7/10/11 weigh in photo

for a loss of 1.5 lbs.  Not much, but it's down, so I'll take it  :)

Adorable! That's me! *fluttering eyelashes go here*

Booyah! I have proof that I'm adorable! where's the hubby when he needs to see this?  *sigh*

The Rules

1. Thank the person who gave you this award and link back to them in your post

2. Tell us 10 things about yourself

3. Nominate your bloggers

4. Contact these bloggers and let them know you have nominated them

Thanks goes to Jessica for this award. I couldn't have done it without her!

!. OMG my first house! It's almost here! very excited and nervous. And half worried if we can really really afford it. 

@.  I am Queen Procrastinator.  I close on thursday, can move in any time after that, have everythign set up to move move on sunday, and have a grand total of ZERO boxes packed. yeehaw.    And this is nothing new. In college the only difference between a rough draft of a paper and a final draft was spell check.  Mostly because it was written 4 hours before it was due (oddly enough usually got an A)

#.  I love the State i live in. Colorado.  It's beautiful, the weather is awesome, and it's beautiful! 

This is the view out of my window right this second.

 Now I just need to fit in.  Colorado has the lowest obesity rate in the nation.  me too please!

$.  I'm Jewish...ish.   I identify as Jewish, although am not practicing.  

%. I'm a technophile.  If it's new and shiney I must have it.  This I inherited from my mom.  She had a portable DVD player when it cost almost $1000 and didn't have enough battery power to play a whole movie on one battery.  I'm not that bad (mostly because I don't get paid what she did) .. but I want to be.

^.  I'm also an internet junky?  A lot of it is the fact that so many of my friends I made online, and therefore are spread all over, so much easier to keep in touch online.  Also .. I kinda feel like it keeps me young. I know what the kids these days are talking about if they say "nyan cat"  

&.   My favorite TV genre is Sci-fi.  My favorite TV show? Castle!  <3 Nathan Fillion <3 (who's also in Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog  which more <3  and Neil Patrick Harris!  I want him to be my gay best friend!

*. My most favorite movie ever?  Probably the Lion King. Still.  Just <3 it very much 


(. I have a competitive streak.  One of my motivators in this weight loss band journey is to do better than a friend of mine is..  That sounds wrong to me, but it's something to shoot for. 


!). I did stairs at work all 4 days this week!! (yay for short weeks) Tuesday was 2 x 2 floors, Wed. was 3x2, and both thursday and today were 5 x 2 floors!  Holy cow!  (yes it hurt but still) .. That's probably the longest I've stuck with anything exercise related. 


!!.  you get eleven, cause you're that cool!  I have this knack for liking expensive things.  Show me 4 pairs of shoes, the ones I like best will be the most expensive.  ALWAYS.  I'm so very good at that.  It's a curse.


Nominations time!  This years Nominees are:


http://lasttrainoutoffatland.blogspot.com/


http://blackbutterflyevolution.blogspot.com/


<3  Sam

BYOC bandwagon!

This is my first BYOC, but it's a good idea!  so hear goes!

1. If you were asked to symbolize yourself as an animal – which animal would you be?

I would say...  A cat.   and a freaking lazy ass house cat at that.   I know it's lame, but  I look at my kitties, and I'm freaking jealous.  They want food, they get food, they want love, got it.  Sleep all day? check.  nuff said I think.


2. Did you ever play an organized sport – with coaches, rules and scoring? Tell us about it.
As a kid my dad enrolled us in some sports at the Y.  I've done soccer.. which I always wanted to play guard, much less running.  I did basketball too.. Same thing.. running sucks.   Since then, avoided it with a passion. 


3. When did you start shaving your legs?
Gosh.. don't remember for sure.  But I do know it was later than most of the other girls.   My mom didn't want me growing up too fast I think (that and I tended to be a year-ish younger than the other kids in my grade).  I want to say .. Jr. High though (here that's 7th or 8th grade).  Make up was for later... in fact I still rarely wear any.


