Starting the topic - be right back.

TxMom - congratulations on your great loss! I think you did great at dinner - whenever I think "well, I could have had...." at something like going out to eat, I think about what I would have done before WW - and it would always have been very different. I like your mom's attitude about the one pound at a time. I think I may try that. I'm happy with my loss on Saturday but I'm still wishing I could loose the holiday gain faster.

My weekend started off well. I was very happy with my 1.2 pound loss and I did fairly well at dinner on Saturday. Baking for the cookie exhange provided too much temptation yesterday. I made my mom's recipe for oatmeal chocolate chip and Tony and I tasted waaaaaay too many of them. I guess baking and PMS DO NOT go together well. Oh well, onward and downward - I'm not going to stress about it. I did have a good weekend exercise wise though. I did a killer strength workout on Saturday and some very nice vinyasa (flow/moving) yoga yesterday. I have a meeting at (grad) school about student teaching in the fall - it means I have to leave work a little early - I should get home in time to do a little 20 minute yoga workout though before dinner.

Have a great one!
Judy

Wow, sure is quiet around here so far. I had an absolutely AWFUL day yesterday. The PMS monster has been stomping around and that combined with the cookie exchange at school really sent me down the wrong path. I should have thrown out the cookies as I had planned - I didn't though and I don't know how many I ate. Oh well, that's over. I started the day with a nice core breakfast and plan on making the rest of the week on program. At least I did a little yoga after the student teaching meeting and before dinner.

Have a great one,
Judy

I'm here but up to my neck at work. Will be back later. Great loss, Judy!

Karen

Hi Karen and Judy,

I'm new to 3FC, and thought I would jump right in if you don't mind.

I just started WW (at home) yesterday and so far so good!

Hi everyone!

Judy - Congrats on the loss! That is great. Those cookies sound awesome. It is hard to bake something and not taste it, but I am finding that is what is cool about this way of life. At least you can taste something (or treat yourself) and not have to say things like you cheated or "oh my god, I ate carbs!", etc. This is the most sensible program to me. I love it. If you have a few ups and downs, such is life. Just keep plugging along The more I think about my MIL's way of thinking of weight loss, the more it actually does make sense. A little at a time, right? I hope your day was a lot better for you today!

Karen - Hi there! Don't work too hard!

Donna - Welcome! Nice to have you with us! I am new here as well - just started the program about 3 weeks ago and have lost around 6 pounds so far. I'm looking forward to seeing you post more often

Well, yesterday for me was not too good either. My oldest son was pretty sick and my youngest woke up crying around 4AM. I had finally fallen asleep myself around 2:30 (I get up at 5AM for work...LOL). He was running over a 103 degree fever. I gave him some medicine and checked my oldest to see how his fever was. After touching him, I knew it was pretty high. He had a 104.7 degree fever!! I immediately thought meningitis because he said his head and neck hurt, his legs were hurting, etc. I gave him some medicine, put him in the bath and prayed the fever came down. It did, to about 100 in about 15 minutes, so I was relieved. I called my husband at work and was freaking out - none of my kids have ever had a fever that high before!!

We took them both to the doctor this morning and my oldest just has a mean virus that needs to run its course. He doesn't have a sore throat or ear infection, so just plenty of fluids and tylenol and he should be OK. He was feeling a little better this evening...phew! My youngest has a bad ear infection and was given an antibiotic. I sure hope they get well soon - I hate it when they are sick, no matter what their age. This weekend I all ready know I will be spending my time disinfecting my house with Lysol...LOL

I ended up going into work for a meeting and leaving afterwards to come home and take care of them. There was no way I would have lasted all day after only 1.5 hours of sleep last night.

I still have not begun to exercise....I'm so scared to do so. I really do not want to deal with any more pain that I all ready have to. My appointment is still set for late in March to see what my next treatment will be... I sure wish it would hurry up though - I'm so tired of this crap. I guess the best thing to do is just hop on the treadmill and see how I fare. If you don't hear from me for a few days...send the rescue squad! LOL

Have a great day everyone....today was so beautiful outside and I just saw the forecast on the news for the next 5 days...nothing but nasty rain! Yuck!

~P

Donna – Hi and welcome! I’m glad you jumped in!

TxMom – sorry to hear about your kids being sick. I hope they are better soon. I don’t blame you going home after only 1.5 hours sleep! I can understand your feelings about exercise – are you still seeing a physical therapist? If I were in your shoes, I would check with them to see what I could do that wouldn’t (or shouldn’t) cause me more pain.

Hi Karen - I hope worked has slowed a bit!

The off program eating continues – arrggghhh! I did OK during the day yesterday and did a short yoga workout after I came home late from class. Tony (as I requested) had thrown out the rest of the cookies but didn’t realize there were still chocolate gifts in the microwave (we stored them there so the cats wouldn’t get to anything). I opened up the smallest of the heart shaped candy boxes and ate ‘em – 4 pieces, not as bad as it could have been but of course, I could have just thrown it all out (I threw out the rest). Then I snacked – not on bad stuff but it wasn’t because I was hungry. Maybe I was relieved that the presentation I had done in my late class was over? I don’t know but I’m determined to salvage the rest of the week as a core week from today on. The challenge will be today at lunch – we are going on a field trip and the only thing available is pizza or a hotdog. No one (kids that is) is supposed to bring lunch so I didn’t pack anything like a sandwich – but I decided this morning that I would bring a few fruits and water with me. If I can, I’ll skip both the pizza and the hotdog; if I can’t resist, I’ll have one slice of pizza and then eat the fruit. I eat dinner at school tonight – I usually have a 6” Subway veggie delight – pretty low.

I taped Oprah’s Bootcamp show and still haven’t watched it. I doubt I’ll do it to the letter but I’m planning to watch that when I get home from my late class – maybe that will keep me from snacking tonight!

Carla – how are you??

Have a great one,
Judy

TxMom - I hope your children start to feel better soon.

Judy - Good job in getting rid of the remaining cookies and candy. I know it's hard. I probably would have kept on eating the candy after the first four!

I need to go grocery shopping ASAP. It's been a busy week and we've been buying lunches. So far I'm doing OK and staying on the plan, but today I almost went to the evil McDonalds! (I went to Subway instead.) That was too close. I need to start making my lunches again so I don't have that temptation. I won't be able to go shopping until Thursday though. I have a company luncheon tomorrow. So if I shop tomorrow night, I should be set for Friday.

Hi All...

I swear I don't know where the week has gone...I still don't have time to catch my breath, although I do need to stop and center a little...I can feel some bad old habits trying to work their way back into my life.

Donna - Welcome! You're right about needing to grocery shop - I fall off the wagon big time when I don't have whole healthy foods in the house. We try to plan a week's dinners and shop accordingly. We're not terribly creative with breakfast and lunch, so they're pretty much a standing grocery list. I hope your luncheon goes well.

Judy - sorry you're struggling NOP at times. Good plan with the snacks instead of pizza or hot dogs...I've been toting a small handful of almonds around with me - in a ziploc bag in my purse...they stave off the hungries very effectively.

TXMom - Sorry to hear that your boys have been so sick. I hope they're feeling better again very soon. I'm hoping that you'll do okay on the treadmill; any movement is better than none. Just take it very easy.

Hi Carla, how's it going??

Work is nuts. NUTS. I've been there every morning at 6:30 and not leaving till late, and I have no hope of getting done all that needs doing. Oh well. Going in late this morning as I have to drop off my car for an oil change and service. I have been less than stellar on the food front, and have not bothered to pack a lunch twice this week, which is always a recipe for trouble for me. So I'll go and make lunch now, before I walk out the door.

Have a good day!

Hi all.

I'm still here! It's been a busy week and between meetings, work, and my resolution to stay off the computer when Ana gets home, I haven't had a chance to get on and post.

Judy - First of all, congrats on a great loss on Saturday. I'm sorry that the PMS monster got you and you've been having trouble staying on program. I'm right there with you sister. Like you, it's involved cookies, candy, and, in my case, pizza. Plus throw in some wine and margaritas for good measure. But I'm confident we can get and stay back on track. Sounds like a good plan for the field trip. If you end up having a slice of pizza, it won't be so bad. I watched the Oprah bootcamp show. It was interesting and motivating, but not much new. I need to re-read Make the Connection and I'll probably check out Get With The Program from the library.

TxMom - Congrats on your loss - that's terrific. And you did a great job with lunch out. Little changes one step at a time have a big result. I like your MIL's way of thinking: a pound at a time. I'm sorry to hear your boys are sick. I hope they're back to 100% soon. My daughter spiked a really high fever once. I remember how scared I was. My husband was on the home phone waiting for the doctor and I was on the cell phone crying to my sister. It helped that my sister is a nurse. I don't blame you for leaving work after your meeting - you wouldn't have been able to function. What do you do?

Donna - Welcome. Grocery shopping is key for me. Keeping my refrigerator and pantry well-stocked and planning my menus helps immensely. It's just too easy to grab junk food otherwise.

Karen - I'm sorry to hear that work is so nuts for you. I hope it slows down soon. It is so easy to get off track with eating when days are long and crazy. Hang in there and do the best you can.

