LOL Jazy...I'm not really a rolling stones fan at all. But they are legends and we dont get many concerts here in missoula MT so I got the tickets. I think it'll be fun. When in my life am I gonna get to say yeah I saw the stones in concert LOL! I went to disneyworld with this leg I think I can handle tonight too, got no choice really!
On the doctors note...they called today and apparently nothing is wrong with me. There is nothing wrong with my back and they wont give me anything for pain (not that I wanted pills I just wanna know whats wrong and how to fix it) The nurse all but came out and said we think you are faking it. When I questioned what was wrong with me then, why am I in such agony every day, she made me make another appointment. So I had a good cry about it. I am just upset because I suffered with this pain for over a year now, and I finally break down and go see a doctor just to have them tell me I'm faking it and theres nothing wrong with me. So I'll see the doc again on Wednesday and tell him hey...if its not my back get to looking because there IS something wrong with me, this pain is not in my head!
Okay off to finish chores around here so I can get ready to go! Have a wonderful night everyone!!
Melissa, I just want to tell you how sorry I am to hear of the nurse's call. The back is so tricky and there's still a lot that isn't understood about it.
About 11 or 12 years ago I had horrible back pain that lasted for months. It was in the lower right part of my back and felt like something was pressing on a nerve. My doctor could never figure it out. She'd prescribed 3 different medications and nothing ever took the pain away. At one point she'd scheduled me for a vaginal ultra sound. They found a couple of cysts that might have caused the pain. But they didn't really think that was the cause. My scoliosis wasn't the cause either. Eventually it did stop hurting and I don't know why.
Now I usually only have the pain slightly about 10 or 14 days before my period. Nothing abnormal was ever found though. I have recently found that the Callanetics exercises that stretch the back and sides, seem to alleviate the pain. I'm not an expert by any means, but if they are not able to find anything, and all else fails, maybe the Callanetics could help.
I'm sorry for the way it all turned out. I hope everything gets better soon.
BTW.... I ate four cookies yesterday. They were Toll House Turtle Chocolate chip. I won't have anymore though. Because they are all gone.
Sara, I'm sorry you're hitting a rough patch, but as they say, this too shall pass. I know, easier said than done, huh? LOL I've always liked the idea of working out to get my day started. I did this several years back when I lost a bunch of weight and loved how it made me feel. Really kept that energy going all day for me. I think it's a personal choice, lots of people swear by exercise at night. That helps lots to sleep alot better. I guess its all in how you want to plan your day and how committed you are willing to be. I hear ya, I wish I could wake up tomorrow and have all the extra weight be gone. No such luck. So what do we do? We keep trudging forward, thru the good and the bad. You can do this!!!
Mia, we all know never to let ourselves get too hungry, but we all do it. Its a learning process and one hopefully we'll all get quick. Hang in there, I hope you at least enjoyed the Reeses? lol Those are my fave!!!
Trish, yeah the dressing room lady was sorta scary. Dh doesnt believe me! lol Not that I can blame him. Well, I hope to be trying on skinny clothes alot sooner than later--heck, anything is better than what I was staring at!
Jazy, I do miss my little one. She's the baby and we're very close. I definitely want her to get out there and have a blast, just bothers me that she feels upset. Poor kid. Yes! Biggest Loser tonight!!! I believe this is week 3 and I already don't like the new trainer they've got for the red team! lol Call me picky.
Melissa, I cannot even believe there's nothing wrong with your leg? While I can understand that they'd not be quick to dispense with the pain meds, but still!! I hope that tonight you don't feel too much of it so you can enjoy "the man". Potato chip lips and all..... Cracks me up that these guys are a million years old and still rockin. Kewl that you can say you saw 'em "way back when".
Just popping in for a minute. We've stopped for the night. I feel good about my food so far. Not enough water....but I'll work on it tomorrow. We're having fun...stolpped for a couple hours at a park today and had a picnic and played. We're hoping to be in South Dakota tomorrow and we'll do a lot of sight seeing there.
