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
Poodle Exercise! 2007-12-11 13:44:00 I gotta tell you, I saw this and just died.The phrase "Pump the arms like you are in the mud." What does that even mean?? Read more:Poodle
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Christmas Worries 2007-12-11 04:23:00 I can't blame it on Charlie or Rachel. I was up at 3:30 am and it was 100% pure worry that popped my eyes wide open. The Christmas
rush is catching up to me. It's always this way. I don't know what I would do if I wasn't stressing about something.I am not that worried about Christmas presents, we have that covered, Gramma and Grampa always get way too much for the kids, but my hubby is making a trip to pick up Gramma and Grampa - 12 hour round trip - in the snow. Is there a deer somewhere between our house and theirs who is just waiting for my husband?I sat here in the wee hours and paid the rest of the bills that have to be paid before our next payday and prayed for no more unforeseen expenses to come popping up. Please Lord, let the brakes not wear out (they are grinding). Let us get by with only town trips where we can walk to the store if we need to, no more car trips. Last time I filled up it was $50.99 and that's for our 4 cylinder van!Let us not get sick and need prescripti
Bob Sled Bob 2007-12-10 07:46:00 We have been living in The Big Woods for six years now. Most people know that when the weather gets extreme, the superintendent has the responsibility to call off school for the safety of the kids. Well, today is one of those days. We have had an ice storm. And the kids are off. But for the prior years our old superintendent would rarely call off school, they called him Bob Sled Bob. I am glad that the kids are safe and warm today.Anyone who might have looked at my fitday journal today would see that I have not had my walk yet. I am waiting for the kids excitement over a day off to wane before I get on there and get moving. It bothers me a lot to have them acting up and me unable to do much about it except threaten bodily damage.Today I have a full plate. I have two paintings wrapped up to be mailed, and I have four bedrooms which need a good cleaning and to be vacuumed. They are horrible to say the least. It's a three bag day. That means I need three garbage bags, one for trash, one
I am so thrilled! 2007-12-08 18:44:00 I went to the Old Bank to volunteer last night and I got a gander of myself in the full length oval mirror and my pants were just so baggy and loose. I grabbed a couple of handfuls at thigh height and pulled tight and saw that I had way too much room.Do you remember back in the middle of November, when I was so excited about a person who lives nearby who gave me some of the things that she had outgrown when she lost weight? Remember how I said that I was nowhere near fitting the pants?Ahem. They fit. Man, they fit well! It hasn't even been a month! They're 12's. I can't believe it.Check out my baggy size 14 jeans!{Ignore the couch please ! }I swear, I still have a bruise from my jaw hitting the floor when they buttoned easily. What in the heck has happened! Where did the year go?!?I am thrilled. Plain and simple. Thanks G! The clothes are wonderful! The fabrics are so wonderful and they feel so great! G, you have wonderful taste in clothes!
What's going on today 2007-12-08 06:34:00 Two Dads and their little girls.Pardon the mess in my living room!!I got to hold my little grandbaby last night. She is a sweetie. It is nice to hold them, but to have someone else be responsible for the crying, the diapers and all of that. Plus, I got a nice sleep last night. Not sure if her Mommy and Daddy did. Gramma-hood has it's benefits!I put my walk first this morning. It's all done and it's just 7:30 am. I am sweating like a, well, like a sweating person.Here is my to-do list for today:Make Cookie Cans, Canning jars of homemade cookie mix so that Chuck can mix it up and it saves us by not buying ready made mixes.I have to hit the real grocery store for some things that the discount place doesn't have.I have to get our garage door opener out of the car that's at the garage.Practice my part for the Christmas Choir. I have never sung harmony, and we practice tomorrow, so I have to pick out my part on the piano.Read days Dec 6-9 for our Sunday School class. We are reading a ch
Busy as a Bee 2007-12-07 14:23:00 Today I am zooming, I just have a second before I zoom off to my volunteer job. I have been working on our school district's newsletter, which is going to KICK BUTT! And I did cleaning, grocery shopping, all that fun stuff. I stopped at the thrift store and bought more thermal drapes, curtain hooks to hang them, a couple of toys for Jon, Charlie and Rachel for Christmas (man it's depressing to shop this way for Christmas) and a set of salad bowls for my sister, she wants them done in a daisy pattern, I didn't spend much and it was all stuff I needed (I have blankets hanging over certain windows to cut the draft). I feel bad about spending anything, but realistically, we need to keep warm in here.Take care, I am off and running...
