to you and your DD. Saying many prayers and sending pixie dust for her to be feeling better super quick, and you're able to get the help she needs. Try to hang in there, and we're here for you.Oh no!! I am so sorry! Glad you are ok! Take care of yourself.
Sending you lots of pixie dust..hope you can get her the help she needs. Hang in there.
I have been there with my now 21 yr old DD. it is very difficult. Please keep trying to get your appt moved up and get her started with treatment right away. My DD needed the meds to get better...a good counselor makes a big difference too. Hang in there 
and I hope you can find the help your DD needs soon.
. I started walking more and moved onto Week 3 of C25K so I earned a lot of AP. Next week has some real challenges. We are going to the Wisconsin Dells for 3 days/2 nights so I'm going to eating out for 3 days. I picked up some fruit yesterday and I'm going to bring some cereal or oatmeal for breakfast.
Wow! That's an average of 2 lbs per week!
Like everyone else says ... .2 is butter than 0.
WI day check-in...down 1.2 lbs (or 6 sticks of butter)
School vacation is next week...I'll be checking in here for motivation. I don't do well when I'm home all day. Thanks for all the great ideas and support here!
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First of all, I would be flattered that someone liked my avatar enough to "borrow" it. But, like you said, it identifies YOU to many people. I would PM her over on the WW Boards and ask her to stop using it because people might get confused and think that she is you. If you can make another one, maybe you can offer to make one for her since she likes it so much.
Let me know what you think about Addams Family when you get back and I'll tell you what I thought about it. I saw it in previews in Chicago a couple years ago. I hope you have a great time!Morning Friends,
TGIF - I am so ready for the weekend. My DD and I are going with her school choir (and about 200 other people) on a bus trip to NYC tomorrow to see the Broadway show "The Admas Family" Sounds like a fun day, but they are calling for rain, so it will be wet.
I can't decide what to do about eating though - we are taking breakfast with us on the bus, then have free time for lunch and dinner is italian, chicken parm and pasta, salad and tiramisu for dessert - not to healthy. I'm taking along snacks, but hoping I can salvage the day and not blow my great week!
Sounds like everyone is doing well - congrats to all the losers this week - unfortunately I wasn't one of them - but I am back on track!
Have a GREATday!
Whoo hoo!I was a bit nervous with WI yesterday since on Wed. I went to Chick Fil A for dinner. I really shouldn't have ordered a banana pudding milkshake but told myself I would have a sip or two and then give it to my son to finish. Well....he didn't want it and I couldn't let it go to waste! Luckily DH helped me out a little bit but I'm sure I had at least half of it.Anyway, WI yesterday I am down 1.6! I'm so happy I can occasionally have my shake and drink it too!
Enjoy your college visitHI everyone had my 2nd WI and am down 2.6 lbs 3.7 total in two weeksI am leaving tonight for a hotel stay 3.5 hrs away and doing a College visit with my daughter tomorrow (Franklin Pierce in NH) I hope there is alot of walking and will do my best to track and stay on plan but my WI day is Saturday so lots of opportunity to fix anything I might do wrong..
Everyone is doing great Keep it up!!!
. Our WW location is doing something interesting next week. They are doing a clothing swap where you bring in clothes that don't fit you anymore and give them away to people who have shrunk into your old size. Have a great time buying your new jeans!I am thrilled and proud to report my WI this morning put me at 25 pounds total lost!!Yes, I'm crowing, because I worked hard for it. We all are! I still have some to go before I hit my ultimate goal, but no matter...I've been on a cloud all day.
...and I'm going shopping for a few new duds this weekend. At first, my old ones looked ok, but now they just look awful. New "25" jeans, here I come!
Have a fantastic weekend, everyone!!
So share with us too! One of the things I wanted to do on this thread was to discuss the theme for the week, but I WI on Friday so the whole week is gone be the time I get around to learning the theme.Great job everyone! Keep on keeping on
I was down .6 today, which I'm more than happy with, but my big news to share was the my leader asked me to speak with our group about how the theme of the week - making "me" time - is what drove me to WW in the first place. I was shocked that she wanted me to share, and then that there were so many members nodding and agreeing with what I was saying. It was truly amazing, and I just love what the program has done for me. So awesome!
Oh no! What happened? I hop your wrist and shoulder are OK. Keep up posted on what the ortho says.
