Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

I had the greatest day. Went downtown to the St.Lawrence Market, love the vibe down there. Got a lot of farm fresh fruits and veggies for our big dinner tomorrow. I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. Thank you for following this blog and thank you for all the comments. Love you guys! I leave you with my baking/Christmas-y pictures.








































What's cuter than that?
Can't stay clean while baking for the life of me
Cookies for Santa
My brownie mess heh..heh

Damn, just when you're getting all hyped up about stuff you come across a new picture that knocks you back down 10 notches. My best friend just uploaded this on Facebook. This is what I really look like, holy shit. I feel like crap now. Tomorrow I will re-read my previous post from today and feel better.

Baby Steps

Hey Everyone,

Today I got to thinking about baby steps. Since I started getting serious about losing weight, or at least acknowledging that I did have to lose weight, I’ve been hearing about these baby steps. Make small goals for yourself, try not to look at the big picture etc etc. I was always very sceptical. How can I only focus on losing 10 pounds when I have more than 100 to lose? It really didn’t make sense to me until today. I was about to fill up a huge jug of water when I saw the normal 500mL bottles and got to thinking. Because I’m horribly blonde (no offense blondes!), I measured it out and realized that two of these bottles is a litre. Yeah, never claimed to be a brainiac. 6 of those little bottles seem a lot more manageable then 2 huge 1.5 L bottles. It might not make sense to you, but it makes a whole whack of sense to me. Then I thought about weight. Everyone loves when they meet their goals, it feels good. So if I made smaller goals for myself within my big goal (to lose 100lbs next year), I would feel a lot better about myself and I think it would encourage me instead of me always getting discouraged. I think I get myself freaked out over numbers. See to me, 2 pounds a week seems like a lot, but 9 pounds a month seems do-able. I can freakin’ do this! I’m getting so excited. I guess baby steps are pretty important.

By the way, according to Tyra Bank’s twitter, you are supposed to take your weight, divide that number by 2 and that’s how many ounces of water you’re supposed to intake. For me that’s 4.4L. That’s a lot of water, no?

Dear Julie,

Thank you for your kindness. When I opened up the package, I was so surprised to find the extras you put in there. By the time I finished reading the card I was in tears. Your thoughtfulness really struck a cord. Thank you, thank you, thank you. You’ve lit a spark in me that hasn’t been there for a while.  I hope you have the merriest of holidays, a person of your calibre certainly deserves it.

Love,

Erin

Me,50LBS lighter..kinda

Hey My Pretties..

Today was a pretty uneventful day. My mom had some last minute running around to do, so I tagged along in hopes that I could find some nice green nail polish and a white one so I could do cute candy cane nails for Christmas, of course I couldn’t find any. There’s a beauty store not far from here, I might take the kids on a walk with me tomorrow to look for some. Yay for physical activity.

I’ve decided I’m going to do the X-Weighted Challenge. What do I really have to lose? I hope hope hope Tiffany, Kerry and Kat are going so I semi know someone there. There’s nothing worse than going to something that you’re absolutely terrified about and being alone the whole time! But I think it will be good for me, I need this. I’ve found my blogging experience to be so much richer than I thought it was going to be. I’ve ‘met’ so many inspirational and helpful people. To think, I was scared to make my private life, public at one point. I think I expose more on here than I do to most of my friends. How funny.

This picture was from last Christmas. I uploaded this it onto a site that takes 10,20,50 pounds off a picture. I’m pretty sure they took more than 50 pounds off but regardless, the ‘skinny’ me is pretty fine. I can’t wait for the day where I don’t cringe at full length pictures of myself.

 

Tomorrow I’m aiming to get all my 3L of water in and tracking what I eat. Geeze, you’d think it was rocket science or something..I’m finding it so hard to get back into tracking.

X-Weighted Challenge and Ridiculous High Heels

Hey all,

Today was a pretty nothing day. Went grocery shopping and instead of chowing down on pizza at Fortinos, I had a somewhat healthy rapini and prosciutto sandwich. I also took a quick 20 minute walk around the block.

Looking over Tiffany and Kerry’s blogs I saw their posts on the X-Weighted Challenge. The idea of this scares the shit out of me, no lie. The idea of performing a fitness test in front of all those people could almost bring tears to my eyes. I’m so fat! People will laugh! What if I can’t do it? What if I just want to give up and then people will think I’m a worthless waste of time! Yeah, someone’s got a smidgen of an anxiety problem. Has anyone done this before? I mean, I have nothing to lose. I’ve always been afraid. Afraid of losing weight, afraid of reaching out to people, afraid of change…and where has it gotten me? I really need to stop getting in my own way. So if anyone from the GTA is reading this and is interested in going, please email me or leave me a comment.

One present I promise to buy myself when I lose 100lbs is shoes like this

Sure, they will still probably kill my feet, but the pain can’t be any worse than when I wear them now. 300lbs and ridiculous heels are a recipe for disaster!

Borderline NSFW and a bunch of other stuff

Hey All,

I took a peak over at these two fabulous blogs: Dream Chaser and Project 365 and they really got me thinking. Could I do that? Could I lose 100 pounds in 365 days? Given my track record, I’m not so sure. Basically that’s 2 pounds every week. In theory, yes, I could do that. Actually doing it is another whole thing. See, I have this thing with commitment. I say I’ll do things, but I never end up doing them.

I was watching The View today and they featured 5 different diets. I’m not into the whole ‘fad’ diet (even though I did Dr.Bs, heh heh) thing but I thought I’d watch it just to see. The diets featured were: Dr. Siegal’s Cookie Diet, Physio Cleanse with Melissa Bowman Li, The Perfect 10 Diet by Dr. Michael Aziz, Jorge Cruise’s Belly Fat Cure, 7 Day Energy Surge by Jim Karas.

The Dr.Siegal Cookie Diet: Basically you eat 6 sad looking cookies a day and then a healthy, low fat, low cal diner. I don’t know about you, but I like my cookies fatty and sugary. I’d rather budget them into my points allowance then eat 6 nasty ones. Just sayin’..

Physio Cleanse with Melissa Bowman Li: It’s a 28 day cleanse where you drink shakes for breakfast and lunch and have a low fat, low cal dinner. You need to restrict your caffeine, sugar, gluten, alcohol and dairy intake. This one didn’t seem that bad as you could add different shake powders to get different minerals and vitamins.

The Perfect 10 Diet by Dr. Michael Aziz: I didn’t pay that much attention to this one but I know it’s about ‘managing a perfect balance between your 10 key hormones’, whatever the heck that is supposed to mean.

Jorge Cruise’s Belly Fat Cure: This diet can help you lose belly fat without counting calories or going to the gym: Yay, score! You can do this by ‘simply’ keeping your sugars down by ‘simply’ limiting carbs and sugars: Boo! This dude was on the show basically saying ‘don’t eat apples and yogurt, eat a burger and fries! That’s so much better.’ I understand that carbs turn into sugar which turns into belly fat but come on, compared to a burger and fries? I think he was really appealing to peoples desire that you can eat all the greasy, yummy meat and get skinny. I also think he was forgetting one little thing: fat content. Shakin’ my head..

7 Day Energy Surge by Jim Karas: Again, didn’t pay much attention to this one. Apparently Sherri Shepherd tried this one and that (along with exercise) is how she lost all her weight. I looked it up online and it sounds kind of interesting. And it includes sex. Sha-wing!

All in all, I like what I do (you know, most of the time) with Weight Watchers. I tried the whole, only eating a quarter of a can of tuna, some celery, 5L of water and like 10 horse pills a day. And guess what? I lost weight! Did i pile it all back on? Yus sir I did. If I was looking for a quick way to lose 10lbs before a Vegas vacation (hint, this is exactly what I will be doing because I have a two week credit), I would do Dr.B’s again.

After I watched The View I figured it was time to clean the house. I know my mom loves to come home to a clean house so when I feel extra nice, I try to tidy it up. Doing this, I like to blast music and dance around. In tiny red shorts, a white tank top (no bra, what a sight!) and a floppy bun I danced wildly, clutching a broom like it was Mark Wahlberg or something. Then, the door bell rang. Now I rarely answer the door during the day but I had a light bulb moment, thinking it might be the mail man with my book from Julie. I knew I didn’t have time to throw on any clothes or turn down the music so I made a mad dash for the door. As I opened the door, classy lyrics like

“I wanna get you in the back seat windows up
That's the way you like to f**k, clogged up fog alert
Rip the pants and rip the shirt, rough sex make it hurt
In the garden all in the dirt”

bellowed out the door. Who was it you ask? Jehovah's Witnesses. You’d think with the vulgar music, the apparent lack of undergarments, and my nervous foot to foot switching, they would catch on to my embarrassment and leave. Nope! These two ladies were on a mission. We stood there for 4 minutes. Just when I though the CD had ended, another song started:

It's the first time together and I'm feeling kinda horny
Conventional methods of makin love kinda bore me
I wanna knock your block off get my rocks off
Blow your socks off make sure your G spots soft

Life fail.

P.S Yes I do get down to some freaky music

Public Enemy No.1

Note: I have not consumed any alcohol, taken any drugs (illegal or non), and am sane as I write this, honest!

Ha! I changed my layout in defiance towards winter. See my plan is to ignore the cold, snow and slush and put myself in a summer frame of mind until late March rolls around. I think it's a stupendous plan. A proper post will come tomorrow right after I get the monsters who inhabit this house kids on the bus and perform an epic cookie exorcism. Gotta get rid of those unassuming, delicious bastards. They’re like cockroaches, where there’s one, there’s many. Keep strong people, this is their peak season. Next time one tries to leap into your mouth (because that’s the only way they get consumed, of course) think of it as one more roll to your belly, dimple to your butt or chins to join the others. Happy freakin’ Holidays Ya’ll!