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Annette!! A marathon!! YOU ROCK, SISTER!!0
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Nava - glad you're feeling better...
Pam - I'm so proud of you and your running. I totally understand how you feel - I used to feel the same way.
Annette - oh WOWSA!!! you go girl. After training for a half, I don't know how I'd find the time to train for a full but you have me thinking about it. I'm proud of you too!!!
I made the most flavorful navy bean soup today... I'm ready for a second bowl. (*licks lips*) I got my 3 mile walk in and now it's time for Ab Raper
I'm already sore all over my upperbody - I really don't want to have a sore stomach too. 0 -
Victoria - Ab Raper?!0
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Hiya ladies! I'm back from Paris & Bruges. I had an awesome time meeting and hanging out with Lacey. Having dinner with an actual Parisianne was really cool. He ordered everything for us and then took us on a walking tour of Montmartre. Bruges was absolutely beauutiful! We climbed to the top of the Belfry (365 stairs) and took both the canal tour and the horse-drawn carriage tour. Our hotel was really lovely and just on one of the canals. The only drawback to being right on a canal is that the Mosquitos eat you alive come night time. Seriously, I have a billion mosquito bites all over my body. The Flemish food is also not my favorite but their beer and chocolate and waffles more than make up for it. It was an awesome time. Now I'm gonna get back to real life! My plan is to kind of rest my feet through the weekend (we walked about a bazillion miles in both Paris and Bruges) and get my eating back on track and then start up with Victoria's P90X hybrid plan on Monday.
Victoria: what does UML mean on your hybrid schedule?0 -
Jessie - The P90X 16 min of He!! doing Ab work is really called Ab Ripper X but one of the girls nicknamed it Ab Raper - it just kills. I did 16 reps to every 25 of the video and my abs are on FIRE... I'm sure it will hurt to breath tommorrow.
Amy - I decided to go ahead and order P90X2 and used your site. I hope you get credit for it
If all goes well, I'll finish this round near Dec 18th... It should be just in time to join you and Kerry in round 2. I plan to modify again so that I can keep up with my running... I already have big balls (he-he "that's what she said"), medicine balls and foam rollers
I'm off to shower then more cursed paperwork.0 -
Amy - there are 2 bonus workouts on my intro disc. UML means upper, middle and lower body workout. I haven't done it yet but it sounded like more weight training than cardio. The other one is "cardio intervals"... I tried that one and laughed at the old school pop up bubbles I worked up a sweat with it it's so nice to have you home or rather knowing you'll be able to post more... 0
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I may make more modifications to the modified P90X schedule as I complete the first month. I've never done several of the workouts... I'm noticing a serious lack of Upper Body workouts 2 weeks in a row. I'm thinking of changing the UML for for one of the upper body workouts to spread it out more. What do you ladies think?0
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I am seriously considering simplifying my life. Anyone want to trade for a bit? Just a coupla days is all I need. One really. One day would do it.0
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Amy - Very glad to hear you had a good time!
Victoria - It sounds like hell! I'm so not motivated enough for something like that anyhow.
Sarah - I'd love to trade... I could use a little complication and excitement.
My coworker and I are going to a lunch focusing on breast cancer tomorrow for work. I'm not really thrilled; I don't deal well with people, and lunchtime is always done with Nerd, especially on Fridays.0 -
Annette - YAY for awesomely lovable hubbies!
Rikki - {{Hussssss}} :flowerforyou:
Kendal - How about if you lose X amount of weight or achieve x amount of your goals you just get a badge saying "I"M HOT FOR HALLOWEEN!!" or something? Or else, we each decide if we genuinely EARNED the badge and it's up to each person to choose whether they take it or not - someone may not meet their goals or lose x amount, but might feel awesome about themself or be really proud of something? Just ideas... Also, YAY for awesome clothes-folding boyfriend!
Bobbie - I can't break even for new year... I have a wedding two weeks later and can't be the same weight as i am now for it!!
Crystal - WOO for cravings disappearing!! So proud of you!
