Over 200 New Year New Me Part 40

RedneckWmn

Since I'm bored I thought I would share a funny story...a few weeks ago my best friend and I had a small gathering at my house and we had a "bonfire" it's really just a fire in a fire pit but bonfire sounds way cooler...we took this picture and after we took it she looked at me and said "hey for the first time ever I don't think we exceeded the weight limit on this chair!" stupid I know but it makes me giggle when I see the picture..thought I would share it with y'all.

awestfall

I am here I am just completely overwhelmed with what going on in my life right now.I know in the next week or so things will straighten out.My weight is back up to 235 but I started tracking again today so hopefully today will be better and I can get it back under control.My daughters 4th birthday went well even though she had been sick all last week and Monday of this week which was her actual birthday.I think all the stress I am under is what is causing the gain.I am trying to come up with the deductible to fix my car ,trying to get my car in the shop this week for an estimate,all the bad weather we have had makes that impossible and my moms upcoming surgery ,and besides that I think I am coming down with the virus that plagued my daughter all last week .HURRAY!! Sorry to be such a downer but I need a pick me up so thats why I came to complain here.I know that my problems are minor compared to others so I am thankful that mine are only minor issues and can be fixed in time.At least I am here today tracking right.Its just that tracking everything that goes into my mouth is starting to drive me bananas.OK RANT OVER!!

Momma24

Hey Nancy,

Wow a quick update. I am trying to remember myself. We have people travelling, someone got into a size 16(think it was purplerose) , some of us have gained weight. Some of us lost weight we gained and some of us just lost weight. We have had some sick people and we are all trying to name Julie's baby. I think we are somewhat up to date. Cris, lstpaul, cogirl, and lildeb have been mia. I got a message from lildeb and she is super busy. I heard from lstpaul about a week ago also very busy. She and I made a deal that we are going to do better in 2011.

Okay girls 2010 has been a rough year for me. At the beginning of the year some 24 yo called my home claiming to be my hubbys son. (before me I have only been in hubby's life for 18 years) Did a dna test and NO not the hubby's yet the mother swears the dna test is wrong. yeah right. Then the stuggles with my son and the dreaded autistic diagnosis last week in addition to all of that I gained back 20 of the 44 I lost in 09. I am grateful though that we are healthy and happy. We have a warm bed to lay in at night and plenty of food.(maybe too much) My children are happy, my marriage is great, and I am at peace with all of this. I am just ready for 2011!!!!!! I want to remember to be grateful even when times are rough. There is always someone having a harder time than you are. So I need to get up out of my pity party and move on!!!!!!!!

HeatherMN

Momma: Great outlook!

To build on what Momma said, as someone who works in HR (and I KNOW Julie can relate), I'm sick of hearing about the minor problems people have that they think are the END of the world! Sure, we all have complaints because we're human, but hearing some people - and no one here, I assure you! - go on and on about how terrible their life is makes me want to slap them because I volunteer with families who have much larger problems. Yet, which ones complain more? Yep, the person who got stuck in traffic and didn't get their favorite coffee before their meeting. Those who have so many things going on and should be complaining seem to be the ones smiling and helping others through their struggles.

I try to remind myself of these things every day because I don't want to be one of those people who complains about minor things. The traffic in the snowstorm yesterday? Slow, but it was expected and hey, it gave me time to listen to the Christmas music I've been avoiding until now. 2011 is going to be all about being positive. At any time, feel free to tell me if I'm complaining too much.

elmox

What great, infectious attitudes here! Last night we had our team dinner - went out for a delicious (as usual!) meal and while it was a ton of calories, I feel like I made good choices. Had a "Carrots, Carrots, and more Carrots" to start with (which I thought was delicious and a better choice than foie gras!) and venison for the main. Yum!

Tonight we've got a holiday party and tomorrow we're going to a new restaurant with Jonathan's parents. Thursday I'm taking my manager out. This is the week of big eating! We fly home to Missouri on Friday morning (flying Christmas Eve....no problems right??) but have a whirlwind of a trip there...

In St. Louis for Christmas with my immediate family = about 27 hours 12/24-12/25
Drive to southwest Missouri to see Grandma and extended family = 4 hours on 12/25
At Grandma's for family Christmas = about 25 hours on 12/25-12/26
Drive across the bottom of the state to hubby's hometown = 5 hours on 12/26
In Sikeston (Jonathan's hometown) = about 38 hours on 12/26-12/28
Drive back to up STL to drop off Jonathan at airport = 2.5 hours on 12/28
In STL with my family = 24 hours on 12/28-12/29

Are you tired?? I'm exhausted and we haven't even done it yet!

