I have fallen off the wagon...

In the past months, I have not been eating right, or exercising.  Things have happened in my life to cause me to slow down a bit.  However, now, more than ever, I need to begin to get in shape.  We have chosen to adopt a new born baby in about a month.  I am going to be a new mother again!  I am so excited I can hardly see straight.  But that leaves me with another worry.  I am an older mom that is borderline obese.  This is not a good thing.  I need to get into better shape and loose some of this weight so I will live a long life and be able to bug my kids well into my nineties. 


My plan right now is to begin exercising again.  I need to begin by walking and running again.  I plan on meeting up with Michelle, and my dear friend Harmony at least once a week.  I am still trying to cut my eating in half.  That is not going very well at this time.  This month will be especially hard for me since I am an emotional eater and I have the high stress of waiting for our son to be born and praying that his first mom will still let us raise her son.  The first mom is an amazing young lady.  She is intelligent, beautiful and level headed.  I love spending time with her. 


I am needing help getting motivated to exercise.  I am hoping my friends will pull me out of this rut.

I am doing better

I did better with my eating yesterday.  I had 2 eggs with cheese for breakfast, then I actually waited for lunch to eat then had a turkey sandwich for lunch.  For dinner I had ravioli.  I did great last night until around 8pm and had some crackers with pb&j on them.  Yea, I know, it is not a well ballanced diet, no fruit or vegis... that will come later.  I'll be going to the gym this morning b/c our afternoon is slam packed with activities until tonight.  I am not looking forward to working out alone on the treadmills.  I will hopefully find a class to join once I get there. 

So far this morning, I have had a of hot chocolate (with coffee in it ;-).  I am hoping to do better today with the eating and excersize.  Pray for me!

My First Blog

So, here I am starting my first blog. I am dedicating this site to St. Therese of Lisieux. She has helped me lose weight in the past so I am trusting her to help me again. She is the saint of the little way. You can offer up little sacrifices for others (like little prayers) while trying to reach a goal of your own. I have learned through her that it is not all about me. It is about trusting in God and praying for others. Through this I can do anything. So, here I go beginning my weight loss with a little help from the Little Flower (another name for St. Therese).

Through this blog, I will share with the struggles I have with my weight loss. Knowing me, I will probably share things through out my life in this blog. I am an emotional eater. When things are going well ,I tend not to eat as much. When I am sad, frustrated, anxious...I eat and I eat and I eat.

Today started out well, then my wonderful son decided to bake a cake all by himself. He chose a chocolate sheet cake. I have eaten my weight of chocolate cake. So I am not starting this blog off very well.

I am hoping that by blogging about my eating habits and my emotional struggles I will be able to stay on track and conker this weight problem I have. I am wanting to lose 50 lbs. This may not seem like much for some but for me it has been difficult.

Thank you for reading, please comment on my blog as long as it is encouraging and productive.