Gee Whiz,
AMMI, that FFM must be off duty at your house to let that silly scale slip up so much! No worries! It’ll be right back down again soon! Like you said – NO WAY you went THAT far over on cals in just a couple of days! *** Oh, you said it! If only we could have a little crystal ball, just to avoid our large sizes and jerks… or our large jerks, as the case may be! Even that time machine would be REALLY handy. I’ll keep my eye on you and LILION for those little goodies!
DOGPAL – How’s it going,
ANNIE?? Did your DH’s Vikings win the other night? I hope so!
ANDIE – You’re off to such a WONDERFUL start! I’m thrilled to see you getting all that exercise in. Good to see you on the exercise thread, too. That thread keeps me going sometimes when I’d rather sit back on my bootie and watch the tube. I love it!
KAYLEY, I hope your feeling at least a little better by now! I’m TOtally cheering for you to make that anniversary goal you’ve set. It’s a challenge, especially being sick, but I’ve seen your ticker in action – YOU can make it!!!
KATT, It’s cool to hear that you’re going for your license. Even though I drive professionally now, I didn’t get my regular car license until I was 26 years old. That’s probably more unusual here than there. Here it’s ridiculously easy to get a driver’s license. Good grief, they let the kids get their learners permit at 15 ½ ! And anyone can ‘teach’ them. No wonder so many people don’t know the rules and we have so many accidents. This story shouldn’t be funny, but it is: Yesterday a traffic police officer was traveling one way on a multiple lane highway. He saw someone going the other way that he wanted to give a ticket to, so he went to make a U-turn. Apparently he did it unsafely across other lanes of traffic, because he was hit broad-side…. By a corrections officer! It wouldn’t be funny if anyone had been hurt seriously, but c’mon! Who REALLY has that ticket coming? ** It rocks that you did that pilates and still did some movin’ and shakin’ with Richard! Great job!!
JILL, I just tried an elliptical for the first time last week when I checked out a new gym. You’re right – it sure does give you a workout! I’m pretty sure I’ll be joining that gym once my new job schedule is settled, and I’m looking forward to ‘playing’ more on the elliptical. It’s really great to see you posting more again – I missed ya! ** Oh, and I’m with you on the cravings – Once I start, I’m usually DOOMED! There is absolutely NO such thing as ONE piece of chocolate. ** Hey, watch your toes on that couch! Great job on trying new tapes and such, tho!
Howdy,
PATTI! I hope it’s just the usual stuff at the eye doc. Have a great day!
MISTI, I’m totally frustrated for you! Silly, wicked, ornery scale!!! We both know this dry spell will break, but gee whiz, I wish it would get on with it already!
MELISSA, Good for you, getting after that strength training for November! I have no doubt that you can make your goal for your trip. What I love about the strength training, too, is that my measurements are all going down, even when the scale is moving slower… or not at all.
HEATHER, That’s a really cool thing about your “Victory Basket”. I’m glad to see that ultimately you didn’t let that ‘stuff!’ pass your lips. BRAVO! I certainly know all about how powerful cravings can be. I don’t have a history as good as yours… yet. Ah, but we are works in progress, right? At least if your cravings are TOM related, you know that if you can hold out for just a couple days, it will pass. …Not like cravings for Chinese food.
…OOPS, Just caught up with the spice cake post. Yup, I understand. Glad you stopped at four! Look at it this way – spices are good for you – they clean out your arteries and clean out your arteries and increase blood flow thru your heart and, and, and… R U buying this? *** Oooo, the Lifting post! (See how far behind I am?) That’s SO, SO cool about looking forward to and then really enjoying your weights! If someone had told you a year ago that that would happen, what would you have said?? I know exercise hasn’t always been your favorite thing, and I think it’s just a TREMENDOUS NSV that it played such a positive role in such a hard day!! Wow! Just Wonderful!!
KATY, I’m so very sorry to hear about your cousin, and that you won’t even be able to make it to the funeral.
I don’t know what to say, other than that my heart goes out to you and your family. I can’t imagine your loss. Please do hang in there and try not to let the stress cause you to harm yourself and your progress. You said it – you don’t want to backslide again. And reading and writing here is SO much better than cruisin’ the cupboards or munching any unmentionables. This is a safe port, and a harbor of hope!! ** I can’t remember where you said you were from, but it sounds like you’ve got as much winter as our Top-of-the-world
MICHELLE! I better quit whining about 45 degrees, even if it IS raining! ** Oh, and you’re a night owl, too? Right now while I’m in training for this new job I’ll be working days – 5 a.m. to roughly 5 p.m., but when I go ‘regular’, I’ll be on 4 pm to 4 a.m. I always drove night shift when I drove long distance. When the sun comes up, I start to yawn.