Reverse Interval Training 2007-12-06 08:25:00 Interval training involves alternating high intensity exercise with recovery periods. Measured periods of work followed by measured periods of rest. An exampe would be 1 minute of high intensity work (such as a sprint), followed by 2 minutes of low intensity exercise (e.g., walking) and alternating that several times for 15-30 minutes.OK, I am ready now, get on the treadmill, set it at 3.4 mph and GO!Fifteen minutes into my walk I am up to 3.7. Phone rings. It's the insurance company. Stop the treadmill. I can't talk and walk, apparently. Heart rate dropping as we speak. No, we don't need a rental car. Thanks anyway.Finish phone call, get back on treadmill, 3.6, 3.7... seven minutes later - phone rings. Pause the treadmill. Look at the Caller ID, it's the school. Deal with that, hang up. Phone rings again. It's the school again. Sigh of frustration, but it could be important. Take the call. Good thing too, it was important and it was quick both times. (Chuck, sign Rachel's dental Read more:Reverse
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Deja deja vu vu? 2007-12-05 07:20:00 Chuck hit another deer last night with our good car. This time the damage was much more extensive than the last time. The whole front end sustained massive damage. But none of the passengers was hurt. I am sure that the insurance company will not be happy to be covering the same sort of accident twice in four weeks. I am not sure what hoops I will have to jump through to get this repaired, but the car is not drivable, we are left depending upon the car that has the engine trouble and is so undependable.This has been a bad month for us. What with losing $400 a month in income, and then having to pay out $700 in car repairs, we are left with 8 bucks (no pun intended) in our pockets. What a pain. But I am finding that it feels better to me if I list the positives:1. The three people in the car walked away without a scratch.2. A car can be fixed or replaced.3. Dependable or not, we do have another vehicle.4. We are all healthy and happy.5. God protected my husband even though he was NOT W
It's not the stuff you worry about that happens... 2007-12-04 06:20:00 ... it's the stuff
that comes out of nowhere and blindsides you.Last week I went to see my gynecologist and yesterday they called me and told me to come back in. Apparently one of my tests came back bad and they need to redo it. Wasn't I just saying how lucky I was to be done with them for an entire year?The scary thing, to me, is that the test that I flunked is the one that detects blood in the poo. That being my ultimate least favorite test, I am loathe to repeat it. Can you tell I tell you guys everything? Anyway, I will be going in next week to have it repeated and this will most likely culminate with the old garden hose up the butt test. How did I think I would get lucky enough to get through this life without a colonoscopy?This morning I have to go have a bunch of blood drawn to see if I am anemic, which can cause this problem, and probably have a cholesterol profile done as well.I am trying not to be too upset about all of this, but having two parents die of cancer, one having Read more:worry
Taking my own advice 2007-12-03 05:39:00 Well, yesterday was a wash. Charlie woke up at 3 am, I ate too much throughout the day, I got zip in the way of exercise. Today I am putting all of that first. As soon as the kids are off to school I am going to get on that treadmill and do my walk and get back on track with my eating.I have this rule about treats. I love zone protein bars, but they are fairly expensive in terms of fat and cals. They are basically a vitamin enriched candy bar. But I allow myself one a day. I had mine yesterday and when I was on my way upstairs I thought, "Man, I am going to be hungry all night, I should take a fiber bar (about half the "cost" of a protein bar) and have that so that I am not hungry all night."Here is the problem. I am not hungry when I am sleeping. I need to keep remembering that. I never wake up in the middle of the night cruising for food. I have developed, over the past two weeks, a habit of taking one of the fiber bars to bed with me and eating it before bedtime. Bad habit!! This sm Read more:Taking
Up Again, aren't we getting tired of this? 2007-12-02 06:26:00 Being woken up at 3 am by Charlie, followed by Rachel, followed by Jonathan.Playing Dora's Supermap DVD for five hours straight.The thought of dragging any children to church this morning.~ These are a few of my least favorite things.I guess I can put a negative or positive spin on today. Yes, Charlie did wake up at three and then everyone else ended up down here. Daddy was sleeping, yea, verily he was snoring, although he will say that he wasn't really sleeping...just laying up there. Do we believe him? I think not. But seeing as though he and I interact badly in these situations, I can't blame him for staying up there. If I thought they would leave me alone I would let them have the whole downstairs to wreak havoc in as long as they don't cook anything.I guess the positive is that now that the sun is up and I am not in the dark with three very active kids I should be happier. But I am so angry with them that I could spit nails. Why does this happen so often? We have been giving C Read more:Again
