Fae -- *hug* I'm with Amanda, get enough loving right now to last you till he gets back!

JustForUs -- What sort of exercise will you be using your gym shoes for? My shoes are Brooks brand and they are specifically running shoes (and I LOVE them!). Make sure you get shoes designed for what you will be doing with them (running, walking, cross-training, whatever)!

Jenna -- I always feel like I'm obsessed with food. I am such a foodie! The first thing I thought of when I made arrangements to go home for a few days was all the food I could get in LA that I can't get in Providence! I always buy Cooking Light and flip through it, or Martha Stewart Living, just to look at pictures of food. Food has always been such an important part of my life, that's why losing weight is so hard!

Christy -- I have exactly the opposite problem! You know that song lyrics, "Little in the middle but she got much back"? That is totally me, I have the biggest butt ever. My ultimate dream is for my thighs not to rub together! But I don't think that's even possible unless I was starving to death. I also have a big chest. I remember in high school, when I was looking for a prom dress, every single dress I tried on the same thing would happen: I pull on the dress, start to zip it up. It is looking great, and then . . . !! It doesn't zip up over my huge chest. It was such a struggle! Nowadays, when I buy jeans, they will be tight on my hips and butt and thighs, but the waistband will be hanging off! Or with shirts, I will have to go up a size or two to find one that fits my chest, and then it looks like a tent on my stomach!

I wish we could all have the perfectly proportioned body, where clothes would all fit right. It seems like no matter what your body type is, you will be unhappy with it. I had a friend who was really skinny and boyish, and I always thought "wow, she is built like a model." She hated her body though, because she could never gain weight no matter how hard she tried, and clothes didn't look good on her because they were designed for curves she didn't have!

Jenna- I don't think it's from the exercise for me. It's mainly in the morning when I feel it, it's a really strange feeling and I just have to sit still and let it pass. It gets worse if I go back to bed.... I don't know.... it's really odd.

Justforus- I like my reeboks, they're comfy and they are gray and pink!

Insurance is pretty cheap for me, I work in healthcare so my employer has good deals for us employees. If you can get a job in a hospital that's the way to go!

I am definitely a New Balance Girl. Just A) make sure you get the appropriate style like jogging, cross training, walking, etc. and B) walk around in them a little BEFORE you work out in them to avoid blisters (they also have really good triple layered socks to work out in that have worked miracles for me).

I know what you mean about thinking about all of the food. I am going back to college in about a week and I am TERRIFIED that I will revert back to old eating patterns. So I am trying to like plan all of my meals and form like a "plan of attack" for eating. At the same time, I want to have a social life which is rough. Yesterday I wanted to go out but I was sooo hungry that I just couldn't get myself to get up and go out I just wanted to go to sleep. And let me tell you the with the dinner I had my body was DEFINITELY NOT deprived.

paperclippy--oh girl, i've got the boob thing happening too!! Even when I weighed 110 lbs I was a D cup! I had to buy all my prom dresses and my wedding dress a size or two big and then have the rest of it taken in...forget trying to sell those babies, no one else would be able to wear them! LOL And now that I'm "thick" (heehee) AND have had a baby--holy cow! I hope I lose quite a bit of them as I lose weight, but I'm so afraid they're going to be all saggy like a ball in the end of a sock...LOL!!

Yumm - that light ice cream (dreyer's in the west, edy's everywhere else) is REALLY good ice cream.

After all this, I'm glad I've never been to a Sonic (nor ever lived anywhere near one) - who needs another temptation?

I'm in Oregon right now, we leave for Reno tomorrow a.m. and I'm happy to report that the two days I've been here have been fully-on-plan days! Yea! Now for the hard part, CAMPING! I bought a bunch of healthy snacks and a couple of not-too-bad treats for the trip but drinks could do me in... I think I'm going to try to reserve one day for drinking, and have 0-1 on the other nights. Hope everything is going well for the rest of you - have a wonderful weekend, I probably won't be back 'til Tuesday!

Oh the boob thing. I never had huge boobs to start with, and now that I'm at my goal the girls are so tiny yet manage to flop a little all the same. I keep telling them to grow but they just won't listen. I think at age 23 it's finally become about self-acceptance in all areas of myself, and physical acceptance is only a small part of that. I'm still neurotic and insecure but much, much less so than I used to be. On the physical front, paperclippy, it's so true that it seems no one is happy with their body, even though we might perceive them as being "perfect." Why not just own what we've got? It's easier said than done. However, I still refuse to live without my Victoria Secret miracle bra.

I'm pleased to say that I was finally, finally on plan food-wise and exercise-wise for a full day yesterday. I also sat down and updated my fitday journal and found out I haven't been as bad calorie-wise as I feared over the last week. I'm slowly pulling myself back on track, and after 4 weeks of dating the BF am slowly figuring out how to balance him and my healthy lifestyle.

Look at me waxing philosophical. It must be the sleep deprivation. I'm going to go stumble through a few hours of work and dive class...must catch up on sleep tonight!

Jenicra, have a great time! Have a safe & fun trip!

I just got back from Target on my lunch break, I spent $20.96, I got two t-shirts , 2 new workout tank tops and a pair of brown heeled sandals! I kid you not! Shopping on the clearance racks rocks! Now, I'm in a great mood, nothing like a little retail therapy. I also like buying L size instead of getting XL!!! Woo Hoo
This is a better feeling than anything I could eat at Sonic.

Megan--I am totally with you on the boob thing. Not having much to begin with and then losing weight was quite depressing BUT as long as I buy a bikini top that is slightly padded so it is flattering, my flat stomach makes up for it. I did have to buy quite a few new bras though because I couldn't fill the cups in the others anymore. Sigh, all that money at Victoria's Secret before was wasted...

spillthebeans, I LOVE your philosophy about "This is a better feeling than anything I could eat at Sonic." I will have to remember that in reference to an ice cream sundae with peanut butter sauce.

