marcia's journal (comments welcome!)

[toystoryduo]

Great job Marcia! Hope you have a wonderful week!

 

[DoeWDW]

Bye-bye pound!!!

We are about the same weight, Marsha, and losing now is TOUGH!! Congrats on getting rid of that pesky pound!!

Please do NOT worry about getting around to all our journals!! Just take extra good care of you and pop into YOUR journal to tell us how it's going. We know you're thinking of us even when you're too busy to post!

Best wishes for your no point counting week! I think it's a great experiment! You've developed such healthy eating habits that I'm guessing they'll stick with you even when you aren't counting!

Have a great time babysitting!!

 

[sharoncity]

Hi Marsh!!
How was your Monday? Good I hope!! How is the babysitting going? Ready to swear off ever having kids yet???!!!
Just wanted to pop in and say hi, let you know we are thinking of you.
Take good care of you!
TTFN-
Sharon

 

[septbride2002]

You are brave girl! But I completely support your not counting points! It is good to challenge ourselves every now and then! Good Luck! I'll be checking your journal!

~Amanda

 

[tlgoblue]

Hey Marcia!
Congrats on tha pound! WOO HOO!!!!! When you get to that lower weight, just think of it as a percentage loss! It always feels better. I like the idea of not counting, after all, though we would all be willing to live within certain restraints to stay healthy, it would be nice if we just incorporated it into who we are on a subconscious level, and didn't have to be thinking about it all the time! Hope you are having fun with the babysitting!

Take care!
Tracy

 

[lulu201]

Hi, Marcia? How's it going? Congratulations on losing that pound! It's not allowed to find you again!

How's the point free week going? I'm waiting to read about your experience.

Enjoy those kids!

Erin

 

[Strings]

Hi Marcia,

I hope you are enjoying your Adventures in Babysitting. How's the points free week going. I know you are making wise choices, but how is it not planning everything out? Just wanted you to know I'm thinking of you.

Beth

 

[marsh0013]

hey guys!!!! thanks for checking up on me . i'm just taking a few minutes to check in, figures that we're kinda busy here at work again this week

anyway, babysitting is going well! she's 13, almost 14, so it's really just a matter of driving her to school, picking her up (she comes back to the office with me...her mom works in the same office as me, so she just does homework in her mom's office), then we go home, i just have to make sure she does her homework. in the morning, she makes her own breakfast, prepares her own lunch to bring to school, she's very self-sufficient...so i'm just really there to drive her places

so far for dinner, we did chinese takeout sunday night and went out to mexican last night. breakfast, lunch, and snacks, i've been eating stuff i normally would eat. so it's going well. i'm semi keeping track, just as a reference for myself, keeping a list of stuff i've eaten each day. and i'm getting in my exercise. they have a recumbant bike and a treadmill in their basement/home gym/my bedroom . i was going to wake up early to do the treadie this morning, but we were up late last night working on a science project. well, she was working on it, she didn't need help, i just didn't want to go to bed until she did. so i'll get to running after work. neither of us finished our food at mexican last night, so we have leftovers for tonight. mmm. i must confess, it was the restaurant's anniversary (been open 2 years), so they gave us free cake. and it was good . ooh, and i had chips and salsa too.

i think i'm being a little more lenient on myself, just kinda eating what i'd like to eat, eating what i would eat if left to my own defenses, but still trying to be "good". it's weird, i'm eating pretty much the same stuff (other than dinner), but not measuring it and just eyeballing it. plus, i don't feel bad about eating the cake, or chips and salsa. like, if i was counting points, i think i'd have felt guilty because i didn't plan for it. it's kind of relaxing to go to a restaurant and just order. not really going overboard, but just not having the whole pressure of worrying if i'm going over points. now obviously, this doesn't work for weight loss . well, i guess we'll see at the end of the week. but that's not my focus this week anyway. i'm really *expecting* to see a gain, and i don't really care. because i know i lost 1 pound following wendie points strictly last week, so i can get right back to that next week . but for now, i'm content to be doing what i'm doing.

ok, i said this was going to be short, and it really wasn't. haha, but i guess if you know me, you knew it wouldn't be short anyway, i'm a rambler

i'm going to try to take the down time at work today to catch up with some journals. hope you guys are all doing well!!!

 

[vald1977]

Hi Marcia,
Sounds like your week is going great so far . I'm so happy that you were able to eat out and not feel guilty. We all need that pressure off once in a while. Thanks for letting us know how it's going.

 

[DavidandDenise]

Hey, Marcia! Glad to see things are going well. I haven't been on to say congrats about your pound either, so--YAY! Great job! I think with all the running you do, you'll be fine not counting points. I agree w/ Sharon and am glad that you're keeping track of what you eat, just to see. And, yes, we would never really expect a short message from you! Enjoy the rest of your week baby/housesitting and have a great day today! TTYL!

 

[Mom of Sleepy Bashful and BabyDoc]

Hey Marcia,

Glad things are going well.

