I'm Back Again: Update

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Registered: 04-30-2006
I'm Back Again: Update
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Wed, 05-14-2008 - 10:40pm

My life has been hectic.


On May 20, I start a pt job. I will work b/w 10-19 hrs a week. The half of the weekly pacychecks will go to paying of my debt. I use the snowball effect, with the high interest going first. The other half will go to Car Savings, Teeth Savings & Roth IRA. I have my snowball list:



  • Dell
  • Chiropractic
  • Family Dr
  • OB/GYM Dr
  • Dad

I'm thinking about dropping my gym membership & joining WW. I have fitness dvds at home and w/ my new apartment (moving May 23 there isn't a close gym. I'm think about WW as part of my new healthy lifestyle. (Let Me See 30 Lifestyle), aling w/ the gym. The location of my new apartment isn't conducive to going to the gym. I'm going to see how it works out. I have to give the gym 30 day notice, so if by June 1 I don't think it will work I'll give them written notice.


I have lost my meds (bc & anti-depression), so my emotional are all over the place. Right now, I just feel like I want to cry, but I can't. I have this friend that I can normally talk to for hours about nothing and today when she called. I didn't want to talk to her. If I could crawl into bed and sleep for the next month, I wouldn't complain.


Work has been really great about everything. I have had to take a lot of time off interviewing for this pt job, while I looked for apts and all my dr appts.


I saw a nutrionist on May 5; when I left there I felt so bad about myself that I ate two slices of cheesecake and creid the rest of the day. I also creid of & on Tues and Wed. I'm not going back to see her. This is were WW comes in. I was looking for different nutrionist and I couldn't find someone that I want to give an hour to. I going to WW meeting Thurs after work.


Well, this about been my crazy, hectic life.

Jenny

Jenny

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Registered: 03-17-2003
Thu, 05-15-2008 - 12:58am

Hi Jenny.

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Registered: 04-30-2006
Thu, 05-15-2008 - 6:01am

Thanks Carolyn for the kind words.


I found my meds, when I was shredding papers. Now, it takes about a week to start feeling the effects and it will take a month or more to feel the full effects. The meds will help w/ the negative running dialog in my head.

Jenny

Jenny

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Registered: 03-17-2003
Thu, 05-15-2008 - 8:59am
That's wonderful news Jenny.
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Registered: 07-26-1999
Thu, 05-15-2008 - 7:57pm

Hi,

There might be a weight watchers or diet board you could join or lurk around on ivillage for free.

There's also a program I've heard of called T.O.P.S. which stands for Take Off Pounds Sensibly...and the membership cost is $2 a week, which is a lot less money than when I went to Weight Watchers. This program usually runs out of a community health centre; in my community there is a little notice for it each week in the same section of the newspaper as the Alcoholics Anonymous and such announcements for meetings.

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Registered: 04-30-2006
Fri, 05-16-2008 - 7:58am

I checked out when the TOPS meetings were in my city. Every meeting is scheduled when I am at one job or the other. I need a meeting time b/w 5:30-7 on Thursday nights. Right now, I still think I'm going to go to WW. I need to real life group, right now. I love my cyber group, but I need something more tangable.


Thanks for the input, rebeccalouise.

Jenny

Jenny

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Registered: 10-06-2007
Mon, 05-19-2008 - 4:44pm

Why don't you see what would be involved in starting a new TOPS group? Maybe if they get interest, they would do it.