Had a great meeting today. It's the first week since starting the new program with WW and I'm down 3.2lbs and 13.4lbs total. I'm happy with that but a bit disappointed as well because it's been 9 weeks and I feel like I should have lost more. I just have to start exercising and choosing healthier options. I am hoping to get my Wii Fit Plus soon, maybe the 1st payday of the new year and I'm hoping to get Just Dance 2 for Christmas.
I have been baking a lot with a homemade baking mix with about 1 cup of fiber one and 1/3 cup of steel cut oatmeal. It's filling and high in fiber. My next attempts with it are going to be biscuits. I already made chocolate chip cookies and apple brown betty with it. After the biscuits, I'm going for pancakes. I'm also going to try to make snickerdoodles. I'm going to make fudge for Christmas at Mike's parents house though apparently his mom has started making it from the same recipe I used when I made it last year...maybe I should try divinity instead but my grandma tells me it's hard to make.
So, Sunday (12/12) is our 5th anniversary. Not sure if we are doing anything...probably not since we just spent our movie money at the grocery store and Mike has to work later that night. It's never really been a big deal for us, except the day we got married and our first anniversary which was the day we found out Nora had died. We are happy being together and we don't need a single day out of the year to remind us of that or celebrate it.
My mom flies in on Monday and will be here until Friday. It's really a pain in the butt to have my parents do separate visits because it disrupts two weeks of work and sleep. I'm glad to see them and have them here but it takes a lot of work to make sure we spend as much time with them as we can without trying to take away time from my sister and her husband; and without staying up way past our bedtime. The other pain is trying to make sure I eat as healthy as possible if we are going out to eat...I'm going to try to cook at home as often as possible so that way we can avoid going out to eat. I have the feeling we'll do with my mom what we did with my dad. Since my sister and her husband work during the day, we'll have my mom pick up Mike from work and stay here until about 1pm or so, then we go to bed and she heads out for a few hours on her own until my sister gets off work.
Then Mike is off for another 4 day weekend this coming week and he's going to want to do stuff too. We still have Christmas shopping to finish up for each other as well as a few more family members on each side.
On to Mike, he had to go in for a biometric screening before doing bloodwork and a physical to make sure the price of our insurance won't go up. Of course, the day they reminded him of it was the 2nd to last day he could do it, so he had to go to Bally's on Thursday afternoon to get it done. He is healthy in every way except for his slight heart murmur and he is pre-hypertensive.
Without the bloodwork we aren't sure whether this is a result of his bad diet, even though they measured his good cholesterol and it was ok, or if it's a result of his chromosome defect. The defect could predispose him to hypertension...guess we'll find out when he goes in to see the nurse on Monday morning. Oh, yeah, he has to leave work more than 2 hours early to go to this appointment 4 casinos down on the strip because that's the only time he could get in before the deadline of the 20th.
I could really use a glass of wine right now just thinking about the busy-ness of this next week. Oh, and this month we aren't going the clomid route because we are in the process of changing REs since the last one was a total ass. Maybe with the less stressful/hormonal cycle we will get lucky...stranger things have happened.
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