No More Plus Size … eventually

It would be so nice if I could continue along a nice straight, non-bumpy road in this so called crazy life of mine. Of course, that’s not how roads (or life) are.

I recently posted about the next chapter of my life. I was excited to have the money I needed to make a huge transition in my life – a big move so I could be with my son. Suddenly, things aren’t going so smooth I’m hitting a road block every time I find an apartment/duplex/etc. Charlevoix is a really busy tourist town so I’m hoping that once summer is over there will be some more places available to rent.

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Wow. I’m sitting here feeling overwhelmed, crazy, emotional, excited, scared, in awe, can’t believe it’s happening – yeah, you name it I’m feeling it right now!

Last month I shared about my son moving in with his dad, step mom and baby brother. If you’ve followed me here or on Twitter you know I’ve been having a really hard time adjusting to this. I don’t know why I thought it would be easier to adjust. It’s not. I have to admit, the first couple weeks I was ok (kind of). It was nice having a break. And honestly the last couple summers my son has ‘lived’ with his dad so it kind of didn’t feel any different. But once I started realizing that this was different, that he wasn’t coming back home once summer was over I started getting the blues.

I started to freak out with thoughts about how I was going to see him regularly once winter hit (in Northern Michigan the winters are harsh and from where I am to where he is – the winter roads are not fun to travel…sometimes you can’t even travel because of the weather!). Or what if my car broke down?

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I took my very first Zumba class on June 8th (2011) and I was up in the air about whether I liked it or not. There were some things I liked but the biggest part of the class – the teacher – I didn’t care for. She didn’t act like she was all that into it. Maybe she was just having an ‘off’ day and if that was the case it really stunk for me as a ‘virgin’ Zumba class attendee.

After that class, one of the things I wrote in my blog post about it was:

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Today is the sixth weigh in of the Plus Size Bloggers Bye Bye Booties 12 week challenge. I haven’t been focusing on the scale a whole lot. In fact, if it wasn’t for this challenge I wouldn’t be weighing at all. I made a promise to myself that I would stop focusing on the numbers on the scale. After all, they are just numbers! They don’t define me. They don’t make me who I am. This is a journey about getting healthy and there are so many things non-scale wise to focus on!

I wasn’t shocked to see another gain on the scale today. It was pretty small but add this week’s gain with last week’s and well suddenly the gain is a bit bigger than what I want. But even with that, I’m still not overly concerned about it. I know why it happened 2 weeks in a row. I know what I’m doing wrong – poor food choices. But, I know what I’m doing right – being active, although I could be doing more – quite a bit more to be honest. I’m still not really concerned with the scale.

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I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!

Did you know that there was such a thing as National Ice Cream Day? Not only is today (always the 3rd Sunday of July) such an important day (come on you know ice cream is important! lol) but the entire month of July is dedicated to ice cream! All thanks to President Regan.

How did National Ice Cream Day Come About?

In 1984, President Ronald Reagan designated July as National Ice Cream Month. He also declared that the third Sunday in July would be National Ice Cream Day. ~Wikipedia

So, Happy National Ice Cream Day everyone!

Today is the fifth weigh in of the Plus Size Bloggers Bye Bye Booties 12 week challenge. I haven’t been focusing on the scale a whole lot. In fact, if it wasn’t for this challenge I wouldn’t be weighing at all. I made a promise to myself that I would stop focusing on the numbers on the scale. After all, they are just numbers! They don’t define me. They don’t make me who I am. This is a journey about getting healthy and there are so many things non-scale wise to focus on!

But with that being said, I knew there was going to be a gain this week. I didn’t do a weigh in last week because I went back home (I’m staying with a friend that lives several hours from my house and I didn’t have room to pack my scale to take it back home for a weigh in last Monday) to spend the week with my son.

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My son’s dad dropped him off to me a little after noon yesterday…the minute he walked through the door and saw me, my heart melted. He had the biggest smile on his face and ran over to me to give me the biggest, longest bear hug ever (at 12 getting a hug from him can sometimes be like pulling teeth so I savored every minute he hugged harder & didn’t’ let go!). I don’t think I’ll ever forget that moment. It had been 3 weeks since he moved in with his dad & step mom. Not a super long time, but when you’re used to having your kiddo around 24/7, 3 weeks feels like eternity! We had an amazing day together. Vegged out for awhile watching silly shows (that normally used to bug me but suddenly they didn’t bother me…it was all about just being with my kiddo not what was on TV), hung out with family (my mom & step dad) and then went to my best friend’s parents house for a cookout and then to the local 4th of July fireworks. It was a long day but it was a lot of fun. Caleb is with me until Friday so I plan on enjoying every minute with him this week (he’s showering right now or else I would be hanging out with him and not on my computer, although I do have to finish a little bit of Virtual Assistant work over the course of the week).

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I have no idea why but I woke up with 4 sayings in my head this morning so I figured I would write them down and start saying them every morning when I wake up. Or every time I feel un-motivated, discouraged & down.

So, repeat after me!

• I am beautiful
• I am healthy
• I am wonderful
• I CAN do anything I put my mind to!

YOU are all these things too!

What about you?Do you have a saying (or sayings) that you repeat to yourself? Please share!

Until next time…

I didn’t do a blog post for last week’s check in because I didn’t really have anything new to report. This week I’m not sure what I have to say is worthy of a a whole blog post/check in or not but I’m making it into one

So, what I’ve really loved about Angie’s challenge (click the ‘check in’ link above to see what challenge I’m referring to if yo don’t know) is that we’re not focusing on the scale, we don’t have to lose so many inches or so much weight, etc.

Angie asked us to spend the duration of the 30 day challenge doing this:

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Today is the third weigh in of the Plus Size Bloggers Bye Bye Booties 12 week challenge. I haven’t been focusing on the scale a whole lot. In fact, if it wasn’t for this challenge I wouldn’t be weighing at all. I made a promise to myself that I would stop focusing on the numbers on the scale. After all, they are just numbers! They don’t define me. They don’t make me who I am. This is a journey about getting healthy and there are so many things non-scale wise to focus on!

But with that being said, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t excited to see the numbers on the scale again this week! I’ve been losing consistently for several weeks and how can I not be happy about that?

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