Jolly, what a great NSV! Wow!
I'm feeling absolutely charged up today about this new ww core program. I am absolutely gleeful that I might break through this barrier and lose more weight!
This morning I made this gorgeous omlet and wasn't "cheating" and it was great! Wow!
Today, I feel like the pounds are just melting off me.... literally feel like dancing!
I hope the rest of you are having a great day like I am!
Linda
Real quickly, I am back to full time, as of today. I'll see how it goes, but I really need to be conditioning myself back to full time. My mom leaves on Tuesday, so it's crunch time! The afternoon really isn't that bad, as I take such a late lunch I only have 2.5 hours left to work once I return.
Linda: I am going to weigh in next week, so I will be getting the new program info then. I read about it on a "leak" website about a month ago. Sounds interesting, but the only thing that scares me is the idea of "as much food as you want" concept from the core foods. I thought the big push was portion control. Maybe I didn't read all of it correctly. We shall see. Sounds like just the thing you need to help you over your plateau. Congrats on the loss.
Jolly: What can I say other than way to go on being OP. You are doing so well and have so many things going the right way. It's so great to hear about!
Raven: You need me to check up on Ian? Let me know, since he'll be in our neighborhood! How are you doing with all of this? Seems like you have talked about it for so long, it's hard to believe it's really here.
Hi to Red, Happy and Hippy. Hope things are going better with the job fronts for all of you.
Chach, good that you are well enough to be back full time. I'm impressed with how quickly this all seems to have gone! How do you feel about yourself when you look in the mirror now - are you happy? That is the most important part in all of this!
I know what you mean about being worried about as much food as you want, I am as well. Quite honestly, for these two days I am doing both plans together. I am making sure the points range of the core foods fits into my point allowance for the old plan, so you could say I am a bi-plan person???? I feel more in control doing it this way for now as I am worrying very much about losing control, going wild with the freedom and not being intelligent. I am so welcoming this change is what I thought I could eat and couldn't eat, though. I am approaching it differently now.
In fact, I was on So. Beach and Atkins for awhile and some of the core foods remind me of these, yet the focus is not on low carb, it's on a totally fresh and healthy diet. I just know I will want pizza, though and maybe some fast food now and then so that is when I might fail at the core plan and trade back to the other plan!
Linda
Hey all. I had another "interesting" day. Confrontation with one of my staff. I take that stuff too personally, and instead of pulling out the constructive stuff, feel like I am a complete failure. Things to work on, I know. But, I have gotten through it without going for the chocolate. I went to the gym tonight, as I didn't make it off the couch this morning. I couldn't get myself to do the whole aerobic I had planned, so did half, then did weights (which I hadn't planned). So I felt that evened out. Plus, I did not find an "excuse" to go to the store afterwards. I told myself i could binge on whatever I wanted, as long as it was already AT HOME. That leaves popcorn (with butter though) and sugar free pudding or fudgicles. So, that was a save, I think.
Anyway. Four days off now. Much needed, but will be busy. Have a good one all.
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Hi everyone,
The out of town interview went pretty well, I will get more feedback tomorrow. We really liked the south, more than we thought we would and would consider moving down there. I also have a second interview tomorrow for a place that is local to me. Lots going on right now and I need to devote my time and attention elsewhere.
I probably won't get back here until Sunday or so but know that I am thinking of all of you.
Happy, hope the job thing goes well for you, I didn't realize you were planning a possible move! Best of luck with this!
Still using the new core plan and I think I might do quite well with it. I am eating out tomorrow, though, so that could be dangerous.
Linda
Back to work full time again. A little tiring, but feels good to be almost back to "normal", whatever that means.
Big busy weekend planned--the Fair, brunch, date night with hubby, shopping with mom before she leaves, etc. I'm going to take it easy, but will be busy.
Happy: I am sending you more good interview and work vibes. If you move "South", where would that be? Closer to Raven so I can visit both of you next year??
Red: Good luck lifting yourself out. Hey, that should count as a workout, shouldn't it??
Linda: We'll see how the new plan goes. I believe I will continue on Flex, but you never know. Nice to have two eating plans to switch between, which really works for some people.
Going to Quiznos for lunch today. I love their veggie sandwich. I eat their small one, and it's really good and only 7 points. Have some baked chips with it and some peppers on the side. Yummy filling lunch with lots of fiber, not too much fat or calories. I'm saving those up for the Elephant Ear I plan on eating at the Fair. My one indulgence.
