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Confession Time! ((ABSOLUTELY NO JUDGEMENT))
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I am all caught up from this weekends posts. My, you all have been chatty.
Confession: I found out last Sunday (as in on Easter) that my 19 year old step-daughter is pregnant, which means I am going to be a grandma at 35!!! I have been really struggling with this fact and didn't handle the news in the best way. I even drove 2 hours to tell my best friend the news. She, even though she teased my relentlessly, made me feel much better about the whole situation.
We even came up with a cute name for the baby to call me...MoNana. :
Whoa! That's big news. For what it's worth, I think that having young grandparents is really enviable. Three of my grandparents died either before I was born or when I was quite young.
This so much. People have kids quite late in my family. My grandma was 46 when she had my mum, and 76 when I came along. Thankfully she lived to 100 so I did get to know her a bit, but I am a bit jealous of people who still have grandparents beyond their early twenties.
My Grandfather passed away last year, at the age of 94. We had 5 generations living until he passed - for almost 10 years. It is pretty amazing to have so much time with grandparents. I hope to be able to see many generations in my family below me because I live long. When my children were born (my kids are all adults now) they had all of their great grandparents on my side of the family living still. Unfortunately not the case with my husbands family.0 -
Confession:
Monday was another doozie, having eaten 3,103 calories.
I did eat a 'decent' dinner though I didn't weigh it, so I guesstimated the portions in my diary.
I have eaten well so far today, though I still have temptation starring me in the face in my kitchen. I have contemplated throwing it all away. I don't trust myself with it. I envy people who can eat just one little thing and call it good.
One day at a time I guess. At least I've been logging the binges. It sucks seeing day after day in the red, but before I just ignored it all like it never happened. I will start working out again tomorrow, I simply don't feel like it today honestly. I'd rather not do it than have some half-hearted p-ss poor workout.
End (rant)/ confession.
Good for you! I'm starting to actually log all my food too, even if I'm way over. It does suck seeing the red, but I used to ignore it too. But ignoring it doesn't make the calories disappear (unfortunately).
And if you really don't feel like working out, don't. I've skipped a couple days because I just couldn't bear the thought of it and had no energy. Before I've forced myself to workout when I'm in that kind of mood and I end up with a bit of a rage thing afterwards so now I'll just skip it.0 -
I tried planks for the first time ever today. I did the first one and held it for twenty-five seconds. I thought it wasn't that bad and I was awesome. I couldn't figure out what the fuss was about. Then I attempted the second one and basically fell after nine seconds. I will try this again tomorrow because I feel it would probably benefit me.
Lately, I've been struggling to lose more weight and I have a lot to go. I've been thinking I might need to take a week off my diet, but the idea terrifies me. I am maintaining my current weight eating 1050-1150 calories and doing between fifty-eight and sixty-eight minutes (depends on the playlist) of Zumba/dance fitness a day and heavy lifting on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. I am worried if I try to eat maintenance I will gain back weight. I have a doctor's appointment to address this, but scared that they won't know what to do and it'll be back to me not being able to lose weight no matter what I did.
Keep working on the planks - they are really beneficial in a lot of ways.
What type of doctor are you seeing? Because if they aren't nutrition or weight-loss specialists I would take their advice fairly lightly. Not to disparage all doctors, but it seems when it comes to weight loss you'll get a large variety of advice, not all of it accurate. It is important to discuss this with them, but sometimes it's just a matter of trial and error. Good luck! (obviously, I'm behind on this thread again and trying to catch up)0 -
I am all caught up from this weekends posts. My, you all have been chatty.
Confession: I found out last Sunday (as in on Easter) that my 19 year old step-daughter is pregnant, which means I am going to be a grandma at 35!!! I have been really struggling with this fact and didn't handle the news in the best way. I even drove 2 hours to tell my best friend the news. She, even though she teased my relentlessly, made me feel much better about the whole situation.
We even came up with a cute name for the baby to call me...MoNana. :
Whoa! That's big news. For what it's worth, I think that having young grandparents is really enviable. Three of my grandparents died either before I was born or when I was quite young.
This so much. People have kids quite late in my family. My grandma was 46 when she had my mum, and 76 when I came along. Thankfully she lived to 100 so I did get to know her a bit, but I am a bit jealous of people who still have grandparents beyond their early twenties.
My Grandfather passed away last year, at the age of 94. We had 5 generations living until he passed - for almost 10 years. It is pretty amazing to have so much time with grandparents. I hope to be able to see many generations in my family below me because I live long. When my children were born (my kids are all adults now) they had all of their great grandparents on my side of the family living still. Unfortunately not the case with my husbands family.
