Don't give up

Well, let's see, I went home yesterday and napped on the couch before work, woke up, went to work and came home to eat real quick and go to bed.Not very productive I know.




Our financial situation is pretty dire right now so once more I am going to be taking extra hours at work. Not as many as before, but, it means I will be working 6 days a week instead of just 5. Chris and I are trying to work out an agreement that will allow me to change my schedule a bit so that I am not feeling like I am drowning with accomplishing nothing.




Dawn, don't let it get you down. Even if you did gain back a few pounds, it happens. Sometimes we will gain and sometimes we will lose. We have to remember that eating healthy and excersising is going to benifit us in many other ways.




Speaking of which. A couple of years ago, they had "Office Aerobics" for people who worked in offices. It was things they could do while stuck in a chair. I have looked and can not find anything on this, so if anyone has any information about it or can recall what some of the techniques were I'd surely appreciate it as I am stuck in a chair almost 10 hours a day and I'm sure that doesn't help my weight.




On the plus side, this makes three days in a row that I've posted and I am falling into an easy pattern. I have decided to put blogging as one of my morning routines since I have the extra time and access to the net.




My darling Chris and crew have really bucked up to pick up the slack. It's been great, well, other then the laundry that needs to be put away something fierce. It is spilling down the hallway. Every day I tell myself I will get to it when I get home but because of my lack of sleep and not wanting to doze off at work, I end up taking a nap. Seriously, I need to get new hours at work, this is killing me.




Well, would love to hear how the rest of you are doing, even if you don't post stats. I am hoping this weekend to have Chris measure me since he bought me a new tape measure!

My stats this week

Somehow, I managed to gain back 3 lbs in ONE FREAKIN DAY. I am thinking maybe my scale was wrong last week when I hit the 239 mark, because I didn't do anything differently. In any case... after I stopped being mad (like that happened), I decided to check my measurements (like angel's always telling me) and sure enough, I saw a difference! Woohoo!



I'll be posting some new recipes over at My Tasty Space as soon as I'm done with this. We've been trying a few new things and they've been really good. Keep up the good work, ladies! I've been flying, though not as much as usual. We had a setback last week in the form of some annoyance in our house, but that's been taken care of, and also I'm back on my regular sleep schedule, so that'll help with the total lack of energy, which resulted in me saying "oh the hell with it, it looks good enough".



Onward!

Here's my update for this week:

Dawn- Starting weight: 280 Current Weight: 241

DAWN	6/2	8/3	8/10	8/17	8/23	8/31	Total
Bust	54	51	51	51	51	49	5
Waist	50	47.5	47.5	47	46.5	46	4
Hips	64	60	59.5	59.5	58.5	58	6
L Thigh	28.5	25	25	25	24.5	24.25	4.25
R Thigh	28.5	25	25	25	24.25	24.25	4.25
L Calf	20	19	19	18.75	18.75	18.75	1.25
R Calf	20.5	19.5	19.5	18.75	18.75	18.75	1.75
L Arm	16.5	13.0	12.75	12.5	12.5	12.5	4
R Arm	15.5	13.5	13	13	13	13	2.5
Neck	n/a	14.5	14.25	14.25	14.25	14	1
Middrift	n/a	51	50	49	49	47.5	3.5
Total Loss		2	2.5	2.75	2.75	3.5	37.5

*I've deleted june & july just to make the table smaller and more readable :)

Morning

Wow, two posts in a week, that lone is an accomplishment for me.




Not much is being done around my home, if you read my blog, you'll already know that there has been a death in my family that I am struggling with.




I will be going back to work today, but it has come to my attention that the three hours I spend waiting for Chris while he's in school can be sent accessing my blogs through the school's computers. Hopefully this will make it easier for me to post on days when he has classes.




We spent last evening at my mother in laws doing laundry. It is all washed and dried and all of the kids have put away their stuff. Now I just need to put away our stuff and the towels and sheets.




The real point of bringing that up though was because we had dinner at her house and she made one of the best roasts I've had in a long time. Here is what she threw in the crockpot.




Italian Roast Beef




3# Pot roast (beef works best)


2 packages of dry "Zesty Italian Dressing"


3c water


Vegtables of choice (we had carrots, potatoes and bell peppers)




Throw everything in together. We took the meat and shredded it and used it on buns for sandwiches, mainly to spread out what she had intended as a meal for two into an great meal for seven. It cooked for roughly 7 hours and when we walked in the house smelled heavenly, not to mention how tender and flavorful the meat itself was. Great quick meal.




