Faerie - i really wish i had your need to just "treadmill it." hahaha it would really probably fix my situation of NEVER HAVING THE MOTIVATION TO EXERCISE. harumph!

To be sure, when I was beginning I had to schedule in my exercise and force it. A lot more than I have to now. I've grown to enjoy it. But, omgoodness in the beginning it was like the treadmill was the plague! Keep at it, no matter what! You'll find something you enjoy doing!

keli - great attitude there! it's just a WI. I'm already having to prime myself with that mantra for my next WI... oatmeal is a fantastic breakfast, gotta love a warm meal first thing in the morning. And you know what's really good? Oatmeal cooked in almond milk :p It feels like everyone on this board has been trying the almond milk out, it's spreading like wildfire! :D

Heather - :hug: Sounds like a tough situation. I couldn't imagine being constantly reminded of an ex-fiance, that'd be so difficult. It sounds like you really were the better person there, and he's just being ungrateful and bothersome. And your sister... well, maybe she didn't realize what she was doing? Maybe she didn't realize that it would hurt you to hear him? :hug: Take care of yourself.

Faerie - I totally hear ya on the dropping adult responsibilities in favor of exercise. I would much prefer to go for a three hour hike tonight than sit around studying (slash preparing for a presentation tomorrow, eep!). I've been sticking around at lunch only long enough to finish eating, and then I politely bow out of the coworker huddle in order to walk around downtown and be alone with some music and get some exercise/air. It's nice to be alone sometimes, and it feels way better to be moving than to be gossiping anyway! And your dinner sounds yummy, actually, those are all such fantastic foods!!


Well, as I posted in the planning thread, my dinner last night was a bust. It was very strange, I'm not sure what got into me (well, ultimately half the fridge did). I've obviously got some things going on I'm trying to eat my way out of. Bleh. But, I never once fooled myself into thinking that emotional eating can just be 'turned off' once you know better... I know I'm gonna be dealing with this response for a long time so I have to learn to get a handle on it. So it goes. If it takes me a month to lose two pounds, so be it, I can wait :)

So I'm really excited... I haven't been to any concerts in AGES, and the couple that I've been to in the last few years have been few and far between. I love concerts and I miss them, but I don't tend to have money/time or the people I like don't tend to come near me. But I just finished purchasing tickets to two shows coming up, Colin Meloy (of the Decemberists, if anyone knows them) and Iron & Wine, and there's another one in the summer that I will have to cough up the money for because it's R.E.M., who are pretty much my favorite people ever (I've already seen them twice), and Modest Mouse is opening for them (who I also enjoy). It's like concert-topia over here for me right now :D The two small ones coming up were cheap and are local but the REM one is at a fancy amphitheater and tix are pricey AND it's a three hour drive on a Wednesday night, but it's totally gonna be worth it. So excited! So that's my little off-topic spew I just wanted to throw in there for something non-WL related :)

Hope everyone is enjoying their Tuesdays, tomorrow = the week's half over! :D

Suite - First off, what a gorgeous new avatar picture! :D And secondly, I <3 the Decemberists! Those two concerts sound like so much fun, how exciting ^.^ You keep on working on the emotional eating :hug: It'll be less frequent as you go on. It's fantastic that you're very straight-forward about it. I don't know if I could be that strong.

Well, the WI came and went, Got 4.4 of those dang pounds off, still have 2 hangers-on, but I'm blaming them on TOM (bleep). But, as I was saying to DH as we walked I feel like I'm coming around the corner on feeling normal again. :D Sounds funny, but between cold/cough, FL trip, lingering cold/cough, AZ trip, TOM, I'm like ENUFF already!!

I can feel things are getting better though, had an NSV, you guys'll laugh at this one, but it sure got me motivated. When we were walking out, the sun was at our back and coming up the hill I noticed my shadow, and it looked great!! It curved in and out where it was supposed to :D Anyhow, we walked out further than we had since we got back and jogged up the hill (killer) but it felt great.

The recurring theme here is exercise is great, Faerie says, Suite says, now Kelijpa says it!

Maybe Heather should take a walk or maybe it sounds like some kickboxing might be in order...stay strong, girl, stay strong!

Suite, great pic, what a smile!

And Faerie, my office is definitely dysfunctional, I think there's alot of that around :D I'm so glad it got halfway nice, today I walked outside, my walking buddies kind of disappeared, they all got diff. jobs, one's further away, one gives classes sometimes so she's off and on, the other has tons of meetings, so anyway, I'm walking by myself mostly, which I hate to do inside, but love to do outside, so I guess I'm a little weird myself :D but I love me anyway :D

Best to all, thanks for your support!!
:sunny:

Aw, shucks, you guys are sweet :D Thanks for the compliments on the photo. It's actually from a couple years ago when I was in Italy and I feel like I looked way younger... the past three years have aged me! :lol: I also only have about five pounds to go til I'm back at the weight in my picture again, yay!

And Faerie & Heather - woo, Decemberists! It's funny, I've never met anyone who likes them. People can start to like them after I make them listen for a while, but I've yet to meet someone who has even heard of them before meeting me. And here are two of you! :D

Keli - woo! that travel weight is dropping right off. Looks like you could use a little break from the colds and the travel, huh? :lol: And hurray that your shadow is looking svelte! :D

Heather - That's kind of how I feel about my slightly-under days right now. Since I ate so freakin' much this weekend, coming in under by three or four points for a couple days isn't the end of the world, but I'd still rather be at my base target. I guess this sort of thing happens. As long as the under-eating isn't a habit I think it's okay. WTG on recognizing that you only needed a half a serving! You've mastered your chocolate-related impulse control! :D And I love your new avatar too, too funny! Do you have one of those cameras which can select a color, or do you do that in photoshop after?


