Over 200 New Year New Me Part 27
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There ought to be a law - similar to no booze before noon!
SAY WHAT?! NO BOOZE BEFORE NOON! I was always told its 5 o'clock somewhere!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLUE!!!! I THINK YOU DID FANTASTIC!!!!! LOVE YOU!!!
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I'm stuffed. Leftover falafel & tzatziki pita. YUM! And 231 calories. :noway:
Oh by the way, thanks pos_me for the tip about freezing. I had thought that but was afraid to try it. I soaked all my chick peas but only made half so I'll turn the other half into falafel batter (lol) & freeze.
Today's the MIL's birthday and she's (supposedly) coming to town today in order to drive up with us to my mom's house tomorrow (MIL lives about 4 hours away from my mom and we have the pleasure of being located directly between them). She LOVES this one restaurant here so I'm pretty sure we're going there for dinner. I'm going to do my best to actually be pretty good instead of using it as an excuse to order whatever I want & overeat. I should have around 800 calories left for the day because I'm eating lighter to save calorie room since waking up at 6am simply did not happen this morning.
On that front, I bought all travel sized stuff to pack my gym bag. I WILL work out in the morning next week and I WILL take a shower at the gym. :indifferent:0 -
I just want to say on vacation I started drinking AT noon just about, well everyday! That's what you do when you camp and in Wisconsin, right? I didn't do it alone it was with my family! :laugh:
It's been a morning around here at work. Just found out Monday we are getting a problem employee from another branch that's being demoted. Oh joy. I'm so lucky! I already dislike this girl from before. Let the good times roll! Gotta think poititve!0 -
Happy birthday Blue and Happy early birthday ELMOX.Hope you girls have a wonderful dayBlue: What else am I supposed to do at work prior to 10:30am central? I start at 7:30 and we all know how dull life would be if we had to do work while at work!
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Jess: What did this new gal do to get demoted? I love a little drama, as long as it doesn't involve me and my life!
Cris: It is 5 o'clock somewhere! I think 10 am is acceptable on weekends and holidays, personally, for the booze. Hasn't anyone heard of Bloody Marys and Mimosa?0 -
I'm not sure what she did to get demoted. They wont really tell us. All I know is one of my co workers and her use to work together at another branch and MAJORLY butted heads. Like bad. So my co worker is FUMEING mad. I don't trust this girl as far as I can throw her. I know she starts drama. She talks smack. I work with 1 full time manger and 1 part time person. That's it. were very close and like a family here. So this is a kink in our routine.0
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I love Bloody Mary's and Mimosa's!!0
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10am is more reasonable.....
I think I shall go buy a 6 pack tonight :drinker:0 -
Mike doesn't know it yet but we're going out for drinks, not for a movie tonight. :laugh:0
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Welp, Scott's mom isn't coming up afterall. I have like 800 calories left just to get me to 1260 for the day and that's AFTER I eat my afternoon snack. I'm also irritated because I would have planned to go to the gym tonight had we been given a little more heads up but I don't have any shoes other than the ones I'm wearing which are in no way appropriate for the gym. It's fine because I'd never be able to eat all those calories on top of the 800 anyway. I mean, I'd be able to, but I would be unsuccessful at making them *healthy* calories.
Also, since it's her birthday, I bought her a TON of chocolate. So, now that I won't see her, it will be sitting in my house. It's bad enough I bought a bag of M&Ms and 3 dark chocolate bars at the grocery store this week (by the way, I haven't even opened the M&Ms and I've eaten 4 of the 45 squares of dark chocolate in 3 days! :noway:). I'd totally mail it to her but... you know... it's July... and this is South Carolina. It would never make it.
Mmmmmm beer. I haven't had anything to drink since July 4th (I think I had 2 beers)! I'm definitely drinking some of that tomorrow at my mom's house (you know, while I'm swimming, biking, and playing basketball all by myself)! :drinker:0 -
Happy birthday Blue (aka Nancy), Elmox, and Elmox hubby...May ya birthday wishes be granted!
Celebrate like you never celebrated before..lol
check back in a few..0 -
:drinker: I been so wrapped up in the work drama I forgot. Happy Birthday to our beautiful ladies!! Enjoy your birthday weekends! :flowerforyou: :drinker: :drinker:
2 1/2 hours and counting. I will have a cold beer in my hand!0 -
Happy birthday Nancy & Lauren!
