WW Clubs and Groups - Friday's Daily Thread

Thought i'd start an official daily thread.
How's everyone doing? I have just painted my nails (fingers and toes) a delightful shade of pale metallic blue...
So I better do some work now. I'll be back to annoy you all later.
:devil:

kirsty

Good morning!

Well, I'm trying, trying, trying to keep my head above water, both with weight watchers and with work and life in general. Sometimes I just feel so terribly overwhelmed with it all... Wish I could win the lottery! That'd help!

Last night I raked up some MORE leaves in my yard... If I do 3 bags a night I just MIGHT finish by next fall!!! We've already raked at least 40 bags... Next year I think I'll pay someone to do it, cause this is ridiculous! Believe it or not though, raking leaves made me feel better. I felt as if I was making some progress on something, and that helped.

Two nights ago I played softball for our company team. We won! Yippee! And I even got a hit, which is unusual for me. I'm sooooo sore! It hurts to cough. I always thought softball was one of those "non-active" sports, but every time I play I ache all over so I'm beginning to reform my opinion.

Hope everyone is doing good! Have a great weight watchers day.

Hey Ladies!!!!! I didn't check in yesterday due to the fact that I had piles of paperwork to do before I leave Saturday and AF arrived. I swear I hate being a girl at this time of the month. I literally skipped my lunch and took a nap in my office. Oh So Comfy:rolleyes:

Regardless, I am SOOOOOOOOOOO excited! I leave tomorrow and I couldn't even sleep last night. I have been up since 4am. The anticipation for vacation is keeping me awake :D I am also excited for tonight. My friend pitches for Milwaukee Brewers and they are playing Detroit tonight so his wife (my friend) and I and some friends are going to the game. I was in there wedding and his wife was my college roomie. I haven't seen her since Dec. I am really looking forward to it. I love baseball.

Well I just had to gush about my weekend. My life is rarely so
full:) I will check all of yesterdays posts and get back to you!
Becky

OOH I almost forgot. I love the polls. I think voting about something makes you feel as if your opinion is being heard. Silly, but true for me:D

Janet- I know how you feel with being overwhelmed. I had a total breakdown a couple of months ago. For me I had to start knowing my limits and saying no to things. It was hard b/c some of the things I had to say no to doing, I love to do. Anyways yours is work though, mine was work and ministries at church and friends etc., so maybe this doens't apply. Just thought I would let you know that I could relate and you will be in my prayers. Also in the WW dept. maybe you should just concentrate on maintaining during this stressful time. Just a thought.

BTW Kirsty the nail polish color sounds great :)

Becky

thanks becky. it's got little sparkly/glittery bits in it too. ooh, where is your vacation? have a fab time.
oh, for those who don't know, labour won the election in the uk. yawn.
janet - keep doing those leaves - good exercise! maybe give yourself a bonus point for every bag you fill (only if you sweep up all the leaves!).

Howdy Everyone!

I have been getting more shifts at work which is making me a happy camper:) Anyhoo, I went to Lola's meetings on Wednesday which was a lot of fun... If anyone ever goes to Montreal or Ottawa tell me, I'd love to meet more of you! As it is, I think I can squeeze a trip to the UK for next May, since it will be my nana's bday and such.


The important news, I MADE LIFETIME!!! Yuppers, little ole me is now a lifetime member. Maintanence is a hard phase and I am still trying to find my groove at keeping at this weight (it takes much more than 6 weeks IMHO, it does take a lifetime). I have started weight training again and I love the results. My mom has just started weight training as well and she's already seeing results as well.

Becky: Welcome back!!!!!!! Ah, I'm still single, but am quickly learning about the Ottawa dating scene ;)

Kirtsy: I have sparkly blue nail polish as well, I like it, but right now my nails are au natural.

Janet: well at least the lawn clearing is fabulous exercise:) Being busy can be a good thing though, I tend to eat when I am bored.

