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WI went exactly as I knew it would last night…..stayed the same.  Tom is about to come for a visit so typically I have a gain.  Progress will show on the metal monster next week.  Everything I did this week was positive though……..got my activity in, got my water in(except for at the basketball tournament..but that bathroom was nasty!), ate good.

I have been using the elliptical since hubby moved it up to the bedroom for me….it may not be alot of time on it, but I have to work up to that….and I will!  I am also loving the stability ball.  The other day I bought a new DVD of exercises for it and am looking forward to using that.  Maybe later today after putting in some elliptical time.

Today I am home once again with a sickie.  It is DS#3 again.  He had stomach issues last week and as bad as this is going to sound, I really thought his telling me he had it again last night was a way for him to get out of going to school today.  Well then he was in the bathroom again this morning and I decided no school.  I am sure when I call work in a few minutes they are not going to be happy, but what else can I do?  It’s not like I can send him to someones house to be watched while he is sick and Hubby is back on the road.  This time he is on the Iowa/Illinois border.  He thinks he might be gone for a little over a month….this means I have a good bit of time to see what changes I can make while he is gone this time. Changes I would like to make by that time are:

Hit my 20 lb mark……….get the elliptical up to 25 mins each time……have a little bit more in the visible results.

I can do it!

The stomach bug has finally left!  I started to feel alot better last night, but this morning I feel 1000x better.  As for last night, my eating was not great at all.  I had seconds on my dinner.  I really contribute that to not really being able to eat much the past couple of days though.  At least dinner was also healthy….grilled pork chops and beans. 

Also last night….the hubby moved the elliptical up to the bedroom for me!  I am sooooo excited by this.  Even though I didn’t feel 100% last night, I still managed to get on there for 20 mins.  Today after work, I will go for more plus use the stability ball.

Please send good vibes! LOL  I actually found a job listing in my area this morning that is NOT healthcare related!  To boot, it is IN my little one horse town!!!!  Part time 20-35 hours a week too.  I KNOW the pay is going to suck, but I am prepared for that.  When I was looking for a job a little over a year ago, we knew a paycut would happen…especially in this area.  There is no difference in our lifestyle over the past 2 years, so the money aspect in looking has not changed. 

Tonight I am going to come home, update my resume and send it to this ad.  I am sure my husband is going to be pissed about it, but I can not continue to work at the place I am at now.  I have got to do something about it.  We had agreed to wait a year and see how I liked it as it was a totally different industry than I was in.  They made promises to me on what steps were going to be taken to change things in there and they have not kept them….the way they do things there just makes me feel like I am not doing a good job and I feel disorganized…I do not work like that.  On top of that, I do not click with the people at all and dispite many attempts on my behalf, I don’t care to befriend these people. 

Soooooo please buddies…..fingers crossed for me that I can get this job.

The kids have officially given me their crud!  I hate stomach ailments!!!!!!  So today I am home with 2 sick kids and myself.  All with stomach problems.  UGH

Work was not thrilled when I called off today.  This past month between the kids being off due to weather and also from sickness I have been scarse at the office.  Not that I mind because I can not stand my job, but would prefer to leave there on my terms with another job lined up. LOL

My WI last night at WW went well.  Down 2.4!!!  Honestly I thought I had a slight gain from what my scale was showing me.  I think I need to replace the battery in there. hehehe

So today I will do what I can foodwise, although I am already afraid to eat much of anything.  Not sure what I will do for exercise as my stomach is killing me.

Hubby is coming home tonight.  He’ll be here for about 36 hours. I am hoping he can help me in a final decision on what to do about the elliptical.  I would reallllly love to move it up to the bedroom, but that sucker is heavy.  Then I thought about leaving it in the basement and straightening up around it and hooking up a DVD player down there, but it couldn’t stay there but for about 6 more months since we will “hopefully” start to remodel the basement into bedrooms for the girls.  So eventually it would have to come up anyway.

Hope everyone has a great day.

I have been struggling with the exercise, however the big part of that is my restrictions due to my knee.  I really have had to just face the fact that I can not go back to doing my Firm videos until my leg is really stregthened.  I have an elliptical, but I am a wimp and I hate basements! LOL  Well that is where it is, in the basement.  I have asked my husband soooo many times to help straighten out the basement for me and to hook up the TV down there so I can use that thing.  He hasn’t done it and once again, he is ont the road.  So it finally dawned on me that I should move it upstairs.  I decied it is going into my bedroom.  Nobody else has to see it but me(well and hubby but he is gone for 7+ months out of the year)….and if that isn’t some incentive that it is right there looking you in the face when you get up in the morning!  Now the hard part is going to be to get it 2 flights up.  Hubby is on the road so it is up to me.  The only kids here this weekend are my 2 and they are younger…..I will see if my daughter can help me with it though.

