Yes, I am still here. Anita, my over achieving sister, just told me I needed to update my blog. So I am doing so now. Summer is in full swing and I just got back from a week of Girl's Camp. Talk about So the Drama! Teenagers are so much fun!
Anyway, I will put some pics up here soon. Aidre, Kinslee and I are going to Hawaii in a few weeks. Poor Erik! He is coming, just 2 weeks after we go. How will he ever survive? Atleast I am taking the kids with me!
Well, check back soon..,.pics coming!
Shalon
Monday, July 7, 2008
Friday, November 23, 2007
Winner!!!
Just wanted to let you all know that
I'M THE WINNER!
Woo Hoo. I won, I won, uh huh, uh huh I won. I am doing the happy winning dance in my head right now. I am jamming to the winning beat! $150 in my pocket. OH YEAH baby!
I lost a total of 21.7 pounds, for a 13.75% of body weight lost. Not bad huh? I am feeling skinny. Oh, wait, I have had 2 Thanksgiving dinners. I am NOT feeling skinny at this EXACT moment. But I am a lot skinnier now than I was 10 weeks ago. So that is something huh?
Thanks for all of the encouragement and faith you had in me to do it. I wasn't easy, but it was worth it. That is a scripture somewhere isn't it? "I never said that it would be easy, I only said that it would be worth it." Of course, I don't know that Jesus was talking about losing weight to win money. Probably not! (move to the side, here comes the lightening)
Anyway, I thought that you would all want to know the news. I am very excited.
I'M THE WINNER!
Woo Hoo. I won, I won, uh huh, uh huh I won. I am doing the happy winning dance in my head right now. I am jamming to the winning beat! $150 in my pocket. OH YEAH baby!
I lost a total of 21.7 pounds, for a 13.75% of body weight lost. Not bad huh? I am feeling skinny. Oh, wait, I have had 2 Thanksgiving dinners. I am NOT feeling skinny at this EXACT moment. But I am a lot skinnier now than I was 10 weeks ago. So that is something huh?
Thanks for all of the encouragement and faith you had in me to do it. I wasn't easy, but it was worth it. That is a scripture somewhere isn't it? "I never said that it would be easy, I only said that it would be worth it." Of course, I don't know that Jesus was talking about losing weight to win money. Probably not! (move to the side, here comes the lightening)
Anyway, I thought that you would all want to know the news. I am very excited.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Weigh-In Eve
Ok everyone, I am on FINAL Weigh-In Eve. I have eaten, or drank rather, my last supper. I have drank my final glass of water for the evening. I would hate to retain water overnight, so I am not eating or drinking anything else. But here is my problem...I just handled the Thanksgiving turkey. It is cooked and ready to eat. It is a smoked turkey, so my hands smell so delicious. I may get so hungry during the evening that I eat my own hands. I have washed them and all, but it is like onion smell...it won't wash off. OH MY GOSH! It smells so good. Do you think that if I just licked my hands that I would gain weight?
I am so nervous about tomorrow. As of lastnight, there was only.02% separating myself and another lady for 1st place. She is the CHEATER who is taking diet pills, laxatives, having body wraps and sauna baths done this week. (I don't care what you say Kimbo, I still think it is cheating. Rules or no rules!) There is such thing as ethics and integrity and morals, and when you compromise all of those things to win a contest, I think that is cheating. Ok, enough of that. My point is, she has an edge, she has advantages that I don't, since she is doing all of those things for free. It would cost me a fortune to do all that crap. Plus, it isn't healthy. I just can't take diet pills. I can't do that to my body. So, I am only .02% ahead. So everyone wish me luck. I am so nervous. I really want to win. I have worked hard and have lost, as of this morning, 19.7 pounds.
So wish me luck, say a prayer in my behalf and I will let you all know what the results are tomorrow. Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Eat lots of turkey. I will, providing I don't eat my hands off of my arms tonight!
