Becky Boo’s Weightloss for LIFE

Hello all. Sunday has come and now is going just as my vacation this past week has gone. Here I am in the final hours of my seven straight days off of work and I am still not done with the paper that is due in approximately 11 hours… I am disappointed in my eating as well. I can’t even talk about it. So, I am not going to. I am only going to think about tomorrow and it being a new week and I am going to be old faithful for the next 4 weeks. I will cut myself some slack for the Christmas Holiday but then I will be right back on track. I can’t lose focus. I hope u all had a great weekend. Have a Happy Monday tomorrow!

Well, I have not been on in a few days. I went out of town to see my grandparents over the holiday. It was a great time. My parents and both of my sisters, their husbands and my niece were there. Plus I got see my uncle, his fiance and his two daughters so it was a win win situation! However, it was a food-food situation… I did not fare as well as I thought I would. But you know what? Tomorrow is a new day. Well, Monday is a new week… I really did not do well this holiday. I truly thought I woudl do much better. Oh well. Will not dwell on it or beat myself up. I will aim to do better and get back on track. I am disappointed though, Bah hum bug… LOL. No, this too shall pass. Cheers all and hope u were able to share your thanks with those u love.

Well, I definitely slept in today. I got up around 8 am to let the dogs out then someone called from work around 10 am and then I finally decided to wake up for good around 11… I foled some laundry and fed the animals. I also emptied the dishwasher and cleaned the fish bowls. Oh, I also did my EVER least favorite task of cleaning out three litter boxes. I can’t do that one everyday. I don’t know why. Maybe cause they are in the basement? I do it every three days. It doesn;t take very long but, let’s be honest, no matter how small, I I any job that involves scooping poop, well, it pretty much sux… I ate one of the new authentic Indian bread things I got at Trader Joe’s and a little itty bowl of trail mix I got there as well. I have had water today and now some coffee. I am headed to a friends later on. We r going to go to a place I have never been called The Noodle Co. then to have some beers. We are both on vacation this week. She lives just across the river in St. Louis. She really lives closer then most everyone I know, I just have to cross a river into another state to get to her! I have done well in my food choices today but I am kind of hungry. I am trying to wait til I go eat dinner but I may need to have a small snack before I go. We will see. Going to try and stay busy to stay out of the kitchen. Hope everyone has a great day!

Well, I went to get my haircut and to my two masters’ classes tonight. I got another A on a paper! I am doing well in my classes and this really makes being back in school so much easier to stomach! I think I will be getting two A’s on my report card! Yeah me! LOL. Well, I got home from school by 10:15 pm or so and put some laundry in the dryer and fed all the pets because I left too early this afternoon for them to get dinner. I also watched some DVR’d programs while I messed around on the internet. I didn’t eat dinner tonight so all I had was the string cheese and Salad I reported earlier. Then I went into the kitchen… I proceeded to eat soem potato chips and some FETA cheese. What is it with me and the Feta? I ate wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy to much of it and now my tummy feels funky… I don’t usu gorge like that. I should not have skipped dinner completely. My Grad school has a little room set up with some food and snacks we can purchase. There are both good and bad food choices there. I have purchased grapes in there before—they are really good grapes too—big, sweet and juicy—but she asks $2.50 for them and there arenn’t all that many. Why don’t I just buy my won grapes and take them with me??? Because that would make too much sense lol. Well, I am super sleepy and it is almost 1:30 am. I need to go the library tomorrow to get a book or two for the last paper of the semester that I have to write by next Monday. Good night or Good morning.

Today is the first day of seven I have off of work in a row. I know already it will go by much too quickly:) I woke up around 7:30 ish to take care of my furry brood of six before hopping in the shower. My mom had to have the rest of her teeth removed to get ready for a partial at the dentist. We live east of St. Louis so I was taking her to the west side if the St. Louis to have this done so she was coming by my house since it is closer. I grabbed a string cheese and some ice water for the ride. I planned to go to Trader Joe’s to stock up on EDAMAME—soy beans—while she was at her appt. I LOVE edamame. They typically sell them a few different ways but my fave is the frozen ones that are already cooked and still in the pod. I fill a bowl with water and defrost them that was and eat the entire bag…. Excellent source of fiber. Anywho, I dropped her off then headed to Trader Joe’s. I was disappointed to find out the four local stores were ALL out of edamame. However, they put my name on a list to notify me when they get more in. Seems like it would be a strange thing to be out of, right? Especially right here in middle America where there are soy bean fields everywhere… But they are impossible to get around here and are clearly in high demand! Anywho, I picked up a few things there then went down to Califirnia Pizza Kitchen to get a salad to go. There Thai Crunch Salad is D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S. It is like a party for my mouth! Then I headed back to pick  my mom up. Se did really well and we headed back to my house. I enhaled the salad as soon as my mom got back on her way home. I also ate the two little pieces of bread and butter they packed with the salad. I only lunch on Mondays because I have two grad school classes on Monday nights. I have a hair appt at 4 pm then class from 5:30-10:30 pm. So, I don’t feel bad about my choices today. I am full and thinking I wish I were a nao person:) Well, I guess I am off for now. Hope everyone has a grrreat day!

