How to Stop Dog Nipping?

For Christmas we adopted a 1 & 1/2 year old dog. I was quite excited we found him.  We have been trying to rescue a dog for about six months.  When we brought him home we were so excited.  We have had a golden retriever before.  He was our first baby.  His life ended early due to cancer and it took us a long time to make the plunge again.  So we found a new golden retriever and thought that he would be the same.  He is not at all the same.  He has a dominance issue and likes to put our hands in his mouth!  I do not know how to stop it.

He has nipped the baby in the hand.  It was a little more than a nip.  We rushed to the hospital.  I was so upset over it.  He had been bad with adults but he has been wonderful with the kids.  I am pretty sure that she stuck her hand in his mouth to take his bone.  So this was not all the dogs fault… right?  Her hand was cut a little but was horribly bruised.  We really thought that it was broken.   Luckily it was not broken but I left just wondering what to do about it.    We have invested a ton of money into this dog and we have accepted him as a member of our family.  So I am left with what do I do…

YouTube Karaoke: My New Discovery

I know that I am often two minutes too late.  Last night I discovered that on YouTube has karaoke songs.  I am amazed and excited all at the same time.  It was incredible.  I do not know how else to describe it.

A few months ago a friend hooked me to karaoke.  I am not sure that I could go out into the world and try it but in her livingroom I am a STAR!  I cannot do songs that are too loud or too hard rock.  I am a soft rock type of girl.  The song I nailed is “eternal flame”.  I sing it like the pros.  The other night we discovered I can sing Pat Benatar.  I was told that I would have to prefect that too before we hit the road.

I should have started this by telling you that I have a decent voice and I LOVE to sing.  Even Abigail still wants me to sing her to sleep each night.  I sing songs from the Wizard of Oz, The Sound of Music and Children’s songs best.  I CANNOT sing hard rock to save my life.  I can rock, “God Bless America”, but do not ask me to sing, “We Will Rock You”.

Back to where we started!  Abby and I have been karaoke QUEENS.  While I am singing classics she is singing, “I Kissed a Girl”.  I have sat wondering where it is that she has heard these songs.  Then I remembered Aunt Alli put them all on her iPod.  Thank goodness for that Aunt Alli!

Becca

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Weight Loss: Week 5

On Saturday I completed 5 weeks of my weight loss journey.  I am happy to report that I lost another 2.8 pounds.  That made a total loss of 20.2 pounds in 5 weeks.  I am so excited about my continued success.  Weight is something I have struggled with my ENTIRE life.  It is something I have never been able to let go of.

Many people who are successful say that you have to loose weight by letting go of your past.  I have thought about my head a lot this week.  Time and time again I thought about excuses.  I am full of excuses and have been for MANY years.  The thing that got me thinking about these excuses was watching The Biggest Loser last week.  A woman, Miggy, had her appendix removed and the very next day walked 14 miles!  All I was thinking while watching was that I would have used that surgery as an excuse.  I would have given up.  I guess that is what got me thinking.  In the past I have used so many things as excuses.

As a child and teenager I was a dancer.  I LOVED TO DANCE!  I took classes 6 days a week.  It made me so happy.  I was fit and truely enjoyed it.  I still miss it to this day.  When I was 14 I hurt my knee and never danced again.  My parents took a conservative approach in treating it.  I stopped dancing and did nothing physical for a year.  In that year betweem 14 and 15 I gained over 100 pounds.  My weight has been an issue for me ever since.  I also spent years using my knee as an excuse.

When I was pregnant with Abigail my pelvis separated.  I cannot begin to tell you the pain.  I spent about a month in the hospital and could not walk without crutches for about 6 months!  After a lot of time if healed but is arthritic.  For years I used my pelvis as an excuse.

Two years ago I shattered the first three metatarsals in my foot.  It still hurts to this day but has become another excuse.  I cannot walk right.  I am forever in pain.  It is swollen and ugly.  It is still just another excuse.

If this woman Miggy could walk 14 miles after surgery, why do I use excuses.  I am pretty sure that I am not alone in my excuse using.  I think that we all do it.  This week I am going to try and eliminate my excuses.  They have been holding me back.  They have made my body and mind unhealthy.  They have to go.  What excuses do you use?  How will you overcome them?

