..:: Weekly Chat May 2- May 8::..
 

Hey everyone,
New week, new chat!

My low weigh-in was totally dehydration-related. 129.8 today. :(

But, since I'll be in a class all day, I have a plan. My healthy food is packed, my gym class is planned, and my water bottle is ready. I can do this.

Hope your week is off to a good start,
FPSJ

Fatpants - You can do this!

My weekend was interesting a little bit.

but anyways this morning I went to go to the macdonalds drive through to grab an egg mcmuffin, you can go infront or behind the speaker apparently. I went behind thinking it was maybe a double drive through, well it wasn't and instead of stopping for that egg mcmuffin I figured it was a sign and drove right through and continued on to work.

I don't know what I weight, I can't weight myself in until next sat. I can't believe it's already may!!

Happy Monday everyone! 136.6 today.
I have less than two hours left on my last scheduled graveyard shift until September. Woo Hoo! :broc: :broc:

I ordered New Rules of Lifting for Women this morning, hopefully will arrive by next week along with tasty new protein powder. I am trying to focus on fitness goals this month and hope the scale follows along. By memorial day I will hopefully run 5K without walking breaks.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and my shoulders hurt, sunburn is not fun, wear your sunblock!

MiZ- good for you, passing on the Egg McMuffin. Hope your weekend wasn't *bad* interesting.

FPSJ- You can do it! I know my week is good so far, hope yours is too :)

fromthebox - Yuck to sunburn! You can totally do the 5K by memorial day!
As for my interesting weekend, I guess normally it would be "bad" for someone but let's just say I've finally cleaned house of a toxic boy and I'm not falling under manipulation of an ex who I'm wondering is being serious with the **** he's saying or if he's hoping I'm that dumb naive little girl who's going to jump back on the band wagon without second guessing anything...but he's wrong if that's his mentally on this thats for sure! I'm in a fence and it's a very HIGH fence. :)

My day ended with a beer, 2 slices of deep dish pizza, and a cookie. Time to get the Jillian Michaels DVD out before bed... ugh.

Must.... stay.... positive....

Just wanted to stop by and say hey to you ladies - glad to see you're all doing mostly well!

Fromthebox I have that weight lifting book :D love it! I actually got the recommendation off this site a couple years ago. I'll prob start using it again once I don't have the personal trainer no more.

tornado?

Has removed the trash from my life (meaning dirty loser boys)! I'm singing for joy! and Sweets cat bit me yesterday then walked out of the room. LOL

MiZTaCCen- congrats! I love reaching that feeling like... 'yes..i'm finally over you'

fromthebox- ick on the sunburn. However, with me, i usually burn then after a day or two it will start to turn into a semi-nice tan.

Yesterday I went to the chicago bulls game with one of my best guy friends. such a good time, I even was good with no alcohol and tried to eat the best i could (hamburger, no bun, wrapped in lettuce and tomato). After that, went back to the studio.

Quick summery: my best friends (5 guys) are in a band, just got signed to a major label (yay!), so the drummer of the band took his basement and spend a lot of money to re-make it into a recording studio. this is our hangout place.

Even then more temptations of drinking but i stuck with my smartwater. A small, but monumental accomplishment!

good week so far with both my work and friend life. now to work on that getting a boy situation.

fromthebox--I have heard about that book, let us know how you like it! Hope you were able to track down some aloe vera for that sunburn :)
Rainbowstripe-- We've missed you, come back soon!
Miz--Glad to hear that the boy situation settled down. On to bigger and better things!
djbutterfly-- Congrats on your social-outing victory! That is so, so challenging. I am also working on the boy situation, so let me know if you figure out a solution.. hahahaha

Sooo.... did my workout before bed. I changed my ticker this morning to reflect my true starting weight, because that low one was totally related to being dehydrated. Ohhh well.

Back to night shifts tonight. Kinda stressed. Gonna try and exercise away the worries.

Happy Tuesday to all,
FPSJ

I'm not dead. Not really anyways. Plan has completely fallen by the wayside, and I haven't been watching what I eat at all, but I've been maintaining 198-201 for the past few weeks. Hopefully I can get back on plan after my schedule works itself out. Work and school are absolutely crazy right now, so I haven't been able to really pay enough attention to myself lately.

