Weekly Chit Chat August 11th - 17th
 

Hi everyone i am new to the website...I am 19 in college and my friend and i want to try the best life diet...I find really hard to follow a regimen at home because i dont do the cooking or the shopping and my family is not into eating healthy so I am actually waiting till i go back to school which is less the three weeks to start. When i read the name of the website i got a bad impression but i am presently surprised by the support that you all have for one another...I am so excited about my new regimen....i have bought healty cook books and have been reading alot about weight loss and i feel prepared and anxious to start but i guess i would have to weight until i am on my own...also i have insomnia and that makes it hard to eat breakfast and though i manage to make it to the gym once in a while i am very inconsistent...any advice??? Hope everyone is doing well

Morning! :wave:

I'm off to work... had a low day yesterday - just caught up in memories and couldn't shake it off. Poop.

Hope today improves. :)

Have an interesting - if not wonderful! - Monday!

Heather :D

Good morning everyone:wave:
Just wanted to say Hi. Feeling a little low at the moment.

:wel3fc: startingnew!! I look forward to getting to know you. And yes this is a wonderful and supportive place. Congratulations for starting the new school year with a plan.

Take care all,
K

Hey everybody, I am feeling better this week, trying to just bide my time till I see the doc. Thankyou for the support last week, felt like I was going to implode with all of those emotions.

Starting, welcome to the boards, 3FC is definitely the greatest support group going :yes: Nice to meet ya :wave:

Heather & Buddly, Hoping you both feel alot better today :hug: I'll send good thoughts your way :)

Its Monday, Rainy, did I mention its Monday and rainy...yeah just want to curl up on the couch and dooo absolutely NOTHING...which I just might do cause all that really needs done is some laundry and dishes (of couse tending to the kids!!)I missed a dose of meds in saturday and missed morning on friday so I am feeling the lack of medicine and motivation. Cause i have been doing good even though I cant get thru the whole 20 minutes of the c25k (couch to 5k) I am doing all that i can but from what i read on the forums a lot of people get their butt kicked the first week they try it. The other day i was doing it and I think I got thru 10 minutes (plus the 5 minute brisk walk) Then my parents came by so I couldnt finish and my dad lectured me on doing that stuff with my knee (I blew out in 99 and had surgery in 00).
Ok well not much going on here so have a good rainy morning!!!

Hi Girls :wave:

I got a big hug for each of you :hug: because you are all so sweet.

Startingnew :welcome: we're glad you found us.

I have a 3 1/2 hour meeting coming up so I have to run and prepare for it. Have a great day chickies.

Love ya!!

Morning everyone!!!!

Oh, I'm so glad to be back here :grouphug:

It was absolutely amazing how physically getting away from everything helped me stop stressing about it - I'd worried that not being able to work on stuff would just make me more down, but from the moment I stepped on the ship it was like that stuff just didn't exist and I could just BE.

There was only one time when I got unaccountably down, and it was that same day that everyone else was down on last week's thread! Too wierd!

I had a blast, managed not to get sunburned, went sea kayaking, snorkeling, cave tubing, and even zip-lining!!! I thought the zip line would freak me out, but it really just was SO much fun - like really flying!!!

So now I'm at my conference - the other half of my trip. I'll be back later :)

Hi startingnew :welcome: Hi everyone!! :grouphug:

Hello everyone!

Welcome, Startingnew!

Just checking in.... hope everyone is well.

Thanks everyone today i went to buy some pillows for school and got into a car accident no one was hurt but the other driver tried to take advantage of my cousins young age...we worked everything out needless to say that my cousin has a big bill coming up....glad to see that everyone is doing fine i hope the week continues in that direction the weather today was rather nice and not too hot so other than that one incident today was a good day:)

Losing it, losing it, losing it... I thought I wouldn't fall apart - why am I even posting here?

Hi All.
 

Heather: You are posting here because you know we care about you and you are taking care of yourself by reaching out to other people. I'm proud of you for putting one foot in front of the other each day when you really don't feel like it. I'm proud of you for working and taking care of the house yourself and keeping a grip on your weight loss efforts. I hope tomorrow you feel at least a little better. :hug:


Good to 'see' everybody today. I'm beat so I'm going to bed. I'll try to post more tomorrow.

TTYL

not much to report....just here!!

