The Baby is Home

We brought Shannon and baby Caroline home from the hospital today.  My husband Doug flew in from California, so we have a houseful.   I was going to fix a healthy dinner, but their friends came over to see the baby, so they ordered pizza and had a big baby party.  I was going to wait until everyone left so I could fix something for me to eat, but nobody was leaving and the pizza smelled so good and what was I to do?  Two pieces of vegetarian, thin crust pizza couldn’t be too bad could it?  Luckily for me, it really wasn’t.  It was a total of 360 calories, 12 g fat, 46 g carbs, and 16 g protein, and it tasted SO good!

 After dinner we walked for about an hour and then my 115 lb, cross-country running, swim team coaching, super jock 21 year old daughter Daryn had me lift 5 lbs weights while she was lifting 15 lb ones.  My arms are already sore, but I guess its about time I started toning up.

Caroline Kate

Here is our baby Caroline Kate. She is so darn cute!  She looks just like her Mommy did when she was 24 hours old.   I spent a lot of time with Shannon at the hospital today and was worried about eating the cafeteria food, but thankfully they had a super healthy salad bar, yum!

My daughter Daryn drove down from college to see her new niece.   Daryn, my son-in-law John, two year old granddaughter Isabelle and I went for a long walk around this cool trail by Shannon and John’s house.  It was fun and we had to go really fast because it was only about 50 degrees outside. That’s freezing in California degrees!

Daryn is sitting next to me right now with her head on my shoulder.  She said my shoulder is a lot bonier than it used to be.  She said she can also tell I’ve lost weight because my face is a lot thinner.  Yay, I have a skinny face and shoulders.  I wish my butt would catch a clue!

Breaking Bad 5-5

Look who's back!  My Breaking Bad Buddy Shauna!  Here's her post for today:

Debbie I have really been in a stooper lately. When I read your blog about Tim's advice to just keep blogging I can see how that would help. I'm so proud of you for sticking with it. WOW it must be fun living in sunny cal, and walking to your aerobics class and back home. You have inspired me today and I'm going over to the gym with my nextfit trainer. 45 min. and I'm coming home with a new attitude. Talk to you soon.

Shannon Had Her Baby Today

Woo Hoo, after about 40 hours of weird 10 minutes apart contractions, our little Cinco de Mayo baby granddaughter was born today at 1:53 PM.  She was 21” long and weighed 7lbs 8oz.  She is healthy and beautiful, but she still doesn’t have a name.  They were going to name her Caroline, but now that they’ve met her, they may change their minds.

We’re all totally happy.  I just went out for a quick 20 minute fast walk with my son-in-law and the dogs and I’m almost ready to call it a day… as soon as I log my food intake for the day.  I didn’t eat enough, but what I ate was very healthy.

I’ll have baby pictures tomorrow!

I'm Going to Be a Grandma Again

I flew to Salt Lake today.  My daughter Shannon is kind of in labor.  Her baby isn't due until May 17th, but she has been having contractions every 10 minutes for the last 15 hours.  It is 10 PM and she and her husband just went to bed.  I hope this is the real thing and they wake me up in the middle of the night and we all go to the hospital to have this baby.  I'd hate it if it were just false labor.... but probably not as much as Shannon would!

It sure is hard to be on a diet and exercise everyday when I travel so much.  I did okay on the meals today and got an hour walk in.  I held two dogs on a leash and  pushed my 2 year old granddaughter in her stroller .  So much for being selfish!

My Religious Post

Forgive me everybody, for I have sinned!  I haven’t been blogging, I didn’t write down my food intake for the last two weeks and I didn’t lose any weight this week.  I have not kept up my side of the bargain.  I have stumbled and I need to get back on the straight and narrow path to weight loss!

Now I’d like to bare my testimony.  I know that what Tim says is true.  I know that it will take at least 10 weeks of careful food planning and being accountable for everything I eat to change my behavior and develop good habits.  I know that if I do everything Tim asks me to do, I’ll lose the weight.  Amen!

Ouch, that was really hard to say.  I’ve been slipping back into my comfort zone.  Bad stuff is always happening, but it always will happen.  I’ve been rationalizing that other people need me.  I don’t want to be selfish and use the time it takes to plan, blog, eat right, and exercise, because I don’t want to neglect others.  That’s a dumb excuse!

I have to be selfish right now.  Today my exchange student missed the bus and came in and said “I need a ride to school”. I told her I couldn’t take her.   I was just leaving to walk to my water aerobics class and didn’t want to miss it.  Now I’m feeling guilty, but a little proud for not breaking my commitment to myself.  She called a friend and got to school on time, so it all ended okay anyway.

I’m the Compassionate Service leader in my church and a lady needs a ride to physical therapy every Monday and Wednesday at 10 AM for the rest of the month. I’m going to have to find other people to take her, because I have aerobics at 10 on those days.  I’m feeling really guilty about that as well   I hate guilt!  

Tim suggested I buy the book “Color Code” by Dr. Taylor Hartman.  In the book, Hartman categorizes personality traits into colors.  Tim said I’m a BLUE.  Blue people act on emotions and crave appreciation.  That’s me all right.  I guess I’d better buy the book and figure out what blue people do to lose weight!

It takes a lot of work to lose weight.  It is human nature to rationalize and slip back into old habits, and that’s what I’m starting to do. I know that not many people succeed in losing weight and getting into shape, but I don’t want to be average.  I want to succeed! Starting today, I’m going to put in even more effort to Choose The Right!

Week six, Day five.

Has anyone ever gotten tired of eating?  Trying to lose weight is tedious and blogging about it is tedious.  I’m lucky I’m not a binge eater and I don’t really have food cravings because if I did, I may have given up by now.  My biggest challenge is sticking to my goal of having 30 g protein, 25 g carbs and 8 g fat five times a day.  I’m getting to the point where it would be so much easier to just not eat!  I know that starving doesn’t work, so I just keep plugging away.  

Today I sat my keychain trainer up to the hardest workout and walked to aerobics, worked extra hard in the water and walked home really fast.  I burned over 600 calories and I plan on doing that every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.  I hope I’m in a better mood tomorrow.  I’d love to come up with something interesting and fun to blog about besides boring old food!