Cleaning my way into Day 2

For some reason, I woke up at 4AM this morning. So, I figured, I would start cleaning the house. I am finding that cleaning house is good exercise. With the two boys, I could have this intense excerise for another 14 years (when Matthew turned 18). I am starting to get my no soda headache. I usually get them starting about the 2nd day of not having it. I am hoping not to get a really bad headache. The good thing is that the headache only last about a day and then I am good to go. I can feel myself coming out of my "food coma" as Oprah said once.

I never told (yet) what my weight goal is. I wasn't going to share but I figure, I need to put this out there because there are so many people who are ashamed about being fat. I, being one of them but this blog is to help myself and others to get over that! It is just a number, right?

Okay, on 08/09/2010 I weighed in (at WW) :
247.0 (highest weight)

My goal weight is:

150 pounds

Okay, my first goal is 25% of the total amount I want to lose:
24.5 pounds:

225.5 pounds!

Before I go, I wanted to share today's photo. This photo was taken on 7/23/2010. We were at a park and I wanted a picture with my niece Charlotte. This photo is important to me because (number 1), my gorgeous niece is in the picture, and (number 2), this picture show how unhealthy I am and how much I want to change my lifestyle. I want to see Charlotte's children (as well as my own grandchildren).

Until next time

Fatty Fatty Two By Four.....

How many of you have heard the start of this sentence and can finish by heart. If I had a dime for everytime in my childhood from the ages of 9 (before I was F.A.T.) to 16 (when I decided that starvation was the way to go), you would be reading this from a woman who retired on the beach of Hawaii in a moo moo. (by the way, there is a reason they call those dresses "moo-moo") But atlas that didn't happen.

I wanted to start this blog in hopes to help me and anyone else that wants or needs to take this weight loss journey with me.

I am 37 years old. I stay home with my boys, happily married 99% of the time. I have a lot of qualities that other people see but the first thing I see, is FAT. My 7 year old thinks it's a bad word and spells it. I don't know why he does though. I tell him that being is not something you should say, "ewww" about. Every Body is beautiful. So, why don't I believe that last sentence?

I am tired of using everything in my life as an excuse not to be healthy and lose weight.

Yesterday, I joined Weight Watchers. My best friend said that it was a good omen because of the date (08/09/10). I don't know if I believe in omens, other than bad ones. But we shall see.

Today is a new day. Today, I will take control of my eating habits and my lifestyles. I will not give in to the temptation of McDonald's. I will not drink soda. I will not give up at 10AM.

So, please take this journey with me. Through the ups (in emotion, not weight) and downs (in weight, not emotions) You can lean on me and I can lean on you.

Until next time!


Shana