New Year, Big Goal

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Sunflower_ said:
Hows today bud?
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Today's OK, it just started for me, though.

Yesterday was also good. I mentioned the dreaded salad, which was good in the end. I'm still working on the half-hour workout for lifting, I'm down to 45 minutes, but I spent a lot of time setting up the weights. So that's a night-before activity, I reckon.

Under calories for the day yesterday, even though we did calzones (I loaded mine up with lots of vegetables, little bit of cheese, little bit of ham).

I'm finding that cutting milk from my routine is a huge calorie cutter, but I also really miss my glass of milk!

Have a good day everyone!
 
Hi LJ. I sometimes (almost always) feel like your son the minute I walk in the door. Life can be so tiring & home can be so blissful. Kids are exhausting!
Have you tried drinking low-fat milk? It's good having you back & seeing you getting back on track.
 
Cate, we do have low-fat (1%), but a 12 ounce glass is still 200 calories. Also, your signature quote reminds me of dialog from Conan the Barbarian.
Conan: "Crom laughs at your four winds. He laughs from his mountain."
Subotai: "My god is stronger. He is the everlasting sky! Your god lives underneath him."​
I will quote that movie whenever possible. Even the theme song gives me additional strength.

So I was pure misery to my kids yesterday, and I have no idea why. I just wasn't having it, whatever it was. Everything they said or did just irritated me. Maybe it was the aftermath of dental work? Guilt was tripled when my daughter said "We should respond to hate with love!" Ugh... that cut deep. I went into my room to mope for a few minutes, and felt a lot better after a few deep breaths.

Other than those 30 minutes, and the fact I had to eat dinner on the right side of my mouth only, things were good. Did my yoga, stayed under calories, losing weight. As the weekend approaches, I need to take stock of what my responsibilities are to myself, and what can I do to keep myself occupied. Weather's spoda to be tolerable, so I should be able to keep myself kinda busy in the garage, and have the kids play in the driveway. Doubtful they'll want to, but a girl can dream.

My daughter's hosting her first sleepover this weekend, which is kind of scary to us, because she can be... uh... emotional.
 
Probably a stupid question but: did you apologize to the John-spawn?
I wish you fine weather and cooperative humans.
 
LaMaria said:
did you apologize to the John-spawn?
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I usually do, didn't do it this time. I'll resolve when I pick them up today.
 
Little John said:
have the kids play in the driveway.
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Ahh are you from a neighbourhood where they can do that? That's so nice. In England you'd either be run over immediately or stolen by a man in a white van never to be seen again. My mum had to drive us to a field or a park for playing, you couldn't do it in the street when I was a kidlet. You only get a driveway over here if you're quite well off. I have a rubbish bin space out front and that is it! Everything is smaller in Englandddd (except my butt, which remains the same regardless of geographical location).
 
Little John said:
My daughter's hosting her first sleepover this weekend, which is kind of scary to us, because she can be... uh... emotional.
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I have 2 pieces of advice: 1. Hide. 2. Just assume that someone is going to end up in the bathroom crying. It may be a kid or it may be you. lol!
 
So the net damage for last weekend is that I'm down 1 lb from last Friday instead of the goal of 2 lbs. But I am down from 366.4 to 357.4, a total of 9 lbs in about 3 weeks. And that's A-O-K. Also worth noting is that my fat percentage has gone down by 1.3%

I skipped my row yesterday, I'm not really sure why. I had the time for it, but I think I'm just kind of tired of doing the go-slow-row stuff. I'll do it tonight, though.

Weekend - I mentioned the sleepover. My wife is preparing a diabetic's nightmare for their dessert: Rice Krispies Treats. I think I'll have a beer instead, since I already plan on picking some up tonight (local brewery has something delicious available). I think tonight we're celebrating the Trumpocalypse by avoiding anything resembling a news feed. Probably a couple episodes of Lemony Snicket on Netflix.

jen_renee said:
Just assume that someone is going to end up in the bathroom crying. It may be a kid or it may be you. lol!
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Consider it assumed.
LaMaria said:
Can you have a sleepover somewhere as well? :p
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Not if I want to have a happy wife!
 
Sunflower_ said:
Ahh are you from a neighbourhood where they can do that?
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Missed yours - We have a driveway that's set from the road enough so they can be safe, but we do have a busy street, so we park our cars on the end of the driveway and make sure they stay within someone's sight. They're also pretty smart about the cars, probably cuz cars are ever-present.
 
Good luck with the sleepover LJ. Well done on being down 1lb. I know you wanted more, but a pound is a pound :)
 
Sleepover was a success, though an interesting thing. The girls were having a grand ol' time recreate the one scene from the movie "Sing" where the girl bunnies were chanting "Oh my gosh, look at that butt". We were reprimanding, but pretending not to hear it when they were using soft voices. But then they got bored with 'butt' and replaced it with other things that were somewhat more inappropriate, and fairly unstoppable. So my wife was talking to her about it the next day after the friend left, and reminded her that child molesters are bad (paraphrasing here), and asked if anyone's ever done anything inappropriate. Long pause... "Addyson and I spanked each other last night." Sigh... what the flying fish. I guess it's not the worst news she could have shared with us, but WTF. If she was sixteen instead of six, I'd probably be more discombobulated,

Anyway, weekend was OK, I was under better control than the weekend before, and planned around bad eating (e.g., pizza for dinner? Have a small breakfast and small snacks throughout the day).

Exercise was good, I think I've "broken the wall" on rowing at last - at least I felt like I enjoyed Friday's row and had a good output. I'm actually looking forward to this afternoon's row!
 
Thanks for the support, ladies, I need it after last night g'damn debacle. My wife came home from work with a fever, which put us down to 1.5 parents. My kids were in Monday mode, which meant short-tempered and picking at each other. Those are the ingredients, the "meal" was the total meltdown of everyone in the house about half an hour after the kids' bedtime. I was so pissed - still am. I know it will pass, but right now, I'm so fed up with the bullcrap they're throwing at me. Sigh.

Add to that, my weight is up again, WTF. I stay below goal during the week, and run a deficit on the weekends, why can't I just frickin' lose the damn weight!!!

Such a sh!tty mood right now.

On the plus side, I rowed yesterday while watching Black Mirror, which is a good combination. I watched the episode where people "pay" for their existence by generating electricity on stationary bikes. I was fully aware of the irony.
 
@Little John

New to the forum but just started to get caught up on this thread and it sounds like you're committed and ready to make this the best year for you ever! It seems as though yesterday was a bit down but that's ok, we all have roadblocks on our journey to better health!!

Just wanted to say that i'm here for support and advice and I know you can do this! You got this @Little John !!
 
I haz no children. That said... I´m usually exhausted after two hours around kids, so I´m not surprised it gets a bit much for parents sometimes.
 
Thanks! The moodiness passed shortly after I hit the Post button. Confession's good for something, right? Working from home today, managing to avoid too much nibbling, which is good, but I'm also avoiding water, which is bad. Pee's the right color, though, so I guess I'm doing OK.

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