Poor Linda! Your frustration is oozing out! Don't give up!
I was still down this morning, so I'm hoping that by Monday when I do my official weekly weighing (at home) that it'll hold. We're going to the Rangers game tomorrow and maybe I can sweat some off. I'm taking my own cooler with bottled water and fruit though so I'm not tempted with nachos, beer, etc.
We went out to dinner last night with Judd's friend and my DS. It was pleasant enough; plus I ate really well. For the first time in a long time, I stuck to my plan. I had one SMALL frozen margarita (the others had three of the big fishbowl kinds), and ordered chicken and shrimp fajitas. I ate the chicken, shrimp, guacamole, peppers and onions, and black beans. That was it. They were miserable when we left but I wasn't. It was such a nice feeling not to be full! Linda, believe me when I say I've been full and I've been hungry, and I'll take the hungry feeling any day! I'm sorry you're having trouble with portions but hopefully soon it'll get figured out.
So now I'm sitting at work for the next 8 hours. Things are picking up a little and I hope to start getting OT soon. Little DD has re-enrolled in college for the fall, but thank goodness at a community college so it's not so much. Big DD is in her last year of undergrad but hers is a lot more. If I don't start getting OT soon, I'll have to go back to my PT job at the bar and while it was good money and good exercise (I lost 10 pounds the first few weeks from that butt-busting work!) it sure makes me tired! Judd doesn't want me to, but neither does he do the checkbook and doesn't realize I don't have an extra $3,000 every six months to plunk down for tuition. And that's with big DD getting a student loan! Sheeeesh! He might just have to get over it. I know they would hire me back in a heartbeat. Meanwhile, I'll stick to trying for OT and severe budgeting. I told him the only way I was going to the ballgame tomorrow was if he got the $5 tickets. Cheaper than a movie! Plus we can move down because it's not going to be crowded I'm sure. Oh well.
I wish some of you lived near here. I'm selling my treadmill because DD is cleaning the upstairs living room and wants it out. That's her territory so I just said sure thing. I just don't know what to do with it because I don't want to put an ad in the paper. Maybe a sign on the bulletin board at work. She's the clean freak who is very organized, much to the dismay of little DD who is the fun-loving messy girl.
DS was doing okay but ... get this, he's selling Kirby vacuums. Sigh ... okay. He also applied for a few restaurant (waiter) jobs to have extra income. Maybe he'll be okay but I told him I was leery of a commission job when he NEEDED a steady income. Plus it would be so easy to get discouraged at a job like that. He doesn't go door-to-door because in this area they have a call center to set up the appointments. All he does is demonstrate at appointments that have already been set up, so the people are expecting him. Problem is though that he needs five "practice" demos this weekend and can't think of anybody to do it for besides us. If he doesn't get the five in, he can't go on regular calls. So anyway, we took him to dinner and afterwards, I took him to the gas station and filled up his car, then to the grocery store and bought him a bunch of groceries. He didn't want me to, but Judd insisted so he finally gave in.
And that's my life, as it currently stands, in a nutshell. I guess I'm rambling to keep from starting work!
Okay, I'll get started now!