Over 200 New Year New Me Part 22

Hello All!

Julie - Congrats on the getting married! The last week before the wedding is always the most stressful but it is sooo worth it! I am closing in on 9 years of marriage with my husband in a couple weeks :-)

Just wanted to show my new & updated picture I took this morning & get your input

Will check in later

speaking of doctors ...
about 3-4 weeks ago I started having right shoulder pain - not a lot, just kind of dull almost 'pinched nerve-like'. Shortly after that an ugly bruise about the size of a baseball appeared on my right arm - I didn't remember running into anything - but had been gardening and carrying pots and boxes - so thought I might have done something and just forgot. Well the bruise is gone but the shoulder pain is still there, and now there is a very hard lump the size of a small marble where the bruise was and sometimes my whole arm feels a little numb. After doing a little googling and self-diagnosis - I think I probably have a partial bicep tear caused by the shoulder injury putting strain on my bicep. It sounds like they rarely do surgery unless you are an athlete or you have severe loss of movement. I can still do everything, just with a little pain. So I guess I'm going to wait a few more weeks and see if it goes away with icing it, ibuprofen, and trying to not 'overuse' it. Have any of you experienced anything like this? have any ideas? If it doesn't go away or gets worse I suppose I should see a doctor - just hate to if they are just going to say I need to rest it.

I had a deep thought about my profile picture habits ... I said that I put a picture of me for my profile pic when I'm feeling good about my weightloss efforts and put other pictures when I'm not ... then I got to thinking about why I do that - and I think it's because I don't want to 'face myself' when I'm not staying on track... hmmm - that's deep. :ohwell:

lstpaul - I love your "deep thought"... it actually made me think about that, too. My current picture is at my lowest weight (a couple years ago... I'm on the right). I should have a current picture! thanks for being inspirational.

Since I skipped out on the workout yesterday, I promised myself I would do lots of moving about today. So I put on my Easy Tones (love them!) and I have been working while standing all day and only have three (of seven) loads of laundry left!!

Chatty girls this morning!!


bluenote-Sounds like your gym is awesome!!! So glad you joined it and loved it!!

tstout-Glad to hear your mom is home from the hospital!

Julie-married in a week!? How exciting! I knew it was coming up soon. As far as everybody being pregnant, sure hope not!

KDubMommy-Look at you momma! You are smoking! You are doing great keep up your hard work!

lilDeb-the new doctor sounds promising. I'm crossing my fingers for you girl!

I went and finished week 8 this morning. YES!! And then I had mexican fast food for lunch at my favorite place. Naughty Jessica. I will be hitting the gym or some form of exercise tonight!

lildeb - That is awesome about the elliptical! I don't understand a word of it but it sounds really hard! I just hit Quickstart and start moving my legs! :laugh: You are my elliptical hero now. I am going to follow in your footsteps, er...later than sooner. Thank goodness the air is fixed! I kept thinking, my word, what else is going to break down on this poor girl?!?!? First she is dealing with her little girl's breakdown, then her air! Oy! :noway:
KDub - so glad mom is home and I am praying for her health. Plus, you look BEAUTIFUL in your pic! :flowerforyou:
lstpaul - I think I am just like you with the profile pics. When I was feeling "on top of the world" I posted a pic of me. Now that I'm sort of in a weird space I show my cat. LOL You are very beautiful, you know! I love your pic! :flowerforyou: I hope your shoulder gets better.
Julie - Oh my word one week away! Hey, can't we throw her an online MFP shower? :laugh: We could all meet at a specific time and bring virtual presents!
Jess - mexican is my supreme downfall. OMG have you ever seen how many cals are in a margarita??? WTF??? It just tastes like lime juice and tequila! :huh:

Just got back from the fitness evaluation. Took much longer than I thought. I figured the eval would consist of me walking in, her looking at me and saying, "Yeup, you're fat," then I'd leave. But oh no, never anything simple with Nancy! We talked about food and my eating habits and I filled out a lot of forms about my meds, etc. Then we did the I guess endurance test. She times how long it takes me to walk a mile. Well, hello, I could of told her that it was around 40-45 mins., but she wanted to see it. I was glad I was right because, oh my sisters of the traveling weight loss pants I was NOT right when telling her my weight...:sad:
I had just weighed this morning before going. Still at 403.5. Fine. I get there - on her scale...411!!!!! OK at first I started panicking and was gonna claim her scale was bogus, you know, the old fearful Nancy reared her ugly head. Then I took a big deep breath and said, "Oh, it seems my scale reads differently than yours." (Nancy 1; trainer 1). I let her have that one. LOL
Then we did the push ups against the wall thingie. I did a whopping 10. Better than none, right? LOL (Nancy 1; trainer 2) After that we did the sit up test. Uh, I had to inform her that Nancy doesn't get on the floor. She sensed that and took me to a room where there was a massage bed. (dammit, Nancy 1; trainer 3) I did 21 crunches in one minute. Considering I told her just skip this because I can't do one, I was pretty impressed. LOL (Nancy 2; trainer 3) Then we did the dreaded back-against-the-wall-and-slide-down and-act-like-you-can-hold-yourself-up-without-falling exercise. Five seconds. ROFL :laugh: I lasted five seconds! She barely turned on the stopwatch and I said, "OK done, hurts, done." I flunked that one I think. (Nancy 2; trainer 4) At least my measurements were exactly like hers! I was relieved at that! (Nancy 3; trainer 4)
So then I set up a time on Monday to meet her for our hour session and went to the bike for twenty minutes - using HILLS mode. Holy schmolies Lord help me those hills were NOT easy! But I did all twenty minutes! :bigsmile: (Nancy 23; trainer 4) Then I went to the elliptical and did SEVEN minutes. Two more than yesterday! (Nancy 30; trainer 4) Gotta start somewhere, right? I feel really good right now. :bigsmile: (Nancy PRICELESS; trainer 4)
OK I promise I will NOT give a play-by-play of my future rec center adventures. I just had to relay today's because this is a very big thing for me and I want to share it with my very important sisters.

