Allergies~

YUCK, the pollen is horrible here. Every year around Spring Break time is when my allergies really start acting up. I worked in the yard a lot yesterday and last night my eyes were really hurting. It was bad enough that I actually got out of bed and dug thru medicine to find some allergy eye drops. Luckily I found some that gave me some relief and let me get to sleep. I guess I'll be wearing glasses for a few days now. I plan on working in the yard again today, but am going to use eye drops before even going out there today! Sure wish there was some cure for this!

We cut down both of our oleander trees/bushes and I am going to plant hardy hibiscus where they were. I'm so glad to be rid of those oleanders, well the stumps are still there, but at least the bush is gone. The one was as tall as our house, so that took a little more work to get rid of!

Also....The Biggest Loser is going pretty well. I have lost about 12 pounds now and can tell that some of my pants are feeling looser. I started Dr. Ian's Four Day Diet and really like that. Today I get to have 2 pieces of pizza on the diet!!!!

Tired

Haven't updated in a while, seems like I have been so busy, there just hasn't been the time. I am being lazy right now and just laying on the couch so I thought I would do a quick update. The Biggest Loser is going good....I am at 8 pounds gone in 3 weeks, this Friday I am hoping to be at 10 pounds gone! I am so tired today, we had a storm last night and lost power and I couldn't sleep. I woke up when the lights went off, finally found my cell phone to figure out what time it was, it was a little after 1:00. I tried to go back to sleep, but had someone snoring next to me....thought about going upstairs, but while searching in the dark for my cell I had heard a smoke alarm with a low battery beeping. Lights came back on a little after 3, but by that point it was too late to get much sleep. I am planning on going to bed early tonight! This morning, Kit-Kat looked pretty sleepy also, I don't think she was able to sleep with all that was going on....Keep your fingers crossed for my weigh-in on Friday!

Weigh-in

Today wasn't an official weigh-in, but a couple of us decided to go to the nurse's office and weigh ourselves just to see how we had done in the last week. All week, my scale at home had shown no loss, so I wasn't too excited about weighing today. I was pleasantly surprised though to see that I had lost 1.2 pounds! I was hoping for more, but can't complain too much about 6.2 in 2 weeks. Plus, I was sick for the last week and didn't always feel like working out as long as I should, but still did at least half a mile every day except for one when I was just too sick. I don't know if it's my imagination (and it might be), but I think my jeans were a tiny bit looser today than they have been. I am also doing my measurements at home once a week, on Sunday, so I am curious to see if I have lost any inches this week, probably not in just one week, but who knows.

Updates

Well, my diet/exercise is going well despite me being sick. I have had a sore throat, runny nose, sneezing, coughing, ear aches, etc. for a few days now and I am so tired of it. I am on an antibiotic, mucinex, and cough medicine. I did skip one day of exercising because of this, just couldn't make myself do it. I have been using Walk Away the Pounds daily, for those of you that never tried it, it's a lot tougher than just normal walking. A mile and a half is as far as I have been able to go with that program so far, but hoping by next weekend I will be up to 2 miles! At weigh-in Friday, I had lost 5 pounds since beginning The Biggest Loser. I am watching calories and exercising and it was great to see that my hard work had actually paid off. I know those pounds won't come off as easily each week, but it was a good motivator for that first week to keep me going!

Ads~The Biggest Loser

I am starting to get mad at these ads that are being displayed, they are always about losing weight and belly fat! Is google trying to tell me something?????

I have joined The Biggest Loser at work, our school is going to be competing against other schools in the district. Our first weigh-in was last Friday and it will go on until the beginning of May. My goal is to be THE BIGGEST LOSER ever! I'll post after Friday's weigh-in how much I lost for the week. I am also exercising daily, along with counting calories so hopefully I will start noticing my weight dropping soon!

Now google, at least has a good reason to put the weight loss ads on here, since I have done a post about wanting to lose weight :)