Hello...Is this mic on?

I can't believe I was able to log on without any problems.

OK, this is getting ridiculous.

I love this site and all I wanna do is post and it's taken 2 hours just for it to allow me to get past the login.  EP please fix yourself...please.

Okay, with that said, how is everyone today?  I hope all is well.

Confession time.  Now while I've been eating well and sticking to my workouts...my house is in disarray.  I can't seem to keep up with my health and the health of the house.  I try and incorporate the boys into helping, but sometimes I'm just too tired to enforce.  DH is usually working all the time and he helps when he can, but he's tired too.  I feel like a bum.  Before the exercise, you could drop by at anytime...but now, I'm always telling people call before you come...so that I can do a mad dash, straighten up.  What I need is to clean, really CLEAN.  There just aren't enough hours in my day.  I get up b/t 4:30 and 5AM.  Leave the house no later than 6:15.  Drop all the kiddies at there multiple locations and am at work by 8.  I then get off between 4 and 4:30P (depending if I take my full lunch break or not) and arrive home around 5:30P.  From there dd wants her time with me...dinner needs to be made or warmed up.  Then I work out, shower and eat my dinner.  Lately,  by the time I've finished eating it's 8 or 8:30P.  Now, I'm dog tired and don't want to do anything.  So goes the cycle.  The past couple of weekend we've been out so still nothing gets done.  DH works his PT job S,M,F nights and washes decks all day Sa.

Anywho, I'm just having a little pity-party.  I know you girls have some wonderful suggestions or simply feel my pain.  So let's hear it...I just know one of you will be the light at the end of my tunnel.

T~n~T

Please Remind me...

to not watch scary movies anymore.  Geez louise.  My dh wanted and begged me to watch The Hills Have Eyes.  And in case you don't know what it's about, it's about how the US government performed dozens and dozens of nuclear testing in our deserts.  So apparently during these tests, there were citizens living in the areas of testing...and they survived.  These people have cannabalistic ways and hold grudges against the "normal" people.  So there was this one part where they stole a baby girl, a girl named Catherine (my dd's name).  After that I was just sick to my stomach, I kept checking on my baby girl.  I told him don't ever ask me to watch another scary movie again.

My workout was great last night, it was Total Sculpt plus Abs with Jen.  She worked it out as usual.  Maybe I was just tired last night but I never realized how many squats she does in this video.  My legs are wrecked this morning.  I ate dinner late because I started my workout late.  I usually will skip dinner if it's after 8, but the night before I skipped because we got a late start on dinner.  I say we, but it was really me.  Is anyone else trying to not eat after a certain hour?  Does it really matter as long as I stay within a certain calorie range?  Inquiring minds.

Wishing you a day full of positive thoughts.

The Pastor's Ass...a good one.

The pastor entered his donkey in a race and it won.

The pastor was so pleased with the donkey that he

entered it in the race again, and it won again.

The local paper read: ....

PASTOR'S ASS OUT FRONT.

The Bishop was so upset with this kind of publicity

that he ordered the pastor not to enter the donkey in

another race. The next day, the local paper headline

read:

BISHOP SCRATCHES PASTOR'S ASS.

This was too much for the Bishop, so he ordered the

pastor to get rid of the donkey. The pastor decided

to give it to a nun in a nearby convent.

The local paper, hearing of the news, posted the

following headline the next day:

NUN HAS BEST ASS IN TOWN.

The Bishop fainted. He informed the nun that she would

have to get rid of the donkey, so she sold it to a

farmer for $10. The next day the paper read:

NUN SELLS ASS FOR $10.

This was too much for the Bishop, so he ordered the

nun to buy back the donkey and lead it to the plains

where it could run wild. The next day the headlines

read:

NUN ANNOUNCES HER ASS IS WILD AND FREE.

Alas, the Bishop was buried the next day.

MORAL OF THE STORY?

Being concerned about public opinion can bring you

much grief and misery and even shorten your life. So,

be yourself and enjoy life ... stop worrying about

everyone else's ass and you'll live longer and be a

lot happier!

