Reboot boogaloo October - Open group

Mary, I am so with you on the dieting, starving vs. full feeling. I have a really hard time allowing my stomach to feel hungry. I don't like that feeling, so I don't let it happen. It is a struggle and often times I wonder how important is it, since I am only slightly overweight. Is it worth the constant struggle and fight to get skinny when I'm not really that big in the first place. If only I could accept the way I am.
V, I think letting the fashion mags and etc go would be a good thing. I find those types of things only make me covet and want things more. It also makes me feel like less of a person because I do not have those things or look that way. Maybe that's not a problem for you but it is for me. I hope that you find a greater happiness in who God made you to be, by not having those things around to possibly make you feel other wise. All my pebbs on here are awesome and I don't want any outside source to make any of you feel any other way. :flowerforyou: Love my pebbs.:smooched:

Sorry, mushy moment there.

We went to church, had lunch, and then my cousin and her family came over. She's in a Biggest Loser contest at work and tied for first place. The girl she is tied with is cheating by taking weight loss pills. I hope my cousin wins, not because it's a big deal, but because I think she needs it. She's lost almost 25 pounds since June, all by hard work and using MFP. I'm proud of her.
It sounds silly but I just discovered that I can scan food items in just by using my phone. I have known this for awhile but I've been too lazy to figure it out. It will help some to be able to scan some ingredients, however it dawned on me that most of the foods I should eat shouldn't be scannable. You know?
I really really need some new goals or incentives for the rest of this month. Like no fast food, only eat out once, dessert once a week, work out every day get a (fill in the blank). I need some motivation. I tend to use competition as a motivation, but I don't want to do that. I don't really have any one to compete with right now anyway.
My exercise goals this week are to get up at 6-6:15 and work out for 30 minutes or so. Not sure if it's going to happen but that's what I want to happen. It's girly time so more sleep may be required.
Yesterday I noticed a owie on Irina's sucking finger. Turns out it's a welt from sucking on it too much. So I put a bandaid on it so it wouldn't get infected or anything. Well, turns out, she won't suck it if a band aid is on it. Guess what? Band aid is staying on. Thankfully she hasn't figured out she can take it off. I will have to put a different one on soon, and that might be a problem. But for now we are going to try to break the habit. She has been upset about it and it has taken longer to get her to sleep but it hasn't been as awful as I thought it was going to be.
Breaking bad habits in my house boogaloo.

I don't want to face this day. Can I go back and hide under the covers? I just don't "have it" today. I know I'm tired, so maybe that's all it is. I was awakened at 5:45 by a child having to go to the bathroom. New rule. Only have a cup of fluids at dinner, and no drinks after 6:30 (for Irina anyway until she learns to go by herself). I tried to go back to sleep but couldn't. So I will have to work out at nap time.
Plans for the day: brave going to a dollar store with the kids to get some picture books for Irina, try to teach her that the letter A is not apple (:laugh: ), school, laundry, work out, and be careful with my eating. I haven't been doing that great with it and I haven't made time to log. I start out logging but forget to finish.
The landlady and her husband came over to do the repairs. They were nice but it was awkward. :ohwell: They don't do the greatest job on repairs. We had to call them back over because the toilet was leaking after they replaced the flush kit. We've had to call them back after they've done repairs before. Oh well. At least it's done and we're still on speaking terms. :laugh:
Hoping today is a better day than yesterday. Irina was a real nuisance after her nap. We will be going outside this afternoon to burn off some energy. She is bringing me magnetic letters off the fridge and asking what they are, so she's in a learning mood. That's good. A still means apple though. :laugh:

ABC's boogaloo.

Hey! I'm back! Wow. I haven't been in the isolated of a place for a long time! We had no phone or internet service. It was actually nice not to have it, except for two reasons. I don't like being so out of touch with the world that no one can reach me in case of an emergency. And second, it would have been nice to know thunderstorms were coming last night. Lots of lightning, thunder and rain, thankfully no wind. Kids mostly slept right through it. Our tent kept us mostly dry. Only our belongings on the floor got wet, including sleeping bags and pillows. :ohwell: But we had a good time. Irina was pretty much her self, so yes she was being unruly but she wasn't any worse than usual. We were thankful she did that well.
The doctor appointment went kind of as expected I guess. Although he didn't want to put her on the antivirals that Alex was on that helped so much. The doc said I would hate him if he put her on that right now because it would make her go completely crazy. He does want to put her on it eventually, just not yet. So I was a little bummed because I really believe that will help, however, I am glad he took me into consideration and trying to spare me. He did say lots of brushing therapy and spinning therapy (otherwise known as astronaut therapy), which are things we did for Alex. I have to brush her every three hours and spin her twice a day. We were suppose to be doing this the last two weeks. Oops. He also gave us three bottles of pills. I believe he said they are folic acid. I'll have to double check, but he said it helps with aggressiveness! Hooray! He said it might take a couple of months. He also suggested putting her on D3 as well, since kids don't get much vitamin D from being in the orphanage all the time. Also he strongly suggested putting her on the elimination diet, which eliminates all typical allergen foods. That is going to be difficult since Alex and Steve don't really need to be on it. I will try to do it with her so she doesn't feel singled out. I regret not starting this from the moment we got her so she wouldn't already be used to all the foods. There could be foods triggering her moods just as Alex has had problems. And me. I will go on it to see if there are foods causing me problems. I know there is. So that's what I am working on preparing for this week.
The place we went camping was great! We will go there again for sure! It was quiet, peaceful, and just so nice. I had not seen that many stars since I lived on a farm in Nebraska 25 years ago! Gorgeous! We walked a lot yesterday. I lost a pound and a half. It was definitely a great place to go. There are pretty places in Texas! Ha!
Glad to be back home...I think. Not looking forward to getting back to the routine tomorrow or having to clean up our camping mess. But a nap in my bed felt great! And it's great to be back in touch with my Pebbs! I was having withdrawals! We climbed a tall hill and was able to get on the "edge" network long enough to bring up the main page, but it shut down after that.

Changes coming boogaloo.