Sixers Sweating It Off wk 2

pettmybunny

Good for you Cathy, to get yourself motivated this morning. I got up early (DH dropped something in the shower and the clunk woke me up) and have been ensconsed on the couch, wrapped in an afghan, icing my left leg. Oh, and reading. I'm not too motivated this morning--pretty soon though, I have to get dressed and change the kitty litter and get the garbage out to the roadside.

I'm icing my leg because I wasn't paying attention when I left the school yesterday (had to go and see if we could pick up our freshman's and sophmore's books on senior day since we'll be gone on the cruise for our days). I was looking over the materials in the athletic packet and didn't notice the step down. I didn't fall, but I landed hard on my left leg with my knee locked. Since then, my shin area has really been hurting. I don't think it's the muscle, it actually feels deeper than that.... Ugh

Yesterday, I went to the library and picked up another book--remember that reading contest? lol... Anyways, it is called The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom. Oh my gosh! It was awesome! I couldn't put it down. It was only a couple hundred pages, so I had it read in about 2 hours or so, but it was soooo good. I was verklempt a few times, and was actually crying a bit at the end. It wasn't a sad book, but was oh so touching. I'm telling you all to go see if your library has it!

amylou24

Robin I love that book!! I cried too, no worries! It has such a great message.

hate to run off so quickly but I will post more tonight. Off to work!! only three more days at my internship!! :bigsmile:

chipper15173

didn't make it to the gym. just don't have the energy this morning. i know my own thoughts, i will be angry at me for doing this.

but, i have already gotten a load of laundry in the washer to be hung out, have about 4 total loads today. already swiffered the dog hair and ran the quick vac. did the dishes and pick some grape tomatoes and 1 squash out of the garden. played with the dogs, and picked up. so at least i got something done. still plan on doing my grocery list and hope to get something in this afternoon.

need to get the laundry on the line, buzzer went off.

bunny take care of the knee if that's what hurts. they are no fun at all. shanell has had water on the knee for many years from a fall. i have a bad knee. going to check on this book.

later

kistinbee

Morning gals! Thanks for moving me up! I was home with a migraine yesterday!:grumble: But feeling better today! Since I shared belly pictures last week, I thought I'd share nursery pictures this week!

Walking into the nursery...

The changing table...

The crib...


Where my little munchkin will sleep...


I also have another dresser I didn't take a picture of. It's like the changing table but taller with five drawers, plenty of room for all baby's stuff!:happy: Oh! And I have a rocking chair in there now too...took the picture before it was in there. Maybe I need to take some more!

Hope you are all having a great morning!:flowerforyou:

magglett

Morning gals! Thanks for moving me up! I was home with a migraine yesterday!:grumble: But feeling better today! Since I shared belly pictures last week, I thought I'd share nursery pictures this week!

Walking into the nursery...

The changing table...

The crib...


Where my little munchkin will sleep...


I also have another dresser I didn't take a picture of. It's like the changing table but taller with five drawers, plenty of room for all baby's stuff!:happy: Oh! And I have a rocking chair in there now too...took the picture before it was in there. Maybe I need to take some more!

Hope you are all having a great morning!:flowerforyou:

Awe ... that's too cute. I want a grand baby but my girls won't get on it. Oh well ... maybe soon. My youngest is getting married in August 2010 so I'll put off the nagging until the honeymoon is done. :laugh:

magglett

Good morning everyone. I'm feeling blah this morning ... where is the sunshine ... I just can't seem to wake up without a good dose of sunshine today. The radio promised me some for this afternoon and we all know the weather forcasts are never wrong. Oh well, we'll see. I'm looking forward to some kind of hike tonight ... I downloaded some fun funky get you moving music onto my ipod ... you know "Black eyed peas", "Lady Ga Ga", "Pit bull". That should get me pounding out the sweat in no time. Anyway ... just wanted to say hi to all and wish you a happy, healthy day.

Phoenix_Rising

Falha, your story was great!! I hope you have a blast on vacation. I always induldge on vacay, but try to stick with my 8 glasses of water and walking to balance out a little bit. Where are you headed?

Tammy, the coolrunning.com site is free (YAY), the others make you pay. I started with the C25K and need to get back to it. Recently, I've just been trying to run a mile or a mile and a quarter, for endurance, but I really want to do a 5k one day, like..... uh I was gonna say this fall but it is already this fall!!! :laugh:

Katie, it's water weight. Keep on track honey!!!

Cathy, (((HUGS))). I hope the situation with your son works itself out!!!

