I'M BACK!

Hi. It's been so long! I miss blogging, eating healthy and feeling great while doing it! I am so excited to be back! :)

So here's what has been going on with us. My baby girls just turned 11 months a couple of days ago and it hit me like a ton of bricks ... I am going to have two one year olds in no time! YIKES! It's a little sad because that means they're growing up but also so fun to see all of the new things they're discovering. Grace just started crawling which has already forced me to be more active, cleaning up after her! Julia will probably crawl very soon which will make for an awesome work out!

We went grocery shopping tonight. Here's some items that we purchased:
-Broccoli
-Cucumber
-Celery
-Grapes
-Yogurt
-Orange Juice
-Crackers
-Chicken thighs
I was about to buy juice and I thought "Wait a second what's that saying ... Out of sight, out of mind?!" So I figured now I will only have water and some orange juice.

So I was reading my past blogs and wondered how I was able to be so funny haha! I have lost my humour I guess! I'll try to be funnier tomorrow! As for now ... GOODNIGHT!

being HEALTHY is EXPEN$IVE!

Being a young married couple with two kids, funds are obviously usually pretty tight. Being healthy is so expensive! Buying your fruits, veggies and yogurt.

Josh and I are staying at my parent's while my family is in Europe for three weeks. My mom has done the grocery shopping for us so we don't have to buy anything while we are here. So my blogs might be to a minimum for the next few days (before payday) because my eating hasn't been best because I didn't choose my groceries, haha!

Here's what I ate today:

Breakfast - 1 small whole wheat waffle, 1 tsp of homemade maple syrup
Lunch - 2 small pieces of ham, 1 cup of vegetable rice
Snack - Large Chocolate Milk
Snack - 100 Calorie nutter butter bar
Dinner - BBQ honey chicken rice
Dessert - Ice Cream Sandwich

I am setting a goal for myself. I would LOVE to have lost 10 or 15 pounds before my family returns from Europe! I shouldn't have any excuses, I mean here at my parents I have a treadmill, eliptical, bike and trampoline!

My daily activity for today was jumping on the trampoline with the twins! So much fun :)

Well goodnight everyone!

Starting back up on Monday.

Life is busy ... Well that's my excuse anyway. Somehow the last few days I have gotten way off track and I would really love to get back into the swing of things!

Horrible time for me to decide this because tomorrow we leave to go camping for two days. I know, I know I could eat fruits, veggies, drink water and only eat chicken and fish. But what kind of camping food is that?! This will be our first camping trip as our own little family. When I was a kid camping food consisted of hamburgers, hot dogs, chips, pop and best of all marshmellows! I want our first camping trip to be just like the good ol' days when my weight didn't seem to matter!

So I'll be back to it on Monday ... I swear!

Wednesday was supposed to be my first BIG weigh in but as I'm sitting at home in the afternoon I realized, "Wait a second, I didn't weigh myself!" Then my next thought was ... "Oh that's why I didn't, I don't own a scale." So I will have to get myself one of those horrible devices so I can tell you all my progress. I will have my first weigh in this upcoming week.

I did promise I would be honest about what I ate everyday so here it is I promise it won't be pretty!

Breakfast - 2 eggs
Lunch - McDONALDS! (YUCK) It wasn't planned, I was grocery shopping on an empty stomach ... BAD IDEA!
Dinner - 2 chicken leggs, 1/2 a cup of rice, and a cup of salad.

No snacking today neither good nor bad. Seeing as I enjoyed having a few healthy snacks/small meals during the day.

I am very excited to get back on track on Monday. I really did enjoy feeling better about doing something great for my body! It made me feel awesome even in just such a short time!

Ps. Still haven't had a regular PEPSI! So proud this is a huge stepping stone for me!

Well until Monday ...

Confessions of a Junk Food Addict.

This is yesterday's post. We spent the whole evening at the beach and by the time we got home I was too tired to write. So here it is ...

