Stevie, I believe that the average size is now a 14. We have a store in our mall here that caters to plus size teens. Its all hoochy-mama clothes and (I know I am showing my age, and all) most of the time don't look good on the "plastic" girls, let alone the plus size. (Sorry Molly if you shop there) I don't even care for the Lane Bryant store, they have a lot of the same style of clothes. Of course, now that I am in a very professional office I have to dress the part. (Not that I would wear those clothes anyways) Okay, enough about that rant.

I hate that the professional clothes in the plus size all look like old lady clothes. I am sorry I don't want to wear Sag Harbor or Alfred Dunner. Do I look like a little old lady who when I drive cant see over the steering wheel? I can assure you that I do not!!! I hate that, they could make suits and seperates that are more hip and attractive in larger sizes. Not that I am extremely big - size 20 or 22 depending on the maker and cut. Sometimes I can even wear an 18. Okay now I am really stopping the rant on clothes.

707 - I meant an Irish accent. :rofl: :rofl: My last name is McCartney and my mom's maiden name is McCann. No Italian in me, but I sure do like their foods.

Lisa

wow, my head just spins when I come here to post!! It's great reading all that everyone has written, but please don't be offended if it takes me a bit to get names. My computer is SLOOOOOOWWWW right now so going back and forth would take forever. I'll work on it though!

I'll have to check into the TCBY pops :) Right now I'm having jello and cool whip. Not very fancy but it hits the spot.

707 - I hope you're making it through the 2 months okay. That has to be extremely stressful for the entire family.

I made it to the gym again today but I've been having an issue with my foot and it was all I could do to finish my workout. I did 55 minutes of cardio. I had to switch to bike halfway through. I'm getting to angry with this toe thing. It doesn't hurt any time except when I exercise! I'm going to make yet another appointment with a doc to see if they can figure out what's going on. It's been three years. I've been to podiatrists, chiropractors, acupunturists, massage therapists (all and I do mean ALLLLLLLL kinds of body work to see if anything would help it) I've taken vitamins, changed my diet, and started downing water. I've taken pain pills and stretched before, after, during and while it bed. I can't think of anything else to do! I've changed my shoes, swapped out my socks, changed my orthotics.......What am I missing???? I'm getting so angry about this! It's a silly TOE. It shouldn't have this much power.

Sorry - I ranted there and don't even feel better about it. The good news is that about 30 minutes after I quit exercising it stops hurting. I stand on my feet all day long to work and it never hurts. Barefoot even!! Okay, I'm done ranting now. Promise!! I'll come back when I'm not mad! Have a good night all!!

Little grass hopper ~~ no worries just chop that puppy off .......LOL "JUST KIDDING" i feel you though girl i have Always had bad knee's i mean always so i cant run on the tread mill or pavement thats why when they made the elipticall (i probably missed spelled that my spelling sucks ) i was sooooo excited so i feel your pain. I hope you find out what it is

Lisa ~~ ok ok you got me by your avitar i thought you were irish and your lppenn well you know it actually looked irish and for italian food (drooling on self) ohhh yeah lovin it

Evening all,
Just wanted to drop in and say hi....I'm sore and exhausted...I'll be getting up at 5 again to get another workout in.

I did real well on eating today...dinner was a whole wheat pita with a slice of mozzarella, 4 deli chicken sauces, and veggies. Oh yeah and one of those 100 call bags of chips.

gotta head to bed...gotta get up in the am!

Molly, the store is called Torid. Actually most any store in the mall is catering to that look, except for the department stores. And even JC Penneys is heading in that direction. I mainly shop at Wal~Mart too, or used to, now its Marshall Fields or Dillards (on extremely good sale days, w/ coupons)

707, the first P in my screen name is for my middle name and pennington was my married name. And yea, that kinda looks like speghetti (sp?).

Mornin'!
 

It's going to be a GREAT day! :carrot: I just know it!! Took a "total conditioning" class at 5:30 this morning and feel completely energized...watch out world...:D I try to work out every morning (6 days a week), but the last couple weeks, I've been dragging and haven't been consistent. After my humbling shopping experience (ahem) I feel pumped up. [using it as a positive experience]

Here's my SHOUT OUT to everyone. My goodness--it IS hard to keep up with everyone!

Michelle - sorry about the DS...I'll add him in my prayers--that he'll "get it" and let me know about DH, too. I'm married to a former cop...it's in his blood. He got out due to some ethical issues he had with the chief (bad stuff) and now wishes he wouldn't have. Oh well...

