Confession about the marshmellows

I scored a few bags of Easter marshmellows for $0.30 at Target, so I bought a bunch of bags becuase 1. They were $0.30 2. The colors are pretty 3. They were $0.30!!

AND, I have a Target debit card so I got ANOTHER 5% off. Basically, they were giving them away. 

I had also bough those darn chocolate eggs "for the office" knowing darn well I'd shovel them in my face. Well after making myself sick from them, I've done good avoiding them the past few days. That is until today. I put two and two together....

BAM! Fat attack!! I'd like to lie and say I only had one or two of these little sandwiches BUT 4 or 5 is a more accurate account. PLUS a few handfulls of straight marshmallows. They're fat free. 

In case you were wondering, I already regret it. I'm already worried about how it's going to affect Weigh-in Wednesday. And I did so good on all my other food intake for the day. Dang it!!!

Confession about quitting mid 30DS

As you know I've been doing the NerkeyMeg 30 Day Shred challenge. Well to help me get through it, I play it on a portable DVD player and watch some smut TV.

Last night the DVD player died halfway through and so I took that as cue to do the same. Such a slacker!

Weigh-in Wednesday

Hey girl, hey!

So I got a little slack once DietBet was over and lost a little motivation.

Confession: I ate one too many 1/2 price Easter candies. Reese's eggs got the best of me one day at work. 500ish calories wasted on candy. Ugh. Stupid.

I got back on track and did a protein day yesterday and got the 1.5 lbs I gained back off and am exactly back to what I was last Wednesday. 163.2

We have 7 weeks until Mexico so my goal weight loss from here is 2 lbs a week for a total loss of 14 lbs. That would put me at 149.2 and I'd be ecstatic to be in the 140s for vacation.

I also have slacked on the NerkeyMeg's 30 Day Shred challenge so I need to get back on that.

The weather has finally decided to warm up and really be spring almost summer out. I'm thinking this would be a good time to finally start C25K. 

Update on my skin check --> Got my stitches out on Monday. It was painful. Apparently I'm a fast healer so I started to heal over the stitches and they had to DIG and PULL to get them out. Dissolvable stitches?  Let's try those next time!

But lab reports came back that all is well and nothing to worry about. Yay!

Friday

Friday has given me the big ol eff you today.

Confession - I got a ticket for running a red light about a month ago. Stupid. I wasn't even in a hurry or late for work. I just didn't want to stop and thought I could make it. And didn't realize there was a police officer sitting at the light.

I went to court today to try and get it dropped in exchange for driving school and probation  No such luck. I got to pay the fine + $60 freaking dollars in court costs + 4% processing fee for paying with a credit/debit card.

Only good thing was I showed up on time and had to park in BFE, so I got a little morning walk in on may way to and fro Courtroom B.

And let me tell ya about some of the peeps that were in court with me - oh my! It's a crying shame no cellies are allowed in the courthouse. There were some awesome outfits on display. Pimped out suits with matching Nike's for the gents and lots of animal print in pink and purples for the gals.

I thought to myself that I need to remember this place for when I eventually get to retire. I can totally see myself going to court to people watch and listen to their ridiculous stories. Is that strange? Whatever.

I sat behind a 17ish year old girl who was in court with her mom. You could tell mom was pissed and said girl was scared. It brought me back to when I was 17 and got my first (of many) speeding ticket.

I was on the way home from cross country practice and dropping a kid off that I normally didn't.  I don't even remember his name. But you bet I remember getting pulled over for going 18 mph OVER the speed limit while trying to do a good deed.

In my defense, it was in a neighborhood where the speedlimit was 25. Not like I was going 90 or anything. I came home and put that bad boy on the fridge and tired to make a joke about it to my mom. I totally try to make jokes when I'm uncomfortable.

She had to go to court with me, mandatory here in VA and I had to bring a copy of my report card. Judge was nice and gave me driving school with probation. That was the first and last time I ever got a ticket dropped by a judge.

I don't remember the court goers being as colorful as they were today, but I probably didn't pay much attention to it as I was scared shitless.

Today, I had a little more confidence. This wasn't my first rodeo. I knew you had to plead not guilty, even if you were, in order to have the discussion about possibly getting the ticket dropped.

However, as I stood there next the police officer who pulled me over, my heart started pounding. I guess authority figures still kind of freak me out.

But then, as the judge was telling me why he wasn't going to drop the ticket (speeding ticket on my record from 5 years ago - shit!) the freaking police officer snickered! He f-ing snickered! Oh I wanted to go all Kenya Moore (Real Housewives of Atlanta) on him and then twirl my way out of the courtroom.

