200+ Hot For Halloween!

Hi ladies! Super busy but wanted to get my weigh in posted ...
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Okay will catch up later tonight - hope you lovelies are doing well and having a happy Monday!

Pam...from your lips to God's ears...I want that preg. bug, send it up my way.

Jessie, My friend that suggested Walking Dead also recommended Fido, but I haven't seen it yet. As for this season of WD, I DVR'ed the episode, but i haven't had an opportunity to watch it yet. I'll probably do that tonight after I get home from the store. I also need to watch last weeks episode of Terra Nova. I would be lost without my DVR.

I found some recipies for Slow Cooker Black Bean Chicken and BBQ pulled Pork. I can't wait to try them out. I'm planning on trying to use my Slow Cooker every day this week to see if that helps on the eating healthier of an evening front. Today's menu is a pot roast surprise. The surprise is the portabello mushroom I covertly diced up this morning--to hide from my anti-fungus husband. :happy: I'll let you know if I get caught. My hope is that they will have disolved enough that he won't be able to identify them, but not so much to as ruin the dish.

-Katheryne

OMG...So, yeah, I was supposed to come back on Saturday and post a response to the myriad of postings you all have made, an, well, I obviously didn't get that done, and now I can't even find my last posting. Hmmm...Since we are on Page 12, I will split the difference and start on Page 6 with...

Kerry: I like to think I'm no longer a newbie, but I can understand the feeling of wanting to close the group. We've had to do that on another thread, and I feel so much better about being able to keep up with what's going on. I think it gets to the point where it's not about exclusion, but rather about being able to give everyone the full attention you'd like to.

Hallie: I've been hiatus from the thread, but I feel so much better about life reading your posts...you make me smile, always! I'm still trying to decide when to buy new clothes. I think I'm going to wait until I'm completely in a new size, as in the new size is not snug, or maybe I'll wait until the ones I have now just literally fall off! OAN: I think it's part of the mom gene that says we have to get on our children about spending money once they start having their own money. I have spoiled my children, but now that they are at college, I am constantly telling them that they need to watch how they're spending. It was like an overnight change...sorry! Again OAN: I second Katheryne's thought to check the syllabus. There is usually nothing that says anything about letter spacing; don't do it too much, but a tiny bit can make a different with 1-inch margins around.

Kendal: Winter Onederland sounds like a great Christmas Gift to self :-)

Amy: I know I'm way late, but I do hope you're feeling better! How does one's dogs also get stomach illnesses with you? UGH!!!

Nava: The name for the challenge sounds perfect to me...needless to say, I have some stuffing to get rid of. Since I'm pretty frivolous with clothes, and I'm hoping not to stay in them too long, I shop at Cato. The price is just right, and they have some cute stuff. I won't say it all stands up, but as often as I get tired of clothes (as in only wearing once and then it sits in the closet), Cato works for me.

Lacey: Octopus and Fava Beans??? My tummy just turned...lol I've been measured for a bra, but they always measure me as a D. My breasts must be weird because any Ds with any kind of padding leave me a ton of space, like I'm wearing balloons on my chest or the plain lace ones bunch up and pucker like they're huge. I have to wear a C, even if I have some spillage...I know, not attractive.

Victoria: I have never been able to get into books on tape; I so have to have a book in my hand and see the words...I'm such a nerd.

Katheryne: Ooh have I got a story about those little knit caps. Being from NJ, we call them stocking caps or skullies. So, I moved to NC and worked in a home for severely mentally disable adults. One day, as we're getting ready to leave the house, this 60 year old man starts yelling at me that he needs to get his tobogan, and I'm like "WHAT???" And he keeps yelling that he has to get his tobogan out of his room. So, I'm literally dumfounded trying to figure out why in the hell he 1) needs a sled to go to "work with and 2) keeps a sled in his room. Finally my coworker says, "Oh just let him go get it." Well, he comes from the back of the house with this skully in his hand and says, with the biggest grin, "I got my tobogan now." I still SMH at that name.