Melody - I'm glad you're enjoying the trip so far. I hope the whole experience exceeds your expectations. Hmmm... Maybe journaling your experiences would be a good idea.
I hope you and your family have a great time and are safe at moments.
Melissa - I hope your daughter has a great time. And I'm glad you're ok in her absence too. I hope it's just something that she protests at first, but then has a great time. That was so sweet the way her best friend consoled her.
The lady in the dressing room.... Yikes! There are lots of strange people in the world. And they live among us! If it were not for them, who would we laugh at?
Mia!! - I'm so excited for you and your family! I know you feel a ton of relief about your husband's decision. I'm glad it's all working out for you. And you'll be living in New Orleans! I swear I'm becoming more and more envious by the day.
Hi Jazy!!
Hey Trish! - Congrats on the new vehicle and the upcoming trips. Fun, fun fun...
I've started the book. I'm not very far though. I'm at the part where Sunny is meeting with her dad and his girlfriend.
Sara - Chin up, my friend. We'll all get this weight thing sorted out. Don't wallow in it. I know that many of us have a tendency to do that. Just press forward and fight not to lose anymore ground. You're going to be successful. This is just a bump in the road.
Hi Cartersmama - I hope you had fun with your husband. Yeah, I hate fishy fish too.
You are just the workout queen! WTG lady!
Bonnie. My hero!!
Eight pounds is fantastic. It's major. You're an inspiration. I think we all need to jump on your bandwagon!
It sounds like we've all been struggling in the food area. I think we all just need to learn to make better, non-extreme, choices. And exercise even if we have to make ourselves do it. We all started out with a lot of fervor and determination. Then it fizzles out... Certain things like moderation and exercise need to become our norm. I think the key words are "norm" and "moderation". The extremes are setting us up. First we go through the extreme of deprivation and then the extreme of binging or near binging. Or just spending a few days eating bad stuff. Let's get off the hamster's wheel!
Now it's time for us to really accept that this we are supposed to make healthy lifestyle choices. Maybe it won't be x amount of carbs per day and maybe we'll miss the mark being perfect. But we have to keep plugging away at it and keep practicing. We might not lose 3 or 4 pounds every week, every now and then some pizza or a slice of cake will pop up. We just have to make sure that it doesn't happen several times a week. Or even every week. Maybe we need to work on living normal, sensible healthy lives that include nutritious foods, exercise and....... The occasional cookie.
Let's not stress about this stuff anymore and learn some balance while we're learning to be healthier. Food is having too much power over us. A candy bar or potato chips are not supposed to make us have a bad day! We just know that if we have that candy or chips, we've got to keep things in check for a week or two. We can't keep living our lives this way.
Well, I'm off to do my Callanetics! Have a great day everyone!!
Gooooood Morrning!!!! Hope everyone is starting their morning off great!!! I am still in bed! Well it is 6:30am!
Melissa, wait.. no concerts?? Didnt Pearl Jam go there not that long ago? And some of the members live there too! Sorry my sister is a huge fan and goes to see them everywhere! Okay and that sucsk about the dr. I would see if you could get in with someone else to look you over and maybe they can figure out why you are in so much pain. I have a ton of back pain as well, and it turned out to be arthritus (sp?) in my back. Um I am only 26! They wanted me to go through all this physical therapy but I think its just my boobs! haha. I am thinking once I get this weight off and loose the boobs (I hope) my pain will go away.
Melody, Hope you are having a blast on you trip! Sounds like fun!!!!
Sara, its a new day today!! You can do it! We are all here to support you! A few slip ups here and there are fine! Just climb back up on that horse!
Okay. I thought I was going to die yesterday. I took my car in and then decided to walk after that. 3 miles later up hills sweating like a maniac I made it. I stopped at a park so my son could play walked over to Target too and got some shopping done. And then by that time my car was done! But then I also went to pilates and spin.. this is where the dying part comes in. I got home and wanted to pass out. I ended up going to bed before 8! haha. Tonight is date night! woo! And boy do we need it. I weighed myself first thing this morning and I weigh less then I did 2 years ago! But I am still out of whack from having my son. *shudders*. I still have a ways to go but I can do it!!! Good luck today ladies!!!
