Dona's Journey to a Better Me

[tbstein]

Wonderful to see you all together Dona!

Hmm....I don't know if I can convince myself to mow. DS does it 99% of the time. I would hate to deny him the pleasure!

Take care! Keep exercising.

Wendy

 

[donac]

I got on the scale today and found out that I have lost 5 pounds. It made me happy and a little bit sad. I have not worked as hard as could for the last couple of weeks. It makes me think if I had been working harder what the loss could have been. I am glad for the loss.

I am also happy that I seem to be back on track. I have worked out every morning this week. I have stayed within my calorie range every day this week and I seem to be making good choices. This is really encouraging me to keep it up.

 

[tbstein]

Wonderful Dona! You did just fine! A 5 pound loss is nothing to frown about. You are on track and the rest is right there for you.

Have a wonderfu weekend

Wendy

 

[donac]

What a day. Subboss came to my first period class today to tell me that I would not be teaching all of the AP calc classes. I would have the BC and two of the three AB classes. She kept blaming it on the administration. She wanted another teacher jm to teach the other course. I wasn't happy about it but We should be training someone to take my place and I think jm woould be a good choice. I was not happy to be told this in the middle of my class. She could have called me at home last night or she could have come in early to talk to me. My one big fear is that she will give it to someone that I would have a tough time working with. I spoke to jm and she said she couldn't do it and I could understand her reason. when I talked to subboss she suggested someone that embaressed me at a workshop in front of math teachers from both high schools. I still have not forgiven him. Then she suggested another teacher who thinks he is the greatest teacher in the world (only been teaching for 3 years before that he was in industry). He can't even teach a basic algebra course. His kids come to me and can't solve a simple equation. I can't imagine what he would do with an AP class.

I talked to my vp about it at the end of the day. He wanted the same person that I wanted and we shall see next week who they pick if they pick anyone. I also got two good geometry classes but I really like the lower level geometry class.

I know that this is coming from administration but I think that isall based on the subboss and what she has done this year. She took all the same course this year to teach and she is not a great teacher. The class that she picked is class that needs to give the kids a strong background. When she started at the beginning of the year she was a hard teacher but as the kids started having problems she started getting easier and the grades she gave were gifts and the kids have learned very little. Admin does not want her to teach all the same courses but they couldn't just single her out so they made a blanket statement and we are being hurt. Subboss has been a pain in the last year since she made a bad showing at an interview and didn't get the job. The crazy part is that she thinks she made a great showing at the interview but my friend was there and she made a bad showing.

I just have to do my job the best that I can. Admin knows that I am doing a good job and I have to just keep doing what I have been doing.

 

[tbstein]

Hi Dona.

Wow, My DH is a college professor, and sometimes he will tell me stories about other teachers and such. He will occassionally mention the politics that goes along with running the college. Many of the teachers are also in industry that teach as adjunt. DH really enjoys his job. He teaches upper level business, and is the director of one of the business programs. He is also very involved in what is considered a hybrid class.(part on campus and part on line) He has been teaching for nearly 18 years at the same college. I still remember him reading term papers to my DS when he was an infant.

Tires as a b-day gift is pretty good. As we know, they are pricey. And, can't wait to see your DS's prom pics. They always looks so amazing all dressed up with a pretty girl on their arm!

Hope the class situation gets worked out so it benefits the students the best!

Wendy

 

[tbstein]

Hello Dona. Just sending some good vibes along!





Wendy

 

[donac]

well it is now almost the middle of October and where has the time gone.

My weight is where it was back in May about 20 pounds higher than Sept 2006. The summer or 2006 was magical. I was at my lowest weight in a long time It has been going up since then..At least it has not reached my all time high. I am still about 16 pounds away from that.


Life has been up and down since May. I had three sinus and ear infections since May and the no voice for almost 6 weeks this summer. I went on another antibiotic in Aug and luckily got my voice back in time to go back to school this past Sept. This week my throat has been giving me a little trouble and I have been coughing more than I should but we are have a change of season type of weather so I am hoping that that is the reason. I rinse my sinuses out every morning and am using a special nasal spray every day also.

Food has been okay but exercise has been very irregular. My knee is bother me. I twisted it one night trying to get the cat off my feet. When I walk it is not too bad. I can't sit with my legs under me since it hurts. I am going to try to start walking after school tomorrow afternoon and do yoga in the morning. I think the two of them could help.

I have been the Black Team Captain on BL3 here on Dis since Sept. I have an accumulated weight lossof .5 pounds, I need to get back on track to help out the team and to get me feeling better about myself.

