Today was a mess......up a # too at WW (I was shocked, I thought I had had a good week!) And just big time burned out from going to a meeting and Walmart, all during my 4 hours off.

Melody- how is Ww going??? I hear ya about bad habits. Think I have to get really strict with myself again. That # gain really ticked me off.

Kerry- well, my sister in sweat, glad you got the tape out. Honestly, I think of you too when I use one of my Leslie tapes......think I will do the "long" tape tomorrow am.

Gotta go.....have a great nite!
Ginny

melody- i started ww a few weeks ago. my first week i only lost one pound but i was trying the core plan instead of the points...i am now doing points. i have found drinking your water is the key.
mouse- i hope that you get to the pool soon, i kno how much you enjoy your swimming.
ginny- i hope things are going better for you and you route. i hated it when i taught kdg when parents would have a different transpotation plan for every day of the week.
kerry- sorry to hear about your gain but i am glad that it got you motivated again.
whoops, gotta go. our labrodoodle just knocked a lamp over. later
this was my weight when i started ww and my goal for 1-1-06

Evening,
Glad everyone had a great day! Just think two more and it is the weekend.
My kids acted really goofy today in my special ed. class and even the kids in the afterschool program. It was getting cold out and looked like rain all day long. But it never rained, so I wonder if it had something to do with the weather changing.
Melody, I hear you about being able to pass up tempatations that use to be your trigger foods. I use to drink Dr. Pepper like it was going out of style. Now if I have a pop it is usually a Diet Coke and I only have it ever once in awhile. I prefer to drink water or unsweetened ice tea. Good for you for passing up the pizza last night. So did you do any of your walking videos yet this week?
Ginny, sorry to hear about your # gain. I bet it came as a shock to you as mine did to me yesterday. We will work together to get it off and more. I have my tape and clothes already for tomorrow morning. I am thinking about trying to do something fitness wise tomorrow evening after work if I can. Hope you had a better evening. Sounds like you had a stessful day.
Trob, so is everything okay with your dog and the lamp? How are things going with you? I think your goal is realistic and I know that you will reach it. I would love to be in the one hundreds by the New Year. So that is my goal for right now.
Hi to everyone else. Sorry have to go since my show came back on (The Biggest Loser). Talk to you all later. Have a great evening.
Kerry

Good morning, everybody.
Ginny: YES... I am going nuts not being able to swim. I can't follow my normal eating plan, either, because almost everything makes me sick right now. They added another anti-nausea drug, but that one has to be taken on an empty stomach. At least this one doesn't make me sleepy, so I can take it during the day. But I'm still not interested in food! I have to admit I am sort of in the "eating what sounds good" mode, because otherwise, I just won't do it. Yesterday I had a half-turkey sandwich for breakfast, didn't get more than the olives out of my "salad" for lunch because of my ED Kiddo and a huge drama performance in the cafeteria (he has before-school detention today and tomorrow because of THAT maneuver!), and dinner just made me sick. I did get some oatmeal later which stayed with me.
My ED kiddo's mom took some advice we gave her because he's buying all kinds of sugar and junk in the cafeteria line, and had a really bad time at the dentist's earlier this week also... so she fixed it with the school so he can only buy LUNCH, nothing else. He tried to buy his usual junk yesterdya, and they wouldn't sell it to him, so he freaked out. He never asked any of the other adults in the cafeteria for help, just slammed the door and ran to our room... screamed at me, and I had to yell back to get his attention and get him in our chill area and following the protocol we have posted for calming down. He totally missed going to work, because we were afraid of what he might do (or not do!) at the hotel, and yesterday was our first day there so we didn't want him to ruin it!
The really sad thing about not eating is that I'm not losing any weight because of it... In fact, I'm probably GAINING weight because I'm eating more carbs, and almost non-existant vegetables. :sigh:
I had been hoping to be able to go swimming in the next 2 weeks because a lot of the vaculitis had healed... most of the big ones are just about gone... but a whole lot of new little ones showed up yesterday!
I need to run: I told the principal I'd be at work before/by AM detention to make sure my kid got where he needed to be. :sigh: A full 30 minutes before I even need to be in the building.

