Over 200 New Year New ME Part 41

lildebbie

Soo glad to see everyone !!

SOo peeved...So i mailed my sisters christmas presents (for her and her family - 4 of them ) on dec 13thy , priority mail, they said 2-3 days. So here it is 3 weeks later and nada...I have to go file a claim with the USPS , luckily i insured it...i should of insurered it for more...but i will get what i can get...makes me soo mad...Apparently it made it to nashville never to be seen again....

Positively_Me

GOOD MORNING!!!!

It’s great to be back, I missed everyone. My household is somewhat back to normal. My older kids went ot school yesterday and today my younger one will go to pre-school ( he can’t wait..and so can I). I have to deep clean my home and go food shopping ( which sucks!), but I can’t really do it with him around because the rooms never stay clean and when I go food shopping with him – he packs the cart with junk food. Tell him no, he throws a tantrum..so I prefer to go alone.

Check in for yesterday
Calories: 1689…I had too many pieces of the ginger bread house ( icing and candy removed)
Water: 90oz
Exercise: 50 minutes of waling/jogging in the frigged cold.
Proud: I didn’t go over 2000 calories today.

Welcome all newbies!!

Colgirl: great you're back!!!

R2L: glad to see you around!!!

Touts: what an adorable puppy. Hope all goes well with the Financial Aid – I hate when the whole process is delayed I had to take a semester off to do to that…miss communication delayed the process (between school’s Financial aid department and Fafsa)..

Momma: sorry to hear about your car troubles and the big bill…that sucks ((hugs))

Heather: how’s the Weight Watchers thing going? I was thinking of doing it a while back, but I an too shy to weigh in front of people. Hope you’re doing great!

LItdeb: way to go in getting back to the gym..awesome girl!!!

Cris: glad you are back girl!!!! We’ve missed you around. How’s the family, lit man and fiancé surgery? Hope all is well.. Thanks for asking about me. My family ( kids and DH) for majority of the holiday vacation so that meant less time for me on the board..but I am back now and hopefully we will lose all the weight..I can feel this is the year for all of us!

Julie: Love the ultrasound pictures. I remember, with my last child, I was having ultrasound every month do to me having complications. The sex of the baby was not revealed until I hit 20 weeks. The ultra sound technician wrote on the print out picture, “it’s a boy” she even circled the penis. I say go for the test @ 15 weeks and if they can’t tell then you will def. find out @ 20 weeks..whatever he/she might be just as long baby and mommy is healthy.

Nancy: Glad you’re back too…I miss that sarcasm of yours…it’s what kept this thread alive..Congrats on your nomination!!!

Jes: back away from the scale…just until you get everything (eating and exercising) in place. ((hugs girly))

Elmox: yay for hot yoga!!!

If I missed anyone....sorry

Have a great day!!!

lildebbie

So i decided to change up my ticker a little bit...even though i like seeing a big # lost, it appearently hasn't motivated me much over the last few months...SO i changed mine for # to go to 100 lbs, still have another 50-75 after that but figure 100 lbs will be a huge milestone and that is my goal before my birthday .

37 lbs to go doesn't sounds that horribly big to me...especially since i know at least some of it will come off this week.

HeatherMN

Deb: Changing your ticker makes sense to me! It is hard not seeing the ticker move.

Laila: I don't know about the WW centers near you, but mine has the option of weighing in a private cubicle with just the WW leader or staff member. I feel more accountable weighing in front of others, so I do mine at the registration desk in the front lobby. Even though no one really sees the number except me, just knowing people could overhear them tell me my weight makes me feel like I need to do better. So far, I'm still figuring out points for things I eat often, but I think this week will be better.

Okay, I had better get some work done today. Boo!

VeggieTart

Hi Ladies,

I crashed and burned yesterday. Sat down on the couch and actually dozed off, TWICE! I NEVER do that! Combination of lots of things, stress, not sleeping well and reducing my caffiene I think. Feeling a little better today but still a little run down. I did some mindless snacking yesterday because I was feeling so tired and when it came to dinner time I checked to see how many calories I had left and made it work. Stayed under by 10 Calories!

My Polar F6 came yesterday and DH got it all set up for me. Gonna see if I can get myself motivated enough to use it today.

I've read all the posts and want to congratulate everyone for doing so well! Just don't have the time at the moment to address everyone individually at the moment.

Have a great day!!

cris20056

Hi Pos me and Cogirl!!! ***waves***

Heather- My plan for the time being is 1200 calories and c25k M-Wed-Fri Spin class on Thursday...and Im thinking maybe on Tuesday I will do a video....considering the shred or insanity but I dont know if thats something I need to do like more than once a week or its pointless....tips?? I need a video for Tuesdays because I have nothing else to do that day.

