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Weight - 173.2 (same)

Exercise - yesterday none.. today I did WATP

The cat hunt is still on.. I’ve been searching craigslist, but I am going to wait to until DH comes home on Sunday before picking up a cat.  Thanks for the tips.. I did the google search and learned a lot.

Last night I stayed at my Mom’s house overnight with the girls.  I had to come back home to pick up the stuff to get them ready for school the next day after they went to bed.   We came back this morning with my Dad, and he helped me fix the girls car seats, they were getting tight now that they were wearing winter jackets.

I’m happy this week is almost over.  Tonight I’m thinking of taking the girls to see Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, then tomorrow Safi has swimming lessons, and in the evening we have to go to an engagement party.  Sunday at 1:45pm DH comes home and I’m really looking forward to it!

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Weight - 173.2 lbs (+0.4lbs)

Exercise - Nothing, unless you consider eating a form of exercise.

I ate a lot yesterday. I actually was expecting a higher number.  Today I have not been a lot better.  Somewhat, only because I left all the cake, cookies and yummy assortment of tasty foods at my Mom’s house. I only brought back a little bit of lasagna and some soup.

Today I had a Subway sandwich for lunch and I just had a piece of leftover lasagna.  There was a granola bar, a glass of juice and some orange in there too.  It’s only 4:30 pm.  I should really work out today.

No update on the cat department.  I think I will wait for my husband to get back from Calgary to deal with that.

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It’s Safi’s second birthday today!  We’ve already started the damage at breakfast this morning.. I took her out for pancakes!  I’m thinking of getting Safi a cat for her birthday.  I thought it was a little bit far fetched when I first thought of it, but then I talked to my husband and he liked the idea.

So I’m on the hunt for a cute little cat.  Do any of you have cats? Any advice for a first time cat buyer?

This mornings weight - 172.8 lbs

Exercise - WATP 2 miles

I dread tomorrow’s weigh in.

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Today’s weight - 172.6 lbs.

Yesterday’s workout - 1 hour of yard work

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So the great news is that I’m 172.8 lbs today!  I lost 3.8 lbs this week!  I feel so good and not even the Halloween candy got me back up.  I was so active the last couple of days with lots of raking and cleaning of the front and backyard.  I did WATP yesterday morning before running my errands, and when I went for dinner I kept it relatively light.

The thing that shocks me is that I lost almost a whole pound between yesterday and today. (See yesterday’s post for pictures of the girls in their Halloween costumes).

Today I was out in the front yard again.. raking up the disaster that hits every night.. and then my neighbour came out to rake her lawn.  Apparently, her mother in law sent her out when she saw me raking.  I felt bad because she’s pregnant and she was doing a lot of work so I went to help her and mowed her small lawn for her too.  I don’t know why on earth her MIL just doesn’t mind her own business. Whatever, now both our yards look good.. hopefully the winds will be kind tonight and the yard waste guys can take away the leaves tomorrow morning.

Hope everyone is doing well.. I have to catch up with everyone still!

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I stayed the same - 173.6 lbs.   So that is good news.  I haven’t even seen what candies the girls got yet so that might change by tomorrow.

So yesterday, my sister came over, she gave out candy at my place and I took the girls out.  We were back in ten minutes because poor little Safi was having such a hard time with all the stairs leading up to houses in our neighbourhood with her long princess dress on.

So around 7:45pm we went to a friend’s place whose neighbourhood is a little more Safi friendly, and then we went to my BIL place to visit since he lives close to my friend.  On the way back, I decided I wanted to check out this haunted house thing that a person in the neighbourhood next to mine puts on.  Last year we drove by really late and got a little creeped out when there was a weird clown standing outside and there was eerie music.  That time there was nobody around so we were like.. lets skip it.. but this time it wasn’t that late and there were lots of people.  With the girls sleeping, we could only go in one at a time, so I went first.

It was pretty scary, but I kept laughing instead of screaming so that I wouldn’t get too scared.  My sister went in after me and she said she wanted to turn around and leave after the first minute but they wouldn’t let her turn around so she had to keep going.  She was back in five minutes so I’m sure she ran through it!

After that we went home and it was enough to bring sleeping little princesses inside and change them out of their costumes that I didn’t go back and get their candy bags from the trunk.

I ate lots of candy.  LOTS!  But I didn’t eat much of anything else.  So I figure it all evened out!

Here is a picture of the girls in front of our place.

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So two days in a row loss - 173.6 (-0.4lbs)!  Wohoo!

For exercise I raked the front yard of our house.  I should of gotten in my WATP, but I didn’t.  I went to my Mom’s house yesterday for dinner and came home late.  I was tired after and decided to just sleep with the girls instead of waking back up.

So the battle this weekend will be Halloween.  And all that candy.  The damage has already started.. I had two pieces of chocolate at my Mom’s house yesterday.  Isn’t she sweet, she bought all my favourites.  Crispy Crunch! Caramilk! Oh my!

The girls having swimming lessons tomorrow.  Other than Halloween, I’m hoping it will be a quiet weekend.  I might get a chance to post this weekend after all.

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So I’m back down again!  I’m 174.0 (-1.4lbs).

I did 1 mile of WATP (Walk Away the Pounds) at around 11am, then started again and did the whoe 2 miles around midnight.  Crazy, right?

