Well, nothing happening this week, but I'm trying to tweak my calorie intake a little.
A school year goal sounds like a good plan, Tina. Two weeks 'till I go back. Sound I'd better start planning lunch menus now. I really like buying a bag of shredded lettuce to use for the week. I'll add tuna, cukes, olives, and peas on top of it for a meal. I tend to like quick convenient at school, lunch seems to zip by so fast. I also like vegetable soup. On the side I'll take bananas, clementines, applesauce, grapes. Can you tell I need sweet fruits so I avoid chocolate? I need more ideas.
Well, nothing happening this week, but I'm trying to tweak my calorie intake a little.
A school year goal sounds like a good plan, Tina. Two weeks 'till I go back. Sound I'd better start planning lunch menus now. I really like buying a bag of shredded lettuce to use for the week. I'll add tuna, cukes, olives, and peas on top of it for a meal. I tend to like quick convenient at school, lunch seems to zip by so fast. I also like vegetable soup. On the side I'll take bananas, clementines, applesauce, grapes. Can you tell I need sweet fruits so I avoid chocolate? I need more ideas.
Hey there! Clementines have been my savior on the battle against the sweets, I know what you're talking about! Although, I have to admit your salad combination is a little strange to me, haha. BUT, whatever works, yes? I usually buy the Spa Lean Cuisines because they have twice the amount of veggies and are made with 100% whole grains...so good! That or salads, but I'm with you, I love salads. So quick and easy. Greek salads are my all time fave...kalamata olives....mmmmmmmmmm.....and feta cheese. Athenos brand makes a great reduced fat feta, check it out if you like that kind of thing.
Wow Skinnycow! 3 more lbs is incredible! I'll do a happy dance here for you
I like the idea of a school year goal since summer is like gone now, LOL My goal will be not losing weight but maintaining. I am down to my goal weight of 125 now (actually a bit lower if I weigh first thing but I am afraid to find out because hubby is on my butt about getting too thin).
We had our annual start of the school year meeting yesterday for all of our bus drivers. I had several NSVs of sorts. Since I transferred from South garage to North garage last October I hadn't seen some of the people at South since. I went up to talk to a few people and one of them honestly didn't know who I was. She looked at me and said "How do you know me?" She thought I was a new girl. Then it dawned on me, instead of the bleached blonde girl with 3 chins I am now a redhead with barely one, LOL Several people said I look really good and much younger than my almost 45 years. It was really weird but exciting as well. The difference less than a year makes is awesome!
Kalamata olives, yum! Feta cheese, double yum! Not really into the clementines, my little guy is though. I am into watermelon big time. Do you know that watermelon causes you to actually lose water weight? I never would of thought that but it really brought me out of a plateau.
Well summer is winding down up here. Most of our area school districts have started classes. Let the party begin! And lets keep this goal going all year long!
Congratulations Tami on moving into maintenance!! Awesome job. That must be so fun to go back to school with all your changes.
I am down another pound!
Tina, not to really gross you out but sometimes I add Feta also. Our family loves to eat Shopska salad with just cukes, peppers, olives, feta, tomatoes, and olive oil. YUM. I'll have to check out the lower fat feta as I usually by athenos.
Hi Everyone.
I am new to this site and I was really excited to see that there is a group for teachers. Is it too late to say hi? Here is a little bit about me.
I am going to be thirty years old on the first day of work this year (eyes filling up right now!) and I am going in to my fifth year of teaching. This year I am teaching grade 9-12 drama at a largish school in Canada. I am really nervous about this year because it will be the first time that I have taught only drama and I will be very busy with extracurriculars this year. I am slowly getting more confident though.
