Molly's Tuesday Weigh-In

166.2, down 1.6 from the previous Monday. I was surprised, but I'm pretty happy about it!!! I think I might be able to hit 165.0 by Friday. I'll have to be really good, but I think I can do it.

Last weigh in for a couple weeks

I did weigh in this morning and it was 147.6 which is down from Friday. Only reason it would be down is because I've been super busy not because I've been good with eating or exercising. My scale is getting packed up tomorrow so I won't be weighing in for a couple weeks. I'm a little nervous to see the scale again because I know it's probably not going to be a very "healthy" couple weeks. I will try to keep it in check though.

Molly's Monday: Getting Going Again

I'm finally feeling better, which I feel like I say every other week. But it's true. I went and did some cardio this morning. I was pretty excited about that. I've been feeling like a lump on a log. I didn't weigh myself this morning because it honestly didn't occur to me until well after breakfast. But, since it's 1:00 in the afternoon and the rest of you haven't posted, I guess I'm not the only one. I plan to weigh in tomorrow.

Goals for this week:
Track calories everyday
drink at least 3 bottles of water everyday
pilates Tues. and Thurs.
Cardio at least 3 times

Side Bar: I had a dream the other night about the March for Babies. In my dream it was super hard - we weren't sure we were going to make it even though it's only a 5 mile walk. Don't get me wrong, a 5 mile walk can be tough if you're not in shape for it. But this was really hard - so hard we weren't sure we were going to make it. Apparently I'm having some anxiety about something, although I'm pretty sure it's not the march for babies.

Molly's Friday: I'm sensing a theme...

I just read everyone's posts and I too am up a pound from Monday. Personally, I blame Chic-Fil-A. My friend Christine's son's DECA club was doing a fundraiser there so I had to go be supportive. They have the saltiest chicken! I had the grilled chicken, which wasn't as bad. I can barely gag down their breaded chicken because it tastes (to me) like I'm biting into a salt lick. But I did really enjoy the fries and the ice cream cone... Doh.

The good news is I'm feeling better. I still have my cold, but it's getting better. I have a feeling the cough might linger, but we'll see. I went for a walk with April last night. We were going to play tennis, but there were high school games going on. We were at Lincoln Park, so went and walked around the track. I really think that was for the best. I was tired after walking only a mile and a half. A game of tennis probably would have done me in.

My goal for today is to actually drink my 3 bottles of water.

Friday, not so hot

I was 1.6 up from yesterday, but I'm sure that it's the sodium in our dinner (we went out) last night and my lack of drinking water yesterday. Overall, I'm pretty happy with everything this week. We went rock climbing yesterday and that was a lot of fun. After about two hours my arms were pretty weak :) Then we went out to dinner, but I tried not to overeat. I probably did, but not as much as normal, lol. And if something wasn't that good, I actually just left it on my plate instead of eating it anyway.

So, yeah, overall I'm happy with the decisions that I've made this week. I do wish I could stop popping the m&ms every once in awhile (they're for when I take SOphie potty in the night).

Today, we're all getting sore throats. Ahh, the joys. So my goal is to drink lots of tea today and water and get my water consumption back up to 4 btls a day.

We're going to try to do the new garden spot tomorrow, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed we get most of it done tomorrow! Plus we have a birthday party that we're doing for Vanessa's little girl Abigail - a safari theme, so I'm excited :) Tammi - when is Haley's bday?

I'm addicted...to food

I really think I am addicted to food. I'm not one of those people that sometimes forgets to eat because they get too busy or what not. I eat every meal and sometimes eat just because it's good but not because I'm hungry. This is why I am about 10 pounds overweight. Because I do exercise and I do drink my water. So, my weight today is up a pound from Monday to 149.2.

The next two weeks aren't looking too good in the eating department. I already know I will be going out to dinner tonight and out to lunch tomorrow. Then I'll quit cooking on Tuesday to get everything clean and packed up and will be eating out for the next week. I am going to try to be sensible and not overeat when I eat out and I'm really going to try to exercise when we are travelling.

Hope everyone has a good weekend!

