Pour some salt on Clay

WOW Clay. I don't know a ton about nutritional stuff, but even my mind read that number and was like "That is not good!" I am so sorry that you can't have the sandwich anymore. I know how much you like it. If anyone could have the willpower to avoid it, it for sure will be you!

Not much to say today. My computer is in the OR as we speak and I am hoping that the computer doctors take good care of her.

Angie is out camping so hopefully she is having fun and drinking tons of (lite) beer.

Last softball game tonight....hope we can keep up the streak and lose another game!

can't think of a good title

so the blog appears to have jumped the shark here.  smattering of postings here and there, but none of us are posting consistently to it - what i'm hoping that means is that everyone finally understands what they need to do in order to lost a little weight, but most importantly know what they need to do in order to be healthy overall.

here's my learning from yesterday, and it hurts to say - i'm never eating jimmy johns again.  god do i love that stuff, and i had been (in retrospect) telling myself that i was eating healthy by going there.  think again.  i checked out their nutritional facts on the sandwich that i get there every time.  it's turkey, ham, cheese, tomatoes, and mayo.  doesn't sound bad right?  2400 mg of sodium in one freaking sandwich!  i almost passed out.  couldn't believe it.  so that's just for lunch, and if you add in the rest of my day, that's like 2-3 days worth of sodium in one day because of that sandwich.  just couldn't believe it.  so, the lesson here is always check a label before you eat anything on a consistent basis.  i obviously need to find a replacement, but for the moment i'm gonna make sure i don't drown in my pool of tears since i can't go back :(

outside of that, the weather has been freaking awesome, so that's a plus.  i won't say much about the dancing class here other than it was a good cardio workout and for the most part did what i wanted it to do - give me a workout so i don't have to run on a treadmill all the time.

ok, off to work i go (but working from home today so a little bit easier than the normal work).  hope you guys have a great day!

Shake Your Grove Thing Clay

First, sorry about calling you on Sunday. It didn't even cross my mind at the time that it was Father's Day. I completely understand and am sorry that I yelled at you for not calling me back.

We are officially 3 weeks for LA! I can't wait to be in LA with you guys. So exciting. I haven't posted me weight because it didn't go anywhere. No down and no up, so I guess it could be worse. I did fit into my size 4 skirt today that a few months ago I could barely fit into. And someone called me super skinny today. That might be a little of a stretch, but I will take the compliment never-the-less.

Next Tuesday, I will so be at the class watching you dance. That will for sure be the highlight of the week. Ang, you should definitely come with us.

hello hello hello

wow...sounds like life has been a little up and down over the past couple of days.

nat, sorry to hear about yesterday, and yes, guys can be jerks, among other things.  hopefully your computer is back up and running and you're able to get some things done.  and sorry about sunday - i was at the house all day from noon forward, so there was definitely no pool lounging or anything like that.  being father's day, i wanted to spend the entire day with the girls - as much as possible anyway.

ang, hope that the hotel situation hasn't continued into this week and still driving you nuts.  and hope that your weekend went well.  haven't seen anything out here from you in a couple days - hoping that means that things are going good and that you haven't had to post anything :)

the wedding sounded like it was a good time.  the pics were good too.

nothing much new from me.  the first hip-hop class is tonight.  think it'll be a good departure from running on a treadmill for cardio :)  also hoping that i don't make a fool of myself in the class, so we'll see.  thankfully you can pay as you go so if it's not something that i'm too into i don't have to go back next week - but really, i want to do this stuff like twice a week: once in class and then once out.

my eating for the weekend with the girls was ok - wasn't great, but was good enough.  obviously i continue to try and make sure that their eating is healthy and balanced.  taking corporate athlete training last week was another shot-n-the-arm about why taking care of yourself on all levels is a good thing to do.  and as a side note, i'm signed-up for the train-a-trainer class in september so that i can become a trainer in that class, so if you take it from like october-on you might have me as a trainer :)   my exercise has been down lately, and i'm really not sure why.  i guess i haven't made it a priority like i should, but that's not like me.  it better get back soon.

nat, what's your weight?  you kept saying that you were gonna weigh yourself.  is there a reason why you haven't?  ang, how are you doing in that category?  fitting into clothes yet that you want to?

ok, back to work.  hope you guys are doing well!  i'll stop up later today!

