i am going to keep exercising and eating right I just have to scale back the exercising I will be at an increased risk for miscarriage.I probably still have 1-3 months before implantation . the more weight I lose now the less I have to loos after.
wow...canadian mom....THAT IS EXCITING!!! Can't say that I know anything about being a surogate or anyone that has done it so....are congratulations in order?
tina.....I know what you mean!!! STRESS CITY!!! Have you heard how dh's reveiw went? Yesterday my dh got word of a job in another city with his co. and has planted the bug in my ear about the possiblity of us moving and taking the position. Needless to say, my food has been less than stellar. We've only been here in this house for not even 2 yrs....before that was 3 yrs. AAARRGHHHH.
Tommorow morning I'm going on ds's field trip to a butterfly house. I can't wait....should be alot of fun!! I'm packing my gym stuff so I can go and workout after the fieldtrip. YEAH ME!!!...no more excuses!!
Susan.....How ya feeling? poor you!!! Love the granbaby, hate the cold!!!Hot tea with honey, and lots of rest for you.
Morgaine.....Be strong!!! Think about the show and how great you'll look in that dress!!
stephie.....How are you? Any news with your move? You've been pretty quiet lately.
Good morning ladies! Well if you could please keep your fingers crossed for one more day. My husbands meeting went well yesterday, but today is when he is getting called up for his review. I am thinking all is going to go good because he does a great job at what he does but what is the saying Hope for the best and prepare for the worst. This whole review thing has been over are heads for months so hopefully you can all understand why I am so wound up. On the exercise and diet now. Yesterday food and exercise went well. I ended up walking at the mall due to rain, but I tell you we walked 4 miles in there and we were just not strolling and window shopping. I really hate to think what people must think when we go flying be them, oh well I don't care I am getting what I need to done and that is all that matters. How are you all doing?
Susan I really hope you are starting to feel better. Sometimes stuff like that keeps you down for ever it seems. Fingers crossed here that you have a speedy recovery.
Angel it sounds like you all have some big decisions ahead of you. That is rough though not even really getting settled and having to pick up again, you all will have to sit down and really weigh your options out. Hope it goes well for you, and there is nothing like a butterfly house to calm your nerves.
Steph how you doing hun? You seem like you have been a bit overwhelmed lately is everything okay?
Morgaine like Angel said keep chugging along and keep that beautiful dress in your head when you feel like cheating.
Canadian Mom keep us posted!
Well ladies hope you all have a great day and hopefully you can send some sunshine my way because it is gloomy clouds here today!
Ok so the moving deal has been sweetened. Before I was a photographer I worked in the telecommunication industry. I actually left an amazing job behind when we first moved about 2 years ago and it was then that I discovered photography. I kept an at home side job in telecommunications just as sort of some extra money. Well when I found out we were possibly moving back I started applying to anything and everything open till I found a decent photo gig up there. Well I have an interview for a non photog job but it will pay at least 32 k with a bonus and a raise every 6 months. The best thing is my benefits are 100% paid and the company will also pay for me to pursue any degree I want. So I am thinking about rejoining corporate america and going back to school for my photojournalism degree...whew long story eh?
Back to health I have shin splints...3 hours of kickball on Sunday and then 2 miles running on Monday is the culprit I think...So it will be weight training arms and abs as well as yoga and pilates for a while. To see some progress I am going to have to be super mindful of my eating. Thank goodness September is here...i am always so much more motivated at the start of a new month!
EVERHOPEFUL - That is just great that Tina is of the same views as you. It helps so much having a buddy to count on. She inspires us allas she always seems to be on track!
Tina - Yeah you are right, probably just TTOM. Need to just refocus. Things are getting crazy here, trying not to lose my head hehe. Got my fingers crossed for your hubbies review.
canadian mom - wow how amazing of you to become a surrogate.
susan - Your right it took a few days to get out of control, should only take a few more to get that control back. So sorry you are sick hun, hope you get to feeling better!
