Wednesday, November 30, 2011- Day 6, Cruise

Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Day 6, Cruise- day 2

CURT: LOSS: 1.6 lbs TOTAL LOSS: 31.0 lbs
JAMIE: GAIN: 0.4lbs TOTAL LOSS: 14.2 lbs

Breakfast:
C & J: 1- 20 oz. diet mocha (about 35 calories each),

Lunch:
C & J: sausages and eggs

Dinner:
C & J: meatballs and mixed stir-fry veggies (and both were FABULOUS!)
and late night jalapeno peppers and oat bran muffins

Water:
C: 4 quarts
J: 4.5 quarts

So I'm really happy for Curt, even tho I'm mad at him right now about something totally unrelated, and I know that I won't be mad in an hour or so. He hit a huge personal goal today and cleared a decade! I, on the other hand, am consistently putting on a few ounces every day. *Sigh....* I'd like to say I'm not losing heart but... I'd be lying. I'm already mad, so I'm moody... Anyways, I look at this and think, "I'm trying so hard, and I'm really depriving myself of things that I LOVE, just to put the weight back on?" It's beyond frustrating really. On a different note, I'm 7 lbs. from not being "overweight," and right now, that is my biggest goal.

Now... on to more... annoying issues. I had to cool down before I wrote about this. So we moved in here the weekend before Halloween. We met our neighbors, very nice couple. The guy is an ex-cop and just returned home from Iraq. Wife is studying to be a nurse, and I could be wrong, but I think that she is ALOT older than him. Anyways, Monday afternoon I got home from picking kids up at school, and he calls me over to his house and lets me know that he stands in his back yard and watches me thru my bedroom window at night. And then proceeds to show me the angle that he looks from and then.... hold on to your lunches... walks up behind me and "shows me" how it makes him feel. Oh.... this girl was pissed! I elbowed him in the chest and then left while he begged me to stay and "talk." I marched in the house and told the kids that "I hate that man!" pointing in the neighbor's direction and went upstairs and told Curt. I wouldn't tell Curt til he promised not to stand up and go over there and go crazy. So right now... we're waiting, praying it doesn't happen again, but if it does, I will let Curt go over and have a conversation of his own. I will be honest, I was so shocked by it that I didn't come off assertive enough, aside from an elbow to the ribs... I told the kids to stay away from him, don't go in his house, etc. Of course... I get the "why?" out of a couple of them, so they think that the neighbor guy tried to kiss mom. How else do you explain that to little girls? The worst part about this is that I'm afraid to even go outside if Curt or Ethan aren't with me. Before I walk outside, I look to make sure he's not out there and I haven't seen him since this happened, but I'm dreading the next time I do.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011- Day 5, Cruise

Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Day 5, Cruise Phase, day 1

Curt: Loss: 0.2 lbs Total loss: 29.4 lbs
Jamie: gain: 0.2 lbs Total loss: 14.6 lbs

Breakfast:
C & J: omelet

Lunch:
J: leftover meatloaf

Late afternoon snack:
C: jerky

Dinner:
C & J: green bean, mushroom, chicken bake

Water:
C: 2 quarts, 1- 100 calorie Starbucks coffees, 2- Bud Lights
J: 4 quarts, 1- 100 calorie Starbucks coffees, 1 small shot of birthday cake vodka

So Curt weighed in this afternoon and was down 1.4 lbs from this morning's weigh on so we're hoping for really good numbers there tomorrow, like a mini-goal that involves a reward. Not a food reward, but a "reward." Sorry Sandy if that was too much.... hahaha!

My weight number is really hovering right at the same number for the past 4 days. While I'm frustrated, it's not too bad. BUT... we're getting ready to go to bed and I checked to kind of see what I am in for in the morning and I am up 6 WHOPPING POUNDS! I did just drink a bunch of water and dinner not that long ago. I'm hoping it will all flush thru me by morning.

Back to Sons of Anarchy....