One grandfather passed away about 7 years before I was born, the other passed away when I was 18 and my grandma passed away about 3 years ago. Those last two lived in another province so I didn't know them well. My grandmother on my mom's side is still alive, she's 85. She lives in the same town as me, but sadly I am not close to her either. She has 6 kids and many grandkids/great grandkids so she was always busy when I was younger. She didn't really babysit us so I didn't spend a lot of time with her growing up. I envy people who are close to their grandparents. If I do have a kid one day, I want them to be close to my parents.
My mom gets upset with me because I don't think to call her or take her out or anything (especially when my parents are away). I don't do it to be rude, but since I've never had that type of relationship with her it honestly doesn't cross my mind.0 -
WestCoastJo82 wrote: »kellyjellybellyjelly wrote: »I confess that I had a pretty bad ice cream binge yesterday.
I ate two pints of Talenti Salted Caramel Peanut & a Pint of Jeni's Brown Almond Butter Brittle that I am counting in other days this week.
I also had the rest of my Talenti Egg Nog, Edy's Mint Chocolate Chip, Jeni's Savannah Buttermint, & Jeni's Goat Cheese with Red Cherries that I just plugged in my diary yesterday as my later snack & dinner.
Oh man I miss Jeni's! I went to grad school at OSU and Jeni's ice cream and Hounddogs pizza are things that cannot be replaced outside of Columbus!
We have it in Chicago. Luckily they sell some of them at WF, because I've been trying to go to the one that opened on my street a couple of years ago forever, and there's never not a huge line. Well, to be honest I often forget to look when it's super cold, so there are probably times when there's not a line, but I was walking home on Good Friday this year when it was chilly with an unpleasant wind and thought "hmm, maybe this is a time when Jeni's won't be too crowded" and there STILL was a line out the door. Sigh, I'm dying to try some more of the options there, since the few I've had from WF were amazing.0 -
AgentOrangeJuice wrote: »I got an interview with the company I've been trying to get on board with for over a year and a half now. EXCITE!
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Okay, I've been super busy today and while I think I've caught up for the weekend I didn't get to respond to a bunch of posts I would have like to! Anyway, how are the shoulder workouts going? You do realize that once we've mastered that we're going to add on, right? I'm thinking we need to start with planks: no equipment required and can be done while on the floor either before or after shoulders / arms. Thoughts?
I'm cool with anything except crunches. No crunches... even though they require no equipment and can be done on the floor.My confession today is that I chew the skin around my nails on my fingers, when I'm not chewing them I pick them. It looks gross and it hurts but I can't stop doing it. I'm nearly 33 and have been doing it since I was about 11. Every now and again I stop it but then I always start up again. Nasty habit!
I pick mine. Chewing is a last resort. I've been doing this since I was around 15 and I'm 51 now. My poor fingers are locked into this pick/heal/peel/pick cycle. It's worse in winter because my skin gets so dry but I don't ever stop completely, even in summer.
Absolutely no crunches. I don't do those at all.0 -
FluffySandwich wrote: »Today was really hard for me because it's my dad's birthday. He passed away last year and I'm still struggling to come to terms with it. Took a long walk after work and ended up in a grocery store buying sausage and peppers (his favorite). I miss him terribly and feel guilty for not spending as much time with him as I should have. I want to ask him things I never got to and never will be able to. Everyone, hug your families tight and don't take them for granted
Sorry for your loss
I try to spend a lot of time with my parents because I don't know how long I'll have with them. I'm single and have a lot of free time, so why not spend time with them while I can? It really bothers me that my brother doesn't seem to have interest in seeing them. I think he'll really regret it one day.0 -
AgentOrangeJuice wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »AgentOrangeJuice wrote: »Regional Fare
These are the struggles I face every day.
Alsoquiksylver296 wrote: »I buy Monster drinks by the case. I have one a day. When I went to buy my case this last time, at the same store I always buy them at, the cashier said something like "those are gonna kill ya." I laughed it off and said, "everybody is gonna die somehow. This is my vice." He seriously started to lecture me on how bad they are. All I could think was, "Well, I know what is gonna kill you. ME!"
I don't think cashiers should make any type of judgmental comment on anything anyone is buying. None of their business.
I could bore you with a terrible food purchasing story and my 2 month fight with distributing Monster drinks. just saying.
Tell me more...as I take a long, satisfying drink from my ice cold Monster Ultra Zero
BLARGH. 2 months ago one of the bars I buy food and alcohol for decided they want energy drink offerings. Our new coca-cola contract prohibits the way we can serve and market that we have red bull, making it totally not worth even having the product, and I know I know, we're like 10 years late on the energy drink and vodka craze.
