My hair is falling out!

Well I think I might have found the reason why I am having a hard time loosing my last 15 lbs.  It all started about a month ago when I was realizing in the shower a lot of hair was going down the drain.  Then I started noticing on my counter top while brushing my hair a lot of hair was appearing on the counter.  It was finally the day I was folding my laundry on my bedroom floor and noticed all the hair on my clothes...oh my gosh my hair is falling out!!!  In the shower I was noticing hand fulls of hair was in my hands while rinsing the shampoo out.  I thought for sure it was the diet.  I couldn't find anything saying it might be then I thought hmm maybe it's my IUD.  Well I researched it on line and I found tons of women saying the same thing, hair loss, not being able to loose weight, irritable, anxiety, etc.  I had all these symptoms.  I asked my sister n'law if she had these and she said she did but it finally went away.  She said just now her hair is growing back.  Now what to do...I am thinking more of getting it out.  I don't know how much more hair I can loose. 

I HATE DIETING!

So it has been 19 days and I have lost...NOTHING!!!

I am so freaking annoyed!  I have been doing so good, not cheating at all and exercising almost every day.  The thing that kills me is that Dave has lost 5 pounds and hasn't really changed anything he has been eating!!!  And my friend has already lost weight and inches but of course he is a MAN!!!  I haven't weighed myself but I have measured myself.  I don't even dare get on a scale.  I wish I could say my pants feel looser and my shirts feel bigger but they DONT!  I HATE DIETING!!! 

January

 $1 Game at BYU.
Every year we go to the $1 Game for the BYU basketball team.  It's always exciting because we see the BYU football team and it's gets us pumped up for the next season.  The BYU basketball team is doing awesome this year.  This was great for the kids.  Go cougars!!!

Dexton always puts on his "charlie" blankie and pretends I can't see him.
I've talked about Jacob before he is only a month younger then Dexton.  They are best friends and cousins.  It took almost 3 years for them to FINALLY get along.  They used to fight fight fight!  Oh it was so bad!  But now they are best buds and love playing together.  I had Jacob sleep over awhile back.  I put them in robes and they thought it was so funny. 

Random pictures.  Dexton loves these noodles.  Dave used to call them "chocolate noodles" when Dexton was younger because they were brown.  Since then Dexton either calls them that or Daddy's noodles because Dave takes them for his dinners while he flies.  If it was up to Dexton he would eat these everyday.  I would love that except they really have no nutritional value whatsoever.

9 Years!

Aren't we gorgeous!  Oh what a happy couple we are.  That picture was taken almost 7 years ago.  Lets just say moving to Arizona, both working at Chilis, eating at Chilis almost everyday made us gain a few pounds ha ha!  And the best part about it we didn't even notice then we just were madly in love lol.
Well seriously I can't believe it has been 9 years.  Our exact anniversary is on Jan 5th but this year we did not get a chance to celebrate it.  Now it's Feb and we both still have our cards that we have written to each other but haven't had a chance to exchange them.  Hopefully we will soon.  How life changes when you have 2 kiddos.
I love Dave so much!  I seriously pray all the time thanking my heavenly father for sending him into my life.  He has changed me so much!  He loves me for who I am and he has made me love myself for who I am.  He is my rock, my sole mate, my everything.  Thanks Dave for loving me and sticking with me through everything.  I love you Dave!!!

Our December 2010

I couldn't believe how behind I was in blogging my family.  So here's a quick summary of our December...

 We have started a new tradition in the Nuttalls home.  We are going to make Santa fresh baked cookies to leave him with a note by Dexton.  Dexton loved it.  He's just like mommy he loves to cook!

 Santa and the Easter Bunny always do the same thing...they leave a trail of candy to the grand presents!

 Santa finished off the milk and cookies.  Dexton loved gathering the candy.

 Because Dave has to work most holidays and it wasn't any different this year we celebrated our Christmas on the 22nd.  We made sure to ask Santa to come early this year but to also visit us at Nana and Papas too.

 That night we went bowling with Dave's sister Kim and her family.  Dexton loved it.

 Angie suprised us from California.  I didn't get a picture dangit but she rang the door bell and when I opened the door there was a huge box wrapped saying to the Nuttalls from Angie.  Dexton went to the box, the box started shaking, Dexton got scared and then Angie jumped out.  Dexton slammed the door and said "that's not a toy!"  Ha ha it was funny.
Angie got Dexton this whole set of toy story characters.  He loved loved it!

