DECEMBER Feather's Chat!
 

Continuing on from here; http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/feat...s-chat-20.html

I know I say this every month, but I can't believe it's December already! How does everyone feel? Goals? Plans?


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Joss...I love the idea of setting goals and writing them down AGAIN! I honestly feel it keeps me in check and more accountable. December is a very busy time of year for me, so it will be that much harder to stay OP.

Weighed in at 116.0 this morning. I wish I was seeing better results on the scale, but...
I love how my best weigh-ins have been on Saturday...after wine! Yay for dehydration!

My goals for December:

-Eat clean.
-Wine only on the weekends.
-Don't miss any workouts.
-Lose 2 pounds by Dec 24th.

Joss I agree with you. I can't believe a year has gone by since last December. :dizzy:


Blaaaah. I've been wavering. I can't shake this apathy... I'll do well for most of the day and then suddenly it's like "Yeah, but... I don't care!"

But December is a fresh month, and I am really sick of the way this rut is making me feel. I plan to totally change my attitude this month.

Yay December!
Thanks for the thread, Joss.

Well, as you all know, how I feel is pretty darn good. Haha.

My goals for this month:
-Continue appreciating my body and not stressing about getting any smaller, just striving for health and fitness!
-Stay in my range of 100-120 the whole month (secretly hoping I'll see close to 110 before leaving next week though, even if it is just water, hehe)
-For the next week, I'm hitting the gym every day and not overindulging at dinner,
-And then during my trip, try to keep up exercising at least 4 days a week and try very hard eating very moderately (80% rule maybe?) especially at dinner, shooting for only one day a week of eating with abandon! I think it may be a challenge having my eating routine thrown so completely off in terms of timing of meals and type of food, so I just need to be careful to stick with a relaxed mindset and not freak out and either get anal about what I eat OR go crazy and binge every day.

Yep, I think that's me for the month! (:

Thanx for starting this new thread, Joss! Did you see my red & green tilapia fillets? Aren't they hilarious??? LOL

Bayzee, those are great goals, and the best is that they are totally acheivable! We tend to get lost most of the time in over the world goals during our weight loss...

TheBunneh : As you said, December is a fresh month, and maybe Christmas coming will be an extra motivation for all of us this month! (well, let's hope, it's that or we will jump in the sweet treats that Christmas usually bring so... Let's stay positive ;))

Mottaini : At think we posted around the same time! Great goals!!! :)
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Hola feathers!

Nothing much to report, weight sticked to 136.4 this morning, which I'm happy about. Last night, while we were having a ''playing video games all night and not being ashamed of it'' night with the boyfriend, I soooo wanted to eat chips. Well, something salty. I went instead for wholewheat crackers and some of my homemade hummus. It luckily calmed the craving.

This weekend will be dedicated to putting together the Christmas tree, buying some Christmas decorations and going to spend hundreds of dollars buying a new set of winter tires. We are so lame, we were supposed to put them on our cars weeks ago (it's kind of a law here...), but we did not, and snow arrived, and yesterday my boyfriend had to go to work walking because he wasn't able to get out of the driveway, that is really steep and icy. Only hope I can make it with my car tomorrow to my appointment LOL

GOD IT'S ALREADY DECEMBER

Goals :

- Stay on plan the best I can, especially during the weekdays until December 21th. I have really no excuse for binging during the weekdays, as if you do have some Christmas party to attend, they'll be during the weekends. It's however not an excuse to eat like the world will end during the weekends though.. (TAKE THAT, MAYAS)

- Keep only small portions of Christmas treats in the fridge (my Christmas baking will get intense soon, I'll have to be careful)

- Go walk Mont Bellevue at least once a week

- Do my kinda-like little Crossfit routine twice a week

- Abs routine everyday except the Crossfit routine days

- Try to be under 135 before Christmas

Hey ladies :)

I don't really post in the chat topics because anytime I check it, always so many updates :p I can't believe it is December already. The year has gone really fast.

My main goal for December is to be into the 120s before 2013 hits. Other goals include to not over indulge during Christmas and keep exercising.

I just want to let you know that I am a Christmas freak, my mind get into a 4 years old mode when it comes to Holidays. I'm probably gonna be talking about Christmas all the freacking time. Brace yourself, Feathers :P

Right now, with the 3 coffee I drank, I feel pretty much like that. I already transformed my fridge in a Snowman with some colored papers. Gotta love the ''it's ... cute, sweetie'' face of my boyfriend when he saw it!

http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/1...ealltheway.jpg

Bayzee - hahaha, I've never weighed after a night of drinking, but I most definitely wake up looking leaner a lot of times! Your goals for the month sound pretty reasonable and I'm sure you'll do great!

TheBunneh - It's hard to shake it sometimes when we get into those funks but if anything is going to help kickstart you a new month might do it! What is your plan to help you get back on track?

Mottainai - AWESOME goals chicka... those sound very reasonable! I am wondering if that was a typo when you said between 100-120 pounds? Did you mean 110-120? LOL a 20 pound range in one month seems pretty big but hey, to each her own! ;)

Turbo - Yes, I loved the picture! haha those are hilarious, and more importantly I'm glad they turned out yummy for you!

Your goals sound great too. I might be a bit nutty about it, but I've already picked out my 'treat meals' for the month and don't plan to deviate from that plan. Would you be able to do something similar to help you navigate all the holiday parties/baking/goodies a bit better?

It sounds like you have a great weekend planned; putting tires on the car isn't fun, but I know I always feel better when I get things done rather than putting them off. I *could* be out shopping with my girlfriends today but I really needed to get the house cleaned and do laundry. Besides, I already spent so much on Christmas (ok, ok, myself...) that I can't really justify buying another holiday dress. I haven't even gotten the one I ordered in the mail yet!

I'm also a total Holiday Freak so no worries, I'll be talking about it non-stop too!

Dreamer - You don't have to completely catch up to post... just say hi and let us know how you're doing! Good luck meeting your goals for this month, we'll all be rooting for you!

I just got back on track today after a 3 day binge fest... As you might imagine, I feel like crap! BUT I picked myself up this morning and went to the gym. I will not be stepping on the scale until at least Thursday...

My goals for December:

1) Try to keep up with this thread! Y'all are so motivating, but it moves so quickly. I'm really going to try to check in everyday.

2) I want to hit the gym 5 days a week in December.

3) Stay OP except for the 25th and 26th.

4) I would love to see 129 by January.

