homeschoolmom

I joined Buddy Slim and The survivior challenges in the hopes that it would help me lose some extra weight. I would really like to lose enough weight to be healthy and fit. I would really like for my clothes to fit. I would like some extra energy to keep up with my kids and to be able to keep up with them in the coming years. I want to have a healthy and active life.

I have been tired and aching and depressed and generally not feeling well. I believe if I get more exercise and eat helathier that I can lose some weight, gain energy and just feel better! That is what I want. 

Well, I know how I got here and but what do I need to change to get out?

If I am going to lose my extra weight, then I need to be really committed to it. I feel that this is the hard part for me. It is so easy to say that I will do it tomorrow. I enjoy exercising and love the way it makes me feel. My problem is controling my eating.

I hate to deprive myself. If I want to eat something, I do not like to say no to myself. I need first of all to watch what foods are being brought into the house - this is not easy with children in the house. Next I need to eat with more moderation. (One cookie is enough, you do not need to eat the whole batch)   

If I could do these things, I would be able to reach my goals!

It feels good to write this down and see it in print! I hope this will help me.

Well, My challenge is to explain how I got to the place I am now - meaning how did I gain this extra, unhealthy weight?

I was never “skinny”. I have always been an average size person. I never had a problem with weight until I had children - four to be exact! I was never able to lose all of my weight from pregnancy. I think I gained about 5 pounds a kid from the first three. I decided I was done having children and I lost that fifteen pounds. I was very happy and then I found out I was pregnant!!!!!!!  I was very depressed!

My fourth child (a boy after three girls) is truly a blessing and I wouldnt trade him for anything! I did gain weight and then I turned forty and gained some more weight. It is so  hard to lose the weight now.

So…. I joined Buddy Slim and hope to lose my extra weight. I know it is not a lot of weight but I really want to be healthy and  live an active life. Having four kids at my age requires a lot of energy. Exercise and losing weight will help me to gain some energy. BS is a way to help me get the extra  motivation and accountability that I need.

Ever since Thanksgiving I have been having a hard time getting back into my exercise and healthy eating routine. We have had way to much unhealthy and tempting food around the house and the cold and snow makes it really hard to get my walks in.

I am excited to start the survivor #3 challenge. It should be helpful to resist some of that holiday temptation. I really need to hold the girls back from making too much holiday junk! They do love to make cookies and goodies. 

Health wise. I have not been feeling my best since I turned the big 4-0. I dont know if it is just in my head or crazy hormones. No one warned me about the hormones messing me up so early. I am more irritable and more prone to PMS cravings and it is so much harder to lose weight.

Anyway… I am thankful I found buddy slim and joined the fistwess survivors. It has be just what I needed!

we made it through ‘no sweet week’. i made a blackberry pie to celebrate on Sunday. The girls also made cookies. oh, and we had cinnamon rolls for breakfast on sunday. hows that for breaking no sweet week.

It is hard but i think it is a great way to teach our kids and ourselves how important it is to eat healthy. you do not realize how much sugar is in the typical american diet until you do something like this. we did not cut sugar out of our diet for the week. i am not sure how to do that- sugar is in everything - even stuff like spaghetti sauce.

Well its day 4 of no sweet week.  Its “that time of the month” . A dose of chocolate would be very good, but alas - its no sweet week. I have done this before so I can do it again. No one said it would be easy.

My kids really crack me up with thier attempts to get no sweet week canceled. My ten year old said she was feeling really bad and had a headache because she needs some sugar. I told her if she feels that bad, she really needs to keep off the sweets so her body can detox. (ha-ha) She didnt like that. On the plus side she was at church on Wednesday and her class had chocolate. She didnt eat any even when the others told her she should just have one. Way to go! 

I have been bribing my 2  1/2 year old with candy to potty train.  I havent given any candy and he is still using the potty. Yeah.

So I would say it is a sucess so far and I will be happy when Sunday comes!   

We do this every so often at my house. It was my husbands idea. We call it “no sweet week”. From Monday to Saturday (we get Sunday off) for a full week we can not eat any sweets - candy, cookies, cake, muffins, etc. The kids hate it. I admit is is really hard for a sugar fantic like me but I am very stubborn and dont want it to be said that I cant do it!

So this week is no sweet week. We figured it was a good time since we just had Halloween and way to much candy at our house.

Last week in the fitness survivor challenge I made it my personal goal to have no Halloween candy for the week and I did it! I am so proud of myself.  Now we have no sweet week and still no candy for me. I feel so good about ont overinduldging on candy this Halloween!

Wish me luck to make it through no sweet week. The hardest part is listening to the kiddos complain.

I am back home after being gone all day yesterday. The weather is beautiful so I am going to make this brief so I can get outside with the kids. I am feeling good about this survivor challenge I am on. I think it is just the thing to motivate me. I hope that I not only lose weight but also keep it off!

I have never done a blog before so this is very new to me. I am still trying to figure out how everything works.  My husband is away at a mens retreat and I am home with the kiddos. I have 4 children ages 10,8,5 and 2. I also homeschool them. We are very busy.  I am tired all the time so I figured losing my baby fat would help give me more energy. I know chasing four kids around also make me tired. Anyway I figure I should give this a try so here I am!