Owner: Just a Mom, That's More Than Enough URL:http://just-a-mom-thats-more-than-enough.blogspot.com/ Join Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 02:50:19 -0600 Rating:0 Site Description: Just a Mom of six, trying to go from 272 pounds to a healthy weigh. Eating right, walking every day. I have a child with autism, one with schizophrenia, one in the army and two little grandbabies. All that at just age 43. Site statistics:Click here
I'm doing better. 2007-12-16 19:31:00 My little shepherd.I am doingbetter
now. Auntie Flo has left the building and I am coming back to that place where I don't feel compelled to feed my face every twenty minutes. I am back to being very satisfied on 1500 calories. I always feel starved during my period.I am back on track with my walking and I feel good. Still working hard on the website, but taking time for what's important. Today I was able to wear a smoking hot pair of black slacks that made my butt look great, a little white shirt and a tan sweater, I felt so comfy and it was incredible that these clothes are so small! Even my, can I say it? Panties! My panties are falling off me and they're just size 5. What's next? Misses panties? I am dying here!!Today I had a chunk of heavenly colby cheese. An ounce of heaven. I am lactose intolerant, so I'll pay for it later, but it was tasty.Today Jon and Rachel were in the Christmas play at church. It was very nice. Charlie had to stay home, though. He had no frame of refe
What we did yesterday 2007-12-16 07:06:00 Santa, is it for me?"Did he clean his room?" Says Santa.Rachel needed some reinforcement from her big brother, CharlieDecorating the tree. The kids put on most of the ornaments, even the glass ones.
Stop the world. 2007-12-15 18:52:00 The picture above is the Black Hole that is our life lately.I am tired, really tired of everything that has been hitting us lately. Death of the dishwasher was first, followed by the first deer impact to our good car, then the timing belt broke in our old car, followed by the explosion of our microwave causing a huge fire that, fortunately, was confined to our microwave. Then we had Chuck hitting the huge deer - that car is in the shop until at least Christmas. I got the news about having some sort of digestive bleeding. Then today our engine started leaking, stuttering and the car is pretty much on it's last legs. Tires.I'm done. Really done. I think that God hates us or something. No, that's not true, but something is going on here that really stinks.
Done! 2007-12-14 21:15:00 I have been working like a web-fiend all day and most of yesterday. My hubby and I are collaborating on fixing up the school's website. It is a tough job because the site is a Moodle site and it's not like anyone is offering much in the way of user friendly tech support. It's more like, "Well, if you can figure it out, it's great, but... it's a bear to learn."So, today I put up about 50 pages, did some fun stuff and got a lot of the organizational stuff done. We had a pre-existing site, which is run by another family that does a lot of web applications, but I am pretty sure that they are going to be terminating the hosting soon, and those files would have been lost in cyber space. They're all on paper, but who wants to type all that??? Not me. So I was copying and pasting all day to get it down before it goes down.The people who run the pre-existing site are wonderful, but they just had a big system problem recently and a lot of their stuff ceased to exist for a week or maybe it
Anti Meridia (Part 2) 2007-12-13 06:04:00 I want to give you a little more information on what happens when you stop taking Meridia on a dime.To bring new visitors up to speed, I have been taking a low dose of Meridia since April, 07. I have lost a lot of weight since then, due to diet and exercise, plus the Meridia. Meridia is a serotonin re-uptake inhibitor, just like an anti-depressant. It makes you have lots of the happy brain juice that keeps us operating on an even keel every day. It also has a side effect of cutting cravings and upping the metabolism. It can also raise blood pressure, cause heart valve problems, and other problems. I did have a big spike to my BP back in April, but when cut back to 5 mg a day, that resolved.Then, 10 days ago, my gynecologist did an exam which showed some sort of digestive bleeding. Trying to rule out any possible causes, I mentioned to my family doctor that Meridia can cause digestive bleeding (ulcers, etc.). He looked it up, confirmed it and took me off of it. I also found out that eat
Weigh in Day & Anti Meridia 2007-12-12 06:05:00 Well, today is another weigh in day at Tales From The Scales. Today I weigh 165 pounds. Last week I was 165, that means I have stayed exactly the same. Not surprising, every month I have one week, the week that Auntie Flo visits where I am stuck in a holding pattern. Now I expect it and it doesn't bother me. Next week will be a bit more on track. It has been 9 days since the doctor told me to stop taking the Meridia. As far as I can see, I don't feel any differently than when I was taking it. My eating habits have been pretty much the same, so, no huge difference. I have noticed that my sleeping is not much better, and I am more anxious. That's about it. Oh, and my libido is recovering, it had been sleeping for a while. I am trying the Ortho Evra patch starting today. I will fill you in on that one. I am not happy to be taking it, but at this point, it's something I decided to try. It seems to have less of a chance of weight gain and I won't have to remember to take a daily pill.O Read more:Weigh
