3 fat chicks

I happened to go to 3 fat chicks.com and they have a area (board, forum, what ever it's called) on LAWL. It is very interesting what people have to say. Mostly it is positive, and I have learned quite a bit of information. However, on Diet blog.com the info and feedback is not so positive. Many people are displeased.

It is interesting that now that I'm on the program I am finding a ton of info on LAWL. Actually it is a little more irritating than interesting. I think that if I had found all this information on them I would not have done it. But the good thing about 3FC is that I can ask questions and get real answers from people who have been successful on the program and not 'robot answers' that the counselors give.

I got my holiday stamps today and plan on working on some cards next week. I'm not horribly creative and so I hope they turn out good. I'm sure they will. The other cards I have made have turned out pretty cute.

Well, it is now 8:45 and I really don't have much more to say.

Have a great weekend!

Titles are hard sometimes

I wasn't going to post today, but since I'm on the computer...

I put D down for an early nap, I wanted the time for myself. I don't work tonight (yay) and E requested Breakfast for dinner, so that makes it easy for me!

I weighed in yesterday and I havn't lost an ounce in 2 weeks. I guess I found exactly what I need to eat to maintain my current weight and it's not as much food as you'd think. Hmph! I asked for a new food diary and plan on starting new today. So far, so good. I'm hoping to lower my blood pressure because the 'carb craver' plan looks pretty good. I might talk to them about it next week or so.

Last night I started on a new afgan, and going from soft baby yarn to big ol' thick wooley yarn is hard to get used to. It seems very course and it seems that it might not be the softest afgan of the bunch. I'll know for next time not to use that particular brand of yarn.

On Friday I may go to the craft store and look for christmas stamps to start making christmas cards and tags. I think that we already know what we are going to be getting people, but I have a question for anyone out there: Is it cheesey to get everyone pretty much the same gift? I thought about putting together 'coffee baskets' for each couple. In the baskets would be a coffee gift card to various coffee shops, thermo mugs, biscotti's, home made muffins and cookies, and various other coffee themed items. It would be basically the same, but not exactly like each other. I'm still up in the air about it. If anyone has an opinion, let me know!!

Well, I guess I better hop in the shower, cuz I smell!

Happy Don't-Have-To-Go-In-Today Day!

A shout out

Thanks for the comments, Destinys8, you are sweet. Actually, thanks to everyone who comments: Sarah and Carolyn, I'm glad to hear from you, you make a girl feel special!

As for the couple of questions that Destinys8 asked, Yes, we did get an new DVD player, we were just starting to watch the first season Lost and so we needed to replace the broken one fast! And I did try my pilates disk. The beginning is not too hard, but towards the middle it gets harder. I don't think I could get into some of those positions with two people helping me! I'm going to start to look for a beginner's disk, because it is kind of fun!

Monday

So far this morning I have started a load of laundry and worked out. I got up at 8:30, which is so good for me. I don't feel like a big lazy ass.

I watched Bob from The Biggest Loser talk this morning and he showed the host how to use weights and sit on a yoga ball at the same time. I tried it and it makes free weights more fun. I have actually grown very happy with my yoga ball. Saturday night my nerve in my butt was killing me from being run ragged at work and the only way I could sit comfortably was on my yoga ball. The rubber flexibility seemed to cradle my ass and soothe my pinched nerve. And I even did crunches on it this morning and was comfortable again. It didn't kink my neck! I think I'm going to replace all my furniture with these wonderful balls!!

Dominic is now trying to talk on the phone. It is so cute. He will walk around the house with one of our phones on his shoulder, usually the mouth piece is closest to his ear and jabber away and sometimes laugh like he just heard the funniest joke ever. It keeps him occupied for ever.





What a cutie pie! I know they aren't the best quality of pictures, but he moves way too fast now!!

We had a choking scare on Friday night. We were all sitting at the table, E was talking to us while we ate. He fixed D some fries and a hotdog and chopped it up in the ususal way. While we were talking we weren't really paying attention to D, because he's eaten many a hotdog without any trouble. All of a sudden I heard a slight gagging sound and D was turning a freaky shade of purple. I jump up and pull the tray off of the high chair and E picks him up, turns him over and pounds on his back with the flat of his hand. I grab his legs up to really get his head low and finally chunks of hotdog came out. He was eating so fast that he wasn't even chewing them, just swallowing whole. After that we held and coocoo'd him a bit and he was fine. We vowed to watch him closely while he eats, it just happened so fast. And thank goodness for child CPR and safety classes.

The thing is that looking back at what happened, I think we were actually nit-picking at each other, not talking. But when D started to choke we worked together as a team and resolved the situation. It was probably something dumb we were picking about, I can't even remember now.