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Well, not much new to contribute today. I had 15 points left by the time dinner rolled around, and I made this big ol' pizza with roasted red peppers, spinach, red onion, and fresh grated parm... It was soo yummy, and a huge hunk of it was 5 points (the points all came from the crust and the cheese). I had two pieces and thought about having three to finish eating my points, but I really didn't feel like over-eating just to reach my base target. Yesterday was a lesson in "jaime needs to learn to spread her points better throughout the day." I've got today all planned out and will be right on target tonight.

I have a can of the Progresso light soup (the 0 point one) for lunch today. Anybody try them yet? I haven't but picked up a can a couple shopping trips ago. Will use it to accompany my leftover pizza. I'm just wondering how it will taste... I mean, I can make really yummy low-point food but I'm not sure I trust the food industry to master the art! :lol:

Have a happy Wednesday everyone.

Wednesdays ~ Hump day of the week!

Keli - I'm so happy for you! Those travel pounds are just melting off! Keep hanging on!!!! They'll be completely gone & then some sooo soon! :dance: And I've totally done that shadow-thing, too!!!! :lol3:

Heather - I love your cute new avatars all the time! This might be my nerd showing, but Neurology sounds like SO MUCH FUN! On a side note... I whisper things to myself. -_- Oh boy, I just look crazier and crazier :lol: And success for you! For only needing half of that serving to curb your cravings! :carrot:

Suite - Okay gal... please tell me how you went about making that delicious sounding pizza... my fiancé and I enjoy making our own with dough from the store, but I'm wondering if you started from scratch. And only 5 points? Yeah. Definitely need to know. Those Progresso soups are pretty okay, a little salty, but what soup from a can isn't. They're a standard can soup, nothing I'd ask for as my last meal. However, they make up for that being low point & convenient. Oh! But important note points-wise. They're not 0 points for the whole can! (Just an FYI in case!) They kind of are tricksy about that. It's 0 points per serving and yep that's right... two servings per can. And we all know that 0 + 0 does not = 0 on WW. I believe most of them are actually 2 points for the entire can. I wish they wouldn't advertise as "0". *sigh* Oh well, we can do anything about that can we?

Heather/Suite - Don't worry too much about being a little under for a few days in a row. I've done the same. Don't make it into crazy habits though or I'd have to worry about you both! :stress: :hug: :hug:

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Nothing of note to report :) Just hoping everyone has a very pleasant day!

Good morning Flexers,

Jaime, love the new avatar!! I missed whatever you posted about overeating this weekend, and emotional eating, but I can tell you that I am likely struggling with the same! Monday night through yesterday were not pretty on the eating front (goodbye flex points), but today feels better so far...

Heather -- that is crap about the boyfriend situation, I'm really sorry about that. He does not sound like a winner.

Kel -- I love your WI attitude. Forget the scale!

Faerie -- I am definitely an outcast at work. I'm pretty sure of it, and there are only like 4 people who work in my office, AND I'm just a lowly intern, so it's a rough environment for me. And you know, I'm actually a pretty normal person in other places...
Thanks for responding to my post and NOT giving me permission to just shirk the planning for the week. Cuz that's kinda what I was looking for...

As for me, I am totally struggling these days, as I posted in another thread. I ate all my Flex points for the week (WI is Monday and they were digested by Tues night). That is discouraging, as I have a reunion this weekend and will be partying both Fri and Sat night, as well as boyfriend's bday which we are celebrating tonight. I am destined to go off plan this week, but I still want to make the best choices that I can, even if I give myself some treats too (mostly in the form of wine).
I'm going to the gym in a few, and I hope that starts my day off right.

S

Faerie - Yeah, I knew the whole thing wasn't 0... don't you think it's odd that it jumps from 0 to 2 though? :lol: Man. They must have just slid under one point if doubling it made it 2. I guess that has to do with the cap on countable fiber grams... Oh well, it's sustenance and I had a coupon! :p

As for the pizza, the dough was just canned store-bought stuff. Not industrious enough to make my own just yet. It was the Pillsbury refrigerated roll-out kind, and it's not too bad. Comes to 3 pts for 1/6th of it, and 1/6th of the pizza it makes is a really sizable chunk! As for the cheese I had 1/2c lf shredded cheddar and 1/2c fresh grated parm. I think it would take it down to 4 pts if you just used 1c shredded lf whatever instead of the parm, but I just love me some fresh grated parm :) I guess this isn't a whole lot of cheese if you're looking for a more store-bought pizza feel but I'm not huge on cheese so this is perfect for me! :) Other than that I dumped a ton of minced garlic atop the pre-baked crust, sprinkled basil and oregano over that, added the veg toppings, then topped with cheese and baked another 5ish minutes. (I also don't care much for tomato sauce, hence the lack of it!)

Sonja - Yeah, sounds like we were in just about the same place the last few days. Just gotta do what you can do keep on track until next week, and even if you go over with your celebrations this weekend, oh well! Life happens, and WW is all about allowing for that. It's okay if you don't lose this week, it's okay if you gain some. The important thing is to keep moving forward, and not let a small week-long set back throw you off course permanently, you know?

Heather -- you're not strange! everyone loves thinking about how the brain works! i was a psych major in undergrad, definitely toyed with the idea of neurology but ultimately decided I couldn't handle the nitty gritty science. Now I'm a psych grad student...hopefully I will one day be Dr also but not in the medical sense! Good luck!!

S

You all are so Awesome!
 