Hello Feathers! I usually just post under the 20 somethings threads but I love reading all of your post for motivation/inspiration. I have been roughly the same weight all summer and fall. Seeing a beautiful low of 146.8 this summer but continuing to hang out more at 151/152. I really want to weight 140, at night! I have been trying and trying to reach this goal but often let my dedication slip for weeks at a time. I am in a full-time master's program and have not been working out like I once was, I usually do well with calories and eating whole foods. This December will be different my semesters almost over, I have just over 4 weeks of a break, and it doesn't look like I'll be getting many hours at work. Sounds like it is time to get back in the gym weight training and getting these last pounds off! I think the near constant activity on this thread will help keep me more accountable.
Goals for this month include:
Weight lifting 3-4 days a week
cardio-biking/elliptical/treadmill 2-3 days a week
yoga 2 days a week
I plan to keep my calories between 1500-1700 a day

I realize I just wrote a book, and could have put this in the intro section but ya know... You ladies are all doing wonderful and I'm excited to chat with you this month!

Nope, not a typo. (; I just thought I'd give myself the freedom to keep losing if I can but also be officially okay even if I gain back a bit on vacation, especially since I'd guess I'll be seeing higher numbers in general from more regular carbs than usual. I'm thinking of the 20-pound range as more of a "life range," not expecting to go throughout the whole thing in a month, lol.

Haaaaay Feathers!

I am PLEASED to let you know I weighed in at 125.0 after a nice long workout this morning. Feels good man. My back is almost all better and returning to lifting felt amazing. Food has been pretty sensible too despite both meals being out - egg/ham/cheese/veggie breakfast sandwich on an English muffin at a local coffee shop, pork loin with baked apples and sides of carrots and green beans at Cracker Barrel.

After the gym today I went to an artisan fair and got some incredible smelling soaps, mushroom coasters for my bf's sister, and some really funny stories from last night - I had intended to go out dancing but fell asleep at 9 PM, sounds like I missed a good time but it was nice to wake up truly rested at 9:00 sans hangover - and tonight we'll be going to karaoke so it's not like I missed my only chance to be social. Tomorrow is the "Victorian Stroll" here and instead of spending the day drinking with friends, I offered to work a shift at an independently owned bakery. Extra money!

Domlacha Welcome to the Featherweights subforum! I hope you start posting regularly. It's pretty awesome that you've maintained your loss for the entire summer/fall - the last few pounds are hard to get off but it sounds like you have a good plan!

OhThePlaces Welcome back. This time of year is sooo hard in terms of eating right.

TurboMammoth OH GOSH I LOVE CHRISTMAS TOO, it's overwhelming sometimes. My roommate and I are having a Christmas party for my birthday party this year since my bday is Christmas Eve, and we are also playing Christmas music at an open mic in a couple weeks (we gotta get practicing...) - I never know what to do with myself once Christmas is over.

Dreamer2012 It is hard to keep up here, good thing I have no life ;)

mottainai HOORAY for feeling good, I gotta say I wish I had your metabolism :P

TheBunneh It's hard to care when you're a Featherweight. What is it that makes you feel bad about not losing weight?

Bayzee Way to go on 116.0! You're shrinking for sure. What is your wine of choice? I never liked red wine until seriously like 2 months ago. It's like my palate flipped and got suddenly grossed out by cheap white wine.

JossFit What meals are you going to have?!?! I think I am opposite most people in that I often prefer to not read menus or anything in advance. I like the surprise and the pressure to make a decision on the spot.

Krampus - Your birthday is on Christmas Eve? Thats so neat! I can see how you'd be in love with the holidays.
Thats also pretty badass that you are dropping back down to your happy weight and that your back is feeling better. I'm super sore today and just took some muscle relaxers so I have a feeling it's going to be an early night for me! haha

Oh, I'm attaching some pictures for you, since I promised I would. Nothing super fun, but I still had to make the effort for everyone and especially you who said they missed my food porn.

There is a picture of my 'Breakfast carrot cake', both before and then after with some chunky granola peanut butter on top.
There is also a picture of a chicken caesar salad with crostini, a picture of some tilapia and mixed veggies (zuchinni, onion, eggplant) and a picture of my pumpkin mousse! It's ugly, but dang is it ever delicious, especially with the chunks of Trader Joes Cookie Butter I have in there.

There is one more picture of an omlette I made with lots of tomato, cheddar cheese and avocado on top. Nom nom nom!

I'll have a some more for tomorrow; bacon pancake and pumpkin fettucini perhaps? :)

OhThePlaces - Don't worry about keeping up, mostly we're just bull$hitting about silly things... just keep saying hi!

Domlacha - Welcome! A 4 week break is an awesome time to try to make some strides in your fitness goals. I'm not on a work/school break or anything, but I am getting 4 weeks 'break' between vacations and traveling so I'm really trying to buckle down and lose a few recently added pounds before Christmas. I think we're all in the same boat for the most part right now! Keep coming in and getting to know us!

... we don't bite... haha

Mottainai - LOL, well a 'life range' sounds perfectly good to me! Honestly, a 20 pound range for life sounds really realistic too. I think too many of us get to a certain weight and say "that's it, I'll never deviate by more than 5 pounds!" and it's really really easy to gain more than that... haha.

This is my neato foot brace I have been sleeping in lately. I bet you can see why the last 3 nights I have taken it off in my sleep... it's not super comfortable!

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...79213783_n.jpg

Ughhhhh I'm trying to do this last assignment for my programming class and it's so hard because I have zero motivation to do anything anymore, lol. I just want the semester to be over already! So anyway, I'm procrastinating on 3FC for a bit....hehe.

I know I just wrote that I was feeling great today earlier, but now I'm feeling kinda nasty and bloated. I should expect this by now since it happens every single day after I super-carb-load. Whatever, should go away soon!

OH, and to be honest, my habit-ridden brain really wants me to plan on taking another refeed on Monday, even though my original plan was that I would do it just yesterday and that'd tide me over for this coming week. Talk me out of it, anyone (or into it, whichever...)??

Joss- The brace looks neat but pretty uncomfortable. ): I wore a back brace at night for like a year or so when I was in middle school for scoliosis, and it was so hard to keep it on the whole night! I'd end up ripping it off after being itchy and sleepless at like 3 AM, lol. Your food looks good. Everyone here is a much more creative cook than I am, apparently!!

Krampus- Hooray for your back being better and having a good workout! Must feel great. Your post reminded me that I probably ought to try out karaoke when I'm in Japan....

Domlacha- Hi and welcome! It sounds like your plan is good. I'll look forward to hearing your progress! What are you getting your Master's in??

