This week I will have one day that throws a monkey wrench into my diet but I'm going to try to stick with it, the best way I can. My friend and I are leaving early on Wednesday morning and taking the train into NYC. We have tickets to see Harry Connick Jr that night.
Then we're spending the night and coming home the next day. So, we'll be eating 3 meals out: brunch, an early dinner and then lunch the next day (at PF Changs) on the way home. Soooooooo....when I get back I will need to TOTALLY get back on track but I plan to enjoy that day in NYC!!!
Sounds like a wonderful time. Harry Connick Jr is so handsome too. You won't want to eat too much so you'll look hot for him, cuz he'll be checking you out!!
On to positive #4: My doctor's appointment went very well. I do not need to worry about salt/sodium intake as long as I am feeling okay. Sounds good to me! My doctor was great. She had all these suggestions and we worked out a great game plan. And, best of all (although I'm pretty happy about not needing so much salt), she lowered one of my meds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is HUGE for me!!!!!!!!!! I feel like a little kid with a sticker chart. I'm going to give myself my own smilies!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:Thanks for letting me process with you yet again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great news from the doctor. Glad to hear it. Isn't it nice to be able to come here and write it all down, and then what you thought was so bad, is just a small thing, and there are so many more positive aspects from your day. You're doing great, CC.
I told Mike he could handle that, since he has his own username now.
I had a good day. Strength after work. I started training my replacement and I think she is going to do a good job. Mike is on a conference call right now, and I think I'm going to chill for a bit and go to be early. I'm really tired. Have a nice evening!
Glad your day was good. Just wondering if Mike's username is Mike&Rose?
Crazy weather night here! Tornado warnings and thunderstorm warnings. Lightning that is practically constant! Saw one of my FB friends online where the tornado warning was. So I asked are you guys ok? He had no idea that they were under a tornado warning. They were watching Vacation and having a bad thunderstorm! He was shocked! Seems to be quieting down now.
I thought of you last night when I watched the news, and thought Littleton was near those big storms. We just had one, but it wasn't bad. Hope everyone is ok.
#1. I have to check in here before and maybe during dinner. Learned the hard way tonight.
#2. Girls & Mom wanted pizza for lunch. Was proud only had 1.5 teeny slices, planned on eating lots of fruit for dinner.
#3. Ate the orange and watermelon, and a cheese stick, and half a hershey's dark chocolate bar, and 3 hot wings, and .5 cup of potato chip crumbs. Yes, that was all that was in the bag, and I was desperate! I did have a bit of sanity and measured the crumbs before I ate them. Despite all the noshing, I am in my calorie range, but on the upper end of it.
#4. I hate TOM! I never crave chips and chocolate. I had such a weak few hours!
#5. Kids are at Mom's for the night, DH is at work, I am working on class project. Paranoia is setting in, I hear every sound.
#6. Will Marathoning for Mortals transform my life? Heard some of you talk about it, not in library so I'll have to order it. Trying to decide if it's worth it?
#7. My DH's name is Brad. DD1, almost 11 is Anna Kathryn. DD2, 3.5 is Sophie. I am sharing because called Brad DH tonight, and mentally referred to both girls at one point in the day as either DD1 or DD2.
#8. Totally ticked at myself tonight, just want to cry for sabotaging my 5M run, great 2 last weeks. So tonight's nugget of wisdom:
Laugh and the world laughs with you.
Cry and you cry with your girlfriends.
1. I am so much better when I check in here too. I did check in briefly but only read and didn't have time to post last night.
2. One and half pieces is nothing. Good job!
3. Yay on the orange and watermelon, and the near empty bag of chips. We all have those days, and just need to get up and start fresh tomorrow, or today since it is today now.
4.
It stinks. Hysterectomy or Menopause are our only other options, and I don't think they're much better. Hang in there.
5. I hope you were able to sleep. It's strange to have the house to yourself, isn't it? I hope that gets easier as you hubby works more nights. When he's back to days, you probably won't like sharing your bed again.
6. I bought it back in march when I first started c25k, and read it through thinking it's something to work toward. I recently picked it up again and am reading it again, and now that I've been run/walkng for a while I'm finding it more helpful. Just read about your maximum heart rate, and how the lactic acid build up as you approach it and that tires your muscles. I like the training plans too, especiallly because it's 3 days of running, one progressively longer day, and 2 days of cross training, so as I start training for the princess, I can bike as the cross training with michael. So, I think it is worth it. It was about 15$ I think on
amazon.
7.
Hi to brad, Anna Kathryn, and sophie.
8.
We are always here to laugh and cry with you.
