Easter Misfit Losers' chatting station
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So for those of you who remember me posting about my daughters best friends sister that tried to kill herself. She is doing well....all things considered. Finally got the story out of her. She is 16. She broke up with her boyfriend and he was refusing to break up. Then she found out she was pregnant and he wanted to pay for an abortion (total jerk). She didn't want a baby and she didn't want his especially. Band then she lives in a 2 bedroom apartment with her mom and sister. There is no realistic was it was going to work out so she saw no way out. She and her mom are down in Seattle right now seeing a doctor. They should be home soon. But she is doing as well as can be expected. I told her that I would be holding her hand spiritually while she was down there. She still has a long way to go but she is getting there one hug at a time.
Esther0 -
Our pets win the spoiled pets award---all three of them sleep on our bed with us.
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Marie, Thanks We have bass, brim, crappie and cat fish in the lake. My hubby fishes in the spring but not much in the hot months. He only likes to fish for crappie. Our grass looks good only because we have a sprinkler system. We have a sprinkler pump which pumps water from the lake so it doesn't impact our water bill.
Nancy
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Hi, everybody! I've been gone for around a week, I think. I know I've missed so much! I hope everyone is doing well.
Food is hit or miss for me this week, and I've changed my workout routine. On Monday I started classic P90X again, my goal is to do 30 days, assess my results, and then do it in increments of 30 days again. I've been eating close to maintenance and close to maintenance + exercise calories a little throughout this week, so I'm feeling fat and I've gained atleast a pound back, for sure. I'm going to try pre-logging my food for the week starting on Monday, and see how that goes. That way I'll have to put zero thought into what to eat each day(after I've logged the week), and I can tailor each day around appropriate protein goals.
The appraisal came back on our house, and it appraised $1,000 higher than what we're buying it for, which is fantastic! No more negotiating! We'll have to put several hundred dollars into it initially(have to get the septic inspected before the loan will go through, and that will be $300 in itself), so it's great that we're not just throwing the money away and that there's that $1,000 in equity sitting in it. After we get the septic inspected and the sellers do the fixes they've agreed to, we should have a closing date. I'm really looking forward to getting things moved in! I'll need to start going through all our stuff and seeing what I can part with/pawn off on other people. I have more things than I really need, and I don't want to bring too much clutter into our new place. I started last night with the pantry, and I'm so glad I got that over with and don't have to deal with it later. Now I finally know exactly what's in there and where to find everything. It took a little time but I'm so glad it's done!
I'm going to try to catch up on some posts. Janice, it's been so hot here! I've been going for walks in the evening to reach my 10,000 steps, and my hands and feet are swollen each time when I get back(it's a thing I do in the summer).
TGIF! Have a good one, everyone!
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I went to see my sister at the hospital today, and one of my other sister came while I was there, she is doing good, they have gave her 5 antibotics. She ate all of her dinner and also a snack, while I was there. Thats more than I seen her eat in awhile, she is only about 100 pounds. We all talked and had a good long visit. I'm hoping she will be able to go straight home after this since she was suppose to go home tommorrow. She was in good spirits, so hapoy for that.
I weighed today and back to 179.6, I will get thru the 180's, hopefully permantly soon. Sorry I dont have any comments on posts, my brain is mush, okay tired. Janice0 -
Hi.
Hope everyone is having a great day
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Good morning, misfit losers! Happy Friday!
Janice..glad your sis is eating well. Remember to take care of you, too.
Barbie.. Lol! Cooper probably would sleep with us, but the bed is too high for him to jump on or off! He would definitely hurt himself trying.
Ray..so glad to hear good news about your new house! Good idea on prelogging..keeps things simple.
Nancy..so cool that your irrigation system comes from the lake and does not impact your bill!!
Marie..good morning!
It's a little cooler today and cloudy. We will go to the design center today to choose things for the house. This is moving faster than I thought it would which is good, I guess.
Make it a great day, losers!
Connie0 -
Rachel, it has helped me lose weight and keep it off to know ahead of time what I'm going to eat....at first, I actually logged the whole day the night before, now I do it mentally because my meals are simple and familiar....the best part about moving is the opportunity to sort and discard...we have moved many times since we've been married and have far less accumulated stuff than our contemporaries...and we have room for both vehicles in the garage. Janice, that's good news about your sister. Nancy, you are fortunate to have water....we have a serious drought here and are being asked to voluntarily cut back on watering. Connie, someone I know has a ramp to allow their small dog to get on and off the tall bed..don't tell Cooper about that. Breakfast finished, time to begin the long dog walk...the audio book I'm listening to now is set in Homer, Alaska in November so I feel chilly listening to it. 0
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What a nice bunch of misfit we have here. I think we are all quite unique here. and really care for each other.
