jerseymom

Very excited about this week’s weigh in.  Official weight since last Saturday is 202.6 which is a beautiful loss of 6.2 pounds! Honestly, it’s the first time in MONTHS that I have stayed on plan for a full week and I guess it’s showing. I started taking my 800 vitamins/supplements a day that the Dr. prescribed and I got my B12 shot for the week and I ate like I’m supposed to and stayed within my daily ww points and what do you know…I actually lost weight! Think I should do it again this week…

it’s not much but it’s a record lately. hoping today will be good day #3! I’m definately more determined now it’s just still so hard but it’s okay…i can do it

Finally it’s Sunday. This week has seemed so long. Thursday I went to the dr. and got my stitches out and finally got the clear to start exercising. Excited about that. Tried to walk with the girls on Friday but it was rough - between months of not exercising and the 2 flat tires on the jogging stroller we didn’t do so great. We did make it a good hour but my pace was pretty slow (65lbs is a lot to push on flat tires!)

So this weekend I ate awful. Ate awful and feel awful. I feel very ready to give that up. Healthy eating for a healthy me…that’s what I’m after. So hopefully this week will be okay. I’m hoping to stay on track all week with my points and hopefully get out a few times for some better walks.

Thanks everyone for your support and sticking with me! I’ve been bad at getting online and awful at keeping  up with everyone so I’m going to try better with that this week too. Happy Sunday! Have a great new week!!

I’ll write more tonight…

I’m attempting to catch up with everyone though I’m sure I won’t be able to. I am starting to recover from my surgery and overall not doing too bad. I did gain almost 2lbs since Tuesday but I’m honestly not sure why. I did lay on the couch all week but I did do pretty good with my eating. Leg is still pretty swollen so maybe that’s some of my 2. I don’t know. Just going to keep going and see how next week is.

My surgery went okay. He decided very last minute to only do the 1 leg. So recovery wasn’t as bad as expected but I think I may have to go back for 1 more procedure. I was really hoping this was going to be my last one. He felt that the left leg was healing and should do okay on its own but it’s really not. We’ll see Thursday what he says.

Thursday is my follow up and stitches come out. Lots of stitches this time…I think about 20 incisions. Most of them are down on the calf this time which is good. Last time they were mostly around my knee, where the leg bends, and that made it very tough to get around. I am going to hit the forums now and see if I can’t catch up somewhere. Thanks for all the support everyone!!! I super appreciate it! I hope all you buddyslimmers are doing great!

I know I said I wouldn’t get on for a few days but I couldn’t resist my Tuesday morning weigh in. Imagine my surprise when the scale said 204.0!! That’s 4.2 down since Saturday. I havne’t had an actual loss in months!!!

I’m making 5lb mini goals for myself…. I am happy to say that today I reached and passed my 1st one! and I’ve set my next mini goal

Have a great day everyone! I’m off for some surgery

Not from my plan but from buddyslim. Going in tomorrow for surgery on both legs and know I just won’t feel up to sitting on the computer for a few days. So hello and goodbye to all my buddies…I will see you soon!

Oh and I am pleased to say I am actually starting to get back on track! Maybe even a loss this week!!

Can anyone recommend a good  chicken nugget?

My kids love them and I usually buy chicken breasts, cut them up and bread them, freeze them and then bake when they want to eat them. Too much work! BUT I can’t find a chicken nugget in the store that I like. Perdue makes a whole grain baked nugget but  it’s super processed and Bella & Evans makes a natural, supposedly unprocessed chicken breast nugget but it’s fried. There’s got to be something out there that I just haven’t found yet… any suggestions? Thanks!

So Monday was my bad news day from the Dr. then Tuesday I really tried to eat well and follow my points but of course pigged out around 9/10 o’clock.  Just stuff around the house but a huge bowl of cheerios and a bunch of those tiny 100 cal. cupcake things and I think a ww cake…just kept picking and picking and picking. Then Wednesday…Oh, yesterday. Well, Had an emergency trip to the mall because we found out yesterday morning that today will be picture day at the preschool.  So we ran out and searched and did find something but then it was after 5 and we weren’t home and were all starving so what did I do? Pizza hut!  Like how unhealthy is that?!! So I ate my pizza, my breadsticks and even some chicken kicker things and then I was sad. So sad. Sad for myself, sad for what I ate, sad for being fat.  So then what do I want? Icecream! But I am proud to say I did not give in to the ice cream. That I was really proud of because normally takeout/restaurant stuff always makes me want something sweet.  (I swear it’s all the salt in the food…I never use salt and these places pour it on). So I had some tea and some of those 100 cal. cupcakes and I got through it. (I know, stop buying those cupcakes! But there are some days I just really, really want a little bite of cake and I figure it’s better to have the 3 little 1 point cupcakes than a real cake…the trick is to just eat 1 pack :))

So this morning I’m feeling pretty good. I won’t know until tomorrow…when I see I can make it through a day but I have high hopes that I can do it today. I think part of it is I made a lot of changes at once. Today’s goal will be more with not overeating and sticking to my daily ww points and then we’ll add more healthy food habbits a little bit at a time, day by day.

So now I’m off to swim lessons with the girls. Today is the baby’s first day of ‘big kid’ class without mommy. So excited and so sad at the same time. My little tiny baby is becoming a big kid too quickly! Then we come home and rush like crazy to get Sky ready for her preschool picture day…our very first school pictures ever! And inbetween? Focus on me, my food choices and my portions. Good luck me…I’m going to need it!

Gotta start today! Dr. basically says I’m very unhealthy. For the first time ever I went for a regular checkup and he sent me for full blood work. Results came in and I have elevated cholesterol,  pre-diabetic sugar levels, low vitamin D, slightly anemic & B12 deficient. I’m now getting a B12 shot once a week for 4 weeks then once a month for “a very long time”. I am a huge needle phob so that’s not good news plus the dr. is 30 mins. away and I have to drag my 2 little kids with me each time I go so that’s a pain (30 mins. in the complete opposite direction of everywhere I ever go). He also said I’m overweight but I knew that one already. He did say my thyroid (the one thing I was secretly hoping he’d find a problem with) was perfectly fine…as were liver and kidneys which is good. Basically he gave me a huge kick in the pants and said make some major changes now before it’s too late. Now I really debated the whole ‘last meal’ thing and I did give in. We went as a family to Olive Garden partly for the last meal but partly because we were given a gift card to go a while ago and just never found the time. The kids were a hot mess but that’s a whole different story. I ate! Salad, breadsticks, Chicken Marsala and I even made them sub my potatoes for fettuccini alfredo…now how unhealthy was that?!! But it was tasty and now I’m over it. Even this morning I ran to Acme for some OJ and as I was passing the large display of ice cream sales that usually sucks me in I quickly walked passed and thought how I don’t need that stuff.3 

So I don’t have a definite plan yet but I did get some D3 supplements, fish oil and iron pills like I was told. I’ll start taking that yummy combination this morning and just generally watch that I’m making healthy food choices. I’m still going to do Weight Watchers but I’ll def. focus more on eating healthy meals than fitting in enough snacks. And that’s pretty much all I can handle. I do need an overhaul but I need to take some baby steps or it’ll never work. But that’s me in a nutshell today. It is sunny and heading up to 81 today so we’re off for 1 last trip to the beach before fall sets in. The tourists are gone and it should be a nice quiet time. The girls are even bringing friends so who knows…I may even get some rest (yeah right!)  Happy Tuesday everyone. Thanks for all the support lately! I’m trying to get better at reading blogs. I still really just write for myself to help clear my head but reading everyone else’s usually helps keeps me focus on the goal.  Have a great day!