Ha, ha, ha. Bambi I HAVE A RECUMBENT BIKE IN MY BEDROOM. Still not using it. How pathetic is that. I deserve a spanking with a wet noodle except I would probably want to eat the noodle. January and February I did 45 minutes to an hour religiously everyday and within a couple weeks had ground it up to max resistence. I don't know what has happened in March. Just don't wanna get on it. I'll get round to it I guess.

Petra: I had a bunch of people at work apparently that thought we were closed. Or wanted to believe we were closed. I walked in at 8 and not a single manager (out of 15) was there. They crawled in between 9-11. No excuse because they are not supposed to do any site work on Fridays. Too much potential for abuse and leaving poor administrative assistants to handle complex issues that tend to pop up on Fridays. The VP, the CFO and the Controller all either decided not to come in or left early. The Big Cheese is in Tahiti (after specifically asking that all the other powers that be ensure they are in the office today so I would not be left holding the bag a ususal). Sooooo irritating. At least nothing screwed up happened. No emergencies arose. A truely freakish thing!

I hope everyone is doing well. I had no breakfast today and only 1/2 my water. Alas. I had a wonderful steak salad at lunch but I have a sneaking suspicion that the dressing had balsamic in it (even though it wasn't listed on the ingredients). I have to admit a few fried onion strings made their way into my mouth...they were super skinny but they looked battered to me. I pushed most of them off. Had a cheesburger patty for din din. That's my day!!!

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Hi!
I'm kinda new to the Low Carb forum, but not new to low carb. But I've never stuck with it til now, so I'm looking forward to success! As I scanned this last post I can't help but chime in. If you don't want to get on your stationary bike then why do you? I recently made the change from a commercial gym to a bootcamp-type fitness club, and lemme tell you for the first time in my LIFE I love exercise! It wasn't my fault that I dreaded 45 minutes on the treadmill, bike, elliptical, or any other machine that was there, and never even saw good results. Now I go outside everyday to a local football field/track, and drill instructors keep me moving for an entire hour, never doing the same exercise twice. I need to buy a scale but this week my jeans have gotten SO loose it's ridiculous. But anyway, I guess what I'm trying to say is that machines are fake and don't work our bodies the way they were designed to work. So if we think they are boring why do we torture ourselves? Find something you LOVE whether it's bootcamp, running, tennis, horseback riding (another passion of mine), hockey, etc.!

Today I'm running to the bookstore to get Atkin's New Diet Revolution to jump start my way back into low carbing and also to supplement my new bootcamp regimen. :) So anyways, just a thought I wanted to share about exercise on fitness machines!:carrot:

Welcome Michelle. Glad you are having such good success.

It's another beautiful day here but I'm sneezing my head off again. I've been taking Clariting everyday which does seem to help. I have so many things I need or want to do today I can't decide which direction to go first. I do want to take the doggies out for a nice long walk in the sunshine. Most of the other things I need to do are boring like paying bills, doing laundry and grocery shopping. The usual weekend stuff. Also have church tonight so I'm on a schedule and of course a lot of things will be closed tomorrow for the holiday.

WELCOME Michelle!!!

SIC - Hoping you are having a great time with your family! Enjoy!

Goooood Morn All! Hope your all enjoying your holiday weekend!

Michelle - I agree with you in that you should always try to choose exercise that's most enjoyable to you. Bootcamp?? Wow! I love to watch Harvey on Celebrity Fitclub! Harvey's HOT as ****! All that yelling and screamin', sweating and muscles pumpin'!:lol: I always wanted to do a boot camp thingy! Where do you find that stuff? Not sure where Ardmore PA is, but I used to live in Stroudsburg PA and we never had anything like that there. Now I live in Richmond VA...so..I guess I'll have to check on that. For me, though, convenience and time is an issue. I own 3 businesses and am a single divorced MOM of 2 girls (9 and 22) as well as a grandma of 2 (2yr/3yr)! That's why I bought a home gym...if not, I would never have the time to go anywhere to exercise. Most times, I can't fit my workout in until 9 or 10pm! I think that whatever you do (anybody for that matter), JUST MAKE TIME TO EXERCISE...you'll feel better (I certainly do), have more energy and burn fat! Now you've got me thinking about that damn "boot camp" Harvey show and I soooo wish I could do that! More power to ya sista! Nice to have you here...hope to hear from ya soon! Joyce

Hi, Michelle. Welcome.

