Slim Pickin's

Weight: 294.1

Ugh, I hate the scale! I really do! I am still stuck. I feel smaller, but the scale says
the same. Maybe I'll try on some of my clothes today and see if there is a difference
there.

I'm going to try to stay low carb today and tomorrow again. Which might be hard
since the cupboards are nearly bare of my food and I won't be able to do groceries
until Friday. Ho hum! That means very slim pickin's.

Hubby and I (mostly Hubby), got another wall painted in the living room. Yea! It's
going to look so nice I can't wait. I painted the dining room last fall, but there were
less hurdles to overcome, like furniture, windows, and curtains.

Curtains might not seem like a problem, but ours are the double kind and are anchored
into the wall pretty good. Anyways, it's so nice to see progress in this department.
I hate cleaning a place, for it only to look dirty when I am done.

Robert is such an artist, and so meticulous in everything he does. He has so much talent,
I wish he would do more paintings and sculptures. I on the other hand have negative
coordination, and even have trouble keeping in the lines when coloring with the kids!

I act like I'm mad when he outdoes me at something (which is most everything), but
really I am proud. Here's a few pictures of his handy work:

My reward meal was wonderful last night. I enjoyed almost every bite. Well, except
for the hockey pucks we called biscuits!

Have an awesome day guys!

HUGGZZ

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Complimentary Meal
1/8 piece low carb quiche
1/2 stalk celery with cream cheese

Reward Meal
3 oz fried pork chop
1/2 biscuit
1/2 cup sausage gravy
1/2 cup green beans
spinach salad with cukes, grape tomatoes, shredded cheese, fried onions-ranch
6 fudge striped gingerbread cookies

The Word No Dieter Wants To Hear...

Weight: 294

Plateau. I again am stuck, stUCK, STUCK!  I so want to get out of this range. For about
7 years now I have not been able to get below 287. Maybe, just maybe 270. I was hoping
using the technique "confuse it, to lose it" I could slide through this tough spot. My
average for this week was only a half of a pound.

I know that I am losing weight, probably inches. Want to know why? Last night I went
to pick my son up from a football game at school, he is in the marching band. He passed
the car thinking, that looks like our car but that's not my mom! After checking out all the
other cars and mini vans I saw him looking in the windows at different angles.

He started laughing and got in. He said he passed the car twice, because he didn't think it
was me! AWESOME! Funny, and just the best affirmation ever, but this getting stuck
thing is pissing me off!

Yesterday afternoon my sweet hubby surprised me by painting one of the walls in the
living room while I took a nap with Jude. When I got up we hung some new pictures
and a clock that I had bought on it. It looks amazing. I wish I had felt good enough to
finish the living room last night. Hopefully I can get it done today, so I can lay the new
carpet.

Tonight we have a yummy, but not sure if you could call it balanced, reward meal
planned. Fried pork chops, sausage gravy and biscuits, with green beans. I think I
might throw some sauteed cabbage onto my plate also, and down the sizes of the
carb rich things. I might add a salad also.

I hope your day is a great one with the sun on your face and the wind at your back!

HUGGZZ
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Complimentary Meal
1 hard boiled egg
1 stalk celery with cream cheese

Complimentary Meal
Low carb quiche with bacon, cheese, and broccoli

Reward meal
Chef salad with cukes, grape tomatoes, fried onions, shredded cheese, smoked ham,
        ranch
1 Stalk celery with cream cheese

Ciaos In The Morning

Weight 294

I am almost back to where I was before Sunday's binge. I am looking forward to
having a true reward meal tomorrow night. Today, though I will stick to another
completely low carb day. As it stands today, my average for the week is not even a
pound.

I keep seeing changes in the mirror, and catch myself looking more and more. I'm
happy with what I'm seeing, at least with clothes on. Naked, I'm a hot mess for sure!

I also haven't really exercised in the past few days, and need to get back on that track,
since I'm no longer getting the all night workouts at Walmart.

Today, I plan on checking up on some of my applications that I've put in. I have an
offer for full time babysitting, but not sure I want to put my eggs into that basket. A
lot could go wrong with that, she could quit her job, and leave me broke for Christmas.

I am super stoked today about my Google+ community. One of my Carbohydrate Addict's
Diet heroines has asked to be apart of my community. When I first started, I was looking
for others that were successful with this way of eating. Her blog was the first I found!

