Cystah On a Mission

So...I decided that I would post this week to give me a fresh start for my new biweekly schedule.  As you know last week was a bad week for me.  I realize that I get very discouraged when the numbers on the scale go up, but I know that it's a pretty accurate reflection of what I do during the two-week periods.  As you may have read in the last post, I get "scale happy," so we have decided to weigh every fourth Sunday of the month instead of every two weeks, but I will still post every two weeks about the good, bad, and downright ugly!  I am looking at every day like it's a new day from here on out.  If I succumb to negative temptation, I'll dust myself off and one more time to be better than the days before! VITTLES Week 2  (2/21-27/2016) Breakfasts: Fruits (Bananas and Apples) Eggs Bacon Pork Sausage Greek Yogurt *We use some of our breakfast items and snacks interchangeably Lunches & Dinners: Lasagna (Our neighbors made this to as a co...

This has been the two weeks I've been dreading.  We all know that during our journeys there are always the expected and the unexpected.  The first week of this two-week period was a breeze.  There was nothing really that I can say that threw me off.  I got a visit from my best friend/ cousin and my oldest Godchild (MyTeé and Seriyah) on the 13th and 14th which was fun.  We went to the mall and dinner.  We made chocolate (excuse me white chocolate, Seriyah doesn't like real chocolate) dipped strawberries and pineapples when we returned to my place.  I set a couple of the strawberries aside so that my hubby and I could enjoy them for dessert after our Valentine's lunch date.  The following Monday we shopped for our meal prep items to prepare on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning since we'd had leftovers from the previous week.  I roasted the drumsticks and carrots Tuesday after work, but I got a headache while it was in the oven, so I put the rest...

So... Week one is officially over, and I'd been beating myself up all week because, as I mentioned in my last post, I pigged out on my birthday weekend.  My husband and I usually pick a day to have a cheat meal, but I cheated at least two DAYS of my three day weekend. We weigh ourselves every other Sunday morning before meals or drinking anything, but I decided that I would weigh myself to see what damage I'd done from the weekend and I'd gained a whopping 4 lbs.  I thought for sure it would only be a couple, and I prepared my mind for that, but not 4.  I started thinking of everything I'd eaten from my Friday trip to Williamsburg to meet with Rachel to Sunday when my last two girls ventured home from spending my birthday weekend with me.  Friday wasn't too bad.  I had a protein drink and a trail mix bar for breakfast, one of three fish tacos with onion spears and a part of a pretzel and cheese appetizer for lunch, and one of the remaining fish tacos for dinner ...

| Fifty by Thirty |  I know it sounds like a measurement of the length times width of a room or something, but it's not.  I plan to lose 50 pounds by the time I'm thirty.  I know it doesn't sound like much, but according to my dietitian, it's spot on for healthy weight loss over a year's time of one to two pounds a week.  If you follow my other blog , you've read a little of my back ground.  My latest post was about continuing my weight loss journey, dealing with PCOS, my love/hate relationship with exercise, and wanting to become a mom.  This blog will encompass all of these issues and more. Below, I will share with you where I am with each of these individually.  This may be one of the longest posts I write for this blog, but there is much that needs to be known to follow along. I have been overweight for as long as I can remember and obese (morbidly) for all of my adult life.  I grew up in a very rural town with parents whose menu was solely ...