I know exactly what you mean. This week I went to the gym and started walking. After ten minutes, I decided to walk outside. I needed to go about a half a mile to Office Depot. So I put my clothes back on and went for a walk outside. I ended up doing the same thing the next day, too. Sometimes it is better to just get outside and do something. I'm glad your bootcamp is working. I take an indoor bootcamp class. We use free weights and never do the same exercise twice.

You should also read Living The Low Carb Life by Jonny Bowden and Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taube. These are really good books also. I got these from the library first and ended up buying them. What do you read for entertainment?

Petra - I have a doggy question for you. DD21 came over last night (she's movin in with me on Sunday) and bamboozled me into letting the dog sleep inside. I said, I would buy an indoor doggie house for him to sleep in cuz he's used to sleeping in the bed with her which is absolutely out of the question here in MY HOUSE! The dog (Max) is potty trained, but I'm worried, cuz one time she brought him over to my house and he started sniffing in the laundry room and pee'd on the floor there! Thank goodness laundry room has vinyl floors...but my question is do you think he will have to be re-potty trained once he moves here? I mean...he's trained for her old house, but this is a new environment for him. Any suggestions for training a dog to adapt to a new environment? Thanks for any help you can give. Joyce

:lol: Sorry, but...you are too funny! Suggestion: take 2 execedrin migrane...hangover headache will be gone in 5 minutes!:carrot: Trust me on this...I have a little experience in that department! Feel better sweetie!:hug:

Originally Posted by aud:
MAJOR hangover.

That is all.

Morning All: 7:30 a.m. here. I got up at 5:30 to start cleaning. DD and DH were off on Thursday and Friday so the house looks like a bomb got dropped on it. Just finished. We are driving a couple hours up to see my family at around 11 so by the time we get home tonight I won't want to clean anything. Since the Easter Bunny needs to swing by late tonight I had to clean so his goodies can actually be found. Tee hee.

Aud, that post cracked me up. BTW, I'm still really, really enjoying and craving the soy milk. Now in the evening I just pour myself about 6 to eight ounces, add a splash of hazelnut, sprinkle on some nutmeg and cinn and heat it in the micro. Can't get enough. Apparently the cocker can't either. In the middle of the night I often feel her significant wieght crawling over me so she can stick her big snoot into the coffee mug I used for the soy. If she's lucky there might be a few dregs down there. She is a soy who*e. Michelle: I have no excuse. I belong to a very nice club too. All classes including pilates, yoga, step, body vive, body pump, circuit training, swimming, water aerobics, tennis. I'm just being lazy. Nights are hard for me because my schedule is not my own due to meetings etc. I could exercise in the morning but again...I'm just being lazy. I'm hoping I snap out of it soon!!!! I bet there is a boot camp around here but I doubt I would show up to do it. I think I would be intimidated. Yikes.

I hope all is well with all. Have a terrific day!!!

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Hey SIC!!! Don't beat yourself about the exercise thingy...you'll do it when your ready! Your diet is great (sounds like you're also quite the chef'boy'r dee!)...you walk for miles every week (work), YOU'LL DO IT...I know you will! Maybe I'll send you a pair of Nikes!:lol:

Don't know if it was SIC or Aud who suggested it...but I too am now a soy milk wh*re! I love the stuff! Always thought it sounded gross so I never tried it...but when I saw the post, I picked up some unsweetened soy and been drinking it everyday ever since! Thanks for the tip ladies! I have 1/2 to 2/3 cup at least once a day in my protein shake...yuuummmmmy!