Oh, MICHELLE – Yes, decent sneakers make a HUGE difference! I have New Balance and I love them, but I will say that even in various styles of NB shoes, the fit varies quite a bit. It’s too bad you couldn’t try on a few pairs before you bought them, but overall they’re a really good shoe and I hope yours boost your exercise abilities! I know when I started on my treadmill and could only do 10-12 minutes, I used to do it in stocking feet. Now I wouldn’t dream of it! And since you’ll only wear them indoors, I bet they last you for a long time. I just recently bought one pair that I never wear outdoors and only use for exercise class. But even the first pair I bought that I wore CONstantly, they lasted like 3 times longer than any pair of WalMart shoes I’ve ever had. Also, I have wide feet, and I find that their wide sized models help me tremendously, too! Like AMMI, I no longer have anywhere near the trouble with my ankles that I used to! *** I understand about that change between night and day shift. It seems I’ve been changing back and forth for years, and as a consequence I think I need more sleep than I used to, or at least more than some other people around me. I don’t always take one, but I’m usually game for a nap most days. I hope you get your schedule squared away soon.
KIM !!!!!!!! Good to see you!!! I hope you’ll post that exercise on the Exercise thread – You’d push us over our 20k of minutes for sure! It’s SUPER that you’ve been staying so OP, and of course we’ll be delighted if you could spend a little more time with us, but your success is the most important thing! I know the time I can spend here is about to drop drastically with my new job, but isn’t it great to be able to stop by here, no matter what??? Keep up the great work. I hope your ‘measure in’ gives you numbers to cheer about. Let us know, K?
WEZI, Cool that you put a pic up on the pic page. It’s great to see you! It took me forever, and I don’t even have a recent one of me… have to do something about that. That mean old scale will do plenty of fluctuating, especially if your water and sodium intake vary. I know that if I exercised (or didn’t exercise) the night before I weigh in, it has a profound effect on the scale. You’ve started that trend downward, and there’s no stopping you now!!!
My First Day at work… I think I just may really like being a Big Twuck Dwiver again. I had terrible fears about getting a real macho jerk for a trainer that would be testing me and pushing me from day one, but I got a good guy that’s got a great approach to teaching. He started with “The first day, you don’t even put gloves on. You just ride along and watch.” He tells me that tanker drivers are, in general, a different breed than freight box haulers, and that even guys from other companies will be helpful and friendly. I learned a bunch right off the bat, of course, and he’s great about answering questions. It’s cool to see how the fittings work, how the trucks are loaded and unloaded, etc. They gave me a new hard hat & stuff, and even got a chance to break it in at a steel mill we went to. (I was so cute in my little hard hat, dressed up like a little construction worker... and I wasn't even doing it for Halloween!
It was a gorgeous, sunny day here, and against all odds, we got done early. He was happy cuz it was his “Friday” and he got to go home early with beautiful weather, to boot. He tells me a normal day is about 4 loads, and we only ran one long one, so I didn’t get to see as much as I might have, but there’s still plenty of time. I had Tues & Weds off, and I put them to good use, working out. (Ouch – New routine at class has my back, shoulders, lotsa stuff, feeling it!) Tomorrow it’s up again at 3 a.m. and back at it. I’m looking forward to it!! It’s very interesting, and I feel really confident that while some days the work may be really hard, I’m perfectly capable of doing it. OOoooooo, come on first pay check!!! That won’t be for another 2 ½ weeks, tho.
I guess I'll be their only female driver. He said that he had one train for a week once, and then decided it wasn't for her. I don't have that luxery, and besides, I'm not a fluff chick. I'm a greedy little work horse. SHOW ME THE MONEY! ... But don't let my husband see it!!!
Anyway, I’m loving the job so far... but it's only been one day. One short, SUNNY day.
To all our recent PICTURE POSTERS – I finally got a chance to check out all the cool new pics. It’s GREAT! Loved the costumes and loved to see those smiling… or not… faces of friends!
OK, so I’m splurging. I’m trying these spinach and artichoke nuggets by Morning Star, whose products are all (or mostly) vegetarian. Yes, MISTI, they’re highly processed and mostly bad for you I suppose, but way lower fat, etc, than many things, and hey, they’ve got spinach in them. How bad can they be??? Well, they’re yummy anyway, but they don’t have any sugar to make me crazy. This is an allowable treat that I can enjoy, but not lose control with.
This my be my last long post for a while. I don't know how the next few weeks will go with this new job. I know I'll dedicate myself to keeping up with my exercise, and eating well should be easy if I just plan ahead and take my little trucker lunch box with me. I'll try to look in on you guys and make sure you're behaving, even if I don't have the steam to post much. Just letting you know, I'll be with you in spirit, if not in print. To all of you -
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we didn't get as many trick or treaters as we thought, so we still have candy in the house! i''m going to throw it all in a bag and have rich take it to work with him. i did let myself have some candy last night--it can't be halloween without a few pieces, right? but, now it's out of here!
). #1) when i started reading on here, i was at 301, so at least i'm down from there and #2) when i started posting on here, i was at 298, so at least i'm still down 1 pound from there. i'm not going to change my ticker back up yet, i'll wait and see what next week looks like.
Jump right in. These girls are great! Looks like you are on good start with a 2 pound loss, congrats!
Poor thing :P 