Becca

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Weight Loss: Week 4

So here we are.  I have put in 4 whole weeks and actually not cheated at all.  I am so happy with my progress.  I have stayed committed and made achievable mini goals.  I am oing to go and get my hair cut in the next week or so.  I am thinking that I may even do highlights.  That was my reward for loosing 5% of weight.  I have lost a total of 17.4 pounds in just 4 weeks.  My goal for February is to loose 10 pounds.  I think that it is a little ambitious but it is a goal and if I do not meet it I can always try again.

Success is wonderful.  It has helped me to believe that I can accomplish things.  It is something that I am really enjoying!  I am hoping that by the summer I can be 50 pounds thinner.  I think that it is a realistic goal.  One that I can achieve and it will make it much easier to have the fun I want to have this summer.  Swimming in my sister in laws pool will be a great exercise.  I think that I will be there every morning if she will let me.  A quick swim then off to my day!  We will see how I am going by that point.

All in all I am still enjoying this weight loss journey.  It has given me some confidence that I have been lacking for quite some time!  Weight is something that has always held me back.  I am breaking free from the weight and all of the things that have made me this way!  Weight is not just about eating.  It is about all of the demons in your head.  I think that I have shut those demons up for the first time in my life and it is liberating.

Don’t forget to join Becca’s Belly Busters on facebook.  I would love some more company!

Becca

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GoWear Fit: Is It Worth It?

I stumbled across the GoWear Fit and was completely lost.  I have never heard of it… Have you?  I am wondering if it is all worth it.  I did some research and discovered some very interesting things about it.

1. You wear a band on your arm and by measuring all different things going on in your body it can tell you how many calories you are actually burning all day and night.
2. It calculates the amount of calories you are taking in.
3. You down load all of the information onto your computer and you are on your way.

According to GoWear Fit there are 3,500 calories in a pound of body fat.  So in order to loose a pound you have to burn 3,500 calories more then you consume!  Although this sounds like a lot even writing this post is burning calories!  The GoWear Fit system is a little price.  The cheapest I found it for was $179.  I would love to try it and give a review.  Perhaps the GoWear Fit gods will read this and let me try one out.  I think that this would be a great tool for my weight loss journey.

Do any of you have a GoWear Fit?  I am interested in hearing how it all works.

GoWear Fit

Becca

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Weight Loss: Week 3 Weigh-In

On Saturday I finished week three on my weight watchers, weight loss journey.  I lost 1.8 pounds this past week for a total weight loss of 13.0 pounds!  I am just so proud of myself.  It has had ups and downs this week but I am still working hard to become a healthier, thinner person.

Because I have so much to loose I do not notice a difference quite yet.   I know soon it will start to look like I have actually lost weight.  For now I am just trying to concentrate on how wonderful I have been doing.  I am a few days into week 4 and still plugging away!  I am little the little engine.  I started three weeks ago saying, “I think I can” and now I know that I have to power to make positive changes.

So, I am hoping for a larger loss this week.  This is not because I am selfish but because I had gotten my “friend” on Friday and it is typical that I gain 5 pounds of water when ever my “friend” pays a visit.  So I figure I could end this month with a total loss of 15+ pounds.

As many of you know my entire extended family have been working on this together.  It has been nice.  I started a private group just for us on facebook and supporting one another is really working.  In the past 3 weeks the the 6 of us have lost over 60 pounds!  We have lost a child!  Well you know in a matter of speaking!

Rob has been making so super delicious meals.  I am hoping to start to take pictures of our dinners and post recipes so that you can all share in loosing weight and eating great too!  It is out of this world and has made it all tolerable.

As I plug ahead I think of all I have done well in the past three weeks.  I hope to et better about water this week.  I think that each week that is my goal and each week I do not meet that goal.   Perhaps this week will be the one.  May all of your weight loss dreams come true!  I will write again soon!