Hosanna: I hope you are feeling much better also. What happened, I go away and everyone gets sick?

Jessi: I completed the free versions of all 3 Angry Birds games in less than one day...I have no life, really.

Sarah (WnT): Hot Buttered Run??? That sounds like fun even if I'm not yet a runner :-) Oh yeah, the whole marathon and yoga thing just makes you absolutely AMAZING!!!

Pam: Water Zumba?? Yep, I would have to try that too, if my gym had it, which they don't YET...maybe I need to put a bug in someone's ear.

Megan: Funnel Cakes are the ONLY fair food that I eat, and the fact that I can now get them just about anywhere makes them even better...if that can be acceptable on a weightloss site ;-)

Tasha: I'm with the hubby, I can't consider Subway or Pizza as fast food; I don't know why, but I can't. Maybe because it's too hard to eat a sub while driving, so the drive-thru really doesn't count for me, and I really only like NY style pizza, so it's either an eat-in or carry out type of thing. Some people are just really ignorant, but try to mask it by saying they're doing "good" things for others. Like my uncle saying he's not racist because at some point in his life he had black and jewish friends and he has spoken to my Mexican friends.

Ok, so I've now made it to page 9, but I'm afraid if I wait any longer, I'll lose all of it, so here it's posted. I'll be reading through the rest between tonight and tomorrow, so I can be fully caught up.

Now for my apology for disappearing. I just really got i a rut last week and while I hadn't given up on the weight-loss thing, I just didn't want to take anything seriously, so I didn't come onto any serious threads. Actually, I was being a total goof everywhere, not working out, not caring what I ate (although I did log everything), and it took until Friday for me to come back to my senses. Then I came in here to check on you girls and got overwhelmed with how far behind I was, so I kept putting off my posts. No more...I'm back, and all's well with the world.

Oh yeah, and I finally dipped under 300lbs for the first time in a couple of years. 8 more pounds and I will be at my lowest in 9 years. All these mini-goals for going down are related to how I gained the weight. Yep, life is pretty good :-)

Amy - Your program is set to finish the day after my wedding Yay for minimal holiday issues. Sorry you're still feeling gross!

Pam - I get the "corporate" rate because i work for the hospital, which is awesome because the only thing i've used so far is the treadmill, but tomorrow i have my appointment to put my program together for weights training. That was the main reason i joined again - to get the calorie burn from resistance training. The treadmill for c25k is just a bonus!! We're so excited about buying a house. I have been brought up as a renovator, and i can't WAIT to be able to renovate my OWN house!!
Also, i hope that this 'pregnancy bug' of which you speak isn't some sort of super-bug that laughs at super-effective contraception... ok, now i'm nervous about my appointment to get mny bloodwork...

Hailie - Spot on sweetie, i'm a nurse I love it most of the time, but i'd be happier if i were able to work in a field of nursing i have a real passion for. One day! And WOOO for possibly having a SO soon! Every experience we have in life adds up to make us the people we are, just enjoy the ride!

Katheryne - I'm so glad i'm not the only one who's adopting the "small town" mindset!

Victoria - Trust me - I can not BELIEVE how fast time seems to be flying!! I'm so excited!!

Jessi - I keep a couple of pee-sticks in our medicine box alllll the time. Just in case. Like the other week when i was feeling gross and nauseous for days, i knew that the first thing the doctor would ask would be whether i was preggers, so even though i knew the chance was about 0.00000000001%, i took one anyway just so i could say yay or nay. He still took bloods for it anyway, i'm off to get the results in a couple of hours before work.

Lacey - HOW do you only eat ONE Reeces PB cup?? If i am ever to do that, i would have to purchace a single one!!


