Dropping pounds with inspiring pals *CLOSED GROUP*

ADTeachTX - here's the link to the onion rings: http://www.skinnytaste.com/2011/03/low-fat-baked-onion-rings.html
I thought they were good, but not wowee. So glad you had a great day!

Laura - feel better soon! You did great today anyway. Perseverance-girl! Sounds like a superhero, a bit? Yeah?

A rainy afternoon/evening cheated me out of my walk home from work and my bike ride. My gym is actually closed for renovations this week, so no stationary-bike option for me. I'm gonna have to make it up the hard way to meet my 150 mile challenge for the month. I did some elaborate cooking instead of working out at home (which was gratifying, actually), then sat on my duff and got my homework done for class tomorrow.

Still trying to figure out how to get some exercise in tomorrow - I need to work early to finish a project, and school until 9:30pm. Maybe a bit when I get home...? I'm usually pretty wiped out though. If you've got a little spare energy tomorrow, kindly send it my way! LOL

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I need sex!!!!!!!! This never ending TOM is killing my sex life. It has been over three weeks. I'm moody and grumpy and depressed and just feel like UGH!!!!!!!!! My husband isn't so happy about it either!!!! But he is the one that wont touch me when there is even a hint of blood! I'm so frustrated!!!! Sorry you all didn't need to know that but UGH it is really messing with me!

3 weeks?! :noway: :sick: I would be going crazy too... and my fiance is like your husband when it comes to that.
Have you gone to the doctor yet?? You should get in there asap if you haven't already.

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I need sex!!!!!!!! This never ending TOM is killing my sex life. It has been over three weeks. I'm moody and grumpy and depressed and just feel like UGH!!!!!!!!! My husband isn't so happy about it either!!!! But he is the one that wont touch me when there is even a hint of blood! I'm so frustrated!!!! Sorry you all didn't need to know that but UGH it is really messing with me!

3 weeks?! :noway: :sick: I would be going crazy too... and my fiance is like your husband when it comes to that.
Have you gone to the doctor yet?? You should get in there asap if you haven't already.

Poor Renee'! I would totally be going nuts-o too! Isn't if funny how Society views a woman's wants/need for sex as somewhat bad? Ahh... Double Standards... Good luck and here's wishing a stoppage of AF

NaeSUe, What did you find out from your DR? My 17 day period finally ended, and my dr appt. got reshceduled to Oct. 3 so I have to play the waiting game to ask questions.....Any news?

Oh and to the group.....I broke down and am letting myself eat some pizza today....BUT I planned out my entire day around it so I can have 2 slices and a breadstick....lol which means salad for lunch and sugar free jello for a snack later tonight. Along with my usual workout. It's worth it to just get a taste of it now and then! Moderation...right? (even though im sure it's not going to help my PCOS)

You're right! Moderation is the way to go! At least for me if I go totally into "avoiding" everything bad, I will slip and fall and do what Christina confessed, go buy every craving food and eat it ALL in one sitting! :frown: :embarassed:

hahaha....nice........I didn't even have to drive anywhere today.........my husband brought home a whole bag of hersheys snack size chocolate bars..................ughhhhhhhhhhh why!!!!!!!! I think he likes me being fat.........lol Well I DONT! GRR!
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Well...last night I managed to control myself enough to not drive anywhere...however I did find a hidden stash of kit-kats in the freezer (don't know how long those were there for)....and I broke into the baking chocolate chips in the deep freezer...*sigh*. All together ate almost 500 calories in candy! :sad: I guess on the plus side, my total calories were still under what MFP has me at for maintenance, and I did exercise yesterday. Maybe it will cancel out my emotional breakdown?

Will just have to move on...but right before I'm supposed to weigh-in! *Bangs head against desk* Just hoping all my efforts the last two weeks kick in...or a miracle happens...I'll take either....

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Well my doc who is a General Practioner told me that it was probably the new birth control. And that it just wasn't working for my body so he wrote me a script for my old stand by BC that I have been on for years and has worked wonderfully well. Well it has been almost a week on it and still no end in sight if by Monday it doesn't stop I'm going to ask to be refered to an OB. On a plus side it isn't really flowing anymore just back to all the blood clots like every time I pee! THis is how it started out more then 3 weeks ago so hopefully that means it is on its way out.

Cooked a beautiful Peruvian dinner tonight for a group of college kids and it was a hit!!!!! Dinner ended up being about 800 and some odd calories but with the 3 hours straight of cooking I had burned enough cals it was alright.

