200+ Haulin' Off The Weight

Best Friend brought me some mac and cheese today. I'm SO wishing I hadn't eaten it. *burp* Now, I'm popping Tums like candy.

RainSarah - Yay for new shoes and motivation! Hang in there, we're here for you! I also hear you on wanting the "girls" to shrink... I'm a 16E here, and all you can get in that size are pretty much nanna bras. Nothing nice goes any bigger than a 14D... I long for the day.

Pam - Sounds like an awesome weekend!! Way to go on the burn, and yay for NSVs!!


Sorry to hear everyone's having TOM issues... I don't get a TOM due to being on the Depo-Provera contraceptive injection... pretty awesome.

Thanks for all the compliments on the photos feels good!

Ugh, my final flight last night was delayed... Being just a regional flight it was a tin-can with wings, and all 18 of us on the flight were on the plane and the safety talk had been given and everything... waiting... waiting... nope, can't use that plane. Disembark and try and find another plane we can use.
Arrrrrrrrgh! Just wanted to be home!!

Did get home last night, only ended up being delayed by about an hour, but decided i wasn't going to go to work today... got in too late. Phoned work and explained that my flights had been postponed, and they were really good about it.

By the time i got home though, pizza was it for dinner options... So i'm going to have to officially PASS on weigh-in this week... i'm so pumped with sodium it's not funny!!

But i've just been for a long walk with the Other Half and the pups before he went to work, so it's a good start on the road to recovery. And i'm waiting to hear whether Teags wants to go for a walk this morning also.

It's so nice to be home.
All is good!
:ohwell:

Exercise Advice requested! I have a WII--no xbox or other game systems left since the kids moved out. I like the EA Cardio workouts and also do Wii yoga. any other programs you know of for the Wii?

Working at giving myself at least two very good days before we take off on Wednesday. My usual way would be to start eating anything I want last Friday and then binge all through the vacation.

My goal for vacation is to be sensible. My goal when I get home is to break the cycle of hitting my low weight on Friday and then be back up on Monday.

I keep saying this: but you guys are awesome.

Woo hoo! I will happily take "second" place as it definitely motivates me when I am in that position. I want to be a first place winner all on my own one week. I'm a competitive person and it drives me.

I can thankfully say that I am not on TOM but rather just finished last week. It was my first cycle in 6 months and I was so happy to see it! Only two more cycles and then we start Clomid.

Today was another busy day at school and I am feeling it when I get home and I am STARVING. I am not counting all the walking I am doing as exercise but hopefully soon I will have my pedometer to help me track things.

Have we decided on the next title for September? We are so close to filling up the second thread full of chatter! Keep up the hard work ladies!

Lacey - Doing well! Keep at it and the dog will enjoy walking once again!


Now ladies - I've worked out what i'm going to do about my friend. I'm going to do a 200km walk-a-thon type thing. And i've worked out how you ladies might be able to help...

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/330560-200km-in-september-challenge

A challenge!! Walk/run/ride 200km in September. It would be awesome if you ladies would like to join in, i could use the moral support... it's going to be difficult, but hopefully it will be worth it!!

Haha Amy - I'll be finding people to sponsor me to do it Hopefully we can get some cash together and get her over here safe and sound!!

Needed to add - do not begrudge spending money - I just wish they would make him better. On a more positive note - dropped off his samples and picked up some special dog food and he has eaten - hurrah

I just need to mark where I was when I realized that you all had turned like 3 pages...I get one full night's rest, and I have to spend an hour or so catching up...sheesh

BBL with a proper post

Pam: I used to love hiking, but I haven't been in ages. I have developed a fear of heights in my adulthood that I never had as a child, so I try to stay away from anywhere I may have to look down past my feet. I would so like to do it again though. Maybe when I feel like I can better control my body in case of an...um...slip-up :blushing:

Nava: A pass every once in a while is not a bad thing, so long as you don't do it every week. Sometimes we have to be honest with ourselves before we slip too far in the wrong direction. At least you haven't disappeared on us, as many are wont to do :happy: :flowerforyou: PS: I had mac & Cheese with dinner last night at Panera...soooooo good. Can't do that too often.

Kerry: Your runs absolutely amaze me. I will become a runner one of these years just to feel what you describe On another note...ice cream is ALWAYS good; 47 diet cokes, on the other hand, not so good, especially for the teeth.

Amy: I both love and hate rest days, if that makes sense. My body loves them, which is why I'm taking one today...I'm so sore. My mind says, stop being a wuss. The mind will get over it, just as the body will enjoy it. Also, I hat the idea of tofu...does that make sense. A meat substitute that is not meat is like substituting ice milk for ice cream...that was a bad idea from the start. I will say, however, your description of marinating and broiling did make that salad sound very good! For today, just take it slow; a nice walk will give you some extra calories without over stressing those muscles.

