Woo to the Hoo!!!!!!!!! that is awesome. You are going to beat me to Onederland!
Right now I am attached to my couch with a doozy of a cold. Took off work today and yesterday. I know it's a good one since I have taken a sick day in over 5 years.......
I hope you are feeling better. No sick days in over 5 years?!!? Wow! I am a baby at the first sign of feeling sick I try to take a day off and sleep all day then I feel better. DH's meds are immunosuppressants so I can't afford to get sick. When I do he ends up in the hospital with pneumonia.
I will race you to Onderland! I am probably not weighing in this week bc AF is visiting. I try to stay off the scale then since it fluctuates so much during that time of the month.
Well, if I am good and I loose the weight and train, I hope to go for the runDisney Tower of Terror 10 miler. So, I think it will be in the beginning of October 2014. It seems we are also planning a trip for the first week in January 2014! Yay!! I am positive you'll reach your goal. And I'll be cheering you on.
I know all about eating a whole pizza! I could hork down a whole medium if I wasn't being mindful. Now I am limiting myself. I was so naughty this week and had pizza twice, but I stayed in my calories. I can't decide if the calories part is the most important or if limiting the pizza is... We shall see, I guess.
I would personally take the higher of the two weights as a March start point. That way, later weigh ins are that much better.
Wow! Tower of Terror 10 miler?! I don't know if I am so brave. I heard about the Dumbo Double Dare (in
Disneyland) this year and at first I was like 'oooh exciting! maybe someday I can do it!' then i learned it was doing a half marathon and then a whole marathon in one weekend and decided no thank you! lol Even if I am at goal weight I have 0 desire to be a runner or a marathoner. Kudos to those who do it but no thank you. I will walk.
For a WISH update DH is down a few more lbs for a total of 7 or 8 lbs. He weighs himself daily and it keeps going up and down which frustrates him. He lost 100 lbs really fast on Atkins a few years ago so he is frustrated he isn't losing that fast again. He tried Atkins again and it 'wasn't working' for him this time around. It was but just slower, so if he is going to have slow weight loss he'd just rather do calorie counting. Still I think 7 or 8 lbs in one month is pretty good. Also he is getting the right idea about exercise. I had him download an app called mapmydogwalk so we could map our dog walk. Right now we just do a one block circle which is .42 miles. Not far but its the most DH can do, he hurts pretty bad by the end of it. When I go with him we do it in 10-12 minutes, when he walks her by himself it takes him more like 30 minutes. Anyway app tells distance and calories (based on time and distance). It is usually between 100 and 200 calories for him which isn't alot and I hoped it wouldn't discourage him, but it doesn't. It actually motivates him. Today he is hurting pretty badly since he will be taking his shot later this week. And I told him he didn't have to walk with us if he hurt and he said "no, that's 200 calories, I'm not going to miss out on that!" lol So he went with us. I know I really need to start walking farther but I feel bad continuing after I walk him home and its freezing out with 8" of snow on the ground so no thanks. lol Once it warms up I won't have an excuse, i will need to start taking longer walks.
Also speaking of DH, he is incredibly spoiled. We really shouldn't have stayed at AKL for our first trip. I showed him ASMu and he was like 'no, i am not staying there, it looks like motel 6' when he looked at the rooms. I pointed out that its not motel 6 and we are just sleeping there. We decided last time we were there and didn't get to enjoy AKL's resort because we just slept there that we didn't need to stay deluxe anymore (not that we can afford it we had an awesome deal for 180 a night when we stayed at AKL). So I decided to show him AOA and Pop thinking it would be much nicer comparatively. He liked their main areas and food court more but he still claims the rooms are too motel-ish. Well of course they are dear, its a value. Sigh.
So, if there is free dining offered I said we could stay at a mod since we'd want the TS dining plan anyway (because DH needs to eat at Le Ceiller and CRT...yes he wants to eat in the Cinderella castle when he learned we could last time and that I didn't make a reservation he was miffed. Also I could not get us a reservation at Le Ceiller last time because I didn't know I had to start so early and didn't make ADRs until a month or beforehand). I am thinking POR or POFQ because those are the ones I like and...DH wants a royal room. Ever since he saw the beds with the fireworks on the Disney planning DVD he has wanted to stay there. He wanted to stay there last time too. So I showed him a video of POR and he likes that so much better than the others (values). The values 'theming' is just not our style. POR is very reminiscent of what our style is and reminds me more of a midwestern river town than New Orleans...of course I've never been to New Orleans so who knows. While he thinks the regular POR room is 'fine' he still really wants to stay in a Royal Room. I told him for that price we may as well stay at AKL again. His response? "Ok!"
This is all hypothetical anyway since deals aren't even out yet. I looking at rack rates right now which are giving me a heart attack but I know there is generally 'always' a special, it just depends on what it is.
We also talked about our NEXT trip too. DH wants to go to Star Wars weekend and I want Epcot Garden Festival. We agreed 2014 would probably be a little too soon moneywise but 2015 should be ok. I am already thinking I may try to 'bank' a few 2014 vacation days to put towards our trip so maybe it can be longer than one week! So in the back of my mind I am also planning 2015...lol
DH asked me if this is something I want to do every year..go to Disney World. I said ideally yes but I don't know if we can always afford that, but I would like to go SOMEWHERE every year. I never went anywhere as a child for vacation and so far in our 5 years of marriage we have managed to go 'somewhere' almost every year. First we went on a honeymoon in the Smoky Mountains. We rented a cabin with a fabulous view and did touristy things. I only got him to go on one hike because he still hurt pretty bad back then but not as bad as he does now. Then on our one year anniversary we went to Detroit for a Star Trek thing...
then our 2 year anniversary we didn't do anything because DH hurt too much and he was flaring. His mom had to stay with us so I could go to work because he couldn't get up and down on his own, he was also out of a job at this time too. 3rd year pretty much the same thing and we were starting fertility treatments. Then last year we didn't go anywhere for our 4 year anniversary (except for an ultrasound where found out our IVF baby was ectopic) but it was a month or two after that I decided we HAD to go on a vacation and he let me pick anywhere in the world and I picked Disney World!!!
Then this year I picked Disney too.
We both loved it and DH loves to see me so happy. He says I look like a gleeful little girl and that makes him happy too.
I asked DH where he wanted to go and he said Vegas but I think he was joking. I'm not sure what we'd do in Vegas we don't gamble. I wouldn't mind seeing a show or two I guess but other than that I really don't know. We talked about maybe going to a Star Trek convention there once. I guess I would do that.
But I would by far rather go to WDW.
Oh and another thing...DH and I have our 5 year anniversary May 31st. We wanted to go somewhere special even if its just a weekend trip. We were thinking the Indy Zoo. It has elephants and we love animals. However I was thinking about it and I think we should just save our money towards WDW and celebrate our anniversary there. Of course that is 6 months after our anniversary, do you think we could tell them we are celebrating our anniversary even though its NOT our anniversary. It just seems dishonest or like I am lying but at the same time, especially if we don't go on our mini-trip WDW really is like our 5 year anniversary trip! Thoughts?
Wow that is a really long post. I hope you all don't mind that my WISH journal is also very PTR-ish. I will try to stay more on topic next time.
and share a picture with all of you...
Just wanted to say hi! I just started my own journal and I found yours while I was looking around. Congratulations to you and hubby for the weight loss so far! Woooot! I'll be following along. Best of luck on your journey.
I don't get people who don't want to go to Disney. Makes no sense to me. 
I guess that's it for now. Thanks for reading! 