Elaine, thank you for your kind words!! Hope your workout was great last night!

Amypyr, Cathy was worried she dropped some updates when she transferred us to the new week. Sorry! Glad you fixed it. And 250 cals over is still a deficit :bigsmile:

Maggie, you are SO GREAT about doing varied and intense workouts. I love hearing what you are doing, hiking and walking and all the places you go! I love it!!

Robin, I am pretty good with vocab. I tend to make others question what I'm saying actually due to my word choice. But you put me to shame with 'ensconsed' (I have an inkling there) and 'verklempt ' (which I've heard before but don't remember). Miriam-Webster dictionary, here I come!! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: (I do like that you used those words -- makes me go learn a little extra today!)

Amylou, YAY for 3 more days only!!

Cathy, all that housework burns calories too. Don't be upset for not making it to the gym, so long as it wasn't traded for sitting on the couch with a bag of chips and the tv on. You still moved and were active!

Kris, I hate my work internet filters!!! I will look at the photos when I get home. I can't wait to see them!

OH MAGGIE, I hate that Pitbull song!!! :laugh: He says "Rumba" (or something) but it reminds me of my mother's Roomba, the robotic floor vacuum! And then he counts, in English AND in Spanish. It's like listening to Sesame Street!!! LOLOLOLOLOL My spin instructor played it Monday night and it was great to work out to. HOPE YOU HAVE FOUND SOME SUNLIGHT TODAY!!! :flowerforyou:

Positively_Me

hey lauryn,

i will definitly, hopefully stay on track.

my husband and i, well he is still undecided on where exaclty he wants to go, we went on craigslist and we found rental homes w pool, full furnished home, equip kitchen, and at least 3 bedrooms. we narrowed it down to either West Virginia or North Carolina. West Virgina is a rental cabin with the pool, tennis court, and lot of other activities for the kids... and North Carolina is just the pool. Virginia is three hours away and North Carolina is 61/2 hours, both driving,....kids don't care where to go, but hubby want to go to North Carolina. However, the dates we plan to leave is all booked in NOrth Carolina, so i think we are going to Virginia... Maybe next year we can go to North Carolina or even make it to Florida again...

We plan on leaving on Thursday night or Friday morning...so i am still packing for the trip...3 kids is a lot of clothing...

Falha

Phoenix_Rising

Falha, I live in NC!! Went to college in the NC mountains, so I probably know the area you guys are looking at! Can't go wrong either way. VA or NC are nice vacation spots, in my opinion. I bet you will have a great time!

pettmybunny

Robin, I am pretty good with vocab. I tend to make others question what I'm saying actually due to my word choice. But you put me to shame with 'ensconsed' (I have an inkling there) and 'verklempt ' (which I've heard before but don't remember). Miriam-Webster dictionary, here I come!! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: (I do like that you used those words -- makes me go learn a little extra today!)

LOL... verklempt is from SNL... a Mike Myers skit... He would become "verklempt" over something, then give a topic and say "talk amoungt yaselves" I did have to google it to get the correct spelling:laugh:

DH and I always try to throw out various odd words to each other, periodically. Our "10 cent word of the day"

As long as you're good with vocab--- the word often--- do you pronounce it like it's spelled, or do you pronounce it "offen"? My son and I both say often with the t, DH and his kids say "offen". (FYI- the dictionary says you can pronounce it both ways:laugh: :laugh: )

candycaneps

Elaine (Edjsmom) SW 234.5 lbs / GW 225 lbs / CW 232.5 lbs PROGRESS -2 lbs
Kristin SW 000 lbs / GW 000 lbs / CW 000 lbs PROGRESS growing a baby sixer!
Robin (pettmybunny) SW 184/ GW 180/ CW 182 Progress -2 lbs
AmyLou SW 153/GW 147/CW 152 PROGRESS -1.0 lbs
Maggie (magglett) SW 184.5/GW 174.5/CW 185 PROGRESS =.5 lbs
Tammy (derocco) SW 235.8 / GW 225 / CW 234.0 PROGRESS: -1.8 lbs
Lauryn.... SW 158.2 lbs/GW 156.0 lbs/CW 160.0lbs PROGRESS +/-1.8 lbs
Falha (falhaone) SW 210 lbs GW 190 lbs CW 210lbs (since i started today in this board, No weigh loss)
malinda(mxburke) SW 155 lbs /GW/ CW lbs PROGRESS +/-lbs.
Amy(pdxmomof2)SW 200 lbs/ GW 188 lbs / CW 199 lbs PROGRESS - 1.0 lbs
Katie (kge8580) SW 181/ GW 170/ CW 183 PROGRESS + 2lbs
Amy (amypyr) SW 152.4 lbs / GW 145 lbs / CW 152.4 lbs PROGRESS +/-0.0 lbs
Jennifer (candycaneps) SW 140.4/GW 135/CW 140.4 PROGRESS +/- 0.0lbs