Thanks Sassyfrass!! Its good to be "home"

Heather - I'm taking deep breaths for you. Its all I can do, and Hope said everything I would say better than I ever could. I would just add that you post here because you are real, and serve as a real example to those of us who need one from time to time. I don't say it often enough - thanks for being here. You mean a lot to me.

Heather... keep posting sweetie...we love you :hug: and darling, its ok to cry, it really is.

:(

Heather, I might not be much - but I believe in you and so does everybody else here. We're all thinking of you, it will get better :hug:

Heather with out you and you running your endless miles i would have never started that program...Things will fall apart once in a while but we have to put ourselves back together and get back up...Doesn't mean your going to jump up and take off...ok i love ya girl!!

Hi all,

I went to visit a girlfriend of mine with a new baby today. :) Very cute. After I went to the grocery store and made some beef stroganoff for dinner. I keep feeling like I have to work tomorrow but I'm off. I need to take care of a few things like my health insurance that will lapse at the end of the month.

Everytime I start to post I feel like I have nothing to say b/c it seems like all I do is work and come home. Anybody else feel like that?

Goodnight ladies and Heather: still thinking about you. :hug:

:yes: I do too or I post about things that I think nobody cares about. Just thoughts that pass through my head. lol. I basically work and go home, work and go home, not a big exciting life...........


Tonight driving into work, I began crying :cry: I just felt like DH & I are starting all over again. :cry: I know our situation is not that bad, people lose their jobs all the time and DH has had a lot of callbacks and interviews (all have went well). But it seems like for many years now we have been doing pretty good. I dunno just upset me a bit, but I got over it. I figure we need a rock or two in our life paths to appreciate the smooth paved paths when we have them. :)

Anyways, Big :hug: to all those who need it.

Hi Ladies,

Hope, darling I feel the same way... work... home...work ... home sosdd.. :dizzy: hang in there sweetie.

Sassy, sorry about the job :( I'll pray something comes for you guys quick.

:hug: to everyone...have a great day ladies, your all loved, remember that.

Leenie

I have just felt weird lately...We need to find another house and need to soon....This one is way too small...I cleaned the house up!!! So everything looks pretty decent. Dishes are done. The only thing left is laundry...GO FIGURE!!! Kaci comes home finally on Friday....she is discharged from the group home. We have to go get a bed. I just hope that this goes better than it did before because some of the weekends have been rough. I think she lied to me last weekend over something that wouldnt have been worth lying about. She told me one thing and my mom told me a different thing So i have to ask the person that got the stuff knocked out of their hands on who did it. She gave me the thing when I asked her to do dishes on last friday "They arent my dishes" I was like DONT even start...she says "I wasnt even here though" I said you know I did the dishes you DID use last week so we are not even going to start this game I said do the dishes DO THEM. She still walked away and piddle around I was like KACI do the dishes...I wanted to smack her...then she wondered why i was being so quiet...I was just irritated...cause I am standing there folding HER clothes that I WASHED AND DRIED...and she has that nerve to start its not mine....I dont know she has to learn at some point!! ok well i gotta go make lunch for the munchkins!!! Talk to you all lata....

Just popping in to say Hi!:wave:
Still around and trying to keep up.:grouphug:
Take care everyone,
K

Hi!

I just realized I'm going to totally have to dissapear again next week - I won't have inet access from Mon through maybe Thursday while I move...
:hug: to everyone! Have a goosd night!

Amarie, wow, it's finally here. Hope it all goes smoothly for you. I need to follow your lead and check on some classes soon. It's career changing time.

I had a lot of plans for today and I got maybe half of them done. I signed up for my new benefits that will go into effect in late Sept, but I didn't get my gap health policy submitted b/c my software didn't work. I'm selling the policy to myself so I have to wait till my new anthem cd comes in the mail to get my quotes and application.

We saw 'Tropic Thunder' at the movies today. It was actually pretty funny. It was df's idea to go of course. Tomorrow is monday for me but I don't have to go in till 9am.

Startingnew: Still feeling ok since the accident?

Sassy: :crossed: for you and your hubby. I know it's tuff not working and tougher finding a job. Sounds like he's got a lot of good prospects however.

TTYT

Hiya. I'm a total newbie. Reading here and there. Really liking what I'm reading and hope it helps me along. I hope to become a regular member :)

Hi Dillybar - :welcome: I look forward to getting to know you.

