Tummy: Ewww! no thanks, Sandye can take it. :P
I definitely will want to see your post P90X pictures when you're done. I hear you on the 5 crispers. Sometimes that's what stops me from buying more, but I sure am proud of the contents of my fridge nowadays .
So DH wanted to handcuff you to the bed and you didn't let him? Tsk, tsk. Naughty things and lightning sounds kinda kinky LOL.

OK.. now I am going....

Tummy~ you snuck in on me! Hahaha, yeah, boobies, boobies! I tell ya, I thought nursing one was time consuming! When the girls came I was a 24/7 milk bar! And to think, I didn't lose weight during all of that? Dang Ben & Jerry's!!! Oh I'm with ya on the list! I figure so long as there's these challenges I'll be changing things up and trying new stuff all the time! I'm still kind of shocked that I took on the C25K though--I really, really, really did not like running when I was young. I played soccer for 7 years and was center fullback and well, it didn't require much running. I could do it and all, but I didn't like it one bit. Now, for some reason it's different...could be the fact that I'm all alone and the only thing I hear is the music of my choice and the birds beginning to chirp first thing in the morning. Glad you stayed out of the storm, I'm curious to see how my workouts will change when the cold weather hits. I might just have to hit the community center and use the indoor track there. Oh and about the fridge--absolutely!! Hubby and I were just chatting about getting a second one for the garage! With 4 gallons of milk, 2 containers of coffee creamer, V8 Splash, various condiments, my stockpile of yogurt and sugar free pudding (my only vice I swear!), my container full of precooked chicken (I cook in bulk on the weekend), left overs and then all the veggies--I have zero room! So yeah, I'm thinking it's time to get a back up one--but just a little one for all of MY healthy food!

OMGosh, I need to shut up!

Okay, off to place an order that is long overdue!!!

Oh and thanks ever so much for offering your lovely cooler to me but, um, NO WAY!!!! Blech!

Ok, I'm starting on page 11 and seeing how far I get in the time I've got left in lunch. I feel like I'm missing out on so much!

First, let me gripe TOM is definitely back and with it an actual increase in my weight, naturally, which wouldn't bother me had I lost anything at all in the past week but no, I'm just treading water here. GRRRR. Anyway, so long as I get a nice drop after it leaves, I'll be fine. Just don't be within 10 miles of me if there is no drop after TOM leaves. I'm sure it won't be pretty..

Tummy - Oh, if I manage to make the 20 minutes I will likely shout it from the rooftops while blasting Eye of the Tiger from my ipod. Tee Hee. And I had to laugh at the crispers comment... I know exactly what you mean. DH has been complaining he can't find HIS food for all the "fresh junk" in the fridge! Hilarious!

dcapulet - Isn't it great when your clothes start doing that? I have two pairs of capris I wear to work and the other day I realized I can't wear them anymore for fear of them actually falling down! yay for you and loose pants!

NSM - Thanks, it's hard for me to quit things that I've volunteered to do because I know it's hard to get people to volunteer but as an ex teacher once said to me "Just remember, after you retire, no one is going to raise a monument to you in front of the school." I totally think they should though!

idream - Ooh, I love visiting the apple orchard. It just always makes me smile to see everyone out and enjoying themselves. Good luck on the toy room. My organizational skills have been put on hold while I try to get ahead at work so I can breathe again. Until then, my house will be a disaster because DH gets lost when he tries to clean... it's like a foreign language or something, I swear.

Hotsplashes - Sailing! I'm jealous! have a fantastic time!

Delphi - I'm all for the remodeling! I expect to see a photo of you wielding a hammer very soon!

Shasha - Sorry TOM is having his way with you but way to go on changing up your eating to accommodate... very wise. I also cannot wait to see your pics! I'm terribly excited, I love progress pics!!

Ok... I'm kind of caught up but I did skip a couple of posts! Speeeeeed typing! Have a great day chickies!

What the heck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is the 2nd day where I spent like an hour typing out personals and then all of a sudden the page just refreshed itself out of nowhere and I lost everything! ARGH! I am so mad right now!

I am not going to go back and do everything again, but off the top of my head:

Delphi congrats on getting to the 170s!

Shasha, sorry TOM is here....hope it goes fast and pain free for you!

Welcome to the newcomers and good luck on reaching your goals. I did have more personal things written for each of you before...sorry!

Late to the game--congrats on getting past your plateau! Such an accomplishment to have stuck it through!

Sorry everyone else...I did have more personals written, but I can't justify spending another hour to go back and look at everything again when DD is already getting really cranky that I have been online so long.

BTW what does Woohoo on the panties mean? I get that it is a positive thing, but haven't heard that term before. I thought at first when ShinyNewMe said it, it was a type and perhaps she meant pants or something, but then saw it used a bunch more times by other people, so now I think I am just out of the loop on this phrase.

Weight was down another few pounds today....what the heck! I mean I know I have been doing great diet wise, but still, wow--I never expected to lose this much! I thought maybe it might be because the new room has carpet and maybe that was throwing the Wii off, so I tried it in the hallway on the hard floor, but the difference was only a little bit. So yay me! I can finally fit into clothes I haven't been able to wear for over 2 years...so much fun!

Hoy crap, girls! It took me an hour and a half to READ all the posts. I won't have time for personals, but jessicado "wooHoo on the panties" is from the July or August thread when someone got sexy new panties and someone else congratualted them with "WooHoo on the panties!"...and so it began as the congratulatory remark for any great accomplishment. Ya gotta love it! LOL

Mom seems to be doing well after coming out of surgery, though it took an hour longer than planned. I'm hoping she recovers well because she really does not like to be inactive like she has to be at first. It was a shoulder surgery on her rotator cuff which had multiple tears. Anyway, otherwise the aday is going well: vitamin, OP eating, somewhat productive. It's my rest day, but I was debating if I should do something since tomorrow I won't have time for anything but moving and related driving. (We are moving out of our house and storing everything all in one day with 5 hour drives on either side of that.) Then I thought how much of a workout the moving will be and the wisest thing I can do today is REST UP because it's gonna be a strenous day. Hope everyone is having a fantastic weekend! I'll be MIA for a few days, then catch up on Monday.

P.S. Thanks for all the sweet compliments on my avatar!

LOL jessicado. I just went back a couple of pages and we do use that woohoo on the panties thing quite a bit.
Like Ms. P. said, it all started when Sandye got new panties a while ago and we got all excited about it.
If you are ever bored you can go back and look for the original post, hehe. But now that you you know you can start using it yourself

Ms. P.: Glad to hear your mom came out of surgery alright, here's to a speedy recovery for her. Good luck tomorrow with the move, hope you don't end up too exhausted after that.

MsP ~ Glad to hear mom is out of surgery and everything went well. That is a blessing indeed.

Jessica ~ Yeah, MsP explained it pretty well. It was an innocent remark NSM made and I just thought it was the funniest thing ever.....

Shrinking ~ Haha! I'll be sure to get one up soon. And sorry to hear about TOM...he is a big pain in the arse! Hope you get to feeling better and he gets the heck out of dodge.

Sandye ~ on the panties! See I knew you could do it! You are my sunshine, on a cloudy day...when it's cold outside...... Well at least you did it and we can work on the rest of that stuff a little at time ya know. Like one Friday you can do just the furniture...so on and so forth every other Friday. That way it doesn't seem like such a huge task, if you breakdown said tasks..eh? See, I's got me some smarts in here somewhere. And at your gansta talk...ROFL!

Tummy ~ Ah I'm so jealous. Everyone just loves that game. It's on my christmas list..along with that new ghostbusters game. Don't you hate when you hit the close button on accident? I've done that more times than I count...No big plans here...same ol' two and four with us. I've been getting up early to play Halo Wars on Saturday mornings (hence me taking Saturdays off this month) so I'll do that, but the rest of the weekend will be spent watching movies on Netflixs I suppose.

NSM ~ None for me..just me eggin' Sandye on. I don't have anything left to clean. Though if I didn't rent here and I owned it...I'd be tearing down walls left and right. So how goes the calorie counting?

Shasha ~ Hang in there darling..hopefully TOM will be gone soon.

As for me, I've not been at all productive...just finished up a few more hours of RB while the wee one was sleeping..but other than that..nodda. It's so good to get those workouts in early..because then I don't feel so bad for being lazy the rest of the day.

Hi Girls!
The scale finally moved a little, down a .6 from yesterday.
Been pretty busy today with school and all so just now getting a chance to post and catch up on the thread. I haven't got my exercise in yet but plan on it soon. I bought a new exercise outfit last night so when I came home I exercised just so I could wear it lol! I've been wanting all day to get in there and do my workout, but just couldn't get get away from the kids.

The kids and I may be making sugar cookies tonight to decorate. I've been telling them for ages that we would do it. I need willpower to only eat two!! I plan on allotting out so many a person and then freezing the rest, hopefully that works.
Craving some beef, too. I've been out of ground beef for awhile and normally I use it fairly often. We don't buy the nasty fatty stuff though. We usually get a lean hunk of meat ground up or we get a whole or half of beef that has not been fed hormones, antibiotics, and is pasture fed. We also eat ground venison and goat too. I'm not sure what I want to make with it tonight (dh is picking up some on his way home) but I'm thinking something easy like hamburgers with lots of veges on the side.
DH is home now so catch yall later!

