Not just a pretty face...

I am actually worthless at work today, I am so ready to hit the road with Beau and then... take a nap! LOL so why not blog and make up for last week..

First we just had a 'going away' party for a co-worker...with cake! I was good and had a bit size only piece, even with the peer pressure I only had one! YAY ME!!!!

So here is something: I got an email from a family member recently asking me if I was “happy”. I had to ask them to be more specific and I found she was asking “why I was going on a diet, if I was happy with my life and if Beau liked me just the way I was then why change?”

Well as surprising and flattering as it is that I found a man (or more so he found me) that was attracted to me just the way I am this is something I need to do with me, because I look in the mirror and I see “disgusting” and I don’t mean my face. Yeah yeah I know “I have such a pretty face”

I am doing this for me, for me to be happy with my body, for me to be confident when walking into a room, for me to be healthy, for me to wear the closthes I only dream of wearing. My cousin was the first person to honestly ask me why and I appreciated it and I appreciated her acknowledging my fight and encouraging me to fight on even if she didn’t think I needed to lose the weight, but she was making sure I was doing this for the right reason. And didn’t want me to make myself miserable.

So on a side tangent let us look at the phrase “You have such a pretty face”… You know that isn’t as much of a compliment as some of you think because while I am hearing you say I'm pretty, I am thinking to myself “I know I’m pretty, who said anything about me being ugly?” So when someone acknowledges they are overweight don’t follow up with “but…you have such a pretty face” or “she is such a pretty girl” dot dot dot!  I know you mean well but well instead respond with. “I love you just the way you are, but how can I help?”.

Am I in trouble?

Did you miss me? Yeah well… sorry, I’ve been a slacker. It doesn’t help that work has been majorly hectic the past 2 and a half weeks not to mention I work for the wicked witch of the east (flying monkeys and all).

Honestly even with work being crazy I made the conscious decision NOT to go to WW last week which is why there was no update that and the fact I didn’t have time to slack off and blog on my lunch hour, hell I didn’t have time for “a” lunch. WHICH is why I didn’t go because lunch was whatever was close to put in my mouth which happened to be the vending machines down stairs. Yeh yeh bad Stacy.

But I made up for it I worked extra hard this week, and a special thanks to the 24 hr flu. (is that really true? Can you get the flu for only 24 hours? Well whatever it was…tanks dude) I went to WW today and I dropped 1.6…. grand total of 3.1 pounds since joining. Could be better but my motto “A loss is a loss” or as I told my co-worker today I had a positive negative… ha-ha… I also told him it was his fault for letting me eat potato chips and not stopping me from grabbing a coke when I needed a water. Well we had a deal, after my morning coffee no coke till after four glasses of water....and he isn't a very good drill sargent! AND I am very good at point fingers at everyone BUT me. J

So this weekend will be a “test”, Beau and I will be going out of “town” for the weekend. We aren’t going more than 30 miles away but hey it isn’t Woodbridge and that is all that matters. The test is…can I still be good? Probably because I always secretly look at Beau when we are out and think “does he pay attention to what I order?” I know he pays attention to how much I eat because he always comments I don’t eat enough, which is honestly part of my problem. Anyway I don’t do anything easy so trip away/diet sure…why not! We will be walking…and stuff!

Oh and did I mention I am on a diet to lose weight and Beau has put himself on a diet to gain weight? I’m like hmmm how is this going to work? Well… he is gaining but I pointed out a “beer gut” really wasn’t his goal so maybe he should re-think his strategy….

Okay then… TA-TA for now! <3 ya!

1.5 down 98.5 to go...

So today was my first weigh in since joining Weight Watcher and I lost 1.5 pounds... YAY ME!!!!

I will admit though I joined last week and I watched what I ate I did not follow the points system to a T (or is it tee?) I was still dieting, just not as hard core as I could. I went out to eat once (and ate off their light menu shh Caryll don't tell about the roasted potatoes) and even turned down a two free meals with my folks (both would have been take out or eat out) So this coming week however I promise to start with truly following the points system but first I have to take a few minutes out of my day to figure out the new system.

I'll write more soon followers, this week has been a little hectic!

Ta-ta for now! <3 you!