Overwhelmed

It's getting really crazy around here, so I'll probably disappear for a while.

The wheat free thing isn't happening, the kids are psycho, the move is stressful and I'm on the verge of a breakdown.

PMSing much? ;-P

I'll be back, just not sure when.

A Wheat Free Week

So that's my plan for this week. To be 100% wheat free. I think I can do it as I'm pretty well stocked on the stuff I can eat. I'm still loving my shakes and my meat-in-romaine-wraps. I could (and sometimes do!) eat them for breakfast and lunch. I usually prepare a meal for dinner and have the meat and a vegetable.

The problem with this plan is this: I'm having MAJOR PMS and craving all things salty and sweet. Right now, I've been wanting honey roasted peanuts, but I'm not supposed to have peanuts. I want salty french fries, and chocolate, and chips and toast and all manner of things not healthy for me.

I think I'm going to go to the health food store later and check out Essence bread and Manna bread. Along with Ezekial bread, those are the breads that I can eat. I know they are dry; I've had Ezekial bread before. But here's the thing-- I LOVE TOAST! And I can have butter for my blood type. So toasted bread with butter would help get me through some of those cravings.

My kids have been totally out of sorts this entire past week (maybe longer? I'm sort of entering into zombie blur stage) so it depends on whether or not they will act like human beings whether I get out to the store. Plus, it's raining really hard and it takes a lot of work to get them all buckled into the car and then keep them all lassoed in the (cramped, expensive) store. I'm getting weak knees just thinking about it. :-P

Anyway, if I don't make it out today I'll go Wed cuz I have a babysitter that day. I have enough other stuff (hello Rice Works Sweet Chili chips!) to keep me happy until then. ;-)

Other than that I'm mostly just packing (the garage is completely sorted, organized and packed, YAY!!) and trying to figure my kids out. The boys in particular haven't slept much since they got their bunkbed. The novelty hasn't worn off yet, and they are staying up late and getting up early. Oh, and not napping. :-D But I'm glad they have a few weeks to adjust to the bed before they have to adjust to an entirely new house, too.

That's about it for today. Exciting, huh? ;-)

Busy, Busy Bee

Today has been super duper busy. We're packing, organizing, bought and set up a new bunkbed with new mattresses, bought a hide-a-bed couch for our new house and I listed quite a few things on craigslist for sale. Thankfully much of it is already moving! YAY! It's so nice to be able to get rid of stuff and even get a little money in return.

Eating has been good. I started making these protein shakes... I think I've mentioned it but can't remember (ha, obviously the fish oil isn't helping my brain tons yet) :-P I make it with protein powder, rice milk, a banana, walnuts and flax seed. It is SO good. I look forward to having it in the morning, but it's really weird. If I drink it fast it makes me nauseated. I'm thinking you've all heard this story before. Oops, sorry!

Anyway, I had that for breakfast and then made some wraps with romaine lettuce, turkey, pastrami and a little mustard for lunch. SO GOOD. I also had some Rice Works chips. Haven't had dinner yet, but I've snacked on a few more Rice Works, an apple, 4 meatballs and a string cheese. Oh, and 4 bites of cheesecake before I threw it away. Too much of a temptation. I didn't eat the crust. ;-)

I am super de duper tired. I hope to get the kids in bed, maybe watch a movie or play a game with Josh, and then go to bed early. I really wish I had a BodyBugg today, to see how many calories I've burned organizing, packing, etc... My pants are definitely falling off. It's super annoying, but I'm so skeptical that I'll fit a size 12 in my butt and thighs. I'm going to have to bite the bullet and find out pretty soon, because I am TIRED of hiking my pants up all day. Belts don't help either, because... well, I don't know why but they just don't.

Have a wonderful rest of the weekend. =)

Friday, ahhhhhhhhhh

Good Morning, my dear bloggy friends!

I weighed in at 166 today. I'm good with that cuz last night I went WAY overboard with pizza and breadsticks and garlic sauce. It was a really rainy, wet day and we spent a lot of time in Costco and by the time we were done the kids and I were ready for a quick warm dinner. So pizza it was. =)

I did end up getting sick; not sure if it was from the wheat or the copious amounts of coffee I drank.

We're going to my mom's for lunch today, and we're having cheesecake afterward to celebrate my stepdad's straight A's. He is a surveyor but has been unemployed for basically ever. So now he's going to school to be some sort of engineer and he got straight A's, which is super great. I told her we needed to celebrate with cake, so we are. ;-)

I did stock up on some major goodness at Costco. TONS of meat (holy moly, expensive much!?) including chicken, hamburger, turkey and pastrami. I also got stuff to make protein shakes consisting of: chocolate protein powder, flax seed, walnuts, rice milk and bananas. I made one this morning and it's really, really good. But very rich (from the flax seed, I think). So I have to sip it slowly.

I got 3 big bunches of bananas, apples, mozzarella cheese that can be sliced (which I plan to eat with my lunch meat wrapped in romaine lettuce), eggs... basically I'm good to go for a while.

Obviously I'm eating wheat today, with the cheesecake. But starting tomorrow I plan to see if I can cut it all out. But I want to make this doable, so it may take some slow weaning, and I'm okay with that.

I've also started taking more supplements. You should see my vitamin cupboard! I'm taking fish oil and Icelandic kelp. The kelp helps with my thyroid and also has iodine which is something I'm lacking in, and the fish oil is supposed to help my brain. I sure hope it does!

Anyway, I feel pretty good and prepared for the busyness that is coming my way. I have a friend delivering 40 boxes today so we can start packing tomorrow. Josh comes home tonight, WOO HOO! I do so love that man.