D and I have to go grocery shopping. Oh joy :{ I don't like this task, I hate spending a bunch of money on groceries. I'd rather take that money and buy something fun--like shoes!

Happy Monday!

Either carbs or dairy

The last few days I have had small binges on either breads or cheese and milk. These have been cut dramatically since I've been on LAWL. Aren't us women supposed to have three servings of dairy a day? I really miss milk, and I don't even like it that much.

I'm hoping that eventually my body will stop craving carbs and dairy. I wonder if a calcium vitamin will work a little bit?

When I got weighed in yesterday (I stayed the same) the councelor told me that I was doing a few things wrong: I'm combining protiens (eating eggs and cottage cheese at the same meal) and I'm eating the same thing every day, I'm supposed to be eating something different every day to shake up my metabolism. Hmmm, I've never heard of that before.

Losing weight was so easy two years ago. I don't know how I did it! I was going at it alone, and I got all the way down to 204.5! I was only four and a half pounds away from my first goal. Arg! It is so frustrating.

D and I are going to go to my mom's house today. I think I need to take D out more now that he is more mobile. Maybe play dates? I feel bad for him because I'm so lazy and I worry that all he'll know is a lazy momma that never did anything. Thats a sad thought.

Well, I need to bust my butt.

Have a good day.

I'm still here

I havn't had time to post, so I thought I'd write a quick one before I got ready for work (AGAIN!!)

Weighloss is fine, I'm going this afternoon to get weighed. Hmm, we'll see.

Sunday was fun, I will post pics tomorrow.

I hope everyone is doing great!

Ha!

My neighbor just pointed out that the Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Peppers I have been drinking are indeed NOT diet. I didn't notice when I bought them. And I have been drinking one or sometimes two a day!!

It pays to read the labeling!

Moods

I didn't post yesterday because I was in such a foul mood. I didn't have the heart to lay it all out.

This weekend's x-ray classes went pretty well, better than I had expected. My MIL introduced me to some important people and the speakers were all interesting. I'm glad I went.

I'm in a mood because I have to work the evening shift all this week. I'm irritated at my workplace because they keep letting people go and not replacing anyone, thinking that we have enough people. Well, I hate filling in. I don't mind working the evening shift every now and then, but it is turning into a regular thing. I miss E, as that is the only time we really have together.

Another thing that is pissing me off is that they keep trying to get me to work days. How many different ways can I say "I stay at home with my son, I need to be at home"??? As it is, my boss made me agree that in order to continue to work weekends, I would have to work 2 full days a quarter. I figured that would be fine, I would work the 12-8 shift at my clinic and be able to catch up on new stuff changes. HA! They have me filling in drawing blood at our main clinic for 2 days in November. Then, my team leader told me that our boss wanted her to call me to work Thursday and Friday of this week during the day. I CAN'T!! My boss doesn't have children, nor ever wanted to, which is fine for some, but she can not see how important it is for my family for me to stay home. She has even said a couple of times now: "Well, we figured that Dominic was old enough to be in day care and you could come back to work full time". ???? Well, thanks for making that decision for me, but butt the fuck out! What the hell does she know about me and my family?

Anyway, all this working and not being home, Dominic's whining (two bottom molars are coming in) has made me stress out. Yesterday all I did was cry my eyes out and today I had a binge. I ate an extra sandwich. I didn't particularly enjoy it, which I am thankful for, but I didn't stop eating and throw it in the trash. I knew what I was doing and didn't stop.

Oh well, I'm not going to berate myself, it was only one time and I'm not going to let it affect my whole day. I will move on from it.

My neighbor just invited me over to watch Desperate Housewives. She's been recording it for me since we don't get ABC any more. Maybe I will stop by. Maybe I need to get out of this house for a while!

Happy Tuesday!

OH, yea! the Biggest Loser is back on. Maybe my e-mail worked! ;)

Friday already?

I am not ready to go to this continuing education classes this weekend. I'm just not feeling it.

I got my pilates DVD's and yoga ball yesterday. How ironic--I finally get my DVD's and our DVD player no longer works. I don't know what happened, but we watched Robots on Monday and it seemed a little screwie, then I tried to watch the first episodes of Lost and it wouldn't spin and gave me a very bad error. I took it apart last night and said that it was junk. Time for a new one.

