Hey everyone. What a crappy night we had. My son caught the dreaded stomach bug running rampid in FL right now. He threw up from 11pm until 6 am I have had about 3 hours sleep. Now I feel nauseated. Needless to say I cant do my C25K today and I cancelled our Disney belated Valentines plans for tomorrow. I doubt we are up to doing the parks and now I am a little scared to go with this crazy thing going around.
QOTD: My favorite Olympic sport is by far womens gymnastics. My favorite Olympian was Nadia Komenich. I remember watching her score a perfect 10 as a little girl and was mezmerized by her performance.
Sorry you are all feeling sick. Hope it doesn't last too long, and you get to disney world next weekend. I loved Nadia Kemenich too. I think I was in high school at the time.
Today we had to tap the Maple orchard as the sap is starting to run. I spent 5 hours hiking up and down the mountain in pack boots and winter clothes. One thing is certain, I am out of shape. Of course lack of sleep and not feeling well yesterday factored in. I'm exhausted now, but will not nap as I NEED to sleep tonight.
5 hours hiking up and down a mountain is serious exercise. Real maple syrup is soooo good. Do you have a maple syrup business? We love to pick maple sugar and syrup when we hit the farm stands in the summer and fall. I hope you got a good nights sleep.
I hope you enjoyed your drink! DH surprised me by wanting to go to a local Mexican place so I had a strawberry margarita. Very yummy, and very unusual for me -- I am just shy of being a tea totaller.
I'll try to do better tomorrow, but I doubt it since I have church and then we're taking ds to the Harry Potter exhibit at the Museum of Science. Thanks for bearing with me, it's just a busy weekend!
Maria
A frozen margarite sounds great, even at 8 in the morning. We are going out for lunch today with my sister, so I usually get a drink with her. We saw the Harry Potter exhibit a few weeks ago, and it was awesome, and we haven't even seen all the movies. If you're son is into the movies, you'll have a blast.
Evening all! I kind of blew it at the end of the day today as things got crazy and I was hungry. I probably ended up about 5 or 6 points over for the day. That will leave me that many fewer calories/points to play with during this vaction week... not a good start.
I'm going to try to hit the grocery store before DD's swim meet tomorrow to make sure that I have plenty of healthy, low calorie, "fall-back" foods on hand for this week! Plenty of fruit, fresh veggies, seltzer, low fat microwave popcorn, eggs, whole wheat wraps, fish, salsa. Maybe I will splurge and buy some SHRIMP! I had shrimp out to dinner in January and remembered HOW MUCH I really love it. I don't serve seafood very often becaus DD won't eat it for "moral" reasons... but sometimes I really crave it. I'll make it this week and she will have to just find something else to eat for dinner that night!!
Sounds like you have a great plan for vacation week. It's always a bummer when you start the week off on the wrong foot, but 5-6 points is really minimal so you should be fine. When you hit maintenance, you increase by 28 points to maintain, so when I go over the flex points, I always think about that. Vacation is a week to cut yourself some slack. It's so hard to change our routine, and have those kids home all week. I miss my morning coffee and computer time when my son is home. I'm here now, but there is the mommy guilt because however long I'm on here, he's in the other room watching tv.
Have a great vacation week!!
Good morning everyone. Life has been busy and will not stop until next weekend. Our local high school's musical is next weekend and I am working with the costume team. Spent a couple of days last weekend and was there again last night. I will probably be there every day in the next week. Today is the costume parade where we see all the costumes together. I am really worried about toay since the director has been so uninvolved with the costumes this year. I could just see him hating a lot of the costumes with only one week to go. Last weekend he added more people to the opening scene which had us scrambling this week. I really don't like the director but I love working with the costume guy.
Eating has been pretty good. I too have gone 3 days without chocolate. Dh brought home chocolate chip mint ice cream the other night and I have been staying away. The key is this weekend and not have too many snacks. I have to pack some healthy things to eat while I am working. I have been walking and getting my steps in. Yesterday I got in 14000 steps and most of the day was sitting since I was giving tests in all of my classes.