Becca

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Laundry Tips From a Mom Who Knows

I would like you to all understand that this is not a practical tip entry.  This is an entry on all of the things that I hate about laundry and tips to make those things better.  I will not teach you how to remove stains or teach you how to avoid laundry from piling up.  To be quite frank with you…. I have no idea how to make there things happen.  Here is what I do know about laundry:

1. No matter what I do it will never be done.  I know some very nice people say if you do a load a day it will all be manageable.  Either way you still have to do a load a day.
2. For some reason my almost 3 year old still wears at least 3 outfits a day plus jammies.  This is a huge issue…  I could just let her be dirty all day.   I just do not think that is a good solution to my laundry woes.
3. My 9 year old is STINKY and CANNOT wear outfits more than once.  I just do not know what else to do about the stink her clothing is bringing to my laundry!  We already have deodorant, sprays and soap.  What else could there be.
4. Why is it that so few people in my house know how to wipe?  It AMAZES me.  I know it is a lesson we went over 1 billion times!  So why is it that it has not caught on.
5. There are times that I think that the pile is taller then I am.  I know that this is not too too hard being that I am only 4′11″ but still… this is not good.
6. I seem to be the only person capable of carrying the laundry up and down two flights to be washed.
7. God forbid you ask someone to help in any way.  It is like the sky has opened and we are all headed for eternal damnation.
8. Why is it that my clothing is never done?  I fold and wash and fold and wash and fold and wash but so few of the articles are mine.  How is this possible?
9. How hard could it be for one to open a drawer, stuff an already folded of clothing and and then shut the drawer be?  One would think that this is an easy task… right?  So why am I the only one who has mastered it?
10. WHY DOES EVERYONE LEAVE IT ALL UP TO ME?

I am seriously thinking about making disposable clothing.  I think that my tip for today is to quit trying and when they all find that there are no outfits to be had perhaps they will help more.

Becca

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Weight Loss Journey: Week 2

I did not post on Saturday because I was so busy this weekend having fun.  All in all I had a great weight loss journey this week.  I weighed in on Saturday and I lost another 5.6 pounds.  That is a total of 11.2 pounds in two weeks!  I am feeling quite proud of myself.  I am still very into a healthy life style.  A healthier me should mean a thinner me.  It should also mean a happier, easier moving, more fun me!

Week 3 and 4 are when my weight most often plateaus.  I am so worried that this will happen again!  I have been doing well thus far and I so want my success to continue!  I have been preparing myself mentally for a plateau.  I figure that it is a chance for my body to adjust to my weight loss.  I have been doing this with weight loss journey with weight watchers in mind.  I have not joined yet and am thinking of waiting until I begin to have some trouble.  I think that weight loss is something that from time to time you have to trick your body.  This means that we have to switch things up when we hit our plateaus.  I think that if I make it past the next two weeks I will continue until my health and weight goals have been met.  I hope that you are all having success in you goals.

Becca

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Ask Becca: Becca’s Belly Busters

Hello all fans of askbecca.com!  I am excited to announce that I have started a new group on Facebook.  Because I am having such good success with my personal weight loss so far, I thought that it would be nice to have a place we can all go for support, weigh ins and even a bragging section.

Studies have found that groups of people who are attempting a weight loss goal together are more successful.  My entire family is on the move to a healthier lifestyle.  We would like all of you to join us.  So far we have lost a little more then 50 lbs together!  So come and join us… Complain, share your successes or just read what others need help with.  Together we can make this weight Watcher journey a pleasant and successful one!

If you are interested in joining Becca’s Belly Busters please click here.   The door is always open!

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Wii Fit Plus: Bicycling Game

I was lucky enough to get a Wii Fit Plus pad and game for Christmas.  I have been working on using the Wii fit pad to help me in my weight loss journey.  So yesterday I decided to click on the bicycle  game within the Wii Fit Plus game.  Trust me… NEVER… EVER click the bicycle game.   At first it was a lot of fun.  The faster you run on the Wii Fit Pad the faster your bike goes.  I was having a lot of fun.

That is until I figured out you have to find flags.  It is not like you have to find 4-5 flags… You have to find 13.  I ran in place for 9 minutes total and thought that I was going to die.  I would have quit if it were not for Abigail…

Me:  I CANNOT do this…

Abby:  Sure you can mom don’t be silly…

Me:  I think I am going to die

Abby:  Just get it done mom

Me:  Perhaps I should just reset the Wii

Abby:  Come on mom you have to finish what you started (who taught her that and why did she listen?)

Me:  I hate this

Abby:  You will love it when it is over… just come on mom…

And so I did finish and I did not die.  It stinks when your kids throw what you tell them back into your face!  TRUST ME WHEN I TELL YOU TO STAY AWAY FROM THIS WII FIT PLUS ACTIVITY!!!!!

I know you will all try it but trust me…

Becca

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