Over 200 New Year New Me Part 35

LittleSpy

Regarding his blood pressure, I'm not sure why they would say it was high. 120/80 is normal, so he's right in the correct range. I typed it into google and found info there to back me up.

Wasn't the bottom # over 80? 84, right? I think that's the more important number (diastolic) and since it's over the 80 limit of "normal," that's probably why doc said it was high. I say this because a couple years ago, my OB/GYN wouldn't give me a refill prescription on my birth control b/c my BP was 118/82. She said the bottom number had to be BELOW 80 before she'd give me a prescription unless I got clearance from my PCP (who didn't exist). Since my bottom # was over 80, I was considered "prehypertensive" regardless of my systolic value being under 120. So... that was when I went off birth control. :embarassed:

Oh, and I'm really excited about my gun. It's a TINY .32 semi-auto. Anything bigger would be dangerous overkill considering what I'd be using it for (immediate self defense in very close range). LOVE IT!!! I can hardly wait to go to the shooting range!

purpleprose

Jess........+2.2.............0%
Debra.....+1.7.............0%
Laila........-.04.............0%
Cogirl......+3.0............0% (dam TOM)
Julie...... .-0.2.............0.10% (oh, so sad!)
Meokk.....-2.2.............1.27%
Heather....+2..............0.0%
Allison......-0.7............0.27%

cris20056

Oh, and I'm really excited about my gun. It's a TINY .32 semi-auto. Anything bigger would be dangerous overkill considering what I'd be using it for (immediate self defense in very close range). LOVE IT!!! I can hardly wait to go to the shooting range!

Bobby has been promising to take me to a shooting range for 6yrs now...its never happened! It looks like so much fun! Im jealous!

awestfall

Going out of town this weekend so I will make a new thread Monday Hope you all have a great weekend!!
No loss for me today but its because I changed my diet around and my exercise plan so maybe next week I will see a loss!

lildebbie

Julie - Glad you like your gun, hubby took me once to the shooting range, it was fun, his gun was more of a kick than i was anticipating...Hubby is soo wanting to go to the range, he hasn't gone since we moved back

Well got all my papers from the finanance company today, all the stuff i have to sign and get it back to them.

Bad news - We are going to have to pay like 2k more than i thought on it...main reason was prepays of like our insurance, taxes, etc..basically prepaying our escrow...had me stressing some this morning...They are rolling in like 3500 of pmi crap and they are paying like 6k of closing clost...is it really necessary to have all these dang fees'. I think we can make the closing amounts...we haev to pinch every penny from now till april though :sad: but i know it will be worth it in the end.

Good news - based on today, (could change before april), we will get like a 4.5% ..we can only lock in 60 days before so got a while, but that makes are payment to be 100 less than we pay now !!!!!!

RedneckWmn

Deb-That's so great to hear about your compliment at work and Serena on her grades!! Hope the year continues to go well for her!

Laila-Great job staying on track this week. I'd be willing to bet with all the 30 Day Shred your doing a lot of toning up and that's cause the scale not to move much. Keep at it girl! I hate planks too! They are brutal! But they work EVERYTHING

Purple-Welcome back!

Julie-Congrats on your newest lowest weight ever!!

Meokk-Yay for working at home and having a less stressful day! Congrats on your loss this week!

Heather-Congrats on completing 1st week!! You are gonna see amazing results! I know it!

Wanted to share this with y'all. I don't have any pics of me to compare wearing the same shirt...so here it is...2 years ago me wearing the same shirt...and this is after I lost somewhere between 10-15 pounds...I THINK...not sure...and one today

RedneckWmn

Oh, and I'm really excited about my gun. It's a TINY .32 semi-auto. Anything bigger would be dangerous overkill considering what I'd be using it for (immediate self defense in very close range). LOVE IT!!! I can hardly wait to go to the shooting range!

Bobby has been promising to take me to a shooting range for 6yrs now...its never happened! It looks like so much fun! Im jealous!

I'm jealous! There use to be one down the road from my house!! I wanna learn. My neighbor said he was gonna let me go shoot crap and his house..that has yet to happen. Jerk face!

lildebbie

jess - You look great in your pics...YOu look great...and i love the shirt !! Hookem Horns !!!!!

RedneckWmn

Bad news - We are going to have to pay like 2k more than i thought on it...main reason was prepays of like our insurance, taxes, etc..basically prepaying our escrow...had me stressing some this morning...They are rolling in like 3500 of pmi crap and they are paying like 6k of closing clost...is it really necessary to have all these dang fees'. I think we can make the closing amounts...we haev to pinch every penny from now till april though :sad: but i know it will be worth it in the end.

