Kim, I hope your dad is feeeling better soon. It stinks when a family member is hurting, trust me my sister finally got out of the hospital. Unfortantly they don't know what caused her her trouble. possible heart spasms so they changed her high blood pressure meds to one that helps witht he spasms. hopefully it works. she is only 44 too young for heart trouble. although my uncle had his first heart attack at 40. My prayers are for him to get well.
I don't know about you ladies but i have been so tired lately. I think its all this interviewing I am going on. I gotta ask you working moms, how do you do it? work full time and take care of your family. I am having second thoughts of going back to work but my hubby says we have no choice.. anny thoughts..
Andrea what online class are you taking again? how did you find out about it. I was thinkingabout trying something like that.
I will do that. I mentioned it to my husband and he said nah but I want to look into it anyway. I would love to work from home. right now i have to go to work for medical because we own our own company we have to pay for it which its like a mortgage but I would love to do something from home because if we have another baby 2 kids in daycare would be tough.
Thanks for the info. I will defently check it out.
I got a confession to make ladies. I haven't been good on program. I have been eating chocolate and junk again. Can't seem to get myself back. Although I just got over TOM. I have been running around trying to keep my house in order and interviewing and I guess the fact that we did not get pregnant this month again (it will be a year in June, not to mention the previous summer trying (took a break). Anyway I guess thats got me stressed a little bit. But I figure if I can work for the next 2 years it will help my bills and maybe I can stay home again. I heard you ladies talking about early menapause. Do you think I have that? How do you know.
Karyn, I never had any trouble getting pregnant, when we were still married the devil ex and I would joke that all we had to do was THINK about sex at the same time and I would get pregnant Finally had my tubes tied after the 3rd one or I'd have about 10 more by now! Hang in there girl, stressful times and TOM are tuff but you'll get back into it. You can do it!!
Andrea I hope you have a good time in Portland and that it takes a little of the stress of feeling like you need to entertain 24/7 away. You need a break!
Sarah, a makeover with the girls sounds like such fun! Have a good time and let us know how it went when you get back!
No walking today, it is raining here again. Seth was supposed to have a track meet today but I'm reasonable sure it will be cancelled. Everything is going good diet wise.
Foods today- SBD cereal bar and skim milk for breakfast
cheese stick for snack
Sante Fe chicken salad and diet rite cola for lunch.
With my son I think it took 3 or 4 months so this is frustrating to me. But I have heard that the second one is harder. I also think that my hubby is under stress with the business and that could cause some problems. not sure.
Hey did anyone catch Oprah today. It was awesome. It was about the 12 week challenge that she had with some of her people. There were people on it that lost 7 dress sizes by not eating after 7:30 and exercising 8 times a week. awesome and thats all she changed. The show got cut off half way through cause the Henry Hudson parkway retaining wall broke down and they didn't know if anyone was trapped so the show got cut off and i was wondering if anyone say it and could tell me the rest of what happend on Oprah.
Hey everyone!! Well WI today sucked I gained 2lbs. But that is okay. I did indulge alittle too much and the munchies did me in and TOM should be here soon. Tormorrow is a new day and I won't have another WI until a week from Saturday. So I should have enough time to lose that and more by then. Today was our last at work meeting and we have two weeks to start up at a center. Work has been so stressful!!! The kids are just acting horrible!! I need handcuffs!! ok I'm kidding....maybe. Anyway I will be glad when school gets out. I think the teachers are just as restless as the kids.
Andrea- Enjoy your trip to Portland and the few days you will have with everything back to normal.
Val-Glad to see your back on track with the diet after your birthday.
Kim- I hope your dad is doing better. It is so scary when our parents are ill. We tend to think they are invinsible.
Karyn- I hate missing Oprah! I quess I will have to wait for reruns this summer. Being a working mom is tuff!!! I feel like I rush to pick them up at daycare and then I spend my evening running them to dance, swimming, sports..... Makes for a very long day. Hope your sister is back to normal soon. And I don't know if it will help you feel better or not but it took us 4 years and about $30,000 to get pregnant with my son after a miscarriage and 3 weeks and about $2000 to get pregnant with my daughter. So getting pregnant isn't something that comes easy for me. But hang in there it will happen when it's suppose to.
