Healthy Headstart for Pregnancy Buddies #3
 

This is an open group of women looking to lose weight in order to have healthy, happy pregnancies later down the road…

Anyone and everyone is welcome to join!

My name is Trish, I’m 26 years old, and have a beautiful 4 ½ year old daughter as well as a handsome 8 year old stepson. My husband and I were just married this past April 1st and we are getting ready to try and conceive a baby of our own. Currently, since joining 3FCs, I’ve lost 8 pounds and hope to continue losing until I’m pregnant.

Please introduce yourselves and feel free to join in!

Since you have started us a new thread I will post a new intro too....

Hi! My name is Jenn. I am not currently married or engaged, but my family seems to think (or hope) that my current BF, Tim, is going to be the "one"...Since I hope the same thing and I know I won't want to wait once I get married to start TTC, I decided that I should start losing weight now in order to be much more prepared and a lot healthier when the time came, so here I am. Since joining, I have lost about 18# and hope to lose another 30 before I'm ready to have children.

I look forward to seeing some new faces join us! :D

Morning, lovelies! How is our Thursday going?

We're going to IHOP today for breakfast. Do you think 2 over medium eggs and a bowl of oatmeal sounds okay- dietwise. IHOP doesn't have their nutritional info online (of course :P ) so I never know what to get!

Good because I hate feeling guilty about ordering here! BUT I'm tired of simple grilled chicken breasts- they are really dull after a few weeks :P So I'm trying to make my own meals- LOL- hence the two eggs and oatmeal from IHOP!

I just had my yogurt... I need to start picking up a variety of things for lunch, but yogurt and fruit is easy and I'm lazy in the morning :lol: If I get lunch here, my boss pays, but sometimes there is no good, healthy options... maybe I'll start ordering again a couple days a week...We'll see

I just don't like yogurt. Tried doing it the other week- first time, it was great. Then it started tasting funky! LOL!

Well, my breakfast is rapidly turning into lunch. The gal screwed up our order big time and so I've had my eggs, but am still waiting on my oatmeal :P

I understand that everyone is human andno one is perfect so people make mistakes, but don't you hate when they have their "Duh!" moment when they are waiting on you? It makes it soo much more aggatating :lol:

Hope you've had your oatmeal by now!

Yep, had the oatmeal. Was NOT as good as (say) the stuffed pancakes looked :P

I'm sooooooooooo bored. We are leaving here an hour early today (for me) and time is draggin'.

OMG. Today has started off BADLY. I'm lying in bed when I hear the rustle of garbage bags being moved around. The only place in my bedroom where there is a garbage bag is on the bottom tray of the Coatis cage- I'm not sure if you've ever used kitty liners in the litter box, but it works just like that. It's a huge yard garbage bag that fits over their bottom tray. They are on a grid ABOVE the bag, so when they potty, it falls into the bag and all I have to do is pull out the tray, flip the bag inside out, and toss it.

Anyways, somehow through magic, they had pulled the ENTIRE bag into their cage. So they're now pottying ALL OVER the TRAY instead of the bag. Imagine, this is quite the mess- three furkids just doing their deed whenever they want.

I jump out of bed, totally infuriated, and ready to fix the problem. I've got to get their bag out of their cage, clean the tray, and put a new bag in their cage.

My Husband, whom I love dearly, did not lift a damn finger to help. He just stayed in bed.

OMG- I am sooo very mad. He said, "Hey, you can do that later" I can't stand men and their later attitudes- LATER means ever MORE mess. And I cannot stand mess.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

So how's your Friday going?

So far, the rest of the day has gone just as bad :P My 8 year old son went to take out the trash and dumped it all over the floor instead! And work is sucking royally :P

Otherwise, they're ordering something good for lunch and I'm trying to avoid it.

