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I had my 3 year old grandaughter, for the weekend. This is a first with her. Although I did not get any regular excercise in believe me I got a workout! Need I say more? LMAO……..

I am totaly back on track. I know that journaling every bite of food I put in my mouth is the what I have to do. This is the only way I can truly stay on track. I lost 5 lbs. this week and I am so siked!

I hope everyone had a great week!

(((HUGS)))

Here it is the 28th of March and I have a snow day. We got hit but not as bad as the southern tier where my route is. My kids had a 2 hour delay, but I talked to the parents and where they live is so rural they hadn’t even plowed there yet, so they decided to keep the kids home. I want SPRING!

I have been sticking to plan so good this week, I amaze myself. I am looking forward to a good weigh in tomorrow!

I have having my 3 yr. old g/d Mercedes for the weekend. This is a first with her. I don’t expect to be online much this weekend. I have her all to myself tomorrow as her poppy has to work a double for his weekend job. I am a little nervous about it as I don’t know her as well as my other g/k, but I am sure it will be great!

I hope you are all having a wonderful week!

(((HUGS)))

on my scales. My weigh in day is Saturday. I have been busting butt this week to get and stay on track. I think I am doing good with my journaling my food. I know I need to do this to keep track of every morsel that enters my mouth.  I just need to hide the scales so I don’t get on them every day or even 2 X a day like I have been doing. I have been obsessing with this.

On another note, I think hubby is really starting to think more about what he is eating, but not ready to give it another try. For those of you who know, he has decided to join me in this quest for weight loss numerous times and then just gives up. I am there for him if he wants, but I can’t force him as you know. This has to be something he wants to do for himself. The other night he asked me how many calories where in the peanut butter and jam sandwiches he takes to work every day and when I told him he was shocked, Like I also told him that is if he used only 2 TBS of P/B and 1 TBS Jam on his white bread it is 400 calories each and he takes 2 every day along with chips and cookies etc. I was trying to pack him healthier lunches like fruit and lower fat items and found out he was trying to give them away and get something from the snack machine at work. So I just started packing him his old lunches again. Well he decided not to take P/B and jam anymore and today he has 97% fat free ham. It may be a slow process, but I am going to help him when he asks for help like he did. Other than that it is all I can do. I hope when he sees what I am doing for me and for my health he will decide to jump in himself.

I hope everyone is having a great week!

(((HUGS)))

I have gone back to using the food journal. I think this will make a difference for me. It takes time to do it, but I AM WORTH IT!  I need to know exactly what I am eating in order to make better food choices. So far so good!

I have been off work for 5 days and although I did not accomplish all that I planned I did accomplish getting myself back on track. I did not get on here like I wanted. It is not always easy when you have to share the computer……..LOL…

I am changing my profile picture back to one of me. It is one taken this weekend with my grandaughter Mercedes.

I hope everyone is having a great week!

I have had it with myself and my excuses. I have come this far. I have fallen and I am getting back on track. Yesterday was a bad day for me food wise. My daughter-in-law made the most wonderful ham dinner with all the trimmings. The excuses have just got to go!

Today is a new day! I am back on track. I have decided to go back to counting calories and journaling my food. It takes time to do this, but like I keep telling myself. I AM WORTH IT!

My younger sister was up this weekend from Virginia, and she showered me with compliments. I have not seen her for over 2 years. Yes, the compliments were nice and made me feel good, but not good enough. I know that if I had not been screwing off since the Holidays I would probably be below 200 by now. So you see I am ashamed of myself, because I know I can do it. I proved that to myself by how far I had come and then I started slipping back to my old ways.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter and a beautiful weekend.

I am having. I am having a hard time sticking to plan. There have been changes at work, and hubby comes home a bit grumpy. He has had new things added to his already overloaded job duties. I am trying not to take it personal, but it is like leave it at work, Please!

I also have a new change this week, it started today. We have had a small bus and now we have a van. We only have children so I not surprised with the switch. It is just different and the kids did not take to it to well. The kids look forward to a bus to go to school. Anyways I was told I could have my same car seats and someone would put them in for me this morning and I got the wrong ones. I had to call and have them changed. They gave me car seats that the straps only slip through a plastic piece and is easily undone. I needed the ones I had that snap in and little fingers can’t undo. I have a couple that like to undo themselves and it is not easy to get to them in a van. Work acted like I was a bitch acting for certain car seats, but I don’t care. I am responsible for the safety of the children on my bus (van) and I take the responsibility serious.