Seriously? Why do I do this to myself?

So this morning's weight was 225.0 which is a full 10 pounds up from my lowest weight. Arg. I am so mad at myself. Seriously and the thing is I knew it would be bad. Yesterday was an over 2500 calorie day. And 4000 mg of sodium. And I drank 1/2 bottle of water. Yikes.

So, I am going to try the bodybugg and hope it goes better. I am also resolving to not eat out until my birthday.

Mallory's Thursday

So today my only plan is to drink water. I need to be better about tracking but what's been happening is I have been being good in the mornings and then when I start to go over my calorie limit I just stop tracking. But um, not eating.

I am getting a bodybugg for my bday so I am hoping for a renewed excitement!

Thursday

Hey there. We're sick here, but I thought I'd check in (since I haven't been good about that at all lately).

Anyway, this morning I was at 153.0. :)
Aaron and I are supposed to go out on a date today (we'll see if that happens or not w/this eye stuff and dr's apts), so hopefully I can keep it in check on our date. I have planned that we're going to go to Core Elements (the old Climbery), so it'll be a fun, active date. But also, normally there's always food involved in dates, so ya know...

Goals:
Calories under 1500
4 bottles of water
track

Ramblings

I feel icky. I have an eye infection and a sore throat and some serious stuffage in my nose. And a minor cough. And obviously I'm feeling very whiny. The good news is that my weight is down .8 from Monday. Probably because everything tastes like bland nothingness and my throat hurts enough that I don't want to put much effort into swallowing bland nothingness.

Actually, it's kind of too bad this didn't happen around halloween. My red eyeballs would be a great accessory to some sort of devil or monster costume. Oh well.

The other thing I was going to say is that the scale at the doctor's office once again said I was about 3 pounds heavier than my scale at home. So Awesome. The only real bright side to this is that I've had time to really get into Truman by David McCullough. I thought it would be similar to that movie Mrs. Somerville made us watch is history class (The "Dear Bess" movie - I know a few of you know what I'm talking about), but it's way better. It's actually really interesting.

In other news, my grandma is out of the hospital, but she's going to spend some time is a nursing facility doing because she needs an IV anti-biotics and some PT.

That's all. I hope everyone is having a good week!

back on track

Ugh, things have been so busy lately! I AM trying to find time to post here, really. It just seems like there's so much more to do when the girls are either asleep or engaged amongst themselves enough for me to be on the computer.

Anyway, I am here. A little more of me, lol, but I am here. This morning I weighed 154.2 which is up like 3 lbs from last time I posted but up 6.2 lbs from my lowest... which is a lot. This week has been the first that I've logged food in forever. I'm really trying to get back into things. I went to kickboxing on Monday and tried to do Zumba on Tuesday, but if you've been keeping up with FB, you know that I got kicked out b/c Brielle bit another girl. My problem with the situation, is that I don't think they (they being 2 out of the 3 that were there yesterday - not everyone) actually watch the kids and try to make sure things don't happen. They just put out fires, not prevent them. Anyway, I was really upset with how things were handled, so during the girls' naps (I put Sophie down yesterday too b/c she's getting really sick) I went to Golds and talked to them. I couldn't believe how much nicer and bigger and better staffed their daycare was. Of course, if I quit Crossroads, I'm losing my free membership along with free childcare. Plus, I <3 my group exercise instructors, especially the kick-it instructors. But I also really hate dropping my kids off with people that I don't care for or don't watch them. I'm not sure what I'm going to do...

BUT I am back to wearing my bodybugg during the day, back to tracking and weighing foods, back to 4 bottles of water a day. Hopefully I can be back to working out soon too - wherever it is. Plus, now that Sophie is sick, it'll be awhile :(

Molly's Monday Weigh-In: I lost something...

But it wasn't weight. It was my voice. My weight is up to 167.8, which is up 1.2 from Friday and .6 from last Monday. Part of that is sodium and water issues. It's hard to get the water down when you have a sore throat. Also, I went to a friends house Saturday night for poker night and there was lots of delicious food that I helped myself to. And also, just for reference, tequila shots are NOT a cure for the commom cold. So, you can go ahead and mark that off your lists of things to try next time you get a cold. I'm pretty sure they actually make things worse...

