Becoming a healthier me, one step at a time!

Yesterday I was in a huge hurry. Hence the uber short blog. I had to finish up a paper that I was writing for school. It was due yesterday. I’m glad that is over. Ick.

I’m very tired the last few days. Work has been very stressful. I had to send some people to the hospital last night.

We just reserved the pool and conference room for kiddo’s birthday party next month. She is excited!

Oh! And….another nurse at work brought me in a huge bag of scrubs. There were 5 sets and several more tops. They all still had the tags on and they all fit. Whoa….it felt like Christmas!

Ok….gotta get my FB on before bed!

I spent all weekend writing a paper for school. Work has been good. My food has been good. I lost two pounds for yesterdays weigh in. Christmas shopping is underway. Ok…I’m out! Ha ha!

My food update: dinner last night was the burgers. cottage cheese was the side. My work food was pumpkin seeds, a banana, rice cakes, and yogurt. My lunch just now was tomato chicken and triscuits.

Work was awesome. It was probably the MOST smooth night I’ve had since I have worked there. I got everything done and on time! Good thing because I got off at seven and have to be back at 2:30 for a mandatory inservice. I will be exhausted, but I am interested in learning about the stuff they are going to talk about. I do gotta say that one of my least favorite things about being charge nurse is dealing with call ins. Blech.

Have a great day all!

Well, I had to have a girl come in and take my place this morning so I could get out of there at a reasonable time because I have to take kiddo to a doc appt. here in a few minutes.

As for the paper….MJ, shame on you!!! No, really. The thought has crossed my mind. I know it is horrible, but shoot!

Food last night was walnuts (160), triscuits with LCL (175), and a banana (100). Lunch was a ham and swiss bagel thin (205) and a blueberry muffin (145). I’m doing great so far. Lots of fruit and whole grain. I think tonight’s food will be mushroom and swiss burgers. I make my own and have them on sandwich thins. Lean beef and LF cheese. Yummo! Way better than any restaurant.

Alrighty…off to do mom things!

I’m exhausted…what a long night that was. I was sooo busy! I am doing much better snacking healthfully for sure. Last night I had freeze dried fruit, triscuits with Laughing Cow Light, and cashews. I measure everything into the correct portion sizes and take it with me. It is working. I had a bowl of special k with almonds and some pineapple a while ago. I don’t know what I will eat when I wake up.

What I do know is that I have to get to working on this paper I have due. I have not even started it yet and it’s due Tuesday. Where is the time?

Off to bed. have a great day!

Yep, I’m back with a vengeance. I sit here eating my lunch whic consists of a yellow tomato, pineapple, Whole Wheat bagel thin with laughing cow light in french onion.

I apologize for yesterday’s post as I nearly choked our dear MJ to death over her breakfast!

Joy, I don’t plan to be a part of any team as of yet.

I will look into posting the muffin recipe to my FB page.

Last night was a pretty decent night at work. I at least did not have to train anyone. It was nice to be able to just do my own thing again and get my work done the way I like to do it. I have my own routine, ya know?

Have a great day all!

So today is Monday. Weigh in: 5 pounds lost. I was so glad to see a loss and not a gain, as I’ve had nothing but gains for months.

Nurses, here it is:

Diagnosis: Lardass r/t apathy AEB eating everything in sight.

Intervention: portion control

Outcome: Goal met. Five pound loss.

I have had a really good weekend. The girls day turned no shoes up for either of us, but we got TONS of healthy food! We spent the rest of the day lying around together with the cat watching tv!

I spent the last two hours or so making snacks. I used my HG cookbooks and my diabetic cookbook. I made Whole Wheat blueberry muffins (from scratch 130 cals/muffin and they are HUGE), Whole Wheat Tortilla Crisps (10 cals/crisp), fruit salsa (50 cals/1/4 cup), peanut butter fruit dip (50 cals/ 1/4 cup). The crisps and salsa go together. I have bananas, strawberries, and apples for the dip. The muffins are grab and go breakfast. We have lots of rice, couscous, and fish in the house too. It is so much easier when the whole family is in it with you, you know?

I’m slowly working on that school assignment. Ick. I’ve enjoyed my lazy weekend off from work!

How is everyone else doing?

What a week I have had!

I gotta say that being the charge nurse is very rough. I’ve been training a new girl for a month and I finished with it last night. Thankfully! Now I can get back into my own routine. It was a better night. I got out on time. No one died, fell, or anything else bad. I am off tonight and tomorrow night.

Today my daughter and I are hanging out all day. Rob is working 7a-7p, so it’s just us girls. We are going shoe shopping and grocery shopping. Rob wants some healthy snacks and we gotta get some healthy lunchbox stuff too.

A friend of mine helped me out with my school issue. My instructor was not nice! She said to contact technical support. I did not need them! I knew what the problem was. Sheesh. So, I emailed it to a friend as an attachment, had her change the format, and she sent it back to me.

I’ve eaten well for five days now. Woot! Weigh in is coming up on Monday.

WOW!!! Where has the year gone? My daughter will be 8 next month! Christmas is coming! Sheesh!

 How are you doing on your goals for the year? Me, not so good! Ha ha! I’m working on that.

Last night was a very stressful night at work. I worked two hours later than usual. I am super tired.

I ate well, though. I’ve got four days in a row of good eating.

I’m having technical difficulties opening an assignment for school. It’s online and I can’t get it to open because I don’t have the right program. Ugh. I emailed and asked her to sent it rich text so that I can open it.

I hope all of you have a great weigh in today for those of you who weigh on Friday. My day is Monday. We shall see how my first week back goes.

Have a great day everyone!

I ate well all day yesterday. Three days down. Doing well so far today.

I came home from work this morning to find my whole house still asleep! They needed to be getting ready to go! Ugh! I got them moving, though.

I had my doctor visit yesterday. I am awaiting a call on that. The disrupted day made me so tired. I can’t wait to hit the sack today.

How are all of you doing today? Make it a great day!