Deployment Overeater Support Team

hope everyone is doing well!!!! the weeks are going fast here and i have totally been slacking alot going on at the house could really use some one to kick me in the butt

thanks hopey hope u guys r enjoying ur time together!!!!!!! where r my support ladies at we are all loosing some steam its time get refocused and kick it in high gear!!!!!!!!!!!

I just have my little girl but I realized that I wanted to be a strong woman and to be a good mother and wife I had no other choice to be one, Lots of women every day go through exactly what we are going through now. We have all seen the amazing good bad ugly and down right scary when it comes to spouses. It is a choice you make, I made it a point to make my moto this deployment "make him proud" it is on my phone when I turn it on. Because as proud as we are of them dont we want them to be as proud of us. My husband is about to be home and I am honestly going insane, these past couple days I am going through every emotion I can think of! I wanna scream cry jump for joy and punch someone all at once. And I am getting so frustrated with people who have never gone through anything like this (non military and civilian spouses) telling me what to expect how to deal and how my husband will be when he gets home! Its one of those things that you really cant understand until your there. I had a girl complaining to me the other day because her boyfriend was in TX in training and she was frustrated because she could only text him during the day!!! I can understand how that can be hard when you are not used to such and I offered my support to her in his upcoming deployment but inside I felt a bit angry because she has no idea. As military wives, moms, children, girlfriends ect we all have to be tough and hold our head higher than people who arent. I prefer to talk to you all than my civilian friends because they just dont know. I know going back to PA for a visit after my husband deployed people treated me like my husband had passed. "oh he is in Afghanistan, I am so sorry. He is going to miss so much with your daughter words, steps, teeth" WOW I heard that alot, people just dont know what to say and it turns into a very ackward situation. We are military and they do deploy and I knew that when I married my husband it was a decision we both talked about. and as for my daughter it crosses my mind every time I see her do something new and I am scrambeling for the camera or I look at her and see how amazing she is and I cant help but get alittle down because daddy only gets to see that through pictures and doesnt get to hold her.

I apologize for the long rant like I said in the beginning I am an emotional wreck with only 9 days until my husband comes home I am just loosing my mind with this flood of thoughts and things I have supressed through out this deployment.

yay welcome stacy!!!!! this is a great bunch of ladies

we did a thing called days for daddy and everyday we would write what we did during the day on a post it note along with the day and how many days tim was gone (well I would my daughter is 1) and at first I could just put it on talya and now she will hold it but I would snap a picture of her with it and then I would send the picture via email and the post it snail mail!

i have heard of the daddy dolls, but the pictures have to be very specific and we didn't have one and DH had already left.

Sorry I have been MIA, just been having a hard time getting into the dieting mode after R&R. I have been doing a lot of soul searching and have found a Bible study for weight loss. I am only on my 2nd week of it and in my first week I have lost 5 pounds. It is not a diet at all, it is just teaching me to deal with my issues with food and growing me closer to God I am such an emotional eater and have really let food control me and this is really helping me break the stronghold food has on me. It seems the harder I focus on dieting the worse I do on my calorie count and the more I demean myself and rip myself apart verbally. So if anyone else is struggling in this way, the Bible study is online free and it is: www.flowersoverthewall.com

Hope everyone is doing well! We are coming down to the end of our deployment but time seems to be standing still..

i'm sorry! I hope the time goes quickly for you.

Hi ladies, Hubby made it home safely!! Things have been crazy with the transition of him coming home and us celebrating all of the holidays! Talya took a bit but is getting used to daddy pretty well! He is such a great father and husband. Deployment really made us appriciate eachother so much more! Ladies dont listen to all the hoop la about your husband or boyfriend coming home and have a drinking problem or the new craze (spice or spike) problem! It isnt true. I had several marines and wives tell me "I guarentee he will come home and have drinking or drug problem...do you know the things that are available to him out there?" I was so scared for him to come home. I want to tell them to eat poo!!!! My husband came home, passed up drinking with his buddies, has had a 6 pack in the fridge since hes been back on the 19th and has drank maybe 3 of them and given the rest away. absolutely no spice, and has maybe smoked 5 packs of cigarettes. (which I complain about but if I had to pick a habit ya know) I have felt so blessed and happy and free to eat everything in the house hahah!

So its time to get back on track, Inlaws are coming down the 17th, big birthday party for our big girl on the 24th and I wanna rock a pretty sun dress and a trip to western pa in August and I wanna look great for it!!!!! so its time to rock and roll! hubby and I are gonna do p90x together wish me luck hahah!!!

Is anyone still doing this team????