Evening ladies,

NSM - you know if I let him do it once I'd never get out of there and there's just so much to be done!

Sandye - Dh's grandma had twins and she always said that's why god gave her two, lol. I never found breastfeeding to do anything either, a myth I say! I only liked running alone, even younger (and fitter) just for those reasons. I only ever was fairly good at it once and it's one of those things you forget inside a chip bag I guess. I'm kind of dreading the winter too, dh has some gear for running in -20 to -30 and some of it fits already and the rest hopefully by the time I need it. I'll need some mittens too and one of those hats that bankrobbers wear then I'm set! I'll have to post a pic of me all frosty too, it'll be hilarious.

SG - my dh says "where's my pop, your hippie food is in the way" they do sure have a way, don't they?

Jessicado - congrats on the weight again, you're obviously working hard, WTG!

MsP - That sounds like one long day ahead. It sure will be nice to have it all taken care of though, and lift with your legs girl. Glad your mom's out and doing good.

Delphi - So you're cheating on us with Halo! LOL well you have fun and I won't taunt you with Batman, promise

JasonsLea - Hope the job comes through for you and great news about your friend, it's so exciting to be a part of that.

Ruth - Glad the scale budged for you, and enjoy your dinner! I do enjoy some grass fed beef, it tastes so different too, I never would have guessed that.

Finally finished a very wet day around here. DD would not go to bed tonight, it took half an hour of putting her back constantly for her to stay. SHe's usually all love you mommy night see you tomorrow and then demon girl arrived all trying to bite and hit. Hopefully we will not be seeing that again, but I have a feeling we just might. I'm going to go hit the sack and wake up at the crack of dawn to go get that run in I missed today. See everyone tomorrow.

Thanks...yesterday was tough day for her as it was the first day she got out of the house. Just for a doc appt and then she had to go for an ultra sound to have her legs checked for blood clots. All is good. I wouldn't really call this a vacay, however I did get one day where I was outside by her pool for most of the day. I leave in a few hours for a busy weekend at home.

I am leaving mom's in a few hours and will be home around 4:30. I have to stop by a friends house who has out of town relatives in that I want to see. Tomorrow I hope to go to my friends boat and trailer on the river with my son for a few hours....then back home to a cookout with my BF. Monday will be catch up day since I have been away for a week. Then back to the normal routine....which I am so looking forward to since I have been out of sorts for WEEKS.

Don't know how long ago you changed your avatar...but I LOVE IT!!! You look great!!!

I hate that SOB!!!! But remember he will leave eventually

Glad you popped in to say . Good luck with the unemployment....and you goals for the month.

ATTENTION CHICKIES........ Can I get a drum roll, please?


I completed the 20 minute run!!!

Goooooooooooood Morning Ladies!!!!!

SG~ SEE?! I TOLD you you could do it!!! WOO HOO on the panties!!!!! So, how many neighbors did you wake up? Oh my hubby is the same way with cleaning! I swear, whenever he has to tackle something big like the garage or shed he just stands there with his hands on his hips staring at it all. He'll do that for a good hour if I let him but I don't--I get in there and stark huckin' stuff out of the way and throwing stuff away--that gets him movin' alright!

Jessica~ I keep forgetting that there are some that don't know the story behind 'woo hoo on the panties' I see it's been covered, but just wanted to add--I was the one who posted about the new panties! See, we get all excited over any little victory! Speaking of which Woo Hoo on the panties for the great loss!!!!

MsP~ Haha, sexy they are not--just plain cotton Hanes--I'm not ready to hit Victoria's Secret just yet Glad to hear your mom is doing well! By the sound of it, she won't be down for long--just remind her to take it easy and not rush the healing! Speaking of which, take it easy today girlie! I mean, don't go and get yourself hurt or anything moving all that stuff! We can't have our girl out with an injury now can we? Have a great weekend!

NSM~ it still makes me laugh just thing about how woo hoo on the panties got started! Ya know, I think I might just have to go back through the posts and re-read some of them, they were quite comical!

Delphi~ Yeah, I'm glad I at least got the room tidy again, but of course the girls got in there and now there are legos all over. Oh well, that's easy enough to fix. My plan for this weekend is to get all the toys from the old downstairs play room up there and then start prepping the old play room for it's transformation into a formal dining room (which is what it's supposed to be). However, it's a really small room, so I'm not even sure if our table will fit in there! How they can call it a dining room is beyond me. But anyway, it needs to be painted and when we start to replace the carpet with laminate that's where we'll be starting. Well, when we have the money that is. Hope you're having a wonderful day off chickie!!!

