Good morning all, boy am I ever sore today Lucky for me I don't have to do the intense stuff today and can give the ole body a rest. I am about to walk my oldest to school and plan on doing my stairs when I get back. I live on the third floor and I think I will use the stairs for part of my cardio. I ran up and down them three times yesterday and will go for three today. I think next week I will increase it to four or maybe five depending on how the three go. It gets the best of me now, but I CAN do it so that is something right? I haven't had breakfast yet, but I think I will have oatmeal. I did so so with eating yesterday I will do better today for sure.

Congratulations to all of you for sticking in there and THANKS SO MUCH for the support you give me! Looks like together we will all reach goal and stay there.

Good job everyone!

I slipped up a little and ate some leftover pizza ysterday SO today is another day and I may be able to make this a double-up workout day...certainly going to try after the pizza!

Morning all. Nothing really new to report, still feeling good and eating healthy. I went to the gym yesterday and did my usual cardio and weights. I'm half thinking of taking the day off today, my bod just feels really tired, like I need a few more hours of sleep tired. I'm going to take my 3 year old to daycare and then decide what to do. I have work this afternoon so if I'm still feeling really tired after I take him over I might just come home and have a bit of a sleep before I have to get ready for work. Have a great day all.

I decided to jump on the scales this morning because when I weighed in on Monday a.m., I was feeling a little, uh, bloated... so the scales now read 165, 2.5 lbs. lower than Monday! Yea! I'll just have to wait until next Monday to officially record that one, plus some more I hope!

Hello all!

Welcome back Blissful! It's great to see you!

Sounds like everyone is doing pretty well all in all.

I babysat until 10 pm last night. Which means I got home an hour later. My brothers and sisters were not on thier best behavior, not too bad I've seen much worse! But I was so tired I went to bed as soon as I got home. I also went to bed at 8 pm the night before, so I will not succeed in my workouts unless I double up a couple extra days! I just don't think it will be possible. I guess chasing 5 kids around outside in teh snow for an hour and going up the hill after sledding should count as some kind of workout.

I've taken on a new job. I will be baby sitting a 4 year old and a 2 year old here in my home starting Monday. It will be a HUGE change for me as they arrive at 6:20 am, I usually get to sleep until at least 7:30 but more often 8. I think it will be really good for my kids to be around some other children.

I will no longer be able to babysit for my mom except for the occasional Friday or weekend. I feel bad. Her kids are so hard to manage that she has not one other person she can trust with them. They all have special needs and as they are approaching thier teen years they are becoming increasingly difficult to manage. They mind for me b/c I know not to leave my guard down. Other people learn to relax and the kids learn how to get around them. The one little girl has Pika and so she eats inedible things, at one sitters my mom went into the back yard to pick the kids up and the little girl was in the trash can drinking from a discarded bottle of cleaning fluid of some sort! I mean most people wouldn't even think to make sure she didn't drink stuff out of the trash can. The sitter had a fenced in back yard and figured a 10,9, and 8 year old were safe while she went inside just for a moment. But with these kids just a moment can be life and death. The 3 older ones have been asked not to come back to all the regular daycare programs and they are starting to age out of them anyway. I'm afraid my mom may have to quit her job b/c there is no place for the kids to go. She only needs some one for long breaks which come 4 times a year (three kids are in summer school, the youngest is able to attend regualr classes and is in a regular YMCA afterschool program). But I also can't turn down regular pay for my family. I just wish my parents had understood that tiny babies grow up. I also wish the county who places special needs kids in foster homes had a class on dealling with and understanding the needs of these children. To become a foster parent you attend weeks of classes, but they never really dealt with how to address things with children who have a different set of understanding and abilities. These kids have the issues all foster kids face with bonding and trust and feeling of self worth...IN ADDITION to not being able to process the information or handle the emotions. My parents are in WAY over their heads. They were barley able to raise my sister and I and we were well behaved and had normal IQ's. My sister and I say we really raised ourselves.

Well, I have to get going. Time to clean! Have a greta day all!!

~misty

Haven't posted because I've had a bad, bad couple of days. For some reason I didn't get to the gym yesterday and today but I did go Wednesday even though I had posted that I didn't think I would. I probably should have skipped Wed and I'll bet I would have gone Thurs and again today. Oh well. Eating has been terrible as well. I get through a few good days and then it all goes to heck. I don't know why I sabotage myself this way, it is very perplexing. I want to be leaner and more healthy and then I go and screw it up when I've got something good going that I know is working for me. Well I just keep picking myself up and dusting myself off and eventually it will work for me!

Good Morning all and Happy Weekend! We're almost done with week 2!

Jen, don't be discouraged. You're doing the right thing by not giving up after having some rough days. Slow and steady. You are right you will get there! I'm glad to see you aren't letting a few mistakes ruin your entire effort.

I have had a pretty rough week as far as exercise goes. I have been so tired I fall alseep at the dinner table. Turns out to be TOM, add in all the baby sitting then frantic house cleaning for my new babysitting job and a bad cold. But I don't think I've done too bad. I've had extra activity that I would call vigorous exercise. Sledding and playing in the snow, moving furniture and super cleaning my house, feeding a round bale to 25 heiffers or so.

I will probably end up using one of my "cheat" days today. We have to make a trip to Rochester to deposit a check so it's guarnteed we'll eat out. I'd really like to go to Zebs, but not sure what I caneat there so we may end up somewhere else. I'll cut myself some slack but no french fries or anything like that.

Have a great day all I bette rget busy!
~misty

Good morning too you misty

I feel so good today. I sort of cheated I got on the scale a day early and I am two pounds But I still need to stay on track. It's going to be a rough weekeng because I am going to be very busy and will not have lots of time to cook so wish me luck. My DD has a birthday party to go to today and I have a church function to go to tomarrow after church. So we will probably eat out in between.

How is everyone doing with the no bread and white stuff thing? Has anyone cheated? I have just a little. It's had to cut out breads and white stuff completely. But I am staying away from the sweet stuff. I it's definately hard to eat out without eating carbs, everything comes wraped or with rolls, etc. I'm thinking that I will start a thread with lowcarb recipes. Yeah that's a good idea.

Well I can't wait to see everyones week 2 results tomarrow.

Hey everyone. I'm working nights. EEK!! This is my second night shift in about 4 years. I worked one a few weeks ago and it just about killed me, took about 2 days to start feeling normal again because I was up about 24 hours straight. I think I might be able to sleep tonight though, we get a 2 hours sleep break, I couldn't sleep the last time but I think I will tonight. I'm going to take a Gravol about 30 minutes before my break and see if that helps.

I won't even talk about having a bad day, it has been worse that bad. Still I got on the scale last night when I got home (I worked 3-11) and I was down over 2 lbs so something is sticking at least from having a few good days of exercise and eating right so I guess the bad days haven't been THAT bad. At least not as bad as what I think they are. I think I'm even cutting back when I'm in the midst of eating poorly so I guess I am learning something. I wish I could completely banish those nasty refined carbs, it's going to take some time to stop eating as much as I am but I think I am slowly getting there.

Misty, I'm having the same TOM problems that you are, could be why my eating has been bad too but I can't blame it all on that though it would be nice. At least you are staying active and busy. I have to start making myself out a schedule so that I keep myself going instead of sitting on my bottom on the couch watching tv. I end up wasting too many hours of the day when I could be doing more productive things.

Anyway I guess I'd better get some work done! See ya'll later. Jen

Hey, me again. Well I managed to sleep for about an hour, so that was better than nothing. 1.5 hours left to go and then I get to sleep!!!!!!

ebony, I know what you mean about cutting out the refined carbs. It doesn't feel like you are eating if it isn't something with bread or pasta and it is too easy to grab crackers or cookies when you want a quick snack. Still I know without a doubt that I feel 100% better when I've cut back on the bread etc and on days when I've eaten nothing but refined carbs I feel really crappy. It's like they have no nutrition at all really just fat and calories. My son bugs me about eating these snack cakes that he likes so much and sometimes I let him have them but really I can't really see the difference between that and if he eats sugary cereal or pancakes with syrup, like really it is all the same food, white flour and sugar, just in different shapes. Thank goodness he does like his fruits and veggies too. He likes bananas and melon a lot, also oranges and apples. For veggies he really likes corn, peas, carrots, cucumber, tomato. I'm so determined not to let him grow up to have a weight problem so that is why I let him have treats too because I don't want to go extremely restrictive either. I think people who have never had weight problems know how to balance their treats with good healthy eating. It doesn't have to be 24/7 worried about every bite that goes into your mouth. Someday I hope I'll get to that position but it sure isn't now. Anyway I am babbling, so I'll sign off and probably won't be back til Monday's weigh in. Here's hoping that it is a good one!!!

Well I survived week #1 for me and It went pretty good. I am down three pounds But I can't stop there. Got to keep on moving. I hope not to gain it all back next week because I will be on spring break. But I do still have plans to go to school and workout everyday. So that's one good thing. So how did everyone else do?