changes

Yes I know its been a while. Where do I start? Lets start with Kai. All the Cali people are wondering How she is doing. She is doing great! She is growing tall and her hair is getting longer, a lil thicker and still has curls. She is now used to taking showers and when she takes a bath she likes to pretend to swim on her belly and back. She still does not like water in her face though. We are working on getting her dirty without her thinking it's iky... Long proses lol. She is learning more and more each day. She has had music on at bed time since the day she was born and I think it has heightened her love for music. She loves to play her friends drums, keyboards, and guitars. We need to get her her own. Hopefully we will soon. She has also started singing along to tv commercials, tv show songs and she sings her abc's ALL the time. She has gotten A-Z quite well. She can recognize almost all of them now. She can recognize her numbers and count from 1-15 without help. She recently got a Yo Gabba Gabba doll FooFa. It sings a song and she tries to sing along with it. She doesn't know all the words yet, but she has the pitches and tune down. She is cute lol.

Mike and I have been doing great as well. We have adjusted well to the rain and the environment... Accept the allergies lol. He and I have been itchy and sneezy lol.. I cut all my hair off and I think I want to keep it this way for a long long time.
Beyond that we have made life changes for the better.
Mike and I got insurance. I went to the doc to get a check up and that day changed me for the better. When I was weighed I was disgusted at what I have become. I looked at the scale and fought back tears. How could I let myself get to 311 pounds? How?
Yeah I didn't eat the best, And I didn't exercise as much as much as I should, But 311? So I looked deeper into it. On the weekdays I was not eating enough calories during the day and dinner usually came out of a box, although it was not too many calories, it was allot of fat and carbs and waaay too much sodium. The average person should not consume less than 1200 calories in a day, I was lucky to reach 1100 during the weeks even with boxed food. So not only was I starving my body of caloric energy I was replacing it with bad food.
Another bad thing was my thyroid levels. Apparently they make the body store fat instead of burn it... Hmmmmm..

So begins the new way of living. Sure I will have to adjust later to accommodate how much I loose, But the biggest thing Is I will keep track!
My goal is to loose 150 lbs. So how do I do this without spending thousands of dollars on diet crap and a gym? (Yeah I know gyms are good and as soon as we have stable funds we will get a gym membership).
I wiped our usual hamburger helper and all sorts of stuff from our diet and started a calorie tracker. i look at it at least 3 times a day if not more. To make sure I am eating the correct amount. I Am staying between 1200-1400 calories a day. Mike and I have come up with new menu items for the week and how to make them better for us.
Step One: Give away all the stuff that isn't in the diet menu, If its not there, we can't eat it.
Step two: Make better food. I am actually enjoying cooking and I am loving the way things are coming out. On my next blog I will post some recipes that we have tried and have been absolutely wonderful.
Step three: Treat ourselves to something once a week but dont over do it. There are plenty of yummy items that can be found for low cal and fat at restaurants.
Step four: Even though it's late and we have been out all day Still cook! Don't give into the ease of that 700 calorie fast food pick up! Hey the body burns 800-1000 calories sleeping, so if we have to eat before bed, it's not that bad ( Our doc even told Mike that studies have been done about eating before bed does not effect the diet.)
Step five: Take the thyroid meds. Ya I know those who read this don't need this option, but I do lol.
Step six: Get out and do something.
So among other things that we have been doing, I lost 8 lbs in 2 weeks! Yay me! I know it isn't going to be like this every weigh in... But hey what a booster!
The first week after taking the meds I had more energy and It was great! At the end of the week the meds began to take full effect. I had really sore legs like I had been walking up and down 50 flights of stairs, you know the feeling you get the day after a fever when you have the flu... Achy, sore, week, legs... I had it for two days... Couldn't figure out why... Then it came to me... My body is finally using the muscle it has and possessing the food I put in my body. Mike and I have spent all day at the mall or around town walking for hours and I never had sore anything. This past weekend we were out walking for about 5.5 hours and my calves were sore the next two days lol. It's an odd feeling that I have only felt after mega exercise before. It's Kinda nice. To actually feel my body working for me.
All in all I am happy for the change. I feel better, I feel the muscles I have, And I know if I keep it up, I'll be able to buy cloths that look good and I can stop paying fat tax. I look forward to next summer... It is my goal to be able to wear a bathing suit that doesn't have a skirt to hide my Huge butt! Biggest thing of all I'm looking forward to a better me! Wish me luck... Egg me on... I need all the JuJu I can get!

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