Mini NSV

I had my first bunless burger today!  We had a "Fair Day" lunch at school today in honor of the Puyallup Fair (since I work in Puyallup).  I went to make a burger and looked at the nutrition facts for the buns...  5-6 points?!  No way in the world am I spending that much on a couple little pieces of tasteless bread.

The burger itself was very good.  I put grilled onions, cheese and mustard on it.  The downside is I came back to class smelling like onion burgers.

Anyone here on a Cingular plan and having issues connecting to the network?  I'm trying to figure out if it's the type of phone I have or if it's the network.  We can't make phone calls or even get calls from people!  It's so frustrating.  Now I'm wondering if we should be breaking our contract and switching to Verizon or something.  These are our only phones, and I know Verizon works really well all the time.

Halfway Through the Week

Happy Wednesday!!!

I'm feeling much better after coming home from work on time yesterday, exercising and then relaxing the rest of the night.  I feel refreshed.  Monday was just tough because I'm not used to working 10 hours.

Since I got my credit card bill this week I have been looking into ways I can cut back my spending.  The first thing that came to mind is that I spend almost $100 a month on Starbuck's!  So I thought I would just cut it out almost completely.  The goal is to have one or two a week at the most instead of one every day.  Unfortunately this method of money-saving is hurting my head and making me irritable!  Rar.  I am sooo getting a Starbuck's tomorrow morning.

This week I'm feeling pretty good about food.  Since I gave up my morning coffee I have been eating solid food for breakfast so that's probably a step in the right direction.  I haven't gone out to eat and don't plan to, for the first time in at least a month.  There's a birthday party on Saturday so I plan to look into healthy options there.  Hopefully this week will result in a good loss.  Cross your fingers!

P.S. The Biggest Loser starts tonight!  I've never watched it before but maybe it will be good!!

Tired

I am so tired tonight but I wanted to post to say I lost a pound.  I am a little disappointed but at the same time I did tell myself that I would be happy as long as I could lose a pound a week.

I had to work from 6:30am to 8:30pm.  7th grade parent conference night and I saw a total of 3 parents all night.  I just got home, it's almost 10pm and it's time for bed.  Nighty night.

WI Monday

I have decided to WI on Monday.  If I lose 1.8 pounds I will get my 5-pound loss sticker for losing 60 pounds.  I am really hoping for that on Monday but if it doesn't happen I won't be too upset.  What I really want is the little gift you get for coming to 16 meetings in a row.  Have I been to 16 in a row?  I'm not sure, but it seems like it!

We went out to dinner at Jimmy Mac's last night.  Both me and Mike planned ahead.  I had a dinner-sized caesar salad with the croutons and lots of parmesan cheese.  Plus a big baked potato drenched in butter, cheese and bacon pieces.  Oh god it was so good.  I also ate a bunch of peanuts (we get to throw the shells on the floor so that's always fun) and a yeast roll.  Yes, flex points were definitely in play here.

The rest of the weekend will be healthy eating, max 23 points a day with exercise.  Hope you all are having a great weekend!

Gym

They opened the gym back up today!  I've never been so excited to exercise.  The past week has been aweful because I've been walking in the park instead of really getting a good workout.  I would have run, but I'm not a good runner and it's out of my comfort zone.  I've been counting the park walks as 2 activity points, but I doubt it's even worth that.

Lifetime!!!

I made Lifetime today!!!  They gave me a little charm for my 10% keychain.  Today I lost .6 and I will take it and run!  Yesterday I ate 15 points worth of pizza and I made a cake for Mike's birthday.  My very first cake!  1/12th of the 8" round cake was about 8 points.  I think that's a lot of points for a small piece of cake.  I set it on the faculty lounge table this morning.

Not a whole lot more to report on the homefront.  My students are doing great in class, not giving us a whole lot of problems which is helpful.

I am a little upset, though, because next Monday all 7th grade teachers are expected to stay at school until 8:45pm just to meet with the 7th graders' parents.  We have 2 parent conferences a year which usually last until 7:30pm but this year they decided to add an extra one on top of it, and for some reason it's necessary to stay until 9pm.  It takes me an hour to get home and I wake up at 5am.  Those jerkfaces.    Where mosts teachers will see up to 150 sets of parents that night, I will be seeing about 15.  Awesome.  Sorry to vent again.

Hope everyone's week goes swimmingly!

School Has Begun

First day of school was yesterday.  I am much more comfortable today, though!  Things have changed a bit at our school and our class sizes are about 40 kids.  Luckily I only get up to 10 kids in my class because I teach a very specific reading program to special ed kids.  Homeroom is 25 kids and I don't have enough room for all of them so they just get out the good old folding chairs.  Washington education is one of the worst, I tell ya.  I think I will be moving on to a different district next year, in the same state unfortunately.  But I love Washington so I guess it's worth it.