Got a 12pm hair appointment today...gonna get my hair re-cut...it grows so fast...I like my hair short now! It's so easy to manage that way! Gonna get my WO in afterwards and go shopping...I'm actually enjoying the quiet here at my empty home! Gotta clean the carpet downstairs as DD21 is moving in on Sunday! Other than that...I'm just going to relax at home...maybe watch some mindless reality tv and do a little shopping (decorative).

Have a wonderful day all!

Joyce-doggie should do pretty well if he or she is already house broken. Sometimes there are a few marking territory issues when they come to a new environment but that is usually over in a day or two and if you are on your toes and see them sniffing around, jump on it and take them out. A crate is a great idea. Doggie can be in the crate whenever he or she cannot be supervised including at night. I also mentioned I have baby gates in my house which is another idea if you are unsure about letting the dog into certain parts of the house for awhile.

SIC-don't beat yourself up about the exercise. last time, it took me about 3-4 months to feel like doing some sort of formal exercise so I'm not sweating it right now. I'm just walking the dogs. Good for them, good for me. They are both passed out on the floor right now-Cesar would be proud.:D

Petra and Joyce: I believe I will take the excellent advice not to worry about the exercise right now. I will commit to myself to do a little walk up at the ranch today, (maybe down to the pond and back) and 1/2 hour on the bike tomorrow. (Hopefully the 1/2 will coincide with DD's eating of Cadbury Choc. Eggs!!!Then I don't have to see it). I really enjoyed the Bodypump class it just takes too much effort to make all the schedule arrangements required to get over there regularly. I am going to check for any boot camp classes that may be around here and see if they still scare me after I do some research.

Joyce: The doggie might be fun for you!!!! I'm a bad one to ask about them though. Mine sleep on the bed (and apparently drink from my cup of soy milk when I'm not looking). You know I have a throw at the end of the bed and a throw on one side of each couch and the dogs pretty much know they are only allowed on those two places related to furniture. When it is super cold or she has gotten rained on, the cocker will come back after a trip outside and for some reason, come right up the middle of the bed (she's cold and wants someone to cover her up!). Other than that, no problems. I shave her once it is warm so I don't have to deal with dog hair and she is more comfortable that way as well. I also keep her long cocker ears trimmed short because they get dirty with food and what not. Hey, do you have a sliding door in DD21's area? We have those full length pop in dog doors designed for sliders at our house. Then the dogs can go in and out to do their business but I didn't have to cut a hole in a wall or door.

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Thanks Petra and SIC for the doggy advice! I will take your suggestions watch the little sucker for sniffings (a.k.a. marking his territory). Also, SIC, the answer is YES...there is a sliding glass door in what will be DD21's Living Room. Where can I get this insert and is it safe for when nobody's home? Do you pop it in and out kinda thing? Where can I get it? Home Depot/Lowes? Thanks again for all your suggestions.

BTW, I grew up with a German Shepherd in the projects of Brooklyn, NY...we didn't have all these issues then...just took the dog out for walks...he drank out of the toilet boil and Mom brought home leftovers from the hospital for him (she was an R.N.), and us kids gave him treats and Alpo! Oh yeah...I used to put his collar on, grab a ball, get on my skateboard and throw the ball...whew...he'd take off and I'd go flyin'! Boy...those were the days! I miss my Smokey!

My dogs sleep on the bed too or on a dog bed but I have crates. Sometimes they are convenient-guests who don't like dogs, etc.

Hey there, lovely ladies! Long time no see! Let me chime in with a belated welcome to the new (to me) faces - WELCOME! ;)

Sorry to have vanished in a puff of insubstantial electrons - Thursday was hella busy at work (about which more anon), then Friday was kind of a holiday, inasmuchas the kids didn't come to school, but we spent the day moving things from the 'old' buildings into the sexy new just-completed extension to the school, which is MASSIVE, so no 'netting time then either.

