Weigh in time!

I missed weighing in last Thursday. I though it would make more since to weigh in on Mondays. I'm very happy with my weight loss so far.

Starting Weight- 225
Current Weight- 217.
 Goal Weight 125.

I'm now down 8 lbs from my starting weight. My little guy starts preschool 4 days a week from 12 until 3:30. Today will be his first day. I plan on heading to the park and the trails and getting in a good walk, and trying for some brief jogging.

I'm feeling pretty good on the Phentermine. I haven't had an incredible surge of energy like I thought I would, but it's a little easier to make it through the day. It has worked amazingly at curbing my hunger. I've been doing extremely well at sticking to around 1200 calories a day, and getting in at least 8 glasses of water. 

The start to success

So I've been doing good at sticking to my diet plan for the most part this last week. I've also been doing a little working out. Slowly getting a little more accomplished at Day 1 of the 30 Day shred. And I've also done some major walking. Today I went to the dr. to talk to her about my weight gain. In the last week thanks to a lot of hard work I've dropped 5 lbs. She says that I'm doing everything right. She prescribed phentermine for me, which I will start tomorrow. I will update on here as much as possible so I can let other people know how phentermine is working for me. I'll also post about how it makes me feel as well, and any side effects I may have. Hopefully it'll work great and I won't have any bad side effects.

Of Course

Of course things don't work out my way. I was planning on using the Amazon gift cards that I've earned online to order the Body by Vi shake mix. Well once again my husband can't even pay for pull-ups for our son, so I had to use my Amazon gift cards for that. It's so disappointing because he told me that I could use them for myself this time. I'm so sick of my husband being lazy and not finding a real job. I pay for everything for the house and everything for the kids. I buy nothing for myself. Just this once I wanted to spend it on something to help improve myself. I even sold every bit of my sewing and craft stuff, including my sewing machine, so that I could get the kids school clothes and supplies. He's not there for us financially, emotionally, or physically. I really don't know why I stay. It's like I'm a single parent with the shell of another person taking up extra space here.

And it starts

After a lot of thinking and a lot of time. I KNOW that I desperately need to lose weight. The big problem for me is that I don't really know how. In the last week I've really changed my eating habits, but I know that I still have a long ways to go. I started on my actual diet today. I supplemented two of my meals for Slim Fast shakes. I did snack on more popsicles and beef jerky than I should have. Tomorrow will be better. Tomorrow is day one to a new me. I know that I've said it before, but this time I'm determined to stick to it. I have to. This is not how I want to live my life.

I've decided that I'm going to try the Body by Vi again. I did not like the taste of the shakes, but I've realized that I can deal with it if it's going to help me to lose all of this weight. I'm also going to be doing the 30 Day Shred. I've tried it before and I failed. I can't make it through the first day. I will just keep doing day 1 until I can complete it. I have to do this to make a better life for my children. I don't want to be scared that I'm going to have a heart attack at any time because I'm so overweight.

Today I'm officially putting my weight out there. Something that I've never done. Something that I'm afraid for even my own children to see. And I'm sure that if any of my family sees this post they'll be gossiping about it. I hope that one day I will be able to look back and this weight will be just a bad phase of my body. I hope that I can shed it.

When I entered my height and weight into the BMI  calculator I wasn't surprised by the devastating news it gave me.  42.5 = Heavily Overweight.  My current weight is more than it's been in my entire life. 99 lbs more than it was when I was 9 months pregnant. My goal weight would be 115. My current weight is 225. That means that I have 110 pounds to lose. That means that I have a LOT of work ahead of me. So on to my first official weigh in posting:


Goal Weight- 115 pounds.
Current Weight- 225 pounds

Each Thursday I will weigh in and post my weight loss. I really hope that I can see some significant loss each week. 

Last week of summer before school

Since this is the last week of summer before the boys go back to school we've been trying to make the most of our free days. Yesterday we visited the Children's zoo. It's not a big zoo, but the kids enjoy it. B really loved seeing the lemurs. C loved doing the dino dig. We spent a good hour just digging in the sand for bones and reburying them. Moon loved the bug house. The favorite for all of them was the little train.

Summers Almost Over

Boy have I been busy lately. Summer is almost over. This is the first year that I'm glad that it's almost time to send the boys back to school. The older 2 have been bickering so much the last month. Little man is going to preschool this year. He's been a few times to practice and has done excellent.

I hope that I can start blogging more regularly when all of the boys are in school. It'll give me something to do while I have a few hours to myself. My sister and her kiddos have been up here for the last week. The kids were all at each other often but overall it was a pretty great visit. I enjoyed spending time with her and was sad to see her have to go home.

Summer fun

Lately it seems like I haven't had much time to do anything except to slave around the house and have fun with my boys. I try to take them to the park at least a few times a week. They immediately head straight for the ball field. I had asked them earlier this spring if they wanted to play baseball this summer. Both of the older boys completely refused. Yeah I was a bit sad about it. So what do they do out on the baseball field? Play kick ball of course. If kickball was a sport here they'd be playing everyday. When soccer season starts up again I have to make sure to sign them both up. They will love being a part of the soccer team.

It's Been a Long Time

It's been so long time since I've made a blog post. So many things have changed in our lives. My husband and I almost divorced, but somehow made it through. Then we lost my father-in-law to suicide. There's been other events that have happened that haven't been so great since the last time I posted. But I'm not going to get into all of that. We can only pray that our hearts will heal from all of the hurt that we've suffered.

Now it's summer vacation and my boys are home all the time with me. I'm so happy that I get to spend more time with them, but it's sure a challenge. I'm finally getting back into sewing. I haven't sewn much for awhile, but I have some blankets and quilts that need to be made for a couple charities that I need to get busy on.

On the last day of school we got pics done of our boys. The guy that took them has only had his business for about a year, but I think he did a pretty good job. He doesn't charge much so we got a heck of a deal.

This is one of my favorites. 

I plan on getting back into the blogging world. It will be nice to have a place of my own in this house full of boys. Glad to see that I still have some followers after my time away. 

Lately I've been catching up on sewing projects that are long overdue. I sewed new striped curtains for Chandler's room. I also made both of the older boys no sew fleece blankets. Bastian's is skateboard and Chandler's is monsters. But the biggest project that I've finished is Cam's I Spy quilt. It's my first quilt and I love it.

This is our new kitty- Miss Piggy. She really wants the quilt for herself.

What's in store for the new year?

I've been thinking of what kind of resolution I want for the new year. New Years Resolutions never seem to work for me. They tend to be an all or nothing kind of deal. So instead I've decided to make a list of things I want to work on. It's a work in progress.


1. Be more considerate of my husband.
2. Preschool with Cam 3 days a week in our classroom.
3. Declutter- each day I need to take at least 10 solid minutes to do some decluttering
4. Try at least 1 new recipe a week. Either one that I find, or one that I create myself.
5. Have a game night with my kids AND husband once a week.
6. Take time to sew at least once a week.


It's only the 3rd, but I haven't failed yet. lol. I decided to start my decluttering in my sewing closet. For awhile now I've been wanting to get the game Guesstures. Well I guess I bought this game already and had completely forgotten about it. I discovered it in a box in the sewing closet. I can't tell you how excited that made me. Big score for the new year goals!