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It's Monday. And I'm reminded of how I wound up taking two months off. Apparently, ditching TOM, staying fairly close to goal (within 40 on the week) when I was able to log, and eyeballing it when I wasn't, getting in extra walking trying to get a decent loss and be "ready" for Halloween... All was pointless. Not only did…

I saw a loss. Granted it was a 1# loss, which is a whopping 0.2# loss overall, but hey. I'll take it. Sure enough, it's CD2, which means that in the next few days I should see another loss. I can deal with that. Now, in a few minutes, I'm off to walk to the grocery store with my preschooler in the buggy. I'm hoping it'll…

1) My legs. No matter what size I am, or have been, my legs are the #1 best physical feature I've got. My eyes/smile could use some work, on account of having perpetual chipmunk cheeks, but my legs have always been killer. ^_^ Also, ridiculously strong - rock solid calves that don't fit into zip boots too well... Yeah. I…

And, while I'm thinking on things on my NOOK... Harry Potter - J.K. Rowling. MYTH Series - Robert Asprin Incarnations of Immortality - Piers Anthony Dragonlance - Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman Vampire Diaries - L.J. Smith Belgariad and Malloreon (series) - David Eddings Harry Dresden - Jim Butcher Women of the Otherworld…

The Fever series by Karen Marie Moning. (Starts with Darkfever) I nabbed all five of them on my Nook and am THRILLED I did, 'cause I plowed through them in about three days. After that, Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse Novels). I usually assume folks have read this if they're inclined to…

I nabbed mine at tickerfactory.com - it lets you edit the ticker as you go so you don't have to keep remaking it. ^_^

Phone call came back unfavorably. So now I stress, scurry, and otherwise spend my afternoon running all over. Now it is 4p, and almost time to start dinner. So much for my walk, and so much for my good mood. I'm going to hope that this doesn't all go pear-shaped on me, and that we'll be back off on solid footing tomorrow.…

I finally found my actual pedometer - which means no more wearing down the batteries on my iPod and then guessing what the actual steps I took were... Now I just have to go out for a big walk so I can test out how many steps this one counts so I can tell what to multiply by (I have *never* found a pedometer that actually…

Interestingly, this is what I've understood the protest to be about all along. Maybe I'm in some kind of minority, or I'm not exposed to the 'usual suspects' of sources, but it's seemed obvious to me all along that the protest is primarily a statement of discontent surrounding the practice of crony capitalism that has led…

My "off to a roaring start" seems to have splattered on the pavement. Not that I'm losing (or have lost) motivation (or weight), but because I was so gung ho to get out and get going... I took my preschooler out for walks in the rain. I had him in his raincoat, in the buggy, under a poncho. Me? I don't own a raincoat, so…

Well, I'm a little deflated today. I'm up just shy of a pound. I didn't log on Monday or Tuesday, but I'm pretty certain there's no way I ate enough on those two days to use up the 1500 I was under for the week, PLUS an additional about 3500 for the gain. I'm going to assume the whole thing is due to an impending AF as…

Thanks so much! I'm really hopeful right now - this challenge seems to have been the kick in the pants I needed to get back into the game. Now I just hope I don't pick up where I left off (3 months on a plateau, UGH!). ^_^

Hi, again! I'm a late start, sure, but I'm apparently determined. I've been making a point of walking all over and back again. Plus, instead of just walking around the house, I've found myself dancing around with my son, it makes the day a lot of fun! I was surprised! I'm finally coming out of a two month rut, and I really…

OP: "My MIL blatantly disregards my son's health, and constantly risks it on a regular basis." You: "Is that all? You're lucky, suck it up and deal." Uh, no. This isn't "My MIL took away all my son's black crayons!!!" this is about the boy's health and quality of life. I strongly suspect that only allergy parents, or those…

Oooh, wow! Will you come be my MIL? Please? XD Also, I agree with someone above - there are a million ways to show affection that don't involve food, or even that do that don't involve sugar! Take the boys to a museum, buy them a souvenir. Spend the afternoon coloring with sidewalk chalk, build a spaceship out of a box and…

