Im following you.....

So I decided I need to follow everyones blog (I think I have everyone on my list). I may not comment every post but I will try. I am a busy mom of 5 and run a day care and sell avon so I dont have a whole lot of time but I do try to jump on here atleast once a week and check it. I did notice that we have had alot of people stop doing the biggest loser or they just are not posting not sure which. I in a way feel sad about this. I wish everyone the best of luck and losing weight is not easy. I guess you just have to really really want it. There are times I DONT want to work for it but I still do. So I will try to read every ones blogs and comment but i cant promise anything. One of my goals for this month is to comment on every blog written by all of you to encourage you all. I have noticed I do better when I feel encouraged by others.

Holy Cow

So I have a 10 year old son (eeeekkk how did that happen just turned 10 this last week) who plays indoor soccer. We go to taylorsville rec center every saturday. I sit there and watch the people in the gym just going for 20-30 minutes on the elliptical and think I SO want to do that. Well I save up and find a good cheap one on ksl and buy it get excited to get it home and set up in my room. I get it all in and step on it and start to go so easy...... until minute 5 hits then I am dying. My legs are burning my heart is beating fast I think I am going to fall off the thing and die. How do people do this? I am trying to up my time by 5 minutes each time. I also need to find a good time to use the thing. So far I have just been hopping on it when the babies are sleeping which isnt a consistant time becuase there are times when they dont sleep at the same time. I will say that in this last month I went up and down in weight but not down further then my last weight in so I am going to go put my fat but back on the elliptical and just push myself for atleast 20 minutes. I am going to do this. I even took over my husbands old ipod for this exact reason. I am determined to lose atleast 3 more lbs then I did last month. Is it bad that i dread the elliptical?

I finally did it....

I convinced my husband to let me send 75.00 on a used elliptical. I drove all the way to Lehi and got a used one. I have already used it for 20 minutes and LOVE it. I am hoping it will help me lose the last few pounds ok last lots of pounds. I am hoping with this I can start to shed the pounds faster then I was before. I would love to see a 10 pound weight loss this month. I am really trying to lose 35 lbs total by the end of the year. That means I have 32 more pounds to lose. I doubt I will get that but I am going to try. I am not even sure its safe to lose that much in that short a time but I want to lose as much as possible and get back down to that goal weight. I have decided to work out atleast 5 days a week. I have been trying to eat better and cut out most of the sugar from my diet. I actually found that chocolate and my body dont work well together anymore. I would say I will cut out all sugar and I think its white flour but I dont think I can I love my pasta which I know is bad. I try to eat smaller portions then I normally would. I am also trying to eat smaller meals more frequently. Its hard though when I have 5 little kids running around and I am getting kids off to school, babies down for naps, picking kids up from school, getting lunch done, putting babies down for naps yet again kids coming home from school, getting kids to do chores, homework, dinner cooked, kids being picked up uuuggg its a never ending cycle. I am trying my best to get in smaller more frequent meals though. I am also going to splurge and buy myself some makeup and start to wear it more often even if I am not leaving the house. I dont normally wear makeup. I want to try new things. So far pretty much my whole life I have worn warm browns. I might want to switch that up not sure. I just want to make myself feel better. I also want to see if hubby notices the diffrence. Is that bad if I want that? OK well its late and I need to finish watching dexter.

wow its been a busy week

So its been busy here this week. I have had to rip out the carpet in my sons room becuase well he is a little shit and tore it all apart (he has autism). That was alot of fun and hard work. I had to first rip it all out what was left of the carpet and the carpet pad haul it upstairs and out to the garbage. Then I had to find a hammer and crow bar and rip up the tac stip. Then I had to vacume and sweep the floor to get all the crap up and make sure I got all the nail also. So that was alot of fun.
I also joined Avon. We are really strapped for money so I decided I would put myself out there and do avon. I love there products and its easy to sell so it was something worth doing for me. I get to stay home with my kids still and earn a little extra income. So far I have really enjoyed it. I am an erep which means I can sell online to anyone anywere. I made my first sale yesterday and sold to a good friend of mine in florida. She also asked me to make her a gift basket. She has relatives coming from out of town for christmas and wanted a gift basket of toiletries for 1 women 1 man and 1 little boy all in the same basket for under 25.00. I was able to make this for her and its got 17 items in it from shampoo and conditioner, aftershave, and deoderant to bubblebath and bath body paints for the boy. It all comes in a nice basket with cellaphane and a bow. If anyone wants one I can make them one. I can put alot in them. Just let me know what type of things you would want and a price range (atleast 20.00 in order to get the basket). If you do it in the next 2 weeks the basket is only 1.00.
Other things going on in my family we are done with softball and outdoor soccer for the season. Indoor soccer starts saturday. My little guy is 11 months old in 2 days which is just crazy to me. It feels like I just had him and now he is walking all over the place getting into cupboards and just pure trouble. I have been doing ok on eating right. My downfall is I have fallen in love with panda express orange chicken and noodles. I am looking for an elliptical if anyone knows or has one they want to sell for around 100.00. Other then that life has been just life living it day to day.
I hope everyone is having a good week

Down 5 lbs. Woohoo. Even with all the candy in my house I was still able to lose 5 lbs. I took the picture this morning and sent it in to Melissa. It feels good to have lost weight. Now I just have to keep it off and lose more next month. I will put the picture on my side bar.

so tired of being sick

Ok so its been about a week since I posted last. What a week its been. All of us have had the flu atleast once. Some of the kids would have it for a day or 2 then be fine then 3 days later they had it again. Can I just say I am tired of puking kids (i know tmi). I got a touch of it but not as bad as the kids. Now I have a nasty nasty head cold though. My poor little baby has it too. I am hoping no one else gets it. I dont know how I am doing weight wise. I look thinner but I dont think I have lost any weight. Its driving me nuts. Everyone says how good I am looking and my husband says I have lost alot of weight around my middle wich is were I want to lose it but the scale says I am stuck at the same spot I have been all along. I just dont know what to do. I am trying to eat more fruit by using my dehydrater. I have made dried apples and bananas and as I type I am making strawberry apple fruit leather. I am hoping by the end of this week I will have atleast lost more then .6 lbs like last time. Good luck everyone. Not sure I will be able to post again until its time for weight in.

The good the bad and the ugly

Ok so its been a good and bad week. The good I didnt eat terribly bad. The bad my whole family had the flu. The ugly my pictures from witches night out. Ok so I have been trying to be good about eating and not failing horribly just not doing as good as I would like. I am also really slacking on the exercise department. I was sick for half the week and i had atleast one sick kid all week. I have been doing alot of cooking. My ex husband has an apple tree and he told me to pick as many as I want. So I have got a box of apples. I so far have made dried apple slices and applesauce. I plan on getting more and making more applesauce. I have also made banana chips. I will be making apple crisp for dinner tonight and I plan on having a small piece becuase well damnit I love applecrisp lol. Well here are my most recent pictures of me as a witch. This was with my moms group.