Day 128 - Atkins Holiday weekends really are killers! Last night, I went to a big fair (Canfield,Ohio). Hadn’t gone there for a couple years. There are food vendors GALORE there with all kinds of yummy fair food. I stayed low carb all day so I figured I’d let myself get something at the fair. Started out with chicken on a stick with teriyaki sauce which was very good and low carb. Then the trouble began. Had an apple dumpling with vanilla ice cream which was very delicious. I thought I was doing pretty well considering that we walked through a gauntlet of food vendors selling every kind of fair food under the sun! Then right before we went home, after 3 hours of walking around the fair, I saw a CARAMEL APPLE with nuts! I love those! And they had popcorn! I got an apple and box of popcorn (the popcorn is Info’s fault…hee hee) to take home with me. Ate the popcorn on the way home and the apple when I got home! THEN my husband had bought some Hershey Special Dark Chocolate bars and left them on the counter (how DARE he!) soooooooo since I had cravings from the other stuff I ate, of course I had one! :S Today we had a Labor Day picnic combined with a birthday party for my nephew. ENOUGH SAID! So I’m glad all the special occasions happened yesterday and today because tomorrow I’m starting the 20 carb challenge and I should be ready to go! Oh, I still have that fresh sweet corn that my neighbors brought to me. Better eat that tonight! LOL Hope you all are having a great weekend!

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Tomorrow is Monday and once again I try again hoping this time will be the time I reach some success. Tomorrow my boss and friend Karen & I will start walking in the evening after dinner. I think having someone else depending on me to walk with will give me the motivation I need to move my butt! I’m also hoping to still do a little of my Leslie Sansone walking DVD in the mornings I’m still getting up at 5AM to do it I just haven’t been getting it done. I think 30 minutes in the AM & 30 min in the evening will give me a shot at moving forward at least a little bit. I certainly need to do something I feel like such a failure I should be way further on this journey to lose this 50 lbs than I am. All I can do is try again tomorrow,not binge eat,and hope for the best. I would appreciate any support anyone can offer me.

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As I sit here two days away from having to go back to work for the school year, reality finally sunk in. Most of my coworkers from last year are not coming back. They have all gotten jobs else where for the year. They were great friends and I miss them all very much already! I don’t know how I am going to deal with the year.

The one teacher in particular was my Weight watchers buddy at work. She and I have become like best friends. I know I will keep in contact with her but I won’t see her on a daily basis like I did  for  the last few years. She had become my best friend and it is killing me to not have here there with me all the time. She was the only from work one who understood what I am going through cuz she was going through it right along with me. She was the one who gave me encouraging words when I felt down at work, and picked me up again, and I did the same for her. She came over last night and I could tell she has been regretting her decision to leave the school. She told me that she misses me already too, so much that she wishes she could come back.

Who am I going to have now at work to be my Weight Watchers buddy? No one else  is in need of loosing weight. Who will tell me I look great today? WHo will ask me if I have lost more weight?

I know I have all my buddies here to cheer me up when I get home. Maybe I can find time to log on during the day too to get that extra motivation I need.  That would be great. Maybe I can cut my lunch short some days and check buddyslim before I go pick up my students.

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