SAHM 12/21/09---12/27/09
staceyw37
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Welcome! It's the second to last week of 2009!
As Tony Horton says, BRING IT!!
This is an open group for sahm's. We are informal with no official weigh-in's or topics. We talk abt all sorts of stuff. Join in the conversation anytime!! :flowerforyou:
As Tony Horton says, BRING IT!!
This is an open group for sahm's. We are informal with no official weigh-in's or topics. We talk abt all sorts of stuff. Join in the conversation anytime!! :flowerforyou:
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Good morning everyone! I survived the Christmas's at both my parents & hubby's! Feels like there is a weight gone from my shoulders. I actually got a wonderful gift from my mom--something I'd asked for--an album of pictures of grandparents & her & dad too. Love it!!!! Most of the time I leave there feeling so let down & sad that my parents don't know me anymore.
So this week's goals
Health
Need to look at the menu & fill in some I'd not planned earlier
WATER--I feel so parched this morning from the ham I at yesterday.
Back to the walking--3 or 4 times this week!!!!! I can tell my energy level is low from not walking last week but one time.
Sanity
Finish Christmas cards & mail--TODAY
Get my son's Eagle scout court of honor invitations ready for mailing tomorrow
Fun
Play games with the kids this afternoon!
Hope everyone's day is peaceful & productive!
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Good morning everyone, I am off to clean the house for company tonight. And I apparently like my dermatologist too much as I have an appointment to go have my sutured areas resutured! :ohwell: Nothing like the busy days before christmas!
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gm! busy week this week!
Goals:
1. do not go overboard on eating this week
2. drink lots o' water!0 -
Goal for the week: survive.
AF is due, and I turn into a giant wimp.0 -
Trish...you can do it!!!! I know AF is a tough old lady, she's visiting me this week too, but you can stand up to her! Tell her who is boss!:flowerforyou:0
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Ugh, I can't even assert to my own mother who's the boss when SHE comes to visit. Maybe AF will be a pushover this week. I don't know what I ate yesterday (probably the onions on the homemade supreme pizza), but my stomach is nothing but rotten sewage today. I'm pretty sure I'm going to die.
Was going to have a Healthy Choice meal for lunch, but don't know if my stomach is up to it. Good thing I like chocolate Ensure.
Okay, positive note. Did you see my sodium intake for the day? Now THAT'S stickin' it to the man!0 -
Good morning everyone, I am off to clean the house for company tonight. And I apparently like my dermatologist too much as I have an appointment to go have my sutured areas resutured! :ohwell: Nothing like the busy days before christmas!
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ouch! I hope you heal quickly and are comfortable enough to enjoy the holidays. Cleaning house with sutured areas? Ouch!...0 -
It is a little painful--maybe that is why I am not getting much done. Doesn't help that DH is having a very bad day and has to take off work to pick up DD from school since I will be gone. It'll shape up to be an interesting day!0
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So apparently exercise is the answer to EVERYTHING. This may be TMI, but I tend to be kinda flatulent when I work out. So today, with my sick tummy, i was belching up a storm, and tasting less and less toxic. Mix that with 60 oz of water, I'm already feeling TONS better! I torched through 350 cals in under an hour.
*Wonders what to do with her time till Grace gets up from nap*
Sorry for being such a whiney poo poo head before, lol.0 -
Good evening ladies. Good luck on not going overboard to everyone!
Trish, glad you are feeling better!
I've actually put on a few pounds because I haven't been watching what I eat. Ugh! I'm working on getting back to it.0 -
Hello ladies and welcome to a new week. Yes Stacey 2 weeks left to go in 2009 and I'm finding this new healthy lifestyle harder as it nears. I'm on at 1 am right now to avoid eating leftover Kahlua cheesecake from the Cheesecake factory. MMMM. I'm being good-drinking a bottle of water instead cuz I went to bed 1.5 glasses short. Baby keeps waking up every hour or so, and I can't seem to go back to sleep, so eating seemed like the thing to do. Glad I have my friends here to keep me from it.
