What to do...

I can't say how many times that I have woken up in the middle of the night to find the twins "playing" with every toy in their room. They have dumped bins, actually combined all the toys, into a huge pile onto their train table. Then they load empty drawers on top to make it their own Mt. Everest. I thought that if I packed a lot of their toys they wouldn't do this. But they do.

I. Am. Going. Crazy! I think I've found a solution, and no it does not involve chaining them to the bed. I will lock ALL the toys up in a different room. Two problems. 1-Right now I don't have another "extra" room to lock all their toys in. 2-Once the toys are locked up what will they play with next? I've already had rotto-rooter here fishing out their Spidermen toothbrushes or getting out full blocks of cheese with a butter knive and trying to cut themselves a piece. Anyone have better soloutions?

This paragraph has nothing to do with the previous...but I had to comment. My wonderful friend, Susan, let me borrow her brand new book that her friend gave her. It's titled "The Five Love Languages". I have only read a few chapters, but I have loved every bit of it. It all makes sense. I did sneak to the back already and took the test to find out my love language. Before I took the test I asked Greg what he thought I was. He was right on the money when he said that I need words of affirmation. Sadly to say, needing gifts comes in very last. It is true. I need Greg to praise or notice everything that I do. He's a lot more observant in our relationship than I am and I don't think I could guess Greg's love language. I will have him take the test and then we will have the perfect marriage because I will know exactly what he needs to "fill his emotional bucket". Thanks for lending the book, Susan!

another thing....

Since I've been doing this WW stuff I have been looking at fats and all. Yesturday when Greg and I were indulging I felt I just had to have a donut. Ohhhhhhhh how I looooooooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeee donuts. Any kind...but mostly applefritters. Carrs actually puts the nutritional contents on laminated cards that hang from the donut door. So I had to look. Applefritters have like 28 fat grams!!! My love affair with applefritters are over! But I can still have most other donuts, they only have around 6 grams of fat. Again, I can only have one glazed donut...not the whole dozen :(

Deprived.

So those of you that know me, know that I LOVE candy, any candy. I've been noticing my cute friend Robyn is losing alot of weight, like 25-30 lbs. I want that! Can't I have that and still eat treats? So I finally find out all the details about how she's doing it and it's actually do-able, and I still get treats, only one or two instead of the whole Costco bag :( Anyway, most of you have heard of Weight Watchers. You have a point system and you actually get to eat quite a bit. You are just paying closer attention to portions and you have to write everything down. I started on Sunday, was doing well until...last night! Greg is doing an Isagenix cleanse for the month of January and I guess you just have off nights, but we ate things we weren't supposed to! I don't really feel guilty because that's life. I am just starting again today, it's just that I feel like crap. My stomache keeps gurgling and I had a harder time waking up in the morning. So it goes to show that my body needs Weight Watchers. I know I can stick with it, but here are some things I am learning about myself:

1. When Greg and I go out on a date and food is not involved, then it doesn't really seem like a date. Need to get more creative.

2. When I am relaxing (reading a book, driving, watching 500 DVR'd Medium's) then I feel like I need a treat. This is my bad habit I am trying to break. You can have 5 cups of lowfat popcorn on weight watchers and it only counts as a point. I never really cared for popcorn until now.

3. When I can't have treats...that's all I can think about!!! Help!

4. It truly is POSSIBLE to eat normal food and still lose weight, just portion control it. Who knew! I always thought I'd be depriving myself.

5. I feel not so tired when I eat right and get the water that my body really needs. I thought that I was so tired just from being a mom, but it's the food, I mean treats, I'd been eating.

6. This is bad to admit...but life seems so much happier when treats are involved. I liked eating treats, thanks Bobbi for that huge bag of Lindt Chocolates. I think that's what set me over the top for this diet, well that and gaining weight. I mean really, I thought you could lose weight and almost eat a whole bag of chocolates!

So, that's what has been going through my mind lately and it feels good to write it down. I need a beach body by the time this summer comes around because I will be spending two weeks at Myrtle Beach and I want to feel comfortable in a swimsuit for once!!