200+ Haulin' Off The Weight

Bobbie: Thanks for responding. I think my loss will be ok for this week. I just had such a tough weekend I can't even bear to look at myself. BLAH.

Kmturtle (sorry I don't know your name ): Great run! Running in the rain can be really exhilarating

Hope everyone else is doing well! Sorry I don't have time to respond to everyone

Great loss Bobbie & Lacey!!

I have to 2nd Hosanna on donuts, they are evil & addicting & irresistable!

Megan-enjoy your date!!

Bobbie-good luck on the sodium! I've yet to make it under MFP guidelines on that, but I do watch better than I used to! )

Kristina-those little things like better choices make all the difference!

Kendal-little yous would definitely be adorable! Glad your weekend went so well!

Lacey-men are stupid. We love 'em, but they'll never get it or change. Just try not to commit murder or maim him too much! *hugs* I told my DH that he should figure out how bad it is when my kids will by-pass him on the computer to come ask me while I'm in the bathroom b/c they feel they'll get a better response, but he still doesn't get it.

Amy-bad part of Casey's size...Aaron & Melodie aren't much smaller. Aaron is 4ft3in & wears 3 1/2 shoes. He's 7. Melodie wears little girl 8 shoes & 3T-4T clothes & she's 3ft3in. She's 2! At least as Casey outgrows stuff, it's still in good enough shape for Aaron to use it! And there's a lady at church that has 2 girls a bit bigger than Melodie who keeps giving me clothes, so I'm not totally broke or out of luck finding them stuff! Lots of grandparents helps too! LOL! I'm still giggling on the dog farts. Makes me glad our cat is outdoors...though she's pregnant, again! Hope the abs recover soon!

Rikki-I keep thinking that I'll wake up thin too, esp when I've lost so much...I should be down more than one pant size, right? I'm working hard & I'm sitting at the same weight for 6 weeks. BUT, then I realize, it took me a LONG time to get this big, so it'll take at least that long to get rid of it. I've just been lucky with the first batch of weight coming off. And we'll be here to keep you going!! And only 10 over MFP calories means you had a deficit overall!! You're getting there! Baby steps girl!! You can do it!

SGC-I'm onC25K W1D2...so I'm not too far behind you! My goal is to complete a 5K in under 50 min, even if I don't run the whole thing...by Sept!!

Victoria-weekends with BFF are awesome! I had one last weekend!! Enjoy yours!!

Hailie-sometimes parents are stupid when it comes to their kids!! *hugs* Hope it all gets better soon!!

Kerry-good luck with the detox weekend!! And if you're drinking too much, it's agreeing with you weight wise! LOL! We still love ya! Let us know how that goes! Glad your run went so well!!

I know I've run 3 times, but I hit the wrong button the 2nd night & did W1D1 twice...but it works out, b/c my Casey is running with me as of that night, so he & I just kinda started together. I know it sounds weird to have a 9 yr old run, but considering the kid gets tired after one trip up & down the soccer field...yeah, there's something wrong with that. And the boy can't touch his toes!! So I know getting him working out with me is going to be helpful to get/keep him in shape for soccer. Don't get me wrong, he's a rail! He has to wear belts with all of his pants, but he's just out of shape! I blame myself, but I'm glad he's excited & motivated to run with me & it keeps me going when I would rather skip it some nights.

Melodie has officially "lost" her pacifier. I'm SO excited! BUT, she keeps climbing into my bed in the middle of the night, with her baby doll, her blanket, her doll's blanket, & her pillow pet (a lady bug which she has named bugga-bugga). I guess I should be glad she GOES to bed in her own bed for a few hours. OK, better get some work done!

Lacey--When I was 14 years old my mother gave me the most useful advice about men I've ever heard--she followed it up with the benefits of "self-gratification" and "mutual gratification" vs intercouse, which was a highly mortifying discussion to have with my mother at any age that ended in "teen"--anyway; her advice was this: ALL men are *kitten*, you just have to figure out what you're willing to put up with for fifty or so years. So that explains it. Due to a faulty Y chromosome, men are closer to a horse's hind quarters than the human race. But we love them anyway

Karen--I know what you mean about pants sizes. I dropped 50 lbs, I should have dropped more than one size. It's frustrating...of course I only went up one size as i gained the 50 lbs, but that's beside the point, right? I think wholeheartedly that we should lose sizes quicker than we gained them. Who's with me?

