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Tuesday, August 08, 2006

So I'll be nice and play :)

Well, I was tagged twice! Does that mean I have to double the list? I hope not cause I didnt. Heck I havent even thought of the 5 I will write anyways. I layed in bed last night thinking about what I would write about and I realized almost all of them tied to the same thing. Go figure. But before I start this thing, let me just say that I HAVE BEEN BUSY MOVING!! Our house got done 2-3 weeks early. We got our keys on Fri July 28th. Just in the nick of time as a war could of been on the outbreak..lol I was getting VERY frustrated with my brother and we had even considered staying at a hotel for the last few weeks. But luckily things got done and we are in the house. And if anyone has and suggestions on how to get FINGERNAIL POLISH out of brand new carpet I would appreciate it! Um yeah. I am retarded. Luckily I got most of it out but I can still tell where it was. Someone who didnt know wouldnt even notice but I do, and its my new carpet and it really pisses me off at myself. I definately need a new brain.

Okay so enough babbling and I will play this game. I kinda have to hurry cause I get off work here in a half hour (and we havent gotten the internet at home yet) but I wanted to get this done today so my tagger friends (yeah thanks Melissa and Jen..tee hee) didnt think I was ignoring them. So here we go,

Here are the rules:The player of this game starts with "Five weird things/habits about yourself". In the end you need to choose five people to be tagged and list their names. The people who get tagged need to write a blog about their five weird things/habits, as well as state this rule clearly, then tag five more victims. Don't forget to leave your victim a comment that says "you're tagged!" in their comments and tell them to read your blog.

1. I have self diagnosed OCD. That is what all my weird habits tie into. I align all the printers every morning on the shelves here at work. I have all the clothes in every closet color sorted and according to sleeve length. All the towels and washrags must be folded and stacked in the same direction. The cans in the pantry have to be aligned and in their own category. Yeah, its bad. Although sometimes I can give it a rest and let things go for a week or two then I go back through everything and reorganize it.

2. I crave carbs/sugar. If I were to have one last meal it would consist solely of these foods. Potatoes, breads, pasta. Love it. When we goto a buffet place, my plate usually consists of mac & cheese, mashed potatoes, spaghetti. Then my second plate is dessert. And that is all I eat. I would eat this every meal if I could.

3. I like to run around in shorts and T-shirts. Like at home. The minute I get home from work I strip down to my shorts and T-shirt, sans bra and socks. Winter time, summer time. You will always find me in these at home. My husband hates it when people stop over impromtu and I of course never have a bra on. So now just to be nice I will slip in the room and put it on mostly while they are knocking on the door. I hate to wear shoes or socks in the house too.

4. I love to pop my husbands pimples. And I say retarded things like Oh that was a cool one! Only his pimples though. I think someone elses would be gross. I dont know how it even started. And it mainly gets done like when we are in the bathroom after wink wink yyooouu know and we are in there cleaning up and all and for some reason that is when I do it. Yeah, nice way to end a good memory. Kinda like, yeah honey remember that one time we did it this way oh yeah then afterwards you had an awesome pimple on your back? Ug I cant believe I even told anyone about this....

5. I am out of things that doesnt tie into my OCD problem. I will have to think about this one a bit longer and I am out of time. I would hate to get my daughter to her orthodontist appointment a half hour late cause I was trying to finish my blog! ha ha So I must go and align my printers before I leave. Perhaps if I come up with something I will let you know. And I am sorry but I am not going to tag anyone cause its been a week since I have been able to surf so I havent gotten to read anyone elses blogs and see who has been tagged and who hasnt. But tomorrow, I will catch up on you all tomorrow I hope.

posted by Krista @ 11:49 AM 5 comments

Monday, July 24, 2006

Here I am

Hello all! Okay maybe I should say like Hello you threeish people! I know I have not very many readers at all. I am just not the entertaining way with words people most of you are. But I am alright with that. I like to lurk more than write. Which is what I have been doing with myself lately. So as you may notice, I have some new blogs to your right there. Some of my new reads. I come here pretty much every day and still check in on everyone elses blogs. I just have not much to say. I always feel all I do is complain in my blog about the weight loss thing so I am not really talking here about that anymore. I thought about changing the name but like I said, with not many readers I guess it doesnt really matter anyways.

