What's most important?

[specialmom]

So, what do you feel is most important?

[specialmom]

jugglin, I get it.
Also, If I invite someone over, I clean the house.  They DO go hand in hand.  I love having kids over---  they don't care about the house.  :>)  I just can't let their parents in the door.  ha ha.

[jugglin]

Ok, I'll be honest.  Time with friends and a clean house are a tie.  Sleep, not so much on my list.  My house use to be so nice and tidy....not so much anymore....and it depresses me sometimes.  So, I don't have friends over unless house is clean.  I get the "letting go" part, but I think it is just my way of having control over something in my life. Hmmmm...

[specialmom]

As to sleep----  this is a big one for me.  Oh my gosh, when I don't have sleep . . .   it's just a bad day.  I try to plan when I can get a bit extra shut eye.  

[specialmom]

Ha ha,  off the sauce.  That is funny.  I'm a Dr. Pepper junkie myself!  I grew up in Texas and it is like water there.  Now I'm up in Ohio and it is not something that all that many people drink . . .  so, I'm well known for my Dr. Pepper obsession.  I had a friend give me a two liter with my birthday present this year.  ha ha.  It was a joke because when I'm having a bad day, I will text her "I need pepper".  

Giving it up was very hard for me.  It's like my happy juice.  No joke.  And I like coffee in the morning too.  I really went two full months cold turkey.  NONE.  And now I just have it on Saturdays (coffee and pepper) and a about 12 ounces on Sundays.  The adding the one can on Sundays is a bit worrisome because on Mondays I want it again but I have been strong so far!  

I LOVE sugar.  This is a problem.  I have to work very hard.  When I'm off sugar, it is amazing how sweet things that I didn't notice were sweet before taste.  I'm best if I keep it very limited at all times.  

[AnnieBrooke]

So, when I say I'm "off the sauce," it's not alcohol but sugared Doctor Pepper that is being discussed.  (I don't have any problem keeping off alcohol.)  I had a diabetes test when pregnant, and was fine, but that was 8 years ago.  The tingling is noticeable enough that I should test again.  :(

[AnnieBrooke]

I got some severe pins-and-needles tingling in my arms and legs after being put on Lupron during IVF, which has died down but not entirely gone away since not being on it, but it does worry me because that is also a diabetes symptom.  So I'm using the tingling to scare myself into better behavior with the D.P.  I've cut it in half with sparkling water for at least a year now, but even so, I wind up drinking the equivalent of at least a full 12 ounces a day, which is the "one soda a day" that the scaremongers say is enough to get diabetes in the end.  (And I was not nearly this careful when I was younger, I'd happily go through a 2-liter bottle in a couple of days, then.)

[specialmom]

Guess what?  I gave up the pepper in January!  You and I have a dependence on Dr. Pepper in common.  I was trying to lose some weight and when I added in calories for pop, I was left with enough calories to eat a strawberry.  So, in order to have dinner, I had to give up pop.  I have it on Saturdays now which is my cheat day.  :>)  

[AnnieBrooke]

1.  Sleep
2.  Motivating self to exercise, finding a kind that works for me
3.  Kicking the sweets habit (I am not a candy eater, but it's hard for me to kick Dr. Pepper.  Lately I have been scaring myself with stories about diabetes, and it seems to be working to some extent.)