Good morning ladies! Well yesterday I did get the house cleaned but, I did not get my weights done. I was so tired after cleaning and then dinner had to be made so I just opted to do them today instead. I have been feeling kinda blah lately and I really don't know why. I just don't seem to have as much energy as I did. I am feeling really down but I don't really know about what so that frustrates me. I am going to keep a eye on it though and if it gets worse I will have to go to the doctor. Well the good news is the house is cleaned so nothing much to do but finish a load of laundry and cook dinner. It is starting to get cold here again and I believe they are calling for snow showers Thursday. I am not a big winter person. I mean don't get me wrong I think the snow is really pretty but only for maybe a few days and then it depresses me. I can't believe we are in October already, before we know it Christmas will be here. I have not even began shopping yet and I have a huge family to shop for. Good thing I love to shop and a really good thing I like to shop for other people. Well today I will get my weights done and I have cardio to do. I think I will go do my weights right now so I have them done with. Hope you all have a great day!

Ok so I am down another lb this week. Just trying to do it little by little I did not gain this all in a week and it is not going to come off this week either lol. I read a blog called Training for life (link is on my blog) and they are talking about "Workins" little affirmations to mentally condition you to be healthier/lose weight. This week the workins are "I am a workout fiend, I love it" and "I like feeling hungry" We will see if they work lol!

Gotta work at home, then have a photo to do this evening and after that I am hoping to sneak off to the gym and get some good heart pumping cardio in!

angel - I will keep my head up, thanks for the uplifting story. I just keep telling myself things happen for a reason.

Tina - Christmas shopping....I am so dreading it. I always put it off till the last minute. Sorry to hear you are feeling bleh hun. SOunds like you are still keeping up on the workouts. 8 lbs....we are in the same boat. I know we can do it!

vegas - Its kind of one of those fake it till you make it things. If I tell myself workout when you are stressed I start doing it...kind of evolved from there. Hey a lb is a pound great joB!

canadian mom - yuck bridesmaids dress shopping. Lots of time to be at goal though, so that is great right?

Tina -I don't like winter either I want snow x-mas eve and it can go away boxing day.

Stephie - congrats on the pound lost that is how I ahve been loosing it . I would rather go down 1 slow pound at a time rather than the scale go up. Yeah I do have a while before the wedding but we try them on this saturday.

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hey y'all !!! Just a quickie from the lobby of the hotel...I needed my fix of
3FC, lol. Everyone's doing so well....

We are having a blast here in Branson. Ds bought some cowboy boots today and he's like a kid in a candy shop!! Tonight we went to a show called the Grand Jubillee, sort of a western tribute and he had a great time. Both boys are so different, one into country western and the other into heavy rock. We bought 12yo (sorry almost thirTEEEN) a leather jacket at the outlet store yesterday that has THE WHO emblazoned on the back and the Union Jack flag on the front!! He is totally tight. (his words) LOL.... Just wanted to check in, food is okay not brilliant but trying to make better choices and when I couldn't sleep anymore at 6:10 am, I got dressed and went to the workout room for 1 hr!!! Take care
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i would love to lose the last 15 lbs. can i plz join in evern though i am late. i need to lose 20 pounds in total.

all are welcome I joined late also.

Well I start my injections tomorrow. I will be doing these for quite sometime. I need to do them until I am 13 weeks pregnant since transfer is supposed to take place first to mid december. I need to stop worrying about things but it is hard. The doctors office in TO are on my but to have an ultrasound done on the 23rd. My doctor has put in the request but there are no guarentees.

Man today waas a good exercise day. I worked out harder than usual. I usually only go about 6.5- 7 on my gazelle but today I was going closser to 8 . It felt good since yesterday my whole workout was at warm up speed.

Good morning ladies! So things have been pretty uneventful here so not much to report on. I did lose 1 pound this week which is good, I guess. I am really getting to the end of my rope with this whole thing lately. I just want to be done with it even though I know your never going to be done with it. I just wonder when am I going to look at myself and be happy. Oh well I will just keep going until I get there. Today it is freezing here, and I am so not ready for the cold yet. I am so happy it is finally Friday though. I don't know about you all but this week seemed to go on forever for me. Today I am going to try and muster up the energy to do my weights and maybe a little cardio. This weekend is going to be spent relaxing. Saturday night we have Cindy and her husband and my mother-in-law coming over to play some cards. Sunday I plan on reading some and maybe watching some movies I have been waiting to watch. Well that is about it for me. Hope you all have a great weekend.

