Brandy - here's the question - do you feel the need to do anything once you hit goal? How about getting an ipod? I am thinking I need an ipod shuffle once I hit 199!

Which is feeling like it's NEVER going to happen these days. I have been exercising, still following this diet, and I am gaining weight. I always seem to gain weight or stop losing weight when I exercise.. feels so pointless to exercise to me when those are my results. I am pretty frustrated today, I had wanted to hit 215 for our trip to Seattle, we leave on Wednesday after work.. so unless I experience a "whooosh", it doesn't seem like it's going to happen!

Alright, thats enough of me being negative, I am off to exercise. I will ttyl!

-Aimee

Hello girls! I am franticially trying to get ready for my craft show this weekend. I could really use another week to get ready! I never dreamed the Spring shows started as early as the first week of March- that is still winter! Brandy- no need worrying about my background outshining my product- I still don't have a background! Wish me luck!

Now for the good news. My official weigh-ins are on Friday, but I did weiegh today hoping to hit the 10lb goal for Feb. I did not make it - but I'm still pretty happy - the scale ready 179.6! I have not seen 170 anything in years!

Have a good weekend everyone!

Good morning gals, I hope you're having a beautiful Friday.

I'm feeling pretty good today. I let my thoughts get the better of me yesterday and just got really depressed again. I'm GONNA be happy today though.

I havent come up with anything to celebrate getting to goal so unless something strikes me soon I'll just do nothing. I'm ok with that though. Aimee, your ideas have been great, I'm just spoiled and seem to already have so much.

Aimee-What kind of exercise have you been doing? I usually gain with new exercise especially if its weights of any kind. It is so frustrating so I understand how it can get you down. Hang in there. You're doing so well and the scale will reflect that soon. We all hit plateaus and strange points where our bodies dont respond like we expect and it really does suck but we have to keep going.

fatbegone-Congratulations. 9 pounds in Feb. is wonderful! I hope your craft show goes ok. It is pretty stressfull to get ready for them (especially your first few) They do get easier as you get more used to your set up times/packing/etc. Good luck

Well, I'm gonna post 1 more and then do my exercise.

Goodmorning! There is no rain, and no snow here yet today! Woohoo! So maybe I'll stay dry when I go for a walk this afternoon.

fatBgone - whats your secret?? I was SO good in Feb and only lost 3 pounds, stupid stubborn body!! congrats on the weight loss! And goodluck with your craft show this weekend :)

Brandy - if you don't feel the need to have anything for when you reach goal, how about doing something like having a SAFE, nearly onplan dinner out with the person of your choice? Or maybe *someone* can make you dinner? ;) It's nice to be spoiled, I am pretty spoiled, but I am thinking part of that has to end. Josh ends up buying me things, and then we don't buy things we need, like a new couch, a new bed frame, so those are my goals of things to buy this year.

I am doing exercise with weights, and I'm doing kick boxing video with lots of muscle work. So I think my muscles are retaining water, I read somewhere that they do that with weights. I drank lots of water yesterday to try and force that water out.. so hopefully!

I am off ladies, have a good one :)

-Aimee

Hi just sitting here contemplating how terrible I ate over the weekend. I dont know what got into me, but I sure hope its run its course and is outta here. I havent been that bad in a really long time. Its really quite frustrating because I dont know what set me off. Oh well, Its done and over and I'm moving on. I had a beautiful walk here this morning. I'm enjoying it being light out for most of it this week and then the time change happens and I'll be back in the dark next week. Yuck!

I hope your weekend was wonderful.

Brandy - I had the same thing this weekend! I know what set me off - I went to a birthday party Sat night and drank which is never a good start. It's now Monday, fresh week, fresh start, no guilt! I am think I am looking forward to the time change as well... not entirely sure yet. I like light in the morning, but really enjoy light later in the day. I guess I have no choice, heh.

Should we start a new monthly thread? It's well into March now. Oh, and speaking of which, only 2 sleeps until we go to Seattle! We are going Wednesday right after I am done work, it'll be nice to get away for a few days. :)

-Aimee

Well, its back to freezing my bum off here. I'm getting ready for my walk and we're in the single digits. Oh I so cannot wait until spring. Today will be a busy one. I have a funeral and then a class and then I teach. It'll keep me out of trouble, right??

Aimee-you've gotta be so excited for your trip!!! How long will you be away? A new thread seems appropriate, maybe we can pick up some more people that way too. You never know.

fatbegone-How are ya??

sorry I have been MIA i kinda forgot about this thread!

Todays the day Aimee! How excited are you?

I'm doing ok today. Its gonna be slow and relaxed until 6:30 and then lots of work for me. I'm enjoying the every other week thing with choir rehersals. Its making the lenten season much easier overall.

Courtnie-Glad to see you re-found us.

shouldnt we have a march one going? lol

We made it to Seattle! I had a pretty crappy headache so didn't come online for the ENTIRE day, can you believe it?