My sister just went through this with my 17-year old niece who is now on medication. The problem is that the side effects medicines are often just as dangerous at the depression in teens and young adults.
to you and your DD.That is so scary!!! Thank goodness it wasn't worse!! Sending you pixie dust for a speedy recovery!!! Take care of yourself!!!!!
- it was hilarious. We laughed the entire time, it was well worth the money.
boy they tasted good. We are dinner in Little Italy - great authentic Italian - not WW friendly though.
You are AWESOME! No wonder your leader asked you to share your story and I'm glad that I did too.
Well, robinb, since you asked
The theme for the week was Taking "Me" Time (i think that was what it was? may not have the actual verbage correct), and I have spoken with my leader since I joined WW about how I knew this time was finally "it", that I was done with doing the weight loss dance two steps forward and three steps back.
What happened for me, was that I had a conversation with my family in September about 3 things I needed to get done by Thanksgiving, in order for our holiday season to be done the way we like it to be. I told them I knew we were busy with work, school, extra stuff, scouts, blah blah blah, but these 3 things HAD TO be done, or the things that made the holiday season "it" for us, would not happen, and everyone would be looking at me come the holidays and questioning why it wasn't like it normally was.
Well, those things didn't happen. It was only important to me. Even though I tried to carve out the time to get them done, something else for someone else always had to come first, and I came last.
Then, there were a few things that were very important to me that I do, that I expressed to them were important to me, and while my family agreed that I should do them, when the time came, everyone else's needs and wants came before mine.
So I threw down.
I reached my breaking point, I was done with being low man on the totem pole. I was sick of teaching my daughters that they could do whatever they like with their time until they became a mom, and then they could only do for others and not themselves. I was tired of showing my son that it was acceptable to have a wife that felt less than important, as long as everything else in his life was okay. I was done with being disappointed with my husband because I was disappointed with myself. I sat my family down, told them that 2011 was going to be the year of ME, and that from now on I was putting my own needs first so I could better meet their needs.
And, the sun still came up in the morning. And, the world kept on rotating. No one stopped breathing in and out.
In our super tight budget, I found the money to pay for a WW monthly pass. I found out where ALL the meetings within an hours drive of me were, so I would never have to miss one. I found a meeting in my area that had a leader that I really connected with - which took a few tries. And, I made it work in my family, because I was not willing for it to not. I knew really, really well what did not work for me to get healthy, so I made sure to do things differently. I was not willing to spend my back 40 in an unhealthy body that I did not like and could not accomplish what I wanted of it.
And so, that's the numb and jist of what I shared. I insisted that I was important, made it happen, and am getting back so much that I didn't even know I was missing.
For those of you who frequent the Community Board, you may have seen my recent post. On Monday, my (almost) 15 year old cat Mackey died. It has been such a rough week - he was my baby and I haven't been handling it too well. I'm exhausted - emotionally and physically. Needless to say, I have been off-plan since.
It has been up and down - Monday I was sick to my stomach and ate almost nothing. Tuesday I ate everything I could find. The rest of the week had the same peaks and valleys. I didn't do my usual grocery shopping, so the drive-thru was my best friend almost every night and I've had more pizza this week than I've had since I started WW in January.
I know there is nothing I can do but just get back on track - go to the store tomorrow and make sure my fridge is filled with good, healthy things so I can make wise choices.
Thanks for listening - just wanted to put it out there so I can be accountable for the choices that I make ...
- Laura
I'm glad I didn't say anything in advance. I HATED the show and Bebe Neuwirth and Nathan Lane could not make it better. Maybe they re-wrote it between when I saw it and when it finally made it to Broadway, but it was uninteresting and far racier than we expected. I am no prude, but I thought it was not appropriate for a 9 or 10 year old. I did like some of it, my favorite part was when Uncle Fester sang his love song to the moonBack from our NYC trip - we left at 5:15am Saturday morning and got home at 11:30pm Saturday night. We had a terrific time - Saw The Adams Family, since I was never a fan of the TV show, I was not too excited to see the broadway show, but I have to say that we LOVED it
Did a terrible job eating today, chalking it up to life gets in the way - we went to the M&M store and I bought myself a small bag and ate them all myself
Today's a new day, back on track. I have a 6 mile run planned today, so hopefully I can burn off a few of the calories from yesterday!
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