tidbits!

not really in the "blogging mood" but i figured i'd do a short one anyway...

so today we got the call. the call from the base saying "hi. we have a house for you!" i was sooo excited. the girl was asking if we still were interested and i was like "yeah!! we been waiting on the edge of our seat for this call!!!" she thought i was funny but i was for real. so we got our house on base. it's so awesome. i'm so excited. it's brand new and i've never ever lived in a brand new house before. it's also two story and my husband has never lived in two story so he's excited about that. we move in on june 28. yay!!!! we drove over there and looked at it tonight. it was dark so we couldn't see all that much but we could see it and it's so pretty. i tried to take a pic but there wasn't enough light. gonna go back earlier in the day and try to get a good pic. soooo excited!!!!

yesterday i joined the gym. yep. me and my aunt joined up together. and we did the cardio circuit. it's a 15 to 30 minute workout that you start with for the like the first twelve weeks of your membership and it does your strength training and cardio all together. awesome! we were supposed to go again tonight but my aunt cancelled. sigh! i can totally feel yesterday's workout today though. wow.

i bought some new shirts recently and in a smaller size of course. and noticed that some capri pants that were way tight just a couple of weeks ago are like much looser now. almost too loose even. so that's awesome!

tomorrow is the last day of school for my daughter. one more month of it for my son. 

guess i'll hit the sack for now. later ya'll!

denial!

right now i should be fixing dinner for my family. but i'm not. i'm posting this blog. shhh. don't tell anyone! 

i don't have any new weight loss to report. my scale told me that i had gained a pound or two but i didn't listen to that baloney! this morning when i weighed it was back to be being honest and told me i was still at my 209 i was at before. 

today my bander friend came over to color my hair (i can't do it myself! lol) and she helped me do laundry while she was here. great friend, huh? yeah... she really is. she's the one who inspired me to get the band myself. she'll be two years post band this coming sept and has lost almost 100 pounds. she's gone from a size 18 to a size 8. lucky lady. well, she's in some kinda weight loss denial or something. she still buys clothes that are way way too big, still tries to wear her size 18 jeans, and is still convinced that she's not thin. i'm like what the heck is wrong with her? is there such a thing as weight loss denial. she's gone from a size 18 to a size 8 for crying out loud! we were folding my clothes and she was picking up stuff going "ooh. i could wear that!" and i'm like "hello!!! it's a size xl. you are a size SMALL now!" i dunno what's up with that but i must say that there is no way in hell i'm gonna be trying to wear a size 18 jean when i fit comfortably in size 8's or asking to wear a size xl top when a size small fits me. weight loss denial! it's real!!!

 

shopping

i have no new scale news to share today. i'm tottering between 209 and 210 depending on the day. lol and i'm ok with that. still haven't gotten back on the exercising boat like i should be but i'm working on it. i really am. lol

i'm really glad that stephanie was able to find stockpiles of her favorite lip liner and that her lips will not be going nekkid. =P

my house is an atrocious mess because we are still unpacking from our last move and at the same time trying to get ready to pack for our move to the new house hopefully sooner rather than later. and i've been going through stuff getting rid of stuff we don't want/don't need and etc. 

so today i was thinking about the whole shrinking out of my clothes thing. i like the fact that i'm shrinking but at the same time it kinda sucks cuz i can't wear some of my fave stuff anymore and it's pricey to keep buying more and more only to know that soon those will be too big, too. so i came to this idea... i went to a local thrift shop around here to see if i could find any good finds for cheap prices. i got four new pairs of pj pants for only $12. what a deal! one pair is pink plaid from victorias secret and super cute. another is from old navy. and the other two are i don't remember what brand but they are all cute. and guess what the best part is???


they are size LARGE, ya'll! L-A-R-G-E. i cannot freaking believe it. size large and they fit me. they actually fit me. do you even know how long it's been since i've fit into a large? i cannot even remember the last time i owned anything in a size large. it's always been a tight xl or a xxl. i'm just like wow. i cannot freaking believe this. i know i said that already but i had to say it again!