I am so nervous about tomorrow. As of lastnight, there was only.02% separating myself and another lady for 1st place. She is the CHEATER who is taking diet pills, laxatives, having body wraps and sauna baths done this week. (I don't care what you say Kimbo, I still think it is cheating. Rules or no rules!) There is such thing as ethics and integrity and morals, and when you compromise all of those things to win a contest, I think that is cheating. Ok, enough of that. My point is, she has an edge, she has advantages that I don't, since she is doing all of those things for free. It would cost me a fortune to do all that crap. Plus, it isn't healthy. I just can't take diet pills. I can't do that to my body. So, I am only .02% ahead. So everyone wish me luck. I am so nervous. I really want to win. I have worked hard and have lost, as of this morning, 19.7 pounds.
So wish me luck, say a prayer in my behalf and I will let you all know what the results are tomorrow. Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Eat lots of turkey. I will, providing I don't eat my hands off of my arms tonight!
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Test The Water
Ok, so I missed another day of blogging. Yesterday I was too upset and depressed to blog. Indeed, I went to bed before 10:00 pm. That is a sure sign of something's not right in paradise.
Due to user error, my ads got taken away. Sniff Sniff! It was my own fault and I am praying that my appeal will indeed appeal to some computer techno geek in the google adsense world. I am hoping that they will take pity on my mere stupidity and chalk it up to beginners error and let me have another chance. Ahhh, but we shall see. Serves me right for wanting to know what the prices were of those strawberries. They were way to expensive anyway. $50 for a dozen chocolate covered strawberries! Who in their right mind would pay that kind of money for 12 chocolate strawberries. Frankly, I don't see what the big deal is over those things. They are delicious, yes, but they are SOOO easy to make! Maybe that is the same thing for my ads...they were soooo good to have on here, but someone decided they were soooo easy to take away, so they did! Sad huh?
Does anyone feel sorry for me? I am feeling sorry for myself. Sometimes I just don't get the way the world turns and they way things work out. It is easy to say "Woe is me, everything is against me." Especially these past few weeks around here. It has been one user error on my part after another. I guess I need to learn from my mistakes and learn slow down and figure things out before making rash moves and decisions. I am the type to jump right in before testing the water. Erik is the opposite. He evaluates, sticks his big toe in before jumping in. Sometimes it drives me crazy that he just can't make a decision fast enough on certain things. But at the end of the day, the week, the month and year, he is better off, for he has erred much less than I have. So next time I get a good idea in my head, such as starting blogs with ads on it, I guess I should slow down, read the fine print and find out more info. That way I won't get burned so fast after jumping into the pool of boiling water!
Due to user error, my ads got taken away. Sniff Sniff! It was my own fault and I am praying that my appeal will indeed appeal to some computer techno geek in the google adsense world. I am hoping that they will take pity on my mere stupidity and chalk it up to beginners error and let me have another chance. Ahhh, but we shall see. Serves me right for wanting to know what the prices were of those strawberries. They were way to expensive anyway. $50 for a dozen chocolate covered strawberries! Who in their right mind would pay that kind of money for 12 chocolate strawberries. Frankly, I don't see what the big deal is over those things. They are delicious, yes, but they are SOOO easy to make! Maybe that is the same thing for my ads...they were soooo good to have on here, but someone decided they were soooo easy to take away, so they did! Sad huh?
Does anyone feel sorry for me? I am feeling sorry for myself. Sometimes I just don't get the way the world turns and they way things work out. It is easy to say "Woe is me, everything is against me." Especially these past few weeks around here. It has been one user error on my part after another. I guess I need to learn from my mistakes and learn slow down and figure things out before making rash moves and decisions. I am the type to jump right in before testing the water. Erik is the opposite. He evaluates, sticks his big toe in before jumping in. Sometimes it drives me crazy that he just can't make a decision fast enough on certain things. But at the end of the day, the week, the month and year, he is better off, for he has erred much less than I have. So next time I get a good idea in my head, such as starting blogs with ads on it, I guess I should slow down, read the fine print and find out more info. That way I won't get burned so fast after jumping into the pool of boiling water!
Monday, November 12, 2007
Oliver Twist
Wasn't it Oliver Twist who asked for "More soup, please?" Well I think that I might know how that little fella was feeling. I'm soooo hungry!
As many of you know, I am in a weight loss competition. It is a 10 week competition, based on percentage of body fat lost. It ends on Thanksgiving morning, so that we can go stuff ourselves silly after the final weigh-in. The first place winner gets $200, second place gets $100. We are all paying in a total of $50 over the 10 week period.