To all of you who are struggling with late night emotional junk food runs I totally understand there are times when I am all depressed or emotional for one reason or another that I will get a craving for something in paticular and the only way to get rid of it is to give in to it. No amount of healthy snacks or ignoring it helps. It will even keep me up at night if I don't give in to the craving. The latest craving I had was for something I used to eat at college a lot and that was the seasoned bread sticks from Pizza hut with Cheese sauce. We had a pizza hut express on campus and they sold the bread sticks with either pizza sauce or cheese sauce and I always got the cheese sauce. I bought the closest thing I could find to it, garlic bread sticks in the frozen section and Cheese whiz. It worked for the craving but not so much for the food diary for the day. ANyway I guess what I am trying to say here is that I feel for you. I try really hard to crave healthy things like cottage cheese with fruit and sometimes it works but sometimes I really need that super sweet or super salty.

Learning: I'm so sorry about the money situation. Was it a mistake the charges on your bank account? Are there any Aldi's or Trader Joes or Save a lot grocery store by you? They usually have good deals with Groceries. Also check the papers for coupons it can help the costs especially if the items are already on sale. Also making a plan on what you are going to cook for the week and try to utilize anything and everything you still have in the house so you don't have to get much in the way of groceries. Also you could call your water, and Electricity companies and see if they have equal payment programs that you can get into. We have it basically they look at your usage for the previous year and they average out your monthly payments and you pay the same amount every month regardless of the actual bill and once the year is up you will either get a bill for the difference or a credit for the difference and they will reevaluate your monthly costs and bill for the next year. Just some suggestions from someone who learned how to STRETCH a dollar when I was a single mom.

Keep up the awesome work everyone you are doing so good I can't wait to see all the weigh ins for this next week!

@Learning - you don't know how many times that happens to me! My hubby runs a bunch of websites, and he pays the hosting through paypal. He always forgets to tell me when a domain needs to be renewed and out comes the charges. He also has a bad habit of using my atm card and not telling me.......grrr....... Save a Lot saves me in a pinch like that. Hope you have those near you.

Does anyone here coupon? I have a few facebook friends that post their "hauls." They show a picture of a table full of groceries...cereal, milk, juices, deoderant, etc, etc and say something like $189 in groceries, with coupons saved $157, total cost is $32. It drives me bonkers that they can do that - I just don't have the time or patience to cut coupons, find out where the sales are, shop multiple places, but would still love to learn....I imagine it takes a ton of time!

Last night was crazy! Got out of work at 5pm, had to get myself and my kids ready and to practice by 5:30pm - practice until 7:30. My hubby took my oldest son to his open house, met them there at 7:45 and had to go to the 8th grade trip parent info meeting at 8:00. Got home at 8:30 - my husband left the open house to start dinner so I could take notes at the meeting. We had kraft mac and cheese last night - ugh! My leftovers had been depleted by my son.....oy! Eating dinner from 8:30 - 9:00pm with the kids and they still had homework, I'm exhausted today!

I also had some varsity cheerleader helpers last night - they warmed up the girls for me - as I was looking for new ideas for stretches. Well, they were doing this great hamstring stretch, then boom! Down they went into a split. I figured - heck - I'm down this far already - let's see if I can do this! Well - I did it! Both legs (right leg out front , then left leg)! Didn't hold the position for very long tho! LOL...feeling it a little today in my right hamstring...but I'm happy I still have it! LOL!

I'm here with my weekly weigh in!! I'm down 1.8 pounds, I'm at 256.8lbs.

Also it's Fitness Friday!! What I do is a set of rotations I was given by my PT. He has me walk for 5 minutes at about 3.0mph or more then I go do a set on a machine (arms on Monday and Wednesday and legs on Friday) then I go back on the treadmill for a minute at the same speed, then back to a machine and back and forth until my sets are done. Then I go ride the stationary bike for as long as I can on Mondays and Wednesdays (I go early and try to work out as much as I can before my first class) Lately I've been biking for 30-35 minutes, but only because I have to get off and go to class... If I didn't have to do that, I'm sure I'd go for an hour or more. it's fun! I love it and so far I'm not bored... I've been doing it for a really long time too!

***** ************************** Need your weigh-ins for this week ***********************************************

Hey everybody. Please post your weigh-in for this week between Friday & Monday (Monday before noon please).

Also, Thanks to Nikki we also have this nifty chart that anyone can enter data in. You put in how much you lost and it will automatically update your weight and everything. Pretty neat right?