Ok, goals for today:
Drink 3 bottles of water.
track calories

Mallory's Monday Weigh In

Today my weight was 224.6, which is up 1.6 pounds from Friday. I am pretty sure it's water/ sodium related.

This week's goals:
track and stay under 1400 cal/day
Drink lots of water

I am feeling good though, and we have been riding our bikes a lot so I think it's just a matter of bringing it all together!

I knew

Let me start out by saying I had a really good weekend. I got to hang out with some great people and see some things and eat at places for the last time. With that being said, I did not do well on my goals of eating good and exercising. Needless to say, my weight is up to 148.2. Because I enjoyed my weekend so much, I'm not too upset about what the scale said. This is a new week and my goal is to exercise atleast 4 times, keep on drinking my water and not eat anything after dinner atleast 3 times.

Molly's Friday: Down a Little

Sorry for the posting delay. I worked this morning and didn't have time to post before I left. Today's weight is 166.6. Not what I was hoping for, but still a loss and down almost half a pound from last Friday. I'm coming down with something again, which is pretty awesome. I enjoyed being able to breathe through my nose for a month or so. Hopefully this will go away quickly.

Goals for the rest of the day:
drink2 more bottles of water
track calories

Mallory's Ok Friday

This morning's weight was 223.0 which is down about a pound from last week. So that's better than going up. I did pretty good this week, if I would have had more water it would have been better I think. But it was better this week than the previous ones.

Today's goals:
track
drink water

Today is a good day!

Today is a good day for a number of reasons. First, the scale said 146.8 which is great after Mondays weigh in and I think it's down .2 from a week ago. Second, I got a good quick workout in before work this morning. And i was able to do it outside which is always nice. Finally, two weeks from today I will be leaving Georgia for good!

Goals for today and this weekend are the same as always:
drink my water
exercise every day
keep my food in check

Happy Friday to everyone.

Yay! It's Thursday!

It's Thursday, which means tomorrow is the dreaded weigh in day! At least I feel like I am moving in the right direction. Yesterday I didn't do so hot on the eating (its a good thing I went for lots of bike riding on my NEW BIKE!! I totally love it! Then my mom came over and I rode my old bike and she rode my new bike and now my butt hurts. LOL but it was great. Including the cookies I ate yesterday and the exercise I did ok on my calories.

I think I am going to ask for a bodybugg for my bday present from my mom and dad. I don't know if they are planning on spending that much but I would really like it.

This week's goal is to

TRACK EVERY DAY
EXERCISE 2 MORE TIMES


Today's goals:
Finish laundry (hopefully, I am again trying to potty train Samantha so unless the laundry generation is out of control. . .)
Drink 3 waters
Track

Top O' The Mornin' To Ya Lassies

Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone!

Yesterday I was down almost a pound from monday and today that entire amount was back. It's pretty awesome. I've been in a weird mood. My grandma is back in the hospital and not doing very well. I've been stressing about that, but trying not to stress eat. Mostly I've been successful. I was going to go to the gym this morning, but I woke up with a sore throat and I don't really feel like going anywhere. I think I'm just going to do some cardio tonight after work.

Goals for today:
track calories (I've been guess-timating my servings instead of measuring I need to stop that)
Drink 3 bottles of water
exercise

Hope everyone has a great day!

Happy St Paddy's Day

So, I have not been posting much because I have not been doing what I should be. I have gained back about 7 pounds and have been eating stuff I shouldn't. Yesterday JoyAnn brought me a marshmallow egg and I was going to give it to Justin but it didn't make it until he got home. I also made banana bread which I ate two pieces of. I got a regular soda and m&m's when we were at the hospital. Sigh. I don't even drink juice, let alone regular sugary soda.

So today is a new day. If I track everything I eat until Saturday, I am going to go buy myself a new shirt to wear to my cousin's party. Hopefully that will help me stay on track!