Have a great day everyone. I will try to check in tomorrow.
Awesome job on the chocolate!! You are so generous with your time and dedication to the school. They are lucky to have you.
My goal this week is to lose 1.6 pounds or more so I can get my 15 pound clippie! That's not much but it is for me since I seem to be luck to get a pound per week. I hate to fall back on the metabolism issue but I really do think it's due to that for me, I have no thyroid or parathyroids and am on a lot of meds for those. So that's my big goal for the week!
I REALLY want Just Dance!!! I might get it for dd for her birthday in March.
I just ordered the Walk It Out (okay who watches Sonny with a Chance on Disney with their kids? They have a episode where they're yelling WORK-IT-OUT! and I always think of that when I say this game!) and it should be here next week so that'll keep my interest - that, BL, and Wii Fit
Plus dvds.
You can do it jenn!! I've only heard great things about the just dance game.
Saturday QOTD: What is your favorite Olympic sport? Is there an Olympian who has inspired you past or present? (And no, I don't mean Zeus or Poseidon!)
I don't really follow any sports, but do like to watch the skating and skiing. I missed the opening ceremony, but hope to see the closing ceremonies.
Well you guess mine......
Seriously though ice skating and I like to watch the gymnasts too. I would say they all inspire me to try and do my best at whatever I'm doing. There was a pair in '92 though that I really really loved. My husband taped their performance and I would watch it over and over.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIxXQWnV_Rg
Wow. I just found that link for you guys and I haven't seen it for years...brought tears to my eyes. That's how it should be. They won the gold that year, in consecutive years of the Olympics they won bronze, then silver then the gold. I saw on their website that they were teaching in San Jose.
The color is better in this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnvBMefCngc&feature=related
That was an amazing video. You are so passionate about the skating, it's wonderful to see.
First of all, we had a fantastic one-day trip at
Disneyland. It was just going to be me and my two daughters this time because DH had to work. DMIL was going to try to join us, but said to leave it as a surprise in case she couldn't. Well, she did come and met us by the ball fountain in Tomorrowland. The girls were thrilled! Then we walked over to Finding Nemo and as we got in line, my DH's voice said something behind me. I don't even know what he said, I was so surprised! I turned around and there he was! He and his mom had planned it. He flew down that morning and flew out again that night using frequent flyer miles. It was such a great day! I am still grinning whenever I think of him surprising us like that! I do love him so!
In spite of it all, I lost two pounds this week. I think about 1/2 to one pound was actual loss and the other pound was from the previous week with water retention due to this week's arrival to Auntie Flo.
Okay, off to post my weight with LuvBaloo (thank you for your hard work for us, LuvBaloo!!!) and catch up on everyone's wonderful, chatty, and inspiring posts! You guys were in my thoughts this last week and helped keep me stay mostly on the straight and narrow!
You husband sounds so sweet, and way to go on losing 2 pounds on vacation!!!!!
We're only three days into Lent and I have totally fallen off the wagon. Yesterday I was so exhausted after work the very thought of having to cook was daunting so I went to Chipotle. Today I had a doctor's appointment to go over my sleep study results and was about to fall asleep (and had a twenty minute drive ahead of me.) Talk about irony. I went to Panera with Aaron and had some caffeine and dinner which did help me wake up.
I am definitely going to start preparing multiple meals at a time so on days when I am that tired all I have to do is take it out of the fridge/freezer and reheat it. According to our Largest Loser contest at school I lost 2 lbs! I have not WI at WW yet which is what I use for this contest. I will WI tomorrow, hopefully that too will show a loss.
Hang in there Jessi. You have such a stressful job, and all that you've been dealing with at work, you deserve to cut youself a little slack and don't be too hard on yourself. 2 pounds down is awesome!!
Sorry to hear about the tooth.... what a pain (literally!). Hope it is feeling better (and I hope you have good dental insurance!
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Thanks Pamela. It's much better, and I'm trying not to think about the bill. I've maxed my insurance, and will owe about 1600 out of pocket. That's almost a disney trip, but I don't take that money from my vacation funds.
