tiatortilla95's Journal

No mulah for me!
Feb 23 2009 09:58

So, I did not make my way to the number one spot for our BL competition!  I did fairly well over the weekend, worked out 3 times on satuday, had about a 1500 cal def, then decided to have 4 vodka and crystal lites (very heavy on the vodka) watched a couple of movies ate an entire bag of popcorn and woke up sunday feeling like poop.  I ended up snacking all day, though my cals were ok (still had about a 300 cal def) but I prolly had enough sodium to dry up a whole cow!  Which all ended up reflecting on the scale today...no loss.  Ah well, this is only the halfway mark, I have 7 more weeks to get up to first place.  And I will!

This week will hopefully be much calmer than last.  Still got lots of work to do though so I bertter get to it!

Tata

Friday!
Feb 20 2009 09:23

Well I am glad the weekend is upon us!  While I have had a good week overall I am just glad to be done with it!  Still super busy at work so I am gonna keep this short and sweet!!

Paula-  as for the TBL contest...I'm still in second!  The guy in first lost 3 lbs last week( I swear I don't know where he's losing it!!!he's already at 168 lbs!) and I only lost 1!  So I'm behind by about 3% now! Monday is the halfway point in the contest and the winner on Monday gets 1/4 of the pot (about $100). So my friend Jen and I are making it a "last chance w/o" weekend!  Going for 3 sessions on Saturday and 2 on Sunday!!!  Should be interesting! 
- and for Hubbys b-day, I ended up getting him cologne!  He really wants an iphone but if we wait just a couple more months when our contracts are up, we'll get a 50-60 dollar rebate on it, so I told him we'll wait til then!  Oh but I did send him an Edible Arrangement of Pineapples and melon that looked like daiseys to his work!  He loved it!
- and for our anniversary we agreed to not buy anything for each other this year, although I was secretly hoping for flowers to arrive at the office all day yesterday, and when they didn't and I started to get pissy, I checked myself and remembered I SAID, "LET'S NOT BUY ANYTHING THIS YEAR, K?"  Sheesh sometimes I don't even get me!!!  LOL 

I did weigh in this morning and I'm back to my 1 lb loss, I did a little scan of my weight log and found a nice little pattern...over the last 4 weeks I've lost like this...2.2 lbs, then 1.2 lbs, then 2 lbs, then (today) 1.2 lbs.  I can live with this!!  Except for this weekend!!!  I need to pull a Big number to win that mulah!!!  I'm breaking all the "healthy" weightloss rules and I will be waaaay exceeding a 1000 cal deficit, but I think 2 days of this won't plummit me into starvation mode!    I WILL be (quite literally) sweating my bootie off!!!! 

CW: 212.8
GW: 175
GD: 6-26-09

Have a great weekend girlies!!!  Oh and hi Micky!!!!  Wondered where you've been!  Hope you got that run in!!

Thursday
Feb 19 2009 09:04

Is it just me or does this week feel off??  I knew I was going to be super busy but it just seems like more than that??  Weird.

I am sorry for not being around much this week, I have been reading but mostly missing the commenting part!  So hard to be witty in a time crunch!

Just wanted to make a quick entry to say...Holly thank you so much for that recipe!!  The cake came out delicious!!!  I don't even care for german chocolate cake very much and I even loved it!  Thanks!  Also, I will be thinking of you today!!!  Think happy thoughts and I'm sure it'll be over before you know it! 

And to all my other girlies....seems like we're all barely surviving this week eh?  Let's hurry up and get to Friday and start fresh next week, ya?  That is my plan!!

Toodles kids!

Monday and off to a busy week!
Feb 16 2009 09:45

I'm preparing myself for one busy week!   Kids are off school all week for mid-winter break.  Still playing catch up at work, we're suddenly flooded with orders, Hubby's b-day is Wednesday, our 13th wedding anniversary is Thursday, and hubby has his first wedding gig (the DJ thing) on Saturday.  Whew I'm tired already! LOL

First thing on my list is to ask Holly for that yummy german chocolate cake recipe she mentioned a couple months ago...ummm "Holly do you still have that german chocolate cake recipe handy?"   I'm normally a box cake kinda girl, just not a very good baker, but I thought I'd take a stab at it!  Hubby will appreciate the effort more than anything really, his mom makes everything from scratch so it's taken me nearly 13 years to get him un-used to fresh baked goodies!