Terilyn has lost close to 100 pounds! She looks amazing, and the weight loss appears to
have taken 20 years or more off of her! I am providing a few links to her blog, my
community, and another great support group! I hope you find this useful!

Terilyn's Blog

My Carbohydrate Addicts and Low Carb Support Community

Carbohydrate Addicts Support Group On Facebook

I'm not sure why I have so many kids up at the crack of dawn, but it's throwing off my
writing skills! Apparently, little man crawl in bed with me last night, wet the bed, then got
back into his bed. When hubby crawls in at 5 am, he wakes me up grumbling about it.
Which also wakes up little man.

I get up to change our sheets and Little Man's clothes, and I hear Belle. Robert tells me
she's been coughing all night. I get her some medicine and water, then send her back to
sleep. Successfully finish changing the sheets then send Rob and Jude back to bed.

At about that time China wakes up to get ready for school and tells me James needs to
wake early to finish a project. Then here comes Jude again!

Good grief! It looks as though it may be a VERY long day!

Hope your day goes well, and I'll be back tomorrow!
HUGGZZ
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Complimentary Meal
2 hard boiled eggs
1 stalk celery with cream cheese

Complimentary Meal
Double Cheese Burger with pickles, no bun
1 can of no salt green beans

Reward Meal
1 1/2 baked chicken leg quarters
1 cup sauteed Normandy Blend vegetables
Spinach salad with cukes, 3 grape tomatoes, shredded cheese-ranch

4 cups of coffee, 1 gallon water, 1 liter lemon water

Not "Cured!" I Am Diagnosed And Being Successfully "Treated"

Weight:  296.2                

If any of you are following me closely, you'll realize that I am up almost 4 lbs
in one day! The newbie would be frantic, I know it's just water weight from
the high sodium intake yesterday.

For the first time since I started this WOE, I felt famished. At around 1 pm,
I felt so hungry, and no matter what I ate, I was not full nor satisfied. So, I
went ahead and made it a carb up day.

I do not want this to ever happen again, so from now on, the first thing I do
when I make my coffee, I'll boil some eggs to have something on hand. Also,
make sure I eat before 11:30 am. I think I just went to long, I really hadn't even
thought about eating, until I was in that moment.

I should be able to relieve myself of the weight before Wednesday, which is the
end of my weigh week. This incident though, made me realize, I am not "cured."
I have only be diagnosed with a metabolic issue, and am successfully being
"treated."

So, today I pull my boot straps up and get back on that horse. I really am glad that
yesterday happened, and that I was able to learn from that experience. I love feeling
in control of my eating.

I can not give you all the portions of what I ate yesterday. It was a binge. I will give
you a list though.

3 Jr bacon cheeseburgers-2 without buns
1 crisy chicken sandwich
pork rinds
cake (VERY small piece, by then I felt sick)
2 pieces fried chicken (very salty)
1 cup green beans with potatoes
1 cup mashed potatoes
Sweet Iced Tea

I bid you good day! I look forward to writing to you tomorrow!
HUGGZZ

Imagine The Possibilities

Weight: 292.9    Total: -30.1

So I'm holding at 30 pounds lost. That's okay, I guess, it's a good place to hold for now.
Tonight is a real CA night, then low carb again for 2 days. I'm looking forward to a real
reward meal.

Of course I was hoping for another drop, but I could have lost 10 pounds this week and
still hoped for another drop. Knowing that you have a goal this huge coming to fruition,
is hard to be patient about. I suppose it's like a prisoner waiting for his release date, or
a child waiting for Christmas.

I quit Walmart last night. After a talk with my husband, I just couldn't put myself through
it again. As someone else this morning put it, they work you like a mule, then kick you
when your almost there. There's got to be something else out there for me.

My husband knows how much I love to work, at least I think he does. He also doesn't
want my usually good mood, to be so ornery. I have an interview tomorrow at Cracker
Barrel, maybe that will pan out.

I have big plans today though. I am buying paint and redoing my living room, then heading
out to my Uncle's for a reward meal, and to pick up my kids. I plan on eating smaller
portions of everything, because I think he's a little heavy on the salt.

