Well, ok, it IS halloween. And I DID let D TorT tonite, (at the mall). And I am now enjoying the fruits of my labor. Hehehe, we got some good candy.
Our day started out with a really long walk. My coworker Matt, my friend Dina, and I had planned on doing 13.1 miles out at White Rock Lake today. Yes, its been a month since I've walked a LONG walk. I knew it was going to be hard. And oh it was. So while Matt went on ahead at a potty break stop for the rest of us, we only did 9.3 miles and did the full loop around the lake. Now thats nothing to sneer at, 9.3 miles IS tough, but it's no 13.1 miles. I SO need to go get new shoes. Again, my feet were killing me around mile 7, I think. That last 2.3 miles was awful. But we did it. And afterward, Dina, D, and I celebrated with a yummy brunch at Barbecs, a little restaurant down near White Rock.
After getting home for a nice nap for mommy, D and I hit up a fall festival this evening. It was at a big outdoor mall, so there were bounce houses, all kinds of games, plus the stores were doing TorTing. And apparently, mommy isn't as set in her beliefs on TorTing as I had thought, as I let D do it...lol Oh well. It was fun and I'm reaping the benefits of some of that tonite. It was a good day!
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Friday, October 30, 2009
Crazy week...
Of course the weather hasn't helped. I am sick and TIRED of all the rain we are getting! It could stand to move along to areas that are in an actual DROUGHT. lol I really try to thank God for it as we typically need it so bad, esp during our 100 degree summers, but I think it's bringing everyone down. Traffic has been awful, people just seem to be more aggravated, and I know we are all ready for some sunny, cool fall days here in Dallas.
After my post on Tuesday about what we had PLANNED for dinner, things got thrown for a loop. When we got home, we found that construction on the street near us, had knocked out power to half our street. So D and I ended up at a hotel for the night. It wasn't bad really, was clean (enough...lol), had a hot shower, and D slept all night (the best part!), so I have no complaints on the experience. It just would have been nice to have slept in my own bed, and had my computer.
That did throw off my week in terms of eating though. And I have a feeling the weekend is not going to be much better, especially with tomorrow being National Candy Day. Oh wait...well...some people call it Halloween. We don't "do" Hween but I am going to let D dress up this year to go to a fall festival (not sure which one yet, I need to make a decision!) tomorrow evening. He's going to be a pirate! Arggggh matey! This whole week has been dress up week at his school for Red Ribbon Week (encouraging staying drug free), so I'm throwing it all in with that. There will be pics soon on our Adventure Blog soon of what all he dressed up with this week for each day's theme.
I've been getting in my challenge time though. Although both Wednesday and yesterday, I squeeked by with the bare 20 minutes. This morning though, I got up and did the 30 minute WATP, and either at lunch or this evening, I need to get in another 30 min. Tomorrow, my coworker and a friend and I are walking 13.1 miles. So we'll DEFINITELY get the 3rd hour long session I need for the week (times about 4.5!) and then Sunday, I can do a light 20 min to work out the kinks from the long walk.
After my post on Tuesday about what we had PLANNED for dinner, things got thrown for a loop. When we got home, we found that construction on the street near us, had knocked out power to half our street. So D and I ended up at a hotel for the night. It wasn't bad really, was clean (enough...lol), had a hot shower, and D slept all night (the best part!), so I have no complaints on the experience. It just would have been nice to have slept in my own bed, and had my computer.
That did throw off my week in terms of eating though. And I have a feeling the weekend is not going to be much better, especially with tomorrow being National Candy Day. Oh wait...well...some people call it Halloween. We don't "do" Hween but I am going to let D dress up this year to go to a fall festival (not sure which one yet, I need to make a decision!) tomorrow evening. He's going to be a pirate! Arggggh matey! This whole week has been dress up week at his school for Red Ribbon Week (encouraging staying drug free), so I'm throwing it all in with that. There will be pics soon on our Adventure Blog soon of what all he dressed up with this week for each day's theme.
