Getting Out of the Rut - Wednesday

[sammy123]

Morning!

Sorry I was MIA yesterday. Long busy day. Didn't get a workout in and ate a bit too much but all is good. I'll pull it together with minimal damage today.

Wendy- Why are you afraid of elementary school picture day?
By the way, great job doing yesterday's workout with not so much sleep. I have a very hard time doing that.

Linda- I've also noticed that a lot of time when I think I've blown it with my eating for the day, when I actually stop and count the calories, I can either salvage the day or at least realize that it wasn't as bad as I thought. Far better than just continuing a binge for the rest of the day. You'll do fine today.

Lisa- I'm chicken about leaving the country too! Good thing the tickets and accommodations are all paid for or I probably wouldn't want to go.
Be careful with those knees.

As usual I don't know what I will be doing today but I feel good after my day off yesterday so I'm good to go. I'll check in later.

Have a lovely day!

 

[wgilchrist]

Happy hump day!

STS Meso 1 Week 3 Back & Tris done nice and early today. I'm loving the results STS brings! If I could get this diet in check, I would be right where I want to be. I am SO close!
Yesterday was an awful food day. Lets just say I had fast food for 2 of my meals. Yuk! Anyway, back on track today.

Sammy- Picture day is hard for me with two kids to get ready and I'm just not real organized. It just stresses me out. I spent so much time on my DD's hair and it didn't look very good. She's 6 and wanted to wear her fancy dress and have curls in her hair etc... I just couldn't make it happen for her. Then it was really windy anyway. Who am I kidding...it goes way deeper than that. My mom died when I was 8 and I sorta just feel like I don't know what I'm doing most of the time. I think your mom is the one who gives you your confidence in these areas...

Linda- How/where do you do your food journaling? Online or in a book? I just guestimate in my head...

 

[sammy123]

Wendy- It would be my guess that you are doing a wonderful job because you care so much. Don't stress about school pictures! My kids are all grown and those awful pictures are just lying somewhere in the bottom of a box in the closet somewhere. They're just for laughing at! The good pictures are all the candid photos taken over the years when we were out having fun. If it is important to your little girl, dress her up and have a photo session at home... or take her to a studio where they will take their time and you might actually get some good photos.

I got my hour walk in and did the abs from MM. Might fit something in later.

 

[jodijodi]

(((hugs))) Wendy! I'm sure you're doing a great job. Sammy is right...those pics never come out good anyway. I stopped getting the school pics altogether; I just take the kids somewhere else instead. And I've never been good at styling my girls' hair. I always blame it on having had short hair most of my life, but it's probably just that I'm no good at it. It's something they're more or less used to, and I don't think they hold it against me. (At least I hope not!)

 

[Lisa7691]

Hi everyone!

I did the cardio premix from LIC this morning. My knee behaved fairly well...I still iced after just to be sure though. I intended to come home from work and go for a walk and do day 2 of my pushup program but I worked late and then was exhausted. Oh well, I at least got in some workout. My scale was finally down this morning. It was only down by .4 lbs but I don't care, I'll take it!!

Wendy - (((hugs))) from me too! I pretty much grew up w/out a mom too but for different reasons. My mom was around but she was emotionally absent. Actually she was almost absent in every way...she was in the house physically (until I was 13 when she finally packed up and left) but she almost never interacted with her children. My mom is still alive and lives in the same town as me but I never see her. She just isn't interested in having a relationship with her kids (she had 6 of us BTW). I can totally relate to feeling at a loss at times for how to deal with my DD. But I have to say ITA with the other girls...your effort means more than the outcome. I also agree about the school pics being terrible no matter what. Both of my kids are very photogenic but those school photographers always have a way of catching them at their absolute worse!! They will thank me later when they don't have all those terrible awkward photos of themselves around. lol!