Hey everyone. I've been reading posts for the last few days but haven't really gotten up to posting. My birthday was last Wednesday so now I'm officially 30. I don't think I'm down about that anymore. Just down. I haven't been tracking foods and eating as good the last few days but I must be doing okay because I still lost pounds. My son got sick Thursday so I left work early and went and got him and brought him home. All he wanted to do was lay on the floor. No where else just the floor. He never threw up again but he was obviously not himself. He didn't want to eat or drink anything. Daddy stayed home with him Friday and about halfway through the day he started being himself again and then I started feeling iffy. Saturday I was nauseous but nothing else and had to work. But I made it through the day at work with Pepto and very little food. I didn't want to call in cause Saturdays are awful and another lady was sicker than me but I wonder if I gave it to anybody. But if they made it easier to call in I wouldn't have had to worry. Yesterday i felt about 80% of myself. Still ate soup. Today I have off but Aiden feels fine and he's my little terror so no rest.

I'm starting to have that feeling again where I stop trying to lose weight but I don't want to. It could be the just general blahs. I try to talk to my hubby but he is on medication for depression and is unpredictable with how he is feeling so half the time it becomes a discussion about him so I just don't bother. He wonders why I get angry so often. I've gone back to drinking Caffeine which I know I shouldn't cause it just makes the emotional problems worse. I'll stop that'll help a bit. I just have to get through it. I can't get to the gym again until Thursday but I'm thinking of going shopping today so I'll get some walking in.

Well I guess that's enough for now. I here someone getting into something in the other room. Talk to ya'll later.

Good morning, Bluesers!

Today is my official weigh-in day and I've lost another .8 of a pound. Not exactly zooming along like I'd hoped, but it is a loss so I can't really complain.

Vixjean - Congratulations on your 1.8 pound loss! BTW, will doing Carmen's workout make me look like her? *sigh* I can only dream, huh? My Hubby got those dvd's for me about a year ago(Yeah, he's a fan) but I've not ever tried them. Maybe I'll give them a try.
Purple - No more menus for me! From now on, I will know what I'm ordering before I step one foot into a restaurant. Regarding pictures and measurements, I'll take my measurements today but no pictures yet. I've not lost enough and I'm not really exercising to make any big changes in my body yet.
Zinke - I'm getting excited about running, too!
Blue Apples - It was so good to hear from you!
Kris - Sounds like you've hit the dreaded plateau. Have you considered doing some form of calorie cycling? In her book 'Winning by Losing,' Jillian Michaels teaches to calculate your calorie requirements for the week, then pick varying ranges for each day while aiming for your weekly total. Apparently, this keeps your body guessing and not settling into a plateau.
Jordan - I'm sorry that the binges are back again. Can you seek help with your doctor or maybe with Overeaters Anonymous? It must be incredibly difficult to face this battle on your own.
Fran - Thanks for suggesting the book. I plan on picking up a copy and keeping it in my glove compartment in the truck. For me, planning is the key component to staying on-plan and that calorie book will help me avoid the restaurant fiascos.
Vanessa - Its always good to find our triggers, but sorry it took a disagreement with the ex to help you find it. Have you come up with a plan to combat the feelings next time?
Krispie - I'm done with winter, too! This weather makes me feel like napping.
Karen - Periodically, I get the weight loss blahs and have to remind myself of why I'm putting in all of this effort. Have you taken your measurements? How about reading through the goal posts and looking at the pictures? Hearing about other people's joy with reaching goal is always a great motivator for me.

My plan for today: I need to get more diligent about tracking my calories. I tend to stop tracking around dinner and start estimating. I also need to stop procrastinating and get on the treadmill. My weight loss is slowing down and I'm not willing to cut my calories quite yet....so, that leaves only one option. Sweat equity!

Hope everyone has a great on-plan day.

Hey, friends. I am taking a freebie this week. With Meara's throwing up for three days, I just did not have time to track everything, and the result was a slight, but manageable gain.

I also am starting with a new calorie count. Seeing the old one was getting depressing. SO I am putting last year behind me. Now that we are treating my issues, it is the perfect time to renew. Clean slate, new meds, moving toward my goal.

Have a great day everyone!

Hey everyone

Just wanted to update you all on a few things since me being sick really DOES have an affect on lots of areas in my life.

I'm still sick with strep throat and I'm having a hard time sleeping through the nights because of constant coughing. I'm on antibotics still and I'm taking Tylenol for the pain but nothing is putting a curb on the night time coughing.

Thankfully, my boss has 3 little ones and he knows if I come in I'm going to be passing this junk along to them through him. I've been off from work since Thursday and I may not even go in tomorrow.

The good news is I weighed in and I'm down a half a pound despite my TOM and this sickness. However, with me being sick and not at work, I don't have access to a lot of things that I use to manage challenge stuff (ie the Blue Team's weigh in chart, the cruise info)

So as far as the Blue's Cruise goes.... please keep logging your money. I plan on posting the next destination along with the past 2 weeks winners as soon as i get back into work.

The weigh in is a bit tricky, only because I really dont have a locked in date as to when I'm going back to work. It would be nice to say tomorrow, but I know I'm still not up to going back health wise even if my boss says its fine. I may have to post Blue Team results later than normal, but I assure you that I'll have things up and moving when I get better.

I'm really sorry all of this is so sudden and out of the blue, but I really don't get sick very often, and when I do its a doosey. I've never had strep throat before but I'm praying to God I never get it again. It's really not fun.

If you need any help with anything, I'm pretty sure that Melissa or Julie are willing to lend a hand while I'm out of commission. Let's just make sure we keep that train running until I get back!

Love - chellez

Hey everyone. I had to take a free week this weigh-in. Work is insane this week and I worked overtime this weekend, and will probably be working overtime every night this week. I'll be back later to read all the new posts, as I haven't managed to get on here in 3 days.

Hey everyone,

I went to WI this morning and was down a little over a pound. So, I hopefully have broken through my plateau. I will try to get back on in a bit. But, I need to get the house cleaned good while DS is at school and DD is at granny's.

Have a great day.

Dionne...wtg on the loss!

Karen...a Happy Belated Birthday to you!

Chelle...get better soon! DH has the same thing so I know what you are going thru.

Nothing new with me...been lurking, just nothing to say really. I am down a pound and even though it's frustrating, considering how hard I am working I will take it!

Have a good week!

Hi everyone!
School sucks! lol. I've been so stressed with everything...but at least I haven't been pigging out.
I haven't exercised much either. Only 2 times this month. I'm so upset, but the whole roomie thing has been making me sick. Literally, she stinks so bad!
She's supposed to be moving out today, so hopefully, that goes through. I think I'll be able to at least concentrate once this room doesn't smell like weed-coffee/unwashed booty/feet. My friend describes it as the 1000 year funk.
But I can say that I haven't gained anything these three weeks. I've been watching what I eat...and I drink tons of water, so that works. Since she's leaving today, I can get back to this Kundalini yoga since I'll be able to breathe! ^_^
I feel so bad that I haven't kept up with the forum much...I have a Japanese midterm tomorrow, and I've been studying and working. I can't use my computer at work anymore...stupid rule they have now, so no more internet. And I'm hardly ever here too. But my size 14 pants I got for christmas are starting to fall off!!! ^_^ I've still got a huge butt(lol), but my tummy is getting smaller. This week, I'm getting back into the routine, I miss it!

I don't have much to say. This has been a bad week for me. I did exercise 5/7 days and one day I was on the treadmill twice. The workouts haven't been the problem. It's been the food. I've been trying to blame it on ovulation ( I really do think I eat more then) but I know that isn't all of it. It's been a little tense here while we wait to see if DH gets the job he applied for. It'll mean big changes as he won't be home during the week until we can get moved. Then we have to try to sell our existing house when the market is crazy bad and there are no jobs here. We are trying to figure out if we can even handle renting where the new job is and making the payments on this one until it sells. As long as he gets the hours promised we 'should' be okay but until then it is a waiting game. As a result my eating is horrible. I've been trying to find things to sidetrack myself as much as possible but then I cave and things go downhill fast.

Then to top it off daycare told me again they don't have room for the kids tomorrow (we are drop in most of the time) and I HAVE to get to work tomorrow. I don't have anyone else to fall back on. URGHH!!!!

Just thought I'd stop in and say hi to everyone. It's been forever since I've had any extra time to get on here. I'm taking a free week this weigh-in. I did really bad this week. I didn't track any of the food I ate and I'll just say I ate way to much junk food. I didn't exercise at all.

Brianna went back to school today the first time in school since the 11th. She has been very sick and still is not 100% better. It's been really hard dealing with her being so sick. Now our son has a double ear infection. Does it every end???????????????????????

Today I'm back on track. I did a 35 minute work on this morning at 7:30 then my mom came over and we rode bikes for about 20 minutes. We then walked, jogged & did some jumping jacks for another 20 mintues or a little longer.

I've wrote down everything I've ate today and I plan on working out one more time this evening and maybe taking another walk this evening.