I had thought about doing Discovery Cove on our next trip, so that will be delayed. Just hoping the rest of my teeth last til 2011.
:Maintaining! A highly - oh so highly - underrated feat!
I'm down one pound this week (on a 2 week weigh in which means twin baby .5s!
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So true, so true on the maintaining. Congrats on the twin .5s!! Down is down and should be celebrated!!!!
I was down .5 and I'll take it. I need to put a little hustle in my bustle to keep up with my goal for myself though.
.5 is .5 !!! You're doing so well, you'll make your goal!!
I have been so bad the last two days. Last night I had BUNCO at my house and proceeded to finish 2 bottles of wine myself. Bad Girl I am. Then today we had friends over for dinner and dessert. Well I start my weight watchers week on Friday, today is only Saturday and I have all ready used my 35 flex. I am doomed this week. The only day I can work out is Wednesday. I start my new job on Monday so my week will be totally turned upside down until I get used to it. Tomorrow it's back on program. Hopefully my body adjusts well to the crappy food I've eaten for 2 days and makes my metabolism go a little haywire, sometimes our bodies need that little kick.
Don't give up, just keep swimming. Even if you've used your 35, and need to use some more to get through the week, if you keep tracking, and keep on trying, the damage will be so much less than if you just toss in the towel for the week. And you never know, sometimes we do need that boost in calories to boost the metabolism. Hang in there.
Winter Olympics: Skeleton - how can you beat that name or sledding that fast face-first? Holy fright, what a sport!
Dorothy Hamill - Loved her when I was little - especially the sit-spin move for some reason. I had the Dorothy Hamill haircut for years of my childhood. I also associated her in my child-mind with the salad dressing called Dorothy Lynch.
That skeleton is frightening. we watched it the other night, and I kept closing my eyes.
Ah, Dorothy hamill- ( my hair cut now is similar to hers, but it works with my round face.
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I have to add - back to my "only" losing 13 pounds...13 pounds ago when I started with my body bugg it was pretty easy for me to burn 2700 calories/day - normal day plus a walk. Now that only burns 2500!!
Amazing what a difference that small (in my overall goal of 80 pounds) amount makes!
Okay as I'm typing this I realize I need an perception adjustment - stop looking at the loss compared to my total goal - that makes is seem less than what it is! It is also kind of defeating. I am going to start looking at each loss individually.
Celebrate every pound. 13 pounds is a great amount, and if it's decreased the work it's taking you to burn more calories, think about the rest of your body and the decrease in stress on your heart and joints. They say 5% of your body weight loss really can make a difference. Nice work!!
We had a fun saturday, did my second C25k day, but since it was 5 days ago, I'm planning to do it again monday and wednesday, and then decide if I want to go to week 2. It is a good feeling to complete it. We went to disney on ice-lets celebrate in the afternoon and got my disney fix, and just hung out last night. Today we're taking my sister out to lunch for her 50th to the cheesecake factory. I do want to stay in control, and am thinking I'll do brunch and get an omelette. I looked up on line, and the keylime cheesecake is 18.5 points, and all the other's are up around 25 or more points. We'll usually split so if she doesn't want the keylime, I'm going to eat no more than 1/3 of the dessert we choose, which would be about 10 points. So now, I'm off to wii fit and burn some extra points.
Have a great sunday everyone.
She was so sweet - she said "Your hair is different and....are you.....smaller? I never noticed you as being not small." 
I slept for 2 hours then awoke to an annoying beep. Thought it was one of the smoke detector batteries, but after checking them all we realized that it was the Carbine Monoxide detector's low battery. We fixed that and after another hour I feel back asleep for less than 2 hours. Today we had to tap the Maple orchard as the sap is starting to run. I spent 5 hours hiking up and down the mountain in pack boots and winter clothes. One thing is certain, I am out of shape. Of course lack of sleep and not feeling well yesterday factored in. I'm exhausted now, but will not nap as I NEED to sleep tonight.
That's tough to do when you're at competitions!
