lol Lissa

Jess - I'm just hoping for no rain and no humidity. A lot of the course is covered by trees, and some is open, so even if its sunny we're not overly exposed. I'm going to bring a hat and sunglasses (and a tiny bottle of sunscreen) and just pull my hair back so my part isn't exposed and hope for the best.

Sam - Its okay! It'll be gone in a few days!

Chele - I heart pajamas. I'm about to jump in the shower and put mine on and get started on this paper.

I just made myself a sort of low-carb burger out of lack of bread. I had a whole wheat tortilla and some steak burgers left, so I just cut those in half, coated the tortilla in laughing cow cheese, stuck some spinach on that and wrapped it around the burger halves. Add sweet potato fries and ketchup and it wasn't too terrible of a meal :)

Jess ~ Congrats on the third place!!! That is awesome :)

Stella ~ That sounds really good!!! Although anything with sweet potato fries and ketchup can never go wrong ;) LOL

Jess - I think we cross posted - but congrats :) :)

(3 pages down, 7 more to go - no offense, but I am so sick of breast cancer, I need to pick better topics)

http://stardusticsjourney.blogspot.c...and-water.html

I found this interesting... we talk about this crap a lot around here

I have been SO BAD for like..a week...

I am going to get back on track tomorrow. I have to. I Must.

You can do it, Taylor!

Okay, so I have 6 (almost 7) pages out of 10. I'm going to consider myself able to go to sleep now :) I'm sleeping in my gym clothes, hopefully this gets my butt there tomorrow.

Haley - that's interesting. Very interesting...

4 more days. AAAAHHH!!!

Stella - GO YOU! And I laughed about the breast cancer hehe. Sleep in the gym clothes, kick *** tomorrow (gym/hike/whatever you're doing). HYDRATE UP! (That's my attempt to sound like Barney from How I Met Your Mother)

Haley - She got lap band? Interesting. Of course if you really start starving yourself, you will lose weight. But it'll be muscle mass first (usually) rather than fat mass. Also, the whole "starvation mode" makes sense to me because I just think of how animals and old cavemen survived in the wild. They didn't know when the next meal was coming, so they store some of it. Kind of that mentality. But then again, I'm not a scientist. It IS true that you could be really full from eating less than 1000 calories a day though. But *shrugs*. If our bodies worked like a math equation, we'd all be losing a steady amount of weight every single week.

Stella- I'm sure CB would totally be into it ;)

Thanks everyone who celebrated my being aliveness :D

Hi everyone. :)
I had a really good weigh in this week. Lost 1.1kg which is 2.4lbs. I am stoked.
Feeling really good about another good week to get to my 10kg and finally get my hair dyed.

Taylor86 - How the heck do you not drink diet coke!? I am envious. I am so addicted.

Haley - Interesting article/blog. It is strange though...sometimes when I am stuck, I will eat more and see unexpected results. While the article makes sense, the idea that our bodies are designed to maintain out of protection, also makes some sense. I have read a few articles talking about calorie reduction working for a time, then stagnating because our bodies acclimate to a given intake to maintain body fat in case we don't come across more food. This seems in line with what I have noticed in my own dieting. Ah well, as long as we're going in the right direction, being smart about our food choices and methods (not crashing), it really shouldn't matter what the metabolic process is! haha

CRAZY storm last night. Lightning struck in between the barns (in my backyard), while I was at the sink last night. I literally had enough time to park, RUN for the barn, feed the minis, pick the stall, bring in the cats, run back to the car for my purse, and get to the back door before it unleashed...you couldn't see off the deck it was raining so hard!

I was in a sweet mood, so I made two multi-grain, low-fat waffles and tried the Maple Grove Farms Sugar Free syrup made with Splenda. It was really good (and I heart Mrs. Buttersworth like nobody's business). Comparatively, the Maple Grove was 35 cal for 1/4 cup (which is too much for these little waffles) and the MB is 210 cal for 1/4 cup. Highly doable.

Good Morning ladies...