Today was a Shit Show

UGH....WHAT A DAY! Today was the definition of a shit show. I am using this blog to vent, so if you don't want to hear whining, stop reading.

Day started off well enough. That was until around 930 when my computer decided to just die. Given that I have nothing that I need to do at work, this wasn't an issue....not! The lovely tech support people came about an hour later and proceed to do things with my computer for the next 3 hours. I come back from a wonderful meeting with Angie and am delighted to see that my computer is running. Delightment ends here though, because it is a fake. The computer appears to work, but Outlook, Communicator, excel and a bunch of other things don't operate. The guess IT leaves early though bc no one was able to return my call past 3:30. We will try again tomorrow.

I brush it off and go try to help the world. A friend asked me to meet with a girl who is a business student at UC as she is interested in CMK. I set up time with her to meet and talk at 6:00 in Rookwood. She calls at 6 and says she will be a few minutes late as traffic is really bad. No big deal, I am an understanding person. 40 minutes later and two unreturned phone calls, she is a no show. I leave, feeling delighted that I wasted so much of my evening. I am sure that you can appreciate this Clay, as I know you late people being late.

To top it off, I got a piece of information today that should have made me happy, but instead it worked to upset me. Men are just trash. Ang, you already know what this is but I will update you later Clay.

Thats all.....tomorrow is a new day. And hopefully this new day includes a working computer.

Dancing Queens

Hope you had fun this weekend with the girls Clay. I had to really restrain myself to not drunk call you on Saturday!

The wedding was very good. The eating, not so good. There were several times where your name came up. It went something like "Clay would not approve!" On a positive diet note, we danced our butts off, so I am hoping that numerous calories were burned during that. I mean doing the booty call and the Superman dance have got to work off some calories. Angie, I can definetly see the potenial you have for line dancing greatness. I cant wait to see you bust a move in the country bar setting.

Today's eat.....not on track. Not so bad in terms of what I ate, but horrible in terms of quantity. Rachel and I went to Greenup Cafe today for brunch. I love that place. It makes me feel like I am in New York or something.

Two cups of coffee with cream
Country potatoes, small greens salad, and quiche (YUMMMMMMM)
Nothing else to eat till about 9 tonight...not good I know. I made 2 English muffins with butter and jelly.

3 weeks to LA.....i need to keep being healthy.

good morning

hey guys.  just wanted to post real quick before the day really gets started.  the girls are watching robin hood right now, one of my disney favorites.  eating yesterday was about the same, minus a snack and a little less water than usual.  

hope you guys are having a good weekend, and i hope that the wedding went well last night.  will talk to you guys tomorrow!

TGIF

I am so glad that everyone is back at it. I still cannot wrap my mind around Clay and line dancing till late at night without even having one drink. Very cute I am sure, but just not something that you would expect from Mr. Brizendine. I can't wait to see us all at dance class. I will make sure to bust a move!

I now know that I am old because it is a Friday night and I am excited about being at home on my couch with episodes of What Not to Wear and Ten Years Younger on.

My eating for the day:
English muffin with PB and J, coffee with skim milk
Spanikopita (sp) and a greek salad with water
A bit of the worse tasting piece of chocolate bar that I have ever tasted....thanks for that Clay!
Not a good "dinner"- a Margaretta and half, chips and guacamole, some sort of taco-ess thing.

Yeah for the wedding tomorrow! Angie and I will do our best to try to not drunk call or text you Clay.