The boy and I are good now, which is nice. It's still a little awkward, but we'll work through it.

Other than that, I need to figure out a way to tell 10,000 people about the Friends & Family event for my job by this Saturday.

I just got green shirt guys number and added him to my bbm woot! Thats the most excitement of my day and I'm binging...boo!!!

Just got off of work at 4. We have been pretty busy painting the house and we have some outrageous flooding going on around our area..and I'm really hoping it clears up fast because our grass is BEYOND high and needs to be cut plus it's dangerous. Other than that I have been messing up alot but I have been tracking all of it so I can stay accountable. Today has been Day 1 of no binges and so far so good. It's 6:30 now and I'm not craving or hungry at all. So YAY for me! I hope I can keep the trend going tomorrow due to the fact that I work until 9:30 and something about coming home late and eating dinner late messes me up!

How's everyone doing?! I hope everyone is losing there weight and doing awesome! I am really wanting to try to post on here daily so I can be accountable. Yall all need to hold me to it! LOL Have a great Tuesday!

Hey everyone. I got back to full intensity workouts today after taking a break due to teeth surgery. I ran 10 min straight again, but only made 7 min on the second session due to calf soreness. I had the worst charlie horse yesterday :(

Eating on plan has gone really well the last couple of days, and I was 135.8 today, so progress is happening. :carrot: Here's hoping it continues.

MiZ- "Cleaning house" is always a great feeling, no? When I dropped my ex a year ago I felt so free and was able to focus on me and my goals, esp weight loss and my career.

sweets- Glad to hear you liked NROWL, I'm hoping it will be beneficial to my weight work- so far I've been improvising and I'm not sure I want a trainer yet, so I figured it's a middle ground. PS -Your cat sounds like mine, biting MiZ and then walking away! Mine will bite/smack me and then roll over and purr.

djbutterfly- Good job resisting temptation! I would have given in, beer with friends is a weakness of mine. I do fade to tan quickly after sunburn but for the first couple of days I get odd tingles and have trouble with body temp regulation.

FPSJ- I got some Solarcaine from my housemate for the burn. Good luck on your nights rotation, I am so glad mine is over.

Laneyy Glad you're alive! Also happy that things are better with your boy. Come back soon!

Hello again! I hope everyone had a wonderful tuesday! I slipped up today. I've been going to burger king on my break at work to get an icee to help with the sore throat I've still got after having my tonsils removed...no big deal, 3 WW points and I count it....but today I got a double cheeseburger and a large fry with it. BAD idea. I skipped dinner to make up for it (plus I'm not really hungry anyways)...so maybe that will help, but I can only imagine how bad that was for me. The good news was that while I was eating I started to feel full and I listened to my body and stopped eating and gave over half of my french fries to a coworker. I NEVER used to do that. I would just eat until all of the food was gone even though I would feel sick afterwords. I guess its a mini-accomplishment, even though I shouldn't have been eating any of it in the first place.

Oh, and I didn't get to fit in my workout today because by the time I got home from work it was after 8pm and then I had to go to the grocery store...and then come home and put everything away and dad told me i had to clean out his car (we car share and I leave water bottles all over the place in that car) because his co-workers will be riding in it tomorrow and before I knew it...it was 10pm. I'm exhausted and it's my bedtime already, and if I don't go to sleep now I won't be able to get up in the morning.

Tomorrow is going to be a bad day for my diet. It's the mother's day breakfast at my school and I know I'm going to end up eating things I shouldn't because I just can't think of a good way to explain a "diet" to my class of 4 and 5 year olds. They wouldn't understand, and honestly I don't think they need to know about that stuff at this age anyways. I'm going to try and be healthy, but my boss loves to cook, and she's WONDERFUL at it, and everything she cooks is absolutely horrible for you. It tastes SO good though. Hopefully if I keep my portion sizes small it will be alright.

Oh, if you have a chance you guys should pop by my school lunch thread. I really need some suggestions for new food. >.<

Hey. Going to start this day off good...I had a half cup of fruitloops cereal and a special K bar for breakfast. Yesterday I ate around 1205 calories and my range is 1200-1550..which BTW I have been clearing going over the past week causing me to gain back 4-5 pounds. Well I dropped 2 this morning luckily...I'm ready to get back in the 120's because right now I'm weighing in at 130.6! :)

Work tonight from 12:30-9:30 and then I'm off tomorrow..I'm hoping to get a good workout in tomorrow! :) Hope everyone has a great humpday.

DivineFidelity- I am a MAJOR sucker for some burger king. I feel for ya. My order there used to be outrageous, and I'm even embarrassed to post it. But i do love their chicken and fries. mmm....


Yesterday was a good day for me! I stayed within my calorie budget, and bought cute cute new gym shoes. They are the new reebok slim tones (not easy or run tones) and i heart them. I've heard mixed reviews about if they work or not, but since the slim line is a new line for the easytone brand, we'll see. My late night ritual is to walk around walmart for about an hour if it's too late for me to do heavy exercise, well i can feel the shoes working a bit more than my usual walk. Even if it is a bunch of crap, they look uber cute.

I would show you a link if i could, so if you google pink/grey slimtones they'll show up from finishline.


I work in event marketing which is super fun, but it's days like today where i run into (eating right) trouble since I'll be working til about midnight. Lets hope for the best since i've been a stride!

hope everyone is well!

Hey everyone,
Managed to eat only the food I brought to work with me, and did not binge when I got home.... small miracle! Hahaha

Plan for tonight: Lots of water, 2 exercise classes, a quick stop at the grocery store, and bed early. If I can stay at or near 1500-1600 calories, I will be thrilled.

Hope everyone else is having a good day!
-FPSJ

Hey everyone..I don't know how I did it but I'm back in the 120's! 129.6 this morning! Barely but there. READY to see 127 ...where I got down to at my lowest & then hit my goal of 115 hopefully! :)

I've been less active because I'm been failing at my new and improved life style...not going to lie, but today is a new day and I feel amazing today so today is a wicked start for a change!

So I worked yesterday and then went shopping (mostly actually 98% was groceries but still) ! I bought myself a corkboard because in Jillians book it says to make your goals more visable and grab a cork board or whatever you want and start putting down your goals and dreams and things you want to do on it so you can see it every day and remind yourself what you're working for, whether it's to be fit and healthy, or go to europe, bungee jump whatever. I thought it was a great idea so I bought myself a board and thumb taxs. Now I just need to go grab a print LOL which are on sale for 20$, I'm loving the fact I have extra cash right now thanks to my taxes but I'm carefully spending it.

I'm going to start a detox again since I failed the last-time I was doing good when Boy and I were done, but then the day were decided to "work" it out I binged and it seems like I've been going down hill ever since so today is a new day, I no longer have an eenabler in my life and I'm going to stop obessing over my weight! Because we all know when I obsessed disappointment comes. :)

Lastnight I got home around 10 after work because I went grocery shopping then decided to take more advice since my house is such a friggen mess that I would put effort into something and begin clearing it out so my life can feel less complicated I guess you can say. Well I accomplished fridge cleaning out (I only have a mini bar fridge thank god! but still it took me forever because as usually I was doing 50 other things instead. but I succeeded and it's nice and clean with all my fruits and veggies!) Today will be the task of...I'm not sure yet, but does anyone know what's good to buy? My house is super small like maybe 400 square feet it's a bach apartment but it's all hardwood floors and I don't want to just buy a regular mop and bucket because that's too much effort and I don't have much storage for a mop and bucket and my place is already cluttered enough. So has anyone ever tried the swiffer wet mop thing? Is it any good or do you recommend something else?


Personals

JL Congrats!
FPSJ - Yay for a no binge day! Yesterday I binged like crazy!

DJButterfly - I was thinking on getting a pair of reebok toning shoes I haven't decided which ones I want to get, I just want something that when I hit the ground for jogging or even walking I bounce a bit so it doesn't feel like I'm slamming my feet on to the ground.

