Endurance: 1. the ability to withstand hardship or adversity, the ability to sustain a prolonged stressful effort or activity 2. the act of enduring or suffering
I have been trying to find an inspiring word, something to motivate me or to correspond to how I am feeling. I picked endurance. It takes guts to jump into something..especially whole heartedly. Leaping into the unknown is scarey. Dieting is scarey, difficult, and invokes fears...but we are all here doing it. We are all "suffering" in our own sense. I was thinking of situations that I lack endurance, and those situations where I muster all the courage in the world and it the adversity head on.
My mom saw a picture of my husband and said wow, hes getting love handles. The man has never struggled with weight a day in his life...(gag) My husband then insists that hes going on a diet. He pleads with me not to let him buy junk food, and yummy snacks. Not an hour later, we took my mom to costcos...first thing my hub sees is the huge boxes of reese cups. And says...please let me be bad. I NEED those! I said Nope! no can do. My mom turns to me in horror, like I am such a bad wife for not allowing him a snack. I then proceed to explain to her our previous conversation...then she sticks the reeses in the cart, and bought them! UGH! This is where it gets to endurance...Those damn things are staring at me every where in this house. Hub has them in the freezer, in the fridge, on the snack counter. It takes all my power to not dive in! I need those things out of this house! Its like a stand off..me versus the chocolate..which will last longer?
And for those of you who have been following the Potty training adventures of Peyton...Now that he has the poo thing down, he continues to wet my bathroom floor. I dont know what it is with little boys and seeing how far they can pee..but I need the "endurance" to out last this kid! I first realized he was doing it when I walked in the bathroom not long after him and my foot was soaked. Needless to say I was not a happy momma! So if you are praying people, say your prayers for me because hes gonna be the death of me!
Have a great day!!
Love, barefoot in the bathroom
Posted By: chickofegg
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05/28/2007 14:37
No help
It is hard enough trying to avoid temptation without the people around us throwing it in our face. If I were really mean (and I can be LOL), I'd be having a peanut butter bonfire. Adios nasties!
Hang in there with your son. He'll be trained in no time. Seriously - you'll laugh about this one day!
Damn, thats rough! I'm so sorry to hear that your mom ended up buying them. Its very difficult when someone is trying to lose weight and the rest of the house hold thinks it not their problem so they end up bringing "junk" into the house. I hope you throw out the whole lot of them! (lol!) it can be therapeutic!!! This way you can tell DH that it was in his best interest!!
In regards to your son and his potty training. I agree with beaang to take lots of pictures so that you can take them out when he starts dating. That will get him to stay in line! NO ONE messes with the Moma: D (lol!)
Good luck with the "aiming into the bowl" and hope you have a great day!
Thanks so much for your encourgaing words, really appreciated that. My moma agrees with you on the "bubble wrap". I hope there is no more after this one! TTYL
IMO, your mother is not helping the situation and is overstepping her boundaries. If you weren't going to buy the Reese's then it should have been left at that. I'm sorry. That makes it really hard. You can do this though. It's so hard when it's everywhere you turn. Hope I wasn't too blunt with my opinion. (((Hugs)))
Wow, your Mom didn't help things but your hubby should have said no even though he wanted the Reeses badly. I really don't think I would have been doing as well as I have been if my husband wasn't doing the program with me however I wish he stood his ground more firmly. He's supposed to be my anchor but if I suggest cheating he will promptly say "okay!". Ask your hubby to compromise. Ask him to take every one of those Reeses and stick them in his part of the closet or in his nightstand and ask him to please not eat them in front of you.
I had to chuckle at the potty training story! I am debating whether to start trying to train my son, he's 20 months, now or wait a little longer. I wonder what I'll be in store for. My Grandmother has a "tip" that she swears works for little boys (she had three). She said get a clear jar, like a mayonnaise jar, and let your son pee in it. She swears that he'll get such a kick out of filling up the jar that he'll always make it to the jar to pee when he has to. If all else fails when I start training my son I might have to try that myself.
Good luck with the training and keep up the good work resisting temptation!
I would go crazy knowing that those were all over too. I give you major props for your self-control. You should have your husband hide them somewhere he only knows so you won't have to see them. Out of sight, out of mind! Your mom was no help with that! Next time tell your husband to go to the store and buy ONE reese's cup instead of a whole case full so he can get his fill for it and you can still have your will power. :0)
Endurance.. wow.. I so need that lol.. I agree with you about eveyone going through something its true.. and believe me this road is HARD. It is truly the one less traveled! But you can so overcome those peanut butter cups I promise! Just think about how long you would have to work out to burn one off! Its no fun.. Plus its just fat.. Try to find an alternitive something else that is chocolate and yummy but less calories! Hope you have a great weekend!
I just wanted to stop by and thank you for your supporting comment. It is true that often times we find out we are stronger than we ever dared to dream.
Oh goodness I admire your determination in facing down the Reese cups. I am such a push over when it comes to chocolate.
I would have thrown away that box of Reese when I got home and said Mom wasted her money. I've done that to my mom. She tend to overstep her boundaries when she try to buy things that we don't need or don't want. She bought me a box of coconut patties from her trip and I didn't bring them home with me. I left them under the bed and pretend that I "forgot" them. I don't feel guilty doing them because then my mom would know that I meant what I said when I don't want them.
I'm sorry you have to deal with the pee on the bathroom floor. My stepson does that and he's 7 years old! I was soo disgusted that I made him go in the bathroom and clean it up himself. It's his mess and I'm not going to clean it. He hasn't been to our home in over a year but I do know he still does it when we went to visit him in Texas last week. There was pee all over the hotel bathroom floor. I don't know how his mom does with that all the time. Hope you can resolved this with your son.
UGH..does your mom live with you??? ...moms and moms in law are soemthing else...they just cant do one little thing and just do as they please
I HEAR YOU ABOUT POTTY TRAINING>.ugh my oldesta nd youngest have this thing about peeing and then lifting up the seat in mid "stream"...my youngest poopedon the potty twice but lately he hasnt gone so we are on a prune kick until the JOYFUL suppositiories UGH
