Nicker, you left school at 9:45 AT NIGHT!!!!! What on earth are you thinking!!!! You need a life too, darling. lol

My science fair projects look okay, I guess. Believe it or not it was my lower functioning students who excelled and my higher functioning students who tanked the project. I guess they were complacent and lazy, so they didn't think it would affect them. They sure will be disappointed with report cards, science fair is worth 50% of their 3rd quarter grade.

I had a loss in my classroom too. One of my turtles was deceased when I came into school yesterday. I'm glad I found it on a work day and not a day when I had students here. I was able to dispose of the body and not have to worry about students seeing. It didn't come as much of a surprise, it had been sick. I just hope that it wasn't contageous, the other turtles in my room are on loan from my sister and I don't want to have to call her and tell her that the turtles died.

Anyway... I'm doing okay with my food plan and pretty good w/ my exercise. I even jogged a little bit the other day. I called my mom and shared when I got home, because I haven't been able to run in almost 10 years.

I'll talk w/ you ladies later! Have great days!

Morning ladies! Well today is the last day of prep before our state testing. We are having a pep rally for the kids today. I am really ready for this to be over with this year and get on to spring break. I am really worried about my kids performance on the test this time. They are very careless.

I haven't excercised in a couple of days My mom called and told me that she is coming to town today so I have been getting the house ready for her. In-laws are coming in on Thursday. We will have company for the next 3 weekends then we will be going to Oklahoma for Spring Break. I will get some walking in tomorrow cause we are planning on going to a flower festival. All the nurseries mark their plants way down. Hopefully I will get plenty for my flowerbeds and gardens this year.

Everyone have a great weekend!

haeyu,

Leaving school at 9:45 is not uncommon for me. I have been there later than that. I have to be gone by 12:00 because the alarm system activates.

Babybelly,

Hope the exams all go well. SOunds like you have got a busy few weeks coming up. ALthough you perhaps didn't have time for formal exercise sometimes getting the house rady for company is pretty good exercise on its own. You did make me jealous though. We have snow in the forcast for Sunday. Enough with the snow already. Bring on spring! Maybe tomorrow I will go out and put the winter fertilizer on my lawn that I didn't get done in the fall.

I have a nasty nasty headache today so I am off to have a nap. I plugged the heating pad in and so the bed should be nice and cozy. I want to go to school tomorrow and Sunday. I have a lot I want to get done. Hopefully the head cooperates with me.

Well hello fellow teachers. I am Tonia from VA and I teach 8th grade special education - inclusion. I am a first year teacher (career change) and I am loving it. Although, I am quickly finding out the pressures of standarized testing. We have Standards of Learning and al students have to pass based on grade level

About me - I started my weight loss journey weighing 231 at the end of June last year. My son had his 4 year appointment and was in the 95th percentile. I figure it was time for a family change. I was off for the first summer ever and joined the Y so that I could have my son in swimming lessons. The lessons were 9-9:30 Mon-Thur. Since we were already at the gym I decided to workout. I started lossing weight and so we slowly changed our eating habits and I began to loss more weight. I dont know what happened but for the first time in my life I was losing weight ( I had never been more then two weeks on a diet). I did well until November and I let myself slide through the holidays at 194. I got back on the lifestle with a focus of losing weight and went down to 182 until one of my students went on homebound and I volunteered for the job. The extra 10 hours of working with my student has taken away a lot of time from planning and exercising. I am maintaining and I am not unhappy with my decision but I cant wait to lose more. I am trying but there just isnt enough time in the day.

Well good luck to all of you and I look forward to getting to know all of you better.

Tonia

Hey Tonia,

It really is hard to find the time for everything. I myself don't have an exercise program. Planning my next days eating takes the free time I have now. That isn't the only reason. Although I know it would help me lose, I also live with Crohn's disease so finding the energy to do my job well and get through the basics at home is about all I can muster and some days it is a stretch. By the time weekends roll around I would love to stay in bed. I try really hard not to nap on weekends.

Blech my TOM hit and I feel awful. I'm craving salt and sweets for some reason. Yesterday was a workday..My first one since I only started this job on the 1st of Feb. Pretty interesting..One of my teachers used it as a spring cleaning day...the other did nothing and let me work on homework. I did alot of little pain in the *** tasks. I've been slacking this week because I havent felt well. I knew my "friend" was coming but it didn't show its ugly face until yesterday. BLECH. Oh well. I need ot go grocery shopping and pick up some things. And I guess I need to start planning meals.

Okay so the other day I was complaining that I had gained a pound and a half. In one day! Without cheating! The next day a pound of that was gone and yesterday I was down another pound. Today, get this, UP 3 POUNDS I was about 200 calories over my daily average yesterday however I was 200 calories shy on two days earlier in the week and I was pretty much bang on the other two days. What is up with that? I wasn't even over on bad things.