Divine - hmm my body is weird I can go on this whole healthy food thing and maybe I eat under calories or something when I just eat healthy or not enough (I don't count calories at all) but I find if I eat one burger from a fast food place or whatever the next day I'm down in weight. Maybe you got lucky with that too :P

Fromthebox Yes it does feel good when you get rid of all the toxic boys! Now for me to get rid of all the toxic unhealthy other crap in my life, but I'm working on it! slowly but I will get there!

Hey everyone,

Much happier with this morning's weight. Officially down one pound... and I'll take it.

Plans for today: Dance class at the gym, and possibly attending a group run later tonight if I'm up to it. Lots of water, and a trip to the grocery store for fruit/veggies in between.

Divine-- Way to go with stopping when full. It's really hard for me, too! If you're into reading, consider checking out the book "The Omnivore's Dilemma." It's really an eye opener when it comes to how we eat in America, especially the fast-food phenomenon.

djbutterfly-- How do you like the new sneakers? Hope work went well!

JLNichols-- You did it, you're back on track! Keep sending us that spirit of determination :)

Miz-- Nothing like a clean apartment and a full (healthfully stocked) fridge to get you going in the right direction. Keep it up!

My boyfriend has been here since Monday, so it's been really hard to stay good and not snack. My Mum made us a MASSIVE BBQ when he arrived, but I just had a burger, 1 rib and some pasta salad and called it a day. She was offering me chicken, sausages and loads more but I refused.

On day 2 we went into town, he bought me a foot long Subway. I should've declined and asked for a 6" and a healthier choice at that (had the all fat BMT =/). We also went to the cinema and had popcorn, chocolate and a soda. Then he had an Easter chocolate egg that night and I had a few bites. BAD BAD DAY!

Today I'm going to be good. We're going to the cinema again tonight and I'm going to not get any food. But then he's treating me to a curry tonight, so I'm going to be good and only eat half of it and save the rest for tomorrow as well.

Despite this, I have been sticking to my exercise routine. We both went on a run yesterday, and I whooped his ***! It was a proud moment!

Just trying to stay good and not eat so much. My mum bought a bottle of coke for us, and he's drank most of it thankfully. I've had a few, which is bad...but while this trip might be a bit of a hiccup in my weight loss journey it's going WAY better than it has been in the past.

I wore the reeboks all day yesterday and they are completely comfortable. My butt feels a little achey but it seems like a good thing. Did get some compliments about how cute they are, so that's a plus too.

Ladies, I did very well yesterday. I was nervous about getting home late/being at an event all day (with open bar!), but I was strong. I'm hoping this carries on because...

today I received an invite to my 11th year (We missed the 10th) 8th grade reunion. I am so nervous. I want to go, but I did get teased a lot in grammar school. (high school was fine fore me, thank god). So I want go confident. Another negative, they planned it for three weeks away! eek! Hoping for the best.

hey everyone! still new to the forums and excited to be here! i'm on day TEN of south beach (phase 1) -- i kind of can't believe i made it this far! today is a good day because i'm wearing a pair of pants i bought about 2 years ago at goodwill for something like $2, thinking they'd never fit, but they sure do! can't wait for more moments like this, i have a bunch of jeans from various weights i've been at all the way down to my current goal just waiting to be worn again.

tomorrow will be kind of challenging because i have a friend's birthday dinner at a restaurant, but I think i have a plan, and i'm going to try and just relax, have fun, and do my best :)

hope everyone is having a good thursday, it's almost the weekend!

Miz I have a swiffer wet jet. It works pretty good - but prob not as good as the old knees-and-hands-on-the-floor-with-a-wet-rag method. I find the swiffer works pretty well but when it starts to mop over hair and bigger clumps, it kinda collects it but doesn't pick it up (a big issue for me since I got 2 cats and a dog, plus my hair LOL). You just gotta make sure you sweep REALLY well before hand, and then it does the job fairly well (you really gotta scrub the hard-clumps)

djbutterfly How are the shoes? Do they roll your ankles at all? I'm looking for a pair of good "shape" sneakers to wear at work (I'm a nurse). So I need something where I can run in in case there's an emergency... I have MBT shoes but do not like them for work at all because I find that they are so large and wobbly, my ankles roll a lot - NOT good at all for a nurse (I'm trying to sell them MBTs - any takers? :dizzy:)! So I'm looking for something similar to runners but got that butt shaping effect.

