Hi! Just checking in. We had a busy weekend and this week is going to be full of errands. I will definitely stick to my cal range and I will try to squeeze in a few workouts before my weigh-in next weekend. Only 19 days left!

Too big- I am sorry for your loss. I wish you and your family healing.

177.5 this morning. After more than two years of calorie counting you would think that I could predict my body....but no. I was over on calories every day last week. Every day. Now I have a new low weight. I am clueless.

toobig i am so sorry, tight hugs, and lots of love!


back from toronto. 176.4. white knuckle, bengal tiger strength next couple of days go get back to cc'ing. should be back down to 173ish this weekend. revised goal for st pattys: 169. bought my 100 goal gift. pearl earrings, sitting on 14k gold stud/plate. very cute.

officially, i am out of a job march 30th. sent 60 days notice to my property management company. BIG changes are coming- moving back home, and that whole food situation is another can of worms to be dealt with. positive thoughts.

Toobig: I'm very sorry for your losses. It is funny how our bodies work, isn't it! Congrats on the loss!!

Stimkovs: I'm sorry to hear about your job loss and changes. Things will work out!


I'm FINALLY feeling about 99.9% good. .1 'cus I still have a runny nose LOL.
Yesterday and today I worked out good at the gym. Yesterday I met my goal of running for 4 miles!
Today was cross-training day and MAN did I work out the calisthenics! By the end I was DONE! Felt great though!
Food's been going good!

Later chickies!

I had a pretty good weekend, although I had to deal with some serious temptation Sunday night. My sister, her husband and their new baby came by for dinner and my mom made a yummy potato casserole (the one we always have at Christmas, which is universally considered to be a heart attack in a bowl), bought fresh baked cookies and frozen yogurt. I managed to resist it all and instead treated myself to a bowl of greek yogurt mixed with a bit of pudding powder – my favourite new snack. So I’m pretty proud of myself.

My cough is still sticking around, but yesterday I finally felt well enough to start doing pilates again. I haven’t done it since I got sick at the beginning of January, but thankfully I could still do all the exercises. My abs are feeling it today though!
Hope everyone’s having a great week!

Good morning everyone! Just wanted to pop in and say I am headed out to the boonies on a job. Should take a couple of weeks. Hopefully there will be wifi and you will still be hearing from me. If not know that y'all are in my thoughts.

tdiprincess - your workouts are awesome!! do you up your calories on workout days? how much do you usually eat? how much are you losing??

SparkleBE - glad you were good!! don't you love it when you're perfectly on plan, and somebody goes and does something like put a cupcake in front of your nose? GRUMBLE GRUMBLE. ahahah

toobig good luck!! AND BE GOOD!!!


my update: scale: standstill. yoga: 5 days off, made for a rough class yesterday. food: good, but sparkpeople went and took my calories down- somethings' going on, and i just want to find my equilibrium of most food for most loss ha ha. aside from that, on the food front: i'm still being super carby post-mothers house since she eats almost no protein and TONNES of fresh baked french bread (which i love). so i picked up some 100 cal bagels, making babaganoush tonight, and having a very light soup - even after the cupcake that was sneakily given to me today, i will be under 1600 cals (by 12 calories ha ha).

on top of it all, my dr switched bc pills on me - due to this crazy hormonal eating thing i was doing, so now im off of it for a week, and well- last time i came off the pill, it wasn't pretty. today is day 5, im off of it for 2 more days, so far so good, and hopefully this pill fixes the issue. AHHH sorry for the TMI, but 171 was good. 176? not so good. this cannot be my bodies happy weight. no no no. i refuse.

Stimkovs: Thank you!! I typically eat about 1700(sometimes more !) calories when I exercise and 1500 when I don't exercise. Not a huge difference, but I don't want to eat back too much. Funny, I'm still feeling sore tonight from yesterday's workout! I haven't had that in a long time, and I must say that it feels good! LOL. Losing-wise, overall I've lost 20lbs, but I've been taking it slow. In the last couple weeks I seem to be slimming up a lot more and losing inches. Every time I have my TOM I take it easy that week for exercise and that's usually when I seem to drop a couple of pounds.
As for your exercises, you seem to workout pretty hard as well! I LOVE fresh bread. My favorite TO-DIE-FOR is the bread toasted with salted butter. MMM! I refuse to buy fresh bread except for special occasions 'cus otherwise I eat the whole loaf in a day, no joke!

Today was a run day, I ran 4 miles and kept a slower pace than Monday. I think Monday I'll work on speed, Wed. and Friday runs will be a little slower. Friday's are my 5-finger days and I think in the next week or 2 I may make that a Wed and Fri. thing.
Food was good. I ate a little high, but got all the normal nutrients minus Iron. I seem to be lacking iron lately, so I think I need to take my supplement for a couple of days.

Anyhow.. I'll see you chickies later!!

I'm in!!! I vow to lose 10lbs by St. Patty's Day and keep up at least my 3 days a week at Tan and Tone...

Good Luck EVERYONE!!!

Happy Friday everyone!
I had a good week. I stayed OP and exercising, and switched a few things up since the scale hadn’t moved for almost a month. It must have worked cause it finally went down yesterday! Half a pound, but I’m still so excited!

Cupcake: Welcome!
Tdi: Wow, you’ve got some great workouts going on! Sounds awesome!
Stimkovs: Aww, I’m sorry someone waved a cupcake in front of your face. I wouldn’t be able to resist that either. At my sister’s baby shower a couple of months ago, I hadn’t planned on eating anything and instead ate like 3 cupcakes… Oops
Toobig: Good luck on your job. You’re here in our thoughts!

tdiprincess - don't you really enjoy being sore for 2+ days after a work out? it's funny, only very gentle yoga has that effect on me?? bikram- not so much. anyways, how did you decide on how much to up the calories on workout days? I feel like, you do real exercise, whereas I just...stretch lol.
oven bread toasted with salter butter, is exactly my downfall, minus the over-toasted, more like, fresh from the bakery when it's super soft on the inside and crusty on the outside (im drooling already ha ha) i can easily eat the whole thing in 2 days as well, give me some good garlicly babaganoush, and leave me alone to get over the stinky factor, and i'd probably be in food heaven lol

SparkleBE CUPCAKES WERE BROUGHT YESTERDAY. AGAIN. what is this? seriously??? that's 3 times this week. (but reason 53084 why im excited to leave this job). I'm so excited that your scale is heading south, is it still going down?? updates!!


As for me, HELLO WEEKEND. so, yesterday. good food +cupcake+1 bowl of KD+3 glasses of wine, and STILL went under my target cal goal? (when im out, i snack less, and lets me fit into le calories). and scale WHOOOSHED this morning (aka i think i re-lost what i had re-gained. down to 170.6, this is the all time lowest, EVER). Unfotunately, this number will probably go up tomorrow, today is yoga (either single +groceries+ life errands, or double and a nap, no decision rendered yet). then dinner with my closest friend, with wine and we will probably end up going out, so...booze, this can go 2 ways. either the booze will act as a diuretic for me, and i will move down on the scale again tomorrow (fingers crossed) or...up. regardless, i never want to see over 172 AGAIN.

I weigh every Saturday and Measure monthly, I didn't loose any weight, but I did loose 4.75 inches all over my body, so YAY me!! Only 14 more days to meet our Goals... Good Luck EVERYONE!!