OhthePlaces- Ooops, sorry to hear about your binge-fest, I know well how those go. It's great that you've gotten back up and on it though! Your goals sound awesome, good luck!! Like Joss said, don't worry about keeping up in this thread too much or trying to talk to everyone individually, unless you're bored like I am a lot, haha. Just a few sentences to let us know how your day's been and how you're feeling will suffice! (:

Turbo- Haha, I love that picture, I read that website a lot. Your fridge sounds cute!! I love the holidays too. (: Your December goals sound really great and very doable!

Dreamer- Hi there, best of luck making it into the 120's this year!! I'm kinda hoping to slip into the 100's just a bit if I can....

OH my gosh we're on to page 2 of the month already? Wow. This will be a quick update.

In case any of you missed it since it was the last post in the November thread,I dropped below 150 yesterday! And as an update, I woke up to a SOLID 149 or slightly below today!!!!!!! I'm out of the 150s! I hope to get down to 146 by the 15th and would like to be 145 by the 31st, figuring for the holidays.

Dishes update- I WIN He did the dishes today. I slept in and woke up to him loading the dishwasher and informing me he couldn't find 3 plates. We're on load 2 in the dishwasher of his doing today AND he even cooked dinner, though I did chop the veggies for the stir fry. His veggies, we all know I don't eat them, I ate the chicken in a tortilla. He's in trouble for other things now, but the dishes are done and we can now eat things other than frozen pizza, sandwiches and chips.

~Katy

Today went pretty well, and I felt in total control of my food for once. I'm feeling kind of cranky/jumpy, but I think that's just PMS. :rolleyes:

I got my haircut today. I was going to wait until closer to my trip at the end of the month, but it was starting to really annoy me. Plus a fresh haircut always makes me more motivated. I also got pretty much all my Christmas shopping done. Luckily I don't have many people to shop for. The stores are already so chaotic with holiday shopping! :dizzy:

I bought some black hair dye too... I'm a little scared about actually doing using it, but I've been wanting to try black hair for a couple years now so I think when I get back home in January I'm gonna go for it! :D


Krampus - Glad your back is better and yay for 125! To answer your question, I don't think there is anything that makes me feel bad about not losing weight... I guess at this point I just feel like I know eventually I will get to goal, cause after already losing 80+ pounds I know I can. So I have nothing driving me to do it now, even though I want to. Does that make sense?

Joss - That omelet looks super yummy! And I don't think I'd be able to sleep with that brace... I can barely sleep when I have socks on.

Right now my plan for getting back on track this month is to set more rigid goals each day, instead of the vague "do better" thing I've been trying. I joined the 21 day challenge on the chicks up for a challenge board. It helped me a lot this summer to keep track there, so I figured it would do the same now.

Everyone seems to be determined to keep on track till Christmas!
I'm enjoying a very nice glass of wine and not feeling guilty about right now! LOL!

Krampus...You must be so happy your back is feeling better! Congrats on the 125! It's amazing how fast you can drop those few extra pounds. I need your trick!
Wine of choice...Hmmm...I judge a wine by taste and value. I am pretty addicted to some pricey wines, but I don't feel they are good value for money. I am a huge California wine lover for value. I like Fetzer Cabernet and Merlot, and it's cheap. Also J. Lohr...vintage wine but $20 here in Canada per bottle. Still relatively inexpensive but probably way cheaper in NY. Mondavi is good too and price points vary. I love to experiment with wines from Spain...some are so cheap and actually very good.

Funny...I also graduated from cheap white to red too. I used to be addicted to Australian reds (Shiraz) when I converted, but now I can't even drink it. But you know, I really like a nice Sauvingon Blanc or Chardonnay in the summer when it's hot.


Turbo...I used to be a holiday person, but now I'm more of a "get out of town to the sun" type of person! Family complications (Divorced parents, crazy siblings and in-laws) have made it easier to flee for the holidays. That way nobody gets offended! Or maybe they all are! Lol!

Joss...Those food pics are amazing! I love to cook too, and the challenge to make things healthy is sometimes hard to do. That brace looks so uncomfortable!

Kakers... Good for you! You've earned one for the wives! And congrats on breaking the 150!

Mottainai... How do you have all these refeeds and stay so skinny? Lol! And please tell me what a "super carb load" consists of?

Bunneh, Domlacha, Ohtheplaces & Dreamer...Welcome! And looking forward to hearing about your progress!

Mottainai, what does a "refeed" consist of? Sorry you're feeling bloated... That is the worst feeling and it's so much more obvious to me when I'm at a lower weight.

Joss, your food looks awesome! I wish I enjoyed cooking... Maybe I would if I actually took the time?

Turbo, I love the holidays too! Especially now that I have kids (a 3.5 year old boy and an almost 2 year old girl) I get to experience everything like a kid again.

Bunneh, I love the way a fresh haircut can lift your spirits! I have to hold out until after January to get mine cut because in in my BFF's wedding and need to grow it out enough to have my hair styled up. It's driving me crazy already though and I just got it cut a couple of months ago.

Kakers, woohoo for the 140s!

Bayzee, I love wine. Haha

I'm too lazy to get on my laptop so I usually post from my phone. I forget what else I wanted to comment on! I had a great eating day yesterday and a long cardio workout at the gym. I'm feeling so much better now that in out of the binge haze and my bloated belly is going down a bit. Sundays are usually my rest day, but I'm planning to go this afternoon to help off set the 3 days of crazy eating I did this week.

Oh guys...I feel so sad and desperate and scared. I got a phone call to interview for a job and whne i called back I was told hat the company decided not to hire anyone. That was a few days ago and that was when I went back to a trigger food...bread. I went up like 20 lbs from my reg weight - but I'm not scarfing down 10K cals a day - its more like I've been eating light soups (that are high in sodium) and lots of carbs. I'm still scared that I managed to put on that many lbs in a couple weeks even tho I'm a good cal counter and I know thats not possible, but still. Its messes up the mind.
I feel like a failure. My job situation my turn around soon, but at the same time because it hasn't started - nothing concrete has actually HAPPENED Idk...that combined with these cloudy days just makes me feel so desperate-sad. That worst part is that I have an interview on Monday but I'm so bloated I'll have to wear my "fat" clothes because I for sure can't fit into my pants and WHO is the cause of that? ME.
Its strange...I do what I can to fill the hours, I volunteer, I walk ALL day and yet nothing gives me a restful nights sleep other than a regular work day. I can't sleep very well so I kill the hours munching away. Therapy doesn't help...I still have trouble sleeping - I took some pills to help me but they last for a few hours and then i'm awake again.
This is the first time I think I've cried since Ive been unemployed. I'm just so sad that I was harassed at work to the point where I had to put myself in this situation. At interviews people assume I've been fired...so hard to BS a reason of why I left.

