Ooops.. Just haven't had much time lately, but good news! One month of Weight Watchers down and I'm down 13 pounds! I hit my 5% goal this month and still have at least 90 pounds to lose. It's going to be a long time, but I think I'm finally ready to just keep plugging away at this. Big boy turned 7 yesterday and had a blast at Chuck E Cheese. He got to go in the ticket blaster and ended up getting over 1200 tickets in there! It was amazing! He celebrated with friends and family and got his awesome cake (a ghost busters theme made by my best friend).

Back to topic though, In the last month, I've made quite a few changes in my eating habits, I'm pretty much eating nothing but fruits and veggies at work.. Eating no more than 6 points there, leaving the bulk of my points for home, where I'm cooking and just over tired, so I like to snack. I find low point snacks, and again lots of fruits and veggies. I want to say that even though they say at least 5 servings, most days I'm up to 8 or 9 or even more. I've found some awesome recipes that the boys even like and am learning to adapt some of our favorites to healthier versions.

I'm trying to up my activity as well, and one of these days I need to ask my leader how I should count my work. I spend 7 1/2 hours on my feet 5 of them lifting, moving, stacking, stocking, stretching, bending, ect.. I mean, hello, I stock the grocery aisles in Walmart.. Some of that stuff is super heavy! Think of 24 count cases of canned veggies, and me having to put them on shelves, still in the trays... It's not one can at a time.. The last hour and a half is what I like to call "step/squats".. I have a step stool, step up, zone a shelf, step off, zone a couple shelves, squat, zone the last of the shelves, repeat... For an hour and a half.. All the time, pushing a cart along with me for empty cardboard and drops (items that don't belong where I'm at)... This work makes it difficult for me to add in any activity at home.. I'm just too tired, and napping sounds much too tempting. During my weekends though, I do manage to get more activity in and usually enough to get in the 14 points they recommend.  I just wonder if I'm earning more than that through my work.

But I must go and clean now (a never ending battle for a mom of two crazy boys!)
Thanks for reading!

Bye Bye Flu, and Easter Egg Hunt

First off, I'm feeling Sooo much better and have my appetite back (not sure yet if that's a good thing though).. But I figure as long as I track and stay within my WW points, I'll be just fine and not regain any of the "flu pounds" back, however many of them they were.

Today we had our annual egg hunt with some very good family friends. They have 3 kids, the two oldest boys are the same age as my two boys and then their daughter, who's 2 1/2. This is our Third year that we've done an egg hunt at our house (the first year started as a make up for a super failed attempt at going to a public one) and we chose to do brunch instead of a BIG breakfast (My friend is also back on WW, so we both like to do things that are light on points and pennies). I found an awesome quiche that is only 3 points for an eighth of  a 9" pie! So much better than double digit points. Then a favorite muffin mix of mine that is only 3 points for two mini muffins.. Plenty of fruits and of course some not so great for you stuff (I avoided and let the kids go house on that stuff) but all in all, much better than the two pound bacon with eggs and breads and anything else that will clog our arteries days... I'm sure we'll still do big breakfasts once in a while, but I'm hoping these brunch's come more often.

But since it's back to work for me tonight, and I still tire kind of easily, I'm off to bed for a super long nap before work pops up on me. Here's hoping for a nice boring night.