Howdy to everyone! I hope all is going well.

Take Care!

Ali

Ali- Glad to be back and have no fear I am still singel too!! I went on a couple of dates but Blah. Why is it the nice ones bore me:yawn: Anyways I still have my guy "friend" I wish he wasn't so cute ;) Oh well life goes on.

Kirsty- Grand Cayman. I have never been. I am excited although the 4am wake up is kind of getting to me now:( It is 9:30 now. yikes I have a long day ahead.

Belle- I am glad to see that bf is being sweet. I love the story about the butterflies. I miss those:( I've never heard a guy admit that he gets those. Well on movies I guess but I am sure that we have all figured out by now how unrealistic those are;)
ANyways that is precious AWWWWWWWW!

Everyone Else Come and Post. I am obviously in the postin' mood. LOOK OUT;)

Ah, friday!!

Well, I WI today and......EXACTLY THE SAME. Not even .1 of a change. Nothing. I was POed. I mean, I have been SO GOOD!!!!! :mad: I must have plateaued or something. I guess I am like 45 down, and maybe my body is in hybernation mode. Must do somethign to kick start body.... :?:

SIGH....

I voted didnt' care b/c I like them, but if we don't have a poll one day I don't get upset about it.....they are fun though.

Kirsty - I love the blue nails, I did it in the80's and I was so happy when they brought it back. but I rarely paint my nails! I stuck my hand in a lawn mower and one of my nails is spilt now so I hate them....

Janet - I get overwhelmed too - don't worry, it will all pan out, and all you can do is your best!! Adn you ARE!!

Becky - have fun!!! Taht's cool about your baseball friend! Yeah, it was super sweet. He has become quite the sweetie. I was whining about maintaining and he said - well if you stay the weight you are forever, you'll be healthy and sexy to me. I was happy, that was sweet :)

Ali - WAY TO GO ON YOUR LIFETIME GIRL!!! You are sucha model success story - are you sending your story into magasines? Fit or Shape or WW? You should!!! You are a total success story. Wehn I get to goal (when, not if) I am sending inmy story to all the magasines!!

Well, I better mosy - I have a mild, nagging headache today that I can't seem to shake, so I am going to remedy it with a cup of joe....! Hope it goes away - have a presentation to the VP today....yikes.

Will try to write later!

:D

Back Again!!!!

Ok you know how drugstores have that whole return policy if you don't like the color etc. Well I just exchanged a lipstick for the 3rd time and cannot find a good color for me. I like the policy but wouldn't it be easier if we could just try on the lipstick at the store. I think next time I am just going to try it on at the register. That would be amusing. Anyways the lipstick was recommended in Lucky Magazine. Have you guys heard of it. IT is a shopping mag. I LOVE IT! The lipstick is Maybeline Wet Shine (I know, pretty ritzy:rolleyes:) I really like how shiny it looks but finding my color has been crazy. I don't like when it looks to brown b/c whose natural lip color is Brown? I mean come on! But, I also don't like to go to pinky. This makes lipstick shopping a royal pain in my arse! (For all of the irish gals:) )
OK Where is everyone?
You know what is sad......I know the anticipation is killing you.....The fact that I have a lot to get done but no desire to do it. I mean I just spent 5 minutes venting over lipstick:^:
BBL
Becky

Hey Kirsty: Our nails are fraternal twins! Mine are pale pink. :)
My boss isn't coming in until later so I'm putting off my mountain of work. Maybe I should write some Thank You notes. hee hee
Well, I'd best get something done before I get into trouble.
Talk to everyone later!!!

OK so I'm trying to figure this webforum thing out and feeling really good to hear about how other people are doing too, so I thought I'd just jump on. I've just committed myself to getting healthier and it's nice to have somewhere to chat with others. So I guess that's all for now but I'll be around.:o

Tell us a little more about yourself - I see you are from BC - I live in Alberta!