Hope everyone is doing well.

A welcome and update.

I want to welcome our newest member. If you let this, it will change your life. It has for me and I am so grateful.

My posting has been rather lacking of late. I am suffering from serious health problems, going in and out of the hospital.

At the moment I am recovering from dental surgery where they went in to remove 4 teeth. I am so infected that they almost didn't pull it, which means that I have been on heavy antibiotics as well as pain killers. Makes for a very drowsy Nikki.

I have however, managed to fly a little every day. Even if it is as simple as vacuming the living room.

Sadly, I have gained back another three pounds that I had lost, which takes me up to seven regained.

I hope everyone else is doing better then I am at the moment.

Welcome Sassy

Welcome to the group! i'm so glad you decided to join us! Flying is fantastic, completely changes your life. And, loosing that weight that has been making you unheathly and feel bad about yourself is pretty damn awesome too.
i can't wait to see you around and see you in your first fly confab! Good for you!

This week's stats, a lil late

Here's my update for this week:

Dawn- Starting weight: 280 Current Weight: 239.5

DAWN	6/2	8/3	8/10	8/17	8/23	Total
Bust	54	51	51	51	51	3
Waist	50	47.5	47.5	47	46.5	3.5
Hips	64	60	59.5	59.5	58.5	5.5
L Thigh	28.5	25	25	25	24.5	4
R Thigh	28.5	25	25	25	24.25	4.25
L Calf	20	19	19	18.75	18.75	1.25
R Calf	20.5	19.5	19.5	18.75	18.75	1.75
L Arm	16.5	13.0	12.75	12.5	12.5	4
R Arm	15.5	13.5	13	13	13	2.5
Neck	n/a	14.5	14.25	14.25	14.25	.75
Middrift	n/a	51	50	49	49	2
Total Loss		2	2.5	2.75	2.75	32.5

*I've deleted june & july just to make the table smaller and more readable :)

Another Flybaby!!

I'd just like to extend a very warm welcome to our newest flybaby, sassybrat! (Just what the world needs... ANOTHER brat!)


Welcome to our growing community, sassy - I hope you find as much comfort and support here as we all have.



We'll need your description for your flybaby doll, and your stats :)

WELCOME!!!

Monday

Hello ladies :)

I've been sorta flouncing my way around. This weekend was pretty good, as I kept on top of most things, sorta. I've been terribly distracted by my man, which is a wonderful thing... but I'm trying to balance everything.

HE washed the dishes for me like 3 times this weekend!!!!

He's learning to fly. He's picking up after himself! He's being an awesome help to me.

In other news, yesterday, I managed to vacuum the upstairs rooms, clean up my room and the bathroom. We started homeschooling again yesterday, so my mornings are pretty occupied, but I'm trying! :)

Honey says the house looks great :) What a difference a day makes.

Today's Accomplishments

Today was a busy hectic day for me. For starters my pain in the ass sister was here before my alarm even went off wanting things. *sigh* my family is a PAIN IN THE ASS!
But, i still managed to get a hell of a lot done.

Today i:

* Made the beds

* Did the dishes

* Folded two loads of laundry and put them in their appropriate rooms

* Washed a load of laundry and dried it

* Polished my furniture

* Washed down my coffee table

* Wiped down my kitchen surfaces

* Cleaned the doors on my refridgerator

* Cleaned all the glass in my house including tvs, glass doors on entertainment center, computer monitor and mirrors

* Cleaned my bathroom (breaking the back of the toilet in the process and cutting my hand dammit)

* Vaccumned my floors

* Cooked breakfast and dinner

* Got Bkid off for his first day of school

* Filled out my fitday

* Blogged



i also went with J to the city i weigh in and tried to get a car. (Didn't work out) Paid back my loan. And, shopped for clothes.



All in all a very productive day. But, i admit, i desperately missed the other flybabies.



How's it going for you guys?

well...

i have not been doing good on my diet. i have not been exercising or doing anything for me. it's like i have decided i am going to take a vacation. i haven't gained but i haven't lost. i am in the process of making out a menu list for the week and getting the grocery list made up. hopefully this will keep me on track. on the exercise front. my cousin almost has her building up so i can start exercising over there. she has tons of equipment.


i have busted butt in the house for the last couple days. i still have a lot to do, but it's much better. Hubby even got rid of a bunch of old papers for me :) i have got to get the house in tip top shape by the 30th. that's the first night of my sign language class.



on a romantic front, Hubby is taking me out on a date tomorrow night :D i don't know where we are going or what we are going to do. guess we will decide when we get to where we are going.


it's time for me to get up and get busy around here. keep up the good work everyone!

