There will be a day

This song is on my fine tunes. I like to turn my music on to just listen. On a couple of occasions this song has just overcome me w/ tears, so much that I would have stop what I was doing to stand there & worship (tell God how I long for this day). I hope it ministers to you as well.

Fitness Friday(better late than never edition)

In the last 4weeks I have lost 3lbs & I've gained 3 pounds. So since I'm back to square one I might as well start over w/ my FF posts as too. I got out of sync the at first because my big tests were on Friday. (For those that prayed thank you the test did not find any abnormalities.) The next 2 weeks have been filled for sub calls. This extra money will arrive just in time for the holidays. (another praise) Unfortunately it hasn't left me much time to blog. But w/ the gain in weight I know I can't afford not to jump back in. I also had a little extra incentive. remember my post about exercise? Well look what a sweet friend sent me.
She has been going for a year & doing quite well. I hope this will help me in my motivation to get moving. (Now if the Lord can make a way w/ child care & transportation, we're good to go.)

Goals for the week

• Drink more water.
• Count points/keep food journal
• Call Curves

This week assignment: Tips for eating out.

I haven't got a chance to read everyone's post but I'm looking forward to getting help in this area because eating out is really my weakness, I love to eat out. I always have. Here's one tip that works for me when we go to sit down restaurants. Ask the server to bring a go box out w/ your meal. Go ahead & cut everything in half & put it in the go box. It really helps me to avoid the voice inside my head that screams for me to clean my plate. Not to mention I've never wanted the other half.
Find out our success & struggles here.

You're gonna miss this.

We had a rough week here. I'm sure there were plenty of moments missed. One thing that has really been heavy on my heart is where did my babies go? So I thought I'd just post a few of my favorite pictures. This one was taken at the hospital when "W" was born.
These 2 were taken at our favorite state park. This was summer 2006. We did have one milestone that I must note because I'm not sure how many times this will happen.

Both got excellent daily reports everyday this week !!!!

So Nanny gave them the footie pjs that she had bought for them this week. I will really miss it when they tell me they're to big for footie jammies.

Fitness Friday

First I need to say thank you so much for all the encouragement. I've never said out loud how I saw myself because I didn't think people would understand. It meant so much to me when others said they understood my thoughts. The weekend was hard but I think I still tried to make the best choices I could in those situations (we ate out on Saturday & Sunday was our Fall Fiesta at church). Things like having soup & salad as opposed to the grand buffet or only having one cookie from the desert table.

So here's how I did this week.

• The snacking really helped. Although I realized it wasn't so much snacking as it was spreading my points out over my day instead of eating 1o of my 28 at one time. There were a couple of times this week that I just blew it but those were the days that I didn't snack.
• I stayed close to my target points most of the week. (Monday missed it by one, Tuesday & Wednesday I did really well. Thursday was a very hard day w/ some big emotional challenges & I didn't keep track. Today is so far so good)
• Motivation was really a struggle this week & I didn't walk. (Although there is a voice in my head saying the day isn't over you've still got time) One thing that Big C & I did on Saturday I wanted to share was a simple way to add more steps to your day. We are a 1 car family so all our errands have to be ran on Saturday. We agreed to park at the far end of the parking lot at each stop. It's not much but it's a start.

All this resulted in staying consistently 2 lbs. lighter

My goals for this week:

• Continue working my points. I have to this do to put an end to just mindless eating.
• Drink more water. I really don't drink that much of anything during the day
  
• Exercise (I really believe I'll do it more if I could just start) at least once this week.

This week's question:
If money, time, babysitting, etc. were not an issue...what form of exercise would you choose to participate in?

As you can see in my goals, I really struggle w/ my motivation to exercise. I know I need to do it but it seems that there is always something else calling my name (laundry , dishes , a child). I need to go somewhere to to workout. It's the same reason I had to go to the library to study in college. I'm just too easily sidetracked. So if all the above were true I would join some type exercise group/gym. I've known several ladies that had success w/ programs like Curves. I think that Curves is to exercise what Weight Watchers is to food. I've said in the past that W W is effective for me because of my personality. I know how to lose weight but there are things in my personality that make it harder to do it alone. Here are a few reasons why programs like this work for someone like me. 1) Investment. I'm not going to pay for something I don't use. If it costs me something I'm more likely to follow through. After all I paid for it. 2) Motivation. Because of that mixed up body image I need others to help me see changes even if the scale doesn't move. I mean we all have weeks were we do everything right & it still it doesn't budge. I need to see others sticking w/ it & being successful (it feeds my competitive nature) ;) 3) Accountability. Last year when I lost the weight I met w/ some ladies & we walked 3 times a week. I put it on the schedule & did it. I did it because I told someone I'll meet you here & I knew that they would be there & waiting for me. But unfortunately all those things are not true. So I use my points books that some one gave me & I participate here. Now if one of you ladies could just come over to exercise w/ me that would be great!
To see how the rest of the Fitness Friday ladies did go here .
P.S Fitness Friday Ladies please pray for me next week. I noticed that many of mentioned struggles w/ emotional eating. I got some unexpected medical news yesterday that I may write more about once I've processed it in my own head. I have more test next Friday. Then I'll know more about what it all means. Until then my worries best friend tends to be food. So I know this week will be tough. Thanks