I've been getting in my challenge time though. Although both Wednesday and yesterday, I squeeked by with the bare 20 minutes. This morning though, I got up and did the 30 minute WATP, and either at lunch or this evening, I need to get in another 30 min. Tomorrow, my coworker and a friend and I are walking 13.1 miles. So we'll DEFINITELY get the 3rd hour long session I need for the week (times about 4.5!) and then Sunday, I can do a light 20 min to work out the kinks from the long walk.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
What I did TODAY
So...in focusing on the "daily" concept, I can say, today has been a decent one so far. I did accidentally leave my frozen meal at home, but instead of grabbing crap food, I planned out a grocery store run at lunchtime, complete with getting a few things to have for dinner tonite. So I've made good choices.
Breakfast was a banana and a cereal bar. I had a cup of no sugar added hot cocoa with a shot of coffee midmorning. Lunch was a Stauffers meatloaf frozen meal and some baby carrots. My afternoon snack is going to be a fat free yogurt. Dinner is going to be homemade pizzas (whole wheat tortillas, Ragu, reduced fat mozzarella, and pepperoni/canadian bacon, plus a romaine lettuce/tomato salad with Zesty Italian light dressing. My evening snack is going to be grapes to end my day at 1132 calories.
Output: I hadn't planned on getting up early this morning, but my eyes popped open at 5:15am and I was wide awake. So, I got up and worked out, ended up doing the 1 Mile WATP since with the stretches she has you do at the end, its 21 minutes total. I don't think I even broke a sweat doing it, but I could definitely feel it in my arms and thighs, it felt really good.
Breakfast was a banana and a cereal bar. I had a cup of no sugar added hot cocoa with a shot of coffee midmorning. Lunch was a Stauffers meatloaf frozen meal and some baby carrots. My afternoon snack is going to be a fat free yogurt. Dinner is going to be homemade pizzas (whole wheat tortillas, Ragu, reduced fat mozzarella, and pepperoni/canadian bacon, plus a romaine lettuce/tomato salad with Zesty Italian light dressing. My evening snack is going to be grapes to end my day at 1132 calories.
Output: I hadn't planned on getting up early this morning, but my eyes popped open at 5:15am and I was wide awake. So, I got up and worked out, ended up doing the 1 Mile WATP since with the stretches she has you do at the end, its 21 minutes total. I don't think I even broke a sweat doing it, but I could definitely feel it in my arms and thighs, it felt really good.
Monday, October 26, 2009
No more promises!
It seems like everytime I post on here about how I'm "gonna do good this week" or "have plans to do good", I mess it up. So I guess I need to really take the name of this blog to heart. "Daily". No more promises of what I WILL do. Just...doing it. And as of today, I have one day down, and a lifetime to go.
I've been doing AWFUL lately with eating, but I really tried "today" to be good. Slacking off on utilizing people for accountability, I think, has been a big part of that. So this evening, when I kept wanting to change my plan, I texted a friend, (can I phone a friend? lol), and her swift reply got me through what I WANTED to do, and through to what I NEEDED to do. D had a rough day at school and ended up getting on red, and all I wanted to do was grab crap food and go home to put him to bed. But I kept repeating to myself "don't let his sad choices affect YOUR choices". So as soon as I texted her, we headed to the mall. I got in a 40 minute walk first. It was a bit slow as my foot is still bothering me, but we kept going. After that we stopped to eat dinner, and then completed it with another 20 minute walk before heading home. Whew!
So back to posting my food intake. Breakfast was a granola bar. My lunch was a Weight Watchers ziti meal and a banana. Afternoon snack was a tbsp of peanut butter. Dinner was CFA. I had a grilled chicken sandwich, no sauce, and a side salad with light italian dressing. This evening for a snack, I had two whole wheat tortillas with some sprays of I Can't Believe It's Not Butter to end my day at 1154 calories.
Output: a total of an hour long walking. The challenge between Teresa and I restarted today since I bombed it last Thursday, so we are BACK in gear on that.
I've been doing AWFUL lately with eating, but I really tried "today" to be good. Slacking off on utilizing people for accountability, I think, has been a big part of that. So this evening, when I kept wanting to change my plan, I texted a friend, (can I phone a friend? lol), and her swift reply got me through what I WANTED to do, and through to what I NEEDED to do. D had a rough day at school and ended up getting on red, and all I wanted to do was grab crap food and go home to put him to bed. But I kept repeating to myself "don't let his sad choices affect YOUR choices". So as soon as I texted her, we headed to the mall. I got in a 40 minute walk first. It was a bit slow as my foot is still bothering me, but we kept going. After that we stopped to eat dinner, and then completed it with another 20 minute walk before heading home. Whew!
