Finally! Back on the road to sexiness! LOL

Ugh. I weighed in at 235.0 lbs. even this morning. The gain was completely my fault. I just kept putting it off and putting it off until I just got to the point (yet again!) that my clothes are tight and I feel like poo. No binging though...just overeating and no portion control.

I just got back from a quick 15 minute workout on the elliptical here at work. I went .9 miles and burned 160 calories. Matt picked up more rechargeable batteries for the Wii Fit yesterday (Collin managed to lose them, throw them away, or something) and so I'm going to condition myself again so I can start back on my Biggest Loser workouts. That is probably going to take a month or two. I'm taking it easy with walking/elliptical this week but starting next week, I'm going to slowly start jogging again. I really, really miss it and can't believe that I'm back to square one with that. As you may recall, I was up to 3 miles in June and I was jogging half of that! :( I'm going to get back there though, dammit!

I have a plan with this whole working out and heavy school load bit:

Monday & Wednesday - elliptical, walk, and/or jog for 15-30 minutes
Tuesday & Thursday - Wii Fit for 15-30 minutes. I am also going to do one medical terminology DVD/class at lunch so I can knock out my co-op (internship) class in about 6-8 weeks so I don't have to worry about that cutting in to workout time.
Friday - Off (or if I'm feeling really energetic - which I'm usually not - then I'll use this as a free day to do what I want)
Saturday or Sunday- Wii Fit for 30-60 minutes

Eating plan is Weight Watchers since I'm a much happier person on this. Matt is starting with me too so Yay! I just hope he stays with it because that'll make it easier for me to stay on track when I have to be somewhat accountable to him.

Vacation Pics

For those of you who aren't friends with me on Facebook...

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For some reason, I can't get this to hyperlink so you'll have to copy and paste into your browser. Argh!

Maintained this week (holding steady at 232.something)

That's a good thing, right? By all means, I should have weighed more but the illness kept me from gaining. I think I'm finally over it. I went to the doctor last Tuesday, did some tests, and they couldn't find anything wrong so it was ruled as a virus. I hope that's the last time I'm sick for awhile because that lasted almost TWO WEEKS! Blech!

As long as I'm over the illness hump, I fully intend on FINALLY getting back to working out. I'm not going to push myself too hard and I'm going to ease back into. I'm shooting for twice this week so wish me luck!

Not much else going on. Started school last Wednesday. As I mentioned, this quarter is going to suck due to the 3 classes I'm taking. One of them is a Business Math class. Ugh! I thought it was going to be easy at first but after tonight's lecture, er, not so much. I will be so happy when this quarter is over!

Oh, I did run into the dreaded ex / sperm donor at Walmart tonight...almost literally! I didn't recognize him because he looked so different. I'm proud to report that I didn't say one word to him, although, I did almost have a panic attack. He's not the most mentally stable person and he has a felony-level child support hearing coming up and so I'm sure he's none too happy with me. I've actually decided to go. Child support hounded me and hounded me to "forgive" his back child support (almost $30,000) and so they're actually pissed at me that they're having to do their jobs and go after it. He is supposedly going to plead guilty but before he does, I'll have my say to hopefully influence the court's decision. What peeves me off the most is that I'm one of those mothers that actually uses my child support for my child. In fact, I have spent barely any of it. The majority of it is in a savings account for Adrian to do with as he wishes (hopefully college!) once he turns 18. I am offended that child support would even ask for me to waive it. Um, hello! It's not MY money to waive. If Adrian wants to when he gets older, that's on him. You never know...like my attorney says, he could hit the lottery tomorrow and I could get all of it paid back. Far shot, but you get my point.

Update (man do I suck at keeping up on my blog?!)

Well...I weighed in when I got back from vacation on Friday and I gained NO weight whatsoever. I'm actually down another 4 lbs. (as of Monday - to 228.4 lbs.) since that weigh-in. I have been extremely ill since we returned last week and so I'm not on Weight Watchers or back to working out yet. As soon as I get better, it's ON. I went to the doctor's yesterday and she thinks I have a viral or bacterial infection of some sort that I picked up on vacation. She is leaning towards bacterial since I've been sick for so long. I should have my lab work by Friday afternoon and then she'll be able to prescribe me something to get better. The waiting sucks though because I feel like someone is stabbing me in the stomach and absolutely nothing makes me feel better. :(

I started back to school for Fall quarter today. I've got 3 classes this quarter so I imagine my poor blog is going to suffer some more. You can find me on Facebook though if you need to. I rarely neglect my Facebook. :)

Adrian & Collin are doing wonderful since I put Collin into daycare by himself. They hardly fight at all anymore and since Collin is on a schedule, he is thriving. He's in a good mood and we don't have discipline him nearly as much any more. He was getting to be quite a handful prior to. And...since he's on a schedule now, he goes to bed at a decent time which means I'll be able to do my homework after the kids are in bed. The downside is that I had to change my work hours a little since I can't drop him off to daycare until 6:30 a.m. so I get home later. I do get to see him (and Adrian) now in the morning, which makes me very happy though.

I do have a request for those of you that pray or believe in the power of positive thinking...I just found out on Sunday that my second cousin, a 10-year old little boy, has leukemia. He has got a long, hard battle ahead of him. I have been told that he has to go through up to 6-8 months of chemotherapy and if that doesn't work, then they'll do a bone marrow transplant. As you may recall, I signed up as a bone marrow donor this year (thanks again, Becky!) and so I have volunteered to be the first to be tested as a match since I've already been typed and he doesn't have any full siblings that can donate to him. As much as I am eager to help out how ever I can, I'm a little sad for myself. Matt & I have actually been kicking around the idea of having another baby over the next year. That is going to have to go on hold for a few months until I see how my cousin responds to his treatment. Everything happens for a reason though, right?

Until next time...