So where do I lay in the group of dieters? First place baby! YEAH ME! I am in first place for the time being, but I am not singing till the final results are in. And, should I be the winner, it won't be the fat lady singing...but it will be me...15-20 pounds lighter, singing and dancing a jig. My goal is 20 pounds, and I still have 4 more to go by Thanksgiving.
Which brings me to Oliver Twist. I am starving! I am not starving myself, but I am not eating my usual portions of food. For dinner I had a meal replacement shake which is a whopping 120 calories. I added in a few bites of chicken though. So 2 hours later, my stomach is growling as though I haven't eaten all day long. I really want to go raid the pantry, pack on some Oreos and milk. Eat the bag of Barbeque Lays that are in there taunting me. I want to devour the bag of caramel Hershey Kisses. I really want to eat. But more than I want to eat, I want to step on that scale on Thursday and have it read 2 pounds lighter than I was last week.
So for now, I guess that I will have to remain strong and just go to bed hungry. Thank goodness I have never been a midnight snacker. Wish me luck, please, in reaching my goal and most importantly, winning the $200 that is on the line. I really want it...really really bad! Not that it will go very far this holiday season, but every little bit helps huh?
So, for tonight, Oliver Twist and I will go to bed hungry, in hopes that tomorrow brings a smaller stomach, or "More soup, please!"
As many of you know, I am in a weight loss competition. It is a 10 week competition, based on percentage of body fat lost. It ends on Thanksgiving morning, so that we can go stuff ourselves silly after the final weigh-in. The first place winner gets $200, second place gets $100. We are all paying in a total of $50 over the 10 week period.
So where do I lay in the group of dieters? First place baby! YEAH ME! I am in first place for the time being, but I am not singing till the final results are in. And, should I be the winner, it won't be the fat lady singing...but it will be me...15-20 pounds lighter, singing and dancing a jig. My goal is 20 pounds, and I still have 4 more to go by Thanksgiving.
Which brings me to Oliver Twist. I am starving! I am not starving myself, but I am not eating my usual portions of food. For dinner I had a meal replacement shake which is a whopping 120 calories. I added in a few bites of chicken though. So 2 hours later, my stomach is growling as though I haven't eaten all day long. I really want to go raid the pantry, pack on some Oreos and milk. Eat the bag of Barbeque Lays that are in there taunting me. I want to devour the bag of caramel Hershey Kisses. I really want to eat. But more than I want to eat, I want to step on that scale on Thursday and have it read 2 pounds lighter than I was last week.
So for now, I guess that I will have to remain strong and just go to bed hungry. Thank goodness I have never been a midnight snacker. Wish me luck, please, in reaching my goal and most importantly, winning the $200 that is on the line. I really want it...really really bad! Not that it will go very far this holiday season, but every little bit helps huh?
So, for tonight, Oliver Twist and I will go to bed hungry, in hopes that tomorrow brings a smaller stomach, or "More soup, please!"
Saturday, November 10, 2007
YEAH ME!!!!
Today, I did it! I am an official runner! I ran in my very first race today! WOO HOOO!!!
I am so excited to report that I ran in a 5K race, 3.1 miles. I did in in 35.40 and it was actually a little over 3.1 miles. The lady in charge said that it was probably closer to 3.5 miles.
So I finished 39th place out of 50-60 people. It was so much fun! Except for running by a dead animal, that part stunk....literally! ha ha.
Anyway, it is pretty humbling when I am running as fast as my short, fat legs can take me, which is pretty slow f.y.i, and I am not even half way to the half way point. And what to my dismay do I see? Other REAL runners already coming back the other way! Tis true!
The real highlight of the race for me was coming upon the half way point to the water stand. I got to drink my water and throw the cup, still half full of water, on the ground! I felt so official! Do you have any idea how hard it is to drink and run at the same time? I could have stopped to drink, but I know that I never would have got going again! So I kept running, drank some water, sallowed a bunch of air with it and kept going. It was so cool. Except for the air part. That hurt my chest, but with enough steps in the other direction, it came up! Thank heavens for that!
The other highlight was coming to the finish line and seeing that clock ticking away the seconds. There was a guy standing in front of the first number, so all I could see was the 5:30. I thought it must be 45:30 because it usually takes me 40-45 minutes to run 3 miles. But he moved to the side when I crossed the finish line, with my arms up, just like real runners, and it was 35:40! I was so excited. I beat my personal time! Erik even came out of Parkeway to watch me run in and he was late. He said "You are 5 minutes early!" So he missed it, but he was proud of me anyway!
