took new pics....

and i had to change my shirt cuz the other one is too big and just hangs instead of clings...lol...i love it!!!
plus, no glasses in the pics...i think i look weird...just so used to the glasses...i'll get used to it i hope...i like the freedom of no glasses...and everytime i put the contacts in, it reminds me that i made my goal!!!
now to up my water intake and get moving more!!!

I DID IT!!!

I hit my 10% goal and received my keychain last nite at the meeting! I lost 5 lbs last week (thank goodness i reversed the damage from the week before!), so in total now i've lost 20 lbs on the mark~!
I'm soooo happy but not going to fall into that false sense of "i can eat whatever now cuz i made my goal" thinking, cuz that will backfire on me badly and i know it!!!
but we did have pizza last nite (switched pizza nite from friday's to tuesdays after WI) in kinda celebration! DH was so proud of me but not nearly as much as i was of myself!
so this morning i do what i always do and measured myself and i'm down 2 1/2 inches in my waist and back into the the 30's!!! talk about incentive to keep going!
plus i'm much healthier (although i still have a nagging cough) but i played ball on monday and i'm playing again tonite, plus it is just gorgeous here so after lunch i'm packing up the kiddies (and slathering on the sunscreen on all us) and out for a double stroller walk and then to the park and then to the store for ice cream for lil girl! (i have skinny cow ice cream sandwiches here for me!!!)
just really feeling good about my accomplishments so far! now i have to remember this all for when i stop going to meetings after next week and go solo!!!at least i have the msg boards and this...and i'm keeping my WI day and time the same so nothing drastic changes!!!
off for lunch now! hmmmm...tuna lettuce rollups i think today!!!

uggg...cold, cold go away...never come back any day!!!

i've had just about enough of this being sick silliness...my house is a mess, both kids are sick (altho lil girl still has energy to play...just coughing like she's smokes a pack a day), i feel one step up from Caca...but my sinuses are now killing me (and this cough is really giving my bladder a workout...who knew it was all attached!!!)
forcing myself to at least clean the kitchen earlier, now i'm sitting in my living room and really really need to vacuum, especially cuz lil big man is soooooo close to crawling and his blankie only covers up a small part of the mess...and he won't stay on it anymore...
well...at least i'm OP with the eating, but haven't done so much in the exercise department...as in nothing, nada, zilch, zippo...and i hate that!!!
well...should go and strap the lil man into the jolly jumper so i can vaccuum...ugggg!

soooo sick...uggg

Unfortunately not only did i gain HUGE this WI, but now i'm sick...feel like Caca with a capital C and still i have to look after my two lil ones...uggg...i just want to crawl up into the fetal position in bed and stay there...instead i've got baby boy in the jolly jumper cuz i just can't hold him and i don't want him to get sick from me either...lil girl was sick yesterday and this morning but is back to her normal active self now which is exhausting me just watching her jump all over the living room...
my house is a mess, and i'm trying to get all my points in today when all i want is a bucket...oh, and my throat hurts like the dickens so getting water in hurts! plus hubby is super busy so who knows when he'll be home (last nite was 9:30 and i was just heading to bed as i just finished getting lil girl to bed 15 minutes prior)...
uggg
anyway...i know what i have to do to get back on track with WW, just have to get healthy first...no exercise or ball today...hopefully i'm better tomorrow!

MY Goodness...not looking forward to WI...

Tonite, it's WI...and after the weekend (did you know that that includes Mon and Tues too? apparently it was a super long weekend for me and my hips...arrrgh), i'm dreading it but i know i need to see the damage so i can get remotivated to fix it and get to my 10% goal before this series (12 week prepaid) is over!!!

will post the results later!

quite happy!

WI last nite and i'm quite happy with the results...down 2.2! and here i thought i wouldn't lose anything...don't know about this sometimes...lol
so i'm only 1.8 lbs away from my 10% goal so really only about a week or so away from my reward (which i'm going to get tomorrow)...i need to pick a new reward for my next goal...hmmmmm...i don't really know if i want to get a "Target Outfit" (ala Tommy Europe's "Last 10 Pounds Bootcamp" show...lol).
my knee still hurts when it goes a certain way, so i have to dig out my knee brace (i have one somewhere...probably in my army kit bag in the basement as i wore it alot in my army days, cuz that's where i originally hurt it) gotta get it for ball game tonite...
my exercise kinda fell off since the weekend...i was at least walking even tho towards the end my knee was really feeling it...so i took monday, yesterday off and i'm gonna play ball tonite if it doesn't rain (actually i'm kinda hoping to be benched till towards the end or the whole game, cuz our next game is next wednesday, so that would give me a week to get it back to feeling good).
off to the inlaws this weekend, just me and kids as hubby's bro and nephews are coming here to go gopher hunting and just be "guys"...hopefully i can get them to babysit for me on saturday nite (after the kids are in bed) so i can run into Brandon and go out with my friends for one of my girls' birthday bashes...no drinking, just dancing for me!!! we'll see...
i also need to keep a close tab on my tracking as last time i was there i fell off the tracking wagon HARD! thus the .4 lb gain from Easter...i'm usually pretty good about it and really there will be no big family dinner, so it should be easy!
we'll see!
later!