Yes, she still lives

I am so sorry I have been scarce this week. The boys came home Saturday and I have been busy trying to remember how to be a mom. They are great and it's nice to have them back.

Now to toot my own horn I am proud of myself. While I haven't done a whole lot, I have continued to make my bed every morning/afternoon (not a morning person ya know!), and keep my house uncluttered. Those places that I uncluttered in the first place at least. I have cooked dinner EVERY night this week. Did ya hear that? EVERY DAMN NIGHT. AND, it didn't kill me! Dawn, your crockpot chicken thighs were great! Thanks so much for that tip. The laundry has stayed caught up too!

Best thing in a way was the boys spending six weeks with anal step-monster. I think those poor things were indentured servants! BUT, they came home with their routine. They make their beds, put their clothes in our nifty new three slotted hamper, pick up after themselves, do dishes and Joshua even peeled potatoes for me! Guess I need to send her a thank you note. NOT. It's ok for me to have them do this, but not her! lol.

We are leaving for Florida tomorrow so I will be gone for a week. But, never fear, I'll be back. Hope everyone has a great week.

Weigh in... finally

So, after being trapped at the doctor's office with Bkid waiting on my sister for an hour and a half, and then being stuck in a traffic jam caused by a car wreck on the interstate for an hour and a half, i FINALLY got to weigh.


Drumroll please!

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i now weigh 244!!! YAY! i've lost 36 pounds! Everybody dance!



Now if i could just stop shaking from listening to Bkid scream for 3 hours, i'd be in good shape. i haven't done squat on my house today and i'm probably not going to. i just want to scream myself. So... resting.



Today i:

DID'T STRANGLE BKID

bathed and dressed to my collar.

That's about it.

me this week

OK, the only way for this table to appear normally is if I take the line break option off, which means you'll have to go back to typing <BR > <BR > when you want to put space between paragraphs. Sorry chicks!

Here's my update for this week:

Dawn- Starting weight: 280 Current Weight: 245

DAWN	6/2	7/15	7/20	7/26	8/3	8/10	8/17	Total
Bust	54	52	52	51	51	51	51	3
Waist	50	48.5	48.5	47.5	47.5	47.5	47	3
Hips	64	61	61	61	60	59.5	59.5	4.5
L Thigh	28.5	27	26	25	25	25	25	3.5
R Thigh	28.5	27	25.5	25	25	25	25	3.5
L Calf	20	19.5	19.5	19	19	19	18.75	1.25
R Calf	20.5	19.5	19.5	19.5	19.5	19.5	18.75	1.75
L Arm	16.5	13.5	13.25	13.25	13.0	12.75	12.5	4
R Arm	15.5	14	14	14	13.5	13	13	2.5
Neck	n/a	15	15	14.5	14.5	14.25	14.25	1.25
Middrift	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	51	50	49	2
Total Loss		4.5	2.75	4.5	2	2.5	2.75	30.25

*I've deleted june just to make the table smaller and more readable :)

Update Finally

So, i am just not in the mood to fight with that table. Here are my measurements.



Neck: 14

Bust: 45.5

Waist: 42.5

Hips: 48.5

L Thigh: 23.25

R Thigh: 23.75

L Arm: 13.75

R Arm: 14


And, today i:

washed two loads of laundry, cooked dinner, did up all the dishes, washed the sheets and remade the beds, cleaned up the kitchen and living room, wiped down the kitchen surfaces and cleaned the coffee table, and put out my hotspots.

I'm sorry it's been a week since I've posted. I have been putting in hours like crazy at work while they are there for me. This week will not be much better.

I have not been flying as much as I should sadly. I go to work, come home long enough to eat something and then go back, when I get home Chris and I go directly to our room for some quiet time and we watch an episode of 24 then go to bed, get up and start over.

As most of you know, I have also been having some problems with my stomach. Early last week I was doing really well and felt normal for the first time in years. I was drinking my alloted 80-100 ounces of water and taking my medication regularly. I am still doing that, but for some reason I have become seriously nuaseated, yet, feel hungry ALL the time. Not just a feeling of hunger, but, a deep, gnawing hunger that has been making my stomach cramp. So, I eat. I feel better for just a little while, not more then 20-30 minutes, then I feel it again. It's effecting my sleep pattern and I am becoming depressed by it.

