Amy's Journal: Comments Welcome!

[traceycooper]

Hi Amy
Thats great you got the walking in & that DH enjoyed it too!
Theres nothing better for clearing the head
Have a great weekend

 

[Amy&Dan]

Thank you so much everyone. Food has been good. Thursday I cleaned my own house and my mom's and was pooped so I didn't walk that night. In fact I came come so exhausted I ended up having Taco Bell and HGTV that night. But I figured in the points and drank lots of water. I did take a nice walk with dh last night. Its really nice we can do this and leave the kids home. The weather has been crummy yesterday and today, maybe tomorrow will be nicer.

I need to get back to posting each thing I eat to keep me accountable. Somehow I have gotten out of that habit. So I think that will be my resolution for this week, journal all food faithfully!

I hope all of you are having a great weekend!

 

[toystoryduo]

Sounds like you have been doing a great job, Amy! Way to go!

Thanks for your post in my journal. I really appreciate your words of encouragement and support.

Have a great Sunday!

 

[toystoryduo]

Thanks for your encouragement and support, Amy! I hope you've had a great weekend.

 

[dabute]

Hi Amy,

Hope you had a good weekend. Your really doing great. Here's for another good week.

 

[eeyore25]

Hi Amy,

I hope the rotten weather this weekend didn't spoil any of your walking plans. It sure was icky! I am ready for the rain and everything to go away!!!

Way to go on the walk with DH! I think that is great you two can do that.


Keep up the great work!

Have a great day

 

[CACruisin']

Good job staying on plan and accounting for the Taco Bell. Glad you and DH got in another walk. Hopefully the weather will cooperate and you can walk together again. Where is "Spring" anyway? Have a great week and here's good vibes for WI tomorrow.

 

[Amy&Dan]

Thanks so much everyone. I had a nice weekend and did well with food until Sunday afternoon. Dh wanted to take me out for an early Mother's Day since on the actual day I'll be hosting my family over for dinner. Sounded good to me! I had breakfast, we went and saw a movie first and I ate quite a bit of popcorn. Then we headed to On the Border, I had the meal I had prechosen off of Dottie's website but too many chips and salsa and then we split a dessert, carmel and chocolate stuffed empanadas with vanilla ice cream. Even split four ways it had to be a diet disaster. So not a good day and way too much salt, fat and carbs. Oh well, onto today. Which was good. I did forget about lunch and then got starved at 3:00 when I was out running errands and ran thru McDonalds for a chicken sandwich, no fries.

Oatmeal: 6
Protein bar: 2
Chicken Sandwich: 7.5
Soft steak taco: 8, rice 2, beans 1, cookie 3
Total: 29.5
3.5 over, doubt I have any flex points left for the week. I didn't walk yesterday or today unfortunately. Tomorrow I will be at the zoo all day with ds' field trip so I should get some walking in which is good. Weigh in is on Wednesday, hope I am the same or down a little. Not sure given that God awful day yesterday.

I will try to get to journals tonight, not sure though. I tried earlier and the disboards was down! So if not tonight I will catch up with all of you tomorrow!

Thanks for your support!

 

[traceycooper]

Hi Amy
Dont worry too much about your bad food day - you were celebrating mothers day so your allowed
Hope you have a nice trip to the zoo tomorrow

 

[Amy&Dan]

Thank you Tracey, you are right, it was my Mother's Day and I did live it up!

