So, today, I brought what candy wasn’t passed out at our house into work. Most of it was gone by the time my shift ended (and I did manage to stay out of it). I will slowly start to weed through the “bad” choices I have stocked up in my pantry. Today I threw away “GO-Tarts”.My boys are eating away at their Halloween candy (piece by piece) and my plan is to grab a handful every day and toss it in the trash. They won’t notice and this should make them “be done” with their candy in a week—which is what I planned.

I did very well today to stick with the program—water, milk, fruits and vegs—and such. Although no exercise today…I am planning on sometime this weekend to get my Pilate’s session in.

So that was my day….now let me tell you all about my drive home.

Okay, I will be the first to admit that I happen to be somewhat of a lead foot. Anyway, a Denver cop in an SUV merged onto the main drag that takes you away from the airport. Now, this dude is going fast and weaving in and out of traffic. I am modestly going 10 miles over the speed limit (65) and can’t keep up with the guy. I end up catching up with him a few moments later because they are doing some construction in the left lane and everyone has to get into the right lane. I end up with one car between us.

So construction ends and now we have two lanes back. Cop gets into the left lane, and I follow. He speeds up to 70 mph and I follow along behind him. No problem, right—I’m behind him. Now as I am following him, he comes up to traffic in the left lane, who continually move to the right lane to get out of his way and I follow. Most of the time he is not allowing the minimum safe distance of one car link for every 10 mph….and quite frankly neither am I.

So, at the point where I get into the right lane to set up to merge onto another major highway (I signal and he gets caught behind a taxi going 55mph) That’s the speed limit, where I merge (55—I am going 60.) So of course, I pass him. He immediately gets behind me (lights a flashin’)

Me at this point says “shit” and pulls over. He gets out and asks me how fast I was going —that I blew his windows out? I bite my tongue b/c just about ready to come out of my mouth is “you’re the one driving like a bat out of hell —I was just following you.” Luckily my brain catches up and this does not come out of my mouth. All along I am thinkin -WTF? I only passed him going 5 mph over the limit. Anyway, he requests my license, registration and insurance card—which takes me FORVER to find. He looks it over, tells me I need to abide by the 1 carlink for every 10mph rule (yeah, so do you buddy!!! practice what ya preach!) and sends me on my way…YOU NEED TO SLOW DOWN MISS. I answer “Yes sir!!!!”

And then I am on my way–thinking “shew—got lucky–NO TICKET”. I take it easy for a few miles and when I get 10 miles more down the road, I look down and I am now going 10mph over the speed limit. I tried, I cannot slow down—-it’s not in my nature.

So that was my excitement for the night…..it was bound to happen. I have lived here for over a year and this is the first time I have been pulled over.

So lesson for the day…..DON’T PASS A COP, DUH!!!!LMAO

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Boy I just can’t get “with the program”. My appetite is huge and I’m not sure why.
I can’t seem to get the motivation to exercise as well. I am trying hard today to get my water in to combat the “bloated” feeling I have. So, today hasn’t been great eating-wise. The hubby made, of all things, brownies. I actually stayed out of them UNTIL this evening…I keep cutting little slivers off. So, all in all, I have probably eaten the equivalent of one whole brownie. Here’s what I have eaten today:

B——-cheese stick…..(2)
——–pastrami………(2)
L——-SW grilled
——–Chicken salad….(7)
D——-oatmeal……….(4)
——–cucumber………(0)
——–snackin’ on
——–cereal………..(2)
——–brownie(LF)……(4)

total——————–(21)

I need to get my act together now!!!! I really really want to see the 160’s soon!!!
I am going into “my weekend” and have NO plans to go and do something “outdorsy”. I told the hubby that I want a weekend home, so that when Wednesday rolls around and I have to go back to work, it actually feels like I had some time off. I am planning on getting some stuff done around the house this weekend–fun fun!!!

BTW, the ITC mini-goal has now been added to my list. Thanks Colette!!! ha ha
And (Colette, this is for you) since I don’t use the dressing for the SW salad, I will save them and then send them to you. I do think the dressing is AWESOME (I just usually don’t add it)….they should put it on the shelves…it would do very well.

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A loss…only .6 but I see this as a gift. Now I am only .8 away from the 160’s. I really wanted to get there today but being soooo off program this week didn’t help my case. I’m with Strawgirl when she says she’s bored of this. This week’s topic was on PLATEAUS. How do you stay motivated when your weight fluxuates between the same 3-5 pounds week after week, month after month….it gets very frustrating.

I am going to try my hardest to see those 160’s by the end of my WW week. My mom is coming out to visit for a week, the last week of July. I would loved to see 2 more pounds by then.

tonight is CRAZY at work. There are thunderstorms surrounding the Denver area….so I must get back.

