Diet update...

Well, turns out this diet thing isn't all that bad.  Don't get me wrong......I am STRUGGLING with some things like limited or no sweets.  I would marry chocolate if I could and with the site of all of this Valentine and Easter candy filling up the shelves is filling my life with temptation!  Justin is a HUGE help!!  Thank goodness for my wonderful husband or this diet would have lasted all of 30 seconds.  Anywho, my new frenemy is this

BUT.....I do like it when I see that little needle thingy not go quite as far as it did in the beginning.

I am bout to turn into one of these

I have been eating at least 4 oranges a day.  My finger has an orange tint to it now because I am basically peeling one all of the time. 

I am also drinking loads if this

Although I have to pee every 30 minutes I really am proud of myself.  No carbonated drinks in 3 weeks.  I don't know what I would do without those precious little flavor packs I can add to my water. 

I have lost

so far.   I haven't been exercising so I think that is pretty good, right?  Don't rain on my parade if not....K

I still have

to go.  I keep trying to look at pics of this

and this

  to keep me motivated.  Stay tuned.....

                                                                        

Trying to DIY

I have a confession.  Lately, I have become a little obsessed with DIY/craft blogs.  Some of these women amaze me!  I would give anything to have 1/4 of the creativity they have.  I have several blogs that I follow.  They have all inspired me to want to refinish, glue, glitter, modge-podge, or staple anything I can get my hands on.  Here are a few examples of what I want to do:

How awesome is that dining room set?!  I adore the mismatched chairs painted in funky colors.  See that reupholstered bench seat over there.....LOVE!!

I never thought I could love yellow so much.  I bet I could find a similar table at any garage sale in the area.  This will be in my house......soon!

This may be one of the cutest wreaths I have ever laid eyes on.

This will be on our door for Valentine's Day.  It's made out of cupcake wrappers.....yeah

These are frames made out of the backs of two chairs.  I can already picture our sweets faces in there!

I love this chalkboard idea!

I'll take that please

I would flip for one of these bad boys.......silhouette

Who doesn't need a machine that cuts out vinyl letters and designs to stick on stuff??

 

Well, I could go on for days about some of the cute projects I've seen.  Whenever you get a minute, go by these blogs and check them out.  Maybe you will be inspired too. 

http://www.allthingsthrifty.com/

http://tatertotsandjello.blogspot.com/

http://happyhappyhousewife.blogspot.com/

http://kendallandkeith.blogspot.com/

The Big "D"

I don't mean Dallas either.  DIET!!!!!  It may be the nastiest 4-letter word out there.  You can call it a lifestyle change but let's face it.........it's still a diet!  Justin and I both decided that we MUST lose weight.  We are both overweight and very our of shape.  I knew this diet was approaching so I made the best of my two week holiday vacation and drank a gazillion cokes along with eating all of the sweets I could handle.  We are completely cutting out carbonated drinks and decreasing our portions. We are also drinking gallon after gallon of water which is really not that easy. Thank goodness Justin is on board with me on this or I could not do it!!  The hardest thing for me will be Mi Casita.  Justin mentioned that I could eat about 17 chips with my salsa and still be OK.  No Justin, that's not OK.  I eat that chips, salsa, and cheese dip like I am in a competition or something.  Anywho, I am really going to try and do this diet thing.  I would love to lose 50 lbs but my first goal will be 30 lbs.  I keep looking at my wedding pictures as inspiration.  I was pretty darn skinny way back then......oh wait.....that was only 5 1/2 years ago!!  Justin wants to lose a ton of weight but I am restricting him to 50 lbs.  I told him I didn't marry a skinny beanpole for a reason.

Wish us luck........we will need it!!!!