Jen great job on the exercise. Good luck with the injections. Have a good day!

Angel sounds like you are having a blast. I could really use a vaction. Enjoy the rest of your trip.

Susan how are you doing? Hope things are going well for you.

Steph I hope all is well with you also. Enjoy your weekend.

giovannip811 Welcome! We would love to hear more about you!

Cindy I will see you tommorow! Have a good visit tonight and don't spend all day killing yourself cleaning because your house always looks beautiful.

Well ladies hope you all have a great weekend!

Hi Everybody! And welcome to giovannip811! Today's weigh in was pretty good I guess, 1 pound down. I'm with Tina, this whole thing is getting kind of tiresome but we're so close now...we just have to keep pushing ourselves!

canadianmom-Good luck to you with the injections, hope all goes well.

angel-Are you in Branson, MO? My SIL lives in La Plata, pretty close to Branson I think...a getaway sounds wonderful right now!

Stephanie-congrats on the 1lb, it will all add up. That's what I keep telling myself! How are the "workins" working? Those cracked me up!

Tina-Hang in there, we can do this! Looking foreward to the card game!

Today I have to get my house straightened up since my husband's Aunt, Uncle and their son are coming for dinner. They've never been here so I get a little nervous about having everything just right. I'm going to try my best to just relax and enjoy the visit! We're just ordering pizza so there's no pressure on me there. Well, maybe pressure not to eat too much pizza, but other than that...

Hope everyone has a great weekend! Take Care!

Hi girls.....I'M BAAACK!!! what a great time we had in Branson. lol...who knew that Branson, MO catered to the over 60 crowd??? I've never seen so much of a blue rinse crowd in my life!!! So many neon signs it looked almost like Vegas at night....Didn't matter though, we did so much but ds kept saying...."mom, we're the youngest people here!!" HAHA....hey? with free tickets to alot of the shows, attractions....it was great!!! We also did some go carting on a 4 level driving course called the Wild Woody!! dh was saying....well never mind .....Ripley's believe it or not house, Pirate mini golfing, Silver Dollar City (western/pioneer artisans and amusement park) OUTLET MALL SHOPPING!!!! and lots more. Had a great time, even got to work out a few times and did some hot tubing at the hotel!!! So nice to be home though.....now its back to watching calories and workingout....honest!!

LuvVegas.....yeah, good ol' Branson!!! hey I just noticed you're in Illinois. I thought you living in Vegas. oops....I'm just west of you in MO. Howdy neighbour!!!

We went to try on bridesmaid dresses it wasn't that bad I got a 14 the smallest girl was a 8. Considering that none of them had kids yet and they are 21 I felt good. I figured I wouldn't fit the dresses there.

Hi all, have been back since Wednesday, but things have been hectic....took off on Friday to do an all day workshop on Exercising with Older Adults, followed by an exam to get certified in the one day course, but by the time the exam started I was brain dead....had been up since 4 that morning, and just couldn't think straight. Think (hope) I passed, but it will be close.

The Massachusetts wedding was a blast...danced all through the evening with my nieces and nephew and misc young people....love it when you don't need a partner, just dance with the person whose closest to you....great rock music. My sister is also a dancing fool....we had a great time. The Berkshires are beautiful this time of year....alll the trees changing color....was fabulous color. And the bride was gorgeous...had been working out with a trainer the last few months and was really buff and fit.

One bad thing was the eating....no healthy food available, and much too much of what was available. But....I'm back and on track again, have gone to the gym the last two days and cooked for the week so I'm hoping to drop the 4 pounds I gained. Amazing how quickly you can put back on the weight that took so long to take off. Something just not fair about it. However, my pants are still fitting so I am hoping the weight will fall off quickly.

Steph, read the blog, hope things are better....hope DH's job comes through. Jen, glad things are working out with moving ahead with the surrogate situation. Angel, sometimes just the stress of situations like your SIL's can help her lose weight....when I split up with a guy I was dating a few years ago I dropped seven pounds in two weeks; think my metabolism just went crazy from the stress. You are doing it the best way, don't listen to anyone.

