Weighed in and...

Well another weigh in day has passed and another exciting announcement from me!

I have lost 49lbs! 49 lbs gone and lost forever!!! So close to 50lbs now and very excited!!
And only 1 lb away from my 3rd weight loss goal and only 6lbs from ALL of my pregnancy weight gain being gone!!! WAHOO!!!!!

I had to come back to edit this post and add some recent pictures of me..

Going with the flow. Yes I (you) can!

Well, this:

This week my workouts will look like this: today a 2 mile, tomorrow 3 miles, Friday a 4 mile, Saturday 5 miles, Sunday back to 2 miles and so forth

is now a 2 mile with weights and last night a 3 mile walk with boosts...I think I always sabotage myself when I plan a routine ahead of time. I guess it works for me to go with the flow when it comes to getting my workout in. 

As long as I get in 4-5 days a week it's all good! 

As far as my eating I am doing really well this week! I have consumed less weekly point allowance and pretty much keeping to my daily point allowance! Yay me!

More of my clothes are fitting me. I haven't tried on any of my pre pregnancy pants yet..I wanted to wait until all the weight was off...gives me the jitters just thinking about it! 

I need to add some more recent pictures...I will try to get to that this week! 

I will leave you with a poem I really like!

It Couldn't Be Done
By Edgar A. Guest

Somebody said that it couldn't be done,
But he with a chuckle replied
That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one
Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried.

So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.

He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.

Somebody scoffed: "Oh, you'll never do that;
At least no one ever has done it";
But he took off his coat and he took off his hat,
And the first thing we knew he'd begun it.
With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,
Without any doubting or quiddit,
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,
There are thousands to prophesy failure;
There are thousands to point out to you, one by one,
The dangers that wait to assail you.
But just buckle in with a bit of a grin,
Just take off your coat and go to it;
Just start to sing as you tackle the thing
That "cannot be done," and you'll do it.

Are you right here in this moment? Are you believing the lie that you can't do it? Yes you can! You can do it! That change is only a moment away! 

Overcomer!

I wake up each morning to the wonderful aromas of baked goods coming from the kitchen. My children have assigned days they cook and they make some very tasty breakfasts. Cooking to them is a work of art.

Today my son Quentin (12 yrs old) made Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins. I am sure you can imagine how tasty these smelled!

It's hard! Very hard..so my trick is when I am feeling particularily strong I will allow myself one small bite just to taste them. When I am not feeling even the tiny bit of strength to resist them I stay away! Out of the kitchen...FAR AWAY!

Food is a source of temptation for pretty much all of us!

 So what can we do?  Well, finding little things that help us handle the food monster, having more healthy snacks and food on hand. Allowing ourselves those yummy treats here and there. Not depriving ourselves which leads to binging.

Find ways that work for you! You can be an overcomer!!  Let me share this song with you! You are an OVERCOMER!!

    

A New Start!

My first post! Well, here on blogger anyway. I have been blogging on Xanga since 2007 about health and weight loss. I have now switched my blog over to blogger and so I am starting again.

Let you tell me a bit about myself..
I have 12 children. 11 living. My oldest is 21 and my youngest just an infant.
I started my journey to healthy living at the very end of 2007 after the birth of my 10th child. A sweet beautiful baby boy who weighed in at 10lbs 5oz.!!

I joined Weight Watchers. First I just followed the program without any exercise and lost quite a bit but there came a point when I had to change my life in other ways also. I began to exercise and I remember that first week I lost 7 lbs! I was then very aware of what exercising can do for a body! What a change in can make towards living a healthy lifestyle!

By late 2008 I had lost 100lbs! Yes, you read that right! That's a lot of weight! And still hard for me to believe that I actually did that!

In 2010 I gave birth to my 11th child and again joined Weight Watchers at 5 days postpartum. I was able to lose all my pregnancy weight gain and 20lbs more. Awesome right?? I begin to take up bike riding on the trails with my family. Still to this day bike riding is my favorite form of exercise although since we have moved to Texas I haven't been able to bike ride as much as I wish I could.

Most recently I have given birth to my 12th child; a sweet baby girl..She is 5 1/2 months old now and the sweetest little girl! She brings so much sunshine into our lives!

And as you might have guessed I again have joined Weight Watchers and have lost 47 lbs so far. I have about 10 to go to have all my pregnancy weight gain off but I plan to keep going until I am to a weight I feel good at!

Since I am starting a new blog I am hoping to start blogging about recipes I have liked and different exercise programs and what I liked or disliked about them. I also post my exercise as an accountability tool for myself.

Speaking of that let me put today's workout here: 2 mile walk 34 minutes with weights.
I find it pretty amazing the difference it makes when I add weights to my aerobic walking workout! I am sweating and breathing harder much more quickly. Cardio is a great workout!

This week my workouts will look like this: today a 2 mile, tomorrow 3 miles, Friday a 4 mile, Saturday 5 miles, Sunday back to 2 miles and so forth.

Wednesday is my weigh in day so I figure my weeks as far as weight loss goes from Wednesday to Wednesday.

I am planning on starting the Weight Watchers meetings tomorrow. I have been doing the program online but as I find I am close to all my pregnancy weight gain being gone I need more support to keep going.

Also you will read in this blog references to the Father...my faith is very important to me and without His help I couldn't do this! The Lord Yeshua (Jesus) gives me the endurance and determination I need to keep going. I know without Him I couldn't do this!

One last thing...
Weight loss changes more then your appearance. It changes you inside. You go through a metamorphosis so to speak physically and mentally. So indulge me if I am poetic, emotional and a little silly sometimes. It's all part of losing weight, being healthy and changing into a Happy Healthy Mama!!