Progress

Yay...Onederland has come and stayed since last time I blogged. I have gotten into the 100s and have made it down to 194. I am very excited to have passed up that milestone and I am also so close to several others. In 3 more pounds I will be down 30 pounds. In 5 more pounds I will be out of the 190s. In 14 more pounds I will be at my halfway point (40 down, 40 to go). Although I have had some plateaus I am feeling very successful on this journey.

Babywise...I am getting closer and closer to completing my hours for my MFT license. I have approximately 100 hours left and I have officially ordered my testing study materials for my licensing exam. Why is this important??? As soon as I am licensed we will be getting on the baby making train. YAY!!! I am so excited! I feels as though I have been going through all of life with the goal of being a parent and now it is so close I can taste it.

I have been doing a lot of thinking about all I have waited through before trying for a baby. I really feel that the reason I have waited so long is that I really want to be the best possible parent that I can be. To me this means setting the stage as best I can beforehand. I love my parents very much...however, they could have done A LOT better job making things right before deciding to have me. I feel that I want to avoid as much pain in my future children's lives as possible. I cant prevent every heartache, but I can give them very loving and responsible parents, some financial security, and the best start possible by being very knowledgeable about pregnancy and child development. I feel that I chose the perfect daddy for them and he and I have gotten our careers established to support a family. We also love each other very much which is something my own parents lacked.

It makes me sad that this was not done for me. However, it makes me proud to know that I learned from their mistakes and that I will not allow that to happen for my babies.

Still Hovering

Ok...I am still hovering at 201. This is very frustrating for 2 reasons. One is that it has not taken this long to drop a pound or two since I started the diet and second I am so close to my next goal of getting below 200 that I can taste it. I know that it is common to plateau after losing a good amount of weight so I am not discouraged...just impatient. I started going to the gym yesterday and I went today so hopefully that will jump start me again.

Things are going well on the home front as well. I got home yesterday and Steve said that both he and the babies (our guinea pigs) have surprises for me. I looked and the babies were on the kitchen table and were standing on a DVD of the movie Juno. I had been asking for it and those thoughtful little piggies got it for me. Hee hee. Then Steve pulled out a big bouquet of flowers for his surprise for me. The bouquet was full of lilies and gerber daisies (my favorite).

What a sweet husband I have. I know that he will be a wonderful daddy to our human babies someday. Yay!

Slowing Down

I think that the weight loss is slowing down a bit. I have really been dropping weight faster than I ever have before. It is official that I am down 20 pounds in 1 month. I am down to 201 and I am hovering there. My doctor told me that I can gradually reintroduce carbs back into my diet so the other day I had some strawberries and then the next day I had gone up 2 pounds (probably some sort of water weight). But it does make me nervous to have these carbs. Today I also had half of a whole wheat bagel. We will see what kind of difference this makes on the scale this week. But I have stayed basically at 201 for several days now and the scale has not budged (or gone the other way). I guess I am just going to have to play around with different foods to see how they affect the scale and my progress.

Too Messy

I dropped another pound today...yay! I am down a total of 17 pounds now! Things are going well.

Steve and I have been having a difficult time keeping our apartment clean lately. The topic came up that when we have kids it is going to be 10 times harder to keep things clean. Sheesh...This is something that we really need to learn how to stay on top of. We want to be CLEAN parents. I think that we just need to maintain some kind of cleaning schedule. Although...I also think that part of it is that our apartment is too small for all of our stuff. Maybe when we get a house that will help. Hopefully ;)

The Plan

Ok...So the plan is to wait until around March 2010 to start trying for a baby. We plan to try and by a house around August of 2010 (or before if possible). In order to do these things I have to get my MFT License (Marriage and Family Therapist), get down to between 160 and 140 pounds and we need to have a substantial "nest egg" to put down on the house. Sheesh, it really feels like a lot to accomplish in 8-13 months...ACK!

Onederland in sight!!!

I can't believe that i am already down 16 pounds in 3 weeks! This has been the most amazing journey. I honestly was getting to the point of believing that I would never lose the weight. I had given up. Now I feel that this is something that I have been and will continue to be successful on!!!
I am now down to 205 from 221 and the 100s are in sight. Just 6 more little pounds and I will be at 199. I am so happy with myself and the SBD.

Need to Exercise

I am still making slow but consistent progress towards my goals but I have not been able to make myself exercise. I have time in the morning but I am not able to get myself out of bed to exercise.
I still feel pretty fatigued...I think from lack of solid hours of sleep.
My new goal is to add some exercise to this new lifestyle.