So just follow this link, and you can enter this weeks weigh in:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnInOlpiuL1mdC1lU1U5aWloS256ei16c3lPX2Q1UWc&hl=en_US


:embarassed: On a side note...some of you who gave me original weights with a . after them (like .6 .2 etc) might need to adjust your starting weight. When I get a chance I'll go back through the posts. My original chart rounded all the numbers.

Google docs - brilliant idea, Nikki! I adjusted my start weight, put this week's weight into current weight. Wasn't sure what to do with the Week 1 +/- column tho...is a formula going to go in there. If there is, is the +/- from week to week?

Hi all, I'm down 3 lbs this week to 222. I can't wait til next week to see how much I've gained as I have a few events to go to this week and it all revolves around food and drinks. I'm ok with it as there will always be times that life and fun has to come first and then jump back on the wagon. How's everyone doing on the weekly challenge? Keeping up the 30 minutes of exercise?
I have a suggestion for a weekly challenge, don't check the scale. I've been seeing that alot of us (yes, me included) are checking the scale way more than we should. Let's focus on how we feel for a week that isn't measured by what some piece of equipment says we should be feeling. Let's do the weigh in a the beginning, and not weigh in until the next time we are SCHEDULED to weigh in. That's just a suggestion.

Does anyone here coupon? I have a few facebook friends that post their "hauls." They show a picture of a table full of groceries...cereal, milk, juices, deoderant, etc, etc and say something like $189 in groceries, with coupons saved $157, total cost is $32. It drives me bonkers that they can do that - I just don't have the time or patience to cut coupons, find out where the sales are, shop multiple places, but would still love to learn....I imagine it takes a ton of time!

I coupon! I was getting really good at it, then I decided to make a website and share my knowledge which caused me to burn out on wanting to coupon so fast. So I quit doing the website and just now getting my couponing mojo back. :laugh: :laugh:

It really doesn't take that much time, and I only shop at one store. I picked the one with the best options (they make all coupons worth $1 and took competitor coupons too.... but they got rid of that and it looks like they will be taking away the $1 coupon promo soon so I'm gonna have to switch to another store). There are so many website/blogs out there that you really wouldn't have to look at the sales flyer. They post the great deals by store and do match-ups with the sales price and even tell you what coupons to use and where they came from. You could just keep a supply of the sunday paper coupon inserts and then cut the ones you'll need for the week (so if the blog says its from 8/21 paper you just grab the inserts from that day, find your coupon & clip it). You can also print coupons off of sites like coupons.com and a lot of stores have digital ones you load straight onto your store loyalty card and they come off when you scan your card at checkout. If you can dedicate 30 minutes or so a week you can save a good chunk on groceries.

Hia all 225 now, loss of 1 lb, did ok, but really want more loss, stupid greedy ha! Never mind, staying at it and as someone says 1 lb a week is 52 in a year!!!

Well... I got my paycheck today and checked my bank account online to find out some of my fiance's stuff (for his websites) charged me and now my account is negative + overdraft fees. So instead of my normal paycheck amount I'm left with about $200 to last for the next week, and I need groceries, kitty food, electricity, gas, and I desperately need to pay down my water bill before we get shut off. I have no freakin clue how to make this stretch and I'm so overwhelmed and frustrated. I just want to drown myself in a bucket of ice cream right now - which wouldn't help the money situation since I'd have to buy the ice cream to drown in! Blah!

I'm gonna try my best to not go overboard tonight in calories. Why is it anytime something like this happens I immediately just want to turn to comfort foods? I hate that.

Thanks for letting me vent.

honey i feel you i am in the same boati forgot about one bill coming in and because i had 6 smaller things come in i got 180 in overdraft fees my husband got paid today and our account is still negative hints the very bad depressing day yesterday now today my sister is making me crazy and i wanna punch her in the face!! and i just ate a piece of chocolate cake it was good but bad indulgence!!!

***** ************************** Need your weigh-ins for this week ***********************************************

Hey everybody. Please post your weigh-in for this week between Friday & Monday (Monday before noon please).

Also, Thanks to Nikki we also have this nifty chart that anyone can enter data in. You put in how much you lost and it will automatically update your weight and everything. Pretty neat right?

So just follow this link, and you can enter this weeks weigh in:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnInOlpiuL1mdC1lU1U5aWloS256ei16c3lPX2Q1UWc&hl=en_US


:embarassed: On a side note...some of you who gave me original weights with a . after them (like .6 .2 etc) might need to adjust your starting weight. When I get a chance I'll go back through the posts. My original chart rounded all the numbers.

This is totally awesome!! Thank you Nikki!!