Chatty chatty feathers! I'll come back later for personnals!

I was down 0.2 pounds this morning, but not sure if it's real or because I had to move the scale around to clean cat vomit. Yay.

I'm so dehydrated, we went for beer last night, and my last one was like a 10.5% one... HANGOVER.

http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/8229/hangovercat.jpg

See ya later for personnals!

Morning, Feathers!!
My my my, two pages on just the 1st...

I'm happy to report that I slept well two nights now! Yay.

Question: is it bad form to go to a dinner party and eat mainly only from the dish you brought yourself?

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Turbo- your pictures are always so cute!!! xD

Pixellate- I'm so so sorry to hear about your situation and that you're feeling so down!! It must be so hard. ): My husband is also unemployed and trying to find work with zero success, so I can kind of relate... And not being able to sleep is the worst!! I wish I could do more for you, but I am praying that things look up for you. Hang in there, sending lots of cyber-hugs!

OhThePlaces- Glad you're feeling better now! What I've been doing for several weeks is having one day a week what I'm calling a "refeed" and eating basically around 6000 calories, mostly in ice cream, lol, plus my favorite higher carb vegetables. It sounds kinda nuts, but doing that once a week and eating just my regular healthy and low-carb the rest of the week, I've been losing weight steadily with zero effort!

Bayzee- Yay for enjoying wine. To be honest, it's kinda cool to me that you like wine so much, haha. Since I could drink, I thought I would be really into it and actually bought like wine tasting books ad stuff, but....it turns out, I just don't really like any alcohol very much at all! Haha. Um, mega-carbs is my usual day of something like five or six thousand calories in high-carb sugary foods.... It seems I don't gain weight doing it two or fewer times a week. If I knew how that worked, believe me, I'd slap a trademark on it and sell it!! (;

TheBunneh- Ooh, can you take pictures if you dye your hair?? What color is it naturally? I'd love to see you go black, I've wondered about doing it myself vaguely before! I think it's a great idea to set more specific goals. It helps me a lot to have a couple very specific things that I can say I'm going to do just each day, rather than focusing too broadly.*

Kakers- Yay for your double victory!!! Out of the 150's is awesome, and it sounds like your husband finally got it. (;

I'm a big heavy Mrs BLOBBY. My belly is all funny and I don't have a shape anymore, I'm laughing about it too though. Blerrrr, I wasn't even drinking this weekend I just seem to use other people being around as an excuse to stuff my face. Hmm... Drinking tea now and back to the rabbit poops. We all know the drill. ;)

Back for personals tomorrow.

Also.. it's December? DECEMBER?!?!?!? Crap, Christmas shopping tomorrow. Yo ho ho.

Time for personnals from my couch, if I don't fall asleep before I'm done :P

JossFit : Love, love, LOVE your new user picture!! Is it a eatable snowman? (you're chicken ceasar salad looks deliciouuuus by the way. Yumm, ceasar salad!)

I don't think it's nutty to decide in advance what or when are going to be your cheat day. You're gonna be ready for it! So far, we have a few dates we know that we are having parties/dinners/stuff so it would be good date to indulge a bit. I need to figure out a clearer strategy, but I don't want to put too much pressure on myself neither... I guess it's all about balance, but isn't it a lack of balance that all got us to gain weight in the first time? :P

OMG that is the foot brace? It looks quite intense! I get why you manage to get it out of there while you sleep! ;)

OhThePlaces : Nice goals! This thread do moves quickly... This weekend especially was WOAHHH! I'm not a kid person (yet) but I'm going to be a godmother in a few days, and I'm getting excited about what I'm going to do with the girls in the future Christmas.. Maybe I'm coming around to the kid thing ;)

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Okay the boyfriend is watching footbal and there is this player called RUDOLPH. Like the reindeer. That is AWESOME.
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Domlacha : Hi and welcome!! I like your goals, there is a lot of focus on the sport parts! :) I'm finishing a master too, in what field was yours?

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Okay, Rudolph guy just scored a touchdown. This reindeer football player rocks.
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krampus : Oh freaking yeah on the 125! Artisan fair things are awesome ideas for gifts... I should hit someplace like that for my Christmas shopping! I don't know what to do with my life once we hit January neither. It's like I don't have any purposed anymore LOL it is so depressing taking the Christmas decorations down...

mottaini : carb-loaded day are awesome for many things, as they seem to boost metabolism and everything... But since I cut a lot of carbs, everytimes I carb load my stomach go OMG OMG CARBS STOCK EVERY THING. I really don't know what to say to you about you wanting to get another refeed day... If your weight is still going down, I guess why not? Do you feel you're losing to fast right now?

For the pictures, I'm a big fan of Memes, 9gags and stuff... I love to use stupid pictures to show how I feel ;) Aahah!

kakers : Tons of good news for you! Congrats on the 140's number AND for the strike winning! (Did you find the 3 plates that disapeared?! LOL)

TheBunneh : A new haircut usually get me such a huge confidence boost :) Did you change your hair a lot?

Bayzee : I'm starting to think that escaping to some sunny place could solve all of ''Where are we going for Christmas'' problem ;) We have 3 areas to go, and they are all scattered all over province of Quebec... Pleasing everyone is hard!

Pixellate : I'm so sorry to hear about your situation :( I feel that in this time of the year, where everything is like ''happiness, chrismtas, joy, yay'', feeling down always gets to an exponential state. If people think you got fired in interview, maybe you could mention that it was your decision to leave? But overall, I get you : if that can comforts you, I've been looking for jobs for week and I had ZERO interview yet.

LeilaJey : Ah, you posted while I was writing my 45 minutes long post! I can take your funny stomach/no drinking if you want to take my killmenow/hangover headache if you want to ;)

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I'm feeling so BLAAAAH. Once I got up this morning and got stuff going, I was fine enough to survive through shopping for Christmas furniture and the car thing appointed (and another 770$ bite the stuff in car tires... HUHHHHHG). But then we got home and we had brunch, I hate 2 belgian waffles and some maple bourbon beans and we just... crashed. The boyfriend, the cat and I are all laying down, each on our couch/chair and we are BLAAAH. We decided to take a nap before working on the Christmas tree lol

3 years ago, I was able to stay up until 5AM, drink my life in beers and go to a biology class at 9AM. I feel I'm barely surviving today LOL

On a good side, a bought tons of sparkly Christmas stuff. I had to work my way with the boyfriend on getting a silver sparkly reindeer but I finally got what I wanted. WIN.