Oh hush about the boobs! I'm hoping that some of the weight that comes off is from that area, because I hate being huge.. they make my back hurt =/

Cookie - I don't think I was ever obsessed with food like that. I like to tease my best friend, who is a vegitarian, offering her hamburgers and suck (she knows I am just teasing her.. in reality I am very proud of her for not eating meat for 3 years, even though I worry sometimes and ask her if she is sure she took her multivitamin heh) Or when I'm cooking with my dad or something like that.

Cavities.. ouch. Never had them, but my teeth are so screwed up anyway. On my medical "to do" list once I get back in my dad's insurance is to go to a dentist and see what can be done.. for example, I still have 3 or 4 baby teeth!

Happy Thursday everyone! (my my... the week is FLYING)

OH MAN...The BOOBS...argghh! Before my baby boy I wore a 32 B...not too big, not too small. I wore a size small shirt (man I miss that). Now whenever I look at my old tops I'm like "how the he** did I fit in that, it looks like a childs size! When I was pregnant I looked like Betty Boop (Big, yet perky...). At the beginning of July, when I was 211.6 lbs I wore a 40 D (and gravity was definately taking effect). Now, a little over a moth later, I am wearing a 40 C, and gravity isn't so harsh! The thing is that the 40 C is getting a little loose in the cup area...oh man I'm not sure if I want to go back to a B cup again...seems a little small after having worn a D for the last few years!

Christy - Ball in a sock...heehee. I doubt that will happen. I was worried about that too, but am pleasently surprised that the girls are shrinking with no excess skin. My stomach, however, may end up being a different story (I had nightmares about it the other night).

Jenicra - Mmmm, Eddy's light ice cream. I ate 2 bowls of it last night! If everyone on this board hadn't been talking about it so much I wouldn't have even thought to buy it. But alas, I did. And OMG, it's sooooooooo good (I tried the chocolate with fudge chunks).

Have a good Thursday gals!!!

Amanda

Christy, that post totally made my day. I was a D cup by the time I was 12 years old! (my first bra ever was a C!) And I only weighed 103 and was like 5'3" or something! And let me tell you, it is HARD being the girl with the huge boobs when everyone else is still almost flat! Little boys are mean, too! I think I hit DD sometime during high school, when I discovered that the reason my bra didn't fit was because it was actually the wrong size. (duh!) Most recently I went to an upscale lingerie shop and bought a British bra in UK size 32FF!! It fits wonderfully, but OMG, FF???? This is AFTER I have shrank a little from losing weight! My sister had a breast reduction and LOVES her new boobs (I think she's a C now, down from about the same size as me) . . . I have been thinking about it too, but I don't want to do it if I'm going to have kids some day, because they will just get stretched out again!

The boob debate never ends -- women with small ones want big ones, women with big ones want small ones! I think the only happy people are the ones who are that exact size 34C! I know that when I am finally thin enough to wear a bikini, I am going to have to spend like $100 to find one that will hold up my huge chest! At least big boobs make my belly look a little smaller. :P My first victory in losing weight was when my tummy didn't stick out as far as my boobs!

Megan -- OMG, you have been with your bf for 4 weeks already?? It feels like it was yesterday you were posting about going on the first date with him. Time sure flies!

My day started out really crappy today (I was having an "I hate grad school, coming here was the biggest mistake of my life" day), but I got some work done and after reading all of your posts I feel much better!

Clippy chica, I really think you are my new best friend! I skipped sizes.. went from a B to a D to a DD by my freshman year of hs! Everyone in my house is the same size.. I got so excited when my mom got me bras that weren't white for Christmas.. in fact they had pretty designs, like *gasp!* smaller sizes! I never had those before! Why do they think that big chested women don't want to wear pretty bras? And my tummy used to stick out past my boobs too.. so I know how that is! It's one of the reasons I feel strange running... my boobs bounce everywhere!

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Wow.. I don't think I have ever had an on-line boob rant before....

paperclippy~ I'm thinking about the reduction too, but like you I'd rather wait until after another child. After all, there's no sense in having it done when they're just going to over-inflate again... I'm worried though b/c my cousin had it done a couple of years ago (she was like an H or something) and hers are now floppy and uneven. I want smaller boobs, but I want them to be pretty too! LOL

Fae~ I'm the same way with running...I've tried it a couple of times but it's so doggone uncomfortable! I feel like people are always staring...I know *I* stare when I see big jugs bouncing down the road, so I'm sure other people do too!!

And I too was very proud the day I looked down and could only see boobs and toes...no tummy!!

I guess I didn't get my point across before but ya'll are saying it perfectly - I'm moaning about my small chest along w/ a few of you, others about big chests - the grass is always greener on the other side! Yeah, to be a 36Cish...

Paperclippy, I can't believe it's been 4 weeks either! Well...it's going great! Practical, logical Megan has dove off the deep end. At least it's totally mutual.

megan - ooo 4 weeks! That is not sarcasm, I swear.. I have several friends who can't (or won't) stay in relationships that long. Just wait until you get the 6 months or a year... you wont know where the time went! (I'm still like "Holy &%$ I've been with mine for 4 years.. what the...) Heh it's strange! Fun, but strange *G*

Christy - the fun part is that Brian always offers to run with me.. he runs almost every day in VA, and he can't understand why I absolutely REFUSE to take him up on it. Well duh.. he's a stick figure who runs fast, I run slow and a flop everywhere! (not to mention there are better ways to burn the calories... ).

Well all, I am trying to motivate myself to walk to the park and make use of the wonderful track there... This does, however, require me to get off mah bum and tear myself away from the computer! Gahhhhhhhhhhh.