TEAM TAMILA & MARK - "TOGETHER FOREVER"

 

I really did it.  I know it won't be the last.  My brother Ben and I plan to do this one in Lawrence, KS. again next yr.  It was fun and even though the next morning when I woke up I was sore it didn't last long.  I really LOVED it.  There is even and little blurb about me in the runLawrence website.  It is on the 1st page under June 21st under the pics.  Here it is if you don't want to look it up.   Didn't get her name, but another women from Wichita drove up that same morning to run. After a surgery removing a tumor and then losing 35 pounds, she made the Pathways event her goal to run her first competitive race. She'd like to lose more weight and plans to return next year.  Here is the link  http://www.runlawrence.org/ 

 

 

 

 

For the last several weeks we haven’t been watching our calories as much as we should.  Even though we were still trying to lose weight we were just not being careful enough about tracking things and sticking to our calories.  We are refocused and will make sure we list our losses (and gains) here each week so that we will be accountable.

 

We have both have been busy with kids out of school and the two new foster children and a change in Mark’s work etc… (insert more excuses).  We refuse to let our lives stop us from meeting our goals and getting healthy!!

 

We are back in the game baby.

 

I miss my friends and being able to blog.  I promise to make the time in my schedule to do it.  I need this for myself.  I know that this helps me.

 

Today was the first weigh in that I have ever had to post a gain in weight.  That won’t be happening again.

 

Mark and I work really well as a team.  We are a good weight loss team and we are also a good snacking/weight gaining team.  We need to be sure we are losers.

 

LOSERS TOGETHER FOREVER

 

((Hugs))

Tam (I am)

 

I feel MUCH better since my last blog.   Thanks again to those who commented and gave me support.  This fight to lose weight and get healthy is looooooong but I know I can do it.  In fact I have something neat to share.  I can't remember when I was below 240, but Dr. records show in 2000 I was 243.  (my lowest since the huge weight gain of 10 ys. ago.)  I am lower than I have been in 8 year!!!!!   WOW, THAT IS SOOO COOL.  I AM WINNING THIS FIGHT. 

 

Some of the comments helped me to realise  a few things about myself.  I do sometimes eat too little.   And routine and doing the same things give me comfort (in all areas of my life) so I get comfortable with an eating pattern & workout plan and I don't like to change too much.  I noticed after 2 weeks my body knows "THE PLAN" and then I stop loseing.  Now I am going to make 2 week plans and then change it BEFORE my body figures it out. 

 

Keep up the fight everyone in whatever challenges you have set for yourselves.  If you beleive in yourself you can do anything.

NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

Today I am frustrated because I feel like I worked hard all week to lose weight and NOTHING.  What happened???  I don't know but it is discouraging.  I should be happy that I have lost 36 pounds but I know 235 pounds is still FAT.  I am usually a very possitive person, but not losing even 1 pound when I worked at it all week just plain SUCKS!!!  O.K. I am done venting, thanks for listening.

Tamila

  I have given up on the idea that my body will loose more than 2 pounds a week.  So when I got on the scales on Monday I was happy to see 2 pounds.  It doesn't seem to matter what I do to change things up, 2 pounds seems to be what my body wants to let go and that's it.  I'm pretty strong willed myself, just ask Mark.  If you beleive in such, I am a Taurus after all.

This week has been very busy.  Tuesday I was interviewed by The Wichita Eagle on foster parenting  The article should be coming out in a week or so.  I will put up a link when it does.  My FC worker was here and they took picks of her and I with the kids (from behind, so they are not recognized)  I am interested to see how it turns out.

Monday nights we have Family Night/Family Home Evening/FHE what ever you want to call it.  We turn off all phones and spend the evening as a family with no interuptions.  Sometimes, like this week, it is the only family time we get through the week.  Well, this week we played in the back yard, 2+ acres.,and flew a kite.   The kite would fly great for a while and then fall.   This happened  over & over for the few hrs. we were out there, we decided it made it more fun that way.   All the kids enjoyed it, even the baby who is NOW walking.  I was hovering like a mother hen but she did manage to walk/fall a bit and she wanted to get the kite a few times and I got pics. of her walking. Later after the photo's taken for the Newspaper, I realized that I could put her and her bro. pics on our site because you can't see their faces.  I also got it approved by my worker, so here is our Kite Flying FHE.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

P.S.

I kept telling Mark that since he had lost 35 pounds that, in his bigger clothes, he looked like a Saggy Baggy Elephant (that is the title of one of our children's books)

Finally, after he saw these pics., this week I was able to take him to buy more clothes.  He has went down 2 sizes. YEAH!!!   WAY TO GO BABY!!!

 

Have a great weekend. 