Today was a nice day, really beautiful weather, perfect for the zoo. I took ds and two others kids. One of them has a very sad home life, really strange sounding parents. They went to the zoo too but didn't take their daughter or meet up with her at all once there. . I found that very awful to be honest. This little girl is 13 and I would say very near 200 pounds if not more. She brought lunch, I was buying for ds and I as I didn't want to lug a cooler of stuff. I could tell she wanted something from the place we ate so I asked if she would like something my treat. So she got a brat and onion rings. No biggie. Then the poor child proceeds to eat her own lunch she brought and then reminded me I had promised them ice cream. Later on she bought candy and also ate a bunch of beef jerky and cheese its. This kid is clearly in a lot of pain, has a very sad, scary home life and is a train wreck waiting to happen. She is just 13 and told me her "ex boyfriend" used to beat her. I am not sure if that is totally true but even if it isn't the fact she would make that up is about as scary as if it is true. And to see her just feed her emotions like that, she had to be hurting that her family walked in the zoo, past our group without acknowledging her at all. It really upset me to see a child in that much pain and with that severe of an eating disorder so young. Just left me off the rest of the day. This was the little girl that couldn't do the fundraising run so she walked and ds walked with her. He told me he gets a "sore heart" for her. I can see why. And the sad thing is, this poor little girl is probably going to grow up to be very unhappy and even more overweight. Just a lot of food for thought (no pun sorry). And I am thankful for the fact that I am getting this weight off and that my kids have such wonderful eating habits. Thank God I am not an overweight mom with two overweight kids. Which brings up another sad thing. I found myself almost ashamed since I knew most people at the zoo would assume this girl was my child and were probably thinking "fat mom, fat kid". Frankly, when I took her hom I wanted to go up to the door and tell the mom she is abusing her daughter. And slap her silly.

Food today was pretty darn pathetic.
Breakfast: oatmeal, orange (7)
Lunch: hot dog (6) fries (4)
Dinner: Lean Cuisine (5) , half a piece of pizza (3) chocolate chip cookies (8)
Stupid cookies! And stupid me for overeating because I am upset about some other overweight person's (okay child's) eating disorder. I never learn to cope properly! 31 points, 5 points over.

Good news is that I walked all over that zoo very fast. My new little friend told me I walk too fast but said she was at least getting a workout. She told me her knees and ankles kill her all the time. At thirteen. Then dh and I took a 40 minute fast walk tonight. So at least it was an active day.

Weigh in is tomorrow. I have five weeks and a lot of work to do to make my 40-45 pounds. I am convinced I can do this! But I am cutting it close!

 

[lovinaz]

That is a very sad thing indeed, if I were you I'd call Child Protective Services (or whatever it's called in CO). Not just for her being overweight, but for all of the other weird things the parents could be up to. At least you can clear your conscience by having someone go check on her home situation.

How did WI go? I think you are in a good place for your trip, I'm sure you'll be able to get around DL much easier without those extra lbs!!

 

[toystoryduo]

Amy,

I feel so bad for that little girl. I'm glad that you and your DS were able to spend the day with her, even though it was difficult. It's probably the most fun she has had in a long time.

When do you leave for DL? Are you getting excited? My DH and I were tenatively planning a trip to DL in 2008, but I don't think we'll be able to make it next year unless Santa is really good to me at Christmas this year.

How did weigh-in go? You've been doing a great job lately! Keep up the good work!

I'll be out of town this weekend so I want to wish you a very Happy Mother's Day a little bit early. Happy Mother's Day!

 

[Amy&Dan]

Thank you Amy and Tracy, Amy another parent and a teacher called social services on that family. I don't know what happened but I did email the principal and said I was concerned and that I thought the school really needed to investigate this. I actually saw the mom for the first time on Wednesday, she looks normal, just goes to show you that you can never tell.

Weigh in was not great, I was up .6 Not surprising given my Sunday and those stupid chocolate chip cookies. I ate some stuff yesterday, figured in the ponits. I had made lemon squares for dd's choir concert and ate two of those. Then had some chips. But again, figured the points, I have 20 flex points left, should be enough to get me through our weekend. I planned a very healthy Mother's Day dinner except dh did order me and my mom an ice cream cake from Baskin Robbins. So I will have that splurge. We leave for California five weeks from today. I want to lose 10 pounds and I really think I can do it. Dan and I have been out walking, didn't get to it last night due to dd's concert and won't get to it tonight due to volleyball and a thing at ds' school. So my hope is to get on the treadmill today for 45 minutes. I have a ton of stuff to do getting ready for Mother's Day. It will be the first time I have seen my sister since the last little hoopla between her and me. I did talk to her on the phone and she seemed friendly and fine. Annoying as usual, still hasn't asked how my mom's scan went. Must be nice to not have to worry about anyone but yourself! She's been sick too with her MS so I can't get too mad at her I suppose.