 Allie loves her papa

 Angie loves playing practical jokes so she wrapped up some christmas cookies and told Dexton it was his gift.  He opened it and looked so confused and again said "this isn't a toy!"

 New Jammies for Allie.  Couldn't resist to get these clearance $2 Jammies for Allie.  My mom and dad took Dexton to a basketball game a while ago and Dexton saw the refs with whistles and told my dad he wanted one.  So my dad got him one for Christmas.  Thanks dad my ears have been ringing since.

 Christmas Dec. 25th at my parents in Nephi

 Another joke from Angie.  She wrapped up an old dolls head of Kenzies and gave it to her for Christmas.  Dexton was horrified.

 Christmas evening we met up with my sister Jenny and her family to see the movie Tangled.  Dexton loves hanging out with his older cousin Nathan.  Not sure if Nathan loves it ha ha but Dexton is attached to his hip when he is around.  The movie was so so cute!  I loved it!

 Dexton hardly ever holds Allie, sometimes I wonder if he even knows she's alive ha ha.  Which could be a good thing though, he never tries to hurt her whew.  But here he is holding Allie in front of the tree.  He is such a good big brother.

 I LOVE MY KIDS!

 Allie is thinking "I have a headache"

 Sledding??? K so I didn't have a sled and it just snowed so I decided to get a towel and make our own sled.  It was actually pretty fun.  Dexton had a ball.  We also made snow Angels which he thought was so funny.

Angie built a somewhat snowman with Dexton.

Day 10 - Another Cheat Day

One of the reasons I love this diet is because you get one cheat day a week.  Oh how I dream about this day while shoving beans and chicken in my mouth.
Today my brother n'law came home from his mission so we went out to eat.  I plan my cheat days around special occasions.

Diet Dr. Pepper
Fried Chicken Sandwich with Fries
Chocolate Chip cookies
Little Caesars Pizza
Water

Day 8

I feel better then I have ever felt "dieting" in my life.  I have more energy, not starving, and I just feel great!  Not sure if it's the diet but pretty sure it is because I haven't changed anything else. I think I even got my dad to start eating better and exercising!  Yae dad!!!

8am Protein Shake
10am Spinach Quiche
2pm Chili
5:30pm Chili
8:30pm Spinach Quiche
Water = 90oz
 

Day 5

So yesterday was a cheat day for me... (DAY 5)

• I started the morning off with a mini snickers bar and a slice of red velvet cake.  
• Then we went to the Pizza Factory with some friends and I ate a salad with a 1/2 sandwich with water.  
• Snack: ate 3 more mini snickers lots of water
• For dinner I made chicken cordon blue with mashed potatoes and carrots.  I had a normal portion size, no seconds either, because I was full.  Drank Water
•  Made chocolate chip cookies...I ate 6! (and Drank 48oz waters.)  The first one I wanted...the other 5 I just ate
• 4am DYING!!!  My stomach was killing me!  I learned my lesson, don't over eat!!!

The 4-Hour Body - Official Video Trailer

The 4-Hour BODY

Sorry this is a long post...

So I have been debating if I should blog about my journey to loose weight...I have decided yes.  Why you ask because I NEED MOTIVATION!!!  Not to exercise, thats the easy part.  It's the eating that kills me especially when you have a husband that can eat what ever the heck he wants (though he does exercise, but so do I) and still looses weight.  I love to run, go to the gym, do kick boxing I love to exercise but it's not cutting it.  I need to eat much better to loose my baby weight (though I have had this problem all my life lol)  My friend Alex introduced me to the 4-hour body.  I haven't read the book yet, just researched it on line plus the information he has told me.  I like it, I think this might actually be the "diet" for me.  Lets atleast hope so!  I am not a yo you dieter.  I actually really don't believe in dieting, all in moderation but it's not working.  I have never bought a diet book in my life. 
I tried talking Dave into doing it with me.  He said the days he is home he will so the other morning I fixed him a 3 egg omelet with some fajita chicken, bell pepper, and onions and topped it off with a sour cream salsa I made.  He ate it and loved it BUT said he was starving still and fixed himself a bowl of cereal.  He has done this at every meal I have made.  I personally am full after the meal and have tons of energy.  I started Feb. 1st  I had Dave take my measurements of my whole body.  I weighed myself.  I would post it but I'm not that daring.  I even took a picture of me but I don't dare put it up.  If I see results (which I pray I will) I will post everything even my disgusting body ha ha!  I will weigh myself and do my measurements again in 30 days.  I am going to try to blog every day but life is busy so not sure if I will be able to.
Summary of why I like this diet:

1. CHEAT DAY: You get to eat whatever you want once a week
2. PROTEIN:  I'm a big believer on protein and how it helps you loose weight without carbs.
3. NO HUNGER PAINS: You can eat as much as you want as long as it sticks with the plan.  And you have many options.  And there are many blogs about other peoples 4-hour body plan.

