OMG!

Today has been an amazing day!

My husband bought a car.....and paid for it with cash! Yeah for one less car payment!!!!

I got a call telling me that I am transferring! This is going to be a great opportunity for me to do something I love!

For these reasons and more, I am in a GREAT mood!

I celebrated our good fortune by.......eating a Milky Way.

Why do people always celebrate with food? I mean seriously, what does cake have to do with promotions at work? What does candy have to do with Easter? What does ham have to do with Christmas?

Is it really so shocking that Americans are so overweight when EVERY family get together involves some sort of food?

Slippery Slope

Last week, I told myself (and my husband) that I would only drink one soda and one small piece of birthday cake. Then I was really tired leaving for work one night and I grabbed another soda, because I needed the caffeine. That same day I drank three 20oz sodas and had two pieces of cake. The next night before leaving for work, I grabbed another soda. This time it was not because I needed the caffeine, but because I wanted the sugar....I was craving the sweet taste of soda.

From this I learned a valuable lesson......

There is NO such thing as just one soda, just one piece of cake, just one anything that is unhealthy for you!

OK lesson learned and I was lucky enough to not gain any weight while learning it. WHEW!

Now it is time to buckle down and be serious. Since last week was a sugar filled disaster, this week I am going  stop eating sugar completely......for at least a few weeks anyway. To make it even more fun, I am going to go cold turkey. Yes you read that right! After today, no sugar will enter my body....artificial or otherwise.

Taking a cue from my husband, I am bribing myself. If I make it one week without eating any kind of sugar then next Thursday I get to go pre-order Tangled and get the lithographs that come with it.......and if I don't make it the entire week, then I just get to buy the movie with no lithographs. This is a huge incentive for me considering I LOVE Disney and I have collected all the lithographs for every new movie that has come out since 2001.

Talk about a lot of pressure!

Weekly Weigh In

Due to even more changes, my weekly weigh in have been moved to Wednesday mornings at 7am.

After all the birthday cake that I have eaten and all the sodas I have drank this week, I was expecting a really bad weigh in.  I dreaded going to sleep last night. This morning, I protested getting out of bed.

After about 15 minutes, my husband dragged me kicking and screaming into the living room.

Once in the living room, I refused to set up the Wii Fit.  My husband was persistent that I had to weigh in EVERY week. So while he got everything set up, I used my one year old as an example and sat on the couch and threw my best temper tantrum.

He used his best parenting skills and promised me that if I weighed in today then tomorrow he would take care of the morning routine with the kids and let me sleep in.

Bribery works wonders! Just the thought of sleeping in tomorrow made me so happy, I jumped on the Wii Fit board.....then instantly regretted it.

Thankfully the Wii Fit was kind to me and it said that I weigh..........

164.5!!

I didn't lose, but hey I didn't gain either!!                                                                                                                                       

Birthdays Are My Enemy!

Ok so not birthdays, just birthday cakes.

Oh and graduation cakes, going way cakes, congratulations cakes, wedding cakes, bridal shower cakes, baby shower cakes.

OK OK so maybe cakes are the enemy!?!

But that is just too hard to admit.

They look so good and they taste even better! I should know because right now I have a 1/4 sheet cake in my kitchen.

I would love to tell you that I have been exercising great self-control. I would love to tell you that I have only had one piece or even two......but I can't. In the past three days, I have consumed more cake then any normal person should.

I would love to blame my husband for sabotaging my diet, but is it really his fault he had a birthday??

Changes

Things are constantly changing.

Recently my work schedule changed. I still work third shift, but I now come in an hour earlier. Also I just got promoted to full time....YEAH!! This means my eating schedule is so messed up. I now get hungry in the middle of the night and still want to eat three meals during the day. I have tried saving my snacks for while I'm at work but so far.....not really helping!

Another big change is that every six weeks my sleep schedule has to change. This causes major problems in......you guessed it my appetite.

If I ever lose this weight it will be nothing short of a miracle!

Good News!

In spite of my extreme slacking off in exercising and my continuing to drink soft drinks and iced coffee......

I lost 5 pounds!!!

Self Esteem

I used to have a lot of self esteem. I never doubted that I was funny, outgoing, and lets not forget beautiful.

Then I had kids.

Now I am extremely overweight, sleep deprived, and stressed to the max.

Is it really a surprise that now I have no self esteem?