We are off to walmart this morning. I missed going Tuesday so will get Jerry to take me this morning. I read that barilla has a gluten free pasta out now and want to try it out. Hope I can find it.
Hey look like I Am the first one here this morning. unusually here lately.
hope all is well especially Foxie, Janice's Sister, and any one else who has been ailing.
my kitties are really making their self at home now. Think I will take them outside this morning and let them play, Hoping they do not pick up any fleas. With all the squirrels and birds we have coming by for a bite to eat and a drink of water. I am sure there are some around.
See you guys later
Marie
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Thank you all for your thoughts of Foxie. She is doing much better! She is now eating, which she hadn't done since Saturday when it all began.
Connie, all our dogs like the crates if they are down from the attic. We got one down just for keeping her in one spot for the IV tubing. We have dog/cat beds in many rooms they all lounge in.
I check in later.
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Hi Misfits,
Got busy this morning and forgot to check in with my friends.
Sounds like things are going well with everyone.
Have done my exercise and had lunch and will take it easy for a little bit.
Going to eat at Bonefish Grill tonight with friends. Plan on staying on plan.
Have a great day.
Nancy0 -
Doctor is very happy with my weight loss progress. I've lost about 50 pounds. Now he wants me doing strength/body-weight training, alternating it with my cardio on other days. He gave me guidance on what to expect scale wise as I work on this stage. How weight loss is exponential to our size and muscle's will grab water to repair and these will both impact what I see on the scale and to not get discouraged by this.
I had told myself from the beginning that I would start this type of working out when I broke 200. I weighed in at 205 at his office, but 199 on the scale at home this morning, so I guess it's time. I thought I'd feel more fit when this day came, that I'd feel excited or stronger or more able to do these movements, but I do not feel this way. I feel unable, I feel weak. My doctor says I can do them, so I also feel lazy. He says it will get easier and this will help my batwings and core get their proper muscles.
I managed about 2 minutes on my routine last night. Basically enough to show my spouse what I'm supposed to do, so we could write it out in an order to create a cycle for me to follow. I was miserable. I do need to go buy a good mat for the knees and body to do these on, though, that will help.
Someday I will look back at today and laugh. I will think this beginner routine is cake and I will be able to do it all in a repetitive pattern for 30-40 minutes.
Today is not that day.
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Hi everyone! Happy Friday!!
Glad to hear the puppy is feeling better, Becky
Hope your sister is doing better, Janice
We are heading to the gulf in Florida, Marie. I haven't been to the gulf in many many years and hubs either, kids never. We usually head to a beach on the Atlantic but with the Sharks we decided to try a new place.
Eninad, I started lifting weights just a few pounds away from you. I read the book New Rules Of Lifting For Women from the library and wrote down a basic plan. I do between 10-12 different exercises. It takes a long time to see changes but I have been able to increase weights on all exercises and that has been very motivating. Your doctor is correct, the morning after weights I usually see some water retention registered on the scale. One bit of advice I had to learn the hard way is not eating back the calories burned from lifting. When I did, I saw no movement in the scale. Oh and also, try to increase protein intake to feed your new muscles. You might end up enjoying your new exercise 
Eeeek Connie building a new house !!
Esther hope your friend's daughter finds peace
Wishing everyone a great weekend!
Ruthie0 -
How many kids do you have and what are the ages? You might Have told us once but I forgotten
and really don't remember Esther kids ages I know she has a 5 year old who has a late overdue payment at the library.
Hope all of you have a great weekend. I am checking into a diet supplement from Walreens. Called alamaseed Anybody heard of it.? I am doing something wrong or I would be losing, But what? I have lost most that water weightgain tho. But no new weight lost..
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hi everyone, so much to process!!
Janice, I hope your sister is ok!
nancy, have fun at bone fish. we have one here but I have never been.
ray, great news about the house.
enirad, nice doc apt!! those are the best!
ester, thanks for letting us know bout your daughter friend. sounds like a tough situation but hopefully they will come up with a good solution.
hi there to faye, becky and anyone else I missed!!
going to dinner with my sister. hubby golfing!
Stephanie
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Marie, I have 2 boys 10 and 7! School and sports start back here August 3rd so this is one last relaxation trip before the crazy schedule begins. They both play lots of soccer in the fall. Busy busy but I love it. We 3 have lots of fun together ( hubby usually working).
Be careful with supplements. I have a very fit friend who tried one and she passed out in her car at a light hitting the person in front of her. They got out to talk to her and she was out and her foot still On the pedal pushing against the other car. This happened two more times ( at home though) and then she finally realized it was the supplement. The Drs were baffled before she figured it out.
