I like the new eyebrows! I can see what you mean about them being a little thin, but I think overall they look great and probably won't be too hard to grow in a bit. Have you thought about what you want the new glasses to look like?

Basically, I am looking for a set of frames that are not like the ones I have now, :lol:.

I'd like thinner frames, I guess, you can't really see it in the photo, but these have wide sides that block a good bit of peripheral vision.
But other than that, I'm willing to go with anything.

Maybe rimless?:?:

:shrug:

Oooooo Zan I love it. They are thin but I don't think they look too thin. They are shaped well. And I like the glasses. I don't like the wide sides for the exact reason you said but I think you can pull off fun frames. I also have the hardest time picking out frames. I just don't think I look right in glasses.... and I just realized I am wearing glasses in my pic. LOL I loved those ones but I lost them. I have gotten two new frames since then and neither of them even compare. :(

So the craft show was a bust. Nobody really sold anything! There was a silent auction going on all day so it was kind of a horrible situation for us since nobody knew how much they were going to end up spending at the end of the day so nobody was buying anything. :( My coworker sold 1 and 1/2 of her jewelry sets and one other vendor sold one painting. That part sucked but overall it was a fun day.

I'm sorry that it went that way, Kay. :hug: But you did have fun, so that's something ;).

I still have my old glasses (three to five pairs). I look back at them from time to time and go, "What the heck was I thinking?!" :lol:. I don't think any two are even close to being called similar. So who knows what the next pair will look like.

I had another great Sunday, it's turning into a weekly gameday, which is fantastic! My brother keeps barking at me to get out more, and I've missed this group, so it works :rolleyes:. I just wish it wasn't the day before work. I am averaging 4 hours of sleep before I get up to get ready, :eek:, and that's taking 2 to 4 hours off work Monday morning. I need to get myself trained so I am not burning so much vacation time (I have very little to begin with).
:p

Well, September is almost up, and it is almost time for October's thread. Any parting words for the month and plans for the next? :carrot:

Well lets see. September was a very blah month for me. I spent most of the month getting ready for that craft show (time well spent, huh?) and did not have a great weight loss month. I hovered between 179-183 most of the month. Today I am at 180 so overall I guess I kind of maintained but in October I have a 5K to run! Ahhh! I am so behind on my training too. :( I hope to make October a much more productive month. :D

End of August and all of September have been bad. I'm feeling like a failure because I've been "trying" to do this since July 1st. That's three months! In that three months I've lost 8.4 lbs. And you know what? My boyfriend has been eating "well" for one ####ing week and he's lost 7 lbs. He's been talking to his trainer and saying "oh she says eat this, avoid this, blah blah blah" and it's all stuff I know. And it is so easy for him. He doesn't have a relationship with food like I do. He brought home cupcakes, chips, soda, etc. for his dad this weekend and didn't touch a thing. Literally, not one little M&M. Here I am struggling. If it is near me, I eat it. If it isn't near me, I think about it constantly and figure out how to obtain it so I can eat it. I probably had 4000 calories of CRAP this weekend. Cupcakes...rocky road chocolate, dark chocolate peanut butter cups, middle east feast from Trader Joe's, orangina, I ate the world. So my thoughts for October? Punch the boyfriend in the face and tell him how unhappy I am. He was so full of energy yesterday. All he talked about is how he felt good. And I was sad. I had that. Yeah, for a short time. I know how to get there. But I'm so mad at myself. I keep telling myself that this is going to be a slow process. It has been for my mom. And I know when you lose at a slow rate it's more likely to be long lasting. But not how I do it. I'm so fed up with it all. I feel like I should tell my boyfriend that I'm not coming over if I know there is "bad" food there. Maybe he'll stop spending more money on sabotaging his dad than he does on food for himself. And then we have Vegas this weekend. We all know Vegas is horrible. So that's where I am. I'm hoping October is a month of me time. I can't help thinking about how much easier this would be if I was single. I love my boyfriend. I love having a boyfriend. But the lack of control of my environment is just not helping. I just want to SCREAM. Okay, /end rant.
As far as meals goes, I'm sticking to my frozen dinners. It's the snacking that's getting to me. *sigh* Sorry again for being the downer of the party. I keep telling myself that after December it'll be easier. I'll be done with school. But school isn't what is doing this to me. It's not. Ugh.

zan - Love the eyebrows. I love the glasses, too. But I don't wear them, so I can't really relate (though I do understand) with the peripheral vision blocking.
kay - sorry the craft show was a bust :( Good luck with the training. I was supposed to sign up for a 5k in October, but I never did. And never trained.

Women vs. Men. There will always be a difference, unfortunately that also applies to weightloss. :mad: Blame genetics, but it's fact that ladies are programed to hold onto the fat (from what I've read it has something to do with "preparing" for pregnancy and breastfeeding, etc), and the males' testosterone gives them a bit of a lead to begin with in the muscles category that helps with weightloss. :rolleyes:

Very annoying, but try not to compare your weight loss to your boyfriend's, Ade. No sense in upsetting yourself over that, you worked hard for that 8.4 pound loss, no loss on his side should effect the fact that you've come far with that! Beating yourself up about this won't help motivate you, :(, let yourself enjoy Vegas, keep working at this, and do what you have to in order to change that "failure" attitude:hug:, you haven't failed anything, by the sound of it you are still going and that is a "Win" in my book. Just don't let yourself give up, attitude has a big effect on everything, Ade :hug:. As far as I am concerned that's what this thread is here for, stop focusing on whether or not you think you are a "downer" and talk with us! :hug: Dang it, that is not enough hugs in my opinion (I'm a hugger, can't you tell?) :hug::hug::hug:, that's better.

You got to tell him that he is working against you, does he know that he's damaging your efforts with what he's doing?

