...L's goal was to sell 100 boxes of cookies. That got her two patches and a cheap dolphin bracelet. As you can imagine she is most excited over the bracelet. I want her to have the two patches. Any ways..Between her family, Daddy's work, Grandma J's work, and her door to door sales she has sold 144 boxes as of today...Now her also gets a plush dolphin...L is smitten with selling cookies...And I as her troop leader am excited for the troops checkbook!

After we finally let Grandpa's house we went to Bed, Bath, and Beyond. That store has EVERYTHING!

I went with a particular mission in place...I wanted to buy little spoons and little forks. I have been using my sons baby spoons and I have to admit that it has helped slow the speed at which I consume my food. I decided that I like the idea of having little forks and using the crappy plastic ones with rounded points doesn't appeal to me. So I bought these...

The fork and spoon on the outside are our normal sized utensils. In the middle, are my new fork and and spoon!

As I get myself ready for bed I think back over my weekend and I have to admit that I am so glad that if I was going to get sick that I got sick over the weekend. Over a time when I had help from my hubby and my dad to take care of the kids. That is one thing that is so hard about being sick when you have young children. It doesn't matter how you are feeling they need your time...Anyways, I am ready to end today and attack the upcoming week. Bring on the first day of school ( for me) and a Daisy meeting!

TTT...as inspired by a fellow blogger!

So TTT stands for Ten Things Thursday....I LOVE reading Harmony's blog! Every Thursday she puts up a list of ten things. Some of them have to do with her kids, husband. or weight loss journey...But I love them all...So I thought that I could copy her idea!

1) TGIF - Friday you ask since it is actually Thursday!. My adorable kindergartner L is off from school tomorrow since the teachers have an "In Service day". So tonight we are celebrating an early Friday and tomorrow...THE ZOO!!!!

2) Three Week Band-iversary! I am officially allowed to eat normal solid food again. Well except nuts...for whatever reason I can't have nuts for two more months...Not a huge loss to be honest! I am super excited about getting to eat my pizza again...I am kinda addicted to Papa Murphy's Gourmet Italian pizza on the DeLite crust. At only 112 calories a slice (my slices are 1/16th of the pizza)  and 6g of protein they are my Friday night crack!

3) GS Cookie Sales - Cookie sales are going well...L is VERY good at selling the cookies even though I don't know if she she actually knows WHY she is selling the cookies but she does know that she gets "prizes". I decided that is why she is so motivated...she wants the cheap crap that they offer as a reward...lol My hubby on the other hand is determined to get my daughter up to 500 boxes...his reasons are his own and because of the potential audience I will keep them to myself!

4) Kid Free Friday - Normally my mother-in-law takes the grand kids on New Years Eve for a Popcorn party and sleep over. Well this year my poor sister in law and mother in law were suffering from the plague for pretty much all of the Christmas holiday. So in the end, the party didn't happen...Instead it is happening tomorrow night. That means that from 5pm until after breakfast the next day my hubby and I are kid free. We are going to go to a movie and possibly out to dinner after D gets off work!

5) Best friends you have never met - I am a self proclaimed geek. I LOVE/LIVE Star Trek crap. I am pretty sure I can spout off more useless knowledge about the Star Trek universe then most historians can spout about real things that ACTUALLY happened...If I were a normal person I would think this was sad and pathetic but instead it is just one of the many reasons that I am AWESOME!!!

Anyways...the point in divulging this not so secret information is to explain why I do the hobby that I do...I am a Simmer...Simming is a type of RPing (Role Playing) in which you write out a story as a character. In the instances of my simming I typically play females (writing a male when you are a female typically leads to writing that lets everyone else know that you are actually a chick)...and I love that I get to write with tons of other people who are just as much into Star Trek and RPing as I am. Though this I have met some very interesting people...Including my besty...He is (and I call him this often) my brother from another mother. I LOVE that I have him in my life and our conversations made me think of those new Discover card ads where the person on the other end is yourself...If I could be in two places at once I would totally think I was talking to myself...Love you!

6) Gun Control - I don't plan on making it habit of spouting my political beliefs in this medium but this was in fact a major conversation that has been taking place in my life as of late. All I have to say is this...I grew up in a state where it was legal (all be it a blue law) that it was legal to shot any part of a persons body that was on your property without your expressed permission...I like guns...guns keep shit head criminals from piliging and plundering my house hold...I am a damn good shot...I have gone though all the necessary back ground checks and I suffer from no major (or minor for that matter) psychological issues...So for the near future I will keep my guns and if some shit head decides to shoot up a location near me I will gladly shoot back!

7) Little DJ - My little two year old is the love of my life...His father used to hold this title but if the choice came down I would choose DJ over D...it is just the role of a mom...lol....Anyways....The little shit is A D O R A B L E!  The major issues is that he KNOWS that he is cute. He attempts to use this as a weapon and it really only works on his grandparents and the unsuspecting strangers that we meet throughout the day. His little grin just lights up my day...Here is one of my most favorite photos of him for your enjoyment!

See what I mean?!

8) My Not So Little L - My daughter is the a carbon copy of me from when I was a kid. Everything from the weird way that she holds her pencil to her obsession to reading anything with letters on it. She could easily talk your socks off and your actually listening is irrelevant. She is four years older then DJ and is like his second mommy...This doesn't include the instances when she attempts to goad him into doing things he shouldn't or when she "Accidentally convinces him to climb on her back and then bucks him on the couch" Notice the emphasis on "ACCIDENTALLY" she is completely convinced that if she starts any explanation with this phrase then she shouldn't get in trouble. Here is a photo of her...just cuz I can!

I make some CUTE babies if I do say so myself!

9) Weight restriction during recovery - I was told on discharge from the surgical center that I was not supposed to lift anything over 20 pounds. This is not the easiest thing to do when you have a 2 year old who weights 29.75 pounds. He is not heavy to me in the slightest. Picking up L is a noticeable weight, but not my cute, sweet, adorable, lovable, kissable, little DJ. So as you can imagine, I think I obeyed that rule for all of four days...Once my hubby went back to work and I was on my own taking care of my son he was picked up at least once a day. I still have a week of "following" that rule but since I carried him most of the way though the local grocery store today I don't think that is going to happen. I don't do it on purpose it just kinda of happens!

10) Ten Things Thursday - I have to admit this was a little harder then I thought it would be. I will have to keep a list for next week so that I am not sitting here at midnight Friday morning trying to complete my list! (I know this was slightly cheating but if you have read this far into my post I am sure you are just as happy as I am that I am finished...lol)

Week 4 Weigh In

Beginning Weight (12/20/2012) - 330.6

Last Weeks Weight - 311.2

Today's Weight - 312.2

Total Weight Loss- 18.4

Well it finally happened...I gained...I gained one pound over the last week...

I am not very happy with myself. I have to admit that I have been struggling. Other then my difficulties with scrambled eggs my band is pretty non-exsistant...My hubby keeps reminding me that I have no fluid in my band. To me that just sounds like an excuse...but what can I say...On top of being hungry more then I should be I have been stressing something fierce.

My Daisy Troop meets at one of the local branches once a month. The problem with this is that we don't have a set day of the month or a set location and this month it seemed like everything that could go wrong did. I think we have finally gotten a hold on the various aspects of our meeting planning but it doesn't change the fact that it has driven me nuts...I can feel the stress radiating down my back! 

I am going to set myself a little goal for this next week...

Move more....that should counter any extra calories that I take in!

On the Week 5!

A not so typical Sunday at Pumpkin's house...

So in my life, on top of being a wife and full time mom, a full time college student, I have also taken on the task of being the "Leader" of my daughter's Daisy Troop. I have to admit I have a BLAST hanging out with the girls in my little troop. They have so much fun and their genuine joy is intoxicating. Well as you all know these little darlings are the supplies to all people with Girl Scout Cookie Addictions. I am lucky in the sense that sandwich cookies...specifically the 365 chocolate sandwich cookies from Whole Foods...Are pretty much my only cookie weakness....Any who, that means when the little darlings around my neighborhood come to my house I hardly every buy, I donate to the troop, but I don't buy cookies. Until this year...

My daughter L puts on her little tunic and hit up all of our family members for their cookie orders...When we got home, I was no longer immune. It didn't help that my husband has been having dreams about when the Peanut Butter Patties arrive in our pantry...So needless to say, we ordered some cookies. At least it helps out our little troop with their Build-A-Bear party at the end of the year!

As far as my diet of late goes...two things...

I am CONSTANTLY craving fish...I have had it for lunch and dinner every day for the last week or so. It is a bit odd since before surgery I almost NEVER ate fish except with the hubby made me.

Also, we just broke out juicer. In preparation for this D made me go out and buy a bunch of "organic" produce including and not limited to parsley, oranges, kale, and apples. I think we also ended up with blueberries, carrots, and spinach too...All of which ended up in my awesome snowman glass! I have included a photo just for you!

The juice turned out awesome....I can totally see myself drinking one of these every morning. The awesome thing was that L ended up drinking half my juice for me...despite the fact that it was green!