I'm so glad I found this place. Suite, agree with all, Love your picture, WTG keli :carrot: shrinkinglizzy, same here, good luck for the rest of your week. Yeah I had no problem using my FP this week, too late now to worry about it. Tomorrow will tell :dizzy:, just how much of a problem it was.

Hope you all enjoy the rest of your day.

So verdict on the Progresso "0 pt" soup is a resounding BLEH. Talk about salty! I totally could have made a better vegetable-barley soup. I still ate it because, well, it was my lunch, but it did make my stomach feel kind of unhappy afterwards. I guess I better stick to the stuff I make. :/

institches - thanks :) good luck with your WI tomorrow!

Thursday
 

W00t Thursday! :carrot:

Lizzy - You'll have to keep us updated on how this week goes. All the healthier choices that you'll be making this weekend and whatnot :yes:

Suite - Thanks for telling me about the pizza. You seem to have this natural cooking flair. And sorry the soup didn't go over too well. It's more for convenience than taste.

Heather - I've often thought about how the brain works. They went over it slightly in a Psych class I took, but... well we really don't know a lot about it. Mysterious brains. And I like playing around in photoshop a little bit, too. Actually... this is sad, but my co-workers and I are a bit of MS Paint fiends. We make stupid things in paint and send them to eachother all day... Hope work for you was alright last night!

Institches - Best of luck on that WI!

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Wahooo vacation day tomorrow & Monday! This weekend is going to be a little busy :dizzy: Tomorrow I'm going to get some chores done/relax. Saturday I'll be going to visit one of the bed & breakfasts that could potentially host our wedding, and then another one on Sunday. (Possibly two on Saturday, but I'm waiting for a response.) Then next weekend we're hoping to see the final place we'd like to look at. But, Monday... I dunno what I'm doing yet. I think I should clean my room. :p :lol:

Gotta finish up a bunch of work today so that there aren't any problems while I'm out tomorrow & Monday.

So weight loss related. I swear... I'm ALWAYS up a number of pounds on my weigh in day. :lol: sigh... Here's the deal, I'm not immune to doing morning weigh-ins, so yesterday morning I was 243 (remember this is nekkid & in the morning, not my WW weigh-in), this morning I was 246.2. :rolleyes: I'm not too down about it, I mean, I know I didn't "gain" 3.2 pounds in one day. I did have a larger than usual salty meal last night, and although I got my required water in, I usually drink a cup or two more... I have a feeling it's a lot of water weight. But on my WI day? >_< It's okay, because while I do follow the WW scale, the one that I'm going to ultimately be accountable to is the one at home (when I get down to closer to my ultimate goal... because it doesn't matter what you weigh when you're in clothes) The other possibility is that I should take off that one point that I had held onto while experimenting.

Hrm.. Then my plan is as follows. Get in my usual water intake today. Take that one point off for the weight loss. Follow the Wendie Plan as usual for the week. :yes: Sounds good to me. After tonight, I'll reaccess next week.

Ahh... it's neverending isn't it? :^:

Anyway, I hope everyone has a beautiful morning, and a lovely evening. I'll be sure to let you all know how the WI goes!

heather - i LOVE when people do that with their pictures. make it black and white but just one thing popping in color. wish i could figure all that good stuff out.. HAHA.

vent for the day. or just my mind splattering words to my fingers rather - i can't WAIT til saturday. i am feeling discouraged by this week. i know i said in another thread that i didn't do well this weekend but i'm staying OP for the rest of the week and doing well. well UGH i've been OP for the most part (except going over a little last night going out to eat with my mom - we never do i couldn't pass it up - and i wanted to splurge a little in celebration - but i did alright if i would have had those flex pts to back me i would have been celebrating how well i did). but whenever i do bad i start to OBSESSIVELY weigh myself every day just to see if that weight that crept up has crept back down. and i don't know why but i feel like every day it creeps up more. and i KNOW it's just dumb daily fluctuations and i vowed not to weigh myself any more until weigh-in on saturday but it effected my mood/attitude. i say i can't wait til saturday cause i just wanna start a fresh week with my fps and plan!! i feel SO SO SO much better when that happens. i hate being discouraged cause i think on top of it all it makes me emotionally eat - though i'm doing ok.

ok.. that's all i have to say about that. no more weighing til saturday and keep in mind that its a new week and no matter what the scale says i am starting fresh... i just helped myself i suppose. haha.

:)

Hope - You step away from that scale! Hide it! Anything to keep away. :hug: Don't let it get you down. You're doing VERY well.

Do over Please
 

Hi Everybody,
Is is possible to feel like you weigh less, but that dopey scale doesn't agree with how you feel! :dizzy: I'm up 1lb, not a big gain, but still it's a gain. Now last week I was sick, and very surprised that I had a loss, that's with not eating for days, maybe this is a temporary gain, and now that I'm back on track, next week will be better.
I plan to stay on the Wendie Plan, need to give it one more week before I try to fine tune it. I would love to know how to handle my AP, since on the Wendie Plan, one article I read is to only use 1/2 of any pts, over 4 on low days, but on your, SHD you don't use any, unless you are hungry. Hear me out, can you actually exercise too much? Do you defeat all your hard work, by eating back all the calories that you just burned off. Or maybe I need to switch up my routine, instead of exercising when I get home in the morning, drag my butt out of bed before I go to work, and exercise!

Faerie and Suite, good luck on your WI.

Heather, very nice to meet you, and Hi to all the others that I haven't talked to yet.