I feel so lonely here at the school these days. I don't any close friends like to good old days. At home it is even crazier. I thought I had a good friend but for the second year in a row she has forgotten my birthday. Now I have to help her husband plan her surprise 50th. Not a lot of fun.

DS2 is getting ready for college and so this is my last year working with his marching band. It is sort of bitter sweet. It is nice to see him so excited about going off to study civil engineering but it will be lonely here without him.

I need to start posting my exercise and my food. I will be back later with my food plan for the day.

 

[donac]

What a day. I just came home from a meeting that I thought would be a disaster and the part that was supposed to be didn't turn out to be. But the part that was supposed to be just a report to the group I had someone attack me about the way I do a volunteer job. My dh and I have been involved with the Boy Scouts in this town for over 15 years. My dh just stopped being Scoutmaster a year ago June but stayed on as an assistant. In the time my dh was really in charge of the troop ( about 4 years as head guy) He had 9 kids make Eagle SCout. We only have a small troop of usually less than 30 Scout so 9 in 4 years is a great accomplishment. I have been in charge of the popcorn sales in the last 3 years and worked on it with my friend for the two years prior. One lady at the meeting tonight was upset that I couldn't meet her Sunday night to give her more popcorn. Then she wanted to meet on Monday morning. Well guess what I had to work!! Tonight she attacked me at the committee meeting. If the job was too much for me maybe she could help. She is the first person who has wanted more popcorn. She also had to be called because she didn't come the original date set to pick up popcorn and when I talked to her she sounded completely out of it and had no idea. She was upset because we weren't doing any blitz sales. I have spent the last two year running around giving Then she had the nerve to call our house after the meeting to ask my dh something about her son's merit badges.

Another lady at the meeting had talked to my dh about the new scoutmaster and I had been told that she was going to blast him. She kept her mouth shut. I couldn't believe it. She was a bigger chicken than I thought.

Food for the day.
Breakfast banana, cup of tea, 140 cal trail bar and 100 cal protein bar
Snack yogurt, wheat germ, flaxseed, blueberries 2 hershey kisses
Lunch small pita, 1 tbls ricotta cheese, 3/4 c roasted veggies, pear
Snack apple
Dinner corn, mashed potatoes and porcipines, tea,
After meeting hot cocoa (sugar, cocoa, and skim milk)

porcipines for those who are curious are meatballs with rice cooked in a beef gravy (an old family recipe) The same meatballs cooked in a sweet and sour sauce are also good.

No exercise for today because my knee was bothering me(Oops, I forgot to take the ibuprophen before I got into bed.) It has been feeling better this evening.

I will post our point total for the team challenge tomorrow. If you have point please let me know I have to tunr them in tomorrow.

Thanks for letting me our team's Jillian. I agree that she has a soft side but she can be pretty rough at time if you are a slacker.

Have a great night. Now I have to go and think of tomorrow question of the day.

 

[donac]

Good evening. Not too bad of a day. My sinuses have been driving me crazy with this change of weather we are having here in NJ. I woke up at 3 AM coughing from a tickle in the back of my throat. I made it until 12:30 without coughing and then I started in my geometry class. SOme of the kids were laughing about it but I was coughing so hard that I couldn't say anything. THen someone in my calc 1 class gave me a hard time about moving his seat. He was right in front of me and I can't stand to have anyone in front of me who doesn't do his work and he didn't. It was annoying. Oh well all in a day at the high school.

Breakfast tea, fiber one bar, banana
Snack yogurt, wheat germ, flaxseed and blueberries
Lunch pita, ricotta cheese, roasted veggies, pear
Snack tea, 100 cal snack
Dinner small bowl of clam chowder, pita, roasted veggies, 1 hershey kiss
Snack glass of warm milk

I am hoping that tomorrow morning I can start my workout.

 

[larry's girl]

Hi, Dona. I went back and read your journal from the beginning. Glad to see you back journaling again! I find that it helps me stay on track, although I have recently suffered a back injury and that has put everything on hold for me. Still, it is good to see such a great example in you - you keep moving forward, no matter what obstacles get in your way. Thanks for helping out newbies like me, giving us the courage to hang in there when we are ready to quit.

Have a good day!

Susan

 

[donac]

Got up this morning and walked for 10 minutes. KNee was a little sore at the start but seems to be easing up as I walk. I know last week it was sore but less on days when I did something. Maybe arthritis which does run in the family.

Busy day today. I have letters to write. SOme tests to make up for Tuesday and classes are shorter so we can have DEAR for the uppper classmen and peer mediation for freshmen. At least they gave us plenty of warning about it.

