karen - i need to go back and catch up on a ton of posts still because i'm sure you mentioned it but what kind of cleanse are you doing? also, i love chickpeas. i could eat them every day. oh wait i have been (hummus!!) lately
i'm posting quickly from an empty house. i started to lose it a little and dropped thomas off at my girlfriend's house about an hour and a half ago. i just walked home and laid on the couch for a little and then checked the dis. i feel bad that i can't seem to handle a 2 year old! how did my grandmother have TEN children?? the good news is that DH is coming home tonight from his trip instead of tomorrow! at least maybe i can give him the monitor and i can go sleep in another room for the night. i'm so tired!!
Hi Nancy! I'm doing a cleanse called the Ultra Simple Diet. It's not a "diet", I guess it could be though, but I am doing it to figure out if I have a gluten intolerance. This week I'm eating lots of veggies, veggie broth, quinoa, strange shakes made from soy milk, and grilled chicken/fish or chick peas. I've really enjoyed the chick peas with some seasoning from The Melting Pot on them. I can also have hummus, but only if I make it from scratch. Today I am having brown rice and chick peas for lunch with veggies. I found that I can't wait all day to have a substantial protein. I'm losing weight but I really hope I find out what hurts my tummy!!
Dr. thinks it could possibly be a bladder infection. Hoping it's that simple. She's sleeping every afternoon and having trouble at night.
I'm trying to hold myself together! I told them not to call me into work tonight. I just wouldn't feel right giving someone a massage with how I'm feeling right now!
Also, please pray for redwalker's niece who is in the hospital with an unknown bacterial infection. Paige is a sweet little girl. She had an accident and hit her head last week and now she has a swollen eye. They are at Children's in Boston. I just spoke to redwalker a few minutes ago and she said all the prayers we can get will be helpful!!!!
Please someone share something positive with me! It's been a downer day all around and you know TIGGER doesn't like to feel that way!
Update: redwalker's niece has been discharged from Children's and they will see their doctor tomorrow and hopefully have a handle on this!
Lots of
and prayers for all of you!!
- I just paid for our cruise.
- It is beautiful and sunny here and the pool opens this weekend.
- I get to go and serve ice cream to several hundred high schoolers tomorrow.
- I got some inside information on the job I applied for and it is exactly what I want. Said they will be interviewing "later this month" but since it already IS later this month I hope they mean June (after school is out). Also hope my inside source perhaps mentions what a great candidate I am to the principal!
- I cleaned out my purse.
- Our humane society has just brought in several planes full of rescued puppies and they are sooooo cute! They showed them on the news. I am NOT a dog person but even I wanted to go and adopt one!
LOVE your list!! I need to clean out my purse..maybe even move to a smaller one since my friends joke that I have the Mary Poppins purse...you name it, I usually have it!
Just ate some Chinese food and watching The Tooth Fairy. I'm going to head to bed here in a little while. We are going to be up around 730ish. The shuttle will be taking us to the airport at 830. Our flight leaves around 11 and we get home shortly after 1pm. I can honestly say I had an awesome trip but am ready to sleep in my own bed
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Hope you get home today!! Safe travels!
Today was a pretty bad day. But, my new plan starts tomorrow. I am going to WW and facing the truth no matter how ugly it is. I am going to re-commit to my goal of 2500 miles before my trip to WDW and see how far I can get. I have enough time to lose at least 20 pounds. I'd love to be at goal for my trip, but since I haven't even decided what my goal is...
Honestly, my totally unrealistic, not-going-to-happen-because-I-know-better-goal, is to be at 109 pounds for my trip. That's about 65 pounds in 3 months. Uh, I don't think so. The problem is that I keep thinking that I want that to really be my goal and to aim for that much lost in that little time. I know I need a real-as in yes, thats possible-goal, though. Okay, I've decided. My summer goal is going to be to lose 20 pounds. That's about 1 pound a week. That would put me at a much better weight for Disney!
