Wii Fat

After losing 5.2 pounds on Jenny last week I felt ready to start upping the exercise.  I had used my Wii Fit before but had never set up the profile and my lovely 9 year old daughter decided to help me out.  So, not only did the Wii Fit say I was obese but it also said that I resemble someone 58 years old...  My ideal weight per the Wii is less than I weighed before I had kids or got married, seriously, that is skinny.  So, I got off that darn Wii and headed to Cooper's baseball game.  Hopefully "wii" will kiss and make up soon.

Me Speechless....

Well, I had weigh in yesterday and things have been good but not quite as I had hoped until last night.  Drumroll please....5.2 pounds in one week!!!  What the heck?  So in 4 weeks I have lost 9.8 pounds and 7 inches.  I am officially a Jenny Craig believer!

Neither my counselor or I believed it.  We both stood there staring at the number like it would change.  I think the difference has been more water and too busy to think about the hunger.  Now if I could just keep this going another few months I will be Valerie Bertinelli instead of Kirstie Alley!

Yes is WAY OVERUSED!

So today was another fulfilling day as a working mother.  It started with Adam forgetting his gym shorts and his off-handed question whether I could go get them....  And of course I answered "Yes" and it went like this:

It seemed easy to drive back home but I of course forgot about the traffic going by all of the schools to get home (the junior high, high school and elementary school are at the same intersection and 90% of the students are driven) so I decided to jump on the highway which was of course backed up because it was down to one lane.  Then I come home and go to Adam's room which looked like this:

So, of course I couldn't find any clean gym shorts in his room but there were some in the clean clothes still in his clothes basket from a week ago (note that the dirty clothes are on the floor because the basket is still in the laundry with clean clothes).  So I rummage through the clean clothes that are completely wrinkled because they were never folded and run out of the house with a clean pair of gym shorts.  I am not 30 minutes into this adventure.  I go back through the traffic to the school and gosh darn it I am going to talk to that kid.  I have him called out of class and hand him the shorts, sit on the bench by the front door of school and have a lecture on respect, responsibility, entitlement and how his 1 action has impacted my day.  I now need to work late because I was late getting into work....  Needless to say there is nothing like coming home to the sound of the washer and dryer and it wasn't started by you!

And since I haven't discussed my weight loss journey in a few days I have to tell you that I was VERY SCARED to go to Jenny Craig tonight.  I kept thinking of all of the things I had done wrong all week, not remembering anything I had done right.  After some counsel from friends I braved my way to the scale and YAHOO, lost 1.6 pounds!  I think I can do this another week!!

Here's to saying YES to me more often and NO to the kids more often...

Fallen off the wagon?

So it's been a while since I've posted...  What is my excuse?  The dog ate my laptop?  Scratch that, everyone knows I've been on Facebook.  Jenny Craig kicked me out of the program?   Scratch that, they take your money even if you aren't losing weight (I've lost 3 pounds!).  Seriously, it's just the crazy, busy life of a working mother.

So where do I begin?

The week started off with a bang with Coop waking me up in the middle of the night with his eyes sealed shut (obviously he could open them up enough to make it across the room to my side of the bed).  Yep, sealed up pink eyes.  After an early morning visit to urgent care I went to pick up his prescriptions only to find out that my insurance company had cancelled the dependent coverage because I failed to submit a marriage license and birth certificates to prove that the people I have had on my insurance plan since 1997 really belong to me.  Lord knows, who else would want them!

Tonight my 6th grader called me at 3:10 to ask if I would pick him up at the school.  Ummm, I'm at work, a good half hour away.  We of course forgot that there was an after school "party" and he didn't have the $4 he needed for admission.  I sent him to find his brother in the locker room getting ready for football to ask for the money - problem solved.  Until my phone rang at 4:15 and my 9 year old called to say she is home alone.  Crap, I forgot that if Coop and Adam were at school, no one would be home to watch Mac!!  With every intention of driving home I tried to wrap things up.  At about 5:00 Mac called to say Coop was picking on her, problem solved, she is no longer at home alone!!!  Of course I still hadn't left work....

I did have some major successes though!  Count me in as the first person to obtain the coveted Glamour Witch Costume from Party City!  There will be no scrounging for costumes on October 30th for me!!  I hope I have the same foresight in January to ensure that Maclaine doesn't have to have random Valentine's Day cards purchased on February 13th at midnight and hastily assembled on Valentine's morning.  I feel like I am really making progress on getting organized!  Now if I could just get the dehydated french fries, chewed up wads of gum and Mac's ever growing collection of "stuff" out of the mini-van, I'd really feel like I'd accomplished something.  Have a great night all!!