This week has been exceptionally hard to stick to. I've been gettting my exercise in, somedays just from all the running around shopping I have to do. But the healthy eating has been kinda going out the window. My husband took me to a Mavericks game on Fri. with suite tickets which = free food/drinks. So I pigged out. Well, didn't do as bad as I thought I would because I was going to go with hot dog, nachos, chicken strips the whole deal. But they actually had a fruit/veg tray and I loaded my plate with that first. After that I only had room for a hot dog and 1/4 of a pulled pork sandwich. Oh, and half a turtle candy from dessert bar. I did have 1 Dr. Pepper, and a glass of wine. But I ate nothing but fruits/veg all day that day so still stayed under in cals, over in carbs and fat though. Then we had our first Christmas party with 1 of my sister's and ordered pizza. I ate 1/4 of thin crust veggie pizza, but then splurged on extra cheese/extra beef slice of garlic butter crust pizza. On top of all that, another of my sister's is in town from Las Vegas, and she wants to go out to eat everyday, and as her "chauffeur" I feel obligated to go. Hence yesterday Cheesecake Factory ( I got a grilled portabella burger and salad with fat free vinaigrette, so not so bad. My first every veggie burger and I LOVED it!) My whole family was making fun of me for ordering THAT. My mom even said "everyone's food looks so good... except for Jaqi's BLECH". Oh well, I will live in peace knowing that I'm doing what's right for my body, and it was delicious. But my sis wants to go bowling today and order pizza, then go to Golden Corral either tomorrow or the day after Christmas. And then she also wants Olive Garden, IHOP, and Whataburger (Being from Vegas some of those restaurants aren't available there, and she said she's waited a whole year to eat there). We also have a Christmas Eve dinner and Christmas day dinner to get through, so ladies please wish me plenty of fortitude to make wise eating choices through all of this week. And if I cannot--- well, I will just have to resolve to shed these pounds after the New Year!:drinker:
Good luck to all of you! If I'm too busy to get back on in the next few days Merry Christmas!:flowerforyou:0 -
Hi, I am new to this site but would love to join this group.0
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Gm everyone! Silver- it's ok! You have had some serious stress in your life, so it's understandable that you fell of hte wagon a little bit!
Welcome jwebb! This is a great bunch of ladies!
I went a wee bit over on the calories yesterday, only like 100...hopefully not too detrimental. How is everyone else??0 -
Hello ladies and welcome to a new week. Yes Stacey 2 weeks left to go in 2009 and I'm finding this new healthy lifestyle harder as it nears. I'm on at 1 am right now to avoid eating leftover Kahlua cheesecake from the Cheesecake factory. MMMM. I'm being good-drinking a bottle of water instead cuz I went to bed 1.5 glasses short. Baby keeps waking up every hour or so, and I can't seem to go back to sleep, so eating seemed like the thing to do. Glad I have my friends here to keep me from it.
another of Olive Garden, IHOP, and Whataburger (Being from Vegas some of those restaurants aren't available there, and she said she's waited a whole year to eat there). u
first--yay you for doing fruit and veges first. and for coming on here.
throw out the extra cheesecake. that's what my dh has me do. it's **painful** but better than having it call your name all day and night.
secondly--i live in Vegas too--so what is your sis talking about?! there are ihops all over and at least 2 olive gardens. plus 2 cheesecake factory's. sooooo she can go to whataburger and the rest you can drop her off or tell her to go when she gets back home
seriously.
to help you with food--based on what you've written--skip the bread/garlic bread etc. you tend to really like the rich/salty meat so let that be your holiday indulgence and skip the bread stuff that you really can have any time of year (like maybe as a treat on valentine's day?). also, if pop or wine is your other "weakness", then plan which you will have at which party. meaning plan on wine at xmas eve and water and then dr p and water on xmas day. kwim??