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Love Handles, Consider Them Gone! 2007-12-01 19:19:00 You know it's funny, I have been losing weight and for the past several weeks I thought, surely it will all be coming off my belly because I thought that was pretty much what was left. Imagine my surprise tonite when I was getting ready to take a shower and caught a rear view of me in the mirror and saw that my butt has changed a LOT in the past couple of weeks.I had pads of fat above each hip bone on the back. They made me look sort of rectangular. I thought it was how my bones were shaped.Wow, I had to get into my medicine chest and dig out a makeup mirror and take a better look, you know, hold one mirror, look in the other one... and my butt has really changed a lot. The fat pads are gone and my back view is looking good!This is thrilling to me! I don't remember ever seeing a butt that looked like this on my body! The thing that is really exciting to me is that this has happened as a result of nothing more than walking on the treadmill and eating right. Not weight lifting, not aer
Another Saturday 2007-12-01 08:05:00 Is it any wonder that every Saturday
I usually tuck into the car and go someplace .... any place? The kids are in rare form today. For some reason I was suffering most of the night with a stomach that was just making all kinds of noise as it went through it's nightly routine. I swear the room had a green glow from all the gaseous emissions that occurred throughout the night and I woke up to some severe lower digestive pain and distress this morning. Couple that with Jon and Charlie just going at each other all morning and then trying to make breakfast for them (French toast and sausage) while I was really starving. There's no way I am eating that junk.I ate my oatmeal, a big bowl of it, but I was still so hungry afterward, so I grabbed a piece of gum and have been munching that. When I am still very hungry after a full meal, chewing gum really helps me feel full faster. I am not sure what happens, but somehow occupying myself with chewing gum makes me forget that I am not hungry.Toda
Back in the saddle again 2007-11-30 12:52:00 Well, I am good for another year. I had my hood lifted and my oil checked. All is in working order. The doctor suggested that I try using the patch instead of getting my tubes tied, until I am 100% sure. So I have a RX for the patch and will be trying that next time Aunt Flo visits.The hormonal eating curve I was anticipating has not hit, I am staying on track well. Last night we went out for my birthday, we went to Spragues Maple Farms. This is a wonderful place and it is affordable. They had reindeer there. The kids were in heaven. We told them that Santa would pick them up before the big day.We all had pancakes and sausage. But fortunately, our children were just horrible enough to save either Hubby or I from cleaning our plates. We have not raised kids who are restaurant friendly. So when they were done they kept getting up, walking around, climbing up at other tables... We decided it was best to leave before we were asked to leave.So, we went home and had birthday cake. It was won
Inspiring Figure - Jack Lalanne 2007-11-29 09:08:00 I wanted to write a little about someone who has always been very inspiring to me. Jack Lalanne. I was first exposed to this legend when I was a kid. My mother bought his albums and would play them on the record player in the living room. We would each grab a kitchen chair and go through the routines, which were accompanied by organ music. Alternatively, we would watch his TV show, which aired in the morning. My mom had gained a lot of weight with her five children, but was never successful in taking the weight off until she became ill with cancer when she was in her final years. I remember her struggling with this diet method or that, but when I look back at all of the things that she tried, I think that Jack was the best teacher she could have had. I wish she would have stuck with his program more than she did.The common sense eat tips that he offered, with the gentle voice made a big impression on me. He still impresses me forty-some years later. Jack Lalanne. He is 93 this year.
Is there any such thing as no-cal cake? 2007-11-29 05:24:00 Today, I am 43. Wow, I don't feel old, I feel pretty great. Much better than I did last year. My daughter Kimberly is 25, she was born on my 18th birthday. Double Wow. Happy Birthday, Kim!! And, today my son Rick's wife is having their first baby. Triple Wow.A lot of people have birthdays right around this same time, my ex-husband's wife's birthday is today and one of her daughter's birthdays is the same day. Amazing, isn't it?My mom was born on December 3rd, 1930, just three days from now. She and I always celebrated together. She died from cancer over than 13 years ago. My sister in law's birthday is right around now, my nephew was born on the 18th. My son Rick was born on the 19th of November, Kimberly's baby son was born the same day, this year. That coincided with her Father-In-Law's birthday. My niece is having a birthday right about now, and I think that's about all.Just to tell you how warped I am, I am always thinking how amazing it is, not that everyone was born ar