Belle

Well, I'm 26. Not married but in longterm relationship. I'm in training to be a paramedic but before that I work in the theatre for a few years. I've never been much for diets or dieting and lots of my "theatre" friends have bizzare eating disorders and I always thought I was better for not falling into that trap then I started noticing what I looked like in pictures and that the clothes I was buying were bigger and bigger and thanks to a very good friend, I started weight watchers and I've never felt better!!!:D
First time I was weighed in a couple of years I was at 256 (I'm 5'8) and after a couple weeks on WW I'm down to 241. I'm really excited about getting healthy - I'm spending a lot of time outdoors, with my horse, and we'll see where it leads. Thanks for having me in the group!!:dizzy:

okay, I should stop lurking and start posting. Again!

Went to weigh in this morning and I lost 1.0# on the nose. I was hoping for more because I've been so good this week. But it is TOM and I am happy of the downward trend of the scale.:D I only have .8 to go for my second 10%, so I'm looking forward to that next week.

Ali-Congrats on lifetime! It must feel so good!

Janet- I though soft ball was a low activity sport too. Maybe I'm doing something wrong? Maybe I should be sore too.

Have a great friday everyone!

Amy
182/147.6/???

Horsey girl - my high was 252 adn I was at 244 when I started WW in late August. Good for you for focusing on getting healthy. You'll find great support at this site.

Belle

Can someone help me figure this out? I've been reading all your cool postings but I want to get in and edit my signature and the like - how do I do that?

Morning girls ok so its 12:30
but im just getting dressed so its my morning lol
its oficial im going to the city tommorrow woowoo poss theatre or moulin rouge dinner and drinkies
oooh btw Im Kieran Bridget O'Brien
it means lil dark haired strong one in gaelige
my nails are a pale bleu with sparkles
ali congrats on lifetime!
i'll post more later

BTW SINGLETONS OF THE WORLD UNITE ;)

Hi, I've been a lurker for a while now – probably since February or so. I added my bio to the bio's thread but here's some more info on me. WARNING – long enough to be a short novel.

I'm 27 and live in Minnesota, USA. I live with my boyfriend and my dog. I work in IT as a project mgr and business analyst. I'm also in school finishing up my bachelor's degree, which I abandoned a few years ago when I got a full time job. I should be finally graduating this December.

The story of my weight – well growing up I was a skinny kid and short – always one of the smallest in my class. I gained the regular weight while going through puberty and ended up at about 125 and 5'4''. Up until tenth grade I would consider my eating habits pretty normal except for hardly eating any vegetables (my mom didn't like vegetables and didn't serve them to her kids). Well in tenth grade I had a new friend and we started eating like there wouldn't be any food available the next day. She was already slightly overweight when we met and I was soon catching up to her with our eating habits. I think my highest was 145 then. Later in tenth grade I went on my first diet with her – if I remember correctly it was at my dad's urging. He bought me the book Fit or Fat and what I remember of the diet was to eat only fruit before noon and then at the other meals to only combine certain types of foods together. Well that didn't last long and I don't remember if I lost any weight at all. This friend then introduced me to my next "diet" – she taught me how to binge and purge. After a couple of months I got down to 120 and that's about where I stayed as I continued to binge and purge throughout high school. Binging and purging was something my friends and I would do together, I had about 3 different friends who participated in this behavior. Pretty sick I know, but at the time it made it seem more acceptable because all my friends were doing it. I did participate in some counseling for my bulimia during high school at my mom's insistence but it didn't have an effect on me. My thought process was that I knew it was bad for me but I liked eating food and I liked being skinny so I continued on. My counselor threw in the towel and said that if I wasn't ready to change that the counseling wasn't going to help. The bulimia pretty much subsided after I graduated from high school at 18. I've been able to pretty successfully control the purging but unfortunately don't do so well with the binging part.

