Okay, I am convinced that Pepsi is the devil’s water.  I was never a big Pepsi drinker growing up - I liked Dr. Pepper and Mountain Dew.  Since the birth of my son Ashton, I have become addicted to Pepsi - and I am not joking here!  Currently I am trying to break this addiction, as it does not support my efforts in my latest diet plan, but Pepsi is not making it easy on me.  When I get thirsty, I am thirsty for Pepsi, nothing else will do.  I would rather have a Pepsi than dessert at night - what the hell is wrong with that?

I started drinking it because I went through some pretty bad Post-Partum with Ashton, and with that came some bad headaches.  The mix of caffeine and sugar helped the headaches.  Now I get the headaches when I don’t have a Pepsi.  I am convinced that crack is somehow used in the process of creating the devil water!  Yep, it is!  Just as I suspected.

Also, I am much more irritable when I do not have any hell-brew on hand!  I get angry at things like this:

Well, last night I broke down and joined Weight Watchers.  I am really unhappy at how long I have let myself go with losing the baby weight from Ashton.  I have tried doing it on my own, but lose motivation so quickly now that I have two kids.  I didn?t have this problem after Kaiden.  I have been paying for ?Curves? for a damn year now and am the same weight, if not more than when I started.  Of course their hours are really not conducive to a full-time working mother of two, which is supposed to be a target group for them?  Wake Up Curves!!!

I don?t need to be super thin (as was my goal prior to marriage and kids); my main goal here is to be able to run again.  I used to run 3 to 5 miles a day ? and I never felt better!  I want that feeling and motivation again, and I want my kids to be raised in a healthy household.  So we?ll give this a try!  Thank god my friend Dena is doing it with me!!!

Anyone have any experience with Weight Watchers?

Previously I posted that I coudn’t get my wedding rings off (Reason #24 to lose the baby weight) and that I had developed some dry skin under the rings. Well, this weekend while I was in Philadelphia visiting relatives, the problem got worse and my finger hurt so bad that I had to go get the damn rings cut off. See below:

Well, if that wasn’t depressing, I do not know what is!!!

I have recently gotten extremely dry skin on my finger under my wedding rings due to washing bottles all the time. So now I cannot get my damn rings off to let my skin heal because I am still lugging around all of the baby fat. I tried so hard to get these rings off tonight that now my finger is so swollen it has doubled in size. I tried lotion, shampoo, soap and vegetable cooking oil and nothing!

Funny how I wanted those rings on my finger so bad and now I just want them OFF!

Well, I can barely move tonight as I type this, due to the fact that I forced my fat butt back to working out today. I feel that I have let myself go long enough without working out (since my son was born 10 months ago to be exact), and besides, people are starting to not believe me when I say that I just had him 3 weeks ago, since he can almost walk now. So I went to “Curves” during my lunch break today. The sad part of this story is that I have been paying for this membership for about a year now and have probably been a whopping total of 10 times. But, as with the other 10 times, I have promised myself that I will stick with it this time. You see my ultimate goal is to start running again…we’ll see if that happens. So I will now be dragging my sore sack of bones to bed now… tune in tomorrow to see if I actually go two days in a row.