Monday, November 28, 2011- Day 4, Attack

Monday, November 28, 2011
Day 4- Attack

Curt: loss: 1.6 lbs Total loss: 29.2 lbs
Jamie: gain: 1.0 lbs Total loss: 14.8 lbs

Lunch:
C: patty melt
J: leftover roast beef

Dinner:
C & J: meatloaf

Water:
C: 3 quarts
J: 3 quarts

Exercise:
J: 35 minutes of P90X


First... I need to say Happy Birthday to my daughter, Brenna, who turns 11 today!

Second... CURT HIT A NEW GOAL! Woohoo!!! Of course... he lost what I gained. But that's ok. Funny thing was... all day long yesterday I was weighing in lower than my original morning weight and then I ate dinner and that was the end of that. So I'm hoping that tomorrow will be a better day.

I started P90X this morning. I couldn't even finish the whole work out. I'm thinking that I'm going to have to work up to doing a whole work out.

Sunday, November 27, 2011- Day 3, Attack phase

Sunday, November 27, 2011
Day 3, Attack phase

Curt: loss: 0.4 lbs Total loss: 27.6 lbs
Jamie: loss: 1.2 lbs Total loss: 15.8 lbs

Breakfast:
C & J: fiesta lime chicken (late)
J: 100 calorie Starbucks coffee

Lunch:
C: fiesta lime chicken

Dinner:
C & J: roast beef

Water:
C: 4 quarts
J: 1.5 quarts

I put up Christmas lights and went shopping... does that count as exercise?

Saturday, November 26, 2011- Day 2, Attack

Saturday, November 26, 2011
Day 2, Attack Phase

Curt: overall loss since 8/22/11: 27.2 lbs
Jamie: overall loss since 8/22/11: 14.6 lbs

Breakfast:
C: 3 eggs, 2 ham steaks
J: 2 eggs, 1 ham steak

Lunch:
C & J: chicken

Dinner:
C & J: Fiesta Lime Chicken

Water:
C: 3 quarts water
J: 1.5 quarts water, 1 can diet cranberry sierra mist

Curt hit a new all time low today, and 3.6 lbs just this week without even trying! And 0.8 lbs from his next goal! He's been working from home and been on a attack phase longer than I have, but not on purpose. Only because it's what we have! YAY for him! And technically, I'm down about 4 lbs from the beginning to the week. It's fun playing catch up with my body....

It's the end of my 72 hour week! Next week, I have a 36 hour week and I'm pretty happy about that! Gonna go grocery shopping in a little bit so we can keep up on things.

Friday, November 25, 2011... Day 1 :(

November 25, 2011

No weights today...

Breakfast:
C and J: eggs and ham steaks

Lunch:
J: patty melts
J: 10 oz. SF/ FF Americano Coffee

Dinner:
C and J: chicken

Water:
C: ?
J: 1.5 quarts water, 24 oz. diet squirt

I'm trying to decide how to label these. We definitely were not Dukan-ing the past 2-3 weeks, so I have a hard time adding those days up. Do we say we're starting over? We're doing a 4 day attack again, so maybe that's the way we should go, but still keep up with the numbers we've lost? I don't know.. I didn't get enough sleep last night so, I'm indecisive and crabby. I worked 36 hours straight, and one lady was up all night long.. "going to the bathroom" and only standing in the bathroom for a minute or 2 and then going back to bed. EVERY 20 minutes til 3 a.m. It was frustrating. I would just start dozing off and then she would come out. I finally had to tell her she needed to stay in her room unless she really had to go to use the bathroom.

Starting tomorrow, we'll weigh in and add/ subtract from our original weights, tomorrow will be "day 2" of the diet, and Sunday, I'll start showing the daily lose/ gain. Ok... all decided. I had to write it out to remind myself because, yeah.... I've been that forgetful lately.

