Jess --
STOP EATING CHOCOLATE. There's your vibe. :)

Tonight was soup-making night... I finished off the chili I had in the freezer so I needed to restock. This time I made a giant pot of black bean and chicken soup... actually a recipe I found on the boards over in the WW recipes section. It's pretty awesome. Makes the whole house smell yummy!

I feel so lazy being sick... I can't wait to get better so I can go be active again. It's funny, I resisted exercise for so long, and when I finally tried it I realized I really liked it. Too bad I didn't discover that a long time ago.

Okay, one more day of classes and then WEEKEND. Huzzah! :D

My Valentines was amazing. Any day to give me an excuse to spend more quality time with my lover... is a good day.

I did horrible this week fitness wise. I've been sick, i finally got over it the other day, but today i woke up with chest congestion! :/

I decided to take down my old user photo because i felt like it wasn't bringing me the motivation i hoped for. So i decided to post my silly mug-shot instead.

Hope everyone is having a good week.

One of my roommates asked if I wanted to join her anti-Valentine's Day coalition... "We're against corporate holidays! You should tell your significant other that you love him EVERY day!" etc etc..... I said no, since I don't believe in all that anti-vday stuff. If you don't want to buy a card, don't buy a card. I don't. For me, Vday is just a good excuse to go out to dinner and spend some quality time together in an otherwise hectic period of time. Why is anyone anti-that??

Mocha and Miss Michelle, send some vibes my way too!

2 days at 2500 calories! I'm so ashamed! :cry: :nono: :censored: :tape: :rollpin:

Okay, here is the question: why is the banner ad on the side of the page today for chocolate chex mix??? I thought the banner ads on this site were for healthy things! :lol:

Even though I haven't been posting I've been reading the weekly chat. Hang in there ladies! It sounds like you all had a good V-day. BF took me out to dinner last night (we wanted to avoid the V-day crowds) and it was SO GOOD. We went to a fancy restaurant that has a "bistro" menu on weekdays (basically a 3-course meal for $23, when their entrees alone are usually around $30), which turned out to be perfect because the portion sizes were small. I'm glad to eat less food for my money when it tastes THAT GOOD! OTOH we drank a bunch of wine too, oops.

In other news, I got a job!!! So I'll be moving to Indianapolis in June and starting to work full time. Yay! I can't wait to be done with grad school, I can't even express how much I hate it. I feel like my life is on hold while I'm here, and once I move and start work everything will finally start going again. I've fallen off the wagon a bit but not enough to gain much (other than a few lbs fluctuation). This week I'm starting two new gym classes (yoga and bellydance) so hopefully five workouts a week instead of three will help.

Oh, and I forgot to mention, my new job (well, future job I guess) has an on-site gym! It's tiny (one treadmill, one elliptical, and one bike) but looks really nice, and they have those big ball thingies and weights and everything. No excuse not to exercise there!

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AHHH Hi girlies!! I have been MIA for a bit, fell off the wagon, still watching what I am eating, but no excercising... I have misssed the boards! I hae been running :running: away from the fact I NEED TO EXCERCISE!! Anyhow, looks like you guys have keept up the good work!! and thanks trnsfrmnreplace :hug: for keeping up the monthly mins. of excercise for me while I was MIA! Im glad its still going strong!! Hope all is well!!;)

Hey, girls! I'm with you on needing some extra motivation right now... I've taken to eating a LOT of this banana macadamia nut cake that BF's mom made. I just don't do well when there are things that tempting sitting right in front of me. Yesterday was just really out of control. I lost track of how much cake I actually ate. Sugar is my weakness in a serious way! I do OK avoiding it if it's not in the house. Maybe because it's TOM it's making it all that much worse. Anyway, let's get back on track and start eating healthy again! :dust:

There is one positive: I'm still working hard at the gym, so at least I haven't completely slacked off. It used to be that if my eating was bad, I would just give up completely. So, yeah! Something is going right...

Hope you all have a great OP Thursday!

