SAHM 3/15 - 3/21

glad for the update nicole! i forget--are you a nurse (b4 sahm life?)? just remember that a, d, e, k at fat soluble vitamins and can build up in your system (becoming toxic)--so talk to your dr abt that--what to look out for, etc.
really glad that you have some more data to work with. enjoy your run!

I am still HERE! Just insanely busy. I am off to bed after a date with hubby & a rescue of kids. DS put the suburban in the ditch. No one hurt just stuck. Luckily his uncle had a vehicle big enough to pull him out. They are on their way home now. Relieved here.

I missed my workout to day but I took the kids to the park & walked for quite a while. It just wasn't intervals. Tomorrow--early before the day takes off I am going to get a walk in. Went to Chilis for our date & it was yummy--didn't go crazy although hubby was pulling for splitting a dessert. We just would have had to leave it cause shortly after that DS called.

Tomorrow we are busy all day. Kids have a b-day part at Bonkers(think huge play place) w/ pizza for lunch(yuck). Then I have a homschool ladies tea in the afternoon(treats everywhere!) So be thinking positive thoughts for me tomorrow. I gained 1.5 lbs w/ AF this week and then lost it all by this morning. YEAH! We shall see what the next week brings--hopefully some more loosing. I had gained back 3 or 4 lbs in Dec & I am just now getting back to down.

Goals tomorrow

WATER WATER WATER--didn't get enough today.
Walk early tomorrow
Pick up & put away all the stuff laying around here

Have a great weekend!

Kim

Sorry I don't have time to comment on everyone today, but I love you all!

Ended up going out to eat yesterday because my aunt is in town visiting and we all went out. Did pretty well there actually, but caved on my homemade cookies and had 3 (2 more than I wanted) :P The second one was right before bed, so while I was under my calories til then that put my over Hoping my weigh in today goes okay. What with the Melting Pot and then my snacking yesterday! :P

AF has come to visit a little early, and allergies has made me a cranky mommy today! :P Poor kiddos and hubby! They seem to be surviving well though! :P

Tonight is baked chicken, a little pasta on the side and a salad. Going to try to get some good workouts in today!

Have a great weekend!

Valerie

Nicole ~ I agree with Trish, I find this to be good news! Hopefully the natural way works!

Trish ~ Wohoo on 5.5!! Way to go!! And yay on PTg :happy: I don't even want to think about that right now...I just know Carter is going to give me issues LOL

I didn't get a run in yesterday, but I'm hoping I will today. We had an snow storm come through, but it's supposed to get to 50 and melt it all away...just hope the wind isn't bad! But, we did get almost all of our tile down yesterday!!! One step closer to getting my bathroom back. We should be able to grout...and hopefully get the toilet back on today...I hate going across the house to pee in the middle of the night...it's such a PITA!

Hi everyone!

I don't get on the computer much on the weekends

Hope you're all progressing well!

It's always good to have an answer, having an under active thyroid isn't ideal, but at least knowing about it you can manage it and move forward. Onwards and up(down? LOL)wards from here!

How long does it take for the water thing to have an effect? I drank lots over the weekend but all it did was make me gain 800g (900g is 2lb). Although I do wonder if my scales are rooted. i did an experiment the other day because I seem to fluctuate by a large amount sometimes, and wighed myself, went to the bathroom (and I was absolutely BUSTING), and then weighed in 200g higher?! WTF? Then I tried with shoes/without shoes and again came in higher with shoes than without. Maybe I should put a new battery in.

Anyway Saturday morning, before the water drinking, I weighed at 75.1kg so I've put that down as my weight this week rather than today's 75.9 as I can't possibly have actually put on 800g of fat in 2 days. And we'll see what happens next week! Getting under 75 will have to wait. Finished AF about 5 days ago so it can't be that!

BUT I don't have overhangs on hips any more! Still have one on the front LOL (2 kids in 12 months, I'll probably always have one now) but not on the sides. Woot. And my bra feels looser.

Trish - my son was like that when he toilet trained. I had noticed just a few weeks before that he was 'saving' it up and doing huge pees all at once a few times a day rather than that little and often thing boys seem to do... I was having to double up the inserts in his diapers so much to cope with the sudden flood when it came that he was walking around with this huge bubble butt cloth bum thing going on and I could barely get his pants over them... And then I was like, hey, you can hold it! And we started putting him on the toilet and took his diapers away.
He ended up being really easy to train (despite being a boy and developmentally delayed), unlike his sister who took a year to get to the same point because we were doing the whole send her to the toilet every half an hour thing that everyone told us to do... so it took ages for her to be able to control it herself. Despite taking Oliver's diapers away nearly a year later than we did Caitlyn's, they were both reliably day trained (i.e independant toileters) at the same age and Oliver never once wet the bed because he learned how to hold it.



I should shut up and go do some work now...


Oh, one more thing - what's everyone's loss/week goals? I'm on 1lb per week and @ 1530 cals/day.
A while ago I tried 2lb, and it put me on 1200, and I could never stick to 1200 so when I went over I always decided it was a lost cause and went waaaay over (before I realised what maintenance level was and that anything below that 2000-odd was still gonna be a defecit) so it never worked.
I wonder if MFP needs to make that more clear - like say you need to eat under x cals per day to lose weight, to lose xlb per week to need to eat x cals - so like make it clear what the 'range' is. It might help a lot of people not get disheartened I think.

OK REALLY going to go do some work now...

my new goal is going to be to lose the remaining weight by my bday--sept 4.
i need this kind of clear vanity goal to keep me focused.

sassy--i only get 1260 cals per day--never feels like enuf. so without exercise i try to aim at 1400 and with exercise more. make sense?

Trish - Yay on potty training! Our kiddo finally asks to go before peeing and has been in regular panties for about 2 weeks. The big breakthrough was last week when she asks to go poo and doesn't in her diapers anymore. Yay! She just turned two a month or two ago, so I'm pretty stoked to have her out of diapers already. (Especially since I gave my mom grief and didn't PT till I was 3!) :P

Sassy - I have mine set for 1 lb a week. That seems to work well for me and I usually meet my calorie goal, even without exercise. (I get an extra goodie if I do exercise) To me the whole idea is that we should be setting goals that we can maintain for a lifetime. So I'm not going all salads and no goodies cause that would last all of a month for me. :P So instead of losing weight quickly I'm going for steadily instead.

Well, no workout today, but ate well and stayed under my goal. I lost a pound and since AF just came yesterday I'm ecstatic that I lost anything at all with going out to eat twice this week (One being the melting pot to boot) and having AF. Hoping that when AF is done I'll lose a ton of weight!

Even better: I FIT INTO MY SEMI-SKINNY JEANS! These are the jeans I got just after DD1 and haven't been able to fit into after my second pregnancy. Next step.....my skinny jeans from before my first pregnancy. here we go!

Have a great week everyone!

Goals: Chug the water! Glug...glug...glug

Valerie