doing well

doing well on my diet thing..doing WW points, which has been hard since its been hard to get to a store and buy the usual dieting things like fat free stuff, but ive been making do. Every night after dinner I get on the wii for 45 minutes or so and play on the wii fit, last night we dragged the treadmill into the living room that used to be my moms, and we were keeping to sell, so ive been using it. 35 minutes last night, 45 tonight, plus wii time. i had about 6 days where i didnt do the wii, but i think since i started the diet, ive lost maybe 5 pounds, which i think is awesome, cause for a while i was doing just light working out on the wii, and for a few days i didnt do it at all, ive been trying to be more active, and it does help that we don't have a car. we've needed to fax things the past few days, which we found out the bait shop down the road will fax for us, depending on who is there, and its free, today we had to walk there two-three times. So that is one plus to not having a car, we're walking places more. The first few days was the hardest, because not only did I quit sweets, I quit caffeine, my poor family had to deal with that. And i've had a few rough days since, im a huge stress eater, but it smooths itself out. im proud of myself

Dieting

This year for the new years I wasn't going to do another "I vow to loose weight" thing that lasts all of two days until I blow it off. I was just going to blow the whole thing off. No resolutions for me.. however, about 15 minutes from the ball dropping, I talked with my husband, and low and behold, here I am..dieting. I'm on day two, and it's been rough, because not only am I cutting out sweets and all that other "bad" stuff, I'm going through withdrawals of Dr. Pepper. That's right, no more caffeine for me. And it has been ROUGH. I don't know who it's worse on, me or my family, because lemme tell you, I am one cranky witch. But once I get over the withdrawal, I should be okay. I feel like I need to live healthier. Maybe if I am more healthier, and active, I will feel better and be able to handle stress better.

I'm going to do the weight watchers diet, along with excersize. WW just put out a whole new vamped up points system, which annoys me how they did it, it's no longer easy to calculate a daily points or points for food, and basically you have to spend a million bucks a month to go to meetings or go online to be able to get the calculator you need to calculate the points. For people who are struggling out there, it's just not possible. So I'm going to stick with the tried and true old points system. My only worry is that when they start rolling out the new products and stuff geared towards the new points plus system, i will be screwed. I just do not have the 50 bucks to pay for a three month online program, or meetings, or even a ride to meetings. Basically I'll just concentrate on the excersize, and portion sizes, and try to keep up with the old points system. It worked for me after having stephen. It can work for me again. I just hope the new system doesn't get me all screwed up. I do like some of the new system's way of looking at things. I remember going to meetings and sitting there thinking why don't they calculate carbs? or even sodium for that matter..even if something were 2 points, if the sodium is 20g or something in it, sodium converts and eventually it'll become fat. I know you have to excersize before that happens, but I'm just saying. So my diet, its going to consist of portion watching, excersize and eating right. I'll try the points system and see how that works for me.

On new years eve, they came and repo'd our car. our one source of transportation. So I am stressed up the wazoo about it. Jesse's last day of his job was thursday (the day before new years eve) and all of his work tools were in the car. Everything was in the car, and I'd been on the phone thursday with them and they told me I had until monday to pay it so it wouldn't go to reposession, but I guess they lied. So the company who does the reposession was closed until monday, so tomorrow I will have to find out where they took the car to see if I can get a ride to go get our stuff. I feel like I'm handling this amazingly well, maybe all of the issues of 2010 has made me take whatever comes next in stride? I don't know. We did do some car hunting online and I found a possible new car, well new to me, its a used car. they are supposed to bring it by tomorrow to take a look at jesse's motorcycle to see if there is a trade in value. I hate that jesse has to trade in his baby, I don't know what else we can do though. And how do you explain to a 5 year old that mommy and daddy are so screwed with bills and money that they had to come take our car away? We'll figure something out. in the meantime, he goes back to school tomorrow so he can be away from all the stress and stuff that we'll be dealing with tomorrow.