Breakfast banana, tea, fiber one bar
snack cheese stick, snow peas, 2 hershey kisses
lunch porcipines, snow pear,
snack pear
dinner homemade pizza, soda, 2 hershey kisses

Football game tonight. Dh may be going since his friend is work at the ambulance and asked him to go. He hardly ever goes (thinks high school football is more social than a game. I do agree but I go for the band)

Will get some more exercise tonight carrying the coolers to the band table. Can't wait to see the band tonight. They were so good last week that I need to bring my videocamera tonight so I can get this performance on tape.

 

[DisDee]

Hi Dona, It's nice to have you journaling again! I've been there- done that with the scouting issues. I know what you're going thru. I served as committee chair for the pack and troop, and also worked as an employee for Camden County Council. We made some wonderful friendships with our scouting family, but also dealt with a lot of kooks too!

One of these days I'm going to check out the BL thread. I'm not sure what that is all about.

Have a great weekend!

 

[donac]

I know that I didn't log in this weekend so here goes my food for Sat and Sunday

Sat
Breakfast 2 blueberry pancakes made with whole wheat flour and sugarless syrup
Lunch left over veggie pizza
snack nachos and cheese at the band competition
dinner mini turkey sub on a whole wheat roll

When I got home from the band competition dh looks at me and says you weren't supposed to be so late. He didn't eat dinner and neither did ds1 and his girlfriend. So I wasn't going to cook so I ended up going out for subs

Sunday
breakfast muffin (dh bought at the bake sale at church
lunch muffin and 2 hard boiled eggs
dinner roast beef sub on a hard roll

I made a roast for dinner but dh and ds2 went out to an Eagle Ceremony and ate there. We were going to have sandwiches anyway so I put the roast away and then we can sandwiches tonight when I dopn't get home until 6 and have to be at another meeting at 7:15

My knee was really hurting Sat night and yesterday. I just keep twisting iit the wrong way just when it is feeling better. I bought a brace Sunday and with the ibuprophen it felt really good last night. I have it on under my dress slacks today

I did a little walking in place this morning for about 15 minutes and it felt pretty good. Maybe tomorrow I might try a light yoga routine.

Hope everyone has a great day today. Mine is pretty busy school this morning and a math team competition this afternoon and then a Boy Scout meeting tonight. I think as soon as I get home from the meeting tonight I will hop in bed and try to get some sleep.

 

[donac]

Here is my food and exercise from yesterday.

Monday's Food and exercise

Breakfast Cliff Bar, banana, tea
Snack Lara Bar , 2 hershey kisses
Lunch egg salad, small pita, snow peas
Snack cookie, tea, 2 crackers with 2 small pieces of cheese
Dinner Roast beef sandwich on a whole wheat roll with small amount of mayo.

Exercise for Monday 15 minute walk

It was a long day. I lost my voice and my knee was oaky but I had it in a brace for the entire day. I also had SML so I didn't get home until after 5 and then I had 5 Boards of Review at 7:30. I finally got to sit down at 9:15 last night.

Today I need to go to the bank, stop at AC Moore, call the credit union and was the dishes in the sink. I would like to take a walk when I get home. I only have the knee in an ace bandage today but I am not teaching most of the day due to tests. I will put the brace on if I go for a walk this afternoon.

I still don't have much of a voice but I am not talking much in school today. I don't have anywhere to go tonight so it should be getting better. I don't feel too bad but I did hack up some nasty stuff before.

I got up this morning and walked for 20 minutes. Not too ffast but I did walk and that is a step in the right direction.

I lost a pound in the last week but I thought I would lose more. I think I need to weigh myself every day. I don't want to but I think it might help me to keep better track of where I am going.

 

[donac]

I haven't posted all week. I have had no voice this week so I should have posted to get my thoughts out without talking.

I am coughing and if it doesn't stop by Monday I am calling the ENT guy that my doctor told me about

KNee gave me some problem last night but it is feeling better this morning since i have been moving around. I also ddid not take anything before I went to bed last night so that could have been the problem.

I have been working on the eating challenge this week. I have been getting in my berries and fruits and veggies everday this week. I also have been doing the milk everyday and eatting beans. Whole grain is a little harder since i do eat a lot of whole grains. I will look today when I go and pick up my prescriptions.