Tammara (drtamm) SW193/ GW 185/ CW 193 PROGRESS +/- 0lbs
Melody (exorcize) SW 215 /GW205 /CW 210 PROGRESS - 5 lbs
Martha (mjheinrich) SW 135/ GW 130/ CW 135 PROGRESS -0.0 lbs
Rhiannon SW 179 lbs / GW 170 lbs / CW 174.8 lbs PROGRESS - 4.2lbs
Melynda (mam885) SW 158lbs/GW 150lbs/CW 156lbs PROGRESS -2.0lbs
Kel (redneckwoman) SW 157lbs /GW 150lbs /CW 157lbs PROGRESS +/- 0.0lbs
Nikki (nightshadow) SW 154/ GW 125/ CW 151 PROGRESS +/- 0.0 lbs

I think I gained a few pounds =( I haven't weighed myself, but I can tell. It's TOM and I have been eating like crazy. I keep telling myself I will regret it but that instant gratification kicks in and I lose it.

Lauryn-I hope things get better. I am a comfort eater too, but there have been times in my life where things were so wrong I went the complete opposite and lost a lot of weight because of it. It's great that you are recognizing this and you are doing what you can to maintain healthy eating habits.

chipper15173

morning ladies. i won't say it's good cause i had to get out of bed. LOL.
have to leave soon for my allergist appt. check up on new meds. did i mentioned i am now allergic to mold. new for me. so now it's two things that are everywhere, dust and mold. oh well.

back later.

Phoenix_Rising

Cathy, looks like we woke up in the same mood this morning. :grumble: (BTW, it appears we lost you at the top of the most recent list. )

Jennifer, thanks dear! Just keep drinking your water and hopefully when TOM is gone, you won't have gained. I eat terribly during TOM too. I'm a bottomless pit of hunger!

Robin, now that you mention it.... I think I usually say "offen" but I'm sure I've said "often" before too. I think "offen" is more my casual speak, and "often" is more business pronounciation... I think. LOL


I did a prelim weigh in this morning and I was at 159.8, which is down 0.2lbs from Tuesday. I am happy with that trend. It doesn't have to be a lot, I just need to see a steady decrease, even in tenths of a pound!

Hope you all are having fabulous mornings!

magglett

Hello my friends ... I don't think I'm quite awake yet ... just wanted to say hello ... I'll stop in again later when the foggy head clears.

datenshi

Hi all,

Happy Thursday and I hope you are all having a good week. Have steady faith in yourself and you can do anything, it just takes time.

Anyway, I am excited today because I reached my first 20lbs lost today and I have already surpassed my goal of being 235 lbs by my birthday next week. I weighed in today at 233.4 having started at 253.4 on June 26th. Woohoo!!!!

I am on vacation next week thank goodness so I can get more active and hopefully drop a couple more, maybe even make it into the 220's. I work a desk job during the week and sit at a computer for 8 hours a day so it is hard to be active during the week.

Well, take care and be good to yourselves!!

Tammy

magglett

Hi all,

Happy Thursday and I hope you are all having a good week. Have steady faith in yourself and you can do anything, it just takes time.

Anyway, I am excited today because I reached my first 20lbs lost today and I have already surpassed my goal of being 235 lbs by my birthday next week. I weighed in today at 233.4 having started at 253.4 on June 26th. Woohoo!!!!

I am on vacation next week thank goodness so I can get more active and hopefully drop a couple more, maybe even make it into the 220's. I work a desk job during the week and sit at a computer for 8 hours a day so it is hard to be active during the week.

Well, take care and be good to yourselves!!

Tammy

Congratulation my friend Tammy ... YAY to 20 lb. milestone!!!

ilike2moveit

Morning gals! Thanks for moving me up! I was home with a migraine yesterday!:grumble: But feeling better today! Since I shared belly pictures last week, I thought I'd share nursery pictures this week!

Walking into the nursery...

The changing table...

The crib...


Where my little munchkin will sleep...


I also have another dresser I didn't take a picture of. It's like the changing table but taller with five drawers, plenty of room for all baby's stuff!:happy: Oh! And I have a rocking chair in there now too...took the picture before it was in there. Maybe I need to take some more!