For those that are familiar with me though, I will update you on my house situation...the building is almost complete. Should be in about 2-3 more weeks and we get to move in. I am so very excited and perhaps I will post some photos when we get in and get the computer all set up. We are still staying at my brothers and that is still going surprisingly well. No family wars, no hatred arising. Well, hum, guess maybe they could secretly be hating me and my husband right now and I wouldnt know it but hey...if it was that bad I am sure I would be well aware of it. I do have a sneaking feeling that are thanking God every night that they do not have children as I think with them being with my children so much now they are noticeably not the spoiling Aunt and Uncle anymore. Before we moved in they had them atleast one weekend a month and would spoil them like crazy then send the brats home. Now my brother said when we move out he doesnt want to see them again atleast until Christmas. That was the indication that the kids are driving them nuts. What I love about it though, is I keep saying..."you made them that way" because he has been the spoiler. He likes to do whatever he can to aggitate the shit out of me and my husband by letting them do things we wouldnt let them do, letting them eat nothing but junk, teaching them to talk back. So hopefully that will change after we move out too.

posted by Krista @ 12:37 PM 7 comments

Tuesday, April 04, 2006

I cant believe it was in March when I last posted! Time is flying by so fast. Matter of a fact I had my four week appointment with the trainer Saturday so I am 1/3 of the way through the program. I really like this next work out program she set up for me. At my last appointment (the two week one) she basically left everything the same since I was doing so well on it but had me go from 2 reps to 3 reps and make one rep the next higher weight. That went pretty well and I was still achieving gym whore status until last week. I only got to go three times last week. I was definitely I have noticed my house is definitely paying the price for me slacking there. There is dust everywhere and nothing is organized. One good thing is I am also able to use the we are moving and there is no sense in cleaning real good until we get everything out excuse! I havent went yet this week, I have a horrible chest cold. The kind when you exert yourself you start this nasty sounding barking cough until you almost get sick. Yeah, that stinks. When do you think I could get back? I am not sure on how to handle a sickness like this while trying to be a gym whore. This is a first for me as I normally would of said, oh I have a cold I cant go back until I am 100 percent healthy! Ha Maybe Tressa would know since she is officially an instructor now! ((yyyeeeaaah for Tressa)) Alls I do know is my chest and head hurts and I feel extremely exhausted. But I am excited to go and do this new routine. It has alot of different things so it will be nice to do something new.

As for the poundage, I am still at 7 pounds lost. Boo hoo. But its my fault. I was slipping back in the all or nothing attitude and since I hadnt been 100 percent on my gym I was slipping back into not being 100 percent on the food. But luckily I think I had realized that and am getting back into the food groove. The pills are still helping with the appetite but not as much as at first. I think I am getting used to them so I need to keep that in check and make sure I continue eating the same amounts and not slowing increasing it. I can feel my willpower trying to get back to itself but I am working against it. I have even turned down white birthday cake with white icing since starting this regimen. I don’t think I have ever done that. That is one of my most favorite things in the world! But I told myself, I am not missing out on anything, I know what cake tastes like, I will not die if I dont eat it today, and I will not have to go forever without ever eating it again. This is temporary. That was March 23rd. Since then I have noticed though I am letting a few more things slip their way into my mouth that I should have had the same attitude about. I have to focus on the goal here, which is making the witch cringe with envy on her wedding day… tee hee And sitting in the pew watching my husband walk down the aisle with someone else and holding my head high.

We signed the papers to close the deal on the selling of our house yesterday. That was nice to have that done. We have until April 15th to be moved out. Then we can start the building. It will be nice when it is all done and I can get settled again and get back to almost a normal routine again. Its going to be about 6 months.

So that is about all that is new with me. Still trucking along, struggling with that devil and angel that Bob encountered not too long ago. But I am going to get through this and make more progress.

And by the way Danica, I loved your suggestion!!! I just may have to do that! Not to mention I will have to watch that show to see what you are talking about!

