Dumpster Diving

My dump for the day is this: a coworker "accidentially" let slip to me that the boss is considering moving the office location to a site forty-minutes' drive away. If I stay in this little part time job, it will take all my pay just to drive back and forth.  Even worse, it seems I was not included in the loop because they do not want to be inconvenienced by me leaving before they are ready to cut me loose.  I'm a great woker, never absent or late, do so much more than my job description says and after two years, they don't give a rat's ass about any of it.

The job market is still bad around here, so I don't know how soon, if ever, I will find another position to help me make ends meet. Today I am sad, but after a good night's sleep I am sure I will start to see things in perspectvie. 

SO hard not to eat crap and make  myself ill.

Hope your day gets better.  My husband's motto is "Life is an Attitude".  During this Holiday Season, it's easy to get bogged down, but it's also a good time to look at all the positives in your life.  Take time to count your blessings.  It's a good distraction.  :) 

I read something awhile back, can't remember the book.  It really makes me think about why I'm overeating.  Using the initials HALT = Hungry? Angry? Lonesome? Tired?   When I use this process, most of time, it's because I'm tired.  Probably, because of major sleep issues.  I wake up a 2 am and am up for the rest of the day.
Deb

 Mad at myself because I ate a handful of almonds yesterday which was not on my schedule for yesterday.  Mad again, because I feel like I have to schedule everything!

Hi Tess,

   Consider the almonds a boost to your heart health. Scheduling is a great tool, one that we should all put to use in some way, but life is too short to be scheduled to the point of misery.  No one is perfect.  Forgive yourself if you feel you need to, and keep doing the fantastic job you've been doing!! 

I'm recovering from the flu.  Feeling much better today. Still not alot of energy, but I know it will come.  The siliver lining is that I'm now down 2.6#.  My goal is to keep it off and lose some more to go with it. 

I am a person of faith. The enemy is always looking for a foot hold to come in and destroy. But there is nothing that God and I can't handle together. God is my refuge and my strength.

This is a Weight Loss Battle. We have to take our position at our Battle Stations and let nothing deter us from the course we've set.

We CAN Accomplish Anything We Set Our Minds To.  We are a TEAM where Together Everyone Accomplishes More!! 

Just know...YOU are in my prayers and Prayer Changes Things!

Hi Kathy,

   I find it hard to workout when my hubby is home too.  But we still need to find a way to do some type of exercise.  Can you exercise is another room?  Get your hubby to do some type of exercise with you?  Maybe do some type of alternative exercise....take a walk, scrub the floors, or pick a room and spend an hour really cleaning and scrubing it down?  

   When our teenage sons were going through the anger stage, we bought them a punching bag.  It worked wonders.  So if your feeling the anxiety building up, then you MUST find the time to go use your punching bag.  But also find a way to find some peaceful time too...a bubble bath, a good book, etc... Some way to reconnect with your inner peace.  

   What about a candlelite lunch / dinner for two?  Might make the day better for the both of you. 

   Keeping you in my prayers. 
  

i hurt, hurt, hurt.  the weather turned cold and every move i make is agony.  i just want to crawl into a hole, curl into a ball, and hibernate til it warms up and my muscles and joints stop griping.

The night before last I was really down but I went to bed and woke up feeling better. I ate clean all day yesterday.  I got home from school and my hubby left for work and I sat down to watch Glee (w/Ricky Martin...YUM!!). I wasn't depressed or angry or stressed or anything.  I made the concious choice to eat 7 mini SF no bake cookies that I made with Whipped topping.  It was only about at 250 calorie "binge" but it was weird because I don't know why I did it. It made me feel sick but I didn't really beat myself up about it either.  It put me at 1450 calories for the day and I didn't work out.  But this morning I got on the scale and I was down another pound?? Maybe my metabolism needed the higher cal day? I have been eating right around 1000 calories a day.  Who knows? I need to go shopping this afternoon because I am out of all of my healthy stuff.  All we can do is keep choosing to move on. 

Some people swear by calorie cycling method.    One day higher, another lower.... and so on..
That way you make the body guess and it does not go into a storage mode...

I know that when I cycle : 2000 cal followed by 800, then 1000, 1600, etc... with average weekly close to 1200-1400 cal - I lose weight.