I remember the NKOTB cartoon! I was a fan. But I agree, sometimes, it's good to retire.

Hello all,
well yes let's make this a good week. Although I already said that I amy be too tired to workout after work today BUT after reading all these messages I am inspired. I am going to the gym RIGHT after work instead of the usual coming home and then not leaving again

Eating was OK for me but like I keep saying, I dont think I am hitting my proper calories to loose. Am I eatting too little? I eat about 1300-1400 daily but haven;t been exercising lately. I am 5'7?hmmmm

That sounds like a good range for not exercising, but if you feel like energy is lacking then you should increase. Also once you get back into the swing of exercise, up it to about 1400-1600 depending on how much you do. I did that, then after a few weeks of steady exercise I went to 1500-1700. It might not work for you but you can figure out what you need as time passes.

I feel good right now! Apparently all the guys in the shop are talking about how good I look. The production mgr came in and told me. He said "everyone was saying how you were kinda heavy before but now you look hecka good." At first, I was like they thought I was heavy, but um duh! I was over 300 lbs! But it did make me feel good. Especially b/c I've been feeling down that the scale is not moving. I wore a skirt today, first time showing off my legs since I've been working out. I think that's why I'm getting the comments. lol I wanted to feel "pretty" so I did it, darn it. lol

Hello everyone!! I'm back from my vacation in the sunny and beautiful Orlando, FL! I can't believe it's been over a week since I've logged onto 3FC... I feel like I've missed so much! But I hope you didn't all think I'd fallen off the wagon. Hehe.

Staying OP while on vacation was impossibly difficult... But since my vacation mostly consisted of going to Disney World (OMG!) and Universal Studios/Islands Of Adventure, I was able to justify eating lots of junk on the basis that I was walking around all. day. long. and probably burning many more calories than I usually do. Plus, since I'm a vegetarian, it's hard to find things to eat at amusement parks that aren't junk. Fortunately I had a very light/healthy breakfast every day and managed to have fruit with most of my lunches (plus drink LOTS of water, simply to stay hydrated, heh)... It was just the dinners that I REALLY splurged (mmm, I sold my soul to the Mexican restaurant at EPCOT and I'd do it again in a heartbeat! ). I was a little worried that I'd gain a couple pounds while on vacation so I really braced myself to step on the scale for the first time since I got back--but I'm down 4 lbs since the last time I changed my ticker!! Heck yes! I don't remember how much I weighed right before I went on vacation but it's probably been 1.5-2 weeks since I've changed my ticker, and it feels GREAT. And the best part is, I look pretty darn good in my vacation pictures!

I can't wait until I reach my second mini-goal. I've resolved to post some pictures when I've finally lost 40 lbs. I still don't see a huge difference in myself, physically, but maybe you all will... I can't believe I'm so close to being in the 220s. I've always thought of 220s being like, "on the thin side of fat." Hehe.

Sorry that this post is sooo long but I'm feeling pretty giddy right about now!

Hey all. So I promised myself that I would NOT binge this weekend. Friday I was AMAZING, Saturday night I was really close to one but decided to just go to sleep. All day Sunday I was great, I even turned down a cupcake (a new cupcake store moved into my apartment building uh oh), but then Sunday night when I got home from dinner I had a major binge. It always happens when I come home from a big dinner out. I figure I was a bad girl at dinner so might as well just keep going. It didn't start off as one, started with 1 WW dessert then 2 then some sugar free candy then some 100 calories packs then some cereal and then I just kept going until I got sick.

AHHH!!!! I swore it wouldn't happen. And I'm very good about once the week starts getting right back on track. Problem is I can tell jeans are starting to get tighter. I am starting to gain weight. I am perfect over the week but so back on the weekend and it is starting to show.

well this is my first weekly chat thingy, exciting!!
last week i did very well and i have lost about 5 lbs.
yesterday was my engagement party, where my fiances family and my family meet and we get presents and cake and stuff
so i had cake, and some chips, bbq pork, etc.
BUT i was so proud of my self, and had small portions, and just ate until i was full.

since it was kind of a 'celebration' weekend, we had a party saturday night with our bridal party, where we played a lot of beer pong...i have been doing well with not getting beer and usually getting rum and diet when we go out....but i splurged. it was my engagement party weekend!!

i got on the scaled this morning, and i was still down a pound from last time i weighed myself...which was thursday i think. im so excited that i kep myself in check and didn't over do it, and that my work is paying off!

This weekend I learned a few things. I learned that an entire bottle of pinot noir has roughly 600 calories in it and that if I take it easy at lunch I can drink an entire bottle for dinner...lol! sure, I had a headache all day saturday but from 5pm-midnight on friday it was worth it.

My weekend was calorie controlled like a freaking obsessive compulsive. and even though my doc didn't give me the excercise go ahead I went ahead a did some light elliptical (15 minutes) and treadmill (5 min) on sunday while my son swam.