JasonsLea~ sorry to hear about the job situation! I hope that you land a job soon and that things start looking up with all that! Congrats to your friend! New babies are so exciting--so long as it's not me having them from here on out! Take care and post when you can! Good luck on your goal this month!!!

Ruth~ congrats on the loss!! Hope you survived the sugar cookie extravaganza! Mmm, I'm already looking forward to Christmas baking! Oops, maybe a little too much! We might be buying a side of beef from my il's neighbor's parent's farm -- did I lose ya there? -- it should be interesting to see where we'll keep it and how different it will taste, but I'm looking forward to adding lean beef back into my diet that's for sure.

Tummy~ yeah, the initial thought of nursing 2 was kind of exhausting at first, but ya know, ya just roll with the punches and you figure it out. I loved nursing my babies, but I gotta say, it sure is nice to have my boobs to myself again! Winter might just drive me inside--however, I'll stick it out as long as I can. Once I start wanting to hibernate in bed I'll know it's time to hit the community center or the treadmill. Congrats on finishing your HIIT girlie!!! Was that you I heard singing yesterday?

Jacque~ glad to hear all is well with your mom, hurray for no blood clots! Sounds like you have a busy weekend ahead, I hope you have tons of fun!!!


Well ladies, it's Saturday!!! You know what that means don't you? Yup, I had my C25K run today! And, like ShrinkingGirl, I COMPLETED MY 20 MINUTE RUN!! I didn't listen to the regular podcast this time though, I decided since I didn't need any cues today that I would listen to my own tunes--glad I did, the techno stuff is kind of getting a bit stale--but I did kind of miss Robert talking to me.

Another happy moment this morning--down a full pound from yesterday so that brings me to below my ticker!!! 141.4 This time I'm leaving my ticker alone though--I don't want to jinx it by changing it prematurely!

Oh, oh and I ordered the P90X yesterday!!!! I was going to order it from this weird website I'd heard about, but for some reason the site wasn't working so I hit eBay and found it brand new--complete with guides for $59--free shipping too!! So I hope to have it soon so I can tone up for real!

Speaking of which--anyone finding that they're a little less firm now that they've lost some weight? My back end looks all droopy and sad! Granted, I haven't really been working the ol' hiney all that much, but geez! I'm hoping it firms back up otherwise I may just need a full body lift when I'm done!

Well girls, I've enough. Hope everyone has a fantastic day!! Get out there and be good to yourselves!!! And of course, don't forget to...

Drink Your Water!!!

Mornign Ladies,

Jacque - have a safe trip home and enjoy your long weekend, sounds like a nice time.

SG This one's for you...
Risin' up, back on the street
Did my time, took my chances
Went the distance, now I'm back on my feet
Just a man and his will to survive

So many times, it happens too fast
You change your passion for glory
Don't lose your grip on the dreams of the past
You must fight just to keep them alive

It's the eye of the tiger, it's the cream of the fight
Risin' up to the challenge of our rival
And the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night
And he's watchin' us all in the eye of the tiger
Congrats!!!

Sandye - You ran 20 minutes!! You're awesome! You can have some song too It sure was me, singing and dancing and carrying on. One good thing about HIIT two days in a row is getting two days off running so today it was super easy to run (hehe so I went farther) Heck I kinda wanted to hibernate in bed today, but it will definitely be an adventure, I more worry about the dark, firstly, like you, I am scared of the boogie man, second, in winter we get daylight from 10a-3p and that's it so I would rather not get plowed by a car too. The only option in these parts would be a treadmill and I'm not sure if I want to spend my new waredrobe money on it, yet. I'm sure that old rear end will perk up in no time, mine's good, at least I think so...yup, just checked it's fine, but my lower abs are looking a bit unfortunate these days. I do have thirty pounds on you though so maybe when I'm down in that neck of the woods it won't be so perky but I'll be skinny Have a great day hun, TTL

A marvelous day this morning, the exact opposite of yesterday although the road was a bit soggy today for running. I had energy to burn this morning, not sure where it came from but ran for an extra 4 minutes today, just because I wanted to and there is this stop sign that I just had to get past. Today's the final day of p90x week 1 as well, just some kickboxing this afternoon and then rest day ahhhh. Oh I hear my darling getting up better run.

Wow everyone has been doing and accomplishing so much...that's awesome. Sorry I don't do everything on a one to one maybe as I get better with the forums I will do personals but for now I read them all and celebrate your success with you and will report some of mine when I have them. Congrats to you all it's amazing to me how busy some of you are and yet still have time for the exercising and the personals.. wow I'm lazy Nothing new to report I have been OP and getting in my exercise everyday and weigh in is tomorrow and so is TOM so we will see.