Oh Hey Friday's Five with a WiW Mix

This week has been rough.  Besides being that last full week before Christmas this is the week that I got sick.  Ugh… really of all weeks. so needless to say I have been trying to chug along and do my best. Which meant a lot of whining and complaining and trying to get shit done, but of course that left no room for blogging so today is a mix of my Fridays Five and WiW all rolled in one.

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Most of the week after working (yes I made it to work but just barely) and then hitting the stores for those last minute gifts I would get home and snuggle on the couch with the little.

what is Christmas with out Elf…syrup anyone??

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I was down one pound which is great seeing as I never did anything more strenuous that push a shopping cart around in the last week. I think it's probably because I did more sleeping than eating.

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and as most of you mom's know that even when we are sick we still need to get our shit done and yes that damn elf…. 

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I may have taken my Christmas pictures in July but that didn't stop me from waiting until the very last minute to send those babies out.  

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and of course the daily struggle of a teacher durning the holidays...

#notavegetableinsight

Have a great weekend all.  Linking up with

Weigh - In Wednesday #48

Holy crap I've been at this for 48 weeks!!!

Wow that's amazing!

Welp this week's numbers are 183.2  a loss of 1.4lbs almost 40 pounds down, I'm happy with that.  The scale has been very slow going lately, but at least it's going in the right direction.

So this weekend a cute a furry little animal is going around filling baskets and such with a shit load of chocolate and sugar...ugg  damn bunny!

This also means family dinners or in my case brunch.  We are definitely a family who loves food and most of our gatherings revolve around it.  Brunch is at my brothers house this year, when I asked SIL what she wanted to bring the answer I got was..."whatever you want"... nice that leaves a lot.  So I changed my tactic and asked "What do you have already?" and I got the run down, ham eggs cinnamon rolls, bacon doughnuts, in other words not much of the healthy stuff (big surprise). 

Ok I should add some back story here.  I love my brother and his family (yes SIL included, ok sometimes) but they are not very healthy or active,  but my brother is one of those people we love to hate that actually has to eat a ton to maintain his weight and is pretty active but the rest not so much.  But what eve who am I to judge, no one.  The problem lies that  ever since I started my weight loss or "healthy lifestyle" she asks my about it.  I never volunteer information or bad mouth anyone elses choices. I just do my thing,  anyway when she asks or it comes up in conversation of course I talk about it  (I'm damn proud of what I've done so far) and  you asked right.  Then come the excuses or the "oh ya that's normally how we do, but you know its a special occasion, vacation, or fill in the blank... but I call bullsh*t.  I'm not judging you so don't make excuses, you don't have to I don't really care what you are doing or how you live your life.  If you want help or advice I'm here I will help or just offer support.  But this is what really pisses me off to no end,  She will offer DQ a soda or candy (not just one but like a Costco bag) but always follow it up with a "Oh but you need to ask your mom first cause I don't think she will be ok with it"  then why offer it to her WTF??  and it's not that DQ or I for that matter can't have it we just do it in moderation.  Yes she can have a small sprite but not a giant Big Gulp of Mt. Dew, she can have a handful of M&M's but not a pound.   Besides being a bunch of crap and unhealthy DQ is a child and a hyper child, like she needs any extra sugar geesh!

So as you can see by my rant brunch will be interesting as is every family gathering.    In the end I think I'm going to bring a nice fruit salad and some low fat muffins and just do my thing and smile.  Also I will be totally rockin my cute new spring dress cause like I said I'm damn proud of what I've done and I'm going to show it off!!

Weigh - In Wednesday

It's not as bad as I thought I am only up 0.2 lbs. (186.0)  it still stings a bit, but there is no one to blame but that damn red velvet cake myself.  I'm really glad that I chucked the rest of that candy I don't know how I would have faired.  As Im sure I've mentioned I'm an out of sight out of mind type of person, so once it was gone there was no temptation.

Yesterday was my birthday and wanna know what I did?? absolutely nadda,  actually that's not true I went to the gym and sweat my ass off came home and made myself a really yummy dinner of Tilapia, brown rice,  and veggies (this has been my go to dinner/lunch lately and I really love it super easy to cook,  quick and tastes great).  It was a great birthday!  The Hubs and girls asked if I wanted to go out I said no and really I didn't it was nice just to relax and do my normal routine, also Papa is going to be taking us out for my Bday on Friday and I really didn't need to go out twice lol.   Also The Hubs has been asking what I want for my birthday for a few weeks and I honestly couldn't think of anything...I know crazy right??  I told to just hold on and that he could just pay for my next race entry.  Then when I was at the gym I was talking to my old trainer and she told me they were having some really great specials on training.  So I think I'm going to change it up and let The Hubs know that I want that instead.  

Couldn't help it this is funny,

and true in some cases...