I've still been trying to discipline myself more on food. Still not 100% but at least it's more in my mind now. I'm back up a few pounds and it's REALLY pissing me off. So I'm really really trying to hard to keep my mind on cleaner eating. I was thinking the other day, how I wish I could go back in time when I was in the third grade and stuck with soccer and started up lots of outdoor activities... and maybe I wouldn't be where I am today. But then I thought... well going back in time is IMPOSSIBLE and what if in 10 years down the road... I'm thinking to myself "man I wish I stuck with my plan when I was 23 than I wouldn't be where I am today". So all I have is TODAY and RIGHT NOW and then maybe I'll be where I want to be and can change time now...as opposed of wishing I changed it in the past. It kinda changed my mind set again and gave me new motivation to focus on this again.... So I'm gonna head to my personal training appointment 30 mins early and do some treadmill before training.... gonna amp up the exercise too!

I went off the deep end for basically a week straight...vacation + going drinking for the first time in a long time + being away from home. I don't even want to post my weight. The good news, if you can call it good news, is that I have finally gotten to the point where I have eaten so much sugar that I just don't want any more.

I'm glad to be back on 3FC. Back to detoxing. Have a big party weekend coming up in Osaka at the end of the month. My goal is no candy/junk food at all, ever, up until then. As has been proved time and time again it's easier to say "no" than "just a little."

Sigh. Why is this so hard?

Riestrella-- Ohh, it is soo hard to resist snacks and indulgent treats when boys, or even gal pals are around. I'm glad you felt like you had more control this time!

djbutterfly-- Yaaay, so happy to hear that you escaped without over indulging! Again, this is so hard to do. Glad the shoes are workin' for ya.

veggie103-- Congrats on your pants victory! I love when that happens. Your philosophy for the birthday dinner sounds solid-- relax, do your best, and carry on in the morning :)

sweetscrumptious-- I totally agree with your philosophy about wishing you made changes early on. Something to think about when the urge to eat hits--like, is this worth it for whatever weight it might cause me to gain and carry on into my future?

krampus--:hug: I want to know the same thing. Why is this so difficult? Either way, at least you are continuing to put in the effort. The weight will change; all we can do in the meantime is keep working on our habits and stay positive.


Sooo... I had a superbly on-plan day. I even took a 45 minute dance class this morning, and then went for a 4-ish mile run this evening. I decided this was enough exercise to justify going out for a Cinco de Mayo margarita with my friend. I was able to stop at 2 margaritas, and I was reasonable with the amount of chips and guacamole I ate. I don't feel overstuffed, and I have resisted eating again. I feel like this is how it's supposed to be... work hard, eat well, hydrate-- and then enjoy yourself within reason.
Even if my weight goes up tomorrow, I count this as a success. Progress was made in the ways of balance... and I'm happy.

I'm working the next 3 nights, so the plan tomorrow is some serious exercise and lots of sleep.

Nighty night, chicks!
-FPSJ

Hey there everyone!

I'm both proud of myself and not for the day. I didn't go to my kick-boxing class as I was very sore this morning after having done that and Zumba two days in a row and being new to both. But, I still did a balance ball workout and biked/ellipticalled for 30 minutes. On the other hand, I had a bit more too eat, esp. in the carbs department, then was appropriate. Stupid graham crackers are still sitting in our pantry from our road trip. At least there are no more open packages.

Tomorrow I start a new program working with a doctor. We'll see what he/she says. I'm both looking forward to it, as it'll be structured around my body type and metabolism, but a little nervous as to what it will actually entail (and whether the foods supplied will be tasty!).

Have a good night, all.

So tired today but feeling good about exercise and such. I did squats at the gym yesterday and tonight and I think I might be getting the hang of the movements. My arms are thrashed from Wednesday's workout, so sore! Today was supposed to be my rest day but I needed the break from boredom at work. I didn't push it though, just power walking and the squats.