Well, my week started going downhill, food-wise, at the party Saturday night, continued through lunch out on Sunday and hit bottom on Monday and Tuesday with a lot of emotional eating. All that plus the fact that I had my period and was retaining water (and not drinking much of it, either) like crazy led to a 4.8 gain on the scale yesterday, wiping out most of my loss from the week before. But, I wasn't too bummed, because I knew a lot of it was water. In fact, I jumped on the scale today and half of it was already gone. I had a good OP day yesterday and am track for one today as well. Monday we had our meeting with the special services team at the public school to go over the results of Ana's testing. While she isn't dyslexic, she definitely has a learning disability. With Ana, it effects her phoneme recognition and hence her reading as well as number computation and her ability to make sense of unrelated numbers. For instance she is having trouble memorizing our phone number. She also has under-developed writing skills and some speech/language problems. Because the 1)test shows that she's of average intelligence in most areas, higher than average is some, 2)she doesn't have any physical or emotional problems that impede her learning. 3)she has a documented learning deficit and 40based on the tests, there is a discrepancy between what she's capable of and what she's doing, she has been deemed eligible for special education services and they are writing up an IEP for her. The plan calls for 300 minutes a week of reading intervention and 30 minutes a week each of occupational therapy and speech and language therapy. No surprises there really. They are also recommended that we either pull her out of her current school (for those who are new - she's in the elementary program at the Montessori school she's attended since her day care days) and start her in kindergarten (she's in first grade right now) at the public school, or do a half day of kindergarten at the ps and half day at her current school, or finish out the year at her current school and start her as a first grader at the ps next year. Implicit in keeping her at her current school is that we would bring her to the ps every day for the special services. Well, we love her school and really want to keep her there. And there's no way I can pull her and have her go back to kindergarten. I think that would just really bother her. So right now we're probably going to keep her where she's at and bring her to the ps for the special services. It's going to make for a really choppy schedule for her. As for next year - we're really trying to struggle to figure out what's best for her. I can sell her doing 1st grade again if she switches schools. And her teacher now is considering this a transitional year for her, so she would be doing a lot of first year work next year anyway, even if she stays at her current school. It's just so hard trying to suss it all out. Her teacher came with us to the meeting and is convinced Ana would be fine with staying at her current school and going for special services this year and next (and for as long as she needs them) and has had other students that did just that. At any rate, the school pyschologist at the ps left me a message yesterday that they have some more ideas, so I'm waiting to hear back from her. Sorry for the novel, but this has been, as you can imagine, weighing on my mind.

Ah well, the answer will come to me. And now off to more mundane matters, like paying bills. Have a great day.

Carla
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Donna – we make up a menu for the week and shop based on that like Karen. Of course, there are usually some things that we have to get during the week, but we’re pretty much set then. I have to know what we’re having for dinner (although we do switch days around sometimes) and know that I have stuff to make lunches or I’d go nuts. Way to go for going to Subway instead of the evil McDonald’s!

Karen – I’m so sorry work is so nuts for you. I know that when you leave early and come home late It’s so hard to take the time to make lunches. I also find that when I get home late from class, I tend to eat to relax. Good for you for taking the time to make yourself lunch – that’s taking care of you! Yeah, I’ve been good about having fruit for snacks – my problem is not eating fruit as snacks when I get home late! Of course, the PMS monster has been spewing “salt/sweet” at me.

Carla – sorry about the gain – guzzle the water, well, you know that ;-) Yes, we will get back on track. I started by watching the Oprah show I taped and while I’m not giving up the carbs I can have on core, I am going to try to up the amount of cardio I’m doing (I was OK before the bronchitis and now have to work my way back up) and the biggest Decision (capitalized on purpose) I’ve made is to stop eating 2 hours before bedtime. I’m going to take her suggestion of a cut-off time – since I try to be in bed by 11 at the latest, I’m setting 9:00 as my cut-off time – not bad on days I don’t have school but it will be tough on Tues & Wed nights. I’m SO glad Ana is getting an IEP. Good – now they are legally obligated to give her the services. You also know that if you don’t like anything they put on it, you have the right to disagree/argue/appeal. As for the school – that is a tough decision, I know. When do you have to let them know about the school for next year? It’s also great that you are getting the intervention early. I agree with you about the kindergarten though. Yes, going to the PS would be choppy but I think it would be less choppy than having her go to both schools for half days! Please try not to stress (easy for me to say, I know). Nothing is set in stone and what’s important is that she is getting the intervention now.

I had a decent day yesterday. The teachers ended up going to Subway’s (which was next door) to get lunch so I had Subway for lunch and Subway for dinner (my usual before Wed class) – not bad. I snacked a bit when I got home and then stopped and watched the tape of Oprah. I had visions of getting up early to get on the tm but opted to sleep instead. I’ll do some cardio when I get home (after the chiro) and tonight will be my first test of my 9:00 cut off. Gott to.

Have a great one,
Judy

Good morning all - pretty quiet around here. Well, I did stop eating at 9:00 last night - of course, when I looked up fromthe computer and saw it was 8:30 I ran like he** into the kitchen and had a few snacks! Ha! I will try to remember tonight that if I don't get that last snack in, nothing bad will happen (actually good *will* happen). I did some cardio last night - hill climbing on the tm. I'm giong to do something tonight - don't know what, maybe some flowing yoga.

Be back later,
Judy