My Less Weighty Dream List

1. I will ride a roller coaster again.

2. I will sky dive, just once!

3. I will shop at Goodwill Thrift store for clothes.

4. I will not have to use the seatbelt extension in my car.

5. I will walk the 3 day Susan G Coleman walk.

6. I will run a 5K.

7. I will do a bike ride for diabetes, dressed in BLUE (for the Blue Heel Society, go ahead check it out, you know you want to! http://blueheelsociety.blogspot.com/)

8. I will become a lifetime member at Weight Watchers, this way I can go for free!

9. I will climb a rock wall.

10. I will succeed!

My world is a spinning, whirling, upside down sometimes life!

Whole wheat raspberry filled crepes!

Last week while walking at the YMCA there was this guy who started just after me came whirling by me over and over again. I am sure he passed me at least 3 times each lap I made. Then another guy started and he was running so fast it made my head spin and I started to get dizzy, no joke. I kept feeling like I was in their way, each time they went by. I wonder why I think things like that sometimes? Later that day the 1st guy saw me by the steps and he shared some words of encouragement for me! WOW he did not even know me but my thought were totally upside down from what he truly thought running past me. I was not in his way at all. He was proud of me for trying and being brave enough to get out there and try to change. I was inspiring him to do better. Amazing!

This past weekend we had a chance to go away to Callaway Gardens and this was the 1st time we packed our bikes and we really did go on a bike ride for about 20 minutes. We did lots of walking and even went swimming in the freezing pool.

We decided to take the long way home and stop and visit a few places along the way. We also decided to give ourselves one day off after 17/18 weeks at Weight Watchers to eat what we wanted and not track our points. We talked about how this was just one day and we would get right back on track the next day! It was such a wonderful trip back to Atlanta. We saw one of the oldest covered bridges in GA. We visited Phillip's mom's grave site, and stopped in Warm Springs, GA. I ate a cheese burger, fried chicken, cheese grits, extra cheese pizza and eclair pie.(not all at one time) I gained 5 pounds when I weighed this morning. So eating very light and exercising more than normal before I weigh in at Weight Watchers Thursday am. I thought all those foods I had been craving and feeling sad and deprived were really not so great, but the eclair pie was heavenly. Mind you, I did not have more than 1 serving on any one food item:) That move in its self was pretty marvelous being that I used ta could eat 3 times that amount. It was very easy to get right back on track when I got home.

I have never had crepes before so today my friend Annie showed me how and she was sweet enough to use a Weight Watchers recipe. They tasted wonderful. I may try to make them next week all on my own. I hope they turn out as yummy as hers.

One last note, I am so tired of Great Clips right now and all their $7.99 hair cuts signs:/ Wonder how long my hair will be when I hit 100 pounds lost!!!!

Weight Watchers Lasagna

I made this today for dinner tomorrow. I hope it taste ad good as it looks:)

Choices, thank you QT!

I am so thankful for QT it was a few minutes before my 8pm meeting at church and I was really wanting some crumb doughnuts. So I stop at QT, pick up the doughnuts, and calculated the points. At this point in the day I was down to 9 available points. The doughnuts 12 points! So then I pick up the powered doughnuts 11 points, then I moved on to the Twinkies 10 points. At this a few people were just looking at me. Picking an item up typing something on my phone saying out loud, "really 10 points, that is so stupid"! and slamming it back on the shelf. I decided to walk around and see if anything else might be able to satisfy my craving for carbs. I got a caffeine free diet coke and found a fruit cup and a cheese stick! Cheese 3 points and sweet fruit and soda free!!! Score I made it out of the store without those high point carbs! I did it.

The church meeting was amazing one of the best we have had in weeks. I am able to look back at my past and see the harmful things I was doing to myself. In the past I would have eaten 3 meals a day and went to QT and would have eaten both packs of doughnuts, the Twinkies, and a cheese danish and would have never looked back. I remember sitting at home and eating everything in my bag, then tossing the wrappers in the trash, and would dispose of the evidence. I don't even know who I was hiding it from most of the time my husband was with me with his own bag. I would hide it from myself so I would not feel guilty about what I had done but really was not sure as to how to stop.

Now I am learning! It is so hard but everyday I pray for the strength I need and do my best to succeed in this journey. If you read this please pray for me if you are able. I know prayer works. Thanks

Finding joy in new things!

As I am finding out the foods that used to make me feel the best are really starting to let me down. Foods I used to crave and dream about how good they taste are losing their appeal. I have not eaten at McDonalds (other than a 4point vanilla cone for date night once) in months. I used to eat there no less than twice a week. I am looking at the ingredients in the food I do choose to put in my body. I am not sure why I thought they had the best foods? I now ask myself is this(what ever food it may be) worth the cost of my daily points? So I am no longer letting food control me! I need food to live but I do not NEED food to be happy!

-I love to have my nails painted

-I love to sleep in on Saturdays

-I love to be outside on nice days

-I love Wed. night movie night at home with Phillip

-I love to write in my journal

-I love the smell of oranges

-I love hugs

-I love my instructor at the Y, he is so cool!

(He even asked everyone to pray for us on this weight loss journey.)