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Motivation and Accountability Thread, November 10th-16th
I know I am a bit early this week, but have a super long day tomorrow and knew I would not get this posted until very late in the day otherwise. I have to run out in the morning to let the DR check my leg before work, so I am gone longer than a usual Monday (fun, lol). My goal this week is to start exercising again. I am…
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Motivation and Accountability Thread, November 3rd-9th
Ok, I am trying this thread again and hopefully it will have more success. I had a horrid October and need desperately to get back on track. I did not log or exercise at all, and I had a week of binge eating because the month was so hectic and stressful. I thought 380lbs was my highest weight ever, a month ago....well, now…
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Motivation and Accountability Thread Sept 29- Oct 5
Hopefully this week is a little more successful than last week! I don't know where everyone went! What are your goals this week?
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Motivation and Accountability Thread Sept 22-28
Hello folks!! Sorry this is so late today!! Mondays can be crazy for me coming off the weekend..... How is everyone doing this week?? What are your goals and accomplishments?? I did really well the last few days with food, and not too bad with sleep.....still have not made it to the gym though, and to be honest, that is…
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Motivation and Accountability Thread Sept 8-14/2014
Hello everyone!! What are your goals this week? Please check in and let us know how you are doing!!! This week I will continue with last weeks goals of sleeping and eating on a proper schedule....I did not too bad last week, just struggling a bit with eating breakfast. Also with logging - minus today since I am going to be…
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Motivation and Accountability Thread Sept 2-7/2014
Ok, I am gonna try and start the weekly thread as a few of us discussed a few weeks ago....I saw someone else started one a few weeks ago, but not again, so I am going to take it upon myself to do this every week this month and see if it catches on. I started a day late this week because of yesterday being a holiday. The…
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Insulin needs changing at night.....
I am wondering if anyone else has this.....I take a LOT of insulin, one unit of rapid for every TWO carbs I eat. However, I find by dinnertime, I need more like a 1:1 ratio....like tonight at dinner I had 68 carbs and took 60 units of rapid, and four hours later I am 9.4 and gonna need a few more units when I go to bed in…
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Two Questions?? If you can help with one or both, please do!
These are two totally different topics, looking for some comparisons please. 1. Does anyone here use energy shots of caffeine drinks to power through a work out? One bottle of either is only equivalent to a cup of coffee, which I do not drink... If you do, do you find it helps with pain and/or motivation at all? 2. How…
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22 Jump Street
After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college. But when Jenko meets a kindred spirit on the football team, and Schmidt infiltrates the bohemian art major scene, they begin to question their partnership. Now they…
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The Frozen Ground
Inspired by the incredible true story that follows Alaskan State Trooper Jack Halcombe as he sets out to end the murderous rampage of Robert Hansen, a serial killer who has gone unnoticed for 13 years. As the bodies of street girls start to pile up in Anchorage, fear strikes a chord with the public. Risking his life,…
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The Way Way Back
THE WAY, WAY BACK is the funny and poignant coming of age story of 14-year-old Duncan's summer vacation with his mother, Pam, her overbearing boyfriend, Trent, and his daughter, Steph. Having a rough time fitting in, the introverted Duncan finds an unexpected friend in gregarious Owen, manager of the Water Wizz water park.…
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The Internship
Billy and Nick are salesmen whose careers have been torpedoed by the digital world. Trying to prove they are not obsolete, they defy the odds by talking their way into a coveted internship at Google, along with a battalion of brilliant college students. But, gaining entrance to this utopia is only half the battle. Now they…
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The Jeffrey Dahmer Files
What drives a seemingly mundane man to commit a series of acts so heinous that it captured the attention of a horrified nation? In the summer of 1991 Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested in Milwaukee and sentenced to 957 years in prison for killing 17 people and dismembering their bodies. THE JEFFREY DAHMER FILES explores this…
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Last Vegas
Billy, Paddy, Archie, and Sam have been best friends since childhood. So when Billy, the group's sworn bachelor, finally proposes to his thirty-something (of course) girlfriend, the four head to Las Vegas with a plan to stop acting their age and relive their glory days. However, upon arriving, the four quickly realize that…
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Heaven Is For Real
Todd and Sonja Burpo are a real-life couple whose son Colton claims to have visited Heaven during a near death experience. Colton recounts the details of his amazing journey with childlike innocence and speaks matter-of-factly about things that happened before his birth: things he couldn't possibly know. Todd and his…
