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I left Thursday evening for St. Louis and returned on Sunday.  It was a great time, but I ate way too much, drank way too much, got little sleep and did little exercising.  What do I have to show for it, besides a good time???  WEIGHT GAIN!!!  I stepped on the scale and wanted to cry, but that just means I need to get serious.  I went walking last night, and it was so hot!!!  Today I am not feeling so well.  (for those of you who don’t know me well, I have MS, so the heat really effects me)  I woke up this morning feeling like a train had hit me.  I am hoping I will start feeling better by late afternoon so I can get some major exercising in.  I also desperately need to go to the grocery store.  I also need to get up the motivation to fix a decent supper instead of grabbing what’s convienent in my fridge.  I am just really exhausted right now, so whatever is the easiest is what I grab.  I am hoping to get to bed early tonight and hopefully will feel better tomorrow.   

I couldn’t think of anything creative to call this post.  Today was a pretty good day.  I stayed in my calorie intake.  I got up for the second morning in a row and did taebo and ate a healthy breakfast.  I also walked after work, and I am getting ready to do some strengthening.  I also have been trying to really watch what I eat.  Instead of white rice I eat brown rice, etc.  I am hoping to be in the 160’s by the end of July, and into a size 12.  I am really looking forward to this weekend.  I am going to St. Louis to see my best friend.  I miss her so much.   

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Last week was one of those weeks.  I didn’t lose any weight, and I didn’t expect to.  I have forgiven myself, as I have so often preached to other buddies, and it is a new week.  This morning I was laying in bed after my alarm went off, and I wanted to go back to bed, but I told myself, no.  I got up and did taebo.  I fixed myself a good breakfast, and took my vitamins.  I am now sitting here at work, and I feel really good.  It is 10:27 a.m. here and I haven’t snacked yet this morning.  Usually I don’t eat breakfast till I get to work and by 9:00 a.m. I am hungry and I end up snacking all the way to lunch.  I evaluated my plans this weekend and decided I needed to make a change, and I am.  It is so hard when you don’t have the support of your husband.  He is so negative about me exercising and losing weight.  He doesn’t want me to lose weight because he is so insecure.  I get so frustrated, by all of his insecurities.  I am so thankful to have all of you to keep me motivated.  Let’s Lose Some Weight!!! 

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This week has been crazy!!!  The girl I work with, aka Wendy, had a death in the family this passed weekend.  Well she is my motivation.  She is the one I walk with after work.  Well this week she has been a little pre-occupied, as is totally understandable.  I didn’t walk Mon or Tues, instead I did my taebo tape with my strengthening.  Well last night I went over to help clean her house since she has had mega people there, and they are finally gone.  Well we got Pizza Hut pizza, my downfall and I logged my food in this morning for yesterday.  OMG!!!  I had all my calories in 1 meal!  What was I thinking.  I just kept going back for more cheesesticks.  HELP!!!  We did go walking last night (1 hour), but we had to cut it short cause my husband gets all cranky.  So today I started fresh.  I brought a good lunch and had a decent breakfast (totally not a breakfast person), but then Wendy left to take her daughter to a dentist appointment and said she would be back at lunch.  She said she was going to stop by the locker (food place here in town) and asked me if I wanted anything.  I should have said no, but did I NO!  I told her to pick me up some breaded mushrooms (YUMMY) and if that wasn’t bad enough I also told her to pick me up a PEPSI!  What am I thinking???  I logged my food in for the day and I am a little over 1400 calories right now.  I am really going to have to step up the exercising.  I wish I could force myself out of bed in the morning to exercise, cause I totally think it would help, but it just seems like if i don’t get that extra 20 minutes of sleep I can’t make it through the day (medical condition really slows me down).  So what can I do???  I really want to get into the 160s and soon!  Any ideas of how I can get my lazy but out of bed!!!   

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Well today is going good.  I think I might actually get my walking in tonight.  It has been none stop raining here.  As you may have heard on the national news the midwest is a little underwater.  I am still struggling with snacking all the time.  There are days when it seems like I am a bottomless pit and other days where I hardly eat at all.  This week would be one of those bottomless pits kind of weeks.  I am making sure to snack on healthy things.  I am at work and bored as usual, but the bosses are in today so I can’t get up and exercise like I did yesterday, so I am trying to stay busy otherways.  I have read my e-mail, read everyone’s blogs and commented on them, and have been staying active in the forums. 

So I am sitting here at work bored.  That is my biggest problem.  I work in an office of 4 women, and we all keep each other in check, but the problem is we always have food laying around, and when I get bored I eat and eat and eat.  One of the positions we recently got in our office is a food nutrition person, which has helped me a lot.  She has found ways for me to supplement food that wasn’t so great for me to foods that are good for me.  I haven’t felt nearly as deprived dieting this time as I have in the past.  The problem is I am here a lot in the office by myself, like today, because I am the office manager and everyone is either at meetings or elsewhere.  So I am bored with nothing to do and what do I want to do.  EAT!!!  I know I’m not hungry.  I just had lunch, but my stomach is growling and I guess I’m one of these people that if I’m not busting at the seems full then I feel hungry.  So since I can’t get up and walk around the block, I am blogging to keep my fingers busy and my mind off of the refrigerator in the breakroom.  I guess I could do exercises at my desk, the only problem there is I am very self conscious and I have 2 huge windows with heavy traffic out front.  It wouldn’t be so bad but I live in a small town where everyone knows everyone.  Any ideas on exercises I can do at my desk that won’t make me look like a fool???

It’s been awhile since I have been on buddyslim.  Things became very crazy in my life, and my weightloss was last on my priority.  Since then I have become more focused and lost 20lbs, but I am at a stand still.  I feel this website will give me the push I need.  I look forward to connecting with some new members as long as with some old friends that help me along the way.  I”M BACK!!!

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Well I think today went fairly well.  I am in a bit of a rut and have been at 177 for the last couple weeks.  I am trying to change my routine up and make a couple more changes in my diet.  I have found that the slower I take this weightloss the better motivated I stay and I don’t feel deprived.  Before I was all gung-ho and then I would majorally crash.  Now if I mess up or have a bad day I tell myself it’s okay get back on track.  I look forward to losing more weight and gaining more muscle. 

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Today has been a good day.  I walked around 2 blocks and walked 1/2 mile again today.  I have found these new Vitamin Waters that really help with my energy level.  I usually get really tired about 2:00 p.m. at work and want to fall asleep behind me desk, but my friend told me about the Vitamin Waters and how they helped her.  I thought I would try them and boy do they work.  I can’t wait till weigh-in this week. 

Today was an okay day.  I didn’t do so well with the food.  I did walk around the 2 blocks today at lunch and then after work I walked a 1/2 mile while pushing my son in the stroller.  I feel pretty good.  I am a little tired so I am taking it easy tonight.