shaylyn

Well it is Monday. Thing between me and hubby are better. He still brings it up and when he does you can tell he is not totally over it. But one day at a time right?

We did have a good weekend. He cleaned the house on Thursday when he was off work and on Saturday I did the laundry. We watched a movie on Saturday Night and went to a local festival here in Minnesota. I totally blew my diet there, but I guess that is ok for special events. The main thing I blew was the ice cream and cheese cake. If not for that I would have been ok.

I am back to the grind again today.  My day started with an online/ call in training on the new website for payroll. It was interesting and informative. Now I wait for my payroll implement specialist to call with my user name and password. Then walk me through the first payroll that I have done online and then I will be good to go from that point forward.

My bi-polar group is starting back up tonight.  I am so excited, but I am tired as well.  I have cut back on the coffee and started drinking more water and I can tell that my pick-me-up is gone.  So I am drinking a diet pop to see if that helps. It is only 9:30 am and I have had 4 glasses of water already.

I did lose 2 lbs this week.  I am closer to my mini goal.  I wish I could lose 3 lbs this week and be at 150 by the end of the month.  I am going to workout extra hard and really watch my diet this week.  If people in my group can lose 6lbs in one week, I can lose 3. It should not be that hard. I said if I could concur 155 my stopping point and drop below it I should be on my way to more loss.  I feel like if I can just lose a little I will then start to lose a lot. Does that make any since? I feel like you plateau at points and once you get past that point then you lose quickly until your next point of plateau.  I hope that makes since… it may be totally wrong… but it is what I keep telling myself… lol.

Ok. I better get to work.  I don’t want to but I better.  Have a great day!  

I had a bad night.  I can home and the first thing my husband says is “we are going to get divorced over this”. Then he goes on to explain that my son went over in text messages by a little over 4000. This is going to cost us around $400. I cried, he talked… said he was going to take away his phone. I said “if you do that take away mine too and I will get a plan that he and I can be on.” He wasn’t too fond of that idea, if you take away my phone then he will not be able to reach me and know where I am at all times. Plus it would cost him between $300 and $400 to end the contract on both phones. He was not willing to pay that since I suggested that I take my money and he take his and we split the bills down the middle, he did not like that idea either since I make a little over twice as much as he does. He would be tight and I would be fine. So I cried all night. He made me call my son, who is at college, and tell him what he had done.  I did not want to lay that on Christopher cause he has enough to worry about with school. I cried threw that as well. Then I went to bed. He stayed up until I don’t know how late. We slept in our comfortable clothes, we normally sleep naked. This morning was hard. He didn’t kiss me goodbye or say I love you, he just said “I will call you later”.

So here I am at work… tired because I did not sleep well and I needed to. My eyes are all puffy from crying for hours and my head hurts. And I am so depressed I can’t even see straight. I don’t need advice just a shoulder to cry on and I don’t even have that.  We are a very inclusive family. I really don’t have any friends.  I might call my mom today and talk to her about it.  I don’t know if we will even have enough money to cover the bill. So I have that stress on top of the other stress. I only work ½ a day today so I am going to try and stick it out 4 hours is not too long and the first hour is almost over already.

Thanks for letting me talk to you guys about this.  I needed it.

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 Shana

Well here we go the start to another week.  The only problem is my boss is out of town… what that means is I am going to be BORED for the next few days. It is almost 11 and my phone has rung one time. I have played on facebook all morning, posted in the forum and now I am writing my blog.  BORED!!!!!! I don’t have much to say on this Monday morning. I have goals for this week and I am gonna stick by them.

1. Drink less pop

2. Drink plenty of water

3. Workout everyday for 30 min.

4. Eat healty

I have already started. Although the pastry I had for breakfast was not the best. The banana I had with it was good.  I have already had my first glass of water and I have grapes and Strawberries for snack and salad, a chicken breast and yogurt for lunch.  Not sure what I will eat for dinner yet. Planning lunch and snacks is hard enough.