posted by Krista @ 1:00 PM 7 comments

Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Finding my Groove

Things are still going well on the diet and exercise front. I am very pleased with the training schedule, the appetite suppressants, and my food choices. I have almost accomplished gym whoreness, lol. I went 6 times the first week and 5 times last week. I don’t really know what you would use as a guideline for the whoreness of it all, but I feel I am well on my way. I noticed I am making it a priority. Despite everything going on with the houses and moving and all, I am making the gym a must. Everything else will get done when I have a chance. For the first time in forever I have even went to the gym on Sat and Sun the last two weekends. I don’t think the pills give me any energy per se but they definitely help with the appetite. I get fuller faster and I am just not hungry for any junk. They just don’t even sound good, not even my beloved soda. I have drank enough water in the last two weeks to probably cover the amount 4 people should drink. Even on my favorite bar night, St Pattys day, I only drank two drinks. I am a bit frustrated with the hubs. I remember a time when I was complaining about going to the gym and how it feels like there is never enough time for me to fit all that in during one night and he said something to the affect he would help me out if I went. So now I am going but I am not seeing this help. I come home and I am just spent. I am working out really hard, doing my weight training (rotating between upper and lower) and cardio every time I go, I come home drenched in sweat and physically shaking. And more often then not having to take the kids with me. He is usually standing around with his thumb up his butt and a beer in the other hand. To start supper sometimes would be nice. Just start it. He doesn’t need to make the whole thing, just attempt some sort to help me out. And don’t say you don’t know what we are having because I keep a very organized dinner schedule. I shop once a week, so I have a list on the fridge of the meals planned for the week. So then I get home get supper going straighten things up, and its 6:30-7:00 before we get to eat. Then its kids bath, laundry, more straightening, then bed. All the while he is usually sitting at the computer talking to his brother on the phone. Ugg. But on the upside, I have lost 7 pounds. I feel in a really good place right now and I have most of you to thank for it. It is so great reading your blogs, getting the inspiration, and getting myself in gear. Thank you all so much for putting yourselves out there for us to read. It really does help others a lot!

posted by Krista @ 1:29 PM 7 comments

Thursday, March 09, 2006

I'm Still Around!!

Howdy! Gosh I am feeling really up beat! I have been wanting to write for quite some time now but geesh I have had lots of real work to do. Not to mention, in the few downtimes I have had here and there I would check in real quick on my Ebay account as I had a big item up for auction but it ended today. It got my reserve met, whew! That was the first thing I have sold on there, it was really cool. Now I am scouring the house looking for more things to sell! The more I sell the less I have to pack eventually! Ha ha

Things with the house are moving along. We had an open house this weekend. That went well. We even got an offer but things didnt work out. They didnt have a down payment so their loan would have been more then they could get approved for. Oh well, that is only the first. Hope there are more to come. Then, we close on the land loan next Tuesday. That makes me nerval!

I met with the trainer. One word AWESOME! I loved it. I am going to post the dreaded pre-assessment results to humiliate myself and get my ass in gear. Although, without even doing that I have been doing really well. Lets see, I got that done Thursday, on Friday I went to the Y but I didnt do my program cause I wanted to start on Monday with a fresh week so I walked the walking track for 60 MINUTES!!! (while the kids played basketball) Then I started my program on Monday. She set me up to do lower body and abs Mon and Thurs, and upper body on Tues and Fri. And all four days of course Cardio also. I went Mon and Tues, not Weds of course with bowling, and going tonight. After Mon and Tues I have to say I was a bit sore. At point I had gotten up in the middle of the night to go pee (from the massive loads of water I am drinking) and I didnt think I could wipe myself I was so sore..ha haI have noticed this feels different. As I said, I thought I would want to impress her so that is what would keep me motivated and so far I am right. I noticed I keep thinking, now I have to make it there ATLEAST what she set up for me cause I want to WOW her. And I want to make it there even more to wow her even more. Like tonight, I won this massage gift certificate (yea me) for a local salon and they made my appointment at 6:15. Now normally I would think about skipping my workout with everything that needs done at home and so I wouldnt be so nasty sweaty for my massage. But I found today that just wasnt even an option for me. I immediately thought, okay if I get to the Y right after work and get atleast my strength training done I can get done get home and maybe do a few things and clean up then I can add a cardio this weekend to make up for missing cardio tonight. That may not be much for some, but that is a big change for me. (as you may know from my previous posts..lol I normally would take any excuse as a good excuse not to exercise). Also, another motivation. Remember that girl I was complaining about here they just asked my hubby to be in their wedding 6 months from today. I have to kick some ass and look nice on that day!! I am tired of feeling inferior to her! Okay, now for the dreaded results. I will then post my new results at the end of the 12 week program and hopefully there will be some improvements..(they also rate on a scale of 0-100; 0 being very poor, 100 being excellent)
Weight: 222
Body Fat Levels: Body Fat 96.1%, Lean Weight 123.9 RATE: 1/Very poor
Cardiovascular Capacity: Bike Test RATE: 99/Excellent
**This totally amazes me! How can I be so fat but my heart in such good shape? How this test was done was they put me on a bike and had me pedal for 8 minutes while keeping the RPMs at a certain number while they changed the resistance and watched my heart rate.
Musculoskeletal: Push Up Test (did 25 reps before I died) Rate: 76/Good
Times Situps (did 13) Rate: 18/Poor
Flexibility: Sit and Reach Rate: 35/Below Av
**On this I though I would do better because despite my obesity I am very flexible and double jointed but this was a strange test. You had to push this thing with your arms in front of you and I think my gut got in the way..lol
So there you have it. Lets see in 12 weeks if I can actually for once get something accomplished! I do also feel like I am cheating a bit, but I am back to taking a appetite supressent. This one is a prescription one, not even them over the counter ones could touch my huge stomach. I feel like that is cheating but I guess I have to do what will work aside from surgical or whatever. Please dont judge me on that! But I am not taking it and eating crap. I am doing well with my food choices. Want examples?? Huh huh? Well let me tell you about my day today (for once I am proud to say it)! For breakfast ¾ cup Cheerios Vanilla Yogurt with FF milk and a banana. For lunch a salad and one of those Campbells cup of soups and a ff pudding. And my momma gave me a present of one of those Reeses peanut butter eggs. She knows I love them. Anyways, not only did I not scarf it down immediately, when I did eat it (6 hours later) I split it with a co worker! That has never happened for me! And I have had (4) 16oz glasses of water so far! Im so psyched!

