Another stall, and all about writing

Jacob hates to write, we have tried literally every writing program known to mankind, he hates them all, because he hates to write. He hates the physical act of writing, he hates thinking up ideas, he hates putting the words on paper. He hates it. I battle this everyday and it drives me crazy because Will hated writing and he is awful at it and I am paying for it now. I wonder sometimes how Will can cope when he gets to college. Do you know someone who hates to write?? I think most times it is boys, they just hate having to sit still long enough to write, I mean really, they are boys, action is their middle name. Which when you think about it is odd, because some of the best writers and most published authors are men, so when did they change?? Anyway, I got a new program for Jacob. The child will use any excuse to get out of writing. Yesterday he was supposed to write the outline for a paragraph, but he found a spot where it said he would have to use another sheet of paper for the next day. Well in his little pea brain that meant he had to do no writing until today. I tried to reason with him, apparently even 11 year olds can't be reasoned with. Thinking about it their 17 year old counterparts can't be reasoned with, so why would I expect different from an 11 year old. So he didn't do any of the pre-writing for yesterday. I warned him that this would mean twice as much writing today, but he wouldn't do it, so I gave in. So we start writing today, did I mention that one of the beauties of this program is the guy writes directly to the student, unless the student is a reluctant 11 year old, who tried to write the opening sentence yesterday of his paragraph without having the subject of said paragraph!!! Umm how's that work, needless to say we erased the sentence!!! Anyway, we are just getting started, after I reread everything to him that he should have read yesterday, because he didn't understand what he was supposed to do.....the dog could have understood it!!! We start on the exercise. Two minutes into it, he announces he has to go to the bathroom. He didn't have to go to the bathroom while he was playing on the stupid video game while I was working out, but you let us start writing and well I swear it could be a cure for constipation!!! I finally put my foot down and said you can wait to go to the bathroom, I mean he held it for an hour during video time, he can hold it for another 15 minutes to write the stupid outline!!!! Seriously, writing time is worse than a root canal. One of us will probably die from this, and it may be me!!! My personal belief is the dislike of writing stems directly from the dislike of reading. I can't understand this because I love to read and be transported across time and place....but two of my kids don't like to read, and they both hate to write also. The physical act of writing is another matter, they are just lazy. I have tried reward, cajoling and finally have resorted to humiliation. I keep telling Jacob his handwriting looks like he is in the 1st grade not the 5th. It isn't that he isn't capable of writing nicely, as proven by his handwriting book, he just uses it all up there and then during his normal schoolwork it becomes chicken scrawl!!! I'm like look Jake I'm old and I have a hard time reading, can you help me out here???? Apparently the answer is no!!! Dear God help me, I'm not sure I can last another 4 years!!!

Anyway, on to the diet. I have hit another stall, this one is actually worse. It isn't that I'm not losing at all, I'm just losing extremely slowly, can you say 2/10 of a pound a day!!! It is awful, I work out, I don't eat all of the food, just the protein and I'm still only losing 2/10 of a pound a day. At this rate I will not meet my goal and that makes me sad and angry!!! Sad because I had such high hopes, angry because we are going to the Cayman Islands for Christmas and I won't get to wear a bathing suit, because I will be too self conscious!!! Oh well, I will keep plugging away and hopefully I will break into the 130's before we leave!!!

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Okay so it has been a while and I'm proud to announce my stall ended, but this is still very slow going, a little bit less than I was led to believe. I am very good at keeping on track with my eating, but still can only count on about 3 pounds a week. I was hoping for at least 5 pounds a week, and was told if I was conscientious it would be 7 pounds per week. I have no hunger!! That is good, and I eat well, lots of food with the salads and the meat, but I wish I could lose more. Oh well, it may just be that I have to do another round after this. Anyway, I am down just over 10 pounds but it has been 19 days, that translates to about 1/2 a pound a day....hmmm. I am also walking every day, 2 miles and have added some weights in. Very interesting. I feel strong, my clothes are still fitting looser, but maybe the weights is why I"m not losing as much. Who knows, I just want to get into my size 8 older pants so that they look nice, not tight. That is my goal this week. Still looking at the long term 120 pounds though and I definitely feel it is within reach

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I stalled

So, the past few days have been trying to say the least. First off, I had two kids sick with the flu, trying to keep them well, plus keep everyone else sane. Not good. Jacob missed like 3 days of school, so once again I'm playing the catch up game, although his new writing strands is going really well!!! He likes it, because it is written to him, and he likes keeping it a secret, he even did extra days. He read about South American Desserts yesterday in reading and told me something I didn't know. Tapioca is made from the poisonous root of the cassavas plant. I love tapioca!

The diet continues. I had an off day from the HCG and stalled. I didn't lose anymore weight for 4 days. Sat, Sun, Mon, then when I got up this morning I had gone down another pound, so that makes 6 pounds in 9 days really if you don't count the two loading days. That works. But I have paid for it the past few days. I have been extremely hungry. Now mind you I have a cold, which is causing some indigestion and a ton of gas, I think this made it worse, I also started drinking the protein shakes. While they are easy, they just don't last!!! So back to actually eating, and eating smarter, I just had a HUGE lunch. Okay, so let me explain. I had been following to a tee the directions from my doctor, but yesterday I happened on this website, My HCG Family... well they have a link to the original doctor's writings, and I noticed several subtle differences. One the original doctor allowed 2 grassini breadsticks a day with a meal, and 1T of milk every day. Now I have been foregoing anything like that, but I do like a touch of milk in my morning tea, still can't abide the coffee without vanilla syrup, so no go on that! and what up with the breadsticks, which are readily available at Kroger. He also allows veal, I love veal, better than beef and he doesn't like US beef, because it is too fatty throughout....hmm, my doctor allows it, but no more for me. So I went to Kroger and bought some salad greens, veal, lobster, crab and more chicken..... oh and the grassini. For lunch I had the salad greens, (a whole container, seriously because you get 6 ozs.) and 100gms of veal, which i seasoned with salt pepper and emeril seasoning and cooked on the george foreman. Then I sliced the veal poured the juices that collected while it rested on the greens and the tiny pieces of meat, and squirted the whole thing down with balsamic. Oh my goodness. I feel so full. That is a lot of salad, and I had my breadstick, just one, no big deal, and I feel confident that I can last till dinner, which will be orange roughy with cherry tomatoes, basil and lemon. Oh yeah and that breadstick. Wish me luck, only the scale will tell if the breadstick causes my downfall!!!