The gym is closed for the next week because of a flood.  I was worried about that because I didn't know what to do as an alternative.  I don't have a gym membership.  Instead I'm going to take walks in the park for about an hour.  That's 2 activity points which is one less than what I'm used to but it'll do.

I want to post more pictures but I think I am going to wait until I hit 115 or somewhere close to that.  I look in the mirror and sometimes I still think I look fat.  What's up with that?  Stupid self-image.  I don't want to become an Olsen twin so I will just have to rely on how much I weigh to decide when I stop.  From there, it will have to be muscle-toning.

12.4 Left to Go

Only 12.4 pounds left to lose?  Sheesh, I keep telling people I want to lose another 15-20 pounds because that's how much I thought it was going to take...  But 12.4?  That's it?

BTW, I honestly thought no one would noticed that I dropped my goal weight from 125 to 115...  I was trying to secretly do it for myself assuming no one would notice.  Woops. haha  A lady at work today told the custodian that she shouldn't talk too much at me or she might blow me over.

This must be getting boring for those of you who read my blog and I apologize.  But it's another 2 pound loss for me this week.   I get excited about it but I feel like there's gotta be some drama in there where I can tell you all how I gained weight and what I'm going to have to do to get back on track, etc.  You know what I mean?  Not that I'm going to try to gain weight just to stir things up...

This week the bad things I ate may quite possibly have put me off plan for the first time in months.  I was truly expecting to maintain or maybe lose .2 or something.  Here's why:

Last week on Tuesday I ate about 3 large pieces of a 16" chicken and bacon pizza, plus about 5 cheesy breadsticks.  At the end of the day I decided that ran me about 29 out of my 35 weekly flex points.  But wait, that's not all. 

The day before yesterday Mike's parents dropped in unexpected and we ended up going out to Applebee's.  While they have a nice little WW menu, I decided I really wanted a Caesar salad.  So I ordered one with shrimp, croutons, the works.  The thing my oh-so-observant eyes didn't catch on the menu was that the shrimp were "encrusted" and what ended up in front of me was a tasty Caesar salad full of 20 or so little deep-fried shrimp.   I was expecting grilled shrimp!  Knowing there were barely any weekly flex left, I did what a good girl would do and ate the whole darn thing.  Just kidding about the good girl part.

I rest my case.  I should have gained where I did not.  And it's TOM so what gives?  Sorry I couldn't bring any fun drama to the table this week.  But I am excited and happy to have lost!

Fire Alarm AGAIN

Thank you for the comments on the co-workers thing.  Maybe they are jealous, it's possible.  What bothers me with the negative comments is when those people make me feel like they think I didn't work hard to get where I am today.  It's like they think I took some easy way out.

Someone pulled the fire alarm AGAIN last night.    It was 2:30am this time around.  I don't care what anyone says, I've lived in 3-4 different apartments in the last 5 years (this is the nicest one so far) and this is not normal.  And unlike all the other places I've lived, this place has security guards 24 hours a day!!!  And they can't keep stupid kids from pulling the fire alarm?  Wow, talk about incompetence.  If it happens again we might have to look into breaking our lease for free somehow.  There's gotta be a way.  It is close to $2000 to break a lease, but the disrespect we get while living here (this is not the only problem we've had) is unacceptable.

Sorry, I had to vent.  This is really pissing me off.

I go see the American Idols in concert tonight!  I'm looking forward to it.  My mom and I watch the show and we've been going to the concerts for three years.  I'm sad because she can't go this year, but I'll just have to suck it up and enjoy the show.

Co-Workers

I'm not sure why I didn't mention this before considering I've been thinking about it all week.  On Monday I went to a staff retreat on the most beautiful lake property.  After not seeing any of my co-workers since June, everyone was coming up to me and asking me what happened!  I'm talking about people I barely even talk to during the school year.  They were telling me how great I look and how could I want to lose any more weight and what's my secret.  As if doing WW isn't enough, right?  There must be some magical remedy to fatness.

My principal even came up to me, kneeled down to where I was sitting in my chair and said, "Leanne, are you feeling alright?" And I was like, "Yeah, I feel great."  And then he goes, "Well you look awesome!"  Then he just got up and walked away.  haha That's John for ya.

It's like all the fat dropped off my body over the last 2 months, even though I've been losing the weight for a whole year.  I noticed that as well after comparing a May picture to what I look like now.

There have been a couple comments I've received from co-workers this week that I didn't like very much, though.  The ones where they just assume I'm not eating, or not eating very much.  I eat plenty, dangit!  I eat just as much as I ate during the school year! 

One woman the other day said, "Are you just not eating much over the summer?  I get that way when it gets hot, too."  And at that point I couldn't really defend myself because I could tell she already figured that's what I was doing.

Overall the attention has been very positive and encouraging.  Several people didn't recognize me at first and had to do a double-take.  Especially when I wear a ponytail because I never used to do that.  I never wanted to show off my fat face before.  Now it just makes me look younger.