Ugh, I have to face the facts Feathers; I'm JossFit, and I'm addicted to Arctic Zero... I can't have it in the house! I have to order it and then I have all these pints sitting there and I eats them all! LOL No more ordering it I guess. My husband has a grocery store right near the house that sells it so I'll eat in there when I can buy it a pint at a time.

I ended up going a bit over my calories today and yesterday, but nothing that really matters. I just ate too much AZ! :)


I'm getting used to the new running shoes and I'm loving how much better my feet feel already. Today was a cardio day for me so I did a lot of stairs and am slowly working my way back up to running a bit more. So far, so good.

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Back this evening for personals!


EDIT: OK it's later. :) More food porn, although again, nothing super new. First up is a bacon pancake;

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...63185075_n.jpg

Made with 4 egg whites, wheat bran, bacon pieces, and topped with sugar free syrup and Brummel and Brown yogurt spread.

I also made a pasta with fettucini miracle noodles, pumpkin, chicken, spinach and eggplant;

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...96725847_n.jpg

Other meals today weren't very creative; protein shake with an apple, the same pumpkin mousse and caesar salad from yesterday, and Arctic Zero.

But, food porn was delivered as promised!

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Turbo - Thanks! haha I was feeling festive, but also kind of healthy and sort of frumpy so I found this picture and it seemed appropriate. I didn't make it, but it appears to be a cottage cheese snowman with carrot nose, raisin eyes and buttons with celery arms. Whoever DID take this picture is pretty creative!

I actually don't know how I manage to get out of that brace each night without waking up completely, but somehow I do! Just call me Houdini! hahaha

I know what you mean about not being able to hang like I used to. I'm tired now if I eat a big meal! I'm in bed by like 8:30 every night and I'm perfectly happy with that most times. I definitely can't drink and party and stay out all crazy late too often anymore. When I do it ruins me for days afterward.

Sparkly reindeer? Lets see!!

Leila - I was having rabbit poops for days and I don't know why because my diet was filled with lots of veggies and normal healthy stuff, but then I was driving in to the gym on Friday morning... OH MY GAWD. I thought "Oh wow, I have to go now. No seriously, now. Holy ****, today is the day... this is the day I'm actually going to $hit myself!" LOL I made it in time, but it was close! hahaha I get that scenario much more often than I get the rabbit turd situation. Pros and cons of being a fast pooping kettle bell swinger huh? :)

It sounds like you had a fun weekend though! Rabbit poops aside, I'm sure it was worth it right? Tasty stuff at least?

Pixelllate - Oh hunny, I wish I had some amazing perspective to share with you or some nugget of advice but all I can really say is just to hang in there! Do you have the extra cash to maybe go out and buy something new for your interview? I hate to think of you nervous on the interview AND feeling uncomfortable because you don't like your outfit. Maybe a friend has something fierce you can borrow?

Perhaps in the meantime you can battle that water retention as best as you can; drink lots of water, sit in a sauna and relax, try to put down the bread, do a little cardio, etc. I know you can get some of that off pretty quickly which will probably help your mood and confidence a lot.

OhThePlaces - Yeah, sometimes its a good idea to forgo the rest day and just do *something* to get yourself back on track. If you don't mind me asking, why were you having such a hard time the last few days? legit binges or a lot of social overeating?

haha my food pictures are funny because they always look like such small portions on my huge dishes. I actually don't spend much time at all cooking... everything is pretty fast and mostly one pan/pot meals. Especially the veggie/protein dishes; it all just goes in a pan and what comes out gets eaten! :)

Kakers - ROCKSTAR! Congrats on the weigh-in AND on winning the war with the dishes! You mentioned your hubby was 'in trouble' for something else... is that why he finally caved?

Bayzee - The brace is actually more comfortable than it looks. It's not painful, just awkward but as long as I'm laying down I feel okay with it. Evidently my subconscious disagrees and pulls it off when I'm sleeping though... haha

I love that you love your wine and really know what you like! I haven't ventured into reds yet because I don't drink that often, but I'm oh so slowly getting away from the super sweet stuff like Reislings and find myself going for pinot grigio or chardonnay now. I still love my whites, but reisling and moscatos are too sweet now. Maybe you could suggest a good 'beginner' red for me? Something sort of light and sweet?

Thebunneh - I find I do better when I set SPECIFIC goals, so maybe you will too! What have you come up with so far? I aim for a certain calorie range, plus a set number of weights and cardio sessions per week with a minimum amount of time spent doing the cardio (Otherwise I'll stop after 3 minutes... hahaha)

Mottainai - How is the homework coming along? I'm excited to go back to school but also nervous... I hate homework! You had scholiosis growing up? How is your back now?

Joss- No, I'll go in to why he is in trouble after personals, but it's not why he caved. He just is typically pretty awesome and after a day off with lots of sleep felt like being productive. Before he became LPO it was common for me to come home on his 2nd day off do a practically spotless house. And BTW I had never heard of Arctic Zero before, and after you mentioning it I had to look it up and I happened to find out one of our local stores carries it. I may have to try it.

Turbo- we found 1 missing plate. 2 still MIA but we have a lot of cleaning left to do, so I'm sure they will turn up. That hangover cat picture is hilarious and I am the same way, in college I drank plenty and had a hangover once. On spring break. In mexico. Now, I have like 2 drinks and drink water after and eat before bed and still wake up feeling like poo. So not fair!

mottainai- I don't know if that is bad form to only eat food you brought, but it sounds like something I would do. I'm such a picky eater often it's the food I bring that is the only thing I'm not scared to eat.

pixelllate- don't beat yourself up!!! Job hunting is SUPER stressful and you have to cut yourself some slack and be patient with yourself.


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Sticking below 150 still. I was worried today because yesterday I drank myself silly. Ok I had like 3 drinks. Maybe 4? I don't remember. But I didn't eat a ton so I guess it all worked out. Woke up feeling kinda yuck, but started feeling better. With our newly recovered dishes we cooked a nice brunch of bacon and chocolate chip pancakes. For dinner I made garlic cheesy bread. I haven't tracked my calories this weekend, and I'm debating backing away from tracking. We'll see.