Morgaine - I hear ya on the stress girl! BUT DON"T EAT YOUR STRESS AWAY....find something, anything else to do!
angel - Im good, just quiet, tons of news with the move, and big decision to be made. WTG on no more excuses looks like you are on top of this workout thing.
Good morning ladies! Well lets just say that my husbands review did not go like I hoped. I was really upset yesterday when he told me and then in turn that made him upset thinking somehow he failed me but that was not why I was upset at all. I guess I just thought from the way things were looking that it was going to be really good and it was not in my eyes. I went for a walk though with my sister-in-law and vented and felt better when I came home. My husband and I sat down last night after the kids were in bed and made up a budget that we are going to enforce. I have to remember that something is better then nothing and he does drive a company car and gets his gas paid for as well as his cell phone. I think I was looking to this raise to help us out of our promblem when we could really help ourselves out with a careful budget so, no more Target visits for me for awhile. I got to thinking though being on a budget is sort of like the weight loss thing for me it is something I am going to have to work towards. I have to start to make lifelong chooses and change the way I veiw things. I need to think of things we need to survive and realize that all the other little stuff is just that little stuff. I am really praying that my husband and I can put our heads together on this one and work towards a similar goal after all we are still young and have time to turn this around and make it right. Okay enough about that food and exercise were good yesterday. As I perdicted calories were under due to stessing all day about getting news. Today I have a walk and some picking up to do. The sun is finally shining here so hopefully that will lift my spirits.
Susan I hope you are feeling better!
Angel how was the field trip?
Steph sounds like a move might not be so bad huh! Good luck in whatever you all decide to do.
Don't have time to read much...just a quick check in. Still feeling lousy, stuffed up, and drippy (beautiful description, eh?). However, back at work. Did nothing but rest and read yesterday, today am at work and trying to catch up but still feeling shakey from the cold medications. They seem to build up in my system. Have lost another pound...tho' it's not the way I would choose to do it. Now I have to try to keep it off.
Tina, you are such a pick yourself up and move on kind of person....I admire you so much! You really have the right attitude. I know it's trite, but there is the addage...one door closes, another opens...so let's hope that's the case here.
Morgaine, you really need to find some space for yourself, or you'll make yourself sick. Thank goodness the madness will be over soon. Take care.
Stephie, glad you are also moving ahead positively...hope this all works out. When I had shinsplints, the doctor had me sit on a table and lift a bucket with a weight in it to build up those front muscles...you might want to try it once the pain dies down.
Jen, good luck. Do you get to meet the parents and do they get actively involved in the pregnancy?
Everhopeful, how are you doing?
Angel, let us know about the move...my DD is married to an actor...so she has the same kind of situation...moving always a possibility. It's frustrating and I'm sure hard on the kids.
And the bingeing continues. I don't know what has been wrong with me. My hubby asked me to help him out and do some clerical work that was super tedious and could take like a couple of nights this week right. Told me I could have anything I wanted for doing it. Picked super high fat chinese food, gnoshed on it till I felt sick, then continued this bad eating spree until I went to bed. I can pinpoint the EXACT moment where my good judgement wavered. I am so regressing...I actually thought I can be good STARTING again tomorrow, or STARTING again on SEPT 1...I was so proud of the fact that I was able to move from a bad meal straight back into being on plan and not be one of THOSE DIETERS...I think I just need to get back into the swing of things. Take it one meal at a time...I know I can do it, it is just MAKING myself do it.
I tried to refrain but peeked at the scale...I have slipped, regressed. I DONT want to go back to where I was, I worked so hard to get here. I am feeling so good, and moving forward. I cannot let this happen!
tina - I can so relate to your post. I do not know how many times I have been amazingly pissed at my husbands company for being so stingy when he really is the hardest worker there. We call our budget 'broke mode' it's probably easier for us because it hasn't been to long since we were in college, we just kind of revert back to broke college student mode. It still sucks non the less. If you find out the secret of sticking to a budget you will have to share!
Susan - The idea of doing anything with that muscle hurts just thinking about it. I am still not sure its not just pulled really bad. Did not go to the doc for it just kind of self diagnosed from webmd. Sounds like you are really sick! Once again hope it passes quickly.