Well the weekend will be here soon!!! I just want to sleep but I know that won't happen. Anyway enjoy the rest of the evening and I'll check back in tomorrow.
Paige thanks for the advice. It helped a little. I had no trouble conciving Nicholas but I don't have that kind of money to go through so we will have to keep trying the old fashion way. Anyway I am hoping on these 3 interviews one will come in cause I really need the money. I hate not being able to pay my bills. And nicholas needs to be around other kids. I figured if I can work for a least a year or two it will help and hopfully by then we will have another baby. LIke you said it happens when its suppose to and with our debt maybe its not suppose to happen now. I thank God every day that I have him and that it was easy to have him but he makes me nuts that I need to borrow those handcuffs.
Do you have any suggestions of how to get nicholas to stop talking back to me and to stop eating paper/foam? I give him timeouts but he is just disrespectful to me. I wonder if he is bored with being home and not out playing with other kids. Anyoine have any suggestions. and the paper/foam thing (he ate part of my tableclth) is a new thing. Anyone have any take on this?
Well I am going to follow Oprahs weight loss challenge starting Monday. I have to go out and get the book but it basically is no white stuff and refined sugar, no alchol (for the boot camp part which will be tough for the summer), no eating after 7:30. theres one more thing and I can't remember.
I was so exhausted last night that I actually went to bed at 8:00!! I came home and looked up some job openings in local districts and then went to bed. I'm really not liking my job very much and if I am ever going to make a change I need to be doing it in the next couple of years...I'm ready to make that change, but it isn't easy moving as an administrator. I quess I will call on Monday for an application for a job in the district we live in. They have 4 AP openings but only one is at an Elementary school. It would probably be a pay cut if I got it, but at this point it might be worth it. I'm just so tired of handling discipline...I want to be able to focus more on curriculum and instruction.
I need to go to Walmart and get grocerys and find a gift for DS to take to a birthday party tomorrow. I have to cook for the week this weekend!! Last week was really hard not having anything already done.
Well off to Walmart. I'll check make later to see if anyone else has been around.
Karyn- have you talked to the doctor about the paper eating?? I have a friend and her daughter had Pica (sp???) she ate things like paper, dirt, and lint. She finally outgrew it but they had to watch her for a few years. As far as discipline goes the best thing that I can tell you is that what ever consequence you use make sure you are consistent and do it all the time!! Also make sure that is doable. Don't threaten to do something that you know you won't really do. Kids, even at 2, figure this out really fast!!!
Rise and Shine Sleepyheads!!!! Where is everyone this weekend!! I actually have time to get on the computer this weekend and no one is around. I should have stayed home yesterday. I spent way to much money at Walmart for grocerys and at Target. DS really needed some new clothes and I had several graduation gifts to buy and a birthday gift...boy it all adds up fast!!!! I have to take DS to a birthday party this afternoon and I am cooking for the week today as well.
I assume everyone is having a busy weekend! I hope the weather is nice wherever you are. It has been really nice here. The kids want me to take them to the pool, but with the party this afternoon I don't think we will make it today.
According to my scale the last 2 mornings I have lost the 2lb gain from Thursday and another pound so that puts me at -39!!!! I won't change my ticker though until next Saturday when I have my official WI. Alot can happen between now and then, good and bad!!! Enjoy your day everyone!!
Hi Paige and everyone else, too! Sorry I haven't been posting much these last few days. Not only was I physically pretty busy in Portland, and since I've been back as well, because of Ron and Sarah being here and it being Ron's birthday, but my mind is busy and I've been feeling a bit overwhelmed. Sometimes I shut down some when I'm feeling like that, so I haven't been posting. The only thing I've managed to keep up on has been updating my fitday.com food log, and I've had a rough week in that regard, posting way too many fats and sweets. Especially sweets. TOM and Ron's birthday have really made it hard to behave this week! I'm not even sure I will post a loss for tomorrow's weigh-in--and it would be the first time I didn't lose any weight in a week since I started this. I don't think I will post a gain, though we shall see.