Hey all. Real quick post, before I rush out again. Happy, good luck with the interviews. Chachee, I think it is so cool you have date night with your husband. Red, I have joined you in the pits. All this week's stress caught up with me today, and I binged on just about everything. I feel awful now. Stressed, fat and broke. Sigh. Oh well. Tomorrow is another day.
Chach, date night sounds good to me as well. I think I need something like that. One thing we do is go out for a drive together on the weekends or on a nice evening. My father in law GAVE us an antique car and we take it out together, and it's always fun for the two of us and we have some special times together.
I am not feeling fat, Jolly, but I can relate to the broke and stressed right now. Just don't know where the funds are going to come from to pay all the bills right now. My husband got a raise a few months ago and I think we are worse off than we were ever before, I don't get it! Actually, I do get it. Prices are way up on everything, even ww and all the healthier choices of foods cost more! Why is it that the junk is cheaper?
Just got back from Freshman Orientation night at the high school with my daughter. She is a typical teen, I guess, and treated me like I was embarrassing her and cut me off short whenever I was trying to speak. On the way home, she lit into me and when we got home, I grounded her. She did come out and apologize, but now I am way too stressed to go to bed.
If I were the OLD me, I would be heading for the kitchen.... the new me did have a glass of milk to calm my nerves (skim milk!) and I am going to try to go to sleep soon.
Kids! If it's not one kid, it's the other.... oh well. I do love them, but do like some respect once in awhile. I really felt my daughter and I were making great strides in becoming more "friends" (as I would like) and that both of our efforts with ww were helping us to be more understanding, and closer to each other. I was really hoping she would be a bit "nicer" to me, but I guess not. Well, at least tonight she wasn't nice!
I must understand, though, that she IS, after all, 13 and being that age and starting high school and worrying about having kids like her, etc. is so stressful. Finding your way around a big school and having to deal with peer pressure, rules and teachers is hard. I was exhausted when we got home, as we had a long meeting in the auditorium and had to walk to all her classes, finding our way around, etc. It's a pretty big school and her class has 460 students in it, there will be more than 1500 kids in this school and it is at "full" capacity. They are talking split sessions and other innovative ways to deal right now. This high school was just expanded two or three years ago and they projected it would be good for several years and they are now astounded that it is totally full. Her Spanish class will have 31 students, yikes! I recalled many of my own school days and worries, so I guess I can't find total fault with her for being so MEAN to me, but I do not like to be treated like I have no brains and as if I am her enemy. She may not realize it, but there will never be such person in her life who would be totally on her side as I am, there will never be anyone who loves her more than me (and her dad too, of course). No one would fight harder FOR her and work harder to help her, probably, in her entire life. Everything parents do (if they are decent parents, at least) is with the ultimate goal of helping their kids. Yet, it's like she slapped me in the fact with it tonight....
Such hard times to be a teenager, but I hope my own kid can treat me with respect. We don't always have to agree, but I am not a moron.
Oh well, sorry for spouting off guys.... just a rough night.
Linda
Hey all. Today is a new day. I WILL make good food choices. I will not fall back on old eating habits. I will not medicate my stress disorder with food. I will take good care of myself. Yesterday is done.
I started my good choices by getting up at 4:20, on a day off, to get to the gym for an aerobics class before I go help out at the horse show. Am I good, or what? Sorry, just needed that pat on the back.
Derry, as a former teenage daughter, be patient through these years. I know, i never felt like my mom and I spoke the same language when I was growing up. "She just didn't understand me!" It actually wasn't until her and my father divorced, and I forced her into counseling with me, that we developed a good relationship. Each mother-daughter relationship is different, I know, but . . . . Hopefully she will "get it" much sooner than I did.
So Linda... did you tell HER all that, too? She's the one who needs to hear it. Not that we're not hear to listen, mind you.
I am so out of it.
Tired doesn't even begin to touch it. I need this weekend SO bad, and if I hadn't taken so much time off in the last couple weeks, I'd call in sick today. Yep, return of the tummy yucks. Poor Nick had it attack her at the stables last night really unexpectedly, and it cut short her plans for riding Eve. At least this time doesn't seem as bad as the last time. I guess we'll see. I just wonder if it isn't something we're eating or something.
And there are other things going on which are just discouraging. I'm sorry if I haven't been posting much, just don't feel like typing it all out.
I hope this weekend gives me some time to recharge my batteries, and I hope everyone else has a really nice one, too.