3 pounds is equivalent to 10500 calories. Is somebody shoving Ben and Jerrys icecream in my mouth all night and making me eat it while I am sleeping???

Today I am going to make sure and get my water in. Yesterday I drank lots of fluids, but not as much water as usual. Earlier in the week though when I gained I had drank three litres of water. Can too much water in a day make you retain?

I would blame it all on TOM, but TOM hasn't visited me in years. I don't miss TOM.

Okay that is my rant for the day. I am off to drink some water. Oh yeah, and I am not changing my ticker from this gain. It better be a temporary minor little set back.

Never had to change my ticker. Drank lots of water yesterday and today I was back to where I was before the gaining fiasco.

Moved to the next notch on my belt yesterday day too.

I am on my way upstaris to see if I can find these two pari of pants I think should fit now. They are stached away in one of several rubbermade boxes of "clothes that no longer fit" Hopefully I can slowly empty these boxes and refill them with clothes that are too big rather than clothes that are too small.

Look forward to seeing you all on Monday again. I have to come home early on Monday and Tuesday. My dog sitter is out of town and the poor little fella just isn't used to staying home alone. He usually gets to stay with his grandma when I am at work. He is somewhat spoiled perhaps but he is a senior citizen now so I don't like leaving him longer than I have to. I will bring home work with me to do tomorrow evening.

Any of you use fitday? I just started it yesterday. I am not sure I will keep up with it. There are some things I prefer about the spread sheet I have running on my computer at home. The thing that is nice about fitday is that I could access it from away from home too.

Happy Monday All!

Nicker: I think you're a nut for staying at work that long. I stay long by my school's standards and I'm usually out of there by 4:30 or so. I do come in about an hour before I have to be here though... hmmm....

Tonia: We're glad you were able to find this thread. I'm 5th S.S. and 6th Science in central florida. We started our journey at the same weight, only you started yours before I did.

I'm doing okay I guess... I'm way discouraged right now with this whole weight losing thing... I've had 3 weeks w/ a 2 lb total loss. Not 2 lbs a week, only 2 lbs in 3 weeks. It's really frustrating to me because I'm doing really good with my eatting and my exercise has increased each week. I even found out I was able to jog! (a big deal for me, the whole story is in the christian encouragers thread)

*sigh* I'm very, very tempted right now to throw in the towel and eat some of that yummy and greasy food that is hanging out in my freezer just waiting for me to deep fry it.

Anyways... I'm sure it's a phase and I'll get over it.

Have a great week, ladies!

lena

Haeyu,

Don't throw in the towel. It will come. I did have a "take a break" kind of day today. I have been hovering right around the same calroic intake everyday. My weight has been fluctuating so today I thought I would try to give that metaolsim a kick day and I ate more than I have in a while. I did eat two cookies at work and I just had a veal cuttlet and mashed potatoes for supper. I have been craving a different meal so tonight I cooked it. Tommorow and the rest of the week will be counter balancing today, but that is okay.

Oh yeah and I never claimed to be sane either.

I am so glad that I happened to read this today. I got on the scale at school today and it said I had gained 2 pounds! I had a better week than last week when I lost 3 pounds, what is happening? I am already stressing about going on a cruise on Saturday and this was just a low blow. After reading your similar experience, I have decided to keep doing what I am doing. I too have trouble getting in the water and I have a problem with exercise. I am just going to keep trying. I have to get it right eventually. Thanks for sharing. Cassie

Nicker, thanks for the vote of confidence. I know things won't stay crappy, but it is still really hard to keep up that motivation.

Some of my closest friends tell me that it takes a special kind of crazy to be a teacher, and it looks to me like you fit that assessment perfectly.

MsOneMoreTime: I'm glad we are able to help you. That's one of the best parts about this site, there is always someone at the same part in the journey as you, and always someone who has just gotten through the struggles you're at, so there's always support and encouragement.

I'll talk w/ you more later!

I was getting pretty down and unmotivated too. Today though a lady who works in the office asked me if I have been losing weight. Why yes I have I said.

I stayed at school late doing marking tonight. I am so frustrated. I was so ticked that I had to quit and go home. I gave my grade 8 class a mjor project. It is supposed to be worht 25% of their grade for this term. They all either did a crappy job and didn't include half of what I asked them too, plagarized the whole thing, or just didn't bother handing it in!!! I wanted to get more done tonight but I just had to quit. I guess it was late enough. Why do I never get the amount of work I plan on getting done actually done??

Report cards marks have to be entered on Monday. I have a whole pile of things I am working on marking yet. I guess I will go up stairs and pack lunch and dinner for tomorrow. I can't stay until 10:00 tomorrow. I am tired. I haven't been sleeping well at night and I have had a headache for I swear two weeks. My whole face hurts. I am getting a CT scan on monday of my head and sinuses.

Okay. Gotta get going. I will be in touch. Hope all is well with you all. I had to vent.