Thinking exercise in that timeline is going to be tough. My sister and I are going to try for a yoga class on the morning of 12/29, which would be nice. Other than that...we'll see. It's going to be cold, so I'm not sure how much outside walking/running I'll be able to get in. I'll be tracking it all and hoping to stay around maintenance cals.

Happy Tuesday!

HonestOmnivore

Hello!

I'm working from home. Yeah - its 11:30 PM and I'm still working which kinda sucks - but on the upside I never had to change out of my PJs (is that a good thing?:ohwell: ). I also was able to control my eating. I decided this morning I should fast today to balance out yesterday's feeding frenzy (lunch was amazing but horrid amazing - an entire day's worth of calories in two dessert cookies alone).

I made it until 9 AM and had breakfast - but not a bad breakfast - I heated up some canned pumpkin with spices and a packet of sweetener - yummy and only 80 calories!:flowerforyou:

Lunch came and my tummy was sad... so I made pumpkin soup by using 1/2 cup chicken broth, half a cup pumpkin, some red pepper and yum it was GOOD.

Dinner I did a repeat of lunch but I added 3 oz. of smoked turkey breast (the real thing - not deli) and it was amazing.:blushing:

As a snack tonight I mixed half a cup pumpkin with some lowfat yogurt and spices and it was very yummy like pie.

Which goes to show you - when your FREAKING STARVING everything tastes AMAZING!:drinker:

I needed to day to rememeber why the great food I'd been eatting last spring was so GREAT! I was eating only when I was really hungry. I need to get back to eating LESS.

OK I'm shutting down the PC and going to bed :bigsmile:

elmox

Mstahl - All that pumpkin business sounds so good. I LOVE pumpkin anything and have never really thought about eating it out of the can (not in bread or pie form!).

Last night was the home-brewers guild Christmas party. Granted, I had eated 1200 cals before I even got there, so I was DEFINITELY over for the day. Pretty much doubled my calories there. Oh the holidays!

I think I need to focus on water here soon - I am not even getting 8 glasses in, which is no good!

HeatherMN

Speaking of AMAZING food, we went to Broders Pasta Bar in Minneapolis last night for a friend's birthday and it was delicious. It's this quaint little restaurant that always has a long wait because it's so good. The chef lived and studied in Italy, so everything is very authentic. I didn't know what over half of the stuff on the menu was, but my friend's grandmother was Italian, so she was able to translate. The wine was yummy, too! So, yeah, still way over on calories again but we're not counting this week.

Momma24

Good Morning everyone. I hope all is well!!!! Husband will be off for the next 4 days. YAY!!!!!! We went to his work Christmas Party the other night. It was nice. I ate too much. Oh the crab cakes were sooooooooooo good. This is mean but thankfully I was NOT the fattest girl in the room. Oh how stressful that is. I was a close second though:embarassed: :embarassed: My goal is to be one of the smaller women in the room next year at this party. I am already pretty short (trying to hold on to 5"2 but my daughter who is taller than I swears the doctor said she was 5"2) Any how I can barely weigh anything and I am well over 200 pounds. My poor feet made for a petite girl struggling to carry all of this around. My husband was sweet he always makes me feel like I am the most beautiful woman he has ever seen. When I met him I was petite and sexy:blushing: !!! He still treats me like I look like that!!!! Any how if you can't tell I am so looking forward to the next few days with some ♥us♥ time. I am also looking forward to the reaction from my kids on Christmas morning. I still have some believers here. My son does not quite "get" the fact that Santa is coming and he will have presents but I keep talking to him about it and I am so hoping a connection is made saturday. I still have a 9 yo who may suspect due to rumors at school about santa but she is playing along. She says she believes so I am letting her. Sorry about the long winded post!!!

Julie, how is our sweet little Mary doing? Okay I confess, I am looking forward to you naming your baby and I like Mary!!!! So sweet. I hope your pregnancy is treating you well today. Here pretty soon you will start to feel that little one move. At first it will almost feel like "butterflys" after awhile it will be more pronounced. But in the next month or 2 pay close attention to the butterflies!!! My daughter Miranda kicked off a button on a shirt I was wearing. Yeah, I probably should not have been wearing it cause it was getting snug. She kicked off a remote and many other things. She was more pronounced because I was thin with her. My others I was heavier. So Miranda was right at the surface the other 3 had to kick through some fat.

