Howdy all. I swear if the rain doesn't stop I am going to scream!!! It has been raining off and on since last Tuesday. It's driving me insane! I get up in the morning all ready and pumped to go for a walk, open the door and it's raining again!! I'm never going to make my goal this month if the weather doesn't clear up! I'd be much happier with the 90 degree weather! And I can't do my WATP tapes because the living room is full of boxes and appliances(moving sometime this month, just waiting to hear about the closing date)


Jaymi - You asked how much I had to lose .. well I'm at 211 now, so about 65-75 pounds I'd guess. We'll see how I feel when I get down there. I'm in a tight size 16 now, and I'd just be darned exstatic to be able to breathe in my jean KWIM?

Lucy - I tell you, I'm really interested in seeing what this ugly green dress looks like...Got a picture??

And congratulations to all of you who are kicking butt in the workout arena. I'm very impressed!!

Lenna

Waters - I intend to destroy every picture of me in that 'thing' No, but it's from Express. If you go to their website, it's the green strapless icky thing with a bow on the front. I absolutely despise it for the cut, but the color is awesome. I can wear that lime green and hardly anyone can, plus I love ugly colors mixed together.

Um, I'm sick. I had to cancel my dr's appt for this afternoon and reschedule it for another itme, and i'm going to go pass out on the couch. I'm feeling pukey, I guess, is the nicest way to put it. Stomach = mad, my temp = 103 to 104. NOT happy Lucykitty today!!

Anyway, food & exercise are nill today because I'm basically just going to pass out on the couch and do the bare minimum for anything.

Hope nobody else has this horrible bug!

Hey all!! TONS is going on over here. No change in weight, back on the diet pills to kick that weight down at least 10 lbs before her wedding, ACK!!

Going to be doing my tapes & workout ASAP today and then spend as much time as possible working on the candies for her wedding. I have to make around 1500 candies or something, so this kind of sucks. I have 3 molds, and each mold takes approx. 10 min. to complete (including the setting stage). ACK!!

Food is on track, workout is on track. Yesterday was worthless, but that's okay. I was pretty sick. Still got a bad cold, btu who cares? If I work out, it'll go away faster. Just have to push myself!!

Food -
B - 1/2 cup cottage cheese, 1 apple (After workout)
L - salad w/ 1 rice cake (w/ peanut butter for protein)
D - mac & cheese w/ salad or veggies (hubby wanted this)

Workout -
30 min ellipitical
40 squats
250 situps (back is hurting still)
5 min upper body workout
1.5 mile walk tonight if it stops with the torrential downpour outside GRR!! Stupid washington...

I'm off to work out, now!! WHERE THE HECK ARE ALL THE CHICKIES HERE?!?!?! GIrlies, you get your butts back on here and tell us what you're up to!!! Jennifer, Jaymi, Julie?! Where are my other J's?! Come baaack!!

I'm out, have an awesome day!! WOOT!

Hi everyone!!

Well I had typed this super-duper post, but my AOL froze on me again!! I swear I am cancelling my AOL, like Saturday. So if you all don't hear from me in a while, you will know why!!! Well I did all of my exercises plus a little extra. Here is pretty much my menu and my exercise:

EXERCISE

60 min- Denise Austin
35 min- Cardio Sweat
28 min- Sculpt
8 min- ABS
20 dumbbell squats
20 chest pressess
15 dumbbell lunges
15 tricep curls
20 Bent Reverse Kick up
15 Standing Lat Raise
15 Bicep Curl
15 Shoulder press
15 tricep dips
15 seated Concentration curl

Menu
4 oz- OJ
Ham Sandwich with wht bread and f/f cheese
1/2 cup potato salad

Cheeseburger kids meal
diet coke
Apple

Dinner- To be Announced!

Well I guess I better comment and go before the computer messess up again!

Lucy- Sorry about your cold, but you are doing great with exercising and stuff!! The weight will come off!! I told you about Zantrax 3!! It works without ephedra. Hey at some of those gas stations, you can still find Ephedra pills behind the counter, you just gotta look for it.

Lucia- Nice to meet you also! Sounds like you have been doing good!! Good Job! Keep it up!!

Lenna- Dang, see you are a perfect example. You are wearing the same size clothes as me!! You think a 16 is big and a 16 is normal for me!![/COLOR]

Elisha- You've been doing great with your exercising!! I'm soo proud of ya!!

Hikein You better go to that reunion!! Well all think you are beautiful and a good person, and if no one else can see that, well then scr*w them!!! You can start over and try again, you've been doing great! So what if you've fallen of the bandwagon a couple of times, you are still here and you are still trying....so keep it up!!! I'm here for ya!! (p.s. you're not pmsing are you!!! )


Well if I missed anyone, I'm sorry!! But I gotta get my butt up and eat something!! Talk with ya later!!!

