Attention all you Exercisers!

Now that I have your attention! =) I have some questions that maybe ya'll can help me on??? I have reached another plateau and it is driving me INSANE! I assume I now need to adjust my caloric intake, so I did. I am wondering though, could I be exercising too much? I typically burn around 2700 calories a week, or I aim for 600 a day. I use sparkpeople to track my food and exercises and they say I should only kill 800 calories a week by exercising. IS THIS RIGHT?? I will happily step it down a notch or so, but I was wondering what ya'll thought???
Please comment and let me know what ya think!
Thanks a bunches!!!
Leigh

Happy Easter

I hope each of you enjoy the Holiday with your family's.

Have a GREAT EASTER!!

Love to you all!
Leigh

NEW ME!!

We went to church tonight for a still life of when Jesus was crucified on the cross. It was VERY MOVING. I sat there and thought about different things that are going on in my life, and decided I'd rededicate my life to my Lord. Yes, I cried, and cried, and cried... you get the picture.

I have been so stressed with my home and work life, that I would leave out my time for God. (which could be indeed the reason for the stress) But I vowed to Him that I would be the person that He needs me to be, so that I can help Him make my family what He wants it to be. I have 2 children that I have very involved in the church, so they have a GREAT background with God like I do, but some days I know they don't see Him through me, and that is something that I do not like. And with me wanting more children I know this is very important, and it helps that I married a family very involved in the church as well.

I had prayed for YEARS for finding me a man that would love me and my children and accept us for who we are. Little did I know, the mother of the man I married prayed for YEARS for her son to find a woman that would love him as she loves her husband, and have babies, She became an instant grandmother =)

Jamie, I love you and your family so much... you will never know how I feel... REALLY!! Thank you for loving me in ways that I never thought was humanly possible!

I'm gonna close on the note... be careful what you pray for as it can very well happen... Hence my surgery in July =)

much love,
Leigh

FANTABULOUS NEWS!!!!

Yes, this is totally different from yesterday's post. I mentioned in that post everything happens for a reason. While I was upset on my way home the other day I called the dr. office to see about getting my surgery done NOW! Well, they called me back this morning, and after 2 hours of phone calls... drum roll please.....
I have a surgery date of July 8th to have my tubes put back together so I can have a BABY!!! I am super so excited that I have done nothing but pace the floors... the surgery will be in Mobile at 7:30 am, good thing is I will still be sleep while they "knock me out" LOL!
I have got back on the diet bandwagon this is exactly what I needed to get my behind in gear! I have stock piled the cabinets and refrigerator and dusted off the tv and treadmill. =)
Thanks for all the positive words and emails, I sooo needed to hear the things that I did!
Love to you all!!!
Leigh

Depressed....

Ok folks I need some help here!

I have fell off my dieting bandwagon! The good news is that I have not gained any weight, the bad thing is I haven't lost any either! =( ( I could use some motivating words!)

I have been demoted the positiion I have been in at work for the last 8 years. I view this as positive and negative. I have been wanting to change to another role for quite sometime and this may just be the time to do it! EVEYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON! and I am well aware of that, but GEEEZ why does it have to be so hard?

Also, on the update for the reversal. I have been cleared from my dr. in Hattiesburg for my blood pressure, it has come down YAY! so I am waiting on the dr. in Mobile to let me know when to have the surgery, maybe it will be sooner than I though ;) I definately hope so!

Thanks for listening to me whine! LOL!

Have a GREAT week!
Leigh

Interesting email that all parents should read

WARNING TO ALL PARENTS-GRANDPARENTS

This story was verified at: http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/sanitizer.asp and at http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/h/hand-sanitizer...htm


Yesterday, my youngest daughter, Halle , who is 4, was rushed to the emergency room by her father for being severely lethargic and incoherent. He was called to her school by the school secretary for being 'very VERY sick.'He told me that when he arrived, Halle was barely sitting in the chair... She couldn't hold her own head up and when he looked into her eyes, she couldn't focus them. He immediately scooped her up and rushed her to the ER, and then called me. When we got there, they ran blood test after blood test and did x-rays, every test imaginable. Her white blood cell count was normal, nothing was out of the ordinary. The ER doctor told us that he had done everything that he could do so he was sending her to Saint Francis for further tests. Right when we were leaving in the ambulance, her teacher came to the ER and, after questioning Halle 's classmates, we found out that she had licked hand sanitizer off her hand. Hand sanitizer, of all things. But it makes sense. These days they have all kinds of different scents and when you have a curious child, they are going to put all kinds of things into their mouths. When we arrived at Saint Francis, we told the ER doctor there to check her blood alcohol level, and yes we did get weird looks, but they did it. The results showed her blood alcohol level was .85% -- six hours after we first took her. There's no telling what it would have been if we would have requested it at the first ER. Since then, her school and a few surrounding schools have taken this out of the classrooms of all the lower grade classes, but what's to stop middle and high schoolers from ingesting the stuff? After doing research on the Internet, we have found out that it only takes 3 squirts of the stuff to be fatal in a toddler. For her blood alcohol level to be so high was to compare someone her size to drinking something 120 proof. So please PLEASE don't disregard this because I don't ever want anyone else to go through what my family and I have gone through. Please send this to everyone you know who has children or are going to be having children. It doesn't matter what age.

I'm not sure where my sister in law got this from, but it was an email that definately got my attention and thought I'd spread the word, because it scares me what some children will do, whether thinking or not!

Leigh

More new from the Dr.

The dr. that will be doing my tubal reversal called me this morning. He called to let me know that, as soon as my blood pressure is under control, that I will be in the all clear to have the surgery done! I am SUPER SO EXCITED!! Thanks to all of you that have prayed for my family and the results from the dr. I want to lose some more weight before I have it and so I am looking at maybe June surgery! Gotta look at my options at work.

THought I'd give you all an update,
Again, THANKS
with love,
Leigh