Been a few days...

I was actually on here yesterday but you know how it goes when looking after two lil ones...never plan on anything!
actually, my morning routine that consists mainly of lounging and catching up on the internet world (i find it a bit too cool in the mornings still to venture outdoors till after lunch), has suited our needs quite nicely...throw in a bath on odd days x 2 and sometimes a shower for mom (although i like to wait till lunchtime when daddy is home to watch them), and it all starts out with all three of us in mom's bed for about 1/2 hour...to get the sleepy's outta my eyes...and i generally like to cuddle with one or both depending on who gets up first...
then we head to the living room for breakfast and to where my laptop is...
well, yesterday i got a great surprise...a friend (acquaintance really as i don't have "friends" here really) and her lil man stopped by for a playdate/tea in the mornings (thank goodness she called first and i had 10 mins to straighten up things to a somewhat okay level (you know, get the diapers in the garbage, sweep the floor and put the dishes in the dishwasher...
it was really nice to have someone to visit with, so then we moved onto laundry in the afternoon and while i was hanging clothes on the line with my two munchkins watching (one in a stroller, the other digging in her sandbox) my backyard neighbour was out in her yard with her two girls, so she said when we were finished we could pop on over to visit too...so we did...and let me tellya, it was comforting to know i'm not the only one who doesn't keep their house "perfect"...although every time i've been over there (for parties, like partylite/homestyle signatures and jewelry parties), it HAS been perfect and you would hardly know she had a 3 and 1 year old running around!!!
sooooo...
i have my WI tonite and i'm not expecting any loss...i don't feel it...i hurt my knee on wednesday's ball game, but didn't realize it till i did my 30 day shred on thursday morning and then remembered again with um, well, friday nite "activities" with my hubby (blushing)...sooooo, i didn't play ball yesterday but i went to the game anyway and glad i did...i mean i love my kids to pieces but it;s soooooo nice to get away for a few hours...
i have been walking at least (not yesterday tho)...so hopefully i will STS at WI tonite...we'll see....
later all!

wasn't going to post but....

i can't help myself...i just have too much to share i guess...lol
so last nite was my second ball game and i was so pumped about it...but then the stupidest thing happened when i first got there...i broke my glasses!
so i wound up playing the whole game pretty much blind...i'm farsighted (i think that's the one i am...lol...i can see everything within 2 metres of my face, but the far away things are fuzzy!!! no, wait, i'm nearsighted...lol...you get the picture...lol) and my reward for hitting the 19.8 lbs lost (10% goal) is CONTACTS...still a few weeks away but now...lol...
anywho...it turns out i played the best game of my life...lol...my updated goal (cuz the initial goal was to just hit the ball and i did that last game) was to get home...not hit a homer but at least to score a run in...and i did that this game!!!i actually hit the ball three times and made it on my base twice...lol...best batting game i should say...once the other team figured out i was blind (i play right field), they started gunning for me (it was the 5th or 6th inning at least...we only play 7)...so i never wound up catching any balls, but oh well...we still won!!!!
20-11!!!
but now i can't get in to get new glasses or contacts till next Thursday!!!i don't want to miss two games next week but...:(
well...i also am dealing with a sick lil DD...she went to bed last nite a lil warm according to her daddy, and this morning she woke up still warm...i have been giving her acetaminaphen and motrin trying to get her back to feeling herself, i don't know if her molars are coming in again (i thought they were already in, actually...whoops) but she's not coughing or sniffly or nauseousl...just fevered with chills...poor lil girl!
so it's been quite a day...just want to get out of the house and go for a bike ride (after Grey's anatomy of course, and once i get baby to bed...he's been great all day, like he knows his sister is sick)...i'd like to post a picture of them on here...hmmm...let me see if i can figure that out...
till tomorrow...take care!!!

OMG, soooooo happy with WI last nite!!!

Wow!
i lost 2.6 lbs this past week!
just goes to show ya that if you put in the effort, you will see the results!!!
did i mention how much i looooooooove WW????well, i loooooooooooove WW!!!:)
it's such an easy add-to your existing life, and really if you follow it to the letter (and remember to watch those portions, which is my biggest downfall usually!) then you will see results!
my 10% goal is 19.8 lbs and i'm at 15.8 right now, soooooo...with 4 weeks left in this cycle (i prepaid for 12 weeks), i should be well over that goal!!!
the meeting last nite was one of the better ones i've attended...i missed the beginning cuz i was late, but quickly got weighed in and i moved up into the first row (the lifetimers row as i call it...lol...my secret goal is to sit up there cuz i will have hit my lifetime goal and maintained therefore earning the right to sit with them legitimitely...lol) they didn't kick me out...lol...
anyway the meeting was about negative self talk and how to turn it around...seems to be a pretty big thing for a lot out there...for me i think i do pretty good with the optimism (i'm a saggittarius!) but will remember how to switch it around when i do get down on myself...
not this week tho!
sooooo....after my first ballgame on monday, i'm quite sore today so i really want to concentrate on stretching out really good all day cuz i have my second game tonite!!! my goal again this year was to hit the ball (when i played two years ago, that was my goal and i never fulfilled it....it was my first time playing fastball, i was a slopitch player but they took me anyway...lol)
well, we had a batting practice two weeks ago and i did really well hitting off the machine, so when it was my first time up to bat, i actually hit the ball and made it onto my base!!!
so now i have to update my goal to say that i want to run home (not hit a homer, cuz that's just never going to happen...lol), but i would at least like to make it home and have it count!!! oh and to learn to either slide or bunt (one or the other or if time permits maybe both!!!)
well...i think i'm gonna carb up today in prep for the game too...i'll make chicken alfredo for supper with a salad...and get lots of water in!
Thanks for dropping in~!