~Jaymi~

Good Morning Ladies, I am just stopping by briefly to let you know I am dropping out of the challenge. I know, I'm sorry, it is just too hard to get here and keep up with everyone's progress and really participate. I don't think it is fair of me to just post without supporting the rest of you. My daughter is here for the summer and the only time I have on the computer right now is early in the morning. This could change if she can find a job so who knows perhaps I will be back for the Labor Day challenge?! I have done a lot of back slidding lately and I need to work on that. If anyone is interested I posted on journals today (you should probably wait for the movie or a least until that missive has been printed and bound ) and am going to focus on that for the time being. Thanks for all your support over the past couple months you are such a great group of amazing women! Judy

Hi everyone!!!

Well I"ve ranted all day today pretty much, but now I'll try to get over it. Leave it to my journal!!! Well anyway not much to talk about today, I havent done anything!! I woke up with a tummy ache and have been running to the bathroom ever since!! I dont know what's going on. So I havent eaten breakfast or exercised because by the time I got through flushing the toilet 20 million times, my baby woke up. so now I gotta try and squeeze all the exercising in for later, and knowing her, she will probably take her nap while we are out at Walmart. Oh well, scr*w it, It'll get done. Well short comment and I gotta get up off my buttocks and do something!!

Lakester- AWWW You dont have to drop out!!! I still would like to hear how you are doing regardless!!! I know it's hard with family over....but it's enough of us here to support you and others. I still would like to know how you are doing though!! So take care and give it a little more thought!!

Where the heck is everyone else at?!?!? Yoo HOO!!! Where are you!!!! Well I guess that's it!! Talk to you chickies later!!

~Jaymi~

Yeah... I wrote a big post in the main journals section, but I'm totally all pumped up to go work out, and I'll update here in a few hours. HONEST!!

I'll be back!!!

lameducklucy


How's it going with those diet pills? I did order them and tried them for two days, but felt at this time, they are more my ace in the hole for later as I feel I'm doing ok right now on food. I am working to get refocused on my exercise though. I was in a drag there for a couple of weeks and would work out with the weights, for arms, but was only getting my walk in about once a week. Now this week I've dedicated myself to getting back on track with it, and hopefully moving on to the exercise video. I have them all ready just not made it to them. But on the diet pills. I am saving them for when I quit smoking to help me if I get into trouble food wise. Makes me wonder if they have a quit smoking site, like 2fatchicks, boy would that help for emotional support!

Everybody else, ya'll sound like I have felt these past few weeks, a bit on the depressed side, a little slumpy, and constant fighting with myself to get myself together and focused in the on going directions.

I've just gotten myself back on track exercise wise and so far am still on target with food and weight loss. Lost 2 lbs this week. I have been drinking my water every day and I feel good with it and try and keep it up now because if I miss some of it I can tell how it makes me feel.

I think I set my 4th of July challenge for 152lbs, and I'm sticking to it.

Hikein2005, get your mojo girl and move it, made was lost somewhere to and I'm hoping I got it back on the track or at least working it in that direction.

Everybody else, keep at it and see ya soon.

Hi everyone! Short post today....really! My tummy hurts... probably because I'm hungry, but I gotta eat on the go because the darn day is almost over and I still havent taken my sis anywhere!!!! This having no money thing is starting to get old! But anyway.....

Well, I didnt lose or gain this week, so booo! But that's ok, I should have known better because I didnt work out all 7 days. That really sucks that I have to do all of that but oh well....I didnt gain so that's good. But my lil sis lost 2 lbs!! So at least it worked for someone this week!

I ate chilli dogs for dinner last night, but they werent that bad. I had wheat buns of course and fat free cheese. I didnt get a chance to try to turkey chilli, but I did try the fatfree weiners from oscar meyer and they were good! I had fixed two hot dogs..but my eyes were bigger than my tummy!!Well I gotta go because the kids are starting to get restless. I hope everyone has a great day!

~Jaymi~

Hey chicks! Yes, I'm still here. I was away for the weekend. Since I had a few days off from work I went to spend a few days with my grandmother. I feel bad when I think of her being all alone in the house, alone for the first time in her life.
Anyway, my eating was a little off track for the weekend, and there was no exercise, unless you count all the walking I did while shopping. I went to buy a new pair of walking shoes, which I did, but I also came home with something else: a new car. :-D
My boss offered me the promotion to Cosmetics Manager, which will be a good bit more money than I'm making now, so even if I don't get a new job I'll be making more money. Grandma offered to make the down payment for me, and she co-signed for it. I didn't even ask her, she just did it. She said I needed a car, which I did, but I never expected to drive one home.
Anyway, tomorrow is another day off, but it's the day back on my diet. I'm going to exercise tomorrow, and my calorie intake is going to be right on track. I'll check back in tomorrow and let you know how I'm doing.
Have a lovely evening everyone!
~Elisha

Morning, chickies....still totally freaking stressed out with the house/lot purchase...I swear, this month can't be over soon enough. Sigh!

Also, now I'm sick as a dog. Someone here at work breathed on me last week..now both hubby & I are sick- coughing, congested, phlegmy...it's not pretty. But I'm at work, trying to suck it up, and get stuff done.

