200+ Summer Meltdown!

Check in for Wednesday: 2840 calories burned/ 2188 calories consumed/ 652 calorie deficit

Kendal: I LOVE your High-Five!!! Awesomeness! I would caution you to verify your Latin words before you get your tattoo. As someone who spent an extensive time around people learning foreign languages when I was in the Air Force, I can tell you that I witnessed more than one person get a tattoo it Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese or Japanese that ended up NOT saying what they thought it said. It's awesome that you & The Boy are enjoying each others company.

Kerry: I end up getting unintentionally back-handed compliments from The Kid that are similar to the compliment you got from your coworker. I write it off as the male mind being slightly retarded.

Karen: Your son's birthday is the weekend after my son's birthday. Gabe turns 8 on Monday. Wanna hear something else weird?? We took him to the zoo last year for his 7th birthday. This year he has requested bowling and seeing the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie.

Katie: Is it possible that you're feeling so tired because you aren't eating enough calories?

Annette: I really like having a garden but I HATE the actual process of taking care of it. I don't like pulling weeds and I am not fond of dirt or bugs.

Melissa: Welcome to the thread, we're happy to have you. What D are you representing? (I feel kinda dumb asking that but I honestly don't know what the "D" means) What are you studying in school?

Jenn: We have a Wii, 2 PS3's and an XBox Kinect. The Hubbs LOVES electronic gadgets. I don't particularly care for video games but I love the Kinect.

Kristina: It sounds like your work is busy and you are getting out there and meeting people! That's awesome!!!

Lacey: That sux about getting stiffed at the Dr's office.

Nava: I am so sorry you are going through such stressful medical issues. I'm glad you have a thorough endocrinologist. I have no experience with your issues but I DID have a benign tumor removed in December of 2009 (if you look at my first picture I posted yesterday, you can still see part of my scar on my chest). My thymus gland had to be removed as it was growing out of control and was pressing on both my heart and lungs. I now sport a really awesome open-heart surgery scar that, even over a year later, is quite angry and red. I know this is a scary time for you. We're here for you.

The Hubbs is buying a motorcycle. I don't really know how I feel about this. I guess it doesn't much matter as he's buying it. I AM happy to be getting my car back. I hate having no wheels (not that I go many places but...still... I'm a grown @ss woman who has always had her own car so being without one is...weird). Oh, he's also going away for a month starting early in June. Le Sigh...he's been gone more in the past year and a half than he has in all the 11 years before we moved here. Kinda lame.

I found a nifty site!! http:// www. healthstatus.com/ calculators. html
Even lets you calculate that "personal" cardio! ROFL! Which my BFF & I have decided we're going to label on MFP as "group cardio" since we both have family members as friends. Me being the hubby (who I am sure doesn't want me to share) and the other being my mom, who doesn't wanna know! ROFL!

Kerry-sucks that you're all alone again! And men are dingbats! I guess at least give him credit for even noticing you're getting smaller in the first place?? ROFL!

Kendall-def wait til you get an accurate translation. You would be SO peeved if it turned out to be wrong after the fact! Patience now would mean lots less frustration later!

Amy-am I in your head or are you in mine or what? Seriously? Anything ELSE we have in common? ROFL! I have to do that fun summery type stuff for Aaron's b-day. June is just meant for outside! Casey, poor thing, is end of January, so unless I change hemispheres...he's stuck indoors! Mellie has a 50/50 shot being end of March! LOL! And YAY for car!! We're still down to one, and it's driving me batty! It's been since Dec & I'm ready to get another one. I can't afford a car payment, but I'm about to suck it up anyway!

The crane pose and I can't mix. I have a sway back and that pose just puts my lower back at way too much risk of going out. I LOVE the plow poses though..its like ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

my boobies sufficate me when I'm in plow position


I hope saying that doesn't get me flagged lol

Thanks everyone for the kind words; you ladies are awesome. Amy, I totally can't see the scar, but I wasn't looking for it when I originally looked at the pics. Sounds like that was a very necessary surgery though. As for the motorcycle, just make sure your hubby wears a helmet! I had a motorcycle for all of a year, then decided it wasn't really for me and just sold it off a couple months ago. But I feel like I have a badge of honor with that "M" code on my license!

