fridays letters

 

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Now onto are regularly scheduled post....TGIF & TGIWN!! (thank god its WINE NIGHT! hehe)

dear hubby, i know how excited we both are about going to the Tortuga Music Festival, but we really need to book our hotel like yesterday, prices are basically skyrocketing and if we dont book soon we wont be able too!

dear matthew, remember when I was worried about you not siting by yourself at 7 months? Well, it may have taken you that long to sit by yourself but this past month you have developed so many more skills. You can not only sit by yourself, you can go from laying down to sitting, crawling, kneeling while holding on to your crib when you wake up, to pulling yourself up to standing with your toys. It amazes me how fast you learned all of these, and I swear any day now you are just going to take off running!!

dear facebook friend, (name not included for privacy) I am so happy that you are getting rid of your daughters bunk beds, when I saw the picture of them I just knew they would be perfect for my niece. I was so excited to tell my sister about it this morning (just to make sure she wanted them) and cant wait to see your face light up when we build it in your room. And double bonus? Totally getting it for FREE!! you know I cant pass up an offer like that! picture below so you all can be as excited as I am

dear rollerblades, it was a sad day Monday when I realized we would finally be parting ways. You have been in our family for a very long time. I remember when I stole acquired them from my sister back when she was in highschool. We've had many good memories, some bad, like when I busted my ass in our old neighborhood right in front of a car, which said car had to slam on their brakes to avoid running me over. I still have yet to actually put you in the garbage. even though I know you are no longer usable, instead you stare at me from the corner of the office, waiting for the day I gather you up and drop you in the trash. But hey, thanks to you I am going to work even harder to loose the next 12.6lbs to go buy one of your long lost cousins (aka a new pair of rollerblades) as my reward. So thank you for helping inspire my love for rollerblading!

dear budget project, Ive been doing good about not using the credit card for things, but obviously Im not paying enough attention to whats in our accounts, cuz lets just say the $230 overdraft on Tuesday wasnt exactly in my plan. Thank god the accounts are connected to other accounts for overdraft protection, but that totally could have been avoidable had I been really paying attention. This week Im going to start really budgeting, like actual bills, excels files, receipts, ect. If you follow me on pinterest you can take a look at my budgeting board to see where im getting my ideas from. Wish me luck!

dear hubby, i mentioned the above bunk beds to hopefully give you a suttle hint that I will need your help, and truck, this week to go and get them, pretty please :) Your the best husband in the world! thanks!

dear matthew, what is up with this new high-pitch scream of yours? Aunt D and I noticed it a couple of days ago, were not sure where you learned it or why your doing it, but it would be much appreciated if you could go back to the normal crying whining that you did. ok? 

And because I never leave you without a picture, and because its March 1st, I figured I share with you the past 2 months of my Project365. Thanks to instagram Ive been pretty good at keeping up with it. Here is Jan & Feb's pics. (if you follow me in instagram most likely you've seen every single one of these already)

Hope you all have a good weekend, starting my off right with a few glasses of wine with some great ladies tonight.

dont forget to link up your Friday's Letters with Ashley over at The Sweet Season

wednesday (er thursday) weigh-in: week 7

Ill just come right out and say it, I got rid of 1.6lbs this week! I personally thought I would have gotten rid of more since I stuck to the plan so strictly this week, but you know what, Im still very proud of my self for getting rid of any weight! Which means I also reached the first goal WW sets for you, my 5%. And funny thing, I guess Weight Watchers actually thinks Im losing weight too fast?!?! (ironic right?) I got this little notice when I tracked my weigh-in on eTools.

For those who really wanna know my weight, you can technically do the math,
but Ill never actually say the number to you lol

I guess youre only supposed to lose 2lbs or less averaged weekly. It makes sense, but Im not sad that im losing more. lol. This also means that my daily PointsPlus target changes too. It only changed by 1 point, but I think its significant to realize here, that as you make successful steps in your weight-loss journey, its still important to reevaluate your daily intake and routines to help you continue shedding the lbs.