LittleSpy

I need to lay off the scale. Not that I'm trying to kid myself but because I'm freaking myself out so much that I'm flooded with guilt every time I even come close to a holiday cookie.

I can hardly wait for these stupid symptoms to ease up. I really want to be active again. I'm closing in on 6 weeks of exhaustion and constant nausea and I've had enough, thanks. Insomnia has added itself to the list this week which is really not cute at all. When I do sleep, it's restless because I'm having nutso dreams so when I wake up I feel like I haven't slept at all. I look like a fat, frazzled, baggy-eyed monster. :laugh: BUT, I only have about 10 more hours of work this week and then I'm FREE for 11 (ELEVEN!) days and also I'm growing a person (who will soon be the COOLEST person in the world, no, really) so I'm pretty happy right now, fat frazzled exhausted pukey bags & all.

/gripe

LittleSpy

Momma -- Enjoy your time with hubby!
I played along about Santa until I was embarrassingly old. Maybe 10 or 11. :laugh: But I was the baby & my mom so loved doing it. My brother was 15 or 16 before Santa stopped coming to our house.

We have a little Cleatus right now (yep, Cleatus the fetus). I called the little one Cleatus last night & dh looked at me all wide eyed & said "You're... not actually... considering that name, right?" :laugh: Sadly enough, it is a family name but no, there will be no pitter patter of little Cleatus feet at my house.
My pregnancy is fine, I'm just whiney. I don't feel great, but I could really be feeling a whole lot worse so I shouldn't complain as much as I do. I'd really be fine if it wasn't for being so tired. I've said it before, but I could have never imagined how flat-out tired I would be. Especially for this long. But really, all is well! And no more scare/panic. I hadn't elaborated because it was tmi & I had no idea what was going to happen, but the scare was a tiny bit of brown blood which turned out to be, I'm sure of it now, thanks to some bed pilates a couple days before. No big deal at all, but I let hormones get the best of me after seeing it.

HeatherMN

Momma: Sounds like you're going to have a good time with hubby being off for a few days!

Julie: I went to an after-bar party once with a guy whose friend's called him Cleatus. It was hilarious, but I'll forever remember him as the guy who cooler-raced down the stairs. Yep, you sit on a plastic cooler and slide down the stairs on it. Bet you wouldn't guess that would be a bad idea with a house full of drunks! Hmm...looks like I have a story for every darn name.

HonestOmnivore

I'm going to try to get back into the habit of checking in!

Wednesday -
Calories - OVER due to Christmas Chocolates mixing with skipped lunch due to work load
Water - fine
Exercise - none.

Proud - I'm proud that after having a bad chocolate fit and getting lunch from the party table, I was at least reasonable with my dinner.

Julie - my name is Melinda which is a GREAT "M" name! I was called "Mindy" when I was little and I like both names. I've also been called Mel, Melly, Lyn, and Linda-Lou - I think each Aunt used their own favorite nickname I'm working today and next week Mon-Thursday but my amazing boss is encouraging those of us who can work remote to work from home! Have I mentioned how much I love my job?

Tonight is our big Christmas Party for our Thursday Night Dinner gang - I went to a Fresh Market (like a Whole Foods but smaller and less expensive) last night and got two 4 rib standing rib roasts for $6.99 a lb. That's a good price, but it was still about $120 just for the meat! The butcher "Frenched" them so there is a clean bone top to each rib. I'm going to try to fit little white paper hats to the top of them when I serve them. Here's the menu - suggestions are welcome!

First Course-
Onion Tart (caramelized onions with Bree, baked on a pie crust round)

Second Course-
Pumpkin soup (turkey broth made from smoked turkey carcass, canned pumpkin, red pepper, salt)

Third Course-
Salad of baby lettuce, with balsamic vinaigrette

Fourth Course-
Standing Rib Roast served with potatoes, green beans, and creamed corn

Fifth Course-
Apple Tart (thinly sliced apples, treacle, goat cheese, cinnamon on a pie pastry)

I have everything but the corn (and cream) and the lettuce. Of course our house is a mess and there aren't any Christmas decorations up! Yikes!

awestfall

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