Will power is a good thing

Ang, sorry to hear about the bags of chips shoved in your face and the 4x too big helpings of food at your parent's house.  Old habits have a hard way of dying with older parents.  My mom was so used to cooking for 3 boys that when we get together sometimes with just one of the sons and the parents now the food quantity is still the same.  But good job holding off on the chips and keeping the pasta quantity ok.  With the game tonight (praying for no rain), just don't binge.  It's ok to eat some of that stuff every now and then - just don't let everything you've done so far get thrown down the trash at once :)

Nat, hope Houston was/is ok for ya.  Not sure when you were coming back, but hope you have a safe flight back as I assume that was last night or sometime today.

OK, about this whole dancing thing.  Back when I was in my 4th year in college, I realized that I really liked to dance.  Actually, it might have been a wedding or two at some point before then, but that 4th year is really when I started to get into it.  There was a place just off of Purdue's campus called the Neon Cactus, and that's where I started getting into it.  They'd line dance until about 1 or 1:30 AM (I would learn the dances just from watching other people out on the floor, and semi making a fool of myself trying them a few times with everyone else).  Once 1 or 1:30 hit, they'd switch the music to hip-hop/club music, and the floor would turn into a little different kind of dancing :)  I did that all during my 4th year, and then I came to intern here.

Brian Schwartz, still a good friend to this day, was one of my roommates at Xavier when I came to intern.  He loved to dance as much as I did, and we went to the Forest Fair mall 2-3x a week to learn line dances and dance.  We'd be there till 2 every time we went, and lessons were around 8, so we were there for a while.  We learned about 40 new dances that summer, and even performed a competition line dance at the end of the summer that the head instructor there wanted us to do.  So when I went back to Purdue, I wanted to dance every night, but as an RA, I obviously couldn't.  But I did as much as possible, and for about 5 months after I moved here in June 2000, I kept it up.

Since then, unfortunately, my dancing has gone down.   I've maybe been 10 times since 2002.  The thing is, I hate running, and dancing would certainly provide the interval cardio that running would.  And it would get me out more.  And to be clear, while I'm doing all this dancing, even at a club, I'd have nothing but water to drink.  You can't keep dancing for 6 hours while drinking alcohol the entire time, so bartenders learned to hate me because I'd get nothing but the good ol H2O.

I sent a note to a friend of mine who teaches dance and she gave me some recos today on places to go.  I'll widdle down the list and see where to sign up.  Let me know if either of you are interested.

Yesterday was corporate athlete training for me, so I definitely ate right there.  Dinner was a frozen pizza for one, but it was probably the best I've ever eaten.  A California Pizza Kitchen Sicilian pizza.  It was great.  Today the snacks have been the usual, but trying to figure out now what to do for lunch since I didn't bring it.

Will talk to you guys later!

Talk about a test of will-power

I dealt with a huge amount of pressure to overeat tonight...yes, I ate at my parent's house. I love visiting them, but I know what meals at the Bien house are like. Snacks sitting out while mom is cooking (sometimes healthy things like raw veggie sticks, but not tonight) and dinner in MASS proportions even if it's healthy. Tonight, they had Ruffles Potato Chips and onion dip on the counter when I got there. After having the bag pushed toward me several times, I took 5 chips and put a tablespoon of the dip in a dish and chewed REALLY slowly. Dinner was spaghetti and meatballs with a piece of garlic bread. I ate a very small portion and again chewed SLOWLY. My dad is obese, but my mom is tiny. Probably because he orders her around like an army seargent and she never sits still for more than 30 seconds at a time because of it. Old school marriage. Gotta love it. Not. After dinner, my mom and I walked a hilly 2.5 miles around her neighborhood. Exercise is good.

Lunch was a cluster as well, although I didn't go nuts. Come on! Free Montgomery Inn ribs? Are you kidding me? I ate a small slab and a few chips dipped in BBQ. SO freaking good! I think I could eat ribs every day. Every mother loving day.

Tomorrow...BIG challenge. Brand lunch (must order healthy and eating out is hard for me b/c of unlimited choices of yummy food and gigantic protions). Happy hour after work and then taking Joe to the Red's game for father's day. Ball park foods?? Forget about it. Ice cold overpriced beer! Hello? It's me!!! I'm in big trouble. Wish me luck!

Briz- What's up? I'm waiting to hear from my supposed dancin' machine (watch him get down, watch him get down) Where the heck are ya???

Clay Brizendine = Dancing Machine

Greetings for Texas Ya'all (I actually saw a church sign that said "Prayer for Us Ya'all...really people? Does God talk like that???)

Clay, I don't even know what to say. I knew that you liked dancing and are talented at it (the boy has moves), but had no idea about these lessons. That the heck?!?!? What kind of classes were these? When did you do this? More detail is certainly needed. While I suck at dancing, I am sure that when we go out and I have a few drinks in me, I will be busting out all the moves. You can surely count Mrs. Lang and I in on that.

Yeah for being so skinny Ang! I am so proud of you. Hot, Hot, Hot! I haven't weighed myself yet this week, but will do that tomorrow morning at home. I want to be skinny too.

The eating was a little off yesterday with the traveling. I am in the torture test of eating today...i.e. at a research facility with a ton of food consistently available. So far, so good, but there is a ton more time to go. I will hang in there.

Yesterday:
Yogurt with granola and water
Auntie Ann's pretzel at the airport (not a lunch I realize)
Coffee with creamer and peanuts on the plane
Chipotole burrito bowl with chips in Houston, iced tea
We did Indian for dinner which I thought I didn't like and I now know I don't like. I had a couple of pieces of some chicken thing and rice, but not much.

Final point, the city of Houston loves Clay. I have seen more streets named after him than I can even count at this point. That man sure does leave his mark.

I'm in it to win it!

I weighed myself this morning and I am 133lbs. I am super excited about it because I have clothes that fit me know that I haven't put on in 2 or 3 summers. Last week I weighed in at 132, but I think it may have been a fluke with the scale. !33 is fine by me. I have gone to the pool every night this week so far and have managed to tread water for at least a half hour each time. We are taking the kids back tonight, so I can do it again. I am loving this as a form of exercise and am finally seeing changes in my arms.

Food has been ok. I made a bunch of black bean roll ups, but had to throw them away b/c there were tomatoes inside that I bought before the recall. I bought all of the ingredients again (sans tomatoes) and they are sitting on my counter. Hopfully I can make them tonight. I have been stcking to cereal or eggs and coffee in the morning, an early light lunch, afternoon snack of a Pria bar (although yesterday I caved and got Starbucks because I needed some caffeine) and random stuff for dinner. Dinner is always the hardest for me. It's when I tend to over eat. Swimming has helped with that as well since it's hard to over eat and then tread water. All in all, I feel like I'm doing OK...definitely back on track with the things I was doing before surgery.

Briz - Let me get this straight...you DANCE??? So much that you used to do it for hours at a time??? Who are you, dude? All I know is you are my new best friend because I LOVE to dance. I actually took a hip-hop class on the west side of town from a girl who was a Ben-gal cheerleader to lose the pregnancy weight I put on with Gabe. OMG, it was really hard work and I felt like an idiot, but I was in really good shape. I was also a clogger for 10 years. (insert laughter here) Remember I grew up in the country. I promise it was the best exercise EVER and as a bonus, I got to wear a square dancing outfit and double-tap capezios. Yes, I still have them and yes they still fit. I get them out every once in a while to make my kids laugh.

I'm going to need more details on your dance history and we are going to have to go dancing one night in LA. Did you ever do any couples dancing? With all of that dance time per day, were you a professional? I need to know this stuff!!! What other talents are you hiding?