Couple of things Im proud of myself for this week. First, I did actually exercise! One day on the elliptical, one day doing a video, and I tried to do a third day. I busted out the old roller-blades, but unfortunately I found out once putting them on that they are both broken. To the point I cant use them and will have to buy a new pair. :( It kinda made me sad. I was really looking forward to going rollerblading during my lunch, and honestly I cant afford to get a new pair right now. (i looked them up on SportsAuthority.com and they are at least $100). And then I realized, I could totally make this my next reward for my 25lb goal! Not only is it something I want, but it will also be a great idea to motivate me to exercise. win-win.

The next thing Im proud about, the ability to walk past the donuts at the grocery store. You know, the ones they purposely place right on the end-cap in front of the fruit section. The oh-so-delicous Entenmanns' ones that have the crumb topping. With a huge sign that says "BUY 1 GET 1 FREE." I actually turned around and went back to get them. But as i stood there in front of the display, I asked myself, "Do I really need these? Or just want them? Is the taste of them so good for those couple of seconds that I would be willing to sacrifice my weight loss this week?" And the answer was no. So I proudly walked out of that store without them. No one else was proud of me, but you know what, Im not doing this for them, Im doing it for me! And then I remembered a saying I heard long ago in one of the WW meetings from the previous times I joined:

And its honestly so true!

Last but not least, I am proud of myself for tracking every single thing that I put in my mouth. The first week or two its easy because everything is so new. But by the time you past the 1 month mark, you get a little lackadaisical on the whole thing. And then come the time to input it all you may for get that you ate four two of those pecan clusters. ;) So this week I made sure that was one of my priorities, and Im happy to say I did stick with it.

lbs shed this week:  -1.6

lbs shed in total: -12.4

lbs still need to shed: 37.6

first goal: 10lbs - reached on 2/13/13

•     reward:  mani/pedi and possibly massage (i really do have to schedule at least one of these)

second goal: 25lbs

•     reward: new rollerblades

final goal:  50lbs

•     reward: epiphanie camera bag

success: umm hello did you read above? 1.6lbs, 5%, exercise, no donuts, and lots of tracking. oh and one little thing I forgot to mention above, im wearing my pre-baby jeans! they are very snug, but you best-believe i squeezed my tush in them this morning!

set-backs: broken rollerblades :(

exercise: elliptical and video. I wanna start walking too! maybe around the neighborhood after dinner?

hows your weight-loss journey going? leave a comment with your link if youd like to share, Id love to read about it. we all need to support each other and if a little blog hop will help then so be it!

p.s. dont forget you enter my giveaway, lots of chances to enter, and not alot of entries so good chance you could be the winner, but you only have till midnight tonight! Enter Now

wednesday weigh-in: week 5

I did it! I actually exercised this week. It may only have been once, but you know what? You gotta start somewhere. Remember the elliptical I got last year? Well it had found a new home in Matthews closet. You know, so it would be easier to bring out and use, opposed to siting in the laundry room. Well yeah I dusted it off and brought it out to help me with last weeks goal of moving more. I was only on it for 18mins while I caught up on one of my shows. Lets just say 18mins was hard enough for me. Thank god my machine has a bike seat because I dont know how I would have been able to do even those 18mins standing the entire time. Can you say out of shape? yeah......

i think the 5.04 means miles, but i feel like thats way to high of a number for being done in 18.25mins

Unfortunately, I honestly didnt have any other time this past week to blog clean sleep exercise with how busy work is. I know its not an excuse. And I need to make sure I "make an appointment" to exercise. I think if I write it down or put it in my work calendar then it will feel more like a necessity than if I just say Im going to do it. And it seems like my only "free time" to do it, is going to be during my lunch hour. Which is completely ok with me, i just need to make sure I stick to it.

At tonights meeting my leader made it a point to remind us that making something a routine helps it become easier, almost automatic. She said that technically speaking we should each be aiming for at least 14 activity points a week. I was flabbergasted. 14? I would be happy to get 1! And then she explained that if you are normally sedentary (thats me lol) then you should try just exercising once a week for 30 days. And after 30 days it will become a routine. Then you can add more days as you go. This way you wont feel overwhelmed and if you are able to do it more than the once a week during those first 30 days then great! So Im going to commit to that and hope for the best!