Got a package off to my son who is at collage today. Some workout shorts and a belt which he needed badly. Also got a package off to my mom… her late birthday present.

Ok… that is all the updating I have to do… not a very exciting life I lead. Have a great day.

Sorry I didn’t post yesterday. There is a lot going on in my world yesterday and today. My oldest went off to college. He didn’t live with me he lived with my mom, my parents adopted him when he was a baby so he lived with them until they divorced and then just with my mom. He called me crying because she was crying when he left. I calmed him down, and then I had to call her and calm her down. It is a part of life to get older and move out. I just can’t believe I have a son in college. I don’t feel that old. Of course I am not that old. I had him real young thus my parents adopting him. Anyway, long story to say that he moved out, they all cried, and then I cried. Today he went and signed up for work study and all that, he is second on the list.  That means they will look at him second for jobs on campus. The good thing is he considers me his best-friend. How many mothers can say that?

I have stuck to my diet real well. I have exercised every night so far. I almost didn’t last night and was trying to talk my way out of it, then my husband gave me that look of disappointment so I went ahead, even though I did not feel like it, and worked out. The air climber is really easy on the knees and hips since you are walking on air.  I don’t know if I have lost any weight since I made a pack with another buddy on here not to step on the scale until Saturday. It is killing me but I am not going to do it.

Ok I guess I need to get to work.  Have a great day buddies.

Good Morning Everyone!

I again today and in a great mood, I think working out have something to do with it.  I just feel better than I did before I started working out. I am doing my workout at night, right after work and sweating like a cow and I am drinking plenty of water. I think that has a lot to do with why I feel better. I am getting all the impurities out of my system.

 Of course it doesn’t help that my husband woke me up last night for a little fun. You would think that would bother me because of the lack of sleep, but no.

My boss and co-worker are at a meeting this morning trying to get more members so I am alone. This will give me time to catch up on blogs and see how everyone’s life is doing.

Back to my workout, I love the Air Climber. If you don’t know what it is go to www.theairclimber.com. It is inexpensive and is as good as an expensive stair climber. The only catch is you have to have good balance because there is nothing to hold on to. I do it next to a wall so if I feel like I am going to lose my balance I hold on to the wall and last night I did almost fall of…lol. It is good when you can laugh at yourself. I did 30 minutes while I listened to my I pod and it went by so fast. When I was done I was like “wow, 30 minutes and I am not sore.” I think once I get the hang of just doing the climbing without falling I will add the arm movements and work the upper body as well. It comes with a cd if you want to use it and one of those Body Cords to work your upper body, a diet plan (one for a ten day quick drop and one for a slow drop in weight). It is really cool. I haven’t watched the video yet; I might stick it in my computer at home and watch it. I know it is for the entire body workout so I might just hold on to it for later.

Well enough about my Air Climber, I sound like a commercial for it…lol. On to catching up on everyone’s life. Hope you guys are doing well.

Good Morning Everyone…

I wish I could type that in the way that I feel.  I am excited to start the day. I did my stair climber for 30 minutes yesterday, sure it was at two 15 minute intervals but the book said that was ok when starting out. I woke up at 4:30 wide awake. But I did manage to go back to sleep around 5 and woke up again at 6 and got to work by 7:10. I am not supposed to be here until 8. Oh well early start for the morning, more time to play on the computer before anyone gets here.

I don’t know if any of you heard about the killing in Beijing of Todd Bachman. He and his wife were visiting a tourist site and got attacked and he was stabbed to death and she was critically hurt. This really hit home since they are local people and the florist Bachman is a Minnesota based company. We even have a Bachman in our Board of Directors. Please say a prayer for Barbara Bachman as she lay in a hospital bed in Beijing and the Bachman family for their loss.

Ok back to happy thoughts. My goals for this week are:

1. Stick to my diet; maybe start the diet that came with my workout stuff.
2. Work out for 30 minutes everyday.
3. Drink plenty of water.
4. Stay positive.

Now those are my goals, I hope everyone has a great day.

