sgreg - I drink a TON of tea. I gave up caffeine in April 2010 (and have almost completely gotten rid of my migraines!) so I try as much caffeine free tea as I can.

I had some apple cinnamon this morning, and then this afternoon some Unity tea - it's my latest obsession. I got it from Zingerman's Deli when I was visiting Ann Arbor... it has a crazy combination of flavors:cardamom, lemongrass, peppermint, licorice, citrus essences and a bit of black pepper.

It's sweet and spicy - hard to describe. But downright delicious!

Hi everyone...Hope you don't mind me jumping in.
It's my weekend and I always fall off the wagon on my weekend. So to stop this year long cycle, I'm doing everything possible to not munch. My DF is napping and alone with no one to keep a eye on me, I'm staying on 3FC to keep from wandering mindlessly in the kitchen.

Drinking lots of water to stay hydrated. and I'm trying to think of something to do to keep me busy.

Sakai -You can do it! Joining the chat is a great distraction!!

Midnight - Hmm...that sounds interesting. I will have to see if I can find it so I can try it. I love trying new things...especially things that are good for me. I haven't had a good cup of tea in a while.

thanks munster it has gotten a lot better and i'm very comfortable now! :-) you all are an inspiration

Good morning everyone!
Things got a bit out of hand last night when my DF decided to play bartender and got be a bit tipsy on an nearly empty stomach (okay a lot tipsy) i had enough mind to down lots of water so after a two hour nap I feel great. We did mindlessly munch a little but my weight this morning stayed the same so I'm estactic about that.

Veggie burgers w/ sprouts to dinner tonight.

MidnightRaven- I LOVE tea. herbal tea is the best. Though I find it hard to enjoy it without sugar or honey. Without it all I taste is some off flavored water. it's almost like adding salt to taste your food. @.@ maybe I'm strange.
Republic of Tea has some amazing tea, they are so Yummie!

Sakai - I have to sweeten my tea too...I use splenda.

Raven, wow neuroscience...That has to be interesting, brain is such a mysterious thing.... I love tea, but it rarely occurs to me to prepare it... right now I am drinking vanilla flavored green tea with some milk in it, it tastes amazing and has only like 40kCal (from milk). Hope you're doing good!

Rie, that's quite an improvement on fit test! Way to go! Yay for resisting the dessert!

Munster, you kick *** as usual! Thanks! My plan is really modest, but I have to figure out how to manage my time and I'll start working harder once I figure out how to organize around college schedule.

Sgregg, everything seems to be going smooth! Congrats on the good grade! You'll be in those 16's in no time! It must feel really good going down in clothing size!

Sakai welcome!

So...I am exhausted. It is not that demanding, but after a whole summer break, it'll take me some time to get used to sit and listen 5-6 hours of teaching. Also getting up early will take time to adjust too Today I set my alarm at 5:45am and when I got out of the house at 6:30 it was still dark and foggy.... I am going way over my daily steps goal Around 12.000 a day so that's good, but I don't think I will add the exercising before weekend. Food is okay.... a bit unregular but it'll all get better once I get used to my new daily routine. So that's it... nothing special to write, it's a bit past 8pm here, but I am already sleepy...will go to bed soon. Have a nice day everyone!

Hey guys. Joining in... hope you don't mind.

Food-wise and excersize-wise... doing awesome. However... a friend has just successfully made me feel completely unwanted and absolute crap. I just don't get where it's coming from though...?

This is our text conversation (between me and C, L was standing right next to me the entire time). I texted her about dinner tonight... for the past week I've been excluded from group activities among these group of friends... didn't know why... so I thought I'd ask. And L told me to ask C.


