NEED TO LOSE 100 LBS OR MORE !

@aug--sorry you are hurting. My husband has arthritis in his wrist (he's an auto tech, so years of turning a wrench have taken their toll) and when it flares up the swelling is ridiculous. The only thing that helps him is naproxen and rest.

@evan--crossing my fingers for your weigh-in! Yeah, remodeling should be quite a workout. I merely cleaned my bathroom today and worked up quite a sweat! :laugh:

@tina--sending good vibes to your friend ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~>

@alleykat--I am the same!! I swear my circadian clock is set to "night-owl" . I actually was doing much better this summer and then about 3 weeks ago, I started getting to bed later and later. Now I'm also on the 3am-9am sleep pattern and school starts next week! :noway:

AFM--Got in my short run with the dog and now I am at starbucks enjoying some down time before meeting a friend at the farmers market.

So I really need to vent about something work-related (yes, we are not even back in session and there's ALREADY drama!). My assistant principal sent out an email to the entire school letting us know that there are now new procedures for showing an R-rated movie in class. In the past, we just sent permission slips home with the kids. Now, we have to submit that permission slip along with the curricular objectives and lesson plan to him and our dept. chair.

Honestly, I'm ok with that--I mean it shows a lack of trust toward the teachers, but that's nothing new. :ohwell: And I'm sure there are some teachers who aren't sending home permission slips or doing anything very constructive while showing said movies. However, those few teachers will now just switch to showing PG rated movies to avoid the extra work--this new procedure isn't going to make them better teachers (I wish school administraors would learn that implementing procedures doesn't make bad teachers good, it only bogs down good teachers in more paperwork).

The part I'm angry about is when I opend the attached form we will now need to submit, it said we also have to attach an alternate activity for those students whose parents object to their watching the movie. Now in all of the years I've been teaching, I've never had a parent refuse to let a child watch a movie in my classes, and I always collect the permission slips with several days to spare, just in case I do need to plan an alternate. I emailed the asst. principal and explained this to him and asked that we not be required to waste valuable time planning activities, that in all likelyhood, will never be used. He said he will discuss it with the dept. chairs, but I'm not holding out high hopes that they will change it. He framed his response in a way that makes it clear he still wants these alternate activities ahead of time--we'll see. I hate the admin. at my school! :mad: They just don't get that all of these little additions add up and take away from time I could be using to grade or work on lessons. If you got this far, thanks for listening to my rant.

Morning all. I'm a lefty as well but I only write with my left hand, Everything else is right handed.

Wednesday wish - I could pull out of this funk I'm stuck in. Also that junk food had no calories so I could eat my way through this funk. :grumble:

Shouldn't complain. Scale is moving (even if I'm not)

I'm praying your spirits will lift and you will be back to feeling great!

I missed yesterday, due to a hellish three days at work. Things won't be so bad tomorrow.

Tuesday - Goals: to be able to walk up and down stairs foot over foot (instead of having to put both feet on the step before moving to the other while holding the railing for dear life)

Wednesday - Wishes: I wish I had someone to clean my house every week. I don't mind cleaning but it takes up a majority of what little free time I do have on the weekend.

Wednesday Wish:

I wish this weather would hold off long enough for me to get outside and walk, but it doesn't look like it is going to. I guess I'll just have to meet with Jillian tonight.

Had a good day today. Slept until 6am, which is LATE for me, but still made it to work on time and managed to have a great and productive day! I usually head straight to the gym after work, but I got out early today so I'm just taking a little rest time before I go. I'm going to be cooking dinner in a few, so I may just workout after that.

@Skinnyjeanz- I understand about the administration problems. We had that a few years ago before we got our new principal. We had so much paperwork, there was no time to actually teach. (And they wondered why our scores were so low...)

@Susan- I hope your house sells ASAP!

@Lana- There are a lot of gyms that will let you workout for free for a month using a "free trial". You should check that out and see if it would work for you. I know that when I didn't have a gym, I would do that and just rotate local gyms until I found one I liked and was affordable. I'm lucky that my apt has a gym I can use at no charge.

Wednesday Wish #1 - that my migraine would go away so I can get outside and test out my new running shoes!

#2 - that my husby would get back to recording his food again. Any thoughts on gently but firmly encouraging your other half to be as interested in health and weight loss as you are??

@Lana - check out your local Y. They have all are supposed to have a sliding scale policy. If you can't afford the membership, they will reduce the rate so you can join. Also, yous said $5 a day. If you worked out 3x a week that would be $15 a week or $60 a month. Single membership at my Y in Fl was only $30 a month and $80 for the family. Some of them will also let you work there part-time for free or reduced price membership...It is worth a try.

I got a cortisone injection in my knee today. I am happy I can move around again. I thought I was going to have knee replacement surgery soon, but my dr said as long as the injections work I can put off the surgery. I can handle a shot every 3-4 months to avoid going under the knife again. I have a free 1 month gym membership and am going to start it tomorrow. I'm also starting low carb eating (reduced from my 99% current carb eating - at least it seems that way). I am excited about getting on track and loosing this weight.

Just ran 25 minutes straight! Having not run at all last week, I'm feeling pretty terrific. :bigsmile: Watch out, 5k...I'm coming to get you!!

Hello Everyone,
My Wednesday wish is to be able to get a new laptop soon. I am grateful to have my cell and yet tire of using it. . I feel like I am always missing posts. I try to read them all.

My other wish to keep swimming. To be successful I am planning on joining the y.

Sorry I am not responding individual to each post. I have read the but its sort of hard on the phone for me
Take care
Liz

Good morning. I am right handed but left eyed. This makes me buy left handed bows, shotguns and rifles. I do bat right handed and play golf right handed, but I shoot pool left handed. To test which of your eyes is dominate go to this link, you have to copy and paste it into your address bar because I cannot make links that work unless they are on the MFP site. I think it is a limit of the BB code here.
How To Determine Eye Dominance

http://www.wikihow.com/Determine-Eye-Dominance

My Wednesday wish is that MrsMorgori starts logging her food again and keeps up with getting healthy.

Joe that is a good top ten list, I like it!

Heh, apparently I am right handed and right eye dominant. But I detest math and logical thinking, I write and read and play D&D in my spare time

Wednesday Wish - that it doesn't take Apple too many days to transfer data from my old PC to my new iMac.