Take care,
Jina

Thanks for all the vibes the other day! I think it worked because I stopped munching on the chocolate. Uggghhh I wish TOM would just come and go quickly. I hate TOM

I'm glad to see some of the old faces back!! :D

I love the new emoticons!!!! Well I think there new :rofl:

:belly: :yoga: :dust: :woops: :running:

The :dust: is my favorite. I love sparkly things :lol:

You are so welcome. I wanted to keep it alive because it was helping so many people out. :) Thank you for starting it. :hug:

Hi Paperclippy and JustforUs..I'm glad to see you around :)

hi ladies

wow - look at all that will power dust!. no stopping us now :carrot:

i have had a rough couple of days. had wednesday off with a headache, went to work on thursday despite feeling like crap still and ended up going home around midday. back on board today (friday) and feeling better. i so need to get to my chiropractor.

anyway, for some reason the last couple of days i too have been gorging myself on stupid foods. i have discovered these little pillows of heaven in ricotta and spinach pastries. i love the combination of flavours and one or two would be ok, but 5 . . . . :o

will be taking the dogs for a walk tonight - the weather has finally picked up. it has either been stinkin' hot or believe it or not, raining which of course makes it all humid and sticky. today should be a beautiful 28 degrees. too nice to be inside at my desk, but hey, someones got to do it :)

better get back to work - will come back later :)

happy losing

Paperclippy, Congrats on getting your job! Welcome to Indiana! I'm glad you are doing something you want to do. My last semester at college was like that...I HATED IT! I was so ready to get out of there it was sick. My hubby had to talk me into staying more than once.

jdoggmartin, That is SO weird! I've been eating banana cake like crazy this week too. It seems like a funny food for both of us to be eating doesn't it?? Thankfully my kids have helped out and mine is almost gone. We didn't have nuts in our though, but it sounds good.

Not much else to report, thinking about getting a Masters in Social Work but I have to decide if I want to apply this week or not...it's a tough decision *sigh* I'm hoping exercise will relieve some stress so I don't stress eat.

Good luck on the impending weekend ladies!

Amber

Yeah I am definitely glad we are keeping this up. I just updated today because I had been slacking with recording my minutes. Now I just need to go to presidentschallenge.com and do the same thing.

Oh and I had this buff guy at the gym remark on how much cardio I do and it made me think how I've been neglecting my strength training. I always took pride in being in the weight room doing my curls, etc. Now I've just been doing stuff in the main cardio room with a weighted bar. Next month I'm going back with the big boys!

TGIF!!! SO glad the week is almost over!

Tomorrow I agreed to watch 2 of my cousins (ages 10 and 12) overnight, so I have a feeling that I'm going to end up eating some not-so-good-for-me food, bc heaven knows they won't eat anything healthy! So everyone cross their fingers and hope that everything goes well and I don't kill anyone.

Monday another of my cousins and her kids are coming up from Florida to visit. I haven't seen her in ages, though way back when I was little she lived with us for a few years. So I expect it to be a nice time. Hopefully.

Other than that, life is pretty normal around here and I can't really complain. All the snow we had last weekend is almost completely gone, what with the 55 degree weather and the rain. How can weather keep changing so drastically? It's been 40-50 degrees for months now, then for a few days it drops down to like 10 and we get a snowstorm, now it's back up to the 50s. Just pick a climate, already! grrr!

Anyways, hope all your days go well and your weekends are awesome.

Brrr and here I was complaining about going from 80 to 40 in the blink of an eye!

Hey guys I ate a ton of cookies and candy yesterday and was down a pound and a half today. It's the new cookie diet! I could make millions!!!

Ooh, gimme the recipe for those weight-loss cookies!! Mmmm!

I just made cookies, actually... I haven't figured out how bad they are calorie-wise yet, I haven't even figured out if they taste good. They were a bit of an experiment. Part of me wants them to be gross so I can give them away to my roommates ;)

Amber: That is crazy that we're gorging on the same thing! I made progress: Yesterday I only had 1/2 piece. Who knows? Maybe we'll have the same luck as Stephanie with the cookie diet. :D

jdoggmartin, I doubt it but hopefully! We only have about 3 pieces left so after today it should be all gone *sigh* Thank heavens! I can't believe it's something that I'd eat so much of! I have fudgies in the freezer and hershey's kisses on the table and I leave those alone but I go crazy over banana cake?? at least I'm getting my fruit for the day! *hehe*

Good luck over the weekend ladies! We're starting the drywall in our basement so I should lose some weight in sweat at least! Only doing the bathroom though so it wont' be too much yet. We start on the rest in a couple of weeks. We just want to get the walls in so my hubby can put the tub and sink in this week. I am re-committed as of yesterday and I've done pretty well so far today with food (my downfall is the diet element) so that's good. Of course the weekends are always my challenge. HOpefully I'll be too busy to think about it at all and just work right through snack time!