Suite-Sorry the soup didn't work out for you, but I also think your pizza sounds very yummy, always looking for something new to try-thanks

Faerie, I do hope you enjoy your mental health days, and have a wonderful weekend, so exciting planning a wedding, my daughter is getting married this July, which is of course, exciting, but also very stressful, I've put off looking for a dress, which my daughter is now catching on to, because next Saturday, "we are going dress shopping" talk about a fun filled day.

Well I get to start over fresh tomorrow-Hope everyone has a wonderful day :hug:

hey girls,
i have GOT to get my paper done but look, i'm posting instead, what a surprise.
also got a call from my bank that my account is overdrawn due to a stupid mistake on my part...tried doing the online payments and accidentally had the $$ taken from an old account that I never use. So I gotta take care of that, too. but look, i'm posting instead...i am a 3FC junkie.

heather -- honestly, my understanding of neurology vs neuropsych vs psychology is pretty much to say that it doesn't matter. What I've come to understand about academia is that it is all a mish mash and the real academics study whatever interests them, they do research with other academics, and by necessity they pick a label but it doesn't seem to matter what that label is. For example, I had a prof in undergrad for a physical anthropology class who I've since heard on the radio and on various TV shows. They all introduce her as an anthropologist. However, she has made a name for herself by studying how love effects the brain...sounds pretty neuropsychological to me! There are always always crossovers. I'm sure that longwinded explanation does nothing to help you pick a career path, but in the end, you'll do what you like. Just, if you decide you want to open people's heads up so you can fiddle with their gray matter, you're gonna need to go to med school. If you want to open up heads of dead people or mice, you'll do fine with a phd, but i'm sure med school is helpful if you're not scared of math like I am.
Phew.
i'll gladly talk more if you want, just PM me.
i have got to get moving...thanks again to all encouraging me through the bingeys...
S

I'm a 3FC junkie too...I'm addicted!

Heather - My friend has a camera with some kind of fancy color select feature that will actually take the photo in black and white and one color. It's pretty crazy. If someone has $500 laying around and really loves you, they can buy that for you and it'll save you the trouble of photoshopping! :lol: Sounds like you know what to do to make your next WI great, sorry this one didn't go so well but I guess it happens! :)

Faerie - Have fun on your days off and trips to the B&Bs! I'll be sure not to worry too much when I don't see you around the forums. Boy would I love to spend my weekend touring B&Bs :lol: Boo for your WI weight being higher than your morning weight! Then again, maybe you were wearing particularly heavy pants? Oh well, at least you have that home scale for validation that you haven't randomly put on weight. You know you're doing everything right, of course, and that always helps!!

ifindhope - Hey, good job keeping the eating under control when you went out to dinner! You should totally be celebrating that success independent of the fact that you've used your FPs this week already. I'm totally with you on the wanting WI to come and go so I can start a new week... I feel like I'm swimming against the current right now and would much rather be sitting here with a nice FP cushion :p

Institches - I think people generally see a loss then a gain after being sick - because you're not eating a lot when sick, then you eat normally and some water weight gets stuck back on. So I wouldn't worry too much about it, sounds like you're taking it in stride too! As for APs - I'd go with what the article said, only eat your APs on high days if you're hungry, but aim to use at least a couple on low days. And no, you don't defeat your hard work by eating back your exercise calories. This is why the old calories in vs calories out formula is flawed in particular - exercise does far more for you than burn x number of calories while you're working out. It increases your metabolism and builds muscle, which in the long run increases your metabolism too! So even if you eat back your exercise calories you're still improving your general health and your body's ability to metabolize food.

sonja - boo, I hate banks! I especially hate accidental overdrafts, as instead of being understanding about it they're usually like 'well, you don't have enough money, so I'm going to charge you $35.' and you end up even further in the red :/ I HATE that.

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So today instead of doing work I've been obsessed with reloading woot.com -- has anyone heard of it? It's pretty much just deals on tech stuff and gadgets and fun things like that. Usually it's just one deal per day, they literally only sell one thing each day, but today it's a "woot-off" which means they sell one thing at a time until it's sold out. It's kind of exciting :p Okay, I'm a huge nerd. But it's been fun watching it. Of course the one time I find something I want to buy it sells out before I can click the button. Oh well, more money in my bank account!

I think that Progresso soup I ate yesterday had some... er... unpleasant consequences in store for me today. I'm feeling rather... long-winded. Full of hot air. ;) You know what I mean. I didn't eat anything else yesterday that was new to me, nothing that i haven't eaten a million times before, so I'm gonna assume something in that soup made me bloaty and whatnot. Bleh. Hopefully it goes away.

Hope everyone has a good Thursday. Sure do wish tomorrow was Saturday. :p

Friday! :D
 

Happy Friday all! :broc:

Institches/Heather - I gained a pound this week, too >_< Gosh darned scale. Oh well, we keep on going, right? Right!

Institches - Personally, I dont use my AP. I just never have. This is different from the FP that I'm now "indulging" in. Using my AP always felt like eating back my work. FP feel different since they're not really based upon what I do. I just get them, and don't feel so guilty using them (anymore).

Lizzy - How much time do I spend on 3FC when I should be doing other things? Oh... like working :lol: I'm an addict, too! I hope you get that situation worked out with the bank right quick. :hug:

Heather - What beautiful work on that photo of Hope! (And I love green so that doesn't hurt! ^.^)

Suite - I have never heard of that place, and I must now investigate! (BTW - do you like ThinkGeek? ^^) I hope the bloatiness & uh... delicate whatnot passes.. (oh boy passes...) soon!

