Jessica,
That is so tragic. I don't know most of my neighbors either. Anything you do will be appreciated I am sure. Just do what you are comfortable with so they know people are thinking about them.
Shannon,
When is your surgery? How exciting!! Are you doing this because you lost weight in the girls? I am wondering about doing the surgery. I don't think I would but I have contemplated it. I am so small and shriveled up now...sigh....
We brought our neighbors some flowers and a card last night. It feels like kind of an empty gesture since it's like, of course flowers aren't going to bring their son back, but there's really not much we can do. It must be extra hard for them since this has been one of the big local news stories of the week, on the tv news and in the papers.
In weight-related news, I screwed up yesterday. I failed in Operation: No Seconds. I ended up having dinner really late, and I was really hungry, and after my first helping I did a mental calorie tally and decided I could have seconds. Well, turns out when I logged my calories today, that my dinner was more calories than I thought, and having seconds gave me an extra 400 calories, 200 over my goal range. There is a reason I had started Operation: No Seconds! I can't quit just because of a mental calorie tally! I'm annoyed with myself for it. At least I got a workout in though.
So sad about your neighbor's son. You have done the right thing, they know by your gesture of flowers that you are thinking of them. I am sure they appreciate the thought.
TGIF is all I can say. Yesterday was a really stressful day at work. Then BF was on a friend's boat that sunk - luckily they were near shore and saved the boat and no one was hurt, but if they had been far from land this would have been very serious. And then he was acting upset with me last night - I knew he was just projecting from the boat incident but it made me more upset. After all that I went over to my friend's to watch the big football game and am trying to be proud of myself for not eating the pizza, wings, cookies, pie, or drinking the alcohol that she had.
I hope to clean my house and exercise a lot this weekend. That way I can work off a lot of frustration, and hopefully work off a lot of calories too. I'm going to a lecture tonight that should be interesting and my beer club is going to get together tomorrow night to brew beer and grill steaks.
Jessica, today is a new day - restart your operation! How terrible about your neighbor's son.
Shannon, I'm sure you will get plenty of exercise before your surgery. Good luck.
Fiber, have a wonderful trip!!! Enjoy it!
Lily, congrats on losing 3.5 lbs! That's awesome! Oh yeah, I need to take down my tree and lights too... add that to the list for this weekend.
Pat, oh my, I hope the cats stay away from the glue. I'm trying to send you vibes from Florida. I hope they get there.
Dagmar, I'm sorry to hear so much bad news about the dogs in your life. It's so hard to lose a pet.
Does anyone have any plans for the weekend? Have a great Friday all!
Michele - The weight loss in the girls was the last push over the edge for the surgery. I've always been small (32 Almost A - man, I hated Playtex Just My Size naming... Almost A, Nearly B, Perfectly C... used to beat up my self esteem as a teenager...) but I had gotten up to a 36 C as an adult. Now that I lost weight the girls are pretty much gone... last measure was a 32AAA. Though, since I put more weight training into my workout routine I think I'm a 34AAA now. Woo hoo. According to VS measuring, my boobs are actually negative numbers - the measurement around the top of the chest is less than the measured band size, hence the AAA. They look like those squishy stress balls after you have squeezed a hole in it and lost half the filling, they are uneven, they are all wrinkly, one weighs more than the other... Push up bras just aren't doing the job. I've always wanted pretty ones, so my Christmas bonus this year is getting them for me! With the economy the way it is I might not get a Christmas bonus next year, so I figure spend it on something I really want this year. Surgery is on 1/22 - two weeks from yesterday. I'm pretty nervous but also excited.
Jessica - today is a new day!
Megan - wow, how is BF doing today? I'm glad he is okay!
I have no plans for this weekend. My MIL has uterine cancer and was supposed to have a hysterectomy yesterday. When she went in for preop two weeks ago they found a lesion on her lung so she couldn't get released for surgery until after a biopsy. Her biopsy is today - we don't know if they are going to take a section of the lesion or remove the entire thing. The doctor said she could do either, depending on how the lesion looks once she gets in there. The weekend is likely to be hanging out with her.
We had my stepson last night and he got up 16 times last night... He went to bed at 9:15 smoothly, just like always. He started getting up at 10:30, then got up every 15-20 minutes all night long, except for a break from 2:45-4:30 when I hope he was sleeping. No sleep at all for son, daddy or Shannon. I'm pretty exhausted. Didn't exercise this morning, may or may not get in in this afternoon. I did come in under plan on food yesterday, so that was good, and I did 3 miles yesterday - walked for .5, was able to run for 2.5. I'm pretty excited about building up some distance.
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Shannon, good luck on your upcoming surgery. (I badly want and need to have it done myself!). I had planned on doing it in March with DH's work bonus, but looks like that extra money will be spent buying a car for one of our teenagers. Maybe I can call dibs on his June bonus though and get it done then.
Jessica, I'm sure your neighbors appreciated your thoughtful gesture.
Megan, glad your BF is OK. We've had our boat almost sink before (when I forgot to put the plug in!). Scary for sure! Oh and thanks about the congrat's on my weight loss. I'm still a little above goal but my jeans are already fitting better.