Well chicas, I got 12 hours of sleep last night!!! I dunno if that counts as sleep or a coma, but its been a long time since I felt so rested. I also noticed this am that I only had a half dose of my prozac in my little daily pill organizer - not sure if I packed them all wrong, or just these last couple days... Ah, oh well.

Hope - what is Tropical thunder? I've never heard of it. Career change is in the air right now, let me tell you. A bunch of people at this conference are new, or working for diff companies, etc. Huh.

:grouphug: everyone - I gotta go run to a seminar.

Amarie

Good morning everyone!:wave:

:welcome3: Dillybar! This is a great little corner and I look forward to getting to know you better.

amarie good to see you. 12 hours of sleep, wow! how nice. I don't feel like I slept at all last night. My mind wouldn't shut down.

Hope getting some things done off of a todo list is always a good thing.

momof4 good luck on the house hunting, hope you find something soon.

I managed to get four big garbage bags of stuff out of here yesterday and to the dump. I still have the electronic stuff to go to the recycling and the donatable stuff is still sitting here, but I am making some progress. Not that it looks it yet. We had a major downpour over the weekend and it looks like our roofing job on the addition is holding up. Thats a huge relief. A & W phoned yesterday and starting Sept 1 I get to work 3 five hour shifts a week for awhile. Its just the 11 - 4 shift to help thru lunch. My mom is on medical leave and all the kids are going back to school so they found themselves short handed. I'm taking the van in for a tune up and oil change today, hence the mind not stopping and not letting me sleep thing. It goes in tomorrow morning to get the A/C fixed. Hopefully with this maintenance I can relax on our holidays and not make myself sick thinking we will break down. And the plan is that when we get home it can go in to get the timing belt changed and a pump of some sort.

Well I should go and get ready. I'm taking DdB with me to keep me company while we wait for the van. So we are going to go and have breakfast together. Its a 10 - 15 min walk up a hill to get to the mall from the garage so that will help offset all those extra carb calories from a bagel!

Hope everyone has a great day!
Take care,
K

Good thing you said about the oil change cause mine is over due!!! NOT GOOD!!!

I did not get a lot of sleep because my baby was sick and i was up until after 3 am with her. She had a fever of 103.2 and i managed to get it down I gave her yogurt then she took a bottle of koolaid and water....and then the tylenol. So the cold stuff help to lower it quickly too but then we were laying together on the floor in the living room and she was dozing in and out then the fever broke and she was jumping on me going around and around and around the coffee table..so finally i put her to bed cause I was falling asleep and was afraid of her going on the steps and falling or something...so i put her to bed finally and she actually did go to sleep even though she slept most of the day yesterday!! OK
Yep I got Laundry to do still...go figure...
ok well talk to you all lata!!

Sassy - What a brilliant outlook. Glad you could see some positivity even though life is difficult now.

Amarie- 12 hours?! :yikes: Glad you feel rested, I think I've had about 3 hours this week.. I'm exhausted.

Mom- sorry bout your babe being unwell, Hoping she feels much better.

Buddly - Enjoy your walk :D

I'm feeling a little low, so tired from lack of sleep and energy. Weight loss is going slowly too which is adding to my frustration & I managed to overdose on meds yesterday morning by accident which has also left me feeling groggy. Heres to tomorrow being a better day..

Hugs to those who need 'em :hug:

had a nap getting ready for VBS!! I feel blah like my body doesnt want to do anything and I am dragging it behind me!!!! catch ya all lata

Tropic Thunder is the new Ben Stiller movie that has Robert Downey Jr, Tom Cruise, Jack Black, and some others in it. They play movie stars that are filming a war film overseas and it becomes real. Silly stuff but some of it was funny.

I'm a little tired tonight. I think it is mostly from cramps. :p

Welcome Dillybar! Looking forward to getting to know you.

Buddly: Can you tuck any of that extra $$ away for Xmas, not that I'm trying to help you spend it. ;) Maybe it will just help with the AC repair. I hate auto repairs.

Amarie: 12hrs sounds like heaven.

Mom: you must be tired after being up so late. I hope you can turn in early tonight.

Spoz: why so little sleep?

Leenie: It's almost Friday! :carrot: Got any good weekend plans?

Sassy: You working tonight? Howz the job hunt?

Raven: Doing ok?

Cathy: miss you!

