slow and steady

that's how I describe my weight loss. I was excited to weigh in today I'm down another 4lbs! I'm weighing in at 229....down 93lbs!!! I'll save you the math.....I started this journey at a whopping 322lbs!! probably a little more but that's the official highest weight.

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Another great weigh in! 3 more pounds down!!

We've had a crazy busy week here. I really wanted to post some pictures of the great times we had last week......I'll put it on my to-do list for the weekend.

Weigh in Wednesday!

down another 3lbs.....for a total loss of 74lbs!!! I'm still not really seeing it myself but now people are commenting it, so that's good :) Not too shabby for not being at the gym much last week. I think this week I'll go easy on the cardio and hopefully by next week my butt will be able to handle the machines again.

and I'm a little late in posting my picture on the first so here it is now. along with a previous picture...

This is from May 2008

and March 1 2009

Weigh in Wednesday!

I'm down 9 lbs!! woo hoo!!! I did break my coccyx on Sat so my gym time this week is drastically cut! I had to call all over town to find a butt cushion :) I now have my doughnut cushion and it's working well!

Win a custom chipboard book

Creek Bank Creations is giving away a custom cut chipboard album.......check it out here http://creekbankcreations.blogspot.com/

I've bought 2 before and they're a great quality, sturdy chipboard!

We're having such a productive day......

but not by choice :) lets go back a few days. The main drain from the house got clogged or blocked and it backed up into the lower level :( yuck! but since my man is an uber handy man and paid attention the last time this happened and we had to call a plumber, he went right out and got the tools he needed and fixed the problem....or so we thought.....anyway a few hours and lots of adventure I won't go into as of this morning it's all fixed. So I've spend most of today cleaning the laundry room. It looks so good, well as good as a laundry, furnace & hot water heater room can look :) and I've started chipping away at Mt. Laundry.

Right now Brian and the boys are at a cub scout pack swim at the indoor aquatic center. Kinda sad it'll be one of the last events Mitchell does as a cub scout. I'm having such a hard time believing he's old enough to move on to boy scouts, even when I have to look up to look him in the eye!!

Weigh in Wednesday!

slow and steady! that's my new motto! another 4lbs shed. GO ME!!

I hit another milestone!

Today I went 4.6 miles on the elliptical with 800 calories burned!!! I also lost another 1.5 lbs

Red letter day....or should I say Red....

scale day!! as of today I have officially lost 60 lbs!!

Time for a photo

I've only lost about 1.5 pounds since the first of December so this photo isn't much different from the last one.....but here it is anyway.

On Saturday I spent the day at Camp Drake with Mitchell. He is a second year Webelo and got to participate in the Klondike Derby. I always thought of myself as an inside girl.....turns out that if you take away the heat and the bugs I don't mind being outside at all :) here are a couple pictures of the derby. Oh and Mitchells Webelo patrol won the final sled race!!

Project 365

I decided to take part in Project 365 this year.....basically I'm taking a picture each day for the year. So far it's going pretty good. I thought I'd share a few of my favorites so far.

Happy Birthday Matty

Matty turned 9 today. I'm pretty sure he had a great day :) He only asked for one thing, well really one thing with 2 parts. And he asked for this way back in September.......he wanted to stay home from school on his birthday, he AND Mitchell :) what a sweetie, how could I resist. Since Sept anytime he's refered to his birthday he always reminds me that he'll be home. Once we looked at the calendar we found that it was also a 4 day weekend......bonus!! then due to the extreme cold weather we had last week they were out on Wed too......so hello 6 day weekend!! Anyway back to our day. Brian took the day off to spend with us, Matty had it all planned out. We'd watch the inauguration (Ok I added this one!) then off to lunch at Jimmy John's (a local sandwhich shop), a little shopping at target, a movie - Paul Blart Mall Cop (very funny!) then dinner at El Toro (his favorite place! Mexican).

Gingerbread house

I got the boys a gingerbread house kit and had a great time watching them put it together. They really enjoyed the icing :)

slippery day

this is the view from our dinning room.



stay warm!!

Girls Day out

I got to spend a couple hours with my neice today. I wanted to make this a special treat for her, she didn't really know what we were doing just that she got to spend some time with me alone with no one else. When I picked her up I asked her want she wanted to do, she said she thought maybe we were going grocery shopping. I asked her if that would be OK with her, she said yes. I said well what if we do something else like go buy her a book, her smile said it all. Then when we walked into the nail salon I thought the smile was going to jump right off her face!! I wish I had my camera ready for that one!! here are a couple picsture of our day.

Weigh in Wednesday!

I almost forgot. Along with a picture on the first of each month, on Wed I'm posting my losses........so here goes.....another

3lbs down!!! WOO HOO!!!

Mitchells Leaf Project

Mitchell had a big project to work on for the last several weeks. I gave him a few lessons in crafting and this is what he came up with. He was pretty proud of it and wanted to be the first to turn it in. So he took it in yesterday. It's not due until Friday.

Decorating

First picture

I think I'm going to post a picture on the first of each month so I can see my progess. I also thought that going "public" with my weight loss journey would help keep myself on track and add a little more accountibility. Not sure if it'll work but it sure can't hurt. And who knows maybe along the way I'll inspire someone. So as of today my total weight loss is 57lbs....this is from my heaviest recorded weight. With 32lbs lost in the last 8 weeks.

Here's a photo that was taken on 5/26/08


and this is me today.....can you see a difference yet

SNOW!!!

Look what greeted us this morning...



The boys had a great time playing and making a couple snowmen!