I was excited about getting my yoga ball! I ripped it open and got out the pump and read the instructions about filling it. It said that it would only take 15 minutes to fill. After 45 minutes of slowly pushing on the pump, and even shooting out the out valve once, I couldn't figure what was going on. That ball was not filling! I unplugged it and put it to my mouth and blew, I could see it fill. In five blows I had filled it up more than 45 minutes worth of pumping did. I figured that the pump was messed up and finally got it fixed and now my yoga ball is filled up. But now I'm kind of afraid to sit on it, it seems a little week, and I'm afraid that it will blow up under my weight. Can you imagine?

Well, I guess it's time to head out. I'm sure going to miss my guys these next couple of days. I wish I would have taken Sunday off.

Happy Friday.

Today, so far

If my pictures don't show up when I go to look at this, I think I may change my template back. Shoot, I just might anyway.

I weighed in, and I've lost 2 pounds. I'd say that is ok, since I've only been on program for two and a half days. So I guess it is a woohoo.

I'm kind of irritated because it seems like the last few times I've gone it is just a big sales pitch; buy our vitamins!, eat our bars, we'll sell in bulk!...I just feel like what I thought was going to be support is turning out to be fraudish. I thing I'll give it a couple more weeks before I judge. Maybe it will get better.

I thought I'd have more to say today, but I guess not.

I don't want to work tonight.

I feel crabby.

Appointment

I have an appointment at 11:00 to get weighed. I'm eating breakfast and I hope that it doesn't make me too much heavier!

I'll post when I get back.

Oh, my!

Dominic has been quite the booger these past days. If we don't give him our fullest attention, he is a crying mess. And don't try telling him 'NO!' he just explodes. He had discovered plugged in cords and even managed to pull one cord out a little. I told him 'NO' and thru his screaming tears he kept trying to pull the cord over to plug it in. He also screams now when he doesn't get his way. I usually try to distract him, but that is working less and less. For instance, he wanted to eat the banana peel that I had on my desk, I said no, and tried to distract him by teaching him how to color. Oh what a fit! It took two (2!!) bananas to calm that kid down.

Other than that, he's been growing so fast. He's finally walking a lot on his own, although he needs to pull himself up on something before he can walk, he just can't get up in the middle of the room on his own yet. But I think that he likes walking, his view is better and his hands are free to grab and carry things. He is so cute.

I've decided that the only things I don't like about my new template is that there is no place for my acrchives, it doesn't show a title, and it seems that all the posts run together. I'm not complaining, just noticing.

Today's dieting is much harder than yesterday. I feel stressed, not only about all the screaming/crying that is going on, but that I have to work, not only today, but tomorrow, then Friday and Saturday it is my X-ray continuing ed classes and I'm wondering what the hell I'm going to eat. The good thing is that I'll be in class with Sher and she understands about dieting, she'll help me be good. I binged a little, and that makes me sad. Oh, well, I've done worse dammage.

I'm going to start journaling what I eat, my exercise and wight in 'jaesjounal' and link it to the side (if I can figure it out). That may help as well. I'd like to see what I've been doing on the big screen.

Well, I need to finish up the kitchen and get ready for work. Oh, did I even take a shower today? Geez, it goes by so fast!

Happy Wednesday.

L A Weightloss

I signed up for LA Weightloss on Friday and today is my first day on the plan.

I really wasn't feeling very motivated on WW. I didn't really like the whole group setting because it felt like more joking and stupid answers were being given instead of real motivation. The workers there didn't matter if you lost or gained, they just collected your money. I wanted something more than that. A friend at Eric's work has lost a lot of weight thru L A Weightloss and has really liked the program.

At LAWL, you work with a one on one counselor three times a week. You get weighed and your food diary gets looked thru. To me the plan is a little harder.

As I said, I signed up on Friday and was ready to start the next day on a two day 'cleansing' type program, but my blood pressure was too high (as I said it would be, but I don't think they believed me) and I needed to get my doctors OK to continue. By Monday I was so ready to start, I got the OK and really pushed to get in that evening. As I looked over the foods that I can eat (and those that I can't) I started to freak out, "What have I done!" kept going on over in my head. It is more complicated than WW and they have a lot of restrictions. I even cried yesterday when I got back. I told Eric that I thought it would be to hard for me to do. He told me that I was tougher than that, I can do anything.

He is really going to motivate me and help me thru this, mostly because the initial program costs me about a thousand dollars. That gives me 35 weeks (or so) to lose 75 pounds (I go in 3x/week), six weeks of stability (go in 2x/week), and 52 weeks of maintenance (go in 1x/week). Then they want you to buy their bars and supplements, which we will figure out later, I'm already overwhelmed enough with just trying to figure the food out.

This is my last and final try. I don't want to be stick skinny, I just want to look good and feel good. I want to be healthy and feel like I have energy. But it is obvious that I need someone to hold my hand thru the process and follow my every move. I hope that is what I get.