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wow--you are a powerhouse nicole! 10mi in 90min--that's fast!

will chk back later

Hi Ladies! I was a part of this group about a year ago and then got so busy I was off the site for quite a while but I am back now and would love to participate again! I have 4 boys ages 19,13,8, and 4, I have started doing P90X again...hubby and I made it through about 6 weeks of it until we hit vacations and chaos at the end of summer so we are trying to get back into it. I also am doing Insanity on some days for cardio.....I really hope to get in better shape! I do work from home some doing budgets for HIV/AIDS clinical trials and hubby works from also doing IT. Anyway, Hi everyone!

Whoo hoo!! I went to my chiropractor this evening for an adjustment and found out I won one of the drawings they had on patient appreciation day last week! I won 2 free private pilates sessions!

Have any of you done or do pilates? If so, do you like it?

Lettuce - Welcome back!! I've missed you! :flowerforyou:

pines2palms - Welcome!! It's not easy to find time to exercise. I think each one of us may have a different answer. I am running now, and the only time I have to do it right now is to pick up the kids from school 3 out of the 5 school days. I need to work in some more exercise somehow too on the other days. As for your mad cravings, you're not alone!! The only thing I can think of is maybe trying some of the sugar free candies & cookies as a possible alternative if it has to be candy/cookies. Also, would eating some of the sweeter fruits like grapes, apples, and berries help?

welcome (back) gals! pines--keep mint gum around and when it's tom, have dh put candy and cookies away in a bag and hide where you don't know.
rt now the ds is making me NUTS!!!!!!! get in bed and stay there, boy!!!!

lettuce, my dh is doing round 2 of p90x. i just got zumba which i will try to do again tomorrow am.

pines--when to work out?? when i didn't homeschool and boy took a nap, i had more time and energy. now....it's been so sporadic. however, i really want to lose this wt (i lost 12# and put back on 7) so i know i need to move more.
my new plan---and the girls can tell you, i'm always making plans--is to do it in early AM or at 1:45PM. that will also force me to get thru school quicker/more focused.

maybe sit down with dh and see where he can be full time parent for you to grab an hour 2x/week? like maybe you make dinner, and they eat it while you get in your exercise. and then you have a smoothie for dinner??? just an idea.

anyway, gotta go. stinkerbutt is still whining/crying.

Nicole ~ WOW!! So impressed by your 10.2 in 90, that's amazing! I don't think I could ever run that fast, congrats!!

Hi Lettuce B and Pines!

Pines ~ Can you join the Y or anything like that? If not, I like to run, maybe you can push your 4 year old in a stroller and have the 6 and 7 year old ride their bikes? Or I wait until my husband is home and go out then. I also have a lot of workout DVDs, my current favorite is TurboFire, but it's pricey. Try the Biggest Loser Cardio Max, or Jillian Michael's Blast Fat Boost Metabolism, quick and easy to do workouts. I also suffer from wanting chocolate durning that time of the month, I try to reduce the craving with chocolate pudding cups, and sweet fruits (like honeycrisp apples)

Amy ~ I love pilates! Congrats on the water and logging food, even when you don't want to. I am notorious for not completing journal entries when I know I am going to be over! LOL

Thanks for all the well wishes for Carter, he is much much much better! Hoping to get him on some allergy medication and hopefully he won't have to be hospitalized for every single cold while we are here I got my scheduled 11 mile run in on Sunday, and my hip was hurting so bad yesterday, makes me worried to do 12 this weekend. I went for a long ride with Carter in the trailer yesterday and it doesn't hurt at all today. Going for a walk/run with friends this morning, so we'll see how it feels after that.

Welcome pines and lettuce!! Pines, I don't have any new advice for you, other than what others ladies have been offering. Trying to coordinate with the hubby would be a great idea!

Amy~don't float away with all that water you drank! That's great that you are logging your food, that is what really opens your eyes to where you can cut calories

Nicole~that is so amazing! I can't even conceive of ever being able to run that fast (or that long!)

Stacey~hope the little man is over his fussy time. Have fun with the Zumba!

Katapple~so glad to hear that Carter is doing better! Is he being seen by military doctors, or did they refer you to a civilian hospital?

KatieM~We all have days when we are feeling down, you are not alone! Hope you are doing better today! :flowerforyou:

Well, ladies, as if it wasn't bad enough with younger daughter's lipoma, now older daughter had a trampoline accident and collided with another little girl. She has a shiner to be proud of! I told her she could go trick or treating as a UFC fighter for Halloween, but no, she still wants to be a butterfly. The swelling has gone down, but her entire eye is dark purple. Poor kid. No one call CPS on me, okay?

