hey everyone-

Didn't think I would be back online before we left! So here I am. lol I just thought it was so funny how many of us met our spouse or b/f online! I also met my DH online. I actually met him in person two weeks before he was about to move to Cold Bay, Alaska. When I met him I knew we should be together. So while he was in Alaska the first time we talked on the phone and stayed connected. And when he got back we were together and married two years later! And this time we ended back up in Alaska together! : )

Ammi~just wanted to say sorry you are feeling down hun. I have been fighting feeling like that most days lately. I hope you feel better soon! (hug)

Lori~Great pics...you were so pretty in your wedding dress! Thanks for sharing!

Misiti~ Wow you are doing awesome!!! YAY!!! Losing 70 pounds is so great!

Ok I am going for real this time... I will hopefully post Monday evening or something. I will let you all know how the Drs. went. Maybe I will post some pics from Anchorage! Take care!

Happy Saturday everyone! Lovely day here in North TX. Bright and sunshiney and about 65 degrees right now. I love it!!!!

Katt - I do WATP and I either do it without weights or using the 3 pounds dumbbells that I already have. I don't there is any reason to go purchse the weighted balls if you already have some weights at home. Weight is weight, right? As for what size, I think that's individual. Since you do so many reps in the video, I recommend a light weight so you can actually do them all. Your body will tell you what is right for you. Have fun WATP'ing.

Misti -Congratulations on making it to 70 pound! :carrot: Also, I got such a kick out of that little swimming smiley in one of your earlier posts. Too cute.

Ammi - Sorry you are having a bad day and that your back hurts. I guess we all have some bad days now and then. I hope you get to feeling better soon. You've obviously made good progress in changing your behavior since you decided to come here and post instead of eating. Good for you!:hug:


I don't have much to share today. Just trying clean myhouse. I NEVER seem to get on top of that task. Oh well, at least my windows are open and I have a fresh breeze to enjoy while I am doing it.

I have updated my ticker to reflect my gain. :( I am really going to try to focus on just 5 pounds at a time. I get so overwhelmed with the idea of losing 140 pounds. Even focusing on 10 pounds at a time seems insurmountable to me right now. So now I am just focusing on 5 little old pounds. That's it. Eventually each of the 5 will add up. Right? ;)

Hi everyone .. wow this thread has gone fast :)

Thankies for the answers regarding the weights for my walking .. I definitely felt the weights I was using working when I did the 2 mile lol .. Im going to give the 3 mile a try today .. I figure if I can do the 1 & 2 right after each other the 3 shouldnt be a problem .. I definitely feel it a little today tho lol .. the backs of my legs especially :)

As for the online romance .. I will admit I was very leery about giving it a go .. you do hear so many bad experiences .. I suppose its easier for ppl to talk about the bad ones sometimes .. but I didnt meet my first 2 fiances conventionally either really ... my first was a taxi driver that somehow used to be my main driver when I needed one in the city lol .. he later told me he arranged it like that so that he could see me rofl ... the next was a phone dating thingy ... you know you ring up and hear messages from possible matches or whatever and can talk to them? I wasnt looking for anyone then either .. my friend and I decided to ring one Saturday night when we were home alone watching crap on TV lol .. wow .. I have just realised ... my relationship with Scoot is the longest one I have ever been in!! Kewl! Knew there was another reason why I asked him to marry me :)

Ash has just come home and gone again with one of the dogs (Jedi) .. she has entered him into a dog show today .. hopefully he does well cos she does get a little down when he doesnt get any awards (fortunately for Jed that rarely happens lol) .. but she is getting better with that .. so she will be back home later :)

SHARON - Hun Im so sorry your meds arent doing what they should be for you ... DEFINITELY come on over here and see me :) Tauranga is a bit away from us .. if you look on a map of the Nth Island there is like a U shape at the top on the right?? About the bottom of that U is where Tauranga is .. WE are at the bottom of the North Island on the right .. well .. not right at the bottom ... but we are the biggest town down there lol .. Masterton. ANY info you need just let me know and I will find out for you :) I think by car .. Tauranga is about 7-8 hours drive from us lol .. but its a nice drive rofl. What sort of job is your hubby looking for?? Maybe I can keep a look out for jobs as well??

Okee ... I have only just got up so I need to get my breakfast (see .. when my hunny is home I look forward to eating lol .. )

Will catch up more later! oh .. CONGRATS Misty of reaching 70 lbs down!! Woo hoo !

