Serial Starters

Tillesmommy1- Working off a food reward sounds like a lot of effort! I'm too lazy for that, so good on you!

ASalner- I know that broke feeling. Have a great lunch!

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Woke up at like 3am with a massive pressure headache and since we were out of bread had to have a waffle with my advil. Because one thing worse than a headache that keeps you from sleeping is taking extra strength advil on an empty stomach!

On the plus side, I've finally lost 2 pounds. Does anyone have an accurate, consistent, scale recommendations? Mine is great, but the tick marks are so little I have to take a picture with my phone and then zoom in to see what my weight is!

On the schedule for today: Work, and then puppy training! She's such a little brat, and my boyfriend's mom and all of her perfectly trained dogs are visitng in a few weeks. God give me strength. Ahahah.

Have a fabulous friday, all!

Lana-- Yes! It's her when she was 9 weeks old. Her name is Pebbles. She's a little rascal of a 5 month old corgi right now. She desperately needs the training.

Here's a photo of her now:

25lbsorbust wrote: »

Lana-- Yes! It's her when she was 9 weeks old. Her name is Pebbles. She's a little rascal of a 5 month old corgi right now. She desperately needs the training.

Here's a photo of her now:

What a cutie! Well, having worked at the Rescue for 4 yrs, I have learned that Corgi's are incredibly stubborn tricky to train. But, boy aren't they the cutest?! Good luck

Sara - Sorry to hear your appt didn't go as planned. Glad you got your meds. Let us know if you find any good recipes in your new magazine!

Came home, did a load of laundry, helped make supper, and lost all motivation to do anything else. TOM is sucking the life out of me tonight. Have been tucked on the couch with a book.

Sunday morning

We decided to sleep in and skip church. After this week, no skipping as the kids will have Sunday school. I just enjoy my quiet, sleep-in days when we don't have to rush off to something. We didn't get that yesterday as we had to run off to the volleyball tournament.

Today I will do some cleaning, go grocery shopping, and help the kids get their homework done. Hopefully get a nice walk. And will probably have the Vikings game on TV.

More later!

Morning All-

Remembering my family and friends today in NY. Always a sad day but one I have noticed the younger generation does not know about. I guess I kind of understand- when I was a kid my parents would always say- you know what today is (on Dec 7th) and then be upset that we had no idea it was Pearl Harbor.

Went to a birthday party last night- they had a pig roast. I love pork but I have never seen a whole pig before with it's head on. I actually could not eat it. I have a problem seeing my food with it's head attached. When I get fish at a resaturant I hate when they bring it with the head on. I noticed that now when I have a whole chicken in my hands and start to think about it too much, it bothers me. I should theoretically be a vegitarian but I love meat too much. I can't tell what part of the body a pork chop, burger, steak come from so it doesnt bother me but last night, I could not even go in the room.

Didnt got to WW this weekend- I knew WI was going to be bad and I just did not want to deal. I got myself together for this week though and not going to keep slipping.

I noticed a few things of how I am being treated at work by my size. I had knocked into something and I just thought it was me being clumsy but I noticed the coworker being overly nice to me about it.. like dont worry its ok. Maybe it's me - I dont know.

Hope everyone has a great day!
Jen

Monday Monday ......

Well last night DH and I had our first in-depth conversation about ideas about how to equitably split everything and pay our huge loans/high credit cards + debt for our divorce. I keep referring to it as putting ideas on the table - nothing is in stone. Just ideas. We haven't gotten lawyers yet. We need a plan before seeing strangers.

Well I woke up with the feeling that I will have more future burden than he will because the current plan is for me to keep the money pit house in North Carolina. Reasons for me to keep it: I have no other "home". The NYC bunker studio with no light is no home to stay in in the future; Parents are dead; childhood house is gone; it would take a LOT of work/money to fix up money pit house to sell. It has not appreciated a single dollar! since we bought it 8 years ago, and it will be a difficult sell because it is old (1955) in an area (Raleigh Durham) that is awash in new-builds. It has the most gorgeous in ground swimming pool, but people down there don't want pools. Seems to be a North Carolina thing--not wanting a pool. It was hard to find in the first place--a house with a pool. Odd that.