anyway, this is a busy time of year for you, i can see. so wish you the fortitude to keep making good choices at every opportunity. and have a merry xmas!0 -
Hi, I am new to this site but would love to join this group.
welcome! come chat anytime! our conversations are not limited to healthy living btw. but we all get the special effort it takes as sahm's to put getting healthy higher up on the list of things to do. :flowerforyou:0 -
nicolee--100 is no biggie. 1000 is!!
i haven't even logged my evenings for the last few days--ghiardelli triple chocolate brownies....i seriously have a self destructive chocolate carb problem!! ok, maybe not a PROBLEM. but def a lack of willpower and learning lessons. if boy dsn't eat that last brownie soon, it's going in the trash! and ate mcd cheeseburger and small fries for lunch. and frosted flakes red. sugar for dinner. hmmmm see a pattern here??
i wasn't even going to admit my crap but secret snacking is even and unhealthier behavior for me. (thank g-d i never smoked or did drugs---i would so be an ADDICT!) anyway, no 'it's ok's" and no kick in the pants, please. i know it all already and just have to commit to myself. it's gotta come from within.
went to bed at 7:30 last night. boy was in bed at 5:30. that was NICE!
i know i'm rambling...just letting my oatmeal digest a minute before i do KenpoX. it's one of the easier p90x workouts. boy and i have gymboree (again) and then i don't know what else we'll do....
hope you all have success getting finished up for xmas and at your parties! wishing you blessings this holiday season! :flowerforyou:0 -
Looking forward to getting a walk around the mall in today, provided Nellie behaves. Bro in law has therapy, so I drop him off & go walk laps. Planning on getting a wii workout in, too.
Dropped another pound (unheard of during AF week, right?)
Going to push to get at least 90 oz of water down the gullet today, maybe there's still time to get down to 228 by Friday, but I won't be too upset if I don't.
Funny Grace moment earlier this morning: She was sitting on my lap & smelled funk. I asked her if she was poopy and she nodded, yes. LOL. Silly kid. Why couldn't you tell me before you made dukey?0 -
kenpo x done.
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Nicolee- no sweat on the 100 over, like stacey said it's the 1000+ days you should be worried about. Go for a walk to day to offset your 100 and you'll be feeling great!
So far my holiday overeating has been under control. We are driving down to spend christmas with my grandparents and I don't think there is going to be an abundance of junk food. They are 80 years old so not much in their house as far as sweets or anything that unhealthy.
However I do plan on making cookies at my house today just to take them with us. I am allowing myself 2 cookies and that's it. the rest are for the kids and santa.
I hope everyone has a great holiday, we are driving early tomorrow morning so I don't think I will be on much today. Lots to get ready and pack0 -
Stacey, I hear ya on the food. I eat so much at the beginning of the day that I'm still full at dinner time. I do have some stress in my life, but some of it I'm asking for. there are things going on with my guy and I. He doesn't know I know, but I know about teh girls he's talking to online and talking about meeting up with. Why do guys think women are... what's a good word.. I don't want to use stupid, but ugh... seriously? You leave your stuff signed on on your girls computer and you think she won't look?? It's a dating site, of course i'm gonna look and see what he's up too! Ugh..
Trish, good luck with the laps.
I forgot who had the like zillion places to go to eat for christmas. but all I can say is Good Luck!
Shera, good luck with only eating 2. Have fun at your grandparents.0 -
Welcome jwebb. We'll be very happy to have you here and hear more about your journey as a fellow SAHM
Thanks Stacey and Silver for your support. I hope that ya'll can stay away from the sweets too. I know how hard it is. My husband ended up having most of the cheesecake for breakfast, so I only ate 1/4 of a slice after lunch-not too bad. I have a lot of trouble throwing away food because I grew up poor and so when we had food we ate-A LOT. But it's something I will probably have to get accustomed to if I'm going to change my eating habits. I have decided I will limit myself at Golden Corral and we are doing Christmas brunch at IHOP, but I'm gonna go with the low-cal breakfast options there. Everything else, if she wants to go to, I will drop her off. And I know that she has those restaurants in Vegas, but she relies on public transportation, and therefore doesn't go out much. She waits til she comes to visit us. I am going to do a weigh-in Fri. morning, my goal was to lose 7.5 lbs by then and I've lost 6.5, so I can only hope...
