zephyr524 - it's 16 here, but you can't drive alone until at least 17. And then when you drive alone it is 1 passenger (unless immediate family or someone with full license and over 25 is in the car.) Also, zero tolerance for alcohol, so blow .01 over and you lose your license for a period of time and start over with your 2 years at that stage. It doesn't stop people from doing dumb things, but it helps. You are at least 19 when you can have a full, regular license. The restrictions for the N stage are not too bad - but it isn't hard to get it taken away either. The real name for it is "graduated licensing" and places that do it, do it differently I think.

People are going to be dumb no matter what. I dunno how much it helps. The tests are defiantly harder here though - or so I have heard.

zephyr, glad to see you back! Potty training in general has always seemed like a nightmare...glad it's going well for you!! Congrats on the 152, you're doing awesome! I think it's an accomplishment to make workouts and good food choices fit into a busy life. This is something I'm still trying to master!

sotypical, CONGRATS on the driving! The Canadians really are sticklers, but safe ones! Glad the scale is moving in the right direction for you! I'm sure you can keep it going!

Not much to update about here. Except that it's June freaking 10th and it's STILL raining. Pouring! I'm hoping it will quit it soon so I can go for a walk in a bit. The rain is seriously getting on my nerves, but that's basically my only complaint for the moment ;). I had a little mishap with my kids' snacks today. Started popping fishy crackers into my mouth, before I realized what I was doing. Nothing too too horrible. I'll be fine on calories, but it's going to throw my precious carb ratio out of whack. Still working the kinks out...
I'm going to have to stay late at work tomorrow, so I'm thinking of getting up early to go for a run. Except I have to leave for work at 7:15, so I'm probably going to have to get up at 5:15 (run for an hour, get ready for an hour). This is the plan, but we'll see how it goes. Hope everyone enjoys their Friday!

I'm back and I can't wait to weigh 149 lbs!!!

tuende - totally pouring here too. They said sun today but all I see is clouds! It's been raining for like two weeks now! I bought those cute lululemon crops a few weeks ago and haven't really been able to wear them since! Meanwhile, the week I bought them it was sunny at hot! Did you get out for your run?

OMG - I am seriously actually laughing at myself over this.

So yesterday the scale was down, 158.2 to be exact. Big improvement. So then I had a subway for lunch - fine. Then last night, my boyfriend tells me I can have whatever I want for dinner. BUT only last night - the deal wouldn't extend. I think he was proud of me for passing - for a long time I never drove at all, he used to have to drive me everywhere. It also took me so long to do anything about the driving in the first place, I think he was in stock that I passed my test and within less then 2 months of be allowed to actually take the test. Anyway, I caved to his offer and we had pita and fries for dinner *sigh* - I am laughing because I see it. Scale was down, I ate bad - now the scale this morning was 161.2! hah.

I have a good day planned today. Minus a planned cupcake. There is a new store in town I have been wanting to try. So the boyfriend and I are going to go this afternoon after a meeting at the university. Someone told me that I am 6 classes away from my Balachor of Arts (degree) in Digital Media. I personally think they are lying and I am more like 14 classes away, but I made an app. anyway to find out. I doubt I will go back, but if it is so few (like 6) I probably would. I still think it is impossible to be that close.

So I am doing some thinking. I wonder if it would help me to stay on track if I moved my ticker when it's down. Not if its down .2 but if it's down .4 or more, move it. Even if its not my "official" weigh in. That way it doesn't matter if I have a little treat on a Thursday night. Because now I feel like crap - my scale was down yesterday and now its up today on my weigh in. I wonder if I shouldn't be so obsessed over what day of the week its down.

I'm so glad today's over. Got off to a bit of a rough start and sort of went downhill from there. Did I go for my morning run? No. My morning went a little something like this: 5:15 alarm goes off. 5:17 haul my *** out of bed. 5:19 look out the window. Rain. Immediate anger follows. 5:20 consider doing a workout DVD; I believe my exact thoughts were "I'm not in the mood for Jillian's bull****." 5:21 got back into bed. Oh and somewhere in my delirium I weighed myself and was UP a whole freaking pound. Seriously?! I was just kind of annoyed/bummed out all day. For these and other, slightly less petty reasons. Although, the good news? I stayed totally on plan. Something new for me!

sotypical, I've had moments exactly like yours. Sometimes, it's best just to laugh at yourself. At least you've learned something from it all :). Also, I think you should absolutely change your ticker whenever you see the numbers drop. You need to validate your successes, girl! To be blunt, I've always thought the "official weigh in day" idea was a little bogus. I mean, I understand the basic idea, but it's a completely arbitrary day and as we all know, some days we fluctuate more than others. For me anyway, once I started seeing all my weigh in's as "real" it helped- I was forced to accept the number regardless of how fond I was of it. And seriously, how do you stand all the rain?! I'm typically a proud northwest girl and can deal with the constant drizzle (and would never be caught dead with an umbrella) but this is seriously getting on my nerves. "They" promised sun tomorrow. There better damn well be sun. You see the hostility I have towards this topic...

mikan, welcome! Hope your stay here is short!

