1st weigh-in back on plan

Not a bad weigh-in!
I was only on plan for 2 days and had been on vacation for a week but was only up 4 ounces from my last weigh-in before vacation.
It's my 30 year class reunion this weekend. Not that I'm going or anything! I will be getting together with the people I am still in touch with outside of the reunion, though, so will probably have a couple drinks.
I need anyone reading this to think positive thoughts for me-I had to have some tests done today and won't get the results for a week and want everything to be fine. It probably is anyway. But I do think the more people you have praying or thinking positively about a thing the better.
So, thanks!

back on Ideal Protein today!

Hey folks! I'm baaaaack!
Summer is over...vacation is over...eating and drinking too much is over!
Time to knuckle down and get back with the program.
I am hungry today! Sucks to start over but maybe I'll have that great first week weigh-in all over again!
Of course, I gained last week while we were on vacation so I might get down where I was the day I left which will be anti-climactic!
But you know what they-when you play, you gotta get your big ass back on ideal protein! What?-That isn't what they say?? really?!
We went down to Cocoa Beach, Florida for a week. We had fun, went swimming, went to a wild-life refuge,took a boat ride and saw manatees...bought a house! So exciting!
We are moving down there in two months and will start fixing up the house. It needs lots of paint, needs new windows, needs total landscaping overhaul, needs a pool but we can't afford one yet!
Once we get it all fixed up over the winter, we are moving to England and will rent it out for vacations to family and friends...and friends of friends...and acquaintances of friends....we want to have the house pay for itself.
We'll have a home base here in the states for when we visit and when we're old(ok,older) we can be in Florida for winters and England for summers.
So, I will keep you all posted about how I do on the diet. It's time to reach goal!
Especially with moving to Florida!People don't wear much down there so I want to be able to not wear much too!

almost freaking fall

hey all!
I know, I know, I never call, I never write....
I am still 157-159ish back and forth, up and down.
Now that fall is arriving(dammit!) I will get going again and actually make goal and learn to maintain properly. I have been maintaining all summer thank God.
This week, I want to get back on track because we are going away next Sunday for a week and I don't want to have to worry all week that I should be dieting. I figure if I lose a little before, I won't worry about gaining a little during and will restart after.
We are heading down to Cocoa Beach, FL to look at buying a house that we can rent out as a vacation home. This way we'll have a home base here in the states for when we move to England. Hopefully it'll get rented enough to pay for itself.
We can spend time there when we come back to visit and it'll be in a place with things to do so friends and family may visit us there. We can also bring my in-laws there for visits which I know they'd enjoy. They had so much fun coming to the US for our wedding and would enjoy going to the beach and wildlife preserves near where we are house hunting.
Back on the subject I am supposed to be blogging about-One of the things that has been helping me to maintain my current weight, even though I am not sticking to the diet completely, I have been eating the Ideal protein breakfast cereal so one meal a day is low calorie. I also usually have the BBQ or Garlic & Onion Soy Nuts as a night-time snack.

yes, I'm still alive!

Contrary to popular belief I am still among the living and have not fallen off the face of the planet!
I have been on and off the diet and have been very busy -It's summer and I have stuff to do!
I am finding it impossible to be motivated to stick to the Ideal Protein diet plan! I am hovering at about 157-160 so still not at my goal of 150.
This seems to be how I do dieting: I start, I am excited, I do well, I lose weight, I don't get to goal, I start to get lazy, I put weight back on and the next thing I know I am fat again!
This is only the 2nd time I have lost 40 pounds but that's what I did the last time when I lost it via Weight Watchers and I worry I am heading in the same direction.
I have been enjoying beer, wine, summer fruit and even some cheese, bread and some pasta here and there. I think it's just too hard to be on a low carb diet at this time of year!
I will get back in the swing at some point soon(maybe Sept. or Oct.!)and I will get there.
Hey-if you are a follower and are still doing the diet, drop me a line to let me know how you are doing.
I am still a big believer in this plan, just not in the mood to be good right now!

