It's going to be a long night...

My baby has the flu... :(

I had NO idea he was sick until he puked in the frozen food aisle at Walmart. Talk about mortified?! He got sick on Adrian...me...and my purse. (thank goodness I hadn't switched over to my new knock-off Prada purse that I got for Christmas!)

Bless his little heart though. He was so upset that it happened. He even said he was sorry afterwards. (aww...)

Walmart is officially off my poo-list now though. Adrian had to run to the bathroom to get towels to clean Collin up (this all happened the ONE time I didn't bring the diaper bag). I just stood there dumbfounded, trying to comfort Collin, when this nice employee came up to help. I started apologizing and she told me not to and directed me to the towels and trash can in the aisle (who knew?)... she even went and got a mop to clean up the mess on the floor.

I just hate it when the little guy is sick. He's not like Adrian. Adrian gets sick a time or two, maybe over the course of 12 hours, then he's all better. Not Collin. It's over and over and over again until I have laundry falling out of the laundry room and I have no more clean bedding.

Wish me luck...

Going private very soon...

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Darn crazy family members!

Reflections

I have been in a really good place mentally this past week. :)

Matt & I have been reconnecting and I feel closer than ever to him now. We've not been doing anything special...just sitting and talking...reflecting on our feelings...sharing new things with each other. It's hard to believe that we've been together for 8 1/2 years now. Marrying him was the best decision I ever made. I know I've said this before, but I am truly blessed to have him in my life. He is my best friend.

Speaking of him, I am so proud (and jealous!) of him. He has lost close to 30 lbs. since we started our journey to get healthy in August. He's lost probably close to 6 inches on his waist and he is looking HOT! I think he said that he's only got another 15-20 lbs. to go before he's at the weight he was when we started dating. (I've got another 59 lbs.! I'll get there though. :)

I had a great session with my therapist on Monday. She said some things that really made sense. The biggest thing that has been running through my mind is that diets are all about deprivation. For those of us who binge or over-eat, it's really hard to diet because of that. Sometimes it is what triggers those dark moments.

Something that is also helping me is to get into the mindset that I shouldn't live to eat, but rather eat to live. If I'm still hungry after dinner, I drink something and wait 20-30 minutes to make sure that I'm actually hungry before I get a snack or more food. I've also been having crazy cravings for cereal...guess what? I've been eating it! I found a fairly low-carb cereal (Banana Nut Cheerios...yummy!) and I've been eating a small bowl when the craving hits. I've also switched to using smaller spoons when I eat so it takes me longer to eat and I trick my body into thinking that I'm actually eating more when I'm not.

I hope this positive attitude continues because if it does, I really feel like I can get healthy this time! :)

Yeah!!!

So...I got my iPod yesterday. I don't remember if I told you all that I was getting one or not. My friend Becky suggested that I get one. Not only does listening to it perk up my mood, but I have a feeling that I'll have a much cleaner house and that I'll work out more.

One interesting thing that is kind of related to this is that I found out in my Training & Development class that I'm an auditory learner. What does that mean? That means that I'm very musically inclined...I even learn to music...seriously! (that's how I memorized stuff when I was in my accounting classes)

When I was single and had my own apartment, it was spotless! I used to turn on my stereo, jam out, and clean the heck out of my house. I can't jam out to my tunes anymore because: a) Matt hates my booty-shaking music (I don't blame him...I'm almost 30-years old and listen to the stuff that my teenage brothers and sisters like...sad or cool? you decide), b) it's not really kid-friendly or kid-appropriate music, and c) I like really loud, I mean really LOUD music....I want my kids to be able to hear when they're older.

Added bonus with the iPod: it drowns out the tantrums of my terrible-two year old. (does that make me a bad mom?) :)

Weekly weigh-in

Down another 1.2 lbs. this week for a total weight loss of 8.3 lbs. over the past month. I wish it were higher but I've been taking Saturdays off because of that Training & Development class I'm taking all day then. I've not been going hog wild...just not low-carbing on those days.

I also lost a 1/2 inch around my neck and 1 inch on my hips. No loss around my waist but I have noticed that I'm getting my 'hourglass' figure back so I'm happy with that. :)

Today was a good day.

I feel like I'm always 'Negative Nancy' on here so just wanted to report my mini-victory. I kept my net carbs under 20 grams today.

I haven't gotten to work out since Thursday (I think?) and I'm not sure if I'll get to tomorrow but I did work out 100 minutes last week, exceeding my goal of 90 minutes.

The best part about today is that I wasn't hardly hungry and the only artificial sweetener I had was in my coffee and about 12 oz. of diet coke...no candy or anything else. Yay!

Hope tomorrow goes just as well...

Camera phone pics!

I know...you're all SO surprised that I've got more! :) Just 3 though...

See! I'm not the only one who likes camera phone pictures.

I had a really good hair day today so I decided to immortalize it. Because that's just how I roll.

So...what do you think? Mini me or mini Matty? (for those of you who know Matt)

Back to homework. Or maybe I'll just stab myself in the eye with an icepick. That'd probably be more fun than this shit...