Jess- I tried the smartones too and they were ok...kinda soggy and way smaller. I like the jimmy dlights way better

So my gym keeps sending these promotions out and they have a boot camp for 118.00- its tempting...they also have a bxing class. I have always been interested in boxing but i think I am no where near conditioned enough to even jump back and forth...

lildebbie

Julie-Tart - Glad you got your hrm..i love mine...i get soo annyoed when i go to the gym and i forget it.

RedneckWmn

Veggie-If you don't mind me asking how many calories are you eating? If you eat too little that could be the cause of the excessive fatigue. I know when I wasn't eating enough I was having that problem. Just a thought.

Deb-I'm with you. I changed my ticker to 200 pounds since that's my first big goal I want to meet. I'm not setting any time limits on myself though. It stresses me out I have learned and that's when I derail myself.

Laila-Glad to see you are back! We have missed seeing you around. Hope you get back to normal in your house soon.

Positively_Me

jess: My breakfast is usually one whole egg sandwich: Arnold Sandwich Thins (100calories), Pam cooking spray ( to coat the pan - o calories), 1 large egg (scrambled in bowl - 70 calories), Oscar Mayer turkey bacon (35 calories), Laughing cow light (1/2 wedge- 18 calories. total: 223 calories or if you're doing 2 egg whites it's 180 calories...and it keeps you satisfied for hours

Or I do the whole oatmeal (1/2 cup) with 1 tablespoon walnuts and 1/2 cup milk about 220 calories..yum!

hope htat helps..

Positively_Me

healther: someone posted this on a different thread...point calculator for the new points system. I have been experimenting with it lately. Not sure how accurate it is...but it is helpful. I upload my meals and open anothe webpage and upload the informaiton based on my meal's value... my big meals are around 9 - 13 points and my snacks are around 5 points...I figured out the more protien, fiber the less the point.

http://www.wijvallenaf.nl/Weight-Watchers/ProPoints-Calculator.html

figit with it..it might help you too..


Let me go, I have to go get dressed and take my son to school..yay!

lildebbie

Veggie-If you don't mind me asking how many calories are you eating? If you eat too little that could be the cause of the excessive fatigue. I know when I wasn't eating enough I was having that problem. Just a thought.

Deb-I'm with you. I changed my ticker to 200 pounds since that's my first big goal I want to meet. I'm not setting any time limits on myself though. It stresses me out I have learned and that's when I derail myself.

Laila-Glad to see you are back! We have missed seeing you around. Hope you get back to normal in your house soon.

I shouldn't really set a time for myself as i never meet them...I have this thing in my head of wanting to be a lot skinnier by the time we move so i don't feel soo fat when we move in our new neighborhood. Which will be probably in may . Our new neighboorhood is soo community oriented and want to be out doing stuff , they lots of pools and don't want to be the fat chick in the bathing suit. I wan'ted to be under 200 by summer, i am not going to psuh myself that hard, but would really like to be low 200's, I lost about 35 from may - sept, so don't see it impossible to loose 37 between jan - end of april...if i stayat it.

Okay i know i am ramlbing..better go to work.

Momma24

Good Morning Ladies,

I am in a much better mood today. I already dropped 5 of my 10 pounds. I knew some of it was water. So I officially gained 5 over the holidays.

Cris and Blue, it has not been the same without you. So glad that you are back.

Jess, I personally like to cook an egg white and put it on an english muffin with some sort of meat. I know Laila said the same thing but she is so right it just keeps you very full.

Julie-Tart, we all have sluggish days. Glad you got your polar yesterday.

Julie- I am looking forward to hearing your boss' reaction.

Deb, I also changed my ticker. I decided to put in yesterdays weight as my starting and I am starting from scratch. I think the 37 pounds to go seems inspiring. Can you Imagine that is how close you are to 100 lost. Think back to the beginning what a daunting task and you are right there.

Co girl, I have missed you too sister. Hope the business is treating you well.

Okay ladies, I am up to this. I have to run a report over to the school district for Ryan then I need to go to the store. After that I am doing my workout. Everyone keeps saying oh you cant' get a good workout on the wii but my abs and body are saying differently this morning. I am so sore..............But it feels GOOD!!!!

Just a little note about Ryan, I am so proud of him. Santa got him a movie called the letter factory because he was having trouble learning his letters. No matter how much I tried to pound it into his head. He knows almost ALL of his UPPER CASE LETTERS AND THE SOUNDS THAT THEY MAKE!!!!!!! He even showed me a lower case f and says "Momma that is a case f", I said "Your right smart boy that is a lower case f" I just thought it was so cute.... I am proud of my boy. I am so blessed. My 3 girls are so wonderful too. This whole experience with Ryan has taken a ton of my time and they have been sweet and supportive to me. They help Ry too. They all 3 are exceptional students and well behaved. Every teacher that has those girls tells me how great they are. I hardly ever brag about them but they deserve it. I am truly blessed!!!!!!

cris20056

momma you are always making me cry when you talk about your family...