So back to posting my food intake. Breakfast was a granola bar. My lunch was a Weight Watchers ziti meal and a banana. Afternoon snack was a tbsp of peanut butter. Dinner was CFA. I had a grilled chicken sandwich, no sauce, and a side salad with light italian dressing. This evening for a snack, I had two whole wheat tortillas with some sprays of I Can't Believe It's Not Butter to end my day at 1154 calories.
Output: a total of an hour long walking. The challenge between Teresa and I restarted today since I bombed it last Thursday, so we are BACK in gear on that.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Outdoor weekend
I'm so glad the rain went away for a weekend! We had such a great weekend, and got to spend some time outside enjoying the weather!
On Saturday, we hit up a big DAM playdate, (but really late, on purpose), so got to see a few mama's we don't normally see. Then we met up with a new DAM friend to let our two boys play (she has a 6 year old). They did so great together! I was cracking up though. At first, they were both saying "I'M the boss!" at the top of the slide/"office" as they called it. And we waited with baited breath to see how that would go. Well, finally her son said "Hey! Why don't we BOTH be the boss?!" D thought a second and goes "ok!" And they were fine ever since. It was hilarious to watch, but I'm glad we let them sort it out on their own, they just needed to come to a mutual understanding...lol. My arms/shoulders are SORE though from pushing them on the tire swing, but they loved it. It was a little scary though as twice D slipped right out under the swing and fell on the ground. Silly boy, keep your booty on the tire and hold on!!
After that, we joined our friends for dinner at a new southern cooking place. The kids were so cute "taking turns" to tell the others to "go to sleep". It was funny.
Sunday was quiet enough. We hit up my grandma's house for lunch, and my cousin and his wife were there as well, so we all played outside with D for awhile. You know he loved the extra attention, especially with Erin there. He LOVES her. After we left there, I wasn't quite ready to go home and wanted to go do something fun with D, so we ended up seeing Astroboy at the SMG. I really liked the movie, it definitely kept D interested the whole time, which is always a plus!
Food and output both sucked this weekend. Output for me was off because of my foot. The place where D dropped the bowling ball on it has been nicely bruised and swollen all weekend, so we didn't get out for the long walk we wanted to do. There was just no way. At least next weekend looks good weather-wise to get out on a long one.
On Saturday, we hit up a big DAM playdate, (but really late, on purpose), so got to see a few mama's we don't normally see. Then we met up with a new DAM friend to let our two boys play (she has a 6 year old). They did so great together! I was cracking up though. At first, they were both saying "I'M the boss!" at the top of the slide/"office" as they called it. And we waited with baited breath to see how that would go. Well, finally her son said "Hey! Why don't we BOTH be the boss?!" D thought a second and goes "ok!" And they were fine ever since. It was hilarious to watch, but I'm glad we let them sort it out on their own, they just needed to come to a mutual understanding...lol. My arms/shoulders are SORE though from pushing them on the tire swing, but they loved it. It was a little scary though as twice D slipped right out under the swing and fell on the ground. Silly boy, keep your booty on the tire and hold on!!
After that, we joined our friends for dinner at a new southern cooking place. The kids were so cute "taking turns" to tell the others to "go to sleep". It was funny.
Sunday was quiet enough. We hit up my grandma's house for lunch, and my cousin and his wife were there as well, so we all played outside with D for awhile. You know he loved the extra attention, especially with Erin there. He LOVES her. After we left there, I wasn't quite ready to go home and wanted to go do something fun with D, so we ended up seeing Astroboy at the SMG. I really liked the movie, it definitely kept D interested the whole time, which is always a plus!
Food and output both sucked this weekend. Output for me was off because of my foot. The place where D dropped the bowling ball on it has been nicely bruised and swollen all weekend, so we didn't get out for the long walk we wanted to do. There was just no way. At least next weekend looks good weather-wise to get out on a long one.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Well I "think" its Friday...
After being off on Thursday and up all night Wednesday, today def didn't seem like Friday! But ummmm I'm def not complaining!
I realized that I did not do a THING on Thursday as far as exercise, so I am out of the challenge that Teresa and I were doing. So congrats to her!!! We're starting it up again on Monday though, its such great motivation to keep moving!