Where, o where, have my posts all gone?

man, i am getting terrible at this stuff.  really.  thankfully my eating hasn't gone as awry as my posts have.

natalee, i do want to say that i'm proud of you for the weight loss and for keeping your eating on track most of the time.  an occasional lapse is to be expected (i still do that - remember wendy's :) but you've done a really good job of late keeping the will power strong and eating good stuff.  that's awesome!

ang, with everything going on around you with sick kids and new country club memberships, i can imagine it's been a little tough keeping things going good :)  the treading water thing is awesome, so definitely keep that up, and the week that you brought the wraps in for lunch was definitely a good idea.  keep stuff like that going and you'll for sure make your way to your ideal size...whatever that is :)

two interesting things for you guys that I thought about recently:

1 - there's only some people that enjoy running or being on the eliptical or something like it for cardio.  but as i  watched savannah's dance recital the other day, which included 4 or 5 hip hop dance routines, i thought about some of the times that i was in the best shape of my life.  honestly, one of those is when i was dancing 2-3 times a week for 4-6 hours at a time.  talk about keeping your metabolism going!!!!  i could eat like crap and the fact that i was dancing that much was burning 1500 calories each time without me even knowing it.  so, that being said, one of my missions this week is to find out where they teach hip hop dance classes to old folk like me :)  and sign up.  i'll gladly take $$ out of somewhere else in order to do something i love that will keep me in shape.  isn't that what we all look for?  and given that, if you guys want to join me either in the class, or more importantly out dancing some weekend or even weeknight, ur more than welcome to join :)

2 - there were actually two things that were going to go in here, but i spent so much time writing the first one i forgot what this one was :)  oh wait - now i remember.  it was eating fresh foods and not frozen or canned ones.  over the past couple of weeks i've been comparing on and off the contents of frozen vegetables vs fresh, and obviously there's not comparison in that fresh are 1000x better than the other stuff.  what i was surprised about is how easy it is to cook some of the fresh veggies.  green beans?  throw them in boiling water and let them boil.  asparagus?  put em in the oven and let em cook.  things like that have changed up some of the ways that i eat and i do really feel better for it.

ok, back to work for now since it's 2.  nat, hope you had a safe flight to houston.  ang, hope ur day is going well too.  adios for now!

Yeah for Angie being back

Glad you are back Ang. I love the new exercise idea, all I need now is a pool. Maybe my trainer Clay can step it up and invite me to his pool. (Wink, Wink).

We are now under a month till LA. The time is flying by quickly - I think I started counting at 80 or so. Getting there soon.

My eating today was good. It went as follows:
Yogurt and granola, ice tea
Turkey burger with cheese on wheat (When, o when are the veggie burgers coming back?!?!?), side salad with ranch
150 calorie snack pack - There were the most amazing sugar cookies up on our floor today, which Ang can a test to. No less than 10 people asked me if I wanted on or ate one in front of me. My will power was at its strongest, because I didn't even have one bite.
Ice tea/lemonade combo from starbucks
PBJ on wheat, backed tortilla chips and salsa, water.

Heading to Houston tomorrow, so I will have to be on my game to make sure I stick with it.

You are not alone...

I wanted to post something last night, but it was really late when I got into bed and I didn't want to log on.

Summary of the weekend is that I finally exercised!!! Joe and I walked every day and this was the first weekend we took advantage of our new Deer Run Country Club membership. I have a new favorite exercise. Treading water in the pool! Every time Joe or I get in the water, we have to tread for 15 minutes. We are always creating little games like that to amuse ourselves, but I think this one will stick. We ended up doing this about 4 or 5 times, so that is at least an hour of treading. I can feel every muscle in my body today, so I know it was a good workout.

Food intake...not so good. Quantity was decent until Sunday, but quality left a lot to be desired. Sunday was (as Natalee would say) a shit show. Way too much Frisch's breakfast bar in the morning, beer at the pool and pizza for dinner. I felt so gross last night that I made him walk a lap around the neighborhood. Yuck! Comfort food is one thing, but eating like that 2 times in one day is disgusting.

