How Are You Doing It?

The reason I got the blog up and running again is because I needed and wanted to give support.  I just want to thank you all that commented and joined!  I think about all the lovely things you have said and how it's going with you and you inspire me!

So how are you doing it?

I'm counting Weight Watchers points.  I joined a few years ago, so I have all the books (old system) so I just using that and I finally found a good iPhone app that counts points without joining WW.  It's called "My Score Plus" and it is the best I have found for me (and I have downloaded quite a few).  I did realize the other day that my app had miscalculated the number of points I should be allowed to have a day - I thought the number was high.  Then I looked it up and sure enough the app was giving me 5 more points per day that I should be allowed. So I adjusted that on the app.  Hopefully that is one of the reasons that I haven't been very successful.

So, I'd love to hear from you in the comments.  How are you approaching your weight loss?  Are you counting points?  Calories?  something else?  Let us know!

xo

Marie

I'm Baaaack!

Hey girls!  

I am ashamed of myself!  

Did you see the date of our last post?  

September, 2010!!! That is just sad.

So it's almost a year later.  

Where are you on your quest to get skinny?  

(And when I say skinny, it is my snarky way of saying "healthy" because that's what a real goal is!)

I'll tell you where I'm at........

5 pounds heavier than I was at this time last year.

This is the picture that really doubled my determination to trim down.  That's me on the right at a recent 100 Monkeys concert with BellaTesoro, hisbellamarie, MrsKassie Cullen and 17forever Lisa.  I just feel like I am huge in this picture.  I know a person is more than their weight and how they look.  However, I would like to feel good about how I look and I don't feel good about how I look in this picture.

BUT.....

I NEVER give up.....EVER!

So that's why I am back.

The reason I started this blog originally, was so that I had a place to vent and maybe create a support system with other chicks who had the same goals.  Well  I dropped the ball.

Well I'm picking the ball back up and getting back in the game.

So to get the ball rolling again, I thought I should tell you all where I am at right now - and be honest.

Here goes......

In this past year, I have gotten off track many many times.  I keep getting back on and falling off.  The truth is, I think my many failed attempts have really kept me from gaining more than the 5 pounds that I have gained.  I am now 44 years old and weigh 220 pounds.  I'm not embarrassed to say it, but on the other hand I'm am not happy with it. Here is the frustrating thing.  The things I used to do to lose weight just don't work anymore!!!  I guess it's my age.  Maybe my metabolism is slowing down - but I just cannot get the scale to move.  Has anyone else experienced this?

What have you tried to get over this hurdle?

So this is what I'm trying this week.  I am cutting back on carbs and trying to make my meals more of the fruit and veggie nature.  Carbs are my downfall....I can live with out meat....but give me bread and potatoes.  So for a week I'm going to try to cleanse my body.  My awesome brother seems to gotten my treadmill going again, so the heat is not an excuse not to at least walk.  So I will be hitting the treadmill this week more as well.

So that is where I am at right now.

Please tell me in the comments where you are at with your goals right now.  Maybe you can get the ball rolling with me?

xo

Marie

Gee Thanks Mom, Those Things Sure Help With My Diet

I don't personally do the grocery shopping for our home, 

so I have no say over the things that are bought.

Sure I can ask for specific things that I would like to have around maybe some fresh fruits or vegetables (which are currently lacking in this home).

Well these are some of the things in my kitchen right at this very moment that are beckoning me.

"Come to us, it's midnight and you are so very hungry and thirsty!"

"No" I say to these deliciously loathsome snack foods. "You are not good for my IRWTSMN diet."

Barq's Root Beer is my kryptonite.

AW COMEON!!! EFFING PIE! REALLY!?!
It has chocolate mousse and a chocolate cookie crust under that cream. I want to cry :(
PS: None of those missing pieces are from me, no really, I'm serious!

I would get one healthy part out of this snack. Milk, well only the milk that gets soaked up in the cookie.
Like I would ever drink milk that was dunked in.

I could eat the whole bag in one sitting, but I will not touch them.
My brother and his friends can eat all the chips in the house. I don't want them *sigh*

Really 2 Boxes of Fruity Pebbles, 2 Boxes of Cocoa puff's (one is generic)
MutherEffing Cookie Crisp, I used to beg and beg for these cereals, when I was 5, now I only eat the Cheerios

Look's innocent enough, raisins are healthy and it even has 50% more of them, sadly this bread is not.

I'm trying my damnedest to stick to my IRWTSMN diet plan. It's working but it is very hard to stay away from these delicious food offerings. It also doesn't help when my BFF calls me up, she can break my resolve with one conversation and this is one we just had two days ago
BFF- "Let's get Tastee Freeze" (local ice cream place, that rocks, btw)
Me- "No I'm on this 'If Rob Were to See Me Naked' diet."
BFF- "WTF is that, you can't be serious, let's get ice cream it's 98% Fat Free!"
(It doesn't help that she's a twi-hater and doesn't get the appeal of the pretay! Ugh!!!)

I am going to be honest here and tell you all how that conversation ended. Me with a strawberry sunday practically licking the cup clean and by practically I mean literally, I'm so ashamed.

I feel my resolve crumbling every day but then I see this

And I think to myself, "Self, Rob is right step away from the Root Beer and Pie and everything will be alright."

The ice cream was one slip up and now the above pic of Rob is placed strategically above my calendar so I will see it on my way to the fridge or on my way out the door and with the power of Rob I shall get through.

~Kassie

FA (fat ass) Goals

Hey!  It's Tess, from TNT!  

I would like to thank the Twilight Junkies girls for inviting us over here!  

This should be a great partnership with our diet plan...IRWTSMN™.  

Have you asked yourself that "what if" question today?  

Well, if not, then you should.  

It will make you drop that donut, push away from the pasta, and move your ass.  

It's a fail proof way of becoming a tad less voluptuous.  

Trix and I have been using this method for a while now and if used consistently, 

it really does work!  

I've made some motivational pictures for myself.  

I'll share a few of them with you today...

Please feel free to use these in anyway you see fit.  Review mirror in your car.  Refrigerator (if you can get by with that...my hubby frowned on this idea).  Bathroom mirror.  Desk at work. Etc, Etc.

I'll have some more for you guys on this week's IRWTSMN™ post this Thursday.

Don't forget about your goals for the week...as small or big as they may be.

My individual goals are:

1. Drink more water.

2.  Eat out less for lunch.

Simple enough.  Hopefully, I can succeed.

Good luck, girls!

IRWTSMN

If you are heading over here from my Twilight Junkies Anonymous blog, then you already know about IRWTSMN on Trixie and Tess's blog!  If not - then head on over there and read all about it.

This is blog that my sister Barb and I put together back in January when were turning over our New Year's leaf.  If you are interested in using this blog as a place to vent or talk about diety/Twilight things please let me know.    Just drop me an email attwilightjunkiesanonymousblog@gmail.comAs you can see, my last post was in June.  But since we are all starting the IRWTSMN diet, I thought I should try to start posting here again.

Wednesday, June 23rd

I've been so bad the last month. Luckily I have only put back on 2 lbs. Monday I started journeling what I eat again and have worked out the last two nights. I really want to loss the last 10 lbs to get to my goal I set at the beginning of the year.

June 11, 2010

Wow....so the last time I blogged on here was in February????  That was probably the last time I ate healthy for any consistent length of time too! LOL  Well, it's summer vacation and I'm thinking I would love to go back to school in the fall 20 pounds lighter.  I don't think that's an unreasonable goal.  So, anyone else on board with me?????  Here's my new before picture for motivation!  Ugh!!!!  That's awful!!!!!