It worked out well for that though, my foot has been bothering me since D dropped the bowling ball on it the other night. When I got home tonight and took off my shoes, the top of my foot was a VERY pretty shade of purple and swollen. I don't think its broken, can move my toes and stuff, but it is badly bruised.
We had a fantastic evening at Movie On the Lawn (in the church)...lol they moved it inside due to all the rain we've had lately. D had a great time chowing down on hotdogs, popcorn, and watching Bolt. He did really good, though I knew he was still pretty tired. It was great to see some of my favorite mamas and kiddos!
I realized that I did not do a THING on Thursday as far as exercise, so I am out of the challenge that Teresa and I were doing. So congrats to her!!! We're starting it up again on Monday though, its such great motivation to keep moving!
It worked out well for that though, my foot has been bothering me since D dropped the bowling ball on it the other night. When I got home tonight and took off my shoes, the top of my foot was a VERY pretty shade of purple and swollen. I don't think its broken, can move my toes and stuff, but it is badly bruised.
We had a fantastic evening at Movie On the Lawn (in the church)...lol they moved it inside due to all the rain we've had lately. D had a great time chowing down on hotdogs, popcorn, and watching Bolt. He did really good, though I knew he was still pretty tired. It was great to see some of my favorite mamas and kiddos!
Thursday, October 22, 2009
D's EEG Part Two
Well, we ended up leaving the house around 5amish to slowly head our way to the hospital for D's EEG. He'd been trying to go to sleep at home, so I'd promised him we could go play at McDs for a bit. Only one problem, the McD's playarea here doesn't open til 6. And we got there at 515, and D was already asking for the music to be turned up in the car so he could go to sleep...lol I headed towards Childrens, in the rain, having to keep D awake, being exhausted myself, and praying we'd find a McD's. We found two of them nearish the hospital, but no play area. So at 6am, we went ahead and went in to see the trains there. And we found out they don't run til 7am. LOL Oh what a trial that was. So we ended up just going up to the EEG unit around 6:30ish and just sat and waited. I let D play on my phone and he did just fine.
All that said, we finally got to 8am, our appt time. D did great. He resisted a little bit at first, and tried to bring his hands up some as she was putting the nodes on but as soon as I caught ahold of one of his hands, he settled right down. After the nodes were on, you could tell he was just about to go to sleep, in that blissful state right before you pass out. She did make him wake up enough to start the test, which included blowing on a pinwheel for 3 minutes (apparently it stresses the brain). Then she let him pass out asleep for 20 minutes, and finally woke him up to put a stroble light in front of him while blowing bubbles at him. He had his own little rave going! LOL He was SO not awake through all of that. But its over now. I'm a little concerned at some of what she told me she was seeing, not really understanding what it is (but I know its something that was on his previous EEG), and not sure if it will mean an automatic abnormal EEG or not. But I have to wait til Monday to see that.
The rest of our day was peaceful, we got home and both passed out asleep around 10am. I slept til 1230 or so, but then was wide awake, and I woke D up at 3pm. We hit up a playground with some friends of ours, and then tried a new diner, Rockin Rogers, for dinner. And D is now passed out in the bed for the night, and after a quick load of laundry, I will be joining him!
All that said, we finally got to 8am, our appt time. D did great. He resisted a little bit at first, and tried to bring his hands up some as she was putting the nodes on but as soon as I caught ahold of one of his hands, he settled right down. After the nodes were on, you could tell he was just about to go to sleep, in that blissful state right before you pass out. She did make him wake up enough to start the test, which included blowing on a pinwheel for 3 minutes (apparently it stresses the brain). Then she let him pass out asleep for 20 minutes, and finally woke him up to put a stroble light in front of him while blowing bubbles at him. He had his own little rave going! LOL He was SO not awake through all of that. But its over now. I'm a little concerned at some of what she told me she was seeing, not really understanding what it is (but I know its something that was on his previous EEG), and not sure if it will mean an automatic abnormal EEG or not. But I have to wait til Monday to see that.
The rest of our day was peaceful, we got home and both passed out asleep around 10am. I slept til 1230 or so, but then was wide awake, and I woke D up at 3pm. We hit up a playground with some friends of ours, and then tried a new diner, Rockin Rogers, for dinner. And D is now passed out in the bed for the night, and after a quick load of laundry, I will be joining him!
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