Good morning everybody. It is wonderful to see some new posters. Welcome to each of you. I'm supposed to have my rescheduled appt. with the hematologist today. i'm really hoping it happens but now I'm just expecting something to prevent it. Great attitude, huh!

My slow day yesterday did help my headache. By the time I had to leave for work I was feeling pretty good and I made it through both responsibilites without it getting worse. Hooray.

Aimee-A long hike sounds like a great Saturday activity. I hope you have fun. I've never heard of slim-sure. Hope you can find some things to incorporate into your program. I'm far from skin and bones but I'm very happy with how I look right now. I dont know what my body is gonna do but I'm really gonna work hard at the maintenance thing as I blew it last time.

Jen-Welcome and good luck on your goal. It seems like a very reasonable one to me and I'm sure you can make it. Mall of America is a wonderful reward for when you do.

Courtnie-Aimee is doing good saying to get your butt in gear and behave on the weekends but...I don't. At least to a certain extent I dont. I am trying to make this a lifetime thing, and weekends will always be filled with something and I dont want to pass them up. My fix? Make sure you keep your exercise going or maybe add to it on the weekends. Your diet seems very healthy to me and I dont have any suggestions there. I've heard of people purposely fluctuating their calories to keep things mixed up so maybe you could try that?

Rosario-How was your tennis match? I'm so uncoordinated tennis is a joke for me. DH and I tried it once and we had everyone around us laughing at us. On a brighter note, my softball team is starting to get organized for the summer so I'll be starting games again in May. LOVE it!!!!

Nikki-Welcome! Congrats on the end being in sight for your Master. I remember how exciting that time was. What is yours in? Good luck on your goal. You can do it.

Rockie-Welcome! Good luck with your goal.

Hi All!

Swimgirl: I'm pretty much close to the SBD too - I have the same kind of outlook, but it's more intuitive and I won't spend money to actually sign up to a plan... lol :p Just eating whole grains, vegetables, fruits, cutting out bad fats, fast food, etc. I'm pretty broke now too (end of the school year I always am), so I mostly survive off raisin bran/porridge, tuna, soup, frozen veggies, and yogurt! hahaha ...and LOTS of water, of course!
And of course, exercise exercise exercise... blah. Just another thing to try to squeeze into my busy schedule! lol But I do feel better when I get my hour in. I like to go most days... Some kind of cardio and some weights each time, although I go to an aerobics class a couple times a week as well. I definitely feel the need to switch it up or I'm not as enthusiastic to go. About a year ago I was running 3 miles in a half hour, so I am hoping to get back up there this summer!
Representin' the East coast here! Yup, we run the gamut from snow to freezing rain to sleet to rain... pretty much all in one day. Every day. I love spring. lol It's cold rain right now, but it was snow this morning, so the rain melts the morning snow and then the ground turns to brown sludge. Yum. Can't wait to be back in the prairies for a relatively dry summer this year!! :)

Hope everyone's having a good week so far - almost another one down! :carrot:

Brandy - I agree about the weekends thing, I am trying to make this a lifestyle thing but I really do blow it on the weekends. I always tell myself that I will only blow it one day but it always turns into two, so I think I can just control that. I am still losing, just not as quickly as I want. I think I decided I am going to stop using fit day for a few days, just to try and take some stress off, but then I feel bad about not using fitday? Then then when I do overeat... even if its still like 1700 cal in a day, then I feel horrible? and thats not really that much? its so funny, I loved using fit day and then just this past week I hated it... weird how quickly it changes!