I'm trying not to get too upset about falling off my plan a little this past week. I will get back into the swing of things, especially since I will have a little break from having the extra distraction of having my older son here. I know that some of this has been stress eating. My visit from my son is going pretty well, actually, but I have to meet the needs of SO many people, AND I have some real financial concerns right now as well. Also, I am worried about not being able to take that English course that I petitioned to take to complete my degree, because I don't have the money for it. ARGH! It's hard to stay focused on my weight loss with all the pressure and worry I have right now. Of course there is the daily work of taking care of 3 small kids. I'm fine, but I know I need some kind of break--either some money to fall into our laps, or for time to stop for a few days, so I can breathe! Neither seem very likely! I know I will be ok. I have no choice. Still sometimes, I wonder how I don't just completely fall to pieces and I shudder to think how little my husband understands about how I am feeling. I really feel on the edge sometimes, especially around TOM. I wonder how I will wake up the next day and make it through another day. I don't mean to sound melodramatic, especially considering there are people in far more stressful situations than my own, but sometimes I feel downright depleted and I worry about completely losing my mind. And, I just *KNOW* that my husband doesn't really get it--that he doesn't realize the pressure I feel, because he has his own pressure and different things get to him. Besides, he drowns it in beer a lot of the time, something I don't do and I've not been drowing my stress in food like I used too (at least not most of the time!) I don't think he realizes that even though I seem okay and will probably continue to go on as I have, I am always just one more disaster away from quitting. I will never quit, I don't think, but I feel like I'm on a precipice about to fall so much of the time. Anyone know what I mean?
Despite all this pressure I've been feeling, this has been a wonderful weekend, especially today. We went letterboxing again and this time we found the letterbox we set out to find. This one was at the other lighthouse on the peninsula, the North Head Lighthouse. It was pretty easy for us, actually. We also went back to the other lighthouse and were able to find the letterbox we didn't find there last weekend! Sarah was SO excited and it was so cool opening it up and reading the notes and looking at the stamps of others who found it before us. Fun! Plus the hikes were invigorating and beautiful! Lots of exercise--and other than eating a tiny bit more birthday cake than I planned, I stayed on my eating program today! I think part of the reason I'm feeling so good, though, is TOM is almost over and I'm getting back to a more even keel, emotionally. Let's hope!
Well, I'll see everyone tomorrow for weigh-in. I'm crossing my fingers for at least a 1 pound loss.
Morning All. Thanks Paige for the advice. When my son was small he used to eat my hair all the time. My doctor says don't let him do that. He still does it on occaisions. He used to eat my carpet sheds, hair and lint. Pretty much most of that is gone except for hair once in a while not as much. The paper thing is quite new. Not sure what that is about. How do I find out more about Pica? Any suggestions.
Andrea, you are doing so well. You should be so proud of yourslef and posting a gain after 1 bad week might help you to own up to it and move on. I know I am not the prerson to give advice on this since I have not been good about this the hole time but you have and should just move passed this one week. Everyone is entitled to a vacation. Don't worry as long as you don't quit you will be okay. Just say to yourself, what is my alternative? Knowing you so far I know you won't go back to your past. Keeping looking ahead. Good Luck.
Today I am starting the opera plan. Its a 12 weeek total body makeover. I haven't exercised yet but I had cofee only so far. I need to do this.
Good Morning! I weighed in this morning and I'm down the one pound I hoped for this week! I'm at exactly 175 pounds. That's also another 5 pounds down and enough to qualify for another pair of earrings! (when/if I can come up with enough money!)
Karyn, thanks for the encouraging words. I agree that having a bad week is no reason to stop striving. I have to say, though, that I only had one really bad day this week. Though, it was probably my worst day of eating off plan since I started this! But I tried to be reasonable about my cheating on the other days when I had cravings, or just couldn't resist some German Chocolate Birthday cake! I think that helped. So did the hiking around I did on more than one occasion this week! The old me would have scarfed down more than one huge slice of that baby each day there was some available and would have let the kids watch as many movies as they wanted so that I wouldn't have to do anything but read or sleep--escape, you know?! Basically, I stuck to most of my plan, but allowed more sweets in than usual, but I tried to keep that within reason--a bite here or there, a thin slice of cake with one small scoop of icecream, etc... Anyway, with the stress, Ron's birthday and TOM visiting, I feel great about my 1 pound loss!
