Just checking in today! WOW, I have missed so much! Haha. Yesterday was the infamous 6-hour drive to Chicago with my parents and a mini-van jammed to the brim with all my stuff, hehe. The drive was ok, though I wanted to throttle my mother a couple times. We basically dumped my stuff in my room (and I got a replacement ID ) and then went to move my brother (who also lives in Chicago) out of his THIRD FLOOR apt (with NO ELEVATOR). My dad is very overweight and can't really make it up the stairs, and my mom is extremely lazy (no REALLY though) so guess who ended up doing ALL the work? Lol. I would have been more angry about it if it weren't for the fact that I kept thinking Okaaay, here's my workout for the day! LOL. Carrying tons of heavy boxes up and down 2 flights of stairs? Sounds like a workout to me! Heh. But I was surprised at how good my stamina was. I helped him move IN to this apt last spring and I remember it being much harder to make it up and down the stairs then! So that was kinda cool.

ANYWAYS, the really good news is: remember the guy I was talking about, from Facebook (LOL)? I ran into him!! And it was before I got all sweaty and nasty from moving in/out; it was right when I arrived at my dorm and was still looking really cute (at least I thought so, heh). He seemed really happy to see me and gave me a hug right away! I was in a big hurry to get all my stuff moved in, so I didn't have much time to talk, but he helped me with a couple of my things and said he wanted to see my room (OoOoO! haha, jk) and he definitely seemed to make a note of my room number/location, muahaha. But I told him that there wasn't anything in it yet (which was true) but he should definitely come back tomorrow (i.e. today) so we could catch up. I'm all settled in now with all of my little decorative touches everywhere - I'm a little obsessive about splattering my personality all over the room to make it feel like it's "mine" - so he's free to come by anytime! LOL.

I weighed in today and I'm at 224.2--I don't want to change my ticker yet, but hopefully tomorrow or SOON I'll be officially down a pound! With my bad eating at Cracker Barrel and the fried nastiness that I had with my parents on Thursday, I gained 1-2 lbs. It's good to see that I'm back on track again (LOL if I had a nickel for every time I've said that... JK ) and I am very optimistic that I will reach my mini-goal before the end of next week! Wish me luck, everyone!!

Star- that's awesome that you saw the boy and that you survived the trip. What a great workout.

So this morning I weighed in. I was 282. Yay! T- 285, W-286 Th- 285 F 283 Sat 282. I had gone up when I changed my cals to 2200. I think it's starting to work. I ate 2300 yesterday. I had sushi with lots of good stuff! Of course, I had non fat frozen yogurt. It had been a long time. I think body is liking the increase in calories along with all of the workouts I'm doing. I'm not on here much through the weekend but I won't be as busy.

My DD is gone since yesterday till next Sunday. She went to visit her father with the grandma and some other people to Colorado. I told myself that when she's gone, I am going to work out more and eat healthier and so on...but it's already falling down... I just don't have motivation for anything. Like yesterday, I woke up at 12 or 1 (since I went to bed at 430) and didn't eat anything till like 4. Same thing today. I still haven't ate anything..and I've been up since 10'ish.. Just don't feel like eating. It's one of my bad habit... when I'm by myself, I don't really feel like eating... More like too lazy to eat. haha... I'm going to go run 3 miles and maybe do some DVD too... I know I really gotta do this because I only got 13 days left till Korea..and I want to see 160's before I leave..I saw 174 this morning.

Here, Congrats on 282. You are almost to 270's. Yay!
Star, Good luck on your mini-goal. I know you can do it!
Icon, I think the reason we get more motivated when we work out is the adrenaline... Maybe? I remember that even when I wake up an hour early to work out, I had more energy because I worked out. On the days I get to sleep in but no work out, I was more tired...
Taylor, HG Cookbook? Hmmm... Sounds very tempting. The only cookbook I have is from Korea..and although it's not fattening or anything like that, it's not all low fat, low carb, and so on... not really healthy conscious book. I may really have to look into it when I come back from Korea.
Arts, How about Taylor/Art/Tara buckle down? I really NEED TO do this. I mean... I'm going to be meeting people I haven't seen in almost 5 years!!

Hi girls..

You are gone one day and miss so much! So I weighed in today, I know, I know, my day is Monday but I just couldn't help it! And, I am 270!!!!!

So close to the 260's.

I hope everyone is having a good weekend. Enjoy and relax as much as possible.

Target: thanks! I can't wait to be in the 270's!

Heather- that's awesome! You go girl!

I'm feeling good today. I'm going to do some things for me today.

Here we go, Glad to hear that you are feeling good. We all need to do some things for ourselves...and have ME time... (I need to take my own advice, too. lol)

Heather, YAY! YAY!

OK, so basically we should start a buckling down/positive self-talk thread!!

I feel like I have been just "floating" through this weight-loss journey for the last two months. Not really totally engaged but not totally going back to my old habits. I mean, I know small choices everyday add up but I also think that I could make more whole-some healthy food choices. I also haven't been working out as much as I should be.

My excuse for working out is that I am auditioning on monday and if I do get in the play rehearsals are 4-8 monday - friday (I go to school 8am-3:45pm everyday but friday) so I don't know when I am gonna make time to workout because waking up early is just not an option so why start working out hard now if I can't keep up with it...excuses, excuses, excuses...blah blah blah.

The food thing is a little easier to commit too now that I have the HG cookbook. 90% of the stuff in there has 4 steps or less and takes almost no cooking at all and food has always been the thing I put my effort towards.

I wish I could have the motivation to even do my homework today. I am just drinking water and watching Americas Next Top Model feeling very.....fat.

Oh Taylor. I am sorry! You have a great start. Try to dig deep, around the excuses and reconnect with the reason you are trying to get healthy. Throw away those excuses and find some motivation. I know you can do it because anyone can do it with hard work!!! Keep your head up and good luck at your audition!

Here we go- Okay. I will do the challenge. No negative thoughts for more than 5 seconds! Good idea!

Hey, I'm watching the America's Next Top Model marathon too!

Positive self-talk and buckling down! We can do it!

I love watching the drama of Americas Next Time Model. Crying over the littlest thing....fighting over beds....

The b*tch inside me likes to make fun of them cause I can't get away with it anywhere else.

Well I haven't had the motivation to go to the gym but I did make an AWESOME lunch. Hummus, turkey, light bread, salad, 1 serving of progresso light soup. It made me feel like I went to Penera (sp?) Bread....but I saved about 4890586095.5 calories and I still have 1.048 calories left for today! Woot.

The boy and I are grilling chicken tonight. I have been marinating it for 2 days so it should be really moist! That with some grilled veggies and brown rice for dinner...yum!

...I am stalking the boards today..can you tell?

I am being a board stalker too...... hubby is playing COD4 online and I can't stand to watch it for hours. lol

Hey, is the Hungry Girl Cookbook popular? I keep hearing lots swear by that cookbook, do you lose weight with the recipes?

I wish i could board stalk today. I am running around with this catering w are doing . My husband owns a restaurant and today there is a weddign we're catering (along with the daily restaurant). The thing is that the hall is a 5 min. walk from my house so i have been back and forth like 5 time already. AND i am headig back in 30 mins. I guess it's some form of exercise since I never ended up doing kickboxing

jelly No, not exactly. It is a low-calorie/low-fat cook book. It also works with weigh watchers and has point values for everything on the book. Here is the website: http://www.hungry-girl.com/