Over 200 Club New Year New Me Part 47

Checking in for yesterday:
Cals - Over by 89
Water - 80 oz
Exercise - Walked about a mile
Proud - Stopped by Ann Taylor Loft because they were having a sale. Still feels so good to by size 10 pants!

Totally with you Awestfall! I've stalled again and don't want to backslide. The scale said that I'm up 2 pounds in the last week and a half, I really need to get back to eating healthy foods. Tstout - I do the same thing, have some success and then slack off. It's so hard to keep the motivation going, but that is what we have to do if we are going to succeed!

My daughter is back from Germany, and while I'm glad to have her home- she is adding a lot of stress back into our lives. Man she can push my buttons. If anything she came home snottier and crabbier than before! Instead of coming up to greet us and get hugs at the airport (like all the other students), she snuck over to the baggage carousel to wait for her suitcase even though she saw that I was looking all over for her. Then I got barely 2 words out of her about her trip. And this is just a petty thing that irked me, but I gave her $100 to buy gifts for us, and I specifically asked for a sweatshirt - and instead I got a small box of 4 chocolates. Hmmm, I'm dieting AND don't really like chocolate. Her dad got some cologne and her brother got a couple of toys ... my guess is she couldn't have spent more than $30 of the $100 that I gave her on us, and the rest on herself. The postcards that I insisted she write out and mail from Germany were purchased but never written on or mailed (that wasn't a surprise but I had really lectured her about sending them from Germany so I was hoping). aargh teenagers!
At least she isn't sick anymore.

The roofing and siding will hopefully be done tomorrow, but I know finishing always takes longer than it looks like it will. My husband bought the workers some doughnuts this morning to apologize for some re-work they will have to do today. My husband built some free-standing flower box benches for our deck and had one of them pushed up against the wall and it was frozen there - I had told him he should move them away from the wall before they started working but he didn't, and the siders must have thought the one that was stuck in the ice was actually attached to the house and they painstakingly trimmed all around it and cut the siding to fit around it ... unfortunately it isn't attached and they need to re-do all that siding now. And they had done a really nice job. My husband was pretty embarrassed when he had to call the foreman last night. Of course I was the one that had to give the workers the doughnuts this morning and I don't think they had a clue yet about why I was apologizing!

lildeb: I hope everything falls into place today with your lender. We had a lot of things come up at the last minute when we were closing on the farmhouse that we purchased from my Aunt's estate last fall - and we ended up closing 3 days later than we had planned, BUT we did close. So hopefully all will work out for you too.

Bump for later. Don't want to lose y'all!

:glasses:

thanks everyone...

We should find out something today. We got the apprasial back yesterday, but now we are waiting on this stupid broker.

SO when we signed we got a relator (not signed with a relator),he was supposed to pay our lease with his comissiions, well it got all jumbled up and the money is now off our sales price which i am fine with.

Appearnetly the realtor went from one brokerage firm to another, but this new head of the broker that he is working for is a total jerk, but as my wonderful husband figured out his firm isn't on the contracts it is only the relator and the old brokerage firm. So our belive is they are going to talk to him today and tell him he signs the form he needs to sign and they transfer brokerage to him or he is just cut out of the deal and the old brokerage firm gets it.

i was reading all this stuff on thsi guy last night how he had over 40 complaiints on him and he is a snake and weasel.

I am praying that this works out today and we close tomorrow, please please send prayers my way today, i will need anything i can get

Checking in from yesterday:

Cals - Over, but I went to a food festival - what can you expect!?!?!
Water - 48 oz, not enough!
Exercise - Walked 2 miles
Proud - Didn't gorge myself on food - felt ok to throw things away and share bites with friends. This way I got to taste more and not be so stuffed. It felt great to leave feeling full but not uncomfortable!

tstout - WOOHOO! BIG DAY FOR YOU! Be wonderful!!!

Teresa: Good luck with the interview and have fun looking at the condo! It sounds like things are starting to look up for you, which I knew they would. I'm sending positive, happy vibes to you!!

I have good news galore today!
1. The scale said 178.8 this morning!! That's a pound down from yesterday and puts me officially at 40 lbs lost, though I probably won't change my ticker until Friday morning. Don't want to get too ahead of myself!

2. My new co-worker is a bundle of energy. Seriously, 15 minutes into training her yesterday, I felt so bubbly and energetic. She should be fun to have in the office. Can anyone tell I'm someone who easily picks up and feeds off of the environment?

3. My friend who I wrote my blog about a few weeks ago - the one who was obsessed with Latisse, Botox, etc. - texted me yesterday asking for my advice on running shoes. Today, we were emailing back and forth and she admitted that she's been running up and down her street after school (at 10pm!) and she needs better shoes. She says she has lost some weight and her feet are slimming down. She wants to do more running and may be up to meeting me for runs soon. When I talked to her on the phone last week, she listed off things she wanted to do (exercise, eat better, go to museums and plays) and sounded in better spirits than she has in a long time. I'm so excited and happy for her!!

Checking in for yesterday:
Points: On target
Water: 74.2 oz.
Exercise: None
Proud: See above about my friend.

Momma24 - it sounds like overall it must be a bit of a relief to have a plan again for Ryan, even if you have mixed feelings about it. Hopefully it will be a good move for him and for you. It is so hard to concentrate on yourself when you are worried about your kids(but getting healthier is ultimately also helping your family).

Congrats HeatherMN!

I did a funny thing at lunch. I had packed stuff to make lunch ... leftover cut up roasted chicken, lettuce, onion and pepper, avacodo, mayo and a tortilla to wrap it all in. It just didn't sound appealling to me so I walked over to the cafeteria to find something ... I ended up buying a cobb salad wrap... and didn't even realize that it was basically EXACTLY the same as what I brought to make! It just sounded better having someone else make it I guess (and paying $6.50 for it)! :ohwell: