I have the exact same problem with chips. I could eat them forever. We had a big bag in the house and I couldn't keep my hands out of it. I'd say to myself, oh I'll just have a couple, next thing you know I was eating handfuls. I'm going to give up chips for the new year and starting right away because we are going to a party tonight. I'm certain they will have chips!

About the vasectomy, my hubby will not have one. Well we only have the 1 baby and I'm pretty certain that is all I want to have but I think we will wait until I'm at least 40 to decide what we should do about permanent birth control. I would prefer for him to have it done as it is less invasive and can be done in the doctor's office but if he refuses there is nothing I can do about that. If he won't have it done then when I am 40 (7 years) I will have my tubes tied.

Have a happy new year everyone!

Hey there! Happy New Years Eve to you all.

Hee-hee Geneve, you gave me my morning chuckle again. That's so insightful about the chocolate. I'm the same way about treats. Often, right after I come home from the grocery store, I want to just eat all of the GOOD things right away, that same day, as if they won't be there later on. You are so right.

I think I will give up... dried cereal. I know that sounds wierd, but that is the thing I'm having a hard time with now. I start eating it between meals, without milk, because it's a farily healthy snack, and before I know it, I've eaten half a box. Very odd. As a matter of fact, I just ate a quarter of a box of fruit loops this morning, and I feel sick, sick, sick! I will also give up chocolate and doritos.

I am going to recommit to:

- drinking more water (I've always been SO bad at this)
- exercising AT LEAST four times a week
- staying with my WW point range - ww was working so well for me until Christmas Eve - I need to recommit!

We want to have three or four little kidlets, so DH won't be getting snipped anytime soon. I think when Megan is about 18 months old, we will try for another. My siblings and I were all 2 - 21/2 years apart, and it worked out great. Of course, it took us 5 years to conceive Megan, so who knows how long it will take to get the next baby here.

Well, I'd better get to work - I am only working 4 hours today, then we are off to the malls to use our holiday gift certificates. Yippee!

Have a great day and evening!
Sue

Hello everyone, sorry I'm such an irregular visitor!

Geneve - Another baby, yep we'll be trying before too long, like sometime this year. I haven't got my period back yet though and I want to have it back and finish breastfeeding for a few months before we start trying. I really want to try and get a boy Charlotte is 8.5 months now and will probably breastfeed til about one. It also depends on if I get a job - I'm being made redundant in 7 weeks. If I do, I'll have to wait a while so that I acn be eligible for $ when I go on leave.

So how is everyone? Did you ahve a good Christmas? We had a wonderful one - Charlie is old enough to be able to rip paper of presents but still young enough that she doesn't realise she is meant to like the presents more than the paper. LOL.

New Years was nice too. We had a party at our house. But so much mess to clean up and someone threw up in our loungeroom - on the lounge and all and it is going to cost about $120 to get them all cleaned. Urgh!

Anwyays my resolutions include losing the rest of my weight and getting fitter. I want to be in good shape before I get pg again. Next pg I will plan, so I won't be all shocked and scared about it and hopefully that will mean I can do it much healthier than this one. Who wants to be on a diet each time they have a baby?!

Sam
179(9 months pg)/143/130

Hi everyone,
Sam EEWWWW! I think someone owes you big time for the carpet...I'm forever getting the baby wee, paint and play doh cleaned out of ours, but for once it would appear to be much cheaper here! I must admit I'm a total party pooper at New year, I've spent so many kissing strangers and being sick (not at the same time I hasten to add) now I generally see if anyone wants ababy sitter! I'd rarther go out another day, although DH loves all the looking back over the year. Oddly enough his memory is always different to mine. This year he was giving himself a real pat on the back for looking after Ted while I was pregnant and 'resting'. Strangely, I though I was giving him time to be with his son before Leo arrived, while I got on with the housework,decorating etc etc...

Well,I made one day without chocolate or cheese, even tough I had to watch DH eating both. MAde me wish I wish Istill smoked so I could have one in front of him (that's what he's giving up).
Anyway, must dash baby calls!
Geneve

Morning all, Happy New Year! I hope everyone is off to a good start. I went to bed with a headache last night that just got worse overnight and this morning was threatening to explode my brains! I have finally taken enough meds that it is almost gone, thank goodness. Let me put it on a pain scale you ladies can understand. With 10 being the worst pain you can imagine (which for me was being in labour, contractions about 30 seconds apart) the pain in my head was about an 8. I've been getting bad headaches with my periods since they started up again after the baby but not usually til the day before or the day of, I still have about 6 days to go. I hope this doesn't mean I'm going to have a headache everyday til then!

Everything is going well otherwise, my diet and exercise are getting on track. I've been walking at the mall on days that are too cold to take Drake out in his stroller. Even bundled up well I don't think he should be outside for an hour in -15C weather, don't ask me what that is in F, probably about 20 degrees. So we've been going first thing in the morning to the mall when it isn't so busy. Next week they start opening the mall at 8am for the people that want to just exercise so we'll probably go then.

Geneve - good job keeping away from the chocolate and cheese. No chips for me either. Luckily at the party we went to the hostess had shrimp cocktail and pumpernickel bread with spinach dip. I was very good and had only a tiny bit of each.

Sue - We occasionally eat Mini Wheats as a snack, I don't think I could eat Fruit Loops though like that, too sugary for me.

Well Drake is starting to fuss, his mobile isn't keeping his attention today. Take care all, talk to you later.

Well last night Isabelle wouldn't sleep. John got her to sleep, carried her upstairs and one of the boys said something to him and she woke up. After that I got her to sleep and carried her up and she woke when I put her in her bed. I even tried laying her down between us and she wouldn't sleep (usually she manages when snuggled in bed with us). Well it turns out she was HUNGRY! Imagine that?! I fed her some banana and cherrios and layed her in her bed without even attempting to get her to sleep........ she snuggled down and went right to sleep. I guess she has an appetite!

I don't really believe in New Years resolutions, I think these resolutions can be made anytime you decide you want a change. However this year I am making a resolution. I bet I would make it if it were new years or not... I am going to stick to WW and I am going to exercise!

Today I did ten minutes on the Precor. I know that doesn't sound like much, but I really didn't want to do much more and I figure 10 minutes is much better than nothing. I WILL build on it. I am also sitting her munching my apple and a bowl of dry Go Lean cereal. The apple is so good I might even have another. I think I can handle the extra 2 points.

You know if I stick to this I might even get some new summer clothes.

Sam, I think someone owes you a cleaning -if they remember

I hope everyone is having a good start of 2002.




Barb

Hi everyone! It's so nice to see so much activity on the thread.

I did o.k. with eating pretty healthy yesterday. Not super terrific, but decent - I managed to stay on my WW program. I didn't exercise, but will today. We just had a very lazy day yesterday. We were going to go out and do things, but ended up just hanging out around the house.

Barb, I agree with you, I'm not much for New Years resolutions normally, but I think that, now that the holidays are over, it's a good way to start over. (Since I didn't do too well over the holidays) Sam, nice to see you again. You lucky-duck - only 13 pounds to goal! That's fabulous. Jen, hope your headaches went away.

Well, I've got to get to work now - wah! Hugs,
Sue

249 / 225 (joined WW) / 205 (current) / 155

Drake slept through the night again, YAHOO!!!!!! I heard him stirring a few minutes ago so I'd better make this quick. I was on fire yesterday, I did my walk and rode the bike and did stretching exercises. Also my diet has been tons better and I actually got through 64 oz of water, a personal best!

Barb - I don't really believe in resolutions either, I sort of had a wake up call 2 weeks ago and that was when I really started to put a lot of effort into losing weight. I haven't weighed in yet but I know I have lost weight.

Sue - thanks my headache did go away but this muscle relaxant I took left me feeling really light headed, still it was better than the headache! good job being OP, hope you get your exercise in today.

Take care all.

