I am going back to my points. I will continue to avoid white stuff, but if that's all I have in the house then I'm eating it, or if would require me to cook a seperate meal I am eating it. Staying within my points will help me keep white stuff in moderaration. I got annoyed with points before b/c it seemed my whole life was counting points. I loved the Boot Camp plan early on when I created interesting and healthy meal plans that left me full and satisfied. Only it cost me well over $100 a week in groceries to do that and I can't afford that.
I found some great freezer recipes so I am trying to decide how I want to go about creating my own "lean cuisines". Maybe make a large batch of one or two meals every week that I can freeze to create a collection of meals over a few weeks.
I will be focusing on exercise this week. I almost slept in, but after hitting the snooze I realized I was sabotaging myself. So I got up at 5:20 am and headed out the door. It felt good and now I don't feel like I have slacked off, it's done it's out of the way and I am proud of myself. I would have liked to have gone furtehr than I did, but the kids I watch were coming early this morning.
Well all I hope your week goes well. I hope we here from some of our otehr friends. Take care.
~misty
Morning. It is a bit depressing to see that it is week 10 and I've basically accomplished nothing since the beginning. I can't even muster motivation to say that I'll bust my butt to lose a few lbs in the next 3 weeks. I weighed in yesterday and I"m still about the same so no surprise there. Just grateful that I haven't had any significant gain considering what is going on around here. Bless you Misty for having the courage to keep up your weight chart. I caved in a few weeks ago and got rid of it because it was depressing me more than anything else.
Well I'm a right little ray of sunshine this morning aren't I? My hair is driving me nuts because I want to grow it out and it is in the stage where it is hanging in my face, my husband is a complete jerk for too many reasons to go into, my house is a complete and utter mess, I have to work nights for the next 3 nights so I'm going to be so tired for 3 days and I'll spend all of Thursday sleeping no doubt and then Friday running around trying to get stuff done that I have ignored all week. About the only wonderful thing in my life right now is my sweet little boy who is about 99% potty trained, almost always happy and smiling and always good for a cuddle and a kiss. I think if I could do anything in this world it would honest to goodness wish to be 3 years old again and not be worried about anything except which toy to play with next.
Well I'm thoroughly depressed now so it's probably a good time to end now and figure out what to do with the rest of my day before I have to go work. I think I"m going to try and catch another couple of hours of sleep and then maybe I will hit the gym later, that might boost me a bit and I'll post back with a little cheer later on.
Sorry I'm sounding so down lately. I'm a bit better now. I went and had another little sleep and then did a bit of housework this afternoon. I'm wishing I had pushed myself to go to the gym as I had wanted to but I didn't. Oh well. I'm going to walk over to daycare to pick up my son so that will be a bit of exercise. Hope you had a good day Misty and see you tomorrow.
Jen-No problem, we all need to vent sometime. I hope your day got brighter. Mine was so so. I went over my points, but I wrot eit down and counted it against my flex points. DH wanted spaghetti for dinner, so I skipped it.
Hi Misty, just wondering how you've been doing. I've been on nights the past 2 nights and this is the last one tonight until Sunday. I'm really tired but not as bad as I've been in the past. I was able to sleep last night on my break at work and I slept pretty good today. I'm not even worrying about eating or exercise right now. It's all I can do to keep going with work. Things are not too bad with my husband. I told him I was tired of him giving me the silent treatment and I think that kind of got through so he's been at least civil to me. Take care, hope things are okay with you .
Everything here is going farily well, Jen. It sounds like you are making it through and that's good. I'm glad your husband is leveling off a bit, hopefully it will continue and it will improve. I haven't been great with my points, but I have written down everything I ate, no cheating there. And hey I'm down a pound, so I know I'm doing better. Maybe it's all the water I have been drinking (like 80-100 ounces a day). CUrrently I am making out meal plans and I hope to do some make ahead stuff that I can freeze. It will allow me to cook, which I LOVE, and control my diet no more grab it b/c it's easy. I will have healthy meals ready to go. Hopefully, that is if I get the plans finished and into master cook and go shopping.
Well DD is screaming at me so got to go! Seems like that's all she does these days, cry and throw herself, she turns two next week so go figure.