Since Yumna started school, I’ve been often falling asleep with the kids when I put them to bed around 8:30pm.  I was under this impression when the bed time moved to an earlier time that my nights would be filled with a lot of me time.  Time to do my art, catch up with my shows, time to relax.  Well.. turns out my nights are filled with SLEEP!  I fall asleep with the girls, and don’t wake up until 11pm or later.  Get up and get some things done around the house (lunches ready, clothes out for the next day) and then go back to bed.  It really sucks.  I would just do the lunches ahead of time but then I would be sleeping 11 hours a day and be living the life of a 4 year old. Having things to do, forces me back awake and usually I can have a few minutes to myself.

So last night I decided to do my exercise since I didn’t get the whole program done during the day.  Well, after exercising, I couldn’t sleep.  I was tossing and turning the whole night.  My mind was racing.  I’ve been really stressing about this H1N1 Swine Flu lately.  I wasn’t even worried before.  I had no plans to vaccinate my kids.. it seemed so far away from me that I wasn’t even concerned.  Then on Monday, I got a call from my friend, who told me that another one of our friend’s son had caught it and had been in the hospital for 5 DAYS!  I called my friend and she told me the nightmare of her life of the last week and how she thought her son was going to die.  It really freaked me out!  Thank God he is better now and at home.  This hit very close to home now.  My “not me” mentality went out the window.

And so then I have been considering getting the kids the H1N1 vaccine.  But, that too has me tossing and turning, being such a new vaccine and just the oodles of weird stuff I have read has got me stressing too.   I didn’t get the kids the Chicken Pox vaccine because it was too new and really whats the big deal if they do get chicken pox?  I never have had the seasonal flu vaccine, or given it to the kids.

The old tested and true ones, the ones you need to attend school, no problem, but even them, I get the kids done one vaccine at a time.  Some pediatricians will administer two at a time, but I prefer to spread them out.  And delay them.. so the 12 month one I will do a couple months later, etc.

Maybe you think I’m paranoid.. and perhaps I am.  I figure why not be cautious?  It doesn’t take anything away from the kids, and doesn’t cost me any extra.  But this vaccine is driving me crazy,  damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.. I feel like I’m swimming blindly into this battle.  And the kicker is that this year Yumna is in school, so yes, to some extent you can control your own environment, but at school, FORGET ABOUT IT!

We had a lot of media attention to the H1N1 lately too, because a healthy 11 year old died, two days after complaining about a sore throat and cough from the H1N1.  And do you know what the Chief Medical Officer said.. not that this was unusual and unheard of.  He instead turned it back on the parents, saying that infact the kid was not healthy, because he had asthma.  What?  And the parents are saying that the kid did not have asthma, but had used puffers one winter many years ago when he had a cold.  That really freaked me out!  Yumna uses puffers ever winter when she has a cold.  She has already used them this year when she wasn’t feeling well in September. So, is she at risk?

Anyway, this is all the stuff I’m wrestling with at the moment.  So exercising before going to bed, with all of these thoughts in my head did not lend well to a restful night.  Yumna was coughing and sneezing this morning, so I decided to keep her home.  Let her rest for a day and relax.  Get better.. it’s not like there are many kids at school anyway.  Yesterday 7 out of 20 kids were away from her class and 6 out of 15 in the other class.  Everyone is stressed out.

Sorry, I didn’t intend for this to be a flu rant.  But.. this is where my head is at today.

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Weight today is 175.4  (+0.8lbs)

Exercise yesterday was 8 minutes of Walk Away the Pounds, before I got interrupted and never got back to it.

Eating wasn’t as stellar as I would of liked it to be.  There was an encounter with a Jr. Whopper.  Don’t ask.

Hope you are all having a wonderful day.  Today will be better!

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So this morning I weighed in at 174.6 - 2 lbs lost in one day!!!!! I attribute it completely to the large amount of crystal light I drank yesterday.  I completely dilute the mix.. I use one of the single crystal lights for my whole jug of water.  This gives my water a little bit of flavour that I need to down it all.

I exercised too! I did the 2 Mile Walk Away the Pounds video.  I know, not the most exciting thing, but this is what worked for me in the past.  I know that I got frustrated after a while doing this, because I needed a bigger challenge.  But, for now, I have to work myself back up to the level of fitness I was at a couple of months ago.

Beerab, I usually weigh myself every day.. morning and night too, but some how, I feel like having to post the numbers here will make a difference.  I get very embarrassed to gain weight and announce it to the world, so now this will force me to be good every day.  I’ve given myself Saturdays and Sundays off from the weigh in, only because I usually don’t get a chance to get on the computer on the weekends. I will still use Mondays as my official weigh ins too.

Today has been a busy day.  After dropping Yumna to school I realized that I forgot to pack her lunch, so I had to go back to school and drop it off.  I ended up staying for a bit and helping with some things around the school, then Safiya and I went grocery shopping and now we are home and going to have an early lunch.

I made a huge chick pea salad yesterday at lunch and slowly been eating a bowl at a time. It’s made it easy for me when I get hungry, because I have something healthy to turn to, rather than pick up some junk.  I went to bed super early yesterday.  I fell asleep with the girls at 8:30pm, and woke up around 10:45pm, watched a little TV and went back to bed.  Poor Yumna woke up crying that she had an ear ache in the middle of the night.  This woke up Safiya.  So I had to put them both back to bed.. and we didn’t wake up with the alarm.

I wanted to refer you guys to this great post about drinking water.  It really helped me realize that I could really do myself a great favour by increasing my water consumption.

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