Here is my weight thing. I have always bounced around the scales. A couple of years ago I decided to join weight watchers as I felt that my weight was getting out of hand (I am not talking about putting on the fat clothes, I am talking about needing to buy bigger shoes because my feet were becoming to fat for my shoes...). So when I went to WW I weighed in and looked at the card (I never liked to look at scales so I had no idea what to really expect). The booklet said 210...and I thought it was my registration number. I thought maybe 180-185. I immediately burst into tears especially when I factored in my height (a TALL 5'2" thank you very much!) and saw that my ideal weight was to be between 136 and 109. How would I ever lose that much weight??? Needless to say I was devestated. I do not have a great sense of will power. I was overwhelmed for sure. So I threw myself into WW and it was great for about 6 months. I lost 30 pounds! Then it stopped. I stalled. FOR NINE MONTHS!!!! So, I threw in the towel. I couldnt afford to go every week and see nothing. So I went to my doctor who did a full screening and decided that a low carb, no sugar diet was the way to go with me as my blood sugar was a bit high. I don't know what the diet is called as I do not count carbs or whatever. All I eat are nuts, veggies (no root veg or corn except for raw carrots), small amounts of blueberries, blackberries or raspberries, unprocessed meats, high fat yogurt, and huge amounts of cheese and lots of water or other sugar fee drinks. I dropped 9 pounds in a long weekend! I am guessing I was retaining a huge amount of water...so far I have lost 20 lbs (in a couple of months which is good)! Unfortunately Summer came and the routine went out the window. I travelled to my home province for a while which is not known for healthy eating and of course being home, I wanted to eat all the things that I couldn't get where I am living now. I also stood at a wedding which meant going out a lot and eating a lot. Anyhow, I got home and found that I kept making excuses as to why I couldn't get back on track...so I gained 10 pounds. I started again this week and I was doing fantastic, until I started to paint a room with a friend who came with a Tim Horton's French Vanilla (I don't know if there are any Canadians here who can feel my pain on this one) which contains more sugar than a gallon of cola and a chocolate bar. With that I continued on to McDonald's, onion rings, chips, cola, and a chocolate bar...So I am going to try it again today.
So I have 50 (well 40 but I don't want to dwell on the setback) pounds gone and 35 more to go and would love to have a group of teachers (who know what our schedules and our cafeterias are like!) to bounce ideas off of and get support from. Is there any way that this group can continue during the school year (since many of you are already back in the classroom)?
Sorry for the long intro but I got a little excited seeing a teacher forum.
Can I join you ladies? I only have a few weeks before school lets in, and I'd like to drop another 2-3 lbs.
My name's Erin. I teach English as a foreign language just outside of Busan, South Korea for grades 6-9. This is my first year teaching kids; normally I teach university students. I have a degree in Medieval History, but somehow I found myself becoming an English teacher.
Welcome, Spitey and Canadia! I'm fairly new to this thread myself. We did agree back on page 7 we would keep this going right through the school year! That is when it will really be challenging for me. I don't do well with stress and eating healthy, so that is a goal of mine. I teach special education RK-4th. Paperwork, paperwork, paperwork, but I absolutely love the kids.
Skinnycow, you are doing amazing!!!!!
Let's hear some more ideas for healthy lunches we can pack for school.
Skinnycow....I was just looking at the bmi calculator myself. I am down another 1 1/2 lbs and in one more pound I will be overweight instead of obese.
Can't wait. Keep up the motivation....we can both be their by next week!
Skinnycow....I was just looking at the bmi calculator myself. I am down another 1 1/2 lbs and in one more pound I will be overweight instead of obese.
Can't wait. Keep up the motivation....we can both be their by next week!
How's maintenance Tami?
That is awesome!!!!!!
Maintenance isn't going so well for me. School started this week and with it my stress level is through the roof. That means literally, I do not eat unless forced to. I'm weird like that. Hubby said I am too anxious and should slow down for 5 minutes and make myself eat something. He is in worry mode, LOL
Yesterday I had a fight on the bus between 2 girls. I pulled into the middle of a very busy 4 lane road. One of the girls was down in the back with blood on her face screaming that she needed an ambulance. The other girl was coming at me screaming about the other girl. 60 or so other middle schoolers were in the midst of the chaos. I yelled until they sat down so I could get to the injured girl. I am not a medic, only a mother. I called my dispatcher and told him that I needed an ambulance and mobile units at the scene. It took a good 10 minutes before any help arrived. My bus was pretty calm for most of this time since I had calmed down one of the girls and moved her to the front. The ambulance came, the girl was taken off.......nothing was broken, thank goodness. The police units arrived along with our local transportation enforcer and both girls were escorted to juvee in hand cuffs and squad cars. One of the girls told me that she had just recently gotten out of "Lock Up". So a new year, not much different from the last, begins.
To add insult to injury here, a man pulled up across the street with a camera and began taking pictures of the scene. School officials talked to him so hopefully this will not make the news. Generally it does anyways, then the public will start the negative comments about how bad the public schools are. In reality it has nothing to do with the quality of the schools, its the quality of the home situation.......parents really need to be parents again!! Spare the rod, spoil the child.......now we are reaping what we have sown.
Sorry for the downer story, I just had to get this off my chest.....