Me: Well... L just told me yall were getting dinner... What am I???? Chopped liver???
C: She and I are trying to have date nights.
Me: *feels very left out*
C: Srry
Me: Can i go???
C: not today
(L had just told me that I could come mind you... but since C was setting it up... that was that. But I was curious as to why I wasn't invited...)
Me: Why???
C: Because
Me: Because why?
C: Because it as already planned.
(this next one was probably where I might have crossed her line... but I didn't mean it to be rude... then again... she might not have meant the next stuff to be rude either... it just... to me... came out of nowhere)
Me: Why can't plans be changed?
C: Because we don't want you to come.
(Note... L is a part of the "we", and she said nothing of the sort)
Me: Ouch
C: Sry. But sometimes you are a bit hard to handle.
(not sure where that's coming from... ??)
Me: ??? Again... Ouch.
C: I really am sorry.
Me: Sure. If y'all wanted time alone to talk, that's fine. Just say so. No need to critisize me.
C: Not critisizing. Just stating a fact. Don't take it so personally. Please.
(Ok... you just said I'm hard to handle and that you don't want me to come... and that's it... how else am I supposed to take it?)
Me: Sorry, but why did you have to make it all about it being my "bad" characteristics...? I just asked why... and then I was joking around... no need to be rude.
C: Whatever. obviously this isn't going to go well. Forget it.
Me: I will. Sorry to bother you.


urgh... I just... I don't get where this is coming from. I'm not always asking her to hang out, to do this or that... I'm not clingy... I'm not mean... at least... I don't think I am. And now I feel like sh** and am having strong urges to SI again... which I won't give in and do... but yeah. It's probably my own fault... or she's just in a bad mood. But really? Thanks for taking it out on me.


*sigh*

I dunno...

Hi all! I've been reading all your posts, but feel a bit overwhelmed about doing loads of personals right now!

I've been stalling this week in terms of my loss, but I'm not getting too disheartened, just keep pushing forward! I know what I need to do, so just need to do it! Insanity Day 16 is done, 44 to go!

If y'all haven't seen the film Warrior yet, you should go see it - IT WAS AWESOME.


Had a chat with the boyfriend the other night, was feeling a bit left behind in his plans for the future. But he reassured me, told me everything was fine and he wanted me with him in his future because he loves me - just takes the small things like that to make me feel better =).
Been applying for ALT jobs for Japan, got through to the second stage of Interac, just need to call them about a phone interview and then if I'm successful with that I need to go to an interview/seminar. Kinda crazy that it's happening, I feel like I'm quite settled into my life now but it'll be a good change!

That's about all I have to rant about!

Serbrider - Do you mind me asking how old you all are? Because this sounds so very immature! Honestly, they don't sound like amazing friends. Spend your time around people who actually want your company and don't want to pick and choose when to talk to you.

18... so that easily could be why. It just really took me by surprise... she hadn't ever acted this way before... through texts or in person... so yeah... I dunno.

You're going to japan??? Awesome!!

And as for warrior... I make it a habit not to watch movies about boxing or sports in general... all are the same... but... if you really recommend it...

http://www.marcandangel.com/2010/06/...when-i-was-18/
I'm not trying to pat you on your head because you're 18 or anything, but seriously - it's time to surround yourself with people who matter to you and filter out the sh!tty people in your life. She sounds like one of em.

I am indeed going to Japan for 1 year =). Should be interesting!!

Oh no, it's more than just fighting, the story line is actually great and it just enhances your enjoyment of the action scenes.

Good Evening Ladies!

Okay small rant coming...WARNING!

This morning I was way too tired to bust out with Shaun T because of DD waking up at 330am and then I didn't go back to sleep. That is DEFINITELY NOT a wake up time lol! So, I went to the gym with the LOs instead and did about 10 minutes of cardio until I had to go into the kids club and change a dirty diaper . Then I only had a few minutes left before I had to get into Pilates class (I was going to switch my Shaun T workouts around so I was going to do abs today instead of tomorrow). So, I FINALLY get around to Shaun T after bad naps, dirty diapers ALL day (seriously how much poo can one tiny little girl make?), teething, preschool, AND making dinner...AND THEN THE DVD STARTS SKIPPING LIKE CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SERIOUSLY?! WTH?! DS then says, "oh mommy, look Insanity isn't working" really son? HAHA! That brought me down a little bit, so I did the parts that were working and DH said he had some stuff at school that he could use to repair the DVD. GRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrr . After that I decided I didn't get enough cardio in, so I took my anger out at the ARC trainer, the treadmill, and the Jacob's Ladder at the gym about an hour ago lol! So that was workout #3 for me today because it was all so inefficient!