I'm feeling much better today. Yesterday was just one of those "EVERYTHING IS BAD!" kinda days. After that gripey post I stepped in some manner of sticky drink and made my favorite work heels gross, then didn't notice it till I got it all over the gas pedal and brake pedal of my car, realized I left my entire wallet in the BF's car... just one of those days! He brought it back to me last night (so now I can pay the doc today), then left again to have a me-time night. Which was fine by me. I sat on my couch with the dog and watched episodes of Doctor Who then went to bed at 10.

Donated blood today, which apparently put me at "gallon donor" status, so I get a free mug. haha Will be off to the doctor in just a bit so I'll let everyone know how that goes. I have these phases where I'm like "man, is this even necessary?" But then I try to down my two pills with a swig of water and it gets stuck in my throat and I almost upchuck and then promptly burp for the following five minutes, and I realize "yes. Perhaps this is necessary." haha

Has anyone ever wanted to punch someone in the face multiple times? Yep, that's how I'm feeling now!

Has anyone ever wanted to punch someone in the face multiple times? Yep, that's how I'm feeling now!

Yes. Totally. 100%. I however have got to the completely irrational and immature level of wanting to nutpunch people. Even if they don't have nuts.

And people think the bullet proof glass at my window is for MY protection! :-) Is so I don't pop 'em up side the head & call them dumb a**!

Nava-hope all gets better!

Amy- I have an app for tracking too, but I was over 11 calories & that red # was just killin me! Lol!

I've recommended this site to more people, let's see if any more join us! I love it! :-)

ugh. Its 9:30pm and I'm just about to START yoga.

Sorry I've been MIA... I promise to catch up with everyone this weekend!!! My check-in for yesterday 2512 burned, no cals logged, and no formal exercise. I burned 400 cals in the first hour and 20 min of moving tables and boxes for the garage sale. Totally forgot to check when we finished. Everything is now in the driveway. We are getting up early to finish and price things. Yep, tons more work. Hugs and enjoy your holiday.

Welcome Mellisa!!!

Amy - do you rub and stretch your scar? Make circular motions with your finger with enough pressure to blanch (turn white) the scar. The redness is from blood flowing and you need stop it then the scar turns white.

Kendal - LOL on your extra cardio.

I really will pull out the laptop and respond to everyone.

I did legs and back tonight. My muscles were definitely shaking at many points but I kind of wonder if I pulled out of each thing too soon? Were your guy's legs dying after each thing or just tired all around after the work out? I know I need to get deeper into the positions next week.
Right now I feel like I will feel my muscles tomorrow but not be super sore or anything...time will tell right?
As Tony says, I need to get out of my own head I think.


I went to target yesterday to buy the second game of thrones book and they were gone. They'd been in stock last week. Grrrrr. So after work tomorrow I'm hitting up barnes and noble and buying the rest of them.

Welp, long doctor story short, he recommends surgery to remove the left side of my thyroid. Mostly because the nodes are too large to shrink with medicine and could continue to grow in size. He went through all the options used to treat this sort of thing and one by one, explained why surgery is the only option in my case.

I asked him about cost and he said because my insurance is good, we're looking at the hundreds and not the thousands (thank god), and that I would need about 5 days off work, which isn't a problem as my company is very understanding of these things. I'd have about an inch scar at the base of my throat, which I'm not too keen on, but my wonderful BF said "eh, scars are sexy."

I told him I wanted to take a bit to think it over, talked about it with my mom and my BF and they both think I should go ahead, especially since the situation can't get any better on its own and could potentially get worse. I'm inclined to agree.

Blah, not the worst thing in the world!