Leens - love the wedding pic! You're a pretty lady!

Princess Froufy - So sorry that the issues are still in existence. Too much fiber in your diet?

I forgot to tell you my story of ultimate negativity! Ugh - I'm still pissed off! Ok - so Saturday night DH was working at the bar and I was feeling better so I went down to hang out. Well, this woman corners me as I'm going into the bathroom and starts accusing me of hitting on her son! For the record, this guy is living with the head bartender, is incredibly abusive, makes his money selling pot, and is an all around repulsive person. If you've ever seen "Delux" in those commercials they show before a movie in the theaters, he's kindof like that.

Anyway, I told her she was being ridiculous. I don't even like her son and I have a perfectly wonderful husband who I adore beyond all reason. So she gets in my face and tells me - are you ready for this? - that I think I'm so much better than everyone else just because I've lost weight and who the **** do I think I am. And then storms off!

I didn't know if I should fall over laughing or chase her down and beat her drunk a$$ up! I chose the former, but ohhhhhhhhhhh I'm still angry! I've worked very hard to lose the weight that I have and I don't think I'm better than people because of it. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!! Does this mean I get to discover a whole new kind of discrimination?

That is too funny Star - obviously someone has some "low self esteem" issues - and it certainly isn't you! I'm sure she is extremely jealous of you and your new gorgeous body - and yes sometimes when one loses weight it brings out all sorts of issues in others - in fact you may find out who your true friends are!...as sad as that may seem!

In the past (yes I have lost weight before) I did notice that people did treat me differently when I was thinner - even tho I was the same person inside! This really peeved me, especially when it was male attention - how shallow they can be! All of sudden doors are being opened for me, chairs pulled out and smiles everywhere - where was this when I was 50 pounds heavier?

By the way, next time this person approaches and accuses you of flirting I vote for "kick her butt!"...ha ha

Froufy

If it wouldn't jeapordize my career, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

But you're right about the friends thing. I'm already learning some painful lessons there. Dateline did a story last night about how people are treated differently based on how attractive other people find them. Even my parents are pulling that crap right now - telling me how much nicer I've become and how much more balanced I am in my life. What??? I've always been nice and relatively balanced. I'm sure glad I've got some people in my life who understand that I'm the same even if I do look a little different.

Hello everyone!

Star: Wow...crazy woman on the loose in Oregon, eh? I think I would have laughed at her insinuations, too. What can you do about these crazy people? Just roll your eyes, I guess. Sounds like she's awfully jealous, though, of all your success in losing weight. I love it when people "storm off" though - very dramatic. And very amusing for the one watching the "stormer." And congrats on the size 5! I can't even imagine...

Leens: lurvely wedding pic! Glad to see you experimenting for us with the new board layout (which by the way, I like).

Frouf: Bah. Snow. Bah. Weather that's just going to get colder later this week. I hope your tummy feels better. Subway in Canada really has the low-carb wraps? I mean, I know I saw the commercials for it, and even though I knew they were Cdn commercials, I still figured it was all a lie and that the wraps would only be available in the US. I wonder if they will take my full Subway card for the lc wraps? Hmmm...

Story: Your poor mother! At my hypothetical wedding shower, I can totally picture my mother embarrassing me! My sister inherited her non-prudish genes. My non-prudism comes out in spurts, but not consistently.
As for the grilled cheese sandwich, my brother would sometimes take one slice of brown bread, toast it and then somehow skillfully cut it in half to come up with two pieces and use that to keep carbs low. If you're not on induction, I think that might still keep carbs low?

Hey fullfig & supersized! It's nice seeing nearly everyone back. I haven't seen rochemist here for awhile?

Theo: Way to go on resisting the cake! I'm a bit of a cheat on this program when I go to birthday parties, I always take the piece of cake that they give me. It's handed directly to me, and with my group of friends in Montreal, I don't feel comfortable going into my weightloss efforts with them, especially since I know it will turn into this big "thing" once I mention Atkins. So I just quietly try to go about it. I avoid all the other party food though so maybe it's only half-cheating?

Jane: even though I complain a bit about the difficulty in finding LC items up here, I'm fairly satisfied with what I have at the moment, too. The only times when I find it difficulty is when I need "convenient" stuff...something to take the place of a granola bar.

Karen, glad that your DD is feeling much better!

Jina, hope your stomach returns back to normal - hopefully it was just some weird temporary thing caused by solar flares or bizarre rifts in the space-time continuum?

Tried to resolve the last library book issue today, but since I couldn't find the 'lost' book on the shelf, I have to wait until Jan 22 when the supervisor comes back. Grr.