But I didn't. I stood there, mostly in shock and told the judge, "Thank you," as I gathered my bag and headed out to pay my fine.

On a positive note, I got $37.08 from winning the DietBet game. Paid $15 so net $17.08. That about covers the 4% processing fee from today.

Got the notification as I was trying to find the courthouse.

Happy Friday and cheers to this being an awesome weekend.

That's me cheersing you with my coffee.
It's lunch time and it's my first cup. That should tell you how today has gone!

Winning this Weigh-in Wednesday!

Today was the day that concluded the DietBet and we were allowed to submit final weights. I did it, I'm a winner!!!

I lost 9.6 pounds and EXCEEDED the goal weight by 2.7 lbs to take home the win.

Don't know yet how much I'll win. I think everyone has until tonight to submit weights with photos and then I'm sure there is some processing time and such.

But either way, I won with the weight loss. It really did keep me motivated. Was I perfect every day? No, but I kept at it and got back on track and did my best. I highly suggest using DietBet as a weight loss tool, especially if you are motivated by money - ha!

So not only did I win, but had another pretty good loss this week for Weigh in Wednesday. 163.2!

Don't mind the "Guava" label, that's my secret code I had to use to submit my DietBet weigh-in photo.

I'm almost back to pre-pregnancy weight, hooray! I can not wait to get in the 150s! Oh so close.

Bad decisions

This past week I feel like my bad choices in early adulthood have caught up with me.

I had a doctor visit to the dermatologist for my 6 month checkup. About 6 months ago I had my first appointment for just a routine skin-check and make sure all was well. I had never been and knew I hadn't been too kind to my skin over the years. 

Well, all was not well. I had several spots that didn't look so good. Spots I wouldn't have ever guessed were problematic. I got numbed up and biopsies were taken. One spot came back that it had cancer like cell growth. 

To even hear the C word is enough to scare you shitless. It's not cancer (yet), but shares cell growth similar to that of cancer. So, they went back in to cut all of it out. I now have a nice linear scar on my stomach next to my belly button. 

I went to this appointment this past week just expecting a quick exam and then to be on my way. After all, it had only been 6 months and my body hasn't even seen the sun. 

But once again, I had to get some more skin cut out for biopsies. Two areas they had removed last time started to regrow and apparently that's not good. I have to wait on lab results, but for now I have stitches in my back and a head full of worries.

So many years of laying out and not wearing sunblock, tanning beds, getting sunburns so I'd tan faster (stupid logic, I was young and dumb!) and now this. The tans have faded and all I'm left with is the damage. Self-inflicted damage at that. And fear of skin cancer. 

Tans don't last forever, but biopsy scars do. Put that on a bumpersticker. 

Do yourself a favor, stay out of the sun, wear sunblock and go get a skin check! 

PSA over. 

Easter weekend recap

Happy Aprils fools, fools! No pranks here, I've never been a good pranker, but am the best at getting pranked. I'm so freaking gullible. It's embarrassing sometimes.

Good news, after eating like a fat kid, I didn't gain weigh this weekend. 

Bad news, after eating like a fat kid, I didn't loose any weight this weekend. 

I'll call in a win. 

Besides the eating, the weekend was pretty mild. We did a family outing to Busch Gardens to get out of the house on Saturday. The weather was nice and the Hubs was off so we strolled around and ate like we were on vacation. I love amusement park food. Such a weakness.

Tried to take Mr. Mister on his first ride but he got denied! Hubs waited in line for 20 minutes before he was told walking was a prerequisite to ride. Dumb.

After the park, Hubs went to help his dad with guy stuff so I headed to the mall to track down some Easter shoes. Super score at Payless, got these beauties for $20, holla!

Hubs had to work on Sunday, sometimes his schedule really blows. But Mr. Mister and I did church with my mom and this was my first time going since I had him. He slept through the entire thing. Apparently the word of God wears him out.

Headed out for Easter lunch and had them most un-American Easter dinner, at a Chinese buffet. My mom insisted this place had an amazing salad bar. The only thing that resembled a salad fixing were the plate decorations they had on the dessert bar. Fail. I got tricked. 

And here are some pics with his Easter loot.

Golden egg filled with QUARTERS! Lucky kid. 

I have decided to linkup with NerkyMeg on a 30 Day Shred challenge that starts today! As you know, I've been trying to get off my arse and start it, so I'm hoping this will be my motivation and I'll get further than day 1 this time.

We are t minus 2 months until Mexico and my plan/goal is to do this twice before we leave. I'm calling it the Mexico Meltdown.

Going to take some before photos tonight, ew.