HYC Update

OK, make that THREE pounds! This morning's weight, 185.6. Doing the happy feet dance once again! (That's helping me burn off lots of calories!) ;-D

Scroll down for an updated photo and awards for a few folks who visit me!

And if you haven't read this post by Hungry Little Caterpillar on motivation GO DO IT NOW! It's very funny and oh, so true. :-D

Today's weight - 186.4

186.4, down 2.2 since last week's check in with HYC. I've consistently been 188.6 at night for a few days, so I'm very very happy!

Got some bike shorts at Dick's Sporting Goods and if the snow ever gets out of there, I'll get my bike out! We have snow forecast all week. Shouldn't be as big as Thurs/Fri's storm last week. I ordered some t-shirts from Victoria's Secret. Can't wait to get them. A few of them are mock wraps, and I've found that style is very flattering.

Warm fuzzies

Kelly from the Happy Texans blessed me with this award.

The rules to the award: list 7 things that you love and then pass the award on to 7 other bloggers.

7 things I love:

1. ballroom dancing with my hubby
2. laughing with my kids
3. my family
4. watching movies with my hubby and kids
5. chocolate
6. cats (especially the kitty curled up on my lap)
7. scrapbooking

Now to pass on the award. There are so many blogs I just love. If anyone has already been blessed by someone else, no need to do it twice, of course. And I appreciate ALL of my visitors and followers and wish I could nominate all of you!

Diana at Scale Junkie
Heather at FitNewEnglandChick
Chubby Chick at the Triumph of Perseverance
Bonnie at SeriouslyToo-Weight For It!
Jessica at Pudget
Ro at We Could Be More Than Just Amazing
GF at Counting to Infinity

Current photo compared to 2006

I took this photo this morning. My belly definitely has a pooch above and below my waist, but I've come a long way, baby. And look at that BUTT! ;-)

Oh, I hate this photo but thankfully, I don't look like this anymore! This was June 4, 2006.


Check out THIS LINK to see how much weight both my husband & I lost. The slimmed down photo is from Sept 07, when I was 200lbs. (Those jeans no longer fit me!) I was probably over 230 on the photo from 2003.

Some awesome info!

I love the editor of Men's Health ever since reading The Abs Diet for Women book. (I currently can't find my copy and it's bugging me. It has great weight-lifting routines in it. The main one I have memorized and is the one I usually do.) This guy also co-wrote the Eat This, Not That books. Lots of the info can be found on their website, though.


Unhealthiest restaurants

America's healthiest restaurants

20 Unhealthiest Drinks in America

14 Health foods that aren't

8 Worst breakfasts in America

Restaurants' report cards

Worst Mall Food

What is the restaurant industry hiding?

America's Worst and Best Salads
Two in the hall of fame are NO LONGER AVAILABLE. McD's Asian and Arby's Martha's Vineyard. I was not happy when they discontinued those salads. :-(

Updated blogroll

I've added a few people to my blogroll of folks who regularly comment. I'm not completely done yet, so if you don't see yours there and would like it to be, leave me a comment! :-D (Or if you don't like your blog on others' blogrolls, let me know that, too and I'll delete you.) I also deleted a few blogs if they haven't been updated since January or if the blog is no longer weight focused. I appreciate all of you who visit!

In the 80's - AT NIGHT!

No, I'm not talking about the temperature here in Colorado where it's currently 25. For the past couple nights, my weight has been in the 80's even at night, so I'm very psyched and motivated to keep going.

Yesterday the kids went to Denver for a con. They do cos-play. For those of you without young adult children, that's dressing up as anime characters. :-D

Hubby got home from California today and we met good friends for lunch after I picked him up at the airport. Had a salad at Ted's, had never been there before. They serve a lot of bison. No thanks. ;-) Then we went to our friends' house for dessert, I'd brought strawberries and Dove dark chocolate for fondue. I'd made a bunch of chocolate for the kids to take with them for this weekend and gave some of the molded candies and dark chocolate dipped mini pretzels to our friends, too.

Remember - dark chocolate is a MUFA and on the Flat Belly Diet, you need to have a MUFA at every meal! I can handle 4 servings of chocolate every day. ;-)