New Traditions 2007-12-24 07:48:00 Merry Christmas Everyone!Christmas always makes me want to look back at years gone by. Last year and for most of the last decades, Christmas revolved around food, family and friends. Today and tomorrow won't be any different, but I sure am different. Last year I had herniated a disk in my back. I had to sit down for the giving out of the presents. I could barely move. I was 272 pounds. I cooked with a chair in the kitchen because I could not stand for more than about three minutes at a time. I could not lift the turkey out of the oven. Today I am 160 pounds, I just hit that mini-goal the other day. I feel pretty terrific. When my mother and father in law came up they both said that I don't look like the same person. My FIL said, "You must have lost 40-50 pounds!" My MIL said, "She lost 110!!". Um... 112 now. LOL, it keeps adding up. They are proud of me. I am too. I can look in a mirror now and not cringe. Sunday I wore a great outfit to church, everything size 12 and nothing pinc
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Special Delivery 2008-02-24 06:54:00 I must be the only person who blogs on Sunday, at least that's what my blog reader tells me so far today. But here I am. I am sitting here in my workout clothing, but with little hope that I will work out this morning. I woke up to Charlie sleeping on the couch and turning on the treadmill would have woken him up, so I waited. Then I got hungry, ate breakfast and now I don't want to work out on a full stomach. It's uncomfortable. I should have just had an apple or something.Last night Rachel came into bed with me. Her daddy saw her in there and slept in the other room. She kicked me black and blue last night, including one wallop where she lifted both legs straight into the air and brought them down "WHOOMP", right on my stomach. OW! Never, ever again.Church is this morning. I would love t Read more:Special
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NLNE Streak Broken - Starting Again! 2008-02-23 06:25:00 Well, I didn't make it to seven days of NLNE (No Late Night Eating). I had about two or three ounces of chocolate last night at about 8:30. What a waste of calories. I was just jumping and twitching from the caffeine (like restless legs) and while doing my relaxation yoga I couldn't stay in the poses. My muscles were twitching uncomfortably. This never happened to me before, but I have never been this clean from caffeine before.I am going to start again though and see where I end up. So tonite will be day one, hopefully.I wonder how this works. How can I go to bed weighing three pounds more than I do when I wake up when all I lose is water weight (tinkle)? Anyway, after all that food I ate last night, I woke up to be 159.4, which is down another .4 pounds. I really like this digital scale. Read more:Streak
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You've got what in your what? 2008-02-22 11:22:00 First I have to say that I have found that Indian food, you know I love Indian food, goes extremely nicely bedded on butternut squash or yams! It is a wonderfully smooth and sensual taste. Forget about rice or mixed veggies, this is my favorite now.Well, onto what the title of this entry hints at. Rachel has been sleeping in her big girl bed for two weeks now. Well, most nights she sleeps there, some nights she sneaks in with us. I am trying to get her accustomed to sleeping in her own bed by rewarding her by letting her pick out of the treasure chest.This past night she slept all night in her bed, so she got to pick. She picked a stick of gum and a snake. Apparently, she ditched the gum later by throwing it in a laundry basket when she was done chewing it.Fast forward to sometime after my
Day 6 NLNE 2008-02-22 05:32:00 Well, it's been six days since I started my NLNE (No Late Night Eating) effort. Last night was sort of tough. I was at about 1550 in calories and was mentally munchy at bedtime. I ate my last at about 6:30 and would have had a snack at about 7:30, but when that time came around I closed my eyes and tried to feel if I was hungry and the answer was no. So I didn't eat anything further.I stayed up later than usual, but that was only about 9:45 or so before I went up to bed. I can see now that NLNE is completely incompatible with being up late. Also, having the TV on anything other than a DVD is sure to hurt my efforts because of the commercials. Two nights ago when I was hemming Chuck's new pants I was watching TV and the ads just bombarded me. I had to shut it off. The ads screamed to me, "Y
%$#@!@ & Progress Photos 2008-02-21 14:14:00 I just found out that none of you can comment with the ease that you had with Blogger. That's important to me. None of my counters work there either. So I am going to repost what I put on Wordpress, and forget about switching sites. If you already changed your bookmarks, sorry! Let's just call it an experiment in futility and play here.As you know, around the 20th of each month I post progress photos of my weight loss. I have spent time trying to figure out if I even want to do this, because I know that showing full length photos of me really won’t show much difference from last month. There are two facts here:1. Fat isn’t pretty.2. Clothes hide a multitude of fat.September 2007-200 lbs February, 2008 - 159.8From time to time, people reading this blog have said that maybe I should stop
The Last Post 2008-02-20 14:58:00 Hey, I decided to move this old blog, so follow along to the new site and help me bump up my hits, ok?Forget it, I decided not to divorce Blogger. I'm here for the foreseeable future.
