pjsmommy08's Journal

Gaining Weight but not failing

Jul 04 2009 13:34

I weighted myself on thursday like i do every week and the scale said id gained 3 or 4 lbs in this past week but im not stressing it for these reasons;

1. Stressing will not help but it will hurt

2. I was very active for me this past couple weeks

3. I dropped a pant size - at least in my waist

4. I was enjoying my wedding and honey moon

5. There is a chance some of it is muscle since I had like none since i barely moved in the last year or so.

6. I have my period - and all us women know the effects of that lil gift.

even if you do fall off the wagon and don't have al the reasons above. Dont beat yourself up over it. just hop back on and try again. because my number one reasons fits every weight loss struggle

thats all love PJsMommy

The full story of My back pain

Jun 13 2009 13:37

I found Out I was pregnant when I was 19. I had My son PJ when I was 20 and 5months Later I turned 21. Well some where in those 5 months My family and I started to notice that i was walking funny and my body was very crocked. Soon after Walking began very painful - and not just walking moving in general It was getting difficult just to function normal everyday things, including caring for my 5 month old. anyways I went to the doctors and they said my hips seemed fine but they were worried about my spine soo they took xrays - the x-ray tech had a hell of a time trying to get them tho- they said my spine was curved like a backwards J. they sent me to a specialist. The specialist said I had scoliosis and that Ive had it all my life and there wasn't anything he could do about it, it should have been taken care of when i was a kid, but now that my spine was done growing it was too late. He said I could try physical therapy for the pain, but it would take a couple years before i saw results if it even worked. When I told my father he was pissed, He said That I have NOT had this my entire life, I was checked and watched for scoliosis by my doctors because I was over weight and My aunt had it. I was stuck at the point for a while knowing the doctors where wrong and not being able to do much about it, Shortly after my visit with the specialist I loss my health insurance, no health insurance and no money = stuck. My sister had been telling me to go to a chiropractor for awhile. I few months ago I actually listened to her, we found a good one in the area that had a payment special and my parents agreed to help me pay for it. ( figuring If I couldn't walk - It was just gonna get worse and finding a job would be difficult) So I went to the chiropractor they did their xrays too and said the same thing about the shape of my spine but they also told me that my hips were out of wack because of my spine - one side up to meet the curve of The backwards J, and they told me I had lost the natural curve in my neck. But that it wasnt scoliosis and they believed my parents and I went I told them i wasn't crocked like this before i had my son. Now we're still not sure what exactly happened, if something went wrong with the delivery and i could feel it because of the epidural, or the extra weight of the baby. We're not sure . it doesn't really matter tho - there were other complications during the pregnancy that endangered both me and my son so im just happy we're both Alive and he's healthy. I go to the chiropractor 3x week. I do a stretching exercise before each adjustment and neck traction too. Although It has helped the pain My joints are still weak and I have trouble walking or standing for more than a dozen minutes. and I know I can eat all the healthy food i want but that will only work for soo long if I don't increase my activity level and start working out.
My plan was to loose a little bit of weight enough to relive my spine of some of the added weight- I'm heavier now that i have ever been even while i was pregnant.- and then hope i could move around more from there. but now even tho im still losing some weight i know it could be more if i was active and i feel like im not doing enough.

I use to belong to a gym when i was a teenager and it was fun. I wouldn't want to go but than once i was there i wouldn't want to leave either.

Ive been looking into exercises that are easy to follow and do at home - during PJs nap times and when my fiance get home from work. That will be easy on my back - I though about prenatal work outs, But i dont know that that would help me loose the fat on my stomach and waist. the biggest areas I need to loose weight are my stomach/waist and hips. followed by thighs and upper arms and back.

I know Im not the first person something like this has happened too but its the first time for me and my family. I just dont know what to do, sometimes I want to try and workout - but than the pain is soo bad it makes me dizzy.

I cant afford the gym membership, or a personal trainer and the only equipment i have is a mat and like 5lb weights. I live with my parents my son and fiance in a very small house.I have 50 bucks in my checking account to last us the next 2 weeks until my fiance next paycheck- working isn't really an option for me right now - and if i had a job it would have to be at least $10hr to be worth it with child care but i would rather PJ not go into day care until he's older anyways.- Plus we're getting married 2 weeks from Sunday, a very easy low budget wedding.
Yes I have a million excuses and even tho they are all very true and hard to live with sometimes , They still feel like just excuses to me even when ive tired my hardest.

NOt keeping down food

Jun 06 2009 11:10

So I woke up feeling like crap and I cant seem to keep anything down. I was wondering wbout my food log I guess i could just add whaatever I eat and then deleted it if I throw it back up

2004 pictures

Jun 01 2009 14:27

I found pictures today from 2004 and 2005 today that were from some family events. I was soo much smaller than. I dont really like how my face looked in the pictures but i could just have had a bad day or something, but i was like why arent there are pcitures of me in here - i was there and than I realized I was in there I just didnt recongize myself

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/photo.php?pid=6980274&id=838795421&ref=mf

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=6980274&id=838795421#/photo.php?pid=6980278&id=838795421

calories

May 23 2009 12:52

Soo Ive almost had all my calories for the day and its only 1pm ahhhh

soo yesterday after i had almost finished my calorie intake by 1pm. I went to my sisters house for my nieces birthday only to find out it wasn't a lil BBQ dinner with the family like usual it was actually a wedding shower for me and My fiance. I was very grateful. I wasn't hungry tho - i had just eaten. but after like 4 hours i got hungry and i had to eat something or my blood sugar would have fallen soo much that i would hav gotten shaky again. well by the time I made it to the table the fruit was gone soo all that was left was all the carbs in the world. deliciously soo but still. mac salad, clow slaw, chips and dip, potato salad ect. so I had some of that no too much but enough to pick up my sugar and put something in my stomach. I also ended up having cake - it was my shower and all. and a Corina. just one tho.

FIRST POUND

May 22 2009 21:43

So I lost my first pound!!! thats good I guess, well maybe not good but its a start and I cant get to 75 without starting at one. As long as I dont get cocky. My fiance wanted to go to dairy queen today - good thing we have no money until next week when he gets paid. that might be the hardest part of this diet besides learning to cook without making anyone sick ( its happens) -I told him to give me a week to get use to eating different and maybe we can go to friendly's instead, you can get your desert and I can get a salad or something lol. if he wants to go to dairy queen thats fine too - we dont have the ones with the food near by just the ice cream but I can deal or have some diet ice cream if I feel the urg. im surpised that ive stuck to the diet considering the stress around me - with the wedding, my best man having no days off and we need him to get his tux. our order for all the wedding supplies got canceled and the wedding is a month away and Ive been waiting for my sons doctor to call with his iron retest results. to see if the first test was a false reading or not.

well thats it - 1st pound 1st blog

cyber toast to CC and many more pounds gone

_Alicia