Kristi: Steroids SUCK on many different levels. You can definitely lose it, and I hope you're feeling much better :flowerforyou:

Karen: It's always amazing how some people, even parents, feel like they're either helping or doing you a favor by giving "advice". Sometimes it's just good NOT to say anything. Like you wouldn't be doing whatever it takes to make your baby better without their two cents. I am glad that finally something is working. :flowerforyou:

Sarah: Sodium is my downfall every time. I am way down from where I started, but I'm still over far too often. Imagine my surprise when I first started keeping track and I was over by almost 18,000 that week. Now I'm down to being over ONLY almost 4000 for the week. I'm so sorry that you are sick; that really stinks! :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

Hosanna: Glad that you made it home safely, if a little late. I'm very sorry to hear about your family's friend. If I hear of anything or come up with any ideas, I will surely pass them along. Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with any of the immigration/emigration laws for either of those countries...truth be told, I have a hard enough time keeping up with the bs laws they have in effect here in the US. I pray everything works out.

Jenn: Congrats on your...um...second WINNING place finish this week!! We have lost almost the same amount of weight in total :happy:

Lacey: I'm so glad that you were able to see the positive in that situation. The two dogs we have, that belong to my children, are not walked nearly enough because we aren't home. It's like every weekend is leash training all over again. I have to wrap the leashes around my hand twice to keep them at about 3-4 feet from me or else they are all over the place, and since there are two of them and one of me...well, it makes me crazy. Funny thing is that the smaller of the two is the hardest to control. She literally chokes herself the whole time until she's wheezing as she's flattened out on the ground trying to pull me faster. Stupid dog :noway: I also hope your dad is ok :flowerforyou:

Annette: I know how much we all want the vets to just fix it, the same way we want the docs to just fix it. I then sit back and think how hard it was for my docs to figure out what was wrong with me when I could explain ALL my symptoms, many of which couldn't be seen. I can hardly imagine trying to diagnose problems with a baby or an animal that can't explain anything. My daughter wants to be a zoologist working with large mammals. I don't even want to begin to think what that will be like trying to diagnose an animal that could literally bite off your head just because something hurts. I do hope your doggie gets better.

Ok, an hour later, and I'm finally caught up...unless you all went on a typing spree while I was reading and responding. So, I was absolutely exhausted yesterday from lack of sleep on Sunday night, but I forced myself to go to the gym. I only did half of my normal workout, but it was enough to make me feel better about taking a rest day today and possibly tomorrow. On a positive note, an entire weekend of eating like crap did little to affect the downward movement of the scale, as I am down another 5 pounds as of this morning :drinker: . My weight always goes back up by Friday, so I know my weigh-in then will not look this good, but it feels so good right now :happy:

Got myself up today, did my hair and put on some makeup, cute skinny jeans, wedges and a cute tshirt with earrings. I feel better but still woke up pissy with my husband about last night. This kind of irritation and being pissy for this long over stupid stuff like not cleaning the kitchen? ugh. LOL.

Rikki - Your question about what it is that some people "get" or don't get in regards to weight loss...you've got me. Here a year and maintained my weight just dandy. I can't seem to get it either. I am thinking of even doing maintenance weight for a few months in an attempt to "reset" my metabolism and see if that helps. Who the hell knows. You have to remember that weight loss is about one meal at a time. If you decide to have a brownie, thats okay, two or four or six brownies is another story. And even if you do have too many, you have to learn that you are worth enough to get back on track the next meal and not let it slide into the next day or week or month. Little steps lead to permanent changes I think. Changing mindsets a little a time. You can do this. You can!

Kristina - travel screws me up too. I let it get to me and my weight loss plans for weeks or a month ahead of time sometimes. I think you have some good goals to look forward to, and its nice that they are spaced out like that so you obnly have a portion of time to think about.

Sarah wnt - if you were closer I'd have you show me how to not spend so much money and to use coupons. Maybe when I get back from my trip or something I will head up your way. YEAY for one last day of monsters.

Bobbie- yeay for the loss and good job working out even if your brain was telling you that you don't want to. We should really stop listening to our brains and more to our bodies. Maybe I need to make a little placard for my desk that says that. It woild be a good message to glance at and subliminally take in during the day.

Megan - I hate football. LOL. well I don't hate it, but living in a college town (Uni of Oregon) and Oregon going to the final game last year, well people have been counting down for months now for the first game this Saturday. I dread it. Glad you like it though, makes it easier to listen to all the time when you understand wtf they are talking about.

Annette - I think vets have the pets interest at heart but sometimes its like either poking needles in a haystack or they want to go too far with their treatment. I had one vet tell us one of our dogs had cancer one time...turns out it was freaking hernia that healed itself. Could have spent thousands. Well I certainly hope your poor dog feels better soon, that is scarey.

Amy - if you are that hungry you need to eat girl! Hope you found the happy medium



As for me today...I have a meeting at G's school to see how the montesorri kindergarten program is going to work this year. She did montessori last year for prek but I had assumed she'd go into more traditional settings this year. She flourished so its not a big deal, but they have a Q&A tonight so I am going to go and see what the deal is. So I will be working late until I go to th meeting and probably no working out for me. My thighs are a tad sore..I was running every other tenth of a mile last night until I finally gave up on that with the whole debacle. And I want to see if I can do that again tomorrow..after the first 13-15 minutes. I find my feet are okay if I let them warm up that long before trying to run. Also massaging them with thi sminty body butter after I get out of the shower is helping too.

