Week 8 weigh in

It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. It is a gain, a very small 0.1 gain. I am actually pleased. I thought I was going to be up 3-4 pounds. At any rate, I am ready to start a new week. I found a formula on how many points you can make at a high intensity workout. Here it it is: weight x minutes of high intensity workout x 0.000807 = WW points. Cool huh? I had been under calculating my activity points. That may have been what saved me this past week! I wish everyone a great week!

Scared for weigh in tomorrow

Very scared for weigh in tomorrow.....let me count the weighs....I mean ways.....

1. ate 5 doughnuts in the last 24 hours

2. went out to eat 4 times this week! ??????

3. had lots of one point cookies

4. not enough water



A few things I did right:

1. exercised 5 days this week=25 activity points

2. tracked all points

3. ate lots of fruits and veggies


We shall see what tomorrow brings...like I said last week, I think that 4.6 pound weight loss was a fluke....I still don't believe it.. Wish me luck!

Happy Birthday Ervin!

We celebrated Ervin's birthday on Friday, a day early because I have to work today. We went to BD's Mongolian grill and then to a movie. BD's was really good. I had a bowl full of mixed veggies and brown rice, it was delish.....so who I ask, who eats 12 points of rice??? ummmm that would be me....yeah, I love rice! I ate the whole bowl they gave me. It had to be at least 3 cups....and that equals 12 points..... Hey I am Asian! I love rice! : ) We then watched the movie Knowing with Nicolas Cage....it was pretty good. I would have picked a different ending though...it really isn't my kind of movie, I get scared very easily and the movie was suspenseful and a little scary...to me anyway. I get too stressed out over it! I am more of a comedy/romance movie watcher...feel good movies...that is my thing, but Erv picked the movie, hey it is his birthday! So..........

Happy Birthday Ervin!!!!!

I love you!

Week 7 weigh in

I am really surprised to find that I lost 4.6 lbs. this week! I weighed myself over and over again because I was not expecting that! What a nice surprise. I still don't believe it. This new week is going to be a challenge for a few reasons, 1. going out with co-workers for dinner 2. just got back from china buffet....I did ok there...it could have been worse... 3. Ervin's birthday is this Saturday. So, it will be a challenge.....I think the plan tonight with co-workers is Mexican food, I just hope to control myself with the chips and salsa. : )

More crazy hair pics

This is Maddie this morning...I took one look and had to take pics. Her hair is just crazy!

Five months old

Maddie is 5 months old today. She is eating cereal and liking it pretty well. I mixed some applesauce in the cereal for the first time yesterday and she seemed to like the cereal better. She likes nursing best of course. She is sleeping well through the night...yay! She goes to bed around 8 or 9 and lately she has been waking up at 4 am but it is better than waking up every 2-3 hours. Today she woke up at 7. She likes to watch her older brother and sister and has just started noticing our cat, Fergie. She loves to play and she likes being read to. Our bedtime routine, most of the time, is bath, reading Goodnight Moon, nursing and then off to her crib. She hates it when I am on the computer. She cries for my attention! Like right now! She loves to be held. She likes playing in the exersaucer at the Y, so I am going to have to go out and buy one. She is rolling over like a pro. She still hates tummy time.

Maddie taking her afternoon nap, lasted about 30 mins...

She scratched her right eye...???

Hi Maddie!

How adorable can she get???

Week 6 weigh in

I lost 2.3 pounds this week! yay me! I even used every single point I could have. I had 28 activity points this week and ate every single one. I also ate all of my weekly points allowance points. There was a birthday celebrated and lots of ice cream cake : ). I have been following the plan now for 6 weeks and have lost a total of 12 pounds. Weight watchers really works. I can't wait for what the next 6 weeks brings.

Airplane ride

In honor of Jacob's birthday, Erv took the kids on an airplane ride! I was a little worried and skeptical about the whole thing at first, but it looks like they had a great time and they came home safe and sound.

the Ohio river

Happy Birthday Jacob!!!