Ooooo........I bet that cake was good. I think I will allow myself some cake on my birthday. It is gonna taste soooooooooo gooooood.

It's nice she is pretty independent. And so what did you learn from the science project Miss Marcia? (I'm sorry. The homeschool mom in me just had to come out! )

Have a good day. Don't stay up too late, now. (ok I'm sorry, now the mom in me came out........I just can't stop! )

 

[ZerasPride]

Hi Marcia!

I'm stopping by to see how things are going and I see they are going very well. I like the sunny positiveness of your last post. You seem to be in control of what you are eating (that cake sounds good and so does the chips and salsa) and going by how you feel - like I hope to be once I reach maintenance (a long time time from now).

Have a good Tuesday and I'll stop and check on you later in the week. Take care of yourself!

 

[LAinSEA]

Sounds pretty cool to have an "adopted" little sis for a bit. I can't wait for my 12 year old niece to come back up for the summer and stay a week with us.

Congrats on losing that lb. - the less you have to go, the harder it becomes. The main thing is how your body is shaping up and those skinny jeans are fitting. Your exercise plan makes me tired just reading it!

Thanks again for all your kind words and support. Work is way more stressful than I'd like it to be right now. Combine that with troubles on the home front and sometimes all I want to do is find a chocolat bar. You'all keep me honest.

take care,
Laurie

 

[DavidandDenise]

Good morning, Marcia!

I hope you have a chance to smile and relax on what appears to be another busy day! Take care!

 

[septbride2002]

Hi Marcia! Sounds like you are doing great even without journaling. Way to go!

~Amanda

 

[Cheryl N. WI]

Hi Marcia

It sounds like your having a good week and like your doing Great with your food choices. You once told me in my journal that it's a lot about making the best choice sometimes and I have really adopted that phylosiphy and it sounds like that is the way you are doing things on this "off" week. You are still maikng great choice! Continue to have a GREAT week!

Cheryl

 

[sharoncity]

Hi Marcia!! Sounds like your week is going well! Good for you! Her it is Wed. already!
Good job on your eating so far. It looks like it is going pretty well for you. I'm very interested to see how everything works out for you.
Okay, I'm keeping this brief (unlike you! ) Have a great day today!!
TTFN-
Sharon

 

[toystoryduo]

Hey Marcia!
Hope you enjoy the rest of your week! Have a great day today!

 

[honeymo78]

Hi Marcia. Congrats on the 1lb loss for the week! I hope the baby sitting is going well. I'm glad to hear that you are getting the opportunity to exercise while you are there. You seem to have a good plan for eating - I'm sure it will make a difference since you now are paying more attention to what and how much you are eating. Good luck this week.

 

[marsh0013]

hellllllooooooo everybody

it's a slow day at work, so i got a chance to get to everyone's journals! let me tell you how great that felt. it really is a relaxation for me to be able to read through everyone's journals and get to reply. it's like a daily ritual i have, and i have really been missing being able to do it! so it was a nice and refreshing thing to be able to do today . i hope tomorrow stays unbusy as well so i get to do it again. these busy days at work are weird...just not used to it

me and ashley (my kid sister for the week ) are still doing very well. she's such a great kid. absolutely love her. hehe, her mom knows that i'm a runner, cause her mom is actually a runner too, just out of practice right now. she's actually run a couple marathons. well anyway, she called ashley yesterday and told her that she has to work out with me . like, when i get on the treadmill, ashley has to get on the bike. kinda cute. so today after work, i have a date with the treadie, and ash has a date with the bike . then we'll figure out what our hungry tummies wanna eat for dinner

i've just been going with the flow, eating wherever she wants. i'm feeling good. i kinda wish i had taken measurements last saturday, to see if i could see a difference in just a week. i know that's not really practical anyway, but just for comparison. oh well. i'm really interested to see what the scale says saturday. my pants don't feel any different, i think i'm jsut about the same. who knows

oh yeah, in other news, it's around the time my period should be coming again. but since it never came last month, i'm kinda just assuming it won't come again. but if it does, i could have some bloat issues, so that could affect the weigh results too. so whatever

alrighty, that's the end of another one of my novels . i hope i get to come back tomorrow


edit: oh yeah, ok, so that wasn't the end. i forgot. i haven't updated my cheat free clippie since i started my week off. i don't know what to do about it. i mean, there hasn't been any cheating this week, because there really isn't a way to cheat. well, i guess there is. if i went on a binge, didn't do my exercise, skipped my vitamins or water. so hmm. ya know what's really cool? since i feel like i can't cheat, i really have no desire to go off on a binge. that i really really like. don't know where that puts me. but for now, it's an observation. so anyway, i think i'm going to change my cheat free clippie to 10, since i've been sticking to my eating plan of not having an eating plan . i'll use that same criteria over the next couple days till the week resets and i start counting points again

now i'm really done...promise