200+ Haulin' Off The Weight

Amy - thanks for that. I will go tonight and walk/run just for you. I'd like to get a tattoo that says "there is no try, only do".

I made the long talked about overly procrastinated appointments for both a physical with my regular Md and then the annual exam with my OB if the Md doesn't cover it. First appt is on the 9th. So I am making a list on my phone of things I want to discuss with her.. like the fact that two plus weeks of the month I feel like a cloud is over my head, exhausted, no sex drive, weight loss issues, etc.
I'm wearing my BMF today and am simply going to shoot for a 500 calorie defict per day through food and exercise until my trip.

Wiggle - yeay for sticking up for yourself and your kid to your SIL. It takes a lot for me to get to that point too, but man when I do? Watch. Out.

Kristina - I cringe at hearing about peoples flights canceled. I had that happen once and it was such a flucking nightmare..I dread anything like that happening when I am in Europe. Knock on wood and whatever else I need to do to prevent it. Pray, rub the rabbits foot, etc. Yeay for more dresses coming in. I am sure you will find one!

Katie - enjoy your computer time

Welcome Jen, jump right in!

Laura - nice to hear from you again You can get back on track. Do it with me.

Sarah (WnT), I understand how shocking it could be for him. I have family in London that I love, but he seriously would have nobody but me and no job. He even said "I'll just have to come to terms with being your b**h for a while." lol

We've already discussed options though, like if I go in October, he'd stay here till New Years to save up some extra money before having to quit his job and such... He keeps reading websites about how much more difficult it is there v. the US and every time he tells me about it I'm like "are you having second thoughts?" and he says "no. I still want to go to england and marry you and have babies." :laugh: It's reassuring.

Nava - my husband was a "house husband" for 3 years while I worked as a traveling therapist. He did all the cleaning, cooking and shopping. We enjoyed our free evenings and weekends to site see. I hope it all works out so you can go. It will be quite the adventure for both of you.

DAMNIT!!! I've been sitting here for an hour writing a post and the internet cut out just as i was posting it!! :explode:

So here's the abridged version that i can remember:

Kendal - YAY for a smaller bill! That must make you feel a little more relaxed!

Nava - How exciting about the London possibility. It's so awesome that Joe is supporting you! I can't wait to hear how this unfolds!

Jenn - Welcome! These girls are awesome. I've only been here since the start of this challenge, and i don't know where i'd be without them!

Katie - Welcome back!!

Karen - So glad to hear Mellie is getting better!

Laura - You're still so close to Onederland! Hang in there!

I'm having a lovely time with my parents. I took their daft dog out for a walk yesterday, and got rather lost... so was walking 30 mins longer than expected.
Mum and i are going down to Hobart thursday and Friday, and then all three of us are going away for the weekend and i'm heading home probably Monday.

Thank you all so much for your support... This has been really hard, but now things are looking up again. I don't reckon there was ever a chance we were going to give up - as mum said, if we hadn't discovered these issues until we were married, giving up wouldn't be an option. We already have a commitment to one another, and we have a life together and a future planned - We're already married in every way except the official piece of paper. So we work through it, and we come out stronger on the other side.

I'm looking forward to seeing my man and my pups again!

Okay 3.3 miles in 54 minutes, food logged, exercise logged and now working on making sure I am chugging enough water tonight. Oh and I ices my feet with the frozen water bottle and am getting ready to massage some minty lotion into them. Gotta take care of the feets since my trip is less than a month away.

Kendal I hate days like that when sodium is so high.

Hosanna glad to hear you are having a good time. As long as you know your marriage will have ups and Diana sn major ups and downs and lotsa goodtimes in between you will be ok. I think people have problems when their idea of marriage isn't living up to what it's really like.

Jeff and Gracie are watching Scott Pilgrim movie. It's sooo effing stupid. But they love it. I will go read more of the new Terry g
Goodkind book. Yeay!

Oh and I made the bomb chicken enchilada soup I found on foodgawker today. It was awesome!

this week's chart: (name/ starting/last week/this week)

