My little Bit of Honey

I haven't weighed myself in a few weeks, in fact I was pretty terrified of the scale. I kept thinking that it was going to go up since I haven't worked out and I haven't been eating all that great lately.  Well, this morning I decided to bite the bullet and weigh in. I have lost 1.6 pounds since the last time I weighed myself which brings me down to 145 and puts me int he 25 pounds lost category! I was so happy this morning, I didn't think I would get to this point. I honestly just thought I would hit 150 and wouldn't lose any more weight at all. This has been a really slow and difficult process for me, both mentally and physically. My body was working against me at first with my awful thyroid issues and then a slow metabolism. I finally won though, I got my thyroid under control and I have lost all the weight that I put on after my wedding and then 5 pounds of weight that I haven't been able to successfully lose in years. The last 15 will be the hardest, I kn...

I haven't been posting as regularly lately and I apologize. I just feel like I've been posting the same things, over and over again so I figured I would wait until I had something *new* to post about. Lucky for all of you, today is that day. Whenever I gain any type of weight, I gain it in my face first, this make me look like a 12 year old. Not fun. I get these little chipmunk cheeks that are cute when you are say 12 but not 27. So, this is the place I notice the weight gain first because I always have a double chin. It's always been there, the little bastard. Even when I have lost weight in the past, yup still had the double chin. I would put my neck out as far as possible, risking looking almost ostrich like to avoid the double chin. Well, today I noticed that my face really has thinned out (it's also the place I lose weight first) so I turned from side to side checking out cheek bones that I haven't seen in quite awhile. Then I tried nodding my head to check o...

In the past 2 weeks my life has become quite busy, my husband and I bought a house! Since we bought the house we have spent just about every moment that we aren't working, at the house getting it move in ready. So I have been really busy and it has made things difficult to track my food and to exercise. In fact, exercise sadly has not been a part of my life for the past two weeks. Not to worry, it shall come back. So, I have found that when I have these life events happen that I have a hard time adjusting and usually will slide back into old routines. Not this time, oh no. Stress you will not get me this time. The thing for me is to establish a routine beforehand of what I am going to do once we move to keep myself on track. This includes meal planning (every day and night) and exercise planning (running in the morning and going to the gym at night). If I give myself a plan, I have no choice but to follow it. The alternative is to lose all the progress I've made so far and th...

Hello Readers! I haven't posted in awhile, life has just been quite busy for me. My Husband and I just purchased our first home! Woohoo! We have been doing work on it ever since we closed (last Friday),  this has included painting, ripping up rugs, cleaning etc. It has been quite exhausting and challenging for me to stay with my program and within my calories. I haven't been logging my food as religiously as usual, I actually forgot to log in for the entire day on Friday! No! My streak is ended! I was very disappointed in myself that I let that happen. I also ate tons of pizza and greasy food this past weekend and I haven't really been monitoring what I've been eating to closely the past few days. It's been disheartening, but I'm not going to let it continue. I am forcing myself to get back on track, even if my life is crazy.  The key to all of this is to be able to stay within my calorie amounts, even if situations change in my life. Last week was a real test...