My weekend has been wonderful so far :) Yesterday, I cracked and was horrible- I seem to do good for 2 days and bad for one! But I knew I was going to the Cheesecake Factory and as much as I tried to convince myself to have a Portobello Mushroom Burger, I just couldn't. LOL! So I had some Mexican taco dish- it was pretty good. What was REALLY REALLY good, though, was a Strawberry Martini! OMG- I've never had a martini before- what was I waiting for??? It tasted like pure fresh strawberries and was sooooooooooooooo good.

Today, I'm trying to motivate myself to work-out :P Heh- fun!

You may want to try taking an iron supplement- which is what they'd recommend if you are anemic anyways! I'm on Walmart's Prenatal vitamins (for the folic acid, but they also have iron, etc, in them) and I usually bruise real easily- since you mentioned it, I just realized I'm not bruising as easily anymore! Must be the iron in the capsules!

I'm suffering horribly from allergies to my Coatis right now- when we brought our youngest home, she was on such a horrible diet that she had tons and tons of dander. Like clouds of dead skin- disgusting! Anyways, since then- I've turned into an itchy machine. I think I'm going to try taking a Vit E and B complex supplement and see if that will help. Itching sucks!

I introduced a new step into my exercise program yesterday. I bought the DVDs to the Firm awhile back- excellent work out program, but I'm not rythymic enough to do it (I slaughtered that word!) and it came with this weight stick. Anyways, so I'm now doing 50 curls, 20 minutes on my machine, 50 squats, and then 20 more minutes. Hopefully that will build muscle which will help me in my long-term goal!

Tomorrow, I'm going to be bad and drink Slim Fast for 2 meals and I'll probably do it Monday too. I just feel like I need to be extra aggressive to hit my 10 pound mark.

You, btw, are doing so wonderful! You haven't hit a plateau yet and looks like Onederful is right there for you! Can't wait for the morning you see it on the scale!

Hellooooooooooooo?

How was your weekends? Mine basically sucked- haha. My Hubby ended up working until 3 am Saturday night and then he had to be back at work by 8 am Sunday. It's 5:30 PM Sunday and he's still at work. Only good news is that he's been on double-time since like 5 PM last night, so it will be a real nice paycheck. Money, however, is only nice when it's in my hand- I'd much prefer he be home!!! :(

I went out and bought those two vitamins I mentioned- E and the B Complex. I'm going to see if they help out my allergies. If not, I may go to an allergist. Whatever it takes because itching is horrible!

What is everyone up to? Ooooh, I want grocery shopping today and bought a bunch of fresh squash and zuchinni and mushrooms- so I'm probably going to make a vegetable medley with pepper and a dab of butter for dinner for me tonight! SlimFast- ya really don't taste all that great!

Morning, Sunshines! How are our Monday's? Mine is great- my scale said 155 this morning! Woo hoo- so I'm at the 10 pound mark, but I need to stick with it or the scale will creep up for sure!

Thank you, thank you! I just had fresh veggies for a snack today- yummm! MUSHROOMS! LOL! I love em! How's your afternoon going? I think I'm breaking down and having my Lean Gourmet!

My afternoon is going slowly too, but it's almost over as Tim is on his way here now and then we are going to go to a Pawsox game. It should be fun since it no longer looks like it is about to pour :)

I hope you enjoyed your Lean Cuisine and that you have a good night. I will check back in the morning! :goodvibes

Yay Trish on your 155 :cb:

I had a dinner party this weekend. Of course with non-diet food. It was great, and I haven't stopped eating it yet. I need to get back on track!! I had a migraine yesterday, so that blew the whole afternoon & evening, and I'm all groggy today. I think I did some feeling-sorry-for-myself eating yesterday and today. I need to get motivated again! Tomorrow is another day.

I got some new lean cuisine dinners, so that'll help with lunches. I love Burger King's Veggie Burger, and it's not bad for me either! I probably get that once or twice a week.

I feel all blah today. I wanted to get outside and plant some things, but I'm still at the hospital. So much for plans today. What strange hours I keep.

Sorry this is down. I'll try again tomorrow.

