I am BACK!!!!!! I know I have been MIA for a while and I have
finally decided today that I need to get back on the band wagon and get my big
girl pants back on and move forward.
I have had a couple of things happen to me these past couple of week make me
question what I was doing was the right thing, I know it’s already too late for
the surgery part, but somethings were said to me that made me really question
who I am and what I am here for. I am
not perfect I have never been perfect but the one thing I know is I am here for
a reason and I have gone through EVERYTHING for a reason. I have made some bad choices for many years
on how I handle stress, how I handle my depression, how I handle every day to
day things. This is me, this is how I
thought I should handle things. What I
have learned these past 7 weeks about myself after having surgery is I am a
strong, hard headed, but a very determined woman.
I finally got back on the scales and I am down 33.6 lbs which I
am happy with. I thought the weight was
going to fall off me, I thought I was just going to go to sleep and wake up
every morning and loose weight. For the
most part that has been the case just not as much as I thought. For as little as I eat I was surprised that
it was not coming off faster. It just goes to show that this is just a Tool,
not a fix it all.
I have had to go
through my closet and get rid of 2 big garbage bags of clothes, a lot of my
pants won’t stay up on my hips. I love when I go through my closet put it on and look in the mirror and it looks too big and makes me look
frumpy and have to find something else to wear.
I have learned the hard way it’s not always the number on the scales it is how you
fit in clothes. I have some pants that I
could not even get up over my hips 8 weeks ago and now I can get them on and
button them up but they are very very tight and very uncomfortable. That is a new goal I have set for myself is
to be able to wear them comfortably by the end of the first week of June. I
know I can do it.
We have been walking so much as a family, I think I have walked
more in the last 5 weeks then I have in the last 10 years. A good friend of ours had a yard sale a
couple of weeks ago and scored the best indoor bike. We got a Marcy Club Revolution Cycle Trainer. That has become my best friend, I will ride
it when I have a few min of down time from work, or before I start work I will
ride it 20 min or ride it after my kids go to bed, sometimes I catch myself
riding it 2-3 times a day. One thing I
never thought of is my BUTT!!! My butt hurts so bad from riding it. It has been a great workout for me. I want to
get weight band and start doing weight bands while I ride the bike. I YOU-TUBED a couple of spinning classes, hummmm
yeah they kicked my butt, could not do it all, but I will soon.
Starting Tomorrow I am going to start Blogging all my food intake
to keep me on track, I cheated today and had 4 vanilla wafer cookies, did they
make me feel better? NOPE, matter in
fact my stomach hurt a little more than normal.
Last Thursday I have had a minor setback, just when I was finally
feeling better I had to have a lump under my left armpit removed and I have had to be
careful with my whole left arm. I have a
drain on my left side hopefully it will come out tomorrow morning. I go see my
surgeon tomorrow and praying hard he will take it out. I feel like I have had to take a couple of
steps back on my exercising because of this lovely tube, plus being on pain
medicine and feeling like garbage.
Hopefully I get the green light that I am good to go tomorrow morning!
For Mother’s Day my amazing Husband bought me an IPad Pro and I LOVE
IT. I am trying to get my life organized, I have learned the more I am
organized the easier everything is for me. It all works out. Working 8-10 hours a day with 3 kids, 2 in softball and a crazy busy 2-year-old,
husband who works 2 jobs and is never home, a new puppy and yes I said a new
Puppy… husband got
an early father’s day present. Was not
my first choice getting a new puppy but we feel in love with him as soon as we
saw him. Meet Jax Olsen,
he is 8 weeks
old. We love him but not at 4:00 am pee
breaks.
Okay back to my awesome apps I
found on my IPad.
I love to cook, and I
love to find new recipes all the time. I
print them off and then put them somewhere and then can never find them
again. This app lets you put in all the
recipes you have and also if you find them on line then you can save the online
recipes. You can categorize all your
recipes how you want. There is another section that allows you to add the
recipes to your menu board and then you can add it all to a grocery list. All in one app you have your Recipes at your
finger tip and neatly organized, you have a weekly menu and you also have your
grocery list. I love that I can have it
on my IPhone and on my IPad. When I go
to the grocery store all I need is my IPad or IPhone, no more writing your
grocery list on a piece of paper and losing it or forgetting what you wrote
down what you were going to have for dinner.
I have a new love. Paprika App you’re
a life saver.
*** THIS IS THE MAIN SCREEN ON ALL MY RECIPES THAT I HAVE CREATED SO FAR***
*** THIS IS THE MENU SECTION, IT SHOWS WHAT YOU HAVE SELECTED FOR THAT DAY***
*** THIS IS THE GROCERY LIST SECTION***
*** THIS IS WHERE YOU CAN GO ON THE WEB AND FIND RECEIPES, THERE ARE 100'S OF
WEBSITES ALREADY ON SAVED YOU CAN CHOOSE*** THIS IS NOT THE BEST RECIPE TO HAVE IN MY RECIPE BOX BUT I AM GOING TO TRY TO BAKE IT INSTEAD OF FRYING THE CHICKEN
*** ONCE YOU PULL IT UP FROM THE WEBSITE, YOU HIT CREATE RECIPE***
*** YOU HAVE TO SAVE THE RECIPE ONCE IT PULLS IT UP***
***THIS IS HOW IT LOOKS ONCE IT IS SAVED***
*** ONCE IT HAS BEEN CREATED AND SAVED IT WILL SHOW UP IN YOUR LIST OF RECIPES***
I am so happy to say I am back, I am moving forward, no matter
what someone say’s or thinks, is going to put my down, make me question who I
am, why I have chosen what I have chosen in my life. I am going to do what I
said from the beginning of this blog, is I am going to post my daily life on my
struggles, my good days, and my bad days.
I want to thank everyone for all your support you have given me so far
on this crazy journey I have felt so loved by so many people.
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