I just collapsed into bed with a cup of tea and thought I would have a little DIS time. Today was my last vacation day and I decided to spend it scrubbing the house. Unfortunately I got distracted by a decision to take all of the books off the shelves and thoroughly dust. Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of books. Probably thousands. The shelves are now shining, the books are arranged how I like them, my arms and back are screaming at me, and the house itself seems worse than when I started because of the added dust bunnies on the floor. Oh well. Perhaps the bathrooms and the kitchen and the regular dusting and vaccuming and the laundry will magically get taken care of while I sleep.
Tomorrow is my weigh-in, so I certainly hope the scale will reflect my efforts. I've been consistent with tracking this month and staying at my 26 points My biggest hurdle continues to be mornings when I come home from my night shift. I'm so hungry! I made one bad choice this week for breakfast - a Reese pumpkin from the grocery shop on the way home from work. I'm either going to grocery shop another time or bring a protein bar to eat before shopping. I've been meeting my modest exercise goal. All in all, I'm satisfied with staying on track, but may have to increase my exercise time/intensity to rev up this middle age metabolism!
Great job with the consistent tracking and the staying at your points! Particularly since you are working nights.
I am on track for my goal. I have been active every day for 90 minutes and have been more mindful about eating and making healthier choices. I am at 60% of my goal.
Woohoo!!!!
I have made some pretty bad choices this month: I've eaten fast food at least 5 times, I've bought and ate a couple pints of Ben & Jerry's, I've actively decided to stay home on the couch instead of going for that walk I promised I would take.
However, I have also made some great choices! I have increased my water consumption (meaning fluid consumption in general, since I don't really drink anything besides water or milk), I have not stopped at the McDonald's EVERY night on my way to work, I have not stopped for a donut/kringle/bagel every morning on my way home from work, and I have made sure to take the most indirect/repetitive routes while walking at work.
I am currently on track to meet my goal, but I can still work on the things mentioned above.
It's progress! And there are still two weeks left to finish strong!
So here we are on a Friday at my office...someone brought chic fil a biscuits again. Then my new bosses boss brought cookies, coffee cake, oj, and milk. I swear they are all conspiring against me.
I don't even understand your office.... At a certain point I think I would just want to start throwing things in the trash to make them go away! My office tends to have a fair amount of food and snacks available but you seem to have a full banquet every day. I suppose it is good for working on the resistance muscle.
Good morning, everyone, and happy Friday! Not a moment too soon if you ask me. Maybe a little too late! Haha.
It's weigh in day! Can't wait to see those numbers!
QOTD for Friday, October 16, 2015
It's DICTIONARY DAY! So tell me. What is your FAVORITE word, and what does it mean?
My favorite word is happenstance - something that happens by chance. I'm also a big fan of serendipity - a pleasant happenstance.
Good Morning Fellow Friday Friends. I did not lose any weight this week, in spite of the five pounds I took off last week. But....I had a big slip last night, without any thought to Friday being weigh in day.....I was out of control....hungry. I pulled frozen fudge from the freezer, ate four pieces! I made toast, with butter and jelly.....ate two. Then I went for the ice cream sandwich! I almost started baking! If I had been drinking....I would have been drunk and passed out from all the booze. So what went wrong? I am stressed about my back. I couldn't work out this week at all. My car has a warning light on and I have to drive for an hour to get it checked out and my back "kills" driving. And...it's cold and rainy outside. To add to all of this, I baked corn muffins this morning, with jalapeno's in them. So it looks like I want to continue the binge into today. So after they were baked....right now they are sitting on my stove...I decided....I have to get back on track. I will have one half of a muffin with dinner....and not eat all six...which I easily could....no lie. The nighttime is when I go crazy....so I have to be really strong tonight! Wish me luck, I have to get it together, with the Holiday's coming, I can't have a landslide now or it will be over until January, when everyone says....oh my new year resolution is to take off some weight! I'm asking you all for some support....I really need it right now.
I'm so sorry you are struggling right now. It is so hard to know what to do when the hunger demon strikes. I know mine comes out when I let myself get too hungry but there are other days when I just have the comfort food munchies and stress is unfortunately a big part of that for me too. Is there anything light but comforting that you like? A small mug of hot chocolate (skim milk and syrup variety) can sometimes satisfy my stress eating urges. Tea would be a better choice but I drink it all day long and it isn't "special" enough to ward off the out of control stuff.
