SAHM 3/14 - 3/20

Happy St Patricks day all of you with Irish roots!

Cat - you must be so chuffed with all the compliments on your class, well done you!! :bigsmile:

Welcome Danyelle - our children are similar ages - my eldest is also 4 and my baby girl is 5 weeks. I have one in the middle too though who is 2.

Had an absolutely disastrous fall off the wagon yesterday, it was one of those frustrating completely unplanned things where I went in a shop, bought 6 small choc bars for £1 supposedly for the boys, decided to have one myself and then ate the lot :noway: :sad: About 600 cals and the frustrating thing is that as I'm only 5 weeks post c-section I can't exercise to make up for it which I usually would. I make the same mistake time and again thinking I can have stuff like that in the house and find some willpower, but I just can't.

Ah well, I'm trying to be super-good today, I should come in a little under cals and have been persuading the 2 year old to go in the buggy more than usual so I can at least walk at a decent speed everywhere and burn a little off like that.

Hope you enjoyed your 5k Kat!

Its 8 pm here which is a real flashpoint, dinner finished and finally sat down and all I want to do is eat! Have decided to turn the laptop off and go upstairs and read a bit to try and take my mind off it. Bah.

Hooray a group for me!!!

Stay at home mom to a 20 month old. Getting healthy before trying for another.

Has anyone else noticed as you try to eat healthier and exercise more the house and chores suffer? Could just be me I guess hahaha. I'm on week 3 of my lifestyle change and I'm trying to improve all sorts of areas of my life but laundry and general house cleaning is getting farther and farther down the list.

stacey - congratulations on your new house! How exciting!

RockVixen - welcome to the SAHM thread (i am new too) I *totally* understand what you mean about letting housework and laundry slide down the list of priorities! haha! In my case its not just the time gone exercising (the active portion of it) but the time afterwards where my legs feel like they were bashed in with iron pipes :P and all i want to do is sit with my feet up as much as possible. After running 7.3 miles on Sunday i was grumbling at myself for leaving a component of dinner in the large freezer in our basement because that meant i needed to negotiate the stairs with angry legs I certainly wasn't looking forward to multiple trips up & down while carrying baskets to do laundry. How 'bout i sit on the couch and fold you you nice folks do the rest of the work for me? (they didn't buy that one lol)... So yeah, stuff like that falls behind. Oh well. I'd rather be getting fit and always have a 2-3 load backlog of laundry than be a fat, out-of-shape couch potato who is caught up, but hates the way she looks in all those clothes anyways

Wildcat - I will do cheat meals, cheat snacks/desserts, etc but rarely a full cheat DAY. And when i cheat i rarely go waaaaay overboard. I try to stick to a policy of going 500 - 1000 over is fine (depending on your goal settings ... i am set to 1 lb a week which is a 500 calorie deficit. If i eat 500 over, its basically a wash for that day. No loss. No gain. If you are set to 2lbs/week, you could go over by 1000 and would be the same: no loss, no gain. Gotta watch the sodium though in the cheat meals and drink plenty of water and then don't weigh for at least 3 days after, in my experience Have fun w your sister this weekend!!

shoppie - i hope your plan to go read helped get your mind off your munchies Late nights are the hardest. I always make sure i have some room left in my allotment for nibbles

katapple - you ran a 5k after giving 10 vials of blood?!?! wow! Hardcore!! I would have puked by mile 1 lol

4Loveofkids - thanks for asking about my little guy... yeah, he has egg, peanut and tree nut allergies. Most of his exposures have been due to my husband eating something on his drive home, coming in then getting into silly wrestling matches with the boys... If he kisses or "eats" lil ones face or even really if their two faces rub together, then lil one will start getting red blotchy patches over his face. We have been very fortunate that he has never had a reaction thats produced vomitting, diarhea or difficulty breathing. It seems to be mostly a localized swelling and hives. Its a challenge but in some ways its easier than the challenges my older son has with his Asperger's and stuttering. ... Lets just say i have plenty of reasons to stress eat hhahhaa

clcole - hope you're feeling better!

creepy--got a msg from random mfp person. commenting that i was a real cutie. and while that is a compliment, this is not the place i expect it. and it creeps me out to have a total stranger send me a msg like that.

i'd like to report to mike---any suggestions?

Hi ladies!! I'm a SAHM and new to MFP! I'm so thankful to have found this site.. I was using self.com for a week but a friend suggested I look into this site and I love it! I'd love to join your group and share in the support. I've been a yo-yo dieter for YEARS and I have a good 50+ pounds to lose.. I'm setting 10 pound goals for myself and I managed to lose 11 pounds over the last three weeks. Having this forum and the extra support is just what I need..

