Confession Time! ((ABSOLUTELY NO JUDGEMENT))

BZAH10 wrote: »

52cardpickup wrote: »

BZAH10 wrote: »

52cardpickup wrote: »

I confess that even though I have very little money to spare this week, I'd very much like to go shopping for some new workout clothes because I know they'll make me feel better about my body and my progress thus far. I'm fully aware of how sad it is that I have to rely on material goods to make me feel better about my progress, but I've been struggling a lot lately.

Wow, you have made amazing progress! Not sure where you are, but the Xersion brand of workout wear at JC Penny is reasonably priced (look at the clearance racks first) and Danskin at Wal-Mart is also good. Definitely get some form fitting workout gear (such as in your picture) that makes you feel great. You deserve it!

Thank you! I think my main issue (mentally) is that I thought (stupidly) when I got down to my goal weight I would have this amazing body, which I don't. I'm lifting weights and debating either doing a bulk/cut cycle or doing a recomp, but I'm currently very unhappy with how I look. I think your idea of getting form fitting workout gear might help a bit! Thanks for the tips on where to look!

Um, I'm looking at your picture. What is there to be unhappy about?! Obviously, you don't have to share if you don't want to, but you already look great in form-fitting workout wear!

My front, mainly. I have loose skin on my stomach, and my breast are "deflated" (not much I can do about that, I realize). My doctor switched my medication in April, which caused very rapid last 10 pound weight loss, resulting in a higher body fat percentage than I'd like, even though I'm at my goal weight. I lost a lot of the muscle I'd worked hard to build, and gained a bunch of loose skin and stretch marks. I'm hoping those go away, but I'm feeling pretty insecure at the moment.

ETA: I was going slow and steady with the weight loss after I had my son (roughly 70 pounds over the course of 2.5 years or so) while lifting weights and preserving my muscle, so the last ten pounds lost quickly over the course of the last month really took a toll on me.

kelly_c_77 wrote: »

kellyjellybellyjelly wrote: »

I confess that I watched the sixth season premiere of Pretty Little Liars last night & want to know who the 'supposed' big A is already!

Me too! I'm not sure why I'm still hooked on that show.. I get so frustrated that it's dragging on and on but I still need to watch!

I watch it pretty much off & on since the seasons were dragging with no answers & the Ezra/Aria scenes were driving me crazy. I was hoping that Ezra would either get killed off or be the big A. Since it doesn't seem that Ezra will be the big A I hope it's someone like Wren, Melissa, or Jason.

Just_Ceci wrote: »

Today is my anniversary and I confess that I am sad that this means I won't be able to go on my weekly bike ride with my girls bike group.

My husband is the best about anniversaries, birthdays, etc. Last year, he had the high school art teacher help him make me a soup bowl. It says "Soup for my Soulmate". I love it! I tell myself every year I'm going to start shopping early and find him the perfect gift. It never happens. I ended up buying him a ceramic statue at the garden center. He deserves so much better!

Awwe, that's so sweet. Yours sounds like a great gift too.
My husband has got better at gifts over the years, but I have had some real doozies (set of home phones for my 40th, for example ). I've got much better at saying "For my birthday, if you'd like to get me a present, I'd really love X". Or I tell my daughter. She's very good at relaying 'hints' and he's relieved because he can get something he knows I'll like.

ETA: I'm excited because I've ordered him a GoPro camera for his birthday, which he's wanted for ages. Hope I got the right one! I ordered from Costco, so it will be ok to return it if it's wrong.

Tubbs216 wrote: »

Just_Ceci wrote: »

Today is my anniversary and I confess that I am sad that this means I won't be able to go on my weekly bike ride with my girls bike group.

My husband is the best about anniversaries, birthdays, etc. Last year, he had the high school art teacher help him make me a soup bowl. It says "Soup for my Soulmate". I love it! I tell myself every year I'm going to start shopping early and find him the perfect gift. It never happens. I ended up buying him a ceramic statue at the garden center. He deserves so much better!

Awwe, that's so sweet. Yours sounds like a great gift too.
My husband has got better at gifts over the years, but I have had some real doozies (set of home phones for my 40th, for example ). I've got much better at saying "For my birthday, if you'd like to get me a present, I'd really love X". Or I tell my daughter. She's very good at relaying 'hints' and he's relieved because he can get something he knows I'll like.

