Oh, I'm a bad Feathers! Not posting and personaling (...!?).

Holidays started off in a really busy way for me. We headed off yesterday to finally see my goddaughter, she is SO SMALL. They all laughed about me when I was super stiff when I took her. Meeeeh.

I ate poutine and pizza for dinner last night, but dehydratation only took me up to 136.8. YAY!

The next days are going to be insane, like all of yours Sending good healthy vibes your way!

elleohelle, thank you! My daughter's hair was unusually straight that day... They both have fairly abundant curls while my hubby and I both have board-straight hair... Genetics are weird!

Sorry to hear about your cookie binge... I binged last night on all kinds of crap.. Oreos, chocolate melts, pretzels, pop tarts... Ugh. I'm just doing my best to move on today and eat sensibly. I hope you're feeling less lonely today.

Turbo, yay for meeting your goddaughter!

Well we're in our way to my hometown. I pigged out last night, so I'm hoping to stay really OP today even though we'll be decorating Christmas cookies at my best friend's house tonight! I went to the mall this morning and bought another pair of jeans at Express. This is the third pair I've purchased there in the last month since all of my other jeans are too big. I know their sizes run big but I don't care, it still feels good to fit comfortably in a 4.

Adios Amigas...I wish you all a very Merry Christmas.
I will drink margaritas, eat guacamole with homemade tortilla chips and coconut ice creamin your honour! These are a just a few of my favourite things in Mexico!

Official weigh-in this morning...114.4. We shall see the damage. My prediction...118-119 range. Oh well...live, love, EAT and DRINK!
CHEERS

Good morning Feathers! It's 9:15 AM on my birthday and I already feel celebrated-out. I went out Friday night, spent all of Saturday recovering, had about 35 people over to my house for my birthday, got wasted and butchered a bunch of Christmas songs on the violin/melodica with my roommate on banjo/ukelele, spent all day yesterday recovering and shoving food into my face (homemade garlic/olive oil/balsamic eggplant, truffle mac and cheese, egg-in-the-basket, bites of turducken sandwich and foie gras burger, tons of dumplings at Chinese dumpling house...), and had Christmas time with my boyfriend.

He got me SO MUCH STUFF - a new digital camera, ski/snowboard jacket, TOTORO SLIPPERS!!!!, American flag knee socks, a shirt I've been lusting after, and probably more stuff - and it all came in the cutest tote bag ever with a kitten on it:



Plans for today: gym, lunch with friends, walk with my mom, presents, dinner (lasagne and Pepperidge Farm chocolate cake), and trying to read the entire Hobbit so I can finally see the movie with my dad.

HAVE A GREAT TRIP Bayzee! I hope everything is fantastic and delicious and you get a ton of relaxation time in!

OhThePlaces Congratulations on size 4, which in my opinion is a very loaded clothing size (people claim all kinds of things about it). Enjoy cookie decorating, and I also just want to say your family are gorgeous and that picture with Santa is fantastic, even if your little lady has some tears on her face...

TurboMammoth Babies are so squishy and I worry about breaking them too! Better stiff than too relaxed and "oops she fell out of my arms."

elleohelle HUGS to you. I hope my package arrives soon! It will cheer you up.

JossFit Mmm all that sounds great. I kind of don't feel like ODing on food over birthday/Christmas either...got that out of my system yesterday.

olehcat Yeah, for sure I won't be making that mistake at work again. I'm so glad you are happily part of this subforum!!! It's nice having fresh faces!

Merry CHRISTMAAAAAAAAAAAS!

I see I'm not the only one who has been slacking off! I have totally overdosed on holiday goodies... hahaha so much for all my plans. Im definitely back on plan today though and hopefully some water will drop off with a few days of clean diet and workouts.

I'm all done with seasonal events so it shouldn't be hard to do.
Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!

I weighed in this morning at 127.2 - could be a lot worse. I'm only like 2 lbs over "normal" - this should not feel like or become a crisis!

Birthday and Christmas were great. I of course overate but really, how many people don't? I refused all the cookies and banana bread and cake type leftovers and just brought home a giant tub of turkey.

It's really snowy here and still going. My parents (who live 15 min away) got 10.5 inches of snow and thankfully the nice neighbors came by with a snowblower - my lower back is hurting again from lots of heavy seated cable rows yesterday at the gym. I borrowed my roommate's more durable car and went into the office for a bit to put some stuff in the mail, stopped at the local old-timey cemetery to take some snow pictures with my new camera, and am just relaxing in my living room with a cup of coffee after a wholesome (2 PM) breakfast of a mushroom and green onion with gorgonzola omelette. I did notice with my daily routine all shaken up it felt a bit harder to wait until usual "feeding time" even though I definitely had some beer-fueled nibbles going on late last night!

Hello Feathers!
Just checking in after the Christmas madness.
Made it home to NJ from visiting the sis in Nashville (great trip). Just getting back into the swing of things now. Didn't do too badly with food.

Weighed in at 156 this morning. (ugh) but not half as bad as it could have been.

Back for personals later!!!

Good morning feathers! I had a great time visiting family except that I went BATSHIT CRAZY with food for 5 straight days... I'm not talking about a bit of over-indulging, I'm talking about loads and loads of food, feeling uncomfortably full the entire trip. I am FINALLY back on track today and logging food into MFP. I won't dare go near a scale for at least a couple of days... it wouldn't be pretty.

Krampus, it sounds like you had a great birthday! Yay for awesome gifts from your BF.

Bayzee, have a great vacay in Mexico!

Hola from Mexico! Having a blast and weather has been amazing so far!
There are no buffets here which is great...I'm not pigging out, but eating way differently than at home of course. It's more 3 meals a day and way more carbs than I'm used to. But really...It's the drinking that doing the damage! Everyday I swear it's my day off! Lol! And I' ve only made it to the gym once so far.