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Last week I was fortunate to only have to work 3 days….now I am starting my week (a long week as there are Thunderstorms forecasted every evening this week—you all know this makes my job tough). Anyway, 3 of my 5 shifts include the pleasurable experience working with “DAN the MAN”. This guy is a Type A person to the nth power. Everything has to be done his way, or I’ll never hear the end of it.

Anyway, enough bitchin’ about work….

W/in tomorrow morning and I am going to start back posting everything I eat:

range 20-25/target 22 Pts Banked - Points

Cheese (I measured!!!!) 2pts. 2 / 20
1 egg/ 1egg wht 2pts 2 / 18
2 slices bacon 2pts 2 / 16

watermelon 1 / 15
cheese stick (2pts) 2 / 13
turkey pastrami (2pts) 2 / 11
jello (sf) 0 / 11
SW grilled chicken salad (8pts) 8 / 3
hot cocoa (2pts) 2 / 1

water - 16oz so far

So, we got back from our last “HURRAH” before Justin starts school tomorrow. We’ve had a busy, busy day today—met the teach, school supplies shopping, grocery shopping, laundry, and then baseball pix tonight followed by baseball game. Then hurry home to get kids to bed so they can have plenty of sleep before the first day of FIRST GRADE!!!

So, the alpine slides were fun, until mine started to go out of control (lost balance a bit while looking back to see if Justin was catching up with me). I lost about 2 inches of skin trying to “right” the cart you ride down on. Also, burned my knee a little thru my jeans…luckily I had on long pants or I would have skinned up my knee pretty good as well. After that, I slowed down a bit til we finished up.

We went and played mini-golf, went thru a maze, and the boys climbed the rock wall. I forgot my camera but here are some pics I found that will give you an idea of what we did:

Gonna w/in Thursday morn…meet the teach conflicted with Tuesday w/in (ironically, I saw my leader at Walmart grocery shopping after meeting the teach!!!!)

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 One of my favorite pix….my boys looooove to throw rocks in the water!!!!

  Mountain lake in Idaho!!!!

EEEEKKKK….didn’t go so great! I will be getting up early tomorrow to try to work it off….

We are headed up to the mountains tomorrow to have one last HURRAH before my son goes back to school (year round school here in Castle Rock, CO). We are going to a ski resort that (during the summer months when there isn’t any snow) has alpine slides. We have done this once before in Breckenridge, CO when we first moved here. You buy an all day pass and can go on the slides all day.

The slides are very long (you get on these boards with wheels and a brake) and basically “ride” down the mountain. I will take pics tomorrow and then post later.

I am still hoping to see the 160’s on Tuesday….even though tonight didn’t go great.

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So, I decided to jump on the scales this morning…down a little BUT only .6 away from being in the elusive 160’s!!!!  Here’s my problem…BBQ tonight.  So far today, I have eaten a cheese stick (2pts).  I am trying to save most of my points for tonight.  Of course, as I am writing this, my deep dish dutch apple pie is baking and it SMELLS SO GOOD!!!

I still am planning on taking Good For Ya ground beef patties and I plan to not eat a bun (why waste pts. on bread).  My challenge will be to stay out of the chips and desserts…but of course I will sample my pie.  They are planning on playing volleyball, but my back is absolutely killing me.  I don’t know if this back flare up is from hiking sooo much last week.  So, I don’t plan to participate in volleyball (although I could earn an activity point)

Anyway, here’s hoping I don’t blow it tonight for Tuesday w/in….160’s will I see you this week?????

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So, I decided to jump on the scales this morning…down a little BUT only .6 away from being in the elusive 160’s!!!! Here’s my problem…BBQ tonight. So far today, I have eaten a cheese stick (2pts). I am trying to save most of my points for tonight. Of course, as I am writing this, my deep dish dutch apple pie is baking and it SMELLS SO GOOD!!!

I still am planning on taking Good For Ya ground beef patties and I plan to not eat a bun (why waste pts. on bread). My challenge will be to stay out of the chips and desserts…but of course I will sample my pie. They are planning on playing volleyball, but my back is absolutely killing me. I don’t know if this back flare up is from hiking sooo much last week. So, I don’t plan to participate in volleyball (although I could earn an activity point)

Anyway, here’s hoping I don’t blow it tonight for Tuesday w/in….160’s will I see you this week?????

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Not much going on…can’t seem to get back on track after this past week. That will be my focus today. Tomorrow the whole family will be going to a BBQ (co-worker is throwing it). I was asked to bring of all things APPLE PIE!! I do make a mean homemade dutch apple pie, but of course, not WW friendly. Someone else is bringing icecream—apple pie a la mode—that will be hard to stay out of.

I am going to take lower fat burgers (96/4) and some LF hot dogs for us…and maybe I will try strawgirl’s idea of grilled veggies…anyway that will be the plan. Of course, this week I have been eating kinda every thing in sight. So, we’ll see.

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