Kristina 190.4 191.2 PASS
Victoria 194 192 194 (+2.0)
Kendal 212.6 212.4 pass
Lacey 211.6 Pass 210.6 (?)
Amy 195 193.6 191 (-2.4)
Sarah 208.6 204 204.8 (+0.8)
Kerry 173.9 169 174.4 (+5.4) <-you'll be back down next week!
Hailie 249.8 251.8 250.7 (-1.1)
Karen 220 215.2 218 (+2.8)
Nava 223 223 226.2 (-0.8)
mrslrichard(laura) 203 203 203 (0)
megruder (katie) 235.4 233.8 234.2 (+0.4)
gonnadoitjenn 310.4 308.9 310.1 (+1.2)
Lauren 177.2 175.2 pass
Pam 221.2 219.4 218.8 (-0.6)
wigglentwink 195.7 ? 191.2 (?)
silver02bullet 210.8 210.4 208.8 (-1.6)
Bobbie (k2quiere) 333.6 329.6 323.2 (-6.4)
Hosanna (babyworms) 220 217.2 216.1 (-1.1)
ladyg0915 276 281 274 (-7.0)
Sarah (rainvc) 242 241.2 237 (-3.8)
Stacey (sgc2005) 211 208.6 pass
qofsheba 200 197 197.5 (+0.5)

This week's winner? ladyg0915 with 7 pounds lost! Bobbie is a close second with 6.4. Wowsas, ladies!

Holey Moley, Lady G and Bobbie!!! Great work everyone!! I am so impressed with this group!!

Hosanna - I feel you on trying to eat well while working night shift. I recently got off the night shift and the only reason snacking wasn't a problem was I wasn't allowed to leave my room/desk. So, if I didn't bring it I didn't eat it. It did make it difficult if I forgot food. Woohoo - someone else that calls them cheese toasties!!! People think I'm a freak when I a grilled cheese a cheese toastie. I'm glad to hear things are on the mend with the hubby-to-be.

Kerry - I love the husband's sleep talking. The wife does it as well but it's usually about something she can't find or work stuff and doesn't entirely make sense. I, too, try talking to her and eventually she wakes up after I start laughing my head off.

Kendal - The doctor's bills can really add up. Last year the wife had to do some physical therapy and the facility didn't keep track of the number of visits and one of them didn't get covered by the doctor's order so we were charged for the full price of like $600 for 30 min. We are still paying on that and several other doctors and hospital bills. I would call the doctors' offices and talk to them. Usually they are really understanding and will work with you on a payment plan.

Rikki - ((HUGS)) I've dealt with depression AND anxiety in the past and I know how frustratingly hopeless things can seem sometimes. Just remember that we are all here for you and feel free to vent any feelings you are having. I'm dealing with my own set of mental health problems and these ladies have been wonderfully supportive.

Karen - Woohoo on the house! I'm glad to hear that Mellie's problem isn't serious and seems to have a fair easy fix.

Amy - All the dresses are gorgeous. I especially like the purple one. Recently I've been thinking about purchasing a petticoat, but I need a dress to wear it under first. Just curious... where did you live in Kansas? WTG on weighing less than The Hubbs!

Megan - Way to go on not eating the donuts last week!

Hailie - I'm sorry to hear things are not going well with your mom. My mom and I didn't always get along while I was living at home. I hope that you are able to find some sort of a middle ground with her.

qofsheba - Don't get discouraged. Sometimes it takes the body a bit to figure out what is going on and sometimes the body doesn't respond as quickly as we would like. I've found that my body "holds on to" weight for about 2 weeks out of each month. It sucks when I don't see a drop but I know that if I do what I know works my body will catch up with itself. Just keep at it.

Sarah (thes) - I think that maintenance is smart if there are other things to worry about. I hope that everything is okay and know that you are in our thoughts.

Lacey - I can definitely see a difference between the then and now pics. Way to go! I love the dresses.

Nava - Fingers crossed that the England job works out! That would be totally awesome!

I know it's almost a week later, but I just had to add my top 5 favorite foods:
1. Chocolate (in just about any form, also the darker the better)
2. Steak (the rarer the better)
3. Homemade tacos with chips and salsa
4. Cold Stone Creamery Ice Cream (especially the German-chokolatekake)
5. Yeasty, white breads


OMG - I've sat here for six hours and my eyes are blurry from trying to read over 10 pages of posts. I tried to respond to some, but I gave out after a little while. I finally quit reading halfway down page 7, everything was running together. I haven't been up this late in a month and I now remember why I quit this job... It sucks! Every 15-20 minutes for the past 7 hours I have received an automated call (with an extremely long delay to begin playback) telling me the "Cancer Care Center Server Room temperature is ___ degrees" followed by a request to enter a PIN number to acknowledge I've received the call but I have no PIN number so IT KEEPS CALLING ME. Plus, the temperature keeps going up and the UNBELIEVABLY stupid and extremely obnoxious maintenance guy keeps calling me and asking me if the temperature that I texted him was correct. No dumbass I just made it up. WTF he is calling me from the frigging server room. I'm in a completely different building. ACK! Really, REALLY! This is the level of stupidity I was dealing with and is the exact reason why I left. Why, oh why, did I agree to work FIVE days in the next week? *facepalm* Plus, there are four night shifts on the next schedule that my boss has posted as covered, but there is no name next to those shifts. Oh, did I mention that the automated message couldn't decide whether it wanted to report temperatures in Celsius or Fahrenheit? This place is just ROYALLY f-ed up. And, I need to shut up because I'm extremely tired and I'm rambling.