I'm rambling.

Weight watching report: I weighed 226 on Saturday. The weight keeps creeping up because I can't do much exercise and fall victim to comfort food often.

So
AOTW: My focus of the week will be
1) not buy large bad items such as Amy's cake and pints of Ben and Jerry's.
2) try to write down my food.

Hey all - interesting that many of you are mentioning the "food with a face" issue. Yesterday I was eating a small piece of leftover steak and there was a vein in it that would not be cut with a sharp knife; it just stuck out of the meat. I almost passed out---seriously thinking that I must give up eating meat; maybe keep the fish, sans head. Gag.

If you made it through this whole thing, thank you for reading.

**Cabana Boys ready with fans for anyone who passed out from boredom or being grossed out**

Hugs to you all - Sara, Jen, Annie, Dawn, Chamie, and 25. Waves to Liz in upstate New York~~~

Lana

Monday morning

6 year old turned on the water works again this morning when I walked him in to school. I think he's getting dropped off at the door from now on.

Also, walked through a puddle in my dining room this morning that had to be either dog or cat pee. Likely dog. I can't imagine when she did that...it had to be last evening. She spent the night in her crate, so it's not like she was up during the night. Not like her at all...and not my favorite way to start the week.

Had a cute text from 18 year old yesterday morning asking how to make his ramen noodle soup in the microwave. Then late last night a not so cute text saying a lense had popped out of his glasses. He had fixed it temporarily but didn't know how long that would last. He's due for an eye appt before we order new glasses or contacts, so DH will call to see if we can get him in this Friday. I had wanted to put off ordering him new glasses until the new flex plan year in January. Sigh.

It feels like $$$ is just running through our fingers. School pix, sports pix, sports tshirts, special field trips with fees attached....and we have put off getting new tires on my car for 2 years. We have to do it soon before the snow flies. I didn't need to pay for glasses right now, too. Feeling like maybe I should not have booked the trip to see my parents at Christmas. We could have used that money. And credit card is much higher than it should be. It got charged up with all of the house repairs we made this summer, only to not sell our house. I had planned to use our tax return to help pay for DS's tuition next year, but it may need to go on our credit card instead. We'll see.

Food was not great this weekend. Started with that Arby's run on Thursday night, Panera for lunch on Friday with a friend, KFC on Saturday for lunch, and pizza for supper last night. Meals and snacks in between were pretty good but all in all, not a good weekend. Back on track this morning. I MAY weigh myself at the end of the week. TOM is finally over. Also, need to stop the eating out in order to save $$$.

The only saving grace was I did get a good 2 mile walk with the pup yesterday.

I am also in the group that could almost be vegetarian. Lana, if I see a vein in any meat I am eating, I am DONE. I cannot take one more bite. DH has learned that he has to trim our meats very well if I am going to be able to eat any of it.

Sara - it sounds like you have a good meal plan for the week. I know you can stick with it.

Lana - I'm sorry about your marriage and housing/debt woes. You're in my thoughts.

Jen - I'm with you on skipping the WI but I know I've got to face that scale sooner or later. I'm going to shoot for later this week after I have a few good days under my belt.

QOTW - what will you focus on this week?

AOTW - Same old, same old. Stay away from sweets and the "bad" carbs such as breads/pastas/rice. And I really need to get back to walking at least 5 days/week.

I'll check back later.

Well, today has been absolutely insane. I've been run ragged and it seems like every time I get back to my desk and sit down, I get another call telling me to go somewhere else. My co-worker just told me I gave someone entirely wrong information, as well, despite the fact that that means he gave me incomplete information to begin with. I started the day out exhausted and now I'm ten times more exhausted and a million times grumpier. It's taking everything I have in me not to go deal with it via food, because I'm stuck at my desk for another two hours. Not sure I've won that battle yet.

Sure, I'm at 8200 steps before 3:30, but at what cost?? haha.