Good morning all.

I am happy today. It is a half day at work and that always makes me happy. It puts the office in a great mood. And I love that. The weather outside is perfect, at least for now, sun shining, birds chirping, wind blowing, you get the picture, perfect.

Why is it that when my husband sees me get on the scale it looks like all I have lost is a pound or two? But when I step on it in the morning I am down 5 lbs. Is there that much difference between night and morning? I am so confused!  Last night, with my husband present, I stepped on the scale and it said 159. I so wanted him to see it at 155. Then when I jumped on it this morning, after he had gone to work, I was a 155. AUGH! I guess there is a difference because you eat and retain water during the day? Someone help me with my question…. Please.

I posted that in two places because I really need to understand that. I guess I will have to jump on the scale on Sunday morning when we are both home. I want to see that little needle go below 155. Then I will be convinced I can do this. I have gotten this far before and then screwed up and put it back on plus some. So all together, even though my weight ticker doesn’t say so,  (because I didn’t want to put that I had gained 5 over my starting point) I have gone from 165 to 155. That is 10 pounds. So theatrically the next 5 should come off easy. But that is where the problem lies, from 155 to 150 seems to be the hardest 5 pound there is to lose.   

Anyway, I think we are getting the stair climber this weekend and that should help with those pesky 5 pounds. I want to say goodbye to 155 forever.

Ok, on to work, even though I don’t want to I guess I need to get some done on this wonderful half day.

Well today has been interesting so far. My boss and my co-worker were yelling down the hall at each other.  If I were in charge I would have fired her right there. There is no respect for authority with her at all. She knows he is a push over and treats him like one. So needles to say it has been interesting. She is now gone to lunch and he is in his office on the phone with the door closed. We will see where things go from here. Maybe he will get enough guts to let her go. Like I said good worker or not this is the second time it has happened and I would fire her. Or at least give her a written warning that if this happens again she will lose her job.

I am so psyched about my diet and weight loss. I have lost another 2 pound putting me at 155. I only have 5 more to go to reach my goal of 150 by the end of the month. If I surpass that goal I will be ecstatic. And with us getting the stair climber and introducing exercise into my weight loss plan I should shed those pounds. I knew when I stepped up this diet I would lose weight.

I had oatmeal and a banana for breakfast, Salad and a yogurt for lunch (I LOVE YOGURT!!!) and then a healthy low fat dinner (along with a yogurt) and then a yogurt for night time snack. They say three helpings of yogurt a day will help you lose weight. At least I think I heard that somewhere. Anyway it gives me an excuse to eat yogurt… did I mention I love it. I need to finish my diet Pepsi that I have from lunch and start drinking water this afternoon. That is something I have not been doing.  

Ok, my lunch break is almost over. I need to get back to work. Peace out!

Not much to report today.

Diet – Going well

Work – Going well, Going to be alone for a little while this afternoon so I can catch up on blogs.

Exercise – Not yet… but soon.

Home – Going Great!

I have lost the two pounds I wanted to lose this week. I am hoping to lose at least 2 more to be ahead of my goal.  I can’t wait to say goodbye to the 150’s.

I asked my husband what I would have to do to get the stair climber thing and he said just ask. So I asked. My guess is we will get it this weekend. He said he will use it as well plus he is getting some weights for him. I don’t know if I will use the weights but the stair climber says if you follow their eating plan and their exercise plan you could lose 10 pound in 10 days.  I don’t know if I want to lose the weight that fast. It doesn’t sound healthy. Like I said in my other blog, 2-3 pounds a week is fine for me, as long as I am back to my normal weights of 130 by December. That means I have 4 months to get there and I would really like, to be secure that the weight is gone for good, be there by November. That is 30 pounds in 3 months, I know it sounds like a lot but if you narrow it down to weeks that is 2.3 pounds a week so I figure if I can lose 2-3 pounds a week I will be on task.

Well I guess I did have some to write. I am going to go to the forum now and write a little in there.  Have a great day.