How exciting Bluenote! and I don't mind the play by play at all!
p.s. thanks for the nice compliment, and I'm glad I'm not the only one with deep-seated profile picture issues!

blue - To echo the others - please don't stop posting your stories. Love them and you!

Momma - What wonderful news about Ryan! Just goes to show what an amazing teacher can do.

With that, :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: for our teachers: bluenote, KDub...I feel like I'm missing someone. Sorry if I am!

Jess - congrats on the 18s falling down! You gotta love that feeling! I'm currently inbetween a 14 and a 12. I'll be so excited when those 12s are crazy unflattering, because some of these 14s fall down and look all baggy without a belt.

ps - I'm about to get mopey...are you all reading my posts? I feel like no one has commented on any of my posts this week and it makes me a little sad. I feel lame saying something, but just wanted to check and see. I know we don't always need to reply to every post (I certainly don't!), but I wanted to kind of say, "Hey! Here I am!"

And now I feel silly, but it's how I'm feeling, so I'm putting it out there. :blushing:

blue - To echo the others - please don't stop posting your stories. Love them and you!

Momma - What wonderful news about Ryan! Just goes to show what an amazing teacher can do.

With that, :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: for our teachers: bluenote, KDub...I feel like I'm missing someone. Sorry if I am!

Jess - congrats on the 18s falling down! You gotta love that feeling! I'm currently inbetween a 14 and a 12. I'll be so excited when those 12s are crazy unflattering, because some of these 14s fall down and look all baggy without a belt.

ps - I'm about to get mopey...are you all reading my posts? I feel like no one has commented on any of my posts this week and it makes me a little sad. I feel lame saying something, but just wanted to check and see. I know we don't always need to reply to every post (I certainly don't!), but I wanted to kind of say, "Hey! Here I am!"

And now I feel silly, but it's how I'm feeling, so I'm putting it out there. :blushing:

I see you!! :flowerforyou: I blew through the posts rather quickly earlier. Sorry I missed you!

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Okay blue, now that my kids think I am nuts cause I am laughing out loud at the computer, I want to say please please please share your stories with us always

Kdub, looking good!!!!!

Cris, I hope you feel better.

If everybody is pregnant including me I am headed for divorce court. Hubby figured out what was causing all these kids to show up at our house and went to the doct to get it fixed.:laugh:

littlespy, congrats on the pending nuptials:flowerforyou: What day is it exactly?

Okay if mfp starts contacting you all and telling you that I have not logged in and may need encouragement don't panic. Momma has NOT quit. I am leaving for my annual church camp week, away from tv and computers. I can barely get a cell phone to work where we are out. This is the same church camp that last year was the very first year out of 9 that I could walk up the hill with all the ladies. I usually walked with my aunt that needed her hip replaced. Oh, I look so forward to this. No cooking, no cleaning (I do clean my room everyday) but NO kitchen cleaning. kids play so hard that after you wash all the dirt off of them they fall into bed and are sound asleep. Forget even really seeing the teenagers the whole week. They avoid us like the plague. Any how leaving Sunday and will be gone for a week. I will probably pop in tomorrow but not too often, I will be preparing meals for the hubby so that he will eat while I am gone.

If you have not noticed I am in a fantastic mood. I am going to yell this

RYAN DID ALL OF HIS WORK AT KINDERCAMP TODAY!!!!! HE PARTICIPATED AND DID, I SAID DID HIS WORK. HE WAS SITTING ON THE RUG WITH THE OTHER CHILDREN WAITING FOR ME. DID YOU HEAR THAT, LIKE THE OTHER CHILDREN, NOT ON THE FLOOR LAYING DOWN NEXT TO THE DOOR DOING WHAT EVER HE WANTED. HE WAS PARTICIPATING, BECAUSE HE WAS MADE TO PARTICIPATE. HE IS SMART AND HE CAN DO THIS. HE JUST NEEDS HELP. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!

