* . . . vamps into casino . . . struts to black jack table in sexy sleek sky high boots . . . tosses a $5 chip down & purrrrrrs "Hit Me Daddy!"*
gets slugged.
Outta here for yet another early (unpaid) meeting - . . . decided with dh the next plan in my union official career . . . gonna run for reelection . . . didn't go into it here but had a lot of options b4 me and wanted to choose the right one with so many factors.
w/i tonight . . . think it will be predictable stall or small gain . . . just haven't been "with it" this week . . . not a disaster but nothing to write home to the 3fc's about either!
but can we wait til july 29th, thats when i turn 21! LOL!
ugh, i totally binged this morning. so not good. i mean i woke up with good intentions but i didnt follow through....le sigh! haha.
I WANT SEXY BOOTS!!!!. Can I dump my previous goals and change to sexy boots? Lordy. I'm glad its the end of the week. I did it to myself though with that meeting fibby and then a full field day. I'm not AS cranky today.
Marie: I'm with you on the meno thing. I have to consider myself peri. Since by definition Menopause is the complete cessation of your period for one full year. I still get it every month the only difference is that some things happend that never happened to me befeore: I'm now irritable when its coming. I get naseous and have the squats the first day. My boobs kill me.
I itch! I get a couple of zits. I wake up with back pain during the night a few days before. Yuck. I left out the sweating profusely thing. That happens on a regular basis but only have had a few isolated full blown hot flashes.
Aud: I cop to the mountain lion. I LOVE THE DOG WHISPERER BY THE WAY. My two dogs are totally spoiled. Lily if it is any consolation I have a very fat english cocker and a corgie mix who both sleep on the bed everynight. I end up curled up like a boiled shrimp.
TGIF!
I never even made it to posting yesterday. All of sudden work is busy which is of course only because I complained about being bored for too long. It's my own fault!
Marie, I've had that exact same thought about credit for food not eaten. You should be able to deduct it or something when you pass up a food that you really like!
Last night I went to a Chinese buffet with my oldest daughter (I guess Thursday is now our night to eat out!). I thought I could stick to the grilled stuff (they'll let you chose the ingredients and grill it right in front of you) and I didn't do too bad. I did have a few too many of the shrimp with cream cheese from the buffet part. Probably ate about four or five days worth of cream cheese carbs, and I sampled a couple of things with breading, but they also had some plain pork.
I was up a pound this morning-but since it's not WI day I won't count it. I think it might have been water weight because the food was salty anyway.
I promised myself I would use Fitday this time! I know I underestimate some of what I eat. I know I should keep track!! But the truth is I find Fitday a little too time consuming. Right now I don't have my own computer at home except for a laptop and that's an extra couple of minutes to pull it out and set it up. And I can't take the time at work every day. I do a lot of this kind of posting from work while I eat lunch and it takes most of my lunch time. I guess the next time I'm on this board whining about not losing, I should remind myself about Fitday. Or one of you can yell at me. "FITDAY, YOU FOOL!"
Well, back to work.
jlkeahi- I forgot you were a local- I often wonder because the DH and I come often and stay down on freemont cuz we love the binnions cafe after 11pm....but for you it must be so boring...although i think we could make it crazy!
Jdog-I think we need to make this a reality- everyone who's interested...well maybe we ought to have jlkeahi get us some info on what kind of places we can eat?
egads the meno thing- the sweating...that was last year when I thought I was full blown- then I think I realized that when I quit partying like a 21 year old I actually stopped sweating....
Wow! The thread is hoppin' I can't keep up. I'll have more time next week when my nephew is gone. I'm still strugling to get back OP, can't seem to controle the evening snacking.
I'll have to wait on the sexy boots, the only boots I'll be wearing for the next months are my big pink and silver snow boots HOT!
My cousin is doing geat, they have sent him home with his parents. he is healing good but still has some trouble from the head injury, can't focus his eyes as the optical nerves are streched, and his saliva glands are paralized so he has a dry mouth all the time and has a hard time eating. but he is getting better every day.
Can't believe how the chat thread grew,welcome all newbies. I just stay away one day and I don't think I can catch-up with all the posts.
Its another day for Leo & I to relax. The weather isn't so nice,its a dark gloomy rainy day. Luckily we did lots of grocery shopping,earlier this week, our cupboards are filled to the brim.
My Goal today
1)to stay OP as much as possible
2)exercising every day even if its only 15 M.
3)drink at least 80 oz of water per day.
Crabby Cakes-I used to go on the scale everyday and than average my weight for the week. BAD MISTAKE,DH saw that I was really getting cross[scape going up] and my mood would change back to happy when the scale went down. Now I stay away on only go on on W-I day which is Wed.,and my mood doesn't swing day by day.I;m a happier & healthier person.Here some and for you to stay away from Dunkin Donuts.