I need to clean the house and do something aroung here. Then I need to pick up Sean from the football game and then up to see my mom and dad. Tomorrow is church, grocery shop, shore to help with fittings for the play and some work on costumes and then to one of the last band competitions. They are playing at 4:40 but the awards are not until 10:30. The band director is sending the kids back and is staying with just one or two of the captains. I offered to ride the bus there and back with the other band director. I am missing the costume measurements for the show but my committment this time of the year is the band not the play. I can help with the band members who are in the show but will be leaving on the bus when the other play members are being measured. I can't do everything.

Friday Food
Breakfast banana, tea and fiber one bar
snack grapes and piece of cheese
lunch soup with beans, apple
snack berries milk
dinner pizza

Sat food
Breakfast blueberry pancakes (mostly blueberries with pancake mix holding them together), milk

Snack
Lunch soup with beans
Dinner ??????

 

[donac]

SOrry I haven't posted all weekend. It has been crazy around here. Friday night was pretty quiet just ds2 and I home. We both fell asleep around 10. Sat morning we got up and went to get his phone fixed. Never put a phone in the same pocket as a pencil. He learned the hard way but he also paid for it to be fixed. Then he was off to get ready to play for the band at a football game,. I picked him up from the game and we traveled north to see my parents and my sister. It was nice just hanging out with them and no else around. We had dinner and were watching Rear Window but it was getting late so he missed the end of it.

Sunday we got up to go to church, had breakfast and then I ran to do some grocery shopping. We then went to his school where I helped take some measurements for costumes, helped to cut some costumes out and worked on a backdrop Did I tell you they are doing Beauty and the Beast? I was helping to cut out napkin costumes and detail the bar room drop. Then I got on a bus with the marching band and went to a competition and got home about 9 last night.

Today has to be the worst. I am going to an inservice day. WE have no speaker it is a day to "share" ideas. 6 hours of sharing while sitting on cafeteria benches. What a waste of a day.

 

[donac]

Got back from the doctor yesterday about my no voice. Nothing serious and everything in the sinuses and vocal chords looks normal. He just added another nose spray to complement the one I am already on. My body was able to fight off the infection from last week which is great. I must be doing something right.

My knee is feeling better than ever. Still a little funny if I wear the wrong shoes but not bad.

Last night was the first night in a week that I slept all the way through. I woke up this morning feeling great.

 

[donac]

What a day yesterday. Church, breakfast, nursing home, groceries and then popcorn take in. I yelled at the pain from bs because she had the nerve to mess up three ordersand then came at 2:50 with over 3000 worth of sales to get straightened out. I should have told her to take the popcorn and show up on Monday night but I didn't. I did yell about the mess that she was giving me. It took me over an hour to straighten out the mess and I still don't think it is right. I have to look it over again tonight. I shouldn't have lost my temper but I did. But she had a heckk of a nerve to come at 10 to 3 when she knows that it said 1 to 3. She ruined my evening last night she can't ruin my day.

I got up this morning and did 20 minutes walkingand the knee is feeling pretty good. My eating has been terrible but that will change today. I have 7 weeks un til the end of the challenge. I need to get back into the weigght loss mode. Exercise needs to be 1 on my schedule.

Off to work.

Food for the day
Breakfast cereal milk, tea, banana
Snack kashi bar
lunch chili snow peas pear
Snack apple
Dinner pork, lo mein and beef with broccolli
ice cream cake for dh's birthday

Exercise 20 minutes walking

 

[donac]

I went to sit down with Sean to check out his calc and I reinjured my knee. Then to top it off I have no voice today. I got my appointment resheduled for this afternoon instead of Thursday. Let's see what he has to say today.

I need a good night's sleep. I still need to organize the popcorn orders and take inventory. I also need to get popcorn from one parent . Then there is the never ending dishes.

 

[donac]

Popcorn is almost over. Just to finish the last take order sales. I will finish those on Thursday.

What a weekend. Last football game with senior night. I didn't cry I was very proud of myself. Sunday we went to Allentown for the last competition. That is when I cried. After their last performance. They were very good but they came in dead last. We can't understand it. They didn't deserve last. Even KP was puzzled.

Knee swelled up on Friday night and was very painful on Sat. I wore the brace on Sunday to Allentown and it is feeling better today. I couldn't work out this morning. Everyone was up at 4:30 so I had no private time. It won't happen again tomorrow so back on track tomorrow.

Eating has been not the best. I can't seem to stay away from Sean's halloweeen candy. Why can't he be like everyone else and eat it all in one day. It will be gone soon.

I have to plan thanksgiving for dmil. Will do that this week. dm's birthday is at the end of the month so we should do something for that. ANd df's birthday party is coming up. This week is the senior fashion show. Set is Tuesday night and Wed afternoon. The party is Wed night. I hope that they can raise a good amount of money.