I wish I had more to say but I am dead tired. Hope everyone is having a nice Cinco de Mayo!

Okay I don't have long to type this but I think I need to reach out to SOMEONE.

I literally had the WORST DAY EVER yesterday. We have a severe ADHD kid in our pre-k class who has been on meds for a while. The pharmacy ran out of the meds tuesday and he was out...and he won't be getting it until next monday. Well yesterday he was literally breaking my crayons and throwing them at the other kids, kicking me, hitting everyone, throwing food across the room....he threw an absolute fit....and then all of the other kids copied him. I was almost ready to bash my had against a wall. The class was completely out of control and there was nothing I could do to bring it back. I had about 6 kids tell me they hate me and will never talk to me again because I didn't give them happy notes to take home to their parents. It was so emotionally draining. I care so much about those kids...and it's like they didn't care that they were upsetting me. I was literally in tears and they didn't care. It really hurt.

Then I came home and ate an ice cream sunday. Then I ate whataburger. Then I ate chicken tenders, french fries, and FRIDAYS brand potato skins (they were my sisters). Then I ate a bunch of chocolate. I literally broke down and gave up and just kept eating. Needless to say I feel horrible today from all of that food, and i have to go back to work and that student will still be off meds and it will all probably be worse and I don't know if I can handle it.

I've got to go, I should have been getting ready for work 10 minutes ago. I think I just really need some encouragement and support right now. I'm a little bit apathetic about this whole diet right now.

Divine - :hug: I hate kids...lol

Ferumbras - good luck with the doctor.

fatpants - give me your motivation to work out please!!!!

Krampus - oh I know how you feel, this lady brougth in these really yummy chewy candies into work and I thought to myself I'll jus have one...I couldn't stop eating them! Seriously its like you can NEVER just have one! I'm not a huge candy person to begin with or even a chocolate person, but those soft chewy candies you can get in a cup at 7/11 are sooo good! It's better to just say no then to just "taste" it...:hug:

Sweets - You know I feel for you, I'm not suppose to step on the scale until saturday but **** I have a feeling I'm back up in weight lately it's just been a binge binge binge unhappy stress factor and I don't know what the **** is doing it! I'd like to go back to when I was in my second year of college and start all over, but a year later I was up to the weight I'm at now, and then two years down the road I was 20 pounds up more...It's like this never ending vicious cycle and I'm slowly killing myself with disgusting processed food and other stuff.

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I think this morning having two jobs took a toll on me, This week I only had monday off from job number 2, and I usually get monday and thursdays off and I seem to do well, but when they have me working straight until this monday coming up I feel exhausted and this morning I was so drained. I feel better now...I'm back to drinking energy drinks and yesterday my diet was okay until I binged out on spinage dip and pita bread...FML...I tried working out yesterday I did 15 minutes...I guess thats better then nothing right? Lately I'm so emotionally drained I just feel like I can't do this **** anymore it's like where does it end, why the **** am I NOT down to 140 yet it's been a damn year. Maybe I need to do some retail therapy for my hot new outfit I want which I hope i'm smaller then a size 9, maybe that will help me go Oh baby!

DivineFidelity, that's a lot for any teacher to handle. I'll keep my fingers crossed that your student has a better day and that he can get back on his medicine ASAP, not only for your sanity, but for the productivity of your class, in general. :hug: As far as the overeating, we've all been there. Take it as a lesson learned and move on. I'd probably have eaten a whole bag of Dove Chocolates + what you ate given the circumstances, so you handled that better than I would have. :hug:

What a NIGHTMARE! Jeez, I can't imagine having to control all those children. Remember, kids aren't quite as aware of the emotions of adults, so they are easy to get out of control. I know some people stray away from certain methods of teaching, but I think you need to put them in their place. You need to adopt a strict rule over them when they get out of control, but be caring and nurturing when they have good behaviour.

Is there any way you can get someone else in to help you out with the ADHD kid? Sounds like he needs specific 1 to 1 attention while he isn't on his meds and it's a strain on you when you're looking after so many children.