I'll try to check in with a longer post later, chickies. Miss you all....and I'm determined to get my new middle # this month...that would be the best birthday present.

Uuuugh... What a weekend! I don't even want to get into what happened Saturday night... let's just say a little too much drinking and not enough water. I was fine, though. Under calories, even. But I didn't really work out or anything this weekend, and yesterday my food was horrible, and I'm up 2 lbs. Stupid scale, I beat you with my baseball bat!! AAAH!!

Now... onto the new thing. Nobody is allowed to criticize me of this, because I am at the end of my rope. I'm on the diet pills, which are helping but not enough. I'm working out on a set schedule of stuff and it's helping a lot, and I see toning, but I'm not losing inches or pounds. I'm eating the right kinds of food, eating healthy, whole-wheat, lower or no-fat, low-calories, and even lower carbs all mixed into one, along with higher protein. I am really trying at this, and you all know it!! So... as of today, my new calorie intake is dropping from 1200 to 800, because I need to see some results, FAST. The dress still does not fit, my athsma is not happy because of the extra weight I've got, and I am really unhappy with my body. No criticizing. I'm not starving myself or binging & purging, I'm not doing anything superly unhealthy. I'm dropping the calories to my safe level, the level I was at when I lost the other 75 lbs (aside from the 65 I want to lose here), and I will be fine.

Also... a short annoyance with diet pills. Why the **** does every freaking diet pill have to kickstart your metabolism?! What about those of us who really DO NOT need ANY help in that department?! I'm sorry, but my idea of fun is NOT having my body work double-time there, when it already goes fast enough on its' own. GRR.

Okay, so food for today...

B - not sure... eggs?
L - salad
D - hot dogs & veggies

Workout -
20 min ellipitical
40 squats
250 situps
5 min upper body

I'm out today in search of new ab exercies I can do... Jennifer sent me a ton of great stuff a month or so ago, but I can't do a lot of them because of my back. Two of my vertebrae are halfway fused together, making them basically 1 1/2 vertebrae, so I can't bend like most people can, and a lot of the yoga & stuff like that is not an option for me. GRR!!

Anyhow, I'm out for the day!! Hope everybody has an awesome day and I =will= check back later today, HONESTLY this time!!

Okay, for the -actual- post, now.

I put on my goal outfit this morning, to see how far away from my real, former body I am. Turns out, not too far.

The pants fit, and so does the tank top, but they're both a little too tight. If I lost 30 lbs, they'd be loose on me, I think. I don't honestly even care about what weight I am anymore, because I've realized the "ideal weight" crap does not apply to me, simple as that. I am a muscular person with a very small frame. When everyone else around me in a size 9 will weigh 110 or so, I will weigh around 140. I just have that much more muscle. Yeah, the boots will never fit over my calves -- but that's awesome. How many other people can hike 15 miles without feeling the burn in their calves?! FEW IF ANY!!

Hubby & I were having a nice convo last night in the car. He was really upset about his job because he's treated differently for being younger than everyone else by about 5 years, which he is. If you're young and in the tech industry, you aren't as respected or trusted by management or customers. Yeah, he's 22, almost 23. But he makes at least $6 less per hour because of his age difference. He was getting really upset, and I supported him and explained to him what I thought would help him out -- just staying confident, and the fact that he CONSTANTLY (like, at least once a week here) gets massive compliments from the customers and internal employees who seek his help, and these folks tell his MANAGER how awesome he is. He's always getting huge compliments from the people in his group, and he goes way out of his way to help a customer, even if that means working 2 hrs overtime w/o OT pay. He's just that kind of overly responsible, awesome guy who actually loves his job. He was really happy. Then he went on and told me that even though he really wants sugar most of the time, and our house is a health-food haven now, he'll live, and he'll be able to keep his body healthy with me. He even noted that he's glad I don't go down the junkfood aisle anymore (except for tortilla chips haha), because he'd just sit and eat it all by himself and gain weight.

I'm a little depressed at the moment. I turn 22 in 2 days. I don't really want to. My birthdays have always kind of sucked, and I just don't want to get any older than I am. I'm running out of time to do everything I want to do, and I'm broke, and I just odn't have the means do to half of what I want to do. It's stupid, I know. I'm only 21!! SHEESH! What the **** am I going to do when I turn 30, or 50?! Freak out and have a nervous breakdown, that's what I think. This kind of gives me more motivation for losing the weight faster and keeping it off by keeping up my healthy lifestyle. I'd rather spend my youth being skinny and not really worrying about my weight being too high. I'd rather spend it having fun and not feeling like I'm "the fat one."

The fact that my goal outfit actually -fits- me, but looks like ****, gives me great happiness. Nobody else did that, >>I<< did that!! I LOST it!! I DID it. I PUSHED myself and made myself be healthy and work out more and change the way it looked. And I'm happy. Now... somebody kick off the 2 extra sizes for me real fast, okay?

I'm off to keep up with my jobsearch now. I need to make more $$$ and today I've only got 2 tapes. What the **** is up with that?! I need MONEY, not more free time to be bored and wish I had a life!! GAH!