new pics of five lbs lighter and new slipcovers.

This is what five pounds lost looks like.  I know it's not much yet.  I really ne

ed to incorporate a consistent workout and I'll take it off more quickly.  If only the pounds would come off from cleaning, sewing and working on the computer.  Seriously, every time I have

some free time to do a workout, an agent will call and schedule a showing.  So... in addition to my new belly pictures, I think I'll also post a few pics of my newly slipcovered couch and dining room chairs.  I've waisted a bunch of time making those!  I really am fond of the results, tho.  Big shout out to my mom and to Mi

chele for helping me get the house ready this time.  Thankfully, Michele is strong-like-bull and we heeve-hoed the furniture around.  My mom is always exhausted when she leaves to go back to Iowa.

On the house front... John and I looked at a super-cool house over the weekend that is in Soulard, the oldest part of St Louis.  It is huge and cool and super-dee-duper (as Barney would say).  We change houses like some people change their clothes.

Anyway... If we could sell our current house and buy this mac-daddy house... we'd have gobs and gobs of room for guests and scrapbook divas.

1st Weigh-In... the results are in!

It's a good day to be a weight watcher... I lost 3.8 lbs.  I was probably dressed a tad bit lighter than last week but that should'nt account for more than a half a pound or so.  

Today was Katie's 13th birthday!  Wow!  Can't believe she was a 3 year old when she was a flower girl in our wedding!  She gets smarter and smarter every day.  Smarter than me, that is!  She got her ears pierced today.  I surprised her and told her about it on the way to the mall so she wouldn't psych herself out.  She took it like a woman!  

We all went bowling with some friends and it was like trying to herd cats with all the little kids trying to bowl.  We had my kids plus a friend of Katie's and Michele's five kids joined us too.  Lots of mishaps, including me taking a HUGE digger on the lane trying to get Harlan's ball to go down the lane after he set it down instead of rolling it.  Very funny!!!!!  I think my bowling career was snuffed out though because I probably sprained my wrist or something.

We only had to stop play a few times to kiss boo-boos (fingers caught between balls on the ball return thing) and dry tears (someone bowling out of turn).  Thankfully, the teenagers only had fun; no tears.  I'll post pics tomorrow!

It was also a bitter/sweet day as my favorite fabric store is going out of business.  Sad that it's going out of biz but happy to be able to snag over 50 yards of fabric for about $2 a yard.  I am going to recover all the furniture in my family room.  

Okay girls... carry on!  Hope you're doing well.  Thanks for following the blog and for your support!

Yikes!

I admit, I had to gulp hard when I read that Kim Woods, my biggest, adoring fan, sent the blog to a list of our friends to whom I'd never bared my nakedness before.  (Remember... I was one of the few scrapwives who did not naked-wrestle at the Lake of the Ozarks!)

So... my fat belly has been "outed" like never before!  Thanks, Kim!  I trust that you girls will guard my fat secret with your lives.  So far I've only had to rely on $40 girdles and big sweaters and my "transition" pregnancy jeans to guard my secret.  Now I have to rely on all of you with actual mouths... some of them, big... to keep my little secret!  

So if I notice that any of your husbands look at me differently and try to avoid me at parties, I will know that you have shared my fat secret with them and I will have to kill both of you, so get your wills in order, please.  Wouldn't want the state to have to raise any of your children.  You've been warned!

Nicole Johnston... this especially means you!  ("Darcie snores like a mother-f-er!)

Just kidding!  .....Or am I?

Love you girls...  your fat, but getting skinny friend!

I'm A Weight-Watcher Again...

I did a little video of me taking measurements of my belly today.  If you want to watch and snicker along with the video, it's okay with me.  If you want to forward to anyone else who would be encouraged in their own weight-loss efforts by watching me humiliate myself, that's okay.  If you merely are tempted to forward it because it's fun to laugh at the fat girl... please restrain yourself.  I have good self-esteem, but public humiliation on a mass scale just may do me in.

Oh... whatever.  Do what you want!

I'm excited about the new WW Plan that they've been advertising every 2 minutes on HGTV.  It's now called the momentum plan and it is a combination of the previous core and flex programs.  Basically, you try to incorporate more filling and sustaining foods into your diet i.e., you don't eat two candy bars at 11 pts each and call it a day... which is a tempting idea.  

The downside to WW is that I feel like I obsessed TOO much about my diet and my weight when I was counting points.  (Whereas recording a video diary of your fat stomach is NOT obsessive.)

I think I will be more successful this time around because John and I are doing it together again and I have more time to go to meetings while Harlan is at school.  And also... because I am doing this little blog which kind of pressures me to make some changes to my appearance.  I mean, face it... it won't make for very exciting viewing if I never actually become a skinny bitch that everyone wants to hate because I'm so skinny and gorgeous.  And even if you someday find yourself hating me in all my skinny gorgeousness, you will wrestle with that impulse because you will be able to go back to this post on January 6th, 2009 and see my before video and emotions of pity will resurface again for you.

I have just consumed 2 giant bowls of zero points WW soup and I'm on my second glass of red wine...  which is VERY good for you!  Just ask the authors of the Skinny Bitch book.  I'm too cheap, though, to buy the kind without sulfates.  Nonetheless, the second glass of wine has made it virtually impossible for me to stop blabbing in this post while I wait for the video to upload.

Soooooo..... enough about me...  What are you doing this year that's new and different?  How about you make some precious comments on my blog for all to see.  Kind of mix it up a little?  Tell us what you're working on.  What your New Year's Resolutions are?

Damn... wish this video would hurry up and upload already.

Please click on the link below to view the video on youtube.  I have it set up there that only you sweet gals can see it.  My niece Cami likes to look at my youtube videos and I don't want to scare her!  Hee Hee!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci34NjlFWSY

Happy New Year! The Year of the Skinny Bitch

Yikes...  I'm fatty fatty 2x4!!!  In case you're unfamiliar with the rhyme it goes something like this:

Fatty, Fatty 2x4

Couldn't Get through

The Bathroom Door!

I was inspired this morning by a gal on youtube called the incredible shrinking woman.  She does a public video diary of how she's doing with her weight loss.  Thought I'd try the same thing so I took some quite unflattering pictures of my big belly and I'm going to reveal to you, my friends, a skinn

ier, healthier, happier version of myself. So log in every now and then to keep me accountable, please.  

I hate seeing myself in pictures now.  I looked skinnier 6 months after I had Harlan, for gosh sakes.  Funny thing is... I thought I was fat then!  I don't want to 

look back on January 1, 2009 five years from now and think how skinny I looked then.  Gotta move in the opposite direction before I become

 one of those sad stories: "remember how cute she used to be before she got really fat?  Too bad."

The views of my belly is my screen saver... I'm like some kind of sadist... but maybe it will also

help to keep me accountable.  My mom bought me the book Skinny Bitch (with my permission) for Christmas.  Some great kick-in-the-butt information in there.  I also am rejoining Weight Watchers on Monday and joining Curves.

Check in for pictorial of my weight loss if you want to be voyeuristic.