07/29/2009

First of all, I’m down to 206 (yay me) and I am able to get into my size 16 shorts.  Whoohoo!  Of course, I have been working HARD at it, so… Still, I am now down 20 pounds from the 226 where I began in May.  I’ve lost about 2 pounds a week, give or take, I believe.  

Went to Micheal’s tonight, bought some nail/body art, stickers (for Sammi and Shabree), ribbon, and a wooden puzzle for Bec.  So we did nails tonight, Bec already put the puzzle together, and I tracked my eating for the day, which I don’t think I remembered everything I ate (went to Hometown, was under the impression that it was Tex-Mex night, but nope.  We’ve now got roughly 20 dollars to last til Saturday… probably put it in the gas tank.)  I should go to bed, I find myself hungry, and that’s usually a good time to head off.  But, I had some soda w/ dinner, so am not feeling all that sleepy…tired, yes, sleepy, no.  I could nurse, then go to bed, and should probably have a drink of water, that’ll help with the hunger too.  I worked out for about 90 minutes today.  I’ve been doing anywhere between 30 and 120 minutes each day of cardio.  I do it partially so I can eat more… but mostly because I think it’s the way to go to losing the weight.  Anyway, since I knew we’d be eating at Hometown tonight, I definitely wanted to burn off some of the calories I’d be eating, so I worked out for an hour before we left, and then another half an hour about an hour ago.  I’ve been researching calorie cycling too, trying to see how one "tricks" their body into better weight loss.  Pretty interesting stuff.  And I don’t feel deprived honestly, even on the days when I only eat 1400 calories, I feel like I’ve eaten enough.  I always make sure I don’t feel hungry.  I have realized to be really happy, I have to start the day off with an egg, preferably on a sandwich or as part of an omelet… doesn’t have to be 2 eggs, but must be the whole egg, not just the whites.  I’m into WHOLE foods.  You lose a lot of protein and necessary fat when you take the yolks out.  Evidently I overdid it on the fat today though, so maybe I’ll scale back on that a bit tomorrow.  The ice cream and popcorn shrimp did me in on the fats.  I could probably have done without either…  oh well, doesn’t matter.  I actually look like I’m still within calorie range, but I’m pretty sure I forgot SOMETHING…  oh well… the extra half an hour will defeat it.

There’s just not much to say.  I took the girls out of school, Syd is getting her home school stuff tomorrow, and I’ve got an appointment for them to have their intake at the psychologist, and Sammi has speech.  She’s getting better, still hard to understand, but better.  I have put in messages about Shabree’s and Becca’s homeschool stuff, but no return phone calls, which is unfortunate.  I’ll have to do some more bugging tomorrow.  I HATE leaving messages.  The woman who has Shabree has had NO contact with me whatsoever about her.  The woman with Syd has been ON TOP of it.  WIsh Shabree had her, too.  I will probably have to complain about the woman with Shabree, because I’ve gotten nothing from her, not an email, not a phone call, nothing.  I take that back, I DID get an email from her, I just found it.  I ASSUME the hold up with Shabree is her IEP (indivdiual education plan, or her speech therapy in plain English) but I don’t know.  I don’t know why we can’t just take her up to the school for speech, that’s what we’ll be doing for Sammi.  If we were lucky, we could take them at the same time… but I can’t say that Sammi and Shabree should have speech together, as the older girls tend to take over where the younger girls are concerned.  Oh well, school doesn’t begin til Sept 8th, so we HAVE time.  But then…we don’t have time to mess around.  Hey, Syd’s going to be able to get a start on this, where the other girls aren’t.  But then, that means more one on one time with her for now.  We plan to start as soon as possible…

Really, I’ve GOT to get to bed.  Esp since I want to breastfeed Alex before I go (both for her and my milk.  I forgot today for about 8 hours, not good… but then, at this point, I’m ONLY doing it because of my suspicion that milk doesn’t quite agree with her.  It’s not a full blown allergy, just a small sensitivity, but I still give her milk.  I just have to be REAL careful to change her diapers right after…  the rash from hell still hasn’t gone away completely.  Does NOT help that when Bec had to watch her the other night, she let her sit in a poopy diaper rather than change her.  Darn it.)

Anyway, good night.