So, yeah, my husband is in trouble. After I got up yesterday to him doing the dishes, I checked our account to make sure our checks had gone in and we had enough in there for rent. I was SHOCKED at our balance. Definitely not enough for rent, and for the 2nd month in a row he had money transfer out of our account before his scheduled transfer. So I asked him why, and where our money went and all he could say was "I don't know, I only have $40 in my account." Even though he said he was going to try and figure it out, he clearly never bothered to, even after I pointed out that we JUST got his paycheck and he'd already withdrawn/spent MORE than his last 2 paychecks worth. Instead of figuring out what was going on, he snuck out of the house and went for a walk for an hour without his phone or wallet or anything, because I was mad at him. NOT COOL. So tonight I made him print out his bank statement. Since late October there's over $2100 in fraudulent charges from his debit card!!!!! WTF! How do you NOT notice that when TWO MONTHS IN A ROW I point out that more money is being transferred than usual? It's like he didn't even bother looking to see what charges were there. And most of the charges are the same amount, $104.90 or $62.94. All he printed out was the statement starting Oct 19, so who knows how long this has been going on.

Now we don't have enough money for rent, my car and credit card payments are behind by a full month, and I have NO CLUE how we are going to be able to pay for Christmas presents for anyone. I'm hopeful that the bank will be able to refund us most of those charges but I doubt it will happen quickly. So blah. Yay stress.

But hey if I can't afford to buy us groceries it will continue the barely eating trend LOL

~Katy

Just a quick check-in this morning. Pretty frustrated to see 116.0 AGAIN! I thought I would break it today, but I guess not! I did a day of RFL yesterday.

I have 3 weeks till my vacation and I want to drop a couple more pounds. At this rate, I'll be lucky to drop one. Sigh...

I'm back to 145 this morning, which makes me happy. I really want 143 to be my average again soon.

My goals each day are to stay under 1,800 calories and log everything. No more going into the kitchen and randomly getting three cashews. Yes, it's only three cashews, but when I do it a few times a day it adds up. If I'm that hungry I should make a real meal and log it...

For the questions regarding my hair: Yep, I'll post pictures when I dye it! (If I don't chicken out. :p) My natural color is kind of a light/medium brown. It can have some coppery undertones in the right light. I usually dye it red if I dye it (haven't in a while because it's very prone to damage) but I feel like something new and bold.

Didn't change it much when I cut it. Mostly just a trim and some fresh layers to clean it up a bit. Plus I asked the stylist to thin it out a lot because my hair is reaaaally poofy.

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kakers Eeep! Can you contest the charges since they are fraudulent? We're really paranoid about stuff like that. My husband always double checks bank and credit card balances down to the pennies... (To the point where it irritates me sometimes but I see it could be worse! :dizzy:)

Joss I had an Arctic Zero problem for a while... it's so easy to justify eating a lot of it! I stopped buying it because I realized it didn't make me feel very good when I ate it.

Hi Feathers, I was late to work because I spent so long in the bathroom this morning. 124.2 - totally worth the poop-delay :)

This weekend was hectic. Saturday was karaoke night, my friend brought this girl he's seeing who is, to put it mildly, a dumb cokehead. She forgot her ID so my bf drove her back to go get it. Then she put in songs for us all to sing and started screwing around with the MC, messing up his papers (songs in correct order) and stuff like that and generally being a menace. We all miss this friend's old gf.

Yesterday I worked for 6 hours at a local bakery that needed extra help during my city's "Victorian Stroll" street fest. I stood outside in the wind selling (amazing) cookies and coffee/hot cocoa to pedestrians. It was COLD but I made $99 and only ate one cookie which I consider to be a MASSIVE victory.

Looking forward to crafting and relaxing after the gym tonight!

TheBunneh Good luck in your efforts to get strict in getting to goal - I'm excited to see photos of the black hair. My hair is basically black in a state of nature but I dye it darker just for the extra contrast.

Bayzee Wouldn't it be nice if as featherweights we could lose 2.5 lbs every week like people who start at higher weights do? Seriously. I still like crappy $10 bottles of wine but perhaps one day my tastes will refine themselves as yours seem to have.

kakers Hooray for the dishes and being under 150 - but whoooooa what's your husband buying that's emptying you guys out?! I hope it's nothing shady or some kind of horrible porn addiction or anything like that. Bacon and chocolate chip pancakes, yummmmmm.

JossFit So glad to see the food pictures have returned! I am going to start buying shirataki noodles - I have been craving pad thai and fettucine like a madwoman the past couple days. How many pints of Arctic Zero is it possible to eat at once?? I couldn't sleep with that foot brace on either, it looks super uncomfortable...

TurboMammoth Dude I get the worst hangovers now, too. I felt funny yesterday and I had only had 2 Corona beers the night before - but I never really mastered the art of drinking myself stupid without getting hung over, I just wasn't as aware of how my body felt.

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pixellate We've been talking but HUGSSSSSSS FOREVER for you. I'm glad you are doing a little better!

LeilaJey I somehow avoided the SOCIAL EATING trap this weekend. I imagine I will binge myself stupid on Thursday at a potluck dinner. Or maybe tomorrow at a BBQ, sigh. How are you doing otherwise?

mottainai Nah I don't think that's bad form. I do that too (salad) but I never stick to my "I'll mostly eat this" plan. Planning in general is f#%ked with me, I am terrible at it. Make sure the line between "refeed" and "binge eating on Thursdays" stays solid, yeah?

OhThePlaces Glad you are starting to feel more like your usual self. Binge haze is a terrible mental place to be in.

Quickie update:

113.0 this morning. Did a "refeed" but it honestly felt a bit binge-y...
But good things: enjoyed the sauna yesterday, sooo nice, finished my assignment extremely easily. And this morning at the gym my first set of pull-ups I did 15, a new record for me personally! Yay for getting stronger and lighter. (:

Happy Monday, everyone!

Hello featherweight ladies!!! It's been TOO LONG!!!

My last post was in September and I've just not been super motivated lately, but hoping to claim my seat in the thread this month.

Made it through October (birthday month) and November (turned out to be the mother of all crap months!) and hoping for better in December. Am GOING to make it better in December.

Can't wait to catch up with all of you!

~A*

Alrighty, I just wrote a huge reply to you all and my computer froze up because I live in the boonies and my internet connection sucks!

I'll have to catch up tomorrow. Grrr, I'm so irritated!!!

OH, and I'm seriously hankering for sushi and carrot cake the past couple of days.

Not together.

Well, maybe. ;)

Count me in for a sushi and carrot cake party!

Ok I wanted to do personals today but I'm pooped, sorry. Long day tomorrow including a funeral, not somebody I knew personally.

