I have been busy lately, so I haven't been able to post as much as I would like. It's easy to get behind at school, so I've been playing catch up. My tickets to Australia are purchased and all I'm doing now is waiting for the date to get here :) My diet has not been great. But you get that on the big jobs. I had some issues I needed to work out, and I have worked those out now thank goodness. I was doing so well at the beginning of the week, but then I ate out a few times and so today I'm eating out again, but I am planning on drinking lots of water and having a good dinner and a 100% day tomorrow.

I started to make peanut butter cookies with peanut butter chips and chocolate chips in them but then I thought to myself, I don't NEED these cookies, I WANT these cookies. I decided I had to make sure the majority of the foods I'm eating come from the NEED category and not the WANT category. I'll work on it after lunch :D

My rant

People, if you have a dog, potty train it properly! Which involves taking the puppy OUTSIDE to use the bathroom, not using potty pads! Using potty pads teaches the dog to piss and shit in the house! Yes, the dog is only allowed to use the potty pad, but it is still in the house and the dog never learns to shit and piss outside! Getting a puppy requires hard work. Not all puppies pick up potty training easily, but dammit, it still needs to learn to shit outside! What happens if the dog is boarding somewhere? I'll tell you what will happen. The dog will get to go outside several times a day and will NOT use the bathroom outside! The dog will come back in and promptly shit and piss INSIDE!

Day 9

One of my neighbors told me the other day that he noticed I had lost a lot of weight and if I didn't mind sharing how much had I lost. I was proud to tell him I had lost about 30 pounds since February. I also told him about how I am trying to lose another 18 pounds before December and he told me that my current weight to height ratio looked really well on me. I was very flattered. It was a very nice thing for him to have said to me, but I also know that if I'm not careful I will get back into the comfortable mode and I will just stay the weight I am. I want to keep losing, so I will gladly accept his compliment and keep trying to lose the rest of my weight.

The above paragrah is why I'm having a hard time this week. I DO want to keep losing weight, so I just have to buckle down, wait out the cravings and keep telling myself, "chocolate icecream will still be around in December, so will Snickers bars." :D This realization is coming after lunch today, of course. I had a "no-cheats" dinner and breakfast but lunch as a disaster. I had my SS lunch then I had some peanuts and 2 granola bars. Thank goodness I was at school when I had my dinner because I was craving something sweet after I ate. I hoping since I did not have anything sweet after dinner and I lived that tomorrow will be a better food day. I think I will have a grilled cheese sandwich tomorrow. That sounds really good.
Goodnight all!
BTW, I am going to figure out how to post some pictures and put up one that I found of me that was taken 5 or 6 years ago. YIKES!!! That was when I was over 200 pounds! I am also just going to post some other ones as a progression of where I was to where I am now.

Day 9

Ahh, Wednesday. The day I get to sleep in. Only I didn't get to really sleep in because of my damned annoying dog! Who does he think he is, waking me up at 7 so he can go outside? Then getting back in bed and doing that annoying licking! Crazy dog.

Breakfast was good, it was oatmeal and milk and some apricots. Lunch was cream cheese with some garlic and some minced onion flakes and some bbq spices. Yummy! I also had some crackers and an apple. Then I ruined that great 100% meal by having a granola bar and some peanuts. For dinner I had a single serve meatloaf, some green beans and asparagus and then I had a scoop of icecream. I am vowing to be 100% Thursday and Friday and Saturday and Monday! Sunday will be off slightly, I already know.

I had class this morning and I was sad I had to go to school instead of work for once. I work for a vet and today we had to put down this dog who meant something special to all of us. He's been coming to the clinic for 11 years and the last 2 years he has spent a lot of time boarding with us also. This dog was noisy and such a food hound and he was the best dog ever. We all loved him. Putting him down was one of the saddest things we've had to do all year. I was sorry I wasn't able to be there for his owner and for him. I will miss seeing that little guy and even though the boarding facilities will be quieter now, it won't be the same without his barking himself hoarse.
I miss you, buddy.

Day 8

Well, I got up and walked this morning. Yay me! I sure didn't want to, and in fact, neither did Calvin, but we did it. I always weigh in on Tuesdays and then sometimes I decide to have a cheat day, which is pretty much allowing myself to eat whatever, and other times I decide that the treat to myself is going to be staying focused and on my plan. Normally it coincides with my moods, funny that, huh? Well, I started out in a great mood today, then by 2 it had gotten bad. I booked my ticket to Australia only to be told that my credit card wouldn't accept the charges. Well, I call the credit card company and even though I have almost double the price of the fare on my card, because the price of the fare is over my credit limit they will not allow the purchase to go through. WTF?? I obviously have the money there, why can't I spend it??? Anyways, I was in a downer mood, so I had icecream and a bean burrito for lunch. For dinner I had a hot dog and some chips and some more icecream. I know tomorrow I will make myself be on the straight and narrow, but today I allowed myself some wallowing.

On the upside, despite my binge over the weekend I still managed to lose .6 of a pound! :) I worked out that I need to lose 1.25 pounds a week (including last week) to make my goal. I will have to stop this pity party and get focused again, meaning tomorrow, and get my act together so I can lose enough to make up for my small loss this week.

I'm off to do homework. Goodnigh all!

Day 7-coming in a day late

Well, week one is over. It was a pretty good week, despite how I ended it :) Don't get me wrong, I had a wonderful weekend and I had a blast, but food wise it was a terrible way to end.

Monday was a good food day. For breakfast I had a yogurt smoothie with peaches and kiwi. For lunch I had a meatloaf with vegetables and for dinner I ate at my neighbors and I had some pork ribs (I kinda eyeballed my portion to what it should be) and I had some bell peppers with it. It was really good! I didn't drink as much water as I should have, but it was good.

I have school on Monday and Wednesday mornings. I almost forgot to go to school because I was so busy at work! LOL. My friend reminded me that I needed to go. Well, I will post my weight and my day tonight. Have a good day everyone!