Amy - My only goal for this trip to Europe is to not eat so much food that I am uncomfortably full and miserable. To taste what I want but not eat the bakery. I think all the walking will negate the food. And I will try to eat healthy..but who knows when I will get to go back, so if I see a crusty croissant, I'm having it.

Rikki-I have to 2nd what Pam & Amy said. It's not about ALL or NOTHING. It's about having what you want, when you want it, but making sure it's just some.
A trick I read that's helped me a little (sometimes doesn't) is to get out a serving of what I want. Look at it, think about it. How will it taste? How does it smell? How will it feel in my mouth? Then take a bite...don't swallow...chew, or savor for a moment. Then swallow. Then put down the food/fork/spoon, etc. How was it? Did it taste as good as you thought it would? Did it feel like you thought it would in your mouth? Repeat this for EVERY bite. Surprisingly, sometimes, after 2-3 bites, your craving is gone.
It's not fool-proof. And the fact I only get out a serving & put the rest away is all that has saved me from binging sometimes. Note I said sometimes. There's times I have to force myself to get up & even just do some housecleaning or play with my kids, just to burn the extra calories for whatever I know I snacked on. And for the past 2 months...I've been stuck. Yes, I made AWESOME progress before, & I'm proud of me, but I'm stuck now & frustrated. I want it to be easy like it was before. I'm a bit like you. I've never been the skinny girl. I was always the "fat" (but pretty) friend (cause face it, you're gorgeous!!). Every little bit helps. Every meal, every snack, until it's habit...which it's still not a habit for me. So I'll keep going if you do! K? *hugs*

Lacey-hope the dog walking gets easier soon! And that something works out with taking G to work! Cooped up kids are ticking time bombs of fun! )

Amy-yay for stitches! NOT! Don't over work yourself & if you're THAT hungry, eat something! I'm sure you're hydrated enough for it to not be that. And your body is doing a lot of healing. Not sure that it burns calories per se, but I'm sure it needs a bit of extra food or something to rebuild what it's fixing up!

Pam-my body does the same thing! I think it's flushing all the crap out of us with the healthy junk. B/C if I stick to healthy for a few days...I'm OK. It's after a bit of crap, then back to healthy, that I have the issues. At least it was just the lid of the blender & not something that caused injury! Ouch!

Sarah-WnT-glad you're feeling better!! Maybe w/no monsters you can get some emotional rest too!!

Annette-hope the dog is better soon!!

Bobbie-yay for loss!

Kerry-yay for loss too, even if post-TOM! Hope I can get my scale to do that next week! LOL!

Kristina-even the girls at work are all lined up with me for TOM! It's getting kinda creepy! Makes me feel sorry for the men around here! LOL!

Welcome to the one new person...I don't remember your name, I just know you were on the other page, so jump right on in with the rest of us!

And, I think that's it. If I missed you, I'm sorry!

We're supposedly going to get some paperwork on the house today. That's what the realtor said. Not holding my breath here, but I really would like to be able to paint or something this weekend. BUT, I do have Saturday planned out for packing up at least. ) Mellie's got a sitter lined up, a ride for Aaron to go to ball practice, & Casey will be put to work! He just doesn't know it yet. He'll figure it out when Grannie shows up. My mom is a work horse...but in a good way. She's nice about it, but won't let me slack off either. I'm odd. I'm lazy when it comes to motivating myself to do stuff, but if someone is there to help me, I can NOT watch them work. I HAVE to help! Even if I end up doing most of the work.

On a good note...I RAN last night! Back to it. I backed up a couple of work-outs, figuring I wouldn't be at the same place I was with 2 weeks "off." I wasn't even at that point. I was DYING by the time I finished. BUT, I finished. I ran all of the runs. Some of them were VERY slow jogs, but I did it. And it worked out some of the leg soreness from kickball, so bonus for me!

And I was able to change Melodie this morning with no major physical fight! She cried, and stiffened up, but I could do it w/out half sitting on her or having Doug hold her! So it's an improvement! And Doug says she's been easier for him today too. Yay! There's hope!

OK, I've got half an hour of work left then off to parent night at the school to meet the teachers! Yay! TTYL!

Hey everyone!

I'm totally pooped. I've had a shocker at work today... i'm so glad i walked to and from, otherwise i wouldn't have got any exercise in at all!! well, apart from the obscene amount of running around i do at work every freakin' day.

AND to make EVERYTHING worse, i requested next friday-sunday off at work so that i could go to adelaide with my man for the Royal Show - a carnival.

Oh, i GOT friday-sunday off... BUT i have been rostered for ONE night shift... Thursday night. So i don't finish until 0700 Friday morning.

Well, THAT ain't happening, because the show is Friday.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!

Stupid work.

Sorry ladies, that's all i've got for now. Hope you're all having a better day than me!