Weigh-In 7/21/10

I was down 3 pounds! yay!
I was on plan from Monday to Friday, went off a bit over the weekend and then back on Monday.
I was 157.5 on my scale this morning and was 160.4 on theirs at weigh-in. There is usually a 3 pound difference being I weigh in at home 1st thing in the morning and am either naked or in a nightgown and I weigh-in there dressed at 5 pm.
I am so close to goal now! I still feel(and look!)rather flabby. I am really bad about exercising. I'll go walking here and there but it's been in the 90s for weeks (except for when there has been torrential rain!)and I am just not into it as it is, let alone when it's a million degrees out!
I just went out and bought a pair of shorts and a pair of capris in a 10 and two tank tops in medium. That felt good!
The pants are actually tight but I am hoping they stretch out a bit with wear. Twelves are definitely too big and bag right out. Maybe I should be trying junior size 11? I am so big in the hips and butt that I hadn't thought to try that.
I hate trying to find shorts! They just do not flatter my shape at all! I own 3 pair and don't like how I look in any of them. I like this new pair but haven't worn them yet, so may hate them soon, as well!
Really, it's my big ass and thighs I hate, not the shorts....but I'll blame the damn shorts!
I will be off program on Saturday because some friends are having a barbecue and they are fantastic hosts and put out a big spread and it's hard not to try things.
Some old friends I don't see often and one I haven't seen in probably 10 years will be there so I am very much looking forward to it and so is my husband. He likes this couple a lot who are hosting. I'll bet some of the kids will want him to play/coach a bit of soccer with them as he did the last time. He has played since he's 4 and is a very high ranked coach so the kids can learn cool stuff from him. Plus he looks so damn cute playing I love it!

another weigh-in

Ok, so I'm sick of counting them!
I was finally down a little!I really just started back on the Ideal Protein plan on Monday so I wasn't expecting much! I was down a half pound.
I have to start somewhere!
I still have less than 10 pounds to lose so that is great.
The nurse practitioner did my measurements and I was down on my waist and arms and since last time so things are still going in the right direction anyway. I'd like to know when my bust will go down a bit more! I want to be back to a 36 B or so.I don't know why I am still a C cup and still stuck between a 36 and 38. At this weight,I was always a 36.
She also brought new pictures of her baby! So freaking cute! He had a big smile in a couple of the pics and I just want to squeeze those chubby little cheeks!
I went through more of my closet yesterday and have another big bag of clothes to get rid of, as well. I have way too many clothes! I used to like to shop! Thank God I am over it because it is too expensive and I had from 10s through 16s in there. Now it's just 10s and 12s because it depends on make, etc. as to which one fits me.
I still need to go through my jackets and blazers because it just got way too hot yesterday morning.
I should do it right away because it is supposed to be hotter today and even hotter tomorrow.
I need to see if I can get my sewing machine to work because I have a few things I'd love to alter. I am not much of a seamstress but think I could do some basic stuff.
Gotta get cracking so bye for now!

July 10th-my birthday

Hi all!
Today I am 49 years old! ack! How the hell did that happen!?! I swear I didn't pay attention for a minute and then I look back and I'm this old!
One nice thing today was receiving my first "to my wife" card from my husband! It made me all teary eyed!
For the last 2 weeks I have stayed the same because I am just not doing the diet anymore. I am just so tired of it!
Maybe after this birthday celebration weekend is over, I can get back to being good and get into ketosis mode again and lose that last nine pounds. I know if I do, it'll probably come off fast as it'll be like week one again, I imagine.
I feel I am being a bad influence on my followers who are working the diet properly and I'm sorry of I am. I really just had enough of it all.
At least I have been staying the same and not gaining, so I am not being a total idiot.
Although I have not weighed myself in 3 days so I may be up a couple.I do tend to fluctuate quite a bit from day to day so I really try not to worry.
I haven't posted in ages because I don't want to keep writing about not doing the diet.
Ok, so don't do what I am doing folks! Try and be good!