The next 15 minutes can't pass fast enough. I'm SO done with this job this week. Blech.0 -
I'm outta here (work) for the weekend. Off to shop with a few friends. I should be able to check in this weekend some, so see you then.
Happy Birthday to you lovely Birthday gals! Have a great weekend!
Jess and Cris: Remember, moderation is key.0 -
I'm outta here (work) for the weekend. Off to shop with a few friends. I should be able to check in this weekend some, so see you then.
Happy Birthday to you lovely Birthday gals! Have a great weekend!
Jess and Cris: Remember, moderation is key.
Have fun on your photo shoot!!0 -
i decided to get pit beef and ffries instead of beer but now that i ate it all im still wanting beer.....oh dilemma!0
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i decided to get pit beef and ffries instead of beer but now that i ate it all im still wanting beer.....oh dilemma!
Oh that is a dilemma! I say skip the beer. You wanna see that 190!0 -
I went swimming today and got REALLY hungry! So I had a HUGE lunch. I only have 700 calories left and my peeps are taking me out to dinner and drinks for the b-day! In three hours! Help!
I think I shall spend them all on drinks! I'm already full from food!
Guess I better get to that old rec center fast! LOL0 -
i decided to get pit beef and ffries instead of beer but now that i ate it all im still wanting beer.....oh dilemma!
Work for the beer in spin class tomorrow and enjoy it tomorrow evening instead.
Instant gratification isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Blue -- swimming burns a poop ton of calories! I'm always starving afterward, too. Enjoy your drinks!0 -
i decided to get pit beef and ffries instead of beer but now that i ate it all im still wanting beer.....oh dilemma!
Work for the beer in spin class tomorrow and enjoy it tomorrow evening instead.
Instant gratification isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Blue -- swimming burns a poop ton of calories! I'm always starving afterward, too. Enjoy your drinks!
Way to give a good suggestion Julie! Love it! I hope I can drag my butt to the gym tomorrow!0 -
HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU.... TO YOU! HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!! Blue and Elmox I really hope you gals a great birthday!!!
I haven't been to good this afternoon, but I know I will be better tomorrow. I hope the rest of us all have great weekends and enjoy the beer and such. Have a drink for me too!0 -
Happy Happy birthday to Blue and ELmox..yall have great days !!!
Got home from gym...Dance class + 20 min of very light cardio..burned 566 in all...not to bad i guess...i burned like 406 in my dance class..one song was new and i couldn't figure out what she was doing so didn't do too much in that one... It was packed though...I was almost late and didn't get my spot that i like, but still fun.
Tomorrow is going to be such a busy day...my plan is to wake up early and go work out...come home ..eat some breakfast, serena wan'ts some pancakes, then let hubby go and abby WILL take a nap , if i ahve to hold her down...no way she will handle soccer + bday party... that is the main reason we are not going to the gym in the morning.
SHe is being a pistol right now, hopefully she will crash her soon.0 -
Evening all,,,,,
firstly - Blue & Elmox - I hope you both enjoy your Birthdays and concerts and drinkies :drinker: :drinker: :drinker: :drinker:
LilDebbie - have a great party tomorrow, I hope all goes well and Serena has a fun time. :flowerforyou:
Checking in:
Calories - ate all my exercise
water - little under, maybe 82oz
exercise - walking my butt off around ikea for over 2 hours and then another hour doing other shopping must have earned me those meatballs right? :happy:
proud - I only ate half of the plate of meatballs and after all of the walking today I'm not even really tired, such a difference from one year ago0 -
Well I forgot to weigh in this morning. How could I do that??? I guess it is because I had so much going early this morning. So I will weigh in tomorrow and add to the hopefully losing list.
Happy Birthday to Nancy, Lauren and Lauren's Hubby!!! Hope you have great weekends and enjoy every second of it!!! Lauren that is so neat that you and your hubby have the same bday!
So today I wasn't the best at food but I did work my butt off in the yard! Burned lots of calories! I made homemade enchiladas and then when I looked it up they weren't so good after all. I was trying but apparently need to check first. Oh well!