This weeks goals:
TRACK EVERY DAY
Exercise 3 Days

Todays goals:
Drink 4 waters
track my food

Molly's Monday: Thought it Would Be Worse

167.2, up .2 from Friday. I thought it would be way worse considering all the yummy stuff I ate and drank yesterday. :)

Goals for today:

drink 3 bottles of water
work out
track calories

Wow

So, the scale said this morning 149.2. I know I wasn't perfect this weekend but I certainly don't think I was 2.2 pounds bad. I exercised both days including doing a sprint workout yesterday that kicked my butt. I wasn't great at eating but I wasn't horrible either. I did drink lots of water but I didn't keep track of it like I normally do so maybe I didn't drink as much as I thought. Anyway, today I am going to drink my water, exercise, and I am not going to eat anything after dinner.

I hear you Molly!! I want my hour back. I also forgot we sprung ahead this morning and was totally appalled. I've got 3 days unitl I get my blood tested for the uric acid level that cause my gout. It is unbelievable how much I have been craving sugar recently. This morning, I was at Mallory's, and I swear the Krispy Kreme doughnuts were calling to me. Mallory and I were seriously thinking about getting some and then we both remembered the blood test. Didn't get a doughnut. Yea for us!!

Goals for 3/15

3 bottles of H20
Go exercise
track

Where'd that Hour Go?

I completely forgot about the time change! Which enabled me to talk myself out of going to gym and to instead bake cookies!! But first I have to go get chocolate chips. And they are for a BBQ that I'm going to this afternoon. Hopefully it doesn't rain. The reason I'm posting is because of the BBQ. I know that I'm more likely to stick with my goals and not get too carried away if I write them down.

Goals for today:

Drink 3 bottles of water
track calories

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

222.4

That's down 2 lbs from Thursday, which is good. Goals for today, Drink 4 bottles of water, Track my food.

Molly's Friday: Woohoo!

My weight this morning: 167.0!!! Down 2.6 pounds from Monday (dang salt) and 1.4 from last Friday. AND I finally broke through the 10 pound mark, which was 177.8, so I'm almost a full pound below it. Yay!

I have to go to work for a bit since it's spring break and we have no idea how many kids there will be. After that I'm going to workout. My goals are the same as always: 3 bottles of water, track calories and workout.

I hope every has a great day!

Can't get it together

To be expected my weight is 147.0 this morning which is up from Monday. Some good things for the week are that I drank my water and I exercised 3 days. A bad thing is that I can't seem to control what I eat. It seems like the more I tell myself that I'm going to eat healthy and limit snacks, the more I actually eat (and junky stuff too). It's good that I can get my water and exercise in control but I know if I can't get my eating in control then I'll never achieve my goal of being healthy. Again, I say this, if I know what I need to do then why is it so hard?

Goals for the weekend:
exercise both Saturday and Sunday
drink lots of water
don't go overboard on the eating

Hope you all have a good weekend!

Thankful it's Thursday

I don't have to work today. Today is the only day I'm not working this week. That place gets a little old when you're there all the freaking time. Or at least it feels like it. But that's enough whining.

I'm also thankful for my scale today. For once it had positive feedback for me: 167.4!! So, my goal for tomorrow is to be the same or lower. And in order for that to happen I have to stick with my daily goals, which are the same as always: drink 3 bottles of water, track calories and exercise (I already went to pilates.)

I hope everyone has a good day!

Thursday Terribleness

I am pretty sure that terribleness is a word, yeah, cause I said so. Ok, so I weighed myself this morning and it was 224.4. Holy Cow! So after that horrible depressing news, I have strengthened my resolve to stick to my plan.

So, Drink WATER (4) bottles
Track my food (all of it)
Check back in before bed.

Molly's Wednesday

Well, I did a pretty bad job of sticking with my goals yesterday. But we're starting over today.

Today's goals:

Drink 3 bottles of water
track calories
Do Not Eat Animal Crackers at work. Eat my own food!!