Hope you are all having a great morning!:flowerforyou:

So precious!

amypyr

Good morning all! I didn't have a good eating night last night. DH was out of town (so there went that bit of accountability) and I had a long meeting at church last night (so kiddos had to come w/ me :grumble: thank goodness for the portable DVD player!). So after meeting, stopping at grocery store, & talking to daddy on the phone before bed, the kids got to bed around 10:30. At that point, I was too tired to exercise, so I sat on the couch like a lump and watched tv and ate. Amazingly enough, I lost 0.2 lbs yesterday when I weighed myself this morning. So I'm not sure if that was due to drinking 9 cups of water, ending TOM, won't show up until tomorrow, or all 3. DH is back tonight, so I'll get my exercise in tonight! I'll check back in later and reply to more personally, but had to confess my day yesterday. Gotta get back to work!

Happy Thursday!

KatieEppers

Hi ladies sorry I didn't make it here to post yesterday, the kids and I were pretty busy. I did my 30 Day Shred workout again yesterday. Then made lunch for the kiddos. Then we biked to their new favorite park and we were there for about an hour or so. Biked home to load up Jaden's skateboard and ripstick and we went to the skate park for a little over an hour. Then I went grocery shopping while they were at VBS, then bed when they got home. It was crazy! But fun!

Anyway, didn't sleep very well last night haven't really greeted the day yet other than to break up the kids fighting over and over and over again. SO SICK of their CONSTANT bickering. Any of you seasoned veterans of siblings have any advice. I swear, I really can't take it much longer, I see military school in their future, lol.

So, when I started this post I had loads of personals to address from you guys but I fear I have been interrupted so many times to break up the fights that I have forgotten. My apologies. Have a great day, ladies!

kistinbee

Morning gals. Busy morning for me. Just wanted to say hello.

BTW...anyone know where Rhiannon is??:sad:

KatieEppers

Wow! A quiet day on here, huh? Where is everyone? I did half of my Shred tonight, but got nauseous and couldn't finish, so went for a walk instead. We biked to the park and back today, got in some crunches while the kiddos were playing and some extra biking. Plus got all the laundry in the house done, yay! So, not a total failure. I am excited for Tuesday, I won't let myself get on the scale until then. Have a great night, ladies!!!

pettmybunny

Good morning girlies!

Yesterday was a busy day for me... Left work a little after noon (only half days on Thursday) and picked my son up from drivers ed. He wanted Pizza Hut for lunch, since he had to drive for class at 2. I was VERY good, and ordered the all you can eat soup, salad, and breadsticks. I had the tomato basil soup, the garden side salad, and got plain breadsticks. And, I only ate one of the breadsticks! My entire lunch was 410 calories.

Then, dropped son off to do his driving time, and met up with DH to go to court. We went last month, because DH's ex wanted custody of their oldest (they have 3 together). Last year she tried to get custody of all 3, this year, only the one. Whatever. Anyways, she didn't get custody, but then she objected to the high school he was going to be enrolled in (only one in the district), so we had to go to court over that today. As well as the fact that she refused to sign the permission paper for us to take the kids out of the country when we go on the cruise. Now, mind you, she did sign for us to get the kids passports in June, so it was transparent that she was refusing because the custody thing didn't go her way. Lucky for us, everything went our way in court. I think she's taken us to court every summer for the past 4 years, and she hasn't won yet. You'd think she'd learn by now... Ugh.

After court, picked up son from his driving time and dropped him at the library. Then I went shopping. Came home, and DH was making supper, isn't that sweet? We had lasagna, cheesy garlic bread, and cheesy mixed veggies. Yeah, a lot of cheese, I can feel my arteries clogging now, but I didn't have to cook a thing!

This morning, I plan on doing c25k. Then a quick shower, and back to town for son's drivers ed. During the time he's there, I'm getting the oil changed on the car, going to tan, and going to the library--I have today and tomorrow to get book slips in, that reading contest ends on the 15th. Then home to do some laundry and pack, because this weekend is DH's birthday ACDC concert. We leave tomorrow as soon as we drop off son at drivers ed. His dad is supposed to pick him up afterwards. And get him to his driving time on Sunday, so I really hope he does! Oh, and tonight is DH's neice's birthday. She's gone vegetarian, so we're having vegetarian lasagna tonight. DH keeps picking on her about the vegetarianism, saying "It's great that you're sticking to your guns on this. Even though it's stupid, it's great that you're sticking with it." She's 18 and just rolls with it.

