platform- I get yeast infections a lot...I just asked my doc for a prescription for diflucan so I can have it on hand easy whenever I need it...1 pill and it's all cleared up.

Forest - I need that instead of always keeping the Monostat egg thingies on hand because I always feel gross for the rest of the day while the medicine is working :(

Hi ladies,

My weekend was boring, but this morning I was super excited to see the scale at 170.6. I was at 171 yesterday. And I know its could be a little fluctuation from water weight but I alwasy like to weigh myself once the weekend is over just to make sure I didnt gain any weight. Weekends are my off days from the gym so with no workout and eating only --- the lbs come back up a little.

ANd that is really frustrating because you work a whole week to get to a certain number but -- come monday when you have to start from a higher number because of a weekend -- it sucks.

So I try to eat even less on the days that I am not working out. Or actually I try to eat even smarter.

I should go grocery shopping --- mostly for healthy snacks today.

Meanwhile, since I havent had anything sweet/dessert in past few days I cant wait till halloween so can treat myself to a red velvet cheesecake.

Platformnine I checked out spark people too and I like it. Even though I like blogging here better but that site definitely has useful info. I put down my mini goal to lose 20 pounds by new years and it put me at need only 90 min exercise/ week that is like 3 days of 30 min and it said I could eat between 1200-1500 calories buring about 220 in a day. Which sounds totally doable. Thanks for the great info.

All this talk about TOM is making me so nervous. I was on a rol with the lbs i lost this week. But I dread TOM. I will gain some weight and will get totally disheartened. This is about the time I quit. And I think I should be getting mine soon. Oh please I wish it isnt untill Halloween.

My eating was semi out of control this weekend!!! The meals I had throughout the weekend were fine. It was the stupid snacking on not good things that killed me. Way too many cookies....and I made the decision to buy them too, so I really only have myself to blame. I felt so sick last night, but this week is starting new and I am going to do my absolute best to get right back on track.

I can already tell that this week is going to be a LONG one ;) LOL

Stella- i am really glad I know no one in medicine >.< Here's hoping that its not as heavy or painful as you imagine :hug:

Luvja - me too! hugs

Forest - I had a really hard time sat. It took me just under 4 hours. I ended up running 2, walking 2, then running 1, walking 1 and then finally on the last two miles running 1 and walking 2.

I think I wrote responses to everyone. Woo. I forgot how long this can get.

My weekend was good except I am realizing that I am getting old. I don’t know when that happened. Friday I did my normal gym and then hang out at the pool. Saturday did the gym/pool routine and then got ready to go see Cobra Starship (amazing bad if you haven’t heard of them download it) and Boys like Girls. The concert was fun, I wore my hot little white dress I wore to my graduation, jumped around, danced, and screamed for like 5 hours. Bad news is that as I said somehow I’m getting old and my body was super sore on Sunday. Seriously I can’t remember when my legs hurt that bad and I routinely do an hour at the gym of cardio. So I stretched and then went to the gym, did cardio, crunches and weights, which just made me hurt even worse. So then I went to the pool tanned and sat in the hot tub. I spent the rest of the day/night in bed reading because it hurt to move.
Today I went to the gym but only did 30 minutes because I’m still super sore. I can feel everyone of my abdominal muscles. I just started to be able to do crunches since the TT and apparently 75 combined with the already being sore was just too many.

Good news, I started doing contract work for a law firm that will hopefully hire me full time if they like me (I’m a law grad waiting for my bar results) and they gave me a trial assignment which I turned in last week. Well they liked it, I have some revision to make but they are giving me more work. So I think I’m on my way to a full time job!!!

Forestroad – That is great that the bf lightened it up for you :) And great to hear the BP was so good!!!

Mary – Good job starting the C25K. I’m not sure on what the best approach is but I’m interested in seeing what others think. I use the daily plate on livestrong.com I really like it because it has almost everything I eat. If you don’t like sparkpeople then that’s another one you could try.

Feral – Sounds like you had a great weekend. Sorry the scale was up. And Vegas is amazing but I always end up drunk running around like a crazy person. Lots of walking is involved with going there!!!

JennieRose – Good luck restarting the routine. I was just having the conversation with my roommies that I go to the gym even when I’m miserable because if I miss one day it’s more likely that I’ll actually miss three because I will find excuses for at least two more days until I feel guilty. Sorry about the cyst. My sister actually ended up in the hospital because she had some burst.

Chrissy – I hate when other peoples temptations screw you up. :(

Pam – Great job turning down the cupcake.

Everlasting – I’m originally from Michigan. I just moved to San Diego. Great job with the ordering out and turning down cupcakes!

Ruth – That is a really cute idea going to the first date spot. I love Chinese therefore only get it as a special treat.

Freddy – 16 miles! Wow that is great!!!

Luvja – Step away from the food. Or at least write everything down … once I see how many calories I’m eating it normally gets me back in control.

Sweettooth – Dessert is my weakness. I try not to even keep it in the house. Stay strong and avoid the dessert area at the grocery store.

Chele - Sorry that this week looks like a long one. Avoid the cookies and hang in there.

LOL Chele, right there with you. Keep telling myself I can buy them for the kids, and I have the willpower to resist...but until today I don't always succeed!

Day One for me. On track so far, it's lunchtime here in NZ, off to have some spelt toast. Very filling. With marmite and v little butter. V Little :)

Thankfully, I don't have to worry about the cookies anymore.....since I pretty much ate them all over the weekend anyway :o

Hi everyone! I'm not sure if it's good or bad to see that I'm not the only one that went overboard this weekend. ;)

Went to a Patrick Swayze-fest on Saturday - complete with life-size cut out of Patrick Swayze. So much fun, but had a bunch of jello shots (played a drinking game with the movies) and a couple pieces of pizza. So yummy! Except I believe it was the pizza that didn't agree with my intestinal tract. :( Lesson learned.

So all last week I was eating back my calories from exercise. Gonna have to stop that. Even before the weekend pizza the scale isn't budging.

Here's to a great week everyone! Sorry that I don't type personals. I'm proud of myself just getting on here to post to keep myself accountable. But I do read all your posts.

Ha, its heavy/painful every other month. My sister said that is perfectly normal to get these kinds of cysts, they're usually the reason why people have late periods, as they can be stress-induced. I just don't want to be bloated anymore.

I think this living alone thing is making the cat love me more. I just got home from class (I left at 7:30 this morning for work) and she jumped in my arms and purred like a mad man. I could almost get used to this...

My doc just told me today I have very "cystic breasts" which is apparently why they hurt during TOM. Ah, cysts, what would our lives be w/o them.

Oh that sucks :( mine used to be really painful, the only thing that really worked for me were muscle relaxants >.< But at least you know why its late right? ^_^''

Mad men purr?? :O

Hey ladies.. I hope it's okay if I just hop on in here. For me weekends are the worst. Even when I try to be mellow and have a relaxing weekend I somehow get convinced to go to a bar. I unfortunately have not mastered the art of just having a drink or 2.

I've also been mind of slacking on my workin out. I went from working out about 6-8 hours a week to about 3-4. I know it has a lot to do with me having the flu last week. Getting back in to the swing of things has been a lot more challenging than I anticipated. Why is it so difficult to make working out habitual, but it's so easy to break the habit once you take a week or so off. It's brutal.

I need to find my motivation soon or I'm going to get really discouraged.