Hey,
Cottage! Sounds like a nice morning--hope your drive is safe tonight.
Kara, I'm glad you've got some extra family time! The visit from your friend sounds really fun!
Dawn, admitting the problem
is the first step!
The truth is, unless you weigh in the same place at the same time, wearing the same clothes (or no clothes) each day, you aren't getting any real information. Your weight fluctuates a ton every day, so weighing 2 to 3 times a day isn't going to tell you much, hon. It might make you happy or sad, but it's based on false information. Keep telling yourself that. One thing you could try is to get rid of your scale and then weigh yourself once a week somewhere else (at the gym? At a friend's house?). You'll get much more accurate information that way--though the scale doesn't tell you
what you gained or lost! I get weighed and tested every week at my nutrition clinic, and they are able to tell me what I've lost or gained. Some weeks I gain, but it's muscle, and other weeks I lose, but it's part muscle and part fat. It's all relative. Anyways, I hope you can break your scale addiction, hon. I'm working on mine--my counselor wants me to only weigh-in at the clinic, once a week.
I'm pretty resistent to that...which tells me I should do it.
Ruth, can you put your trash out at night? It must be such a shock to the system to have to go outside so early in the morning. Brrr!
Hope everything's alright with Hersh and with your dentist appt.
Kim_Star!
Gonnabe...I didn't know you had Mono!!!
How awful! I hope you're babying yourself!
Good luck on the test,
Lisa! It's different from state to state, I assume, but in at least some states, if you work for them for five years (or more), you will automatically get retirement benefits once you hit retirement age. Cool, eh? My aunt worked for the state for several years (Hawai'i) before opening her own private practice, so she now has health care and will have retirement benefits when she gets old enough.
LC, good luck with the chocolate!
just for you...
Schmoodle, I'm out of the loop--where's DH going for so long?
That must be hard, hon!
I'm with you on the clean teeth thing!
Tanya!
You (and anyone else) are more than welcome to join in--glad you did! It must be hard staying on track while working as a baker
and doing all the hard work of a full-time mom! Good for you! Can you wear a pedometer and use steps to track your workouts? You can get them pretty cheaply... Sorry to hear about your dog. Is the other one fixed? Getting your pups fixed is such an important thing, IMHO. Especially for female dogs--they can get cancer very easily if they are intact and not being bred. I hope I'm not coming off preachy!
I know there are usually good reasons why people can't get around to getting their animals fixed, but my heart just breaks for the animals being killed in shelters.
Hope she's not pregnant, for your sake as well as hers--it would be awful to miss your vacation with DH! Glad to have you with us here! BTW, I'm a big scrapbook addict and your area couldn't be nearly as bad as mine...I should take a picture so you can feel much better about yours!
Hi,
Pearlrose! I think getting the weigh-ins down to 3 out of 7 days a week is very admirable! Good for you!!!
Phins--good to see you again! The soup sounds delish!
Me:
Busy morning at work. I'm off to the gym after work and then home to shower, take the dog for a walk, and, hopefully, then I'll be meeting a girlfriend at a local event called 2300* It's at our glass museum and features live music, live glass blowing, food, and wine. My friend is from my "mood and food" group so it should be easy to refrain from eating much. I think it'll be fun!
DH is out of town tonight so I'm on dog/bunny duty alone and have to get up early tomorrow to give the bun her syringe full of yogurt/juice. He's been sick for a couple weeks and I'm really worried about him.
Hope everyone has a great day!
Tawnya. Glad you're here and hope the kids are better.