I was looking at pictures from our honeymoon today, and remembering how much fun we had (we went to Hawaii) and longing for another warm vacation with him. But I sort of want to lose these extra 40 pounds before we go, so it's easy to be patient. ;-) Look, here we are on our honeymoon, 6 years and 30 pounds ago:






Our computer is seriously breathing it's last breaths. I thought for sure it was a gonner yesterday, but this morning it was miraculously still functioning. If I go missing for days on end, you can safely assume the computer is kaput. But never fear, I'll be back as soon as I can. =)

I hope everyone has a really great weekend!!

Cuz breaking up is hard to doooooo

I've been trying to break up with wheat. It's hard. It's not going so well. :-p

A big part of the problem is that I need to go shopping, but part of it is just convenience. EVERYTHING has wheat in it!

I have a big shopping trip planned today, so hopefully that will help. Once I get meat and eggs stocked again, I'll be much better off.

Lately I've been having a lite string cheese and some deli meat for breakfast, and although that sounds weird, I'm totally loving it. I really like meat (holla, Dawne!) especially meat and cheese together.

I'm planning to get some deli meat from Costco and romaine lettuce and making wraps with the lettuce and some mozzarella cheese. I also plan to get some Rice Works chips; they are super good and NOT wheat. :-)

Well, this has been a pretty boring post; I'm sure you're all enthralled with my shopping list. :-D

Not much else going on. I'm really having a hard time coming up with things to blog about, since I'm not exercising or trying hardcore to lose weight. But you know, that's ok. I don't want diet and exercise to be my life. I want it to be a part of my life, a part that helps me stay healthy and have energy for my kiddos, but I will never be a workout machine. That's ok with me.

Off to start the day; I hear a white chocolate Americano calling my name since I've been up since 5:30. =)

Happy Thursday, my friends!

Wheat IS the plague!

Oh my goodness. Yesterday I didn't eat wheat all day. Until dinner.

I made spaghetti and garlic bread for dinner. I hadn't eaten wheat all day, and wasn't planning to eat this meal. The bread smelled so good, that I had a piece.

My stomach INSTANTLY went into overdrive. Cramping, aching, bloating, gas. It was crazy. And now I know.

NO MORE WHEAT FOR ME.

It hurt long into the night, which is weird because I've eaten wheat before without a response like that. But anyway, that's it for me and wheat. We're done. Over. Done. ;-)

Other than that things are going really well. I am getting stuff around the house done, eating on plan and feeling pretty good.

This coming weekend is going to be a whirlwind packing/purging extravaganza. It's the only free weekend we have before our actual move date! I'm looking forward to it, even though I know it's going to be busy and crazy.

I'm really looking forward to being moved into the new place and getting some routines going. My hope is to put Kate in morning kindergarten so I can drop her off at school, hit the gym, shower and then be done in time to pick her up on my way home. Sounds perfect, no? :-D

We'll see how everything ends up working out. I don't have my treadmill anymore as I gave it to my SIL. It was really hurting my SI joint to use it, and she desperately wanted it, I desperately didn't want to move it, so it all worked out nicely.

Not much more going on around here. I hope to get back into full-on weight loss mode once we're settled in from our move. I'd love to see the scale start moving down again, and hopefully have it be a pound or two a week that is coming off.

Happy Tuesday everyone!

Starting to Pack

Well, the packing has begun. So has the purging.

I went through the kid's toys last night and have a big bag to take to Goodwill, a few to sell on Craigslist and the rest are neatly organized... for now. ;-) I also de-cluttered our art cabinet, the top of the fridge and a few other little things.

So things are starting to move forward, slowly but surely. I am going to try to get to the linen closet today and we'll see where I go from there.

Foodwise... Pretty good. Last night I tried to eat some ice cream. Now, I'm not really an ice cream person. I could go the rest of my life without it and not miss it. We had company the other night and served ice cream, hot fudge sauce and peanuts. There was some left over and while we watched our movie I decided to have some. I'm a freak of nature and don't like fudge sauce; Hershey's syrup makes me shudder. Josh had actually purchased some really good quality fudge stuff, but I didn't like that either.

Anyway, I make a small bowl; maybe half a cup of ice cream sprinkled with salted peanuts. I *LOVE* salty/sweet combos. Long story short, the ice cream made me so incredibly sick. I ended up throwing up and this is gross, but I was surprised that the Kashi I had eaten 6 hours before came up too! Isn't that sort of long for it not to be digested and still sitting in my stomach? Cuz it gets worse.

For lunch I had half a bagel with some smoked turkey on it. That came up too. And it had been over 9 hours that it had been in my stomach! GROSS.

So, I'm taking Greta's advice this week and I'm going to avoid wheat like the plague. (BTW, Greta, I haven't emailed you my measurements yet cuz I still haven't procured a tape measure.) ;-) I'm going tomorrow to do another foot bath... eek!

I'm also really constipated, so I'm hoping cutting out wheat will help with that. Today I had a banana and 2 turkey sausages for breakfast. I'm debating drinking coffee. It usually helps get things moving for me, but at the same time I'm trying to cut back on it because I don't feel all that great when I drink it. Decisions, decisions.

However, seeing as I have laundry to do today... a homemade white chocolate Americano might just be what I need to get me through. ;-)

I sort of like posting random facts about me, so here's one for your Monday morning:

I don't like cold water. I prefer room temperature. Like, I'll run the water out of the tap and add a bit of warm so it's not icy cold. I can drink way more if it's room temp. The ice cold not only hurts my teeth (my enamel is worn away from years of throwing up due to my pregnancies and now due to my... digestion issues???) but my throat closes up when the cold water hits it. So I try to leave a big glass of water or my water bottle out on the counter and then sip it when I go by.

Drinking enough water is still a huge challenge for me. I'm working on it, but it's definitely a work in progress.

I hope you all have a great, successful, healthy day! =0)