SAHM 4/19 - 4/25

Melissa - Great job on all the weight loss! That's terrific!

Dolphin - Hope you can get outside! Great way to burn a ton of calories and very satisfying to see your yard shape up!

Katie - The bathroom looks awesome! (boys are super cute too) :P Glad you had a fun weekend....we all need times like that.

Kim - long car rides are difficult! ;P When I was about 7 months pregnant with dd2 my hubby, daughter and I drove to MN straight without stopping except for bathroom breaks. That was rough! My legs swelled and didn't go down till about 2 months after having the kiddo! :P Hope the rest of your trip is fairly comfortable!

Trish - It is not splurging to have a few treats to help you from falling off the bandwagon. As long as you are careful to maintain the correct amount of calories or else burn them off there is no problem. My mom would save up her calories over the week, so that at the end of the week she could have a nice treat. :P Whatever helps you to keep going without quitting!

We think we have figured out the cause of the migraines I've been getting almost everyday the past 2 weeks. My old glasses! The nose pieces are almost non-existent and the ear pieces are no longer comfy. Went with contacts the past two days and no headaches! Whew. My workouts have not been happening due to these nasty headaches so I'll be glad to get new ones and be able to get back into the swing of things. On a plus side, I've been eating well so I've still been under my calorie count almost everyday. When I start working out I'm gonna need to find some things to help fill in those calories I'm burning. I'm thinking of splurging for lunch and having something other than PB&J.

Hubby helped me clean the house up a bit today. We also started war on the backyard which will be continued tomorrow. It's such a great way to burn calories because it's so satisfying to see our yard start to shape up and become a nice place to spend time. My hubby is very grateful because I've been taking the kids all day and doing all the chores, etc while he's been taking a nice long break. He was dead on his feet and I didn't think it would be good for him to try and handle the kiddos on his own next week if he's exhausted. :P My parents are taking them for half the week so that should help. My mom was teasing me saying it takes 3 of them to do my job! lol! I'm so looking forward to this break. Ever since all the sickness and then headaches I've had a lot of trouble getting back into a good routine. I never had a chance to recover so this will be nice to recharge and plunge into the next long haul of cleaning and chasing kids around.

Have a great hump day everyone!

Valerie

Goals for tomorrow:

Pull more weeds and trim down the bushes in backyard
Pay the bills
make an appt for the eye doctor

Trish ~ I agree with everyone else, I don't consider it cheating when you stick to your calories and it's not every meal is 'bad'!

Val ~ Awesome news about the headaches, glad they are gone!

Thanks for all the compliments on the bathroom!

The other family decided to rent elsewhere!! The house is ours for the taking Just waiting for him to email me the contract. Hoping we can bring it to legal tomorrow and then sign! So excited! A little nervous since we aren't actually going to see the property other than pictures...but I don't want a good one to get away, KWIM??

quiet this week....

i went over my cals by 300. better than in the past. and i did not go have any more choc chips--nor did i bake anything!

girls, my tummy is still a mess. i only feel ok for part of the day and i can't figure out what triggers it! i have an annual coming up soon and i'll ask him--get a referral to a gi maybe. i did 2 weeks of miralax but that didn't settle things out.
i guess b/n now and the visit i will seriously limit milk and see if that helps. and try to do that more regular exercise to see how that helps. and no more macaroons---i think that may have set things off today.
it's like as soon as i went sliding down the hill--my tummy rebelled. which makes sense. just thinking out loud here.

i feel like i got a lot accomplished today and we're doing pretty well with limited tv this week for turn off the tv week.
time to turn in--going to start a book abt a parrot who thought he/she was a dog. non-fxn

see you in the AM!

Gm everyone!

Katie- I like the house! It looks really nice!


Stacey- I have the same issues now that I am older, I just can't eat the stuff that I used to. I have learned to live with it.


Goodbye plateau!!!!!!! I am officially under the weight of my plateau! I weighed in at 164.8 this morning. :drinker:

thanks for the advice trish--and the sympathy from you, katie and nicole.
and trish--that's just sooooo close! you will get there!

katie--i LOVE the house! can i move in too? hehe looks like a wonderful place for your family.

goals today:
get in that exercise!
log my water to be sure i get to 50oz
don't go over 1600 cals

later chicas! have a GREAT morning!

Stacey - I know what you mean about tummy troubles with eating habits. :P Now all my old favorite treats give me tummy troubles. I hope its something easy to fix and that it calms down soon!