I maybe getting on into a new direction with careers, and that is super hopeful! In a few
weeks I am doing some family portraits for a friend's Christmas card/wedding announce-
ments. If they are happy with my work, I will be doing their wedding next summer and
they may have another wedding lined up for me!

                                       Photo of Belle, Trinity, and Jude: Summer 2013

That just kinda came out of nowhere. I would love a job in photography! I am novice at
best, but they like my eye. So, we'll see where that goes! Up until this I have only taken
pictures of my kids, and the things around me, just thought gives me a smile though.

Well, my day is ticking away, and hopefully I will not let the computer distract me yet
again. I am a total procrastinator!

HUGGZZ
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Complimentary Meal
3 egg omelette with cheese, spinach, and bacon
(which I might say tasted like a reward meal...yum yum)

Reward Meal
4 oz cheeseburger (no bun)
1 cup cooked spinach

I'M CURED!!!

Start weight: 323     Current weight: 292.9     Total: -30.1 lbs (8 weeks 3 days)

YEA!! I hit 30 pounds, GONE GONE GONE. For the first time in my life I really
don't worry about it coming back! I don't feel deprived, or for there to be any
reason to fall off the wagon.

I almost want to yell "I'm cured!" In just a few short months I should be completely
released from this 160 pound jail cell that I have called my body, and be living as a
normal person. My life has already dramatically changed so much.

Turning down carbohydrates are rarely even a thought anymore, and I have to make
myself eat most days because I'm just not hungry like I used to be. Not too long ago
I would eat pancakes, eggs, and bacon for breakfast. For lunch I would have a
sandwich, or three, plus some kind of side. At dinner I would have a full plate of
whatever, go back for seconds then add desert.

I just found out yesterday that I have until the 31st until my insurance runs out, so I
am going to try to get to my doctor to have new blood work done, I am eager to
see those results!

I am trying to look at work as a workout that I am getting paid for. With all the walking,
squatting, lifting, and bending I come home feeling like I've been at the gym kickin' butt
for 9 hours! If this specific manager doesn't get off my back soon though, it will be
bye bye Walmart. I just have no tolerance for people of her kind.

"That kind" means rude and negative. I don't care if you are black, white, or green. If you
can't treat people with dignity and decency, I have no time for you. My life has had enough
crap in it to force myself to deal with yours.

I took this picture of one of my boys (Jericho) and I, with our new glasses yesterday.
I am obviously not as skinny as it makes me look, but I absolutely love it! It's almost
like a sneak peak into my very new and soon future.

Time to get on with my day! HUGGZZ to all!!
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Complimentary Meal
2 hard boiled eggs
1 stalk celery with cream cheese

Reward Meal
Garden salad with ranch
Bacon Cheeseburger (no bun)

Tomorrow night I will have a real reward meal, since I get to have dinner at
my Uncle Robbie's YEA!!!

Day 58

Weight:  295.3            

I fear that I am being taken more as whiny than assertive at work. I also don't know
if I can trust this manager that I've been talking to. I do know that she said, if I quit
she would make me a rehire after 6 months. Also, that if I wasn't doing the job to
par that she would move me before firing, or writing me up.

It's not that I don't believe what she says, it's that I don't know how far what I say
goes. If everything that I say is going back to who I'm saying it about. I'm not even
sure I care, other than I want to be seen a certain way, but definitely not as a whiner.

It's funny how much we love validation. Yesterday morning, I stopped by the gas
station that I used to work at, as I do several times a week. A frequent customer
said "Oh, I love how you changed your hair! And you're losing a lot of weight too!
I can see it."

I was looking for confirmation from her, but it felt so good. I can't even fanthom
what it will feel like at goal. I started a pintrest page for my "Goal Makeover." I figure
it is something I can spend my free time planning out. I am totally looking forward to it!

I asked Rob the other night how he would feel if I came home from our weekend
all punked out! He wasn't sure he would like it. Not sure how much that is going to
change my mind, but since I am married and all of my lovin' comes from one man, I
will probably take his opinion into consideration.

Now if he acts like he's not interested in putting a new me together, then he'll have to
get whatever I want.

Have an awesome day!
HUGGZZ
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Complimentary Meal
Steak and eggs with bacon and broccoli


Reward Meal
2 cups sauteed Normandy blend veggies, no carrots
5 oz hamburger steak