Well, I finished my paper that is due tomorrow in my Foundations of Counseling class. Then I decided to read blogs and watch E True Hollywood Stories that were saved on my DVR allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll night. I didn’t put anything into my mouth besides ice water until after 10 pm… Then I wandered into the kitchen and opened the cabinets and refrigerator… I ate a bite of Feta cheese (why do I love it so?), a string cheese, a serving of pretzels and some potato chips in a small cereal bowl (x2). See, being honest. Why do I buy them you ask? Not sure. I go months without buying potato chips and then BAM! I buy some. I will say though, I can make a bag of potato chips last longer than most. The usu lifespan of a bag of them at my house is two weeks. I am off all week but I am getting up to go with my mom to the dentist  tomorrow, then off to get a haircut and to my two classes at night. I have a presentation to do tomorrow night at school. I am prepared for it though… Looking forward to a new day with better choices to be made~~~Goodnight.

Well, it is the end of the weekend and I worked all of it. Now I am on vacation until December 1st. It will go by quickly since I will be going out of town for part of it. It will still be nice to get a break from work. I didn’ do too terribly as far as eating goes today. Well, for my standards lol. I know I probably didn’t do any losing this weekend but I am certain I will not gain. I made myself a sandwhich to eat on the way to work this  morning so I wasn’t tempted to get a coffee drink that has more calories than anything else… This held me over til 11 which is pretty amazing considering usu when I eat breakfast I am ready to pass out from a blood sugar drop by 10 am… Then one of the ladies at the group home made some of that puppy chow stuff or muddy mix, whatever u call it. I ate some of that and then had 1, 2, 3, 4 pieces of frozen pizza. That will be it for me today unless I eat a can of peas or something tonight. I don’t feel guilty about it either. I am not going to waste my time and energy starving myself to only crave what I really want. I am not in a contest to see how fast I can lose this weight and I know that if I cut out everything I like in this world as far as food goes, I will eventually fail. I feel like I keep justifying this lol. Why am I doing that? Whatever it is, it is working little by little so I am pleased. I get so much pleasure out of seeing the scale go south all the while not denying myself things I like. THey say the weight that comes off slowly stays off. I am going to keep telling myself that! Happy trails…

I am posting again because I need to stay out of the kitchen! LOL. I got so much work done so quickly at work today that I am going to reward myself by doing my homework there tomorrow! A great way to kick off my 7 day HOLIDAY! I stopped by the local Aldi’s on the way home from work. They have these little sweet potato patties. I had never seen them before. There are about 12 in a pkg (frozen) and each one has 70 calories and no fat. I  just ate two for dinner with some cottage cheese and they were really good. I am wondering if they carry they carry them often or if it is a seasonal item? I don’t usually go there on a regular basis so I am just not sure… I am not fretting the food associtaed with the Holidays at all. We are driving four hours south to my grandparents’ house on the actual Holiday. My grandfather has esophogeal cancer and is not entirely mobile. He has already had radiation for it a few years ago so there is nothing more they can do for him as he is not healthy enough to perform surgery. There will be a Thanksgiving meal on Friday but it won’t be a super happy splurge fest… My oldest sister called me today from Chicago. She was “telling” on the middle sister before she could tell me first… LOL. My middle sister doesn’t want to exchange Christmas gifts this year. She has an almost two yearold and she said Christmas is for kids and we can focus on her. I don’t care either way but my point is we got onto the discussion that my Mom and my middle sister bought the tot one of those motorized Jeeps for Christmas. We were discussing how my oldest sister and I have have struggled on and off with our weight our entire lives and that perhaps purchasing the tiny princess a “toy” that discourages physical activity is not the best idea ocnsidering our gene line… Whatever happened to big wheels? I bet I had some serious calf muscles as a tot… I did mean cruising in my Barbie mobile with its pink and white tastles hanging off the steering handles:) I didn’t get chubby til a little later in childhood when computers and video games caught on. When and if I have children, I hope I don’t fall into that trap of buying them video games and motorized lazy-kid toys. Life has become so fast and we want everything to go go go. I wish it would all just slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww down. I know my sister is doing what she thinks is best and I wouldn’t say it to her, but I wish she would keep her a baby and not give her a “car” so soon. LOL. I am crossing my fingers that I stay out of the cabinets tonight. The weekends are the most difficult. Eventhough I work everyother one, I still associaye Saturday and Sunday with “splurge time”. Old habits die hard I guess. Well, I guess I am off again.

