i can't believe it! i really can't believe it!!!

i have to admit, that i still have been weighing myself every day (more on that later though...i'm addicted...its sad) and i didn't expect the number to be that low this a.m. especially since i am still bloated like all get out and i haven't been drinking that much water the past couple of days.

am i complaining?

hell no!!!

deep sigh!

now that the first "weigh in" is officially over, i can relax and get excited about what next tuesday's post is going to be like!!

am i wrong in thinking that not only would this be good for the body, but good for the bedroom ;)

well tomorrow is the big day!!!

eeeeek...i'm a lil nervous.

i don't have much to report on the food front. i've had a bit of a stomach issue today (a lil tmi i know) so i have been trying to avoid eating much of anything, which includes not drinking as much water as i would have liked.

ya know, i read an interesting article yesterday here about how everyone has that part of the day where they just wanna nosh and that really during that noshing time, you only need to consume 100 calories.

so that got me thinking....how much is out there that is 100 calories or less and is enough to keep you full. here are a few snacky things that i have come up with so far (note: this excludes fruits and veggies. i am a firm believer in eating as much fruits and veggies as you want):

1 slice of wheat bread (40 cal)
1 slice of 2% kraft cheese (50 cal)
1 2% reduced fat cheese stick (90 cal)
mini kosher dill pickles (5 cal)
1 snack size reeses peanut butter cup (80 cal)
1/2 box of cracker jacks (60 cal)
1/2 cup veggie/beef campbell's soup (80 cal..add water to this and it would be
more filling and more than 1/2 a cup)
8 reduced fat vanilla wafers (110 cal)
1/2 cup sugar free/fat free pudding made with skim milk (70 cal)
1 full sheet graham cracker (60 cal)
1 slice fat free bologna (20 cal)
1 turkey hotdog (70 cal)
1 c. skim milk (90 cal)
2 sugar free fudgesicles (80) THATS RIGHT FOLKS, I SAID 2!!!!
1 T. peanutbutter (95 cal)

now what 100 or less calorie items do you have hiding in your cabinets?? and when is your nosh time???

this was this a.m's breakfast and one of my favorites might i add.

here's the breakdown:

samich

2 eggwhites sprinkled with zatarans (cajun seasoning). (i froze the yokes for other recipes)

1 slice of 2% kraft cheese

2 slices of natures own healthline double fiber wheat bread

2 morningstar farms veggie sausage patties (i'm addicted to veggie products. more about that in another post)

fruit salad

just some bananas and strawberries thrown into a bowl with a lil fat free coolwhip and some chopped walnuts.

reduced sugar/calorie + calcium oj

yum! this really kept me full till after one o'clock.

now lunch was simple

fat free bologna and 2% kraft cheese sandwich on same bread listed above (okay, i don't give a shit as to whats in bologna...i love it).

pretzels

lil pickle

and a small bowl of sugar free/fat free chocolate fudge instant pudding.

oh, and some diet cherry vanilla dr. pepper.

yum!

what have ya'll been eating?

ya know, most people have a sweet tooth.

i have a mouth full of sweet teeth!

i am a candy whore!!! i have always loved candy. ahh...the tasty jujy fruits, the chewy dots, the wonderful twizzler, the rainbow delight of skittles, the original fruit love called starburts, the jolly jelly bean.

i love them all. this is why i need to lose 10 more pounds...lol. candy is my downfall. i'm not much of a chocolate girl (except for those orgasmic truffles), but i could seriously stick my face in a vat of sour patch kids and not come up until every last sugar granuale is gone.

so if you are a candy whore too, hopefully these lil pointers will help ya out.

*miniature is the way to go!!! you get to curb the craving and eating a small bag and finishing it is a lot better than finishing a whole friggin' huge bag of m&ms.

*freeze your miniature candy bars. that way when you eat them, it takes a lil bit longer to eat and you feel like you ate more.

*the above also applies to gummy worms!

*3 musketeers and york peppermint patties are the way to go when you are wanting something chocolate-y.

*jolly ranchers!!! seriously after you suck on a cherry jolly rancher, usually that sweet tooth craving is gone.

*sugar free, fat free jello instant pudding! can you say yum. i usually whip some up, add a lil bit of fat free coolwhip to it, and voila, a sweet treat!

*reduced fat vanilla wafers and graham crackers.

*skinny cows. OH.MY.GOD!!! you guys seriously have to try these. the icecream sandwiches are to die for and you never woulda thought that they were like 97% fat free. they have em at walmart (and i think winn dixie, not sure). seriously though, check your grocer's freezer (do i sound like a commercial?)

*speaking of icecream sandwiches, take a chocolate graham cracker, break it in half, top the half with a lil fat free coolwhip, put another cracker half on it, pop it in the freezer, wait until it hardens, and then eat. this is also good without putting it in the freezer.

*pumpkin fluff

1 can of pumpkin
1 pkg. of vanilla sugar free/fat free pudding
fat free coolwhip
pumpkin pie spice

whip together the pumpkin, pudding, and pumpkin pie spice until mixed. add the coolwhip and put in the fridge for about 10-15 minutes.

eat the yummiest pumpkin mousse you have ever had.

*chocolate milk-i use skim milk with some hershey's chocolate.

*fresh fruit. pick your favorite fruit and eat to your heart's content. i mean seriously, how can you go wrong with fruit.

*chocolate covered strawberries. there really isn't that much chocolate on them.

*homemade fruit smoothies. throw some skim milk, fruit, and some fat free yogurt in a blender.