I just found that interesting...only because I read another blog where the chick is like I eat a 1000 calories a day and then I found that.... I wouldn't be able to function on a 1000 calories on a normal day to day basis

I honestly dont eat much over 1300 calories on any given day but it adjusts when I'm hungry and waht not :)

I will tell you ladies that getting up at 5:30 and hitting the gym at 6 am is very difficult... I miss my college routine...

My best friend is graduating from the police academy tonight so I'm going to that and it will be nice to see her and her family ( like my second family) her boyfriend is also graduating...they are practically married...dating for 7 years :)

anywhoo... thats about it

Lauren your waffles sound amazingly delicious...I use to eat the special k ones once in awhile

Lauren - that sounds scary, yet really really cool.

Jess - Yeah, didn't make it so much. I tried. I really did, but there are somethings that can't be helped.

Haley - I'm proud of you for going and sticking it out :)

I also thought that blog was interesting. I don't believe in "starvation mode" when it comes to calories, but I do think your body will kind of stagnate if you don't have enough fat or protein and that calorie cycling DOES help, so your body doesn't just become efficient on whatever you give it, no matter how few calories it is. Yes, I could survive some days on 1000 calories and I force myself to go to at least 1200 - but I don't think I could do that every single day.

And evolutionarily, starvation mode kind of does make sense, but I think you'd have to be very very underweight to get to that point, and your heart would eventually just give in. For example, women need 10% body fat to regularly get their period. Anything under that and your cycle stops, because your body knows your not getting enough nutrients to support a growing fetus.

Jennierose going to the gym this morning - epic fail. I wound up spending most of the night tossing and turning - like my covers were off the bed - and just had a generally crappy sleep night. I woke up at 5:30 covered in sweat and stripped down to my sports bra and underwear and went back to sleep for an hour. When I woke up I realized TOM had kicked into high gear while I was sleeping, hence the restless night. I was just able to save my cream colored sheets (thank GOD) and I feel generally okay now (thanks coffee) - I'll just work out when I leave here at 3. I think I'm going to have to wait until school's over to start working out in the mornings again. I used to really enjoy it, but I need a normal sleep schedule.

Hey guys, no time for personals...until the weekend. I've been working on projects all day, and now I'm taking a quick break to make dinner, and then I have to study for a quiz for tomorrow and start reading stuff that's on my finals next week. So it's going to be VERY busy!

I bumped my calories up a bit, and I have also stuck straight to my diet, and I weighed 142.8 today from 144.6 on sunday, so everything is working out again, and I don't feel constantly hungry so I'm happy! I feel like I could bump my calories up even more, but I have been very satisfied with where I am now, so I'll stick to that now. I'm at 1140 for my allowance for the day. I know it's a bit low, but if I don't feel like I need more and I'm not hungry, then I think it's good. I was at 1097 before...WAY too low, that's why I was overeating every day. Starvation mode is no good!


Also, I just want to thank you ladies. I know you don't know me as well as everyone else, but you guys really are motivation for me. There's no way that I could have done this by myself without talking to someone every day..and you guys have been so supportive! So thank you!

Alright, time to make dinner. Have a great week everyone!

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Stayed home from work today because I didn't feel good. I could've gone into work, but I have 2+ weeks of sick time accrued and I won't be there after June anyway so I might as well take a day.

I think because I was feeling lousy the food monster came and I made really bad choices. I had a piece of fried chicken and like 10 million hush puppies. Now my tummy hurts really bad.

I took a long nap and now that I've woken up I feel like poop. You know how you get into that groggy funky feeling after a long nap?

I don't allow myself to get sick but I ran my body way too hard with my bro this weekend.

Oh and for those you that don't know Mike is officially a d-bag. He told me via facebook message that something just isn't there and it's not going to work. To be honest I agree... I really like him but there's a certain spark that's missing. But seriously, we're 32 years old and have to tell someone this via facebook? I sent him a message back that said "Concurred, however a phone call would've been nice."

Hope everyone had a good day.

Jess - look at you and your medal! CONGRATS!

:D hubby got hte job so we're moving (again) now maybe i can start going out and working on getting this weight off with a friend of mine so we can welcome 30 in properly