HungryHippos

Well…I did a highly bright thing this morning.  Everyday I get up before my wife does.  I shower and get out of the bathroom.  I get dressed and let the dog out and go fix our lunches.  Except I was so out of it this morning that I fixed a lunch for my wife, but not for me.  So I got to my job today with no food.  I left at 12 to head to school and ate at an Mcdonalds because it was on the way.  Too many point…not near enough food

Anyway on to the points:

Daily Weigh In- 231.0 again

Daily points- 37

Bagel-2

Mcdonald’s (Cheeseburger and 4 chicken nuggets) 12

Cheeze it snack-2

Chicfila- 1 and 1/2 chicken sandwhiches, 4 nuggets) 16

Total-32 with 5 left, although I am really full

Thats right…I am posting two days in a row.  Look out for me.  I felt better after walking yesterday.  I would have loved to do it again today, but it is too darn cold.  Anyway, I’m posting my points so I can decide what I want to eat before bed.

Daily weigh in- 231…although I went from 231.4 to 231.0 Whoohoo!

Points-37

Bagel-2

Bagel  Sandwich-8

Snacks with lunch-4

Steak/potato at Applebees-15

Popcorn-1

Cheese stick-1

Points left-5

I’m going to keep on keeping on for the next week.  If I don’t start losing, I may start the Wendie plan.  By looking over the site, I’ve come up with the following daily points.  It might end up working out as I’ve planned to have my two highest days on Friday and Sunday which are my hardest days.  I think it might be a little hard because I wouldn’t get used to eating the same amount.  We’ll see.

Tuesday Lowest 27

Wednesday Medium 33

Thursday Low 29

Friday High 37

Saturday Lowest 27

Sunday High 38

Monday Medium 33

Hi there,

 I have not posted in quite a while.  My routine as of late has been simple.  Eat myself into a snack induced coma, play hockey on the Gamecube, and go to bed.  This has occurred pretty much every weekday night since last week.  I did lose one pound last week, despite all of the weeks craziness.  I’m getting a taste of what it is like to be my wife at her job.  We have been working at the same school for the last 2 weeks.  I miss the sub assignments where I am here today and gone tomorrow. I can put up with almost anything or anyone for one part of one day, but it is the feeling of dread in which I am growing accustomed.  I dont know whow my wife does it…but she does and does it exceptionally well.  Anyway, enough rambling…on to the food

bagel-2

Stroganoff-10

Snacks-4

Chic-fil-a-12

tortilla pizza-3

Cheezeit snack-2

Muffins-1

Popcorn and off to bed…goodnight!

LONG day!  It had to do with lost tests that weren’t actually lost, a strange child who goes to break detention when he’s not supposed to, and teaching grammar to people who could for the most part could care less!  However, we did end up walking around the block a few times because I again didn’t lose anything (besides tests) this morning!  It was actually really nice.  Our dog pulled me along, so I’m sure she helped with the momentum.  We used to try to do training with her and make her walk perfectly, but we’ve kind of given up especially after the trainers told us we needed to put our dog on medicine.  I’ve found that if we just relax and not expect her to be perfect, she’s a little more enjoyable.  I don’t plan to put her on ADD meds because it just sounds crazy for a dog!   We didn’t set a time limit, and we just walked until we felt like stopping.  It didn’t feel like as much of a drag because normally I say I must walk for thirty minutes.  Then I don’t want to get started.  Hopefully this method will work.

You can see that the snack monster totally hit me towards the afternoon!  I don’t know what it is about Sundays, but I will eat anything!  I should have just eaten some popcorn, but here we are.  I’m currently making some veggie soup.  I’m going to have to run to grocery store because we don’t have any veggies.  I hate when I’ve already started cooking and I realize that we’re out of something I need.  Our house is great, but we don’t have a pantry.  Everything is crammed into cabinets, and it’s hard to tell what we have.  We’re trying to figure out something.  We may get some type of cabinet pantry. 

 One thing that helped with the crazy snacking is that I made some of the diet hot chocolate Roni mentioned in one of her posts.  After I loaded it up with some splenda and sugar free vanilla syrup, it’s not bad. 

I was up a pound today.  Argh, it’s so frustrating.  I’m staying on point, but I really think the eating out is getting me.  I can’t stay away though.  I’m not sure why, but I just had the longest week even though it was a four day week.  I think it’s hard because I still have to do about the same amount of work but I only have four days to do it.  I’ve worked really hard this week, and I might be just a tiny bit ahead, so maybe that will help. 

 I did hear from my principal that I should be teaching the same grade next year.  While I still haven’t really heard a good job from him, I guess this is as good as it gets.  I’m an overchiever who likes to impress, and it’s always hard for me when I don’t get some occassional praise.  Not that I like a lot of attention, but I do like to know I’m going down the right path.  I guess right now I just have to be glad that I haven’t gotten in trouble for anything!  Several other teachers apparantly got talked to about some very minor things they were doing.  It was really just about confusion on certain policies.  I know all that truly matters is that if I know I’m doing my best.  I do feel good about my performance.  I feel that my kids are learning and that they are respectful and do what I ask for the most part.  I know some classes aren’t as well behaved as mine not because they have worse kids but because of the job I’m doing making sure my kids behave. 

This week, the counselors have been working with my kids in planning their schedule next year.  I’m excited for my kids, but it also makes me sad.  It’s going to be so hard to part with them.  It’s hard to imagine going from not knowing them at all to feeling like these kids are my life.  Luckily, they will still be in the same building.  It will be fun seeing them grow up.  I’m also sad that I won’t really get to see my kids from last year because I’m at a different school.  I plan on trying to see them graduate if possible. I hate the thought of having to “break in” a new set of kids next year.  I also hear that they aren’t as well behaved as this group, and I unfortunately already know some of them.  It’s not a good sign when you know the names of kids you don’t even teach just because of their reputation!

 I’m also so thankful for my teacher friend across the hall.  This week we were both able to help each other out with kids.  We teach many of the same kids.  I have one kid who has just been giving me fits.  She talked to him, and I feel much better about the situation.  I also have two kids who don’t give me any problems but have been giving her problems, so I talked to them.  One of the kids ended up apologizing to her all on his own, so it feels good to have such a supportive environment where I’m helping out fellow teachers and they’re helping me out.  The one thing I truly love about our school is that most of our staff truly cares.  I really have no complaints about my school.  Even though this week was stressful, it was a good week.

 Oh and I also didn’t realize that you have to approve comments.  I just thought that we hadn’t had any!  Also, my husband has been reading my post over my shoulder, and he’s all jealous that I didn’t say I was thankful for him.  He’s always great, so I tend to take him for granted.  I wouldn’t make it without him grading my papers and putting up with me working such long hours!  He also fixes my lunch, so what more could a girl want!?!  Several of the other teachers are single, and I’m so glad I’m not in their shoes.  They end up going out with such pigs who treat them badly or stop talking to them when they find out they teach (haven’t figured out that one yet), and I just can’t imagine they are going to find a guy as sweet and wonderful as mine. 

Sorry this post was so mushy.  I guess I’m just really happy it’s Friday!!

I had an okay day.  I finally wrote up this one kid who has really been needing to be written up for awhile. 

 I haven’t lost any weight in some time.  I know that I could be doing better.  I really need to stop eating out and eat more fruits and veggies and cut out some sugar, but unfortunately, I don’t think it’s happening anytime soon.  I’m going to keep on trucking and just doing the best I can especcially with all the stress I’ve been dealing with.  Maybe after spring break, I can get it together. 

 At least tomorrow is Friday!