After my hard workout yesterday I forced myself to stay off my treadmill last night and let my muscles rest. I feel better today and just came from taking my dogs each for a long walk.
I did take down my huge Christmas tree last night and all the other stuff. My living rooms looks strangely must larger with everything now put away.
I've been reading a new book "The Serial Killer Files", luckily it isn't giving me nightmares. Lol, I've kept Molly and Lucy in my bedroom at night for protection.
My son's XGF stopped by out of the blue this morning. Mainly she was just trying to find out when he is coming home. Pretty uncomfortable though cause while she was here his new GF called me, LOL.
Thanks everyone for the well wishes for my neighbors.
Megan - OMG! His boat SANK! How scary! I'm glad your BF and the others on the boat are okay. WTG avoiding the junk food at your friend's house!
Shannon - I hope your MIL's biopsy goes okay. If it's not too personal a question, can I ask what size you are augmenting to? I'm on the other end of the pole -- I've been considering a breast reduction for years! My sister had a reduction several years ago and has been very happy with her results. I'm always interested to see what people consider their "ideal" size. I think if I have kids in the future, after I'm done having kids I might finally do the reduction.
Guess what? I did NOT have seconds at lunch today! You should have seen my thought process. I was like, I want more food. Which food would have the least calories? How many calories can I allow? I was in the middle of a meeting and I actually scribbled down my calorie count for the day in my notebook. Then I whacked myself on the head and said, "You screwed up yesterday by having seconds, everyone told you today is a new day, so DON'T screw up again!"
Don't even know what to say this week as I sit down to write my weekly entry. It has been an uneventful week except for one thing....I have now been "released" from my post-surgery exercise requirements. The doctor said everything looked good yesterday and said I could resume my exercising, etc. Five hours later, I was in Zumba class. It was fabulous! I love to dance and although I really didn't feel like exercising, I knew I would have to push myself back into my daily exercise program.
Today, the exercise commitment is not working so well though after supper I intend to go down and watch my recorded Biggest Loser program and walk on my treadmill. I love the program and it seems fitting to watch it while on the treadmill rather than while eating supper
I have kind of stuck to good eating this week. Much better than over the two weeks surrounding Christmas. That's for sure! Today was kind of rough. I'm not sure why all I wanted to do was eat this afternoon. Instead of getting into the cookies stashed in my son's room, though, I got up and made my low calorie cookies. I figured out the calories in them--only 40. However, since I've eaten 6 of them--that kind of negates the low cal cookie idea. I have kept track of all I eat still and have a yearly calendar where I write my exercise to show myself that I am (or am not) exercising each day.
Hope to go out this weekend and buy some Trax that many of you wrote about. I also am hoping for snow soon, so I can get my snowshoes on and get out there to enjoy the exercise. Further, I have a Wiifit that I bought almost 6 months ago to finally try out. Hope it's fun!
Well, guess this isn't my best posting, but I'm still hanging in and hoping that everyone else is too. Overall, in 5 weeks of post surgery recovery, I am up about 6 lbs higher than I'd like to be. With hard work and being stronger and smarter with my eating choices as I return to work full time on Monday, I should see that weight gain slowly disappear.
Stay warm, all!
Thanks for all the warm wishes for my MIL and for my upcoming surgery!
MIL's procedure today went well - she is at a family member's house resting now. The doctor thinks this long lesion is just scar tissue from repeated bouts of bronchitis, but is going to test it anyway to see. We have the follow-up on 1/26, so hopefully she will be released for the hysterectomy then. She is really afraid that the cancer is going to spread all over while we are waiting to get her released for surgery...
Lily - the implants are expensive, without the Christmas bonus I would have been saving for probably another 6-10 months before I could consider having the procedure done. I'm pretty excited. Nervous, but excited. A lot of people here have answered questions for me and given me some great advice. I'll keep you posted on how my process goes if you are interested. I should probably update my blog - that would be a good place to journal the whole thing... And, I ended up taking today off from exercise, too. I'm worn out and feeling stiff from not sleeping at all last night and thought exercising was just too much. I'm going to get back on track tomorrow. I wish I had a dog to walk! I tried to leash train my cat several years ago, but she just wasn't having it!
Jessica - I don't mind discussing the size question... It has been a hot issue for me since I decided to do this... I started out with much smaller thoughts than I've ended up with. I realized something about myself that I had a hard time with at first - I've never had large breasts and I wanted them. Now, not porn star, Pam Anderson breasts, by any means, but larger than I first figured on. I think I will end up either a full C or a small D. My plastic surgeon is very specific that he doesn't do work that comes out looking unnatural unless you specifically demand it. He thinks my frame can carry a small D and still look balanced, but says he might step down a little during surgery. I filled knee high panty hose with rice and instant mashed potatoes and made little simulated implants (found a website that gave the conversion for cups of rice to cc. of implant) in several different sizes and modeled them for myself with and without clothes. I know that the implants won't come out exactly like my little test boobies, but it gave me a good feel for how different sizes might look. I tried on my clothes with several different sizes on, and the one that equated to the small D was my favorite. I've been asking myself if that makes me vain and shallow. I've decided no. Though I fully expect to freak out for the first six months post implant, because everything I've read say that they look a lot bigger for the first several months... Good job on "Operation:No Seconds" at lunch today!