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Oldboy
This film is a provocative, visceral thriller that follows the story of an advertising executive who is abruptly kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement. When he is inexplicably released, he embarks on an obsessive mission to discover who orchestrated his bizarre and torturous punishment only to…
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The Last Exorcism Part II
Continuing where the first film left off, Nell Sweetzer (Ashley Bell) is found terrified and alone in rural Louisiana. Back in the relative safety of New Orleans, Nell realizes that she can't remember entire portions of the previous months only that she is the last surviving member of her family. Just as Nell begins the…
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Ride Along
For the past two years, high-school security guard Ben has been trying to show decorated APD detective James that he's more than just a video-game junkie who's unworthy of James' sister, Angela. When Ben finally gets accepted into the academy, he thinks he's earned the seasoned policeman's respect and asks for his blessing…
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Carbs from an iPhone
I am wondering if anyone can help me....I am trying to log my food as I go via my iPhone, but I seem to only be able to see calories when I do that....and I really need to see the carb counts as that is how I know how much insulin to take (T1D)....is there anyway to change this so I am seeing carbs too, or even carbs…
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Non-Stop
An air marshal springs into action during a transatlantic flight after receiving a series of text messages that put his fellow passengers at risk unless the airline transfers $150 million into an off-shore account. Fair movie, action packed and even a couple jump out of your seat moments....however, the motive of the…
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The Big Wedding
This uproarious romantic comedy follows a charmingly modern family trying to survive a weekend wedding celebration that has the potential to become a full blown family fiasco. To the amusement of their adult children and friends, long divorced couple Don and Ellie Griffin are once again forced to play the happy couple for…
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Seeking Justice
Will Gerard, is a happily married family man whose quiet life is turned upside-down when his wife, Laura, is brutally attacked one night while leaving work. At the hospital, waiting for news about his wife's condition, Will is approached by Simon, who proposes an intriguing offer: Simon will arrange to have a complete…
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Labor Day
Depressed single mom Adele and her son Henry give a wounded, fearsome man a ride. As police search town for the escaped convict, the mother and son gradually learn his true story as their options become increasingly limited. I loved this movie....literally the only criticism I have was that he was roaming around outside…
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Does anyone in this group actually watch movies?
I find that I post about each movie I watch (I try and watch one a week if I can find the time), but I find not only is it rare that anyone gives input on that movie, but nobody else ever seems to post about what movies they watch..... Thoughts?
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Dallas Buyers Club
Ron Woodroof is an electrician and rodeo cowboy with a devil-may-care lifestyle who is blindsided with an H.I.V.-positive diagnosis and given 30 days to live. He quickly finds a lack of approved medications in the U.S. and crosses the border into Mexico where he learns about alternative treatments and begins smuggling them…
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Fruitvale Station
This follows the true story of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31, 2008 and feels something in the air. Not sure what it is, he takes it as a sign to get a head start on his resolutions: being a better son to his mother, whose birthday falls on New Year's Eve, being a…
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The Paperboy (2012)
Lured by imploring letters from the beautiful siren Charlotte, handsome, hard-nosed reporter Ward James and his partner, Yardley Acheman, return to Ward's hometown of Lately, Florida, to investigate the seemingly unjust imprisonment of Charlotte's lover, alligator hunter Hillary Van Wetter. Hardened backwoods criminal Van…
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The Wolf Of Wall Street
Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stockbroker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government. I was actually kinda bored through a lot of this movie....it was ok, and there was a few great scenes....
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The Book Thief
Based on the beloved international bestselling book, The Book Thief tells the story of Liesel, an extraordinary and courageous young girl sent to live with a foster family in World War II Germany. She learns to read with encouragement from her new family and Max, a Jewish refugee who they are hiding under the stairs. For…
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Life Of Pi
A 16 year-old Indian boy's passage to a new life in America aboard a freighter ends in a shipwreck in the Pacific. He is left to fend for himself on a life raft with an orangutan, a zebra, a hyena and a Bengal tiger. Great effects, wish I would have saw this in 3D, but missed it when it was playing......good story too, esp…