Jacob, my first born....is seven!!!! Where does the time go? Jacob is the crazy, wild, funny, ENERGETIC, silly, hard headed, drive me crazy, child of mine.

Baby Jacob

Silly Jacob


Guitar Hero Playin Jacob, he can rock out on expert!


Happy B-day!

We love you Jacob!

Improvising

This is a funny yet pathetic story. Before kickboxing class the other day, I went to the bathroom first as always so that I don't pee on the gym floor......Well, I noticed I forgot to put a pad on. I wasn't going home to go get one because then I would miss half the class and I didn't bring any with me and I wasn't going out there without one because I really would pee on the floor! So , do you know what I did? I went to the nursery and took a diaper out of Maddie's diaper bag and put it in my underwear! I wasn't sure if it would work or stay in place because you know, it didn't have any stickies on it! It actually worked out pretty good! However, I don't think I want to do that again!!!! That's what childbirth will do to you! BTW, I wonder how many calories you burn doing kegals?

Big loss!

This week I lost a huge 0.3 lbs! ha! ha!.....Well, at least I didn't gain. I had cake and brownies and cotton candy and this and that....the list goes on. Off to start a new week.....a better week.

Circus

We took Jacob and Allie to the Shrine Circus last night. It was a good time. There were some crazy acts that scared the heck out of me. We spent like 100 dollars though. Lighted swords, cotton candy, snow cones, programs, tickets... it adds up!

Me and Jacob

Tigers and Lions

Me,Erv and Allie

The Elephants, my favorite act, here they are giving kids a ride....

not my kids though, we had to buy more tickets and we ran out of money!

One of the acts, this was way up in the air

There were clowns everywhere

Reminds me of my butt!

Allie with a camel

Jacob with a camel, doesn't he look so excited!

tried something new

I tried a new class today at the Y called cardio sculpt. Let me just say that my legs feel like jelly! The class was 45 minutes long and we worked our arms,legs,back and abs. I started out with 4 lb weights with the arms then had to change to 2 lb weights half way through because I am soooo weak! Not weak from being sick, but weak from having no muscles! Then we did squats. I think the squats are what did me in. We used a chair as a prop. As soon as our butts lightly tapped the chair then we were back up again. We did so many sets. That is when I really started to sweat! Don't let me get started on the abs! My abdominal muscles are so so so so so weak, it is sad. I blame it on my c-section almost 5 years ago!!!! ha! ha! What? Anyway, it was a little like torture.

Maddie "enjoying" tummy time

Sleepless nights

The past couple of nights have been horrific. I have been spoiled the past 3 weeks of sleeping through the night that I forgot how awful you feel when you don't sleep. MADDIE has been crying all night long...well, I may be exaggerating. She has been waking up at 12 or 1 am and then waking up every 2 hours to eat. I don't know if a) she is going through a growth spurt b) she is not feeling well...she has a cold/cough right now ... and she just wants to be comforted or c) she just wants to drive her mommy karazy! On top of that I now have a sore throat and am feeling a little weak, got it from the kids! Darn kids! I still love em though....

Yesterday I talked myself out of step aerobics because you know, I wasn't feeling good and with no sleep....so later I just walked on the treadmill for 35 minutes. Today I sucked it up and went to cardio kick. I took some Motrin beforehand and I think that helped. Boy did I sweat!

After class I went to walmart and had a fight with Oreo cookies. I am happy to say I won! I didn't buy them! Woo Hoo! I was so hungry! But I did end up stopping by Starbucks on the way home and getting a tall nonfat mocha , NO WHIP, even though that is like the best part... and oatmeal. Yeah, Starbucks has oatmeal. It's news to me. It was really good too. It came with nuts and brown sugar. It was really good, so that was my lunch..ended up being about 10 points. I must say, I like doing weight watchers while you're nursing.... you get an extra 10 points a day. I feel like I am cheating.