Evil pictures of the past....

have come back to haunt me and remind me that I used to be smaller and beautiful! In the process of cleaning up my grandpa's place, I found these 2 old senior pictures of me (taken 8 years ago) and could hardly believe how much I've changed. I'd love to be that size (12) again.....

Changing the tone

Since my diet is currently slacking, I'm going to change the tone of my blog to just about my life and stuff in general. I'm not sure posting only about weight loss is my thing, I always felt like I was letting myself down by having to post that I hadn't lost any weight. So onto The Life and Times of Stephanie W!

My parents are in the process of moving to a new condo so my grandpa can live with them and have a 1st floor bedroom. He's 91 and just had a pacemaker put in last week. All in all, he's doing really well. He's in a nursing home/ rehab facility until next week since he was having trouble walking after being in bed for 7 days, but he's doing a lot better. It's kind of stressful right now though, trying to move my grandpa's townhouse, my parent's 1600 sq ft condo and a storage unit into a new condo. I'm sure we'll get it done, but it feels like the never ending project.

Rett and I currently working 2 jobs each. We just needed the extra money with prices going up on everything and we had an old medical bill that we thought insurance covered, but didn't. It was only a $1,700 bill, so nothing big, LOL.

My birthday is this coming Sunday (June 22) and I'm really excited since one of my friend's shares the same birthday, so we're having a joint party :-) Should be a lot of fun, so I'm really looking forward to it!

Note to self

Quit saying this.....

Learning to love water....

I've been trying to get in all the H2O I'm supposed to have - but man, is it hard! I have a 32 oz mug at work and I try to get through that in the day. I probably get 40 oz during the day, but at home is where it suffers. I have to find a way to make myself continue drinking a decent amount once I'm at home. If I can figure that out, I should be able to get my 64+ oz a day.

I went to the park yesterday with some friends and we walked for about 30-40 minutes. It wasn't a super fast walk, but we kept moving the whole time. I'm hoping to get a couple more walks in this week, then start the Couch to 5K program next week.

Biggest Loser

A group of friends and I have decided to have our own Biggest Loser challenge. I'm really excited since it'll be nice to have a place to turn to talk about weight loss with friends and different food ideas, etc. We start with a weigh in on Monday and go to the beginning of June, so wish me luck!

One of the ideas I've already gotten from it is for exercise. I loathe running, but I know it's best cardio workout, so I want to try it again. One of the girls showed us a program that helps you work up to running a 5k in only 9 weeks. I think I'm going to give it a try!

Here's the link if you're interested - http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_3/181.shtml

Starting over :-(

I've really been sucking at this lately. (Yes, sucking is the technical term for it. lol) I'm back up to 281 lbs and just haven't been doing anything about it for the past couple of weeks. Now that it's spring time, I'm hoping that being able to walk outside and enjoy the weather to kick start back into exercising on a regular basis.

I've been watching Biggest Loser every week and just can't believe the transformations of everyone on there. They seriously look like new people! Hopefully that will be me someday.

Speed bump

I haven't been doing so well over the past couple of weeks. I started eating bad at night and I kept telling myself - oh, it's okay I'll start again tomorrow. I've gained some weight back because of it, too. It was really hard since the beginning of the year has about 75% of the birthdays in our family, so that means lots of dinners out and cake :-(

I went ahead and got my hair cut last night, because it was making me really mad how long it was getting. I'm still getting used to it since it's really short, but I think I just have to figure out how to style it and I'll be okay. Here's a pic -

(i hated this pic so much that I totally removed it - new pic coming soon)

Anyway, Rett and I are taking his dad and step-mom out tonight for his dad's birthday and after that we don't have any birthday's or anything for a long time. Plus with the weather getting better, I'll be able to just take a nice walk after work. I've already lined up several friends to walk with me! :-)