Doing great Feeling great

 

Hi everyone. Hope your doing ok. Well I’m doing great with my new weight loss plan. So Far. I had slipped the other night. But shook it off and continued doing my best. The special k diet is really doing good. I am now down to 314. I weighed my self in today shhhh. I know I was suppose to Saturday. O well.Tonight we made some red beans and rice. I know if I eat some I will go over board so I don’t know if I should try to pass it up. But then again If I eat my regular smart ones TV dinner, I might cave in and eat the red beans. So that would be way to much. So I probably will try eating a small bowl instead. I notice my back does not hurt as much as when I first started my job. My clothes don’t feel that much of a difference yet. But I will keep on. I have a pair of tight jeans so I will try those on to see when I can fit them lol. I know I can do it I done it before.

So my job is still doing great. Today I had to be there for 8:30 instead of 10:30. Then Monday I will be there for 10:30 until 4 or 5. So I don’t mind I love it there and I get paid more lol. But my back has a mind of its own. It’s getting better though. Today and yesterday I did not get spit up on lol. well that’s all to update. Take care everyone

One relaxed weekend

 

I have the weekends off. So this weekend I just crawled in bed and watched TV or did some digital scrap booking on my computer. I did not mess up on my diet. This morning I weighed myself again, and I lost a total of 6 pounds now.  Tonight I ate some rice and gravy for supper. I wish I didn’t cause now my stomach feels yucky. I have noticed lately if I eat a heavy meal It make me feel sick.  I don’t know if my body is use to eating light and healthy. But I’m happy for the weight loss. Tomorrow I go back to work.  I love my job but I just hate getting up in the mornings. I’m not a morning person. Takes me a full hour to wake up almost. Then 15 minutes until I leave I slap my hair in a ponytail, put my scrubs on, and brush my teeth. Then I’m out the door. I take a shower at night, cause I don’t feel like waking up at 8 in the morning. I’m yawning just thinking about it.  I work with infants they don’t care if I have no make up on or look all fancy.  The minute I walk in the room its like they all look at me and say ohhhh Rhonda’s here, It’s spit up time… The little boogers…  LoL. So anyway. I just wanted to update with my weight loss. It’s doing well so far. Tomorrow I am going to go buy some more cereal and K2O protein water drinks. I’m running low. oh that is a scrapbook page I done of my nephew Hayden. That’s a picture of him when he was 9 months. Just felt like putting it in my post. well take care everyone.

Back on this site

So I know I changed my blog but I am going to come back on this one also. So now I will have two weight loss blogs. So I got me a part time job in a daycare. I love it so far. I’m waiting for a full time position to open up. I Started a new weight loss plan. It is called the Special K challenge. It says you can lose 1 inch from your waist in 2 weeks. I have tried so many diets I said what the heck. I will try this one also. So Monday I went shopping and bought all special k products. They have many different flavors of cereal and snack bars. So I will not get tired of eating the same kind over and over again. So far I lost 3 pounds. This is usually my menu for the day.

Breakfast: 9:25 am
Bowl of special k cereal

Snack: 12:30 pm
special k K2O protein water
90 cal special k snack Bar

Lunch: 2:15
Bowl of cereal

Snack: 3:30
fruit or another snack bar

Supper: 5:00
Smart ones meal

 In the day care I work in the infant room. To me it is a workout. You don’t really have time to sit. One baby crys then you have to go care for that one then another one crys. Then you have to change them and feed them. Some times you have to feed two at one time. We have a total of 10 infants. There is always another lady there when I am there. You have to always have two people in the room. One of the Lady’s is suppose to be leaving. So I hope I can get that full time job when it opens up. I like to put it as, It is not a job, just a full body workout that pays you money lol. I been there about 3 weeks now. My first week was terrible on my body. Every muscle hurt. Then I got some kinda head cold thing. Then PMS hit. But now my muscles are better and getting use to it. My back still hurts at times but getting better. So this motivates me to lose more weight. My weight plays a big roll in my goals. Getting the full time job means working harder even more. I know my back will be hurting. So it will take a while to get thin but it will happen one day. Take care everyone.

Changing my site

Hi everyone. Just wanted to let you know I am not going to be on this site anymore. I found there is not much options. So I switched to blogspot. So that’s my new home.  The link is http://capturedmemories08.blogspot.com/

So tired, and it’s only Tuesday

Hope everyone is having a great week. I’m sooo tired. Since we had Hayden I go to bed at 9. I woke up this morning at 10. I knew I had to get up. If i did not have to I would of slept more. I have been taking lots of pictures of him. He getting so tall. Seems every time he says something he has to yell it. He has some good lungs, I tell ya. I snuck away to blog a little. Plus I got tired of watching Alvin and the chipmunks for the 5th time.  Its a cute movie though.  Here is a few photos of Hayden. He does need a haircut. We are bringing him Thursday to get it done I hope he will sit still. He does not even like his hair being brushed or washed. 