I really really hope I will see results.  In the book they suggest not to work out too hard because that will make you more hungry but I am going to work out hard atleast 5 times a weeks for atleast an hour.  Well wish me good luck!

So here's the summery from the book:

The Slow-Carb Diet-Better Fat-Loss Through Simplicity

It is possible to lose 20 pounds of body fat in 30 days by optimizing any of three factors: exercise, diet, or a drug/supplement regimen. Twenty pounds for most people means moving down at least two clothing sizes, whether that's going from a size 14 dress to a size 10 or from an XXL shirt to a large. The waist and hips show an even more dramatic reduction in circumference.
By April 6, 2007, as an example, I had cut from nearly 180 pounds to 165 pounds in six weeks, while adding about 10 pounds of muscle, which means I lost approximately 25 pounds of fat. The changes aren't subtle.
The diet that I'll introduce in this chapter-the Slow-Carb Diet-is the only diet besides the rather extreme Cyclical Ketogenic Diet (CKD) that has produced veins across my abdomen, which is the last place I lose fat. There are just five simple rules to follow:

RULE 1: AVOID "WHITE" CARBOHYDRATES.

Avoid any carbohydrate that is, or can be, white. The following foods are prohibited, except for within 30 minutes of finishing a resistance-training workout like those described in the "From Geek to Freak" or "Occam's Protocol" chapters: all bread, rice (including brown), cereal, potatoes, pasta, tortillas, and fried food with breading. If you avoid eating the aforementioned foods and anything else white, you'll be safe.
Just for fun, another reason to avoid the whities: chlorine dioxide, one of the chemicals used to bleach flour (even if later made brown again, a common trick), combines with residual protein in most of these foods to form alloxan. Researchers use alloxan in lab rats to induce diabetes. That's right-it's used to produce diabetes. This is bad news if you eat anything white or "enriched."
Don't eat white stuff unless you want to get fatter.

RULE 2: EAT THE SAME FEW MEALS OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

The most successful dieters, regardless of whether their goal is muscle gain or fat-loss, eat the same few meals over and over again. There are 47,000 products in the average U.S. grocery store, but only a handful of them won't make you fat.
Mix and match from the following list, constructing each meal with one pick from each of the three groups. I've starred the choices that produce the fastest fat-loss for me:
Proteins
*Egg whites with 1–2 whole eggs for flavor (or, if organic, 2–5 whole eggs, including yolks)
*Chicken breast or thigh
*Black beans
*Beef (preferably grass-fed)
Pork
*Fish
Legumes
*Lentils (also called "dal" or "daal")
Pinto beans
Red beans
Soybeans
Vegetables
*Spinach
*Mixed vegetables (including broccoli, cauliflower, or any other cruciferous vegetables)
*Sauerkraut, kimchee (full explanation of these later in "Damage Control")
Asparagus
Peas
Broccoli
Green beans
Eat as much as you like of the above food items, but keep it simple. Pick three or four meals and repeat them. Almost all restaurants can give you a salad or vegetables in place of french fries, potatoes, or rice.
Surprisingly, I have found Mexican food (after swapping out rice for vegetables) to be one of the cuisines most conducive to the Slow-Carb Diet. If you have to pay an extra $1–3 to substitute at a restaurant, consider it your six-pack tax, the nominal fee you pay to be lean. Most people who go on "low"-carbohydrate diets complain of low energy and quit because they consume insufficient calories. A half-cup of rice is 300 calories, whereas a half-cup of spinach is 15 calories! Vegetables are not calorically dense, so it is critical that you add legumes for caloric load.
Eating more frequently than four times per day might be helpful on higher-carb diets to prevent gorging, but it's not necessary with the ingredients we're using. Eating more frequent meals also appears to have no enhancing effect on resting metabolic rate, despite claims to the contrary.
Frequent meals can be used in some circumstances (see "The Last Mile"), but not for this reason.
The following meal schedule is based on a late sleep schedule, as I'm a night owl who gives up the ghost at 2:00 a.m. at the earliest, usually with wineglass or book still in hand, à la heroin addict. Adjust your meals to fit your schedule, but make sure to have your first meal within an hour of waking. Meals are approximately four hours apart.
10:00 am - Breakfast
2:00 pm - Lunch
6:30 pm - Smaller second lunch
8:00–9:00 pm - Recreation or sports training, if scheduled.
10:00 pm - Dinner
12:00 am - Glass of red wine and Discovery Channel before bed
Here are some of my meals that recur again and again:
Breakfast (home): Scrambled Eggology® pourable egg whites with one whole egg, black beans, and mixed vegetables warmed up or cooked in a microwave using Pyrex® containers.
Lunch (Mexican restaurant): Grass-fed organic beef, pinto beans, mixed vegetables, and extra guacamole.
Dinner (home): Grass-fed organic beef (from Trader Joe's), lentils, and mixed vegetables.
Just remember: this diet is, first and foremost, intended to be effective, not fun. It can be fun with a few tweaks (the next chapter covers this), but that's not the goal.