So my next race in on the 24th. It is going to be the Gobble Wobble. It is a 5K/10K, walk/run/wobble! After eating 2 Thanksgiving meals, I may be more prone to the wobbling!
I am so excited to report that I ran in a 5K race, 3.1 miles. I did in in 35.40 and it was actually a little over 3.1 miles. The lady in charge said that it was probably closer to 3.5 miles.
So I finished 39th place out of 50-60 people. It was so much fun! Except for running by a dead animal, that part stunk....literally! ha ha.
Anyway, it is pretty humbling when I am running as fast as my short, fat legs can take me, which is pretty slow f.y.i, and I am not even half way to the half way point. And what to my dismay do I see? Other REAL runners already coming back the other way! Tis true!
The real highlight of the race for me was coming upon the half way point to the water stand. I got to drink my water and throw the cup, still half full of water, on the ground! I felt so official! Do you have any idea how hard it is to drink and run at the same time? I could have stopped to drink, but I know that I never would have got going again! So I kept running, drank some water, sallowed a bunch of air with it and kept going. It was so cool. Except for the air part. That hurt my chest, but with enough steps in the other direction, it came up! Thank heavens for that!
The other highlight was coming to the finish line and seeing that clock ticking away the seconds. There was a guy standing in front of the first number, so all I could see was the 5:30. I thought it must be 45:30 because it usually takes me 40-45 minutes to run 3 miles. But he moved to the side when I crossed the finish line, with my arms up, just like real runners, and it was 35:40! I was so excited. I beat my personal time! Erik even came out of Parkeway to watch me run in and he was late. He said "You are 5 minutes early!" So he missed it, but he was proud of me anyway!
So my next race in on the 24th. It is going to be the Gobble Wobble. It is a 5K/10K, walk/run/wobble! After eating 2 Thanksgiving meals, I may be more prone to the wobbling!
Friday, November 9, 2007
I was just wondering?
I was just wondering everyone....what are your Thanksgiving plans? What are you having for dinner? What is your favorite dish?
Our plans are getting more set now. We will be eating our dinner on Friday when Erik's Dad and wife come into town to visit! We don't have our menu planned yet, but we are working on it. We don't know if we are going to have traditional, or go with chicken and steak. Either way, we will stuff ourselves silly and enjoy being with family. I am so excited to EAT! AHHH...I have been in a weightloss competition for 8 weeks, 10 total weeks by Thanksgiving day, and I am HUNGRY! But I have lost 15 pounds, so I guess it has been worth it.
Ok, back to the subject, as for my favorite dish, hmmmmm, let me think.... I think that I love it all. Mashed potatos and gravy, deviled eggs. I love stuffing with gravy on it, as long as it doesn' thave water chestnuts in it. Never have been a fan of those. Oh, and the homemade rolls. Who doesn't love those? Of course, I make mine from the frozen state, not homemade. They are a good substitute, but not as good as grandma's!
So let me know what your plans are, what you're eating and what your favoite dish is! I look forward to knowing what all of you are going to be up to!
Our plans are getting more set now. We will be eating our dinner on Friday when Erik's Dad and wife come into town to visit! We don't have our menu planned yet, but we are working on it. We don't know if we are going to have traditional, or go with chicken and steak. Either way, we will stuff ourselves silly and enjoy being with family. I am so excited to EAT! AHHH...I have been in a weightloss competition for 8 weeks, 10 total weeks by Thanksgiving day, and I am HUNGRY! But I have lost 15 pounds, so I guess it has been worth it.
Ok, back to the subject, as for my favorite dish, hmmmmm, let me think.... I think that I love it all. Mashed potatos and gravy, deviled eggs. I love stuffing with gravy on it, as long as it doesn' thave water chestnuts in it. Never have been a fan of those. Oh, and the homemade rolls. Who doesn't love those? Of course, I make mine from the frozen state, not homemade. They are a good substitute, but not as good as grandma's!
So let me know what your plans are, what you're eating and what your favoite dish is! I look forward to knowing what all of you are going to be up to!
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