You're gonna miss this.

This week had a couple of firsts. We went to a birthday party on Sunday it was both boys first time on skates.


Another moment was when all the kids decided to do the Cha-Cha Slide. Apparently this is a popular line dance to do during gym time.

Another first was bowling. FireMan got a strike. He tied one game w/ me & beat me the other. "W" said he got lots of strikes. We used the bumpers but in "W"'s case it would have helped if we could have shortened the lane by a few feet.
I was also inspired by Pam to gets some video this week. I don't know how many times a day I have to say less singing more __________ (insert the requested task). Because in our house invokes a song. So here's "W"'s latest clean up song



Check out more moments here.

Fitness Friday

Brenda & some of her friends have been doing this for a few weeks now. Each week I read & think next week I'll start (when I can post a positive). Then somewhere around Wednesday I start thinking I've haven't done that great this week, so I'll post next week. See one of my biggest problems in my weight loss journey is getting started. I have a real issue w/ body image. But it's not what you might think. My problem is that the person I see in my head is not really that bad. I'm pretty healthy (meaning I don't have any major health issues). I can be pretty active when I want . In my head I'm a skinny person. Then reality hits. Usually when I hang up a dress & think am I really that big? Or I see a snapshot of me. Like this one snapped at birthday party recently.or this one snapped last night when we took the boys bowling.I see those & I realized it is as bad as the scale says. I realize that I really need to do something. So this week I'm joining in.
I check my weight regularly, So I know that I weigh *** (sorry I just can't say it out loud, but I know what it is). A positive is that # is down 15lbs from this time last year when I loosely followed the Weight Watchers point system.

My goals for the week are simple

• start counting points again. (this really heps me w/ portion control)
• go for a walk at least one this week ( I need to move)
• snack regularly
  

The question for this week:

"What are you snacking on?"

I know that last goal sounds a little strange. But see I don't really snack. I nibble Usually when I make a meal. I noticed this the other day. I got up drank a slim fast shake for breakfast around 6:30am. (I really don't like to eat breakfast so this seemed like a logical meal for me to replace.) Then around 12:30 I thought Gee I'm hungry. I start to fix lunch. I open the fridge to get out the ingredients for my lunch,which would have been a 5 point meal. While I was in the fridge I grabbed about 5 or6 pepperonis & popped them in my mouth. I thought no problem I'll just add them to my points. Those few pepperonis added 4 points to my meal. Same type of thing happened at supper. This got me thinking that if I had a small snack then I wouldn't be so hungry during meal prep. I tried it a few times this week & it seemed to help. At breakfast I ate a piece of toast. Then around 10 I drank my shake . Then I ate my regular 4 point lunch. The boys eat a snack when they get in from school. So I made myself a smaller portion of whatever they had. This helped at supper.
I'll check in next week to let you know how I did. Go here if you want to see what others are doing on their road to fitness.

First Parent Teacher Conferences

Both boys got thumbs up from their teachers.

Ms H says "W" thrives in the high structure times. He still has some moments w/ crying & defiance (which she called impulse control). Most of which she chalks up to being a very young kindergartener. She was very happy w/ his skill level.
FireMan is above grade level in all areas. Ms T was really impressed with his knowledge base. She expressed that he was working more independently & learning to find his way in the group. She had expressed concern earlier in the year because he lacked certain social skills for being in a large group (speaking out,sense of volume, & the one that just made me chuckle walking in line) I know that these things are important when you have 20 2nd graders but these are not what I classify as life skills. So all in all a good report. which is some good news this momma really needed to hear.
I left the school praising God for his faithfulness. It was really hard to let go of hsing. I prayed very specific prayers for the types of teachers they would have. God was gracious & granted those prayers.