Hey everyone…ever since I've been like…way letting go on what I've been eating - just eating as much as I want including bread…I've felt more relaxed? This goes against what any diet book recommends and what I have followed for months…but I guess its worth it to experiment and see what works for me when my living situation changes. I'm going to see how those goes. I just tried every method to stick to my diet or make moderate changes and…I feel sort of through with that at this point. Going 100% relaxed (so far) seems OK?
I want to say HUGE THANK YOU to you all. I was so nervous about admitting to my crap diet…I almost felt like I was going to disappoint everyone and I was so ashamed of myself - I know its all in my head and you are all kind and understanding as always.

Mottainai - Thank you so much! I'm sorry that your husband is dealing with unemployment, but I'm very happy for you that you are at such a low -113 is TINY!

Turbo-My fellow unemployed feather! If its of any consolation - my interviews mainly consisted of PT seasonal retail and not very career-oriented type jobs. A Christmas tree!! Can you take a pic of it when you are done? I can live vicariously through you - I don't have a table in my apt (lazy apt living loll) so I don't even have a Charlie Brown one.

Leilajay-Rabbit poops!!! I've had thoes a lot - gahhhh. I know what you mean - I've lost my curves even tho I gained 20 lbs in a few days.

JossFit- GAHHH Artic Zero - whats your fav flavor? Mine is the Vanilla (altho just a side note I read that its actually 48% higher in cals than it says - no biggie, but it might be more like 200 cals) I have TWO stores next to me that sell them and yet…I will buy a couple pints at a time - they are a step up from fro-yo in terms of texture, but give me some gas, its an OK sacrifice - they def give me my ice cream fix.
I ended up wearing the pants - I think pants are just important to me emotionally because…in my big regain when I stopped fitting into them and wore sweats down to the holes, pants were always this like…big scary thing to me - I was not SUPER comfortable, but I put em on anyways. Your food looks DELISH btw.

Kakers - You are so right - sometimes I am too harsh on myself. I hear that drinking can give a big woos. I am SO sorry about your financial situation. For now, I am telling some people who I normally buy big gifts for that when I am giving them a small thing now and an IOU for later - I hate crafts and I don't want to waste a few dollars on something useless - so I figure, better late than never and ppl probably won't mind - hey a gift's a gift - maybe you could try that?

Bayzee - a few weeks is def enough time to drop a lb - its likely just water retention! and more often than not, I hear about people who either don't gain as much as they thought or they lose weight on vaca cause they walk around so much. I lost 5 lbs in China (I gained it all back in the U.S even tho I ate out so much in China lmao…ohhh office life haha)


The Bunneh- I am very excited to see your hair. Cashews yessss I need to watch out for those. Once my sis said that I could have her bag of JUMBO cashews. the biggest I had seen. I ate a few a day but they had to be like…20 cals a cashew hahaha

KRAMPUS-<333
Thank you! *cyber hugs back* altho I hope we can hug IRL someday! I can't really put into words how much I enjoy our convos. I saw something TOTALLY USELESS but perfect for you in my neighborhood heheh

Alexistrophic - Welcome back and YES you can do it!

Hola feathers, I am TIRED after going to Montreal to meet up with my cousin and we walked around downtown all afternoon to enjoy the Christmasy streets. I stayed really good with the credit card, only getting a super cute-sale-top at Urban Outfitter, a 5$ Disney movie and a Star Wars Christmas calendar for the boyfriend.

My eating today was okay but a bit weird, I did not had big meals but a few snacks instead. Did not have my bottle of water to carry with me, so I'm still feeling dehydrated.

I'll be back for personnals tomorrow!

Hello ladies!!! Well since I posted on the 1st I am up 2 pounds!!!! But I didn't do anything this weekend to aid in weightloss so it is expected. Today I went to the gym and lifted weights, and actually counted the calories I ate. It felt really good but man are my hamstrings sore. I love that this group is so chatty, however that is not so good with trying to catch up with everyone.

Mottainai and Turbo, I am working on a masters in nursing. It is a professional degree that is not quite advanced practice but higher than a bachelor's degree. Essentially it perpares me to do a doctorate program in midwifery.

Turbo, I love you comments about the reindeer football player!

Kakers, Holy cow can I totally relate to going on strike about dishes. My boyfriend will just ignore them and the trash, and the recycling, and the yard....

Jossfit that omelette looks amazing!!! And I'm totally interested in that bacon pancake thing!

pixelllate, I'm sorry that you feel so low. :( I have my fingers crossed that yesterday's interview went really well!

Kakers, what does your husband do for work? The only reference I have to 'LPO' is lead petty officer, which is my husband's current job in the Navy. Sorry yours is in the dog house... How frustrating!

Bayzee, hang in there... I've been feeling the same way lately. My best friend's wedding is in less than 6 weeks and a month ago I was sure that I could reach 125 by then? I'm facing the sad reality that from here on put I'll probably lose at a snail's pace.

Joss, I thought about the cause of my 3 day food bender after you asked, and I'm really not sure what caused it! I think it's a combination of being frustrated that the scale wasn't budging even though I was sticking to my plan like glue, and also feeling really PMS-y even though I still haven't been visited by the lady in red. Once it started, I couldn't get back on track... It made for 3 long days! And now I'm off to google Arctic Zero. Haha

Krampus, that is some serious willpower to stop at one cookie! I worked at Panera in the bakery for a semester my freshmen year of college and gained 15 lbs!

Well after two weeks bouncing around 135, then a baaad 3 days at the end of November, the scale said 134 this morning. I hope it sticks! My husband is in the Navy and his work Christmas party is a week from Thursday. I ordered a dress from Express and it's a bit shorter/form fitting than I thought it would be. I want to stick really close to plan for the next 9 days so that I can feel as confident as possible in it and now bloated.

Well I'm still irritated last night's post got deleted because I wrote A LOT, and now there is even more to catch up on so my apologies for that!

OhThePlaces - I can so totally relate. A lot of different sources have a lot of varying advice on how to deal with binges and prevent them, but some say you have to do all this deep soul searching and find out what 'triggers' them and how your "relationship in a past life with your maternal grandmother not giving you a butter churn of your own" might be the cause of what's bothering you... blah blah blah. Sometimes it's just as simple as "I want this stuff and it tastes great, and I'm tired of caring and counting and stressing over it!" hahaha

I have a dress from Express on the way via the mail right now for a Christmas dinner I am attending too. Fortunately I shop there enough that I 'think' I know my size and I have all the way until Christmas Day before I'm actually going to wear it. The pants I ordered along with it on the other hand... we'll see. If they don't fit I'll be doing like Mottainai and posting pictures of my progress trying to get them zipped!