Hi Girls,
Well, at my weigh in I was up 1.4 pounds. I changed my ticker to show the
gain. :(
I had labs done too and my blood thinner levels were all whacked again, so we're readjusting them AGAIN! If I can get my blood thinner levels stable then maybe this stupid clot will go away and stay away. I was told officially yesterday that I'll be on the blood thinners for at least a year once they level is stable. :eek:

I think there must be something with the moon or something going on cuz I too have had a bad several days emotionally. Just feeling very tired, grouchy, moody & just plain sad. Since there are several of us feeling like that lately and we're all over the planet, it HAS to be something with the moon or sun or something.

Ammi, I'm sorry your back is bothering you again. Do you rotate heat and ice on it? I had rotated my hip out several years ago & it locked out of place. I went to see the chiropractor for adjustmetns and he said to do the heat/ice rotation thing cuz it increases the circulation and that draws away the inflammation. Just a thought, Sweetie.

Katt, WAY TO GO!! I knew you'd get that job! And, the shirt will fit you great in no time at all.

Sharon, Please, try to see another doctor. I hope it's an option for you.

Today has been ok. I've only had a coffee drink and a handful of naughty cheetos. I took DD to get her hair cut this morning. She wanted 6" cut off.
It's now a very, very cute layered bob. Suits her totally. Then we went to Chik-fil-a cuz she was awarded a kids meal for good attendance at school.
When we got out of the car, I realized I'd locked my keys AND cell phone in the car. :mad: It's the third time I've done that since I got this blood clot in my leg. I just must be totaly distracted inside. In my defense, the car didn't make the ding ding ding warning that my keys were still in the igitation.
DH was at work and with a customer, my DS didn't have a car as his girlfriend took the car to work. I was about freaked out and DS said he'd take care of it. I didn't know how. He asked his girlfriend's brother to get the key from DH and bring it to me. What a wonderful man to do that for me. Now, I need to bake something incredible to thank him.
After that DD had her basketball game and what a game she had. She should have gotten her hair cut a long time ago! :rofl:
She's 8 and they can only steal off the pass.....so she did, twice. She got a bunch of rebounds, scored 10 of their 23 points, and did a great job guarding her guy. I was so proud of her.
Then we went to the bread store.....(the day old bread place) and we got our whole wheat diet bread....35 calories a slice....went and made a spare key for my purse and another I need to put somewhere else in case I forget my purse in the car too.
I really want to take a nap, but I really need to get my gazelle together.....especially since I gained this time. That means I basically lost a month of time. Just stupid!

I think I'm gonna take a nap, do some laundry and work on the gazelle when DH gets home so he can help me.

I hope all of you have a good day/evening. Thanks for listening to be ramble on. Sorry not many personals today, but I'm just bummed.

Wow I did not realize I was almost done setting up the Gazelle! It was not hard at all to finish it up! I don't have the water bottle and computer stuff on yet but I wanted to try it out. I set the timer for 5 mins... wow Ammi I am impressed you can do it for 30 minutes! Amazon woman, LOL! :strong:

I run around the house in socks and made the mistake of getting on the Gazelle without sneakers OR a bra... LOL BIG mistake on both parts!!! The foot pedals are spiky kind of which is probably a good safety feature but I'll definitely put on my shoes next time.

But I am going to LOVE this thing! I have it set up so I can look out the window while I am gazelling along! And I could really feel the different muscles getting a workout than I am used to using ha! :exercise:

I am SO glad I bought this thing! I am going to put my HealthRider on Freecycle... no room for both.

Okay here I am again LOL! I put on my shoes and bra and did the Gazelle HARD for 15 minutes! Wow this thing is really going to get some muscles moving and growing. I sooooo love it so far!

Misti -- well, now that you have your gazelle maybe the ffm will be visiting you even more! Congrats on getting to 70 pounds!!!!

Oh well it’s no surprise to me, but hubby asked me twice today if I wanted to get a take away meal to cheer me up. The first time I said no, the second time I caved. Why did I cave? Because I made the mistake of getting on the scales. I decided that if I hadn’t lost any weight then I would say yes to the meal. I had the meal, so yep, the scales showed no loss. I know it’s not my weigh day yet, and I shouldn’t have used the scales as my deciding factor. But it’s done now. I won’t eat any supper tonight, and I will be good again tomorrow, so who knows, Monday might surprise me yet.

Heather - hurrah another lady who found love on the Internet, it’s so great so many of us have had that pleasure :D

Thanks for the hug, you are right, we all have down days, I just get scared that my depression is taking over again when in actual fact I could have just ‘got up on the wrong side of the bed’ :lol: I am sorry you have had some bad days recently. Were you better than me though when it came to keeping away from the naughty food?