I've officially lost 20 lbs since July 1st and my sister is so jealous that my jeans are baggy that she told our parents that I was starving myself and that I was making myself sick post surgery by "dieting". She is a very manipulative type...actually, has alot of sociopathic tendencies. So I went into hard core ignore-the-family mode. As long as my doctor says I'm fine in my calorie range and losing weight after surgery is okay I'm good with that, to hades with what other people think.

This week I plan to be hardcore on plan, I'd like to meet a goal that I set three months ago that is soooo attainable at this point. 175lbs by the 15th of Sept. That would mean that I'll have to go back and ammend my goals for the samhain challenge but as long as I'm ahead of the game and not behind I think thats a "good thing" (in the words of my personal hero Martha).

Hello everyone. Hope you had a good weekend.
My friend was laid off on Friday, and as her and her husband have only one car that is manual and she doesn't know how to drive manual, I went and got her and tried to cheer her up...which included a bar, Korean restaurant, and then even ice cream! I did have only one drink with diet coke and at Korean restaurant, we had steamed fish with lots of seasoning...meaning high sodium. Oh well. As I told myself I wasn't going to have official weigh-in till this Saturday which is the TBL deadline, I told myself I wouldn't be disappointed or upset even if I see lots of gain today. Well, I actually saw loss, which was great because I haven't seen loss in a couple of weeks and have been wondering if it was my time for plateau. I'm going to try to lose 1.6 lb more to give me 8 lb loss since the end of the last TBL challenge.

It was also time to measure myself and I have lost 7 inches since 7th of last month. That gives me total 39 inches loss. Pretty happy about it.

My school is going okay, although I think it's finally taking its toll on me and I feel like I'm stuck. As I am a planner, I do not like the feeling of not being in control and I feel like I'm being controlled by anything but me...when it comes to school right now.

I will try to come back later and do some daily. Missed you ladies!!!

one of my favorite dinners!

I'm having a little bit of a moment here. Do any of you ever feel like you may be becoming less fun, boring, OCD, annoying, nagging, etc... when it comes to food and calories and your body. I recently have started catching myself saying things out loud that sound self loathing ("I'm too fat to wear this...") while my husband is around as well as talking A LOT about calories and food items. I don't want to become obsessive or make him cringe everytime we are eating. In fact, I really don't want to think about food this much myself! I hate that everytime a skinnier girl walks by me I check her hout to see just *how* much skinnier she is.

Does anyone have theses moments? How do I not become Obsessive about this?

Hey Ladies. I wanted to check in, my weekend went well. I at fairly good for the whole weekend (I actually think I was in my calories ranges everyday although I did not records Saturday). I went to my sisters and cut the hedges for a good 45 minutes which was an upperbody workout. Today I started back at the gym!!! I keep complaining my body was sore for the last few days and I realized it was because I wasn’t working out like I should. (Imagine that). My neck is sore from working out but I’m sure it will loosen up. I can’t hit the gym tomorrow because I’m flying to Chicago tonight and back tomorrow. I was recruited to appear at a press conference for my old internship. But I’ll be back Wednesday.

Oh and my weight is still at 168. Hopefully now that I'm getting in control of the semester I can actually start losing.

I used to do that. Then I noticed my husband found me less desireable or got annoyed, and then I realized the more I stressed about food, the less I was losing. Just relax, take a deep breath, and anytime you stop to size up a skinny girl, remember you have someone that loves you for who you are. You're doing what you have to do, so don't worry about every little thing. Skinny girls are skinny, so what, big deal...skinny doesn't mean beautiful.

Hey Everyone,

Things have been crazy for me lately, in the best way. Today I got my new elliptical and it is AMAZING! It was a bit more than I had originally wanted to pay, but omg, it is so worth it. My old one went kapoot on Saturday so it was good this one was coming today. I did 30 mins almost straight through, which is a big deal for me since my feet usually end up hurting after 15 mins. And Saturday I took a watercolor class all day and it was also AMAZING. I've never really done watercolor since it seems like a very unforgiving art, but this class put all those fears to rest and I made some amazing pieces on my first day. Plus, the instructor was just a wonderful and inspiring women who wanted us to create and be crazy like children with art. And the other people in the class were so warm and inspiring and positive. So great!

The biggest thing happened last week Monday. I've been trying to get in contact with an old friend who I haven't really been in contact with for a while. Long story short, there was an incident about 12 years ago that shifted my life and was the catalyst for a downward spiral of depression and alienation on and off til about 8 months ago. I've never been able to get the answers I needed from him, and this has caused a lot of issues with us and my own life. Since getting my life back on track and feeling stable and ok, I decided to try to reconnect with him because this is one thing I know needed to be resolved. I sent a few emails, giving a few details on what has happened and if he wanted to contact me, I would love that. Well, last Monday he left a message. And we finally talked Wednesday night for about 2 hours about things that happened and I can't even put into words how I now feel. Like this huge weight has been lifted. We are both in such different and better places in our lives, and I think that is why we are able to have this conversation. It's almost like my life shifted off the tracks 12 years ago, and now it's shifted back on the tracks. I'm practically euphoric!

I hope everyone else is having a wonderful Monday!!