so anyway... now i am helping my husband build our new dining set. it's a temp dining set til we move. long story! lol

same sunday... different post

i decided to remove my "holly" signature from the bottoms of my posts since it didn't look right anymore with my new summerly layout. but anyway....

i did one of my not so common anymore late night walmart runs. my son has a bad case of the disappearing underwears. yeah.... they are all going mia and i haven't a clue what he's doing with them. but nevertheless, i had to go get him some new undies and i ended up spending a lot more time and money in there than i planned. 

i got me some more gummy vitamins since i needed them. and i also picked up some citracal petites. i saw on lapbandtalk that someone was able to swallow them easily. so i figured they'd  be super tiny.  uh... no. they aren't. they are still big ole pills. so i had to crush them and mix them in flavored applesauce. that went well. and now i'll be getting my calcium since i'm lacking that. i tried those lemon calcium bites from bariatric eating but i couldn't get them down after the first few. if anyone wants them i have a whole box someone can have minus like five or six maybe. any takers?

i also go stephanie some of her beloved lip liners. the last two they had. and let's see...what else did i get?

a great deal on the underwear. $3 for a pack of three. you can't beat that when i usually pay $6 for a pack of three. go me!

i was thinking on the drive home really how much less i eat now than i did before. a lot! it's amazing really. and how i never feel famished or anything when eating so little. this lapband thing is a godsend and i'm soooo glad i did it. i cannot believe i was ever one of those people who spoke negatively about weight loss surgery and said "omg. i'll never do that!". i'm so thankful i did it and that i was blessed to have insurance cover it. soooo blessed. i'm already 1/3 of the way to my goal and i just cannot believe this is real. i really can't. i know it's real but it seems sooooo unreal.

yesterday i had to buy me some new pajamas while we were at kmart because i've gotten too small - TOO SMALL!!!! - for the ones i have. i got two new sets. the pants are size xl. not 2x. but xl. and they fit comfortably. not even tight at all. i got the shirts in xl, too. once again, comfy. not tight. it's a miracle!

i'm really surprised though that i'm still fitting in my preband bras. i thought for sure my bra size would be the first thing to downsize. but so far it hasn't. i can tell they don't fit quite the same as they did before, but nothing meriting going down a size. my husband is very grateful for that. i am, too, for that matter. lol

oh....and i actually bought a shirt at the bx on base yesterday. normally i totally walk past the clothing section cuz everything is always way too small for me. even the xl's. well, yesterday i thought i'd take a chance. i tried on three tops. two were too tight but one fit just right. and it was an xl. i bought it up quick. but it felt so great to actually be buying "normal" size clothes at a "normal" size place and not just at the plus size women specialty stores, ya know?

and speaking of my bx shopping trip yesterday.... check this shit out.... we bought the following:

my size xl super cute shirt
my husband a pair of nike running shoes
me a pair of asics gel running shoes

wanna know how much we paid for all that? our total bill was.....

$55

yep. believe it. $55 for two pairs of name brand athletic shoes and a pretty top for me. i about died. the top was $24 and the most expensive thing we bought. talk about bargain shopping!

ok...well, i guess i'm done blogging for now. "see" ya'll tomorrow.

it was a sunday...

what's up with the frog lately? the frog being my band's name. see.... sometimes it's so tight i get stuck on fish. fish! of all things. and i have to stop eating cuz it just hurts too much and that meals is quickly over. but sometimes, it'll let anything through like bites of a grilled cheese sandwich which of course means bread. it's like what the heck is going on in there??? 

another thing i don't get at all is how the losing was pretty slow going since the fill a couple weeks ago. but then all of a sudden i'm losing a pound a day outta nowhere and i haven't even gotten back on my exercising like i was supposed to. so it's like what's up with that??? i'm definitely not complaining though. i was thrilled to see another new number on the scale this morning! i'm now at 209. just a mere 10 pounds away from onederland!