Hey there. Is she starting the terrible two's already? In my opinion they start at about 18 months and don't stop! Apparently when they turn 4 they are very affectionate and better behaved so I'm looking forward to that. I can't complain really as my son is a real sweetheart about 90% of the time and we just finished up potty training so that is a real bonus. Not even worried about what I am eating while I am on these nights. I figure I need the calories to keep going considering how tired I've been. I had a pretty good sleep today, slept better and longer than I did on Tuesday. I'll be off thurs, fri and sat, back in for a night on Sunday and then I'm not sure what my schedule is but nothing so far like what I've just done. It was insane to schedule 3 nights in a row. I won't be doing that again soon!!! So I'm going to try to get to the gym later on today (it being almost 2am) after I've slept a bit, even if I just get in for half hour on the elliptical machine. Husband was acting okay earlier, we'll see how he is thurs night after work and in the evening.
Great job in journalling your food. I have such a hard time with that though it would probably help immensely. Take care and see you later.
Congrats on the potty training!!!! We're just kind of starting, we'll see how it goes.
I remember when I first started working at the daycare after college. I was the head teacher in the three year old room. I thought cool, three has got to be so much better than two. WRONG!!! These kids were smarter, faster and better at hiding what they did wrong, they were like SUPER TODDLER! But they were all young 3's at the time, so after a year they were like you said sweet affectionate caring kids. THEN five started to come around and kindergarten got closer, UGHHHHHH! They all became so naughty we had to hold meetings with parents and it seemed all we did all day was timeout. It was nuts. The teacher who normally did the four year olds said that was normal, she had to go through it every year. Instead of switching teachers and rooms and such b/c we had such a large number of kids in that 4 year old age range I stayed with them until I got married and left and the other teacher that cotaught with me stayed with them until they went to school. She said right before school and after when she saw them in the daycare after school they were back to themselves again. Kids are so funny, they are all so different, but in general they follow these same norms, it's kind of weird to watch an entire group of them grow.
Well I did not walk the last three days, I have been unusually tired. I don't know why. I'm still over on my points everyday but I have seen that number come down each day so I am over by less.
I am so bagged it isn't funny. I don't like to take my son to daycare too soon, he's got a morning routine of cereal and cartoons so I don't like to deprive him of that, mostly I've been catnapping on the couch but I had to go on the computer for something for my husband so I thought I'd check in here.
Yes it is really interesting to watch kids grow up and see all the stages and phases they go through, I've still got so much to get through though!! Potty training was a long term thing, he is over 3 1/2 now. There was no sense in pushing it though as he had no clue what it was all about for the longest time. Plus with being in daycare and me working shifts there just wasn't enough continuity. I think waiting until he was older was so much better and easier.
It was a LONG day. I was at my mom's so I had 6 kids including mine. Then I had to run errands in the rain. I didn't do well with my eating since I had nothing to take to my mom's house so I ate hotdogs with the kids. Well I have the throbbing headache that I ALWAYS get after a day at my mom's so I am going to grab a quick dinner and hopefully put my new shelves together before going to bed.
Whew! What a day! I just made and froze almost all of the food we will eat for the next MONTH! If roze myself healthy dinners adn lunches for which I have points values. No calculating, it's all done!! I also made up a bunch of stuff the kids can have for lunch and snack. I still have a few things to do since I ran out of chicken, and a couple of the baked items I as going to let the kids help bake.
On top of cooking all of it I had to go shopping for it all this morning after I finished up my menus. It's been a very very long day! Next time I do this I will 1)shop on a different day 2) stock up on healthy snacks so I don't eat junk while I cook!
Great job Misty!! I wish I had the ability to make up meals and freeze them. My husband is not keen on stuff like that though as I tend to make up stuff like casseroles etc. I suppose I could cook up a mess of chicken breasts and just reheat them, but I find nuked chicken is not nice and really chicken doesn't take up that much time to cook. I had an okay weekend. Saturday was pretty good but today was not great. I am at work right now and my son was so upset when I had to leave, some nights he is better than others when I have to leave. My husband was being a complete @sshole, pardon my french, because he thinks our son is a momma's boy and shouldn't be crying like this all the time. Lately our son just goes to pieces whenever his father says anything in a stern or loud voice. I think he can sense the problems that are going on with my husband and it is scaring him. I was really po'd when I came into work and then I phoned home about an hour later to see what was going on and my husband was still po'd and our son was still upset. It kills me when they are like this. I feel like I can't depend on my husband to look after our son when I have to go to work. It is very difficult, no wonder I want to eat. I didn't even worry about any of it over the weekend. I think I probably indulged more over the past couple of days than I have in ages. Just like big meals and desserts. I almost want to say that I don't care but I do, it is just hard to cope with too many things at once right now. Anyway I should weigh in tomorrow morning and see what the damage is, or if not Monday morning because I am working then Tuesday for sure.
Oprah's boot camp week 10 (4/18)
