Random Thoughts

I love the tree, lights and decorations and every year, on the day after thanksgiving, my tree goes up, no excuses.  Well…it would so happen that I have raised a 4 year old daughter who loves all those things too and she has been begging since Halloween to decorate for Christmas.  I fought her on it for a few days and then thought to myself…hmm, who is to say we can’t put up our tree now?  Is it really that big of deal?  So two days ago on November 9, 2010 our tree went up.

How did I make this into my work out for the two days it took to do all the decorating?  Well, instead of bringing up 2-3 things at once (up the stairs) I brought up only ONE thing at a time.  This tripled the amount of times I would have ran up and down the stairs and by the time the two days weer over I can feel the burn from the stairs.

Putting a tree together, with all the lights, cleaning up the nicknack’s and putting them away to add more really does take a lot of energy.  I am still sore today but the decorations look beautiful, my 4 year old is so excited, and I got my work out in for 2 days.  Sweet!

Learning to make something extra out of everything!

I am hooked, I have got to tell you, HOOKED!  I am loving this feeling good as it is just magnetizing so many other aspects in my life.  I still struggle every now and then but am getting so much better at this.  My FAVORITE thing is compliment’s I get from total strangers. 

I have been logging my weight loss on my other blog  http://tawnasplan.blogspot.com/ and have posted many times how my secret experiment has been working hand in hand with my weight loss.  My bod image is changing as I am looking in the mirror and telling myself I like what I see and I am doing such a great job.

I have been getting compliments like you would not believe, daily, from total strangers.  Even my family and friends are saying things all the time.  Even on the days that I have measured and have not gone down at all since I saw my friends last and they will say things like “you get smaller every time I see you!”  Instead of saying, “oh I have not lost any more since I saw you last.”  I say…”thanks, I feel great!”  It makes such a big difference to just say thanks too.  no more being embarrassed or too humble to take a compliment, damn it, I have done good, I feel good so you know what…I deserve those compliments!

I love seeing myself changing into this more positive person.  Now to get all the aspects in my life changed to positive and I will be UNSTOPPABLE!

It has been abnormally warm around here and we are back up to almost 68 degrees today.  I am so not complaining, this is awesome as it is November 9 and I am warm!

I was outside raking leaves so my daughter could jump in them and wanted to get inside to go over her letters and numbers.  I like to try and remember to do this everyday and she did not want to go inside and quite frankly neither did I. 

I looked around and saw the sidewalk chalk and thought, hmmm, what to do with this?  Aw picnic table, yes perfect!  We sat down at the picnic table and wrote all over it.  This lead to writing on the fence, the dog house oh and of course the cement.  She had a great time writing her letters, numbers and everyones name.  How perfect was this, and for a few minutes she thought I was the coolest Mom ever because I let her write all over things!

My friend from Utah sent me this yummy apple pie recipe.  Beats eating a fattening pie!  I still need to try it but it sounds awesome!
Thanks Sheri

Apple pie

Skin and cut up 1 whole apple, layer apples in bowl with cinnamon and splenda or whatever sweetener you prefer. Microwave 5 min. Keep stirring until apples are like apple is soft. Sprinkle with a little special k low fat granola cereal or fiber one and top with fat free cool whip. Yummy! When I am craving something sweet this is perfect! Comfort food too!

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I need to listen to that specific part of Joe Vitale’s CD again because I don’t think it is his quote, I think someone said it to him and to give credit where credit is due I will look into that and post it later.

I can’t get enough of saying this quote in my head.  Here it is again. “If you don’t know you can you cant, if you don’t know you can’t you can.”  This is just so powerful and I did not have hardly anytime the other day when I posted it to elaborate.

How many of us talk ourselves out of things everyday?  I know I was and am still guilty of this.  We ARE our worst enemies and we should be our biggest supporter!  This is the great thing about my journey is that I am learning to be my supporter instead of the one that brings myself down.

Have you heard the statement before “those that bring everyone else down and find faults in everyone else have a low self esteem and do not feel like they are good enough.”  Maybe not in those exact words but you get the picture.

So my question for everyone today:  Are you going to let society win and fall into this negative atmosphere or are you going to be your own person and better the world and quit giving into the negative?  I am trying real hard to get away from the negative.  It has helped me greatly!  I even lost another 1 1/2 inches off my body in 15 days and I did not work out much.  I really do believe my thinking is what is doing it!

If you have not got these CD’s yet, which I post on a lot of my posts, you really should.  Watch the documentary the secret and listen to these CD’s.  If you need the help being more positive, I am living proof that they are working!

I cannot feel good about my 4 year old daughter eating the amount of candy she got on Halloween, it is ridiculous!  I have decided that there will be a little bit of candy thrown away everyday and i I do it slow enough she will think she ate it.  I did take out quite a bit the first day, as you can see in the picture, but I figure if I can throw away 4-5 pieces a day that should do it.

Some people may feel that this is wasteful but I cannot let my child think it is OK for her to eat this much candy and I really don’t need to be helping her either!

I know I am in my PJ’s but that is me I am a PJ girl and force myself to get ready, as I have posted before, when I need to get out of my funk and need a pick me up.  I am feeling good so I am PJ-ing it til late in the day because in the cold it is comfortable!

My 4 year old is getting much better at taking pic’s!  Not sure what the look is on my face but you can see the big difference in my stomach, not as many rolls!

All measurements are in inches

                                             Oct 18          Nov 2        Loss or Gain
Bust                                       41                41              0
Under bust                             36                35 3/4        L-1/4
Waist                                     41                41              0
Around C-section scar           42 3/4          42              L-3/4
Hips                                       45               44 1/2         L-1/2
Thigh (1)                                24 3/4         24/3/4         0
Arm                                       12               12               0

Total inches lost in 15 days = 1 1/2 add this to my last inches lost from Oct 12-18 so 6 days = 3.75 inches in 21 days (that is less then a month, only 3 weeks)!

All I have been doing besides eating healthier is plank position and not every day it has been about every other and I did not do it for one full week because of being sick. 

I have also been cleaning more and not allowing myself to sit down in front of the TV for long periods, not at all during the day but only an hour or two at night. 

I am just keeping active and really doing well with my positive thinking and I really do think that the positive thinking is doing the most good right now, seriously.  My mind set is getting so much better and I know that I am losing a lot of stress weight because of it.  I still have a ways to go with improving it but I know for a fact it is helping!

Love seeing these numbers go down, whihoo!