Really?...No, SERIOUSLY.

It's been 4 weeks since the last blog and here's the break down. Yeah, so my half-hearted attempt was just that. I didn't even try the one serving thing. Which was supposed to be the first week.  Then a lot of the veggies I bought for the cabbage soup (2nd wk) went to waste bc I wasn't feeling it and didn't prepare blah, blah, blah. The 3rd and 4th weeks I was eating whatever including fast food and candy . I have been into tootsie pops lately. They have new flavors and I like the tootsie roll center. As far as work outs: I worked out like 3x one week, then 2x one wk, and then 4x and then last week it was 3x.  The season change is killing me...it's like pitch black outside at 545 and I just haven't been getting up (resulting in missed classes and I have felt off bc of it).  But hope is on the horizon.

My parents have confirmed they're coming up on Dec 6 for Mav thing and staying a few days. They said we'd do an early Christmas bc Krys (new job at JCP) and Em (bc of school) didn't know if they were going to be able to come up this year. Pam started a new job and didn't know if she could have that time off.  And since I don't have any seniority in the new department, a person with more seniority than me got the the days after Christmas off.  If I came home, I would have had to leave on Christmas day bc we work on the 26. It's going to be the first time in a while that all of us have been together and you know Em and Krys were always in retail so they didn't get the time off like the rest of us. One or the other usually couldn't make it. I think it's been since 2003 ( the last time I lived in IN) that we've been all together and the parents want to take a "professional" family pic. So, basically,  that whole long scenic story was just to say that I've found my motivation for the next couple of months. I do not want to be in that picture all big fatty. I'll be chubby but I can do some damage control before then.

I've counted it out and  I have 9 wks before pic day. Realistically I could lose 20 lbs. My unrealistic "if I kill myself for the next 2 months goal" is 40-50lbs. But people started noticing my weight loss about 235 and I've gained 15 since then. So here is my weights from July in one place (more for myself so I don't have to go through all my posts). Then it's going to be my battle plans and then what I did today so far.
I'M BACK....get ready!!  Actually I'll just put my weight in a separate post. I just started posting them  and realized it would make the post even more super duper longer than what it already is.

Oh and yet again another new article online talking about how more important than diet is than exercise. Ok I get it and am working on it now. I am doing the cabbage soup diet the first week. I bought all the stuff for the soup yesterday and made it after work. I'm going to couple it with Bob Harpers weight loss supplement. I had given it to Pam but she said she didn't like it. For all the rest of the weeks until pic day, I am eating lots of veggies and seafood. Grilled or baked chicken occasionally. NO carbs except on 1 day and then only whole grain, wheat carbs. I'm going to make that one day on Mondays after weigh in.  Execise at least 1 hr everyday. I'll go hardcore 6 days and on day 7 I'll do like walking or zumba.

That's it in a nutshell:

10/8/12 Monday
wt:  249.4, -1.6
lw:  251.0

wo: 6am ripd
food:
bf/sn:  2 bowls of cabbage soup, 2apples, 1 clementine
lc: 2 bowls of cabbage soup, 1/2c pineapple
dr: 2 bowls of cabbage soup, 2 clementines
sn: 1/2c pineapple, 1 apple, 1 clementine

Man I don't know if I'm hungry but I'm totally not satisfied.  Oh well, got some paperwork to do and then off to bed. Day 1: SUCCESS.
Ok...we're off!