Resolutions

To make resolutions or not? That is the question. Some people say it sets them up for failure. I don't see it that way for myself. I am a resolution kind of girl. I like to make resolutions and then break them down into the steps I have to take to get where I want to be. It gives me something to strive for. It gives me a planned way to get there. Kinda like a road map I guess. Anyway, whether you make resolutions or just set goals if you are trying to get healthy we are all on the same journey. I have faith that each of us can reach our goals this year. What are your resolutions/goals? Here are a few of mine:

1. Exercise every day of 2009 for at least 15 mins the 1st three months, 30 mins the next three months, 45 mins the next three months, and 1 hour the last 3 months of the year.

2. Find a church to become active in.

3. Get my family on a budget.

4. Make at least a B+ in every class that I take this year.

5. Hit my goal weight!

6. Get my garage organized.

7. Get all of my scrapbooks caught up to the present. (They are stuck in 2004)

Good luck! We can do this.

One year later in picture

Beginning of 2008 (245.5):-Beginning of 2009 (167.5):

On my way to 134.5 lbs this year.

I decided to change my goal weight to 134.5 lbs. My original goal of 149 lbs was still in an overweight BMI for me. I want to have a healthy BMI. I picked 134.5 lbs because it is right in the middle of my healthy BMI span and also because I like the 345. Yeah, I am a simple girl that is amused by simple things. I have to lose 33 lbs to get there. I know I can do that by the end of 2009. I am going to set some sort of goals for myself here. If I meet the goals that is GREAT. If I don't meet the goals then I will keep plugging along until I get there. I have lost 137 lbs so far. I know that I can lose 33 more.

2009 Weight Goals
165 by Jan 28th (my 30th birthday)
163 by Feb 14th (Valentines)
161 by Mar 9th (Day I survived)
156 by Apr 21st (Our 9th anniversary)
153 by May 19th (Just a day in May)
150 by Jun 8th (My dad's 49th birthday)
145 by Jul 18th (My mom's 51st birthday)
142 by Aug 5th (Jon's 32nd birthday)
140 by Sept 4th (My favorite SIL's 29th birthday)
138 by Oct 31st (Halloween)
136 by Nov 18th (16th year Jon and I have been together)
134 by Dec 25th (Christmas)

This will happen this year. I will reach my goal weight. I am worth it.

Merry New Year and Happy late Christmas

Our Christmas was really a joy this year. We were back in our house and the kids got way to much stuff. :) Yeah, they are spoiled rotten. Today is the first day of 2009 and all I want to do is sleep. I feel like I am gonna hurl. I ate to much for lunch. I have drank to much coffee and I am nervous as heck about school starting on Jan 10th. Two months ago when I registered for school it seemed so far away and not real. Now that I have barely over a week before school starts, I am worried. I know that I am smart enough to do it, I am just worried about having the time to do it all.

I want a laptop for school. I think it would be very handy to have one. I think I have settled on an Acer Aspire One N270. I have to wait for my student aid check to come in before I can afford to buy one. I had to pay for my classes and books out of pocket because my student aid hasn't come in yet. That makes me poor broke for a while.

I weighed this morning and the scale showed me 167.2 lbs. I am starting 2009 in the 160's! I lost 78.3 lbs in 2008! I have eaten so bad today though. I hope today isn't setting the pace for the rest of the year...

I am worried about stress eating when school starts. I am going to have to figure out how to handle the extra stress without gaining weight in the process. I am also going to have to get on a schedule. It is going to be very hard for me to homeschool Mikey and go to school full time myself. I know that if it can be done, I can do it. Just have to do it.

A very merry unbirthday to you, to you. And to me in 2009 as well! (In case you think I lost my mind with the sentence before last it was a little bit of a song from "Alice in Wonderland". Not to say that I haven't lost my mind...carry on.

My weight numbers

304.5-Highest weight ever (9/03/07)
299.0-Out of the 300's (9/10/07)
279.5-Down 25 lbs (10/20/07)
274.0-1st 10% goal (10/27/07)
254.5-Down 50 lbs (12/11/07)
246.5-2nd 10% goal (12/28/07)
245.5-Current weight (01/01/08)
229.5-Down 75 lbs (02/15/08)
226.5-Half way to goal (2/28/08)
222.0-3rd 10% goal (3/14/08)
218.0-No longer Morbidly Obese just Severely Obese (3/23/08)
204.5-Down 100 lbs (5/19/08)
200.0-4th 10% goal (6/10/08)
199.0-ONEderland (6/17/08)
191.0-No longer Severely Obese just Obese (7/22/08)!!!!!!!!
180.0-5th 10% goal (9/23/08)
179.5-Down 125 lbs (9/26/08)

Still working on:
164.0-No longer Obese just overweight
162.0-6th 10% goal
149.0-Goal weight (May change later)

Thinking about changing my goal weight

My goal weight is 149 lbs. I set that goal when I first started losing weight. It seemed like a number that I would never be able to get to. Now that I am less than 20 lbs away from that weight I am thinking about changing my goal. In order to be in a healthy BMI I have to be 136 lbs or less. I want to be in the healthy BMI. I haven't decided what I want my ultimate goal weight to be. I know it is just a number and I wont really know where I want my weight to end up at until I get there but it still helps to have a number to shoot for. I am leaning toward 132 lbs. I wish I could see how I would look at 132 lbs right now so I could know for sure it that is what I want to be. Only time will tell I guess.

Those make your butt look little 12-18-08

Holy cow. I won $175 in a 6 week weight loss challenge on Sat. Today I took some of the money and went to buy some new clothes. It is a great problem to have that none of my clothes fit. Today I tried on 5 pairs of pants. I ended up getting a pair of jeans and a pair of khakis. The jeans are a size 10 and the khakis are an 8! I am shocked that I can get them up past my knees and even more shocked that they fit perfect! I put on the jeans when I got home and Mikey said "You look little". I asked him what he meant and he said "Those make your butt look little!" lmao. He is going to make a great husband to some lucky woman one day. Now if he could just teach his dad to say stuff like that.

Size 8's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't stop smiling.

Update on my weight.

Weight last week: 167
Weight this week: 166.5

Lost this week: .5 lbs

Total lost so far: 138 lbs

Left to lose: 17.5 lbs

Another roller coaster week with my weight. This weekend I made and ate divinity, fudge, and Irish potato candy. It was a bad weekend eating wise. On Saturday night I saw 178 lbs on the scale. A lot of it was water retention from TOM and salt from all the junk food I ate Saturday. Thank goodness I had a few days to eat right and flush it all out of my system before I had to weigh in. I have to start being consistent again. I know I am going to eat bad tomorrow and Thursday I just hope to keep it in check.