Saturday, June 13, 2009

fudgy the whale



Fudge pops, one of the few pure joys of summer.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Been busy

LOSING 5 pounds!!! Go Me!!!!!!!!!!!!! I owe it all to:

1. sparkpeople
2. asics running shoes
3. nysc
4. a good sports bra
5. sheer determination

8 more to go to get to my goal and in 4 pounds I'll see a # in the middle that I haven't seen in 8+ years. How you like me now?

When I get there I'm getting a tattoo. I have an idea of what I want but I'm also taking suggestions into consideration.....

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

A little late buuuuuuut

Happy 1st birthday Lukey!!! How can it be that he's a year old already?

Monday, May 18, 2009

The end of an era

A baby locked up in her crib, at my mercy, peaceful in her room until I say she can come out, safe in "baby jail", sleeping in a cage era. And it's bittersweet.... for all of the reasons I just mentioned and a million more. Am I being dramatic? Sure. Give me a little leeway, she's my baby. It was nice to know that she would be there until I got her out. It was nice to feel needed when I went into the room every morning to lift her out of the crib. It was nice to listen to her play in her crib with her dollys on the monitor. It was nice to only have to change a crib sheet every week and not to have to deal with pillow cases and top sheets and quilts and all of the other shize that goes along with a big girl bed. All that is over (with the girl child at least) now. The crib has been (FINALLY) passed on to baby Lukey (who'll be one in a few days) and Eva is in her big girl bed.

How did she do in her first night in her big girl room you ask???? She didn't cry, or complain, or climb out, or fall out and break her leg, or get up in the middle of the night, or pull a bookshelf over onto herself, or break the mirror on top of her dresser, or fall out of the window.... None of that stuff that I thought was going to happened, the stuff that was keeping her in the crib all this time even though her big girl room has been set up for over a year, happened.

Sweet because it was a momentous occasion for us. A banner day at the Lifschultz household. Eva is in her big girl room at the ripe old age of 2 years 4 months. Bitter because all of this time I thought she couldn't do it, wasn't old enough, would keep me up all night. Bitter because I feel like a heel for doubting her and for the aforementioned reasons. Anyway, it's done... We lived through it... and it wasn't bad. AT. All.

Friday, May 8, 2009

Starting to solve the mystery

Although the mystery is not really a mystery because I know the answers. The hardest part for me has always be in the executing. If you're like me and you have a hard time executing on your weight loss goals/vision/ plans etc you need guidance and support and a nudge in the right direction. And if you're also like me in that you are an obsessive, anal, ocd planner than I found something that will help you. In the past, I used a calorie counting website with great success.

This website I'm about to show you takes calorie counting, which we all know is a major component for losing weight, to another level. Not only does it let you count calories (and fat and protein and carbs, etc) but you can track exercise (cardio and strength training), h2o consumption, hours of sleep and a whole host of other things that will contribute to a healthy lifestyle. If you don't know shize about exercise it will plan a routine out for you and show you how to do it. Consider it your own Jack LaLane. If you don't have an ounce of Rachel Ray in your body it will plan out your meals for the day/week/month/year and provide you with a detailed grocery list. If you need someone to talk you down of that cheesecake ledge every now and again it has a panic button you can push and get "emergency" online support and guidance. You can micromanage your life down to the littlest caloric detail... should you choose to get that granular. It's the bomb. Check it out. Sign up. Live better, eat good things, be more active, set and accomplish goals, get to the weight you wanna be at and stay there. All it takes is a little awareness, a little persistance and some effort. You deserve it.

Without futher ado:

WWW.SPARKPEOPLE.COM

Oh yeah and it's effin free.

Thursday, April 30, 2009

The weightloss wagon

I'm back on this crazy rollercoaster again. I finally got down to pre prego weight a few months ago and with only 10 more pounds to get to my goalweight I promptly rewarded myself but putting on 5 pounds. Why do I do it to myself? Why does it have to be so hard? Not trying to sound pathetic and "woe-is-meish" here. Those questions are more general questions for humanity as a whole.

While I was at the gym today I was watching Oprah (If my boss is reading this it was the late replay in the evening not the first run of the show ;-). There was a man on there who is in the Guiness Book of World Records for losing the most amount of weight ever. Over 1000 pounds. Guess what? He gained every single pound of it back. I can't even wrap my brain around that. I'm seriously jammed right now in a thought process windtunnel of WHY? HOW? could someone go through that and be on Oprah talking about it? I'm floored. Why is it so damn hard to get to and stay at a weight that makes us happy? Maybe even more puzzling why can't we be happy at the weight we're at?

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Sunday, April 19, 2009

How's this for timing?

Picture it. The whole Lif family driving around on the first gorgeous day of the year, Saturday April 18, 2009. Setting the stage here now so indulge me would ya. A fab day at the petting zoo with friends. Lunch at applebees with friends and beers and one baby who slept the whole time and the other who sat and ate her whole meal peacefully and without protest. I should have known things were going too well... that the hammer was about to drop. On the way home we were listening to the baseball game on the radio and decided to rol up the windows and put the AC on so we could here the game. What? Wait? The AC doesn't work? Hmmmmmm that's weird.

Fast forward a few hours later to a conversation between Marc and the toyota lady:

Marc- Hi I bought a car from Toyota a few years ago and my a/c just went out. I am sure it's under warranty could you let me know what I should do to have it fixed.
Toyota lady grumbling about having to do shit on a beautiful day- When did you buy it? If it was brand new when you bought it you get a 3 year or 36000 mile warranty.
Marc- I don't remember b/c it was 2 + years ago. It's a 2006
Toyota lady obviously pissed about being a toyota lady- What's the VIN #?
Marc- VIN # is blah blah blah
Toyota all of a sudden perks up and has spring in her step because she's evils and gets off on delivering this next little tidbit- You're gonna die.
Marc- Why?
Toyota lady with what I imagine to be an ear to ear grin-The system shows you bought the car on April 17th 2006.
Marc- Huh? So you're saying if this happened yesterday I'd be covered 100%
Toyota lady- Ayup
Marc- But today I'm not?
Toyota lady- Uh Nope

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Coloring Eggs on


Passover with my Pizza Bagels. The joys of an interfaith family.

Wordless Wednesday

Friday, April 3, 2009

One of life's biggest mysteries?

Why do people who want to kill themselves find it necessary to take innocent others out with them when they go? I can't for the effin life of me wrap my brain around that compulsion.