I managed to run 6km and did pretty good with my eating habits. My weight loss hasn't been going well, I think it's because I am down to my last 7-9lbs and it is really tough!!!!!! But I am NOT giving up. I just imagine the day when I stand on the scale and I've made it! I haven't really expected myself to do it because I could stop now BUT to actually reach your goal weight...Sweet Victory
Those last few pounds are always the hardest, but you are right, once you reach your hard earned goal, you will celebrate big time.!!
I am back from my cousin's wedding in South Dakota - it was on Friday night and was just beautiful. The food was challenging - it is so hard when the choices are so outside your control. The only things I really regret are the jalepeno popper I ate at the rehearsal dinner because everyone was raving about them. It was so not worth 4 points. I should've stuck with my "don't eat fried food" guideline. The other regret was the wedding mints at the morning-after brunch. Man, those are like memories in the form of sugar. A staple at midwest weddings, but I did get carried away a bit. As for activity, I climbed 3 floors worth of stairs at the indoor water park multiple times with innertubes for multiple kids.
And I did a shortish run/hike/walk around Sylvan Lake one warm morning. Better than nothing but not as much as usual, that's for sure.
Welcome back. Sounds like a beautiful wedding, and if you were still counting your points, you did awesome!! Stair climbing is a very good form of exercise, and those lucky kids who didn't have to carry their tubes.
I've caught up the QOTD archive!
Thanks Corinna. That came in very handy for my coaching week.
Happy Monday everyone! The weather looks a bit iffy around here today, but maybe that means that this two week heat wave will be letting up. I don't mind the hot weather, but my electric bill this month is going to be out of control from having to run the AC every night. Usually I run it very sparingly, just when desperately needed... but the nights have been too hot and my house doesn't ventilate well and it just doesn't cool off enough. To save money I've been letting the kids sleep on the floor in our room so we only have to run one AC unit instead of 3... but enough of that!! Plus we shut off the hot tub for this month.... too hot to sit in it for now!
Hopefully DD's sore throat is better today. She really felt crummy the last few days. Both strep cultures were negative, so we have been sticking with Motrin every 4 hours, lots of drinks and soft foods and REST. Most of this was caused from being overtired, I'm sure. But back to routine today hopefully!
Well... today's exercise is scheduled to be 20 minutes of arms and abs work and 20 minutes of cardio (other than running). Guess I had better get that underway! TTYL..............P
I am so glad that I bought an air conditioner this year, but I too am not looking forward to the electric bill. Hope your dd is feeling better soon.
Lots of sick kiddos this summer.
I am at Friday's weight, which is amazing with TOM. I hope I can have a good week despite it! Hoping the cramps go away, sometimes a good run helps.
Off to shower, gymnastics, trying for round 2 of taking Mom to see my new great nephew, hope she's feeling up to it today. DD will be in gym from 9:30-1, and then we'll have to go back over so she can meet her new cousin. Gonna be a long day!
Nice job on the weekend. Hope you got to see your little baby.
I ran another 4M this morning. It was so nice to be up early and have it done for the day. Now I have to eat a quick breakfast at work, and head out to a workshop which will take all morning. I'm going to ignore the food and grab a bottle of water.
Then I have my nice, healthy lunch which I will eat while I listen to the DIS Podcast. I am over a week behind, so it will be nice to start to catch up. Then I guess I'll have to get back to that pesky work...
Maria
Nice work on the run. I didn't get out til after work, and it was cloudy for the first half which saved me. Don't you hate how work interferes with the rest of our lives?
Our weekend did not really go as planned. We wanted to do a long run on Saturday but the horse flies were SO BAD that we had to quit at 4 miles.
We had wanted to swim and hang out in the lake since it was suppose to be 90° and sunny but it RAINED (actually stormed) from 1:00 PM through the rest of the day on Saturday. Sunday morning it was humid and misty so we decided to work on some projects around our place and then come home. While it really was not what I expected, it was still a nice weekend. We played cards and games as a family, I read a whole book and we just kind of took it easy for a change.
I also slept in a bit this morning so I am feeling a bit behind. I need to get laundry going and work on packing up for our vacation to South Dakota. I also plan on going to Walgreens this morning as they had some great coupon deals. I am hoping to get a run in tonight with DH while the kids are at dance.
I feel pretty good about my weight this morning. Lately the cabin has meant a gain in weight and today when I weighed in, I was the same as Friday.
I did not track over the weekend but will hit it hard again today.
You weekend sounds really nice and relaxing. Nice work on the scale too!! Happy packing today, and if I don't get back later, have a wonderful vacation!!
DH and DD love this too - they would be right there next to you and Michael!
Maybe some day we'll all be there together!! Maybe 2/27/2011 for the princess!!! There's plenty of time til then!!!!