I have gained 4 pounds back.

I know it shouldn't bother me so much but it does. I am doing everything I am supposed to. I am following the doctors orders to a T. I am supposed to feel better, not worse.

Here is what I did today, will probably update later in the day.

1. Put away all the clean dishes

2. Washed all the dirty dishes

3. Swept the kitchen floor

4. Washed and dried all the laundry

Getting ready to take both me and Chris to the dentist. I can not tell you how much I loathe this. Maybe I can find a way to get out of the appointment Chris made for me. Any suggestions would be helpful.

By the way, you guys are doing great! Keep up the good work.

*sets music on, slips on shoes, heads off to fly*

This week's stats

Well, I'm the ONLY ONE WHO HAS POSTED their stats this week, so the new totals reflect only my stuff. C'mon ladies, I'm NOT doing this alone.

Yesterday

So i didn't get to this yesterday. So, here it is late. As i always am these days.

Yesterday i:
*ran the dishwasher
*hand washed the pans
*wiped down the kitchen surfaces
*picked everything up in the kitchen
*washed down the coffee table
*feather dusted
*picked up everything in the living room
*did 3 loads of laundry
*made the beds
*cleaned the bathroom
*bathed, dressed to the collar, and sorta fixed my hair
*filled out my fitday
*made lunch and dinner
*paid the gas bill

AND, most importantly, didn't strangle Bkid.

Hello ladies

As you may or may not know, we are a homeschooling family. School begins in a couple of weeks, so I might be quieter than usual as I get ready to get him started on 3rd grade. I'm trying something new this year. ROUTINES! For the past 2 months, our morning & evening routines have been followed by me, my 8 yr old and my 2 yr old. So much so that last night, they actually went in and brushed their teeth and washed their faces WITHOUT ME! AND 45 minutes EARLY! I'm so proud of them. I have a.d.d. and keeping any kind of routine has always been just about impossible for me, but thanks to flylady's insistance that I can do anything, I've succeeded in not only mine but my children's success.

This year, we're going to try working with unit studies. These are different than what we've done in the past, and I'm hoping they're going to help us both stay focused. The first 3 years have been difficult, with teaching him to read. But now that he's got that down pretty well, we're ready to move on! I'm psyched, I really am. And I'm also going to begin my 2 yr old daughter on a sort of pre-school program to keep her occupied while I work with my son. I don't have any preconceived notions that by the end of the school year, she'll KNOW this stuff, but I figure if it's instilled early enough, maybe it won't be so bad when it really comes time. I did the same thing with my son, and so he knew his alphabet & numbers very early on. As I said, I'm so proud of them both.

So, if I don't post as much as I usually do, you'll know why. Getting these unit studies together and keeping the house, kids and hubby happy is certainly a full-time job. Add that in with my extracurricular activities and watch out! :)

Oh, and I FINALLY lost that one damned pound I've been working on for 2 WEEKS!! I've officially lost 30 lbs now :D *doing the happy dance*

Yay :D

~Dawn

My Day

I had every intention of sleeping all day but a co-worker called and woke my ass up at 10:45! That's the crack of dawn for me! I screwed around until about 2:00.

THEN, I made my grocery order (online like a good snothead!)WEG, vacuumed the bedrooms, upper hall and downstairs, cleaned up the bathrooms and of course made my bed! I will admit, a made bed looks nice even if we don't have to die for bedroom furniture!

I am seriously thinking of trying a Jazzercise class. I used to do it and loved it. I just worry it will make my knee hurt worse. I'm thinking that possibly sitting at the computer for so long with my legs under me or standing for 10 hours in work is what the problem is. Maybe I just need so good stretching or something.

The first week is free so I have nothing to lose. Just a matter of getting my lazy ass over there. I can't decide if I should do it now, then have to break when we go to Florida in two weeks or just wait until school starts and I am up early every day.

Hope everyone is having a good week. Two more days until our honeymoon period ends and the terrorists come home!

Dawn's day

Today, I've:

• got dressed to shoes
  
• cooked, roasted, fried (burned) a bunch of zucchini & eggplant
• made breakfast, lunch & dinner
• reworked my template for my other blog
• fixed photoshop!
• washed down the walls in mine & my son's rooms where the two yr old has tracked
  
• vacuumed our bedrooms and hall
• swished & swiped the bathroom

Annnnd that was about it lol