Look what I made

Tonight I came home and made myself a delicious meal. A BLT on light bread, with fat free mayo and low sodium bacon, roasted asparagus and tomatoes and cucumber with fat free feta. Don't forget the water either. I'm sure some people might look at my little meal and think "What's the big deal?". Well let me tell you that it's a big deal to me. Mostly because I am not a cook, I don't really enjoy cooking and have spent most of my life avoiding it. However, lately I've really began to take pride in my meals. It's not that they're amazing tasting intricate dishes that only a foodie could appreciate, it's more that they're healthy and I made them myself. I really take great pride in this. Yesterday I even made some mango salsa, grilled some pork chops and roasted some sweet potatoes. I must say I am rather proud of myself at the moment. :) Also I'm super in love with BLT's right now. I wish I had remembered to buy an avocado so I could have added a bit of that. Mmmmm....heaven!

Rollercoaster of love

This really isn't a post about love I just suddenly had that song stuck in my head, gotta love the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It's been kind of rough going lately. After my great 4.2 lbs loss, I had a 1.4 lbs gain. I really think it was all water because I was down on Saturday then went out Sat. night and had bbq on Sunday. By the time Tuesday rolled around I think I was still a lil dehydrated or at least thats what I keep telling myself. Ha! I skipped WW this week because my brother and cousin were in town and I was at my Grama's every night eating crap. I realize that those weeks are the times it's best to go to meetings and weigh in but I just didn't want to have to face the scale. Yes, I'm a coward at times but who isn't? This week I've definitely been half assing it but I'm glad to say that this morning I stepped on the scale and I'm down. This put me in a great mood. Directly after that I lost a $1.25 to the washing machine which put a slight damper on my mood however, I went to the grocery store after that and only spent $40. That in its self is enough for me to be super happy. Its a beautiful day outside which is only adding to my delightful mood this morning. Also yesterday I spent the day at the pool and managed to get slightly burnt. While it's not exactly comfortable I know it'll turn into a nice golden tan. Everyone knows that tan fat looks better than white fat. Hooray!!!!

I've been hiding

well not really. I just haven't blogged in a while. I've been super busy with work because I don't really do anything else. I lost 4.2 lbs. this week. This is awesome! The only downside is that the week before I had gained 4.4 lbs. This was over a 2 week period so it wasn't that horrible. Part of this was due to the fact that I went to Ohio for Spring Break. I stayed with my cousin and it's not that she eats really bad or anything but it's much harder for me to stay on plan when I'm staying at someone elses house. However, I totally made up for it by being super diligent this past week. Now if I can keep up the momentum I'll be down 11 lbs. I know I can do this I just have to keep with it. It also helps that people keep telling me at work that I look like I've lost weight. I've also been inspired by our class picture recently coming out. Lets just say I'm not looking my best. The shirt I was wearing was really big on me which I didn't realize. I thought it looked good until I saw the picture I guess it's better than it being too small.

Numbers in the Teens (They start with a 1!!!!) song

I'm posting this video because it's a super catchy song and I really want to show it to my students. They always confuse the teen numbers, unfortunately the school has youtube blocked so this is the only way I can show it to my kids. Aren't I such a great teacher? :)

Rollercoaster BLAHS

I really don't know what the deal is but I'm still feeling kind of blah. This week at weigh in I was down .2lbs. Which is amazing considering all the damage I did on Valentine's. It started with free breakfast tacos and juice. I ate one for breakfast and the other for lunch. Then came the chocolates. I love ferrero rocher (spelling?) and one of my students always brings it to me without fail. It was Valentine's day, I was alone, I had to eat some of it. Luckily I didn't eat all of it. Then Valentine's night I went out to dinner and ate a bunch of french fries, so I was pleasantly surprised when the scale was down. However, I know that it still could come back to haunt me.
This week I've been tracking and staying on plan but I still just have that blah feeling. Things at work are really bugging me and I'm just feeling a general sense of ugh. In fact last night I heard a commercial for menopause and before they stated what the condition was they told all the symptoms posed as a question, of course. My answer was "yes" to all of them. Maybe that's the problem, at 29 I'm going through menopause. That's not really true. However, I have seriously been contemplating the purchase of a cat, you can never start your collection to soon. :)

A case of the Blahs

This week has been quite "blah". Last week at weigh in I was down 9 lbs. I was stoked excited ready to go, I was all aboard the weight loss express. Then the girl scout cookies came and I ate almost and entire box of them on Monday. Then on Tuesday which is my weigh in day I ate a bunch more right before weigh in. So I was up .8lbs. It was okay though cause I was still pumped and still on that weight loss wagon. Then I got sick and have had a cold all week. We've also had a ton of work piled on us and yesterday I got to spend part of the day with my student pulling everyone else out of their chairs. Now its 6:40 am on Saturday morning I'm contemplating going to the grocery store before I have to go to work to finish my mounds of work. I stepped on the scale and its still up. BLAH! Hopefully I'll get out of this funk cause it's not cool!

No Snow :(

I'm sure that people in the Mid-west and even Dallas are tired of all the snow, but down here in Houston we were very excited to hear it was our turn. It wasn't going to be a ton but even a little is a lot to us down here. They canceled school today and most of the city was shut down in anticipation. I was definitely excited. I had plans to build a snow man on my patio and just admire the beauty and wonder of the magical winter wonderland. My kiddos were super excited. We discussed their plans yesterday to build snowmen, throw snow balls and make snow angels, which they described by flailing there arms and saying "you know the things were u lay in the snow". One kid was even going to build a school bus out of snow, he has a slightly concerning obsession with school buses. However, there was no snow to behold this morning. I don't know if I was more disappointed for myself or for my kids. Snow is magical for us Texans and even more so when you're small. Maybe Wednesday it will happen, you know for the kids sake. :)