Congratulations on passing your driving test, sotypical! I'm sorry treating yourself caused you a little gain, but hopefully you can shed that soon.

Sorry about all the rain, tuende!

Well, girls, I'm finally back. I've easily spent a month and a half away from 3FC, and it was because I was ashamed to admit that I got severely off track. We threw a baby shower for one of my coworkers, and everyone brought this delicious food. I decided to treat myself "just-this-once" and triggered an overeating spell that lasted two weeks. I gained back 2-3 lbs, and finally kicked myself in the butt and said, "No more!"

For the last four weeks I've been good with food, and I decided this past week to give myself a boost and try my extremely low-carb thing again that was such a success in early April. I was 151 last Saturday, this morning I'm 147! It sure was a success! In other news, may I never eat another egg for as long as I live. :lol: Chicken and bacon can also hit the road for at least a month. Blah. After I weighed myself this morning, I ate two bananas. I've missed fruit carbs!

The 140s thread is a ghost town. No one has posted in 5 days, and even before that it was pretty empty. Would you mind terribly if I stuck around here for a while?

Hey Kirjava... I was wondering where you'd disappeared to! Glad you're back! I'm doing the same thing, sticking in this thread for a while because you're right, the 140's thread is a little lame. I don't think they'll mind another hitch hiker over here ;).

tuende ugh rain depresses me if it lasts too long....hope it gets sunny soon.

sotypical I am one of those people that only count a certain day...but I do weigh fairly often/ I know that if i seen a low number on an off day I will see it again soon on a on day :) But its whatever works for you!

Kirjava oh those lbs will melt off easily.


So ladies I am doing good. Have been swimming alot but yesterday I did my kenpo in P90X and it felt good! I am sore all over. I think I will do the cardio from P90x and keep swimming while my sister is here and able to watch the munchkin. Have been eating well and doing my whey protien shakes in the mornings. Hope you all have a great weekend

How's everybody today? I am good. I have not let any other slip ups derail me. I am happy as can be as I weighed in at 155 yesterday!

kirjava~I'm glad your back and on track. Just take one day at a time and you'll get through!

sotypical~try not to focus so much on the scale. I know it's really easier said than done! Daily flucuations are fairly normal definately depending on what you at on the previous day.

mickletoe~ great weigh in!!! You'll be out of the 150's in no time!!

My weekend ended up being pretty good. I had a rough night with my hubby being gone last night but I made it through. My emotions made me feel very un-hungry and nasaues but I ended up forcing myself to eat something because I knew I had too. Well, my weigh in this morning was AWESOME! 150.8. I can not wait for my weigh in for next week now. I'm going to really focus the next few weeks because I'm sooo close to goal and I don't want it to take me another 4 months to lose another 13 lbs. Well, I'm off to a company picnic for the day. Hopefully it's not a horrible day of eating...

IT. WAS. SUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My mental health just increased exponentially!

mickletoe, congrats on seeing 155! You're getting close to the 140's!

zephyr, congrats on 150.8! You're seriously going to be in the 140's next week. Have fun at the company picnic, hopefully there'll be some healthy choices you can make :).

The sun really, really helps me. Everything seems more possible when it's sunny. Also, it was my birthday yesterday and that was the best present I could have asked for! I was so proud of myself because I was able to indulge a little without going crazy. And my weigh in this morning rocked. I'm having a great weekend, hopefully everyone else is too :)!

Tuende~ yay for the sun! It's a huge mood booster!!

I had a nice day at the picnic but not one thing that was healthy other than what I took. So, I used some portion control but I still feel STUFFED and its been almost 6 hours since I've eaten lunch. I'm so not used to all that heavy food anymore. The thought of having to eat dinner makes me feel sick. I think I may skip dinner tonight and just have a small snack of fruit or something when I'm hungry later.

Hey all!

Sotypical, I'm in Toronto and we have graduated licensing too, but they weren't as strict about who was allowed to be in the car with you when I had mine. I was fully licensed by the time those rules were in effect...but I think we definitely have more requirements than a lot of other places. Congrats! You must be so excited.

tuende I did NMTZ on Friday morning and thought of you during vicious plank circuit. On a related note, what weights do you use for that? I think it's getting too easy for me. My heart rate was barely up at all and it's mostly body weight training. Frustrating. Now I'm using exercises from Making the Cut and building my own circuits.