Okay, rant over sorry about that! Hope you guys all had a better day for working out than me lol!

sgregg-Oh boy I remember those "formal" observations lol! What a pain! My university made me write these insanely long, completely pointless lesson plans for them, something no actual teacher would ever be able to do unless there were 89 hours in a day lol! Great job! Keep up the exercise, you can do it! Thanks for the encouragement, I need it right now. I really want to see those 140s so badly because then I have so little left! I can't wait, although I really want to be able to see my abs again more than I want to hit goal lol!

Midnight-Your tea sounds AMAZING! I need to find some of that where I live lol!

Thinner-There are so many inspirational people on this site, it has really helped me when I started my weight loss in June/July. Stick with us! I am glad that you are doing better .

Sakai-YAY for weight maintaining after fun nights lol! That is always a plus added to the fun .

HH4L-Thanks . I love working out so much, and it is so much better when you are actually in good shape lol! I think you deserve to tell yourself how great you are doing, it's paying off! Oh, I remember how exhausting it is to sit for hours and hours of science lecture. Are you an Anatomy and Physiology major (pre-Pharm of course). That is how it was here for the pre-Pharm people. I was pre-Med, so I feel your pain lol! Stick with it and your butt will get used to the chairs, your hands to typing/writing, your eyes to straining, and your back to cracking lol!

Serbrider-Hang in there sweetie! I agree with Rie, I think that maybe they might be a tad immature. Your friends should WANT to be with you, it's why they are your friends . Hope it gets better soon!

Rie-Great job on getting into the teens on Insanity lol! I am excited for you about heading to Japan . I hope that you and the BF really grow in this experience. I think that you are doing so many positive things in your life and your weight loss is going so well! Keep working, you are on your way to everything you want!

Okay ladies, that's it for me, I am going to relax now and hang out with DH. Have a great night!

Hey ladies, I'm still around! Crazy busy at work catching up after vacation. I'll reply to personals tomorrow and an update in the AM! I had full intention of doing it now, but I'm in bed and the pillow is luring me to the depths of sleep!

Hey all!

Scales are starting to annoy me now, been weighing more on the 171 lbs than anything else!! I think I'm just annoyed because I'm SO CLOSE to the 160s, it almost feels like my body is toying with me! *sigh* Better just eat right and keep going!

munster - Oh dear, that sounds like quite a hectic day!! But at least you vented out your rage at the gym!! Seriously, your exercising mentality is incredible, I know a lot of people who would have used it as an excuse to just be lazy but not you!! My Mum was once going to go to the gym then came home because she forgot her iPod -_-. *sigh*. Aww, thank you for the support! Sometimes I get a bit nervous about going to Japan but then people keep saying how amazing it'll be and it makes me that little bit more pumped to get over there! And it will be amazing to finally live with the BF and have a life we've both wanted for ourselves for a long time. Also, I have digital copies of Insanity, if you want I can find a way to send them to you and you can put it on a USB stick and play it through your Xbox that way. Because you mentioned some other workouts skipping too? Let me know!

Mande - Yaay, you're back! Nice to see you!

Oh, let's not talk about scales...ugh! I got on this morning and it was not good at all. I'm sure I'm holding on to some water since TOM will be starting soon and water intake has been an epic failure.

munster - Yes, those lesson plans suck!! I had to do a 5-day lesson plan and it's probably 20-something pages long. Sorry you had a bad day, but look on the good side, you got some form of exercise in (and a lot more than what I normally do in a day)...it's a lot better than nothing at all.

Riestrella - So, you are definitely going to Japan?? That's awesome!

Serbrider - I agree with Rie...very immature. You definitely do not need to waste your time on people who do not want your friendship and consider your needs/wants as well. Friendship is a two-way street. I'm sorry that you are having to deal with that though. I know it sucks.

HH4L - Getting in the groove of college definitely takes some getting used to, but you will get it in no time. Way to go on your steps!! That's awesome!!