*the last tip for the night is to enduldge. one thing i have learned on my weightloss journeys is that if you don't allow yourself to have something that you really want, that "thing" is going to call your name all night until you can't take it anymore, and then its 3 o'clock in the a.m. and your sitting on your kitchen floor finishing off a box of ho-hos.

so if you allow yourself to have it the minute you want it and have just a lil bit of it, then the craving will be gone and you will still be on track.

now, what tips do you have to curb that sweet tooth?

not much to report in the past couple of days except i have been exhausted!

i did walk on monday or tuesday (i can't remember) and this afternoon in my soon to be neighborhood. i absolutely love it there. park my car on my piece of land, do a lil stretches, turn on the ipod, and get to moving.

as far as diet goes, i have noticed that i have watched the amount of food i have been eating this week and what i have been eating (which is a feat considering its that wonderful time of the month).

i also have been drinking a lot more water (yeah for fifty trips to the bathroom a day!!!).

i'm a lil nervous about my first weigh in post, but as long as i lose 0.5lb. i will be happy.

i hope to post a couple of recipes for ya'll this weekend.

welcome to the journey of me losing those last damn ten pounds.

here's a lil history about me and my arch enemy "ms.extra weight":

my body has always been an issue for me and i really wish it wasn't. i have always been chubby and in my younger years, i had to deal with being as flat as a board also (not a fun combination). thank god i woke up one day in the 9th grade and looked down and saw this rack that i love so much :)

i don't really recall dieting or anything like that in highschool (however, as all highschoolers know, my body image was not a good one), but once out of school, it was more of an issue. probably b/c i was really beginning to start to gain a few lbs. (and had a doctor tell me i was obese. i am 5'4 and weighed 150 lbs.) of course once i had mikey, i had thrown in the towel. now my body was completely different and i was completely unhappy with it.

i then got pregnant again (completely planned, completely took us forever to get preggers) that i ended up losing. at that point i think i needed something to focus on to take my mind off it. so doing weight watchers was what i was going to do. i didn't go to any meetings or anything. i was just going to figure out how many points each food item was (i had had a previous relationship with weightwatchers about two years back but had just gotten off track). i used their messageboards for support. i jotted down everything thing that passed my lips, walked with my mom, drank enough water to fill an ocean, and really started to lose some weight.

then i got pregnant with bella (another pregnancy that took forever and actually happened in a month that we didn't try ;). now for those of you with lil girls, you may be able to relate. you carry a girl completely different then a boy. with mikey i was all belly and it stuck out. with bella, i was all ass, hips, and belly and i was spread from side to side like the front of a house.

so needless to say, i had even more places to work on.

i hit my all time high the end of 2004 when i weighed about 190. i couldn't believe the scale when i stepped on it.

190?!?!?

how did this happen to me?

could it just be the holidays? probably not.

am i just a lil bloated? nah

is the scale broke? not bloody likey

was i outta control with my candy/junk food addiction? now you're talkin' sista.

so i had decided that since mike was leaving for the forensic academy in knoxville in january 2005 and i wouldn't be able to see him for 10 weeks that was the perfect opportunity to get back on track. i wanted to see how much weight i would lose while he was gone (and as some of you know, i'm a competetive lil bitch. even if its with myself) i knew how weightwatchers worked and knew what to look for on a food label. so with all that information, i just watched what i ate (and how much of it i ate) and drank plenty of water. there was no time for exercise since i was the only one home with the kiddos.

before i knew it the weight was just melting off. by the time mike was coming home, i was down about 20 lbs.

i was so friggin' excited. especially since i knew that weight was prolly never coming back. then after being sick for a week, a week sweating and walking my ass of at disney, physical therapy for my knee, and walking almost every day,a few more pounds came off,

30+ pounds and 2 pant sizes gone!!

i then started to fall in love with what i saw in the mirror. yeah, there are still some things that i needed to work on, but there was all this wonderful stuff that i saw:

*a collar bone showing on my chest (hmmmm...never noticed that before)

*muscles bulging out of my legs (which caused me to constantly ask people if they see them)

*muscles in my arms (again, "do you see that?")

*i could see my feet much better.

this was amazing! i haven't felt this way about myself since....well, never!

so the past six months have definately been a whirlwind and all (i don't know if you guys heard about this lil rainfall we had called hurricane katrina) but it is time to get back on the wagon and lose 10 more pounds.

would i like to lose more? hell yeah, but my main goal thru all of this was to weigh under 150 pounds. that would be less then i weighed when i started at the police department (9 1/2 years ago).

so for now i am only going to focus on 10 pounds. can't be too hard eh?

now that that is all said and done, lemme give ya'll a lil hint of what you can look foward to here at "just another 10lbs":

*every tuesday will be my weigh in day. i will take a picture of what my scale shows and post it for the world to see. figured this was pretty brave and might help keep me in line when i am wanting to devour a box of dots.

*tried and true recipes that are as yummy in the tummy as they are good for the tummy.

*posts that include what i eat on any given day, how much i exercised, and how much water i drank.

*any tips i may have up my sleeve or i stole off of a website.

*and of course all my frustrations and shouts of glee throughout this whole journey.

of course i am also interested in hearing about other bloggers trials and tribulations, so if you gotta link to share or even a tip on how to keep the jujy fruits from entering my mind at any given moment, i would love to hear it.

thanks for sharing this journey with me.

i just know that the support from all of ya'll is going to help make it a success!

let the journey begin....