My Dream Home if Money and Employment Were Not a Factor (Like when I win the Lotto)

When I was younger, I wanted to be an architect. I had a folder that I had a bunch of graph paper in and I would design my dream home. It was always a large box with square rooms. Now that I am older, I love looking at house plans and thinking about what would be in my ideal home. All the options and those cool little accents that I see on Pinterest (oh, Pinterest, how I love you). Right now, my ideal home would be two stories (most likely) with 3 distinct, separate living areas. My husband and I would be upstairs, maybe with a few extra bedrooms for any future children or guests. The downstairs would have to have 2 distinct living (bedroom) areas, one for hubby’s dad who currently lives with us and one for my mom, who most likely will live with us in the future (especially if any of those “future children” show up!!!). This is VERY difficult to find. Most of the houses that we have seen have 1 bedroom downstairs, and it is usually about the size of a closet. Some of the higher end homes that we have looked at have the option, but they are expensive!!!

I would love to actually design and build my own dream home.

Downsizing Me Log - 8/15/2015

Weight - 224 (pretty sure that is a direct result of taco bell)

Morning Fasting Blood Sugar - 107

Steps taken (FitBit) - 6050

Miles (FitBit) - 2.68

Active Minutes (FitBit) - 24

Exercise completed - 24 minutes (1.3 miles) on treadmill

Calories in (MyFitnessPal) - about 2000

Calories out (FitBit) - 2330

Water Intake - 96oz

Nutrisystem (NS) On Plan - No, sushi got me again!!!

What I ate today -

Breakfast - NS Turkey Sausage and Egg sandwich with laughing cow cheese
Lunch - Sushi
Dinner - NS Hamburger with laughing cow cheese and veggies

Comments - OMG, sushi, why am I so addicted to you!?!? We found a new sushi place that is REALLY close to our house, but they do half price rolls, so we figure when I am having a craving I can go get a roll and be satisfied...maybe :)

The SUSHI deal

So, we had sushi again today...

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I really think that having All You Can Eat sushi almost every weekend is affecting our ability to lose weight. Well, duh! you might say. And I guess I also say this.

So, we have made a deal...

I am putting it on the blog to make it REAL...

Hubby and I have decided that we have to lose another 25 pounds before we can have sushi again. That would put him below 300lbs and me below 200lbs. It will be our reward, if you will (I know, we are not supposed to reward ourselves with food!!!)

So here it is, for all the world to see and know...NO SUSHI UNTIL I LOSE 25 POUNDS!!!!!!

A to Z : Boys names

So back to my favorite names, here is the list of my favorite boy names.

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Alexander, Anthony, Aaron, Andrew

Brandon, Benjamin

Christopher, Cody, Collin, Cole

Daniel, Devon, Dylan, Dominick, David, Daryl

Edward, Eric, Ethan

Downsizing Me Log - 8/14/2015

Weight - 222.6

Morning Fasting Blood Sugar - oops

Steps taken (FitBit) - 2588

Miles (FitBit) - 1.15

Active Minutes (FitBit) - 0

Exercise completed - None, I actually slept alot of the day...

Calories in (MyFitnessPal) - 1845

Calories out (FitBit) - 2105

Water Intake - 48oz (not nearly enough)

Nutrisystem (NS) On Plan - No, I was good ALL day, and then...Taco Bell

What I ate today -

Breakfast - Eggs, NS Bagel with laughing cow cheese
Lunch - NS Chicken Sandwich with laughing cow cheese, veggies and a piece of chocolate
PM snack - Beef Jerky
Dinner - NS Turkey Sausage and Bacon Rigatoni with veggies and a plum
Late snack - We had to go to the store and hubby was hungry so we ended up at Taco Bell (WTF), 630 calories later I had eaten a bean and cheese burrito and half a mexican pizza :(

Comments - Mommy was supposed to visit this weekend, but stupid weather yesterday caused her flight to be cancelled. So she will not be coming until next weekend... I was very upset yesterday, but I did not take my stress and sadness out by eating like a pig though so that is a bonus!! Although my food today begs to differ!!!!