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Weekend yay!!!0
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Esther - that's tough for a 16yr old. Hope she gets all the support she needs!
So of my gained 4 lbs I have lost 2 already which I am really pleased about
Hopefully will have dragon boating this afternoon but it depends how I get on with my cleaning! Major cleaning and tidying up operation going on at the moment as the in laws arrive tomorrow and I don't want any unnecessary criticism!
They are staying with us for 8 days but in between we are taking them to Cambodia for a little break which I am looking forward to...lots of walking !!
Have a good day everyone
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Eninad, I read a great book "Strong Women Stay Young" and it helped me a lot with beginning a weight training routine. Besides explaining why weight training is important at any age or size or fitness level, it has a great beginning routine that doesn't require getting down on the floor. I urge you to take a look at it.....your local public library might have it...I watch TV while I do my weight training and that makes it more fun. Barbie
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Eninad, I read a great book "Strong Women Stay Young" and it helped me a lot with beginning a weight training routine. Besides explaining why weight training is important at any age or size or fitness level, it has a great beginning routine that doesn't require getting down on the floor. I urge you to take a look at it.....your local public library might have it...I watch TV while I do my weight training and that makes it more fun. Barbie
I so agree!! I have this one, too, and I absolutely loved doing it for several reasons...privacy, no floor work, minimal equipment (dumbells, ankle weights, chair) information for advanced training, and like Barbie said, you can watch tv or listen to music. Best of all is the invaluable information given in the text. There's also info for advanced moves when you are ready to move to the next level. Of course, as you advance, you will increase weight.
Connie0 -
Good morning, misfit losers! Happy Saturday!
Just peeking in for a minute as I just got in from walking the dog. It is sooo humid and the sun is out again after hiding for a day. We chose things for the house yesterday, and my brain is fried! It was a five hour adventure and I am going to spend the morning going over the list, making notes, and changing some things.
I'll check back later.
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Just sticking my head in to say hi. I am sitting on the boat en joying the day. I just finished an 8 mile bike ride
and hubby worked on putting some carpeting into the boat and said his back was bothering him so he did not
go with me. It is very humid today and I already took a shower and need another one. I am a cool person so
this weather does not like me.
Glad to hear some are getting good reports from their doctors. I also did get a good report for my BP
and it has been normal my last two visits. I am still on meds but doing much better and taken first time
not an average. I see the Yoga and meditation is helping.
Foxie is so cute! I hope she gets better soon. Connie -good luck with the house and all the decisions.
It started sprinkling a bit and Dave and I are going into town to pickup some things now.
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Hello look like I never got a post off I know I tried but must have lost them which is real easy for me on the IPad
I am leaking some kind of fluid in my right heal, Don't know what it could be. My feet are still swollen up and have been all week. But see no sores. Just thought I would check in with you guys
Marie
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Hi everybody. I'm also just popping on quickly between things going on today. Iris had a soccer game this morning. The team is looking great. They are learning to pass the ball to their teammates. That is a huge breakthrough for kindergarten and first graders. In this age group they don't keep score. The game is about ball handling skills and good sportsmanship skills. And by not keeping score the kids can focus on improving skills and not on winning. Even though the kids do keep score in their heads and the parents do too. But it also teaches the parents to encourage all of he kids for getting in and playing and not just for scoring.
After the game we came home and had to put our new lawn mower together. I really like the new mower. It can use a grass catcher or spit the grass out the side so when the grass is a little too wet it won't get so plugged up. I am also crocheting a baby blanket for a friend who is having a baby girl the end of next month.
Later this evening we are taking Shaundra out to dinner for her birthday. Her birthday is on Tuesday but my hubby is leaving Monday to go back to work for 14 days so we are celebrating tonight so he can be with us. We are having all you can eat crab. I really like crab. It is lo cal. I have always called crab diet food because I starve between bites and work my butt off to get the meat out of the shell. But I love it. Scary to think my girl will be 14. I am going to try to get her out in the car next weekend. She is old enough to get her drivers permit now!0 -
Hello, everyone! I've been able to get pages 2-3 read over so I'm catching up a little.
Marie, your kittens are so cute! They look older than my kitties, it's so hard to tell kitten's ages. I know it's incredibly rare for tortoise shell cats to be male, but I'm not sure about calico. And sometimes it can take a little while to figure out their gender. Originally we thought we had a boy and a girl, and after a couple weeks we figured out we had 2 boys! Keep a close eye on them if they're not spayed/neutered yet, you don't want to end up with more kittens. I'm so glad you have a set of fur babies to chase you around all day.
I hope you're feeling better after falling, that's very scary! I'm glad nothing broke!
