Chugging along!

     Welcome to my first and last post for January 2011.  Things are going pretty well, considering how much we have going on.  The only things is that we went on vacation on Jan 13th and I have not been back to the Y since.   Yeesh, I know!  Over 2 fulls weeks of sleeping in (as much as a 2 year old will allow) and I'm finding it so hard to get back into my groove.  I'm going tomorrow and I'm going to weigh myself.
     Also I'm doing SlimFast again, and I figured if all I did this last summer was SlimFast and I lost 10 lbs, then what could I lose if I actually coupled it with good diet and exercise?  I know what you're thinking, "Thats crazy person talk!  You can't diet and exercise!!!"  Oh yes I can, and I am going to.
     Waaaay back in December (or November), I got back on the coffee.  I can't kick it for the life of me!  I'm even going so far as to making decaf in the afternoon.  I think its because I feel so cold all the time (fat kept me warm!) So now I constantly find myself drinking coffee, hot chocolate, hot chai, tea, whatever! I can get my hands on to warm my bones.  That's also now a running joke in our family.  I told my husband and my mom that I'm cold all the time now because I'm so super skinny.  Just being obnoxious, but now that's kind of a thing we'll say if one of us is cold.  Lame and true, but a fun inside joke.  I had a client once who had gastric bypass and lost something over 100 lbs and she was telling me how she used to sweat constantly and now she could never get warm and her feet hurt.  I thought that was really interesting, because now I can relate to the being cold thing, but I never thought about the feet.  We have fat pads on the soles of our feet, isn't it funny to think that if you lose enough weight, your feet will get skinnier?  But in losing that padding, she began to have foot pain.  Just an interesting tidbit!
     I'm weighing in tomorrow and I'm expecting a huge gain, but we shall see!

Hello May!

Winter lasted forever but it feels like spring got green in a hurry! I'm loving it!! I'm Slimfasting. I haven't really been working out and I am a super lazy cook so I thought at least for breakfast (since I'm not really a breakfast girl anyways) I'd do Slimfast. I think its going ok. I'm really not hungry till around lunchtime, but I have gotten a little jittery. So I've been trying to grab bananas, apples, or other fruits to tide me over until a real meal.

My mom told me that when she was in high school she would have an apple and if she was really good then she would walk down and get a shake in the evening. Mom and I are built the same, tall, bulky, Swedes. We both had miniature versions of friends. Its funny how as you get older and your priorities change you aren't as caught up with how you compare to other people, but just how you feel about yourself. You don't care what brand name your clothes are all you care is that they fit and they were on sale at Wal-Mart for $4. Its not about $100 shoes, its about how your feet and/or back feel after being in them all day. I love getting older, life is much less petty.