Monster was distributed by Budweiser up until 2-3 weeks ago, so I've just been in nightmare limbo trying to get product from Coca-Cola now that they're the owner of distributing rights.
Because you know, my outlet managers can't just buy the monster everyone buys, they want super small bottles because they're more aesthetically similar to Red Bull. *eyeroll*
And this whole Budweiser / Monster / Coca-Cola thing has been going on for 2+ years which has contributed to the mess, I'm sure. I know this because my youngest son worked for Budweiser a couple years ago and he used to complain about it back then. I think Budweiser was glad to finally release distributing rights (at least that was the buzz around here).0 -
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berlynnwall wrote: »My one close friend broke up with me because (to simplify) I changed my wedding plans and eloped, and she couldn't make it. I literally don't have any other close friends. This affected my eating yesterday quite a bit unfortunately. Did not make goal. Im back on track today though, screw her.
Weddings do funny things to people. I've lost two of my closest friends due to weddings. When I got married we went to mexico and she was not happy at our choice of resort or the fact that we moved the wedding up. I told her I completely understood if she couldn't go b/c we moved the wedding up and she didn't have as much time to save. She got all pissy about it - that was 7 years ago.
My other friend who was my best friend since the 3rd grade told me, after she paid for her trip to my wedding, that her fiance was laid off and they couldn't afford for her to go. I told her it was a vacation as well and she could pick which ever color blue dress she wanted. I wanted no fuss with my wedding (my dress was only $200.00 which was a good thing since I ripped when it got caught in the heel of my shoe and it got covered in sand). She still wasnt' able to make it and I refunded her money - i understand that things happen. Well, during a fight she told me that the real reason she didn't go was b/c she thought I was being bridezilla, expecting her to pay $1500.0 to attend my wedding and a true friend wouldn't do that. Well, the gloves came off and I told her how I really felt about her racist, redneck fiance (now husband). It has been 3 or 4 years and we haven't spoken since (even when we ran into each other at a festival).
When you cut the grass, the snakes come out and you see who really is there for you. Sometimes, it means you lose people in the end.0 -
I wish we had eloped. It was not the *wedding either of us really wanted or dreamed of, some family members had to make it all about them. Pft...0
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I am super strict on my daily calories during the week (within a healthy range).... but I really only do it so I can drink as much as I want on the weekends and stay under my weekly goal....0
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smashley_mashley wrote: »berlynnwall wrote: »My one close friend broke up with me because (to simplify) I changed my wedding plans and eloped, and she couldn't make it. I literally don't have any other close friends. This affected my eating yesterday quite a bit unfortunately. Did not make goal. Im back on track today though, screw her.
Weddings do funny things to people. I've lost two of my closest friends due to weddings. When I got married we went to mexico and she was not happy at our choice of resort or the fact that we moved the wedding up. I told her I completely understood if she couldn't go b/c we moved the wedding up and she didn't have as much time to save. She got all pissy about it - that was 7 years ago.
My other friend who was my best friend since the 3rd grade told me, after she paid for her trip to my wedding, that her fiance was laid off and they couldn't afford for her to go. I told her it was a vacation as well and she could pick which ever color blue dress she wanted. I wanted no fuss with my wedding (my dress was only $200.00 which was a good thing since I ripped when it got caught in the heel of my shoe and it got covered in sand). She still wasnt' able to make it and I refunded her money - i understand that things happen. Well, during a fight she told me that the real reason she didn't go was b/c she thought I was being bridezilla, expecting her to pay $1500.0 to attend my wedding and a true friend wouldn't do that. Well, the gloves came off and I told her how I really felt about her racist, redneck fiance (now husband). It has been 3 or 4 years and we haven't spoken since (even when we ran into each other at a festival).
When you cut the grass, the snakes come out and you see who really is there for you. Sometimes, it means you lose people in the end.
I like this ^
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AgentOrangeJuice wrote: »I got an interview with the company I've been trying to get on board with for over a year and a half now. EXCITE!
Good luck!0 -
berlynnwall wrote: »My one close friend broke up with me because (to simplify) I changed my wedding plans and eloped, and she couldn't make it. I literally don't have any other close friends. This affected my eating yesterday quite a bit unfortunately. Did not make goal. Im back on track today though, screw her.
Wow. As if your wedding plans should revolve around your friend's schedule?
Sorry you're dealing with that.0 -
I've been eating baked beans with cut up turkey hot dogs every day for lunch for the past week. It's amazing.
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AgentOrangeJuice wrote: »turkey dogs aren't even real food. sorry to judge #notsorry lol
They fit into my calorie allowance and I like them. Go troll elsewhere. #notsorry lol
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