Domlacha - Regardless of the reason WHY our weights vary (water retention, needing to have a good BM, etc.) it's not fun seeing an increase like that on the scale, so good on you for not freaking out. Some people see that and just lose their dang minds!

The bacon pancakes are super easy, super delicious, and pretty darn healthy and low calorie. That recipe is 20g of wheat bran (40 cals), 3 egg whites (50 cals), 7g bacon hormel pre-cooked bacon peices (25 cals) mixed with a bit of cinnamon, Truvia and baking powder. I just cook it in a pan like any old pancake would be cooked, and then when it's done top it with 10g Brummel and Brown spread (30 cals) and 1/8 cup of Cary's sugar free pancake syrup (15 cals). Along with my coffee creamer (20 cals) the whole meal is only 180 calories! I usually add some fish oil supplements to it but thats about it. I try not to eat a super heavy breakfast since it's also my pre-workout meal.

Turbo - I hope you got all rehydrated and are feeling better today! I went and did a bit of shopping yesterday too and I also did REALLY well... I found a Michael Kors bag on sale for only $200 that I was IN LOVE WITH and didn't buy it, and then I found a great piece of furniture, also SUPER on sale for only $900 and didn't buy it either! Go me! hahaha
I was worried I used up all my willpower for the day and would dive into a pile of cake (yeah, there always seems to be cake around my office) but I didn't.

Pixelllate - The vanilla is my favorite too! I just find it to be creamier than the other flavors, and I like to add a sprinkle of cinnamon to it. Nom nom nom. Yeah, I know that they can't seem to figure out how many calories it *actually* is, but that's why I said I was a bit over on my calories for the weekend, though probably still not at maintenance and I did workout a lot so I'm still in a deficit. Either way, I can't have that much in the house... LOL. Back to having it when I visit my husband only!

You should know that nobody here is ever going to judge you for not being on plan. Heck, I wrote here and in my blog in detail about MASSIVE disgusting binges and all I got was positive feedback, support, and open arms. If coming here to post helps you deal with any stresses you have do it, and if it stresses you out more don't... it will be here when you are ready to come back and say hi. :)

Good on you for putting on your pants! hahaha that sounds silly, but I hope you know what I mean. It shows you facing your demons so to speak rather than putting your head in the sand... and thats where people get in trouble with weight loss/maintenance. Not looking can make it far too easy to not see your problems creeping up.

I hope the interview went well!

Leila - Regardless of your relationship to the deceased, I'm sorry you have a funeral to attend. Those generally aren't a whole heap of fun... even if it's a carrot cake party funeral. I hope you have a good day, regardless! :hug:

ALEXIS!!!! - THERE you are, you sneaky thing! I'm glad you came back to say hi! I think a LOT of us had issues in November and are fighting the onset of the holiday gain, so you are not alone my dear... come fight the good fight with us! We missed you. :)

Mottainai - Yeah, get it girl! Knocking out more pullups ALWAYS puts me in a great mood. I love that feeling of getting stronger and lighter. I am sucking on pullups lately... I guess putting on several pounds rather quickly didn't give my body any time to adjust to the extra pounds it has to pull up, so I'm only doing sets of like 8-9 right now. :( Boo... sad face. But, I hope to be back up to my usual soon, and to surpass it this coming year!

I saw you mention in the CIC thread that you were feeling some pressures the other day. I hope that your refeed, even if it felt a bit 'bingey' still helped you and that you managed to keep it all in check. You've been doing SOOOO well and I see that you're really inspiring a lot of the other ladies that struggle so much with it. Like I was telling OhThePlaces up there, I think we put too much emphasis sometimes on the 'why' of a binge. Sometimes it's as simple as "I want ice cream damnit!!". It doesn't all have to be some deep-rooted emotional thing, especially since a large common thread seems to be the onset of binging once someone starts dieting... hmmm, not a coincidence if you ask me.

Krampus - Not only did you make some extra cash AND only eat one yummy cookie, but you probably burned off those cookie calories while you were working anyway. Win! haha

I'm sorry karaoke night was ruined by stupid-face new girlfriend. Blech. I'm not usually too impressed by a lot of the women my guy friends bring around; too many of them are just "military mattresses" if you catch my drift...

The answer to your question is 6. One can eat 6 pints of Arctic Zero. hahaha granted I did it over the course of Friday - Sunday nights, but still... tooo much. I don't think I actually have any 'trigger foods' per say (definitely foods I only eat when I'm being naughty, but nothing that MAKES me want to be naughty all on it's own...) BUT I think I can officially but AZ in that category. Weird huh? I can have chocolate, cookies, peanut butter, and all those other typical 'trigger foods' but the thing that nearly makes me lose control is ARCTIC ZERO?! LOL, I'm a weirdo.

I love the shiritake noodles so much. I just bought some turkey meatballs from Trader Joes so I'm going to put those with some of the Fettucini shaped noodles, some roasted tomato, basil and parmesan and have me some pasta! yeah! I'll make sure to take a picture when I do. :)

The Bunneh - Oh yeah, I know exactly what you mean about not feeling well. One pint? Not a problem. Multiple? OH MY LORD GAS FROM ****. LOL
Seriously, I looked at my food diary and realized I had almost 60g of fiber total on Sunday. My tummy was NOT a fan of that!

Congratulations on your weight loss moving in the right direction! For me, seeing results is a huge motivator to stay the course, so I hope it is for you too!

Bayzee - Patience my dear, patience. You cannot expect to keep seeing losses each day at only 116 pounds! Perhaps moving to a weekly weigh-in or even bi-weekly would help you? You seem to stress out when you get stuck for a few days and I don't think the extra cortisol/water retention from stressing over it helps any. Just a suggestion...

Besides, at some point (this may be that point) you might be risking muscle loss which is NOT what you want to do. That won't help you achieve that bikini body. Us Feathers tend to forget this and end up paying too much attention to the scale and shooting ourselves in the foot because of it.

Kakers - I cannot even begin to tell you how sorry I feel for you right now! You seem to be handling it relatively well, but I had SOOO MANY issues over finances with my ex that I have ZERO patience for that kind of stuff now. Even though he's not out blowing all your money on strippers and cocaine, NOT paying attention to something that huge is really no better. LOL, I'm sorry, I'm sure you are upset enough as it is and I'm practically stirring the pot.

Have you gotten a better idea of where the charges are coming from, and made any progress? Can you get the money refunded to you? Ugh, seriously... my heart is aching for you right now... what a crappy time of year especially. :hug:

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*Whew!* Did I get everyone?? I hope so, and if not I'm really sorry!