Tammy

OK.  No routine, Husband and son at a community function.  Daughter sleeping.  My mind swims with all the things I have on my desk at work and, even though I am not hungry, I still want to fill that nervous, idle void with what else?  Food.  So, instead I am blogging.

Actually the Net has helped my daughter with her weight loss.  When she gets bored and it is after dark (she walks when the sun is out) she gets online and IMs and “checks her myspace” until her mind is off food.  She’s a digital native.  Her digital immigrant mom has a lot to learn from her when it comes to tech:-)

So far, this morning I have had 2.5 points (WW).  I had a peanut butter sandwich with two slices of Nature’s Own High F iber (50 cal/slice) bread, 1.5 teaspoons of peanut butter and 1.5 teaspoons of apple jelly.  PBJs seem to give me a lot of morning fuel.  I think they are a good bargain when you use the high fiber bread (this bread is 1 point for two slices - yes!).

I am working on navigating the food log and exercise log on here today.  I didn’t do it the first time around and now I have to make myself learn the tech aspects.  I am actually excited to learn something new so I can brag to my kids that I did it. 

I have a funny story about tech and kids.  A few weeks ago I transported a cadre of high school seniors around the four middle schools in the county to talk to entering freshmen about making high school count.  These kids have gotten to know my children over the years and they were thrilled they got to go to my daughter’s school and talk to her class.  She walked all of them out to the van when they were finished and my cell phone rang.  One of the boys started making good-natured fun of my phone (omg - that thing looks like it is from the 80s).  Sara showed him hers and started a diatribe about how I wouldn’t buy her a new one until our contract was up. Well the whole van shamed me and told me she deserved a new phone for high school, etc.  It was so funny.  Now, Sara gets on their myspace and tells them to keep working on me to get her a new phone.  I love kids.  They live in a world we never even knew would exist when we were young.  Tech has changed everything.  I say we embrace it and learn from them or we will be left in the dust.  Educators who fail to learn it and use it are boring these kids to death.

 OK .  I have to get moving.  DDR here I come!  Have a great day everyone!

I am so relieved to be back here.  I gained all of the weight I had lost last time, but started Weight Watchers again in January and have lost back down to 190.  I discovered I really need support.  I attend WW meetings faithfully and I am doing Buddy Slim again now, so I should get lots of great support and get my act together for good.

My 13-year-old daughter is doing WW with me and she has lost an amazing 32 lbs.  She will be 14 in June and entering high school in the late fall.  She will have so much confidence with her new body and her healthy eating habits.  I am so stoked that she got her act together early in life so she does not have to endure the heartbreak of being overweight in high school. 

What’s going on with everyone?  I am so glad to be back!