Ummm.... it's the day after Thanksgiving. You know what that means?!?! I get to decorate for Christmas. My neighbors are Christmas nerds and had their lights up ON HALLOWEEN!!! So it's time to catch up. I will be working mighty hard on this next week since I have a VERY busy work schedule coming in December. I'm working 29 shifts in December. Several are double shifts overnight. My co-worker is having surgery so we're all pitching in to cover most of her shifts. My paycheck in January will be nice.

Happy Thanksgiving?

Last night, we had Thanksgiving dinner w/ my parents' w/ a side of knock-down-drag-out fight! My mother... sometimes I just don't know what she is thinking. My ex-husband and I had a boat and he got it in the divorce, which I don't care about at all. Anyhow, my parents wouldn't let him get the boat because it was up a field and they had corn in this year and didn't want him running it over. Long story short, the corn is out and he can get the boat. I texted him the day it came out and told him and I told her that. On Tuesday, Ex gets the kids at 3 pm, only we were both working and couldn't get them there and my mom works over by my house and gets off at 2 so it worked out for her to come over and get the kids and take them over there since 2 of them didn't have school. Anyways.. she took them over there and instead of just dropping them off, she decided she needed to go up to the door to tell him that the corn was out and he could get the boat. Ummm... he slammed the door in her face. Now.. I agree, he was a jerk, but that doesn't excuse the following. She went home, pissed off, and my parents hid the boat from him (and me, for that matter). At dinner last night, this came up as we were starting to leave. Ethan and my mom started telling me this story but when she came to the part about hiding the boat, I told her that they can't do that. Her response: I don't care. This is when my blood started to boil. My response to that was: I can get arrested for this. Her response: I don't care. I could hardly control myself at this point, but I still, farily calmly said: If I get arrested, I'll lose my job, Mom! Her response: (A VERY SNOTTY) I DON'T CARE!!!
Ok, folks... I can only control myself for so long. The water bottle I was holding slammed into the floor before I knew it left my hand and I yelled, "That's it! I'm done!" And I left.
The original plan was for the kids to stay w/ my parents for Thanksgiving since we both work. So as we were taking Luke to his grandma's, we decided to pick up my kids. I couldn't leave them over there. My mom was already picking on Ethan. So at 11 p.m., we went over and picked them up and brought them home.
Apparently, my mom has no idea what she said that made me mad and all I can say to that is that she has to be delusional to not have a clue what she did/ said to upset me. And just so you all know, I will never hear an apology for this. We are just going to have to wait for the smoke to clear and pretend like nothing happened. But I honestly hope that I can have a backbone and not just let her get away with this.

Guess who's back?

Back again... I was going to break into a bit of Eminem, but I changed my mind. So... Curt and I fell off the band wagon. I weighed in this morning and Curt has a day or two ago, but we've been holding fairly steady on our past progress. Even tho we haven't been doing well on our eating habits, we are pretty much just going to take up where we left off. And since I'm laying it out there for you all, I do want you to be aware that since tomorrow is Thanksgiving, we will be cheating some, but will try to do our best. We are going to my mom's tonight w/ my brother and his family. I have to make a green salad, so I will try to load up on that and stick to turkey and try so hard to stay away from the pumpkin pie. We both have to work tomorrow so Curt will be better off than me. I have to work and take my clients to Thanksgiving dinner that I'm invited to eat at also. Once again... I will try to behave. But if I'm honest, I'm not thoroughly comfortable eating their food so I may or may not eat. Anyways... we're really going to start back up on Friday, but will do our darnedest to be good. And if I have my way, we're going to start heading to the gym a little more.

A couple group pics

These 3 pictures are my 4 kidlets. We didn't have Luke yet. He comes tomorrow and we're getting more pictures tomorrow. I ran out of sunlight. Fast! It has been a tradition for the past 9 years to go to Katherine Albertson Park in Boise to get pictures. In the front of the park, the word ALBERTSON is spelled out in huge letters and all of my kids can spell out their initials. It's been a fun thing to play with year after year. I think that next year, now that I'm no longer married to their father, I will keep off the "L." Besides, it takes up a TON of room in their scrapbooks. And Ethan!!! That kid got hit in the nose by a car door. Talk about fantastic timing! Kids....