I hope everybody has a great Mothers Day !

 

[goldcupmom]

Happy Mother's Day, Amy!

I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Great that you & DH are walking so much! Just keep working at it and you WILL make your goal!!

 

[traceycooper]

Hi Amy
That is very sad news about the little girl, & the sad thing is yes her parents are abusing her by letting her eat herself to death
Hope your comments to school help to make things better.
Hope all goes well with you sister!
Have a great weekend.

 

[toystoryduo]

Hi Amy,

I hope you had a great Mother's Day! Did everything go well with your sister?

I think you can definitely lose 10 pounds before you leave for California. You CAN do this, Amy!

Hope you have a wonderful week!

 

[eeyore25]

HI Amy,

That is very sad about that girol, at least you and your DS were there to spend some time with her. That was nice of you two.

How did things go with you sister on Mother's Day? Hopefully everything went well!!

Keep up the good work, you are doing great. You can make your 10 pound goal I know you can!

Have a great day

 

[Jaime]

Hi Amy,

I hope you had a good Mother's Day.

It was very nice of you and your DS to take the little girl with you to the zoo. It really makes me sad to think how some people treat thier children...you'd think they realize how blessed they are.

Have a great week!

 

[Amy&Dan]

Thanks everyone. My kids were sick yesterday so I didn't get to much. They were better today, I got a lot done.

Mother's Day stunk plain and simple. My mom and stepdad had a friend who was very ill (the poor woman died that night) so they were upset. Nephew and his girlfriend were last minute no show's and my sister arrived late and was such a female dog I cannot tell you. I am done. The day ended with her boyfriend "helping" us by trimming our spruce tree. To death. The stupid tree looked awful, he cut off the bottom four rows of branches, dh was a ninny and didn't stop him, I went ballistic. The tree had to be cut down, I had two neighbors ring the bell and verify I was cutting it down, they didn't want to look at it. The one neighbor said it was so top heavy it would blow over anyway. Dh and I fought like dogs after they all left and even had a few words while they were here (which my sister loved). It was a total nightmare. Sister's boyfriend should not go into any tree business, he will starve if he does. Dh and a friend cut the tree down last night (our friends asked if the boyfriend was angry with us since why else would somebody do that, made me wonder if my sister put him up to it) so I now have a large hole in my yard and will need a new tree which will cost several hundred dollars I do not have. Sister will be invited for Thanksgiving and not one thing before. So that was my Mother's Day. Dan and the kids did buy me a lovely candle and some bubble bath but the day was mostly spent cooking, listening to my sister be her usual delightful self and then looking out the window at my deformed tree. Sorry for the rant! I did tell my mom to fess up and admit she had either dropped my sister on her head as an infant or taken drugs while pregnant with her!

I cannot go weigh in tomorrow, I have an appointment with my insurance agent. But I think I am down a pound. Still have four and half weeks til vacation, hope I can take off at least the 8 pounds I need to so that I am at 40!

Dh and I did get a walk in tonight for the first time in four days so that was good. I am really enjoying our walks and its good for dd and ds to have some experience with being home alone.

I need to get back to journaling all my food, tomorrow is the day for that! Thanks for reading and your support!

 

[toystoryduo]

Amy,

I am so sorry to hear about how your Mother's Day turned out. I completely understand what you are going through with your sister. My brother has been an amazing, wonderful support to me in my life, but other members of my extended family (who will remain nameless ) have hurt my family in many different ways. Family can be tough to deal with sometimes. The good thing is that you have many WISH sisters here who care about you and want what is best for you. So, when members of your family upset you or get you down, rest assured knowing that your WISH family is here for you.

Keep on keeping on, Amy! You've got 4.5 weeks to make your 8 pound goal. You CAN do this! Keep on taking those walks with your DH and keep up the good work with your food choices! You CAN do this, Amy! I KNOW you CAN!

Have a great day today!