I think I'll stick to 2 HH a week for the summer challenge. I like Cam's idea of one easy one, so I'll do that too. I have some surprises planned too. And prizes will be back as well!
Have a great night everyone! Thanks for listening to my vent.
Sending you
that the beginning of your new plan is a good one! I think 20 pounds is a really realistic goal! It sounds like you are really committed to this and I know you will be sporting some awesome new clothes for Disney (20lbs can be many dress sizes gone!) I'm in it with you!
Hello to everyone else I missed. I tried to quickly catch up. Today I was off and volunteered at Ryan's field day. It was fun. Very hot here in the 90's but I would rather the heat vs cold and rainy. I turned on the central air today. Just couldnt take it anymore. I have no idea how I grew up without C/A. We just used box fans.
I spent the day with Ryan playing outside mostly spraying each other with the hose. Then he had tball tonight.
Tomorrow I have to go to a work meeting first thing in the a.m and then its parents day tea at ryans school.
I will check in again tomorrow. Mike is freaking me out because it has gotten really windy out and it lightening and thundering so I am going to get off of the computer. so I got to run.
I hope you survive the heat Lindsay! I miss hose spraying
Just can't do that in a condo!
OH the day from hell is over!!!!!! Today was field day and for some reason the day took forever to get here and we had so many obstacles get in our way. Freezer pops wouldn't freeze, large walk in freezer died for the 4th time this year, principal "forgot" the water and gatorade at her house, it was misting all morning, I had to run out to
Walmart and get everything we needed which meant I lost my parking space (there was not a single one left so I had to park in the lower field), the head cook got into a fight with the dad grilling, then I came home to the air conditioner leaking and now my carpet is soaked and smells musty! I might have to rip it up, which probably isn't a terrible thing but I hope it didn't ruin the hard woods underneath. I'm going to pull it up a little tomorrow and check.
Then I had to get DS9, take him to mom's, then go to the high school to watch DS10 run in the championship. It was bad!!! Our kids are literally 1/2 the size of all the other kids. A few of our fastest runners got medals for 3rd place but wow, we were grossly unprepared!!!
OMG I'm so glad today is over!!!
But on the up side I didn't eat much, did very little snacking and got in 10,636 steps!!!
Tomorrow is Friday! DH is coming home and is aiming for being home for 2 weeks!! And we have 3 weeks of school left!!! Come on summer!!!!
Nice job Buffy on the steps!! I'm so sorry yesterday was sooo crazy! I really hope that today is less hectic! Our last day of school is TODAY
and finals next week for the underclassmen. Summer is soooo close!!
Good friday morning!!
After school we went to visit my godparents, and on the way home, we stopped at the Border Cafe for mexican, where I thought of you,
LTS, and how successful you have been this challenge, but I continued to eat the chips and salsa, and said tomorrow is a new day, but after I felt awful. I ate way more than I needed, and came home and went to bed early. But, yet again, today is a new day, and I don't want to be this weight or any more this summer, so it's time to get on track.
If I get out of work on time, I'm going to do a Boot camp class with a friend tonight, and will run in the morning before we head out to my brother's for the weekend. We'll come back sun night for michael to walk in the memorial day parade with the scouts monday morning.
Weather here is looking good, so we'll bring our bikes out and hopefully get some exercise in over the weekend.
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.
Hugs to those in need and struggling.
I hear ya Kathy! Chips are my total downfall...they are just so good and go with just about everything Mexican...YUM! I hope you were able to get to boot camp and will have some time for bike riding this weekend
Morning,
Mom just called and of course scared the crap out of me. They had to call EMS during the night to help get her up. She has a hospital appointment at 8am this morning. My sister said no more radiation. She said she has never been in so much pain.
TTFN
OH, I would be scared too! I'm thinking about you and mom!
I would like to challenge everyone this weekend to do two things--
1. Schedule some form of exercise everyday. Even if it is just a 15 minute walk. It will help you focus on your goals, give you a feeling of success for completing a scheduled task, and if you are dealing with family stuff this weekend help you to keep your head clear.
2. Delay the impulse eating by 5 minutes. Just 5 minutes. If you are at an event and the chips and dip are out and everyone is snacking away, delay for just 5 minutes. You might find that 5 minutes is enough to keep you from even wanting an unhealthy treat, and if nothing else that is 5 minutes less snacking!
I know this is hard sometimes. I wish I could tell you that you will hit your goal weight and you will miraculously not have to exercise anymore and the urge to eat unhealthy food will just disappear. But it doesn't. And I don't want to depress anyone. We can all learn coping skills and we all can have healthy bodies. We just need to keep swimming.
I accept your challenge and will be successful!!! As I type this I think about how this cleanse will end on Sunday and I can have a cup of de-caf coffee!! I miss the taste, not the caffeine!
good morning everyone! it is really beautiful out today and i think it's about time i get my butt off this couch and go for a nice walk. i think i will put my running shoes on and take thomas in the jogger but i think i'll stick to a nice brisk walk. i don't want to push too hard and wind up with some more cramps.
good news (i know everyone was wondering lol!) but thomas slept last night! woot! i took him to my friend's house and relaxed for a little (ok, well, i wound up mopping the floor and folding laundry too but at least i watched tv during it!). i walked back to her house about 2 hours later and nobody was home! i called and she said she kidnapped my kid haha. nah, they were just at the little league field b/c her son had all stars practice. i made my way over to the field and thomas was happy as a clam playing with all the kids. practically ignored me. and i was totally ok with that! we hung there for a while and walked back to my friend's house where we ordered italian. and god forbid i not eat my WHOLE thing of baked ziti. oh well, it was delicious. my friend gave thomas a bath in her sink and we didn't come home til about 8:30! he watched about a minute of tv and then i put him to bed. and he slept!
got up about 6:30 this morning.
well, here i am still typing and slacking on my nice walk. better sign off now!
have a great day everyone! we don't have too much planned for today. maybe a haircut for thomas? and a trip to toys r us for two bday presents (neighbor's twins just turned 3).
WOO HOOO! I am so glad Thomas slept last night! Hopefully a sign things are getting back to normal
I hope you got out for a walk ~ so glad the weather has turned here and we CAN go outside without being rained on! Enjoy!
I know I missed a gazillion people. Sorry! I am thinking of all of you and reading here for inspiration. I hope everyone has a good weekend. Tonight and tomorrow will be busy for us with proms, convocation, pre-prom hors d'euvres and photos, post-prom party until 3:30 a.m., and Jenn's university graduation and celebration luncheon tomorrow. All really fun, positive stuff. I hope I can keep my eating under control in all the chaos.
Have a great weekend, my loser friends!
Hang in there Cam!! I know you have a crazy weekend but at least it's filled with happy occasions
Enjoy your time with your family!
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Sleep...I have had totally terrible sleep patterns this week...so tonight I will sleep and then begin my relaxing weekend!! My cleanse is going well! I have realized that variety is the key for me. I have moved on to eating additional chick peas instead of those stupid soy milk shakes and I feel sooo much better! Last night I eat some before I went on my run (2.3 miles in the humidity was a killer) and I was able to do the hills without a problem. I think I am taking today off and just relax or maybe get some weight training in later at the gym.
So excited that they finally stained our decks! Unfortunately they do not ploy them and we end up with splinters
I'm stopping by Home Depot on the way home and will poly both decks tonight so I can move the furniture back out and do some planting in the window boxes. I do not have a green thumb and seem to kill everything
I figure I can do some research before I buy the plants AND I have to remember to water them!! So excited to eat dinner outside sometime this weekend too!!
Well, I better hit the books and do my planting research
Happy Friday and Happy Weekend to all!
As soon as she said it I grabbed her and 
but boy was it yummy! Tummy is not very happy with me so I am paying for it, but I think it was worth it.