Check in:
Calories - Under
Sodium - Under
Water - Not as much as usual
Exercise - 90 mins of yard work - 989 calories burned!!! :noway: :noway:
Proud - That even though I didn't do the best in food I did go and burn calories!! :bigsmile: :bigsmile:
Well tomorrow is my nephews bday party so hotdogs and birthday cake. I will be good! Hope everyone has a great weekend!!0 -
Let me clarify. When I say I went swimming, I meant I went to a pool and did some mild water aerobics and then treaded water. LOL It's all good. I wanted to have a good time, drink some good microbrews, eat some ice cream. That is exactly what I did! The heartache comes when you log all of that in and you see so many red minus signs that you think you're back in grade school getting your math test back. :noway:
I had a blast and wouldn't have had it any other way. Well, I would have preferred NOT to have driven over the huge rock in that stupid rock garden (pre beers - I was completely sober) near my friend's house and gotten my car stuck until a man from up the street came and dug me out. But other than that, would not have changed a single thing. :ohwell:0 -
OK, I have to tell you something that happened tonight that really bothered me. So much so that I seem to not be able to go to sleep. I keep thinking about it.
I'm starting to have a really weird problem with some of my "friends." It seems that the more people are noticing my weight loss, the more people I know are "claiming" that they have been the person to "get me to see the light" and lose the weight. It's happening a LOT, in many different areas. It seems that people are trying to "claim" me as their success story.
For example, I was talking to a few friends the other day, one I had not seen for months. She raved about how great I looked and asked what I was doing. I told her about MFP, and that recently I had upped the intensity of my workouts by joining a gym. My other friend chimed in with "yeah I'm the one that convinced her to join the gym." NO she wasn't! I was thrown off by that response. All I could say back was, "Really? Because I joined without consulting anyone." My delusional friend started denying my statement like she was six years old and I had just caught her taking my Leggos. It was all very surreal.
Another couple of friends and I were eating lunch one day and the topic turned to snacking. They were all discussing how many times a day they eat and what they eat for snacks. I joined in and said that I have been forcing myself to eat breakfast here lately and that it has been giving me more energy. One friend chimed in with, "And who gave you that idea to eat breakfast? Yes, me, thank you very much." NO it wasn't her! It was my PT and the trainer I had for a few sessions. I could not believe it! I told her exactly that - my PT discussed my eating patterns with me and HE recommended the plan I am eating right now. She retorted, "Well, I've been telling you for years to eat breakfast, long before you got that physical therapist." WTF???
So now tonight. My friend was having this Juice Plus party and asked me and another colleague to go. So we did. I didn't buy a thing, because JP is not my thing (I had a severe reaction to it years ago), plus I am totally broke. After the party we had planned to go out for drinks, eats, etc., which we did. But before we left for the bar, another woman who was at the party whom I did not know started talking to me. And, well, you know me, I can talk to a wall and it talks back. So anyhoo, she found out from my friend giving the party that I was losing weight and she was very curious as to how I was doing it. I told her about MFP, then glanced over to my colleague and said, "Sandy joined MFP, too, a few months ago when I told her about it." Well, Sandy went postal on me! She interrupted her conversation from across the room to tell us, "I told YOU about MFP and then YOU joined." I was like, wtf, what planet are you living on? But then something inside me sort of snapped. I had had just about enough of people jumping on my weight loss wagon. And I said, "Honey, I've been at MFP since October; you've been there since March. Do the math." Then Sandy said, "I knew about MFP years ago. I'm the one who told you about it." I replied, "You did tell me you thought there were some online food calculators, but you didn't know any web addresses. I'm the one who searched and found MFP, dear, and told YOU about it." Then she had the nerve to lie again and say, "Oh, I had joined MFP years ago when it was just starting out and I told YOU about the website." NO she didn't! I was pissed to no end. I told her I refused to argue about something so childish and changed the subject.
It got me to thinking. WHY do people want to take credit for my weight loss? Is it because they have nothing in their life that they're proud of? Do they have such low self esteem that they have to be seen as doing something great in everyone else's eyes? Are they that much of a control freak that they want to hog the spotlight? Are they jealous and can't negotiate their own unsuccessful attempts at losing weight so they have to take over mine? Do they see me as a person who would give them all the credit? Does it make them feel good to have others see them as my "savior"?
As you can tell, this is really bothering me, and I don't like it one bit. NO ONE gets credit for my weight loss but ME and GOD. I need to really think about this one and figure out why this is happening, what I can do about it, and why this is REALLY bothering me.
Thanks for listening, sisters! Maybe I'll get some sleep now that this is off my chest! :frown: 0 -
Morning blue
hope you got some sleep. :yawn: :yawn:
Sounds frustrating.
Don't bother trying to figure out why this is happening , you'll just drive yourself round the bend ( and into a rock garden :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: ). The only thing you can control is your reaction to comments like that.
If it were me I would go one of two ways.
