Happy Boxing Day!

Hope everyone survived Christmas. We cheated and did our gifts earlier in the week. My daughter (Stinker, age 3) had been getting increasingly frustrated with waiting for Santa to come and bring her presents. I ended up taking the kiddos out for lunch and when we got back Santa had visited.

 

They got quite a haul this year. Was a fun day. Must say there was a huge plus to doing it early, my husband was home for the kid's Christmas hangover the next day. Stinker at one point snuck down stairs, ate all of her Christmas candy, and snuck her new markers and drew all over herself and her room. 

Thankfully Bubba (21 months) was pretty good through it all, I figured he would be overwhelmed but he jumped right in and started ripping paper off of his gifts. Even with doing gifts early we still did our Christmas Eve tradition. We get new pjs and a new game and sit down with popcorn and have at it! This year the game was Uno Moo since Stinker is now old enough to join in. It's a really cute game and she caught on much quicker then we expected.

Now that the holidays are over I have started to seriously think about changing my life style. I was organizing my closet and realized I have no clothes. I have 3 shirts. Looking through my clothes it looks like I haven't bought clothes since 2 sizes ago. Don't have money for new clothes, which really sounds depressing anyways, so I downloaded a weight loss app for my tablet and dug out my exercise DVDs. Yesterday was yoga, I forgot I had some of those muscles, I am sore today! Please note, I am not going on a diet. I thought about it, and seriously considered the 3 day diet, then I came to my senses, mindlessly following a set menu of food I don't want to eat isn't appealing. Plus you can quit diets. I'm changing my eating habits. I've done it before with great results. Back to proper portion sizes and keeping an eye on calories. And yes, my stomach is growling as I type this, but I know I will quickly adjust. I always find the first week is the easiest so it's the next week, and the week after that I'm keeping my eye on. 

I have no short term goals, just a long term one, to lose 100 pounds by my 10th anniversary. Yeah, it's a lot, but it ends up averaging 2lbs a week, which is doable. Biggest thing though is still only weighing in once a month and no beating up allowed. Ok, that's a lie, I do have a short term goal, to lose enough weight to fit into the clothes I have lol Right now I have a dress hanging in my closet, my mom gave it to me last year. It was a squeeze to fit into it then. I want to be able to fit it comfortably and I plan to go out and have a night out when I do!

That brings me to this weeks goals and this months weigh in,

Exercise 3 days a week

clean and organize bedroom

organize kitchen pantry

Dec 20th, 2:40pm 259lbs

You might have noticed that the weigh in was done last week, there is a reason for that. I had been having some knee pain so my husband talked me into seeing my PCM, they weighed me there so hey, why should I do it again? As for my knee, I was diagnosed with Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome (PFPS). It's one of those things where they acknowledged that I am in pain but since nothing is torn or broken they won;t do anything about it. I get a knee brace next week and I'm waiting to talk to a physical therapist. I mainly want to see what they suggest that I can do at home, it doesn't bother me enough that I feel I need a full course of physical therapy. Will see what they say!

For now, I have a hour left of blissful quiet before Bubba gets up so I am going to go enjoy it!