Wishing everyone a fun and safe Halloween! I’m doing… nothing. Brad is gonna be gone pretty late helping out with the haunted house his work set up so yeah. I think I’ll watch a movie or something. Good news for today is that I did my weigh-in today and even though I only did 2 days of exercise this week.. I LOST 1 POUND! Heck yeah!!!!!!!! I was thinking I might stay the same weight or maybe even have a gain but I did awesomely!!

Oh and my surgery had to be rescheduled because the surgeon had a death in his family so It’s been moved until Tuesday, November 10th!

That’s about it. I’ll be glad when Katies old enough to really go trick or treating!

I must update this blog more often! I was getting very good about blogging every day but lately I just haven’t been motivated to as much but I will try!!!

Sunday we got let out of church EARLY!! That is very very very rare! We usually have 3 hours worth of different meetings and Sunday we only had the 1st meeting because the water was messed up at the church so going home early felt weird but was nice. We actually came home then later loaded up again to go to the pond to try to feed the ducks! We brought some old cereal but they weren’t interested really. Haha. We saw a beautiful white crane that was randomly flying and landing around the pond.
Monday I actually got on the treadmill and did 3 miles! My thighs were a little sore the next day but WOO felt good to jog again!
Tuesday was my appointment to see the surgeon to see If I needed the surgery to take my gallbladder out. The surgeon was so laid back and nice! He’s an older guy but he was great. Basically, he said I’ve had the stones for 25 months so he suspects I developed them from pregnancy. He recommended that I do have it removed because it could potentially lead to even more symptoms and then bigger problems that would lead to emergency surgery. He asked me what I wanted to do.. and I’m like do I want to do the surgery? I told him yes. I’m thinking in my head… well, no I don’t want to have surgery lol but I know it’s whats best for me. I’m sooo nervous and scared since It’ll be my first surgery and I’ve never been put to sleep. I go in this coming TUESDAY! I’ll be out the same day too, woot. Only problem? I can’t lift anything heavier than 10 pounds for a week after the surgery.. ugh. Which MEANS I will need help here with Katie almost all day for a week. I’m hoping we can somehow get my Mom down here because I don’t know of anyone else honestly who could be here almost all day. Ah well, we’ll get it figured out. Which also means I’ll have to take another week off from exercise… bah!!!!!

Also have another exciting event coming up but I’m gonna wait till later to reveal it, mwahaha!

Bah. Sorry I haven’t posted in a while… just haven’t been in the mood for blogging. First up, I haven’t exercised any this week because of my health issues which REALLY SUCKS. I feel so bored and out of whack when I don’t have my exercise!!!!! I’ll see how I feel Monday and hopefully start there!

Tuesday was insane. Come to find out I have gall stones and am supposed to hear back from the Docs office on an appointment with the surgeon to see If I need to get my gall bladder out or not. They sent me for x-rays for my back and I wound up with 2 big Cortizone shots! One in my back and the other in my hip… yeah those go DEEP, YOUCH. For the palpatations he gave me a prescription for Toprol to hopefully help with that. The shots helped!!! The intense pain is gone but I still have some pulling and nerve pain in my lower back and into my legs.

UGH. I’ll be glad when I get all this resolved and over with. I still have felt tired, have had random dizzy spells when I get up and still not feeling right. What else? Not much.. we’ve been trying to figure out our finances. Money is definetly evil. EVIL!

This week has deffo been interesting – First off let me say I LOST 3 POUNDS THIS WEEK! HELL YEAH! Putting me at 40 WEEKS worth of exercise and this new lifestyle!!! That also means that since my highest weight I’ve now lost a whopping…

I can’t even begin to say how blessed I feel! 10 MORE POUNDS till my goal and I will be the lightest weight I’ve been since I was probably 10 or 11, lol. I owe it all my HEAVENLY FATHER for guiding me and having my faith grow so that I could CHANGE MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!