Kerry - I spend so MUCH time here without Isaac, during the day while he's at work... But i NEVER have to do an evening on my own! That's the weirdest part! Oh well. And as for the marathon - GO FOR IT!! I'll post you an "adult diaper" from work to wear on the run
Megan - www.zumbacalories.com
Annette - WOOHOO for awesome exercise confidence!!
Amy - WELCOME BACK!!! Missed you, glad to hear you had an awesome time!
PHEW! I actually started typing this YESTERDAY and only just got to finish it!
I had a friggin AWFUL shift yesterday, felt crappy and angry all shift, and came home and went on the Wii Fit to box my anger out. it worked. Hahaha!
I had an awesome NSV two days ago, which continued yesterday - I CAN TOUCH MY TOES!!! For the first time in my life, i can touch my toes. Which is made all the more awesome by the fact that my back is so bad. When i had a dreadful flareup of my back and was off work for a month, i couldn't bend forward more than about 5-10 degrees. There was zero movement in the lower half of my spine. I worked with the physio intensely for the next four weeks and eventually got back to work. Since i've had my Wii Fit, i've done at least 20 minutes of yoga every day, my back has barely hurt, and i can TOUCH MY TOES!! WOOOO!!!
That's really all that's happened in interesting ways here recently... The man has just left for work, and since i am working late tonight i won't see him before he leaves for his weekend in Adelaide. Bit sucky, but we had a lovely evening together last night, so that's nice.
I've so far worked late-late-early, and following that today with a late-early-early... I'm going to be so damn wrecked by the end of this!
BUT on an awesomely positive note -
WEIGH IN
***********************************************216.7*****************************************
That's minus 1.75lb this week! :happy:
WHO'S STOKED? THAT"S RIGHT, I AM!!
Also, i have been part of a 24 hour exercise challenge in September, and i am now into my last day of the challenge with only 30 minutes to go! PRETTY STOKED!!
Anyway, i'm off to try and get stuff done before i have to go to work. Fingers crossed the day is better than yesterday!
ETA: Ohhhh lordy lordy... I just found out i got paid wrong this week, and sent a very annoyed message to isaac to tell him... only to find out i had sent it to my mother instead. Lets just say it contained language my mother has NEVER heard me use. I went cold and immediately phoned her to apologise profusely. Oh gawd. Now i feel majorly crappy and stupid. And i really REALLY don't wanna go to work today.0 -
Hosana - your NSV is great!!! It my come in handy in the future with low impact aerobics (sorry, I couldn't resist)...
15 glasses down and 3 to go. I feel like I'm swimming or rather floating. I almost can't wait for bed so I can wake up and weigh myself...0 -
Bahaha Victoria!!!! Don't worry, Isaac HAS made mention of my new love of Yoga... in terms of LIA...
Speaking of which... i totally think we should be able to log such things as exercise!!
ETA: I JUST MANAGED 1440 MINUTES EXERCISE IN SEPTEMBER!! WOOOO!!0 -
Hosanna - awesome job on the ex!!!
Check-in for Thurs 1711 consumed, 2566 burned and ex 60 min with run plus Ab ex. I'm trying to get up the energy to go weigh myself...0 -
Quick stop in to weigh in... 163.7... So yup... that's 4 weeks right at about that weight. Time to switch it up, I suppose. Which probably means less beer, maybe more calories? Who knows.
My heart rate monitor's chest strap broke on Wednesday. I'm trying to be cool about it (Timex is mailing me a new one for free at least), but I'm kinda freaking out about not being able to truly track my calorie burn.
Short story long? I'm kinda bummed this morning.0 -
Weigh-in ......192.75...... I'll take it. That's a1/2 pound loss. I just realized next week should be great since I started new ex program and it pre-TOM this week.
