busy moms?

I am a stay at home to a very energetic 4 yr old boy and a feisty 2.5 yr old little girl; I just started using MFP this past week. My goal is to be 50lbs lighter by next year. please feel free to add me. I need all the support and help I can get; I try to work out at least 5 times a week, but its so difficult so far this week I have worked out 3 days. :0)

So glad there so many of us!

Busy and frustrated mom here!

Work all day, gone from 7am-6pm. When I get home, my evening is dedicated to making dinner for the family and getting my toddler ready for bed. When my husband and I do take the time to work out, I feel guilty that we are leaving the baby with my 13-year old when we haven't seen her all day. By the time she goes to sleep (10pm, she's a nite owl like her mommy) I am exhausted and I try to relax and have some "me time" by reading or playing on the internet. I can't sleep until 12 or 2am, then DING! It's 6am and my husband (who is sound asleep by 9-10pm) and I are groggily getting the baby ready for school and we are getting ready for work. And the cycle continues, day-in, day-out.

I am sure you ladies all can relate. I'm not complaining...I LOVE my family, but I sure wish I could take more time for me to work on me, ya' know?

For those people who don't have kids and say, "well just bring your kids to walk/run/bike/gym with you"-are you kidding me? After a long day at daycare or school, the LAST thing they want to do is freeze their butts off at the jogging track or sit at the gym's daycare.

I've been at this since 9/15/11 and I've lost 18 pounds in 17 weeks. I know slow and steady is the way to win, but I am seeing a doctor weekly, taking phentermine diet pills, working out HARD at least 2-3x a week, staying under my calorie goals 9.5 out of 10 times and my measurements have only dropped an inch and a half! ARRRRGH! Frustrating....got on the doctor's scale with body fat calculator and I've lost a little under 2% of my body fat in those 17 weeks. Not horrible, but sure as crap not as great as I've been working. The tape measure doesn't lie and neither does the scale, so I'm starting to get a bit peeved.

Don't want to fall back into those gimmicky diets that severely restrict one category (such as low carb Atkins, or low fat-high carb, etc).

Well, I won't give up. This is GOING to happen. This is MY year. I am putting it out to the universe! :glasses:

So I have a chance to work out today, and I dont want to! I can't even blame my kids because they are with my husband. It's snowing like crazy! I live 30 minutes away from work and I'm supposed to work out with a friend after work here in town. Debating on whether or not to do it. The drive home will be sooo long. I have church tonight and want to eat dinner before church. Ugghhhh. NO excuses!