Friend me if you'd like! I'd love to get to know all of you! Good luck!

Stacey~that IS creepy, I think I would report. Seriously, why do people have to be so LAME?

I will probably have a cheat day this week when Kaleb is here, we will go out to eat. But I really don't consider it "cheat" because I usually just work out to compensate. I have ate what I wanted at Hooters and Chinese and still stayed under my cals both times.

It is beautiful weather here so we have been spending most of our time outside

Cat~feel better, I hate a cold! The worst because there is little you can do beside wait it out.

Thanks for the welcome, Ladies!!! I'm so excited about this!

Happy anniversary!

Checking in- No weight loss this week so far. Still 148

I am on day 3 of the "5 day inferno" with Turbo Fire. Very excited and it's going great! I seem to be having trouble getting all my calories in. I have to modify the food because of allergies and "pickiness" .lol I am getting better... I am gettting better (talking to myself :0)

wildcat - I agree re: maybe having one part of the day as 'cheat' rather than the entire day, if you really blow out you could offset any work you've done for the whole week and that would be really demotivating. I have the odd splurge but try not to go more than 500 over target so I can still lose that week.

kat - well done on enjoying the run and findig it easy! :smooched:

Shell - glad you are enjoying 5 day iferno whatever that is! :laugh:

Welcome RockVixen and happy anniversary!

Angela - welcome!

I had a lovely day with my baby girl (the boys were at school/ childcare), managed to get a load of my maternity stuff onto ebay so hopefully I can make a few quid. I had meringue nests with light cream and fruit as my Friday treat today (weekly thing in our house). If I'm being absolutely honest I didn't enjoy them as much as last weeks maltesers, but they definitely satisfied the sugar craving andn were half the calories and less fat - and I don't want the maltesers twice as much!! Will continue to experimet with what I can have and enjoy!

thanks, girls. i overreacted, i'm sure, just cuz it so unexpected on mfp. i blocked the sender so won't have any more problems.

congrats on the losses out there! good work!
have a great weekend!

So mad, why do I do this crap, I always feel gross afterwards and it makes my stomach hurt. Sugar is truely addicting.

This is precisely what I'm like and I did a very similar thing eatinng all 6 of those choc bars the other day (small ones, but still, SIX?!?!) The worst thing is these days I even know I will hate myself afterwards, and still do it anyway?!?

wildcat - well done on the 3 lb loss. i wouldnt worry too much that its on the high end, especially if you've had TOM, your LO easily could have been feeding more or something too. There are bound to be some fluctuations

I'm still feeling a bit down about my own binge if I'm honest, but have planned and tracked all my food for today, nothing more I can do really but keep eating as well as I can and hope I get away with it come weigh in *shrug*

Hope you all have lovely weekends, after last weekend's mad rushing about I have no plans at all! Lovely! It also means I have much more control over my eating this weekend so hopefully I can undo the damage from Thurs. Am sure we'll take the kids to the park, might also take the 2 boys swimming tomorrow and leave DH with baby and a bottle of expressed milk :bigsmile: And of course church as always tomorrow am!

Hi everyone! Hope you all had a great Saturday! We were inside all day today since the temperature dropped, but I did do my BFBM dvd through about 35 minutes. DS kept climbing on my back and my foot was bothering me so I had to do some modifications. It still kicked my behind though! I could have done better with my snacking, but the snacks are almost all gone. I also drank all my water today, plus 2 cups which put me at 10 for the day. Now I'm going to sit down and watch Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on ABC Family.

Hi, everyone. I have the busiest day today--ripping and running from one thing to the next! Busy tomorrow in the morning as well. I have to find 12 hours of time to run my nutrition IV, and I can't! I'm going to have to break the time up.

I've been doing well on eating, and not well at all in exercising.

To top it off, I need to apply for these teaching jobs online, and get my information for my taxes ASAP. So much for the leisurely stay-at-home-life. :laugh:

Yeah, well, I've been AWOL and I'm EXACTLY where I left off in my last post! :bigsmile: I did find time for my nutrition IV which is good, of course. That IV added 4 lbs to my weight last week. There is no point in my getting on a scale until I'm done with the infusion series.

My plan this week is to clean my house (it's a mess, completely out of control), do the tasks above and remember that it's SPRING now so I have no reason not to get back into my walking regime. My avatar is a picture of my doggie when he was a puppy. He used to love to go for walks then, and I'm sure he'd appreciate one now!