Oh my little Cooper, you're so amazing. Yes I love your brother and sister, but right now you're my last baby and I just think you're the cutest!

Look at the Diet WORK!

So it's been a week and I feel great! I think I even look greater. Is that a word?



HAHA- Actually, I was playing around with my webcam's settings and came up with that. Now only if I could get the sound to work.

The diet is going well. One week down and 20g of carbs a day. I do feel great and it's been alot smoother than I thought it would be. BONUS! I really want to drop some weight. I have clothes in the closet screaming my name. We'll see.

Diet and Stuff

I've decided NOT to update this with all of my meals, because it takes too long and I always forget, so I'll just track progress, not food intake. My back is FINALLY feeling better today, so I'll be able to work out now. So far on the I've only "cheated" once and it was having a cookie. I even made spaghetti last night and DID NOT eat any! I had my fish instead. I was super proud of myself. That was my first test and I passed. I know for a fact that I've lost a couple of pounds. But my stupid scale vacillates the weight, so sometimes I'm 2 lbs. heavier than the day before or 5 lbs. lighter than 10 mins ago. You get the point. It's annoying and I've decided to weigh myself only once a week on Mondays. So, I'm still doing it and it's only been 4 days, but hasn't been bad at all. It's amazing how good water suppresses an appetite!

Day 2 with Coffee grounds

Let me start by saying that Leia will NOT leave the trashcan alone. She has this fascination with it and loves pulling things out of it to walk around with, such as the empty milk carton, etc. She does leave gross things in there like diapers, etc. Anyway, as I was feeding Coop at some point yesterday, Leia walks up to me with what looked like dirt all over her mouth. Upon closer inspection, I realized she ate a handful of coffee grinds out of the trash. OMG! This girl is going to do me in! It was pretty funny though.

Anyway, today starts day 2 of my diet. I know it's all in my head, but I'm already feeling better and thinner. LMAO I drank so much water I thought I'd float away yesterday, but it's sooo good for me. Ben also decided to "hide" any temptations that were around, so that really helps too!

Breakfast:
2 eggs with shredded cheddar cheese
2 small sausage patties
coffee

30 by 30

I'm SICK and tired of being overweight. So, I've decided to do something about it! Starting today, I'm going on a modified Atkins diet- and adding 60 mins of exercise a day. I will be blogging my journey here. My first major goal is to lose 30 lbs. by my 30th birthday- October 29th.

Today marks day one.

So far, I've eaten two eggs with shredded Cheddar cheese, coffee (I read it's better NOT to cut coffee from the equation if you're a big time drinker I've cut back though) and now I'm drinking tons of water. So it begins. I won't be able to exercise tonight the way I was hoping as I pulled my back this weekend and don't hink lifting weights tonight would be a good idea. I do intend on taking a walk this evening though. Also, I will be taking a Vitamin D supplement daily to combat the "first two weeks" foul mood. I'm super excited about this and I'm ready to become a healthier Wendi! Wish me luck. (Oh I did weigh myself, but that's between me and the scale.)

Food for the day:

Breakfast:
two eggs with shredded Cheddar cheese, coffee (I read it's better NOT to cut coffee from the equation if you're a big time drinker I've cut back though).

Lunch:
1 can of tuna with 1 tablespoon light mayo
1 slice of cheese

Snack:
slice of cheese
handful of sunflower seeds

Dinner:
Small steak with mushrooms
green beans
cottage cheese
1 sm. glass of light cranberry juice

My message board is COOL

I have a new love. RockStars. A little background- for almost 4ish years I ran a message board called "Structured Chaos" while it was pretty popular, drama ended up being it's demise. Well, that and the fact that I had Cooper and couldn't really handle 3 kids and a message board. Well, I decided to open a new one called RockStars. It's very mellow and we have a great group of women. My message board is here:

http://rockin.forumotion.net/forum.htm

Just another small part of me.

Aren't I suppose to be spoiled? I'm married!

Okay, so even though I feel like poop, there is something bright and shiny about today. I bribed, convinced, persuaded my husband (we don't need the details on how) into buying me this:



It's a 78 piece makeup palette from Coastal Scents for ONLY $21.95. I'd never heard of the company until I started researching makeup recently. I guess this palette is really good for someone starting out with makeup. I placed the order this morning and they already shipped it! YAY for good customer service.

I'm stoked!

Yuck!

Oh man, I'm not feeling good today. I've been drinking WAY too much coffee daily, which is completely my fault, and I think it's caught up with me today. My tummy is NOT happy with me and I have a super headache. I think I'm going to drink my weight in water today and try and flush my system. At least the kids are being good today!

7 weeks and counting!!

Since I haven't updated this recently, I'm going to kill a few birds with one stone and do a rundown of recent events in Bendi's lives.

First, my confession of all confessions is that I'm officially addicted to NYX makeup. OMG. It's this line that's very well priced (since I can't buy the high end stuff) and it's all so beautiful. I just love it. The downside is that I could potentially see myself spending WAY too much on it! Good thing I got a work from home job in the evenings to pay for my addiction. My last addiction was Twilight and now this. I guess I'll never really grow up.

This is the first order of NYX cosmetics I placed. I've bought more since, but this is my starter order:


Mr. Cooper is 7 weeks old now! After our little choking scare, it was determined he might be battling relux like my other two did. Dade's was silent and Leia's...not so much. The doctor told us to star Coop on rice cereal in his bottles. I did that for a day and that was too long. He went from sweet baby to fussy screaming baby. Since we've taken him off the cereal and just given him the right amount of formula (6 ozs.) he's evened out and we're in a good daily routine. He sleeps good portions of the night. We're not quite sleeping ALL night, but close. He's such a dream baby. He's also started smiling and giggling. Ooooo I love him!




Now my other two....hehehe
Well, they are too big for their britches. I was putting them to sleep today for their nap and I tell Dade "Please lay there quietly and go to sleep. DON'T make a sound." (We've been having some issues with him keeping his sister awake.) As I'm just outside the door he says "But Mom,what if I need to fart?" Yes ladies and gentlemen. This is my 4 year old son taking me by surprise. All I could do was close the door and leave. I laughed so hard I almost cried once I was out of his room. Kids...gotta love them.



Leia is my sweet Leia bug- who also doubles as a "screeching terodactly" for parties. She really knows how to 1.) wrap her brother and Daddy around her finger 2.) make it known that she is unhappy with the way Dade is treating her and 3.) make it known that she is boss. She's so fun and has already let me paint her fingernails. Like we already discussed, I'm a makeup junkie so why shouldn't she be one too?



Here is all 3 monsters together:



I really do love my life these days. Things have mellowed and we're in a routine. Now if only I can find a way to keep Dade from getting uber bored. We're working on it and it's a day at a time thing. I would have never imagined having 3 kids, ALL of which are just like me. WOW!



Okay...more like just like "US."