posted by Krista @ 1:54 PM 3 comments

Saturday, February 25, 2006

I've Been Tagged For The FIRST Time!

I got tagged for the first time! Its like my tagged virginity has just been taken. And by one of my newest favorite reads nonetheless. I am so excited! I have actually been wanting to post so this gave me some incentive so I will do this tagged thing first then tell you all about my wonderful exciting life (ha I wish)

So here it goes, I hope I do this right:

4 jobs I've had:
1. Laboratory Assistant
2. Office Manager
3. Photography Assistant
4. Any fast food/waitress restaurant in my town, I almost worked at all of them in my teenage years.

4 movies I can watch over and over:
1. The Sweetest Thing
2. Dirty Dancing
3. Family Man
4. I cant remember the name of this one.. it was about a girl that was mentally slow. Diane Keaton was her mom.. Something about sister.

4 places I've lived:
1. Ohio
2. Sevierville Tennesse
3. Ohio
4. Ohio
(I have lived in about 4 towns in Ohio here all within about 10 minutes of where I currently live, growing up we moved alot)

4 tv shows I love:
1. Grays Anatomy
2. Desperate Housewives
3. That is all I get to watch and I usually have to record them (Yeah we dont have TiVo in our little town, well we might have it available but I know noone that even has it) because they are on so late I am getting the kiddies ready for bed and all.
4. I would love to see the L Word too but I dont get HBO either, sad sad I know.

4 places I've vacationed:
1. Destin, Florida
2. Maui, Hawaii
3. Oahu, Hawii
4. Pigeon Forge, Tennessee

4 of my favorite dishes (make that FOOD):
1. Anything with potatoes
2. Anything with bread
3. Any desserts
4. And I could have a meal of just soda if I needed to!

4 places I would rather be right now:
1. On vacation, Hawaii would be nice
2. Somewhere eating a great meal
3. Anywhere not at work (where I am now)
4. At the Biggest Looser ranch

Now to tag three people. Gee I think that is more than the actual number of people that read my blog!! Ha but I will try Jen, Diane, and Tressa. If you dont want to that is fine, I am good at taking rejection..tee hee Plus like I said I have never been tagged before so I dont know if everyone else gets as excited as I did! Ha ha I have no life!

Anyways, so I joined the YMCA like I said I was going to. I signed up for this really cool program to try to encourage myself. I will meet with a trainer this Thursday and she will give me a fitness assessment. She will check my cardiovascular, my flexibility, my strength, and my body fat to muscle ratio (which I already told her it was probably atleast 75/25 ha). So then after that she will set me up a work out according to these results to improve on them. Then every two weeks I check in with her. We set goals for every two weeks and she sees if I accomplish them or atleast come close. Then we reset goals and change my work out a bit and continue on checking in every two weeks for 12 weeks. At the end of 12 weeks we redo the fitness assessment and see how I have progress. If I make my goals and my ending goal I get a surprise (I of course asked if it would be a donut..ha ha). I hope this works for me and I think it will because I dont want to let her down. She is cute and has this awesome little body and I dont want her thinking, oh yeah I knew she couldnt do it. I want to WOW her! So I think this will work. I got this new little gadget too that I am excited about using. I am so getting into all this new technological stuff (okay, minus TiVo).

