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Hello, chickies! Been a mediocre day so far. It started off so nicely. I woke up early and went for a nice walk. Saw some wild life (pigeons, robins, geese and a beautiful red fox), took a nice long stretch, had a LF/SF cafe mocha. :coffee: And then the fun began.

DD woke up wailing (for an HOUR) b/c she's teething. At 16 months, the poor dear has only gotten six teeth, so this could be a LONG process. Plumber arrived 1/2 hour early. :cheer: Cost $100 to fix a $15 problem. Rats. Work has been slow, but today I've been assigned a boat-load of projects that all have the same deadline. :dizzy: Typical. Now we're having a picnic, so I'll get NOTHING accomplished today. Fortunately, I've brought SB friendly food and plenty of water, so I won't have to starve or cheat.

RNMOM: I don't know how you do it! I would lose my mind w/o a constant sleep schedule. Hope you catch some good ZZZs soon.

Kiko: You'll have to let me know which is worse, teething or potty training.

Crap! I'd rather stay here, but I've gotta get to this picnic. Have a great weekend everyone!

LaurieX
 

Who says I have a mind to lose????????? :D

Taking you up on the free advice already. THANKS!!

The good news is I know I did not overdo it. I might ache, but its more because I am using new muscles or rather old and out of shape muscles. Its the good exercise hurt. Does that make ANY sense at all? :dizzy:

Good afternoon,

I finally have a minute to check it, but it will only be a minute. I am leaving work early today...need to go home and pack for vacation and haven't even done the laundry. This is the way it always turns out, even though I have the best intentions to be organized.

Spent last night at the Emergency Vet Clinic with the OTHER dog. He was hit by a truck 2 1/2 years ago and suffered some trauma behind one of his eyes. Seems he is having some complications from that. It just goes from one end to the other...

Consequently, we didn't get home until almost 11 and didn't get ready for holidays. Then we had him back at his own vet this morning at 8 because the medication that he received didn't work over night. Just running now to pick the little boy up and see what damage this one will be.

When we walk in the vet's office he sings us the old familiar song:

Ca-ching, Ca-ching, Ca-ching, Ca-ching, Ca-ching, Ca-ching, Ca-ching,

THEN he has the gall to laugh... Oh well, I guess that goes with loving pets and taking on the responsibility of their care.

Hope everyone has a great weekend. I'll check in at the end of August. Bye.

Hi Everyone... I'm late to post today because I've been pretending to have a productive morning. :rolleyes: I was SO productive that I discovered that I don't have enough dinero in the checking account to buy next weeks groceries... *sigh* we both get paid this coming week... so we'll manage.

Everyone has so much going on!!!

Beachgal... dump that nutritionist! Don't pay for anything else. Stick up for yourself girlfriend. Eating disorder or not you've been weighing yourself all this time... has it damaged your progress or psyche? Use that fabulous critical thought process you're always sharing with the rest us and give yourself the same advice you'd give any one of us if we told you what you just told us! :grouphug:

On the topic of carbs and loosing... I was getting plenty of carbs, big bowls of lentil soup all the time and in veggies and stuff... it's the grains that seem to do me in :?:

I personally feel that the 1-2 pound a week loss (am I repeating myself? If I am I'm sorry...) is something that needs to be judges proportionally. As long as you're keeping your fluids up, eating in a nutritionally sound fashion (people with wheat allergies do it differntly and they don't die from that!) and getting enough that you're not hungry .... I think that weight loss should be looked at proportionally.

Let's say that you weigh 150 and your ideal weight is 100 pounds. 50 pounds is 1/3 of your total body weight. If you lost 5 pounds a week until reaching your goal weight that would be a very rapid weight loss, but if you have 150 pounds to loose you're loosing a greater percentage of your total body weight so experiencing a more rapid loss early on (and therefore more equal in percentage to what the person that needs to loose 50 pounds is loosing especially when they're down to just a few pounds to loose) I would think would not be as dramatic as would be for the person with less to loose... clear as mud?

When you're down to 25 pounds to loose I would expect that your losses (and MINE too... that day WILL come!!!) will be slower, more in line with the pound a week thing... it's a ratio.

The National Institute of Health says in their description of what a healthy weight loss program should be: "Slow and steady weight loss of about ¾ to 2 pounds per week and not more than 3 pounds per week (weight loss may be faster at the start of a program)"

If I only needed to loose 50 pounds the 22 (ish) pounds that I've lost would be a much more obvious accomplishment. But I need to loose just over 100 pounds... 22(ish) pounds is still a big accomplishment... but it came easier than it would for someone with less to loose... it just works that way... If I were you I'd put off worring about it for another 20 pounds or so.

Gee... I've babbled on so long already...

RNMOM... I've never liked working graveyards and I'm praying that I won't wind up having to do that to get the job I want. I've never functioned well trying to sleep days. :tired: big giant hugs to soft pillows to you...

Hi aggie!!!!!!! (waves furiously) You live near me!! I don't like talking about where I live or go to school too much because I'm really unhappy with my school and you never know who could be lurking and I don't like to shove my foot any further down my throat than necessary but I also like to feel free to speak my mind online...
:sssh:

Big hugs to LC on saying goodbye to her Daddy...

I know I'm definately pms-ing... I'm craving milk and crunchy foods (which is a major bummer since I'm allergic to nuts). What I wouldn't give to be able to eat nuts!! :( I just hope it passes soon since I don't think I'm due for my TOM for another two or three weeks!!!!!!!!!!! Stupid hormones.

Today I'm just feeling overwhelmed by the mess in this house and the mess the bills are in and the mess piles and mess piles... I keep trying to have a filing system but I keep ending up with a piling system. Please don't ever let there be an earthquake while I'm sitting at the pewt... I've got 7 storage boxes stacked up behind me!

For all the things that I love my ADHD for... creativity, multi-tasking, ability to solve problems and think critically, the magic of just getting to an answer almost magically by being able to think outside of the box... some days I feel like I'd get a brain transplant in a hot second if I could just get all my chores at home done.

I better go do dishes... DH is going to a sleep study tonight and I have to take him, so dinner needs to be ready when he gets home from work.

Lovingly,
:foot:

LC Hugs to you girlie! I hope you enjoy your evening. :grouphug:

LaurieX My DD has some crazy pain tolerance as she never even fussed over one of her teeth. Strange..... she has already wet her panties twice today, so I am guessing this is going to be more difficult for us. Barb She starts back up at daycare more frequently next week, so I think I like your theory!! :lol:

Not a perfect OP day here as I munched on several handfuls of DD's Goldfish. They are the closest thing we have to junk food in this house!

Feeling very "PMSy" today- YUCK!

Thanks for the hugs kiko I need them. I am enjoying my eveing although it seems to quiet already. ;(