How many pennies did I move?

You will never believe this, but I had an awesome week with Weight Watchers and Shredding!  I was able to move.....

7 Pennies!!

I was pretty strick with myself on WW and with the shredding.  I've read on WW that this may happen the first few weeks so I don't count it on happening every week- I know that would not be healthy. 

I felt pretty satisfied all week- drank a lot more water and ate a lighter breakfast and lunch.  By light I mean oatmeal and salads with fruit, veggies, yogurt, cheese, ham, egg, regular salad dressing.  This way I was able to eat a little more at dinner leaving me feeling very satisfied in the evening- this is when I tend to snack.

I'll continue to keep you updated on Mondays- Here's to a new week!

Say What?!

Happy New Year's blogger friends!

Today I woke up and had weigh in day....not good let me tell you!  I gained!!  2 lbs!  Say what?!  I'm not sure what happened!  It's very frustrating though.  You see, I purposely picked Monday's as my weigh in days so that it forced me to watch it over the weekends.  Well, today starts a new week so here's to a new week- cheers! lol  One thing I'm going to do is download the ww app to my phone.

Do any of you have new year resolutions?  Every year I try to focus on the following- one of my aunties told me about a few years ago and I thought it was a great idea :

1. Faith- any suggestions for a good devotional?
2. Family
3. Friends
4. Fitness- Shred and WW
5. Finances- over the past 2 years, chuck and I managed to pay off over $20K in debt. It wasn't easy- we made a lot of sacrifices and have done a lot of frugal living but it's been totally worth it.  We now live debt free other than our house.  Our quality of life has improved as we've had more money to do fun things.  It would be nice to put more money away or towards our house this next year.  I guess you could say we used the 'snowball' effect.  We focused on the smallest bill and when it was paid off, we put that payment into the next larger bill and so forth.  We also quit using cash cards/debit cards and strictly use cash for the week.

So, that's my focus for the upcoming year.

Have a wonderful New Year's!  Thank you for following my blog!  I love reading your comments!

~Kim

Shred and WW

I FINALLY opened up my Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred DVD last night after reading a post from 4 Mars and 1 Venus- check out her blog!  She doesn't disapoint that's for sure!  This mama managed to lose 8 lbs in 12 days after doing Jillian's dvd!  How's that for motivation!?  (I'm not sure when this took place but it was in her top 5 posts of 2012).  I was so motivated!  I worked out last night AND this morning!  Not saying it was easy- oh no, not at all.  Infact, I felt like I was going to die...on level one.  Yes, we have a ways to go.  Getting up at 6am was dreadful.  My legs are already sore and the day isn't over yet.

Our recent trip to Mexico, I managed to gain a lot of weight in ONE week!  Yes, not 3, 4 or 5 lbs- MORE!  Yes, I'm not even kidding!  On my drive from the cities to my house, my pants were unbuttoned.  I couldn't even button them!  I've managed to lose 6 lbs since being home but STILL!  Seriously!  I guess chasing kids around does keep us mama's in line right?

I have registered with Weight Watchers online and am committed to losing weight.  I want to feel healthy again.

GOALs:

• Eat healthier
• Eat Breakfast other than just coffee
• Drink more water
• Work out at least 4 times a week

The reason I'm telling you all this?  Accountablity!  Who's tired of having 'lose weight' as a new year's resolution every sticken year?  Me! Me!  It's on my list every year so my resolution for this year is to take 'lose weight' off my list NEXT year!  Ha!

Starting Weight: 186
Goal Weight: 140

Since this is a journey- I'm starting in 5 lb goals.  I don't want to feel like 'oh gosh I have 46 lbs to lose!! Ekk!!'

I'd love to hear any tips or tricks from any of you! :)

GAME ON!!