My husband is amazing at picking gifts for me. I, on the other hand, am the worst gift giver on the planet. Seriously. I always default to perfume because I just can't think of anything else... Even if I know the person really well! :-/ I'm just really, really bad at it.

LBuehrle8 wrote: »

kelly_c_77 wrote: »

kellyjellybellyjelly wrote: »

I confess that I watched the sixth season premiere of Pretty Little Liars last night & want to know who the 'supposed' big A is already!

Me too! I'm not sure why I'm still hooked on that show.. I get so frustrated that it's dragging on and on but I still need to watch!

I got angry after last season and cut myself off cold turkey- they've dragged it out way too long I can't handle it!

The show went downhill when they focused on the whole stupid Maya/Nate storyline that had absolutely nothing to do with the mystery (some people think she could be alive). I've heard the show is at least a little different from the books (I haven't read them since I heard they're pretty much garbage). A coworker said it would be funny if the whole town is A.

xMrBunglex wrote: »

BZAH10 wrote: »

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orangesmartie wrote: »

Apologies for the binge posting, but I am now caught up. I tried doing the multi-quote thing once before, so there was only one post from me, but then i lost all the posts i quoted and replied to before i could hit send.

Gonna ask you all for a little advice. I go to the gym daily and mostly i tend to do cardio (treadmill) stuff, because i really like the high calorie burns my HRM gives me. But i need to do some strength stuff. I don't really know where to start and i'm too shy to ask. I thought I'd buy the NROLFW and see if i could do that. What do you think? What do you guys do?

I highly recommend the Spartacus DVDs offered through Men's Health & Women's health.

They are fast-paced circuit training, each move has 4 variants from easy to hard. My wife & I do the workouts together, and they are great - fast moving (40 sec on, 20 sec off, sometimes 30 on, 30 off) so you get your sweat on, yet you use dumbbells for strength & toning.

I think we paid like 50 bucks for 7 different workouts. We've already gotten our money's worth & then some!

(no I don't work for Spartacus) 8)

Thanks for mentioning these - I need to look into this. Unfortunately the TV in our weight room isn't DVD compatible, but surely I can track down an unused DVD player somewhere.

Forgot to add that the workouts are quick - 3 are 20 minutes, and the other 4 are 28-33 minutes. Great for just cranking one out when you get from work & getting it done!

We have an old TV & a dirt cheap DVD player in the workout room, just for this purpose. A laptop would work just as well though...

That's exactly what I need to do.

kellienw335 wrote: »

I miss one day because of a sick kiddo and I'm 21 pages behind! WTH? She's fine, just an upset belly and one of those; you can't return to daycare for 24 hours...even though she doesn't have any symptoms.

Glad your daughter doesn't have anything serious. I'm pretty much on here all day at work and I STILL cannot keep up! I love this thread, but it really is time consuming.

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kellyjellybellyjelly wrote: »

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kecmw25 wrote: »

@crosbylee I'm so sorry about your friend.

@Italian_Buju I can't even imagine what you went through, my heart breaks for you. And I hope your degu gets better.

@pofoster21 What a heartbreaking story as well. So sorry

Here's a confession: My husband plays games on his iPad. His newest game is Hay Day where you virtually take care of a farm. He was gone this weekend and I picked up his iPad to look something up and an alert said "your farm animals miss you" I decided I had to look in on them. I am now hooked on Hay Day. I feel ridiculous when I play and super ridiculous admitting it.

Edited: Because I didn't want to forget anyone

I'm completely addicted to Hay Day myself. I'm on level 54 now, and I've been playing for almost a year, multiple times daily!

My husband teases me about it, and whenever I have my face stuck in my tab, he'll go... "Checking on your chickens again, huh?"

No need to feel ridiculous, it's an awesome stress-reliever since it's so... Brainless? Kind of like coloring for me, both are destressors. At least, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!

I confess that I used to play Farmville & actually paid money for FVC LOL! I stopped playing when they had around 6-10 farms & it felt more like a job than a game.

I quit when they introduced the second farm. I wasn't happy with that at all... wanted to improve my farm, not have another one.

I don't mind paying a bit of money though, I mean I pay for games I like for my computer/PS4, so I don't find anything wrong with it... but when all the nice stuff would cost you $100 every month... no thanks!

I had the full series of Friends on tape.

