By Jove I think I've got it!

Last night I just kind of danced and marched around in place in the living room for 20 minutes while I watched TV. It wasn't much, but it was 2o minutes of movement I wasn't doing before. Then today I put Sarah in her stroller and walked to my friend's house a mile away and a mile back! Now, I'm not saying I should win any fitness awards, but for me it's a start! Yay!

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The exercise thing... not going so great. I need to get out and work in my yard. We're shoveling all our dirt to sift the rocks out of. That would be great exercise! Anyway, I hope everyone else is doing better.

Back in the Saddle

Hey guys! Long time no post. So, my new weight loss routine: I'm going to start exercising every day. ish. I exercised yesterday and I'm feeling pretty dang tired tonight. I just don't know if I can. But I'll try anyway. I'll tell you what, I have a feeling exercise is going to help me sleep a lot better. Also, a new sleep aid I'm trying is sure to help. It's called Sarah. Now that she's mobile, keeping up with her is exhausting. I took her to mom's house today to see Ashy's dress and I felt like I was chasing tornadoes. Well, I think I may go pass out. Wish me luck... with my exercising, not the passing out thing.

New Haircut

On the last episode of I Can Make You Thin he talked about feeling good. He said that weight loss is just a secondary effect of feeling good about yourself and filling yourself with positive feelings instead of food. Soooo... I got a new and fantastic haircut. I took pictures to show ya'll.

Very Bad Day

Well, I've eaten probably a dozen cookies today. Here's what happened: We have Enrichment activities now instead of just the Enrichment meetings. I volunteered like a month ago to have the book club activity at my house tonight at 7. I spent all day frantically cleaning my house because I've been in a serious funk lately so everything has gone to crap. I made cookies and dinner at the same time I was trying to take care of Sarah and watching the clock to make sure Tyler got up in time. The end result was I was grouchy and still cleaning all the way up to seven o'clock, meaning I wasn't able to make Tyler his lunch and the baby was screaming at the top of her lungs while I vacuumed and my house didn't even look that great. So with lots of noise and emotions I finally got Tyler off to work and the baby cleaned and put in pajamas. Then I sat down to wait for people to show up. And I waited. And I waited. No one came. And I had a lot of cookies. And a lot of pointless stress. So I ate some. Or 10. Anyway, that is my crappy day. I hope everyone else had a good day. I guess at least my house is (mostly) clean now.

It Works!

Mom has been telling me about the I Can Make You thin series on TLC and I watched it with her on Sunday. I can't believe it, but it works. It really works! Yesterday I ate more sensibly than I have eaten since before I was pregnant. AND it wasn't even a struggle! The acupressure tapping technique really helped me overcome my emotional cravings and the negative association really helped me not have to gorge myself on sugar or chocolate. Plus, when you eat consciously, really paying attention to what you're eating, you really do eat less. If you guys want to check it out, go to this website.

http://tlc.discovery.com/tv/make-you-thin/make-you-thin.html

Back to the Beginning

Well, I have officially scrapped the low carb thing. My baby is starting to smell funny, I'm exhausted all the time, and I'm still eating candy all the time, it's just sugar free! I don't want to just lose weight, I want to be healthy and this is just not working for me. I'm making steel cut oats for breakfast this morning and I'm just going to try to eat a lot of fiber and fresh fruits and vegetables and just eat consciously like the guy on TLC says. I feel a lot better about this. I was taking the sacrament and realized I had to have bread in order to do so. I just felt like, "This is not right." So I'm trying something new. I REALLY need to start exercising. It's starting to get warmer here. Maybe I'll take Sarah to the track with me. She just cut her first tooth yesterday!