  

He is to funny. He walked into the living room and saw clothes folded on the couch. He then decided to wear everything he saw. Including his shorts on his head. He kinda looks like a chef. Then he decided to go outside like that.

This week I have not done good on eating better. I know I should not use Hayden as an excuse but I will. Plus it’s my girly month time, and I eat a lot on those days. As soon as he is gone Saturday I will get back on track.  Well this is a short blog just to update. My pizza is cooking in the oven. Take care everyone.

Tomorrow is the big day

Yay!!!! Tomorrow is the trip to new Orleans to pick up my nephew. I got my healthy snacks all ready, and my camera packed. I think my nephew Hayden nowknows me as Aunt Rhonda the camera girl. I’m always snapping pictures. I will make sure to post a picture of him. He will keep us busy for the whole week. Sojust to let everyone know I will not be online very often. He will be here until next Saturday. So I will try to log in and  blog. Maybe if he takes a nap. ha yea right.  ”If” is the word, but I won,t wish for it. I’m so excited I probably wont be able to sleep good tonight.  I’m so Proud of myself. Yesterday I was thirsty. My mind said to drink a soft drink. I went to reach for it but my body kept saying water. So I drank a big glass of water. You ever get that feeling your body is telling you your thirsty and its like  oh my,i need a drink of something. That’s how I was  yesterday with the water.   But to think last Monday I said I hated water, and now I can’t get enough of it. So it goes to show you if you stick with it, and get in the routine of doing something. You will always do it. Also for the past week I been doingarm raises with light weight dumbbells for my arms every night.  I noticed if I do anything like holding something heavy or doing a chore that involves using my arms a lot, my muscles hurt. So I’m doing those exercises to help. I’m thinking if I do it for another week or two I should see results.

Also another thing I have learned. I always did crunches and sit ups thinking I will see results in my abs and tummy. Being over weight a lot of my weight is in my stomach and hip areas.  I kept doing crunches and seeing no results. I did research to see why others have flat tummy’s and I don’t. Well I have come to learn you have to lose the fat first. You might actually be toning your abs and muscle’s but you cant see it cause of the fat layered over your abs.  So until I lose some of the fat that’s layered on my abs and tummy. I wont be seeing results.  But it’s ok cause it will happen. It won’t happen overnight, but it will happen in due time. I hope everyone is doing well. I will try to blog when I get a chance. Take care.

A calorie chart

Hi everyone hope your having a great day today.  Last night I made a calorie chart. To list everything I eat and all calories. I made it in word pad on the computer. I tried to paste it here in my blog but did not come out to good. So I did it in my journal on daily strength here is the link to it. http://dailystrength.org/people/236202/journal/1033734

If you would like to print my example for your own use, here is a way to print just the chart. First Left click and hold the button down and highlight right at the top where the chart starts, then drag your mouse down to the end. Then let go of the button. Second just press your print button making sure when the print box comes up to select where it says selection. This will only print the portion you highlighted. 

If your serious about weight loss and counting calories. I suggest for you to buy a binder, and a pack of loose notebook paper.  I am also going to do this.  Make your own chart or label your paper like mine. Skipping lines to list each food you eat. Do this on seperate sheets for each day. From past experiance. I Make a chart on each page for about a weeks worth. This way you have everyday of the week planed. All you have to do is look and see what you wrote to eat. I use to do it day by day. In the morning I would just write what I wanted. But doing it this way some times I got lazy and did not feel like doing it in the morning. So I just ate and tried to calculate in my mind. Which I always went over. So doing a week ahead I had every day that week already done.  Also another good thing about it. If you already wrote  for example for breakfast an egg omlet. then got up that morning and did not feel like eating that. You dont have to worry about messing your whole day up. Just flip back to a menu you like and use that one for that day. All the calories will be already counted.

If you want to get fancy. You could buy those dividers that go in binders for different subjects. They have tabs that stick out so you can label them. You can make a section of your binder for calorie counting. Then a section for weigh ins.  write the day you weighed  yourself and how much. So you can keep track of the weight your losing. Give you that extra boost. Also you can even have another section in your binder for how much and when you exsercise. When I use to do this It gave me that extra boost and just getting excited to write in my binder.  You can even decorate your binder any way you want. 