Amber

=coughs= sick sick sick...

I hope everyone has a great friday.

Ugh, my sister and her husband (and their 10 week old baby!) just found out the house they are renting/in the process of buying has mold! The entire attic was full of it and there's some in the bathroom walls. The wood had become soaked along with all the insulation. My sister has been having a horrible sore throat and she's afraid the baby is going to be sick too from it. They had an inspector come out today to see how bad the damage is. Pretty scary. You can get all kinds of problems from breathing that in :(

I was bad! I made strawberry pretzel salad. It's soooo good though. I did use cool whip free and low fat cream cheese but it still adds up quick! Maybe I should just eat the thing and have it gone :devil:

Mm, that sounds good... despite how bad it might be :p

We have a bit of a mold problem here, but we're just renting the house so every couple of weeks we scrub down the walls in the foyer and bathroom with bleach.. Then at least you can't *see* it. I know there are certain kinds of molds which can actually be deadly... Saw some weird forensic science show on it once... Otherwise prolonged exposure to mold certainly can't be good! I hope they get the problem all sorted out!!

trns - hope you feel better soon :hug: . BTW love your new avatar :D

i went and bought a calorie counter book yesterday. finally.

so now i just have to sit down this morning and work out what we shall be eating this week and do some shopping and then some serious housecleaning and then going for a walk in the national park (down the road) with the doggies.

we just finished our first week of the biggest loser in australia. they are doing it monday to friday for 30mins each night. i am so addicted! they actually climbed the sydney harbour bridge for their first challenge (not one to start lightly :) ) and they got up there within 12 minutes. considering one team had a girl afraid of heights and the other team had a 197kg man (he is huge!) on their team, they did so well. anyway they had their weigh in last night and no-one lost less than 6kg and the most lost was 15kg :o holy geez!

they have a competition on the website for a 12month gym membership, platinum, for yourself and a friend and i am entering in for OH and me. that would be great. i hope i can get it *fingers crossed*

have a great day everyone

Thank you... I'm glad you like my silly photo. :hug:

i did it! finally got some bloody exercise in. went for a 5km walk and took just about 60 mins. poor little doggies didn't know what hit them.

i was starving this afternoon - here's one for you lockitup - i could have eaten the crotch out of a low flying duck! (bit gross i know, but it is a fav of OH's :lol:

feel so good for doing some exercise

Daisy - That cracked me up :lol3: Oh man!!!

I went out with one of my friends last night and we had Greek food. We decided to talk in accents all night. She did southern and I did english. It was so much fun!!!

Hey LockItUp, how was ur accent weneva Im in tx most wanna 'show' me their english accents, and it's never gd

:)

First off, since I am not from Texas I speak normally to begin with,:D hahaha. It's a pretty good accent I think, I've practiced a lot. I am sure that I don't have the lingo down, but it's good enough to fool all the Americans anyway(which probably isn't saying much).

Daisy Boo - Hhaahaahahahhaah.. TOO funny!

YAY! my ticker moved down another pound....

I'm originally from Mississippi, so all the Canadians love it when I do my super-exaggerated Southern accent. There's one girl who almost pees herself every time I do it... :lol:

;) glad you liked the term. i seriously was so hungry last night. i nearly came back on a couple of hours after posting to say i was still hungry! it can't possibly have just been because of walking

i ended up having a WW ice cream and watched Mr and Mrs Smith (loved it!) instead of gorging myself on grilled cheese.

and believe it or not, my scale has gone down to 105.1! How in the world? :?: oh well, i am not complaining (secretly :dancer: !)

its fun talking in accents. my mother is english and my father grew up in new zealand and i tend to get either a really strong english accent or a really strong new zealand accent when i drink. i wouldn't dream of being able to do a southern accent - it would be horrific. my indian accent is one to be locked up forever and never, ever see daylight again :p

congrats on the loss trns!

Since I've moved to Texas I've definitely picked up the accent a little bit (it drives my boyfriend nuts because he hates the southern twang!) but on New Years I kept telling this guy I met "yah breakin' mah heart" and he told my friend the next day that he LOVED my texas accent, it reminded him of his ex! lol too bad I am a northerner at heart