30 Days Of Pictures

30 DAYS OF PICTURES
I am soooo stealing this cute idea from my friend and fellow bloggerTRISHA.
This is not a challenge. It is just a cute fun way for us bloggers to get to know each other.

Day 1
A Photo of yourself and 15 facts.

Taken last night! No makeup..NADA..EKKKK.My sweet Bella.

15 FACTS about myself

1. When pictures are taken my left eye closes half way..
2. I have a bug phobia. I HATE ROACHES!! But run from any tiny bug and Jack has to smush them.
3. I am allergic to ants,bees,avocado,and berries but I will still eat some berries.
4. I love electronics..Especially computers.
5. My favorite board game is scrabble
6. I originally purposed to my husband. But he later got on one knee with a ring on January 10 1996
7. My hair grows twice as long as it should
8. I am allergic to all jewelry other then 24K Gold. Even then after wearing it all day. My ears get irritated.
9. I love scary movies but hate Horror movies.
10. I have 3 children and they walk on all 4's
11. I am an Arizona native
12. I am OCD..It Takes me forever to leave the house and we are always late to where ever we are going.So now you all know why we are late.
13. I like being alone but the second Jack leaves I am scared and every noise freaks me out!
14. My favorite time of day is sunset and I love peace and quite!
15. I went 10 years without a drivers license and had no idea!!!  That was until an insurance company did their job and checked. This was just last year. I was blown away. Good thing I was never pulled over!

What's to come....

2. A picture of you and person you’ve been the closest with the longest

3. A picture of the cast of your favourite show
4. A picture of your night
5. A picture of your favourite memory
6. A picture of a person you’d love to trade places with for a day
7. A picture of most treasured item
8. A picture that makes you laugh
9. A picture of a person who has gotten you through the most
10. A picture of the person you do the most fucked up things with
11. A picture of something you hate
12. A picture of something you love
13. A picture of your favourite band or artist
14. A picture of someone you could never imagine your life without
15. A picture of something you want to do before you die
16. A picture of someone who inspires you
17. A picture of something that has made a huge impact on your life recently
18. A picture of your biggest insecurity
19. A picture of you when you were little
20. A picture of somewhere you'd love to travel
21. A picture of something you wish you could forget
22. A picture of something you wish you were better at
23. A picture of your favourite book
24. A picture of something you wish you could change
25. A picture of your day
26. A picture of something that means a lot to you
27. A picture of yourself and a family member
28. A picture of something your afraid of
29. A picture that can always make you smile
30. A picture of someone you miss

Weigh Day plus sleepin good!

Day two of a good nights sleep..
I have a couple of alarms set on my cell phone. One goes off at 10Pm to get ready for bed and the other goes off at 11PM to go to bed. I was already in bed at 945 reading a couple of magazines that Jack had bought me..There is a used book store here called bookmans and they also sell magazines. The other day we were at Walgreen's filling one of my srips and they had the new SELF but I did not want to spend $4 for it. Well he got it the next day at bookmans for $1.50 along with 2 others. All magazines are that price there. So why buy for the full price. So I got in bed to read my magazine and before I knew it I was drifting off to sleep and then my alarms were going off waking me up...Hahahah..Go figure!!! But I went right back to sleep. I then had an alarm set to wake me up this morning. But I was just way to tired. I ended up sleeping two extra hours and got up at 10:30. I am on two new scrips and I think they are BOTH making me slightly more sleepy. They may be a good thing come night time. But a little harder in the morning to wake up.

It was weigh day..I was really not worried about it..I have those weeks where I think I should be because I may have ate something I should not have. I think we did eat out once this week but I would have to go back and see when that was. It was the night we ate at Applebees.Oh yeah and can't forget about pizza night! I also have not stuck to my 1200 calories but it is not like I am eating 3000 either!!! Regardless of if I ate pizza or Applebees. It really is just food. I watched what I ate and how much I ate. I split my dinner in half and got my dressing on the side. So I am sure calorie wise I was fine.

So I took a deep breath...I am OK with whatever the scale says.If it is up a pound it will come off next week.I already have a plan to eat 1200 calories every day this week yada yada yada..JUST GET ON THE SCALE ALREADY.........184.5lbs

I am good with that..That is a 1.5LB loss from last week!

My little black book!

I started using a book to keep track of what I eat.
 I also weigh every thing. If you are NOT weighing everything I am sorry but you are deceiving yourself. You would be amazed as to what an actual serving of anything actually is..I have just your regular scale that does grams ounces fluid ounces and milliliters. Then yesterday while at the blog bitch cakes I seen that she has a measuring cup that also does the same thing. It really is what I have but it is in cup form.Taylor measuring cup I always have to get a cup or bowl down. I mean it came with a bowl. I just really like this thing she has. Then I started doing some research on amazon and I REALLY like theMeasuring spoons That way when say.....I am measuring out a tablespoon of peanut butter or Olive oil I don't waist anything and I am getting an accurate measurement. These things of course I can do with out. Right now we are saving to move. But I would love to have them eventually. As soon as we move it will be on the top of my list and I will add it to my amazon wish list!!!