Lori - I am glad that you have discovered that it’s not that unusual to find love online :D I have a friend that met her hubby via a newspaper dating singles column and she will never admit to that. I don’t know why because if anything I would say she should be proud she had the courage to try it.

Thanks so much for telling the story of how hubby proposed to you, you are right when you said that it was very romantic. What a sweet man!! I had a look at your pictures, how fabulous. I don’t know which I loved the most, the actual proposal, the relaxing after the photos, or the faces full of cake :lol: It looks like you and your hubby have a lot of fun together. You made a stunning bride too, thanks so much for sharing the pics. Any chance of resizing the proposal pics so we can see them better :D

Sharon - thanks for your email, I will be answering it soon. I am really concerned about you seeing that particular doctor that you do. Is there no way you could see another doctor there? It seems so wrong that the one you see now is so insistent that you don’t have depression. My doctor put me on meds, she increased them 3 times before changing them, then she increased the dosage twice before deciding to send me for counselling. She was covering all angles, meds in case it was clinical depressions, and counselling in case it was non clinical. It turns out that after another change in meds we discovered that it was clinical depression because finally I was on the right meds and as you know my life has turned around since then. I can understand your doc suggesting counselling, but not INSTEAD of meds. He needs to try you out on various meds and/or various doses until you get the right combination. I wish I lived closer so I could come to the docs with you, two depressed people are formidable :lol: Seriously I really hope you can see a different doctor or get him to see sense.

Sue - oh no I didn’t think you were saying Internet dating was a bad thing, just that you had tried it, been burnt and didn’t want to try it again. I just wanted to encourage you not to let that one bad experience stop you from trying again. It’s just the romantic in me :D

Am thrilled to hear you have put your Gazelle together and that you are loving it as much as I knew you would. I bet you will see a difference with not only how you look, but the FFM might start visiting a bit more regularly now. AND of course :congrat: :bravo: on losing 70 lbs. What a fantabulous milestone to reach :cheer:

Michelle - it’s wonderful how many of us found love on the Net. I reckon somebody should write a book full of the stories of people like us. It’s something I know I would love to read. I did write to the dating site that brought Daren and I together. I thanked them for their service and said if they ever needed a story to prove their site worked they could use ours. I never even got a reply. So I am guessing happy ever after couples that met on their site are a regular occurrence.

Thanks for hoping I am feeling better soon. I am a bit brighter tonight, but I think I will be having an early night and hopefully I will wake up feeling much happier in the morning.

Have a wonderful time in Anchorage and I hope it all goes well at the doctors :hug:

Xena - hmm seems I haven’t made such good progress when it comes to not eating when I am down, I caved and ate kebab and chips with garlic bread tonight :( I had been so good all day too. But oh well it’s done now, and once again I have to behave. That 16 lbs I am supposedly so keen on losing to get to 100 lbs lost seems to be getting further and further away. Maybe I should do like you and set my goal at just 5 lbs at a time. It certainly seems very doable doesn’t it :hug:

Katt - I LOVED the photos you posted of your doggies, they are so adorable!!! Now I just need to see some updated pics of your lambs and I will be in cutey pie heaven :D

Sandy - I am sorry that you saw a gain on the scales, but hey, it could be worse, it could be like the 6 lb gain I had the other week - oops. I am sure you will lose that 1. 4 lbs so quickly you will wish you hadn’t bothered changing your ticker. You wait until you get your Gazelle together, you will get such a buzz from having such a fun work out, it’s bound to help lift your mood. I am sorry you’ve been feeling down recently too. I like your idea that it’s something in the air making us all feel so blah. I know when I can get on my Gazelle again it will help improve my mood :hug: I know you you feel about feeling like you have wasted a month when it comes to your weight loss. This has been a awful few weeks for me. I look at my weight loss chart and see all those weeks of losses and then the 6 lb gain, then 0 loss, and then on Monday I am probably going to see no loss again. So bad when I am supposed to be losing 16 lbs by Christmas :(

I am sorry to hear too that you need to be on blood thinners for at least a year. It wouldn’t be so bad if the clot was actually going, but nothing seems to be happening very fast does it.

Your daughter’s hair sounds beautiful now, she was brave having that much cut off. My daughter did something similar when I was in hospital once. She went to stay with her dad, and when she came to visit me I saw she had her hair cut so that it wasn’t half way down her back, it was a short bob. It really suited her but it was such a shock that she had it done. She’s not grown it long since, and right now she has a ‘Pob’ Victoria Beckham’s style bob.

