100 cookies

Are just too hard to resist. I was weak. I gave in! DANG IT! But I won't beat myself up. Just going to change it. I'm going to resist the urge to say, I'll start fresh Monday. I'm going to do good tomorrow and get back on track. I know I will eat and enjoy more than I should this month, but I'm REALLY going to TRY to make a point of exercising at least 5 days a week.

Prego Brain

That's right I am blaming it on the belly. Its got to be good for something!!! So That is why I can't remember to weigh in! Tomorrow I have my doctors appointment. I will be exactly 4 months tomorrow, so I will take my picture along with my weigh in tomorrow. Which neither one will be pretty!! I always loose weight at the beginning of my pregnancy and then by the end I balance back out. But I have already started gaining!! I know it is normal to gain weight while you are pregnant, but it is still really hard on me. I have dedicated this whole year on getting healthy and being able to look into a mirror and to literally watch yourself grow. Is rather depressing to say the least. Last week all my pants became WAY to small, and the best part is I can't find my prego pants. I can find every shirt but no pants. Have no idea where I stored them, but here I am. I think I really may just have to go buy some. I am excited to go to the doctor tomorrow hearing the heartbeat gives me a boost of strength and reminds me how great this all is!

2 more days

I have 2 more days to lose my holiday weight. =( I thought I had more, but then I looked at my calendar and realized my appointment is on WEDNESDAY!! Ahhh! So, with this disturbing fact I hopped on the scale. I think I'll end up with a 2-4 lb weight gain, which isn't too bad I suppose. I know I'm supposed to gain and I have gotten BIGGER this month, but the fact that I'm not actually losing weight like my last 2 pregnancies is really irritating me. Although, the irritation comes from the fact that I haven't done anything to make it happen. It is all too easy to eat bad when you're on food stamps! I'm not even kidding!! You have all the healthy stuff available to you but you also have all the BAD stuff. We get a mixture of both and it is awful. My favorite guilty pleasure are the Etenmann's donuts you get at Walmart...so bad!! I gotta practice some self control when it comes to the shopping. I have gotten a lot better. My sweet tooth isn't as bad as it was last month, but its the holidays... I'm gonna have sweets.

My biggest problem at this point is my lack of energy. I have to pick and choose what I'm gonna do so I have energy to do what I need to do. I noticed a few weeks ago if I go to Zumba I have no energy the rest of the day...at all. I can't keep doing that to Skyler so we're gonna start walking instead. Maybe I'll brave riding a bike. We really need to get our son Jayden out to exercise because he is my little addict. He loves food and it is starting to show in his weight. This 8 year old kid is over 100 lbs! He doesn't look it, but his belly is starting to get a little pudgy and I really don't want him to end up like me or his dad. If that isn't motivation, I don't know what is.

Did you think I had abandoned the blog?

I thought I was going to check in pretty regularly, but I didn't. In fact I forgot to weigh in, so I'll use my weight from Thursday morning for my weigh in. Depressing. I don't want to, but I have to be honest with myself. I gained again. You'll have to do your own math to figure it out. haha. I am proud to say that I got out and exercised on Saturday morning. Sad to report that it was only the second time I exercised all week. And I ate bad all week. SO.... Tomorrow is day 1! New start! I know, not a good week to start fresh when there is a cookie exchange on Wednesday and I will be making 100 cookies, and bringing home 100 cookies. I will just have to exercise some major will power. I WILL exercise all week. My feet have been very sore this week. My cortisone shots have worn off and I want to let my feet heal, but I also want to make sure I get good workouts in. I'll be heading to the gym again this week to do some swimming and biking, and I'll continue running, but not the far distances for a while.
So- new Sarah! I'll post my picture for December on Friday. That will be my motivation to do well this week, and if nothing else get the bloating off. Wish me luck!!

Looking for motivation

Hard week. I did finally exercise on Tuesday. I walked 3 miles and ran the last half mile. It was so hard! How on earth did I run a half marathon just 2 weeks ago, and running a half mile was so hard. It probably didn't help that I hadn't eaten well at all that day. I WILL exercise today. I have to get back in the groove, but I'm having a hard time finding the groove. I've eaten bad every day this week. I am actually looking forward to Saturday's run as well, even though I know it will be hard, but it will be good to hopefully snap myself back into routine a bit.

OH To housework!

Since I am waiting for my laundry to get done to fold and Aiden and Robot Maynor(Aiden has a 3inch toy!) are cleaning and helping it is going rather fast! I only have 5 days left to get the YUMMY Thanksgiving feast off! My antibiotics are finally kicking in so I can swallow again!! But having strep throat all week has made it easy to resist food, see always a upside to everything! I keep jumping around on the scale hopefully next Tuesday it will be on the nice side. I have been a slacker with the working out, I really need to get a new schedule. I need to start doing workout video or something!! Looking forward to okay I just NEED! to do our run on Saturday!!

8 more days!

I have 8 more days to lose the pounds! So far I'm down 1 lb.... not much, but I'll take it!