I just finished reading the instructions for my new HRM that I got for Christmas. This is the Polar FT4..it has the strap which my old one didnt so I am excited to see the difference, if any!

I am doing the Shred on Tuesday thats what I decided on...

lildebbie

momma - Glad ryan is doing great i know how much that makes you feel.

I am on edge with my girls...this weekened i am just to the limit with them (probably had alot to do with mega pms too!!!) Abby just won't behave she screams and just won't listen and just whines, it just gets on my last nerve...i just want her to be good and listen she crys about everything (but fake cry cause sometimes a few min later she just smiles at you)...I want this to pass cause i don't know how much more i can take...Serena is good "most' of the time we are having moments she just starts acting soo lazy. She does good at her b-ball games but the practices she is just soo tired she says (yet 20 min before she is running around the house) she has issues not listening and major additude when i tell her to do stuff.

Ladies who have kids ...any parenting suggestions...I am sure i am just super non-patient the last few days

cris20056

Deb- My son is driving me insane, I know this doesnt help you but I am reading the "Happiest Toddler on the Block" and its really confusing me so I feel like a less than stellar parent lately....hello terrible 2's...sigh

Can someone explain to me how Shred works? I know it has 3 levels but it says to move to the next level once you are "ready" so do you jsut determine that for oyurself or are there workout on Level 1 that you go through the ngraduate to level 2? Or is level 1 the same workout over and over again? Sorry I was reading up on it and got confused...

lildebbie

Deb- My son is driving me insane, I know this doesnt help you but I am reading the "Happiest Toddler on the Block" and its really confusing me so I feel like a less than stellar parent lately....hello terrible 2's...sigh

THanks cris...i am feeling soo below a good parent it isn't even funny...it seems all i do is yell i just get soo angry...she is 4 is 4 still a toddler?

RedneckWmn

Cris-I think they say to move to the next level when you feel ready. I've never made it to level 3 cause I never felt ready. Once I stopped struggling with Level 1 I moved onto Level 2. Both are 20 minute workouts but very different. Same concept though. Each Level is the same but gets progressively harder as you advance. Level 1 is the same, level 2 is the same and level 3 is the same daily workout..I don't know if that makes sense. Each level is different but only 1 workout for each level. I think I talked myself in circles!

Deb-I can't give any parenting tips. But don't ever think your a bad mother. You definitely are not a bad mother. Everyone struggles. Nobody is a perfect parent and knows exactly what to do and can act 100% cool calm and collect all the time. Hang in there. :flowerforyou:

elmox

Cris, when I have done the Shred before I did 10 days at each level. That's actually not true, since I didn't actually finish it. :blushing: However, that was my plan. I also didn't do it everyday. I needed some break in there. If you can swing it, I'd try to get it in twice a week. Maybe on a weekend. It's only 28 min (including cool-down and stretching).

LittleSpy

I haven't read through all the posts from this morning yet (YAY!!!) but wanted to answer Jess's breakfast question.
My "Oh crap I'm late" go-to is a tablespoon of PB (surprise! :laugh:) on a piece of whole grain bread & a piece of fruit. I've been having this like 75% of the time lately. Though this morning I had a 99 cent chicken burrito from Taco Bell. :laugh: If it wasn't for the fact that it contained an entire day's worth of sodium, it wouldn't have been *that* bad of a choice!

I also do frozen waffles with cream cheese, oatmeal, boiled/micro-poached eggs & fruit, etc. And the Jimmy D-Light sandwiches are definitely pretty yummy. I've had the turkey sausage/eggwhite/cheese ones before.

Lauren -- My supervisor took the news *really* well. I walked into her office & said "Yeah, so I'm going to need some time off this summer because..." and whipped out an u/s picture. Before I even got to the picture, her eyes lit up & she could hardly contain herself. After I pulled out the picture, she squealed & ran to hug me & proceeded to announce the news to anyone she saw for the next 5 minutes. Then about 15 minutes later she started offering me all her 2nd hand baby stuff & advice on what classes to take & anything else she could think of pregnancy/baby related. :laugh:

lildebbie

Julie - glad it went well telling your boss..

elmox

:bigsmile: Julie, I totally had the feeling that's how she would respond.

LittleSpy

I kind of figured that's how she'd respond, too. I told her I thought I did want to take the full 12 weeks (under the FMLA) & she said "It's well worth it" & that was it.