Kerry - you know what you burn during an ave workout. You can take an educated guess and be close. The new strap will be here soon.0 -
Hiya ladies! I uploaded about 300 pics from my vacay onto Facebook so for you FB friends of mine - go nuts! Here's some pics for the rest of you:
Me & Lacey at Notre Dame
The view inside Notre Dame
Me & Lacey at dinner on the 1st floor of the Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower at night
The Belfry in Market Square in Bruges, Belgium
Me & my little man by the canals
On a carriage ride through Bruges
I had such an awesome time! I'm so glad I got to meet Lacey in real life (and if any of the rest of you get a chance to meet her, don't pass it up - she rocks!).
ETA: Dude! I've already resized the pics but they aren't showing up here the right size...I'll keep messing with them and hope it works out.0 -
Hey hey!
You guys are all doing so awesome, with weight loss, NSVs and the like. I feel like I'm so stuck in a rut. I definitely made a great deal of positive changes this week, but I'm not exercising as much as I'd like, and what is so aggravating is that I WANT to be exercising and totally have the motivation to do so, but NO time. Its making me all depressed, because I don't see the scale going down...UGH.
I need to figure something out, but I already know that it comes down to the fact that the past few weeks have been hectic and left little room for gym time and too much room for eating out (still trying to make the healthiest possible choices, yay me!).
Brody and I are going shopping with my mom tonight. I hope to stock up on goodies for the week and plan a few healthy crock pot meals. Any suggestions?0 -
Amy: Those pictures are lovely. I've been FB stalking your photos as well! I particularly love the one of the two of you having dinner at the Eiffel Tower. The both of you look amazing, by the way! Such fun! One of my absolute best friends in the entire world, I met through a website like this one. We were both pregnant at the same time, and it was a mom-to-be site. We met in real life a year after the kids are born and now we visit one another every month or so. We are about 2 1/2 hours away. I'm so happy I met her. I think its awesome that you two braved meeting in real life! Glad to see you had a great trip!
ETA: Lacey, your eyebrows look totally fine!0 -
Hosanna - Yay for toe touching! Sucky about the check, and the message... how did your mom take it?
Kerry - I'm glad they're mailing you a new one. Sorry you have to wait.
Amy! Thank you for sharing the pics! You two look awesome, btw.
I baked pumpkin cupcakes last night, quite randomly (and it got almost all of the frosting out of my house!), so I brought 2 plates of cupcakes to work this morning. I'm feeling amazingly insecure because I left all three of my jackets in the washer last night, so I can't snuggle down and hide from the world... might have Nerd bring me one after the dryer finishes, before I have to go to this huge lunch today. And! I work in an office full of people who have no clue what a Muggle is, and I'm wearing a Muggle shirt, so... is this the case everywhere?! Do people just not understand? I get really tired of having to explain it.0 -
WB Amy and Lacey! I'm about to go FB stalk your pictures because I don't want to do any work at all today. You both look amazing!!!
Was feeling WAY better yesterday but today I'm all stufftacular again! Booooo.
Sorry I haven't written an individual post. I blame cold-crankiness for my laziness.0 -
WELCOME BACK AMY AND LACEY!!! SO HAPPY TO HAVE YOU BACK I MISSED YOU VERY VERY MUCH.
(ps. you are both gorgeous. pics are awesome. love you.)0 -
I'm going to Olive Garden tonight, and I've been meticulously planning out my meal since last night. No breadsticks! I found out that their salad is a super sodium salad, so no salad either! I swear, it's like I'm planning a strategic attack on my stomach. I'm trying SO HARD this week to make up for the 2 pound gain from the bad food the week before, and so far the scale isn't on my side. I hate that thing.
I deactivated my Facebook account earlier this week, and even though I don't really miss it I can't help worrying that I'm missing something. I will probably be back on there; I basically just did it to show Facebook how much I hate their new updates. Not that they'll take my feelings into account. The layout thing is not a huge deal, but I really hate that everyone can see everything I'm doing the instant that I do it on that ticker, and I hate that I can see everything everyone else does the instant that they do it too. I can even see when my friends do things on pages of people who aren't my friends, which means to me that when my friend who is still Facebook friends with my ex posts on my wall, my ex will be able to see it on that ticker thing. UGH. Despite how I am on this forum I'm usually a very private person, so changes like that drive me bonkers.