So apparently my old best friend is 'moving' back the island she has bought a one way plan ticket but it isnt a for sure thing yet if she is going to stay but we will see how it goes. For the first time in our friendship I weight lighter then her... I might not look skinner as she has a much slender body but I weight loss... almost 20 pounds less so that feels good but at the same time this girl is so messed up I dont know if I want her hanging around. She has some sever moods that just depress me and we stopped being best of friends after I went to the visit her for two weeks and she ditched me the whole time, convienced me to cheat on my boyfriend at the time... that sure but our friendship in a knot. I mean I am excited to maybe have a friend close by again, but I dunno if I want it to be her? She is just so screwed up... like to the point where she cuts herself and tries to kill herself for attention... or she used to. I tried to help her a couple weeks ago and she wasnt intrested in the help I was offering, instead she would rather ***** about it and make everyone feel sorry for her. My parents told me she isnt allowed to stay at my house cuz she will never leave... its true. argh, i dunno what to think about the whole thing - on top of it all she is one of those people that always complains about being the third wheel and gets so drepressed if my boyfriend hangs out with us too (did I mention that when I went to visit she ditched me for her boyfriend? and has sex with me in the room? and she doesnt like being the third wheel? haha) - anyway... I guess im just confused about it all and dunno what to think

Courtnie- Yikes! What a horrible position to be in! I've got a friend who is just like that. I would never dare talk to her about anything that matters to me ( boyfriend, weight loss, work) it would all just come back to bite in in the butt. Good luck with her. I know that the only solution that has worked for me is to just be friends from a distance. Otherwise she drives me nuts! I just don't have that much spare energy.

Brandy - My masters will be in Instructional technology.

I hope all you ladies had a good day. Today was my 4th day this week eating right and working out. I feel pretty good tonight.

Nikki

Nikki - South Beach really makes sense for my body - sugar just does bad things for me. I love it when everything feels really good, glad to hear all went well today :)

Brandy - I don't think the hike is going to happen on Saturday, it's supposed to be raining still by then. Although my computer weather says its still supposed to be sunny - the news guy says not. Did you end up having the doctors appointment? Josh and I bought some new headache stuff in the USA - excedrine migraine - amazing stuff!

Rockie - I used to live in Winnipeg, the springs are much like you explained... the rain melts the snow and everything turns muddy and VERY wet! The snow holds the water on the walkways, ah yes... wet feet, I remember it well! The bf and I are FINALLY in a place where we can afford all the kinds of foods you need to do this type of plan, it sure gets expensive! We always manage to find decent deals on meats and stock up then.

Courtnie - thats a pretty sucky situation with your friend - hope it all works out!

While I'm not perfect all the time, I am not trying to make this a lifestyle for now. I have a LONG way to go, and once I get closer to my goal I'm sure I'll feel differently. But for now - I am into dieting and giving up things that I used to love when I was larger and addicted to it.

Jen - hows it going today? I am still thinking that I'm going to do Bloomsday, I have been walking LOTS, and even if I can't run it, I will walk it. Are you still thinking about it?

I am still pretty tired today, so it's going to be an early night again. I don't work until 5pm tomorrow, so thats good at least. I am going to get a ton of pictures developed tomorrrow, they are on sale at work for 29 cents a picture! It's a pretty good sale, so I'm excited. It's definitely more expesive than most places, but the pictures at my work are AMAZING!

Thats it from me today.. I shall talk to you gals later!

-Aimee

Aimee- Yeah, I think about it here and there, I've been training for a 1.5 mile running test for work, and that's what make me think I would want to participate in bloomsday, the problem however, is that I have never run more than two miles...I fear that I would rock bloomsday for the first two miles and completely peter out for the rest (doomsday hill! yikes!). If you do it, I will; how does that sound?

The boyfriend and I are getting ready to move in together. I'm totally excited and stressed out at the same time. He and I will be fine (we currently live in the same house but don't share a room); but the stress of moving may just get the best of me. More precisely, where did all this stuff come from? I have a feeling I'm going to become friends with the goodwill drop off attendant.

Aimee- Funny thing I did SB phase I then kind of side tracked. I started getting massive headaches. Now that I am limiting my carb intake again no more headaches :)

Jen- Good luck with the move.
Nikki

Jen - there are LOTS of people who just walk it, which is what I've done most years, I've trained to run it, but decided it was a social event and walked with the people I went with. If you are running 1.5 miles, you are WAY ahead of me! I've been trying to work towards exercising for long periods off time, get my endurance up! Ah yes moving, I think it's a GREAT excuse to go thru all your belongings and only keep the stuff you really want to. Start now! I enjoy packing, good thing too, I've moved a lot! I always put some music on and just go at 'er!