AUD-Hope you have a good W-I tonight.If not, ""just pick yourself up and start all over again"".
Time up,I have to get my rev rolls out of the oven
I missed this obviously- is your cousin ok? accident? So weird what even simple ( much less severe) thinks can do to your brain....hope he's healing well....
BB- Cape cod...for those of us out in cali- (or at least me) I feel like Im missing something with all the actual 'weather" out your way . Out here it goes about 4 degrees either way....
thank you so much for the wonderful welcome- I assume the newbie position for all of you who have been doing this awhile.....OUCH! please ma'am may I have another?
PHEW!! i just did the Leslie Sansone (sp?) Walk away the lbs dvd, after much procrastination , and it feels excellent!! but boy did it whip me!! i cant believe i used to do this like nothing and now, OMG!! lol. and it was only the 1 mile!!! hahah. well its better than nothing.
Yippee, I made it to the gym and got my workout done. My only food today has been 2 slices of bacon and 1 egg for brekky, 2 celery stalks for lunch, 1 with laughing cow cheese and the other with PB. I am hungry now after my workout. DH and I are going out to dinner and I'm having a lovely grilled chicken salad. Yummy!
I'm all for the trip to Vegas. Hey, DH's XW lives there reckon she'd let me stay with her,LOL, NOT! Let me know in advance and I'll plan for a trip and join everyone!
I've now take my shower and done my makeup. Will soon be getting dressed up lookin hot (hopefully without another hotflash) and head out for my fun night of dinner and Karaoke.
I'm amazed how many of us are 47 yrs. old right now. It's menopause city here at the LC chickies, LOL.
Thanks for the lovely welcome! And glad you like the username! Yes, I am indeed a broad abroad - you could even say I'm a broad broad abroad, if you wanted to be painfully accurate! I'm an expat Brit, working in Thailand at the moment. I've been here a year and a bit, but before that I was in Egypt for 3 years - so glad you got to go down to Luxor, Marie, as that's my favourite part of the country. Man, I remember when we rounded a corner and the temple of Luxor was just THERE, and I just burst into tears. I actually found the temples of Luxor and Karnak more awe-inspiring than the pyramids, just because they're so much more human - I mean, they're recognisably buildings, with writing and purpose and all that. Anyway, yeah - I loved Egypt, but I do understand that it's a bit of a shock to the system at first, and if you're only there for a couple of weeks you don't neccesarily have time to get beyond the initial 'OMGWTF?' thing about all the day-to-day craziness.
Gosh, Puncezilla, that's awful about your cousin. I had no idea that a person's saliva glands could be paralyzed - holy crap, the things that can happen to a person! I'm so glad he's doing okay, but it must have been a real shock for you all!
Sexy boots, incidentally, are an EXCELLENT idea. Go get 'em!
I like this thing of writing your goals for the day. Good idea. Let's see:
1) Find some weighing scales so I can weigh portions out properly.
2) Either go to the gym or go for a swim. (Or both!)
3) Pay my water bill.
4) Take some things to the dry cleaner's
5) Start to prepare materials for next week's International Week lessons (my class is doing The Czech Republic).
And maybe
(6) Chuck out the cheese and the sour cream. Because I'm onto Day 6 of Induction, and I've lost maybe half a pound. And I would NOT have said I ate excessive quantities of cheese or sour cream - but that's all I can think it is. I am pretty damn depressed by my lack of progress, frankly.
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I've had a thought, and I wonder if anyone here might know anything about this: I was diagnosed with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome a few years ago. Does anyone know whether that might possibly contribute to this weightloss on Atkins being a bit slower? I mean, I successfully shed about 30lb when I was in Egypt, 2 or 3 years ago, doing WeightWatchers and exercising regularly - so I've no reason to think that I CAN'T shift the weight. But I was wondering why I haven't lost more during Induction.
PCOS, maybe? Or d'you think it's just the cheese and cream? I mean, I'm going to cut those way the **** back now, and crank up the protein still further (really, I'm not much of a carnivore normally, so I was thinking feta salad was a nice option - but maybe I should have been eating steak?), but I wondered just now whether the PCOS would have any impact. I've had a look around the PCOS forum and not seen anything there that seems to imply this is likely - just wondered whether anyone here has had any experience of this?
. . . decided with dh the next plan in my union official career . . . gonna run for reelection . . . didn't go into it here but had a lot of options b4 me and wanted to choose the right one with so many factors.
as far as places to eat, depends on what your up for. 
HOT! 
all newbies. I just stay away one day and I don't think I can catch-up with all the posts.
and 
for you to stay away from Dunkin Donuts.