Bad news for yesterday. My junk food addiction got the best of me. Summer time is a difficult time to want to loose weight, there's lunch dates, beach food, ice cream desires etc. Well yesterday I had a lunch date planned with my sister. We chose Swiss Chalet. Has anyone had Swiss Chalet's french fries? And their gravy?! YUM! I started off on the wrong foot in the morning by only having a small tangerine for breakfast which meant by lunch I was `starving'! So I indulged a little bit; with chicken, french fries and gravy. Diet pepsi to drink. (still haven't allowed myself a regular pepsi which I am so very proud of!) After lunch we had to pick up some things at metro, I decided it would be nice to bring my other sister a treat. I purchased her a monster (her fave) and an aero (my fave). Do you really think I could only buy one for her and not me as well. Nope. I bought myself one too. As I sat there eating it, feeling oh so guilty. Didn`t even enjoy it!

I decided I was going to go to the beach for the late afternoon or early evening. I began getting ready with a million and one things to prepare for two babies and myself, I forgot to hide the evidence of my guilty pleasure. I left the aero wrapper right on the coffee table where Josh, who has been so great at keeping me accountable would find it.

We were going to be at the beach for dinner and I didn`t think of that as organized as I am. So I didn`t pack a healthy picnic basket of delicious items for dinner. Even though I wish I could tell you all I did. Instead I called Josh and asked him to pick up some pizza slices and a diet drink for me.

As you can tell my diet was TOTALLY blown yesterday, and today is weigh-in! Well, we will see how it goes.

Here`s a list of what I ate yesterday:

Breakfast - 1 small tangerine.
Lunch - 2 small chicken legs, fries & gravy and a diet pepsi.
Snack - 1 aero bar (:()
Dinner - 2 slices of 241 pizza: meatlovers & brushetta, can of diet sprite.
Snack - 1 bottle of Auquafina Grape water

Better try next time ...

My other love, Pepsi!

So I was in Sault Ste. Marie this weekend and had a ton of opportunities to binge out on junk food, pop and fattening foods but if I do say so myself, I did pretty darn well! Friday night we had dinner plans with a couple of friends and I tried to order one of the healthier items on the menu, a chicken wrap with a salad. This was my first step in starting things off right. Saturday though was filled with a million and one temptations for me to attempt at turning down. Pepsi is my weakness, it's kind of like a fourth love for me (after the husband & babies of course) and on Saturday my in-law's house was filled with pepsi! Josh and his dad and brothers were building a deck all weekend and in order to stay hidrated and cool their beverage of choice was pepsi. I opened up the fridge to get a glass of water and there were two ice cold cans of pepsi. If that wasn't tempting enough a little while later my father-in-law walked in the house with four 2L bottles of pepsi, I almost died. Later on that afternoon I had a BBQ to go to at a friend's cottage and of course more pop. As much as diet pepsi is still not healthy for you I resorted to it in order to stay away from the pepsi. Felt like a cheater but I figure it was a little bit of a better choice.

For my two goals I set for myself on Thursday I did really well with drinking water. I drank a lot more than I usually do. Still haven't quite decided what program I am following, just focussing on continuing to eat healthy and be a little more active.

I snacked  a bit too much today which made me realize I need to eat a little more for breakfast than a small yougurt cup.

So here's what I ate today:

Breakfast - 1 Small strawberry yogurt cup.
Lunch - A small bowl of soup and 5 salted top crackers.
Snack - A 100 calorie 'Nutter bar'.
2nd Snack - Veggies and dip.
3rd Snack (Told ya) - An english muffin with peanut butter.
Dinner - A small hamburger and a cup of shrimp.

So for tomorrow I plan to have a bit of a larger breakfast so I don't feel the need to snack so much during the day! Two more days til my first weigh in! Can't wait to see how it goes.

Weight Loss Programs

As you could probably tell from my first post I am not a weight loss buff. I don't know my options on weight loss programs, I don't know how many calories I am supposed to eat per day or how many servings from each food group I am supposed to have (I have lots of research to do & thanks for all who have been giving me tips!) All I know is I am tired of being FAT! I know, I know FAT is such a horrible word to use ... would you prefer me to say chubby? There, I am sick and tired of being chubby!