Anyway, yes - Thursday! So in the morning we had a little assembly - I can't recall if I mentioned that this term I decided that I'd run a little after school drama group for my extra curricular activity? Well, I've been doing that. Mostly 7-11 year olds, but also one 4 year old (although she's more like a 6 year old, really, to look at, and, OMG, she's THE MOST ADORABLE WEE THING you ever saw IN YOUR LIFE. She's English, Liverpudlian [think the Beatles' accent], biracial, just freaking GORGEOUS with her cheeky smile and wee 'fro. Love her to bits. She was Little Red Riding Hood in our play). Anyway, I gave them a choice at the start - they could play theatre games, or else we could put together a little play and perform it in front of the school. They opted for the latter, so I gave them a choice of a couple of kids' books and they chose Mr Wolf's Pancakes. (Superb little story, sort of a twisted fairytale thing.) We used it to do some improv work, because the book only has a handful of characters and there were 15 kids in my group, and then I took their suggestions for characters and what they could say and incorporated those into a script. Then we had auditions, and then they got given their roles and went off to learn their parts. I told them I wouldn't talk to the Headmistress about us performing it until I could see they were serious about learning their lines - and they did an awesome job! So after several weeks, this Thursday was D Day, and I was like a proud mother hen with 15 little chicks! The whole school, from KG to Year 7 (your Grade 6) came to watch, and my kids were AWESOME! And their mums and dads came too, and it was just altogether adorable. Go Team Kids! They got loads of laughs!

Then that evening I had MY first performance in my wee play! It went pretty well, and it was a lot of fun. Then Friday, after we'd been at school moving stuff around, we had the second (final) performance - which went much better. (It's just The Annual Fringe, which gives 1st time actors/directors the chance to have a crack at something small, and the budget is tiny, and the audience entirely comprises friends and family, rather than paying guests. Just a 2 night run.) That was awesome, and my friends came to watch, and random strangers came up to tell me I was good, and some random guy bought me drinks, and it was just pretty damn awesome!

On the subject of drinks - OMG! This week I have realised that THERE ARE NO FRIGGING CARBS in vodka! And practically none in White Wine!

!!!!!!!!!

As a result, I did indeed get wellied after the show, and indeed went clubbing (had to get wellied to go clubbing, because I just don't DO clubbing). Picture me trying to explain to gyrating, scantily clad hunks in the gay bar that, really, they need to stop trying to make me dance, because I'm much better at bookshops. Picture me several vodkas later, a fat white girl with flailing around gleefully in what she imagines is an acceptable dance style. Ah, well. Fun was had, and the hangover wasn't too bad.

Today is my first rehearsal for Rumours, the Neil Simon play I'm cast in. Quite looking forward to it. I'm acting alongside two other people whom I really quite fancy, although only one of them will be there today. I'm mostly sure that she's straight, and thus it's just a good-natured crush that colours my friendship with her - because she's awesome, and I like her a lot. Although on Friday night she did give me some confusing signals with the arm-wrapped-over-shoulder as we sat in a bar, and the footsy-playing...but I reckoned she was maybe just more huggy than I am, and that it meant nothing. (I am aware that picking up on I Fancy You signals is not one of my best things. I tend to assume people do NOT fancy me until they are actually snogging me, or asking me on a date. This has caused me to kick myself on a number of occasions for lost opportunities - but basically, if I came home to find Johnny Depp sprawled naked on my bed covered in chocolate sauce and clutching a 'Fay, baby, ride me hard and put me away wet' sign, I'd likely back out of the room apologetically in the assumption that he meant some OTHER Fay.)

Meanwhile, I do continue to show signs of quite falling for this boy I mentioned. Which - I don't really want to be falling for anyone, because it just depresses the **** out of me. The fat acts as a pretty effective insulation from all the trials and tribulations of romance, for me - it's a barrier that people don't tend to look past, and I've sort of put my heart on ice for quite a while. Now that I'm changing my body and my life, and feeling confident enough to be flirting and what have you - well, along with that comes the rather excruciating thing about WANTING someone, and dreading rejection. Which - no freaking fun. I was a bit crap and weepy yesterday, actually, thinking about this. I haven't felt lonely for ages and ages, but boy howdy, yesterday I could really have used a hug.

Anyway. Today is another day, and I'm feeling more upbeat. Er, and wow, am I ever making up for all the posts I didn't make earlier this week! But you know me and brevity - they're not mixy things. I missed y'all!