Yep, it got worse!

Saturday I ended up with a stomach bug. You know it's a strong bug when I get it. Usually stomach issues pass right by me, I can count on one hand how many times I've actually thrown up from one. I finally got an appetite back Sunday night.

Sunday my 8mo started a fever that didn't come down until this morning. I've done nothing but hold baby for two days. I have no idea why she got it, my kids rarely get fevers and she had no other symptoms.

Our dogs wounds opened up last night and started bleeding again. I guess I'm going to have to take him to the vet. Hopefully they will let us pay in two days.

I desperately need a calm few days.

It hasn't been a great couple of days

Thursday I dropped my boys off at their co-op then got gas and was on my way home from there and got in a car accident. I went through an intersection where the lights were not working. I stopped then slowly pulled through to show my intention to go through then I started to speed up. When I was about 3/4 the way through the intersection a car hit me. She was an elderly woman that didn't notice that the lights were not working and didn't stop. She hit me in the right front of my van, thank goodness because I had my four younger kids with me. If she had hit me in the side my 8yo dd or 2yo ds would have been hit. All the kids were fine. I hurt a couple of fingers really bad, although they aren't broken, and the muscles all through my back hurt pretty bad. I'm going to see a chiropractor on Monday and a massage therapist possibly on Tuesday.

Then Friday our dog got out and got bit by some neighbors dog that was out in it's yard. He's got two deep gashes on his back near his neck. We have absolutely no money for a vet so I cleaned them out with essential oils and glued them with super glue. So far it seems to be working. I'm going to rinse them several times today with the essential oils so hopefully it doesn't get infected.

My 6yo dd has an abcess on her gum and my 2yo has a nasty sounding cough. It can only get better from here, right?

All my grand intentions to exercise and eat well have gone out the window. I did great Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, though. Hopefully after I see the chiropractor and massage therapist I'll feel like getting back to exercising.

Home again!

I had a blast! I learned so much and had so much fun. Can't wait for next years conference. We are already planning on attending.

As far as eating goes I did great right up until the last day (with the exception of the score candy bar when I craved chocolate one night). On the drive home I ate everything I could get my hands on. I didn't exercise at all. There just wasn't time. We left early in the morning for classes and got back most nights after midnight. We had a very hard pulling ourselves away from so many wise, inspirational women.

So, on the drive home, my friend made the commitment that she would not weigh for two weeks to allow her body to make up for any gained weight and not get her depressed so I've decided to make the same commitment. I don't know if I've gained anything but I don't want to regret anything I did. So help me stick with it.

Dh went to the cannery last week while I was gone. I'm excited because now I have lots of wheat to play around with and come up with new recipes that have no white flour or sugar. I want to do some research with xylitol. From what I've heard it's really good for you.

Sounds like you all are doing great. Keep up the good work and keep on trucking!

Ok, official weigh in

So, I thought it was pretty good considering I went two weeks with nothing. I'm just glad I'm losing again. So here is the official wii fit pic. As usual my lighting was crappy but as long as it can be read, I'm happy with that. That is a 6.1 loss. Even if I keep that up I will still reach my goal by June.

Ack! I can't believe how long it's been since I last posted!

I have been incredibly busy these last two weeks plus my meds have been screwed up too. Meds are now normal again but life will not settle down for awhile so I will just need to get used to my new normal.

Last time I posted that my weight has plateaued a bit but it's seems to have started moving again. I haven't weighed myself for two weeks cause I was sick of seeing the same number. I'm still basically doing the Special K thing but have tweaked it a bit to make it more of a whole foods diet. I'm alternating between Special K, Oatmeal with Craisins and Kashi cereal. Some mornings, when I'm super busy, all I have is dried fruit and almonds. I've increased how much fruit and veggies I eat (I'm off my blood thinners now so I can eat anything, yay!) and I'm trying hard to do away with processed foods, white flour and white sugar (Thank you Karilynn for reminding me of how I SHOULD be eating). I know special K isn't the best choice but it's still an ok choice until I can get some more recipes and more better (LOL, my kids would kill me for my bad grammer!) foods in my food storage.

We also got a membership to the rec center and I've been doing water aerobics with a friend two days a week. I can't go on Wednesday's at the time the class is so I'm thinking of going and doing weights at an earlier time. We will see how motivated I am to do this tomorrow! LOL

It looks like it's working! I've lost weight! I'm keeping it a secret as to how much. You'll find out how much on Thursday! I will tell you that I'm finally out of the 150's! I've been big time bloated the last two weeks so I couldn't tell that I'd lost anything so I was really surprised to see the number that I did this morning.

Next week I'm going to Oregon for 6 days for a midwife conference! Yay! I'm taking my baby and the Grandparents are taking care of the other 6. We are staying at the Hilton (where the conference is) and apparently they have a pretty nice workout room. Whether or not I will use it is another story. I'd have to rely on friends to watch my baby while I workout plus we will be staying up late playing and getting up early for classes so I don't know if it will happen. I think I'm taking the laptop so I will try and check in.

I seem to have plateaued a bit

My weight is stuck but I measured myself yesterday (found the book I'd written my measurements in) and I've lost 8 inches total, 3 on my tummy alone!  I was very happy!

This week I watched Biggest Loser and I was struck by how hard they work everyday at losing weight.  The night before weigh in some of them were up most of the night exercising.  While I think that is pretty extreme for normal life it did help me realize that I could be working a lot harder than I already am.  On BL they were working so hard that sweat was pouring off their face and they were crying because they weren't sure they could do even one more of whatever they were doing.  Then they pulled through and were able to do several more.  I'm breaking a sweat but it's not pouring off my face and I don't very often get to the point where I have to force myself to do just one more.

So I decided this week I was going to work harder.  I upped all of my reps and increased the time on all my workouts.   Now I'm up to exercising 1.5 to 2 hours.  I have to get up at 6 to do it but thats ok.  It has felt really good.   I've also been working harder on not eating crap and sticking to my plan.  I was doing fine until yesterday when we got valentines ready for a party today.  We had leftover candy and had a terrible time keeping them out of my mouth.  I told myself that two chocolate kisses wasn't going to hurt anything.  And it wouldn't have if I'd been able to stop after that.  That two turned into more like 2 handfuls!  LOL  Sigh, oh well.  

Tonight hubby and I are ditching the kids and then spending the night at home with just the two of us.  We had planned on spending the whole weekend at a hotel but we didn't get our taxes filed in time so we have to do it on the cheap.  Thats ok.  No kids is a vacation in itself!  I've been telling myself that Valentines weekend was going to be one of my splurges.  For just the next two days I'm going to eat anything I want and not worry about how much I will gain.  Hopefully my hard work from this week will pay off and it won't effect me too much.

Official Weigh In

So, here it is, the big weigh in.  I was much lower than I imagined I would be.  My dd was holding the tube of toothpaste,  I couldn't figure out any other way to get it in the pic of the wii weight page.  So, I went from 160.9 to 151.2, a difference of 9.7!  Yay!

I wanted to do measurements but my Palm Pilot is having issues and that is where I stored all my previous measurements so I don't have anything to compare them to.  I will still measure today and will post the differences some day when I figure out to fix my Palm.