Good Morning to all I hope that all is well with everyone. I was wondering the same where is Aqua? as I said before I hae read and reread the BL book. Bob encourages you to exercise before breakfast. If your are doing any Sculpting or weights do them first and then do your cardio he says that you will burn the stored fat instead of burning the calories you have jest consumed. I have not tried this yet cause by the time I have a quiet house its 9am and I am hungry and I dont trust myself to want to cheat. he also talks about Mantras. they have them located all over the ranch I was thinking of doing this one . It is where you make signs like YOU CAN DO IT! , I CAN DO THIS, ONE DAY AT A TIME, jest different one that you thik you can respond to and help you stay on track and mabe give you some more will to keep it up. He says this will silence the Negetive in your head and you will have a better outlook.
Jest a few sugestions. I didnt do any workout yesturday I cleaned my childrens room and it was pretty it took me 4 hours to clean them both. When they got home I gave the girls a bill for 50$$ each and my son got the full 100$$ . Maybe that could explain why Iam kinda sore today. Then I had to go to school for pparent teachers confrences and I was jest floored I was talking to my DD teacher and I was telling her how she is fighting me on homework and not taking the time to do it. Then she asked me if they get her in an after school program if we would consider taking her off the meds the doc jest put her on last week. Aparently they are noticing her doing things to other kids now. Like she swatted at someones hair yeaturday. I quiclky responded to her and said NO!!!! i had to explain to her she is on the meds becasue she think no matter where she goes or what she is doing someone is going to come and hurt her. I explained to her that she jest started taking the prozac on sat . Then she tells me that it proabley isnt in her system yet. I was like duh. I was telling my Dh when I got home and he was pissed he said what right does she have to ask you something like that. She doesnt have a MD. I am sory to be ranting and raving here.
amanda they way I look at things is that when you have a baby and you have to teach the child how to eat weather it is from bottle or mother. I see it as we have to teach our selfs how to eat again. We are soo used to eating the wrong way and now we have to teach our selfs to eat the right now. Of cousre we will slip up and think we are not making it but We didnt get fat in a day and we wont get skinny in a day either . Jest take baby steps I look at today not tomorrow.
Melody I hope that you are having a wonderful time.
Melissa what kind of doctor are you going to? maybe if he cant find nothing out send you to someone who deals with stuff like that.
Jazy The BL last night I was kinda mad that the blue team lost the reward challenge again. Then the shocker when the Blue team had to do the tie breaker when they came up even with the kick off votes. Then they voted Nelson off. OMG that was a shocker and he wasnt up for kickoff.
acording to the book they exercise 4to 6 hrs a day.
I better be going I have to get dressed before the ups man is at my door with my sons meds.(shots) So I better be going.
Good Morning rockstars!! Ugh I'm tired! I got my kiddos off to school and I think I'll go back to bed for an hour before I gotta get ready to go myself. I'll have to do personals later. I'm too old to party like that! LOL!! The concert was SO amazing! I'm so glad we didnt sell our tickets they were worth WAY more than we wanted for them. I said before I'm not even really a stones fan at all but it was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. We had a GREAT time! I loaded up on aleve and anti inflamatories before we left and there were only a couple of times when i had to just sit for a minute.
Stacia you are right we do get Pearl Jam whenever they tour but they dont count because they are local boys LOL! Jeff Ament lives here, I used to have to call him often to tell him his Directv bill was past due.
I missed BL last night, but read the recaps today. I'm sick of the red team winning!! I thought it was so unfair that they got the care packages last time plus they got to spend the evening with their families. Maybe unfair isnt the word since they did win it...just felt really sorry for blue! And the tie breaker rules are stupid! The blue team should have voted between the 2 that had votes. Now that was unfair.