I am back on track today, but went snackless this morning due to a late breakfast and early lunch. I'll write a full menu report tonight.

One lonely Blogger

So apparently it is just me on here. Since apparently I am talking to myself, I will be brief and say that I had an "ok" weekend. Given that I was back home for the weekend and went to a wedding, I am happy with my eating. I would have normally used it as an excuse to overeat, but I did a good job with moderation. Given how much Rachel and I sweated it up on the dance floor, I wouldn't be surprised if I dropped a pound this weekend.

Come back to the blog my friends!

I have discovered the healthy alternative for ice cream

Yagurt....It just might be the best thing ever. Rachel and I discovered it after dinner tonight in Rockwood. It is a soft serve yogurt based ice cream that is 99% fat free. It has a really unique taste and when you add in coconut and almonds, it is a really healthy snack (I think).

Keeping it short tonight, so here is my food for the day:
Cereal with skim mils
Iced tea
Tuna salad on wheat with lettuce and tomato, chips
100 calorie oreos - which have no real resemblence to actual oreos
Dinner with Rachel at PJ Changs - stemmed veggie dumplings, glass of white wine, sweet and sour chicken
Yagurt

Home for the weekend for my friend's wedding, but I will try my best to post. Ang, have fun at the graduation. You are going to look smoking hot! Clay- Keep enjoying the vacation.

One Year as a Full Time Working Girl!

Today was my one year anniversary of working at P&G. (Glad to see that my bestest friend completely forgot about it even though I reminded him just the other day =) I remember when I started just a mere year ago, I was so much thinner. What a difference a year will make...in so many different ways.

Anyways, enough of me being introspective, I will just get down to the details.

Cereal at home with skim milk
Water throughout the morning
Early lunch - Ang and I were on the ITC nerdy eating schedule. Turkey burger on wheat with cheese (when, o when are the regular veggie burgers coming back?!?!?!) Salad with spinach lettuce, black olives, egg, cheese, and ranch dressing
100 calorie pack of oreos
Edgar planned a surprise HH for me at Nada. Very sweet of him. I had a margareetia and a half and some chips and quac.
Weird dinner - English muffin with butter and jelly, apple sause

The exercise has been off this week. Not good. Since the race, I havent run since. I need to figure out something to do when there are rainy days and I can't run outside (without being dripping wet).

Hope the vacation is going well coach.

Liking snacks

So the first thing that I need to say is that I love that you guys had snacks yesterday - that is awesome!  And they weren't coffee - a Pria bar and a kellogg's bar, in my book, are actual snacks.  If you guys could keep that up I'll be really happy.

Yes, I did go to Wendy's yesterday, and yes I ordered a double-cheeseburger.  It just hit me as I was driving by the place - it just sounded so damn good.  And it tasted the same too.  Was great!  That's the good thing about the way I eat...so often I'm watching everything that so closely that sometimes I forget about what eating 'comfort food' can do for the soul :)  It was definitely good.  Snacks for the day were about the same, if not more than usual, and dinner was baked salmon with asparagus.  i've started putting fresh blueberries or strawberries into my cereal each morning for an extra boost of healthiness each day too.

How is the exercise coming along?  I haven't seen much about that lately and would like to see how you guys are doing.  Ang, I know a sick little one prevents some of that.  Nat, I know that you were running a little, but don't know if ur still doing that or not.  See if you guys can start listing that along with your food for the day.

Oh, and Nat, again - VERY proud of the healthy weight loss.  Let's keep it up!

Quick Post

I am so freaking tired tonight, I won't bore you guys with witicisms or whining...I'll just hit you with the facts and go to bed.

Breakfast: Raising Bran & Coffee
Snack: Pria Bar (how about that Briz?!)
Lunch: Veggie Burger on wheat with pepper jack cheese and diet pepsi
Dinner: A little more than half of a Carnitas Burrito Bowl and Corona Lite from Chipotle.

