Present

Found the blog I thought I lost!  Woot!  So, here ya go!  Told ya I was bad at this blog stuff.  LOL

Well, I am here and present this AM.  I still don't feel 'great' but at least all of this stuff is breaking up.  I didn't sleep well last night and my youngest was being all strange.  So, I feel more tired and coughy than normal.  Hoping this will pass in the next couple of days before the weekend.  I would really like to feel better and be able to get a few things done.  So far, Spring cleaning has gone no where and neither have Spring projects.  So, I need to feel good this weekend to try to knock a few things out.

Once I am feeling better, I won't be posting as much.  I tend to post more when I'm laid up because I don't have anything to do!  Well, I have things to do, I just don't feel like it.  I did a few things yesterday, but overall I felt like poop and didn't get much accomplished.  I am thinking of trying to do a few things today, but we will just have to wait and see how I feel as the day goes on.  But right now, I feel woozy.  I take meds at noon, though, so hopefully that will help.

Got up to 208.0 this AM.  Happy to see it, but somewhat surprised...  I normally don't lose and actually gain during this time.  Speaking of, I wish it would just bring it's happy self on and get it over with.  But anyways, I was really surprised to see a loss.  That puts me at an even 5lbs. since I reduced my carbs under 40.  That's a total of 8.5 since I started watching carbs.  But just 'watching' as I mentioned in the other posts didn't produce a good loss.  I lost too slow and bounced around too much.  I'm happy with the 5lbs. -- that's 5lbs. in one week!  It had taken me weeks to see that before.  But at least I know once I lose my weight, I will be able to continue on and maintain, and possibly still lose some here and there without feeling like I'm deprived.  I don't mind not eating as much now because I know this is only a phase.  And it's not as if I am cutting out something I 'need'.  I don't NEED sweets or bread or any of that processed junk.  It's nice that so far, I don't feel one bit deprived.

Speaking of, that's why my ticker says I only need to lose like 30lbs.  My high point was 216.5 this time around (it was 226.5 a few years back) but I didn't actually cut down to between 20 and 40 carbs until about 8 days ago when I started writing on here again.  And that's when faster weight loss started.  But I started that at 213.  So, from there I do want to lose about 30lbs. to put me in the 180's.  That was my low number before I got preggo -- 184.  So, I would like to get to 183 for a new low.  Once I reach that, I will start a new goal.  But for now, 30lbs. is good.  At that point, I will decide if I want to lose another 20, 30 or 40.  I know I will want to lose more because at 184 I will still be a 14, but I'm not sure how much.  I use to think I'd like the 150's but then I thought no, 160's.  But then I start to think, should I get down to the 140's so it's as close to a 'healthy' weight as possible?  I just don't know.  I think I will know more when I get there.  But I do know at minimum the 160's.

I guess I should get going.  I need to fix some toys for my boys and then attempt to do a few things.  Busy busy.  LOL  Have a good day all!