As for me, i went to the gym for the first time yesterday, and did day 1 of c25k FOR REAL this time! All previous attempts have been warm-ups... seeing if i would actually be able to do it, as such. It's SO much easier on the treadmill than out in real life! So much more controlled. I may have been doing it at a relatively slow pace, but i GOT THROUGH THE WHOLE THING without stopping, and got my heart rate up to almost 150! I'll be doing it faster tomorrow, to try and get to a point where eventually 5km will equal 30min.

I was going to go to the gym again this morning, but my leg is a little sore from yesterday, and i've got work this afternoon and don't want to aggrivate it.

Also, i'm going to the doc at 1130 to get my blood results from the other day, and, *GULP* My FIRST EVER pap smear. I can't believe i've let myself put it off for this long. Especially being a nurse! And with all the ads around to tell women how important it is to get it done... I've made appointments twice before, but for whatever reason the surgery has cancelled them. So then i wimp out again. But this time. THIS time i'm going through with it, and then i won't have to worry about it again for another two years. Argh. Not looking forward to it.

So yeah, also didn't want to have to go to such an appointment after being at the gym... :noway: Blerch.

The screaming scale is screaming a little quieter today. Hopefully by friday it'll be smiling again.

Christmas is going to be so weird this year. It's the first year i'll be spending it without my family. I've asked to work it as well, partly because of the fact i don't have my family here, and partly because of the "going away for a month" thing in January. Isaac's famiily is so broken and scattered that i have no idea what they'r going to be doing. So we may have somewhere to go for something, but i'm not sure. It'll be a quiet one, that's for sure!!

And i have a mozzie bite behind my knee. Grr.

Hosanna: I just went and had my pap done today too...go figure

Pam: Those pics are so cute; your hair looks great and so does the BF!

I really have missed you ladies!

My biking partner called about 9:30 to tell me the northern lights are out... BEAUTIFUL!!!! I've been sitting our in 30 degree weather watching then for 45 min... Reds and whites today

There are worse things than pap smears. Like having an iud put in. Or taken out. I'd rather give birth again. Speaking of womanly parts..I'm seriously thinking about getting that in the doctors office sterilization done where they put the two porous things in your fallopian tubes and insert this gold mesh thing in your hooha (this word translated to: boobs and goons. I'm SO totally calling my hooha goons now!) and do some sort of thermal radioactive whatever that causes scar tissue to grow into the pores thereby blocking eggs from coming down anymore. I've not done any Internet reading on it and want to. I want to see what other women think about it..but I'm up warming fast to the idea. At first it made me feel like I'd be getting a permanent abortioin even though I know that's not what I'm doing, but mentally it feels weird to do something to your body that effectively makes you not able to have babies anymore. It's the way women are raised I guess. Anyways, there it is. I'm betting I will be getting this procedure done. Anyone have it done or know someone who did? There is a name for it, starts with an A but I'm too lazy to walk to my purse to get the pamphlet out to see.


Also. When on TOM, do not, I repeat, DO NOT buy a mello tempranillo and eat candy corn with it. Because I'm sure it's the most bestest effing flavor combo ever right now. And even though the wine would make my mouth taste nasty because I brushed my teeth to stop eating and drinking, I'm having a super hard time not gong back for more.

Hosanna: mosquitoes eat me alive! I'm so glad that the weather has gotten cold enough here that the mosquitoes are all gone! Congrats on getting the C25K workout done! Your wedding is on The Hubbs' birthday! (January 15th)

Lacey: I've had an IUD put in on 2 occasions and the first time it was not so bad as they did it on the first day of my period and that apparently opens the cervix up a bit. The second time, I was not on my period and so it was horrible! They gave me a shot to dilate the cervix and then I bled like a stuck pig and then went home with cramps that rivaled contractions for about 24 hours. I will NEVER do it again. I am looking at that same sterilization procedure you were talking about. I figure that I have 4 more years until I have to remove my IUD and if I don't want another kid by then (I'll be 37 by then), then I'll get the sterilization rather than have to deal with having another IUD put in. (I can't do BC pills or norplant or anything with estrogen due to my history of blood clots so my birth control methods are pretty limited)

Bobbie: All of us fall off the wagon sometimes, what matters is that you made your way back here!

Sarah: My husband can't keep a secret if his life depended on it (pretty funny considering his line of work). If he buys a present for someone he has to give it to them IMMEDIATELY. It's like pulling teeth around here to get Christmas presents to remain unopened until Christmas. My strategy is to wrap them and stick them under the tree as soon as I receive them, otherwise they'll end up opened and being played with. (He sounds like a 7 year old)

Kerry: Jan 16th is locked in!

All you Walking Dead fans are making me want to re-watch it. I watched the first 3 or 4 episodes of last season (as I adore all things zombie) but I couldn't really get into it. I thought it was unique to have a zombie TV show that was more a drama than an action but I found that the story dragged and I really didn't like any of the characters enough to care whether they lived or died. Maybe I was just in a bad mood during that time period, I'll have to revisit it and see if I still feel the same.

My sinuses are slowly becoming functional again. The left side is almost perfectly clear and I can envision a day in the near future when I can stop being a mouth-breather. I got up this morning and did a brisk walk on the treadmill for 30 minutes and I will do my P90X Chest & Back workout with The Hubbs after he comes home from work. Have a great day!

Victoria: I've never seen the Northern Lights but have seen pictures, how cool!

Pam: I ADORE the second picture in your post. Your hair looks great and your boy friend looks SO content in the pic. Absolutely lovely!

Hosanna- I've had paps every year since I was 20. For some ungodly reason they feel the need to check my girlie bits in order to prescribe me birth control pills. I've been on the pill for 8 freaking years! I'm pretty sure if it was messing me up, I'd know by now!

Pam- Those are gorgeous pictures! :happy:

And yeah, it's weird that we're talking about being preggo cause my bff, who has PCOS and has been trying for over 4 years to get pregnant, got it confirmed at the doctor's this week that she's 6 weeks along! I can't tell you how freaking incredibly happy I am about that!! They even got to hear the heartbeat yesterday when they had an ultrasound done!! It's also weird that we're talking about pregnancy cause I didn't have a mini-cycle this month so that's got me worried that I caught the "bug." But really, that's only been in the past 5-6 months that I've developed that mini-cycle so this month is technically "normal" again. I never look forward to TOM but I'm glad when it shows up.

Victoria- cute new profile pic!!

Lacey- I've never heard of that proceedure, but I've also never looked into permanent birth control like that. One day Mr. Reunion and I will have kids.

Amy- Yay for half of a functioning face!! lol

As for Walking Dead and other zombie shows/movies- NUH UH. NOT ME. I get scared VERY VERY easily so I just don't watch those kinds of things. Although, I have seen Shawn of the Dead and Zombieland. I freaking LOOOOOOVED Shawn of the Dead. I like the idea of incredibly slow and stupid zombies. That I can handle in real life. Zombieland I freaking HAAAAAATED. I do NOT like fast zombies. It scared me to death. Probably because if zombies really could run fast, I'd be dead within the first 24 hours.

I got out last night and walked Lexi. But instead of sticking to my normal route, I took a completely different street, crossed a very, very busy 2 lane road and went into a different neighborhood with LOTS of freaking hills. Then I saw a buck about get hit by a pick up truck probably no more than 30 yards away from me. Thankfully the deer went back the direction he came from cause they're known for being aggressive....or maybe it was cause I was thinking of that youtube video they showed on tv recently of a deer attacking a dog. :frown:

I'm kind of disappointed that my walk last night didn't loosen up the pulled muscles in my thighs. Sunday I spent several hours taking bridal portraits of my sister, so I did a lot of walking and squatting. Yesterday and today the front, lower part of my thighs have been KILLING me with every step I take. It HURTS!!