However, now that I know that Amy posted 300 pics on Facebook it makes me want to reactivate!
Jessi, how can it be possible that no one you work with knows what a muggle is? What? I know what you mean about the awkwardness of eating out with coworkers too; I always dread that. It's not that I don't like my coworkers, but I'm just pretty awkward around people in general unless those people are close friends or family. Also, the treadmill thing might be worth it for you. When we bought our house in March the sellers asked if we might want their treadmill since they were going overseas and didn't want to have to move it. Saying yes was the best decision ever! Our neighborhood is full of hills (I'm talkin' WV "hills" which are really more like mountainous climbs), so I never would've started running without that treadmill. I do have a gym membership, but I do most of my workouts at home...the only reason I keep my membership is because they have an indoor pool, and that's a nice workout option to have.
Rain, I just got a crockpot so I'm looking for recipes too. Amy shared this one from Peas and Thank You (thanks, Amy!)...I haven't tried it yet, but it looks good: http://peasandthankyou.com/recipage/?recipe_id=6000512&prev_term=african
Kerry, you should never be bummed. You are my hero! You will mix it up and blast right through that plateau, I know it.
Hosanna, great NSV and YAY for the exercise!!
Victoria, 18 glasses of water? Wow! I think the most I've managed so far is 14 in one day...I can't seem to pass that number.
Amy and Lacey, welcome back! I love those pictures...you're totally tempting me to go back to Facebook.
Kiki, I'm totally making those cookies this weekend.
Nava, I hope you feel better soon!0 -
WEIGH-IN 172.8
Yup. Pretty exciting about that loss. I was expecting to be 173 something.0 -
WEIGH-IN 172.8
Yup. Pretty exciting about that loss. I was expecting to be 173 something.0 -
Pam: I'm with you on the weirdness of the new Facebook. Luckily, I don't have any exes who are friends with my friends that I honestly give a crap about so I'm just gonna keep on with the Facebook. Good luck with Olive Garden, it sounds like you are making a great battle plan!!!
Kerry: I LOVE you, girl!! Don't be bummed about the weight, I bet your body is just adjusting to it's new, svelte, not-overweight size.
Nava: Hiya! I'm sorry you aren't feeling well. Get better soon!!!!
Jessi: Anyone who doesn't know what a muggle is, is NOT worth knowing (in my book). Seriously, do they live in a cave or something??
rain: Funny story about meeting online: Me & Lacey were at the Moulin Rouge show sitting at a table with a couple from Boston. They were kinda chatty and asked us where were were from and all that getting to know you stuff. When they got to the "how do you two know each other" question, both Lacey and I were silent for a second before saying we met online. You just never know how people take that. I'm glad to hear other stories of people meeting online and being fast friends.
Victoria: Great loss this week, lady!
Hosanna: Great job meeting your exercise goals for the month!!!
I had an NSV today. A guy I've been friends with for 11 years was looking at my pics I uploaded and then messaged me on FB to tell me I look hot. It made me happy. (No, this is not anyone I ever dated)0 -
********** weigh in at 211. *****************
i will totally blame it on my myself and the work meeting this week....but it's also TOM. yay me.0 -
Hi everyone, I see all these cool posts and luv luv the way everyone is so supportive.. I just dont post very much mainly because I dont know what to say.lol.. and believe you me!! I always have lost to say.. anywho I just want to thank all of you for posting because everyday I find something inspiring. everyday I find something that motivates me and everyday I find something that makes me laugh..
As for my journey so far. I am totally in luv with my life as of 8-22-11 this is when I started dieting and exercising for the very first time since I have been overweight. I would kinda diet..sometimes but never exercise. Then I find this AMAZING site with wonderful people that motivate and support each other.. I hit the jackpot!! So far I have lost 19lbs in about 5 weeks and its kinda silly but I feel like if it were 50lbs.. I feel so good about myself I am sleeping a tiny bit better, I actually feel bad when I dont go out for a walk at night. I have a very very long way to go but I am taking it one step one zumba one workout at a time. I am KNOW for a fact I will succeed!
