before and during

I've lost 29 pounds and it's hard to believe and I'm ecstatic. I LOVE putting these pictures together, and I'm SOOOOO glad I have before pictures. I have tried to avoid cameras for years now but a few candid shots have happened and now I'm SO GLAD. I'll put some of those up one day too.

back to basics

So this blog is SUPPOSED to be about my jouney through recovery, not my journey into complete perfect skinnyness. There's a lot more to me than just I'm obsessed with calories right now and I have a place to share about that.

Things have been going super as far as AA. I've just been coasting along. Not getting too deep into anything. I've been playing on the computer too much--avoiding... I guess that's the one "bad" thing I've been doing. I've been getting involved at the school. We've been struggling in my homegroup. We don't have a place to have the meeting, every week it's up in the air. The subject of moving came up. At first i was against it, but I kind of hope we do now. I'm also gonna be glad when my position (secretary) is up. I want to go to PTC at school once in a while.

oh MAN I'm sleepy

sheeze

I'm bored. everyone is asleep in bed and it's not even 9:30. I loooooooooove my quiet time in the eve after bed. But I just wish I had a game or something.or someone fun to chat with.

bluh, i'm still 165 two weeks later. :( I'm kinda pissed but I'm still going to the gym tomorrow fuck that.

Back to the grind

School started last week. I only went to the gym once last week but this week is a "gym every day" week. Monday and Tuesday was business as usual, and Wednesday BFF hosted a fitness walk at the nature park. Some other girls went. One of them I'm not TOO keen on hanging out with. I don't personally have anything against her, but BFF has tried to force a friendship between us before which is annoying. Not to mention, this girl has majorly screwed over a couple of other friends so I feel bad out of loyalty to them. I'm just not interested in being her friend but it won't kill me if she's on a fitness walk with me anyway..... Before the walk I went to the gym to do some weight training for 40 mins. I'm SORE today. I might try to run or something really different, then maybe some leg weights, then swimming. We plan on trying to hook up for that fitness walk once a week. But the other girls might be better with a different day so maybe it will just me BFF and I on Wednesdays. She's so funny and excited. I honestly think some of her enthusiasm is silly, but the bottom line is: I walked (hard with a stroller) 3 or 4 times longer than I would have if I was alone. So, silly or not, she's motivating.

I have lost 10 pounds since my last post. I remember having a hard time reaching that 170 goal--it kept taking longer than I thought it should. Then, it took me a full week longer than my plan to reach 165. But still, I lost ten pounds in a month. that's pretty good right?? I have no patience, but I'm not letting any of it urge me to give up. Whenever I whimp out and eat something naughty I throw it up.

ugh

I'm hungry! today I've eaten:

Breakfast 95
~coffee
~1/2 apple

snack 33
~graham cracker

lunch 320
~Green Tea Jamba Macha

snack 140
~trader joes corn puffs

dinner 250
~soup
~cornbread

snack 145
~graham cracker
~toast
egg whites


total 990
with my workout that makes me only NET 250ish which IS my goal, but I am still tripping that it's too much. I'm just so fuckin starving. I THINK I've lost 1.5 pounds since last week. Is that enough for this torture?? NO but I think I should give any torture at least two weeks before I try to tweek it. I can do it. I can FOR SURE DO IT, cuz I AM doing it and I'm not going to die--I'm going to be skinny and lengthy and flexible!!!

DAMMIT!!!!

Periods suck. Period

so, after the bookstore on my birthday, we came home before I was ready but M didn't feel good. So yesterday we did the NW downtown thing like a normal sat. First we went to the mall and I got a free build a bear (really the boys are playing with it). Then we went downtown and I got a free Noodle's and Co bowl. And this was cool: I was leaning toward Pad Thai, but then I looked at the nutritional info and the pad Thai was 700 cals, but the Bankok curry was only 490! So, I went with the curry and it was more delish anyway. Then we went to Brother's for a little bday cake, which I had a little piece of. I did FINE all weekend--stayed under 1200 and I worked out. But then today, I had my period SO bad! It was worse than I remember it being before I took the pill. It took me till aound 7pm till I wasn't woozy anymore. I couldn't drive it was that bad. UHG. lemme do my livestrong to at least estimate what I did all day.......

ok, so I did ok. We got donuts tonight! but even if I didn't puke mine, I'm still under so..... I didn't work out. And I know purging doesn't work best, but I'm not trying to digest that crap.

the big three five

I didn't eat krispy kremes or any of that super naughty stuff. But I did eat a lil bowl of special K and then a couple bites of C's chocolate rice crispy's --250 cals maybe? So then I did a 30 min yoga last night to kind of make up for it. I haven't done yoga in almost a year and I was actually sweating even though it's a pretty mellow routine! sheeze-

Today is my birthday I'm THIRTY FIVE BLUH. I'm going to the gym in a little bit. I'm having a dry crumpet for breakfast with coffee. we're getting a babysitter and going to see Eat Pray Love, and then going to a fancy italian dinner. REALLY FANCY like $30 a plate. I'm going to be really good all day. After that I think we'll come get the kids and go to dessert.

I'll update this post after the gym if my weight's changed... ;->

~ SO, dinner was ok, the movie was OK. Then we went to gelato (!) for dessert, and the bookstore for fun. Gelato didn't even totally ruin my day because I was SOOOOOO good all before dinner and everything. I didn't go over my 1200 absolute limit AND I worked out 700 cals.... And I lost .5 lb. I don't know if that's exactly noteworthy, but .5 a day is 3.5 a week -still totally healthy right?