Goal - you'll be back where you want to be in no time!
I heard about this thread from BillBlueEyes on the Beck board. I'm in the process of losing and have found it very interesting and helpful to read (sorry for lurking) about the lives of maintainers!
I had subscribed to the thread but then stopped getting the notifications. Does anyone have a good way to subscribe to each new thread since it appears that they change each week? Over in 'Beck World' we keep the thread for a month and then Bill puts the next link in the last thread of the month. Am I missing that on this thread? Any ideas would be appreciated.
You all are a great inspiration and I am learning about what a key to success this part of dieting is. Seems like a no brainer but it's really not discussed enough.
Haven't posted for awhile, but I try to keep up by reading the posts. I'm doing ok with my diet these days, but I need to be better! I got off tract during the Holidays and i'm having a hard time getting back on. But my good eating habbits keep me from getting too far off, and i actually like to exercise. let me restate that. I miss how exercise makes me feel when I don't do it.
Jessica, I can't think of anything more horrible than losing a child. I know anything you do will be appreciated. Congratulations on the "no seconds" decision.
Lily, Those jeans will be loose again in no time!
Shannon, I hope your MIL is ok. I'm sure you are there with lots of support. Good luck with your surgery.
Megan, Your BF must have been really stressed out, with the boat sinking. Hope your planned weekend turns out great!
Goals, Glad everything is over and you are back to your old self. Take it easy on the exercising at first. Sounds like you're really ready to get in there and do a good work out.
Hi Freer and welcome to Maintainers! We start a new chat thread every Monday morning, so the easiest way to follow it is to subscribe to each week's thread. Or you could have your settings set to automatically subscribe to every thread you reply to (I like this option) and just join in our weekly discussions. We'd love to have your input!
I totally agree that maintenance is not something that's discussed enough. In fact, I'm becoming almost a fanatic about the subject. I just read -- and I'll have to pull out the source -- that the average National Weight Control Registry participant has lost 565 pounds in his/her dieting career (that number is about right for me).
Clearly most of us don't have a weight LOSS problem; we have a weight loss MAINTENANCE problem since a lot of us have lost the equivalent of several adults during our lifetimes. Why, why, why does the media focus on "quik, EZ, painless" weight loss? When the weight loss phase is just practice for the weight management skills that we will need to use every day for the rest of our lives??
Gosh, I've probably scared you away! Sorry, it's just that January 1 brings out all the newbies with good intentions and it breaks my heart to see them lose some weight, disappear, and then come back with even more weight to lose. There HAS to be a way to stop this destructive cycle but it's hard to get the message out.
Meg, I am going to get you a soapbox, you are so right about maintaining. I can't tell you how many times I have lost only to regain plus a few more. That is the problem I was concentrating on LOSING when I should have been concentrating on MAINTAINING!!! You cannot revert back to your old eating habits and expect to maintain your loss. You must change your mindset. When I first made my goal I asked those who had lost a lot of weight and maintained it for a significant perood of time how they did it. I was shocked to find out that you keep it off by doing the same thing that you did to lose it. What a revelation!!
There is a reason I had started Operation: No Seconds! I can't quit just because of a mental calorie tally! I'm annoyed with myself for it. At least I got a workout in though.
vibes from Florida. I hope they get there. 
According to VS measuring, my boobs are actually negative numbers - the measurement around the top of the chest is less than the measured band size, hence the AAA. They look like those squishy stress balls after you have squeezed a hole in it and lost half the filling, they are uneven, they are all wrinkly, one weighs more than the other... Push up bras just aren't doing the job. I've always wanted pretty ones, so my Christmas bonus this year is getting them for me! With the economy the way it is I might not get a Christmas bonus next year, so I figure spend it on something I really want this year. Surgery is on 1/22 - two weeks from yesterday. I'm pretty nervous but also excited. 
OMG! His boat SANK! How scary! I'm glad your BF and the others on the boat are okay. WTG avoiding the junk food at your friend's house!
If it's not too personal a question, can I ask what size you are augmenting to? I'm on the other end of the pole -- I've been considering a breast reduction for years! My sister had a reduction several years ago and has been very happy with her results. I'm always interested to see what people consider their "ideal" size. I think if I have kids in the future, after I'm done having kids I might finally do the reduction.
It was fabulous! I love to dance and although I really didn't feel like exercising, I knew I would have to push myself back into my daily exercise program. 
I just read -- and I'll have to pull out the source -- that the average National Weight Control Registry participant has lost 565 pounds in his/her dieting career (that number is about right for me). 
Sorry, it's just that January 1 brings out all the newbies with good intentions and it breaks my heart to see them lose some weight, disappear, and then come back with even more weight to lose. There HAS to be a way to stop this destructive cycle but it's hard to get the message out.
Dear President Obama,