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Noooo, I had a whole reply all written out to everyone and then I accidentally hit the back button on the browser.
The gist of it was I weighed it at 214 this morning, did a happy dance because while it was only a 1lb loss it got me under 215 which has been my struggling point for a long time. I'd been bouncing between 215 and 220 without going below it for ages!
I have to run to class so don't have time to go back and read and reply to all the posts now, but Amy the vacation pics look lovely - it looks like you guys had a great time!0 -
I found so many interesting things to comment on today, but I have to start with the pics because they are THE COOLEST THING EVER!!! Amy and Lacey, you both look fantastic and I know you had an amazing time, both because of the place AND the company!
Nava: We need to get you some Vitamin C or something, chica...you need to get over this yucky stuff!
Navallez: I was a lurker for a while too, but they kind of draw you in here :-)
Pam: I've been tired of FB for a while now, but the changes are just making it easier for me to stay away. I don't really put too much of my business on there anyway, just posting pics of family and stuff because I'm not sure how much of my REALNESS my real life family and friends can handle. To be truthful, I really don't give two-sh*ts about half of the nonsense they find important...maybe I'm just selfish, but the whining drives me bonkers!
Kerry: You are amazing, so put a smile back on that face!
Speaking of FB...I don't ever unfriend people, simply because I don't accept drama regardless, so they all know that. But anyway, both of my exes are on there. The one, I'm cool with, we've not been together for years. The other one is more recent, and it was a necessary but sad break up. Long story short, we lived together for 6 months, he went to NY to visit a friend, and decided he was staying to work, with the idea that I was just supposed to wait for him. After 6 months of waiting and a lot of thinking on my part, I realized that I should have seen this coming, but I chose to be blind to his priorities thinking we were both on the same page in the same book at the same library...we weren't. Anyway, less than a week ago, he posts a message to me on his wall saying "I miss you". I know it was to me because it was in Spanish, and I am the only person he knows who speaks Spanish, and it's one of only two phrases he even knows...he's from Africa. Really?!?!?! You left in February. I officially ended everything in July, and I've happily moved on to a much better relationship. Now you miss me?? I'm gonna need you to get a grip and get a life. Of course, I did not respond because he would have seen that as an in to a deeper conversation, but it irritated the crap out of me. I told you it was done. I told you I wasn't waiting anymore. I told you there were no hard feelings. AND I told you to not be surprised when someone else replaces you. Sometimes I really wonder what guys are thinking.
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Already stalked the FB pics Amy and Lacey, LOVE THEM!!! You two are so freaking gorgeous!
I'm enjoying another day off from work. The sad part is that after today, I only have 1 more day of PTO for the rest of the YEAR!!!! (Yeah, I still have holidays off, but OMG! only 1 other day!!!) They only allow 1 person off on any day and the schedule is booked up. Stupid corporate America. Last week and this week there hasn't even been enough work to keep everyone busy, yet they STILL won't let more than 10% of the team off on 1 day. VERY GRRR. The only bright side is that I've used enough PTO this year that I won't lose any. They only allow us to carry over up to 40 hours to the next year, so I will carry over all that I have left.
In order to meet my gym 3x and Lexi walk 2x week goal, I'm going to have to double up today. Gym and Lexi walk. I felt like CRAP Wednesday and laid on the couch all night. Last night Mr. Reunion and I drove around looking for houses/apartments and then went out to dinner at T.G.I.Fridays. I think I chose well, I got a grilled chicken with shrimp and mashed potatoes. But we also got an appetizer and I ate potato skins, fried mozzarella sticks and a couple of boneless wings. The good news is I'm only up 1 pound from yesterday.
Oh well. Time to head off to the gym!0
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