Okay I gotta go lay down! Oye! LOL! I'll be back in a bit!
All was quiet on the phone lines last night, I am so happy. I fully expected a phone call from a teacher tellin me I had to come fetch my kiddo. But nope. Hopefully she wasn't even fazed by the night time and just fell dead asleep. You better believe I slept with the house phone, my cell phone & dh's cell phone all lined up next to me on the table! LOL I am such a horrible crazy person when it comes to my kids.
Melody, I hope you guys are having a wonderful time. Sounds like things are going a-ok. Haven't been tempted to leave anyone anywhere yet, so this is good! LOL j/k. I hope you are journaling your trek across the country, what a great thing for your kids to read about when they're older.
Amanda, if ONLY it could be the occasional cookie! LOL I don't do occasional when it comes to cookies or anything sweet really. I hate that I have this tendancy. I look at dh and the man can take 1 cookie out of a package and not go back to it until they've gone stale. Now why can't I have that?? It's been a real rough coupla days for me, and for whatever reasons I've just gotten weak. I know that exercise is important, just having trouble finding a time that is a 'good' time. Right now 5 am doesn't really do it for me. I want it to be something that fits somewhere without it having to a big ordeal. Otherwise I know for a fact that I will not stick with it. Sorta like finding a diet plan that suits your needs and tastes to make it a lifelong thing.
Stacia, my goodness look at all that exercise chicky! Wow, you really got a good workout in with all that walking, didnt you? I can only imagine that sleep must've felt wonderful last night. Have a great time with dh tonight! Yep, you can definitely do this!!
Bonnie, oh you're a saint to be cleaning the kids rooms. My son is the clean, organized one and my girls (who share) are the little packrats. Wouldn't it be nice if we could charge like that for us SAHM's? I would be rich I tell ya! lol Poor blue team got it rough last night, I know I would've been so upset to not get to spend time with my dh. And can I just tell you that the 3 women on the red team drive me insane????!!!!!! Ugh, especially the one with the foul mouth, where every other word is a curse word when she gets upset. I wish one of them would've gone home!
Melissa, I am so glad you had a great time last night! Too old to party, huh? Hhhhmmmmmm. Kinda scary to think about way back when we could go 2 days without much sleep and be ready for more. I remember those days fondly! LOL I'm glad the leg didnt give you too much trouble! If this doc can't figure out what's going on, your best bet may be having to go to a specialist of some kind. May be the only way you get real answers and a solution.
Well, I am definitely NOT looking forward to weigh in tomorrow. I fear it could be disasterous. But hey, I've got no one to blame but myself, right? I think right now if I could have just one wish, it'd be to not be an emotional eater. Seriously! I don't want a quick fix, I want to do the work, I want to sweat for it, but not having that emotional trigger every single day would make things alot easier! lol
I am eager to make today a great day. The last few haven't been good at all and I need to get out from under that and have a great day today. The old Nike mantra, "Just Do It" keeps coming to mind. How true it is! Sitting back feeling sorry and wallowing in guilt & self pity will not get me anywhere except maybe bigger. Just gotta get up off my behind and 'just do it'.
I don't have time for personals....but I wanted to say "hi!" to everyone! I'm going to NY this weekend and probably won't be online, but smooches to all and I'll see you when I get back!
Danielle I know what you mean I wanted to jump in the TV last night and strangle Heather From Utah . Man she was making me soo mad the way she was screaming and hollaring. she was soo making an A** out of herself. I do think that the Tie breaker should of been only between the two that was up for dismisal. Hope the Blue team prevails next week.