Heather: miss you too!

Ok, gotta get to bed... Hi and hugs to anybody I missed! :hug:

ok well i think i am going to crash soon I am tired and have dentist appt in the morning. My dh and i tried to play a game of cards and he was grumpy or tired or something and says he wasnt and then it just keep being testy so I stopped playing. I wanted to sit and enjoy some time together but there was no enjoying there so yeah i gave up. So now I am kinda grumpy and just ready to go to bed...sorry i havent done any personals lately i guess i havent been up to it...ok lata

Hey all,

Nope this was my short week, so I have been off since I left work on Wed @ 9:30 am. ;)

DH got another co. interested in him, its a very very very good co. too. They are holding testing, so he'll have to go to that first..........

Other than that not much to say. We did get caught up on some bills, finally..........figured better get caught up now cuz this was DH's last paycheck.

So anywho, that is about it from my end...........

Good Morning Gang :wave:

How's everybody doing today? I'm so glad it's Friday. :cb:

I walked 2 miles every morning this week. :cheer: That's 5 days straight whoooohooo The hardest part is just getting up at 5 am every morning and I usually end up missing a morning bec of being up too late or being too tired, but I did it this week and boy am I glad about that! ;)

Anybody else exercising?

I hope everybody has an awesome weekend!
hugs,
Cathy

Hiya girls!

Well, 12 hours may have been too much, cause yesterday I was a bit too edgy and drama-prone. Oh well, then last night I only got 3 hours sleep (early plane) so it kinda evens out anyway.

Cathy!!! Good to see you - wtg on you walks. And thanks for popping in, I really needed that dose of extra-special motivation you provide! I have to fess up that I have NOT been exercising, and to make matters worse I've been vacation-eating and have not even seen a scale in 2 weeks.. Danger!

Mof4 - wow that was a REALLY high fever! You and dh must have been more than a little freaked out. No wonder tempers were grouchy after that! Ah well, I'm just glad your little one is ok. :hug:

Hope - yah, I just saw a preview in the airport. Not my kind of movie I don't think. Then again, it has Robert Downey Jr...hmmm... He looks better cuter than he used to! Isn't it funny how some actors really grow into their looks and some don't?

Spoz - whaz up with the no sleep? You doin ok?

Buddly - step away from the curly fries!! Lol, I swear aw curly fries started my unhealthy obsession with fried fast food! I think its great that they can use the help over lunch - not too much not to little... But what's with school starting again soon, um hello what happened to my summer?

Ok, I hope I didn't miss anyone (although I prob did). Its hard to scroll through on my blackberry - which btw I will be turning in in 3 days!!! Yeehaw! Anyway if I missed you its not on purpose, its just because I'm a spaz!

Well, I gotta go find something to do for an hour and a half til my last flight. Ahhhh, to be home!

Can I just say: wow, I'm fat! I'm still eating out of control and have been for as long as I can remember now. And Cathy, I haven't been exercising either. :( I've said it before but I just can't seem to get a grip. I need to work out for the endorphins if nothing else.

Oh well, it's an early morning for me so I better get in the shower and get to bed.

Oh dear... I just had a HUGE blow-up with my dad. We've not been getting on well these last several years, but he just really went too far today, and I was sooo tired from all my flights that I just laid into him on the phone. Its odd, I'm not sorry 'cause it needed saying, but the timing sucks. Ah well. Something to talk about with the counselor this week I guess.

Anywho, nighty-night.

MeA-That really stinks...it would have been good if you coulda said it at the right time rather than being pushed over the edge. I find esp with my dad I have to learn to say whats bothering me at the right time cause if i let it build up and just blow up then it doesnt accomplish much. My dad is very hard to deal with and I want to scream at him and flip on him but it does no good so yeah...UGHH...anyways i hope things work out for you!!! I love ya my dear friend and so miss our everyday exchanges on here...maybe winter we will get more time!!! LOL

VBS is over with the baby is doing better still hanging onto a low fever...but better...got a full weekend and so glad i live in a state that has seasons!!! cause I am ready for fall i soooo LOVE FALL.....ok well i am EXHUASTED....talk to you chics lata

Good Morning,

What a great day, its so nice out and I have NO plans :s: finally no plans, it seems every weekend I'm running like a nut :shrug:

I just wanted to pop in and say :wave: to everyone.

*SMILE* :D