I have no idea what to get him, and not a clue what to do for our anniversary...I'll ponder that today and hopefully come up with something good!

Well I better get started, lot's to do!!!  Later Gators!

Friday~the day before the 14th
Feb 13 2009 09:48

I am one of those supersticious souls.  I will be watching out for black cats, ladders and avoiding holding any mirrors today for sure!

Well my efforts were futile...I have a full blown cold.  The sore throat has subsided so I won't complain about a stuffy nose.  You're all gonna think I'm a loon, but I kinda like the way I sound with a cold!  I've never admitted that to anyone so I'll trust you all to keep my quirky secret!

This valentines weekend is going to be pretty quiet.  We're getting together with our neigbors tonight for a kids Valentines Party, we're each going to come up with a craft or activity for the kids and make a goodie of some sort.  I took the easy route, printed some valentines word searches and coloring pages they can turn into valentines.  And I'm making pink rice krispie treats.  I was going to make them heart shaped but it's a lot harder than it seems!  Not harder just time consuming.  I made some last night for my lil guys class party today and I wasn't thinking about all the krispies I'd have left over in the batch after I cookie cutted the heart shape!  Had to remold then do it again and again!  We'll go with pink squares tonight!

Masons concert last night was so freggin cute!  And no Holly, he's not in the band, every year at their school each grade puts on a performance of some sort, mostly singing but they add in little lines for the kids to say. And each year they have a theme, like last year was "Saving the Environment" and they sang about recycling and such, super cute.  Well the fifth grade performance is always a really big deal, being their last year at the school and they go all out!  The theme last night was "America the Great".  They had kids dressed up as the Satue of Liberty, Uncle Sam, Abe Lincoln, Soldiers, and tons more...Mason was Henry Clay!  At the end they all recited the entire Gettysburg Address (and that's where the waterworks let loose Katie, it was ridiculous!).  I ususally pride myself on being prepared for these things but sure enough after the first couple of shots, the batteries in my camera died! Bummer, but I talked to a few other moms and they promised to send me some pics!

 Hubby and I decided to stay in for Valentines Day, I'm making him enchiladas and he's giving me a 30 minute back rub!  Sounds like a fair trade to me! 

I hope you all have great a Friday before the 14th and a Happy Valentines Day!!

Oh I almost forgot!  It's weigh in day!

CW: 214
GW:175
GD: 6-26-09

Pill Popper!
Feb 12 2009 09:52

I seriously just popped a handful of pills.  I woke this morning with a bit of a scratchy throat and a stuffy nose, there's been a cold going around our office so I decided to pop a couple extra vitamin C's along with my regular vitamin and my fiber supplement and topped it off with a couple of tylenol sinus to clear the nasal passages. Whew.

Thursday already. I can hardly believe it!  Tonight my big boy has his music performance at school.   He's gotta get all dressed up and everything. He hates it but I can't wait.  I always cry at these things (yes even when TTOM is nowhere in sight) I just get emotional realizing how fast he's growing up! 
This also means a workout is not going to happen, which is not good becasue I am ravenous today, gonna be hard to keep the cals low.  I'll do my best though!

On that note, I'm off to make my oatmeal, and my coffee, I'll be sure to keep them seperate this time.  Oh and for all of you who asked last time, I would have tried the coffee flavored oatmeal but it was way too much cofee, there was just a plump of oatmeal in the bottom of the cup, but that does sound tastey, maybe one day I will will try it!

Toodles!

Eye on the Prize!
Feb 11 2009 09:36

Usually if I'm MIA it's because I'm falling off the wagon, glad to say that's totally not the case this time.  I've just been crazy busy at work, and I hate feeling rushed when I post a journal entry so I've just been logging my food and exercise and singing off.  I so should have came into work last Saturday to do a little catching up, and I wouldn't have ended up so swamped but I did not and I'm paying for it. 

Anyway, I am feeling really great.  Exercise has been stellar and this past weekend was the first weekend since the start of the year that I did not indulge at all!  And it paid off, I have moved back into second place in our TBL contest and I'm only like a 1/2% behind the first place guy.  I plan on having a great week and making into first next Monday!

