When my bf is acting a fool I usually tell someone once he gets over himself he will call and act like nothing ever happened. It always happens that way. I know this man very well. Sometimes that is good and bad.

Okay so I didn't make it back on here last night. As usual I fell asleep. Normally I stay up half the night but my sleep patterns are getting better now.

Today's menu
BF--cereal, soymilk, yogurt, coffee with sf flavored creamer
S--english muffin with rf peanut butter
L--smart ones thai noodles and chicken and yogurt
S--cottage cheese
S--raisins
D--chicken and veggies (maybe something in the crockpot. I guess I better figure that out soon)

I think it might be a maintenance week weight wise for me. Between me acting up for a couple of days, TOM, and beginning to finally exercise I think it will all balance out. At the most maybe I will lose 1 pound or maintain. We shall see.

Good morning! Yesterday I forgot to do measurements, so I did em today. What a bummer! I'm up 2.5" in two weeks...I'm trying to regain focus but having difficulty doing it. Last night I did really good I had one enchilada and 1/2 cup ff refried beans. I was in a real funk yesterday, I think it was the pain meds I was on yesterday, so I ate a few things that weren't on the menu and weren't good for me. Today I'm gonna leave my money out in the car so I eat the healthy stuff I brought and stay away from the vending machine. Tonight after dance I'm gonna try and run, we'll see how the neck holds up, if not I might have to do a low aerobic video, but I HAVE TO DO SOMETHING!

Diva-Sorry to hear your having man troubles...Men are definitely a pain in the ***!

Melissa-So did they win their basketball game? A Latte sounds soooo yummy!

Shay- Glad to hear the running is going good. I'm getting so frustruated not being able to run. After awhile it becomes an addiction, and you start to crave it. Great job on the water..keep up the good work.

Todays menu:

breakfast:

Go lean Hot Cereal
Banana
Snack:
Grapefruit
Lunch:
Spicy Black Bean Burger with Wheat Bun
apple
Snack: Smart Ones Popcorn
Supper:Grilled Chicken
Green Beans
Roasted Cauliflower

Sorry for my semi-MIA status the last few days. It's been rough. For one thing, I started orientation for a new job. I won't be working everyday or anything, more like once or twice a week, but the orientation was M-W 8-5. My MIL offered to come up and watch my baby while I was working.

I love my MIL I really do. She has a good heart and means well, but she loves you with food. I already made a bunch of meals both for the family and the baby for when I was working. Well, she did a few things I didn't like: putting sugar on fruit and veggies...there's not need for that! He loves his fruit and veggies without sugar on them. She went out and bought her own foods, some of it junk, which I know she probably fed to the baby. She's a diabetic btw and very overweight.

Then last night she pretty much insisted on ordering pizza and then asks my son if he's ready to eat some. I didn't say anything, because I thought she'd just give him ac ouple of bites, but it was practically his whole meal! and then he had more for breakfast the next morning. Grr.
So I sat down and had one piece myself. She eggs me on to have more, that's there's still too much left. I just can't have bad food around me like that. I ate tons of pizza. I hated myself for it.
I hate to complain too much because she did do us a really big favor and helped me out a lot. And she knows I don't like him to eat bad things, so considering what I've seen her do for her other grandkids, I know that what she did here the past few days was mild.
Combined with the provided food at the orientation, and my lack of exercise since Sunday, it's been a bad week for my fitness. I'm back in the saddle today. Had a healthy breakfast and about to go for a run in a bit. Will post menu later.

Good Morning girls!!! I tell ya something was in the air yesterday wasnt it. Hopefully today is going to be a better day for us all!! Thankfully I stayed on plan and ate right all day other than the latte so in the end I think I'm just fine. Stupid AF is here, I really think its unfair for those of us who are done having kids to continue to have periods!!! Especially since the older I get the heavier and more crampy they get...wtf with that!!!

I cant wait to get my syrups!!!!! I dont think I'm patient enough for internet shopping LOL!

I havent been posting my menus so i need to do that today:

Breakfast: scrambled eggs w/ cheese, ham, peppermint mocha coffee
Lunch: Hamburger - no bun, lettuce tomato pickles
Dinner - chicken of some sort maybe parmasan chicken and a romaine salad
snack - celery and cucumbers, bonbel cheese, diet rite soda

Like....Bob Greene said many moons ago that it is actually a good thing to have a gain or no loss in the first weeks of exercise. While it sucks for the scale it just means you are gaining lean muscle tissue and that is so much more important than the numbers. Make sure you keep track of measurements now too! That C25K is gonna change your body big time!!

Dream - Did you get that run in? I hope so! Its so hard to stay focused on this journey isnt it...if it didnt have to last so gosh darn long we'd be better at it! Write down all the reasons you want to lose the weight to remind yourself. LOL..the girls got slaughtered in their game last night, they did manage to score 5 points though. Not to shabby considering this is the first basketball most of them have ever played. Coach is an idiot though! ah well!

We have another game tonight.

Okay better get myself some breakfast! Have a wonderful day girls!

~melissa

oh Leeda I feel your pain. First lemme just say i dont like my MIL, but then again she told me she wished I was dead so how can you like a woman like that right? LOL! I'm so sorry that with everything going on with the new job you've got to deal with that. Try not to sweat the small stuff but remember you have to right and the power to say no to her. Her heart is in what she thinks is the right place, you may just have to tell her its the wrong place LOL! Good luck!! have a fantastic on plan day today!!

~melissa

Shay--I'm so excited you started C25K! I know you will love it!!