Let me tell you about my exciting day. This morning I found a cheque! Several hundred punds, made out to me, from my solicitors. It was stapled to a letter saying it wasmoney left over after I bought this house. How exciting, I thought and got ready to go shopping. Then I checked the date...March 1999.
So can I pay it into my bank or not? DH says no, I'm waiting to hear from the bank and the solicitor.
SO, I have changed my new years resolutions. I AM going to open ALL my mail, even if it looks like junk mail AND I'm going to tidy up my filing/paperwork!!
When I found it I was looking for DH's birth certificate, which, needless to say, I couldn't find!Ah well, kjept me out of the kitchen for a few hours

Jen, I hear you on the wake up call. BTW I love that personal best........think I might go for the same. ;-)

Geneve, What a find!!!!! My mother recently turned over checks she found when going through my father's papers. My father died about five years ago. Anyway she found checks us kids had given him to cash. There were checks amounting to quite a bit and he had apparently 'lost' them. One from my brother was for quite a good amount of money. He told my mother he had the account still and she could just cash it. She did.

I haven't worked out............yet. I think I will soon though. I am starting out slowly and going to build as i get use to the workout and as I get use to setting aside the time. I did eat well yesterday. I had eaten lightly all day so when my husband brought a Chinese Buffet to go for our family I could partake with a clear conscience. The buffet was a tray filled up (presumably for one person) that we all eat off of so nobody really pigs out with it.

Today I have been hungry but I am trying to make some good choices. What do they say 6 weeks for something to become a habit? We need a goal..........how about valentine's day. I don't mean a weight loss goal as much as a behavior mod goal. Here are mine.

- to work out four times a week, if only for 15 minutes.
- to drink two quarts of water (not soda or coffee)
- to document my eating at least 80% of the week.

Ok so I have three.....they aren't super big one's.




Barb

Barb, i think the valentines day idea is a good one, i have a big 'do' to go to just before then, and it's with my husbands new company so it's the first time they will have seen me. I HATE meeting new people looking like this...I think they will just register me as fat rather than as a person. I know it happens, i used to get a very different reaction when I was thin, now I'm invisible, even though there is so much more of me!!
Still, the family have jusy eaten pizza, and I have had soup...still no chees or chocolate and not missing it yet.

Geneve, sounds like a goal to me no cheese and no chocolate......


I know what you mean about being invisible. I have been invisible for years and years. My sister lost weight (she was never as large as me though) and now I am invisible even to her.


Of course it DOES show you who you want to get to know, or not.




Barb

Barb, you're SO right, I have certainly changed the way I judge people, although I have to say that as a painter I don't seem to view the larger body in the same way as most. If it's any consolation,I've had some models who look great with their clothes on and nothing with them off...men as well as women, much to my disappointment!

Hi all. Drake slept through another night, this is 2 in a row. Dare I hope that this is a pattern? Boy I sure hope so.

I kind of felt like the dog's dinner this morning, my stomach was really upset or so I thought. I've now figured out that it is my abdominal muscles that are a little sore, they are better now that I've gotten up and moved around a little.

I've set a Valentine's Day goal with another group to lose 25 lbs. So far I've already lost 4 lbs and I think although it is a large amount I really think I can do it. the 4 lbs came off just this past week while I was really watching my diet and exercising a lot so all my hard work is paying off.

I haven't had any chips since my post saying I wouldn't have any, luckily at the new year's eve party I went to there were no chips, she had healthier snacks thank goodness. I have that feeling too when I am meeting new people that they just register me as being a fat person and don't bother to get to know me. I'm invisible a lot as well but I don't know if that is the other person or just me because when I meet new people I tend to be very shy I suppose because of my weight. I'm probably afraid that they won't find me worth getting to know because of my weight.

Geneve - I hope you get to cash that cheque or have another one issued by your solicitors. What a nice bonus!

Barb - I have heard that it is supposed to take at least 30 days for something to become a habit. I think you are very smart for starting out slowly. I can't tell you how many time I jumped into exercise programs and gave them up 2 weeks later because every muscle was screaming.

Take care all, have a great day.

Hi everyone,
Hope all is going well for you...is it too m uch to hope that Jen slept at the weekend?
Ate some cheese yesterday, but still no chocolate...
back to the gym today, and Ted back to school so I feel like Christmas is finally over. Am I sad? Well, I was at the school 20 minutes early if that gives you an indication
When Leo is in the creche they give him a bottle which is a great help as he still complains if I try to give him his milk that way.Wish I could get him onto a bottle now, he is 5 months old, and I want to go out more!
Can hear him waking up on the monitor, so must dash...
geneve