decisionmaker
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hiya beautiful girls!
Thanks so much for all of your encouraging words.
It really is such a huge help, especially during hard times like those. 
CATE: yeah - hehe we are lucky. I think you are right, because the person that kept asking questions all the time was someone who has openly battled with their weight for a long time too. So that makes sense. And yeah, i'm looking for 'eventually' to arrive at some point!
BENSMUM: Yay! Fellow teacher! I absolutely know what you mean about being completely exhausted... emotionally and mentally. I teach high school English and my year 11 literature kids are currently in front of me doing an essay... aaaahhhh... time to relax for 55 minutes, but then two weeks of hell trying to get them all marked. We ALWAYS have big morning teas! Tomorrow we are having a big end of term morning tea where EVERYONE whose surname begins with L-Z (not me) brings in something to share. That's like 80 fancy delights... but i'm strong! And i actually really enjoy vitaweats. Tried the Premiums, they SUCK! Like eating air with mud surrounding it. Though I did get the 98% fat free ones... Yay! Looking forward to chatting with you more, bensmum!
NIYAH: Sounds like you have a great supportive environment at your work - you are lucky! Most of the time its great, but there is this one woman that drives me batty and can't take a hint, however unsubtle it may be. She certainly isn't well-liked around the place though. I have some very strong and supportive people around me, which is great. And you are so right - I shouldn't care what anyone thinks of me, let alone her! I hate having to justify myself all the time, and yeah, I think that I wil consciously not do that anymore. I'll just say no and leave it at that.
ME:
I've been insanely busy! ! ! ! ! My Danish relatives came to Australia for the first time and we have had a lot of parties to celebrate, before they hire a motor-home and head across the nullabor. Crazy! There have been a few hard times in all that... my mum, who i love to death, told me she was making roast chicken, and would be having lots of veg and salad with it. She knows I'm back on Cohen's, so I was good with that. But then when we arrived, she had changed her mind and didn't tell me, and i ended up having a tiny slice of lasagne with lots of salad... hmmm... that made me really mad, actually. She felt bad when she realised, and would have never done it on purpose... just all the craziness of new rellies around I think.
I haven't really had very good days of late... the lasagne made me mad and i felt dreadful after it. When I say 'not very good', i certianly haven't been very bad either. Just haven't been completely focussed. I think it's the insane busy-ness too. No time to be properly organised, which we all know is a major downfall.
Yesterday I set aside a solid chunk of time to get organised, and that worked really well. Everything is bagged and frozen. Even my veg has been all chopped up and is weighed and ready to go. I've lost the desire to eat eggs in the morning... i've never really been much of a fan of them anyway. and like i'm really going to do SEAFOOD for breakfast! So I'm alternating yoghurt and egg.
I really regret not asking for tofu as an option. I really like tofu. Does anyone use it? I'd like to use it occasionally and I'm wondering maybe if I can just substitute it for chicken in one of my meals...
alright- gotta run. Today has been a good day, food wise, even though i feel dreadful. I think i'm sleeping badly.. sore neck, headaches, fatigue... or maybe its just the end of term Nice to be back!
xx
Thanks so much for all of your encouraging words.
It really is such a huge help, especially during hard times like those. CATE: yeah - hehe we are lucky. I think you are right, because the person that kept asking questions all the time was someone who has openly battled with their weight for a long time too. So that makes sense. And yeah, i'm looking for 'eventually' to arrive at some point!
BENSMUM: Yay! Fellow teacher! I absolutely know what you mean about being completely exhausted... emotionally and mentally. I teach high school English and my year 11 literature kids are currently in front of me doing an essay... aaaahhhh... time to relax for 55 minutes, but then two weeks of hell trying to get them all marked. We ALWAYS have big morning teas! Tomorrow we are having a big end of term morning tea where EVERYONE whose surname begins with L-Z (not me) brings in something to share. That's like 80 fancy delights... but i'm strong! And i actually really enjoy vitaweats. Tried the Premiums, they SUCK! Like eating air with mud surrounding it. Though I did get the 98% fat free ones... Yay! Looking forward to chatting with you more, bensmum!
NIYAH: Sounds like you have a great supportive environment at your work - you are lucky! Most of the time its great, but there is this one woman that drives me batty and can't take a hint, however unsubtle it may be. She certainly isn't well-liked around the place though. I have some very strong and supportive people around me, which is great. And you are so right - I shouldn't care what anyone thinks of me, let alone her! I hate having to justify myself all the time, and yeah, I think that I wil consciously not do that anymore. I'll just say no and leave it at that.
ME:
I've been insanely busy! ! ! ! ! My Danish relatives came to Australia for the first time and we have had a lot of parties to celebrate, before they hire a motor-home and head across the nullabor. Crazy! There have been a few hard times in all that... my mum, who i love to death, told me she was making roast chicken, and would be having lots of veg and salad with it. She knows I'm back on Cohen's, so I was good with that. But then when we arrived, she had changed her mind and didn't tell me, and i ended up having a tiny slice of lasagne with lots of salad... hmmm... that made me really mad, actually. She felt bad when she realised, and would have never done it on purpose... just all the craziness of new rellies around I think.
I haven't really had very good days of late... the lasagne made me mad and i felt dreadful after it. When I say 'not very good', i certianly haven't been very bad either. Just haven't been completely focussed. I think it's the insane busy-ness too. No time to be properly organised, which we all know is a major downfall.
Yesterday I set aside a solid chunk of time to get organised, and that worked really well. Everything is bagged and frozen. Even my veg has been all chopped up and is weighed and ready to go. I've lost the desire to eat eggs in the morning... i've never really been much of a fan of them anyway. and like i'm really going to do SEAFOOD for breakfast! So I'm alternating yoghurt and egg.
I really regret not asking for tofu as an option. I really like tofu. Does anyone use it? I'd like to use it occasionally and I'm wondering maybe if I can just substitute it for chicken in one of my meals...
alright- gotta run. Today has been a good day, food wise, even though i feel dreadful. I think i'm sleeping badly.. sore neck, headaches, fatigue... or maybe its just the end of term
Nice to be back! xx
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But that's usually it. I'm trying to go for walks when I get home too, and I have netball thursdays and volleyball wednesdays, so that's pretty good i reckon! 
but am holding it together, avoiding the masses of verbal abuse being thrown our way from either my man's stepmother or my grandmother... this wedding is making everyone ELSE go nuts! haha. 
