1/2 Bagel - WW cream cheese, cheese stick, yogurt smoothie

Lunch

ear of corn,  tortilla wrap with turkey, provolone, mayo, avocado, tomato, 100 cal York bar

Dinner

Piece of pizza, 100cal york bar

Waiting for plane connection

1 Hard pretzel and a go-tart, and another 100 cal york bar

Home safely from Wisconsin - great visit with my daughter, Amy and lots of great shopping.  Back to work tomorrow,  but thank goodness it’s only teachers this week.  The students come back the day after Labor Day.

I had a very stressful month and a half - to make a long story short - it was involving my principal - I’m a teacher.  They decided to give me a difficult time about moving from one bldg. to another.  And accused me of stealing things. 

However, I just read a blog - Roni’s Weigh - and it inspired me to write in this blog again.

Here’s the excerpt:

This weekend’s quotes is from Theodore Roosevelt.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

This may seem generic at first but I think there is a lot to be learned in it’s simplicity.

How many times have we said things like…

I’ll start Sunday

Or

When the kids go back to school, I’ll…

Or

If I only had a treadmill I’d…

Or

After vacation I’ll…

I’m super guilty of this way of thinking and still do it to a point. When I saw that quote I thought, how simple but how true! We just have to make the choice that’s in front of us!

End of excerpt:  I had the same reaction to that quote that Roni did - I have been waiting for school to start thinking that I will be on a regular schedule again and that I would start keeping track of what I eat and get back to exercising regularly. 

School for teachers starts Mon. and so I will start a day early and write down what I eat tomorrow - it won’t be easy as I’ll be traveling home to PA from my daughter’s in WI - but I will do it!

     A special thanks to my son, Dave, who had the patience to help his old, arthritic mother make the climb and come down the hill afterward.  Despite drinking tons of water, I only went to the bathroom 3 times all day.  Once when I got up and once at the restaurant before we went on the Great Wall.  That’s a whole different experience - Chinese bathrooms are basically a drain in the floor so practice squatting now if you plan a trip to China!  And the last time was on the plane ride home at 7 P.M.  The rest of the water, I sweated out.  My clothes were soaking wet.

The last negative comment totally devastated me.  But this time, I thought you don’t know me and you’ve maybe read a week’s worth of my meals so how do you know that I don’t eat fruit and I haven’t been writing what I eat every day. 

 My first response to that comment is that I was leaving for China for 26 days and did not have a lot of fruit on hand and didn’t want to buy some and just end up throwing it away.  I was basically eating what I had in the house and still trying to keep it to a decent amount of points. 

But the light bulb moment was the fact that perfection is my middle name.  When I receive a criticism, I have to stop and regroup because that has ruined my perfection at the moment.  Does that sound familiar to anyone???  I think it may be a major breakthrough for me and perfection.

 The weirdest thing is how you are flying and you lose 12 hours.  I left Mon. morning at 9:30.  I had eaten breakfast at home. I ate soup and salad at Detroit airport and then early evening ate an airline chicken dinner (3oz. chicken, tops!)  Fell asleep and every couple hours got up and walked and I tried to drink lots of liquids.  At 1 a.m. Pennsylvania time, they woke us up and fed us - I got an omelet but realized that they were really feeding us lunch and now it was 1 P.M.   Later on the same flight I got a chicken and rice meal but couldn’t eat the chicken at all!  But that was dinner and I landed in Shanghai at 8:55 their time. It was still 8:55 in Pennsylvania. 

I have been writing down my food intake in a notebook.  It really hasn’t been much.  I have totally controlled snacking - it’s been no snacks for the past two days.  I’m going to try and continue that pattern and see how it goes. 

I will also check in here, at least, once every 5 days. 

• yogurt smoothie
• 2 crumpets with marg.

Lunch

• turkey on a roll with marg.
• green pepper and dip
• cantaloupe
• WW peanut bliss and choc caramel bars.

Just realized I never finished this - it probably had something to do with my weigh-in on June 5 where I gained 2 lbs.  Talk about discouraged.