Great weekend...let's keep it going!)

Wow, i had a great weekend with the fam!
Saturday, i ran to town with DD (she loves it when its just her and me, er, her and I, er, me and her???lol)
we bought some primer, drywall tape, drywall mud stuff and a paint tray...in hopes of getting some work done on her room/living room wall that daddy built right before DS showed up...
then hubby went out with the boys and i spent a lovely lazy afternoon with the kids, then we had company that nite (old co-worker of hubbys came to see the kids, she is such a nice girl!) and the guy that hubby hung out with during the day...they both stayed and played cards with us old folks...lol...
then on sunday, was up pretty early with DS, so when hubby got up i went back to bed for an hour, then got up and packed us up for a day trip to go fishing!!!
DD LOVED it! (we had also bought her a lil kiddie Dora fishing rod on saturday that came with a practice plastic fishy so each time she reeled in a fish!!!too cute)
we caught one fish (a jack fish aka pike) and can't wait to have it for supper tonite! unfortunately it won't be battered and deep fried the way we used to make it (can't afford the extra points this close to WI, plus oven baked with dill will still be awesome!!!)
and then we left after we caught that one as things started to come undone (baby boy was fussing, realized that wood ticks were out, and DD was freaked out by the fish flopping around...lol)
came home and then hubby fixed my bike tire (yay), got a bit more yard work done, got some gardening advice from a neighbour and finally got a babysitter lined up to watch the kids for my ball game nites!!!and she is one of the best babysitters ever!!!
whew...now today, i need to start flushing away those hotdogs from yesterday cuz i have WI tomorrow nite!!!i'm soooo tempted to get on the scale but i won't...that's why it's in the attic!!!lol

my first fastball game tonite...sooooo excited...!!!
well...it's lunch time now...gotta run!

is it friday already?

Seriously...i have lost track of all time since becoming a mommy over two years ago...babies just don't know what a weekend is...lol...
i kinda remember that it was ingrained in me a long long time ago, to instinctively know that the weekend was coming...in fact in anticipation of it, we would go out and party on Thursday nites (we, as in me and my girlfriends...used to even be called "Mo nite" depending upon what base you were working at at the time...lol)
hold on...been trying to settle lil man down for an afternoon nap for 1/2 hour now...he just won't settle but he's sooooo tired he won't stay up with me in the living room....grrrr...i hate teething!!!
With stress comes the need for something sweet...mmmm...skinny cow ice cream sandwich with lite cool whip on top! perfect....but now missy wants some...lol...
so, i went and got her one and she's not eating it!!!lol
oh well...
so i have been really great at tracking everything (even getting the portions right, i'm pretty sure, although i think i'll go on a hunt for my food scale this weekend!)
i've shredded twice this week...and will be doing it again two more times before WI...i'm hoping to see at least a little progress for my efforts this week...but if not, i'm not going to stress or fret!
i read a great thread today from a group calling themselves "Goodbye Fat Pants" on the newbies board...it was all about being good to yourself (ie. get outta those sweatpants, do your hair, paint your nails...feel pretty!) so after reading it -i had just finished my workout and was getting ready to go shower anyway- i went for a shower...put on a cute outfit (capri pants are size 16 and too big...yay!!!), did my hair (which i have to do most days since getting it cut short or it just goes POOF), painted my toenails (and DD's too), and even put on eyeliner, a little daytime eyeshadow too!!!i do feel pretty today...but now the sun has vanished and we are getting the odd shower (wanted to get to the playground today).
also, hubby said he's getting bugged to go out tonite (he very rarely goes and does "guy things"...i actually have to force him to go most times...lol), soooo...he said maybe he would take DD out with him (there is a hypnotist tonite at the school, and there will be kids there...it's a family entertainment nite) soooo i'm hoping that it works out...i have lots more of spring cleaning to do and with having the two of them around i can usually only do limited things...can't go up or downstairs to put things away...so if he takes her out then i can put lil man to bed shortly thereafter and then i can get after it!!!
well...i also think i'll be making lil tortilla pizza's tonite...i have ff ham, pineapple, green pepper, low fat mozza cheese and some really really great leftover tomatoe sauce (from making low fat meatloaf two nites ago)...figured out that even tho those frozen pizza's can be had every week, i should try to get a lower fat version into our mix...plus i will know exactly what is going into them and the points should be really moderate...meaning i can have more!!!
well...that's it for now...lil girl wants to play Dora...