Bobbie--grats on the loss, 5 lbs in one week, that's freakin' amazing!!!

Amy--I love guac., that sounds so yummy right now. I wish my husband would eat avocados, I could have them more often then. He's such a picky eater: no onions, peppers, mushrooms, avocados, artichokes. It makes it hard to buy healthy when I'm the only one in the house that will eat them.

And as for the great donut debate: While I agree that donuts are denizens of the nether regions of hell; hell itself is presided over by the horrific fiend known as Pizza. Pizza is the most fiendishly yummy thing in existence. And one piece alone is enough to make my weight fluctuate by four "water points" But can i resist it, no! Instead of running, screaming in the opposite direction, I am drawn to its cheesy evilness like a moth to the flame.

As for me, calorie wise, my day is most likely already shot. It's 8 am here and I've already had a crispy kit kat and corned beef hash. I'm going to chalk it up to the horribly bad excuse of it being my birthday. We'll see how the rest of the day goes, maybe I'll manage to pull it out in the end; or maybe I'll manage to find time to squeeze in an extra-long workout this evening to make up for it.

Katheryne: I totally wish my Hubbs hated avocados cuz then I'd STILL buy them and they'd last longer than 30 seconds! I also cannot imagine having any kind of "gratification" conversation with my mom at 14. Hell, she just put me on the pill once I hit 15 and never spoke of sex within my hearing. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

Nava; Is it wrong that I'm totally jealous of what you were just complaining about? Since moving to Germany and only having one car and homeschooling my kid I have zero friends. I go to zero parties. I spend zero dollars on other people. It would be cool with me if I was a real-life shut in but I'm not. I love my friends (who all live in America) and I'm actually quite social. So...I'm jealous. Not that I wanna buy tons of birthday presents for other people or anything, I'd just like to hang out with people in real time.

Karen: Are you and your DH very tall? It sounds like your kids all inherited the tall gene. I hear you on being skinny and out of shape as Gabe sometimes borders on that. He can sprint faster than me but I can go longer than him. Good job getting Casey running, it will be awesome for him for soccer.

missx: Great running goals!

Kerry: I love hearing about your beer exploits! (and I don't think you sound like a lush) I also agree that your booze indulgences don't seem to be hindering your weight loss so, do what works for you and enjoy life!

Hailie: Parents can be lame.

I am so proud of me for keeping to my calorie limits while I'm out of commission. I honestly didn't think I could do it but I am. Yay!

Nava- I never really thought of that but you're totally right. I don't know how close you are to your "couple" friends but maybe you should buy only for the one who is your friend and not just because they are your friend's spouse. Get them a card and their gift can be your presence at the party lol

Nava- I never really thought of that but you're totally right. I don't know how close you are to your "couple" friends but maybe you should buy only for the one who is your friend and not just because they are your friend's spouse. Get them a card and their gift can be your presence at the party lol

Kendal, that's totally the problem! Most of them I knew when they were singletons and all got married to each other, oddly enough. In the rare case, someone got married to someone I didn't already know but after knowing a person so many years and such, I feel obligated.

My favorite joint gifters now though, are my ex boyfriend and my "friend" who's now with him. Seriously? Like... really? I wish they'd quit buying me crap so I could stop too. lol

Lacey & Nava: I buy presents for kids and the adult friends get the shaft. It's just the way of being poor and having friends with litters of children.

Kendal: Enjoy your run with Lexi!

What has two thumbs and is already 190 calories over at 2pm?

Happy Birthday KatheryneLynne! Welcome to all the newbies!

Monday check-in... 2988 burned / 1862 consumed / 1126 deficit - Exercise: strength training, 45 min Zumba, 35 min water aerobics.

I was going to attempt to respond to everyone, but it's just too much. I have read through ALL 10 pages of posts now and feel like I'm getting closer to my life regaining some sense of order. The guests have all left, we still have two weeks off before the wife starts her new job and I'm still in limbo as to what I'm going to do. To recap, the wife and I just up and quit our jobs 2 weeks ago. We worked for the same hospital (she's a nurse and I worked switchboard) and were just fed up with being treated like crap. The money situation is stressing me out a little bit, but we should be fine with what we have in savings. I'm just panicking. That along with the stress of dealing with the in-laws over the last week, followed by two days of fried, sugary fair food. UGH! So, the wife and I spent 3 hrs at the gym yesterday evening and plan to go again tonight but not as long.

