Sunday Check In!

I feel like I've updated a little more this week than usual so that's a good thing. This week has been traumatic and crazy, but I survived and you survived if you're reading this so.... we're starting off on the right foot! :)

This weekend has been okay. It started snowing on Friday night and where I'm from, the whole world shuts down for a little bit of snow. Granted, they had been predicting anywhere from 2-13 inches all week so no one really knew exactly how much we would get, but still...everything is at a stand still.

Obviously, I live in the south.

Now, as you may remember I was REALLY excited about making a home made whole wheat pizza. That was not in my cards this weekend as the hunt for whole wheat dough did not pan out and I was NOT about to "brave" the grocery store on Friday afternoon for whole wheat flour because it was a mad house. Not only that, but i get off of work at 3:00pm on Friday which is considerably earlier than most. Everyone was driving like the sky was falling and it just wasn't falling yet! Frustrating!

After dodging traffic and stopping at Walmart long enough to pick up a color printer cartridge so I could do my Bio homework this weekend I FINALLY made it home. *whew*

Let's see. Friday night my parents went out to a Mexican restaurant (pre-snow) and brought back ceviche for me, light on the jalepenos, with avocado, 86 the crunchy tortilla things they send home to eat it with (that are FREAKING AWESOME BTW). Score one for the parentals looking out! I ate the super yumminess and was still hungry a little while later so I made some Whole Grain Mac and Cheese (best stuff ever, in case you didn't read that before either). I'll admit it, I ate ALL of it, but I wanted to. I figure it was better than me binging out on everything else in the house. So be it.

Saturday morning was a little odd. Usually my parents are up early to take Stimpy to the vet, so they slept in on Saturday for the first time in 2 years. Phoenix (my other precious fur baby) was very vocal which is rare. I don't know if he was actually hungry or just needy because the big cat isn't home anymore and no one was awake to pay attention to him. Seriously, you would think no one EVER paid attention to him. We dote on him ALL OF THE TIME! Scrambled eggs with cheese and 2 slices of turkey bacon for breakfast. Along with a glass of milk and 2 cups of coffee later in the day.

For lunch I had some of the AWESOME South Beach friendly Italian Lentils & Sausage soup that Mom made the day before.

Dinner was the same with a can of green beans. Have I mentioned I love those too?

I have finally eaten all of my Asher's candy bars, so I ended up having one Sugar Free fudgesicle with a tablespoon of crunchy natural peanut butter. Not as good as those candy bars, but it sufficed.

I told you guys I was going to change my official weigh day to Wednesday so I could report to my therapist. Yesterday I was really conscious of my sodium intake. I only had ONE soda, I did drink 4 glasses of water and the 2 cups of coffee. I added a little salt on the green beans, the soup already had sausage in it so of course it was already salty.

What would the scale say this morning??!??! 195.5 ladies and gentlemen!

OHHHHH YEAHHHH!!!!

The 2.5 pound loss per week MAY be achievable!!!! Well, I know it is, but it means I have to dot my i's and cross my t's. I only have .5 lb to lose this week to be "on track." That's doable!!! So excited!!!!

If I keep this up, that would be mean Wednesday I will be down to 195.0. And within the next Week or so after that I will be taking ANOTHER progress picture. 192. Not only that, but that will put me at a total loss of 15 pounds total. ALMOST to 10%!!!!!

Hopefully something really cool and exciting will happen so I will have something worthwhile to post and can entertain you guys!!!!

Hope you're doing well!!!! Have a FANTASTIC week!

Stella's Gettin' Her Groove Back

Do you ever have those days where you just wake up feeling really good about yourself? Like for some reason you feel cuter than normal? Maybe you wake up and FEEL lighter than normal? You just wake up on the RIGHT side of the bed...


Welcome to my Monday. THANK YOU UNIVERSE!!!!

So I was going to take yesterday as my official weigh in. As you remember I weighed in at 199.5 on Saturday morning from my night of drinking. I knew it was water weight I had lost, but it was still nice to see ONEderland in there somewhere. It has been too long. Yesterday I weighed at 202, but made a conscious effort to drink a lot more water.

This morning out of curiosity I weighed in at 200 even! YAY! And I decided to take that as my official for the week because a) I really wanted to move my ticker down and b) it's SO freakin' close to 199 that I know it'll really push me this week. Now, if I can only behave myself.

Today has really flown by at work. In fact, I got some good news. Another school I work for has an opening for the same position and the girl who intially helped train me really wants me to be her replacement. I told her I was weary since I *will* be getting into nursing school and that means I will only be in the system for another 6 months. She spoke with the people she works with and they're okay with that. I emailed my resume. The attraction to start at a NEW school only to work there for 6 months is that it seems they all work together really well, which is not the case where I work. To be honest, I feel like I work with brick walls because nothing I say or do makes sense and they're all idiots.

Plus they're all really bad for my OCD. Seriously.

School is kicking my butt! I studied ALL weekend. Still wondering how I can work in eating right, studying my butt off and working out. I can't read and walk on the treadmill, just doesn't work for me, but we do have access to some podcasts for anatomy so maybe I could listen to those on my ipod?

Have a GREAT week everyone! I'll try to keep checking in this week as much as possible.

PS Made a whole wheat pasta recipe I found online Friday night. I kind of messed up the directions so maybe it would be a little better if I wasn't drinking while trying to cook. It wasn't horrible, but I def need to make something else this week. Unfortunately I'm broke until the end of the month (yay for a MONTHLY pay check!), but I reallllly want to make a homemade pizza with whole wheat crust. I'll let you guys know how that goes!!!!