Alaarie Member

So buy the itty-bitty snack size bag. You get to taste the food, getting the mental "Yum" you're after, but you don't undo a day or week's worth of work.

23 or 24... don't remember exactly.

Alaarie = Alan + Marie My kids' middle names.

Add please! I've got about 50-60 pounds to go. User Name: Alaarie Thanks!!

That's so exciting!! Best of luck on the rest of your journey! :)

I use a Ninja to make my smoothies. The particular one that I have comes with three cups. You screw the blade right into the top of the cup to mix, then remove the blade and screw on a lid. It's roughly two cups worth of smoothie.

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You're doing amazing! Congratulations!

A medium Sonic oreo cheesecake blast.

That's great! Congratulations!!!

Generally 8-hours a night. If I'm not getting enough sleep, I start dragging and won't exercise. I also start chugging pop and eating crap food cause I'm too tired to plan healthy snacks and meals.

I live on the optimistic side of reality! :happy:

I'm having good results with Mary Kay's Velocity cleanser. I use it in the shower every day and have barely been breaking out since I switched a couple months ago.

Me either. And what I mean by that is that's not my goal. Yeah, I'd like to look cute and wear smaller clothes, but that's not the point of loosing weight for me. At least not right now. I've had some heath issues so right now my purpose is to get my blood pressure and cholesterol under control. I also want to teach…

I think I will. I've done the "track until you lose weight then stop & gain back" over and over. But, that's how my brain works. I like order, information, feedback, etc. To continue to be sucessful, I think I'll have to track... and that's okay. We're all different.

That's one of those days that I plan to NOT journal... on purpose. It's a time to chill and enjoy my family. I take smaller than normal portions because there's just so many options. I might have small servings of eight different foods when a normal meal only has three or four foods in it. I feel like I got to eat…

I want to get a tat... I think of that as my final "prize" after I lose all the weight. I like the idea of the Pandora bracelet mentioned above... the tat I want is a charm bracelet around my ankle. Maybe I could start that and for every so many pounds lost, I can add another charm to that! I've lost 8 pounds and have 63…

Nice! Hubby and I are just switching to Emerald Dream... toon transfers tonight since payday's tomorrow. LOL! Our screen names are generally based off real names... "Alaarie" is a combination of Alan & Marie... our kids' middle names. My newest toon is my first name in pig latin... Ellykay.

Yep, I wish I would have started sooner. Not just for myself, but for my kids. They're healthy (only 10 and 5 years old) but they don't enjoy healthy foods. I wish I would have been cooking fresh, healthy food when they were younger so it wouldn't be such a struggle now to get them to eat dinner now. I also wish I were…

I don't eat my breakfast until 9:00. Our mornings are crazy so it's basically grab a cup of coffee and get the kids out the door. About 9:00, when the coffee's gone, I'll grab a packet of oatmeal, pour hot water over it, and let it sit a few minutes. Between working, it takes a good hour or so to eat. That keeps my tummy…

I think that's the key. I used to work in a bank in a college town. The young tellers would take the dress code to the VERY edge. I don't mind some skin showing, if the person looks good, but this dress was making me uneasy. You also have to keep the company image in mind. In our particular situation, it's best to tame the…

Yay for you!! This is what I picture for myself as well. Thanks for the inspiration!

I've been doing it at dusk... it's dark when I'm done. Mostly because our daily highs are around 105 lately and I don't want to have heat stroke while I'm huffing down the sidewalk! lol It's about 85 degrees when I go out at dark. It's also nice because nobody can watch me! I get home, shower, and fall into bed completely…

Made it through Week 1 last week! I'm pumped!! We start Week 2 tonight. My knee's been bothering me over the weekend so I'm hoping I can keep this up.

Found an app for Droid... Active's Couch to 5K. It's for very beginners, like me. I don't think I've run since high school and that's been 16 years now. I'm quite overweight (need to drop about 70 pounds) but dammit, I jogged last night!! Charlotte and I made it through the first programmed workout. The poor dog came home…

I would love to give this a shot! My dog and I walk about three miles every few evenings so I signed up for a 5K August 18th. I saw somebody posted a 5K program from iTunes which looked really neat. Anybody know of any good Android programs? Something that will tell me when to start running and when to go back to walking,…

Congratulations!! That's amazing and inspiring. I've only been at this two weeks but I've also noticed that just logging in helps a lot!

I tried P90X with hubby but it was too much for my crappy knees to handle. I bought P90 and have been fine doing it every other day with walking in between. When my knees quit hurting at that, I'll try to move to P90 every night. Baby steps for me! It's simpler than P90X but if you continue to up your weight and reps,…