We got a new puppy!

I know it didn't take long and we will always miss Oreo
and love her.But it was just so sad are other dog she is 2
was so sad and not eating and now she has a playmate
she is so happy and so are we.Are new puppy is 9 months
old and is a border collie mix she is already so loved
and a part of our family her name is Abie.

Very sad day today!

It's a very sad day today!I woke up this morning and went in to older son's room to wake him up and seen that our dog of 11 years had died she died in her sleep on his bed.I guess it was her time to go but that doesn't make it any easier to say good bye.
Please pray for our family like I said she was 11 and a big part of our family!

Tuesday weigh in

Well it's Tuesday weigh in today I know it's a bye week!LOL
Can you tell I like football my team the Indianapolis Colts
we're on a bye week so I guess that's why I said that.Anyway
the challenge was to take a week off and not log our weigh
But i went ahead and weighed and I was up a 2 pounds I'm actually
excited because when I weighed I was fully dressed and I am not usually
so next week I'm hoping for a nice loss.(crossing fingers)
I would be doing much better if my whole household would get well I've
still got one sick kid so it makes it really hard to grocery shop or excercise
but I'm still doing alright.I will be doing much better once these Hostess Ding Dongs
are out of the house!LOL Really Well I'm done rambling now!

What a week!

Wow what a week!Well my week started out last Monday when my youngest son got home from school saying he didn't feel well I think I mentioned that in my last post.Well the next day Tuesday he still didn't feel well so he stayed home well it just happened to be my middle son Jordan's birthday so we decide to go ahead and have Jordan's party had family over well after everyone left I was wiped out and Jordan didn't act like he felt well I took our temperature and the three of us had over 101.0 temp.Not fun.Next day add my oldest son to that and they all three stayed home!Lots of fun.Okay it is what they call Fall break here so they we're suppose to be out of school Thursday and Friday so my dh takes off and we are planning a mini vacation nope all 5 of us we're sick Thursday and Friday.Saturday morning we do get up and feel decent still slight fevers but we really wanted to do something so we drove two hours to Newport,Kentucky and went to the Newport aquarium we had a good time even though we we're pretty week we stayed in a motel in Cincinnati,Ohio and planned on getting up and going to the zoo but there was frost on the windows and fevers in three of us so we decided to come back home.Well tonight my oldest has 101.0 again so he will be staying home again.Please pray that we all get over this soon.

Didn't do so well on this challenge!

I did awful on this challenge the part you blog on the rest I did alright.
I kept on meaning to come here and blog but something always came up.
Now I have my 6 year old that has a 100.0 fever and my middle son'
his birthday is tomorrow he will be 10 please pray that my youngest gets better
so we can go ahead with the party.It is also fall break Thursday and Friday so
dh took off those days we are taking a mini vacation we are going camping and then
one day we will go to the zoo in Cincinnati,Ohio and one day to the aquarium in Kentucky so I think as long as everyones healthy will will have a good time.

Ooops!!

Well I've been trying to blog daily but I forgot
yesterday I went on a field trip with my son Jordan
yesterday and I was warn out when I got back home.
I made dinner and then I ended up getting a migraine
so needless to say I didn't have time to blog.

Today I feel a little better but not great.
I have so much I need to get done today cleaning wise
in the house.I also need to hide all of my 7 year olds
shorts so I don't have to fight with him every morning
like I had to today.LOL I can't convince him that short weather
is over for the year.

Tuesday weigh in

Well I am down 1 more pound but that means I have lost a total of 7 pounds all together so not to bad!

Also I had a great time at my aunts today in Ohio and seeing my cousin the time was way to short but I'll take what I can get.My aunt has a show house I mean it's been in a magazine and it is beautiful plus they have 500 acres .It was so cool to see I am hoping sometime next year my whole family can go see it My aunt is a doctor and so is her husband

Monday yes it is!

Not a lot going on today but tomorrow I am
going to Ohio to see my aunt and her family
my cousin is visiting with her new baby they
live in Alaska so I don't get to see her that often.

Update on my Great aunts birthday yesterday she
had a great day she was so excited.

Also for those of you that wouldn't mine sending up
a prayer there is a local boy who at 13 was playing football in his yard
the ball hit him in the chest and he was tackled at the same time
They are having to bury him tomorrow.Please pray for his family and all his friends
Especially the boy that tackeled him and the one that through the ball.

Also pray that they figure out WHY it took the ambulance 45 MINUTES to get to him!!!

My Sunday

Well today I am getting ready to go to Sunday school
and church then back home for lunch.Then we have a open
house birthday party for my husbands Great Aunt she
is 99 today.And yes I will be passing on the cake!
Then when we get done there hopefully we can catch the end
of the Indianapolis Colts football game!GO COLTS

After all that we have to clean my boys room
Fun Fun NOT!!!!LOL

Not much today!