Weigh in Day & Day 4 NLNE 2008-02-20 06:29:00 Today I am at 160.2 and that is 2.2 pounds less than my last weigh in. Now that was two weeks ago, I didn't weigh in last week because I was at 165 again. I was really down about it. Getting myself on this NLNE (no late night eating) has really helped. Today has been four days with NLNE! It has helped me keep my calories where I want them and I think it helps me process my foods better in general, but it is hard.So, how did you do this week?Visit Tales From The Scales to see more weigh in reports.My Weigh
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Day Three - NLNE (no late night eating) 2008-02-19 04:57:00 Well, today is three days that I have stuck with my 8 pm eating
cut off. Today I hopped on the scale and it was 161.8 and that is the lowest that I have seen it in the past two months. Finally, it's moving in the right direction!I guess the hardest thing about weight loss is figuring out what works for us individually and coming to terms with our own eating patterns. Giving up late night eating has been hard. But it has been necessary, because I could see that in the beginning I allowed myself a little treat before bed, that turned into an entire meal of calories by the time I decided to quit. It's a slippery slide into overeating. I am hoping that this will keep me moving toward my weight loss goals and help reverse the gaining that I have been doing since Christmas.Tomorrow is weigh in Read more:Three
Big Sky 2008-02-18 13:57:00 This is an oil painting that I did today from a Bob Ross lesson, although I diverged quite a bit. I did this on three canvases which are clamped together. They will have to dry for several months, but when they are done, they will look like this:I was so scared to start this one because painting on three canvases costs three times as much as painting on one. This is also the first one that I have tried to paint sunbeams on. That's not in the lesson, just in what I thought I might like to do.Here is a photo of the painting as Bob Ross did it. He just gives a general idea and then encourages the painters to use their own ideas.
The pose. 2008-02-17 19:23:00 I was emptying the dishwasher tonite when it happened. I had to move from one spot to another and instead of taking those steps, I found myself standing on one foot, other leg extended, one arm with the glass headed for the sink and the other arm back, balancing me. It was very graceful. It surprised me. It just happened. It felt like ballet.I guess it was about two weeks ago when I found an interesting video on Netflix.com. It was called Candlelight Yoga and the class is led by Sara Ivanhoe. I watched it the first time on my computer screen, and really enjoyed it.Now I am afraid of aerobics, kick boxing, tae bo, sweating to the oldies, that sort of thing. I have been hurt and hurt badly by shaking my booty and twisting my hips. Yoga appealed to me because of the fluidity and beauty of the
Day 1 - NLNE - No Late Night Eating 2008-02-17 04:55:00 I have been having a hard time recently in that my eating is sort of upside down. They say that you should eat like a King at breakfast, a Prince at lunch and a Pauper at dinner. Everyone knows that not eating after bed is good, but I have fallen back into late night eating. My calories are usually pretty good throughout the day, but I can pack away 300-700 between my after dinner snack and breakfast and that has to stop.We usually have dinner at about five pm. By the time dinner is over, I usually have 200-3oo calories left and I use them for a snack at about 7 pm. Adding on another big chunk of calories just boosts me way up over the 1500 level that I found is my limit if I want to lose weight. Because of this late night eating, I have ended up in the 1800-2000 range and sometimes as hig Read more:Night
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How we met. 2008-02-16 15:51:00 My mom died of cancer in 1995. It tore me up. Several months later I ran away from home.I packed up my three kids and moved to North Carolina. I just left my house. I stopped making payments and left it. I gave the keys to a lady at church and told them to take what they wanted. Turns out they wanted a lot. But I was free. I lived in North Carolina for a year, working at three different dental offices and a church office and a public relations firm. Let's just say I job hopped. I took the kids to the mountains, the coast and Disney World. Then, when my lease was up for renewal, I put them in the car and drove home to Erie, Pennsylvania. That was just after September. My house was still there, I negotiated a new deal on the loan (they were very forgiving) and we moved back in. My dad was gl
What's going on. 2008-02-16 06:52:00 Well, here are some updates on me today.First of all, I went to a much cleaner blog look. Stark, if you ask me, but since content is really all there is, I wanted it to be as clean as possible. I had played with my old template and I was disgusted because I had lost all my borders and the text was all crammed together. So I had to make a change. I am considering another platform, I will keep you up to date on that. I don't want to pay for blogging, so if you have any free options that you know about, feel free to share them.Secondly, my son who has schizophrenia is having problems again of a psychotic nature. I am hoping that he will take control and get into the hospital where they can re-evaluate his meds before anything bad happens. He and I spoke yesterday. Please say a prayer for him.