243.5 lbs!!!!!

Can you believe it?  I made goal plus an extra half pound.  Maybe I should go swimming  more often.  My dear mother brought me her old bathing suit and it fit me great.  So well, in fact that I decided against going swimming in shorts and t-shirt.  We had a great time, I brought my oldest with me and he had a blast being the only kid.  My friends adore him.  I ate well even though I wasn't really paying attention...how bout that?!?!  I drank lots of water and snacked on the fresh fruit she had there.

And I did a first on Saturday too.  I have never been on a motorcycle, but peer pressure got the best of me and I went on a ride.  It was very nerve-wracking at first.  Then about 10 minutes into the ride I started to relax.  We were going so fast I almost lost my sunshades.  Hubby was jealous that it wasn't with him...aww too bad.  it was my day.

This morning I stepped on the scale and couldn't believe what it said.  I weighed at about 5 AM and thought the sandman was fooling me.  Then again at 6 AM and it said the same thing.  WOO HOO!!!!

I hope you all had a wonderful and relaxed weekend.  I am going to check on all my buddies.  Love ya and big hugs.

T~n~T

This is getting ridiculous

I posted earlier to thank everyone for the kind words and prayers and my post went somwhere in cyber hell.

Anyway, thank you all.  my friend's dd is doing much better today and is getting her color back.  My friend sounded in much better spirits.

So far this month I've lost 4 pounds, not much but it's a start.  I'm trying for one more pound to bring that to my goal amount for July.  I'll be at a pool party this Saturday with son #1 so hopefully all that swimming will take a pound off.

I hope everyone is having a glorious day today.  Big hugs to all.

D is for...

DICK!  which my dh was this morning.  Apparently I have 4 children that I need to get dressed and ready in the morning.  So I woke up to the alarm at 5 AM and he's still there.  His cell phone is blaring and he's snoring.  So i tell him to get up and get dressed.  He calls his carpool to see if they are still at the rendevous, but they had already left as they have been calling his cell phones for 20 minutes.  So he gets up and starts putzing around the room like a lost puppy.  Now comes all the lip service.  "Gosh, you can't wake me up anymore."  So I tell him maybe he shouldn't spend such late hours on PS2 and maybe he'd hear the alarm.  then he goes on to say, "Since you've been exercising, you haven't been waking me up," fuck you i say. (sorry for my language he just pissed me off)  Then he's like, you caused me to miss my ride and i don't have any gas in my car.  Operative word "my" meaning his car.  So I just ignored that one.  Then he has the nerve to call me when he gets to work, not sure what he wanted because I was not paying attention.  But after he said what he said, I tell him, "sorry, i can't talk right now, i'm trying to gain the pounds i lost so i can wake you up tomorrow" and then I slammed the phone down.  What an ass. 

Okay so maybe that wasn't very mature of me to act that way, but for right now, screw him.

Now, on to my sad news that i received from a friend.  My dear friend, whom i've met a few years back has a 19 yo dd who is in need of serious prayer.  She has a deteriorative (sp?) heart condition and she needs a transplant.  We've known about this for a little over a year.  But yesterday morning she said to my friend, "mommy, i'm dying.  i need you to be strong for my borthers and sister."  and then she lost conciousness.  her heart has been pumping slowly and so she's been going in and out.  If the docs can stablize her on her meds, there's a strong possibility that she can wait it out for a transplant.  Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers.

Last year, another good friend in our trio last her dd to brain cancer.  I don't know how much more of this we can take.  And why is it just the girls?  They say things always happen in 3's.  I'm watching my dd like a hawk.  I know there is a lot of love and kindness on our site, so all prayers all welcome and appreciated.

big hugs and love,

T

I'm better, but still...

so so tired.  I'm not preggers, but today I took one of my prenatal vitamins to try and give me some energy.  Worst case scenario...my nails will grow. ;-)

I've been MIA most of the morning because I had to take dd to the doc to figure out what food item she's having an allergic reaction to.  At first i thought peanut butter, her fav, but after talking to my mom she said it's probably a fruit.  So I went over the inventory of new items and think it could be peaches, blueberries or mango.  The first 2 I dislike, but the sitter gives her those and I let her try some mango the other day when I had it.  So this is like her being a newborn all over again, I have to put her back to one thing so i can zero in on it.  And the worst part is that this reaction has sparked a rise in her eczema...poor baby.  Her elbows look like road rash...I have to keep her in long sleeves to stop her from scratching.  Did I mention, it's been in the 90's all week long.