Oh, I was so proud of him. If I could physically do this, I would have jumped up in the air and clicked my heels together right in the classroom. :laugh:

Momma that's so great!!!! I bet you are so excited! YAY for Ryan having a great day!

awww! He sounds adorable!

I think I have told you this before but that is him in my profile pic. He was 4 weeks old and we were at the church camp I was telling you about. My 13 yo who was 8 at the time caught this butterfly and it was so docile. So she put it on his cheek. This is one of the many many cell phone pics people were taking. This one turned out the best. One of the evangelist at the camp asked if he could use this pic in his powerpoint while travelling around on revival. I gave my permission. His wife says every time this pops up the whole church lets out a united "awe" I am not sure if they still use it because that was almost 5 years ago. If you can't tell I am kinda proud

Thanks for the love. Sorry if I sounded needy. :blushing:

So I'm getting ready to go to my first rehearsal for the worship band at church and I am NERVOUS! It is a very professional group - they practice at a studio. I'm sure it's going to be fine, but I definitely have those butterflies (and not the adorable ones on Momma's baby!) in my stomach. I need to get over this and be professional and prepared. I have no idea if I'm prepared enough for this - I haven't really rehearsed because I'm not sure of the harmonies I'm supposed to be rehearsing! Eek!

I'll report back later. Until then, send me calm vibes and let me feel assured that I'm not going to sound awful!

elmox -- we seeeee you!! I promise I read every word everyone writes! I tend to only comment when someone shares a personal story and sometimes not even then. :ohwell: But I definitely read EVERYTHING and I usually want to comment but by the time I get around to responding I forget. I'm sorry! I'll do better! I'm sending calm vibes your way. I'm sure you'll be great!

LilDeb -- glad your AC is working! Whew! That's the worst.

Blue -- like everyone else, I love your stories! Share away!

Kdub -- you look GORGEOUS!

Well, you ladies won't believe this. Day 3 of my rotisserie chicken search. STILL NO FREAKING CHICKEN! :laugh: I had to go offsite to do something for work this afternoon. I wasn't aware I was going to have to do that so I ended up only having an apple and a Snickers nutrition bar for lunch and no chance for an afternoon snack (other than a mini Reeses peanut butter cup...ha).

So, needless to say, when I got off work I was STARVING. I was right up the street from a Walmart. I thought there was no way Walmart wasn't going to have rotisserie chicken at 5.30pm. That's a fair assumption right? WRONG! I got there, walked in, looked at the rotisserie chicken shelf (which normally has like 30 of 'em sitting on it) and it was EMPTY! I almost collapsed into a defeated heap & cried right there in the middle of Walmart and I'm not even kidding. :laugh: I'm sure I looked pitiful when I walked up to the man behind the counter to ask if there were going to be any rotisserie chickens available any time soon (I could plainly see there were none cooking). No, he said, there weren't going to be any rotisserie chickens today. They didn't have any containers to put them in. AAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :laugh:

I nearly stormed out but then I realized again how incredibly hungry I was so I decided to get some chicken nuggets from the freezer section. Only... the chicken nuggets aren't in the freezer section. I didn't know this having never purchased a bag of frozen chicken nuggets before. So I'm desperately searching the frozen section for the frozen chicken -- any frozen chicken at this point would've been sufficient. I remember sarcastically thinking "What, is there like some special chicken nugget section I'm not aware of?" And YES, as it turns out there really really IS a special chicken nugget section of the store which I stumbled into while on my way to get bread for the roast beef sandwich meat I had agonizingly settled on as a quick dinner. :noway: :laugh: This is the tragedy that happens when you're unfamiliar with the processed foods sections of the supermarket.

The date is June 18th, by the way. Which reminds me, I'm supposed to be deciding on my rings (since we had to return the 2 we originally purchased because they were both way too big... even after sizing my finger like 30 times. *sigh*). Off to ring shop online!

Elmox-Sending positive vibes your way. I didn't know you could sing either! Awesome!

Julie-I can just see you looking at the man like are you freaking kidding me here!? I want that chicken now...mmmm!!! Good luck ring shopping!

Cris-Glad spin class made you feel better! Week 8 tomorrow! Put it to bed. Lets finish this beast!

So...I have a bit of an emotional morning and just felt like I needed a beer...so...I came home and popped a top! Guilt free! :drinker: I watched about an hour of TV and turned the TV off and now cleaning my apartment. Trying on outfits for tomorrow night. The skinny jeans tucked into my boots is not so cute. Will NOT be wearing that to work for jeans days. Hope everybody has a fabulous night

Julie - I am sorry for your bad luck with rost. chicken.

jess - Sorry that your boot/jean arren't working out.


Check in -
cals - 1650
water - 54oz
Exercise - 15 arc trainer + 15 elliptical + 10 treadmill = 305 cals
Proud - that i was not feeling working out but still got 300 cals burned.