I can't believe I'm doing this

Look...but don't look.

I'm officially certifiable, right?!? I know. But you know what it comes down to? Accountability. That's what I need. If I could afford Weight Watchers and those weekly meetings and weigh-ins, I'd totally be there, but I can't, so this is what I have decided to do instead: Weigh in every Monday and post the results here to you, my AccountabiliBuddies. I've put on almost 10 pounds this month. Seriously! I'm so freakin' good at putting on the pounds, it's disgusting (yet kind of impressive, too). Normally I'm not one for stepping on the scale frequently, but I need to see those numbers go down in the beginning in order to stay motivated during the first two (and hardest) weeks. So anyways, I started my eating plan today, and I start my exercise plan tomorrow. In fact, I'm going to try to wake up around 5:30 tomorrow morning and hop on the treadmill before baby wakes up. "Try" is definitely the key word there. I am sooooo not good at harnessing that kind of motivation before 11 a.m. However, it looks like I've committed myself to participating in Pittsburgh's relay marathon in May, so I kind of have no choice but to get my butt on the treadmill. Fun fun.

As for our Christmas, it went well. Santa thought we were pretty good this year. It looks like we got enough x-mas money that I'll be able to fly down to Florida and spend the weekend with the hubby while he's there for work...yet another motivating factor to stick to the new eating and exercise plan, that's fershur. Our "biggest" gift was a generator. Ha! I can't wait 'til our power goes out (I doubt we'll have to wait long) and we can fire that baby up and be the only ones on the street with power. Baby got all sorts of cool stuff...we had to leave her sand box behind since it wouldn't fit in the car, but it's not like it's sand box season anyways! One thing I have to brag about...I'm not one for shopping. In fact, I hate to shop, especially for myself...but I had a $50 gift card for Macy's so I was forced to go there a couple days after x-mas. Holy sales! I had no idea! I ended up getting a nice coat marked down from $169 to $42. If you know me well, you know I don't wear coats, and if I do, they're quite disgusting or ratty... but now I got me a nice one. I'm very pleased :)

Don't know why, but we didn't take many pics this x-mas, which I'm kind of regretting now, but oh well. Here's one, though, of me and the little one.


Anyways, hope everyone had a good one. The latest I'll be back is Monday, with yet another pic of my gross feet.