Children and obesity

Goodness, such controversy.. abercrombie and peers. This is such a sensitive but important topic. My parents had their peers tell them I was overweight and my parents were bad for not „controlling the situation „, which in turn left me yo yo dieting and forced walking enforced by my parents. This led to bitterness and hurt. I am now 27 and can sincerely say I have forgiven them. I am currently overweight, but working on it. We have friends that have girls, these young girls are prone to quick weight gain. I asked the mother how does she handle the situation of loving your daughter: yet helping her be healthy. I mean how do you help your future children? I know of other little girls that are being called fat but she is the very opposite! Very athletic and not fat by any standard. Peers can be cruel. This all leads to self image issues from even before kindergarten!

I think that it starts in the home, moms need to stop hating what's in the mirror because little girls will pick up on things. For all the wrong things my parents may have unknowingly done wrong, my mom did teach me about self esteem. I just pray we all can be good examples.

Excited

We are taking a cruise( second honeymoon ) in less than three weeks! I almost don't believe it. We usually are pretty frugal people, but every now and then we really like to splurge! Since we did not move we decided to take a cruise. At first we were looking at bargain price cruises, then we narrowed it down to the weekend our friends could go too. Well, when you are not able to be flexible on dates they are only a handful to look at. The cruise we are going on now kept going down in price, last sat it dropped considerably overnight. 499 per person 7 nights on a royal Caribbean cruise( the best cruise line) was jaw dropping low, we hesitated a couple hours waiting on our friends... We lost out, the rooms sold within two hours! Well we decided to see what the price was now 649, sigh but it is still a really good deal! So like I said basically a second honeymoon, won't get this opportunity again for awhile! 

Now, I am thinking cruise 80% of the day! This is a good three week motivation to eat lean and green to lose a few pounds before! Food is everywhere on a cruise, but there are good food options as well. I want to try and follow my points plan but for a whole week that might be tough. If I have gained a couple pounds when we get back in port- oh well, I will get back in track. I was considering trying to work out on the ship, but I might just plan activities like ice skating. Yes, ice skating on the princess of the seas! Snorkeling on the second day and countless walking! So, who knows maybe I will even lose? Lol that would be a mighty feat! Today I am holding steady and my period is about a week away... I made tortilla soup on Sunday, I might do a recipe post soon!

Small bladder ..

Sleeping did not come easy last night. I was very tired but was unable to fall asleep, then on top of it I had to pee like crazy. I didn't drink lots of water yesterday nothing out of ordinary at least. I am so tired this morning.
So tired that I can't think of anything else to write..

Quiet weekend yet eventfull

As far as we know, we are staying here. No big move yet! We are looking at cruises and saw some from Europe that were pretty good prices. The only expensive part is the flight but it's cheaper to fly to Europe then it is to fly back to the US one way. So for 3200 dollars we could go on a 14 day cruise out of Spain and land in the US in Miami. I really wanted to do it but sensibly we could do so much more with that money. Like yesterday we bought two kayaks that were on sale. It was a really good price and I figured we could have a lot of fun with it. So we tested it out yesterday on windy Seas. Let's just say I am very sore today but we had a lot of fun and I just got a little bit of Sun. sunkissed is the word. I used some of my weekly points on a surf Chick burger its a grilled chicken sandwich which was pretty good. We replaced our water heater this weekend that's part of being adults. I did not get the house clean but that's this week's tackle we wanted a quiet weekend together and even though we were busy it was just us for the main part. I love my husband he is definitely the right guy for me. Thank the Lord for everything that we have the house which is not perfect but no house is and for everything that we have including jobs and family I am very thankful for

Friday weigh in

Last weekend was fun:) I splurged and used my weekly points. Monday I splurged... And tues- Thursday I did my best to get back in the groove. Well today was weigh in day and i lost .4! I should be back in the groove for eating. Work was a little weird this week. I have mixed emotions about my weight loss. Not that I am not happy about losing, but I feel like I lost 25 pounds! But then I look in the mirror and I am still not where I want to be... I feel better, I look better, but I still have a ways to go.... My next goal is to get under 200 this summer. My weight of this morning is 212.6. 13 pounds would do it. One day at a time.... I am happy I am going down not up!