Thirteen Thursday

1. I got a brand new bike today. It's awesome! I got a jel seat for it, and I'm super excited to start riding it! The boys I nanny for came with us to buy it, and they really enjoyed helping Ryan put on the kick stand, bell, ect. It was a fun time!! I just watched and danced around happily.

2. I have a new start time at my job. I start at 7:30am instead of 8:00am. It's nice because I'm up anyway driving Ryan to work for 6:45am, AND I'm off a half hour earlier. I don't have to feel so rushed all the time now!

3. My mom is helping me out with my Mary Kay. She bought me all kinds of samples, we put them into pretty bags, and then we're going to give them away, and hopfully I'll get some calls for orders!

4. I'm going to Curves a lot more lately. I feel like I'm popular now that I'm doing the diet and I lost 7 lbs. It's nice because the people who've done it before tell me little secrets like: Splenda brown sugar for my oatmeal!

5. I may want to do a bike marathon in a few years....does anyone know of any?? Other than the one Rob and Ray went on, I don't think I can go that far!

6. Some of the youth were eating candy and ice cream in front of me on Tuesday....and I wasn't temped...go me!!

7. I went for coffee with Linda last Friday...that was nice :)!

8. I'm torn on whether to go to school right when I'm done my nanny job, and work part time, or to just work a full time day job again and be able to concentrate on TYN. I feel so passionate about TYN right now, and I feel that if I go to school and work part time, I won't be able to keep the passion going...maybe I could...I don't know.

9. I'm listening to a Music Machine CD right now.

10. I'm really into the game Sudoko lately. I bought a Sudoko booklet thing, and I'm almost done after a week. It also might be because the 4 year old I nanny for LOVES to watch me do it!

11. I feel like that this year has gone by SO quickly.

12. I watched the last Gilmore Girls episode last night and I cried like a baby. I'm so sad it's over, it was such a good show!

13. My new favorite show is Lost. So intense!

Sorry, it's a bragging blog.

So, I went to the gym today, and they weigh me every week now that I started the diet. I lost 7 lbs in one week. I'm so pumped! It's totally a motivation to keep going! I think I may buy myself a shirt for a reward!

Overwhelming

Ryan and I started a 6 week diet yesterday. It's a diet I got from Curves, and what it does is increase our metabolism. It's something we should only have to do once, so once we're done, we can go back to regular eating...but we don't want to go back to the way WE used to eat, because it was pretty bad!
So we started this diet yesterday...I hate it!! I have to eat stuff I don't like, for example: onions, cottage cheese, peppers, artichoke hearts, stuff like that. I know that most of you are thinking I'm crazy because it's good food....I just can't get myself to like it, although I'm forcing myself to eat it.
My stomach has been upset since yesterday morning. It all started with breakfast...I NEVER eat breakfast! In the past, I would get nauseous if I ate breakfast, and it's true to this day. I couldn't eat all my eggs and onions for breakfast because I wanted to barf...and then I felt that way for the rest of the day...except supper, supper was good, but then after supper my stomach became upset again...and then I woke up feeling this way...and then I had to eat again. My breakfast today was back bacon and toast. Usually I would LOVE to eat that, but I had to force feed myself again.
So I have a favor to ask all of you....I NEED encouragement to be able to do this!! It seems overwhelming to know I have to do this for another 6 weeks. We spend an hour of our evening preparing for what we have to eat the next day for snacks and lunch.
Can I do this?? It's only been a day and a half.