Well a margarita and guacamole are calling me or lunch! My favorite bartender has mastered the way I love my margaritas. Fresh lime juice, triple sec and Don Juilio..no sweet mix for me!

There is suppose to be a scale in the room...so glad there isn't!

Happy new year! Cheers!

I'm with OhThePlaces... pretty much went Batshit for days and I gained some serious weight. I've been back on plan for few days and I'm still huge... a lot of actual fat gain, not just bloat!

I'm glad everyone else seems to be doing okay! I have one more social event to get through and it's probably going to be pretty ugly... lol.

I'm not one for resolutions but I am determined to really buckle down in 2013.

I went and met with the admissions counselor for the school I'm planning to attend in August earlier today, and I'm really excited! My husband and I also ordered our first furniture and it's being delivered tomorrow. We went out and found a five piece bedroom set and then purchased all new linens. I'll post pictures when it's set up tomorrow!

I'll also get back for personals tomorrow... I'm posting from my tablet now so it's a pain.

Wifi on the beach...priceless!

Joss...I will be with you for some serious buckling down!
I'm having so much fun but I am starting to feel like I could easily slip back to old habits...it's so much yummier than protein and veggies! I could easily be eating clean here, but i'm choosing not to!

And why is Mexican food so darn tasty??? Because it's so fattening! Lol!

There are many beautiful women here... But the most impressive are the 50 yr olds with amazingly fit bodies! I'd love for people to think that about me one day!

I cannot let myself feel guilty for enjoying my holiday...but I know there is some serious damage and work to be done, just to get back to per-trip weight!

And that goes out to all of you...don't let the holiday guilt consume you! Get back on track as soon as possible, knowing full well we are not perfect! More so...you deserve a break once and a while!

Cheers ladies!

Did I say 5 days of going batshit crazy? Make that 6. I couldn't get on track yesterday and had tons of junk including obsene amounts of cookie dough, M&Ms and then out for BBQ last night. Yikes. Today I hit the gym in the morning and have been eating well without much struggle... thank God.

I did step on the scale and it says I've gained 9 lbs in 6 days. WTFBBQ?!?! I know some of it is water weight (I hope!) but like Joss said, I can tell that a lot of it is actually fat gain. I felt like Santa on the treadmill today... a bowl full of jelly. Blergh.

Joss, that's so exciting about the new furniture and linens... and getting a start on school stuff!

Bayzee, I'm glad you're enjoying yourself and please don't put a damper on your vacation by feeling guilty about your food choices! I'll be on a cruise to Mexico in February and I'm sure I'll fully enjoy all of the fattening dishes as well.

FEATHERS!!! I know I've been a flaky feather not posting but I've been lurking and keeping up with everyone!

I also indulged a little too much! From 12/20 (my son's 1st birthday) until the day after Christmas I gained 5.2 pounds, sadly I was kind of pleased it wasn't more considering the volume in which I ate. Went from an all time low of 139.6 to 144.8! Luckily between TOM and a lot of it being water weight, I'm down to 140.6 already. One more celebration tomorrow night and that's it. I've enjoyed all of it, but I'll be so glad when it's over to join you all in Buckle-Down-January!

OhThePlaces - That's gotta be a ton of water! I know what you mean being able to tell some of it's fat. I'm always astounded that even 15 pounds at a much heavier weight can almost go unnoticed, but a couple pounds at a lower weight can make you feel so miserable! Won't be anytime before you get it off!

Bayzee!!! So glad you're having a blast! I'm excited for you that you've been able to just kick back and enjoy it. You deserve it!

JossFit - Sounds like you've had a productive visit aside from all the fun too! I'm excited for the new month and the new year and to put all of this indulgence behind me. Well, after a good amount of indulgence tomorrow night!

Alexistrophic - Isn't it funny when a gain of quite a few pounds, when put in a holiday context really doesn't seem that bad at all! I was actually fairly relieved to get through it all with 5 pounds. A couple years back my brother in law (a big guy and a really big eater) gained 35 pounds between Thanksgiving and Christmas!

Krampus - 2 pounds is SOOOO minimal. Great job! I can't even fathom that much snow. I live in Phoenix, so we never see snow. Well I take that back, in my lifetime of living in Phoenix it's snowed twice, and it didn't even stick and it lasted for all of a few minutes and the city practically shut down and it was the top news story for weeks. I actually think sirens went off lol.

*waves* Hi everyone! I am BACK! Feeling icky, but back. We got home late Thursday night from our Christmas travels, I worked all day Friday, then yesterday woke up feeling like crap. My sinuses are mad, and I can't get them to just chill out. I really need to get to a doctor but my schedule with work just got PACKED. But I know that I'm not actually sick, and this is not going to stop coming back because my sinuses get chronically inflamed and I need a prescription spray to fix it.

I see that most everyone jumped up a bit on the scale over the holidays. I didn't get a good morning weigh in until yesterday, my evening weigh ins before then were up about 3 pounds, but my mornings these past 2 days are between 149 and 150, so I managed not to do much damage. It helps that I am the pickiest eater EVER and I just don't eat a LOT of sweets, so I can control over indulging pretty well. Also we did Christmas eve at my sisters so we didn't have the usual spread of my parents home made fudge and caramels. The worst was probably my mother in laws, with the bacon and waffles! But for the first couple days there my body was so shut down from the crazy week before that I wasn't even feeling hungry. At all. I didn't eat until midnight last Friday.

Now it will be time to get buckled back down and start taking some weight off again. I need to try and get more exercise so I can pay a little less attention to what I eat. I've been good with maintaining without counting, but I just don't feel like going back to counting so if I eat the same and up my exercise that should work. Guess we'll see!

~Katy