Good morning everyone. The scale is back down to 243! Now I have to just keep going! I AM going to get below 240 before the end of this month!

ECmom, I am sorry about your 1# gain. I am sure you will lose that and more before your next weigh in.

Trob, I am trying to make it a point to drink more water...I am drining a glass now and I buy bottled water at work, but I am still not up to six glasses a day yet, but I am working on it.

Kerry, I still haven't got out my exercise DVDs. My husband got paid yesterday so we decided to drive to the next city south of us (about 35 miles) to go shopping because the mall we have here is really small. So, we didn't get home until about 9pm. I did find some great deals though while shopping. Gymboree had some great clearance on clothes for my son and Belk's had some $10 shirts for my husband which is great for a 3x/4x shirt!

Mouse, your ED child sounds like quite a handful! I had a child have a meltdown yesterday, too. This particular child is going through a medicine change and he's a different child now. Before he was quiet and never ever got in trouble. Now he is pulling hair, hitting, spanking students, yelling at the teacher, crying for no reason...it seems like he is bipolar, but I am not sure. He's in 3rd grade so all this behavior is not good for the regular teacher to deal with.

Well, I hope you all have a good day! It's almost Friday!!!

Hi everyone,
Happy Thursday to everyone! One more day until Friday! Yeah. I am so excited since I started back to working out. I have felt so much better and want to do more things other than work and then come home and sit in front of the tv. So I am glad that I gained that pound this week to open up my eyes again about working out.
Ginny, I thought of you this morning while I did my walk away tape. I am even planning on going into Curves this evening and working out after I get off from the afterschool program. I haven't been there in over a month. So I am glad that you gave me the boost of confidence I needed. Thank you for helping me see the light. So is your day going okay? I hope you were able to get your walk in this morning.
Trob, so how is your student teacher working out? Sounds like you are doing really well on your ww's plan. So has your days started to calm down enough and you don't feel as stressed rushing from one building to the next? So how is your special needs art class? I hope that is going more smoothly for you.
Melody, sounds like you had a nice time shopping last night. You did do some excerise though. Where you walked from store to store. I know that you will get those tapes out and start working out again soon. Look it took me a month of not working out and then I started to work out again. Your get there. So how has your eating been this week? I hope you find victory when you weigh in on Monday evening.
Mouse, I know you will get to go swimming in due time. Did the new one's appear yesterday due to stress over your EDDO kid's performance? Sounds like your hands full yesterday with him. So what kind of work are your kids doing at the hotel? Hope your day is better today. You will get back to eating on a normal schedule here after all of your spots are cleared up. I know it must be very frustrating for you though.
Casey, Angela and Robyn, hope you are all having a good week.
My TA's daughter is a 7th grade cheerleader and they are having a fundraiser at the local Pizza Hut this evening. I normally don't eat there, but because it is her squad I talked my dh into going there this evening for dinner. I think what I will do is get a dinner salad and then only eat 2 slices of pizza. That way I don't over do it.
Well I better go and get some papers graded over my lunch break. I am trying to stay on top of things this year and not let them pile up.
Have a great day!
Chat with you all later.
Kerry

TGIF is only hours away!!! this has been a very LONG week. happy to say that my intern is doing much better. she taught every other class yesterday and taught all but three today. the kids still don't respond to very well and probably never will since she will only be with me four more weeks.
my special needs class has finally gotten into somewhat of a routine... they yell all the time and i try to ignore it. i plan for the 5 students that can do and the other 4 are taken care of by their aides. i try to modify supplies for them but the aide are responsible for getting them to work not me. that has made if much easier. i do have my hand full with the other 5 though and the aides give me NO help with them. but it is all good.
ww weigh in today and i was down 1.5lbs from where i was when i joined.
kerry- i hope you got a good workout at curves. i have got to get myself back to the gym.
melody- i am sure that you will reach your goal of 240 by the end of the month. keep up the good work!! i buy sam's choice water (20 oz each) and put 3 in my fridge every morning at work. i drink all three before i leave each day and then usually end up drinking 16+oz at night. i now crave water.
mouse- i hope that you get to feeling better soon. it sounds like you are having a pretty rough time of it right now. i will keep you in my prayers.
ginny, angela- hope that you guys had a great thursday!!

ww weigh in results.
where i started with ww/ where i am now/ where i want to be by 1-1-07

i like my scales better first thing in the morning...but such is life.

Well ladies no good workout at Curves for me this evening. I had to work 1 1/2 hours extra tonight. There would not have been a teacher there and the aides are not quailfied to be in charge. So I being the nice person that I am said yes. So I get to leave 1 1/2 hour next week, because we are only allow to work 10 hours each week. So I am pretty bummed this evening.
Congrats Trob on your 1.5 pound loss Keep up the good work. Glad to hear that your special needs class is going well.
Hi to everyone else. I am too tired to sit here much longer and chat. Talk to you all tomorrow. Have a great evening!
Kerry

Evening, all. Two posts from me in one day, can you all handle it?

My ED kiddo got to AM detention on time today and was apparently very subdued when he went up with the principal. I wish he had stayed that way, but today wasn't too bad. He fell asleep during reading, and misses huge chunks of detail when he reads... I have asked him the same question every class since we started this book: What happens to the main character on her way home from the library? Its really important: she gets beaten up by bullies (she was in the library because she was hiding from them in the first place), and they steal a special pen. Its because they steal this pen of hers that everything else happens the way it does. He has refused to tell me or tells me he forgot, didn't read that part, whatever, for the past 2 weeks. When I tell him to go back and find it, he goes ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE BEGINNING OF THE BOOK, because he knows that annoys me and my TA.
We haven't gotten past page 12 yet.
I finally got the answer out of him at the end of class today, and the way he said it confirmed that he had, in fact, read that part... I think I'm going to remove the attention he gets in that class by giving him written questions to answer on his AlphaSmart. That way, he can't argue with me or pretend he hasn't read it.
We also started our classroom blog today... and oh, boy, was it HILARIOUS while we were writing it!!! I had one of my seniors start, and first we had to come up with a name. They finally decided to call it 'Blog 150' because that is our room number. Then, we had to WRITE it... I tried to get them to tell about the class, but they didn't get the hints. I did get several sentences (about 3 paragraphs, each with 2 sentences, not bad) about what we were doing in classes. The student used a word-prediction program to help him with his spelling... and therein lies the truly funny part... He's typing, "And then we played 21 questions to guess who had the character was on the card." in the program, and he couldn't find the right word... His first attempt came out like this, "And then, we played 21 questions to guess who had the whiskey." I'm glad I have it set so I have to approve all the blog entries: could you imagine a parent or my principal reading that???? LOL!!!!
The day continued to be funny, because my ED kid has now fixated on our new principal, and is going out of his way to find him and talk in the hallways. He was late for his 2nd period class because of it today. At the end of the day we made salad, which we stuffed into pita bread to eat, as part of our nutrition unit... all the kids ate salad, too, and when we bought the materials, my Spanish speaker actually put the stuff on the belt and said hello to the cashier! That is an objective this year on his IEP because he couldn't do it last year! We asked his parents to take him shopping, and they must be, because he totally knew what to do!
I took my ED kid to wash the dishes. He still had his pita bread left, and refused to leave it in the class... so he washed the dishes and cleaned the sink with the pita hanging out of his mouth. Fortunately, I had the camera and got several pictures of this, becuase it was sooooo funny! We use the little kitchenette in the main office to wash our dishes, too, so half the office staff saw this.
I'll be back later this weekend: going to my mom's tomorrow for Rosh Hashana.

I had a good day. We took a school trip to the fair. They even have a "birthing center." I didn't get to stay long enough to see anything born. Darn. The students were great. They had a hard time paying attention to me or the teacher if we tried to teach them something, but hey there was lots to see. They did learn about the "caution sign for animals may bite" and that tied into our safety theme/curriculum (safety signs). They started thinking all signs said something like that. LOL. They paid attention. That's what counts! Then when we got back, one student (a girl) caught a huge cricket and we tried to see if our pet frog would eat something that big.

Now I'm getting ready to go out of state for dh's 20th reunion. It is going to be BUSY.

I was finally getting my food back under control, especially in relation to school and I even saw the scale move for the first time in over a month! Then I blew it. This week has been crazy. I still feel great about staying away from the work chocolate basket and getting food under control at work. That's a very positive start. I really thought I wasn't gonna get back on there for a while.

Hello All! This year I have got the most talkative class that I have ever seen. I have tried the punishments, room rearrangement, warnings, I even had the principal say something when he came in for my observation. I have the tables compete during transition so they actually talk less then. They talk during assignments, in the hall, in line, even during instruction. They have taken to yelling in the cafeteria. We (3 classes that sit together) have started having silent lunches due to the talking. It is so frustrating. On top of that I have one who talks back or has a comment about everything I say even if I am talking to someone else.

I started a cute writing project with them today. They brought in several different cereal boxes which I attached to the bulletin board. They have to creat a new cereal. Write a paragraph to sell the cereal and design the box. It is turning out so cute.

FIL is doing better. His blood sugar was very low. Tuesday he had surgery to put the stint in his arm so he can begin dialysis soon. I hope it gives him more energy.

My weight has leveled off. Not gaining, not losing but I feel like my body is getting smaller. Today my pants felt like they were going to fall off. I could have pulled them off without unbuttoning them. And I just bought them this summer. I am ready for the weekend to get here. I want to sleep in!!!! Well my baby has finally fallen asleep so I guess we are headed to bed. Now if I can lay him down without him waking up we will be good to go. Mean while dh is sawing logs on the couch. I guess I better put him to bed too.

Good morning!
Came here for a mental health break. Thank goodness it is Friday .
I for one, am tired of being a mature and responsible person and would LOVE a day or so with noone pulling on me to do something. Dream on Ginny.......this weekend is already full of stuff to do. This morning I'm going out with a coworker for breakfast. I did sneak in 20 minutes on the treadmill- and hope to walk again later. Gotta get myself motivated (and I am having a tough time doing that).

trob- congrats on the weight loss........

Angela- sounds like a non scale victory to me! Great that those pants feel looser- sometimes it takes a week or so for the scale to reflect changes in the body.

Mouse- sorry the lack of swimming is getting to you (but I can't imagine me not walking, so I know what not being able to swim must do to you). Try not to let that ED kid get to you....it's Friday and you can recharge your batteries.

Casey- enjoy your trip this weekend. Sounds as though you did conquer some food demons- so that is good news. Try to focus on the positive things you did, not the negative food mishaps.

Kerry, well, I thought of you while on the treadmill.......sorry you did not get to Curves, but at least you did get a tape in. Hope today is not too hectic for you. Glad that you are feeling better from working out!

Gotta go sniff some diesel fumes.........Have a great Friday!
Ginny
(Robyn- miss your wit and wisdom!)

Good Morning! TGIF! I just wanted to drop in for a minute and let you all know that Weight Watchers is really working! I weighed in at 247 on Monday and today I am at 241! Before I was watching what I was eating, but I must have been eating more than I thought because I wasn't losing much. Now I am writing everything down and it is helping tremendously.

Have a good Friday!