Nikki - the first week of South Beach I thought I may die, I was so sick with headaches I was throwing up! It was very unpleasant. I always have that kind of experience when I quit sugar/wheat, my body just hates them. Or now that I've detoxed from them, I get headaches when I have that stuff.

Speaking of headaches, I went to bed last night with a runny nose, and woke up with a pretty killer sinus headache. I should have known better, when I go to bed crying, or with a runny nose (like this time) something happens and my sinus's get super sore. I sure hope it goes away soon. Feels pretty crappy. Anyways, with that I'm going to go try and make this go away! Talk to you gals later!!

-Aimee

Hi ladies, just a quick post to let you know that both dr. appts. went really well. At the hematologists I learned that while my protein c level is low, its not low enough to be "deficient" and therefore shouldn't be a big concern in my life. Basically stay on asprin every day and know what the symptoms of blood clots/stroke are. I can handle that. The neurologist pretty much backed that up and also said I need to stay on the B12 supplement and have it checked yearly to make sure my body is still absorbing it properly.

SO...no one truly knows what happened to me. I've had half the drs. guess a TIA, and half say they just aren't sure. Either way, I'm feeling good-headaches here and there-but no big problems or lasting effects.

HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey everyone, I'm up for the "spring" challenge. I want to get under 200 also for the summer. My weight constantly goes up and down. I lost 30 pounds before christmas.... but have gained them all back. I'm hoping I keep with it this time and could use the support.
Good luck everyone!

Brandy - good to hear the dr's went well, too bad there is no answer for what happened. Sounds like you may never get an answer, but at least the dr's are satisfied with that though. Bodies are so weird at times! How are you taking B12? I need a better b vitamin, but don't know how to find a good one. I usually just buy vitamins from work, lol.

Neesy - welcome! You can definitely get to your goal, it's crunch time! Thats how I feel about spring - it's the perfect time to be out exercising, seeing that summer IS coming, veggies and fruit are starting to come into season, which means they are cheaper. We can do this! Whats your plan for weight loss?

I'm having a lazy morning, yesterday was rough with my headache. Josh had to work until 12am last night, which turned into 1am because the security guy didn't show up until then. My friend and I ventured out in the REALLY gross rain, I had to get gas really badly, and we stopped at subway for a late dinner, really late dinner. The car definitely hydroplaned! It was icky. There is a rain warning for the area, we are lucky to live on a mountain, the water flows down, not flooding us! I also called the police because one of teenage neighbours was having a party, and there were people leaving REALLY drunk, and they were driving. I feel really bad, but it's just wasn't a good situation.

Thats it from me for now.. talk to you gals later!

-Aimee

I'm new can I join in. I'm picking June 20 as end for the challenge. I'm wanting to be down 20 lbs by then. I'm doing South Beach.

keeper - sure come on in! how long have you been doing south beach?

Oh ladies, I drank a liiiiiiittle too much tonight! Dinner was not as bad as I thought it was going to be - I can't remember if I told you all about it. We went to this guy at works house for dinner, he's trying to hook me up to be friends with his wife, so far it hasn't gone well. Anyways, there was lots of martini's happening, and some other guys showed up. I didn't spend much time talking with her, it was mostly a group thing, but it sounds like her and I would have lots to talk about.. I've always thought that though. I just think she doesn't realllly like me all that much, I wondered if she thought I had a crush on her husband (uhm, NO!), but I was pretty busy being drunk and making googly eyes at Josh.

Speaking of which, I need to find me some water and hit the hay!

-Aimee

Aimee - happy to hear it wasnt as bad as you thought!

its been a bad weekend around here eating wise, but I dont really care that much, im going to be back at it tomorrow and exercising - still not going back to counting just yet.

I am thinking about changing my birthday goal though - I wanted to be at my final goal by then and I really dont think its gonna happen, im only losing every 2-3 weeks and I am okay with that, i mean I knew it had to slow down eventually, so i think I might aim for 145 for my birthday.... thats 12 pounds.