What's up friend? How are you. Glad to see you are still at it. Sorry you didn't get picked, but you can do it anyway. I know what you mean about cooking, I don't do much of it, but lately have been doing more.

One thing that is my latest favorite is making taquitos, only I don't fry them. I take a corn tortilla, put half a slice of 2% kraft cheese, 1/2oz of rotisserie chicken, and then I put it in the microwave for 30 seconds, then I roll it up, and dip it in low fat sour cream, & salsa. I can eat those all day long and they are low fat and low cal.

Good job with calorie counting and exercise this week! keep it up girl. I'm on week 4 of it and it's getting easier.

Well, I am VERY sad to say that I haven't gone to the gym this week... I've done a little bit of cardio at home on my mini stepper and trampoline thingy, but thats bout it. HOWEVER, I am VERY happy to say that I've stuck to the calorie counting, haven't had anything deep fried, and tonight I made REAL recipes! lol. The cooking thing bout killed me, but I did it, and now I'm off to making bigger and better things. I have lost a total of six lbs so far... but ya know how it is- big people lose faster. Psh.
Anyways, I'm off! Take care everyone

Oh, and MJ- thanks for the recipe, it sounds super easy and tastylicious

Had a bad food day today. One bad food day in almost three weeks- I'm pretty happy about that. I'm still only down ten lbs. total, but thats pretty amazing considering its just food that I've changed.... Get those workouts in and I lose pretty fast, so I can be at my goal of -35lbs by May 25th. It can be done!

I think it is great that you are down 10 pounds! You can totally get to your May goal. Glad to see you are cooking. I am beginning to enjoy the cooking part more, but hate all the dishes! Keep it up girl, you can do it!

Soooo I had three bad days in a row... bleh. First real days that I've missed the calorie counting, which I will make up for this week. I've been working SOOOO much its rediculous! I had to go to work at GNC in Bozeman(about 140 miles) yesterday because allll the employees decided to quit. Stupid. So that kinda killed my eating plan for the day.. not very good food.
I hafta work at the gym this weekend- first weekend in six months- not to bad. I figure its the least I can do since i have a free membership there,lol.
Alrighty, well I'm off to make tomorrows lunch!

So as of this morning, I am down 13lbs. I'm pretty happy about that.. I have exactly nine weeks till the wedding, and thats a ton of time to lose 22lbs. I've got my gym stuff ready to go and will be heading there after I'm done on here, so thats another bonus- first day in quite a while that I'm making it to the gym, yay! I'm kinda looking forward to going, to, which is nice. I have a lot of those days where I say, "Jeeeezzzz, I hafta go to the gym..." and then pout about it for hours until the point comes when it really IS to late to go, and I just go to bed. But not today !!!
Alright, well off to the gym, hopefully I can get right back into my old workouts...I know its gonna be a titch rough at first, but it is what it is. I've only got myself to blame now.

hey jess I missed ya girl! You can do it I am back!!!

Two days in a row, pretty friggin fantastic workouts! YAYYY!!! I'm sore from last nights workout, and I'm sure that tomorrow I'll be sore from todays workout, but at least I know that the soreness is an actual accomplishment.

Calories were good today except at the very end- my sister and I went to JBs for supper... I had the salad bar, but even I know that dressing and other stuff adds up. Then, I had two tiny onion rings and two cheese sticks from my sisters app. sampler. And now I have the stomachache to show for it!

Side note: I'm addicted to the BBC show "You Are What You Eat"... and because of that show, I doubt I'll ever eat a hotdog again(they really weren't my favorite to begin with), and in the future- hamburgers will be my last resort, as well. They sometimes show what things are made of- blehhhhh. I think I'll stick to veggies and rice and some chicken here and there....

Redneck Woman!!! Oh my goodness- long time no see lady!!!

Girl you can do this!!!!!!!!!! I know you can and I am so Proud of you!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh man. Caught some random crazy cold, I don't really FEEL bad, its just in my lungs. Bleh, nasty cough and runny nose. Woo! Aren't you all just freakishly jealous??