Katie - The house looks awesome! I'm so excited for you! I hate moving in terms of the packing, moving and unpacking. But it's fun to be in a new neighborhood and house when it is an improvement. I'm jealous about the park....the only downfall to our new house is no park in the neighborhood to walk to.

So...had some bloodwork done since I hadn't had a physical for about 5 years or so. Turns out my thyroid and cholesterol is high. Huh...I just figured the two little kiddos were what was making me tired and such. But the thyroid explains my tiredness and my headaches too. It wasn't super high, but I'm hoping when we get it taken care of I'll drop even more weight. :P Trying to think positive! Also, almost cut the tip of my finger off cutting up potatoes for my baked chicken. Got the bleeding to stop now just using Ibprofen to help stave off the achiness. Go figure. :P 3 days till I leave for my cruise! I'm super excited! Turns out they have a lap pool as well as their fitness center. Got my ipod all set for some runs on the elliptical machine but I'm super excited to swim again! Was a swimmer in highschool and college, but couldn't afford the gym membership so haven't been able to for a long time. It was my favorite way to stay in shape so that's another highlight for me (and will help keep the weight gain from being all 14 pounds back!) :P Have a happy Friday everyone!

Valerie

Goals for tomorrow:
Pay bills
clean the kitchen
drink lots of water

Keeping up with the kids has been exhausting. You would think that running after that would get this weight off. I keep saying food is my drug of choice and it is such a struggle as I am awake the whole time. Glad to see Iam not alone in eating over calories.

GM! well, maintained this week.
i would've liked to see a loss, but realistically my axns did not = losing wt.
i still have today thru sunday to throw some exercise in the mix and hopefully that will help too!

keeping my goals
--50oz water to be logged
--1500 cals
--exercise
--do something active and fun with kids

Wow, what a busy week for me, I've been checking in and reading the posts, but just haven't had time to comment. Tis the season (springtime!) to be so busy.

Stacey, hopefully you have figured out your tummy problems, we try to limit dairy in our house, we have one that has asthma, and it seems to exacerbate his asthma, so he doesn't get much dairy, for the rest of us, we just limit it, don't go overboard, and seems to be okay for us. Hope the rental hunting turns out for you.

Michelle, I hear you on keeping up with the kids, I have 5 as well, range in age from 2-11 and it is truly exhausting, not just physically but emotionally. Oldest is in middle school this year, and it has been so challenging dealing with her, and all the changes, good luck!

Amy, I'm glad to hear you started running, I seriously need to start, I know I can do it, just getting out there and finding the time, I can come up with a million excuses, hopefully soon, I'll just do it. Keep it up, I think you will love the rewards it brings.

Nicole, YEAH on getting past the plateau, I think I've made it past my plateau as well, but I'm going to give it a few more days, I had the stomach bug earlier this week, so not sure if that factored in with the few pound weight loss or not, I think I'll weigh myself Monday.

Well got to get busy with laundry and cleaning up the house a bit. Hope everyone has a great weekend!!!

hi all! yesterday was a GREAT day. went to 2 parks with kids. took ds and dd1 to sweet tomatoes for lunch (dd earned the outing for her great behav all week)--and controlled myself.

found more rental properties that would work. and we are putting in an application on one of them today.
it isn't perfect (3 bed instead of 4, and mstr just will barely fit our bed and so dresser will have to be elsewhere), but there is a HUGE bonus room which we will make good use of and nice size bckyrd w/grass. plus just walking a cpl blocks to HUGE park--covered, picnic, grass, bball, tennis cts, etc. plus this part of town has walking trails galore. so...put in an extra good wish that we can get this house and be settled on this matter.
feeling VERY grateful.

shera, glad that your week turned out well. amazing on the progress (and confidence lift) on your running. have fun camping! as for logging--i've used a small notebook to just track the kind/quantity of my food when i otherwise cdn't get to mfp. i didn't worry abt cals, just made careful choices. anyway, enjoy the great outdoors!

val--your cruise sounds WWWWOOOONNNNDDDDEEERRRFFFFUUULLLL. enjoy this time for YOU!

dolphin, enjoying that spring weather is so important. yesterday was perfect here. sun (but not summertime intense), gentle breeze to keep things cool, temp just right...ahhh. it was a pleasure to be out at the parks.
hopin to do more of the same today.

alright, time to get showered.
trish--how's your hand???
ttyl