Please don't take their actions to heart sweety, they really don't know any better. I'm sure they don't hate you, they're just being easily influenced by the crazy kid! I know you care about them and that's why it affected you, but remember you are their teacher. You are a leader and a role model, you need to stay strong, be in command and show them who's boss during these difficult situations. It doesn't make you a horrible person, because when they behave you can be just as caring as you are normally.

As for the eating, it happens. Just take it in your stride, move forward and get back on track. We're all climbing a mountain here, and it's common for us to trip up when the path is so steep - but we can do it. Get a good work out in, make sure you don't have access to such binge worthy food around you for a while and keep positive. You're doing an amazing job so far, 26 lbs is astounding work. Don't let this one set back make you think like you've erased all that hard work - it hasn't!

Hope you feel better and that you manage today at work. Stay strong!

DivineFidelity, that is absolutely wretched. I'm so sorry you had to deal with that. I absolutely HATE children yet even I couldn't deal with hearing hurtful words on top of dealing with misbehavior. Seriously hope you'll never have such a crappy day ever again.

MiZ I hear your frustration, I was "supposed" to be 115 in March but instead I'm 10 lbs up from December. The important thing I guess is that we are too proud to gain it all back. Timelines and goal dates don't always work according to plan.

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Today was nicely on plan, the first such day in...oh jeez, way over a week. Calories and exercise were pretty good and food was mostly clean. We'll see in the morning how much bloat/binge weight falls off overnight. My prediction is between 1-1.5 kg.

I agree and I think lately I'm just obsessing over everything including my weight and you know when I start to obsess and truely think about weight loss it becomes a burden and I end up losing all control then I do when I'm carefree and like meh whatever.

thanks everyone for the wonderful words of encouragement. The kids were so much better today....its like they were completely different people. I think my one ADHD student mist have been back on his meds because he was one of the most well behaved kids in the class. The only kid I had trouble with was our autistic student, but he was trying and can't help some of the things that he does, so overall it was a wonderful day. I even got a flower from one of my students with a card from his father saying thank you for acting as his kid's mother in her absence (the boy's mother died from breast cancer a year ago). It really made my day.

I hope everyone else had a wonderful day too.

divinefidelity - so sorry you had such a terrible, draining day yesterday, but it sounds like today was a welcome change! and as others have said, i think the most important thing to do after overeating is to learn from it, and remember that you can't undo (or fix) anything in one day

whew - my arms are so sore. Just had 2 workouts with my trainer (one yesterday, one today). I think I'm gonna "try" to push myself to do one of those spin classes at the gym this weekend so I can up my cardio/fat burning. My diet I've been working on and so far not "too" bad besides from the bowl of vector cereal I had this morning. But I made some sushi - california rolls - and then I had my protein shake that I made for my post-workout. Me and Miz are going to see a movie tonight and I'm totally gonna skip out on the popcorn which I never do!

Finally my Friday, and it really is Friday!
Got a few more hours of work and then off to San Diego to see my boy. We're driving out to Yuma, AZ to get his motorcycle and then back to SD for sun and fun. I hate this whole once-every-two-weeks thing. I've been really good all week with working out and eating well. Hopefully I can stay as close to on-plan as possible while with him and see a whoosh! when I get home. Come on 135.0 :D

divinefidelity - So glad to hear they were better today. I don't know how this all works but a student who is medicated for a disruptive disorder (like ADHD) in my opinion has no place in the classroom without their meds. I would have asked the parents to keep him home sick, which he essentially is, in order to preserve the classroom dynamic. But then again, this is probably why I'm not a teacher.

MiZ- Don't let "I should be x weight by now" thoughts get you down. This journey is never linear and we all must accept that other things in life will claim priority over weight loss and cause us to stall or even re-gain. The important thing is to be healthy. I think retail therapy is in order, get something cute and just snug enough to motivate you ;)

Krampus - yay for on-plan and glad you're back!

Sweets- enjoy the movie! I feel you on the muscle soreness, my arms are killing me from Wednesday's workout.