Oh Mac. Lying to me STILL about school.

I have no desire to work and my boss is gone, so I have spent a few hours going over mac's grades, assignments for the last few weeks, and looking at teacher's websites for assignments. He has flat out lied to me about 1 class ( a class he failed the final in). He just did not go an assignment in another class (I have now spoken to that teacher and requested a call or email if he so much as goes 1 day without doing the work). He will be going to after school tutoring immediately if that happens again. Third class, I get s call from the teacher today and he has not brought I. The required reading ALL WEEK. Losing daily grade point everyday!

I have one more teacher to contact. The other class that he failed the exam for.

It's an easy habit to break and a hard one to pick back up again, for me.

Oh yes, me too. It's so easy to just not, for any reason or no reason. Even though I actually enjoy it when I do it!

Oh, no, Mac. That's no good.

Hummingbird tattoo, otoh, is a world of yes. Kinda want one myself, for a variety of reasons including the reincarnated warrior concept. That's three I am wanting - rat, goat, hummingbird. Possibly not in that order.

Ugh, msbelle, sorry.

I have lost 10 lbs in the past two weeks. Now I have another 40 to go, but still. Like most things in my life I hate doing it, but I like having done it.

That's awesome. I gave up alcohol and sweets for January. Annoyingly, I have saved money and lost about 8-9lbs, even with only managing a serious workout twice.

Also, after the first week, the sugar cravings and mindless eating diminished greatly. I have my cheat food, which is raisins covered in unsweetened chocolate, and the batch I made near the beginning of the month still has about 2/3s of it left.

I went to a non-profit's celebration of things last night, where I knew basically just the people throwing it, and drank no wine. Despite there being wine. Nor did I touch the tasty desserts.

So I think next month, I'll add in one drink of my choosing per week, and probably one serving of dessert as well. It's not that I'm not all for body positivity, but I just really want back into straight sizes (I'm now in a 14 in jeans), and also, for my knees to feel better.

I'd like, ideally, to lose another 40 myself, but even 20 would be pretty sweet.

Weightloss for most people is going to happen much more around what goes into your body than adding in exercise. I know that and still hard to make myself be mindful. I have gotten much much better about just not bringing things into the house, but eating out is a disaster.

Karate will get me some exercise, but not enough to change my body appearance in any way.

As I've said before, the chemo diet is fairly effective. It would be nice to hang onto some of this not caring about food while losing the rest of it. I definitely need to make myself eat more vegetables. Currently getting the mail is aerobic exercise, but I really should go back to doing some weights. My arms used to have muscles, but now they just have wobbly skin.

Andi, I'm hoping you can find a better doctor. When I lost 55 pounds (got down to 138, but it didn't stick) all mine told me was "great, your blood pressure is looking fantastic and don't expect to keep this much weight off, you'll probably settle in around 150 lbs." Which, honestly, at my age (57) is a great weight. Well, I'm a little over that, but, hey, the doctor said that was A-OK. She never says anything about my weight unless I bring it up first.

Between the restricted diet from having my tooth pulled (which is over now) and the restricted diet from the painful bladder syndrome (Basically no acid, nothing aged or fermented, no caffiene, no alcohol, no soy, nothing really high in potassium, nothng spicy) and moving from sitting at a desk and mindlessly eating and on to the sales floor where I walk at least 10,000 steps a day (usually more) and can't snack I've lost like 6 lbs.

Made it harder to find pants because I've lost the weight in my legs and I think rear but not my hips and thighs.

One of my goals for this year is to exercise one of the days I'm off. And by exercise I mean do the walking dvd I got that Teppy recommended in Bitches. I've been slowly adding foods into my diet that should be okay for me to eat, but so far it's stuff like mild cheese and mayo. Not the healthiest. But I can't eat black pepper right now so I try to get my flavors where I can.

I need to choose instead of being mindless.

*glances guiltily at the Pringles*

My weight has been an adventure the last few years. I get a thousand times more exercise than I used to (we have no car, so I walk or bike everywhere), but its like my body counts that as the new norm and doesn't reward me in any way. A couple years after I moved here, I started losing weight, slowly but steadily. It was alarming, because I was doing nothing different and it just kept coming off. I lost almost 35 pounds in about 14 months, eating the same stuff I always have! I was too thin, IMO. I looked boney. I had a bunch of medical tests done, but in the end they just said it was stress (I was, and continue to be, more homesick than I ever knew was possible). But once I started antidepressants, it started coming back slowly but surely. Right now I would be fine if I could just stop snacking in the evening! Its ridiculous.

Oh, wait, I came here for a reason. I wanted to tell you guys that my mom is home and I finally got to see her on video chat and she looks great! She'll be out of work for 4 weeks. My brother and SIL arrived last night and will be taking care of her the next 2 weeks.

Half my department is out to lunch (they won the wreath decorating contest in December and lunch is the prize) and it's basically the half that sits near me. It is spooky quiet.

ETA Glad your mom is doing well Calla!