Anyways, hope you all have a great day!

Phoenix_Rising

DH keeps picking on her about the vegetarianism, saying "It's great that you're sticking to your guns on this. Even though it's stupid, it's great that you're sticking with it." She's 18 and just rolls with it.

Honestly, it's still an empowering statement. It still tells her, " I don't agree with what you are doing for whatever personal reason, but I applaud your effort and your personal strength." Still a great statement imo.



I weighed in at 162.0 this morning. Considering I was exhausted yesterday, drank all sodas, ate 2 servings of M&Ms and a chocolate poptart, pizza for lunch, etc etc (you get the point), I am not upset. Some of that is water retention. Some is valid weight gain. Just encouragement for me to do better over the weekend!!! --- My daughter's 4th birthday weekend! :bigsmile: I'll try to go easy on all the cake and ice cream

I got her a cute little outfit to wear for pictures (no one knows yet but I'm taking her for pictures with a big "4" prop), a Hello Kitty t-shirt (she loves HK), new Dr Suess magnets (She loves the books), Dr Suess socks, little spongy creatures in pill cases that "grow" when you put them in water, and a handheld Dora electronic game (designed for ages 3+). I can't wait to see her face when she opens it all. :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile:

xo Sixers!! Have a great Friday!!

datenshi

Hi Sixers!

Well I got a busy week ahead of me even though I am on vacation as of tomorrow. Tomorrow is my daughter's birthday and she will be turning 11 and since I am the one carried her for 9.5 months and gave birth to her, I am treating myself to getting my hair done (dyed in varying shades of brown and black). Part of her present this year was that she got to go to an educational day camp for 5 weeks. She enjoyed it since they are high on the edutainment factor while still learning something valuable. Got her some clothes, the DVD '17 Again', and a cell phone (that can only dial 6 phone numbers that I program into it). Since she is pretty spoiled this year we aren't having a big party, just a small family BBQ.

We are also going to go visit my sister out of town for a couple of days, pull up all our patio stones and redo the patio, my birthday is on Thursday, build a shed, switch all my files and software to my new computer, hopefully go hiking a couple of times... and the list goes on.

With all that activity I hope to lose at least a few lbs that week...lol.

Well, take care and have a great Friday!!!

Tammy

Phoenix_Rising

Tammy, our daughters share a birthday!!! :glasses:

magglett

Good Morning ... IT'S FRIDAY!!!!! So as you know I was planning a killer hike to the beat of some groovy new tunes on my iPod on Wednesday night but then my DH said as I was about to leave ... "If you wait 'til I'm done eating I can walk with you". Well who am I to discourage him from getting some exercise right? It's so interesting walking with him ... it's like being with a child with ADD. We've lived in the Niagara Region for all of my life (and he's been here for a good 40 years) and when I walk with him it's like he's never seen it before. I love it ...he's always "Hey, look at this, isn't that nice?" or "How cool is that?". Needless to say, the hike that usually takes me about 40 minutes took almost an hour and a half. But you know what? According to my new fangled HRM I burned the same amount of calories anyway ... it was the same distance but it took longer to get it done ... so I now know that I can leisurely lose some calories once in a while so I can stop and smell the roses. Last night I finally got out and hoofed it to the iPod ... very high energy and so much fun. Well, I best get back to my job before they fire my tookus ... have an awesome day all.

kistinbee

SOoooo...I'm 1 cm dilated and 50% effaced!!! WOOOHOOO!!! We're on our way there!! When she was checking my cervix, she touched the baby's head and the baby started kicking like crazy! What a feeling!!!:happy:

datenshi

Tammy, our daughters share a birthday!!! :glasses:

Cool! I saw that you mentioned it was her birthday weekend but wasn't sure if that meant Sat or Sun. Well, I hope she has a wonderful day and with everything you described she will no doubt be on cloud nine.

Take care,
Tammy

magglett

SOoooo...I'm 1 cm dilated and 50% effaced!!! WOOOHOOO!!! We're on our way there!! When she was checking my cervix, she touched the baby's head and the baby started kicking like crazy! What a feeling!!!:happy:

OH MY GOODNESS!!!! That's tooo exciting ... I can't wait for my daugters to go through this.

pettmybunny

SOoooo...I'm 1 cm dilated and 50% effaced!!! WOOOHOOO!!! We're on our way there!! When she was checking my cervix, she touched the baby's head and the baby started kicking like crazy! What a feeling!!!:happy:

Yay Kristen!