PMI is no fun. I use to work for Countrywide...I wish they wouldn't make people pay that! So frustrating! But be glad they are making you pay escrow in advance. Lots of people don't and they value the property based on the dirt and not the house itself and people end up way negative in their escrow and their house payments increase by a few hundred dollars. I couldn't work at Countrywide long..hearing people crying on the phone just got to me. I have too much of a heart! :laugh:

Thanks for the compliment! Hook 'Em Horns!! :bigsmile: Pulling up that pic to look at really made my day. I've always seen the difference but never in the same clothes before!

purpleprose

I am in shock that I had a loss this week. SHOCK. I was finally mentally prepared to have a gain, was expecting a gain, and was floored when I saw the number go down on the Wii. I don't even know what to say about it.

Caught up on sleep from the trip and am going to hit the gym. Probably not going to bump up to week 8 of C25K but will do a nice 20 minute-ish run to get back into the swing of working out every day.

I'll try to catch up with everyone when I get back, but it's sooooo good to be home and to be back on the boards somewhat regularly.

lildebbie

Bad news - We are going to have to pay like 2k more than i thought on it...main reason was prepays of like our insurance, taxes, etc..basically prepaying our escrow...had me stressing some this morning...They are rolling in like 3500 of pmi crap and they are paying like 6k of closing clost...is it really necessary to have all these dang fees'. I think we can make the closing amounts...we haev to pinch every penny from now till april though :sad: but i know it will be worth it in the end.

PMI is no fun. I use to work for Countrywide...I wish they wouldn't make people pay that! So frustrating! But be glad they are making you pay escrow in advance. Lots of people don't and they value the property based on the dirt and not the house itself and people end up way negative in their escrow and their house payments increase by a few hundred dollars. I couldn't work at Countrywide long..hearing people crying on the phone just got to me. I have too much of a heart! :laugh:

Thanks for the compliment! Hook 'Em Horns!! :bigsmile: Pulling up that pic to look at really made my day. I've always seen the difference but never in the same clothes before!

Thanks Jess....i am glad they are making us pay it...just still sucks !!! I am even thinking our orginal payment will not be as much as they say, i remember when we built our 1st house, we were shocked when we went in and our payment due was alot less, alot of times that 1st year it is real low cause the actually tax apprasial isn't very much cuae it is just the land, i would love 6 months of that lower payment...

This makes me all soo nervous, once we have a little more in savings i will feel a lot better...we have to stick to a very verty strict budget...i am always not the best on it, and say it will be okay to do this or that...but got to...after april it will be more relaxed, just getting to then !!! Just funny tht getting a brand new house we will be paying a total a month probably 300 less (between the house, day care, and our internet (we have att uverse and we pay wayyy to much, we are swtiching to dish and saving more) of course jeremy will have increased gas and tolls...but we still come out ahead

for some reason i thought the big game was next weekend not this...

HeatherMN

<~~~Me at the gun range in December for my friend's birthday!

RedneckWmn

<~~~Me at the gun range in December for my friend's birthday!

Heather that's pure greatness!!

lildebbie

Okay girls !!

Me and Jeremy have made a challenge for ourselves.!!

We are challenging ourselves to not eat out for the whole month of October!! There are a couple days at lunch i have to , just because i have to switch on call stuff , and that is taking into consideration..

But besides those times, no eating out during the week, or the weekends..We will buy more food for the house, even if the stuff for the weekend is a little higher in cals (still won't be as bad as eating out) to give us a semi-treat.

I ran some reports, and in September we spent 300 eating out...and since may ...a whopping 1100...

So i am curious how this is going to affect our pocketbook and waistline

HeatherMN

Deb: That sounds like a great challenge. My bf and I say we're going to do that, but it never works. We've cut back, but we're not down to where we should be. I hate cooking, so that plays a big part....that and the fact that I'm usually so hungry after work!

Jess: I thought you'd like the pic. I love shooting, but am still a little intimidated by guns. I think too many people lose some of the intimidation and therefore lose respect for the gun, which is what causes problems. You definitely need to do some shooting!

cris20056

Deb- that sounds like a fantastic challenge! Bobby and I should try that but sometimes we really just like ordering out...although I dont plan on it!

Jess- what jerk face neighbor would that be?

Heather- super jealous!

Ok girls Im sitting at home bored, sore from working out all week, and frustrated that the scale is being mean. I really want to raid the fridge someone please talk me out of it....please!

RedneckWmn

Heather-I definitely plan to. Guns use to scare the daylights out of me. But I think it's important to know how to shoot one. Trying to be a little more comfortable with it. So I'm with you. Still very intimidated!


Cris-What jerk face neighbor ya think I'm talking about?

lildebbie

Cris - walk away from the fridge!!!!

Well we say we are not going to eat out as much but it usally never happens, but we now have a real goal ...everytime we think we want to eat out compare that to 40.00 towards our house...

hopefully we will make it all month...i doubt every month will be no eating out, especially november and december, but lets say we are going to try and detox from eating out and then gradually add back some

Just got back from the grocery store...got pork chops for dinner tonight, breakfast stuff for the weekend, dinner tomorrow, it is high cal and loaded with sodium but looked soo good...and can feed me and jermey for 4.50...