Then, I wanted to borrow a laptop on Wednesday for the tutorial I'm giving, and for some reason my department decided to *stop* allowing grad students to borrow the laptops this term unless they were doing a seminar. Grr. Throws a wrench in those plans.

I apologize to anyone that has fond feelings towards the university I am currently attending, but its rating in my books continually drops, over silly stupid things, too! It makes me look wistfully back at my undergrad university... *sigh*

Whew! I've got to get back to work. See you all later, Julie.

Okay, it's a small thing, but I WALKED at lunch today for 27 minutes!!!

I feel SO GOOD about doing it... and now that I've done it once, I can do it again!!

I have updated my miles in my signature to be ONE, but it possibly could be 2, I don't know, so I'll keep it at one.

I'll go update the list, too.

WOO-HOO!!

Lekker - are you at McGill or Concordia? and where did you do your undergrad? I did my BA at McGill...but that was a long, long, loooooonnnnngg time ago!

And I loved your explanation about the bloated tummy! My next "excuse" is going to be those nasty solar flares and rifts in the time/space continuum - how astute of you to notice. I bet that was what was affecting that nasty lady that attacked our lovely Star....Star - not your fault...it was the bizarre fluctuations of the moon tides that were causing her surly behaviour!

Froufy

Oh man Star!!!! I experienced that when i lost 75 pounds last time, It seems to bring out the worst in people and all their insecurites to the forfront. They are reminded that they still llok like crap when they look at you !! Good girl just ignore her, what she would really want would be for you to say or do something mean back to her so it could be a huge drama and you could be the B*tch. Don't give her what she wants!!!!

Story book: GREAT job...everyone has to start back somewhere and a walk is the best place!!

Foufy: sorry about your tummy!! Hope you feel better soon.

HI LEKKER!!!!

Here is something funny for you guys.
Proof that DS has been touching my camera even when he says he hasn't! LOL

StorybookMama: Way to go...every little bit helps.

Theo'sgirl: That picture is definitely a keeper! LOL

Okay, that picture is just priceless!! I LOVE his eyes!!

Star: Oh my! What a woman! This was the guy's mother??? I take it this is a grown man? Why is it any of her business in the first place? So what if some girl was hitting on her son? Can't he take care of them himself? I think she might have some "letting go" issues... on top of many others, it sounds like.

Froufy: Hope your tummy gets back to normal soon!

Lekker: Crazy enough, my apartment complex just told me last week that they don't get pages on their emergency maintenance pager because of solar flares. You didn't happen to let them in on that excuse, did you? Personally, I think they just ignore the pages and let their residents suffer, but I could be wrong...

SBM: What a great shower! That's hilarious. Great gifts! Also, great job on getting out and walking at lunch!

TG: Great job at resisting the cake -- that definitely takes willpower. Love the picture of DS -- that is so cute!

Karen: Glad you're back and glad DD is feeling better!

Supersized: Good to see you back as well!

Leens: What a beautiful bride you were!

Fullfig: Get some rest!

Jane: That's what I decided about the LC products as well. I'm getting along just fine without them now. Why spend tons of money on something I don't really need?

Thanks for the tips on drinking lots of water. Sometimes over the weekend, I don't drink as much water and too much coffee and Diet Pepsi. I've been drinking lots and lots of water today. Hopefully this goes away soon, I'm sick of feeling so gigantic and bloated! Yuck!

I think you can use rifts in the space-time continuum as an excuse for anything. All that influence from parallel universes, dontchaknow! I'm thinking that in one of these parallel universes is a *really* skinny version of me, but somehow, during one of the more turbulent rifts, the weight was mistakenly re-directed to *this* universe.

Froufy: I'm at McGill, which generally I have a fond opinion of, but lately some of the admin stuff has been irking me! I'm getting my M.Eng. here, but I got my B.ASc. (Applied Science) at U of Waterloo.

Theo: oh my goodness, his eyes are wonderful!

I do tend to attract psychos...... It must be my charm

Lisa - What a great shower! Naughty presents are fun! Oh, and grilled cheese is easy! Get some low carb bread and use that! I don't use my bread very often so I keep it in the freezer so I'm not wasting tons of money. Oh! Oh! Did you see that? I was practical

Way to go on the walking!!!

TG - What a fantastic picture!!!! I love it! You're little guy is soooooo cute! (and no I'm not hitting on him! )

Lekker - are you about to launch into a discussion on String Theory?

Ok it's 3:00 and I just had lunch and OMG I'm dying a million deaths of happiness! Being one of the few who's not real fond of the LC tortillas, I hadn't thought of this before, but today I made cheese enchiladas using the lowest carb sauce I could find (2 grams for a LOT of sauce), shredded cheese, and the tortillas. Oh, they were so good!!!! I'm still drooling and I'm full!!!

Just wanted to share