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Let's see... woke up at 11:30, took a nice walk for some exercise, bought a couple of Powerball lotto tickets (so that I can become a millionaire) and ate a wonderful breakfast. Breakfast consisted of Fiber One cereal (I can't get enough of this yummy stuff!), almond milk (I'm now addicted), banana, hard-boiled egg, fage yogurt & agave sweetener. 11 points out of 35. 24 points for the rest of the evening? I think I can handle that. ;)

So, lotto. I'm sure you guys have thought about what you'd do with like... 100 million dollars. So what would you do with it?

Hrm. I think that I'd take it in a lump sum... but! I'd go and invest most of it right away with a good financial planner. Then I'd live off the interest like real rich people do! :D (Oh yeah, I have it all planned out!) Can't forget charities though. Actually I think I'd pick a local food shelter or several related ones and make sure that they have enough food and well... shelter for people who need it.

But, I'd totally buy myself a nice house in the woods with some of it. I don't think I'd get a new car, strangely enough.. but I'm not a big car person. Oh oh! And after I got my house & got settled in I'd pay to go back to school right away! :carrot:

Enough fantasy ^^ I hope you all are having a wonderful day!!!!

heather - omigosh that was so nice of you!! thanks so much!! :) new avatar.

i know i already posted once in this thread complaining away but i'm having a really rough emotionally bingey week and really trying my hardest not to emotionally eat. just life and work and a friend and stuff just getting me down. blah. mostly the friend and it's stuff i really shouldn't be upset about i should be happy for her.. but it's things that are getting taken away from our relationship to work on anothers... just really bumming me out. basically her boyfriend just bought a house and she's planning on moving in there with him. which is cool i'm happy for her an all .. but she's there 24/7 working on it... and currently she decided she needs to save all her money, so things we used to do together she has decided we can't do anymore (getting our nails done, shopping, going out to dinner together, etc) to put all her money into buying stuff for this house/still doing things with him/new friends she has to have money for. it's just getting me really down in the dumps. and i really really want to be happy for her and support her but ugly emotions are getting the best of me (and making me eat on top of it). just a lot of stuff... blah. it's a longer story than i put here... but this isn't my journal i'm not gonna blab much about it.

i decided to change my weigh-in day to monday again. i had that originally but changed it to saturday for this above said friend so we could have the same day cause she wanted to change it cause she felt she ate more on the weekends and BLAH BLAH but now she's not even doing it anymore (cause she says she can't afford food and has to spend too much time on this house BLAH BLAH BLAHHHHHHHH) so she's basically not on board with me anymore, which also i think has made me fall off a little. but i want to start fresh. i feel like i do so much better starting on a monday to me it seems so much more like a fresh start and it's really motivating to me. and i really just need to move past this and focus on being happy for her and stop feeling bad for myself. and to stop feeling bad for myself i have to do something GOOD for myself right? which is sticking with this plan and really feeling good about myself.

here's to motivation, determination, and GOOD emotions!

Hope - You can most certainly talk about it if you'd like. I look at this area as a place to talk about a few more things than just weight loss & only weight loss, because SO MUCH more than just what we eat affects us.

You miss your time with your friend. You miss doing the things you're used to doing with her. That's rough! It feels like she skipping out on you a little, because her life has changed a bit. Don't let this little friendship bump keep you from remaining good friends. You must accept that the friendship will have a change a bit as you both change. So. First things first, tell her how you feel! You don't have to get all sobby or anything, but let her know that you're really happy her stuff is all coming together, but that you miss her. Then, offer a solution. How about you two hang out at one of your places & watch a rented or Netflix movie? You could snack on popcorn (low points! woohoo!) and just chat for a few. I like to Netflix series with my friends that we watch and can gossip about. There are things you can do that don't require a lot of money, you can just BE together (even if it means you're together a little less often, at least the quality is still there :)). Accept the way that you feel about it, though. Pushing it down (with food and whatnot) only makes it worse. :hug:

I'm so happy to hear that you're continuing on even though your one friend decided to stop. This is for you afterall! It might be tough, but keep on going. You've come way too far to stop now :D

Happy Friday to all ;)

Yeah that darn scale, Heather/Faerie Sorry, makes me think of a funny story, not sure if any can relate, but there are two nice ladies at my ww class that need to strip down to as little as possible without being naked, Maybe that would of helped...:o Well can't fix yesterday, only can worry about today.

Faerie sounds like a wonderful start to a beautiful weekend ahead, Enjoy!!

Hey, I also think about what I would do with the loot!! First, take care of the family, donate alot, maybe a cruise, then my dream is to open a Counted Cross Stitch/Framing Shoppe......oh to dream

Faerie/Suite, thanks for your input on the AP, I'm not sure if eating back all those points is helping me, I'm going to try not to eat them all, I will use my FP, as needed, Fridays are kinda tough, since I'm up so long, my day starts at 9pm, Thursday, and I stay up as long as I can on Fridays, usually pass out by 8pm, but the reason I did ask is, I was thinking it takes 3500 calories to lose a pound, what if I exercise half of what I need to acheive that goal. That's my challenge to myself this week. Did my killer Turbo Jam workout, and enjoyed a 30min power walk, so hope the rest of week goes as well.

Hope everyone has a great friday :carrot:

Tarah - :hug: I'm sorry to hear you're having a tough time with your friend. That can be really stressful when you feel you've been put on a back burner by a close friend. I definitely second Faerie's suggestions about finding something low-budget to do with her. And if you feel you need to go 'do' something, a single game of bowling is pretty cheap :) But watching movies, especially ones you've seen before, is a great way to cheaply spend time with people. You can laugh at the movie and talk through it without missing anything. Definitely tell her how you feel, though, or it might spiral downwards and end up out of control, you know? Maybe she doesn't realize that you feel like she's leaving you out of her life all the sudden. Just make sure you stress that you're happy for her in her new life changes and stuff, but that you would like to remain a part of her life regardless where she lives and how much money she has.