Oh and I forgot to mention one lil thing about this week.... I got to my first goal!!! Im not going to say its from the exercise, because honestly I doubt it is. But I am going to say its from my hard work. My self discipline. And my recent obsession in finding new easy low point value recipes. Ive been having so much fun making meals lately. We even had my mom and day over for dinner for the first time at our house on sunday and I made the entire meal myself. Baked Chicken, fresh roasted veggies, and sweet potatoes! It was absolutely delicious! (Oh and if you caught the whole first time eating dinner at our house thats a long story, lets just say their house is just so much easier, and bigger, and heck normally the food is already made, but after 2.5 years living in our house, i figured it was about time)

lbs shed this week: -2.4

lbs shed in total: -10.8

lbs still need to shed: 39.2

first goal: 10lbs - YAY!!! go me!!

•     reward: changed my mind, the hair salon is going to be kinda expensive, so Im thinking a mani/pedi this weekend and possibly using my massage certificate from my baby shower (before it expires lol)

second goal: 25lbs

•     reward: new outfit? hair salon?

final goal:  50lbs

•     reward: epiphanie camera bag

success: meeting my first goal of shedding 10lbs!

set-backs: i think I can say there were no setbacks this week :)

exercise: brought out the elliptical and plan on doing it again this week, wish me luck!

fridays letters

Ive always thought that Ashley's Fridays Letters posts were so cute, simple, and sweet. Yet I never joined. So this week Ive decided that I am going to commit to Fridays Letters ;)

dear hubby, would you please stop calling me and asking me if Ive received an email about our iphone 5 preorders, as Ive said multiple times, i will let you know when I know anything. dear matthew, i love in the mornings when you wake up and are in the best moods and smile and coo, do you think we could maybe switch it up one day and have you be in a good mood at night time? dear animals (yes all of you, Ruger, Belle, & MJ) can you please get along, stop shedding, and basically take care of yourselves? ok yeah. dear me, its time to stop procrastinating and get back to exercising, matthew is now almost 4 months old and there is no excuse, we want our prebaby (well technically prewedding) body back and SOON! dear best buy, why do you take so many preorders when you know youre not going to have nearly enough iphone 5s to give out on launch date, and then whats up with this crappy letter you send out to us saying it may take up to 28 days? :( dear fall, i know its officially fall in the rest of the country, but it would be nice if you could give us south floridians some cooler weather, maybe even some leaves changing.... dear epcot, I cant wait to see you in just a few short weeks, it will be matthews first time at disney, can you please be not so crowded so we can enjoy our first family vacation? and dear hubby & matthew, because you deserve two, i love when i catch random moments of you having daddy & baby time, it absolutely melts my heart, your daddy thinks that you understand football already, and I think he actually might be right, you watched both the FSU & Dolphins games together and you both seemed to enjoy it, even with Carpenter ruining the game for us and letting the jets win by a field goal. oh and dear bloggy friends, because i cant forget about you, I will of course leave you with a photo, because what would a post be without a cute photo, but will you please do me a favor? a girl could use a couple likes :)

WW: time for some change

I guess since I dragged this thing all the way from our laundry room to our living room, that means I actually have to start using it

Ive actually always wanted an elliptical and when a close friend of mine had to get rid of hers this summer when they moved across country for her husbands job, I couldnt resist snatching it from her. Unfortunately I was also 8 months pregnant at the time and exercise just wasnt one of my to-dos (i know it should have been, but whatevs).
Needless to say, this thing has been collecting dust in our laundry room since then. Ive been  meaning to take it out but have also been using the excuse that we just dont have room for it in the house. Which technically still hasnt changed, but I need to stop making excuses for not exercising and start to try to get back to my pre-baby weight. Breastfeeding did help alot, I lost 44 of the 52lbs I gained during my pregnancy. But that still means I have 8lbs+ to go. I add the plus sign in there because I really wasnt happy with my prepregnancy weight in the first place.
So heres to you post-baby exercise! Lets see how long this lasts?

Dont forget to link up with Jenni