10 Things on Tuesdays!

 

 

1. It has been rainy for the past couple days, but I heard that maybe the sun will peak out today! I also heard we won't see the sun until Thursday so I am not sure which one to believe! All I know is that my poor neglected plants are probably loving all the water!

 

2. I finally finished my book for my case study and I got all 10 pages typed up last night. I was pretty proud of the final report. Hopefully my teacher will also think the same when she is grading me.

 

3. I have been feeling down this week. I just have so much on my mind and kind of a heavy heart about some things.

 

4. I have a Scentsy event this week on Thursday night. I am kind of excited and hopefully people show up. It's working with a real estate agency in one of the model house open houses. We shall see!

 

5. This weekend was busy, but turned out very well! The house is finally clean, including Hailey's room! Plus the company over the weekend provided a lot of laughs and good times! My parents even made their first trip all the way Egypt to visit me! Ps: I don't live in Egypt, but that's how people like to view the distance. :)

 

6. My birthday is coming! I can't help but get smile as I type that!

 

7. I have 2 weeks left of school and believe me it isn't going to be easy with the amount of final projects and the level of difficulty of them! I hopefully will manage my time so that nothing will be last minute! Haha wishful thinking!

 

8. My sink is clean! This doesn't seem like anything special to some, but the amount of weeks I made mention about the never ending dishes that were piled in my sink on this post and my So What! posts, it's a huge accomplishment!

 

9. All of Hailey's clothes are washed, well except for yesterdays outfit! Get this, they are even folded and put away! Again another minor thing, but a huge accomplishment for me!

 

10. I am hoping that I can take some deep breathes, relax and begin to feel better about things. I really hate dealing with this anxiety and I hate taking medication to deal with it on days like today. 

Balancing out Hormones- Easier said than done!

So ovarian cysts are nothing new to me. I have gotten them since I was about 17 years old. They used to usually include a visit to the ER because of the pain and then they would find a cyst on my ovaries and send me home. If you have every had one, you know they can be extremely painful. They range in all different sizes. If they get big enough they will go in and remove them. Mine have always been smaller, but it still included the intense pains that go with them. For probably the past 3 years I have had them really bad, to the point that I have a constant pressure in my left pelvic area and then sometimes sharp pains out of no where. They can be sharp, sudden, and go away fast or they can linger which results in me laying in bed curled in a ball crying. After my "woman yearly exam" this year, my new doctor decided to do a thorough sonogram of my ovaries. The results were both ovaries have cysts and my left one is full of them and also has a good amount of scar tissue in it, which is why that side is much more painful. The recommendation was birth control to help regulate things a little bit better.

I had an appointment last week, and I brought up the that I wanted to start trying for a baby this fall. I told her that I was working on losing weight to make the pregnancy easier. She informed me that my hormones are very much imbalanced (which is a cause behind the chronic cysts) and if I want to have a baby she said that I would have to get my body ready for it beyond just losing weight. She said that there is a good chance I will struggle with getting pregnant since my hormones are imbalanced and she also said that if I don't prepare my body then the pregnancy was going to be very hard on my body and health. I kind of was taken back by the whole conversation and left the office feeling kind of lost. I have been trying to do everything right with planning another baby. I've been trying to get healthier. I am working on my debt so money won't be such a struggle one day. I will be out of school so I wont have the extra stress of that. Hopefully my other house will be sold by then and that will be a huge relief. I was really looking forward to this fall being a perfect time to start trying and planning. Now I felt as though I hit a huge bump in the road.

I have spent many sleepless nights reading about hormone imbalances and ways that you can help get them back to functioning correctly. I have been reading a lot of positive things about this book called "The Hormone Diet" which is a 2 week detox and a 4 week plan to help get everything back to functioning normal. I bought the book last night on my iPad and started reading it. I could relate to a lot of the symptoms that are talked about in the book. It's not really an exact diet plan, but more of a "you can eat this" and "you can't eat any of that" type plan, it's based off of clean eating and the mederteranian diet plan for health. I think the plan is called the glyca-med plan. Its a big book with lots of medical terms (good think I took anatomy!) but, I am going to continue reading it and give it a try! I have read a lot of reviews and there is a ton of positive things from people of all ages and with all different medical issues. So hopefully this will be what I need to help balance out these hormones.

 

Plus if it helps me drop a little weight in the process, I won't complain!

So What Wednesday!

Today I am linking up with Shannon at "L.A.I.D" for another round of "So What! Wednesday!"

This week I am saying SO WHAT to:

 

• That I gained a little this week, it happens!

• That I have eaten two cartons of tomatoes in two days. Mmmmm

• That I spend a lot of time "shopping" online and adding stuff to my cart, but never buy anything. It's kind of like window shopping and wishful thinking in one!

• That I don't get paid until Friday and as of Friday afternoon I will be broke again!

• That we were told at work that before we interview another person for a job, that we will have some practice interviews to learn what we should and should not be doing. Apparently 3 out of 5 candidates for the boss position thought we were hostile. Ha!