RULE 3: DON'T DRINK CALORIES.

Drink massive quantities of water and as much unsweetened tea, coffee (with no more than two tablespoons of cream; I suggest using cinnamon instead), or other no-calorie/low-calorie beverages as you like. Do not drink milk (including soy milk), normal soft drinks, or fruit juice. Limit diet soft drinks to no more than 16 ounces per day if you can, as the aspartame can stimulate weight gain.
I'm a wine fanatic and have one to two glasses of red wine almost every evening. It doesn't appear to have any negative impact on my rate of fat-loss. Red wine is by no means required for this diet to work, but it's 100% allowed (unlike white wines and beer, both of which should be avoided). Up to two glasses of red per night, no more.

RULE 4: DON'T EAT FRUIT.

Humans don't need fruit six days a week, and they certainly don't need it year-round. If your ancestors were from Europe, for example, how much fruit did they eat in the winter 500 years ago? Think they had Florida oranges in December? Not a chance. But you're still here, so the lineage somehow survived.
The only exceptions to the no-fruit rule are tomatoes and avocadoes, and the latter should be eaten in moderation (no more than one cup or one meal per day). Otherwise, just say no to fruit and its principal sugar, fructose, which is converted to glycerol phosphate more efficiently than almost all other carbohydrates. Glycerol phosphate p triglycerides (via the liver) p fat storage. There are a few biochemical exceptions to this, but avoiding fruit six days per week is the most reliable policy.
But what's this "six days a week" business? It's the seventh day that allows you, if you so desire, to eat peach crepes and banana bread until you go into a coma.

RULE 5: TAKE ONE DAY OFF PER WEEK.

I recommend Saturdays as your Dieters Gone Wild (DGW) day. I am allowed to eat whatever I want on Saturdays, and I go out of my way to eat ice cream, Snickers, Take 5, and all of my other vices in excess. If I drank beer, I'd have a few pints of Paulaner Hefe-Weizen.
I make myself a little sick each Saturday and don't want to look at any junk for the rest of the week. Paradoxically, dramatically spiking caloric intake in this way once per week increases fat-loss by ensuring that your metabolic rate (thyroid function and conversion of T4 to T3, etc.) doesn't downshift from extended caloric restriction.
That's right: eating pure crap can help you lose fat. Welcome to Utopia. There are no limits or boundaries during this day of gluttonous enjoyment. There is absolutely no calorie counting on this diet, on this day or any other.
Start the diet at least five days before your designated cheat day. If you choose Saturday, for example, I would suggest starting your diet on a Monday.
That's All, Folks!
If the founding fathers could sum up our government in a six-page constitution, the above is all we need to summarize rapid fat-loss for 99.99% of the population. Followed to the letter, I've never seen it fail. Never. When you feel mired in details or confused by the latest-and-greatest
contradictory advice, return to this short chapter. All you need to remember is:
Rule 1: Avoid "white" carbohydrates (or anything that can be white).
Rule 2: Eat the same few meals over and over again.
Rule 3: Don't drink calories.
Rule 4: Don't eat fruit.
Rule 5: Take one day off per week and go nuts.