Uh, no. This is not a "no worries" situation. If Grandma was giving the boy peanuts after Mom said "no peanuts, he can't have them," people would see this entirely differently. But since this is a non-traditional allergic situation, with Mom cast in the role of the Mean Old Mommy Who Won't Let Her Boys Have ANYTHING Fun,…

This. Very much this. I'm a hard-*kitten*, though, and would be very likely to say "Look, your kids have done $700 damages to my home {drawers + table). Either they find a way to put it right, you put it right for them, or none of you are coming back to my house and using my free-to-you gym privileges. I'm sure they're not…

Good day, all! I'm actually looking forward to this! It's (hopefully) going to be a lot of fun - I hope the group is as active as the notice of the group has been! ^_^ I just joined up last night, so I haven't gotten as many miles as most have, but... That's okay. I plan on fixing that this afternoon - I'm taking my…

Multiple-source PTSD and whitecoat hypertension. Interestingly, these were all "given" to me from external sources.

Hi there! I'm also a SAHM, though only to one little boy who is three. I'm pretty new to my area, and have very few friends, so I'm right there with you on the going nuts part, and when my preschooler decides he needs to be glued to me... I can totally feel you on the just wanting 30m to exercise part, too! Even more…

*blinkblink* Well, when I saw this on the board, the smilies didn't display. Puts a whole different spin on the last line. I was positive. Very much so. Then... nothing happened. I dropped those 15 pounds in the first four months, then had no change at all for four months before I got so discouraged. And that, sadly, is…

Same problem here. I'm ten months in, I've lost about 15 pounds. Needless to say, I'm not impressed. After 8 months, and those same 15#, it got bad enough (frustration-wise) that I spent two months just not giving a flying rat's *kitten*. Trying to get back into it is... difficult, at best. If my weight stayed the same…

I'm looking at losing all the post-baby weight! I lost 40# being pregnant, then gained it all back (plus some of its friends!) within about eight weeks after giving birth. Now I'm trying to get rid of it again, so that I can go into a second pregnancy on better footing (I conceived at 222#, hit 41w5 at 222#, and was…

Howdy! Not nursing a newborn, but a 3yo. ^_^ Good luck on your journey!

Hooray for any loss? I'm at 206.6, which is down a whopping .2 from last week. I think the worst of it is that I'm actually unable to work out again. My knees are crunching kind of frighteningly, and the only option for working out without an audience (or a preschooler who insists on being IMMEDIATELY next to me, weights…

I just wanted to offer a hug and some "been there, doing that." I'm in the same boat, right down to the attitude. I lost crazy weight in my first 100 days. I made it to 210 before I skipped even a single day of watching (some days I counted, some days I eyeballed it {like on vacation and such}). I gained and lost the same…

206.8. Unsurprising, really, as it's CD3 and last night's dinner had ham *and* chips. One of these days I'll remember to keep the high-sodium stuff for mid-week. 9.9;; Still having problems. New bedtime for the little guy still has me out of whack, I have a hard time getting up in the mornings - he wakes me when he wakes -…

So much for good weeks. Apparently I'm now up 2# this week on last week at 204.4. No matter how bad my logging might have been, I *KNOW* I did not manage to eat 3000+ calories every single day for the last week, so I'm going to assume it's sodium and impending TOM and go from there. I had forgotten how HARD this is. Every…

Well, motivation be damned, I'm pushing to actually make things work this week. DH and I decided last night we were going to get back into this effective immediately. So, I'm back and hopefully will soon be on my game again. In the meantime, the scale was kind to me and told me 202.6.

I'd figured with AF coming just after week 3's weigh-in, I'd be better this week than the last two (bloat before and during, right?) No. not only did I not lose the bloat weight, but I'm now up to 205.2. I'm just so damn disheartened and I don't even know where to start anymore. I watch and count, I don't lose weight. I…