Las Vegas, glad you dropped the pound....have you read the maintainers threads...it never ends, unfortunately, you just have to stick with it.

Giovanni, welcome, of course we'd love to have you join in. Why don't you tell us something about yourself?

Tina, good going on your weight loss. Hope the weekend was a good one for you.

I spent most of the weekend studying for the big certification test in November. This is an important one...it's the one all the gyms accept. I keep telling myself it's not the end of the world if I don't pass it the first time, but I hate the way I've been putting my life on hold while studying...I just want to be done with it.

Well, that's about it. Will check in during the week. Hope everyone's weekend was a good one.

Susan

Hello ladies! Well I have been feeling like a complete faliure lately. I can't even tell you what I have ate but it has been nothing that is good for me. I have been on a destructive eating path for days now and everyday I say this is going to stop and still it continues. I don't know what is going on with me or why I continue to do this to myself. I feel like crap physically from all this junk. I mean I can actually feel my stomach hurting and my head aches along with just dragging the past couple of days and still this is not enough to stop me. I don't know what to do. I was so confident that this would never happen to me again but now I am not so sure. I mean I know logically that I should not eat what I am eating but I can't seem to stop myself. I mean I know I can stop myself but I don't have that willpower and determination that I did. I have to stop this though or I will be fighting to get off more weight and I am already at the end of my rope with trying to lose. I just want to be healthy and feel like I used to. I mean I used to look forward to doing my weights and cardio and now I am thinking is it over yet? I know something is up I just can't figure out what it is. I want to get a hold on this though before the holidays hit. I have to remember how good I felt when I was taking care of myself. I had energy to spare and felt like I could do anything. All's I want to do now is curl up in bed and sleep. I do know that this weather is not helping me any but hey I have a long winter ahead so I better get used to it. I don't know but if you all have any suggestions please tell me. I can't go on like this. I will break this behavior I just have to get my head on straight and do it. Sorry ladies for the sob story I am just feeling really down. I hope you all have a great day!

My eating habits this week have horrible also plus the meds they have me on put weight on so this makes me fell worse.

Tina-- we have to get back on the wagon we can do it

Just a quick post by lol...

Hey ladies, sorry I have been MIA, I have been reading I promise. Things have been crazy busy trying to get ready for my new job. I am so happy but at the same time inconvenienced with my wedding photography choosing now to also take off. I just booked a wedding and 3 portrait sessions not to mention I keep having people ask for consultations. If you don't know I am going to be working 3 hours away from my hubby during the week. I will be staying with family and coming home on the weekends. This wedding success is now spilling over into the weekend so that makes me sad

Monday weigh in went well...1 lb down from last week and the lightest I have been in about 3 years. Feels awesome. Haven't been working out, no time, just being mindful about what I put in my mouth and taking it one day at a time.

As the new job approaches I find myself excited but also nervous...and sad about being away from my husband for so long. Oh well, it really is a great opportunity for me.

Tina, I know what you mean about your stomach hurting...and you just want time to go backwards and take it all out....I understand why people get bulemic. You are trying to change long time habits, and there is a part of you that may be rebelling, going back to the old comfortable ways. Can you give yourself some rewards for good behavior? Can you go take a walk when temptation looms? I once read about eating a spoolful of mustard when you get cravings...supposedly that kills the tastebuds for the sweet stuff. Can you give yourself a time break...like ok, if I still want to binge in 20 minutes I'll do it, but I will wait the 20 minutes? Sometimes the craving goes away. It may also been the seasonal change...it's starting to get colder and your body wants to pack in the food.

Could you be suffering from Seasonal Affectiveness Disorder? I have that. When I don't get enough sunlight, I get very depressed and down, and start to eat. I use a special light box while I eat breakfast in the morning to help keep my mood up.

Can you keep the food out of sight and mind? Chew gum?

Hope things get better.

Steph, isn't that the truth, when it rains it pours. All the good stuff happening but you have to deal with this distance thing. Has your DH's potential job been permanently tabled?

Jen, same suggestions for Tina apply...take care of yourself!

How is everyone else?

S.