I've got a BUSY day today. Went to the gym this morning and burned up 915 calories on the treadmill, then had to go to Sam's and pick up some energy drinks for The Man. He is going to Combat Lifesaver School this week, and says the classes are rather boring and needs some caffine. Still have laundry to do, floors to scrub, a casserole to make, sewing to do (no, I'm still not done with the Christmas stocking!), and there is a Family Readiness Group meeting tonight that I need to go to. The Man volunteered me to be the new treasurer, and I guess I'm it. Yee-haw. Oh, and a reporter from Benning is looking for human interest stories, and wanted to know more about me. I don't think I'm that interesting at all....:laugh:

Thanks to all of you for your replies and ideas! I appreciate them very much. I really like the idea of exercising while the family is eating and then having a smoothie or something else "light" later! Amy-what is up with drinking so much water? Is that the half of your body weight thing? I have heard of it. So, if you weigh like 200 lbs, you would need 100 oz of water? Is that how it works? Does it seem to help more than drinking the 64 oz (8 cups)? Some days I have a hard time getting in the 64 oz, although that is rare. I do like my water, and drink it only...and have before, even at times when I was not focused on weight loss.

Hubby wants spaghetti tonight, so I am trying to think of some way to make it healthier...

My ds (7) is very argumentative today...argh!!!!!

Hope all of you have a good afternoon/evening/night!

I'm over by 886 cals today, but at least now I know how I'm doing.

ok, i feel so much better. now that i've gotten back to logging, i've had some real eye-openers! today over by 400ish, maybe i can walk for 1/2 hour tonight. just got to get the kids in bed.....

oh--katiem---(((hugs))) glad it turned out ok.

welcome abbra! this is a great group--tho obviously quiet today.

never got in that workout yesterday as kids stayed up watching disney movie.

waaaaayyyyy over on cals today. it's official. i CANNOT bake cuz whatever i make i consume very quickly---much to my detriment. i have ZERO willpower!!!!
idk what it is with me....for months me and the sweets .....

later--

Checking in... Hope everyone is having a great day.

I have become addicted...addicted to string cheese! Mmmmm!

I am wanting to make chicken tacos tonight. I saw a recipe on here recently. How can I find it? Will going to "Search" bring up recipes?

I haven't exercised for days! Uuuggg! I really gotta exercise!

Pines~I have never looked through the recipes on here so I would not know. Sorry that I am of no help to you.

Stacey~Hope you have fun in Park City. You won't be that far from where I live. It is about a 45-60 min drive (depending on traffic and who is behind the wheel :laugh: ) Love when the hubby steps in and helps with the children too many times they don't think they should because that is the "woman's work". My BIL is that way with my sister drives me crazy. He would tell my sister that she needed to take their son with her every where until he was about 5 yo. Then here is my hubby has 7 children that he is taking care of pushing me out the door so that I can get some time away.

Well today I decided that I was going to weigh in. I tried to do a schedule weigh in never worked for me I kept forgetting on my "weigh in" day and would either remember the day before or after. I lost another 2 pounds. I am sure that most of it is from the stomach problems I have been having and not eating much due to nausea. I will take it though for what ever it is worth and hope that I don't gain it back. I now have 11 pounds to go to be at a normal BMI. I am pretty excited about that because when I started I was at "obese". Plus I haven't been that low since like my 2 child. I haven't been as low as I am now since before my 5 child so I am pretty excited about that too. Enough rambling :laugh: .....got to get going it is late and I got to get up early tomorrow.

Abbra~belated welcome to you! This is a wonderful group, because we do talk about the struggles and triumphs in our day-to-day lives that have nothing to do with weight loss. Sometimes that's something only other SAHMs can understand. And you guys don't mind so much when I babble...

KatieM~that's great that you are losing some weight! You must be so proud of yourself for getting closer to a normal BMI. Also, I am so happy to hear that the lump was not the 'big C'. Scary!!

Stacey~have fun on your girl's weekend! That is fantastic that your hubs is taking care of the kids so you can get a little down time. Props to Stacey's hubby! I am looking forward to the next 3 day weekend that The Man has, because he told me that one of those days is for me and he will let me have a day off. We'll see.

I have been kinda quiet on here (again), this time because it is ME that got injured. Now everyone except The Man is walking wounded around my house. I was baking cookies and grabbed a sheet pan that had just come out of the oven. 2nd degree burns on the first 3 fingers of my left hand. That'll teach me to bake cookies, right? :laugh: Seriously...they are feeling a lot better today, the Vicodin helps. The doctor gave me Vicodin, can you believe it?

Today I have got to get my Halloween costume and one for older daughter (nothing like waiting til the last minute, huh?), and do laundry. That's about it. Taking it easy today, maybe taking the kids to the pool at the gym tomorrow. My poor beat-up kids.

Abbra~We can all relate to those kinds of days! Many people that know me think I am NUTS because I have 7 children 9-1 yo (yes every last one of them is my child no apopting and no muliple births). Not planned that way but wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. Plus during school hours I babysit two children for my friend. So during the day I have from 4 children all the way up to 7+ children (the plus is when they have a playdate over at my house). Like today I had a total of my 7 plus 5 more for about 30 min then 3 left and had the rest at my house for a few hours.

Home~OUCH! You got to be carful with those cookies sheets!:flowerforyou: I hope that it gets feeling better soon.

Barb~Have fun on you cancer walk. I hope the weather is good for you.

Tonight is date night got to love the time with the hubby! However we are not going to be able to go anywhere tonight at least not until probably really late. Oh well time with out kids is the key right? Well got to go the lil man is crying and wants his dinner plus he is lonely with out the kids buggin him. Have a great weekend.