 

My day

 

Well today I think I did good so far with my eating. I did alot of house work in the kitchen. I swept and mopped the floors and cleaned the couners and tables. Washed all the dishes.  Well the dish washer washed them, I only washed the pots by hand cause they don’t do well in the dishwasher. I still can’t wait to go pick up my nephew Saterday. We live in Lafayette, louisiana. They moved to new orleans. So its a 3 hour drive to go and 3 hour drive to come back. So its a long 6 hour drive total. Thats the sucky part. Its worth it though, this time we get to keep him for a week. Yay!!! We leave at 7 in the morning I think. Have I said I can’t wait. Ha Ha.  I felt alot better today. I was not as depressed as I was yesterday. My mood changes alot during the day. For lunch I ate a lean pocket. Also know as the hot pocket but the lean ones are less calories. Mine was 280 calories. Not that bad I guess. For a snack I ate some popcorn and water. I just noticed I have not has a soft drink for a week now. Woo hooo for me.  Tomorrow I have to clean the bath room again. Yuck That’sone thing I hate doing. But it has to be done.  I also went water my little tiny garden I made. I planted some cucumber seeds, tomato plants, and carrot seeds.  They were not doing so well so last week I sprayed miracle grow on them. It really helped perk them up. I like watching them grow. I planted some more seeds in little cups on our porch. Every day I go and see how much they grown. They are already big enough to plant in the ground but I will wait a little longer.  I need to take a picture of the ones in the ground. They are my first garden I ever made. So proud of myself.

Hope everyone is having a wonderful day.

A little depressed today

Today I did not to good at all with my eating. Yesterday also. Its like I wake up in a great mood. Drink lots of water,and do good half the day. Then later on I just want to eat and eat.  Then I get depressed after I finish eating knowing I should of not ate that.  It’s really hard.   A lot of people say well buy just healthy food. Well its not that easy.

 

I live with my mother. I use to live with a good friend of mine and her husband for a good while. For money reasons they could not pay the rent so I had to move back home with my mother. Just as my friend move back with hers.  I do not work. I have put applications out to many places but never a phone call back. With no money it is hard to buy healthy food for myself. My mother does the shopping. Since everyone else works and is never here during the day. My mother usually buys only food to make for supper. Also junk food for snacks. That’s what I have left to eat for the day. I asked her to buy me healthy food like fruit and things like that, and she does.  But there is to much temptation for the junk food.  If some one would call me for a job interview it would be a different story.  Some jobs are hard for me because I have social anxiety and being over weight. So I apply for the jobs I can do. My experience is with children so I’m trying to apply for day cares. But no one is calling back. So sitting here by my self all day with a house full of junk food is hard.  I really do good in the morning, its just when 3:00 rolls around. I use to have my daily menu planed on paper. everything is high in calories I find.  So I’m always hungry.  I use to have my menu set for 1,500 calories a day.   Just a small serving size of milk is over 100 calories. I guess I need to start doing that again. 

I’m only 23 years old weighing 318 pounds.  It makes me sick.  I can never remember being thin. The lowest I ever remember being was 249 pounds. When I lived with my friends in 2005. I was losing. But that was only because all the money went to rent and bills and we had nothing to eat half the time.  My friends husband worked in the back with the butcher at a store. Almost all the time he would sneak packaged meat wrapped in his apron home.   Finally I applied for food stamps to help out with food, becasue I could not stand seeing him doing that. Then we had no car so we walked where we had to go. With having the food stamps I was buying healthy foods So that helped alot. Then After I moved back in with my mother I lost a total 50 pounds. My case with food stamps was dropped. Which I did not mind cause I was not bad off as I was before. Then I got a job babysitting3 kids next door every day. So running around after them kept me busy and I was doing something I liked. The father moved so i was out of that job. Then gradually I gained the 50 pounds back.  Its just depressing at times.    Well i guess I’m gonna run around the house and see how much calories is in everything and make me a menu plan. Tonight I’m goingto do the tapping technique and see if the night cravings go away. Last night I forgot and I had the worst craving for grilled cheese. So i made 2 grilled cheese last night around 10:15. But I am doing good goingto bed early at night. The past 2 days I went to bed at 12. You might say 12 is late but going to bed at 2 in the morning and now at 12. It is a lot better. Last night was the best. 11:00 P.M. I was so happy.  Well I am going make me a menu plan for the week. Thanks for listening. (Well actually Reading) Hope everyone is having a great day. Take care

Tapping Technique and A little more

This is not joke.  Has any one seen the latest TV show I Can Make You Thin by Paul Mckenna. The show is now over but it was awesome. You saw people and photos of real people going through weight loss. 

The tapping technique.