Berlyn's fall pictures

B is for "BERLYN."

L is for "LACEY LOGUE." I screwed up and forgot the second "L".

Brenna's fall pics

B is for "Brenna."

L is for "Leigh."

L is for "LOGUE."

Briyanna's fall pics

Briyana... she's a bit of a camera hog. It's hard to pick and chose my favorites because she's fairly photogenic and I have seriously 30 or more great pics of her.

B is for "BRIYANNA."

E is for "Elaine."

L is for "LOGUE."

Ethan's fall pics

I have a couple of friends and family members that read my blog so I'm posting a couple pics of each of the kids.

These are Ethan:

E is for "ETHAN."

T is for "TAYLOR."

L is for "LOGUE."

DAY 81-CRUISE- THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2011

DAY 81, NOVEMBER 10, 2011

WEGHTS: ???

Breakfast:
C: omelet
J: Americano coffee w/ SF syrups, 1/2 egg McMuffin

Lunch:
C: leftover steak
J: 2 stuffed red peppers

Dinner:
C: stuffed peppers
J: cheddar broccoli soup

Water:
C:
J: 1 can cherry coke zero, 2 quarts water

My day started this morning at 6:30, trying to get everyone rounded up and moving for an 8:30 appointment. I didn't have time to even grab my extra keys and water. So I stopped for a coffee, but got close to the appointment place and realized I had to eat something or I could quite possibly die. Ok... that's a stretch. But I'm glad I did because we were out and about for 5 hours.

So my pants don't fit anymore. I guess that means I have to buy new pants tomorrow. Awful, huh? I'm a little excited. And I'm going to get some stuff that I've been wanting for Christmas decorations. Yes.... I am that person. Besides, our neighbor already has his lights on his house! I'm not going that far. I won't even put up one decoration yet. But the day after Thanksgiving.. you'd better look out!

DAY 80, CRUISE, NOVEMBER 9, 2011

DAY 80, NOVEMBER 9, 2011

WEGIHTS: ???

Breakfast:
C: none
J: 2 eggs, 2 ham steaks

Lunch:
C: quiche
J: grilled skirt steak w/ horseradish

Afternoon "snack":
J: Dutch Bros coffee. I asked for it to be a fat free as it could possibly be. I hope they did a good job at it.

Dinner:
C: 2 stuffed peppers
J: stuffed red peppers, nacho style. 3 of them and they were FANTASTIC!

Water:
C:
J: 2 cans cherry coke zero, 3 quarts of water

So we haven't been on for a long time. We went thru a time when we had no internet and right now, I don't have scales, but... we can post our big news now. WE MOVED!!! Pictures coming soon!

On a different note, we haven't weighed in because the scales have been packed. And quite frankly, I'm glad. I have been far from good. It's hard to eat decently when we are living out of boxes. But starting today, we're back to being on track. I'm working for the next 48 hours straight. I traded w/ a co-worker to get my entire weeks' shifts done in the 2 solid days. It's rough (note my sarcasm) sleeping thru my shift. I did this last week too and the night I worked, I slept 10.5 hours of my 12 hour shift. There are great benefits for doing this, but... I do mis my husband's arms around me at night. I think that he feels the same way. I'm trying to earn a little (a lot, actually) extra money the next few months. Next month, I'm going to get at least 6 extra days. Anyways... I'm not weighing in til I get home on Friday morning so I have 2 days to kick-start myself back into gear. Quite frankly, I think that if I weighed in today, I'd kick myself.

Curt went to the doctor's today. His foot has been bugging him for well over a month. The doctor thinks he may have tendinitis, which makes sense. So he's on anti-inflammatory meds. I guess that means no racquetball for a little while.

I'm going to be trying some recipes for pumpkin pie or pumpkin cheesecake coming up in the next few days. Wish me luck!