Friday, December 20th, Cardio & Cafe

Happy Friday Botts:

I started wrapping happies for my party tomorrow night and I made dark chocolate fudge with pecans, salty nut bars, and rolo pretzel turtles.  Because of my temporary crown on my tooth, I did not eat any.  Yay/Boo!!!  So far, down 1 1/2 pounds without trying, go me!  My eats for today are:

Breakfast:  Coffee with Miralax

2nd Breakfast:  Oatmeal

Snack:  Fiber One Brownie

Lunch:  Protein Shake & Banana

Snack:  Fiber One Brownie

Dinner:  Soup or something soft

Snack:  Pudding

Exercise:  Got to cook and wrap big time tonight so that is where I will be expending my energy.

I hope everybody has a wonderful Friday and a fantastic weekend too.  I will be back on Monday Morning with my recap of my Christmas Party.  Gaby, I thought about you yesterday when I went on a mad dash to get another charger.  I have sixteen but found out I needed seventeen for an extra guest.  Went to 3 stores before I found any and they had two gold ones left.  Yep, I bought them both.  

Good morning, today is the first day of vacation for me let's see how this goes, I do really good when I'm structured at work so I'm hoping that because I have been sticking to my plan the head hunger won't come due to freedom of time. I'll just stay busy. I may turn into a gym fixture lol..i thought that 1200 cal is what I was going to be at for 16 weeks but according to my fit pal it's around 950-1000 and the only suggestions is had is to increase but my protein is between 80-100 plus so I think I don't need to worry about calories. Today I'm planning to have.....

chicken breast with some greens

egg drop soup

pork loin and spaghetti squash mock cheesy

two eggs smoked ham chunks

sugar free winky jello

sugar free popsicle 

And be a gym bum today (hang and play for hours) 

plus my usually 30 plus cardio 😜

Good job Nikki!!!  Your plan looks great.  Enjoy your gym time.  It's such a great feeling after a workout!!!

Gaby

I'm sad... I had to settle for elliptical at home. I'm iced in there are kids ice skating on my road sense noon lol 

Good job!  My calories stay around 900 a day.  Have a great weekend!

Good morning Gang!! Lots and lots of last minute things going on in our household today. Thankfully I'm only working a half day and then my holiday gets started. We were supposed to leave at noon to head out of town for David's family Christmas. Now it looks like it's going to be tomorrow morning. His car decided to act up this morning. Serena is running a temp and the Bio Mom thinks it could be streph. Oh Joy!!! I haven't finished the laundry so I'm not sure that everyone has enough socks and underwear for the week.

StepFather is still in the hospital. His pneumonia is clearing up remarkably well. The colostomy & gi tract thing is still another story. He has the nasal gastric tube in to relieve the pressure. Very little stool is passing. Xrays have confirmed a kinked intestine. Not strong enough to withstand surgery so we're still waiting to see if things will "straighten" out on they're own.

I must confess a bump in yesterday's plan. We were going to have Breakfast for dinner. Youngest son did me a huge favor and cooked dinner for everyone so it was ready when I came home from work. He made frozen pizza's. Nothing fancy but it was incredibly thoughful. I was busy talking and eating at the same time. BIG NO NO for me!!! 3 maybe 4 bites into my dinner and the pizza got stuck. Ouch!! Ughh!! Spent the rest of my heaving praying for it to go one way or the other. Finally got comfortable enough to go to sleep. Calorie wise I did much better than if I'd eaten a full meal but YIKES!! That's the first time that's happened in a long time. I should be thankful that my tool is sending reminders that it's still there and ready for the new Year.

Today's plan:

Commute: Coffee

Breakfast:  Oatmeal

Lunch: Clam Chowder

snack: COFFEE (the gourmet loaded stuff)

Dinner:  Chicken pot pie (or something soft like that)

Exercise is going to be about 500 extra trips up and down stairs loading the car and getting ready for the family trip.

- Iris

Iris,

Isn't it crazy how hectic things can get???  Just remember, one thing at a time.  Your spirit is beautiful and will carry you through all of it with flying colors!!!  Or at least red and green colors considering the season!

Enjoy all of the ups and accept the downs.  They too shall pass.  Merry Christmas Tidings for a beautiful family filled weekend.

Gaby

Iris, I thought I was the only one who could not talk and eat at the same time.  I have to be careful all the time and remember to chew, chew, chew.  Be safe on your trip tomorrow.  Merry Christmas!

Good morning BOTTs.  Happy Friday!

I OD'd on the Christmas breakfast this morning at work....proof??  HICCUP!  HICCUP!  HICCUP!  HICCUP!  HICCUP!

Oh my my my....I did for the most part make good choices, however, my quantities were a tad overboard when it came to the honeybaked ham slice and a slice of quiche. I stayed away from all the breads, tortillas, and cheesy potato casserole, bagels, etc.

Is it weird to say that I'm glad it's over?  hahaha.  I am now in a food coma.  Thankfully, one of my coworkers brought in starbucks coffee with all the fixins.  Man....this coffee is STRONG.  So all I can picture right now is me walking around my office bloated and wired from the strong coffee.  What a sight!  What a crazy mix.  hahaha...good thing it's Friday. 

NOTE***  This part has zero to do with Cardio and Cafe**** Aside from that, I have to let my true feelings out about something else.  I am taking my lexapro and welbutrin religiously but I can feel hints of depression beginning to cloud over me.  I have "different" kind of relationship with my husband.  I do love him and I know he loves me.  We are good friends, but he has had no desire at all to have an intimate relationship with me for well over 5 years and even before that it was sporadic at best.  I have done my best to get over the rejection and just to appreciate what we have so I don't feel full of hostility toward him.  Things are pretty good now, and he's been extremely helpful and supportive about and with Heather.  I believe this onset of anxieties/emotions is brought on by him leaving for 3 weeks.  He is going to visit his son, daughter in law, and granddaughter in Georgia.  He leaves tonight.  I support him 100% and I know this is a well deserved vacation for him. I am not going because I can't take that long off of work, I can't leave Heather at home (she can't miss any more school) and I have horses and dogs to take care of.  Besides the fact that it's too much financially to take on.  I do not resent this at all.  Over the years, I have tried to become as independent as possible but I think I am having mixed feelings knowing that he will be gone.  That's kind of strange because we are friendly to each other but it's definitely not a conventional marriage. It's a lonely one and I know this is as good as it gets with him.  We have been together for almost 14 years.  I am not looking for advice, you don't even need to feel obligated to comment on it, I think I just need to put it in writing so that it won't keep swimming around in my head.  I am trying to ward off my depression and I know I have so very much to be thankful for!   I am counting my blessing as I write this and debate whether to let my feelings flow right here for all to see or to delete it and just keep it to myself.  Accccckkkk...sometimes I over think things....maybe I ought to just get back to being back on track together with my pals here. 

Breakfast:  slice of broccoli/cheese quiche, slice of ham, fruit, slice of turkey bacon

Snack:  starbucks STRONG coffee

Lunch:  probably will still be full from the holiday breakfast

Snack:  vitatop deep chocolate

Dinner: shredded chicken taco

Snack:  SF hot chocolate

Exercise:  hopefully skipping around the mall to tie up any loose ends for Christmas.  : )

Hugs to you all.

Gaby

{{{Hugs}}}.  I'm listening.