Talking about serious. I had an experience on Monday that still has me upset. We were on our afternoon run taking our children home. We were in a small town and going down what is the main street when all of a sudden we see a little boy about 2 or 3 in the street. I was like oh my God, and my driver pulls over and I get off the bus and the little boy gets out of the road. There are no adults around either. I slowly follow the little boy and try to get to him, but he keeps running away. I was trying to talk softly and get him to stop and not run back in the road. He goes around the corner of the first street we come too and about 5 houses up the street the dad comes out and gets him. I say, he must belong to you. He just gives me a funny look and takes the kid home. I wish I had been thinking clearly, but I was just still so shocked that I wasn’t. I wish I had called the police. I keep thinking what if someone else had come along and snatched him, what if he had gotten hit by a car, what if he had crossed the street, there is a big pond not far up the other side. Oh, my it still gets me upset just thinking about it.

I can’t wait I have a five day weekend coming up. Yipee! I need a break.

I hope all my buddies are having an awesome week!

this is not a diet, this is a lifestyle change. I have to remind myself of this. I lost 1 lb. this week. I am a little disappointed with myself. I was hoping for a bigger loss, but at least I lost. It only means I will work harder this coming week.

This weekend I have no grandchildren and I am going to clean. Hubby is working his second job and I am going to get a lot of things done that gets put off when I have grandchildren over. I love my grandkids and have a hard time with that word NO, but I did it!

I hope everyone had a great week and that you have an awesome weekend.

I will try to get on here later and catch up.

Interesting week with the new company that took over the company I work for. A lot of new things that are going to affect me. One thing being my husband being a supervisor, and my job being under him. This is one thing that they don’t allow, but hopefully since I have been there for over 3 years and already go the route of using the branch manager for my issues instead of my husband it will work out. I am still going to keep looking for another job anyways. I just don’t want to take any old job, I want something that is going to be more along the lines of what I went to school for, and I don’t want to work nights or weekends. I want to keep my family time.

My husband already had his managers meeting last week and was given the information on what they are being offered. Management was given great opportunities with insurances and vacations, holidays, sick days and person days and 401 K. I knew we were not going to be offered the same, but when we had our meeting last night………I was really disappointed. The health insurance package stinks compared the one offered to management (at least I can be on my hubbies) we still get no vacations, holidays, sick or personal days, the raises will not be any better. I do have my times off when there is no school so hubby can work his vacations around what I already have off. I am lucky that I don’t have to spend money for gas to go to work. I get picked up at home and dropped off at home because to get to our destination is going right by my house anyways. It is not so bad for me, but for some of the others I don’t think it is right.

I am doing well sticking to plan.

Things are going better with help at home. I was amazed when I got home last night after my meeting hubby had the kitchen all cleaned up! Woo Hoo! Maybe he is finally listening!

Well I am off to check the blogs and forums before going to work.

Have a good one!

How do you do it? How do I find time for myself. I feel like I am doing everything for everyone else and can’t find time for me.

My day consists of getting up at 4 packing hubby’s lunch getting him up and off to work by 5.  I have a few minutes computer time before I leave home at 6:30. I get back home around 9:30 when I try to get laundry and other house hold chores done. I am home for the night around 4:30 and then it is time to make dinner and clean up. By then I am so exhausted all I want to do is go to bed. Last night I spent over an hour and a half on the phone with my cell phone company trying to straighten out my bill and got no where. I am so frustrated, that I feel like I do everything around here. What would they do without me. Hubby thanks me for handling everything, but that is not enough. I work full time too, I cook, clean, pay the bills and do it all. I am sorry to gripe, but how do I get him off his butt, Any suggestions? I have always done it all, but lately it has really gotten to me.

Still sticking to my plan and feeling better there, but just needs some suggestions on finding ME time!

Have a great day, buddies!

(((HUGS)))

I had a good time doing hubby’s job. I surprised myself and my co-workers. I treated the witch with kindness! I knew I could not let personal stuff interfere with doing the job I had to do. I had co-workers come back and say, I couldn’t believe that was you telling her please and thank you. Well I had to keep it professional when I really wanted to say, just shut up and do your job, wench. Can you believe I got a phone call from a school that she forgot a child and I had to send her back to get him.

Hubby got great news at the meeting that he is going to get a lot better benefits as management. Next week the rest of us find out what benefits we get. Any benefits will be better than what we get now.

My plan is still going strong and I feel on top of the world right now.

I have another crazy day. School is a half day today so I don’t get to come home for my midday so I won’t be on again unitil tonight or tomorrow morning.

I hope all of my buddies are having a great week!

Have a good one!