Mallory's Wonderful Wednesday

Today's goal is the same as all the other days. Drink 4 bottles of water, track my food, lower sodium. I find that if my sodium is under 1500 mg my calories are almost never over. I have been kinda whiney and mopey recently. And I was just thinking as I was typing, Yeah, and what's going to make today any different? Of course the answer is, if today is different it will be because I chose to make it different. So today feels like a productive day, I am going to focus on having a good breakfast and drinking a bottle of water.

Molly's Goals for Tuesday and Weekly Goals

I barely made it out of bed and to pilates this morning, let alone posting here first. The important thing is that I went. I knew I would be mad at myself later if I didn't go.

My Goals for the remainder of the day:
Drink 3 bottles of water
track calories

Goals for this week:
My Friday weight will be under 168.
Focus on drinking my water every day
Track my calories every day
Post on the blog every morning and check back in at night.

Tuedsay for Mallory

I had to drag myself out of bed this morning, it was pretty rough. Today I am focusing on lowering my sodium intake and drinking 4 bottles of water.

Tammi's Monday

Today's weight is up to 146.8. I'm not surprised really. It seems as if I have the "no motivation syndrome" that everyone else is succumbing to as well. And today is a new day and I could have been good but instead I wasn't. I didn't exercise and I went out to lunch with a friend and had some not so good for me food (but it tasted good). But tomorrow is another new day and I have plans to hit the gym.

Molly's Monday: Feelin' Salty

Not feelin' salty like a sailor. Feelin' salty like a person that may or may not have made a giant batch of guacamole and then eaten half a bag of tortilla chips with it last night...

I've decided I like having subtitle's in my Monday and Friday posts. And it helps to put my name in there because otherwise I have a hard time finding it when I need to go back and see what my weight was a week ago, etc. But, anyway, down to business.

My weight this morning is 169.6. Up 1.2 from Friday. Awesome. I did Ok this weekend. It wasn't great, but it wasn't terrible (until last night). My water consumption was really low, but I did work out on Saturday and overall ate fairly healthfully and in moderation. Again, until last night. Well, and I guess Friday night wasn't anything to brag about, either. All right, I did ok on Saturday. But it's a new week and that's all behind me and honestly I don't regret a bit of it.

Today's goals:

Drink 4 bottles of water
work out
track calories

Mallory's Weigh In

This morning I weighed 219.8 which is pretty amazing all things considered. Really I have had NO motivation. But I need to get it together.

Today's goals
Drink water
track intake
check back in tonight

Molly's Friday Weigh-In

Today's weight (brought to you by the letter F) is 168.4. That's down 1.4 from Monday and down 2.2 from last Friday. That's pretty darn good. Especially for me, lately! I've realized that I can have a few things that I shouldn't, but it doesn't seem to totally derail me for days or weeks on end. At least for now, I feel fairly in control of my eating. I'm not anywhere near perfect at it, but I'm also not eating 2500 calories of total crap or more everyday.

Goals for today:

drink water
exercise

Hope everyone has a good day and a nice weekend!

Lori's Friday

Hey there! I feel like we've all been a little MIA lately - or is that b/c I have been? I've been so busy that I feel like I'm chasing my tail around. Unfortunately, eating well and exercising are not what I've been busing with, but I'm ok with that right now. I was 152.2 this morning, which is miraculously .2 lower than Monday. I haven't been drinking water, eating well, or to the gym. And while I'm ok with my weight (152 is actually really good for my height!), I need to get back to eating well and exercising for the reason of feeling better. Last night we had fast food and I felt terrible . Plus, w/o drinking water, I feel bloated and overall icky.

SO my goal today is to drink water and make chicken for lunch.

I was hoping that Brielle was almost done with being a little meanie... but I guess not. She bit my friend's baby yesterday at the park, she scratched my other friend's baby twice on Tuesday, and she's been hair pulling more lately. I AM AT MY WIT'S END! I don't know how to make her be nice! :( I never had this problem with Sophie (and still don't). It's amazing how different two sisters can be. Ugh. Anyway, I was hoping that I could start taking her back to the gym, but it's not looking good. Seriously - why can't she be a normal, nice little girl?

Friday

My weight today is 146.0. That's the same as it was on Monday. The only thing I've done consistently well this week is drink water. I've drank lots of water, haven't been so good at eating, and have been alright in the working out department.