Faerie - Oooh, ThinkGeek has such fun stuff. I've never ordered from them but a lot of their products are pretty awesome. I particularly love the tshirts they come up with ... like the one they have now, "OMG Pwnies"... :lol: I think I saw an alarm clock there once than runs away from you when you go try to turn it off, so you have to get out of bed... :lol: Oh that site cracks me up.

Let's see, if I won the lottery... I'd definitely start out with a couple of charitable causes (I have no idea what, though...). Invest. Buy a house. Start college funds for my friends' kids. I'd love to own a B&B or even a small restaurant, so I'd probably do that. Oh, I don't know, there are just too many possibilities! Hard to think of having that much money when I'm sitting here just scraping by, you know? :)

Institches - Remember that it's not necessary to exercise up to that 3500 cal deficit for one pound - you're burning cals all the time with your BMR, that combined with calorie intake restriction (aka diet) takes care of a good portion! Just don't want you to feel like you have to exercise yourself to death! :)


Woot-off still going on. I'm glued to my computer, waiting for something good. I picked up a nifty tool for my dad that I'll squirrel away til Father's day, and I picked up a 5lb bag of pistachios for me. Yes, 5lbs of pistachios. I freakin' love pistachios :lol: It was an incredible deal, and you know how expensive nuts can be... Oh I'm such a nerd. But if you think about it 49 pistachios feels like more food than 23 almonds (both of which = 1 oz or 4pts). So it's a good thing :)

Every time I swallow it feels like there's fiberglass in my throat. Boy I feel like a bag of medical maladies lately... I hope I'm not getting sick. I haven't been sick in about 9 months and I was really happy with that... Until today, since I now think I'm about to get a cold (they always start like this). Time will tell. I wonder if having a cold would affect one's WI? Like, does the cold virus make you hold water? Kind of irrelevant since it'd just come back off. I'm rambling anyway, I probably should leave everyone to enjoy their Fridays.

:)

Jamie -- my secret potions when I'm starting to get sick are Airborme (I don't care who says what about whether or not it works, I think it works!) and LOTS of hot water steeped with garlic, ginger, lemon, and honey. It usually knocks the cold right outta me before it can flourish into something big and yucky.

Tarah -- I'm so sorry to hear about your troubles, and I totally hear that you are tempted to eat away the bad feelings. I may be wrong, but I don't think it will help. Keep posting here -- we want to hang out with you! And I'm not buying a house! I've got NOTHING but time!!

Faerie -- hope your B&B weekend is as great as it sounds like it would be!

My weekend was as off-plan as I'd expected, but not bingey, so that's good. I think I'll be OK to hop back on the wagon today (though the half-eaten pizza from last night is dangerously close to me right now). At any rate, it was a VERY fun weekend that I had been SO nervous for -- a reunion of a youth group I was part of in high school. I was so so so scared to have my adolescent insecurities come roaring back (being part of the "cool crowd" was always VERY important to me, but even though I was, I never really felt like I belonged...) but I realized a few hours before the event that these were people I LIKED! So why was I so nervous?? And then when I got there, it was just really fun. Overwhelming, but fun. This mixed in with all the crap I'm going through at home (broke up with boyfriend but still living together) and the potential that I might move to NY (where a lot of these people live) meant a lot of support for me and a lot of "I'll be looking for a roommate, wanna move in with me?" conversations.
So, despite too much wine and vodka and not enough food last night, I'm feeling pretty good today. And vowing my own personal Prohibition for the next week, at least...
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SOOO...I must confess my Super High Day on the Wendie plan yesterday was REALLY a super high day! I was suppossed to eat 44 points, and instead I ate 60!!! I made an excuse of "well this is my first week on wendie and I haven't used any of the week's flex points". It was just bad planning/giving in to temptation. We went to CPK and I ate 4 pieces instead of my planned 3. So, that was the end of all my points. But I was SUPER craving sugar because of TOM so I ate a 1/2 cup of ice cream when I got home. So that put me to 47 points. Then my friend/roommate wanted to go out and we hardly EVER go out anymore because he has a new boyfriend. So I drank 2 vodka cranberries which I am counting as 8 points (3 shots and 2 pts cranberry juice). Then when I got home I wasn't even hungry, but I was buzzed, so I ate a bowl of cereal. And there ya go...60 points!

If I would have done yesterday better, I would have eaten only the planned 3 pieces of pizza, eaten an apple, and had one drink. I would have been at 44 with that.


Next super high day, I WILL do better. This was my first super high day, so I thought "man, 44 points! I can eat anything". I was wrong. haha.
I will definitely plan better next time.

My first weigh in on the wendie plan didn't give me extreme results like I have been reading. I only lost .4 of a pound. I was only doing wendie for half of this week though. Next weigh in, we will see!

hope you're absolutely right, you have to take care of yourself first. We're always putting ourselves to the rear and it often ends up on our rears :D Friend things are tough sometimes, all my walking partners deserted me @ work, new jobs and busier, it stinks. I hate walking inside by myself, I can't wait for the nice weather... I'm sure I've written this a zillion times, but...like you said blah, blah, blah...

Anyway, Tues. has always been a good WI day for me, when we had @Work it was Thurs. and I struggled, if you've found Mon. helps your success, stick with it, you'll make new friends at your meeting and maybe won't miss "old friend" quite so much. I grab onto whatever seems to be working and stick with it!

Faerie I hope your B&B weekend went well, sounds fun, especially the day off with nothing planned. I got my certificate from my class in AZ, I passed!! So I guess it was worth the WI woes it caused me :D We gotta just keep truckin' through those ups and downs.