Up all night/Weigh in Day 2007-11-28 04:19:00 Teddy Stretches Out Before He Starts His DayIt gets old to keep reporting these times when Charlie wakes up at 3 am. But here I am again. He's watching Cars, the movie and I am here on the computer. I was going to lay on the sofa bed with him, but I cracked my foot on the supporting metal leg of the mattress support and suddenly I was wide awake. I am not tired now, well not too much, but I will be later today.We got some nice light and fluffy snow last night. That's better than the rain that we have had lately. The dogs will like it better. Poor Teddy gets so lame in the rain, he has sore joints. Poor old fellow. Note from later: I must have been on drugs, there is no snow this morning. Teddy is still ok with the weather and is chasing the Amish carriages as they drive past the house. I love living in The Big Woods.Well, onto the weigh in, click to see more people battling the same fight as I do. I have to go with yesterday's weight of 166, that's down 2 pounds. These mornings whe Read more:Weigh
We have to keep on with the fight! 2007-11-27 06:26:00 I know it is just weeks before Christmas and we are all gearing up for it, but I want to remind us all to stay strong and not fall into this mentality that we deserve a break from eating right and exercising.Sure temptation is all around us, we are working harder because of the cold and the season, and we buy into this feeling that because things are hard and stressful, we deserve to indulge in all the treats that are out there just arms length away. But I want to tell you that is a lie.What we deserve are healthy, sexy bodies. Bodies that are firm, beautiful and strong. Those treats that abound are a trap. They may be good for minutes, but they are killers to our bodies and we know it.It's not that hard to say no. For me, it's not "I can't", it's "I won't!". I have to be the strongest now, but that strength stays with me forever. Passing on treats and keeping my workout strong is so important to my entire sense of well-being. I can do this because I have been doing it and frankl Read more:fight
Lessons 2007-11-26 07:57:00 Well, today started out good. I woke up and got on the treadmill before I turned on the computer. That is essential for me. Some days I spend two hours on the computer before I ever get moving at all.I have started the process to join a local church here. I have been here for 6 years just doing the church hop (very low on the aerobic scale), and now I have finally settled into one that I really like. It's small, friendly and not nuts, which are all big things in my book.Every week we read out of the chronological bible that we are studying, we read the portion of the bible that corresponds to the week of the year that we are currently in. Part of last week's text was about Saul's conversion from being a person who persecuted the new church to becoming a believer. This occurred on the road to Damascus and you can read about that here. Saul was spoken to by Jesus after He was done with his earthy mission and was no longer on the earth. Christ induced a blindness in Saul and sent him Read more:Lessons
It's nice 2007-11-24 12:16:00 Sigh, not my abs (yet). I wish they were.Last week I was writing about how I weigh in at my absolute lightest weight and consider that my weight, even if it doesn't last long. I have been thinking about all the different weights I have been this year. I started losing weight right about this time last year, although it didn't click for me until April.I belong to a weight loss site where they diet naked. That means that they are absolutely truthful about their weight loss. When I first started charting my losses on that site, I was still pretty heavy, but I remember hitting 220 and the owner of the site said that she remembered when she was 220 and how that pretty soon I would be out of that range. It's hard to believe that I am where I am right now, because it seems like it was just yesterday that I started up with that site. The time has really flown.The weight loss has been pretty steady, but I have gone from the 270's to the 250's, down to the 220's, off into Onederland, then
The Unmemeable Meme 2007-11-23 20:06:00 You can't do it. You can't pass it on or send it to your friends. You can not do it. Now that I have said that you don't have to participate, you won't be able to not meme this. So, if you give in, at least you can add the disclaimer to your blog that NONE of your readers have to follow suit. And drop me a line, I would love to read about everyone else's weirdness.The Unmeme Me Meme:Fifteen odd things about me:15. I learned everything I know about fixing computers by screwing them up and watching the techs try to fix what I did. I have a good memory.14. I keep wondering what a homosexually-themed Star Trek series would be like, but frankly, I don't think it would be much different than what they already did.13. I am hungry right now and trying not to think about it. I can't even read blogs right now because you are all writing about food! Stop it, damn it!!!12. I never trust my kids with babysitters.11. I worry about gaining back all 104 pounds plus another thousand or so.