I had to laugh when you ladies were discussing husbands that can't make/keep plans. Last week was evidence that it is not an exclusively Y chromosome trait. The wife's sister and four nieces visited last week. O M G my sister-in-law and mother-in-law COULD NOT f-ing decide what the f we were going to do on any given day. One minute we were suppose to take the kids to our house, then no that wouldn't work because they had to go visit some cousins the next day, then wait yes we can take them home but we have to have then back by 7pm, we get them to our house then we have to bring them back at 4pm so they can eat first, so we drive the hour back from our house and actually the S-I-L and M-I-L have already eaten now so we have to take them out to dinner. REALLY?! We just bought cellphones for the two oldest AND pay their monthly bills, AND we have to pay for their dinner. When I had already bought stuff to make food at home? AND we had just quit our job. SURE! Why not? And that was just ONE of the SEVEN days they were here. Needless to say the wife and I did a bit of stress eating last week. I do want to add that it was nice actually being able to spend time with the girls as usually I'm working every night they are here and only see them for a few hours after I would wake in the evening or I'd be too tired to enjoy doing anything with them.

Ok, enough complaining... Other than 5 lbs lost, last challenge was an epic fail for me. I didn't meet any of my goals including my weight loss goal of 8 pounds. Oh well, it's a new challenge. I would like to get into the 220's, which means my daily/monthly fluctuations do not push me over into the 230's. Other than that, just try to find a routine and figure out what I'm going to do job-wise. We will have to rein in some of our spending, but we should be able to live off the wife's new paycheck once she starts in 2 weeks. I'm just panicking as I've never been in a position in which I didn't HAVE to work. Everything will work itself out. I have to keep repeating that.

Nava, I completely agree with you on the presents thing. My sister had my first niece when I was 20, and then proposed to my parents that we stop buying presents for the adults and just start focusing on the kids. UM excuse me? I was 20, she was 26. She had 6 more years of birthdays and Christmases and then wanted to stop buying gifts for everyone but expected gifts for her kids? Yeah. I totally yelled at her for that. And I have friends who have kids and they always invite us to their birthday party with all their kids' friends at them, and its just weird. I love the kids to death, but I have no desire to spend a day with a bunch of strangers kids just so I can be there for the birthday bash. Its weird.

Then again, I'm probably a terrible person to give an opinion on this, as I don't see myself ever having kids. :laugh:

Megan, thanks! It wouldn't be so bad if I stopped eating (I'm at 1580), but I'm going to meet up with my girlfriends from school and one of them is making lasagna. Craaaaaaaaap.

Kerry, what a crock from your sis! So far, all my friend's kids are below school age, so it's still really parties for the parents and not so much about a ton of kids.

WB Katie!!

Totally agree on the "I'm an adult and unmarried, buy me shtuff" party at a certain age. Isn't there a Sex and the City about that? I can't even estimate how much money I've spent on wedding gifts, let alone the 9 times I've been a bridesmaid, 1 time I was a groomsmaid, and 1 time I was a "best ma'am." The best ma'am was probably the worst, cost-wise.

I mean, sure... I hope to get married someday in the future, hopefully not TOO far away, but in the meantime, I am, quite literally, the only person I know who is not yet married (outside of people not my age, I mean). I imagine if I were to buy a home, I could throw a housewarming party, but it's not like you can register for that.

Then again, I've lived in an apartment for 5 years... I pretty much have everything I need.

Off the gift topic... being that I'm sitting at 223, my calories are currently set at 1390. Originally, they were 1460, and I felt so much more comfortable there, even though it's only 70 cals different. I also felt more motivated and was dropping weight faster then. I played with the settings earlier today and if I switch to "lightly active" it gives me 1570 cals... if I switch to 1 pound a week it went to 16something... any thoughts? I know we've had the calories discussion before, I'd just love some more of y'alls input.

I'm beginning to think I may have to get a job just for social interaction. This is the first day that I've been in the house alone since I quit and I'm beginning to feel like a recluse already. Wish I had the car so I could go somewhere. I'd ride my bike somewhere and read, but that would require riding over an extremely dangerous bridge with no sidewalk/bike lane followed by a really not safe neighborhood.

ETA: I wish we were moving to Chicago sooner. Grr...

