pennypompa

I am here, at my beginning weight, AGAIN!  I have dropped and picked up the same 7 pounds for about 6 months.  My youngest is 17 months and I was thinner last fall than I am now…What the heck is that all about?  Today I have resolved to keep my mind focused.  Which I am SO good at for the first day or two, sometimes a week…then I reward my weight loss with a day or two, sometimes a week of treats.  Then I work hard to get it back off…I hate it when I lose my vision of my prize…Before I got pregnant with my last child (out of 4) I saw that goal…I dropped 23 pounds and was looking good…wearing clothes that I had not seen for YEARS!!!  After I got pregnant, I stayed on track for most of the time…this was the least I had ever gained.  After I was done nursing, I started my journey of weight loss AGAIN!  With some very great leadership and friendship I have to say, I am in good company.  For any of you who struggle or feel lost or frustrated, I have to tell you of my friend/boss.  Her book, Finally Thin, is being released at the end of December…it is so good.  Her story of struggling with her weight for years sure puts mine into perspective.  She has been on some TV shows, and she is such an encouragement.  You gotta check her website out…recipes, stories, pictures, and more.  go check her out and let me know what you think…pass it on…I am telling you it is such a support to see the results after all the struggling…Remember YOU CAN DO IT (so can I!)

Penny

This is NOT a commercial…it is a quest for help!  I am here writing my dieting saga and all the while I am working for someone who is a “diet guru”. You may have heard of her…Kim Bensen. Well she lost over 200 pounds using WW, her story always floors me. I met her at my WW meetings, she was my leader. She is so motivating…trust me! Anyway, here I am working with her as she sells bagels (awesome) and writing a book and doing a reality show…coming soon. I am surrounded daily by her essence of weight loss, working daily with lightening up recipes and helping her get her website working, about weight loss. WHY THEN, am I struggling everyday with losing weight. I know what to do, I am motivated, I am eating right (or am I?). Sometimes I because I say it, I think it is true, but really it is not. Anyway, what the heck am I doing? Am I the only that feels this way. Totally in the know, but totally out of reality…alright not totally, but you know what I mean. How to I implement my everyday life into my everyday being? Any suggestions? Am I alone? help me!!!

I am still new to the whole blogging world, but so far I like what I see.

My son is 3 1/2 (my third son out of 4).  He was completely potty trained and then totally regressed since vacation.  He is a love, but a very difficult child, since the day he was born.  I have to get some testing for him…a long story…and I am nervous about all that.  Anyway, as I deal with this daily, I am also struggling with my weight.  I have to stay focused on my diet, but I feel like I want to binge everytime I get stressed out.  I have to say, it has been a rollercoatser since he was born, but I need some stability…like a final weight.  I hate this up and down.  I was thinner last year at this time than I am now, and my baby was only 5 months old, not 17 months old…go figure.

Anyway, I just needed to vent, because I want to eat all my “comfort food” like chocolate and my favorite desserts.

Thanks for the ears…

I am sure you all have struggled with this issue, or else you wouldn’t be joining a weightloss group.  I have been dealing with weight my whole life, up and down, usually up.  I am so tired of this flucuation.  Here I am mid-30’s, mother of 4 boys and am trying to lose my belly fat.  2 c-sections later, and feeling like I have been preganant for 1000 years.  I am now fixed and can not have anymore kids, and I am ready to lose the weight once and for all.  As I said in my profile, I am a baker and test cook for a profession, which makes it even harder.  I have done the weight watchers thing and am not in meetings now, but am implementing what I have learned.  My friend moved away and gave me all of her unused nutrisystem stuff…it worked well but I got bored and tired of eating astronaut food.  Maybe I will use it one week out of the month…I am not sure how you, who do pre-packed food do it…I am envious.

Thank God the big kids are in school, now I haope to get some kind of routine to my life.  I have not weorked out in so long, I am disgusted…I can’t wait to figure it out and when I can w/o.  Thanks for letting me vent, it is tough going into a new group and bringing everyone up to speed.