After graduating and eating normally for a while my weight leveled out at 130-135. I stayed at this weight until I was about 20. At that time I started a more sedentary life of having an office job and being in school all day. At 21, about a year later, I was up to 160. A short while later I was into the 170's. At that time the extra weight really started to bother me and I lost about 15 lbs and got down to 155 before going on a vacation – I was 22. I wore shorts for the first time in 2 years. Just a few months later a family crisis occurred and I started to pack on the weight and within 6 months was up to 185-190 and peaked at just under 200. I stayed at this weight for about a year and a half – from ages 22-24. I then lost about 20 lbs and was at 175 – I stayed around this weight for about year and a half. Right after my 26th birthday my boyfriend and I bought a house. For some reason the urge to binge kicked in and within 6 months I had gained about 30 lbs to get me to my current weight of 206. I've been at this weight for about 6 months now.

So what's got me started again on my quest to lose this extra weight? I went on vacation to Norway with my mom for 2 weeks in May. A few things happened during the vacation that pushed me to say I am going to lose this weight. First of all, the airplane seats. I fit in the seats, but it was a little tight. My mom is also overweight and with the two of us sitting next to each other we hardly had enough room to maneuver around to eat our lovely airline meal. Also on the trip we took a ferry to Denmark. The people we were visiting brought their car on the ferry – well they pack the cars in like sardines on these ferries. Trying to get out of the car was awful – I was trying to squeeze myself out of the car while at the same time not denting the car next to us. There were other things too, but bottom line is I'm ready to lose this weight. I'm sick of being unhealthy. I'm sick of waiting to do things when I'm thin. I'm sick of never wearing shorts and sweating like a pig during the summer. etc, etc...

So as of June 1st I'm following the WW points plan at home. I've started WW multiple times, the last time being at the beginning of this year, so I have all the materials and understand the plan. I'm going to weigh myself every Friday. This first week I told myself that my goal was just to journal and not worry so much about staying within my points range. Well I've accomplished my journaling goal and lost 1 lb this past week. Next week my goal is to stay within my points range. After I have this down I plan on incorporating some exercise.

Well, I'm excited to join this great group of women and look forward to the support. I promise my posts won't be so long in the future.
:D

noelle74
208 (HW)
207.2 (WW start - 6/1/01)
206.2 (CW)
145 WW goal/125 Personal goal

Hi everyone! First and most important - Amy, welcome back! Horsey Girl and Noelle, welcome to you too. HG, look at my stats, I'm the same height as you and started in pretty much the same place. I've been at it for a year and I'm taking it pretty slow, but I'm happy with it. Keep coming back, all of you, these ladies are FAB!!!

Sorry I haven't been around much lately, it's coming up to the end of term here and suddenly there are so many things to be done. At the moment I'm writing a paper for a seminar MOnday evening ... I only started it yesterday and I'm away at a wedding this weekend, so even though it's friday, I'm here till it's done!!! I am bushed as well because I tried to stay up all night to watch the election coverage and kept falling asleep and eventually woke up at about 5am and have been on the go ever since. Election was kind of dull, nothing like your (US) one ... only highlight was this independent candidate who was campaigning on a pledge to save his local hospital who got voted in - only about 10 out of 700 MPs aren't in one of the 3 main parties, so that's quite an achievement!

Oh! Oh! Oh! we went to see our new flat yesterday and it's FAB! It's quite small, but on the top floor and light. And the complex (it's university accommodation) has a common room with patio doors and a balcony over the river and a BARBECUE!!! And we can have parties there! (I am very excited about the prospect of being able to entertain ...)

Stacey - I will be in Lawrence KS from October 4-6 for the conference, haven't even thought about flights, or how long I'm actually going to stay, but it would be ACE to see you (and anyone else who's within range too!). Yay!