I've gotta go with Pamela on this one. We have only ever been to WDW before our DD came along so, even as a grown up, Disney is my only Disney. But, I do understand why people say that about Vegas. Just like Disney, it is so far removed from anything that would resemble "real life". While the experience is very different, the feeling of escapism is the same with one exception - I could stay at WDW indefinitely but I can only handle about 4 days of Vegas before I really have to get out. It's a lot of fun, but only in small doses.
Gret description of vegas. I've never been there, but disney is definitely my disney.
How you doing this week? Will we both be in the top ten?!?!?
It's a bad eating week already, DS #1 came home from Europe. He brought us Belgium chocolates and white german chocolate.!!!!! It was declicious
Today is the neighbor's 15 th birthday, this is the first year his mom has worked. So I am taking him to lunch and then the birthday dinner is at Olive Garden!!!! Ugh!! Then Thursday we arfe off to canada!!!
Hang in there. The chocolate sounds marvelous, and luckily it's not something you can go out and buy, so once it's gone, it's gone. Savor it. Have a wonderful trip to Canada!!
Another weird week for me since DS has football camp. Im only at work until 2:30 so I dont have a lot of down time like I usually do. Not to mention Im a nervous wreck about DS still having that cough and being outside the better part of the day I really hope the coach keeps a good eye on him liked I asked! I read everyones posts since Friday and there were a lot that I wanted to comment on, but I kept getting interrupted so Ill just answer the QOTDs and make comments on the things I had highlighted, then Ive gotta get to work!
I hope you son did ok at camp yesterday. Mid week here is looking cooler, so hopefully that's true for you too. I'm always reminding my son to drink at camp, and he brings a 32 oz bottle with him, so yesterday he said he filled it 3 times! Guess it sunk in.
I ended up bringing ds2 back home after his doctors appointment today. Its what I thought....Strep Throat.
Luckily he seems to be acting pretty good and not really complaining. I wouldnt even know he had strep without my knowledge of what the throat typically looks like with strep. Hopefully no one else gets it. Im using this day to clean up and get some laundry done.
I hope he's feeling better and noone else gets it too. Hope you had a little down time with your boys too.
I'm back after being off the boards for a few days due to company. This was the last round of company until October and we are all happy to have our house back!
We've been trying hard to just have some meat with salad on these warm nights and it works out pretty well since we are probably getting some extra carbohydrates from drinking beer before dinner!
I have to go with my new favorite show, World of Color at DL, for this one.
I'm going to work really hard to make sure that I make some progress this week instead of just letting this week before vacation turn into another maintain before I go. I've already figured out how to make sure I keep up with my C25K while I am gone by getting a day pass at the Y and running on the treadmill. This will be a change for me since I always run outdoors. Those Iowa bugs can be nasty and I don't want to have any excuses for not getting my behind out there and keeping up my exercise.
We've missed you, Lisa. I nice cold beer is always good before a healthy dinner.
The other day at work, I had looked up the galaxy roller coaster because we were talking about it, and the started playing and found a great photo review of world of color. It looked amazing. Is it a new thing that will be at DL indefinitely or is it limited time for the summer?
Good plan not to take the week off, and to run at the Y without the bugs.
Lots of you are going away next week.
I am still within my weekly points!! Very happy about that. I also got some great motivation for the running/training for the princess. I talked to my sil last night and I had talked about the princess, but one of my big worries was I needed to have someone come with us so they can watch michael while I run, and I hate to put people out, so think I could pay for the room, and they pay for their tickets and flights etc, and my sil wants to come with me. She and my niece since my brother works for an accountant and can't get away, he is encouraging her to come and cheer me on. They are the 2 most supportive of my running. They seem to appreciate how hard I am working and I am so excited!! We are very close to them, and my niece is the same age as michael, so it will be easy for her to take the kids when I rest for the race, and perhaps go to a dis meet. Another motivator was from Veronica on the incredibles thread- she said for every 5 pounds you lose, you can increase your speed by 15-25 seconds, I could lose 30 pounds, and up my speed by almost 3 minutes, so I'm going to do it!!!
On that note, I ran/walked 4 miles, and am planning to add 1/3-1/2 mile a week and hope to be at 7 miles by oct 1 and then we will book our trip!!! Of course if I hear the princess is filling to capacity, I would book that sooner, but from what I've read, they don't seem to fill up til after the wine and dine in oct.
Have a great day everyone!!
But I started the diet that day and I lost 5lbs this week. Not only that but I also took my measurements then and now, I lost 1" from my waist and 2" from my lower belly. (pooch) Next week I'll measure my hips/chest/etc. So, I'm VERY happy with how my first week went!!! 
OK, so Im apparently still 12, but this struck me as incredibly funny! 
He was lucky to have nice, caring people to help him at the end of his short life. 
Just kidding! 
