Still going!

Still holding on strong to tracking my points and contemplating starting my peppers in my little greenhouse. They suggest starting them indoors a full 8 weeks before transplanting them outdoors. Hmm... How many of my other little plants should I start this with too?? My greenhouse is big enough to start 72 plants, so in theory I could start a whole slew of them now and by the time the weather is ready to cooperate, they could be pretty established little guys! But I'm also not sure what types of plants are resentful of being transplanted either... Decisions decisions...

Well, when in doubt I can give it a try and if my little sproutlet's get upset and keel over from being transplanted, I have plenty of seeds to just reseed from scratch. We shall see how that goes.

Too bad the ground is frozen again or I'd be out there yanking grass this weekend! :D Maybe next week!

Random Side Note:

Happy Birthday Mom! You really are an amazing woman and I love you dearly! Even if I haven't told you about this blog so you can't read it, but well wishes are being sent out into the cyberspace universe on your behalf! :D

Progress

Seeds

Drumroll Please...

As of my Saturday weigh in, I'm down 2 1/4 pounds! Woohoo!!

As for my garden... I've put a solid 3 hours into setting the fence, pulling grass and tilling the soil. I've still got a long way to go, but the weather is not cooperating for the rest of the week. Ah well, maybe I can do a little more dirt digging this weekend! Here's a couple pictures of our progress so far. I've also purchased a ton of seeds too. Planting a rainbow for sure! :D Feeling pretty incredible about taking this on.

Oh! And the composter is installed and ready to start adding nutrients into the soil! YAY!

Garden...

Ah yes, spring is in the air and I'm already planning my veggie garden that WILL be planted next monthish. I've already lugged the old dog pen outside to be the "gate" around my garden (to keep the dogs out!) and have it set up. I've also hauled the composter over to one end. The shape of my garden will be slightly different than this plan to the right. That garden is 8x12. Mine is 8x12 with an extra little 4x4 section at the end where the composter lives. It also won't have a straight path down the center, but rather a T shaped path since the gate is on the side, not the end.

I'm so excited! :D

This particular plan is from Better Homes & Gardens (Thanks Mom!) and is billed as "child friendly." I'm pretty sure G is going to have a blast mucking about getting the garden ready with me, then will have to problem identifying all the veggies. And I can just imagine the sun in A's hair as he munches merrily on a ripe tomato. The garden is in a lovely sunny spot in the back yard and still leaves TONS of room for the kiddo's and dogs to romp and play. I think over the weekend I'll work on ripping out some of the grass and getting the "fence" more securely attached.

Weight Watchers

Yep. I did it... I joined Weight Watchers. My first meeting was last Saturday (3/12) and my starting weight was 173.75. DOH. However, I was fully clothed and accidentally left my keys in my pocket. Whoops. And since I have 12 keys on my keychain, that is some substantial heft!

All week I have been diligently charting what I eat, excersizing a couple days in there too, and watching my points. It totally seems like a reasonable diet! And I'm really liking the atmosphere of the meetings. People joining together to celebrate their triumphs over food and sticking together when they struggle. It's not that I don't get support from friends and family - they are all excited for me (well, the people I've told anyways) it's just this is a group of strangers... there's something oddly comforting about not really knowing anyone in this group. There's no judgement... No one there knew me when I was thin. Not only that, but I am by far not the largest one in the group. It's selfish, but reassuring to not be the "fat friend" for that meeting. For a little while I get to be supported and be a support to people who are struggling with weight loss just as much if not more than myself. Feels pretty good.

DH has stopped eating out for Lent too and is sticking with his own tracking system. One of his buddies at work does WW, so he gave DH the lowdown to how many points he should be using, etc. Since last Wednesday, DH has lost 6 lbs!! Incredible!! Only 44 more to go!

We'll see what my weigh in looks like. I've been avoiding the scale this week. I don't want to set myself up. I've been so impatient lately that I don't want to feel negativity or disappointment if I don't immediately see that number coming down. So I'm going to try to stick with my weekly meeting weigh ins and thats it.

I'm really impressed with myself with how diligently I've been tracking. I really have stuck with it hardcore all week. And now that the weather is giving us a bit of a nice spell, I can easily get outside and go for walks more often with the babies. DH can take the dogs and we'll all lose weight! Yay!

Random side note: With BFF's pregnancy (which I can't even begin to express how excited I am for her... no really! Words don't cut it!) I get to live vicariously! She sent me pictured of the beautiful waffles that she made and it was kind of fun not only drooling over the pic, but then deconstructing it into points and seeing just how many points it was without actually EATING those points! :D

It's been a good week!

Weight: ??? - will have a number tomorrow!

Lent

So here we are... Lent. DH tells me that as good Catholic's, we're not supposed to talk about what we're giving up - we are just supposed to make the adjustment and carry on like normal. While that is all well and great, I need to talk about it to get idea's, support, etc.

I'm giving up eating out at lunch time (which I was basically doing every day. Um. Expensive.), eating red meat (still holding on to ground turkey for the time being... but that may go too), and I'm cutting back on dairy. I'm also working on "Giving for Lent" - not just "giving up." I will be making at least 3 rosaries a week to be sent out to missions. I will also be making a couple swanky rosaries to be donated to charity auctions. Considering opening an etsy store to sell a couple too (so I can keep making and donating more!). A very wise and incredible woman and mom recently said to me "Think globally, act locally." And I know others have told me that as well... She is just accomplishing some of my goals personally, so it just seemed to click a little clearer when she said it.

I'm getting there... Slowly and surely.

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