I am at work today. ahve a lot to do but thought I would get on here first. I am the Princess of Procratination… mayeb someday I will make it to QUEEN. Since I am not stressing over food anymore, I am not putting a timeline on my weightloss. Seems like I always fail when I do that. An example is I had 14 months or so to lose weight for my bestfriend’s wedding. Not only did I not lose, I am pretty sure I gained lol. So, all the old rules are off for me. I still need to watch it though. I work at a Group home as a supervisor and the weekends are rough. I wanna graze or snack. I had a McDonalds coffee drink and a yougurt parfait for breakfast. I never eat breakfast. I am serious, when I do, I am hungry by 10 am. And since I ate breakfast, it is 10:18 am and I am hungry, no kidding. So, I am eating a small baggie of honey roasted peanuts. I know I will not eat a real lunch today but will have lunner later on at home while I write a paper for my Grad class. I think the combining lunch and dinner thing—I think it is actually more like eating mini meals throughout the day. Because people are always, you have to eat lunch… No, u may have to but I don’t. I may eat something very little in the late morning, then something small here and there and eat lunner at home. That way I am never starving and ready to gnaw my arm off. The mini meal thing works. And being as it is that I am not a manual laborer. I don’t need big gigantic meals three times a day. HELLOoooooooooooooooooo—this is how I got here LOL. So, I guess I better get back to work. Good luck to you all for this weekend!

Hello! I am new here and could not figure out how to actually post a BLOG on here… It doens’t matter how much educatiion one has… Well, where to begin… Oh the weightloss journey. Again… I started having weight problems when I was in 5th or 6th grade. I was very tall more my age. I was found out I was 5′8″ when I went to get my physical before going into the fifth grade. I was as tall as and as heavy as most of my classmates mothers and bigger than some! I was active in sports and kept growning for a little bit so I eventually spread out some… Then in highschool, I lost quite a bit of weight. Honestly, I was NOT healthy about it. I skipped a lot of meals. I exercised a lot. I took caffeine pills. My lowest weight was about 129 and I grew to where I am now at 5′10″. When I graduated highschool, I was at a perfectly healthy 140-150 pounds. Then I went away to college… There was lots of good dorm food and lots of beer… Bu my junior year I was up to around 180. By senior year I was balloning at 220. I went on a diet, followed weight watchers on my own, and lost 50 pounds. I weighed 190 when I left college. Then I came home… A year or so passed and I gained the weight  back and then some. In 2004 or 2005, I lost another 50 pounds following weight watchers. Yeah me! Right… Nope, here I am in 2008 and I weighed 278 #s. My highest weight ever. Since this past September, I have been slowly changing my eating habits and am now down to 263. I would like to get down to a healthy 175 but would be perfectly content at just under 200. I am tall and carry my weight well but I still feel the heavy burden that carrying around 100 extra punds brings on. I do not feel like an almost 29 yearold. I feel older and don’t feel pretty. I just ended a 6 1/2 year relationship and I am now committed to doing right by my body and mind. I have already changed the way I think about food and the weight is coming off a little at a time. I feel more confident about it this time because I am not doing any particular diet or plan. I am just changing my eating habits. In so doing, I have changed the kind of foods I crave as well as the amount of food I hunger for. I find myself only eating when hungry and not thinking about fastfood and snacks. With this being said, I hope this means I am making LASTING changes that will carry me through the next stage of my life. I hope to meet people here who can share successes and ideas while gaining and giving support. I look forward to sharing and seeing my own and other’s progress as I get back on the weightloss road again…