Lisa - ice cream-----------YUM------------I'm the same way about NOT having goodies in the house. If they are there...I'll eat them. My kids hate it, but it works. And you're right--I think the average size in US is now a 14. I'm with ya on the hoochie mama clothes. Think it sends the WRONG message to today's "yoots" (can't remember the name of the movie off the top of my head, but you the one, right?). Thank goodness my daughter isn't into that kinda dress.

Stevi- ouch, mastitis! Had it several times. Bad stuff. Loved BF'ing all my kids, but that was a definite downside.

Grasshopper - sorry about the toe-thingy. Can't imagine.......

Holy--great job on the workouts and eating right. You rock! :spin:

That's it for now-----gotta get some work done.

You guys have a WONDERFUL day!
Fit

Michelle, sorry to hear about your son, I hope that he doesn't get into trouble again.

Stevi, I agree with you on stepchildren, my ex husband and I got into way too many arguments about my oldest son because my ex husband was too strict with him, he'd never had kids before and felt that my son should be a grown man when he was still a small child. He isn't strict like that with the other two that he's been around since birth at all. He tried to be a good Dad for my son, he just wasn't understanding most of the time with him. I think it's good that you and your dh have an agreement that final say on discipline goes to you. I heard a guy at work who is a stepdad who's stepchildren are grown now, but were younger when he got married, and he said that he learned that really what he needed to be to his stepsons was their friend more than their parent, that he supported his wife in decisions and discipline and was involved in that stuff, but that what he really worked on was being more their friend than a disciplinarian so that they weren't resentful. But sometimes children are just resentful to a stepparent because they are an easy target, pre-teens and teenagers tend to be resentful in general, heck my teenager gets mad at me all the time, I'm sure that the only reason he doesn't hate me ALL the time is because he's been around me his whole life, so he has all that time to remember that I'm not so bad, lol.

Lisa, I've found lots of cute clothes at Lane Bryant lately, not hoochie mama at all, believe me I don't wear those kinds of clothes at all. I am a nurse and we wear street clothes to work, not uniforms, since I work with the mentally ill, so I definately could not wear anything that was considered scantily clad. I don't buy many clothes at LB simply because they are too expensive, and no they don't have much in the way of business attire, but I did get several cute things there before I went to Disneyland in May and I have a pair of capri's that I'm waiting to fit into in my closet that I bought there, lol.

Grasshopper, so sorry about your toe, hope you are able to find something to make it feel better when you are exercising.

Fit wtg on the exercise in the morning, I wish I was that motivated to exercise!! I'm planning on doing my Biggest Loser workout video later today, hopefully I'll get it done, lol. I saw a commercial on tv last night for a new biggest loser show to start in the fall, with 50 contestants, one from each state. Should be fun to watch!

Have a great Thursday everyone!!

OK this is gettin crazy
 

:hug: First off GOOD MORNING LADIES:D i had a good night last night just very relaxing even though i didnt relax? i know it sounds funny i mean i did the laundry dinner etc but for some reason i felt totally relaxed... do you know what i mean ? any ways my oldest son i think is coming arounds he's talking about his future (which he has never done in the past) so thats a baby step.
its still my TOM week so im not weighting in this week (as bad as i want to) it would be alllll bad and i'd propably get depressed etc, I dont know what kicked me in the butt this week but boy i am on fire (inside) my determnation is at an all time high FINALLY :carrot: im walking my butt off ANYWHERE i have to go i walk. im sure the cool weather (finally) is helping that along.

Holly ~~ Good for you girl keep up that exercise

Lppenn~~ I knew that (sort of) lol

Molly ~~:wave: How you doing

FIT~~:hug: Thanks and im glad i have someone to talk to about Husband's as a cop and how to cope, i beleve Melody's husband was a cop too? not sure. But as far as it being in his blood OH YEAH i totally feel you on that one i've been calling him officer dick since we got married (his middle name is richard) LOL

Lisa ~~torrid in the mall is pretty good over here other wise im alllll walmart my mom works there so i get 10% off everything i buy SWEET

Melody~~:wave: I hope all is well

Stevi~~ sorry i never had or had to deal with step kids it doesnt sound fun

Little~~:wave: hope the toe is better
ok i think thats everyone . I had to open a second window to cover all this..LOL

Hello everyone,

I've been doing better with eating the past two days. Now, don't think I've been perfect, just better than I had been! I weighed in this morning and I am at 212. That puts me at either 18 or 20 lbs lost. I can't remember if I weighed 230 or 232 when I started over. That is since last Sept and I don't feel too bad about it since I was pregnant during that time.

