My husband works 7-3:30 and I work anywhere from 8-5 to 1-10. So some weeks I'm ready to kill him cause I see too much of him. But I'd really miss him if our schedules were too different. Everyother weekend I work 1-10 and then 6-3. It's my break. But on the other hand I don't see my little guy from 12pm to 3pm the next day. Needless to say there's usually some yelling going on by my son when I get home.

I'm trying to get to yell less in the house (usually at my son). He's only 2 and basically ignores us anyway. Plus it almost seems like he listens more when you talk really quiet to him. My husband is having a hard time cause he's a little more stressed by everything my son does than me.

near my parents (savannah) there is a boiled peanut truck that makes the rounds.... I've never bought anything from him but my grandma and my father have!

Fantastic!!!! Great Job!

Ok, I feel SO much better. I left work and went right to the gym. I renewed my membership and then did an intense cardio workout (bike and treadmill). Then I ran a few quick errands and have some of my cleaning done. I would like to just sit and snuggle w/ the dogs, but tomorrow is "take care of mj day", so I want to get as much stuff done tonight as I can.

The deal w/ tomorrow is, one of my relatives is having a baby shower. I am really happy for her. Honestly, I am. But, dh and I have been trying for years to have a baby and chances are it will not happen for us. I know I need to come to terms w/ that someday. Of course, it could still happen and certainly weight loss would help one of my issues, but not all of them. At any rate, the shower is several hours away and the thought of spending all of those hours in the car w/ my mom, sis, gm, and neice--w/ my gm telling me every 5 seconds about every cute thing my neice is doing on top of the shower is more than I can handle right now. No one in my family (except for dh) gets why going to the shower might be difficult, so I simply told them I wasn't going and have refused to discuss it further w/ them. So, I am "cashing in" on my reward to myself for 28 op days and getting a mani / pedi. I cannot wait. I would much rather spend some time being pampered tomorrow! Then I am going shopping for some workout capris. Sounds like a nice Saturday to me!!!!

Ok, I need to go make a salad and finish cleaning.

Have a great night!!!

Judy, waaay to go!!! You get the green pompoms of the week!

Francie, I watched a reality show on PBS last nite (yeah, seriously). It's called Carrier. Have you seen it? I watched 2, 1 hr episodes. It's great. I recommend it to everyone here, military or not.

ON the body weight measurers, Dixie, I would really wonder about such a disparity in the body fat measurements. Your tanita should be pretty accurate - they are usually high - but not that far off. If you take your bf on the tanita at nite like 3 hrs after your last meal or exercise, let us know if it's closer to what your trainer measured.

Do you guys ever watch any of the MTV shows about the exercise or weight loss? They had a girl on there from NJ I think, dark long hair, young, who wanted to lose weight for the summer and it ended with her buying new bathing suit and her trainer showed her how to make broiled chicken on her range (just helping to id which show it was). Anyway, her trainer was telling her she was successfully losing 7 lbs a week - I want to know what her cal count was. She was probably between 250-300, not that large to where i think 7 lbs/wk was easy, kwim? I'm going to poke around on their website but I don't expect to get too lucky.

JILL - I emailed Red Robin about a year ago complaining about why they don't have nutritional information on their website. They told me it would be in about a year, soon after 2007. I'm glad to hear they finally got around to it. Now to go see how much my whiskey chicken wraps weigh in at.
TK, . I'll go ahead and ask what everyone is thinking, what is it that you're dealing with? Maybe someone here has been thru it and can help......

MJ, I totally get why you wouldn't go and would have advised you the same. I work with a girl who has been battling infertility progressively for about 6 years and she just doesn't go to them at work anymore & we all understand. No one knows how it feels to be there but you, therefore they should not judge you.

Friday's Question of the Day
Do you find it difficult to stay on-plan through the weekend? What makes the weekends difficult for you and what methods do you use to keep yourself in check?

I actually find it easier - at work I find my self so busy that sometimes I dont eat at the right times, and then at 3pm when I haven't eaten since 7am I tend to EAT and EAT and then EAT again because I am starving... and I make wrong choices. I am a kindergarten teacher and after school yesterday I went to the office, and my boss was handing out snack size chocolate bars, because I was starving I ate that first on the way back up from my classroom and then when I went back to my room for marking work - I ate my sandwich... I tried adding that to my plan so at dinnertime I wasnt blowing out.

Of a weekened I control where I go, what I do, so my plan is regimently followed. I dont have any partner to whisk me off for an intimate dinner, and the weekends I dont have Liam if I am going out for dinner with the girls - I plan what I can eat before hand.

Jill - I can't find the nutr info for Red Robin. I looked under menu, etc., where did you find it? Thanks!

Chelle im with you and the icecream man being creepy.. and i agree with some one else that he is evil..

Btw i didnt think you were cross .. my biggest problwm is a find so many things funny.. i was laughing when i was posting to you last night dont worry.. Blue team is just more fun lol ... I have the same problem with my kids.. they do something naughty and its all i can do to not laugh at them.. except if its something dangerous of course.. im not a complete idiot all the time.. IM lucky even though i laugh at them they have a clear sense of right and wrong and are very good kids..
oh yeah have a great night out .. sounds like fun..


Anna Is the food thing a choice thing or a need thing??For me itis a combo of both.. After Leah started getting sick from the food we had to change our diet.. have you looked at what those additives do? migrane allergy, anaphalaxis, cancer , mutagens, behaviour problems, hives, inhibiting of some nutrients... etc? or do you just make your choices based on the facts that certain things aren't food? I know im probably preaching to the preist here but i thought i would ask.. not many poeple understand what it is to live additive free. as a need.. Its not that our diet was really bad.. but it was bad for her.. wholewheet bread containing 282.... vegemite 220 among other things cheese spread 160b and others and fresh grapes treated with 220 ... these are just the ones i remember as it has been over 6 months since i have bought anything like this.. but i no longer buy sauces gravy mayonaaise fruit drink(cordial) lollies , suasages, fast food of any kind, i sometimes can get nitrate free ham ... i have found it maybe 3 times.. so dont usually buy luncheon meats at all or bacon... Leah will react to 90% of the additives with sulphar dioxide being the worst one ... Its hard but finding out made everything make sense that has happened in her life
sulphar dioxide is in the immunisations , the antibiotics and all the food she has reacted too .. the antibiotics being her worst reaction since she was paralysed for 4 days she was so swollen , had joint pain, covered in erytheme multiforme, her spleen liver kidneys were all affected, she had a bad case of serum sickness.

Sorry to waffle on again lol.. but i would love to know how you got interested in the whole whats bad for you and i have a great australian website that will tell you the affect of ever nasty chemical they put in food by name and number the only difference between yours and ours is your numbers sometimes have an E in front of them.. oh and the fact that we are still using some nasty ones your country has been clever enough to ban..

tkglenn and all you other girls like me with no hubby , it really sucks doesnt it.. my hubby works in the furthest point away from me in australia.. if you look at a map im down the bottom in adeliade .. and he is way up the top in NT in the middle of no where on the coast a 3 hour plane ride from darwin.. its takes him over 12 hours to fly home..
he works 4 weeks on 1 week off and part of that week off is flying time so he only gets 5 days at home with the kids and me.. he comes in at 9pm and leaves again at 5 30 am .. so really just 5 days .. We talk on messanger on webcams but its not like being at home..

Well time for me to head off its the first game of SOCCER today.. which usually ivolve some flower picking laying on the pitch and swinging on the goal nets.. lol It's brilliant watching little kids "play" soccer lol

oh yeah before i go .. i weighed in and i knew if i waited till this morning i would be under 272.... lol 271.9.. thank you very much.. but thats is fine with me .. so i filled in my blank for the week..

and qotd.. I dont find the weekend any different from any other day.,. i dont slack off .. i do more exercise on the weekend.. becuase that is when i scrubb my floors and my whole house is timber flooring becuase of leahs allergies lol ( im a hands and knees girl .. mops are just crap imo) clean the bathrooms, gets the extra laundry done and usually still go for a walk... i will usually take one of the weekend days off exercise but i still count my cals.. see i stay at home anyway so the weekend is not that much different to the rest of the week.. except i have Cameron here to entertain leah while i got the cleaning done.. lol

YES, YES, and YES! 20 pages later and I have finally caught up. This is how I spend my Friday nights. Me and BF are home bodies.

vixjean,francie,amy--

Congrat to all of the losers! I will weigh in tomorrow morning.

Crime show lovers--I love, love the Closer, Psych, and Criminal Minds. I also love to read books by Mary Higgins Clark, Sue Grafton, Patricia Cornwell, James Patterson, and John Grisham.

Vanessa--I hear you about the family thing. We can't pick them but we can definitely decide to cut them out of our lives if they are toxic.

Dee, Anna, Josephine, and Rhonda--You are my comic relief. LOL, LMAO,ROTFL all of those.

Dee-They have pupusa trucks here. I don't even want to think about the health dept looking at those. I was born in St. Pete. Do they have those drive through stores where you live? Outdoor laundromats?

mj5--I love boiled peanuts. Last Thanksgiving when my family visited Okeechobee (FL) we went through the drive through store to get me some boiled peanuts.

QOTD--If I could have any job what would it be (something like that right?)I really can't imagine myself doing anything else. I know I enhance the quality of life of the people I work with on a daily basis! That is really important to me. My mom and I have talked about possibly opening a home for women. She would be the Executive Director and I would be the Program Director. My mom is a survivor and she could definitely teach the women some things.

Today's QOTD--Weekends are not the bad for me. I really try to keep busy and that helps.

Military--My brother is in Iraq now. He missed the birth of his 4th child. My co-workers husband just went last week and my other co-worker's husband will be going this summer. Military life is a hard one. Both my parents are retired Army.

Me--I have been binge free for 39 days now. I earned a HRM on day 30 but I am planning to wait because I need to stop spending money like I'm rich. I think I may move to rewarding myself every 15 days now and eventually every 30. I sound really confident don't I? I really need to work on getting back to the gym. I know this is the worst time of year and I have a mini gym in my apt with the dvds, equipment, and accessories I own but I know me I fear boredom coming. I will spend this weekend doing a little computer research on gym memberships and bootcamp programs.

I found it, I found it, if anyone wants to watch!! Choose clip 2, for the girl with the black hair:

http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1581320&vid=208755

sportmom-i would but I'm so embarassed and disgusted with it all. But like you said, maybe someone has been through it. Well, when my husband was gone to iraq, I had cheated on him. I was in a relationship with someone else for over a year and he was quite a permiscuous (sp?) person before me. Well, I had some health issues while being with him when he told me that he was clean. Well, left him and fixed things with DH and went to dr to find out what was wrong (this was like over 2 years ago). Before this appt. i did have intercourse with DH about two times. Went to dr's and they said I had gonorrhea. got clean but still didn't tell DH about it in fear of him thinking something (he has PTSD so if you know what that consists of, you would understand). Had a child and everything was fine. Shortly after, i started having small symptoms again. Had another child and while during my pregnancy they found out I had HPV. There's no cure and no treatment. There's no detecting how and when it started. After having the baby they checked me again and it showed that my HPV wasn't active at the time and didn't need a biopsy but I still had it. Dr told me to get checked every three months because it could become cervical cancer. Well, time went on, no real big symptoms of anything. Just BV-like symptoms. Well, I think it was last week sometime I had an instant itch down there and my finger ran over a sore bump. When my dh was at work I got a mirror to check it out and seen a "sore" there and decided to check out other areas between anal and opening and seen two more "sores". I am freaking out. I have looked online for possibilities and it could be HPV, herpes, syphilis, or chankroid. I think it's mixed with BV. I don't have insurance and I don't have an income. we are living paycheck to paycheck trying to get by. I don't have the money to go to a doctor and get the tests done. I haven't told dh because he still doesn't trust me from what happened. He doesn't even allow me to go out to a movie with my best friend. I can't have any "me" time because he doesn't trust me. I have some pennicilin that I started taking in hopes of it helping me but it's Friday and I'm still seeing these "sores". They aren't getting smaller and they still hurt when touched. I checked today and now there are two more bumps (just doesn't look like a "sore") that look like a dark pink pimple. the pictures I seen on the internet, some of them look like what I have and I look at the symptoms and it's nothing that I have. Then I look for symptoms that I have and compare pictures but the pictures are nothing like what I have. I don't know what to think or even guess what it is. I'm stressing over it because I'm afraid it's something that cannot be cured. I'm irritated, tired, scared, confused, disgusted. If anyone may know what it is, please help.

Oh TK

I'm sure Harris County has a public health clinic where you could go and get checked out. I'm sure they would want to see you right away bc the symptoms you're having are considered community health issues and they really care about getting people healthy. They will only charge you on your ability to pay, which may be entirely free. Google it and see if you can get an appt Saturday morning to see a nurse practitioner. You will feel so much better if you just find out and get some cream or something. Hang in there & keep us posted.

ok, I am all caught up now on several days of posts.. i've been posting and not reading, because i am a big jerk :/

for all of you who are having difficult times in your life, my heart and prayers are with you. we are all here to help and support you, and I am so glad that this forum is here and that we are all comfortable 'talking it out.' It's helped me so much over the last 8 months, I am so grateful for all of you.

there is so much positive here, it just makes me so happy to be involved with all of you. if it wasn't for 3fc, there are a lot of things I would definitely not have accomplished over the last year.

Today after work while I was buying groceries (I work for whole foods) I was checking out, and one of my purchases was a 6 pack of beer. due to a recent issue, i had to actually show my ID instead of just telling the cashier my birthdate like i normally do - with a 9-11 birthday i'm definitely not lying about it, not to mention the fact that my hair is starting to look like salt and pepper shakers - anyway, my id is 5 years old, and the picture, while only my head, definitely looks like a different person, so when I am actually ID'd I often have to explain myself. I did have to let the CS person ringing me up know that it really was me, over 80lbs ago (he did tell me it looked like a different person) and while we were chatting, he mentioned he has lost ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY pounds and has maintained it for the last 18 months. he's an average sized guy, on the skinny/tall side and he ws formerly over 300lbs! .. he showed me HIS drivers liscense and talk about a different person! I was so impressed and amazed I ended up holding up the line because i just wanted to talk to him about it all day....
so that was totally my inspiration for the day!

as you all might be able to tell, i am substituting dinner (i got home at 8) for the 6 pack, and babbling, so i hope you all are having great friday nights!!!
I have to be up at 5am to work tomorrow