I will try to make some smart choices this weekend!

Goals for today:
exercise

It's Thursday!

That means tomorrow is Friday! Which, for me doesn't really mean much except that it's weigh in day. And I have done really well this week and I'm hoping tomorrow is a good weigh in. I'm visualizing 167.8. Then the ten pound loss would FINALLY be official. But, we'll see.

Goals for today:

Drink 3 bottles of water
track calories
go for a walk

See you all back here in the morning! :-)

Molly's Tuesday

I went to pilates again this morning, which was awesome!! I keep waiting for it to really start being horrible, but it hasn't happened yet. Painful (in a good way) and difficult, sure, but horrible, no. And it's a good thing I went because I need to at least partially work off the 8 full size graham crackers I ate at about 11 last night. I was just going to have one! I just wanted something sweet. I should have just gone to bed... oh well.

My goals for the rest of today:
drink 3 bottles of water (1 down, 2 to go)
track calories

Hope everyone is having a good day!

Tuesday a.m.

I am starting to like my house more because I have been deep cleaning it since Sunday. Well, as deep of cleaning as I do. Which means taking everything out of the room that I can, getting the cobwebs, wiping down the doorjams, etc. I have tw rooms finished. My bedroom and the bathroom. This might not seem so amazing except I cannot remember the last time I cleaned. When Ryan and Samantha came to visit they had to wear their socks because dirt and "stuff" stayed on their feet. Poor babies:-( I used to just look around my house and feel good. Not sure when I lost that feeling . . . it is coming back.

Part of the reason I lost that feeling was because I didn't have the energy to clean it.

I was up from 177. 6 to 178.0 on Monday. I am visualizing the number 175.0 for Friday's weigh in. It seem to work when I get on the eliptical (I know that is spelled wrong!!) at the gym and I put how many minutes I want to work out in my brain and it seems to get me to that time.

GOALS: 3 bottles of water, one before work
ride my bike for 30 minutes when I get home
clean the livingroom before I go to bed

Huh.

I actually lost weight over the weekend. I'm not sure I've done that before... Today's weight is 169.8, down .8 from Friday. It's even down .2 from last Monday. Crazy! I did drink a lot of water and there was a lot of dancing... and karaoke.

Goals for today:

Drink 3 bottles of water
do some cardio after work
track calories

Yeeeaaaaah

So it was 152.4 this morning. I've been eating bad while traveling, but also, I've hardly drank any water. So, I imagine (and hope) that a lot of that is water weight. I guess we'll see. Well, water and those cookies.... lol. I keep making treats for other people and it's just bad. I should stop. You think people would appreciate me showing up with carrots sticks and lettuce? Maybe I'll start doing that, lol!!

Anyway, I'm today I'm trying to get my eating back on track, my house somewhat cleaner, and work on the business. That is taking SO much time. Anyway, the blog is not anywhere near being ready for normal readers, but if you guys will log into it and "follow" it, I'd appreciate it. So when I do get to a point where it's becoming ready for other readers, they won't be the first followers! lol The more followers the better! So please follow me! :)

~Lori

Mallory's Monday

So today I weighed 219.0. I made a cake last week. For no particular reason, I just decided to make one. Ug, but now that's all gone and I am back with the plan. Today means I have 1 month to lose the weight that I want to PLUS the four pounds I have gained since making that goal. :( So, I am not going to think about how much that is I am just going to do my best!

Today's goal:

Practice riding bike with kids in the trailer. It's fine until there is any sort of uphill. then it kind of killed me.
Cook some chicken.
Do my cleaning from the list
Drink 4 bottles of water

Side note, I had edamame last night for dinner and it was pretty yummy and pretty filling

To be expected

So I made some bad choices this weekend re: food and exercise. Needless to say, my weight is back up to 146.0. I guess it just shows me that I really need to commit to this healthy lifestyle, I can't just pick and choose when I do it.

Goals for today:
drink 3 bottles of water
exercise
don't eat anything after dinner

Have a good Monday!