Tamila 

The year was 1992.  It was my first year as a single mom.  James (Jay) was 3yrs. old & Ryan was 2yrs., so I knew there would not be a celebration.  No one cooking dinner for me, getting me presents, or giving me the day off.  I told myself I was o.k. with that.  But truth be told, I wanted all of the above.  That week, like every other week, we went to church.  Some how, James had hid a construction paper card he had made for me in his class.  As we got to the car, he pulled it out and said, "Here Mommy, Happy Mother's Day."  I was actually shocked and suprised.  As a tear rolled down my cheek and with a lump in my throat I hugged James and said, "Thank you, Jay.  This is so special.  Mommy will keep it forever."  He was happy and proud of himself.  I was feeling pretty happy myself, and I turned to help Ryan into the car and noticed that he a really sad look on his face.  Then all of the sudden he got this HUGE smile and spit a half eaten red gummy bear into his little hand and held it up to me and said, "Happy Mother's."  I could hardly see from the tears running down my face as I scooped up my gooey present.  I said, "Thank You, Ryan.  This is so special.  Mommy will keep it forever." 

 

 

I realized at that moment that BEING a Mom was, and always will be, the greatest gift I could ever receive.

 

I still have that card somewhere and as for the red gummy bear...well, I WILL carry that in my heart, forever.

 

"Happy Mother's Day," to all my MOMMY friends.  May we all remember what Mother's Day is really about.

 

Tamila

 

Sunday for the 1st time someone said something about my weight loss.  SOOO COOL!!!  I was in the nursery with the little ones and this guy came in and after a few minutes I turned around and said hi to him and he looked surprised and said "Oh, Tamila I didn't recognise you until I saw your face.  You really have lost a lot of weight."

I could have kissed him but well I'm married, he's married, we were at church and all.  But wow, he made my week.  I know I've lost weight, I can tell.  I was beginning to wonder if anyone else would ever notice.  Well, notice and say something.  Many people know Mark and I are loosing weight we tell everybody...O.K. Mark does.  Family, friends, random people on the street anyway, I was wondering when someone would notice and say something.  I think it's even cooler that it WAS a guy because well my guy doesn't notice much and I have noticed that trend with men.  Gotta LOVE EM though.  I was able to get a complete (8 people) dishes set, over time, and into the cabinets without Mark even noticing.  How great is that?

Anyway, 2 more pounds gone forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!

((HUGS)) & KISSES (FOR KIRK)

Tamila  

Right now I can't tell whether this is getting easer or harder.  Sometimes it feels like it has just become part of my life like it is supposed to be.  Other times I have to battle myself to go work out or watch my calories closely.  The important thing I am excited about is that Tamila and I are still doing it.  The weight keeps coming off.  I lost another 3 lbs this week.  Although taking the weight off is slow, it seems to me that it is still faster than the time I took to put the weight ON my body.

 

Mark

So I didn't loose any weight this week but it's O.K. because I KNOW it is water weight, bloating, t.o.m., whatever you call it.  I should have seen it coming too but I didn't.  I always have the night before "IN THE PIT OF DOOM" and that was Sunday and I was thinking "Sunday, the day of rest, YEAH RIGHT."  It was a horrible day for me I was ready to give back my Mother Card and barricade myself in my room for a week.  It is somewhat of a mistery to me that during the night of being "In the pit of DOOM" I some how crawl out and by morning walk into a Fairy Tale already in progress.  Complete with birds chirping, sunshine on my sholder, and everything sparkely.  I should have known when I got on the scales and it didn't bother me.  I should have known since I am soooo NOT a morning person and for me one of the hardest part of getting new foster babies is dealing with the POOPFEST every morning and somehow that didn't bother me either.  Well, maybe next month with all the signs that I know about and owning a calender and all I will know exactly whats going on.  O.K. so probably not.  Sorry, Mark.

 

Mark got the stomache flu this week but wasn't as sick as I was.  Either that or he was but kept working throught it.  He had several cases he NEEDED to work on and close.  He helped me when I was sick but I don't know anything about Law and would kind of like to keep it that way.  I mean working with/for Mark that would never work because "I AM THE BOSS."  LOL  JK, O.k. maybe not. 

By the way Mark has lost 30 pounds so far YEAH!!!!  I must say, "He looks GOOD." 

 

Bye for now.

((HUGS))
TAMILA

 

Oh, these pictures have nothing to do with this blog.  I just thought they were soo cute.  Our kids like to play dress up.  The last one is my favorite.

 

 

      Our son Joshua & daughter Mariah

 

   Mariah KNIGHTING Joshua

 

 

 

 

Today "April 24th" is my birthday.  I had a WONDERFUL day.  I am truely blessed. 

I just got over a nasty stomache flu that lasted for 6 days.  But today I felt great for the first time in a loooong time. 

The kids are settling in well, we really love having them in our home.  Life will be more enjoyable and easier now that I am better. 

Even though we haven't updated our weight loss, Mark and I both lost another 2 pounds for this week.  YEAH!!!!!

I look forward to geting back to my training for the 5K.  Before I got sick I was amazed at how fast my running was improving.

Well, I am up tooo late.  It will be nice to be on our site more often.

((HUGS))

Tamila