So far it's been really rainy here, so no walking for me :( But I had a really good breakfast, fat free yogurt and grapes. For lunch we went to Google and had lunch there, it was really yummy! I had pita pizza, Josh had a sandwich with whole turkey breast that was sliced, it was a sandwich bar. He also had chicken roasted with some herbs, he said it was yummy. There was so much food it was amazing. I hit up the fruit salad instead of the dessert bar, yay for me :) I also got a low fat coffee at Tully's.. hopefully I'm good enough to keep from having a gain when we get back.

I bought myself a water bottle today, from the Lucy store, I love their stuff, but just wasn't feeling the clothes this time, maybe it was the cost.. heh. Tomorrow I'm on the hunt for some cute casual shoes!

I better go rejoin the crowd, talk to you all soon!

-Aimee

I had a great day today. I got my hair done and then went to the bead shop I teach at in Ann Arbor. I talked to some friends for a bit and found some awesome beads that I splurged on. I usually wouldn't have bought them but I was .5 pounds away from 130 this morning so I'm going to make myself a beauty of a necklace as my reward for goal. I wont put it together til I'm officially there.

Aimee-I'm glad you made it to Seattle safely and are having a great time. I'm so impressed with how well you're eating while away. Good job! I'll have to check out Lucy stuff. Its not ringing any bells. I've been eyeing a cool water bottle at Whole Foods, but I cant remember who makes it.

Courtnie-Hi

fatbegone-Where are you? I hope you're doing well.

Where am I??? I'm in the DOG HOUSE!! Girls - I have been on an 8 day feeding frenzy!!!! AHHHH!!!! I can't bear to even step on the scales. I don't know what happened. ON my last post I was at 179. Actually the next day I was at 178 - I was so exicted - how could I then turn so rotten??? I just stopped taking a med which in the past kind fo curbed my appetite. Once I went off I just felt like I was starving to death!!! However, today I TOTALLY pigged out and am ready to be good starting tomorrow! I have already shopped and packed my next several lunches for work. I am so disappointed in myself. I know everyone slips up, but for crying out loud - 8 days??????

I attended craft shows yesterday and today too. All is going well. People are very excited about my videos! I hope it takes off! I think from tehlast 2 weekends that I will get at least 10 orders - $95-$125 each- ~ $1000 or so. Cross you fingers, ok? I am now at the mercy of my "customers" to call me. I tried to impress upon them to not call me at the last second. I have a feeling Mother's Day/Graduation will be very busy.

AImee - how was Seatlle? Good for you for eating so good!

Brandy - good for you for rewarding yourself!

Courtnie - how are you????

I'm hooooome!! Oh MY it was a crazy drive home!! The highway from the border to the main highway was flooded, so what did we do? What everyone else did - DROVE THRU IT! 10 inches of water! It was so scary to me, top 4 scary moments in a car for me! I am glad to be off the road!

So Seattle was fun, lots of shopping, lots and lots of shopping!! We spent like 300-350 dollars! I found casual shoes, and a purse to go with it. I also hit up Sephora for some eyeliner and also found a really great french manicure pen - thats right a pen!

The USA is so different from Canada - I can barely explain it. Like when we went to target the sizes of packages of candy were huge! There is so much more diet food! It would be so easy to get fat - but also appears to be easier to lose the weight. I didn't drink one bit of pop or coffee while I was in Seattle because it tastes SO different that I can't enjoy it. I'm always in awe of how two counties so close can be so different! I am in love with Vitamin water - we brought a few bottles home :)

fatBgone - I definitely didn't eat healthy and can relate with the pig out stuff! I ate smaller portions, but we still hit up Taco Bell (we don't really have them here). Time to get back to dieting for me.. tomorrow I find out what my scale says I did. Eeek!

Brandy - thats a very nice reward, I do enjoy making jewlery at times. I seem to have an eye for very classic jewlery.. infact when my mom and I went to a necklace making course the instructer was impressed. It's a nice feeling to be good at something I think! Check out lucy.come I believe, or google lucy. They are mostly athletic type clothes, which i'm in love with.

Thats it from me for now.. I shall talk to you ladies tomorrow!

-Aimee

Good morning all. I had a very bad day eating wise on Saturday, but controlled myself on Sunday. I'll get on the scale later to see the cumulative damage. I'm up very reluctantly for my walk this morning. The time change hit me hard today instead of yesterday. I feel like a truck ran over me! SO tired.

Aimee-I'm glad you had a wonderful trip. Sorry the ride home was so frightening. I'm not so great in cars, especially when I'm the passenger. It sounds like you remained fairly good on your diet which is wonderful during a vacation. I hope you're not feeling bad about the few things you mentioned.

fatbegone-8 days is nothing when you consider the years of unhealthiness/bad choices most of us have made. Put it all in the past and do your best today. You can do it.

Courtnie-Hi ya.

Well, gotta go meet my buddy. Have a great one.