Glad everyone seems to be having a pretty good weekend for the most part!

This week was bad. There were lots of little treats around at work and for some reason I just kept eating them. I wasn't even hungry, I Just felt really bloated and gross and my weight was up. I really need to start drinking more water. (TMI warning in effect.) I have such a hard time with this and I only really commit to drinking it fully when I'm feeling the errr...effects of not drinking enough. I'm having some of those now and I just really need to be better at this. How do you guys make sure you get your water in? I feel like I need to write it on my hand or something. I don't dislike water, but I'm not always in the mood for it. Maybe I should get some of those truvia things. Any ideas?

My weight was up a loooooot this morning and kinda freaked out about it...until my special friend paid me a visit (which explains part of the stomach problems - to put it delicately - that I was experiencing). In all honesty, I still get excited when I get my period every month. I went through years of barely getting it (if I was getting it at all) and only started to regulate (to bimonthly) by age 19 (while on metformin). Now that I get it monthly pretty much like clockwork I get excited. I really like seeing that I got my body to regulate itself and fixed whatever was wrong internally instead of letting doctors put me on the pill. I was on it for a bit at 16 but honestly, I'm not a fan of the bandaid over a bullet hole method of medicine. So yeah...it came early and that explains why I've been feeling like crap all week. Ramblings over.

ALso, has anyone noticed it's harder to get your heart rate up (I wear a monitor) when you're pms-ing? It sounds like such a random thing but I really have a tough time getting good workouts in the week before my period.

And now I'm really done. I went for a run earlier (but cramps kinda screwed that up) and now I'm lounging in my favorite pants and contemplating a heating pad and some chocolate. I need to do laundry too.

How are you guys? :)

rockstar... oh the vicious plank circuit haha! I use 5 lb weights for NMTZ now. I started with 3's, but like you said, it wasn't doing much after a while. I will still sometimes grab the 3's for some things (like at the end of the circuit with all the shoulder stuff in a row), but the 5's are more challenging for me. I just got a HR monitor, so I'm curious to wear it and see how different exercises compare. I was making my own circuits too, but I have a hard time finding the motivation to do that. I might go back to it once school's out though. I would get way more sore after my doing own circuits and I think it was good for me to switch it up. As far as the water goes, I've never had a problem getting my water in. I don't really drink anything else besides the occasional glass of milk, so I kind of have to. I just keep a water bottle at my desk and it's become pretty mindless. I drink a lot of tea too, which is a way to get water in with a little flavor. I've also tried True Lemon, it's the stevia sweetened stuff I think you were talking about. It's pretty good, I drink it hot and cold. I bet those extra lbs are water weight that should go away easily, especially if you get more water in. I think it's great that your body was able to regulate itself. That means you're giving it what it needs to do its job! I'm not a fan of popping pills for anything; like you said, in a lot of cases it seems to just be covering up the underlying issue. Hope you are feeling better!!

WOW you girls were busy this weekend.

tuende - happy belated birthday! Is it still sunny there? We have had 3 days of sun over here! It was warm on Saturday. So happy :) I hate wearing most anything that shows skin, but I still love sun haha.

Kirjava - congrats on the 140's - but stick around here. I hover sometimes in the low 160's and I stay. We can be outcasts together ;) lol

zephyr - congrats on the weigh in!

rockstar - hope your scale is back to normal in no time.

So, I have decided that if the scale is down I am moving the ticker no matter what day of the week it is. I have always focused on the one day a week thing - and when I do that, sometimes it can be WEEKS before I get to move my ticker. I know I shouldn't focus on the scale, but it is all I have right now! lol My weight loss is so slow, that on a good weekend for me is .2-.4 of a pound, with it being so little it isn't always down the day I "need" it to be. So hopefully this works for me.

This weekend was kinda so so, I didn't make the best choices but I also didn't eat 3 meals a day - so it shouldn't of been too bad. Time to drink lots of water.

Yesterday I went to the dollar store and bought a bunch of picture frames, then I made some cute little pictures to put around the house. Our house is totally lacking artwork. I didn't get the courage up to actually hang any pictures. I don't want holes in the walls lol. I had fun, cleaned a lot of nick nacks out of the living room so it looks a little tidier and made a new center piece for the coffee table. Got this sweet glass bowl at Costco and put some candles and little glass balls in it.

Anyway, I am just rambling now. Happy Monday!