Kendall - Aww that's cute of your dad And god news on the ex front!

Lacey - Men can be absolutely infuriating. I am usually fuming at my other half for something he hasn't done to help out. And i don't even have kids to add in to the annoyance! My heart goes out to you and you have every right to be fuming!

Megan - OOOOOH! Good luck on the date! How exciting!

Karen - Good on you encouraging your kids to be active! That's so awesome!

Nava - September is 9 months after Christmas and New Year. It's apparently the single most common month for babies to be born.

Katie - good luck with finding a job!

On the presents thing - My fiancee and i have both lived out of home for at least four years, and we've lived together for nearly a year, so we've got most of the things we need. For our wedding we've been just saying that if people want to give us something, money would be great as we're planning to buy a house next year. But now my mother is saying that we need to make a list of things we want so that people who don't like giving money can give us something... but we are both employed and we buy what we need when we need it. It feels frivilous to be just asking for things for the sake of it. hmmm.

I haven't finished logging my calories for yesterday yet... I'm sure i'll be over since we got chicken and chips for dinner... But i really didn't feel like cooking. And in honesty, i don't really feel guilty when we have treats like that... i figure that chicken-shop-chips wouldn't be anywhere NEAR as awful as maccas or anything like that. Oh well, off for another walk with my friend this morning, so that should figure me out!

I jogged tonight it was just a little but I did it. I. Was proud of myself..

Okay, I'm going to try to finally get caught up on this thread. But first, I guess a general update on myself!

I'm still getting up at yuck o'clock to do P90X. I'm really pleased with myself for managing to work out before heading in to work for over 2 weeks now. Normally I would get up between 7 and 8 and just kind of roll into work whenever, but I've been consistently getting up early enough to be done and showered by 8. My main incentive for getting up early is because it's hotter than stink in our apartment in the afternoons.

I've been doing a lot of reading--I read the entire Hunger Games trilogy (really liked that) and I'm now catching up on Robin Cook, who is one of my favourite 'light' reading authors.

Work is still really busy, but I'm managing to only work overtime a couple of days a week.

I have a wedding to go to on the 20th so I went dress shopping on Sunday. I got a fairly cute sundress from Old Navy and the best part is, the XL was waaaay too big! I know Old Navy goes a bit overboard with vanity sizing (or at least it feels like it for some of their styles) but even so, I was ridiculously happy about that.

Anyway, on to catching up!

Kendal: I think you did a good job of deflecting the ex. Hopefully she won't be too irritating in the future.

Amy: I feel exactly the same way about Tony Horton. I love him, but I hate him.

Victoria: Wow, 25 years with the same BFF! That is impressive! My best friend and I have been friends for about that long, maybe a little longer, but there was a period in high school where we weren't very close so our actual time as BFFs is a bit shorter.

LadyG: I hope you enjoy the wedding!

sgc: Way to go on starting C25K! I've had the app installed on my phone for months now but haven't managed to start it yet. Maybe when I finish P90X, although we'll be snowed in by then.

Megan: I'm also eager to hear how your date went! Hope it was fabulous .

Hailie: I worked at summer camp as a teen. I feel your pain about entitled parents of bratty kids. Although I gotta say 99.5% of the kids were angels.

Kerry: It sounds like you had a really fun weekend! I actually haven't done X Stretch yet, might do it this Sunday coming up. Next week is recovery week #1 so I'll definitely be doing it then.

missxlaur: Way to go on almost being done with C25K! As I said above, I've been putting off starting for months now. I might have to do it when I'm done P90X.

Karen: Wow, you're such a great mom inspiring your kid to get more fit. It's something I wish my parents had started with me a little younger than they actually did--by the time they got me into martial arts I'd already had 13 years to emulate their bad habits.

Nava: I agree, the buying of presents as a singleton sucks. Most of my friends these days just do the card thing, and not a lot of my close friends have kids so the presents aren't too expensive, but I remember some pretty nutty Christmases when I was between 18 and 23 or thereabouts.

KatheryneLynne: Pizza is the devil incarnate, I agree. However, homemade pizza is a wonderful thing. Tastes better and the calories are lower! Oh, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Lacey: Woohoo! Two trips to look forward to! *jealous*

Katie: Sounds like the in-law visit was a trial and a half, but I hope you had fun regardless! I kind of agree that everyone who doesn't get married should be entitled to some sort of 'presents' party.