Pumpkin Patch Fun

Saturday we went to the pumpkin patch! It was visit 1/3 coming up! I love fall and everything that goes with it, so that's fine by me!  

We spent about 3 hrs there....but an hr of that was spent waiting in line for the hayride! Ahhhh, but that's really the only reason Cole wanted to go, so we did it!! 

We had a good time! Got stuck in a down pour on the way back to the car....I had a white shirt on, and when we got back to the car we found that I had left the vent to the sunroof open. Oops!! :) we went to dinner afterwards where Drew decided that he would throw food at my friend multiple times! Ahhhh to be 18 months old again! Maybe we need to take a break from restaurants for a while. I kind of remember doing that with Cole at about the same age. 

On a side note; I have started eating more calories in order to jump start weight loss. I follow the number www.fat2fitradio.com suggested for me. I was having no luck my way, so I'll try this way! Yesterday was the first day I started trying to eat more. Felt like I was going to explode!!! Lol. Apparently 1200 calories a day is not enough to get you started burning calories?? Hopefully this starts to work for me!!

Snap out of it!

Help!! I'm falling! Falling off the wagon that is! I feel some bad habits slowly creeping back in and I don't like it! 

I've started barely eating anything all day so that I can shovel terrible food in my mouth at dinner time. I've slacked big time on walking on the treadmill. Let's face it.....the treadmill is the most boring place on earth! Ughhhh. 

The past few days I've just been lacking energy and wanting to eat terrible food. I eat my emotions and have just been feeling blah lately. I need to snap out of it. Getting healthier is a long process....but it's doable and I know I can do it. 

The scale still isn't moving. I think that is what upsets me most and makes it harder for me to keep going. But, I don't have a choice but to keep going. I need to snap out of this blah attitude and get moving again!!!  

Which way is best?

I have been getting conflicting advice about this weight loss stuff. It used to be that I could live on Dr. Pepper for a week and drop ten pounds. Whatever happened to those days?? Now, if I even look at a dr pepper just add ten pounds to my next weigh in. 

Now on to the conflicting advice....a friend of mine just lost 50 pounds. It took her only 7 months! She advised me to go to www.fat2fitradio.com and find out how many calories I should be eating for my weight. I did, and the outcome was that I need to he eating about 900 more calories a day than I am now. What?!?!? That scares me! 

I've been eating 1200. Well most days 1300, after I deduct what I burn on the treadmill. 

So which way is best?? I fear eating more calories because our minds are trained to think less is better! But, my concern is....am I not eating enough for my body to actually burn calories?? Which method do you follow??

I'm not seeing big changes on the scale yet....but I'm losing inches, and my clothes are fitting better! Both steps in the right direction!! 

This is what I've had to face the past month! No. More. Excuses.

Cheat meals or cheat days?

Do you have cheat meals or cheat days? In my head, I don't deserve either of these until I enter the maintain stage...which is far away! But yesterday, we are going to call a cheat day. I didn't even finish tracking my calories for the day because I can't even remember everything that I shoved in my mouth. 

Lately, I have discovered I eat my emotions. I've always known that really, but it's been slapping me in the face this week. I got a text from my hubs two days ago telling me he's working another 48 hr shift this weekend...this is while he's already been gone for two days, and will only be home today for a few hours then gone again....basically till Sunday. When I got his text I was immediately ready to eat! I wanted to cry and eat. 

Yesterday, I was having another day where I was just sick of him being gone....hence the cheat day. I controlled the urge a couple days before but yesterday....I didn't. Funny how your mind plays tricks on you. 

I've said it before and I will continue to say it. I don't know how single moms and millitary wives do it. I'm alone for days at a time and it takes a serious toll on me. I don't know if it's harder on me because I do stay at home with the kids...so the hours just kind of blend together lol. Maybe I'd feel different if I were gone during the day. But, while being home...we feel like those 24 and 36, and 48 hr shifts are a month long lol. 

So the goal is to keep pushing myself and to not let my emotions get the best of me! A cheat meal is one thing, but I can't afford a cheat DAY.....yet. 

So true!!! Haha :)