Katie~ Thank you. My husband suffers from PTSD as well so we are working through a lot of emotions together. He finally knows how I feel sometimes as far as not being able to control your anger or sadness. I hate that he does know, but at least he now has an empathy that he never would've had.

WHOOO HOOOO for all that lost. Now please keep in mind that I gained most of that 7 lbs while on vacation so I busted butt to get it off when I got home. In reality, it's probably a 2 lb lost.

In other news, we went to Red Lobster last night and I have done the best yet. I only had half of a cheddar biscut, a salad, and 6 fried shrimp, and maybe a 1/4 cup of the shrimp linguine (sp). I gave my potato and my shrimp scampi to my husband (I usually do.) I only went over 130 cals for the day and If I don't eat my excersize calories for today, it should all even out....right?

My son has his orientation tonight and I'm already a hot mess about it. I am not worried about him. He is very loving, adaptable, and bright. I am having a hard time letting my baby boy be a young man. He is what changed my life and he will never understand that until he has kids of his own......OMG......if I ever let him out of my house!


I hope all of you ladies have an amazing day and keep on track with your goals. Take it little by little!! We can do it. By this time next year, we will be hot to trot and loving it!

this week's chart: (name/ starting/last week/this week)

Nava 223 223 226.2 (-0.8)

TEEHEE!

Congrats on all of the losses!

Yesterday I ate 2035 calories and exercised 322 calories, so my net was 1713. According to all of the "how many calories should I eat to lose weight" calculators I've tried (like this one: http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm), I'm supposed to try to eat 1700 - 1800 calories per day, but I always find that hard to do, especially when I exercise. Yesterday I actually did it and the foods I ate were healthy and yummy, but it felt like A LOT of food to me. Guess what? I got on the scale this morning and it said I'd lost another pound! What?! Even though I've seen it happen to me more than once, I still can't seem to wrap my brain around the fact that eating more can mean losing more. It just seems wacky! I'll take it though. Now I'm going to try not to weigh myself again until my weigh-in day.

This might seem like a crazy question, but what would you guys do in this situation -- it's evening, after dinner, and you're gearing up to exercise for the first time that day. Then you realize that you haven't eaten much that day, so if you exercise you will be way low in calories and you know you're not going to want to eat anything after you work out. Do you work out anyway? This has happened to me a couple of times, and sometimes I wind up not working out because I don't want my net to be super low (if my net goes too much under 1500 my loss seems to stall). It seems crazy to skip exercise due to low calories though! What would you do? Go ahead and exercise and "make up for it" by eating more calories the next day?

Morning ladies. Check in for yesterday: 2944burn/2292ate/652 deficit, and 10955 steps. I wore the thing on my arm when I slept and worked out and just wore it down on my leg when I was at work. Will do the same today.

I kept waking up from a headache all night and still have it, so chugged three advil and am working with the lights off.

I'm going out to lunch with Jeff today at a bar that has super good food. Some healthy and some not. Since my cal intake needs to be around 2300 I'm going to go middle of the road on the healthyness of it and enjoy it.

I will get back on here later and reply..

Chobani vanilla Greek yogurt, a banana and 1/2 serving natural peanut butter 285 cals and a delicious high protein breakfast.

This sounds SOOO good!

Kendal - my mom does Weight Watchers, and it seems to work for her. But she goes on and off in cycles. And she never exercises. This week we were out shopping and she had my dad drop her off at the door of every store we went to. I know she just feels overwhelmed by the idea of working out. Liek she says "I will go to the gym with you, but I can't keep up with you." I tell her its not about keeping up with anyone. Just do what you can. Or I asked her to go in the morning with me (at 5 am) and she said that wasn't enough time for her to get up and have coffee. I told her drinking coffee right before a workout would probably make her queasy anyway. She said if she didn't drink the coffee, she'd have no energy to workout! Ugh! But I'm glad she is trying and that she is willing to spend time with me at the gym. I'm kind of excited about it!

Amy: I can sympathize with you. My mother suffers from severe migraines. They put her out of commission for days, literally. I have always suspected that the 2+ pots of coffee she drinks a day may have something to do with it...