heather i know the feeling of wanting to give up but knowing that would be giving in. good for you for deciding to stick with it

claire sounds like you needed that brownie. **hugs**

beaka girl those spinning classes make my behind hurt for years!! LOL

ghost yeah girl it's awesome! mine does too. it also has a sauna and a steam room

tara We will mini challenge ourself this weekend!!!!

luv OMG!!!! That is awful! I'm so sorry you had to see that. I hope you're ok

cake I'm glad you were able to get in some BFF time though

So I'm down .5 today. Not bad. I squeezed in tanning and 30DS after work last night so I felt fantastic. Today is cardio day.

Nicki - Yay for you being DOWN today. That's great :) And tanning sounds LOVLEY right now... Everyone looks better with a tan!

Luvja Ain't that the truth...I love tanning! And don't worry about that 1.4 I mean gosh it was the VERY NEXT day. It will go away quickly

Nicki YAY for being down. and yes my BFF time was great.

CakeBatter - BFF time is awesome :D My BFF is a hair stylist (which is TOTALLY awesome BTW) We've bonded over hair many times. :lol:

Cake: Oh yes! You SWEAT in spin classes. You HAVE to have a bottle of water when you go in. And the thing is, I was only in the beginner class where they teach you to set the bike and the positions and we did a 30 minute ride. I'm a little scared of the 60 minute class. I'm gonna try it anyway though.

Ya'll are all so cool. You should all move to Atlanta so we can go to the gym together and do each other's hair. :) I've been here 8 months and am just starting to make friends.

beaka - I'd Love to move to Atlanta :love: Or atleast come visit Atlanta... I wanna go "down south" so bad!! It's the accents that get me.. I love it!

hello lovelies! just popping in to see how everybody's doing- on my way to the grocery store. i feel like i've been going there every day!! i have way more food right now than i could eat but hey, at least it's all good stuff!

Luvja: I'm from Mississippi, so you know my accent is bad! And aren't you always going to Jamaica?!?! We'll trade. You take me there and you can visit me here. :)

BL – Sweet you got a good single dad to hang with, that’s awesome, and you weren’t even looking! Hope the kiddo’s get better that sounds aweful, I’m sure its something kids get in that weather though right? Hope the weather clears so you can get in to your place, you’ve been waiting for it!

Cora – your food sounds so yummy, I can’t wait til I’m maintaining, I’m definitely putting samiches back in the mix. I only eat carbs once a day, and it’s normally brown rice or wheat pasta…I love it though, so its all good!

Nikki – yay on the 195.5!!! I believe you’ve posted since then and are at 195 now…sweeeeeeeet! I love to make excuses not to work out on the weekend, I have to get up and do it or I wont! I know its hard with kids though…Even getting it in at all is amazing to me, I’m hoping when I have kids I’ll be able to incorporate some working out!

Kelli – 11lbs, that’s awesome! You’ll get there in no time! I hope you get this new guy to join a gym, I’m SO lucky my BF is a gym rat like me, we push each other so much its awesome. I used to go to the gym alone, but never have I worked out at such a high intensity without a partner…Press the issue! Just don’t scare him away! It’s ok not to do personals all the time…we are some chatters!

Heather – Congrats on the House! Don’t give up, You’ll be fine, just need to get over this hump…when was the last time you changed it up a bit? I bet if you did something a lil different you’d start to see that scale go down again! You’ve come a LONG way girl, you know you can do it, we do too!

Bliss – remind me not to mess with you! You did research and everything that’s awesome..I’m afraid of dr’s….i don’t trust them one bit! Hope you trainer proves himself, they owe you girl!

Saving – Glad you are feeling better, don’t worry, you’ll get through the 30ds and feel wonderful!

Beaka – I want to do a spin class, I HATE the bike, it kills me, but I know its so good for you…Are you going to do it again! GROSS GROSS GROSS mind picture, no more naked ladies in the gym…if that ends up being the problem I hope they ban it.

Tara – I’m so sorry, I never broke your name down to tara-getting-thin, I totally thought it was targeting-thin…totally works. Whoopsy! This is my first computer language, so it’s a pretty hard concept..I took programming fundamentals and it helps a bunch, plus I know SQL fairly good. I work for a Dot-Com, so they use C# ASP.net, and our databases are housed in SQL Server…I so badly want to help the engineering team because we’re losing them all the time, and our shiet is BROKEn all the time! I want to take VB too. I love online classes too, but with this, I need peer help too. Get through TOM and you’ll be fine. :hugs:

Luvja – No worries on the Mickey D’s of course if you can’t get it at home you have to try something, and of course it’s not that good, its fast food, but damn they do a good job making it look good! Haha! OMG – that car accident is crazy, when I was in HS we were on our way to a tournament and we had to drive by a scene too, there were covers over people on the side of the street and the whole car, I think it was a rodeo, was black! Very disturbing, and we had to play softball after that! I know how you feel, its so terrible to see, and only natural to feel for them. I hope you don’t spend too much time thinking about it!

Cake - Everyone needs a lil BFF time, so glad you got to hang! What a nice friend you are to be spending that amount of time on her hair!! Turkey burgers are the bomb diggity, sooo friggin good, good payback!