Trish-glad you are so motivated for the exercise. It's like an addiction to where the more you do, the more you want to do. A VERY good addiction though. As far as Grace, just wait the potty training will come sooner than you think-and the fact that she knows when she's soiled a diaper is a first and very important step! At that age my son was pulling his diaper off and using it in corners of the house, so you've got it pretty good so far.
Shera- I hope that you enjoy Christmas with your Grandparents. Make sure to fill up on good food BEFORE the cookies and I think you'll do fine
Nicolee-as much exercise as you get, I'm sure you'll burn through those 100 cals in no time. Besides it's not going to make you gain, just maintain at the most.
Well, gotta go play with my son. Sorry to anyone I might have left out, I'll catch up later.0 -
jr--did i mention that the holiday photos are CUTE? love the ruffly dress!
good plans all--later0 -
90 oz down the hatch before dinner. Yes, we have achieved something today! Hopefully will get another 30 down before bed.
I don't suppose any of you subscribe to Parents magazine? I'm looking for an article in the last few months. I think it came from PM. It was about this family who had gotten their first real Christmas tree, and the dad goes to water it & finds the trunk crawling with aphids. They throw it out, and think Christmas is ruined. They have a family function to get to, and go off to that. When they get home, they find that someone has gotten into their house, and set up a brand new tree, and they were humbled by the love & service of their neighborhood.
I don't suppose you can find that article and type it up in the next 45 mins? I wanted to share it with some ladies I'll be wrapping presents with in an hour or so.0 -
Jr, good luck losing that last pound that you want to lose.
Trish, Good luck with the eating out.
Well, ladies I'm off to bed. good night!0 -
Wasn't eating out, Silver, but thanks! I'll save that good luck for tomorrow when we do go out! I ended up just winging the story.
One of the fellas from our church just brought us home made candy. CAN'T RESIST! *snarf*
There was this pretzel stick jammed into chocolate covered caramel, mmmm. I kept it to 3 pieces. *Pats self on back*0 -
Hello ladies! It sounds like everyone else has been as busy as I have. I haven't done well on exercising, drinking my water, or logging my food the past week, but my eating hasn't been too bad. Unfortunately, I don't know what I actually weigh right now. Our scale is really acting up. It weighed me the other day at 159, then I stepped off, waited a minute, stepped back on and weighed 155. :noway: If only weight loss was that easy. :laugh:0
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I don't mind when i go over by a couple hundred calories. I figure my input of food and cals burned is not totally spot on so it's a fine estimate anyway. I also know that I can go nearly 800 over my goal before I stop losing so 100 over I don't worry.
Well, it's 11:00 - I have to get my 2 yr old to sleep then get myself to sleep! I'm always the only mom I know with this sleep rotation! 0 -
Another pound down, boo-yah! I ended up getting 120 oz down the hatch last night. I'm already off and running today, doing laundry so we can get a few last minute things for Christmas dinner. Just have to wrap some movies and a book for Andy, and then everybody is DONE! Going to our current favorite mexican restaurant tonight for dinner. It's going to be a good day.0
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womail--nice to see you around! read your profile and saw you're reaching some of your "jean" goals--good for you!
trish--have a FAB day!
i'm off to do quick walk/run with leslie and then our big plans are to go to the children's museum. with no school pick up, we are free to be there as long as he'd like. i love that sense of freedom.
later girls!0 -
YEAH TRISH!!!!!
Stacey- Have fun at the museum! I love going to museums!
Hey Amy!! It is crazy for all of us I think! I have alot of baking to do starting now!!! And here I am on the computer!:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:0
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