Thankgiving Dinner 2007-11-22 17:59:00 Well, we had a nice Thanksgiving, although it started out bumpy. I was on the treadmill. Jon came down about 20 minutes into my walk and started playing on the computer in the other room nicely. Then about 10 minutes later Rachel came down and all hell broke loose. Jon and Rachel started fighting, Charlie started screaming and I got off the treadmill and onto the warpath.They do this to me each day they are off school. They just fight and make my walk a misery. We had words and I never did get back to my walk. I took a shower, then came down and told them that I was on strike. No Thanksgiving dinner. I told them they do not respect me and the one hour that I need each day they make terrible for me. I stalked off feeling miserable, a little bit later I offered to come off my strike if they would apologize and not do it again.So, I made dinner, I picked up Andy, one of my big old kids and brought him over for dinner. Dinner
was nice. I made everything the traditional way, but I ate sens
Laughter is the best medicine. 2007-11-22 06:41:00 Funny Doctor Jokes - submitted by real medical "professionals" 1. A man comes into the ER and yells, "My wife's going to have her baby in the cab!" I grabbed my stuff, rushed out to the cab, lifted the lady's dress, and began to take off her underwear. Suddenly I noticed that there were several cabs -and I was in the wrong one. Submitted by Dr. Mark MacDonald 2. At the beginning of my shift I placed a stethoscope on an elderly and slightly deaf female patient's anterior chest wall. "Big breaths," I instructed. "Yes, they used to be," replied the patient. Submitted by Dr. Richard Byrnes 3. One day I had to be the bearer of bad news when I told a wife that her husband had died of a massive myocardial infarct. Not more than five minutes later, I heard her reporting to the rest of the family that he had died of a "massive internal fart." Submitted by! Dr. Susan Steinberg 4. During a patient's two week follow-up appointment with his cardiologist, he informed me,
Weigh In Day 2007-11-21 06:15:00 Today I weigh 168. I never, ever thought I would see the 180's again in my life, let alone the 160's!! But here I am just breaking the barrier from the 170's. Down two pounds from last week and hoping like heck to keep up the momentum and sail through the rest of my 18 pounds left to lose.Chewing sugarless gum has really helped me a lot. I start right after a meal. When I know I have finished my portion but I am still hungry. The extra munching action kills my hunger and they say that the saliva helps digest the food better. I know that the gum has really helped keep me from overeating. Read more:Weigh
Help! 2007-12-21 15:55:00 I can't do it all. I can't make the cookies, clean the house, do the shopping, watch the kids, take the nap that I need so desperately, wash the dog that stinks so badly, call my husband to remind him to get bread and bagels on his way to Pittsburgh to get his parents, get the letter in the mail, get the tomatoes, eat dinner, balance the checkbook, clean the floors, do the laundry, get new nylons for Rachel, wrap the packages, vacuum the other floors, clean out the dog crate, get blankets for the dogs because snowy the dog from hell tore up teddies pillow, get ready for my sisters visit on Sunday, find the couch throw to cover the couch, make the bread, make the cinnamon buns, make the other stuff for treats since we will have company for 5 days, put out clean towels, put away the boots, shoes, clothes, clean the table cloth, get another play-doh pumper truck so that rachel and Charlie will stop fighting over the one that we do have, practice my singing for our choir, take a bath, ge
Goal!!! 2007-12-21 10:44:00 Surprise, surprise, surprise!!I got on the scale after my walk, and that's after 20 ounces of water and my fiber one bar this morning and I weight ---- drum roll please:160!Read on, I double posted today.
2007-12-21 07:11:00 Lately it feels like I am swimming through cold molasses. It seems like my whole routine is in tatters and I am so overwhelmed with the busyness of the season. Well, welcome to the human race, I guess. Everyone else is feeling the same, I am sure.The kids and teachers at the schools are thrilled to be getting off for two weeks. For me, this is when my big job begins. The kids are the ultimate mess machines. But I am going to try to stay calm.Chuck is going to pick up his parents and visit his aunt. He will be taking Jonathan with him. I wish we could all go, but we can't all fit and still bring them home too. I hope that he decides to leave tonite and stay overnight and then come back tomorrow. Then there would be less time on the road in one day. I worry about him having to drive 12 hours all in one crack.We have not seen Chuck's parents for nearly two years. My sister is also coming up on Sunday. I haven't seen her in several years too. This is my doctor-sister who gives me such g
A-Ok 2007-12-20 09:45:00 That test that I had to have repeated to see if I am bleeding digestively showed a clear negative result today. Thank you Lord! I was worried. I am glad to be ok. Thanks for the prayers.
Weigh in Day 2007-12-19 07:23:00 Today is weigh in day from Tales From The Scales. I am glad to report that I am down a pound to 164. Yesterday I was 162, but that didn't show up on the scales this morning. Slow and steady wins the race. So that's down one pound and I know that it's firm. Sometimes I lose one and the next day it is back, it fiddles around a little before it's really gone, but I can feel that in another three days or so, I will be down to the 162-3 mark and I like that. Going, going, it's going. Onward and downward (scale-wise).Today I increased my incline on the treadmill by one percent to nine percent. I decreased my speed by .1 mph to compensate. I can feel it in my leg muscles.Yesterday was our Christmas Concert for Jon and Charlie at school. They were so cute. Jon played his recorder with the rest of the kids, he had been so excited about that, and Charlie sang so well and then at the end, just as they were closing the curtain, he waved and said, "Bye!!" to the audience and everyone cracked u Read more:Weigh
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