Linda: Along with Jolly, let me chime in as reformed teenage girl. I think growing up you don’t want to admit you need your mom, and get easily embarrassed when she’s with you, but there is nothing like knowing she is there for you. I was bad with my mom, not as bad as a lot of girls were, but I look back now and wonder why I acted that way sometimes. I think there are things that just bug me about my mom, and they would with any person I was a friend with who acted that way. The thing is that when it’s your mom, then you think the other “cool” kids will look at you and think that is the way you will act. Granted, you probably did nothing wrong, it’s just the stress of a new school and the new kids and the entire new situation. Puberty is a bi*** and going through it in a new school with new situations and not really knowing how to act anyway is so tough. I feel for you and know I am here. I see both sides of it so clearly now and wish I hadn’t acted that way towards her back then. I am making up for it now, and truly enjoy her company. (She still bugs me sometimes, though! Heehee)
Jolly: Sorry to hear you had a bad day yesterday. Sounds like you are making up for it today. Great job on the exercise and getting your focus back. Have a wonderful weekend, as I know you will, and enjoy yourself and your horsie!!
Raven: I know you are stressing and probably will be for awhile. Remember my offer—I’m here if you need me to check up on him or anything. The flash floods we are having probably doesn’t help your stress level, huh? It’s pretty bad up here. Didn’t know if you knew that or not.
Alrighty, I got about half of my birthday and Christmas shopping done yesterday. Just need to do a bit of wrapping and some cards and wait for my next paycheck to finish it off. I know, don’t hate me because I’m super organized and anal about getting stuff out early. Raven can tell you that if you don’t get your shopping and shipping done by the time the PFD hits in October, it’s tough to get anything done!!
Date night tonight. I think we will see either Open Waters or Suspect Zero. Going to the Mall just to walk around and enjoy each other’s company! Amazing!
Goodness, just typed this long post and clicked on the wrong key on my keyboard and lost it all in one click - what the heck happened???? Hope I don't hit that key again by accident, yikes!
Thanks for your thoughts and support guys! I did have a talk with Jamie this morning and cleared the air a bit. Told her I didn't expect to be treated like dirt, but also told her I understand what it's like to be starting high school and that I know she is under a great deal of pressure, etc.
So, things went a little better with her today.
I'm a mess, though, as I went to a wake tonight for a dear friend who passed away this week, I can't believe this guy is gone. He was very special to me and died of a heart attack at 62, way too young. I felt really badly as he had Parkinson's and had been in a nursing home for over a year and I had NOT gotten in to see him at all. I must remind you all, and myself, that if you know a person that is in a place like that, don't expect them to last forever waiting for you to get around to visiting them - just get your butt in there! I'm sad I lost his friendship and really mad at myself for not being a better friend during his stay there. I should have been a better friend. I hope he knows that now.
So, now for some GOOD news, I have to get off the morbid track.....
I met an old friend for lunch today. It was great to see her, it's been 17 years! She and I met when we were both nine years old and now we are both 49, so it's been a 40 year friendship! We spent hours together catching up on old times. We have been e-mailing each other for a long time and know what's going on in each other's lives, at least, but have not been face to face and had a conversation since my 16 year old's baby shower! She just finished losing 30 pounds, using ww points, by the way! I just lost my 12 pounds and we both congratulated each other on that! So, being quite aware of our situations, we had NSVs! We ordered our meals in the place like perfect angels! I even had a baked potato with NO butter or margarine on it for the first time in my entire life, and you know what??? It tasted good with no butter, that was a good learning experience! I had grilled chicken, salad with ff dressing and we both asked our server to "hold the bisquits"! This is probably one of the first times I have ever asked for no bread basket and been able to resist! Cool!
Some good things, some bad things today. I dealt well with stress, mourning and a celebration lunch.... could it be I'm getting this ww program finally crammed through this "thick skull" of mine?
Linda
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Hello all. Chachee, I admire your organizational skills. I wish I were better about buying gifts when I see then on sale, etc. part of it is having gift exchanges and not knowing who you will get. Ah well. Face it, I must be getting some reward out of the stress of Dec. 24th shopping. Derry, glad you talked to your daughter. Also, congrats on the NSVs with your friend - way to go. Sorry to hear about your other friend. It is a reminder to live each day, and to show your love to your friends. Raven, I hope you get the chance to recharge your batteries this weekend. We miss you.
Well, off to day two of the horse show. Squeezing a hair cut in there as well - going shorter. If I don't like it - it will grow. Have a good day all.
Not that we're not hear to listen, mind you. 
