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two blogs in the same day?

I won’t be on much over the weekend. Tomorrow I am going to an all day training session for my job. I am taking a couple classes that were being made available for bus drivers and monitors. I am taking Why a good child turns bad, How to detect child abuse, and okay guys don’t laugh, Stress management with Yoga. I know that Yoga is suppose to be good for stress I just don’t know about me and all those Yoga positions! You all know I need some stress management, but I really don’t know about the Yoga but it sure prove interesting for me! My husband is also taking some classes, but he wouldn’t take the Yoga with me, go figure. Some hubby, huh?

After the training session we are picking up two of the grandkids, my 7 year old grandson and my 21month old grandaughter, hope that Yoga doesn’t make to sore for chasing her, she is very, very active.

Hope all is going well and have a super weekend!

Hello everyone! It is a new day and I am going to just take things as they come! I have a three day weekend! Next week I only work three days and then I have 11 days off! The kids will be on Spring Break! Yea, I need the time off! A co-worker had asked me to watch his daughter and today I just had to say no…..it was hard for me to do! I would have liked to help, but I had already made plans for doing a really good spring cleaning and having just time for me and some quality time with my grandkids. I am always doing things to help everyone else, and no is not usually a part of my volcabulary, but I really need this time for myself.

I am so lucky to have wonderful buddies that give me such emotional support, motivation, and inspiration. I am exceptionally thankful to have buddies like Mary, Sherry and Erika. Especially you Erika, you are a great buddy and friend!

I have been able to stay on track this week even with all the turmoil that has been going on! I know it is a lot of different things that have made be able to do this. I am now able to realize that my way of eating when I am stressed did’t help and only made me feel worse, plus with the plan I am on if I really wanted to have something I am really craving I can work it into my reward meal later in the day I have adopted a new way of eating that I can live with and fits in with my lifestyle and last but not least, I have a wonderful buddy support system here at Buddy Slim!

I hope everyone is having a great day and that you all have a super weekend!!!!

this is a horrible week………

First off thank you buddies for being there for me…..

Monday was a horrible day for me……..for those of you who don’t know I am a bus monitor for special needs children. We were taking them home from school and still had two children to drop off and we had an accident! No one was hurt, just shook up! Our bus hit a car in front of us and thecar then hit a stopped school bus! They also had elementary children on board. It was horrible! I don’t know exactly what happened because my attention was focused on my children which is my job! They were so many State Troopers I thought I was on Cops! At least 5 of them got on board my bus at different times and asked me the same questions…..one even told me he heard that one of my children was not fastened in her seat! I told him I had 2 children on board and showed him which seats they were strapped in and then he goes……….I thought so! They couldn’t believe I did not know how the accident occured and like I kept telling them I was doing my job which is to watch the children, not the driver. Well my driver was let go and I can understand why, but after working with him so long it is really sad he is an older man who just lost his wife a year ago and I worry how this is going to affect him! The parents were wonderful when they came and tgot their children and hugged me and thanked me for taking such good care of their children and were concerened for me. I am now training a new driver and I like her okay, but it will be hard for me to get use to someone new. It is weird I use to work with her before about 8 years ago when I worked at Wal-Mart.

I don’t know why I have been having such crap going on in my life. I don’t know what I did to deserve it…..they said God doesn’t give you more than you can handle, but I sure hope he is giving me all he is going to give me for awhile, because I don’t know how much more I can take.

Sticking to plan, I know that screwing up my diet is not going to make things any better and right now eating right is the only thing I feel I have control over. This is weird for me because always in the past I have used anything and everything I can for excuses to eat.

I hope that everyone is having a great week!

I am off to work in about 15 minutes, but I had to come on for a quick buddy fix. I am feeling kind of down this week, with some family problems and know I will be having a hard time sticking with my plan. I count on you all so much to keep in check.

I hope you are all having a wonderful Monday!

I didn’t get a chance to blog yesterday! I read your blogs and then my in-laws showed up and they were here most of the day! For most of my buddies you know of my issues there. I am doing much better dealing with my M-IL. I just keep telling myself I have to accept that is the way she is and not harp on the fact she is a mean person. In a way I now kind of feel sorry for her. She is not doing as well as she could be, but that is her own fault. She does not work on her physical therapy on her own, only when the therapist comes. She craves the attention that she gets for being helpless. My F-IL does everything for her and he jumps when she calls. It annoys me to know end that if she did her therapy she could be doing so much better, but she would rather sit around and cry about how bad she hurts. My mother on the other hand is almost 12 years older and does any and everything she can for her physical and mental health. Yesterday was a long hard day for me to deal with. I kept my mouth shut, even though I thought I was going to bite a hole in my tongue. I don’t discuss my husbands mother with him anymore like I use to. I know he sees it and it bothers him , after all she is his mother, but there is nothing he can do.

Well this week I lost a pound. I am happy, but yet something just nags inside me that I could be doing better. I have to admit I get a little jealous when I read some of buddies weight losses of 3,4 and 5 pounds. Now don’t get me wrong, I am genuinely happy for your great weight losses. I know I would probably lose better on a more restrictive diet, but could I live with it? The answer to that is NO! This is the first diet I have ever stuck with this long and have lost almost every week. I will stick to what I am doing. It is a slow process, but I know I will do it! I will lose this weight no matter how long it takes.

I hope all my buddies having a great weekend!

Off to read some more blogs!

I reached my first mini goal, actually I am below my mini goal. I lost 2.75 this week! I am so excited. I have now added my new mini goal which is what I want to lose for Mary’s Memorial Day Challenge! I have 19 pounds to lose by Memorial Day! I know I can do it.

I have not been on her in over a week, things have been crazy for me at home and work! Whats new I don’t know what life would be like if I could have a normal one, but then again what is normal.

I have been doing a lot of reflecting this week on my diet and  my goals. It is a struggle and some days I really get down, I want to lose and I wish it would come off quicker. I know I am doing great, I have never had the success I have achieved like I am now. I think part of this is my mind set, I don’t always have control over things in my life, but I can control the way I eat.  Not only have I had comments on my weight loss I get comments on how much happier I seem to be. I am happier and each pound I lose and prove to myself that I can and I will do this I get happier. I love you guys, and all the support, encouragement and inspiraton I receive from you.

I hope everyone has had a good week! I am off to try to catch up on your blogs!

Not only did I have Tom to contend with, we had water problems again. First it was we had no hot water and we had to replace the heating element in our hot water tank. It was fine for a couple days and then no hot water again grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! It is the original hot water tank and it had a fuse box and they don’t even make them anymore so we had to have a breaker box put in for the hotwater tank, why when we had new electric put in a few years ago the electrician never changed that I don’t know! Then the water froze, so we had to go to our son’s and daughter in-laws for showers………Things are warming up and now our water is unthawed! This has been our worse winter yet, with water problems. This spring and summer we are going to make some changes so we don’t have these problems next winter!

I am still at the same weight as last week, still a half pound to my first mini goal! I am blaming it all on Tom, as I stuck to my plan even with my cravings, I just saved my cravings for my reward meal.

I hope everyone had a better week than I did!

Have a great Saturday everyone!

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Well everyone I lost that half pound I gained last week so I am still a half pound short of my first mini goal! I was disappointed, but I know I will lose it! Every week can’t be a big loss and at least I lost something and did not gain!

I am feeling great and my clothes fit better so I am accomplishing something. I am going to measure myself today and keep track of my inches lost too! I keep saying I am going to do it, but have not gotten around to it! I think it will help keep me on track when the scales aren’t showing a loss!

Have a great day buddies!