Suite hope you can fight that cold off, I agree with the tea with honey and lemon, also a guy I work with swears by Airborne like Shrink said, even though he's the one who told me that they say it doesn't work and you can get $$ back from somewhere... when I'm sick I totally go into denial, I will not admit I'm sick until I'm stuck in bed, I have had good results the last 2 times I was sick with that mucenix, or whatever the name is, I use the store brand, but it seems to knock it out pretty quick...and that soup thing...I've had that reaction myself, it doesn't sound like you're going to miss that soup anyway! :D

Shrink sounds like you're back on track, I agree with you planned overages are not bingeys. People look at me like I'm crazy now if I have a donut or something, but hey, I occassionally know what I'm doing :D

stitches I like the idea of x-stitch shop, I haven't done any in awhile, but want to get back to it. Maybe I'll do a little one and that'll get me back in the swing. It's good for keeping your paws out of the snacks, can't be having cheeto fingers when you're stitching :D

Vday that sounds like a learning experience I've had too many times, counting up after and the points keep adding up....I do better if I'm keeping track even if I'm over, so it's good you're doing that and moving on...went to NYC on a bus trip Sat. and thought I did really well, until I got home and DH had 2 pieces of pizza left, so before I took my Mom back to her house, there we are eating those 2 pieces of pizza and had no excuse of being buzzed, just for some reason I said I'm eating that....dang it....so then I'm supposed to be good today and well, my APs and FPs are long gone....

well, Tuesday's coming and like ev1 else, I'm looking forward to a fresh start. I have high hopes for April, Easter's past so that challenge is over, nobody's birthday or anniversary...anywho, I've rambled on enough, thanks for listening all and thanks for being here :D

best to all :sunny:

Sonja & keli - thanks for the words on the sickness thing, I think it abated - drank lots of water and some tea with lemon, honey, and brandy :p that kicks the sore throat right out! I have a bottle of airborne at home but I haven't yet opened it. I keep forgetting about it :p

Sonja - Good to hear your weekend went well! There's so much more to life than eating, as I'm sure you know, and this weekend was one of those times for you. Glad to hear you had fun with your high school friends.

vdaybaby - let me just say WOW! are you gorgeous! I love the new avatar! As for your FPs, it happens. Pick yourself up and move forward - though I'd adjust the rest of the week's points down so you don't exceed your FPs for the week (so lower your remaining high days). And get in some activity. You'll be okay :) And yeah, that temptation to eat just about anything on your super high day is strong, huh? Be sure to give it a couple weeks before you decide what to do!

keli - Yep, we seem to be free and clear of challenges for a little while! I think the break from holidays lasts til Memorial Day. (Not to say we won't have our own personal challenges between now and then - I for one have an oral exam and a graduation between now and then, so eek!)


Seems quiet around here this weekend/today! Hope no one minds that I started up the April weigh in thread a day early, wanted to make sure it was up for you Tuesday weighers.

Saturday I got to go out to dinner with my dad & stepmother, they came into town for some apple cider thing (they make hard cider, there was some related event down here where I am so they traveled the hour and a half to come down) and took me and DH out. They like eating at fancy places which is nice because we never when we go out ourselves! We went to this really cool mediterranean place and they had a bellydancer come in to entertain :) The food was really simple and really delicious, I had saffron chicken with basmati rice and some sauteed vegetables and it was just awesome! Even estimating high for what I ate I still only spent 10 FPs on it (and that's with a couple glasses of really good wine, too), which is perfect since my saturdays are typically my high days anyway.

One of my friends is really aggrivating me right now. She wants to go to Panera tonight to do some work and have dinner. I told her I had dinner planned for at home, and she said fine, we can go after dinner. I tried explaining to her that I just don't work well in public places like that, especially when I'm reading something I really need to focus on, and with two weeks to my orals I don't have the time to waste by sitting around waiting for my brain to focus at a Panera when I know I can turn on study mode at home fairly easily. She was actually arguing with me about this - that I don't work well at home, that I haven't read nearly enough for my orals yet (proof that I don't work well at home), that I should be getting freaked out that I'm behind in my studying for it and I should therefore come with her to Panera to read. So basically I had a 20 minute conversation with her about how much she knows about my studying habits versus what I know about my studying habits. I'm also not one of those people who works well "with" other people. I prefer to study/read alone. I don't need to do things in groups, you know? She just doesn't work well at her house and she expects me to just do as she wants me to do. (seriously, it's a trend in our relationship.) I'm just losing patience with her. I don't understand why she wouldn't accept the fact that I didn't want to go work at Panera. It seems pretty clear to me, when someone says 'I don't really want to' you don't push it, you respect their desires, right?

Grar. This friendship has some serious issues beyond this one, too. So it's like just one more thing on a big pile of other things that I dislike about our dynamic. I guess I'm just waiting for graduation to end it for me (I kind of avoid confrontation).

Anyway, I'm rambling. Hope everyone's Monday is good and not all as rainy and cold as mine is!

Thanks Suite!

My stepmom always takes me out to dinner too: she's loaded! :lol:


Idunno what to tell you about your friend...
let's see, what would I do? I would probably just stop answering her calls...but that's probably not the best solution:shrug:

When do you graduate? And what are you graduating from? I graduate from a regular BA in May...and then hopefully on to grad school!