I drink too much alcohol. I know this. I have to stop drinking during the week because the chub is not going anywhere.

Amen. Goodnight.

Clay ate Wendy's Today...Is the sky going to fall?

Why in the word are you up at 7:20 on your week off?!?!? You need to be sleeping in my dear. If you aren't going to take advantage of this, Angie and I would be more than happy to switch you places.

Today was a day of "shock and awe" when I got your text. I don't believe that in all the months that I have known you, you have ever eaten at a fast food restaurant. I don't even know what to say besides, I am so proud!

The new weight, as of last Tuesday, was 145. I am feeling good about that (though there is a big part of me that wants to be 135 or better yet 125). Not going to happen I know. But glad to see that I am making progress.

I need to get more on track with the snacking. Clay, your comment about it keeping your metabolism working is just the kind of input that I need to make me stick to it better.

Here is my day:

Cereal with skim milk - the healthy kind, Kellogg's with strawberries
Coffee with one cream
Cheese and spinach quesdilla, iced tea, some chips and salsa - It was the Welcome lunch for Air Care CMKs newest member. Not sure how I feel about my new CMK team yet....we will see.
Kellogg's cereal bar before a quick trip to the mall that was completely unproductive
The rest of my super healthy fruit, spaghetti, iced tea

Enjoy your day off tomorrow Mr. Brizendine. Ang, I will see you in the office in the morning.

hey there

good morning ladies.  so it's 720 AM on tuesday and i'm awake and posting.  what's up with that?  got some things to do today so needed to be up a little earlier to get them all done.

ok, first, i'm starting to suck at posting.  really.  as your coach i should be out here all the time, but i'm not.  my apologies for that.

as far as the actual eating goes, i haven't veered too much from the daily routine.  sunday was a little off given our shopping excursion, but i did my best to bring snacks to not totally drop the ball for the day.  yesterday the only snack that i didn't have was my apple.  lunch with pbj and dinner was lasagna right after working out.

i think the best thing about the past 5 days or so is that i've actually gotten myself back into the gym.  lifting well and running well, and i can feel my body already getting back into it.  when you exercise regularly, again, your body does the work for you of remembering that you need to eat, and when it tells you to eat, you need to listen to it.

nat, i didn't see your new weight out there - post that sucker! :)  ang, i soooo hope gabe gets to feeling a little better and you get some relief from playing nurse.  that has to be hard, especially at the very beginning of the summer.  hopefully he's better soon and you can both get back to normalcy.

last thought then i have to scram.  one thing that i'm seeing is that you guys are very off and on with the snacks.  as much as you possibly can, make sure that those are in your routine for the day.  remember, snacking keeps your metabolism going throughout the day, thus helping you lose weight even if ur sitting at work.  and obviously i want that snack to be as healthy as possible.  an apple, some pretzels, part of a protein bar (you guys could start eating 1/2 a protein bar for a snack, and then the other half later as another snack - that would be pretty good).

ok - out of here for now.  will talk to you guys later!

Poor Gabe and Angie

Sorry to hear that Gabe isn't feeling better yet. It looks like he should be turning the corner soon.

Ha! Your feedback cracks me up. You will have to tell me who said that. I don't think that you come across any more overwhelmed than anyone else at work. I know that I am overwhelmed with work 98% of the time. Just because suppliers have such easy jobs doesn't mean that they can't appreciate how hard we work to make the world smell better. I am sad that you don't look forward to coming at work....especially since I am there! =(

I am all about doing another 5K. We will have to make sure that we keep our eye out for those races and don't miss them.

I am feeling good about the eating today:
Yogurt and granola, water
Salad from Ingredients. YUMMM- Mixed greens, cheddar cheese, artichokes, mushrooms, egg, sunflower seeds and fat free ranch. More water.
100 calorie pack and one bite of cake
Fresh fruit cup with strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries (this makes me think of what you eat all the time, Clay!), Lean Cuisine spaghetti, more water.

