Weekly Check In

Hey everyone! Hope you've been having a good week. Our week has been pretty good, for the most part.

KBeaner had her first big injury this past Saturday. We were at a friend's house, KBeaner was kneeling on the couch reaching over to pet our friend's cat  when she fell off the couch and land face first on the coffee table. She instantly did her "no-breath" cry, I picked her up and then realized that she had a cut on her forehead just over her eyebrow. Thankfully my friend was there to tell me to keep it together. I wanted so bad to cry or vomit. We took KBeaner right to the Urgent Care.

There they had a long discussion with me about whether or not to do stitches or Dermabond (pretty much super glue lol) or even bring her down to the hospital (30mins away) so that "plastics" could do it. I'm sorry but I wasn't thinking about scarring right now, I was more concerned about not traumatizing my child more. We decided on Dermabond which apparently stings A LOT, KBeaner moved once the Dermabond was on and the doctor's glove was stuck to her eyebrow, which then was ripped off because of her moving so fast...so part of her eyebrow went with the doctor's glove. Ugh I almost lost it then. I used to be okay with blood, but apparently not anymore. They finished the Dermabond without anymore problems and we were sent home. I had to be paying attention for any signs of concussion and had to wake her up every 1-2 hours that night. Thankfully she didn't show any signs of concussion and the cut hasn't really bothered her that much.

Showing off her new My Little Ponies! I had to give her lots of presents after she had been so brave!

I'm proud to say I didn't stress eat that much...emphasis on "that much".

I also had a lot of exercise in disguise on Monday, I helped a friend of mine who is a housekeeper clean  for 6 hours. It was a lot of fun actually and working with my friend made the time go by.

All that cleaning gave me the cleaning bug so be on the look out for some new tutorials and posts about cleaning things. First up is how to clean a porcelain sink!

Can you tell she loves Hello Kitty?!

a new outlook?

 I've been feeling guilty a lot this summer that I haven't been blogging enough, and when I do blog I feel that I am just writing the same thing over and over again.

"I'm going to try harder"
"I'm getting back on track"

blah blah blah...

Well I have been thinking a lot about my weight loss journey and how I am not at the end of it, I'm not at a weight that I'm super happy with, I'd like to be smack in the middle of my healthy weight range so somewhere in the 140s. I've realized though that even if I get to whatever weight is my perfect weight I am still going to have to continue to maintain, I think I'll always struggle to some degree with staying a healthy weight. I just hope that it isn't a daily struggle.

I have made the realization that I need to cut myself some slack, I get all stressed out about not losing weight, which then makes me start my old bad habits, which makes me gain weight which makes me stress out more and eat more, and so on.

It's an obnoxious cycle.

I need to take a step back and enjoy life, not stress out about food, eat to fuel my body and to keep myself healthy. Not eat to fix my feelings, or get all worked up about eating the wrong type of food.

I have to also get it through my head that the weight that I am now (fluctuating between 151-160 although I'm 158 this week) is OK, its more than OK it's great!!! Even amazing compared to the 263 that I was 3 1/2 years ago.

I am going to have to work on this, its not going to be easy. I have been telling myself for a long, long time that my weight is not OK and that I need to lose weight. I just have to keep reminding myself to be positive, and relax a little.

If you've lost a good amount of weight, how have you retrained your brain to view yourself differently? Or have you not had this problem?

ABC Card Game



 I've been trying to help KBeaner learn her alphabet, she knows the alphabet song, but she can't always tell which letter is which when looking at them. I know you can buy cards that have the letters on it but come on "frugal" is in my blog's name!!

At my friend's house we did it for KBeaner and her daughter with index cards and different

colored sharpies, which worked but the girls were rough with them and the cards ended up all dented.

When I came home, I decided to make them again with card stock. I cut out 52 rectangles out, then I wrote out the alphabet, upper case and lower case. I decided to laminate them....and by laminate I mean put clear packing tape on them..it works the same and I already had that on hand.

Then I let KBeaner go at it and play all she wanted! She matched a bunch of them and then we decided to play "Go Fish" instead of asking her if she had an "A" or whatever letter I needed I would show her the card and ask her to name the letter. A lot of times she needed help with which letter was which but I think that it did help her learn some of them. Plus she had a lot of fun!

You could even get creative and draw pictures that correspond with each letter such as "A is for Apple" Let me know if you make the ABC cards!

Weekly Check In

Alright so last Wednesday I was all pumped about eating healthy and working out.. it lasted until Friday, I was sore from working out and it was one of my best friend's birthday weekend... so of course that meant yummy food and some drinks.  I like to say that I did WW about 60% of the time.

Well all that showed on Wednesday which was my weigh in day... I'm 160lbs. Ugh that's a gain of 3lbs. Not happy with that at all. I am going to force myself to be focused... I will not gain all this weight back! I am not letting it happen! I want to stay healthy and get stronger.

I went for a 2 mile walk with KBeaner on Wednesday and I tracked all my points, yesterday I did a lot of house work but no official exercise but I tracked all of my points and I stayed within the daily points.

All I can do is take it one day at a time. I know I can keep it up!! I just have to keep telling myself that!