• That I have a really bad headache! I think after this post I am going to go downstairs and get a bagel and coffee. Maybe I'm hungry and then the caffeine will help! (Sounds like a great excuse to get a bagel and coffee to me!)

• I realized Monday night that I hadn't talked to Kenny in almost 48 hours. We weren't mad at each other or anything! He went to bed at like 11pm on Saturday was up and out to work at 4am then didn't get home until 1:30am on Monday and then I was up and out at 5am for work and of course he was at work when I got home. I mean we always say goodbye to each other, but besides that neither of us had called one another and he just doesn't do the whole texting thing usually. As you can tell we are strong communicators! Ha!

• I have a ton of cleaning to do! And last night I didn't do anything on my list! I will get to it when I am ready I guess!

Weighing in Wednesday-Week 16

This week's weight loss:

+2.6

womp womp
Total weight loss since Jan. 2, 2013:

-12.3

Thoughts for the week:

Like I have been telling Hailey lately each time she gets upset because she loses a game, you win some and you lose some. And I think that goes with weight loss too. I am not going to lie, I was almost in tears when I saw the gain, but it happens and now I just need to move forward.

Two things I think messed me up this week. One being that I haven't tracked since Friday. I haven't over indulged or anything like that, I just have been so stressed with school that everytime I am on the computer I am working on my schoolwork. Secondly, my monthly friend should be here either today or tomorrow, so some of this might be water weight.

This week I am going to track everything and move on from there. Hopefully next week I will be back on track with weight loss! It would be nice to get to 20lbs gone by my birthday, but thats going to be a long stretch.

Have a great week!

 

Ten Things on Tuesday!

1. I am super tired today. I got up when my alarm went off and just wasn't feeling to good. So I started getting ready then decided I was going to stay home. I climbed back in bed and closed my eyes, then I decided I needed to get up and go in today. So needless to say, I am at work.

2. Hailey scored her first goal this past Saturday! She was so excited and we couldn't have been more excited for her!

3. I have a problem with tomatoes. Like maybe an addiction or something! I always sit and eat a whole carton in one sitting! I just love them! Food Lion had them on sale for a really good price. Guess who stocked up on them?!? Mmmmmm tomatoes!

4. May is right around the corner and I am very excited! Might I mention it will be my birthday and also I will be graduating from college!

5. I made lemonade out of a one of those frozen Minute maid cans, well it was FoodLions brand so it was probably called like 60 Seconds Maid or something like that, anyways that was my first time doing that and it was delicious! I have been crazing some good tart lemonade!

6. I am not sure how I am going to do on my weigh in tomorrow. I haven't tracked the past few days. I am not sure what happened. It's not like I overate like crazy or anything, but I just forgot to write it all down. Hopefully it won't be a gain!

7. I did a MUCH NEEDED refrigerator clean out last night! I am pretty proud of myself!

8. After I did that I then washed all the dirty containers. In fact before I went to bed I emptied out the dishwasher, put all the containers away, then reloaded. Guess who has been having a clean sink these past few weeks, this chic!

9. Hailey has soccer at 10:30 on Saturday. Saturday is also Kenny's truck groups big spring bonfire meet at our house. He wont be able to go to soccer since he will have people getting there early. After soccer I was supposed to take her to my Mom's, which is an hour and a half away, and then I am supposed to hurry back home so I can help entertain. Well Hailey brought home a Birthday invitation for this Saturday and she really wants to go! So now we are going to do soccer at 10:30, go to Chris' birthday party a little late since it starts at 11:00. Then once we leave that head to my moms. It will be one busy morning for sure!

10. The Birthday party we are going to.......yeah that is one crazy mom! She has 6 children and she is doing all of their Birthday parties in one day at her house. Chris is the youngest and starts at 11am, then she has one starting at 1, 3, 5, 7, and her oldest party starts at 9pm. She said she expects that at times there will be over 100 people at her house while the parties are ending and one is beginning. Crazy! CRAZY!

 

Hope everyone has a nice Tuesday!

WW: My Silly Girl!

So after I fixed her hair the other night so it would be nice for picture day, Hailey decided she wanted to practice having her picture taken. So here are some of her modeling shots from the other night.

 

She is so silly, I was laughing so hard at all her faces, believe me she would have had me there all night making faces and posing!

I love that little girl more than she will ever know!

 

Weighing in Wednesday- Week 15

This week's weight loss:

-1.4

Total weight loss since Jan. 2, 2013:

-14.9

Thoughts for the week:

This week was an odd week and I really didn't expect to see a loss, but believe me I was HAPPY I did!

I am hoping that this week will go a little bit better stress wise and I will be able to stick to the plan better. I also didn't go to the gym last week, BUT I do have my clothes packed so I plan on going today, tomorrow, and Friday! That's one thing I really need to follow through with!

Have a great week!

PS: I need to think of something better to do for my weigh in post. I got tired of writing the same stuff over and over. Maybe I will just stick with writing some thoughts of the week!