I remember there were people that spent around thousands of dollars or more on FV. I hated that when they became the most greediest almost everything seemed to cost actual money & the things that were coins cost millions or you needed tons of neighbors to get buildings finished.

I love the games were you can add neighbors if you want but don't need them to play or advance to the next level.

crosbylee wrote: »

Have totally blown it today. I allowed myself to eat an entire small pizza and finish off the last half of a pint of gelato. I have no need to eat again for another day.

Is that a JJ Watt jersey in your pic?!? I've said it in this thread before, LOVE me some JJ Watt!!!

KylerJaye wrote: »

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Tubbs216 wrote: »

smashley_mashley wrote: »

I wanted to throw my two cents in re GoT. I loved the books and the series does not do it justice. I refused to watch the series for three seasons but then hubby (who hasn't read the books) said it was time. I am livid that story lines are being left out and, in the case of this season, are being changed all together. But I guess you have to make concessions when you are trying to cram a 700 page book into 10 one hour episodes.

In our house we call GoT 'Sex and Stabbing', because that covers about 90% of it.

LMAO

Tubbs216 wrote: »

Although this season (I've only watched the first three episodes) seems to be lots of boring talk.

...from 'Sex and Stabbing'... to 'Syllables and Snoring'... but always -- Sinister Secrets and Surreptitious Sabotage (because GoT isn't GoT without Serpentine Storytelling, Stunning Surprises, and Stymied Starks)...


(...hey, someone should do a GoT version of the 'Got Milk?' campaign (as promotional bits for the show) -- except instead of milk, it'd be blood (Got GoT? (<--- it ends up being a multi-layered pun, to boot (bonus!)))... )

every time you post, the instant image that pops in my head is V from V for Vendetta. do you own a cape? you should wear a cape

LOL


Nay, nary a cape (<--- hey, the strung-together sound of that 3-word, 4-syllable sequence would make for a great 'shire'-like name, for some random fantasy world -like bit o' fictionaria (Naryacape, home of the Naryacape-ians (and setting for the soon-to-be-released action film "Escape from Naryacape" ;p )) can be found nestled about my neck (let alone, flowing down my backside, and flapping in the breeze, near my behind, as though a flag had been planted in my torso (which is *such* a disgusting thought, now that I hear those words march across my mind, after so innocently having exited my tinkle-tapping fingertips (*tinkle*-tapping? -- I didn't mean to imply that words escape my fingertips akin to pee exiting a body (in case that wasn't clear ))...

...however... all that being said (and it was a lot!)...

...*were* I to wear a cape (let alone, a freaky frickin' mask (and the kind with a perpetually donned, creepy smile (you know, like V from V for Vendetta ;p )), I should fancy a bit o' decoration (if I do say so, myself (besides, who *else* would I say it as?! ))... and would likely find myself (after looking high and low, for *me* ;p ) preferring a giant letter "V" on my caped backside (and not for the purpose of attempting any 'sleight of hand' (or, 'sleight of back', as it were ), in having said V-plastered cape perform optical illusionary magic, by 'painting' artificially enhanced lats in place of my otherwise non-lat-spectacle(d) back (which is not to say that my lats typically wear glasses, mind you ;p )...

...the big ole "V" would stand for -- { Vim, vigor, vivid, verve, vitality, vivacity, vibrance, valiance, vanguard, variable, veracity, verbal, vocal, volution, veritable vortex, and victorious vanquishing } -- and the sight of my V-addled cape flitting about would spell trouble to 'words without frontiers...' (with apologies to Peter Gabriel)... and in case it isn't clear (as though anything I've just said even remotely approaches being any such thing ), I have decided on my caped crusading moniker (good gravy, *now* I need to create a frickin' Press Release! (will this *ever* end?! ))...


...and I am...


...The Word Sherpa... ;p



<< floomp! >> (<--- that was me -- after bullfighter-izingly 'brandishing' my cape, and flinging it into the air (as though ineptly tossing a bunch of annealed-together confetti), and then... with an 'off-she-goes, in-a-flash!' bit of cartoonishly rendered, wispy smoke -lingering -esque 'after-effect' being the only remnant of my presence, in the wake of my zooming to the next 'stop', on my Playful Parade of Paragraphic Parody and Preposterous-icity 'Tour' (coming soon, to a post near you! )...)