Hi girls. I've been lurking the last couple of days and feeling really out of control. Lots and lots of stress. Do you ever get the feeling of an extreme sense of "being overwhelmed"? Not sure even how to explain it but sometimes even the smallest of details seem so huge! I never made it to the gym after yesterdays fieldtrip but I am dressed and ready to go NOW!!! Something...ANYTHING...has to be better than doing nothing.
Listen to this: I was waiting at an office this morning and there was this dad playing with his twin babies( 4 months). So cute....he's going on and on about how they didn't know until the last 3 weeks that his wife was even having twins, just thought one baby. While he's waiting, she finally finishes up her appt and comes out of the office and I was in shock!!!....she was about the size of a 13 yo....like maybe a size 2!!!!...def. hovering around the 100 lb soaking wet range!!! HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE??? She was wearing these low slung jeans, belly ring and showing about 5 inches of her tummy. HOLY COW!!!! Anyway...just had to share that.
I have been sick the past 2 days, cannot keep anything in me. I am starting to feel better now ,first it was the kids for 2 days now me.
I will be meeting the IFs in Sept when I go for my test.They will be fling here for as many appointment as they can and they want to be at the birth. They will be staying at the hotel that sister works at (she can get them a discount) which is only about 30 min walk from me and about 5 mins from my doctor. ( sorry IFs =intended fathers). They will implant anywhere's from 3 week to 3 months after testing (if I pass the testing) so after they implant I think I will start postin in the pregnacy part here and come back after.
Angel...the reason they probably didn't know she was having twins was because she starved herself throughout the pregnancy. To be that thin so quickly with twins, not healthy.
Stephie, usually a sure sign of shin splints is that it hurts to touch that area...very sensitive.
Tina, is there some part time work you can do at home to get you out of this tough financial place? Maybe some babysitting for someone else's kid?
Morgaine, how are you surviving? Good luck with everything.
Well, I slept from 8 till 5, a good night's sleep....with a cold tablet to help get me through. Still a little woozy and weak, but felt good enough to do some exercise this morning. I hate getting out of my routines...it's so hard to get back into them.
Good morning ladies! Well I felt so much better yesterday after talking with my husband the night before and seeing that we can do this. I am really looking forward to the long weekend, and for once we have nothing planned. I think some tv time, games, and a good book and perhaps a nap or two are about the extent of what we are going to do. Oh well tommorow since it is the only day it is not supposed to rain we are going to trim some trees and do some yard work. I get so discourged by my yard. I don't have a green thumb at all so when I go out there I get totally overwhelmed and head back in to my nice clean inside. I did weigh-in today even though I have my period and I stayed the same at 145. I am happy with this though because hopefully after a good weekend and week Friday should be a good weigh-in. I hope you all have a wonderful holiday weekend!
Susan glad you are starting to feel on the ups. Goodness girl you are dropping weight like crazy now. I think whatever rut you were stuck in you broke out of. Keep up your good work and hopefully in a few days you will feel back to 100%.
Angel I don't think with all you have going on it is shocking you are feeling overwhelmed. I totally can relate though and I know it is a really hopeless feeling. I don't know if you can get out for a bit be yourself but if you can go do something you really enjoy. I know for me a walk around the book store always calms me. My sister-in-law just had twins also and is already back to her weight when she started, and like Susan said it is because she does not eat anything and is very unhealthy. I would not want to be like that for all the size 0's in the world.
Steph you must be under a ton of stress right now to be eating so out of control like you say. I don't know what to say to you except think about how you feel after you eat and how bad you feel and ask yourself is this worth it. I know and YOU know you can beat this. Food does not control us!!! Try and take it a day at a time and see how that works. For right now just make a goal to eat good Sat. then worry about Sun. I hope you have a great weekend and hopefully those shins are feeling better by now!
Morgaine hope all the shows are going good for you!
Well ladies I wish you all a great holiday weekend and let's try to not get to crazy so we don't have to work our butts of next week just to break even!