Connie, how exciting making all the choices for you new house! I imagine it's overwhelming too. I'm very indecisive sometimes so I can only imagine all the options and details to be gone over.
Janice, I hope your sister is feeling well today. When is she scheduled to go home?
There is so much more to be commented on, I'm sorry I'm not keeping up too well these days.
We had a very scary moment last night. I was sitting on the couch with the kittens, and my cat Honey had been outside on the balcony. I heard a terrible sound of a cat being attacked and it was my Honey. She must have jumped off the balcony to chase after something, probably a tomcat, and it fought back more than she had anticipated. We couldn't find her for several minutes and ran all over the grounds searching for her. I finally came back around to our stairs and she turned up by the bushes calling for me. I was thinking I'd find her all torn up and I honestly thought something had killed her or almost killed her. It was such a relief to see her in one piece, and she was desperate to run up the stairs instead of down them, for once. Whatever she fought with pulled a good bit of fluff out of her, scratched up her back legs, and cut her side. We put peroxide on her cuts and gave her tons of treats. She stayed under the guest bed for half the day today, but after she finally came out she's been acting sore but normal tonight. I was going to take her to the vet today when she wouldn't come out from under the bed, but she seems to be doing ok now. We'll monitor her closely over the next few days to determine if she should still see her doctor. Poor baby. I'm so relieved to have her safe with us again. She's no longer allowed out on the balcony after dark.
I've decided to try going Pescotarian on Monday, incorporating fish into my diet. I think it will be beneficial to my diet as far as protein. I'm going to get some tomatoes and have tuna salad stuffed tomatoes with greens for lunch for the upcoming week. After I get over the strange feeling of eating something I'm not supposed to, I'll probably get excited over my reacquired sushi options.
I hope everyone is having a relaxing weekend. I wish it wasn't almost over(because I have lots of homework to catch up on), but on the flip side the sooner the upcoming week rolls around the sooner we have a closing date on our house. But oh my, the homework. 
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I survived dinner. I only ate 4+ crab. Ok I pigged out but so worth it. I had a pile of shells over 12 inches high by myself. That poor restaurant lost money on my family. Shaundra (5 foot 9 and 118 pounds) ate 4 crab too. Iris (4 ft tall and 53 pounds and only 5 yrs old) ate 2 crab. My hubby ate 3 1/2 crab. And Shaundra had her best friend join us. She ate 3 crab too. So there was over 17 crab for the 5 of us. But it was so worth feeling stuffed. See you tomorrow after I digest
Esther
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Good evening, misfit losers! Happy Sunday!
Where are you guys? I'm here late because I am busy trying to decide which ceramic tile, which hardwood, which backsplash ...you get the picture... and a myriad of other things for this house. I know it should be a happy, fun experience, but I am just not feeling it. Hubs just gave up and is napping, and I came here for relief!
I hope everyone is doing okay.
Marie.. Where are you and how is your heel?
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I am back from the boating weekend. There was a Can Am Regatta so we had a lot more boats coming and going than
usual and it was busier than usual. Sleeping at night was hard because it was so warm and humid. Dave is going to put an
AC unit in our boat for our next cruise which will be our long weekend in August which comes around next weekend.
We can sleep without waking up all the time from the heat. We do have a fan but it is kind of noisy.
We are going to see our grandson Isaac tomorrow and Kathy and Fraser are going out for dinner so we will have him to
ourselves.
Marie - How are you doing with your heel? Should you have that checked?
Connie - Good luck with all decisions I don't know if I could do that.
Rachel - Check in when you can, you are busy and glad to hear your pet is doing better after the encounter.
Esther - Enjoy the crab now and weigh in later, enjoy the summer with your family.
Faye - Enjoy the inlaws!
Hi to everyone else!
Shirley0 -
Monday morning already yuk!0
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We had a meeting today at our house to plan an event that's coming up....the attendees agreed to buying pizza and sharing it. I ate my lunch before anyone arrived having made the decision to not eat pizza. A few times during the meeting I seriously considered eating pizza and then remembered that eating a piece of pizza always makes me want to eat another piece and then all the sodium makes me uncomfortable, thirsty, and bloated so I returned to sanity and didn't have any. I made an announcement first thing this morning that I'd need the area where I do my weight training for an hour and didn't want to be bothered. It worked great....except for dodging the vacuum cleaner, being asked several questions about the TV show I was watching, and being asked to come spread medicated lotion on hubby's back...but I completed my whole routine. Three hours of dog walking including some of it in the rain....there has been such a drought here that I don't take any forecast of rain seriously so we were quite surprised when the rain started and we got very wet in the ten minute walk back to the house---hubby met us in the laundry room with dry towels and hugs.
Barbie from beautiful NW Washington 
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