When it comes to my eating habits each day, in the past I had no routine, no plan I just ate what I wanted when I wanted to. My plan now has been to start off by changing that first. So my snacks are thought out and planned so I don't overdo it. I figure if I start at least eating healthier then that in itself will make a HUGE difference!

When I went on my 'healthy grocery shop' I came home with a few items such as 'helluva good dip' for dippin' my veggies and 'light whipped cream' to eat with my fruit. When I came home with excitement to show Josh how many healthy items I got he gave me a confused look and said, "Helluva Good dip and whipped cream? Those aren't healthy for you!" I couldn't believe my ears. What did he expect me to do go from eating chips for breakfast to sitting down to watch a movie with a dry celery stick? NO WAY! I have to take it easy I expained to him. I don't want to put my body into shock lol. 

Since I was so used to just eating whatever, whenever I didn't even know what my weaknesses were or when my hardest slump was gonna attack me... Until last night. I realized my weakness is junk food not only for breakfast but at another horrible hour, NIGHT TIME! I realized this as I was watching dancing cupcakes on 'America's Got Talent' Not even joking, there were dancing cupcakes on the stage. Not to mention my dad was also eating my favorite meal right beside me, pasta with parm cheese all over it (pasta was not whole wheat). I heard a great tip though, if you are hungry at night drink a large glass of water. I am going to try that when the cupcakes begin dancing through my head tonight at about 8:15 once the twins are down for the night.

So let's cut to the chase here's what I ate today:

BREAKFAST - 1 Small cup of 'DANONE creamy strawberry yogurt'.
SNACK - 1 Small whole wheat wrap with peanut butter.
LUNCH - 1 I have to admit rather large bowl of 'Campbell's Gardennay Vegetable soup' with a few too many salted top crackers. A glass of lemonade.
SNACK - 1 Small container of cut up brocolli, celery, and cucumber with some 'Helluva good dip'. A small handful of flax seed corn chips.
DINNER - Rice (unfortunately not healthy rice it was 'Uncle Ben's) & 2 fried eggs. A glass of lemonade.
SNACK - Frozen strawberries and peaches with a dollup (sp?) of light whipped cream.

Now if I haven't told you enough of my bad eating habits here is another issue I have. Beverages. I might drink a glass of water every couple of days and besides that I drink juice. My old self, pop. So here's what I need to accomplish over the weekend: What program am I following so I can answer everyone's question as well as drink WAY more water! 

If you're anything like me, just because it's the weekend let's try not to binge on junk food! Have a great weekend everyone!

Keeping myself accountable!

So my husband says I need a hobby. Between getting married at 19 and having twins at 20 I haven't had much time to develop any, unless cleaning up baby puke and poop, making my husband's lunch and cleaning the house can be considered hobbies. When I got to thinking, I really would love to have a hobby seeing as he has quite a few himself: fishing, hunting, golf, and I could go on. So here's my new hobby ... Loosing weight, sticking to it and blogging about it. I plan on loosing 50lbs in 52 weeks (or one year)!

I have never been any good at sticking to anything. I have very little self-control, so this is going to be very difficult for me. I am a junk food additct. I LOVE eating from all of the food groups: Chocolate, candy and salty things. Having twins has only made this worse. I use excuses such as: "I had no time to make breakfast so I just had to eat chips and drink pop, pepsi is my caffeine...I don't drink coffee." I have come to the realization that I can't use my babies as my excuse forever. My girls will be 20 years old and I'll still be saying, "Oh I really should loose weight, but you know I just had twins, darn baby weight!"

I love being a mom and I was definitely given double the blessing! Now I want to become the fit and active mom my girls and hubby deserve.

So here's my task: Loose 50lbs in 52 weeks OR LESS. 
My start weight: 230lbs (eek, cannot believe I just posted that on the internet!)
GOAL: 180lbs

I plan to be brutally honest when it comes to what I have eaten all day as well as how active I have been. Hopefully that way I will keep myself accountable by remembering that if I eat chips for breakfast I will have to tell all of you!

Thanks for joining me on this embarrassing yet rewarding experience!