I hope today went better and the muffins didn't all get eaten. It isn't easy (or none of us would be here) but we all get a new chance to start over every day. Put it behind you and start afresh. And big *hugs*.
I've struggled immensely this week. I won't get into much detail but I've been struggling with a health issue that started late last week, though I'm not really sure at this point if the "issue" is really and "issue" or something slight that my worrier self has made into a bigger deal. Anyway, I worried myself so much that I felt pinned down and finally decided yesterday that I really needed to let things go and stop making myself sick from stress. So far, things are looking positive on the health front and I'm generally feeling better since I decided to stop the insanity (and stop looking at things on the internet!). In regards to my exercise, my "plan" was working for me just fine until I became the ball of stress. I haven't exercised for the past 2 days but will get back on that bandwagon today. I also haven't made the best food choices as I have stress ate but I've started today off well and hope to continue that path. So really, my plan to adjust my own thinking and stop focusing on the negative and more on the positive.
Hugs to you too. I hope the health issue resolved quickly. Whether really big or just something the brain has magnified (mine likes to do that too), taking care of yourself can only help. And yes, stay away from the Internet and its medical diagnoses!!
I've always liked the way that
reconnoiter rolls off my tongue. It's the act of surveying or gathering more information.
In other news -- with the announcement of the updated Candlelight Processional narrators, I've had to switch two days completely for food and activities... which begs the question of the importance of the 180+10 for food reservations? Wouldn't it be easier to just book it at 60 or 90 days? Or have the CP Narrator schedule ready when people sign up for it in August? We managed to secure our food reservations again, except for Akershus. Hubs and I agreed that we'll reschedule that for our May trip when we can actually secure it at the 180+10 mark. So it looks like our friends are heading off to the Garden Grill while we attempt to try Nine Dragons again.
At least this all got squared away before we schedule FP+ reservations on Monday night. This is the most stressful trip planned... ever.
Good word!
I agree that the planning process is sort of out of control these days. The constant changes make me crazy. We are about to hit the six month window for our April trip and I'm starting to get stressed out. The fact that I can't get a firm commitment about who is in and who is out isn't helping.
@ThistleMae I also am a night time binge eater.. My Hubs has belly issues that Cause him to in the bathroom for about 2 hrs per afternoon/night so I am alone with all the goodies in the kitchen! It’s horrible!!!! I’ve tried eating early, eating later, but I’m bored and watching TV so I feel as if I should snack.. I do my best and somedays are better and some are not! But like you I own it – into my WW journal it goes.. I have a plan and hopefully I can implement it soon, we just built a bigger shed and I am hopeing to get all the totes out of my closet so I can put my scrapbooking stuff in my closet and clean off the desk to use it for scrapbooking I will be the furthest away from my kitchen I can get and it will give me something to do when Hubs is occupied.. (we live in a 1972 12x60 2 bedroom mobile – not much room for me to get away) I hope to start this Nov 1!!! In the meantime I am sending you HUGS to stay strong and to not beat yourself up about it when it happens we are after all human!
Happy Friday everyone, my weight in is not till tomorrow and I won’t be back at work till Monday – I’ll update my total then.. Have a great weekend all! Michelle
Scrapbooking is a good idea, I imagine you are also far less likely to smack when you've got the pretty papers and stuff in your hands. I sometimes knit to keep my hands occupied during TV time. I don't want the sweater I've been working on for the past 3 years to have Cheetos dust on it when it is finally finished and ready to wear in 2042 or so.
My favorite word is dauntless. It means to be undaunted, fearless. Another pound down, at 80% of goal!
Great job!!!
Ready for being away? Eh. Yes, but I'm having bad anxiety about leaving my dog. He'll be with my parents, and he adores my parents, but I've never left him overnight before, so I'm stressing. I know he won't understand why mommy & daddy haven't come to see him in a few days. It breaks my heart. He always gets really pathetic and upset just when he knows we're going to work or something. I can't imagine how he'll be when we don't come back for a while. He's been abandoned before so I don't want him to think it's happening again! I think I'm going to spend the full week after we get back hugging him, haha.
Ahh. Poor puppy. He will be OK. I hate leaving my furry ones but I always do love the joy of being reunited! I'm sure your parents will take great care of him.
Ready for the wedding? To be over! 
Still have several things to finish up, and the last couple of weeks I've had a really bad anxiety rash that is now getting worse. 