Grasshopper: (hmmm, I feel like I'm the teacher on Kung Fu!) Sorry to hear about the toe. When your feet hurt, you hurt all over. I hope they can find something to help you. Is it any exercise that makes it hurt or just certain ones? Like the stepper/treadmill/eliptical.

Lisa: I've seen that store. I think it's beyond hoochie and into punk! It's definitely not my scene! LB is OK, I don't like a lot of their stuff. The Avenue has some OK stuff. And they sometimes have coupons in our Sunday paper. If you shop there and the coupons would help you out, PM me your address and I will send them to you.

Michelle: Yikes, hope your son learns his lesson from this. That must totally suck. If you use the Post Reply button when you post all you have to do is scroll down and you will see everyone's posts. No need to open two windows. I used to take notes before I figured that out!

Melody: I'm so not looking forward to the teen years! When Alex was about 6 months old I spent a whole afternoon crying because I knew he was going to hate me when he was 16!

Fit: Cool on exercising so early in the AM. I couldn't do it. I would hurt myself or someone else. I'm just not with it that early in the morning.

Hope everyone is having a great day!

New pictures! These are from her one month BD:

brother and sister:
http://mysite.verizon.net/kkossowsky...emonthfour.jpg

and girlie by herself:
http://mysite.verizon.net/kkossowsky...monththree.jpg

Hey all, I think each individual store buys for the clientle (sp?) that shops there. I have looked in The Avenue, but it is more casual. (That I don't need) Thanks for all the offers.

Molly, I shop EB too. I just forget about it, cause it's not at the mall. I was shopping there so much I got a credit card. Bad

Well back to work.

Lisa

Who needs zZZzzZzz anyway??
 

Goood Morning!!:)
Well its nearly noon but its morning to me! Lil man Logan was up til 1am and up again @4 and again @6 and yet again @9....he's still sleeping now. The fever didn't hit til late last night and is making him a bit silly:dizzy: . Not miserable but LOOPY..Its a lil cute in a weird way.:) He smiles and stares off....Shots gotta get em. I was going to go help out with the final recording of the back up vocals on our demo but I don't think I'll make it today, we can add me later if needed (Prolly will be.) So WOW a 14 now...my last looky at that stat had to be more than 10 years ago..but Geez! Doesn't that speak volumes about the American condition?? What in 40 years will the average size be a 22 :yikes: ? Provided we are advancing at a size per 10 year rate. Thats a lil scary if you ask me. I can't wear ANY of the jeans at places like Abercrombie etc...If the jeans have no stretch to them, no matter what my size, they will not fit these MONDO thighs o' mine. If I can get them to fit the legs than they have to be taylored to fit my waist. Not worth the $$ or trouble. Now Torrid over here that place is well..different. After I had DS#2 I went in there and bought a size 18 pair of jeans, only thing...I weighed 260:sumo: ! Talk about vanity sizing. I have a pair of 16 from there that are the biggest pants I own..I wore them 8 months PG and they are jeans!! LB isn't AS bad but bad enough..I weigh 222 right now and can wear there 14's. Every where else (Walmart, Target etc..) I have to get a 16 or 18. Hmmmm...? Lucy you have some 'plaining to do!!! lol
Mel~ Well DS#1 (14) doesn't hate me yet but I'm sure its justa matter of time!! Maybe...I DO have all the $$$!! HA!
Karen~ She is such a pretty girl! Lil crabby in the 1 st pic.. Your son is a cutie as well. You make pretty babies.:bb:
Goddess~ Aren't your children step to your husband? Just a different side of the same coin.
Lisa~ You must have a **** of a time shopping! If you don't like the young stuff and don't like the old stuff who caters to just the middle? I usually buy what I like (and that fits) from where ever. Maybe on-line? Sucks though, you can't try anything on!!
Molly~ you said ....BOOBS! :lol3:
Grasshopper~ ( I was thinking Kung Fu as well!!lol) I have had feet troubles forever. They are only recently bad enough to drive me to drink...short distance. lol
Where's Lauren this beautiful morning??
Hi ya Holy....Great job on food yest!!! Here's a carrot...:carrot:

Well I'm done..:blah: for now!