Anyway, better get back to the paper - Trish, stay well! Everyone else, stay OP!!! (I should take my own advice ...)

hugs
Lolly
xxx

NOelle- Post away girl!! It is great to hear that you are taking action. We all have good and bad days and it is so good to have the support of these ladies. congrats on the 1 pd. I love each loss big or small. We can do this together :)

Kieri Happy b-day to you, Happy b-day to you Happy Birthday yada yada yada :) Have the best ever!!!! I love the meaning of your name how cool. Mine i am not sure about???? There are always different ones.

horseygirl Hey Glad you joined us. to edit your profile go to profile at the top of the page and you can change it from there. I will explain in greater detail if needed let me know.

amy- glad you are back. You must have been posting on my hiatus :)

Belle- Where is everyone? Actually I guess I should get some work done.

My sister just called and my beautiful niece, Celia Marie (4 mo.), has to go get a shot so she wants moral support. I am gonna suck at this I guarantee it. I hate to hear her cry:( Oh well a sisters got to do what a sisters got to do.

I may check back soon, Becky

Hey, thanks for the welcome.
It makes me so proud to see other people meeting their goals.

Lolly - You're right - our stats are so similar - it's great that you're doing so well. Hopefully I can stick this out and follow in your footsteps

Grace - thanks so much - I fixed my profile.

Hope everyone's having a good friday!!

Congrats, Ali! That must feel so good. You're an inspiration to us all!

Kirsty: I love funky-colored nail polish! I always have fun colors on my toes. Right now I have metallic silver, but usually it's orange or purple or blue. :dizzy:

I just want this day to be over. Weekend, come on! I have to work Sunday, but tomorrow my b/f and I are going to a jazz festival at a winery. And at night we're going out for a nice dinner I was awarded for a story I wrote. It'll be fun. I'm going to make him dress up!

Welcome Noelle, Horseygirl, and welcome back, Amy!

Kierie: I love your name! My first two aren't very Irish .. Kimberly Elizabeth.

Well, I gotta go. Have a good weekend everyone!

Sorry its taken me a while to post today! Super busy at work! Well AF is really here now so no baby. Kinda sad, but at the same time relieved. It'll happen when the time is right. Does anyone know what happens if you work for WW and get pregnant? I was thinking of starting to work for WW before the kiddos come along so I can get the weight off after.
Anyways~
Ali ~ Congrats on Lifetime! Hopefully I'll inch my way there soon!
KO ~ Welcome to the ranks of the quarter century club! I'm half way to the 26 mark now.

Welcome to the new posters! Congrats on taking control of your lives! I have all the confidence that you will make it!

Hello to all I missed. I have to go to Houston tomorrow, so I need to get all of my work done. I'll come back soon :)
Kay

I don't think Fridays should be hectic!!! This has been one of the busiest days for me!! I have been eating Hershey Mini's all day, too! :?: I can't wait to get out of this office and away from all the chocolate!
Have a great weekend everyone.
Hello to everyone new!! I love new faces!:dizzy:
Kay: Michelle (who posted on this board last year) was pg and worked for WW. I just don't think you can "be on program" if you are pg. Not for sure, tho.

Is it me or is this day dragging on and on? One more stinking hour to go, ugh!:mad:

My tummy has been hurting on and off through out the day- I hope I am not catching anything!! That would seriously suck. :(

Well, I don't have much to say except I need a raise and I won't get one for a year. sucks to be me.

Well, should get some work done. Stacey, I agree, Fridays should be fun days and they just aren't

Have a good one girls!

:wave: :rolleyes:

I realize everyone over the pond is already home by now, but I thought some of you are still lurking. Belle? Stacey?

For once, I've had a quiet Friday and I'm glad. There was actually some work I could have done but I was lazy. I'm here Sunday so I can do it then, I suppose. I really should have started writing one particular story, but oh, well! :D I also still have some preparation to do for a high school journalism workshop we're sponsoring over the next two weeks. I'm one of the coordinators. It's so much fun and it gives me something different to do on the job for a few weeks. We teach the kids all about the newspaper and they get to write a story for publication. It's a lot of fun!

Well, time to get outta here!