I discovered a wonderful new tool!!!

Apr 07, 2009

Okay guys, get ready because I discovered a wonderful new tool! I was laying across my bed one evening and I pulled out my basket of pictures. Well, I took all the pictures of me out. Then I put them in order by date/year. I had to call my Mom to ask her about some dates, I had to get the help of my husband! I called my sisters! It is a good thing that there were children in the photos b/c you could guess the dates by their ages! Well this took me a couple days! I then brought a big photo album and put the pictures in there by the date of the pictures! WHAT A SHOCKER!!!

I realized that I have always been good at losing weight, just never good at keeping it off! I learned so much about myself! Like for example, I dye my hair lighter when I first gain weight! I always set goals reach them and then have a celebration party. I even have had the nerve to take pictures of me eating oreo cookie cake, or one time I was eating a double whopper w/ cheese on the day I reached goal! What was I thinking? The pictures showed me that when I was over-stressed about something, I lost. When I was really happy and comfortable, I gained! It was a routine. It also showed me that I  went years at a time without even taking a picture. Which will never happen again no matter what I look like!

I made the scrapbook on April 1, (not as an April fool either!) and I have looked at this thing everyday, every since! It has made me happy, angry, cry, ashamed, probably every kind of emotion there is!

Look I didn't realize that I was 240 in March 1992 , by September 1992 I was 190, then by December 1992 I was 160, well by the next April 1993 I was back up to 215!!! (must of been too much celebrating with double whoppers!) by July 1993, 250!

Trust me the scrap book is wonderful! I think it is the tool I needed to keep the weight off this time. I counted, I have been up and down 9 different times.....who knew? The pattern has got to stop!

My progress: I am doing great without eating red meat. It is a lot easier than I thought! I still walk 6 miles at 5 a.m. and 3 miles at 6 p.m. now! I like 6p.m. better than 7 b/c you can see some daylight. It was hard walking in the dark in the morning and in the evening!!

On Sundays, I call my brothers, sisters, Mom, Dad and my daughter who isn't here. It is something I started doing just to say hello, how are you doing and I love you to them. Before I started doing this months would go by without me hearing from the boys, now it is really neat b/c they look forward to my Sunday calls. I let each person talk as long as they want, (just to think I call 7 siblings 2 parents and 1 kid! sometimes it takes 3-4 hours to call them all, sometimes it takes 1 hour, it just depends on them!)

Well instead of me calling them from the house, (I can get loud!) I put my phone piece in my ear and walk! Last Sunday I walked 9 miles while talking with them on the phone. The 6 miles I measured out that we walk in the morning and the 3 miles I measured out we walk in the evening! I was on the phone and walking for 3 and 1/2 hours straight! My legs didn't hurt until I got home though! I know that people riding by thought I was crazy, with my hands just a going, looking like I was talking to myself!!!

Oh yeah, by they way, your girl has lost another 11 pounds! 183 baby and looking good! Wow! This is the bomb!

I have to say this right quick! My husband is skinny, has always been skinny, probably will always be skinny! And now he eats what I eat, walk when I walk, talking about he's not going to sit back and let me get all shapely and he don't! JEALOUS, DON'T YOU THINK!  ( I do get a lot more attention in the stores and malls though! HOLLA!)

if I can be of any help, just let me know! If I can do this.....for real anyone can!
T33na!!

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