this is fun

I am still doing great, eating healthier smaller foods, experimenting with some new vegetables, I cut up two baked potatoes, french fry shapes, soaked them in water for an hour and baked them on 350 for 40 minutes, they were yum! I put them in the fridge and plan on using them as lunches for Summer, and I ate a few myself. This morning Kris made french toast and I used yogurt and fresh strawberries as the topping, it was good, I am starting to like plain non fat yogurt. I had string cheese for a snack today and a few pretzels. I bought a summer .. or was it winter .. squash that I need to fix up, I have to get creative and stop using the oven because it is suppose to be 99 degrees on Sunday so baking will make the kitchen too hot. I am feeling confident and in about 10 minutes I will get weighed, hopefully my home scale and the scale at work will be the same and I will have something happy to report. Wish me luck!

HMMM

Ok so I weighed yesterday and was shocked to see a number I was not expecting. I had to weight, I had to figure out how much Summer weighed and she doesn't stand on the scale by herself yet. I bet you want to know what the number is - but I am not going to tell you, you will have to wait until Friday when I get weighed on the same scale I weighed last Friday to make sure things are as they should be!
For dinner last night I made something new, something super yummy and awesome, chicken parmigiana. This was grandma's recipe, but I never made it because she told me about it in November 2006, and I was pregnant and sick right after, so I just forgot about it. It was SO easy, pan cook pieces of chicken, get a baking dish and add half a jar of spaghetti sauce, then add the cooked chicken, add the rest of the spaghetti sauce, and add a bag or parmigiana cheese, eat it over noodles (I made angel hair). It was so yummy I had to watch my portion size, I could have eaten three times the amount. I will no longer be cooking spaghetti with hamburger meat!
Kris was eating snacks in bed last night, sunflower seeds and candy, but not me, I resisted! And I have been walking each day, I take Summer and the dogs around the block. It isn't intensive but it is a start. I really feel good about myself, I even resisted bagels at work this morning. I thought about cutting one in half, taking that half and cutting it in half, and then cutting that half into half, but by that time it seemed pointless so I didn't bother. I have challenges ahead of me, my trip to Idaho over Memorial Day weekend will be rough, but I think I can do it. I have to think of food as a nutrient my body needs, and not something that taste yummy.

Where to start

I have been attending weekly health classes during lunch at work, something my company has generously paid for. These classes offer tips and advice, and part of the class consists of weighing on a scale. I started the class 5 weeks ago weighting in at 144, I was down to 142 a week later, and now 5 weeks into the class I am weighting in at a whopping 148! I was 140 before I got pregnant which was about 5 pounds above what I would have liked. I remember when I weighted 120 back when I was 20, but 135 would be a great nice level weight for me to maintain. This means I need to lose about 10-12 pounds. This may not sound like much to you, but I am a small boned person and I have never had to watch my weight. Right now I do not eat well nor do I work out, so this is going to be hard. Why does life get hard when you get older, I never had to watch my weight before I turned 30!

Frankly it sucks butt, but, tis life, I have to make a change. I know better than to try to completely try to change everything I do, I will end up failing if I try that again, so I am going to make some small changes each week.

This week I am going to stop eating in bed. I know what you are thinking, what kind of person eats in bed? Since we got a big tv for our room we started eating on our bed. Not only do we eat meals, but we also snack. I am going to stop eating and drinking anything on our bed! I am going home and cleaning off the kitchen table and make a spot that is comfortable and sittable. Seriously, I shouldn't be eating dinner in bed anyway, so this should be an easy change.

I have to go grocery shopping this weekend, so I am also going to try to get some healthier snacks, yogurt, apples, bananas, granola, pretzels, etc. I love vegetables and I plan on buying fresh vegetables and actually eat them, I always buy them but they end up growing some pretty fussy stuff on them and when I find them in the fridge a month later, I have to throw it away.

I already blog weekly for Summer, and I have decided I am serious about this and one way to keep me honest and going - is to blog about it. I hope I can do it this time, but if I know you are reading and watching me, I might have more motivation. Who knows I may only make it a week and decide I like being fat and buying larger pants, let's be honest, it is easier to find larger pants in long anyway right? No - wrong attitude, I can't think like that anymore!