Not much else today…although we are moving straight from one sport to the next.  Basketball ended last night and softball pitching practice starts this morning. UGH

Ya know, I am stressed out enough about my job, but now there is a snow day…on a check run day!  So the kids are in the office with me for now.  One of my friends is coming to pick them up in a few minutes and lemme tell ya…it can’t be soon enough!!!  They have been cats and dogs this morning….totally on my last nerve.  I just want to scream!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At least I am not eating…..

This is just a massive vent to get this off my chest…don’t mind me. LOL

When Kevin and I bought this house, my kids and I had moved 50 miles up here.  I continued to work at my old job, but the commute got to be too much and I was missing out on all the kids things plus I was just such a bitch when I would get home.  We discussed it and decided I should look for a job closer to home.  I found one almost immediately doing something I like (accts payable), but was not sure how it would go because they are soooooo stuck 30 years back in the way they do things.  Well nothing has changed, if anything I get blocked in every attempt that I make to improve things.  Yes the hours are great and it is close to home, but it has come to a point that I absolutely hate to get up in the morning and go there!!  Absolutely hate it!!!!!

There is a next to nothing job market here, which does not make things easier.  I have spent all evening looking online at telecommuting jobs, but I can not figure out what is good and what is a scam.  I also looked at our local paper and there are a couple of job openings in accounting, but they are part time….I am not sure what the hubby would say to that.

Well on the good side, I didn’t sit here and eat as I am all stressed out!!!

you’ll get what you always got.

Now sometimes that is not such a bad thing.  As far as weight loss efforts, I am a veteran.  I have been doing this most of my adult life…..who am I kidding?  Most of my life period.  I actually did something this morning that I used to do when I was on my way to goal last time……..I got up early and got my workout in!!!  I have not done that in quite a few years.  I just knew how much running around I have to do this afternoon and evening and set that alarm a little earlier……I didn’t hit the snooze bar…..I didn’t say yeah you can squeeze it in somewhere later……..I got up and got it done.  A bravo for me this morning.   Exercise seems to be one of those things that really I can not let it be negotiable.  If I am not exercising, it seems like my program goes out the window.  It’s hand in hand for me.    And right now with me doing flore, I have to exercise….esepcially if I want my treat!!  At least my treats aren’t bad…a fiber one bar in the evening.  I figure as long as I am getting in all my veggies & fruit, protein, oils, dairy, water….then a fiber one bar is going to be alright…especially if I can offset the points of it with exercise.

On to another great day……and I have my exercise out of the way!!!

I had done it in the past, so I know I can do it.  Just like with loosing weight, I was at goal before and know I can do it.  The only problem I have with core, which is why I do it my way and call it Flore, is you can not tell me to eat as much as I need to be satisfied.  Sorry, I am a bottomless pit sometimes.  That is why I measure any food that really has points.  My veggies do not get measured.  I also still do the core principal of gauging the comfort zone.  I will wait to see if I am still hungry, if I am, I reach for my veggies instead of a protein.  All in all, I think I will do fine this week with it.  I only have one challenge….on Friday.  Our BF is coming over for dinner that night.  Usually when we get together, it’s eating and drinking time.  Yes I know I have the 35 points extra, BUT I reallllly do not want to use them.  I have to figure out something core for dinner that evening.

On the workout front…..I did Jiggle Free Arms for the first time in ages.  Man am I sore this morning!!!!  Thats a good thing!  Today, since the little one has swim lessons, I am hoping to get up there a bit earlier and use one of the treadmills or the bike.  I would be very hapyp with that.

Also….my doggie needs puppy dog weight watchers! hehe  I knew she needed to loose weight, but now this vet I saw yesterday told me to get her exercising…so I will start to walk more with her.  I used to do agility and obedience with her a few years ago, but after she was attacked by another much bigger dog, her personality just changed.  Maybe I can look into doing that with her again too.  she is a Sheltie.

Oh well…..have a great day!!!

WI last night was better than I thought, all things considering.  I was down .6 a loss is a loss and I will take it.  With my new week starting today, I am starting core….or rather flore.  When I was putting together my menu for the week and did my shopping it’s all core foods.  I haven’t done core in quite some time, but I know it always helped me in the past….usually I had done it right around when Tom was about to visit so it would help me with all the carvings.  It really did help keep me in check…..so I figured incorporate something else now that had helped me in the past. 

I still feel yucky with the cold, but I need to workout today.  I am not sure what I will do yet….I just don’t see aerobics in the cards.  I will figure it out later though and do it.