man...what will i do when i get there??? how will i celebrate? a tattoo? prolly not. i can't afford to be lavish like that right now and i'm not sure i'd wanna carry that around forever. a dinner out? well, that'd be really defeating the purpose now wouldn't it? a special piece of jewelry? hmmm... maybe that one will work. i do love jewelry. i dunno... i guess i'll figure it out when i get there. i should probably take some more progress pics soon as i am now officially down 31 pounds. i still haven't found anything to lug around that weighs what i used to. i'm gonna look for something next time i go to the store and see what i can find. just wanna pick it up and say "wow", ya know?

today a friend of mine told me that she could definitely see a difference in how slimmer my face looked in my son's recent birthday pics and the first anniversary pics that i posted on facebook the other day. i was like yay!!! i thought i could see one, too, but i wasn't sure if it was really loss or just how my head was positioned different in each shot.

i am now 59 pounds away from my goal. 59 pounds! i've lost 31 so that means i'm already 1/3 of the way to my goal. that's soooo awesome! i'm excited.

had a few nsv's recently, too, that i wanna share with ya'll. here they are:

1. yesterday we were shopping in kmart and i had to speed walk from the very front of the store to the very back of the store to get something we had forgotten and i didn't get winded at all. it didn't hardly phase me. pre band it woulda been me huffing and puffing the whole way like a damned train. not anymore though. so yay for that one!

2. i noticed that the size 17 jeans that were a previous nsv were starting to feel kinda loose on me. so i tried on another pair that were too tight before. and whaddya know? they fit. yay! so i wore them today.

3. today i realized that i haven't had my asthma act up in a really long time. since shortly after getting my band. the doc said that weight loss would probably cure me of it completely and i'm thinking maybe he was right. that is soooo great cuz when my asthma gets going i sound like a honking duck with my hacking and wheezing! lol

but anyway.... today we took the kids bowling with that whole kids bowl free thing. if you parents out there don't know what that is, then now is the time that i will tell you. 

there is this program where kids all over the nation get to bowl free for the summer. the whole summer. it started on like may 10 and ends on like sept. 12. the kids get two free games everyday from now til september. all you gotta pay for is shoes and at my local bowling place that's only a mere $2.50. also, parents can do it, too. you can sign up for parents or adults on one pass for $24.95. each of those four parents/adults gets two free games everyday as well and it's only $24.95 for the whole summer. you just go sign up online. here's the website:

www.kidsbowlfree.com

you have to go on there and find your local participating bowling place, sign up,  and then your free passes are emailed to you every week. just print them out and go!

we went today and it cost us $12 for the whole family (four of us - 2 kids and 2 parents) to bowl two games. the $12 was shoe rental. it would have cost us $35 or more had we not gotten the deal with kids bowl free and that's with us even getting a military discount. so it's an awesome deal. anyway... it's worth looking into for all your parents out there. 

now i'll shut up since i sound like an advertisement! lol

time to get see about dinner and getting things in order for the school week that starts tomorrow.

the big 3-0

this morning has not yet been the best for me. i woke up to the fact that the weather sucks so our zoo trip plans had to be cancelled. then i realized that my kids left their outdoor play tent open and the dratted dog got in there all wet and etc and ruined two really good bean bags they left in there. i'm soooo tired of that dog!!! he's my husband's and nothing but a pain in the arse! but anyway... 

here's something else i woke up to:

210!!! yay!!! 

i've met goal #2 which is 30 pounds down!!!! only 60 pounds to go til i hit my goal of 150. i need to go pick something up. like a thirty pound bag of cat litter or something so i can really see all that extra weight i was lugging around!

has anyone every told you...

that ya'll are awesome? well, ya'll are. i'm so glad i started this blog and that i have awesome blog friends/followers like yourselves. i love ya'll!!!