Ok lets take a step back. My mother has very very bad panic attacks. She sees a theripist. He told her about the tapping technique. Gave her a cd to watch on the computer and showed her step by step how to do it. Then a week later We saw this show on tv doing the same thing. It controls your right and left brain. It can be used for anything.  If you bad cravings or emotional hunger then do this technique and it will stop it.  One day I had a depression spell coming on so I sat down and started tapping.  It did help, but I felt it was still there  so I did it again and it was gone. I am going to try this for my cravings at night. I totally forgot to try it for that.  So next time your reaching for that brownie try this technique.

http://www.mckenna.com/default.aspx?pid=45

 

Also now I’m trying to find things that keeps me busy. This will help me  forget about junk food at times. I love photography. I take so many digital pictures and upload them to my computer. I found the love of digital scrapbooking. If anyone Likes to take lots of photos and has a creative side, try Digital scrapbooking. I am a member of this free site called scrapbookflair. Its a great place. You can add friends, message people, and create scrapbooks. You can even upload them to scrapbookflair and share it with everyone. They can vote on it to. There is even challenges.  This is where someone makes up rules about a scrapbook. For example using only a certain photo or certain things. Then everyone votes for the best scrapbook.  I love it.  Here is the link to my scrapbook gallery. You can view all my scrapbooks I made http://scrapbookflair.com/scrapbookergallery.aspx?userid=38855

 

http://scrapbookflair.com/

 

 

 

I want you to meet Ozzy. He is a loving parakeet. Also annoying at times. He Loves to watch TV and eat Cheerios.  He is 2 years old, and very loud. One day My mother came and heard him squawking. She asked if I fed him. I said oh he’s just watching I Love Lucy.  I love to scrap book his pictures.

This is My crazy dog Sandy. She is a lopsa opso/poodle.  She’s sweet but with a little spice.  She hates strangers, and cats. She can smell cats a mile away. You can even say the word cat and her ears perk right up. She will chase them everywhere. One time I thought it was so funny. Sandy was outside smelling a tree and a cat appeared out of no wear creeping behind sandy. It must of been a house cat that was use to dogs. Sandy did not see it.  Finally the cat was right on Sandy’s tail. Then sandy turned around fast and looked at it.  She just would stare at the cat. Like she was thinking, aren’t you suppose to be running. It might not sound funny but it was just one of those you had to be there moments.  Sandy is also very smart. She will bring you your shoes or anything you ask.  But now she thinks she gets a treat every time. When you eating supper she will go get a shoe and place it on the floor next to you. Then sit there for a treat. If you ignore her She then gets the shoe and then drops it on your foot, like saying you get the point.  Shes to funny at times.

I’m trying to add my photo on the side of my blog but it is not working I will have to try again later.

Make sure to check out her blog

I got this link off of DS (Daily strength). I read parts of it and touched my heart. 

http://www.ranaesheart.com/

It is now 11:24 AM I just Washed half of my mothers suv for her. I had to stop and rest my back. I think Washing a car is a work out.  Right ta circle, Left ta circle. Breath in breath out. Right ta circle, left ta circle.  If any one does not know what I was talking about there, thats off the karate kid movie.  I’m drinking me a tall glass of water to cool me down before I head out and finished the other side.

I can’t wait until this weekend. It will be another big on going workout. My Mother and her husband is going pick up my nephew. Let me tell you the story about that. I know this is not about weight loss but it is stil about me also ,it’s just a little ranting until my back feels better.

In 2005 My brother and his wife gave birth to a precious baby. Hayden was his name.  She had a c section and everything seemed to be fine. Waiting back in her hospital room around 5:30pm. We waited and waited to see the baby.  We went to the nursery window to see what was wrong. In the back we saw my brother he pointed to a incubater and there he was. So cute and big. Watching the nurses move around. All of a sudden they but the oxygen mask on Hayden. We knew something was wrong.  They close the blinds on the window so we could not see anymore. So back in the hospital room we went. Then later the docter came in the room to tell us everything. He was Brought to I.C.U. First off my brothers wife was a diabetic. They say women with diabites tend to have larger babies. So the docter took the baby early. He took test and everything to make sure the lungs were fully developed.Test came out fine.  Well come to find out Haydens lungs were not fully developed. I’m not sure which one I dont remember either is blood pressure or his sugers. I think it is his sugars.  Well the normal is suppose to be 45 his was 2. He could not eat for him self or anything.  There was so much more but been so long I dont remember. The shaved half his head to put iv’s but his vains were to brittle so they put it in his arms. Seeing him hooked up to all those wires  made me want to cry. Just seeing a beautiful creation like that was heart breaking. He stayed in that hospital for 3  weeks I think. Then was taken  to a new orleans hospital.  Total, he stayed a month in I.C.U. Then at 2 months old he got glacouma in his left eye.  Back in the hospital for surgery. After, everything was fine.  We always had him here at our house. Like my mom says, we practaly raised him. Now they got a devorice, and the mom moved to new orleans where she is origanly from.  So we get to see Hayden about once a month. He is now 3 Years old. The most adorable thing.  So again this weekend we are supose to go pick him up and keep him for a week. I can’t wait to see him. Because of price of gas and other reasons we have not seen him since march.  So running around after a 3 year old is another workout ha, ha.   Well off to  finish washing the car…. Take care.