Hey Everybody, here are some pics from Christmas. I had a great Christmas! I got clothes, jewelery and even a Leopard Print Snuggie
My Niece
My Niece Kissing the Doll from Me
Big Little Sisters Hair
Me and My Little Sis
Me and Nyah
Nyah and Niece Under the Tree
Me in My new Snuggie
Back of My Big Little Sisters Hair
Hey guys, I’ve kind of just been in chill mode trying to balance everything during this busy time of year. I do have some great news. I went back to the doctor and my medical issue is cleared up, the problem and the pain is gone. I’m so thankful. I’m moving right along with my plans for my fitness DVD, I make my first financial investment towards it Jan 1st. I have to pay for the original music tracks that I want to play in the background during the DVD workout. I’m also working on my list of goals for 2010, one of which includes a 1/2 marathon. Yes I said it, a Half Marathon, 13 Miles. The Go St. Louis race is in April. I’m going to register for it before the end of the year. I may not be able to run the whole time by then, but I’m going to give it all I got. My goal will be to finish the race without passing out, puking, collapsing or coming in last place. …I think I can manage that…. Today, I went shopping with a friend who really helped remind me of the little changes that have happened after I lost weight. When we were walking in the store he said, “I always had to slow down and wait on you before you lost weight; now you move so fast I have to hurry just to keep up with you!” It’s thing like that help encourage me to stay on the right track and live a healthy life.
Little Sister with her dolls
Let me start with the real stuff first. When it comes to eating healthy, the holiday season sucks. It’s almost impossible. Today we had a holiday breakfast, a Christmas lunch, Christmas “easter eggs” (egg shaped chocolates with cake inside), Christmas cookies, gooey butter cake, and the list goes on. And if I’m being totally honest, I had a little bit of all of it. I couldn’t resist. Isn’t that terrible? At least at the new new job, it just a holiday thing, and not like my other job with the year round Food Cube. I did eat a salad at the luncheon, but does that even count? I’m not going to stress over it too much, because most people, even those who don’t have bad relationship with food, struggle with making healthy choices during this time of year. I’m going to try to work out tomorrow, but my knee is really bothering me; I feel like I’m 80 years old. If nothing else, these last few weeks of physical problems, has taught me not to take my body for granted…Anyway, I’ve mentioned before that I’m a mentor in the Big Brother Big Sister Program for underprivileged children.
The other day, my little sister from the program had me laughing my butt off! She said, “We’re out of school until January 3d, can I spend the night until we have to go back? I said…ummmm Sweetie, let’s just do Friday night and go from there. LOL! Today, I picked her up and took her shopping for her birthday. She decided that she wanted a baby doll. Now, I normally leave controversial issues like race and politics out of my blog just to keep the peace, but this was so heavy on my mind that I had to talk about it. When we got to the store, there was not ONE African-American doll on the shelf, in the whole store! Can you believe? Come on now people, it’s almost 2010. I’m sure you have looked at my pictures and you know that I’m Black, and it just so happens that my Little sister is too. And it’s not that I didn’t want her to have a white doll, I just wanted her to have a choice to choose a baby that looks like her. My Big Little Sister and I had this same issue last year at a different store. So we wrote a letter to the manager addressing our concerns. Today, I called her to vent, and she told me to go back to the store from last year. I was so happy I did. They had a wide variety of dolls. They had black and white and in between. I was happy that they took our concerns seriously, and did something about it. My Little sister picked one of the beautiful brown babies, I don’t know what race the baby is, but I like that she was able to choose whichever she liked best. I will send a letter to the manager again, but this time, thanking them for giving my little sister the opportunity to choose. I’m sure I’ll get some comments on this post like …why should it matter….people are people…etc etc. But I’m open to an honest discussion.
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How was my day? Not too shabby. I went to weigh in today, and had no clue what to expect. I kinda kept points this week, but I was mindful to not going crazy with food. To my surprise I lost 2.6 pounds! Wooo-whoo! I needed that after my dreadful weight gain last week. Today, the meeting leader gave an analogy about a car with a flat tire. She said “just because you have one flat tire, you don’t go and flatten the other 3. You fix the flat one.” Sometimes with weight loss, we have one little mishap (like gaining 4 pounds in 2 weeks), and let it ruin our whole program. Just because I had a setback, I couldn’t let it ruin my program. After all, I didn’t gain all of the weight back, and I can still fit my clothes. I felt proud that I was able to get out of the rut and keep on trying. I felt so good that I came home and worked out. I got Leslie Sansone’s: 5 Day Slim Down 
It was kinda fun, walking with Chatty Cathie. She talks so much, I don’t think that lady stops talking at all during the entire routine. It actually has a good effect though, because you’re so busy trying to listen to what she saying that you don’t realize how much you’re actually working out. I did the 12 minute speed mile which added extra leg and arm exercises. It got my heart pumping, and I was on the verge of breaking a sweat. It’s definitely one to add to the DVD collection.
What Did Carli Eat Today?
B – Granola Bar, Clementine, Lemon Tea w/ Splenda - 4
L- Salad- 8
S- Cheese Crackers- 4
2nd Snack – 2 Tiny Christmas Cookies – 3
D- Turkey Wrap, Stir Fry Veggies – 12
Hey Guys, I’ve been super busy. I started my new-new job this week, and I finally got internet service at home yesterday. Just wanted to let you know everything is okay, I’ll update the Wall of Fame and put up my new post titled “The Mystery Orange” either tonight or tomorrow.
Let me rewind back to Monday. Weigh -in at weight watchers was awful. I couldn’t even bring myself to blog about it. I gained 4 pounds in 2 weeks. I guess all the good eating over the holiday and no workouts and all the crap I ate” just because” really added up. I’m so frustrated, but I guess I can’t be mad at anybody but myself. This week I’m trying to do better at keeping my points. The good great news is that I finally have Internet at home. Finally! Mom said she’ll miss my frequent visits to steal her Internet. I even filmed my last video at her house, I think you can hear my little niece screaming in the background at one point….anyway….here’s my funny story. I came back from a meeting with one of the lawyers and there was an orange on my desk. I knew that I only had clementines at home, and that I certainly didn’t bring in a giant orange. My slim fast bar was wearing off, but I still looked around and tossed it in the trash. I guess I watch too much TV, because I wasn’t about to eat some tainted mystery orange that just showed up on my desk. On my way to the office kitchen to get some hot tea to hold me over until lunch, one of the secretaries said “Hey! I snagged you a special orange shipped here from Florida.” “Oh!” I exclaimed and forced smile, “I didn’t know where it came from.” She replied, “I wanted to make sure you got one before they were gone.” I ran back to my desk and dug it out of the trash can, and had a delicious afternoon snack. Lesson learned: Just because you start a new job; your new co-workers are not trying to get rid of you with poison oranges.
