No weight loss this past week.. It was a tough week for me. I caught a 24 hour stomach bug. I got tired of my boss. I had report cards to complete. I felt blah all week. Have you ever felt like you just ARE? I was breathing this past week...but I can't say I felt like I was contributing to the planet in any way. It's Saturday and that is the day I choose to use to start anew...as I hate Mondays...especially mornings on Mondays. I've eaten a balanced breakfast and managed to swallow two cups of milk...I loathe milk...force myself to drink it. After all, milk is for baby COWS not baby humans...you ever see a calf attached to a woman's breast?? No?? Well there's a reason for that. BUT, I promised Bill I would drink the nasty stuff....calcium and all that. I'm off to run more errands.
Maybe I'll get the opportunity to swing by my blog on a weekday this week...

Only 2 pounds this week...and I am perfectly okay with that. Slow and steady and all that. I am learning how to cook meals in a quicker amount of time...love 30 Minute Meals on Food Network. It isn't always low fat but there are lots of ways to modify the recipes and I am out of the kitchen in less than 30 minutes...who could ask for more?? I am drinking more water, and that is a hard thing for me to do. I am also feeling better. Had a monster of a cold this last week. It felt like flu...but with no fever.

Work is going okay. The cold that affected me has hit my class as well and I had very low attendance this last week. The kids are ahead of the lesson plan in that they are almost all reading, including most of my 4 y/o's.

My daughter is going to winter formal and WOW, has winter formal changed. Used to be just prom had the limos and flowers and gourmet dinners. Not anymore. We are headed to a bridal shop to pick up her dress this weekend. It's a Jessica McLintock and they are the only one who carries that brand in town. Her BF and his friends have engaged a limo, his mom is cooking up a fancy dinner for 8, including Creme Brulee and he has asked what color her dress will be for flowers. Add pictures into the mix, his tuxedo etc and this night is upwards of $800+. She will begetting a job after school ends.

Here is my lil reminder for the week. I'm giving myself til the end of April to lose the other 25 pounds. Maybe when I get my butt moving, the weight will come off a lil easier. ;o)

Okay...so I managed 3 more pounds this week. Water is a good thing. I "stored" a few calories up as I knew I would be eating out with my GF's this weekend. I had a great lunch today. Technically it was a "breakfast" recipe but I slept well past breakfast this morning. I'll post it here in case someone wants to try it

1 whole wheat english muffin
1 oz extra lean ham
1 tomato slice
1 ounce reduced fat cheddar cheese
(and I added 2 slices green pepper diced)

Split muffin in half. Add ham, tomato, (pepper) and cheese. Place under broiler until cheese melts. ENJOY~

I doubled the recipe and shared this with Bill and he agreed it was very filling. We also each had a cup of nonfat milk and 3/4 Cup strawberries blended together. YUM

I made this cute weight loss reminder at 3 Fat Chicks website.

YES!!!!!
I lost weight! O.K. granted, it wasn't alot. I have lost 6 pounds since Christmas. While we were in Florida, we walked...alot. I am trying hard to get up early at least every other day and walk for 15 minutes on the treadmill...and I walk another 10 or so picking up the kids in the afternoon. I have been making better choices in the food department as well...and making new recipes. My favorite so far..Mediterranian Succatash. VERY, very good. I have added fish at least once per week...and no...not in the stick form (lol). LOTS more veggies and I've cut out soda. I am allowing myself 15 fat free pringles at lunch if I feel like it...and am drinking more water than I thought was possible a day...you'd think I would have gained water weight. I'm setting a high goal for myself this year. It is my goal to lose 85 pounds this year. If you consider that 2 pounds a week is an "optimal" weight loss, I should be able to achieve this.

My thyroid is responding well to the increase in levoxyl. Now I just have to tell the doc that I raised the dosage. I did it on my own...yes I know that could not have turned out well...but I KNEW the amount he had me on wasn't doing the job. Since adding 25 mcg to my dosage, I have seen a reduction in hair loss, my skin isn't as dry, my bowels are working better and I no longer am dragging my butt at the end of the day. No more naps. The fact that I am starting to lose weight, only confirms that the dosage I have given myself is starting to work.

If you think of it, ask me how I am doing health wise every so often. I almost need someone to be "accountable" to besides myself. Working in a job that lately has been very stressful frustrates me and in the past I would grab a mini candy bar to compensate for my frustration. Instead I am going to try and journal my feelings.

Susan has met her personal goal of exercising EVERY day this year. While I am not there, I am striving for 4 days a week in the morning, so I have no excuses about being too tired. I just want to go into my next year of life healthier.

It's nice to be wanted. Really, it is. BUT not to the point where it is assumed you will always be there. My boss just assumes I can change my hours without consulting me. Sure, she had nobody else to teach the afternoon class...but that is my problem how?? I had Dr. appointments, a meeting with a workers comp attorney and one other appointment scheduled over the next two weeks. She basically told me that I would have to reschedule all of them and work until "sometime between 3 and 4 pm daily...but just til I hire someone to take the class." Mind you, this now means I work 7 or 8 hours straight, no sanity break. She never asked could I please?? Or would I mind. She just knows SHE can't do it...she's getting too old. One of my coworkers came in to see me today and told me she felt bad for me..and that Doris guilts her out for calling off when her lil one is sick. I told her that I know how she is...and I just may quit come the end of the school year. I'm thinking on it...I just wish I had other job skills than working with children. I am not just good at it, I am great at it. I truly don't want to work retail or anything like that. Sure I could do it...but with Bill already having a strange schedule...one of needs an 8-5 kind of job. Decisions, decisions, decisions~

~~HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE~~
I saw this at Mary's and just had to play along. I missed a few...Guess I should have turned off the pop and listened to more of the metal hair bands.