Got me some deal on detergerent !! And some mini-wheats!! I think i got enought to get us till we go grocery shopping for the week on sunday after spin !!

elmox

Hey ladies,

Hope you are all having a wonderful Friday. The scale was really weird for me this morning. I got readings that ranged 5 lbs! However, if I stick with the reading I got consistently, I'm down a pound. However, I'm going to wait and not count that until I weigh in on my usual scale, which should be this evening or tomorrow morning. What a pain to have it fluctuate so much!!

Checking in from yesterday:
Cals - Under w/exercise = 1526
Water - 128 oz
Exercise - 1 hour of hot yoga
Proud - Had a WONDERFUL class last night. Felt challenged but also really good afterwards. Happy feelings...

meokk

I'm amazed at how many of you have or use guns - as somebody who grew up in a country where handguns are illegal and hunting is mostly done by the rich for sport, it's all very foreign to me. I've never even touched a gun.
Now I'm thinking you are all a bunch of little Annie Oakleys !:laugh:

Cris - stop, put down the fridge handle !!!!! I know it's so hard - on the days I work from home I really struggle to eat properly. You can do it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LilDeb - I went back to read more and figured out that you GOT THE HOUSE !!!!!:drinker: :drinker: :drinker: I'm so excited for you !!!!!! Many congratulations to you and your family, it all sounds so wonderful and exciting.

Jess - you are too cute in your new photo - I love seeing how far you have come - seriously like a different person.

I just realized that I'm getting married in 3 WEEKS - slightly panicking but everything is under control, well, almost everything. I am struggling to decide what to do about my name. I think I'm going to settle for taking fiance's last name and making my last name a 2nd middle name. I was going to hyphenate but everyone I ask says it's a pain in the buttocks.
What do you guys think????

RedneckWmn

I'm amazed at how many of you have or use guns - as somebody who grew up in a country where handguns are illegal and hunting is mostly done by the rich for sport, it's all very foreign to me. I've never even touched a gun.
Now I'm thinking you are all a bunch of little Annie Oakleys !:laugh:


I just realized that I'm getting married in 3 WEEKS - slightly panicking but everything is under control, well, almost everything. I am struggling to decide what to do about my name. I think I'm going to settle for taking fiance's last name and making my last name a 2nd middle name. I was going to hyphenate but everyone I ask says it's a pain in the buttocks.
What do you guys think????

Yay for getting married in 3 weeks! i'll be thinking about you at my sisters wedding! HAHA!! And I haven't ever touched a gun..Just want to learn how to shoot.

cris20056

Thanks girls I did eat but decided on a 100 calorie pack instead which is the only 'decent' food in the house.

Meook- I dunno about the last name, I love mine becasue its simple and I will be taking on a crazy *kitten* last name but Im also proudly taking on his name because that just makes me feel like we are one. Thats gay but true. Hes really into his heritage and family and stuff and we even have a big framed family crest of his name with an expantion of how the name came about hanging in our family room. He wants it tatooed on his body (uhm nooo) but its nice that he cares so much. Plus another reason for me is that my son has his last name and that makes me a little sad sometimes that i have a differnet name. I think using ur maiden name as a middle name sounds like a good compromise!

HeatherMN

Meokk: How exciting! Only three weeks? I'm a bit old-fashioned in that if I ever got married, I would take the man's name and drop mine completely...so, I'd say your plan sounds good! As Cris said, a nice compromise. Oh, and Annie Oakley is my hero! Sometimes I think I was her in a previous life!

Jess: You've never shot before? You need to in order to be a country girl! Just kidding, but I definitely recommend taking a firearm safety class. That's how I got started in guns a few years ago and it was an awesome experience! Then you'll learn how to handle them properly because most of the people I know DO NOT follow the firearm commandments!

HeatherMN

As you probably saw on my status, I've dropped 1.6% body fat and gained 1 lb. of lean muscle. So exciting! Take that measurements and scale! I've also changed my daily calorie intake to 1716 based on what the scan recommend...so basically, I'm dropping 100 calories off of my allowance for the days I don't exercise. We'll see how it goes!

lildebbie

I'm amazed at how many of you have or use guns - as somebody who grew up in a country where handguns are illegal and hunting is mostly done by the rich for sport, it's all very foreign to me. I've never even touched a gun.
Now I'm thinking you are all a bunch of little Annie Oakleys !:laugh:

Cris - stop, put down the fridge handle !!!!! I know it's so hard - on the days I work from home I really struggle to eat properly. You can do it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LilDeb - I went back to read more and figured out that you GOT THE HOUSE !!!!!:drinker: :drinker: :drinker: I'm so excited for you !!!!!! Many congratulations to you and your family, it all sounds so wonderful and exciting.