Heck, there's a reason why those things shouldn't be floating around in front of us, everyone has their limits, and put some of those in front of me, oh g'ah!

I had the same problem last night, the gamers were all eating chips and cheese doodles, that was easy enough to say "no" to, but once the Dungeon Master pulled out the Halloween Oreo Cookies... *whimper* I had one, instead of the four offered, and I nibbled on it, enjoyed it, and do not ask me how I managed to keep it to the one cookie, OMG, I have no idea. I used to eat the whole dam* container, or two of them if they were on sale within a day or two! And now I want to go out and get a pack of them!!! Wahhh!:(

I need an extra serving of :dust: today as I'll be heading to the grocery store tonight. I need a restraining order out against the cookie isle!!!

I wish I could say this gets easier, but doing this since last December sure tells me that it's still a matter of being firm and keeping your mind on your goals. This is seriously hard work, I don't care what ANYONE says about it, weight loss is neither simple or easy!

I am with you on October, Kay. I need to make it more productive too, I want to be firmly in Onderland and burning down to my next goal. This month feels so SLOW!

Thanks, zan. I know you are right. My parents used to go on diets/work out together and my mom always got discouraged because my dad lost so much faster. And my bf said "Maybe you'll be more motivated if we do a bet, too." Umm, not gonna happen. I know I shouldn't compare my loss to his. I know that. But I'm not gonna lie, it's really frustrating. Why did I get stuck with such a bad relationship with food? WHY?? I need to think about it this way: if I didn't start when I did, I would have at least gained that much since then instead of lost it. BF is really busy this week with work. Thinking that'll give me some reflection time. Some ME time.

and way to go with the cookies, zan! I'm like they say in the pringles commercials: Once you pop...you just can't stop. Thanks for the hugs!

Ugh, yes. My brother's friend (guy, of course) went from nearly 300 pounds down to a very good-looking 1-something, and it was so quick! Like I blinked, and BAM! And here I am, going for what feels like forever to get to overweight. That pisses me off, :mad: :lol3: I can so relate. Grr!

I can't let myself be weak with the Oreos. I just can't... Even though I so want to. ;) Ugh. Those D4mn cookies are going to be haunting me for fricken ever! :tantrum: *huff* Now that I got that out... I better get back to work.

I checked out the biggest loser resort website, man, that would be a nice kick in the butt for me. No excuses, everything scheduled and portioned out for me, yeah, that sounds like a nice weightloss vacation (though the exercise would be torture, the kind I'd have to force myself through but would miss later :lol:)

I just checked out the resort website. That would be so fun (I use the term "fun" very loosely here). It's so close to where my BF lives, too. Too bad I don't have an extra few thousand dollars....oh to dream!

Oreos never did it for me (okay, so if they were there, I'd eat 'em, but could very easily pass them at the grocery store). I will tell you I've been on my period and I got a gift card for Trader Joe's...they have the best chocolate ever...chocolate covered edamame, rocky road chocolate bars, dark chocolate everything...I should not have gone there on Friday. Big mistake. HUGE. I finally just threw them away last night because I was so mad at myself. Oh well. Breathe, Ashley. Breathe.

September could have gone a lot worse for me. I was worried about being able to continue exercising and eating decently once school got stressful, but overall I think I did okay. I'm losing very slowly, but I am still losing and I'm really hoping to get to my goal by the end of October.

Zan, way to go with the Oreos. I am a sucker for any kind of weird/ seasonal snack food, so major props lady!

Kay, I'm sorry the craft fair didn't turn out the way you'd hoped, but at least you had fun? Good like with the 5K training. I signed up to do another one in 2 weeks, and I'm hoping it goes better than my first.

Ade, I'm sorry you're having such a tough time. Firstly: I agree that you're just going to have to try not to compare your weightloss to your boyfriend's. Men and women are just physiologically different, and in some respects women get the **** end of the stick. Secondly: I think you need to try to find a way to get yourself into a mindset that YOU control what you put into your body, no matter what's in your environment. And it will be hard. Thirdly: You need to get away from all that temptation! Do you live with your boyfriend and his family, or do you have your own place to go back to? If it's the later, then you should take this week of him being busy to really get yourself on track and eat thing you'll feel good about eating. If it's the former, then you've got to talk to him about how destructive having all that food around is for you. I hope things get easier. Good luck!

I CAN control what I put into my body. I CAN control what I put into my body. I CAN control what I put into my body. (replays in head, over and over and over).

Over the summer I basically lived with him (I have another place to go back to...), but now Tuesdays I am there and Friday-Monday morning I am there. It's back to the whole "weekdays I do well, but weekends anything goes." I'll be honest, we didn't eat out this weekend because of his bet. But having that food around is bad, especially since neither of them is eating it, in order to win the bet. And last night he went grocery shopping by himself (for two hours...boys are nuts) and came back with a red velvet cupcake for me (an extra large one...I swear there was a pound of frosting on that sucker). I told him this morning that he is to never do that again. He apologized. Next time we go grocery shopping, if he buys crap for his dad, I am going to point blank tell him that I will not stay there with that crap in the house. He knows I'm struggling. He knows I have a unhealthy relationship with food. He's just a boy that doesn't really get it. He doesn't really understand that if it's there, I will eat it (if you build it, they will come). Maybe I need to play hard to get, do my own thing for a while. Thanks for the luck. Maybe I should see a therapist. Work out my issues with food.

Hey everyone.
Quick message from me. Its my 22nd birthday tomorrow! YAY! Very excited. Had my party in the weekend. And was the first time in a long time I have felt sexy!
Also lost .9kg today which is 2lbs :) Very happy. I was not expecting a loss, let alone a big loss.

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This is me at my 21st last year....

And at my 22nd this year. Feeling great!!

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Soooo Cute! :hug: