Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Company's coming to town!!

My family is on their way here from Texas!! Yay!! Can't wait to see everyone!! My dad is recovering from stomach cancer! He is doing better he had surgery in April and ended up in the hospital for 5 1/2 weeks. Poor thing as of now though he is cancer free!! Yippee!!

I'm a little worried about the weekend eating tho. With the rehearsal dinner and the wedding not sure how that is going to work out? I don't really trust myself. I have a pattern you see. When I go off my diet I get carried away you see!! My dr said to just take it 1 day at a time! Maybe If I don't say those words "taking a break" yea that doesn't work for me!

Well I guess I will find out soon enough if I'm cut out for this thing this time...........

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

I'm back!!

Today I feel better!!

      Ok so a lot has been going on!  Up down, up down!  I had not realized how far up I was, because my scale said 283-286.  When I went to the Dr's in March his scale said 297! whoops! Wow!! Shocker!! I had no idea I was creeping that close to 300 again!! How could it be??  Was it because I ate whatever I wanted?  Was it because the first time in 61/2 years I thought it was ok to drink real sodas again?!  Either way I was out of control.  I had stopped checking my blood sugar.  I had stopped taking half of my meds!  I don't know what happened to me why do I go so far off the deep end??  I had wanted to lose weight before my daughters wedding which is Sat by the way!!  I had absolutely NO motivation.  What did I tell my Dr?  I don't know what happened to me I had gained 15 lbs the 3 months before I went to see him and here I was another 15lbs!!

So, I decided to first of all before I went back to the Drs I knew I needed to get under some control!! I decided the first thing was to cut out soda!! So I did!! diet ones too!!  In thinking about that now I probably weighed more then 300 before I did that I just didn't have a good scale!!  Then I started cutting back on snacking and eating to much sugary stuff. I tried to cut back on my intake of everything..  I was doing pretty good!  On my scale I was down about 10lbs.  Then one day I lost 20lbs then 2days later I gained 10lbs!!  So do you get where I'm going here?? Yep it was time to invest in a new scale!!  Well that wasn't fun either It was 6lbs more then the highest number on my old scale so now I have gained 16lbs!!What the H***!!!

On Mon. April 30th a customer came in to my store and I noticed he had lost a significant amount of weight I asked him what his secret was even though I was a little afraid it was because he was ill??   No,  it was because he had started using the my fitness pal app on his iPhone!!  I had joined that a long time ago but was never consistent!  Go figure!!  Any ways he also told me his wife who had more to lose then him had been using it for a year and had already lost 100lbs!!  Wow!! that's for me.. 

It has been 50 days and the good news is I went back to my Dr today and I have lost 26lbs!!! YAY me!! I am still about 8lbs away form my lowest weight in 2010,  But I'm getting there!!  I have to admit I am scared tho. 

I talked to my Dr about that today he told me just take it one day at a time!!  Who knows maybe this time................

Wish me luck!