Today was the day!!!

So I am starting today to be "good" again. I have seriously been STARVING all day. Like chow down,  not enough food, STARVING! It is so funny how our minds work. I ate a 1/2 rack of BBQ ribs for dinner last night. A 1/2 rack!!! Hubby and I usually get them and have about 5 ribs left over, last night we ate the whole rack between us. UGH!!! I was preparing myself for today....hahahahahhaha! How did that work out for me??? So this is what I am doing: I did go to Zumba this AM, I am pretty structured there, but I also bought some 2 lb (too light, but I wasn't sure what I would use) I have done squats with the weights, arm exercises all day. Ran in place, and took a nap:) Every time I go potty, which is hourly, I pick up the weights and do something. My flat a$$ needs some definition;) I feel happy tonight, even if I wasn't perfect. I did log my food into myfitnesspal and my calories weren't that bad, my carbs....BAD:(
My granddaughter turned 14 yesterday and they had a party for her on Friday night. People, I hate to even admit this, but my son and his wife had no light bulbs in their living room. Like it was seriously dark, it was CRAZy!!! You have a party and you have no light? One gal used her flash light on her cell phone to make it light enough to see what presents my grand daughter opened. Thank goodness it was still a little light outside so there was some natural light in the room. They NEVER have napkins, and now they don't have light bulbs. They are mid 30's for gosh sakes!!!!
Wish me luck on getting a grip on my food, we leave for Hawaii in about 6 weeks, I don't think I am going to lose much, but a little would be nice. I seriously do feel better now that I am taking the oral estrogen, more balanced:) I also have a wedding in a about 12 days that I would love to lose 10 lbs for....gosh I am funny tonight!
Have a great week:)
Blessings and happy scales....

Pictures are impossible:) 

143.7.....is the tale 'o the scale....as my husband says it.

My husband can hear the scale when I put it down in the morning and he asks "what's the tale 'o the scale?" when I come downstairs. There are times that I just slug him in the arm, and times when I am pleased and smile. Yesterday I was actually at 142.7 and that is after a really, really, rough, yummy, fun, filling, bad girl....week! I think the extra lb today is from the 2 ice cream cones that I had at Dickie's BBQ last night! I decided that I am pretty darn close to the 15/6 guidelines (90%  of the time)  and where I fail is my lack of movement. I sit on my a$$ a lot. I don't work, so I basically am a lazy person. I do go to Zumba 3x a week, and I have every intention of putting my new yoga DVD's in, but I don't. SO...instead of limiting my food, I decided to move more. I am hoping the combination of both, will take me back down again! So each hour for 5 hours today I ran up my stairs, did 10 jumping jacks, ran down the stairs...then used 2 soup cans (I need some weights) to do several different arm exercises. It isn't a huge amount, but it is 5x more than I did yesterday! Small baby steps of adding activity. I can do this!!! Hawaii is less than 2 months away....

We did a short little trip to Missoula for fun shopping last week. (And food, lots of food...bacon...ugh)  I got my first pair of "real" sunglasses and it made me cry. I know that sounds really dumb, but I have never had polarized glasses before. I got some Maui Jim's and it made me cry. I have said it before, but when I was a single mom, I was poor....dirt poor at times, hock my ring poor, to buy food. Each weird little thing that happens that makes me realize that my life is different, makes me emotional. I actually didn't start crying until I found a penny and thought of my Dad in Heaven and how happy he would be for me. My husband feels so good when he knows he makes me happy with the little things....I know, I'm strange!

Marv's new rig

I have mentioned before that my husband is a car head and he wanted a new 50,000 car. I did prevent that, but he did get a new/used rig. I actually love it and look forward to lots of road trips. I told him today that I was going to take a picture of the 3 cars in the garage, and a picture of our living room couches, and share with the world his strange priorities! My living room furniture is hideous, but we never even walk through the room, so it seems crazy to get new things? And while I am on the subject....NO GRANITE YET....not even a phone call....just an empty promise to have it done by September 30th. Sigh:(

So Carey had mentioned that you shouldn't take your thyroid meds with coffee and I took it to heart. I started taking it right when I go to bed. Since it has to be taken on an empty stomach, it prevents me from eating past 7. I think it is working....I also started taking estrogen and it IS working. I was in hot flash hell, not sleeping, and CRANKY!!! It has been about 5 days and I already feel better and I have slept great 2 nights in a row. Woot!!!

So that is it from K's house! I wish we would all get back to our Blogging, but I realize life is busy.
Blessings and happy scales.....

I am STUCK!!!

I haven't been blogging because I am so frustrated with the scale:( I have been "trying" for 6 weeks to drop some weight. Depending on the day, I have lost between 2-3.5 lbs. Really??? I have only missed 1 Zumba during those weeks, I sweat like a pig, am exhausted and STARVING afterwords...UGH!!! 

On the good news front, we have finally booked our Hawaii trip, I once again talked my husband out of a 50,000 dollar car, and life is peaceful! 

This tends to be true with my kids!

Because I am frustrated, I haven't been the best at my food choices, but I still am really low on sugar, except today...General chicken from the Safeway deli. 17 sugars!!! I had it for lunch and dinner. Yikes!!! 

I bought yoga tapes 3 weeks ago and have done 15 minutes??? WTH??? I am lazy with a capital L!!! 

Tomorrow is my gym girls lunch and my first Bunko of the year. We take the summer off, so I am excited to see my girls. Life is a Blessing every day! 

I want to go to my oldest son's for his kids first day of school, but I have to be out there by 7:00AM. They live about a 30 minute drive away! THAT IS EARLY for me. I am used to sleeping until then. We will see if the desire to share in their day gets me out there! Cadence will start 8th grade and Cy will be in Kindergarten. So excited for my granddaughter to be going to school here. She is living with my son this year and I can actually go to her sporting events! Did I write that before??? Who knows???

Where did everyone go? I miss our little blogging community:( We just have to keep at this! Encourage one another and share our successes! We can do this! 

Blessings and happy scales....