My wonderful hubby is sick so we didn't really
do anything my mom and dad had the boys so we
just stayed home and watched a movie and read
all day.Actually it was a pretty relaxing day.

? Maybe TMI?

I'm not very regular!
I know I need more fiber what do
you all suggest that I eat?
I've been thinking of asking this
for awhile now
Thanks for any input

Walkathon at school

My boy's school had a walkathon at there school
and I went and walked with them.
I walked a mile with each of my
boys.3 miles is a lot for me!
But I was lucky it was a very nice day to be outside.

This weeks challenge is to blog!

I really have no idea what to blog about not much exciting going
on right now.So I've decided to tell on myself I was a really bad
girl today!I wanted a doughnut sooooooo bad and I ate it!
I feel so guilty I was doing so good and it really wasn't all that
great it was just here and calling my name!LOL

The rest of the day I will be good
Change that the rest of the week I
will be good.I have to be for ME!!!!
So if you actually make through my
rambling and don't fall asleep I thank
you and again thanks so much for the support!

Team Prancer sorry about the doughnut

Weigh in today!

Well I lost 1 more pound that's a total of 6 pounds!
I was hoping to lose faster but honestly when I think
about it when I lose weight fast it finds me pretty
fast!LOL So hopefully this weight that I feel like I'm
losing sooooooo slow may not come back at all(crossing
my fingers)I would like to get a scale that weighs half
pounds but we just can't afford it right now so I'll take
my 1 pound loss and keep going.
Okay now I'm rambling I know sorry

GAG week 4 challenge survey

1. Do you feel your eating habits that ended you into this challenge are a direct result of habits formed during childhood? (Please explain)

Maybe a little!When I was young I could just about eat anything I wanted.I just find it hard now because my family likes to
eat.

2. Tell me about your living situation. Are you married? Kids? In College? What is your life like OUTSIDE of weightloss?

Married for 15 years I wouldn't trade him for anything
I have 3 sons Albert will be 12 in December
Jordan will be 10 in October
Bradly is 7
We enjoy going camping as much as we can

3. If you were given a magic wand that you could use one time to do one thing, what would you use it for?

I'm going to be honest here the first thing that came to me was good health for my family and friends

4. What is your favorite thing about this time of year? Least favorite?

The temp not to hot not to cold I like that and I love to look at the falling leaves
I really don't dislike anything about fall it's one of my favorite seasons

5. You have a day off, no responsibilities, so what will you do with it?

Wow I'm going to pretend dh is off at the same day going on a long motorcycle ride
with him and just enjoying each other all day

6. What is YOUR sin food?

brownies(I haven't made any lately I don't think I could say no to them

7. Your in a foul mood, what lifts you out of it?
Taking a walk going online

8. Your in a good mood, what keeps you there?

My dh my kids

9. What is one of your biggest struggles right now?

In weightloss?I'm actually doing okay slowly but I have a feeling if I take it off slowly
maybe it will stay off

10. Your motivation is running low, where do you find your refill?

My GAG friends

11. Your in house support (meaning the people in your life that you see face to face) is beginning to dictate your weightloss journey by telling you your too heavy, or your getting too thin, but your not where you want to be. What do you do? How do you handle it?

I'm doing this for me not anyone e

12. List me your favorite:
color: purple
smell: vanilla
activity with your child: reading
Activity with your girlfriends/ guy buddies: don't really have any
way to relax: computer
13. Where do you honestly see yourself at the end of this challenge?

A few pounds lighter with new friends

14. What are your goals AFTER Gag?
Probably to try and keep it up and join your next challenge

15. How do you think GAG is going so far? What would you like to see done differently? (I must be asking for torture! LOL)

I think your doing awesome Sheila

16. Tell me all about your "typical" autumn weekend? Special activities that arise as well?

Not much to exciting except for one weekend during fall break we take 4 days and go camping buy a small mom and pumpkins for
the boys to carve just have a really good time

17. Is there one person in your life, who you hope your weightloss journey inspires?

My sister and neice I'm hoping maybe the next challenge I can get them to join

18. How did you find GAG, and what made you committ to join? Sheila posted about it on facebook
and I happened to see it and thought that's what I need

19. If you could nominate one BIGGEST INSPIRATION out of all your Team Gaggers, who would you nominate?

Sheila of course and then I'm going to have to say Sue she's helped me a lot behind the scene through emails
Thanks again Sue

20. Please, tell me about you. What are your dreams? What are your desires for your life? What sparks the passion inside of you about your life? What goals do you have that seem impossible?