4. When you’re in a crabby – pissy – want to stab everyone you see kind of mood – what do you do to get out of it or do you revel in it?
... I revel in it.  Much to my hubby's dismay.  And have I ever been there lately.  being hungry is NOT good for my mood.  Every other sentence comes out stabby.   If any part of this weight loss thing is going to affect my marriage, it's the stabby mood I get in when hungry (remind me to call about an early fill)


5. Repeat question: Summarize your week in blogland and in real life.
This week... I've had trouble reading all my blogs i'm following.  I want to read/support/comment on everybody's.. but I don't have the time.  I'm not sure how you all do it!  (I'm sure the 3 hour raids 3 days a week in World of Warcraft don't help with time management any) 


Real life.. hectic!!!  We close on our house this coming Thursday!!! EEEEP.  and guess what.  Miss Queen Procrastinator here hasn't packed a single stinking thing.   Guess what I get to do all weekend!  oy. 




And tada!  my first BYOC! fascinating (?) in sites into my life!


<3 Sam

Comparisons

wanted to do a quick face comparison. although my phone pic looks crappy today.

I suppose getting the same angle would have helped, But I think I can see a difference?  (and don't I do great faces in self pics? )

When in doubt (or longing)...

Look up the nutrition.   The Devil Someone brought in Einstein bagels and cream cheese today.   OMG .. so not fair.  I was wavering.  So I looked up the nutrition info.  Most of their bagels with no cream cheese are right around 300 calories.   That's enough to make me stop.  For now. 



This right here, This is Food Porn


On the plus side, I'm on day 3 of  taking the stairs at work.  I do  have to take the elevator to the second floor, but then I can walk to the 4th.  And I'm doing extra stairs during the day too.  Yesterday I did 6 floors. Goal today is 8 ( I do two floors at a time and am winded after that).   I'm hoping to relive my freshman year of college when I lost 15 lbs in the first semester just from dorm food and taking the stairs to the 3rd floor all the time.  By the end of the first semester I was able to run up three flights of stairs, skipping stairs all the way up.   Soon.  yes soon.   I've been .. mostly good with my food.  Much much easier to be good at work, than at home.  Which seems backwards in my head, but it is what it is. 

I do need to call my surgeon and find out what his policy on fills is.   Is he one of the "call me if you need one" types, or the "you will get it on this day, and no other day, and no sooner than 2 months after the first"?  .. Cause right now I can eat anything.  And I'm HUNGRY.   I had a smoothie with 15g of protein in it for breakfast this morning, finished it maybe 2 hours ago, and I'm starving (which is why the bagels are EVIL).  I'll probably have half a protein bar as a snack here in a few.  Only good news is weight isn't going up, other than daily fluctuations.  Bad news, not down either (although I haven't weighed since Sunday)

But I'm at work, so I should probably look like I'm doing worky stuff.   toodles!

<3 Sam

OFFICIAL Back to Basics Challenge weigh in!

Seeing as I jumped the gun a couple of days ago, here's my official weigh in for the B.O.O.B.S Challenge (which yes, I sent to the designated email address)

I swear in real life my toes are longer and less chubby.  *sigh*  

But this should be interesting.  I've done these things before, and always peter out after a week or two.. But i've never had the band before, and never had such a wonderful support community like you all before.  so Huzzah!! We can do this!!


So anybody who wants to join, do it today! today is sign up day!! go go go go!

<3  Sam

I joined the B.O.O.B.S challenge!

challenge here

Or at least I think I did.  I sent in a photo of my weight, and expressed my interest to join and am waiting to hear how to pay :)   Maybe this will kick me in the rear to get started.   And for super accountability:

official starting weight (unless i have to do it again on sunday morning.   Never realized how chubby my feet look :(

Here's to weight loss! May it all be almost as easy as the pre/post-op liquid diet (the losing, not eating.. that sucked)

<3 Sam