Holy Crap on a CRACKER this thread is moving FAST!
Stella:
Kudos on your dedication despite the painful shin splint stuff... hope the gym went really well!
Haley:
Do it! Face the fear! Stupid muscle-head guys are NOT gonna stop me from using the machines I wanna use!
My next challenge is to use the inner-thigh weight machine. They have a standing one, where you stand on a platform, hook your leg around the pad, and squeeze inward to lift the weight. Great. Except your *** is facing ALL of the treadmills. I'm gonna make myself do that, and you're gonna make yourself breach muscle-head male territory! What'd'ya say!?
Teff:
Eeeesh, that sounds stressful! Please let us know how it all goes, we wanna be sure you're okay. 1,400 sounds like a good number of calories... it's not like you're limiting yourself to under 1,000... THAT would be concerning to me... what kind of things do you eat that you think the nutritionist might tear apart?
....a nutritionist would tear my diet apart, I eat mostly boxed microwaveable foods, because they have a big ol' calorie-count on the side lol.
Feral:
Thanks honey! It's good to be back, I feel more motivated when I'm here... unfortunately I need to be slightly obsessive about my weight loss efforts to have them really take hold. And I'm just so sick of the low-mid 140s... I need to get obsessive again and get myself outta here!
My boy's from Dublin, so.. yeah, the republic of Ireland. But my family's all descended from Northern Ireland. "A Proddy," (Protestant) or "The enemy," as my boyfriend's mom once jokingly called me.
...SO EXCITED for him to get here!!!
SHANNY:
Yaaaay, I'm so glad you're still here!
And... ugh. I have a bit of the sibling jealousy too. My brother's a couple years older, but he always had issues in school... he was the screw up, he was the one who was always getting into trouble...
I always did well in school, and worked really hard and stayed out of trouble.
He went to college for two years, got an epic-paying job, bought a house, a car, a motorcycle, a sailboat, and is engaged to be married this summer. He's 24.
I'm 22, and after my 4-year university degree, I was 24,000 in debt, and realized that it wasn't going to get me a job in a field I wanted. So I had to go back to college, I've still got a year or two... I'm broke, and living with family, and my work just cut my hours to one shift a week because they're slow. I hate my life sometimes.
And... hey, that's great that your prof likes your idea!! I always love meetings with my profs where they get all encouraging and complimentary. I hope you find some rocking journal articles... what's your topic? (If you don't mind my asking.)
Mary:
You know, I've never had hibachi before! It sounds awesome tho! I had to look up what it was, haha. I hope you're even less bloated tomorrow than you were today.... and... p.s., I rifled through some of your pics, and the difference in your face is just... astonishing. And I LOVE your hair. I normally don't like straight-cut bangs on people, but yours just WORK with your face shape amazingly!!!
Aliquot:
Oooh, awesome to all three things! I wish I had a treadmill without having to go to the gym....!! And... yeah, swallowing pills is garbage, that's awesome that you found gummi multivitamins.
Elyse:
Oooh, Etsy is so awesome, I'm really excited to see that dress! Do you have any kinda sample pics of what it might look like?
Jenny:
What on earth is a Largo class? I'm intrigued!
And I hate those lazy snacky days...! Horrible for the dieter...
Jess7286:
Honey, I creeped your blog, and may I just say... you look amazing! I can't believe how much weight you've lost already! I mean, I know you're bouncing back and forth between a couple of weights, and I can't imagine how frustrating that must be.... but looking at the big picture.... you've lost and kept off like.. 50 lbs!!! So impressive, you're a total inspiration, honey!
CHELE!!!!
Hiiiii!!! I've missed you guys! Good to be back!
That's icky about your foot! I have all sorts of stupid aches and pains that come and go... achilles tendonitis, shin splints, etc. I hope yours is absolutely nothing!
Sam:
Ahhh, that post sounded like something I would've writen. Whenever I was trying not to snack at university, I'd go get myself a (completely sugarless) iced coffee and go shop, or visit someone, lol.
Hope you found something totally adorable!
Air81:
Ugh, I hate that. When you KNOW the scale's gonna deliver bad news... but you know what, better to know the number and use it as motivation to get the scale moving back in the other direction!!!
And... MAN, that is a big list of stuff for you to stress over! I hope things ease up a bit on ya! <3
Thousandsunny:
I hate those weeks... I hope you can find some time somewhere in there to get some working out/skipping in! And... good call on the skipping, it always tires me out crazy-like!
As for me...
I spent all day talking to my boy on MSN. I adore him, and it's really hard being this far away from him for so long... I haven't seen him since November, and I'm going out of my mind.
We've been on-again-off-again due to distance, and due to the fact that he wasn't very affectionate before... he never told me he loved me, never told me how he felt about me... and we were never together for longer than a few weeks or a couple of months at a time.
When he came to see me in November... he was super sweet, and REALLY cuddly, and held my hand all the time, and would just stare into my eyes while we were curled up together... and... I was still maintaining that I didn't want to give our relationship another shot again at the time, too worried it wouldn't pan out, so... I asked him to say something for me in Gaelic, and in Gaelic, he told me loved me. Sadly, I didn't speak Gaelic, and he didn't want to say it in English, too afraid I wouldn't say it back...!
I had no idea what he'd said until I beat the information out of him later...!
APRIL 21ST!!! April 21st and he's here for a year!
...god, talking to him all day long, I've procrastinated SO badly. I haven't done an ounce of schoolwork, it's so bad... I've got a great big project due on Wednesday. Bugger.