I still haven’t felt right so I settled on attempting to go to my family doc Friday. My Mother In-Law came to pick us up. I was trying to get a walk-in appointment and they were all filled up until 2pm and my MIL was gonna have to leave to go pick up her kids from school but I told the receptionist I’d try to be back at 2pm. Well, we left and my MIL said she was gonna try to find another Doc in the area since she was already all the way out here with me. She stopped at a shop and asked someone If they knew of any family Docs in the area and the woman mentioned Dr. Boyett (hey! almost like my maiden name lol) and I always thought he was just a dentist.. NOPE hes ALSO a family Doc! AWESOME! We drive over and wow, they actually accepted right away! Got paper work blah blah and they called me back. I was only supposed to see the nurse practioner since on that day normally the Doc wasn’t seeing patients. They took blood, urine and asked questions. The nurse practioner felt of my abdomin and found a palpatation (a pulse that was making itself well known!) so he said let me go get the Doc…
So I got to actually meet and see Dr. Boyett! They were afraid I had an abdominal aortic aneurysm which could be life threatening so he right away ordered me to be sent to a nearby hospital for ultrasound and x-ray! Made a follow-up appointment then left with my MIL to go to Brads work to tell him. Brad left work and we all came back here to try to get plans situated for my MILs kids to be picked up from school then we headed out. Finally arrived and got some more information entered into a computer then eventually ultrasound of my spleen, gall bladder, kidney and pancreas. Sent over to x-ray and got that both laying down and standing then they said I was done! I’m like uh… ???? Apparently the Doc there and Dr. Boyett had to dictate over the phone about it then Dr. Boyett will have to look over it blah blah blah so I guess it’s nothing life threatening or else they wouldn’t of let me go at the hospital. I was SO upset and pissed off though because I had to do all that and had no closer answer. Left the hospital and stopped at a dollar store for a bit then headed home. My follow-up appointment wasn’t supposed to be until October 26 but after yesterday I thought oh heck no!!! I wanna know ASAP!!! I’m tired of not feeling right! I called back this morning and the receptionist was WONDERFUL and got me an appointment for this Tuesday at 11AM! YES!!!!!!!!!!!

PLEASE PRAY THEY HAVE ANSWERS TO THIS! I’m ready to feel normal and energetic again!! I’m definetly sticking with Dr. Boyett for family Doctor and hopefully soon I can also start going to him for the dental work too! Apparently he went to school for 14 YEARS for all that! Holy cow!! He seems like a really awesome Doctor – I loved his attitude and the way he handled everything.

Otherwise not much has went on except that IT IS COLD!!! This apartment stays cold so for the 1st time since probably early this year we had to turn on the heater and I’m still cold right now lol. Takes a lot to heat this place plus losing all the weight doesn’t help with staying warm

I’m so loving Breaking Benjamins new album so much! <333 SO that’s where I’m at now! Have a great rest of the weekend! <3

Sunday was good.
Monday was better!

TODAY WAS WORSE.
Our money pile is almost none… and we have 4 bills to pay. Took some time this morning to try to figure out what we’re gonna do as far as that. Since that took a bit I decided to take a rest day on my exercise and we were planning on leaving soon anyhow. Good thing is that yesterday I got to RUN for the 1st time for a long stretch of time in a long while and IT FELT GOOD! After lunch and Katie’s nap, we decided to leave out to get our chinchilla some food since hes been out. Took us around 25-30 minutes to get to the pet sore and we looked around la la la la. Went to pay for the food and Brad said he was gonna go get some change from the truck. He comes back and says, “I got the change but I locked my keys in the truck” UHHHHHH. Boy. Brad spent the next 20-30 minutes in and out of some random rain trying to use different items to try to “pick” at the door or window with no success. Eventually he calls around for some locksmiths and finally got one but he wanted cash and we had none. Brad says he’ll call back possibly. The lady at the pet store was so nice and offers me a chair to sit when she realizes that Katie must be so heavy to have to stand and hold for that long of time. Very sweet of her! Brad says hes gonna go down the road to an ATM to get some money but it’s pouring rain… so the lady offers her raincoat to Brad! Thank goodness. He puts it on and heads out and doesn’t take long at all. His shoes and almost half way up his pants are soaked. Poor love…

Calls the locksmith back who says hes on his way then we sit and wait. Wait some more. Then guess what? Waited some more! I think we waited over an hour for him to finally show. UNLOCKED! Finally! The sweet lady in the pet store encourages Brad to get an extra set of keys made for the truck. Very good on her part haha. Tell her thank you for all her help and that it was nice meeting her! Head quickly as possible out to the truck in the rain then load up to go buy groceries. Brad was wanting to get home by 6pm to go to a church meeting but he had to call and say he wouldn’t make it thanks to all that mess. Then guess what? We got soaked going INTO and OUT OF the store. Uggggh. I’m so SICK OF RAIN. It’s supposed to rain tonight. Tomorrow. Thursday. Rahhhh.