Hey girls.....Yesterday was an okay day, I got my workout in early but started to feel shake-y and lightheaded so I stopped the treadmill at 45 minutes and went home. Food was good for the day, although I had a little more baked potatoe than I should have but no biggie. I still have that lightheadedness but will just take it easy. I started to take this new multi vitamin and I wonder if it could be that. I was taking them on an empty stomach and I felt nausias (sp?) so I started taking them with food a few days ago to see if it makes a difference. They are the woman's one a day vitamin. Allergies are kicking up again, can't even squeeze a tear out of my eyes they're sooo dry!!! Anywho....enough about me How's everyone doing today?
Tina.....how's your yard now? looking any better? I never know what to do either, I just start yankin' the tall stuff that I never planted and hope for the best.
Susan.....Hope you are starting to feel clear headed!!! Nothing worse than a cold in the summer!!! been there done that. How's that grandbaby?
Canadian Mom.....anymore news on the invtro? how are you feeling?
Stephie......Are you around this weekend? I think I remember you saying it was a working weekend. Hope you manage to take a break sometime.
MY APPOINTMENT HAS BEEN CONFIRMED FOR THE 18 OF SEPTEMBER. HOPEFULLY AFTER THAT I WILL KNOW WHEN THEY WILL IMPLANT. AS FOR THR FLU THAT WAS GOING THROUGH THE HOUSE IT IS GONE NOW I JUST HAVE TO GET MY APPETITE BACK.SORRY FOR THE CAPS
I usually have to take pills with food or it makes me ill also. If there is iron in it it can make you nauseated (had to take iron with pregnacy # 2) and you shuld eat something before taking iron.
Good morning ladies! Well I did not get any exercise in over the long weekend, but if you count 8-9 hours of yard work Sat. and Sun. as exercise I was the queen then. I am still so sore from all the work we did. I swear though you think okay lets trim these branches and 8 hours later you are so sore you can hardly move and you have a pile of branches as tall as you. That was all day Sat. then on Sunday we were going to clean up the did of our garage. A while back we took out a bunch of overgrown bushes that were on the side of the garage but never took the roots out. So Sunday was spent pulling the roots out and moving I swear tons of rocks so we could pave it. I never in my life have done anything as boring as picking rocks and throwing them in a wheelbarrel. Yesterday I slept till almost noon which I have not done since high school and spent the rest of the day chilling. I could not move even if I wanted to. I feel good though that we got things accomplished. I have to tell you all my neighbor who is elderly lent my husband a tool for trimming the trees and when my husband went to return it to him our neighbor told my husband that I was one **** of a wife to be out there with him all day working. I told Kevin a year ago I would never of been able to do half of what I did this weekend. Food was good besides Sunday night a few treats but besides that calories were all on point. I am hoping for a good weigh in this week. It is rainy and damp here so today will be spent indoors for us. How was all your weekends? I hope you all did some relaxing for me. Well that is it for me today! Oh yeah one of the twins got to come home this weekend! Have a great day!
morning all...sad to report friday i went off my eating big time....started with just "having to have" a krackle bar at the drug store....but that was just the beginning...went totally bananas after that...must have taken in 3000 calories. Ugly!
But back under control the next day, thank goodness. Didn't exercise this weekend as my breathing was still out of whack from the cold, but this morning went to the gym and got in 35 minutes on the elliptical. Spent the weekend cleaning the house and going through papers, cooking for the week, and preparing for my two clients this week. And last night I got a new client! Gave her a free session and she loved it, wants to sign up for a series. Specializing in Arthritis may really going to be a good draw...at least seems that way right now.
Hope everyone had a good weekend and holiday.
Angel, I've heard that from people before, that multivitamins threw their systems off....it may just not be right for you. Are you feeling better?
Jen, good luck with the appointment. Are you getting nervous?
Tina, what a weekend...what a woman! Hope you are feeling more rested. Sounds like you really extended yourself. Pat yourself on the back. [grin]
Pouring rain here, but I'm feeling good...clean house, new clients, life is picking up!
How's everyone doing today?