I'm honestly happy right where I am right now in the future I'm hoping to get a good job but I'm doing okay right now
I just want my boys to do well

Sorry so hard to read I have no idea how to make it fancy or different colors!

Not sure how!

But I became Prancer's team captain?
I tried to get around to comment on everyone's
blog I hope I didn't miss anyone.
I just want to say all of you in with me
in this GAG challenge has encouraged me so much
I'm just hoping I have helped you as much as
you all have helped me.As you can tell I am
no good at words I'm not a good blogger but just
want to thank you all for being in this challenge
with me.Your all doing great and WE CAN DO THIS!!!!

Weigh in today!

Well I weighed in today and I am so excited I am down 3 lbs for the week!
I feel as hard as I'm working I should be down more but since I lost
nothing last week.I'll take the 3 lbs lost that's a total of 5 lbs in 3 weeks.
Not bad I now weigh 155.So I'll take it.

Gag points !

This week I will be keeping track in order to earn GAG points:

8 oz of water = 10 points
15 min workout = 10 points
Food tracking per day = 20 points
8 hours of sleep = 20 points

Tuesday~

Breakfast~1/2 of pita with scrambled eggs and 2 slices of turkey bacon~180 calories
Lunch~Michelinias Lean Gourmet Glazed chicken ~ 250 calories
Dinner~ 1 serving of ready brown rice with 1/4 cup light kidney beans with a side salad with slice of fatfree cheese and fat free ranch dressing
Snack~Emerald Cocoa Roast Almonds 100 calorie pack

Total 865 calories

water~72 oz 90 points
workout 15 minutes~30 minutes Wii Fit 20 points
Food tracking~ 20 points
8 hours of sleep~always 20 points
Total!!~150 points







Wed~

Breakfast~1/2 of pita with scrambled eggs and 2 slices of turkey bacon~180 calories
Lunch~Michelina's LeanGourmet Snackers Baked Pepperoni Pizza
afternoon snack~16 Lite wheat thins and a slice of fat free cheese
Dinner~2 oz spaghetti with chili on top
Snack~Emerald Cocoa Roast Almonds 100 calorie pack


Total~1,051


water~72 oz 90 points
workout 15 minutes~30 minutes Wii Fit 20 points
Food tracking~ 20 points
8 hours of sleep~ nope not this time :(
Total!!~130 points



Thurs~

Breakfast~1/2 of pita with scrambled eggs and 2 slices of turkey bacon~180 calories
Lunch~ Lean pocket meatball and mozz
Snack~Almonds
Dinner~1 roll from Texas Roadhouse
House salad and sweet potato plain



water~72 oz 90 points
workout 15 minutes~30 minutes Wii Fit 20 points
Food tracking~ 20 points
8 hours of sleep~ nope not this time :( Dh thought he turned his alarm off he didn't
Total!!~130 points





Fri~

breakfast~1 3 musketeer mint mini over slept
Lunch~Applebee's Oriental Grilled Chicken Salad (1/2)
1 onion ring at Applebee's
Dinner~ Brown rice with kidney beans
1/2 cup butter beans
100 calorie cocoa almonds
Gala apple
1 more 3 musketeer mint mini


water~72 oz 90 points
workout 15 minutes~30 minutes Wii Fit 20 points
Food tracking~ 20 points
8 hours of sleep~ yes
Total!!~150 points







Sat~

Breakfast~1/2 pita eggs and 2 slices of bacon
Lunch~brown rice with hot dog and coney sauce~actually pretty good
snack~twizzlers 2 snack size packs
Dinner~Beef enchilada ,refried beans and a few tortilla chips

water~72 oz 90 points
workout 15 minutes~30 minutes Wii Fit 20 points
Food tracking~ 20 points
8 hours of sleep~ yes
Total!!~150 points



Sun~

Breakfast~ 1 slice whole wheat Healthy Life bread 2 slices turkey bacon
Lunch~ Pork loin,corn on the cob, fat free cottage cheese,mashed potato and gravy
sliced tomato a few bites of strawberry pie
Dinner~Lean Gourmet Flatbreads chicken club

water~72 oz 90 points
workout 15 minutes~30 minutes Wii Fit 20 points
Food tracking~ 20 points
8 hours of sleep~ yes
Total!!~150 points







Mon~

Breakfast~I forgot to eat
Lunch~ wheat thins and fat free cheese 2 slices
Dinner-brown rice with a little chicken and scrambled egg and soy sauce
snack~100 calorie cocoa almonds

water~72 oz 90 points
workout 15 minutes~30 minutes Wii Fit 20 points
Food tracking~ 20 points
8 hours of sleep~ yes
Total!!~150 points

GaG weigh in Sept 8

This is the second weigh in I am so excited I went from 160 ~ 158 !!!!
I will do the same or better this week!
I want to thank you all for the encouraging words.
And for telling me to eat I'm doing better still not going
over 1000 calories most days but not starving either.
That's a good thing right?