I'll be just finishing grad school. I'm hopefully leaving with my master's in English in a month... Assuming I pass my orals :p I can't wait for it all to be over, I definitely need a break from school!!

hey all,
just posted in the weigh in thread...up .5 this week but I was waaaaaaaay over with points, didn't even track over the weekend. Still battling the binge today, but so far i'm winning.
my boyfriend is being pissy. and that is not fun. i'm stressed and resentful. so, chocolate fixes that, right? WRONG!!!
what i just noticed is that my weigh ins on WW online from 2004, when I first tried this, go like this: 142, 141, 139.5, 138, 140.5. ...and that's it. Then I started binging like mad and totally fell off the wagon. This time around: 142, 140, 140, 138.5, 137.5, 138...and now I'm fighting the binge like mad and trying to remind myself why I'm doing this, that the garlic bread won't fix my loneliness or desperate confusion...
<sigh>

tomorrow is supposed to be beautiful. I really hope the warm weather will invigorate me.

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Suite toxic friendships, who doesn't have one! I got away from one, we got different jobs, same plant but different areas, with distance things got better. Now, I have another one, this time with an older gentleman I work with! He started out as a kind of mentor, now he hates our boss and this bitterness and negativity justs brings me down. He got upset by the timing of my FL trip, didn't want me to go...anyway the time away from the office helped change the dynamic a little there, so it's better. Hopefully, loads of your stress will go away when you're finished with school. Congrats on a great accomplishment, just getting to the point you're at, you're doing great!

Shrink I reset my goal when I went over my WI records from past years, I made it to goal and then promptly started going back up, the only time I maintained was right around 150, so that's what I had my dr. make my WW goal. I'd still like to get to 145 or so, but I've got to get out of the 160s first.

You are so close to your goal! Maybe you could try to maintain for awhile instead of trying to lose and then attack it again when you're feeling more secure. I've finally learned after almost 6 years of marriage (not too many really, compared to some) that sometimes it's better for me to let him be pissy and work through it himself than to try and fix it, or cheer him up, I used to try and say this or that and sometimes it would make it worse. Like sometimes I just want to be mad about something, don't try and cheer me up it just makes me madder! :D

Anyhow, for the bingeys I recommend trying to do some form of exercise if possible, go for a walk, do some crunches, punch a pillow, or something that keeps your hands busy like a craft, puzzle or video game.

Best of luck and hope you're feeling better about everything soon. Take good care of yourself!
:sunny:

Okay SO: I don't really like my best friend's new boyfriend....he's INSANELY loud every time he comes over and he makes my best friend act stupid, irresponsible, and inconsiderate.

THAT being said, I agreed to go out with them tonight to an acoustic show at a cafe. BORING. I was bored the whole time. Anyways, we went to a bar next door to it when the show ended. My best friend's boyfriend is LOADED RICH so he ALWAYS buys EVERYTHING for my best friend. So he offered to buy me beers at the bar. I said no. Then he offered again. I said no again. ( I only had 12 points left and hadn't eaten anything in a couple hours, and was not about to blow my points on a couple beers). This was a BIG accomplishment for me because I LOVE drinking, and almost never turn down FREE alcohol. Anyways, the third time he asked me, I told him I was watching my points, and didn't want any. So THEN he orders cheese sticks (fried cheese), and continues to badger me about eating them, and why didn't I want any, and one cheese stick won't kill you, one cheese stick won't hurt you, are you sure you don't want one, here's the last one do you want it?

He even put the plate DIRECTLY in front of my face and moved it around so that I could smell it and said "mmmmmm don't you want one??"


Needless to say I will not be going out with them anymore. He is an a**hole, and REALLY annoying and rude. I didn't want to go in the first place but my best friend was begging me.

So LONG STORY SHORT, I resisted the temptation of free alcohol, and I resisted the temptation of cheese sticks when I was STARVING.

I just finished eating a veggie burger, cottage cheese, and a huge plate of steamed carrots and broccoli.

And I would like to say that I love this site because there is really no one else I can vent to about this, no one else who would really understand it. :):hug:

VDay -- way to resist!! Whoa!! you're an inspiration. I don't think I would have stayed so strong!!

Kel -- thanks for the advice! Now that it's a new day and I was able to sleep in, I'm finally feeling back on track, ready to spend some time cleaning the apt and planning some meals for the week. And go to the gym. And I stepped on the scale and it was down to 136.5, which means a 1 lb loss for the week! I changed my weight on WW site and so am officially still on a downward trend. Woo hoo!!

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Vday that's awesome, great willpower! Yeah, too bad some people just don't understand, staying on program is tough enough sometimes, without the extra drama. :dizzy:

Suite-hope last night went well, did you give in, or stick to your choice to study at home?

shrinking-sorry for the gain, hope this week goes better for you! Hang in there :hug:

Hope everyone has a great tuesday :carrot:

April Fools!
 

Happy April 1st everyone ;)

Institches - I know people at my meetings, too, that strip down to their skivvies in order to WI. Every ounce counts I guess!

Suite - I'm sorry you had to deal with an aggressive/annoying "friend". They sound really needy.

Lizzy - So glad you're still on a downward trend! You're doing well :hug:

Vday - Wow! Kudos to you for resisting that near irresistable temptation!!!! :high: (And I hope you can stay away from that guy as much as possible!)

Kel - Yay for getting that certificate! :cheer2:

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Just got back from a 4 day weekend! Blargh. Work after long days off isn't really fun :p

I stuck to the points really well, and actually only missed one day of exercise (yesterday). My own fault entirely. Woke up... lazy... didn't get to it in the morning and that means I just don't get to it all day. However, this was only one of two days all throughout March that I missed exercise. :dance:

Visited three different B&B's. Oh they're all lovely. One more to see and then we have to make a decision!

Hrm. That's pretty much it. Back to work I go ;)

Have a great day, all! :carrot: