hi pam- i am a K-5 art teachers from arkansas and i know all about falling off the wagon. all you can do is climb back on and begin your journey once more. last spring i lost 16 lbs doing ww. by the end of july i had gained 10 back. but i have gotten in gear and have been able to 11lbs. just keep the faith and don't get discouraged.

i am so excited...my weight this morning was the lowest that i have been in over 12 yrs. now my weight at ww is not this but i am fully dressed and it is at the end of the day so some of my posts my reflect that weight...not anymore!! i am sticking with my scales.
drum roll please!!!!!!

beginning weight is when i started ww three weeks ago and my goal is for 1-1-07

Morning Everyone,
Just a quick note to say hi! I have to go to my sdd's volleyball games here shortly. I still have to jump in the shower too. Just wanted to check in a see how everyone's weekend is going so far.
Mouse, sounds like you had a long day yesterday. Glad you made it through it with the support of your adminstration. So what class are you off to today?
Pam, welcome back. Wondered what happen to you. Glad you are okay and came back to chat with us. Don't worry I fell off the band wagon too over the summer. I had to babysit my stepkids every day of the week while my dh worked a summer job at the local pool. So I ate a lot of meals of convinence and didn't get to workout much. Then school started and I just let those habits carry over into the first month of school. I gained like 10 to 14 pounds since the end of last school year. So I am back on the wagon now and working out again. I have done my walking tapes 4 days in a row and watched what I ate. The scales were down this morning, so I hope they are still that way on Tuesday night. So we will work through these times together. How does that sound? Once again glad to have you back!
Hi to everyone else. Hope you are having a great weekend! Just looked at the clock. Only have an hour before my sdd's volleyball game. Still need to get my shower, dress, and stop at the store on the way to the game. So I will check in later with you all.
Have a great day!
Kerry

Good morning everyone.

Trob, I notice on your post that you made it to 199! Congratulations! I can't wait to get out of the 200's! I hope I can get to 199 by Spring Break.

Pam, my name is Melody and I am 31. I am married with a 4 year old son named R.J. I teach K-3 Special Education as an Inclusion teacher...I basically go from class to class and help my kids to be successful. I have 18 students in 8 different classes. I fell off the wagon over the summer, too, while I was stressed out building and buying a house. I am back on track now. I joined Weight Watchers on Monday and I am going to stick with the program this time until I am a lifetime member!

Well, I hope everyone has a good weekend. Today I am going to be busy cleaning house and doing laundry. Tommorrow my parents, my brother and his wife, and my uncle and his wife are all coming to my house for a cookout for my Mom's 59th birthday. I saved all of my extra 35 flex points for the week to cover anything I might eat tomorrow that is over my normal 28 point goal.

Talk to you all again later.

Trob-Congratulation on your weight loss. You are doing great! Wish I could do that good. Keep up the good work.

Just a quick hello........Dd had a soccer game today and the other a double header softball game tomorrow.
Pam's back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You stinker, where ya been hiding.

Sorry to be short. Gotta get my fat rump in gear.
Ginny

Good Evening All,
Hope you all had a great day! I had a good day. We went to my sdd's volleyball games. Her team won both of them. But instead of playing just two innings or whatever you want to call it for both games, they had to play a third time. Then my dh and I went to lunch. Came home to watch the Ohio State and ended up catching the last couple minutes of the 4th quarter because I laid down to take a nap.
So what did you all do this afternoon?
Ginny you would be proud of me. I did my walking video again this morning. So I am slowly picking myself back up again.
Well my dh just told me we need to met a friend in less than 15 minutes. Talk to you all later.
Have a great evening!
Kerry

Morning...
I didn't do anything I was supposed to do yesterday, with the result that I'll have to do it all today. In a few minutes, I'm going to the grocery store to get a prescription filled and see if I can't find some things that look like food for lunch. I also want some celery sticks, and maybe some fat-free veggie dip. And I need my diet soda. I'm hoping if I go early, it won't be too crowded, and I'll get a close parking space. The ankle is way better, but it still a little sore. At least this time, I didn't do it big and bad like normal!
I also need to do the laundry... that's going to get hung to dry before I leave because I really need to wash my quilts.
Then I'm going to do the behavior plans, work on my ED kiddo's IEP, and my lesson plan for my graduate class. Also, see if I can't upload some samples for my portfolio which is a major grade for our class. I need to get ahead of the game, because the math class I have to take (because they wouldn't give me credit for the one I sat through this summer!) starts Monday. Both classes end about the same time.
My graduate class is called 'Technology and the New Science of Learning', and its basically how to integrate technology into your classroom. I do a lot of this already, but I'm always wondering about some new ways to do it or make it work better. It also helps that as I get better at it, people are more willing to give me what I ask for... so we have 2 school-owned desktops, with printer... my old laptop (because, hopefully, Staples will be open when I'm done at the store and I can buy the security cable for the laptop!), with a printer, scanner and CD-burner (that only works half the time), and 3 school-owned alphasmarts. That means, all of my kids should be able to type their work at all times.
Do we really think I'll get all this stuff done today? Probably not. Maybe some of it. See you all later!

mouse- good luck getting everything done today. i really wish that i could get ALL my laundry done but that NEVER happens around here. i did get my house all clean friday night in about 30 mins. i don't think that i have ever moved so fast in my life. i cleaned bathrooms, dusted, vacuumed, and cleaned the kitchen. my son decided at 5:30 to invite a bunch on friends over and our house looked like we had just moved in....it looks like that every friday. today we are thinking about getting out and doing some hiking. we have had a lot of rain the past few days and know that the waterfalls in the area are really going to be moving. dh and ds are feeling the need to get out and get some photos taken, they both sell a lot of arkansas game and fish. well i am going to run and start a load of clothes. i hope that you have a wonderful day.

Morning Everyone,
Mouse, I wish you luck getting a major portion of your work done today. I have some papers to grade, put in the grade book, write my lesson plans and go to Wal-mart and buy my food for this week and a few household items. So I know that my Sunday is pretty much shot like yours. Glad to hear your ankle is feeling better.
Trob, sounds like you put on your Superman cape on Friday night to clean your house. LOL Enjoy your hike this morning. It has rained for the last several days here too. It looks like it is going to rain again today. So I guess no outside walking for me today between doing my chores.
Hope everyone else is enjoying their weekend!
Have a great Sunday!
Kerry

Welcome back Pam!! I am Angela a 4th grade teacher in Louisiana. I have 2 boys 3 and 3 months.

Congratulations Trob! I bet you were doing a major happy scale dance.

This morning my scale decided to move again. Yay!! Lost another pound. I guess getting my but in gear and walking 2 miles each day has helped. We stayed holed in the house all weekend trying to get my boys over their colds. I got most of my house cleaned and laundry done. I even had some time to do a little scarpbooking. Well time to send my boys to the tub. I hope everyones Monday turns to be a great start of the week.

way to go angela!!!!
trob

I am pleased to announce that I really did get everything I planned to do done...
Went to the store, although the bag of corn chips I bought wound up being dinner (bad idea, but the rest of the dinner tasted bad to me, and got tossed).
Got some stuff uploaded, but then the website that Hopkins keeps their digital portfolios on crashed. I'm not at all certain I've done it correctly...
I worked on the lesson plan, and have come to the conclusion that I don't like the format. We're supposed to "write a lesson plan that will work for you". The problem is that there is way too much stuff on the form for my kid to accomplish in one 90 minute period. I'm lucky if we get through a drill, a small individual activity, and sharing, especially for writing... Math is the same way, and I find it truly chaotic because I'm trying to teach an individual lesson, plus still keep the other kids occupied. History/Science is better, but still a bit chaotic. The people who have observed class don't think it is.
I did all 3 behavior plans and got some stuff on the IEP form, but not as much as I would like. I also planned for 1st period Reading, to remove the attention my ED kiddo gets when he doesn't do his work. I made a direction sheet for him, which will hopefully give him less opportunity to argue or complain. I can only imagine what kind of mood he'll be in by first period since he's going to be met at the front door by me, and have to talk to the principal.
I'm truly regretting that decision to trash the dinner and eat cornchips. I know better than to do that kind of thing to myself, especially now when I already get sick without half trying! :sigh:

Went out of town this weekend. Even though I ate Mexican food twice, I portion controlled well, ate only what I wanted, and ate healthy many times.
I was EXHAUSTED this weekend. Long story.

Then while I was on vacation my Principal emailed me and told me my job changes this week. I DON'T like it. My favorite part of every day is the morning during language arts time. I have my own center. It's no biggie, just a word study/spelling word center, but it makes me feel like a teacher because I get to come up with my own materials and lesson plans. I also learn alot about the kids and how they think there which helps me learn how to help the teacher with them the rest of the day. I feel like a team instead of "just" an aide or a babysitter. I'm probably the only aide that does that and the other teachers don't allow that. So I'm being moved during my favorite time to another classroom to do what the teacher tells me to do. I know it is because the kid in that class has a cochlear ear implant and they want people who can talk to him and listen to him vocally during language arts time (phonetics, etc). He has special issues and I'm pretty good with adapting lesson plans (it's what I did last year). Part of me is incredibly selfish and says, uuummm...the teacher can hear and talk too. I know that half 1/3 of the time he will be with a deaf aide during that time, but get over it. I love my class. I need to teach part of the time so that I feel connected to them. I don't want to be a babysitter. I was fortunate with this class and I want to stay there. I know I don't have a choice. Interestingly she is moving 3 of us, just to get me in that one class. I know others are not happy either becuase the aide that is being put with my teacher is like the worse combination ever. Needless to say, I'm nervous about tomorrow.

DeafinlySmart,

I am sorry about your schedule change. This happened to me recently, too. I had my schedule made up just the way I wanted it, but then the head of special education came in and changed all the Special Education teacher schedule. Now, I don't even see some of my students because they put a Special Ed. Assistant with them instead of me. The new schedule puts me with the 3rd graders more because they are worried about the test scores in May. I go in one 3rd grade room 3 times per day and then part of the day I am with 1 1st grade class, 1 2nd grade class and 2 kindergarten classes for about 45 minutes each.

Well, I hope your new schedule will work out for you.

Today I have my first WW weigh in. I am hoping the scale will show at least 4-5 pounds. Yesterday the scale was at 240 (-7), but this morning it says 242 (-5), but by 5pm it will probably be up a pound of two...it always goes up later in the day.

Talk to you all soon.

Hi everyone,
Hope you are all off to a great start for your week. Today is going okay for me. I got my walking video in this morning. So I am happy since that makes it 6 days in a row that I have walked for 30 minutes, which equals a two mile walk. So I am really hoping that my numbers on the scales go down tomorrow evening. Keep your fingers crossed!
Trob, so did you get your hike in yesterday? It was nice yesterday afternoon, so I went to the local lake and to a walk around it. Helped to clear my head since had another fight with my dh about my weight loss. Then I was able to come home and work on my lesson plans for this week. Hope you have a great weigh-in at WW's this week.
Melody, congrats on the weight loss. I am sure the scales will show all the hard work you have done this past week. Keep up the great work!
Casey, did you enjoy your weekend away though? Sounds like you eat healthy and kept busy. Sorry to hear about your schedule change. I know that you will be able to adjust to the change, it will just take some time to get use to it. But that child will be rewarded with the time you spend with him.
Angela, congrats on the pound loss. Keep up the great work! So you started to walk two miles a day too. I love walking outside. But sometimes my schedule doesn't allow that so I do my Walk Away the Pounds tapes in the mornings before getting ready for school. So how are the boys? I hope they are over their colds. My class all have snotty noses. I keep telling them to blow their noses and then here is the germ-x. I just hope that I don't end up with it.
Mouse, sounds like you got a lot of work done yesterday. I did make it to the store, went for a walk, did my lesson plans and did grade a few papers. Then I spent the rest of the evening watching tv. Don't beat yourself up ove r the corn chips. You will get back to your normal eating schedule today. Hope your kids had a great start to a new week.
Ginny, Pam and Robyn how was your weekends? I hope you were able to find time to relax and enjoy yourselves. Hope you are having a great day!
Well I have to get some work done on my lunch break, so I am closing for now. Chat with you all later.
Take care,
Kerry