I’m gonna rewind just a little. Sunday I felt a bit uplifted with going to church but Monday was really good. I got to run on the treadmill and then we went to a church event that evening and had a BLAST! We mostly sat down with one of the missionaries and talked and talked. IT WAS AWESOME. He even knows Ally from Biggest Loser!! AAH, lol. Found out bad news though – that the missionary who baptized us was in a bad car wreck last Monday and was hit by a drunk driver!! He suffered a good bit and I heard he broke his neck?!!! THEN we called around and found out he was discharged Sunday! They said he shouldn’t of even walked away alive… WOW. That is a miracle. I just want to give him a big hug!!!!!!! He is an amazing young man and I’m so grateful he made it through it. He definetly had angels at his side!

Sigh. Please let the rest of the week be good… I’ve had some exciting things popping up but then today tried to crush those happy things but I’m not gonna let it!!!!!!!! I WILL BE HAPPY and I hope you will be too!

I’m off to bed with my lovie. Have a great one too.

Ew it’s so gloomy outside! Also been a bit chilly today seeing as its only 59 degrees right now. Well, I didn’t lose any weight this week but that’s OK! Maintance is good as well. Also, today marks 9 MONTHS since I started this lifestyle and for the month I lost 8 pounds! YES!!!!!!
The deer roast turned out delicious and wonderful. In fact, I’m gonna eat the little bit thats left as my protein snack in a few hours! Awww and The Office wedding episode was SO CUTE. Jim and Pam are adorable and p.s. Micheal is an idiot, lol but who doesn’t know that haha. Tonight! We are watching this weeks episode of Bones and possibly Fringe if we have enough time. Squee!

It hasn’t been the best week so I’m hoping this next one will be awesome. I got to clean the house and organize a bit so that helped my mood just a tiny. Also hoping to have some ALONE time with my hubby since It’s been a long while and we all know how important that is! Something I don’t look forward to this coming week is EVEN MORE RAIN. WTF. Temps this week during the day are gonna range from 80’s-60’s. OK weather make up your mind!

I’m officially hooked on the new Breaking Benjamin album! I doooo recommend for those who like rock music. And with that, here’s to hoping the rest of the weekend is good and this new week will be GREAT!

I miss being a kid but who doesn’t? Being able to go barefooted outside and just explore the world and have fun. Wake up on a Saturday morning to eat some breakfast and watch a few hours of cartoons with nothing to worry about but the color of the milk after the cereal would soak into it. How the little things would bring me such utter happiness and excitement. Such as seeing Sarah Michelle Gellar on a TV commercial. That would send me into screeching glee since I was such a Buffy fan. Being able to be outside so much always brought me happiness since I love being out in nature and that is one of the things I took full advantage of growing up even into my teenage years.

I haven’t been posting every day because I don’t really have much to write on. My back is still hurting but not quite as severe. I attempted to run a little on the treadmill yesterday and could only do very TINY sprints because my lower back would tighten and hurt. I’m so SORE today because of the Wii Active workout I did yesterday so I can say I got something out of this week even though I didn’t get to do quite my usual. Since we’ve been low on money Brad suggested we finally use up the deer roast that his Mom gave us a while back that’s been in our freezer and SO he put it into our huge crockpot this morning and It’s been cooking all day. The onions smell lovely and I really can’t wait to eat it tonight!!! Gonna have it with a fresh chopped up sweet potato. Mmmm!

I can’t wait to watch last nights episode of The Office tonight, SQUEEEE!

I woke up and felt pretty blah but the day got much better as it went on. My back feels a good bit better than it did, thank goodness. I did exercise today — including my resistance rope DVD workout and 20 minutes on the exercise bike. Maybe those actually helped my back? Hopefully this is a really good sign that I’ll feel “normal” in no time. WOOO! I’m tempted to see about running on the treadmill tomorrow and maybe even Friday. I suppose I’ll “try” it and see how my back feels during running. If too bad then I’ll do something else!

I can’t believe since my highest weight I’ve almost lost 100 pounds. CRAZY!!!! I want to say that I truly do love this new lifestyle. It takes so much will power, devotion and motivation but If you really want it you can find a way to bring forth all those things. Tonight we’re gonna have turkey burgers! We went shopping yesterday and had only a small amount of money for now since Brad gets paid Thursday. We got the essentials and Brads gonna go back to the store probably tomorrow night to buy the rest of what we need.

I’m watching the new NBC show Mercy online… I’m really digging the show so far! Speaking of shows. WOW. Last night Brad and I watched last weeks episode of The Biggest Loser. Holy cow.. Tracey. Yeah, she needs to go! LOL, Jillian was SO MAD. I don’t blame her.. Tracey is a bit on the nutso side. Yup. Sean and Antoine are amazing guys and they made such a big sacrafice for Shay. Those guys definetly put their hearts out there. I look forward to seeing how everyone does this season!!!

It felt soooo muggy and ICKY last night before Brad and I went to sleep. In rolled a thunderstorm not long after that into the night. This morning it was clearing up outside then it was BEAUTIFUL outside and the temp has felt great all day. I’ve got the windows open letting in some cool air but may have to close them If I get too chilly. Feeling very uplifted tonight — love it!!!

This really sucks. My back has been killing me for a long while now… also PMS has been keeping me guessing so yesterday I went to see my OB/gyn and everything looks fine so I guess my body is just playing games. The back pain is a different story. Obviously messed it up Sunday before last moving heavy totes in our storage room and I’m paying for it BIG TIME. Just sitting in this chair hurts my mid back and I also have random nerve pain sitting that shoots down into my butt and leg. I guess I’ll just keep medicating myself until it gets better. I didn’t exercise yesterday since I had the Docs appointment but I was getting ANXIOUS to do something so I exercised today but just took it as easy as I could.. which means no running. I love running!!! BOOOOOO! I did a workout on our Wii Active then walked a mile on the treadmill. Gotta burn those calories somehow!

The back pain has had me so tired lately.. I’m tired right now. It’s so gloomy outside and probably a little chilly. We have a chance for some storms this afternoon and into the night. Our mission today is to buy groceries with what little money we have left. Sigh…

Good news is we get to watch last weeks Biggest Loser episode tonight so I do look forward to that!! Another good thing is that I downloaded a TON of new music!!!!! New… Daughtry, Breaking Benjamin, Green Day, Theory of a Deadman and Chevelle! Still haven’t had a chance to listen to it all yet but I’m listening to Green Day right now.

Goodness when I got up this morning It was FREEZING! In the 40’s so I got up and put on a thicker shirt and fuzzy PJ pants!! I like cool weather but not that COLD.

I thought for sure I was gonna either stay the same weight or gain this week since I’ve had back pain and had a rest day on Tuesday and earlier this week I was having such a hard time resisting eating a little more than I usually do for some reason. Got on the scale this morning and to my HUGE surprise.. I lost 3 pounds!! Woah?! I can tell because my rings are pretty much barely hanging onto my fingers now, lol.

Have some bad news.. Brads Dad is back in the hospital. You see, he’s had heart trouble and back in 2005 he had to have a triple bypass and actually died but they brought him back. Doctor told him to stop smoking and drinking and did he? Nope. So guess what? He’s back in the hospital and had to have 2 more stents put into his heart and they found 2 MORE blockages that I guess are really bad because they said unless something good happens, he doesn’t have very long to live. He told Brad’s Mom that he was ready to die. Really…? He’s got 6 children and 3 of them are really young. I pray for him and I pray for Brad and his family through this time. We’re gonna go tomorrow to see him. He hasn’t been the worlds best Dad to Brad but he is his Dad no matter what. If he does somehow make it through this AGAIN, I dunno.. I pray he opens his eyes and changes his life so he can live!