So yesterday was a good day at the gym, we did back for 30 min, then I walked for 5 min on the treadmill and ran for 25 min. I was going to stop and walk at the 25 min mark with 5 min left to go, and then suddenly my mp3 player started playing this Britney Spears/Madonna song, that is a sick azzzzz dance remix and I was like oh **** no I’m not stoping…I turned the speed up to 6.5 and ran for 2.5 min, then turned it up to 7.5 and could only get through 1.5 mins so I walked it out on the last minute…it was fantastic! We had our roommates parents over for dinner last night, we made faijitas, and I opted out of the tortilla and made my infamous Spanish rice with brown rice is was DEEEE – LISH! I weigh in tomorrow, I better see a 148, or we’re gonna have a Friday night throw down!

beaka - Haha I have spent a good chunck of my life the last little while in Jamaica, but that's pretty much over. I have no idea when I'll be back next :( ... I'm sorry though, NO TRADE!! haha :lol: Let's go party in Jamaica TOGETHER....deal?

ughhhhh i miss ya'll tons!

this might be long.

so i am graduating in 2 months and i thought i knew what i wanted to do with my life and i woke up a few days ago in a panic like maybe i dont want to work in sports and my heart is in public service. i know that i am a purpose driven person and if i dont feel good about what i am doing i wont stick with it. but i definitely have a love and a passion for sports but i dont know if i want to be super cutthroat to stick it out. i want to get married and have babies and its harder when yr in sports.
i think i really want to stick with working on campaigns and maybe in a rep or senator's office for a while then going to law school and then i'll figure it out from there...
then there is my passion for fitness, health and nutrition...i really have been thinking about going back to get another bs in nutrition and dietetics and becoming a certified personal trainer then saving up money and building a clientele to open my own health and fitness studios. i know that might sound crazy but i love exercise and i would love to help people reach their goals. i really dont know what to do lol i am all over the place.:?:

then there is this boy...:dizzy:
so he is someone i have known for a very long time but he had a gf. anyway they broke up a lil bit ago maybe a month and a half and we started hanging out talking on the phone etc. we even got physical.... and its awesome :o
anyway we are both adults and we both have been honest with each other. when i started dating him i seriously felt like i am not looking for a bf til maybe after graduation and i figure out what to do with my life lol. but i have fallen so hard so fast and he has too. we have been talking about it and neither one of us expected things to be like this. we are both enjoying each other and i havent felt this happy with all the butterflies and stuff in a looong time. but i think i want to step away before i get hurt. he just got out of a 4 year relationship and doesnt want a gf because he doesnt think he is ready and i didnt think i wanted a bf but now i do want HIM to be my bf. and trust me girls this is a HUGE deal i have a ridiculous amount of commitment phobia and never fall for a guy first but he is different. and i could see myself falling in love with him quickly and i dont want to because i know he needs time to heal... i didnt expect anything but friendship. the fact that we ended up doing the deed was an excellent perk lol but its def not the basis of this friendship. i think i am going to break it off but i dont want to hurt him more he is going through enough with the other break up. she was a *it**. i dont know what to do. i dont want to get hurt and i dont want to force him to be with me cause if we are ever together i want it to be because of how he feels about me. not because he is vulnerable:?::?:

on another note i dont even have a plan anymore it seems i need to find my motivation and get back going. its like i have 2-3 good days then 4-5 bad days and i just need these good days to take over. i think i will journal and write out what i need to do tonight.

well i think i talked enough. hopefully you girls can help me if not i'm glad you will "listen"
i plan to catch up from this point on cause yall are chatty lol

Bjeweled- i would go for your passions! I cant imagine much worse than being stuck doing something you dont like, always wondering what if you had done something else. I'm graduating (again >.<) in two months too! We will have to have a big graduation photo thread :D As for the boy- if you cant make it a really casual relationship instead of it getting heavy really quickly, maybe you both should take a break from each other for a couple of months? This would get you up to graduation and give him time for his head to clear up a bit. If it wasnt for his 4 year relationship i would say go for it, but thats got to be affecting him in some way. If you guys truely go together well then 2 months will be nothing :) Just an idea.
Finding motivation is hard! Getting back into it after christmas i started weighing myself everyday using www.physicsdiet.com to log it, it was a bit harsh but it managed to get me back on track eventually :dizzy: I also make a plan for the week- what i am going to do in terms of exercise and try to stick to it. I try to make it realistic too- i know that i wont manage to exercise every day, so i make saturday my day off. I can move that day off around if something comes up, so that helps keep me flexible

DanSinDeva: I wanna know how to make that rice!!!

Luvja: Just let me know when!

Bjweled: You should totally consider the field of public health! You could combine all of those interests. I have an MPH in Community Health Education and LOVE what I do. And you can do so much within the field of Public Health... As for the boy issues. I know nothing. Until I can sort out my own issues I don't feel worthy of dishing out advice. :shrug:

Ghost: I signed up for that site! Now I'll have an excuse for my obsessive daily weighing...

Wow, I miss one day of 3FC and my head is spinning from everything I miss.
Corozonas- I'm gonna need you to give me cooking lessons, your food sounds amazing!

I've been so sick since last Friday. :(... last night I couldn't sleep because my legs were hurting so bad, I've never quite experienced anything like it. I was told that it might be a sign of mono. Any nursing/med students in here?? They couldn't get me into the doc today. I guess we will see. All I know is I'm SICK of being sick.

That website has some negative ads. While entering my stats it had an ad for a website that said "Hey Fatty Lose Some D*mn Weight" I think I'll stick to sparkpeople or here. :)

I can't beleive its already 6:30. I went and got my pup from the vet and stayed home with her all day. We took a 4 hour nap. Oopsy. I guess that kept me from eating haha.

Tomorrow is Friday! Woohoo! Hope you are all doing well.