Still confined to the house.

Gabe woke up again this morning with a fever. A trip to the Dr. revealed Fifths Disease which is not really a disease but a virus. He is supposedly at the tail end of it, but will probably need to stay home again tomorrow. I'm hoping his dad will step up to the plate there because I worked from home today and will also have to work from home on Thursday since he has early dismissal (I'm talking they go in at 9:00 and are dismissed at 10:45 on the last day of school...how dumb is that???)

Anyway, despite the fact that I'm going stir crazy, I have managed not to overeat. If anything, I haven't eaten enough with all of the attention I've had to pay to him and trying not to let work slip.

Breakfast: Raisin Bran and Coffee
Lunch: Black Bean Burrito and half a diet pepsi
Snack: Butter and Jelly on Wheat Toast
Dinner: Home-made quesadilla...same as last night and a corona lite with lime

I am sitting here finishing my corona and wondering if I will ever catch up on life. I got all of my W&DP feedback and and agency person said "always seems overwhelmed with her workload". I wanted to laugh. I have to try to put out a better vibe, but I'm not someone who is going to pretend that everything is peachy when it isn't. Of course I'm overwhelmed! Is anyone who works at P&G not overwhelmed? If there is someone out there who isn't I want their job. I know the surgery and being out didn't help in catching up, but I am so freaking burnt out on Febreze. How much and how long can you give a shit about scented water? Just once I want to wake up and want to go to work.

Did I mention I've been staring at the same walls since Friday? UGH!!!

I can't believe I have to go back to work tomorrow.

I just realized that my post last night was so late that is was actually already today...if that makes sense. I am such a night owl. I just love when the house is quiet, the kids are tucked in and Joe is asleep next to me. (He's so darn cute when he's sleeping. I also love how much I love my husband. I don't, however, love that he is snoring!)

I think Gabe's fever finally broke. (Fingers crossed.) Today was Sunday Funday, our neighborhood street party. He was determined not to miss the bike parade or the firetruck opening their hoses on the kids. I loaded the little guy with Motrin and he did just fine. I waited for the fever to come back and so far it hasn't. He's tired, but hopefully he'll be 100% tomorrow. I feel like this weekend didn't even happen bc we were stuck inside so much. Food today was not so good, but the beverages were straight up bad.

Breakfast: 2 cups coffee w/cream
Lunch: Black bean burrito and water
Snack: Hotdog and beer at Sunday Funday
Beer, beer, beer (I did put lime in it, so there was at least some fresh fruit intake. Ha!)
Dinner: Home-made wheat quesadillas w/chicken, cheese, sour cream and my special home-made salsa and water.

I still have a little sickie boy...

I'm sad to report my little man can't shake this fever. Medicine makes his temp go down for a while, but it keeps going back up. The poor kid is still all wrapped up in a fleece even thought it's borderline hot in here. Despite the beautiful weather, I only went outside once today to grill chicken for dinner for Ava and I and so that I'd have something healthy to reheat for the next few days. I just felt so bad for Gabe.

Nat, I'm SO proud of you for running the 5K today! We should plan to do the Reggae Run and Run Like Hell in the fall. I've always wanted to do both but have never done either. I have only done one 5K because I hate running so much, but races are a little bit more fun than running on a treadmill.

Today's eating was not a lot. I will try to do better tomorrow.

Breakfast: Raisin Brand and coffee
Lunch: Black Bean Roll Up and coffee
Dinner: Half a grilled chicken breast with BBQ for dipping and Miller Light
Really long hot bath to cope with cramps and another Miller Light

My body is still all whacked out from surgery. I don't know how that is possible because the surgery was so minor, but I swear I had PMS for 2 weeks and today I had cramps that were reminiscent of the second stage of labor. Crazy shiz.

OK. I have to get some sleep in case Gabe is up in the middle of the night.