Today eats and fun!

Well today I actually ate breakfast I had a half of
whole wheat pita with scrambled egg and 1 slice of
turkey bacon.
For lunch I had the other half of the pita bread
with a little turkey and a slice of fat free cheese
for snack I had some cocoa roast almonds(the ones
in the 100 calorie pack)
We we're at six flags Kentucky Kingdom theme park
and walked and walked and walked some more
On the way home we stopped at my favorite restaurant
Tumbleweed but I was good I asked to order of the kids
menu and they let me!Yay so I enjoyed my food but didn't get way to full
and I still only had 1200 calories today

Go Team Prancer

TEAM PRANCER
Chupsie
Hadley
Lynn
Heather (a new heather)
Christine
Mary (Malavandria)
Shelly

Just wanted to say today hasn't been quiet as hard
as yesterday but I'm still way below what my calorie count
says I can eat

Popcorn for lunch
cantaloupe for snack
minute maid juice bar
1/2 of a boneless skinless chicken breast
small baked potato
cottage cheese just enough to put on potato

That comes to 572 calories today!!


So what should I add ? What is missing?
I am still a little hungry but not near as much as
yesterday!
Thanks to all that gave me advice
I really feel encouraged so thanks again!

The challenge for labor day

As some of you have seen I'm not very good at this so the yesterday me probably would have just not eaten and been miserable like now.But the new me starting tomorrow after I go grocery shopping even though I have no labor day plans as of yet.Would bring a fruit and veggey tray so at least I could munch on something.
And I found a recipe a year ago and I really like it.So I would bring that too!
I hope this works.

The recipe is from www.3fatchicks.com

3 Bean Tacos


recipe ingredients
1 tsp. olive oil
1 cup diced onion
1/2 cup diced red bell pepper
1/2 cup diced green bell pepper
1 Tbsp. chili powder
2 tsp. dried oregano
1 tsp. ground cumin
1 garlic clove — minced
1 cup canned chickpeas (garbanzo beans), rinsed and drained
1/2 cup canned black beans, rinsed and drained
1/2 cup canned pinto beans, rinsed and drained
1 (8-ounce) can no salt added tomato sauce
12 taco shells
3/4 cup shredded iceberg lettuce
3/4 cup diced tomato
1/2 cup finely shredded reduced-fat sharp Cheddar cheese
1/2 cup salsa

recipe directions
Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until hot. Add onion and next 6 ingredients (onion through garlic), and sauté 2 minutes. Add chickpeas, beans, and tomato sauce. Bring to a boil; reduce heat, and simmer 20 minutes or until thick. Prepare taco shells according to package directions. Spoon 1/4 cup bean mixture into each taco shell. Top each with lettuce, 1 tablespoon tomato, 2 teaspoons cheese, and 2 teaspoons salsa.

I think it would be awesome in pita bread YUM
Serves: 12 - Nutrition Information Per Serving:
calories total fat sat fat protein fiber sodium (mg) carbs ww pts
140 4 1 5 4 273 21 2

Help I am starving!!!!!

OK tell me if I'm wrong?My main downfall on all diets is
I think I'm on a diet can't eat to much.I'm hungry all day
I go to bed hungry and wake up hungry!
This can't be good for me I know it's making me feel like
crap!!!For example yesterday I did not take pictures but I had
nothing for breakfast(I know probably my first mistake)for lunch
I had a Michellianios(not sure of spelling)little tv dinner of green peppers and rice says it's 270 calories and 4 grams of fat.Ok then I wait until supper starving the whole time!LOL Supper I fix for dh and boys pork chops in the crockpot and yummy mashed potatoes and rolls!yummy Well I ate a medium baked potato with a spoonful of fat free cottage cheese and two sliced tomatoes!Should this have filled me up?Because I went to bed starving.My poor stomach was growling and now this morning I got up and it's still growling!I guess I should feed it but I'm really not a breakfast person.
Please help me with meal ideas for me so I don't starve myself to death!
Thanks to any and all that read this!

Here are the best body shots I could get by myself I hope they work?

This is the picture of the oh so scary scales!
But honestly I think I'll post that more often it might just help to motivate me!

Starting at weight 160

My weightloss journey!

This is the picture at my sons birthday that made me go ahead and decide to stick with it!I don't much care for this picture.This was taken Sunday Aug 30