Congrats to your DD for doing so great in that basketball game, seems having her hair cut had a better result for her than poor old Sampson from the Sampson and Delilah story :D

Sorry you locked your phone and your keys in your car, sounds like something I would do if I had a car! Thank goodness your son’s girlfriend’s brother saved the day by bringing you the keys from your hubby. If you are going to bake him something as a special thank you I hope you don’t get tempted to eat what you bake, not unless it’s low fat :D

I have a few PMs to write now and then I am going to go to sleep. I can’t get enough sleep when I am feeling low. Take care all and thanks to you all for being here for me in my good times and bad :grouphug:

Hugs,

Ammi :crazy:

Ammi -- I am not being so good lately. I mean, I haven't been HORRIBLE, but I am just not as focused. Perhaps it's the fact that I'm in the crunch time in my semester, and perhaps because there have been more tempting treats than usual, and perhaps because I am losing a bit of focus -- I am down to my first huge goal and I wonder if I'm sabotaging myself a bit...

But, I'm not looking to break any weight loss records, and I know some times will be easier than others. So, I'm looking to not chuck in the towel on any given day and to do what I can to keep up with the exercise. If I do those things eventually I will be successful.

BTW, I know you all cheered when I was down to 179 last week. I just have to report that I have not been so low since! (mostly 180-181) I guess I caught myself on a low day -- maybe retaining less water? No matter. I will get back there again. I'm not changing my stats!

Ammi, thanks for your kind and reassuring words. I plan on baking a cheesecake for DS's girlfriend's brother. That way, it's out of the house. And who doesn't like cheesecake.....at least around here everyone loves it!

I got a little nap and feel so much better. My other DS called. He and his fiance' are closing on a house on Thursday. DD and I are going to try to go see their old house and new house tomorrow. We'll see if gas prices will allow it after I talk to DH. I hope we can go. It's about 90 miles one way. It would make a great day trip for DD and I. We'd be home in time for our beloved football too. DS said he'll make us lunch.......spaghetti :eek:
I'll have to get on fitday to see how to do it.

Sharon........I hope you're feeling better. I AM worried about you. I remember the dark moods I had before my meds got worked out. Shame on that dr for not listening to you and your needs. I've never heard of a dr say counseling only. I have had counseling while the meds were getting worked out, but it was both at the same time. They discovered I has post tramitic stress syndrome (stuff from my ex.....very bad stuff) as well as clinical depression.
Is there anyone who could go with you? Ammi is right, she, you and I should go see your dr together.
Please keep me posted and feel free to pm any time.

I need to start dinner ladies. Fish, rice and salad. Yummy

Til tomorrow!

Good Evening Everyone! This is going to be quick, I have a couple of movies I want to watch tonight ~ The original "How the grinch stole christmas" and "The Wizard of Oz"

Anyway, so I didn't do much exercising today but I did clean my house from top to bottom ~ that was a workout in itself, believe me! But it is finally done. I have not had a chance to go grocery shopping yet so I plan to do that tomorrow. I also plan to hit the treadmill tomorrow. :woops: My Fiance has decided to join me in the gym, which I am a little apprehensive about. He is very fit and tends to expect alot of me when it comes to exercise. :coach: He doesn't understand what it is like to have to carry this much weight around, in general, yet alone during exercise. I know he has good intentions but he just doesn't know how to express them very well. Don't get me wrong, I am glad that he is trying to be supportive because it does help to have a workout buddy .. but I'm not sure that HE should be that buddy. :dunno:

Well, let me do a few personals before I my movie starts:

Melissa ~ Kudos for getting your exercise in! Keep up the good work. And, thanks again for all your guidance and support! ;)

Ammi ~ Sorry to hear about your back troubles! I know it can be very painful and depressing when your back hurts. My dad broke his back and he had to retire disabled. Not a day goes by that his back doesn't hurt and he always seems so miserable. :( I sometimes pray that I could carry his pain for him so he would not have to suffer anymore. Anyway, I know it's rough for you but keep your chin up, stay positive and focused ~ things will get better! :hug:

Nightkatt ~ Congrats on your new job! :D

Misty ~ WTG on losing 70lbs !!! That is awesome!!!!:cheer:

Well, I have to run ... I hope everyone has a great night! Stay OP. See you all tomorrow! :grouphug:

Ammi sometimes i just have to have A"free day" it seems to help me and i feel it will you too!