Well, I will stop there for today. Dont want to make this like a book! Have a great weekend everyone!!

posted by Krista @ 10:53 AM 3 comments

Friday, February 17, 2006

TGIF!!!

Thanks everyone for approving my new blog appearance! Lol I really really like it. Much more serene, much cleaner, and have I mentioned yellow daisys are one of my favorite flowers? Stargazer lilies are right up there too, they are my two favorite flowers. I actually looked all around for a template with stargazer lilies but I could not find one. Now I am sorta glad cause this one just makes me feel better looking at it. Yellow is my favorite color. Speaking of Lilies (that is where Lilly the puppy got her name), some of you have asked about her and I forgot to reply. Unfortunately Lilly does not live with us anymore. She got mad at me one day and decided to crap all over her cage and throw it everywhere along with her food, then ate some of my house. Now I would normally understand and work through it considering she is a puppy and all but with the house for sale and it happening more then once I was unsure of what to do about it. Then a friend here at work said another lady used to breed Jack Russells and hers got ran over and she would love another one and waalaa she got a puppy!! I miss her dearly but I call to check on her frequently. She is much happier, there is another dog there to play with.

So I thought I would update you on the house thing. We gave up on bidding on the one. They were pricks. The came down like 4,000 from their asking price then would not budge. That is crazy. When we listed ours we made sure to leave room for negotiating. You normally take that into consideration. Like if I were wanting to get a house for 150,000 I would look at houses that are priced close to 160,000 because around here it seems you can give yourself a 10,000 lead way on the negotiations. These people must not of heard that. This is our third go around at buying and that is how it has been everytime we have bought and sold (can you tell we just havent found THE place yet that we want to grow old in..lol) So we gave up on that, and now my husband is back on just buying land and building our own, which we have been eyeballing some land and got a home plan picked out. Our home has been on the market (the is a photo of my home now) for a week now. No callers yet but I wasnt expecting any yet. Thank goodness too cause I am getting some things done I wanted to before someone schedules a viewing and I still have a few things left (paint the bathroom, fix some woodwork, things like that). We go Sunday to meet the realtor and take a hike around the land. It has a stream, I like that. That would be fun to sit by at night with a fire, or ride the dirt bikes over.

Yesterday I added some new links, found some more blogs I like to read. I spent most of the day reading their archives catching up so I will be more familiar with their new entries. I was over at the Cancer Lab and it was chemo day so I didnt have much blood to draw. Today I am back over at the hospital and its not too bad today. I am sooo glad it is Friday. We are going out tonight. Got a sitter and all! The hubs is bowling in our mens city tournaments so I am going to sit and drink Grape Smirnoff! I won $30 on the womens tournaments (I got 10th place…yeah mmeee!!) and I told him I was going to get as many as I want (he always complains because they are so much more expensive then beer). I cant wait! Then I am off on Monday so I think I would like to be a gym whore that day and take the kids to the YMCA and work out and play most the day.

Oh yeah, my lovely son has now got the new sitter to no longer want to babysit him too. Matter of a fact she was not going to come back after Weds but I talked her into riding it out until next Friday then I got a new one to start on the 27th. Gosh I cant wait until he starts school so I can quit worrying about this. Of course then he will just be in the office all day long but I dont have to worry about someone not showing up to watch him. I dont know what his deal is. I told him last night I was going to change my parenting approach, less talking more action. He found out quickly what I meant by that (after the second surprise paddling). Man it just breaks my heart to see him cry but something has to give.

Okay, enough babbling today. I could go on and on, I feel really good on the insides today but I will stop now. Hope you all have a great weekend!

posted by Krista @ 10:19 AM 2 comments

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Name: Krista

Location: Ohio, United States

I am a 30 year old mom to two children, a 8 year old daughter and 5 year old son. I have been married for 6 years. I am new to this technology but thought I would start a journal about my life and weight loss through NS then trying it on my own.

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