My arms, chest, shoulders, neck, and now scalp are covered in red bumps that look AWFUL. And of course I have a strapless wedding dress and no way to hide any of it. Wonderful. Has anyone here had anything like this before? Did anything help? Everything I've read/been told has said the only way to fix it is to be less stressed. 
Thanks. Thanks. Looking like a leper on my wedding day is exactly the way to make me stress less.
8 days, 14 hours, and 32 minutes until we hit the road for WDW!
Uggggghhhhh. It doesn't help when people yell at you to RELAX?? That was a joke, although probably not a very funny one. Nothing is harder than actually relaxing when you need to do so more than anything.
Maybe try mashing up a bit of cucumber and letting it rest on the rash for a while? It is cool and soothing and it works for me on both heat rash and excema.
Also, do you have a bit of time (even just five minutes) scheduled between wedding and reception for just you and DH2B? If you don't, try to find away to get away from everyone for just a few minutes and just concentrate on the two of you.
And if nothing else, you are getting so close to starting out for WDW!
Does anyone else have a hard time buying jeans?! I'm in desperate need of a pair, so I went to JCP and
Walmart last night looking for some, and they were all AWFUL. The 16's were SO tight and even the "Curvy" cuts were skin tight and made awkward bulges and just looked horrendous. None of them were denim, they were all this weird denim stretchy fabric (NOT legging/jegging fabric) and didn't even have a fake denim wash, they were just dark. They were so bad. I felt SO AWFUL after trying them on. I mean, I just bought a size 14 dress, and zipped a 12 - how on earth can the 16s be so small??? And then I went to Old Navy, and tried on a pair of 18s - two other people could've fit in those jeans with me! I tried on 16s and they were still big in the waist but probably could only hold an additional person, not two, and they fit ok everywhere else, so I got them. It didn't even occur to me to try on a 14 there. But I wore the new 16s to work today and they are MASSIVE. There is so much extra room in the waistband and I have to keep hoisting them up every few minutes. I guess I'm going back tomorrow to try on 14s? Why does this have to be so hard!
Jeans are the worst!
Report: only lost .5 pound this week, putting me at 34% of goal. So my answer to the QOD- PERSERVERANCE! I'm disappointed that I lost little, but I'm going to continue to track, stay at my 26 points, and exercise every other day. I'll try to increase my activity on a daily basis.
Great word choice for a frustrating weigh in. It is still a downward trend!
Me! Me! ME!
I usually will buy jeans that are super tight when you put them on. Because once you sit in your car and drive somewhere they stretch out and are super comfy. Not all jeans are created equal and I have no idea where to recommend a place to buy them.
This is me! My jeans are positively painful in the morning and essentially falling off by lunchtime.
So glad it's not just me! Haha. Thank you for the Kohl's suggestion! I will probably try there if the 14s are a bust. It doesn't help that I have a long torso and super short legs 
I usually just stick to capris because then you can't tell if they're too long or not! Haha. But it's starting to get cool and my pair of jeans have officially worn out between the legs where my legs rub together. Fat short girl probz. 
Sorry for my sporadic replies today, everyone! I'm just doing a quick drive by every now and then when I get a second at work, but I promise to do a better, thorough response this weekend! I am going out tonight with a couple of friends to hear some music and have a round of "Oh my God, I'm getting married next week" It's my do-over bachelorette party. I'm looking forward to it! Much more casual than before, and DH2B is coming, too. Hopefully we'll both be able to de-stress a little, because our weekend to-do list is LENGTHY. But I am always watching, even when I don't say much! 
(the crazy eyed smilie seemed appropriate lol)
I hope you have a fun, restful evening!
Unfortunately, the only places I have found jeans that don't look completely horrid on me is Maurice's and Torrid. But they are so dang expensive that I usually buy one pair, have enough stashed away to buy another, and wear the one pair until they crap out on me, which is usually a giant hole inside the right thigh/crotch area. I then go buy a new pair, and repeat. My issue is jeans usually make my stomach seem even bigger than it already is, because of the way the band pushes the fat up and over...very frustrating!
That's 115% of my goal for weight! Overall, I'm at 90% for the month for all my goals combined.
But keep up the hard work, maybe try switching up your routine (if you have one), and don't get discouraged, we're all here for you!
So sorry to make you wonderful people feel abandoned! 
Hoping that a few days of good sleep and back-on-track-ness will have that number back down to Onederland quickly! For both of us!! 