Jess - you are too cute in your new photo - I love seeing how far you have come - seriously like a different person.

I just realized that I'm getting married in 3 WEEKS - slightly panicking but everything is under control, well, almost everything. I am struggling to decide what to do about my name. I think I'm going to settle for taking fiance's last name and making my last name a 2nd middle name. I was going to hyphenate but everyone I ask says it's a pain in the buttocks.
What do you guys think????

Thanks !!! We are soo excited. We can't wait for stuff to get moving on it...

ON the name thing...I took hubby's name completely and dropped mine off...i had a name nobody every said or spelt EVER correctly so i went from Debra Ann Chicosky to Debra Ann Carr, at least my initials stayed the same I never even thought to make it my middle (my mom did that way back when she got married in the 60's) my name was just too dang long and cumbersome. WHen my sister got married (the 1st time) she wanted to keep her name, didn't have a desire to change it and he didn't really care, so she kept hers and the kids had his name...Now she got married a 2nd time (last year) and he was real in to tradition and really wanted it so she changed it...

LittleSpy

I just realized that I'm getting married in 3 WEEKS - slightly panicking but everything is under control, well, almost everything. I am struggling to decide what to do about my name. I think I'm going to settle for taking fiance's last name and making my last name a 2nd middle name. I was going to hyphenate but everyone I ask says it's a pain in the buttocks.
What do you guys think????

YAY!!
I took dh's last name & put my maiden name in the middle. I dropped my middle name completely. It was just a stupid filler name anyway.

As someone who works in HR I can say YES!!! HYPHENATED NAMES ARE A HUGE PITA. They really piss me off. Not hypenating in general but because what happens is people want to hyphenate and then on forms where they're instructed to write their "full legal name" they only write their middle initial and their husband's last name so it takes us forever to figure out who the eff they are. I JUST had a mini meltdown over this. :laugh: Seriously, not 15 minutes ago I was clenching my teeth about to scream over someone who was hyphenated legally but was not hyphenated on her insurance account. I had to figure out who she was so I could look up her address to send her a letter regarding her insurance. In our new HR system, I can't search for anything by social security number (don't even get me effing started). Seriously, it took me forever to figure out what her legal name is so I could look up her address in our HR info system. Still miffed about losing so many minutes on a Friday afternoon having to look that up (and now I'm losing even more by *****ing about it :laugh:).

Momma24

Meokk, congrats on getting married in 3 weeks. I personally dropped my last name and took the hubby's. Kinda boring I use to have a nice Italian last name now I have a pretty common English last name. I can name a a few English actress' with the same last name as I have now. Natasha, Miranda, Joely. Can you guess what my last name is?

meokk

Thanks for all of the name advice ladies - I think I'll do the my maiden as a middle but I'm going to sleep on it to make sure I'm still happy with that in the morning.

Momma - I guess I don't know any actress' because I have NO IDEA what you name might be :laugh: and I'm the English one in this group :embarassed:

Momma24

Ha!!! it is Richardson

Positively_Me

Thanks everone for your input regarding my son's health. he is doing great. I just finished uploading his food and he was 1900 so no worries because he is exercising more and pretty soon (Monday) he will start football practice. We went shopping for football cleats, not sure how much they would cost, so we got a pair for 30 dollars (on sale in Modells)...I just hope I got a good buy..me being cheap:embarassed:

i didn't do my shred today. I might have to do it tomorrow (day 2 and 3) so no worries..it will get done.

Check in
calories, over by 100
exercise, Nada
water, about 8 cups..super busy today
proud, with me being busy..I just wanted to grab something and eat..but instead I had a nice grilled chicken salad (which I made at home)...

Meokk, congratulation on your upcoming wedding...OMG, I would be stressing right about now. And about the name change thing. Hubby's last name was Ali ( it was his middle name), but when we got married he was not an American citizen and I had make him papers..so his last name was Ali ( when he came to this country the visa center took the first 3 names on his passport and dropped the rest) and I took that name..we had the first two kids and they also have Ali as there last name...and when he became a Citizen he had the option to change his name so that is when he decided to change it to "Atoum" so our older kids and me all have Ali and Hubby and younger son has Atoum. When we went to go change our name to Atoum, it was a long process and each application cost 200+dollars. So i said screw that, I am sticking with Ali and you (dh) stay with Atoum...

So when people ask for my last name and his last name and then the kids last name they (people) think he was my second husband..and the older kids ar from a previous marrage..yah right!

so long story short..I finally change my older kids and my last name, this past summer, but I am still using Ali because it is Much easier than Atoum....that would mean I have to change everything that has my last name and well it's too much.

sorry about all the rambling...have a great evening/weekend!!!