Good morning, everybody. A real quick hello before I head to class.
I never made it to my mom's house last night because of my ED kid. :sigh: He wasn't doing badly, even with the emergency preparedness drill. He did his work during English, and it was all writing, so I was kind of surprised... They had to write descriptions of themselves that looked like a sample I gave them. The sample described our TA... at least 2 of the kids didn't get that part. Our TA has brown skin, a mustache and was wearing blue school shirt yesterday. He's also almost 6 feet tall. My ED kiddo decided that description matched one of our assistant principals: white, 5'5, wearing a black shirt and jeans yesterday! One of my girls decided that described ME... I just looked at her and said, "I REALLY hope you don't think I have a mustache!". I know the endocrine disorder makes me grow hair where it shouldn't, but its not THAT bad! :giggle: We'll keep working at it, but this was a huge improvement over earlier this week when they couldn't even write their hair and eye color.
Then, we had our drill. My Spanish speaker did FANTASTIC! Usually, these are really hard for him, but we told him to find his homeroom teacher. I walked with him to the staging area, he found his teacher, and stuck to him like glue. When we were done, he found me again to walk back. And then he stepped in a hole. I grabbed for him... and found the hole myself. He's fine, I sprained my left ankle again... but its a really mild sprain. I can move it, and it didn't swell much at all. They made me call my doctor, but she didn't want to see me... that made me happy. So, we played Monopoly instead of going to Target for community instruction because I couldn't walk that well.
Then we had math. And my ED kiddo put on a really nice performance for the consulting teacher. In a way, I'm glad he did it, because she was able to see that we have supports in place with incentives, discipline, protocols, and such... that we're following his behavior plan, and tracking. She told us that we did a really nice job in the class with the kids, which was good.
I had another teacher come down to tell me that during class change he threatened another kid in the other ED class, by slamming his fist in his hand, and making noise. Bad idea: the kid he picked to threaten is a known gang member. :sigh: He did this on Monday to another kid in our class and was told then (and remembered) that if it happened again, he would lose all of his privileges in the building. So, starting on Monday, he is going to be escorted everywhere in the building, he cannot eat lunch in the cafeteria, he is on total pass restriction, and I will have to think about whether or not he is allowed to get his lunch in the line. Our kids consider it a privilege to choose their lunch: if they get in real trouble in class, my TA or I get their lunches for them, and we don't get any of the "good stuff", no hamburgers or pizza... just whatever is in the hot lunch line. And plain milk, no chocolate or strawberry.
My administrator is backing me on this, and we're going to tie his earning his privileges back to his point sheet.
Okay... I'm going to class. I have to write behavior plans when I come back here, but I'm going to stop at the kosher deli on the way back since I didn't get to my mom's house. I was a really bad girl yesterday for dinner: long johns silve.r All fried. I don't do it often, but its been twice this month.
And I can't swim, so that makes it worse. I'm still not too interested in eating, so I'm still eating what I want. Bad, bad, bad... I don't think I've gained a lot of weight, because my smaller size clothes still fit, and I bought new pants that aren't "forgiving" the way my old knit ones were... plus, this store cuts really small (their idea of a 3X is 24-26; I normally wear 2X in pants!), and they still fit. But... We'll see.

Hey ladies........
Well after many months of computer mishaps I have finally found my way back home. For months, everytime I tried to get on this site it crashed my computer.........I've been trying to read back and see what everyone has been up to. I have, let's just say, fallen off the wagon. Oh, it's bad....
For those of you I don't know...I'm a sixth grade Math/Science teacher in North Carolina. Married with two kids, one who is ten, and one who, in eighteen days, will turn 21.
I had lost 40 pounds as of last March, but in the span of six months, have managed to very easily gain twenty pounds back. I had stopped doing weight watchers stopped walking, spent the summer going back and forth between NC and Virginia Beach helping my brother and mom. Now, I am in a state. As I lost out of my clothes, I decided to donate them so that I would not have an excuse to fall back to my "fat clothes". However, in the summer most of my clothes consist of shorts and t shirts. Once it came time to get the school clothes out, I was in a state of shock. TIIIIIIIIGGGGHHHHHHHHTT!
So, here I am again.....Not quite in the same pitiful situation I was in. But, I think I am ready to get back on track now.....
Robyn, Ginny, Mouse, Kerry.........Can I come back??????????I miss you guys.
Hey to everyone else.....Have a great day!
Pam