So I missed two workouts this week because I ended up falling asleep watching tv.. oops. However, I DID make those workouts up. I'm not doing as much cardio as I should be doing, but I've got actual weight and machines to do every night, so I can already see a difference in my giant chubbygirl arms. Jeez, if I could do ANYTHING in the next seven weeks, it would be get rid of the arm flab...Cuz I do NOT wanna wear a sleevless dress in a wedding with em. NOoooo. Even if I don't quite make the goal I want for my friends wedding, I am Very confident that I will actually keep going with the workouts. First of all, cuz I really do feel good when I workout, but second- most important(and I'm sure just about everyone will agree here)- its way to big of a pain in the ass to get used to the workouts all over again!! Comparing the amount of weight I do per machine now to two years ago when I lost all the blubber and was in great shape- wow. I'm hardly doing a third of what I was doing at the end of my fabulous workouts before. I've even got my skinny little 115lb sister going with me. She may be super skinny, but hahaha! shes in wayyy worse shape than me ah, that for some reason makes me happy. Sad, yeah??

I'm starting to get the hang of cooking- altho I've found lots of ways to cut corners. Like the rice that you get in the freezer aisle and just toss the whole bag in the microwave and four minutes later you've got amazing brown rice? LOVE EM!!! I even roasted chicken today. lol! I had to ask my sister how to do it...ahem. turns out its reallllly friggin easy. I did have a few bad food days tho- one day I ate a whole container of ben n jerrys ice cream(like 1000cals by itself ) and the next day was going great, and THEN(and this is embarrassing to admit- way more than the container of b&j's) I ate a whole container of 100 cal snacks...man. what the hell? Thats all I can ask myself... But of course, todays a new day, get back on the horse, blah blah blah. Insert your favorite motivational speech here lol.

OOOKKK, so I'm gonna quit with the rambling tonight, will be back in a few days to post more fantastic news(I hope )

Aack! Tonight was leg night at the gym, holllly hunnies. I swear to god, my legs are bowls of jello after I do curls and sqauts and extensions, bleh. I decided that starting this week I've gotta start getting lots more cardio in if I wanna burn the fat off faster, so I did 34 minutes on the treadmill, not at a super high pace- it took me that long to do 1.5miles, but, and this is soooo great, I can't quit smiling about this- I ran for ONE WHOLE MINUTE. I realize that sounds like squat to most people, but I'm sure theres a lot of people who understand that at about 15seconds your lungs are burning, your heart is pumping, and you just wanna stop... so going for a full minute was a breakthrough for me. My friend Tiffany came with me tonight, she weighs about 50lbs less than me, and she couldn't even do a full minute, lol... oh man, I realllly shouldn't brag about 1 minute, but I just think its great. I'm gonna be up to running a marathon one day


Ate wayyyy to many calories today, but not so over the top that I would be ashamed, so thats a bonus for once.

Went out on Friday night, wore some stuff I haven't wore in a while since I got all fat and stuff again, lol, so I was pretty happy. I've only lost about 12lbs, but I've lost 3 inches off my stomach which I'm pretty impressed with... Good things are finally happening I'm very happy about that!

Hey Jess, thanks for stopping by "my place" today! Just wanted to drop in and see how you are doing. We can knock this 20 pounds out by May 23rd, no problem! Let's not look at long term goals though, let's take it ONE DAY AT A TIME! So... what are your goals for TODAY?

Paula- the biggest goals I have for EVERY day are exercise, think positive, don't eat cartons of ben and jerrys, and to just remember that this IS hard work, and that even if I go a week or two without seeing anything on the scale it DOESN'T mean my body isn't getting better. Sounds like easy shmeezy goals, but I think those are the ones we all seem to forget about now and again...



Just got back from the gym. It was an ok workout...nothing fantastic- I did back today, and then did 40 minutes of walking on the treadmill. Eh. I have uber aweful cramps, feel kinda icky overall really, so I'm just proud to say that I actually WENT. lol.

I love those microwave bags! I get the veggie ones (actually eating one right now lol)

As far as chicken goes, have you ever tried a George Forman grill? I have one (not that brand but same thing) and I LOVE IT! Between my grill and those microwave veggie bags, I can have dinner on the table in less than 10 minutes! And you can even grill the meat straight from the freezer!

Oh my I hear ya on that one! Congrats on the one minute! If you're interested I have a great running program that slowly progresses through like a 9 week period.

Sounds perfect to me!