I hope everyone is doing good. I hope to be able to get on here and post more now that I should have a little more time with Brianna back in school.

hi everyone! Looks like we have a lot of sick little ones and freebie weeks as a result...I hope everyone feels better soon (you too, chellez!).

I'm serious business this week since Friday is my final WI for the month and so far I've only lost 2 lb all month! I want at least 5 lb. so I'm really hitting the exercise and nailing my calories and fat grams this week. I am feeling really again so hoping to get the numbers rolling faster for March.

Well, fellow Bluesers! I hope you all had a wonderful OP day to start this week with!

PAM - I'm so sorry that you are having such a run with sickness this winter. Hopefully this will be it now. It's so nice that you and your Mom are doing this together!

ANNA - what do you mean by "new cal count"? Is DD better now? The stomach flu is so hard for them. Did DS get it also? My girls literally don't understand why they are throwing up when we get it.

CHELLEZ - I hope you are feeling better soon also. As far as the strep goes, once you've been on antibiotics for a couple days you *should* feel better. But if you have other crap (viral stuff) along with the strep, you'll feel ad still. I had strep for the first time last summer and I was so sick. I have a new sympathy for anyone with strep.

THERESA - I also like to be totally prepared with what I'm going to order when we go out. I go online and decide what I'm going to order, log it and then go eat it! GL to finishing out this month strong! Big push this week!!

ZINKE - did you get childcare arrainged? That sucks. We are drop in at daycare also and so far it hasn't been a problem. I really hope your stress level goes down a notch soon. Stress isn't good for our weightloss quest!

VICTORIA - GL on your Japanese midterm! I'm also glad that stinky girl is out of your room today! The "1000 year funk" you described made me cringe.

DIONNE - Congrats on breaking the plateau!

RHONDA - I also tend to slack off on counting calories at dinnertime. Gotta stick with it! WTG on losing more weight this week! How's the exercise?

KAREN - HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! And chin up! Look how far you've come! What's the alternative, actually? It'd be even worse blahs. Did you go shopping? Share!

KRIS - I do share your frustrations! Play around with calories and exercise. Losing the inches IS fantastic, but I know how you feel about wanting to see it on the scale!

JORDAN - I am so sorry that you are struggling. Fiber One has been bad for me at times also. I do understand and share your frustration over the mystery of binge eating. It's cruel. Out of curiosity, are you *healthy food* binges "as bad" as the junk food ones? Mine are not. The difference of 500 cal vs 3000. It's much easier to snap out of the healthy food ones.

FRAN - WOW! I'm impressed with you 1/2 hour on the treadmill and even running some of it! Once you have the right shoes on you'll probably be off to the races. What is you fitness emphasis? Cardio and weights, I know - but more of one?

VANESSA - good for you for identifying a trigger for your overeating. Hopefully that'll help you from now on out. Obviously your ex isn't going to not make you frustrated, but you can deal with it in another way now instead of taking it out on yourself!

Hi FrouFrou, Dee, Shannon, Heather, Ginger, Kelly, Selina, Vicki...and anyone else I'm not remembering right now! I haven't looked at the weigh in thread for this week yet. Gotta run take a peek!

Wow, we are losing quite a few more people I think? Sad. We had such a HUGE number last week, it's totally normal for it to be slower this week. We did good though! Kelly was our biggest loser I think!!

Ok Everyone! I have yet another update...

at this rate I could work for NBC with all my updates

My boss has asked me to come into work tomorrow for about an hour just to cut checks and write up delivery tickets etc. He doesn't want me there longer than necessary because he doesn't want the office infected. So I'm going into work tomorrow from noon until 1 pm EST.

So guess what that means! We WILL have weigh in results tomorrow and the cruise will be updated!

I plan on at least getting the weigh in results and stuff up around noon, then I'm going to forward a copy of everything to my email so I can come home and work on challenge stuff from here the rest of the day.

My throat is starting to feel better today, but of course the worst part is sleeping so we'll see how that goes in about 30 minutes.

I'm really glad that I do get a chance to get everything caught up tomorrow. I was going to be really upset if the challenge had to suffer because of me being sick.

Chow!

To add to our list of sickness - my son has a cold... this means I cant visit my father, I actually cried in front of him, after much phoning around I couldnt get anyone to look after him He said, "why are you crying mummy?" "cause I miss my daddy I told him"... I think that was part of it and again frustration at my ex, and my friends all had committments... "any other time but..." BOO HOO!

Rhonda - I think I will deal with my overeating by getting back in touch with my creative side... I love quilting, needlework,cardmaking and scrapbooking and I have a massive horde, and getting involved in projects does take my mind off food! I also know if I exercise frustration doesnt get the better of me! So I can also do a workout!!!