She even mentioned something about the possibility of coming back part-time in order to keep my health insurance in the case that I could be possibly toying with the idea of not coming back at all. I work for state government so I didn't even know that would really be an option since any changes with government positions have to go through such a painstaking bureaucratic process.

Momma -- What a wondeful story about Ryan!
Deb -- Of course I have no parenting advice since I'm not a parent. I'm also definitely not a person to be doling out advice on patience.
Cris -- I've never successfully done the Shred more than 3-4 days in a row. I still like the workout, though & (um... used to) do it occasionally. I think it's beneficial even if you do it that way instead of how it was intended.

LittleSpy

Oh, also, I've got myself an honest ticker.

Now, no one freak out if I drop some pounds over the next few weeks. I have a feeling I'm carrying about 8 pounds of water weight thanks to my sodium extravaganza over the last few weeks. I feel like I'm back on track with eating healthier foods & moving more so I do expect some of the weight I've gained to come off. But I promise I'm not starving the baby. I'm still attempting to eat about 2000 calories/day.

elmox

I love that she's so supportive of you and this pregnancy. Hooray boss!

Momma24

Deb, I have been a parent for 17 years and I still don't have the answers. I always say that I feel sorry for the oldest child because they are the ones who are teaching us how to be parents. Those younger ones are pretty lucky cause you have learned so much from the first. My very best advice as a mother is Consistance with the rules, redirect hyper behavior. So if they are going crazy in the house have them start an activity. For Ryan who becomes extremely hyper to the point that he can't stop running back and forth I grab him up into my arms and hold him close while I rock him. Then I put him back to play and he is calm for awhile. I also will say okay time to do plato at the table cause you have to sit and do it. Those are some things that have worked for me. The park is amazing. Another thing a bad parent could care less. You obviously care/love so deeply. No parent is perfect we are human and humans are by far perfect beings. I think you are a wonderful mother because you always want to do better!!!!!!:flowerforyou:

Cris, same to you!!! Toddlers are very challenging. But a good mother always wants to do better . Which you try to do.... I just can't emphasize that enough. As long as we are always working to improve our skills and LOVE LOVE LOVE those little brats to death we are doing good.


Julie, I am so glad everything went well at work. Take all the nice hand me downs you can get. I think I only bought one bassinet through all 4 babies because of wonderful hand me downs. You are now starting to enter your 2nd trimester am I correct. Be careful. Maintaining your weight is the SAME as losing. I am sure that some water weight won't hurt. I lost 18 pounds with my first baby. I was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo sick. TMI alert........ I vomitted for 5 months straight.

RedneckWmn

Julie-I'm so glad your boss took the news well! I bet you feel a huge sigh of relief as well! I agree, take all the hand me downs you can get! And thanks for the breakfast suggestion. You definitely got me hooked on the chocolate PB! And now my Mom is hooked on it so it's ALWAYS in the house! YUM-E!!

I did better at lunch today. Ate my left over taco salad from dinner last night. Delicious!! Went and bought some mini cliff bars for snacks...I think I'm set!

tlrue

Julie - SO glad to hear (read) your boss' reaction was so supportive!

My boss has trouble with emotions (as most boys do)... When I told him about Adam driving all the way to Ohio to surprise me on Christmas (did I mention that here? Greatest Christmas present EVER!)... my boss said "oohh... well isn't that sweet" (to be read in the snidest voice possible). It WAS sweet. Jerkface. haha

Jess - I'm a huge fan of breakfast, but when I'm running late (back when my office was farther from my kitchen haha) I would grab a Balance Bar or hard boil some eggs and have one of those. A girl I used to work with used to stir in protein powder into her coffee.

The megamillions in the Illinois lottery is 330 million dollars... Adam bought a ticket today. I couldn't even imagine that much money... haha

Glad to see the message board so active again!

cris20056

Julie- LOVE THAT REACTION! YAY!!!

Momma- ur the best...seriously..I really missed your words of wisdom!

Soooo looks like I will be at work a little later than planned....ugh Im so hungry i need to go home like now!!!!

elmox

tstout - LOVE the new profile pic! You are adorable!!

HeatherMN

Cris: I've always wanted to do boxing or kickboxing (real, not cardio kickboxing) classes, but they're a bit pricey. Maybe I'll do it in the next few months.

Laila: Thanks for the WW calculator link. I have the calculator from WW that I keep in my purse and also have it on my phone, but it would be nice to just download info in.

Momma: Yay for your awesome girls! I'm so happy Ryan has learned his letters now; Santa brought such a great gift to you AND him!

Julie: I'm glad your boss was excited about your pregnancy. The office will be buzzing with the news.

Theresa: Adorable new pic! As far as the Mega Millions go, I'm winning that. I bought three tickets last night!