This place has been quiet, for sure. I was gone a few days and expected to have so much reading to do, but not so. Where is everyone?
Kim, I hope your dad is doing better. Hang in there, girl!
Paige, congratulations on your 3 pound loss! That's AWESOME! Hope you had a chance to get your cooking done. That seems to work really well for you, and makes you feel so accomplished, too! Good luck with the decisions you are contemplating regarding work, too. You have so much on your minds!
Elisette, sounds like your cruising with your goals in mind! Keep it up!
Val, where are you? Your last post sounded positive. I hope every thing is still going well, and you aren't having too much trouble from -ex. Pop in and give us an update on your busy happenings!
Sarah, did you enjoy your makeover? How are you?
Well, I'm sure I missed some people, but I need to get off here and get some housework done. I hope everyone has a fantastic day and gets the week off to a great start!
Sorry I didn't post this weekend, everything is ok I've just been busy! I weighed in this morning at 188.6
The 180's are here!!! Also, today I am wearing a new pair of capri's that my mom bought me for my birthday and they are a size 14 and are fitting comfortably!! I am definitely going for a walk today! The weather here has been nice, sunny but the wind is making it a little chilly enough for a light jacket. Which is also what makes it really easy to get a sunburn. I got a little bit of a burn on my face Saturday while I was outside weedeating and working in the yard.
Karyn, gosh, I never had any problems with my kids eating stuff so I guess I can't be of much help there. I agree with Paige about being consistent with your discipline. Consistency is very important, difficult to do sometimes, but really key. Good luck on the Oprah plan, I hope it works for you, but if not don't give up, you will find one that does!! Also, wishing you luck with your interviews!
Paige, you are such a trooper!! Posting when the rest of us are slacking!! This weekend was just super busy, sorry. YeeHaw!! you lost those 2 + another 1!! That is fantastic!! So proud of you, keep it up!!
Andrea, you sound so determined even though you are stressing, which I think says volumes about how you will do with continuing this journey that we are all on together!! I know you need a break, just wish I could skip out there and help you out! And yes, of course, I know what you mean. I have those days when I feel like I'm hanging on the edge of an abyss that is just waiting to swallow me up. No time for that though our kids need us to be strong and show them the way! Oh, Seth and I went on our first letterboxing outting on Saturday!! It was so much fun!! We are talking about where we are going to put a box of our own. We still need to go get a stamp. We found 2 boxes. We had a bit of trouble finding the second one but we stuck with it and eventually found it. I think that made it a little more fun anyway, we really had to work for that one. We are going to get our stamp and go back to stamp them!
Well I need to do some work before walking, catch you all later!
Finally had my tubes tied after the 3rd one or I'd have about 10 more by now! Hang in there girl, stressful times and TOM are tuff but you'll get back into it. You can do it!!
I should have stayed home yesterday. I spent way to much money at Walmart for grocerys and at Target. DS really needed some new clothes and I had several graduation gifts to buy and a birthday gift...boy it all adds up fast!!!! I have to take DS to a birthday party this afternoon and I am cooking for the week today as well.
(when/if I can come up with enough money!)
I agree that having a bad week is no reason to stop striving. I have to say, though, that I only had one really bad day this week. Though, it was probably my worst day of eating off plan since I started this! 
Basically, I stuck to most of my plan, but allowed more sweets in than usual, but I tried to keep that within reason--a bite here or there, a thin slice of cake with one small scoop of icecream, etc... Anyway, with the stress, Ron's birthday and TOM visiting, I feel great about my 1 pound loss! 
I know you need a break, just wish I could skip out there and help you out! And yes, of course, I know what you mean. I have those days when I feel like I'm hanging on the edge of an abyss that is just waiting to swallow me up. 
No time for that though our kids need us to be strong 
and show them the way! Oh, Seth and I went on our first letterboxing outting on Saturday!! It was so much fun!! We are talking about where we are going to put a box of our own. We still need to go get a stamp. We found 2 boxes. We had a bit of trouble finding the second one but we stuck with it and eventually found it. I think that made it a little more fun anyway, we really had to work for that one. We are going to get our stamp and go back to stamp them! 