So back to my little black book..
I use to use caloriecount.com and I still do on occasion. But for the most part I just use this little book. It is easier to have it in the kitchen with me while I am cooking. Caloriecount is fun because they give you so much information. I still use it for some stuff. For instance I weight my fruits. I will peel two oranges in the morning and put them in a bowl and then weigh it. It is usually around 230grams and 110 calories. I get all this after looking it up on calorie count which takes just a few minutes.
I am willing to try anything. This is a learning process for me. Every single day I learn something new and nothing is set in stone.
So for now I am writing it in a book. Next month I may be doing something new. But for now this seems to be working for me.

I am still struggling with how to lay out my meals for the day.
I think once I get on a set sleep schedule which if you follow my blog you will know that I am working on it.
So once I get a few days under my belt I will lay out a new set eating schedule. The calorie count won't change.
1200 for 3 weeks
1600 for once week
That won't change
What needs work is when I eat my meals. Do I do 6 small meals a day? Or do I do BLD and 2 snacks?
I have always just ate when I was hungry. But clearly by what you can see above... That is NOT working!!!!
Come night time I am good on my calories and then I get hungry and have toast or ice cream and go over.
Now last night I did go to bed after only having 600 calories the entire day. So it did balance out my week. But still...I need to work out a schedule!

one/oneone/oneone BIG CHANGES!!!

2011 there are going to be some big changes..

There are many changes that I my self have been making then after seeing my Neurologist we talked about things that I can also do to improve my quality of life..

Starting Physical therapy eventually.This will help keep my muscles moving and toned since I am am really weak on my left side.
Treadmill 10 minutes as many times day as possible
Weight Training which I will add after I start physical therapy but little by little I am doing free weights
Starting Copaxone again
Anti Depressant
Starting a sleep schedule

I started my new sleep schedule last night. I went to bed later then planned but was in bed  at 1AM and slept later then planned but was up at 10:30. Normally I want to be in bed no later then 12 AM and up no later then 10AM

With all of these changes I am curious to look back 6 months from now and see how different I feel.

Tomorrow is weigh in day..Anymore they are getting repetitive!
This week I struggled with staying at 1200 calories. Most days I was right around 1700. It had everything to do with my sleep schedule. I would get hungry late at night and end up having toast.
I am also battling this stupid honey and ice cream!!! I have no plans on giving up ice cream. Everything in moderation. But for some reason honey seems to be the one thing that I just seem to have an issue with. I don't get it because I never had an issue with it before? So why now when I am eating healthy is honey a problem? I don't eat anything processed. I don't eat white flour. I don't even buy crackers or eat cereal yet honey is my problem?? Probably keeping me from losing an extra pound here and there. I need to just STOP buying it!!! PERIOD!!!! So Jack if you are reading this?? Don't buy it!!! Hahahha

Is it possible that my body is saying...You know what I like this weight!!!! I think I will hang out here??

I also just need to do what I keep saying that I am going to do.
This is the plan and I need to stick to it...
1200 calories for 3 weeks.
1600 calories for 1 week.

I am tracking what I am eating. Jack bought me a daily planner. Later today or tonight I will take a few pictures and do another post so you can see how I am tracking my calories! I was using caloriecount.com and I still do from time to time if I need to look something up. But I find it easier to just write it down.

Need a regular sleep schedule

When I went to see my Neurologist last week one of the things we talked about was getting me on a regular sleep schedule. This is something I have battled every day of my life. I remember even growing up my parents would sleep in on the weekends. So it was something that we got use to right as kids.
For as long as I can remember I have always been a night person. My favorite time of day is when the sun is setting, I just love that time of day. The evening time or dinner time. For most people during the week they have dinner do whatever til 10 or 11PM and then go to bed. But for me as soon as that time rolls around I am wide awake! I don't know why this is and for years I have been trying to correct it. I will go to bed at 11PM for 2 days and that is all it will last I am right back to being awake till 6AM and sleeping till 3PM.

Sometimes this changes and I am falling a sleep sitting up at 9PM. This will go on for weeks. I have no choice but to be in bed by 9PM I just can not stay awake., This may just be my Fatigue from the MS. Because when it happens it makes no sense to me because I should not be tired!

So this is something that I want to finally get under control. I want to be in bed every night between 9-11PM. I have not determined what time I should get up. I usually require 10 hours of sleep.So if I go to bed at 9 I will be up at 7 and that just seems early. So I will just have to try the schedule and see how it goes..

I have been up since Yesterday. I thought maybe if I stayed up I would then go to sleep tonight and then it would be easier for me to get on a good schedule since I slept in till late in the afternoon yesterday. The only thing is I am getting really tired and when I get tired I tent to want to snack.So I am going to try to just lay down for a few hours and set my alarm. Now usually when I do this it is hard for me to get back up. So we shall see!