Something I've noticed about the weeks before and after Aunt Flow...the week before I am miserable.  Whiney, tired, emotional as a pregnant woman, and just an over all mess.....the week after, I feel like a million bucks!  Super motivated, strong, energized, and full of will power!  Is it just the contrast from being so low the week before?  Not sure.  I went back and read my last couple of months journal entries, and sure enough very similar moods.  The bummer part is that usually by the end of the week this high seems to taper off.  Which I guess is ok, but it would be nice if I could figure out how to get it to stick around a little longer!

Well, I am off to read some journals to see what's been going on in CC-Land!  Hey, it's Hump Day!!!! WOOHOOOO!

Friday!
Feb 06 2009 10:16

This week has been interesting.  If you'd have talked to me on Monday I would have said things like, "I'm giving up, I'm tired of trying and failing, I hate everyone, and surely the world was coming to an end!"   But (luckily) just as quickly as this week flew by, so did that mood! 

Feeling great today.  I was up bright and early to get in a good cardio workout since we are going out to dinner tonight at one of my fav mexican restaurants!  Then we're off to a comedy club for some laughs and some drinks.  I've logged it all already and I should still have a small def of about 350-400, but that's only if I avoid the chips and salsa they bring to the table and stick to my 3 drink maximum, <-----translation = I'm hoping to end up at maintenance and not be hung over tomorrow!  

I did do my Friday weigh in and much to my surprise (and delight) I was down another pound~216.0.  Very happy about that.  I am probably even happier though about my measurements!  Last night I headed to my neighbors for our evening workout and she was all jazzed about taking our measurements again.  We weren't supposed to take them til the end of this month but she's been at a stand still as far as weightloss goes so she was hoping for some measurement changes.  Unfortunatley she only had small changes in her arms but no change anywhere else.  I did mine but did not have my sheet from last time to compare (I've lost it) but I wrote mine in here, in my journal...so when I got in this morning I went back to Dec to see my numbers, fully expecting very little or no change.........ummmmmm wrong!
I've lost and  inch in each arm, just over an inch in the bust and and inch and a half in my waist and hips!

Yay!  Very motivating!  I can live with this 1 lb a week.

Well ladies, I am off to get some work done! I hope you are all having a fabulous Friday!!!! 

Much Better!
Feb 05 2009 09:51

So, she's arrived and while I hate accomodating her for the 4 days shes around there is just a small sense of relief when she does get here.  The emotions/mood swings are serious lately!  This is only like the 3rd regular month since I stopped taking the depo shot and man it's been getting worse each month!  I don't know if it is becasue I didn't have one for so long (4 years)or if it's just cause I'm getting older?  My sisters tell me theirs got progressively worse with age.  We'll see I guess.

Well I am going to enjoy my better spirits today.   I am not really looking forward to my Friday weigh in, so I'm trying to mentally prep for that.  I have worked out every night so far but only half heartedly (sp?) and I gave in to the chocolate monster a couple of times, have had about 5 kisses a day, not terrible I know, but with the way the weight has been so slow to come off even a small indulgence like that is sure to be reflected on the scale. 

It is Thurday though!   Almost the weekend!  YAY

Peeling, PMSing and Paying...
Feb 03 2009 09:40

All three, that's me. 

I'm peeling because I went tanning on Saturday and did my normal 10 mins in the bed, but apparently it's been longer than I remembered since I'd last tanned and well, I crisped instead.  And now I feel like a lizard, lovely huh?

I am soooooooo PMSing!  It's bad.

And I'm paying.  Both figuratively and literally.  I was UP 2 lbs yesterday in our BL contest at work, and if you go up, you have to put an extra buck in the pot.  I ate and drank way to much this weekend!  Actually, saturday I worked out, (did an hour of cardio) and though I did not add up any of my cals, I'm sure I did pretty good food wise.
The drinking on the other hand....OY!  I can't even begin to tell you how much. So I certainly paid for that on Sunday.  Which meant lot's of bad food to soak up the alcohol swimming in my stomach.

I'm up nearly 2.5 lbs on my home scale.  I wasn't even going look but I did (mistake!) and it was worse the the work weigh in!  Which just made everything worse. ICK.

Sorry ladies, I'm done whining!