I have been kind of feeling crappy.... I have TOM that's just about to start and a cold... I'll take a walk at lunch and hope that wakes me up and bit. I had like 10 hours of sleep last night too... argh!
I had swiss chalet last night, skin off, veggies and soup! Yummy.
Swim Girl: That's what I hated about retail, being treated like crap. I hated that. I hate when people try to overuse their limited power...
Retail isn't my job of choice, but it's serving a purpose for now. My boyfriend is the one with the job that will take off (possible promotion from 12 bucks an hour to 40 grand a year), so I'm trying to stay strong and suppliment some of our income. Once he gets the better job I will be considering going back to school. I think I have a huge thing with respect, and I pour a lot of my energy into a near-minimum wage job, I would just like to be treated with respect for doing so. The customers are great 90% of the time, it's just my darn assistant manager and 4th key holder (manager and 3rd key are great ).
I'm sorry to hear about your grandmother Kierie, I hope she's doing alright!
Wouldn't it be great if men got periods for just ONE month? Then they could finally understand it! The bloated feeling is one thing, the moodiness.. the actual "event", and cramps... oh cramps.. men think they could handle it, but once a month for most of your life? Knowing that you are going to get it is the worst part..
Have a great Friday! I am FAR less cranky today woohoo!
Just poppin in. Tux shop has gone bankrupt and I must find 5 identical tuxes. Anyway, no time but here is what skinnydailypost has to say on the WW Core Plan:
The Core Door
WeightWatchers has a new program. And I have a bit of a parable for you.
My daughter is an artist, and when she graduated from college, she was granted a fellowship to go to France and live and work for a year. There were slight strings attached. She couldn’t come home at any point in the year. The idea was to immerse herself in the culture, to work and learn. She couldn’t wait.
A few months into her stay there, she stepped out on a Paris street to hail a cab and was hit and thrown into the air by a speeding motorcyclist. She landed on her head and then in the hospital, where she was stitched up and waited out a concussion before being released into the care of family friends. Far from home and family and hurting, our bright, effervescent, brave and curious daughter became flinchy, tearful, depressed.
We arrived a few weeks after to celebrate Christmas and help her move from Paris to a city in the south of France. Our girl had dark circles under her eyes, had clearly been living under many blankets and not eating well. We worried. We said, you can come home. We said, forget the fellowship, we’ll pay them back, these are extenuating circumstances, you’ve been hurt, you need to recover, of course you can come home.
And that’s all she really needed to hear. She began to sleep and feel better immediately. She just needed to know that returning home could not be construed as failure. Knowing it was there, right there within her reach, she could more easily stay and finish out her year. We didn’t aim for reverse psychology, but that’s the way it worked out. The girl just needed a door to be opened when she felt she faced nothing but closed doors. Total parental luck.
I’m careful not to advocate one diet over another, because we each need to find what works best for us, but I do like to try them out to see what I can use from each for myself. So I’ve been following WeightWatchers’ new Core program for a week. I have been snarky about WeightWatchers in the past and reserve the right to snipe in the future, but I have to say I’m pretty happy about this program.
I’ll resist the temptation to compare it to South Beach (favorable comparisons there if you’re a South Beach fan, clearly somebody’s considering glycemic load), and simply say that what they’ve offered is a model for eating clean — eating foods that are fresh and nutritious and fiber-and-water dense, and low in saturated fats. A small points allowance lets you snack now and then, or modify the diet to suit your preferences, culture, ambition, etc. It’s a great diet, and I’m glad, glad, glad.
But what I really love about it is the way it opens a door in my head. Instead of worrying about planning my whole food day, instead of going hungry all day while saving calories for dessert, instead of wanting to shun fruit in favor of fudge, I’m given license to eat all I need of a broad range of healthy foods, an open door. With this diet, I don’t have to be hungry, ever. I can eat any of the core foods I need to, whenever I need to. As often as I need to. And there are a lot of core foods. Veggies, of course, fruit of course, but also whole grains, light cheeses, low-fat milk and yogurt, light proteins, eggs, beans. The fats are limited to healthy fats, and just 2 teaspoons. But you can use your extra points (or calorie) allowance to add more healthy fats to your diet if you like.
It’s relaxing. This week has been relaxing. I have eaten whenever I wanted to, and find already an interesting thing going on… Knowing that I can eat whenever I want to, I don’t think about food nearly as often. I’m released from the constant turmoil of wondering when, where, and what my next meal will be. The food I can have is always within reach, and I can have as much of it as I want. So the power of food is kind of diffused.
I like this. I haven’t lost weight this week, but I’ve eaten all I want to without gaining. And that, right there, is worth celebrating. It may be an especially great diet for maintaining weight loss, which we all know, is a very hard thing to do.
So. If food has you by the mind, consider giving this plan a try. If you live anywhere near this planet, there’s a WeightWatchers meeting near you. But you can also get the diet online at weightwatchers.org.
Now if they could work harder to help people temper their scale fixation, and maybe consider allowing non weight-related goals? How about a lifetime membership based on your blood pressure, or resting heart rate or blood lipids? (I snipe, therefore I am.)
Aimee: I am cranky today:P I just remember one of my old managers, most of them were great and he was a trainee, didn't like working retail too much and used every ounce of power he had to make us all (aka the young females in the store, I was his age actually) feel bad all the time... I should have reported him, he treated us all badly I might get a PT retail job if my work goes on the picket line.
Belle: she did an excellent post on that! Sorry about the store, maybe go to Classy or Moore's?
Ali - What do you do for work? And I hope you don't have to go out on the picket line, on the plus side, in the summer when the Hopsital Employee's Union in BC went on strike my mom got a great tan! The end result of the strike sucked (my mom had another job to suppliment her income thankfully), but HEU agreed to take a % in wage loss. So my mom ended up with a pay cut to LESS than she was hired at. Stupid Unions. Hopefully you end up okay though! It's just too bad it's in the fall, not summer? I'm trying this new thing... being positive.. how's it working?
I'm cleaning my house today because my mom is coming to see me tomorrow, she'll be here for a few days, and then heads to Victoria for a few days, and then comes back for a few more days here before she heads home. My house MUST be clean! I'm making a playlist of good mp3's and hope they will carry my thru my most hated task...
Now it is Friday
I might get a PT retail job if my work goes on the picket line.