OMG the room cleaning . It was terriable My 11 Year OLd DD likes to clean her room but it is always piled in the closet when she is done. wouldnt it be nice if we got paid for doing things like that. i bet when your DD got their she started having fun and she will have so many stories to tell you when she gets back.
amanda you are so right about everything you said. i can't keep beating myself up for eating something i shouldn't have. or not losing the weight i thought i was suppose to for the week. when you ignore the scales and just change your lifestyle the weight should start to fall off. now of course we all know that means we really need to change our life styles, exercising and eating right, and right portions. treating ourselves occassionally.
i admit i started slacking towards the end of september. my h starting working 12 hrs due to side jobs. and we all know i like to go to the gym. well thats been getting harder and harder to do. but if i really had the right mindset that wouldn't really be the problem. the problem is simply making excusing for not choosing the right choices and being lazy. I'm tired of being lazy, don't get me wrong i work all day and rip and run errands all evening, and take care of the baby. but i know if i really want to stop and exercise i could versus watching a show i really like or going to walmart, etc.
amanda what you said helps alot i guess thats why this is called a support group, because a cookie or two is not going to put 1500 or 1600 calories on me in one day. Alot of poor choices will. Exercising is not going to hurt me, unless i do it wrong, but lack of will. Excuses,excuses, excuses, excuses, will stop me and all of us from achieving or goals. I say all this because i was starting to slip. I now i am re-focused.
Stacia I admire what you did today, that was alot of you showed. I would never had actually walked and did all that without a car at my disposal. On a bike or treadmill yeah, but not on the street with no end in sight for awhile. S**% i don't even like parking far at the grocery store. Like amanda you have a strong determination and you will succeed.
Okay you guys no I'm nuts today I just joined the 21 day challenge. If i screw up one day i have to start over on day one again. my goals are: 100 ounces of water a day, 100 crunches a day, and 1400 calories a day i get 3 day pauses on water and calories without loss of count.
I'll keep you updated as we go along. Hey who won the september challenge? the one with percentage of body weight.
hi guys mel i hope you feel better i still have tmo visiting and i noticed at night i have the worst headaches man what we women go through
well i exercised yesterday and this morning it really does make a differ to work out in morinings i felt so much better during the day i made hubby promise to jog with me in the morning and if i do it a month straight the he has to quick smoking he made the deal since i really want him to stop then i have to do my part anywayys im eating akay a few slips but overall much better and a big improvement on water today i got =50oz so far yeah
can someone tell me what the 21 day challenge is i want to try
Good evening girls! Sorry I was so absent today it just turned into one of those days. It was one thing after another, mentally draining. I had some toast this morning because my stomach was so upset from the night before and then I didnt eat or drink anything till after 3pm. I actually did well on portions for dinner..very well now that I think about it. But we had Hamburger Helper so..ya know. Water is very slow.
Trish...tell us a little more about the challenge, what do you get in 21 days? a reward. I think I might want to join you on that but not on the other board.
Mia...if thats not an incentive to jog I dunno what is!!!
I hate to cut it short, I know I didnt respond to everyone I'm sorry, I'm not ignoring you. But I've got half an hour to get lunches made, baths done and kids into bed before ER starts. Priorities you know! LOL!!
Tomorrow will be a better day. I dont think I'm gonna weigh in. The past few days havent been great and I'd rather not feel disappointed. Its just a number anyway. This coming week is going to be better anyway! No roadblocks in the near future just 6 upcoming exams! And fundraiser is winding down next week. I'll be too busy to eat! LOl!! have a wonderful friday everyone!!
Hang in there, I hope you at least enjoyed the Reeses? lol Those are my fave!!!
There are lots of strange people in the world. And they live among us! 
If it were not for them, who would we laugh at?
Now why can't I have that?? It's been a real rough coupla days for me, and for whatever reasons I've just gotten weak. I know that exercise is important, just having trouble finding a time that is a 'good' time. Right now 5 am doesn't really do it for me. I want it to be something that fits somewhere without it having to a big ordeal. Otherwise I know for a fact that I will not stick with it. Sorta like finding a diet plan that suits your needs and tastes to make it a lifelong thing. 
you showed. I would never had actually walked and did all that without a car at my disposal. On a bike or treadmill yeah, but not on the street with no end in sight for awhile. S**% i don't even like parking far at the grocery store. 