Blast it all 2008-02-15 07:16:00 Our new cat, Cameron, making himself at home on my (messy) desk.Well today I weighed in at 165. That's three more pounds and it's all due to increased eating. I would love to say that today the brakes come on, but we are going out to dinner tonite. I am going to be good and stick to those foods that work for me all day and try to keep tonite reasonable.Bad, bad, bad. This is partly because of being off the meridia. The meridia did help with times when I was just tempted, to stay firm. But I have to eventually learn to do it on my own.Bedtime is the hardest time. Last night we had dark chocolate in the bedroom, right on my dresser. Two pieces wouldn't hurt, would they? How about seven? Damn. How about a fiber one bar on top of that with peanut butter? I went to bed feeling very fulfilled an Read more:Blast
Valentine's Day 2008-02-14 06:58:00 Here's hoping that your Valentine
's Day is filled with wonderful expressions of love, both to and from your sweet self to your sweet others.
Incompatible Phrases 2008-02-13 02:51:00 What two phrases do not go together well?How about:Coldest day of the freaking year- and -furnace not functioningYep.Jaye, we're coming to Arizona, make some room. It's just past three am and our furnace, which is just over a year old keeps shutting down on us.It's not like this has never happened before, it has happened about 3 or 4 times, but only when it is the most freezing ever. Apparently our furnace (Thank you Sears) does not operate well when it's cold.That would have been a good thing to know prior to buying it, huh?But it's not like we thought to ask the salesman, "Will this unit work when it's absolutely freezing?"It's one of those 97% efficient furnaces, but right now it's 100% efficient because it's not burning any freaking gas at all. Isn't that special? Read more:Phrases
Before and After 2008-02-12 07:58:00 No, I didn't do more photos, but I wanted to get an accurate representation of how I feel before and after exercise.So here it is. I am sitting here at my computer. It's nine am and I am dressed to walk, but have not gotten on yet. I am anxious, filled with that pins and needles feeling that we call anxiety. We are expecting another storm today and my husband will be traveling through a lot of snow. That's probably why I feel so anxious.I have a dull ache in my upper right abdomen again, probably from the chicken strips we had last night. I knew I shouldn't eat them. I am tired, I feel weak and my arms feel like they are filled with lead. My hands are freezing and my brain feels half asleep. I haven't eaten, but I am not hungry yet either.Time to go walk, I will check back later.Ok, so it'
Day three 2008-02-11 06:14:00 This is the start of the third day of being a single mommy and I can say that I don't like it much. Hubby is gone south to a meeting that will last until tomorrow and I am here with the kids. I can't sleep at night. I hear every sound and think that there's someone on the stairs coming straight up. I know it's irrational, but without that comforting presence of my husband I feel very alone and very exposed.But I can do one more day and get through it.We had a heck of a snow storm yesterday and as a result school is on a two hour delay. It's rare that the dogs get so cold outside that they want in, but they were in most of yesterday and of course they sleep inside at night, so they are still in. We have a gazillion inches of new snow. The roads are icy and still white from all that snow. I
No title 2008-02-09 08:30:00 Hi everyone, I hope that everyone has a wonderful weekend. I feel pretty good. I actually got up at about 5:30 and was on the treadmill pretty early, so I am done with that now and feeling loose and warm. That's a good thing.I made the kids their pancakes at about 7 AM, so I am not going to be tempted by that today, the smell is out of the house before I am hungry. Some weekends the smell of foods cooking just throws me right off for the day. If I eat what they are eating and then I am too tired to workout, which translates into less activity overall and a feeling of blah. I made my oatmeal and have it waiting for when I get hungry for it.I am actually still feeling bloated and full from last night's pizza. It was veggies pizza and it was wonderful, but it was heavy. I think it they could
Buying Glasses Online 2008-02-08 11:01:00 I went to the post office today and had two pleasant surprises. One was a nice check and the other was my new glasses in a little box that came from sunny California. Ah, a little sunshine descends upon our frosty world!I had mentioned last week that I read a blog post that talked about ordering RX glasses online and I decided to try it. I have been tired of spending over a hundred bucks for a pair of glasses and once they are bent out of shape, I just have to deal with it for ages. We only get a new pair paid for by insurance every two years, and they only pay $24 for the frame and $60 for the lenses.It is exciting to me to think that there may be a different way of dealing with getting glasses, a way that allows you to have several, many pair of glasses and change your look the way you m Read more:Buying
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