Dream--sorry about your measurements. I know you will get your focus back! I hope you enjoyed your aerobics or run!

Melissa--thanks for you reply. Gee, your MIL sounds really mean...makes me appreciate mine a little more. This whole food thing is the only real problem I have with her, but I don't think she would ask me to drop dead over it lol. Haha, about the AF stuff...maybe we could write a petition for the cessation of periods following childbearing Menu looks great!

Diva--Sorry about the man problems...I think that Y chromosome causes brain deficiencies.

I have a 5k Saturday. Please pray that my DH won't grumble too much about watching the baby or I will have to run with a stroller in the race (eeek!!)

Diva...I totally missed your message this morning!! I'm sorry!! I hope that today is going better for you! You already know my feelings about going into a marriage with those iffy feelings so I wont beat it LOL! Hope the boy is doing better too!

I aced my tax exam!! *does the happy dance* so exciting! but I'm so exhausted today! Oh and my syrups came today!!! I'm gonna make an iced gingerbread coffee right now! Hopefully that'll wake me up for my kiddos bball game tonight.

did I tell you guys about the opportunity that has been presented to me? Through my university there is a spring break program where a chosen group go up to the very northern part of Alaska and do tax returns for the Inuits. Its over spring break and it would mean not being with the girls on easter. But what an amazing opportunity, I havent turned in the application yet because I'm scared! Trying to talk myself out of being such a chicken! Plus it would mean I'd have to really be serious and lose weight because there are limits on these small little planes they fly into the villages.

Alright, I'm hungry 3pm and havent had lunch yet! Shame! I hope everyone is doing great!!

~melissa

Woot, Melissa! Congrats on doing so well on your exam! Alaska sounds fun, I say go for it!

Hi everyone,
I told myself I would not get on this computer until I did everything I needed to do. You know you can get on here and get lost. Oops I was going to put something in the crockpot tonight. Well I will look at the amount of hours and decide if I will do it tonight or leave it on while I am at work.

Diva--Men can be so freaking frustrating. Sometimes you just want to choke them!

Leeda--I don't have the MIL situation but when I visit my family in Florida which is rare they are all about eating. They look at you like you are crazy if you try to eat in a reasonable manner. Matter of fact most of the women on my mom's side of the family are really heavy, except my mom. She's retired military and loves to exercise so she has no issues.

Melissa--I don't have any kids but I just think after a certain age your period should disappear. I have had mine since 10 and now I'm 35 so at this point I am so done. And like you--with me it seems to have gotten worse and worse.

Week 1, Day 2 of C25K was a little tougher but not bad. I think it had more to do with the fact that this is the first time I have exercised two days in a row in months. I feel really good.

The past 3 days I've been doing spectacular with water. What I realized is its not the getting the water in that's the problem its the going to the bathroom that really irks my nerves. I know I went to the bathroom at least 10 times at work today.

Oh yeah--Melissa, great job on your exam and I think you should go to Alaska. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity.

MMhmm its me again...

Dream--I hear running can get addicting. I am excited to do it each time and this is only my 2nd day!

My menu today--not a good idea. I don't know why I put so much dairy in there. Huge mistake. I was poot, poot, pooting all over the place. The last dairy I had was at 5pm and still....so lesson of the day no more than 1-2 dairy products per day!

Good Morning! Thought I'd pop in before I head out the door. I went running last night, it went pretty good. I could feel a twinge of pain every once in a while but not enough to make me stop. Once I got on that treadmill I was like YES FINALLY. I felt like all this tension was released. Afterwards I had all kinds of energy, it was awesome. This morning I got up for my date with Gilad and then tried the new belly dancing dvd I got in the mail. She makes it look so sexy, I look like I'm having convulsions . I'm gonna try it a few more times and see if I get any better.

Melissa- Hopefully the BB game will go better tonight. Great job on the tax exam. I'm soooo envious of you, having the opportunity to go to Alaska. Thats one of my dream vacation spots...it looks sooo beautiful and peaceful. My brother went a few years back and just loved it. I think you should go!

Shay-becareful on doing too much too fast, we don't want you to get burned out or injured. Awesome job on the water, keep up the good work.

Leeda-Good luck on the 5k, thats what 3.2 miles? Someday I'm hoping to run a 5k, currently I run 2 miles, so maybe by the first of the year I'll be up to 3.

Diva: I hope the man situation is better today. I agree with Melissa, you shouldn't go into a marriage with iffy feelings. Sometimes, when we live together it makes it that much harder to walk away. Maybe you need to seperate for a little bit to determine what you both want out of your life. And hopefully your son doesn't pick up BF bad habits!

Todays menu:

all bran with yogurt bites, banana, and milk
yogurt
gardenburger with wheat bun
apple
popcorn
lasagna

Good Morning all! Got another onplan day under my belt! Yay!! Now if stupid AF will go away before Monday I should have a pretty good weigh in...I hope!

Shay....I need to take a page from your book, I've been really slow on the water lately and my fingers can sure show it! I also didnt start exercising this week with you like I was supposed to. But I think I'm gonna try to go tonight! You made me laugh with the poot poot pootin! LOL!! I hope today is better!

Dream....way to go on that run girl!! LOL, I can only imagine what I'd look like trying to belly dance. I carry the majority of my weight in my belly so that would be so NOT good! LOL!

Alright my menu for today:
I just figured out I cant post a menu till I go to the store because I have nothing here! GRRR! I hate grocery shopping!

Okay better get to it then! Have a wonderful day everyone!

~melissa