1. Either joke about it. Maybe say sarcastically and over the top that it's all so and so 's doing that you lost 95 lbs. Hey everybody if you need to lose weight. Just ask so and so for breakfast tips and poof there it goes !!
2. Take the offender aside soon after to have a quiet little chat and tell her that when she says things like that it makes you feel like she is trying to take credit for your success. It took a lot of pain and dedication on a daily basis to get where you are now and you want her to know that when she says things like that, you feel it belittles everything YOU have done. Hopefully she'll look like this
Enjoy your bithday weekend and week and month !!!! :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:
Xoxoxo
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Blue - I am sorry about your "friends" that is sooo rude in my opinion. I would not know what to do. YOU did this by your self and i am soo super proud of you and I would shout it to the top of the world!!!! It sounds like they are are almost jealouse that you are doing something awesome for yourself and want to attributed to that....I would never doo that to my friends..>even if i help them , i wouldn't say you lost weight cause i told you to do something...My good friend joined MFP after I "inspired her" (yep a 260+ fat chick inspiring others...funny huh)...it makes mee feel soo happy that something i could of done to help her get on this path...but if she lost 20, 40 , 50 , 100 whatever pounds i would never say that it is all my doing that she lost weight...that is just rude...
Well got up and went to the gym at 7 this morning...i was soo dragging..i am thinking because i didn't eat anything (just a diet coke ) i went on like 5 different machines, my top of my arm hurts so i was struggling wiht the arc/elltipcals today, the bike was just not doing it for me either...Then i did the treadmill for 20 minutes (that usally is the demon, i hate that thing), but i did 20 min - 1 mile..yeah i know that isn't any great acheviment but for me to stay on for 20 minutes when iw as feeling uggg was pretty good, i did some intervals of running and walking , of course my speed wasn't that hight, but i did it..
Still burnt like 400 cals, but took me longer than usual..Hubby is going now, little one will need a nap before soccer and bday party this afternoon...got to get clen the house before the inalws get here, pick up a cake, make goodie bags...I may be passing out tonight or may have to head up to the gym if i eat too many cupcakes
I am only making 8 goodie bags , serena says some of her friends say they are coming but no rsvp's...if they show up fine, but i am not have enough goodie bags, i will have a couple extra, but i will be annoyed....is it just me or is it just rude to not rsvp if you are coming??0 -
Blue -- I'm naive so I tend to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. Maybe your friends really do feel like they're the ones who advised you. Maybe one friend really had told you a few times in passing conversation to eat breakfast. I know my mom hounded me about that for 25 years and I never listened to her. Maybe the other friend really did feel she guided you to the awesome online website you found by telling you these types of websites exist. ??? Anyway, regardless of who wants to take credit for giving you advice, everyone knows YOU get all the credit for making the change everyone sees in you. :flowerforyou: I'm not the best communicator but if it was bothering me as much as it is bothering you, I probably would talk to those friends individually using "I" statements. "I feel..." and explain to them you really need their support because that would be the biggest help of all to you. :flowerforyou: Other than that, I'm glad you had a fabulous birthday!
I have a new lowest weight ever! And TOM is here (well -- it's doing it's "hey I'm kind of here for a few days before I really come and punch you in the uterus" thing it's started doing the last few times -- but that's when I'm the most bloated) AND I had a sodiumriffic dinner.
194.6!
That's down about 4 pounds from Monday. It's like I started over and am having a big first week loss again which is probably mostly water and that's fine. I'm just glad to see the scale move. I feel like I'm going to see the scale keep moving for a while now.
I'm going to treat this myself like I just started this journey. I know a lot more now and I know better than to undereat like I did before. I'm only set to lose 1.5 pounds a week so I'm going to eat my base and around half of my exercise cals and see how that goes. I feel like for the last couple of months I've been too lax with myself -- eating foods I shouldn't be eating, having too many high calorie days without exercising, etc. So I'm going to continue my "work for it" plan, log EVERY bite, stay away from too many processed foods, etc. I think what I was doing was eating all my exercise calories and not taking into consideration bites of food I'd have here and there. It's pretty easy to eat away a 750 calorie deficit when you're not paying attention. Especially since I was basically eating whatever I wanted on the weekends without exercising. That was undoing any deficit I was creating during the week. So, now that I've really been paying attention the plateau mystery is solved. I know how to do this and I'm gonna.
150 (140?), here I come!0 -
Juile - sounds like you have a plan!!!!! YAY on lowest weight...YOu will get out of these 190's in no time !!!!0
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