First Post

I thought it would be a good idea if I could start blogging about my day to day fight with this weight loss thing. I think it will be a great way of getting things out and I hope it helps me a bit on this journey of mine. Now, I'm not in a big rush to lose the weight even though I'd love to lose 50 pounds in 6 weeks. But, I can't really do that. I have a family to take care of. It is incredibly hard trying to take care of myself and my family at the same time. It's even harder knowing that no matter what I will be doing, there will always be candy, chips, and soda in this house thanks to my husband with the crazy metabolism. I hate it how, when I mention that I have been losing at least one pound per week, he turns it around and makes it about himself and just jokes with me saying "I lose 10 pounds in my sleep!"... Well guess what buddy? I don't give a hoot about you. I care about myself only and I wish he would just shush it and focus on me instead. Stop trying to put me down! I'm working hard and you aren't helping any! Guess what? I will no longer be buying you chips and sodas. Nope! If you want them you better go buy them yourself and just keep them away from me. I don't mind buying them for my kids every now and then though but I don't even want to do that anymore. I'd rather look for a healthy alternative to chips. I've been doing that a lot lately. Looking at the back of every product I buy and trying to translate things in my head. Norway doesn't have the great nutrition facts that the USA has. Even when I buy American items sometimes, people here usually cover them with a new label with the stupid, useless, food facts on them. So when I peel that away, the nutrition facts are useless to me. But of course there is the internet. I can just look it up right? :) Well I can't look up Norwegian foods. It's impossible for me to count calories here. I just try to look out for the bad stuff and I am trying so hard not to over eat and drink lots of water and eat more fruits. You can only have so much of yogurt and apples for dessert though. =/ I finally had to splurge a little and bought light chocolate ice cream. I had to! I am trying my hardest to get to bed earlier in the night but its not going so well yet. I figure, if I get to bed early maybe I won't get the late night munchies. But I get hungry, stomach grumbling and everything and water sometimes doesn't help. I hate feeling hungry all the time! I am trying my best but it sucks sometimes. I think I just need to exercise more. I don't see how a 20 minute workout (30day shred) will help me lose a lot of weight in only one month. I'd have to do it more than once a day! I also think I need to be more active but it's so hard when you are a stay at home mom, no job, no where to go really. Walking around here is like walking down a long white hall with no pictures on the wall and no one to talk to. Sure, there's houses to look at but I've seen all of them and there is usually no one out to talk to plus its winter now and there is definitely no one out walking much these days. So it's WII fit time I think. I've been wanting to get on that thing lately. I think I'm going to have to go look for that darn disc and pop it in tonight! :) Maybe that will help and I know my kids will have fun playing with me.

This Sunday I have an appointment with a personal trainer (included in my membership) for one hour! I really can't wait. I think it is going to be fun and I hope to work up a good sweat on Sunday! I have decently healthy meals planned this weekend as well. I'm trying to use up all my "bad" food if you consider white rice and regular pasta bad food. I don't want to put anything to waste so I have been trying hard to use everything up! I won't do what Jillian Michael's does...throw out all the bad food. I can't afford to do that. lol So I'll limit myself, eat it as healthy as I can make it. Then when its all gone, buy the good and healthier stuff. :) 

Well that's all for now. Got to get busy doing stuff. I got some thing going on and my kids daycare. I have to take some $$ to buy their own artwork! lol But I plan on putting it on my art wall! =) 

~L