Jess

Hi Jess :)

It's super-okay! We all have down days- I think the last few days, I've been pretty bummed! Tonight, I think I'm going to get a Kid's Meal at Wendy's with my kids- LOL. Calorie-wise, it's not that bad and I just really want some fries. At least in a kid's meal- it's a small portion!

Morning, Sunshines! How are our Tuesdays going?

Yeah and sometimes, you just have to indulge! You did great avoiding the fried dough, so you might as well have the chicken parm :) Right now, I think AF is coming and that's depressing... 2 months of TTC- it would be easier if I didn't KNOW what I was doing (ie when you are supposed to ovulate, blah blah). Anyways, I just ordered some real cheap home pregnancy tests/ovulation tests from Ebay figuring that next cycle, I might as well save some money. I'm a COMPULSIVE tester- totally compulsive, have to test even when it's waaay too early!

Anyhoo- that's my day! I want pizza- LOL- how bad is that?

I'm just in a MOOD today! See, Jess- I get in moods too :)

My Mom took home 2 of my sugargliders about 6 months ago- she just called me and said to put an ad in the paper for them- she just 'doesn't feel like taking care of them anymore'. WTH? All you have to DO is put some food in their cage and water every night!!! And they're in a bird-sized cage, so there isn't much maintenance!!! AARGH.

Awww, thanks :) Just drive out here!

Well, I WAY cheated today and used my snack calories on a DONUT!!!

I did half of my workout at lunch :P I have to drive out to my Mom's to pick up our Avon order that I splurged on tonight so I figured I would get as much of my workout out of the way as possible. THAT SUCKED. One hour for lunch, drive-time is about 10 minutes to my house and back, walk both dogs, and workout for 20 minutes!

Now I'll need to workout the additional 20 and do my weights tonight :P

Hi all,

I was good and went to my exercise class, but pigged out from lunch on. I don't know what to do to kick myself back into gear. I'm going to try to get up early tomorrow and walk. We never have lunches at our office on Wednesdays, so I'll be okay to Lean Cuisine it.

I have another stupid headache today, so that works wonders for the energy. I am probably eating in response to that, in part.

I did get my hair cut today, and she did a great job (as usual). That helps the old self esteem.

One of our cats (or maybe two of them, we're not sure exactly) has started to spray in one of our rooms, and it is AWFUL! We've tried several different treatments, from pet stain enzyme cleaners to our steam cleaner to diluted vinegar. We have to have someone come in and do it professionally. The room just reeks! I don't know who it is, so I'm not sure how to prevent it from happening again once it's clean.

Darn it, sorry about the mood again. I'm going to try to start fresh tomorrow. Hope you have great evenings!

Jessica

Hi Jenn and Jess!

Well, you used MY suggestions for cleaning cat pee- diluted vinegar or Nature's Miracle from Petsmart. Has your cat been to the vet lately- or has either of them? Sometimes they'll spray due to health issues- sometimes, they pee just to be pains!

Well, I DID get the second half of my workout in, but unfortunately, I DID eat at my Mom's. She wasn't supposed to be home, but she was and she had roast beef and mushroom sandwiches made. And I HAD to have one! But I didn't grill my bread with butter nor do I smother it in cheese, so it's better then what I'd normally eat over there!

Oh, the Avon I ordered wasn't all make-up! In fact, I only bought lipstick (make-up wise). Other then that, I bought a perfume I had wanted (free $12 powder with it), a dress (kinda like a tennis dress- don't know how to explain it) and then some of that fake tan stuff and a few other little things. I always pick out a bunch of stuff I want in the catalogue, but NEVER actually buy it- so my Avon lady was pleasantly surprised :) She's my Mom's best friend and actually, we had our wedding reception at her house! She's the nicest!

Anyhoo, gotta go take a shower!

*Bring on the stupid bloating* SIGH. Welp, AF is almost here and therefore I've decided to start retaining water as a hobby! Now I just want her here and gone ASAP :P

How's your Wednesdays out there?