Feeling Beachie

1. Given the choice of _ear piercing__ or _sunburn__ for _charity__ I’d pick _neither, I am afraid of pain.__ 2. If you told me _I could have lost 79 pounds a year ago,___ I would never have believed you 3. The last time I cooked_salmon______it came out__fishy and I do not like fishy_____. 4. My favorite color is _sage green with accents of purple __ Pamela

Weight loss Wednesday

I would like to tell you that I have lost a ton more weight. Sadly I have not. My weight this morning was 169.4. The day after my husband came home I was 169.8. Him and I decided that we would weigh together on Fridays. Our first weigh in was last Friday. I had lost 2.6 pounds since he came home and he had lost 3. I am sure you are asking how that makes sense. The day before he came home I weighed 170.8. All of this to say I am maintaining right now. This has been a long time at the same point. I think it is time to hit the elliptical harder. I am so close to that 167 that I can taste it. 167 means I am not over weight any longer. So what are my goals? First, to get my weight loss started again. I honestly think part of it has to do with my allergies. I have not gone a day without a head ache. My next goal is to start toning up. I start light weights yesterday. I should have been doing it a long time ago but no guilt I start today. I found out yesterday that our military formal is in 5 weeks. I think I better get my act together. I will be honest and say it is hard to not get discouraged. If you are using myfitnesspal you can find me as Trooppetrie. Please just let me know who you are. Pamela

Weigh Loss August

So today is really September 2. I am so excited to be writing this because by the time you read it my hero will be home and the surprise will have happened. I wanted to update you on my August weight. T his has been a tough month. It seems like this weight is sticking around longer. The last time I wrote was August 5 and I weighed 184. Today is September 2nd and I weigh 175.8. That is 9 pounds in a month. I mean that is not bad when I think about it by the month. It is really hard when you have a week with no weight loss. I am determined to get better about exercise. Friday night I had friends over and I ate more in one meal than I have in months. Then Saturday morning after a trip to the zoo I went to Zaxby’s. I came home and did the elliptical for 60 minutes. It was not bad at all. After 20 minutes I thought okay I will do 30 and then I just kept going on and on by 5 minutes. Normally I do not exercise on Sundays but I decided to today. I only did 30 minutes. I had not lost weight all week but woke up this morning and had lost a pound. I constantly have to remind myself it is the end game and not the day to day. It is funny but this is the first month I have not had my daughter take pictures. That is because I bought new clothes and had my son take pictures. I bought a pair of pants and four shirts. I am trying to decide what to wear when my hero comes home. Originally I thought I would wear my long black skirt but really I think the blue jeans show my weight loss. I bought a pair of size 11/12 dress blue jeans that are nice and I like them. They are probably what I will wear. I also have a pair of size 10, yes you heard that right a pair of size TEN jeans and I might wear those. They are not as fancy but show the weight loss. I am in a weird spot. I am wearing makeup and loving my jeans and really enjoying tank tops. All things that are not normally me. I mean I do not want to wear the tank tops in public unless I am walking the track. It does worry me. I want to make sure that I am not losing who I am while losing weight. I hope that makes sense. Pamela

Mil Spouse Friday fill in

1. What’s one thing in the past month you would have changed? This month has been pretty awesome. I would say I wish I could change the fact that I maced my husband the first day he came home. Probably not the best homecoming day. 2. What was your favorite thing that happened in September? My hero came home and I was able to surprise him with my hair and weight loss 3. Sometimes I like to sit on my couch and eat _ice cream_____ from a __kids bowl____ with a __kids spoon so I feel like I am getting more than I am_______. - Courtesy of Just Another Snarky Navy Wife This one was hard. 4. What was your favorite childhood Halloween costume? - Courtesy of Random Army Wife We don’t celebrate Halloween anymore but many years ago I dressed up like a cow. I know it sounds crazy but I have always wanted to be the chick fil a cow. 5. What are you looking forward to in October? Oh man this is a great month, we have 3 birthdays and my hero is home for them, my hero and I are going away for a couple of nights, and our family is going camping for several days. So excited for the time together. Pamela

5 Question Friday

1. What album/cd/download are you embarrassed to admit you having? Michael Bolton, although several months ago I downloaded Madonna Like a Virgin. I don’t know what made me do it, I tried to listen to it and for the first 10 seconds I was right back in middle school. Then the guilt got me and I deleted it. 2. What's the one thing your spouse does better than you? Everything, honestly there are few things I can do better than him and it drives me batty. He can grill better than me, clean way better than me. When he is deployed I hire someone to come in and clean my floors and bathrooms because that is the chore he does at home. 3. When do you start buying Halloween Candy? We don’t celebrate Halloween so normally the day after Halloween so I can use it with baking. But this year is different. I found pumpkin Hershey kisses and WOW, I may go broke if I find anymore because they are amazing. 4. Family closets - Yay or nay? Oh man, we use our coat closet as a Childs closet; we have clothes everywhere because this house has horrible closets. So if I had a room for kid’s clothes I would definitely use it. 5. Which home/cleaning chore do you hate the most? Why? Putting away laundry. Did you know that we have horrible closets? Well, our dressers are even worse. The drawers break and fall out. Every year we say we are going buy new dressers and then I see the prices of the good ones. I want drawers that are unbreakable. Did you know that dresser drawers are only made to handle 10-15 pounds of clothes and that is if they are the big drawers? I have done research because I want new dressers. Pamela