Last night for my workout I completed 2/3 of FIRM Abs and 30 minutes on the treadmill (15 min walk @ 3mph and 15 min run @5 mph).  The treadmill completely kicked my butt...I think mainly because I started running first when I normally walk.  I know not to do that again.

I hope everyone is having a great day and keeping positive about our weight loss.

big hugs T~n~T

*****der...i also meant to tell you that when I started this weight loss project my BMI was 39.4 and today it is 35.4.  Woo hoo!  Still labeled as obese, but this number going down is another boost for my ego.  And of course, a great motivator.*******

TOM is kicking my butt!

I was so crampy and just irritated by every little thing yesterday.  My dh was pleading on the phone with me from his PT job...he's like is there something I can get you that will make it better.  ;-)  Hmmm, maybe I should think of something.

okay, it's 2.5 hours later...damn staff meeting.

so i missed my AM snack because I didn't think the meeting would be that long and I left it sitting on my desk and now of course, it's lunchtime.  My meal today is basically the same as yesterday except I'm having a banana instead of a mango.  Not sure what dinner is tonight.

I exercised last night even though TOM was tearing me down.  I kept putting it off and then I got a phone call from a friend who had both her daughters admitted to the hospital for different reasons.  So I was on the phone for an hour.  When I got off it was 9 PM.  So I finally mustered up enough energy to do CAWT at 9:45 PM.  And at that hour the workout seemed so much harder, but very rewarding especially since I missed Saturday.

I hope everyone is doing well today, I’m starving and I’m going to eat my lunch.  I will check on everyone when I return.

Big hugs and love.

T~n~T

I love you all!

Thanks for all the responses regarding my sciatic pain.  I took the weekend off of exercising even though it was very very hard not to do anything.

kellmerr, you are too funny...LMAO!!!  No "dropping it like it's hott" for me.  Let me lose another 50 pounds before I try that. ;-)

molly, as always, thanks for your kind words.  You really seem to "get" me.  Hugs

sweetie, i missed you too on Friday, but it sounds like you really needed the rest.  hey, my dd actually slept thru the night...and no wild parties...LOL!!!

shelly, i completely agree.  my body is fighting me tooth and nail to keep its comfort zone.  well, like the commercials used to say, "I'm drinking milk now and in a few years..." ;-)

tawa, my mind is telling me YES, but my body, my body's telling me NOOOOO (words from R. Kelly)  LMAO!!!

Kache, funny thing about the heating pad.  I've tried that in the past and I get really hot really easily.  I swear I have hot flashes right, so the last time I had the heating pad and then had a flash...let's just say dh took the heating pad away.  It wasn't pretty...there was lots of sweat and a violent beating of the blanket. ;-)

So this weekend, we went to yet another cookout...and I ate very well.  I had a lovely and delish piece of fish with a plate full of kale.  And no sodas for me, it was bottled water the whole day.  And the best news of all is that I lost a total of 3 pounds this week.  Finally!  So i hope you all had a great weekend.  This week should be hot, but not humid...finally we get to feel the breeze.

On tap for me today is the following (which includes my snacks and lunch):  B - 3/4 c. Kashi go lean cereal w/ 1/2 c.;  AM snack - grapes and cucumbers; L - ham on wheat w/pickle, rice crackers w/nuts and 3 carrots; PM Snack - mango and PnB & choc granola bar; D - grilled chicken w/brown rice and california (not sure why they call it that) veggie mix (broc, caulif, carrots)

Have a good day all and keep losing.

T~n~T