elwing: you have to keep us posted on the boy! so exciting! i miss that butterfly-in-your-stomach-can't-get-enough-of-each-other-love-being-together-giddy-giggly stuff that comes when you are in a new relationship! sorry ladies, can't say it lasts forever! keith and i have been together for 3 years, married for 1 (yep, we did things out of order, baby then marriage ) and i love him more than the day i met him, but that excitement is gone. it comes back from time to time, date nights or whatever, but it's not there all the time like it was in the beginning. i miss that feeling. anyhow, sounds like you had fun last night! yea for the scale being down today!!

jessie: good job on working out even though you weren't feeling it! hopefully you can make it through thanksgiving without getting sick! i hope your sil and niece feel better soon!

almost lunch time and i am happy about that! i'm hungry! everybody is talking about leaving early, around 12. not sure if i am going to or not. my daughter is at the sitters and she usually naps from 12-2. not sure what to do.

Elwing: Please keep us posted about the boy It sounds so sweet, I love that feeling too. Reminds me of a dream from last night...he's not tall, short dark hair, glasses, cuddly, into rock music, ice skating and dancing, is he? Weird dream...don't ask

Anyway, I've managed to stay OP all day today and just had pasta and sauce for dinner again. Not very inventive but I had to eat it today or it was going to go off. The sauce kind of erupted all over the microwave though so I had a wonderful time cleaning that up.

Oh yeah, I ordered that Leslie walking DVD a while ago too...found it quite cheap so thought I'd give that a go too (I'm going to have nothing but exercise DVDs on my shelf soon ) and I just did the first mile. I really enjoyed it! She's so upbeat and the time really flew by Think I'll have to alternate between DVDs every couple of days so I don't get bored. My ears all better now too, thanks guys

Gonna go get my stuff ready for my horrible early morning tomorrow

My first 30 day shred I started out with 5 lb weights and thought I'd die. So I wussed out for a while and did it with bottles of body wash. I upped myself to 3lbs today and survived through it. I think I'm just going to restart from day 1 using the 3lb weights since I haven't been able to do it every day.

I'm hoping that by the time i go back to school at the end of january I'll be in shape enough to work out at the gym at school and not feel horribly out of place.

Elwig: Good luck with the boy situation. Unfortunately I'm completely inept at these things, so I can't offer you advice. I have a "date" on Friday with a guy I met online, and it's my first real date, not just being set up by co-workers with a guy whose never even seen a picture of me. So that makes me feel extra guilty for not working out that hard last week, though I suppose my body wouldn't have changed all that much even if I had.

Today was a challenge with eating! I have TOM full fledge which I am actually relieved about.. I def think the weight gain is due to that. So I am warning you all, that Mon WI may be a maintain or slight gain for me. But I am confident I will have losses on the other 2 WIs.
I was sooo extra hungry today so I did eat more than usual but I didn't eat too much mon and ate really well yesterday so it evens out. I am getting my things together early and getting to bed at a decent time.. I want to get up super early and get a good headstart tomorrow for my drive home. I will be on sporadically throughout the weekend... I hope we can all stay OP the next 4 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anti: Do you need any special equipment for that Leslie walking DVD? I might give it a try too (as long as you don't need an elliptical or treadmill, that is). And um... tall: yes, short dark hair: yes, glasses: yes, cuddly: oh yes, into rock music: not really as far as I know, ice skating: we don't even have that around here , dancing: yes. Your dream was pretty accurate I'd say :P I'd almost post a pic but a) he is not really my boyfriend (yet?) and b) I feel I'd have to ask him first, but explaining it would be kind of complicated.

Spikedpunch: Brave, to start with 5 lb weights! The water bottles I use are 2 lbs max. You should not feel ashamed that it doesn't go easy at first or that you can't do the entire thing immediately. Just do what you can do, and that trains you for the next time. And, good luck with the date! You'll keep us tuned, won't you?

Jessiecat: TOM can be a monster and a dominatrix at least for me. I have a hormonal IUD so sometimes I don't notice that I have it... apart from random bouts of crying (don't ask), a ravenous appetite and lashing out at everyone and everything. Then I find myself wondering: "What the **** is wrong with me? I feel like I'm going mental!" and then I remember that I still have TOM even though I don't bleed.

Thanks on the kind words, all Knowing me, the chance that it will not become anything further is quite high, but I would feel really bad if I didn't even try. I finally made my couscous tonight and I decided that I don't like the stuff much. The only way to make it acceptable is putting in a small tin of tomato concentrate. Otherwise it just tastes like plastic to me. I didn't really exercise today, I had a theatre practice that is usually quite active but this time it was not. I did cycle for 20-30 minutes though. And I just counted my calories - only 1150! Way too low. I'm going to eat some more pistachios but I'm actually not that hungry, so I won't come higher than 1300. I hope I'm not kicking myself into starvation mode, but I can't eat when I'm really not hungry.

elwing: i have problems eating when i'm not hungry as well. i think our bodies are supposed to! it just sucks that in order for our body to not go into starvation mode we have to feed it, even if we aren't hungry! crazy! the leslie videos don't usually need any extra equipment, not for the walking at least. some of her videos (none that i have ever done, but i've seen them) incorporate strength bands, but other than that nothing extra. i do one every day and i enjoy them. i didn't think that walking could do as much as it does! don't put yourself down about the boy before you've even told him anything! never know what can happen! just kick up the confidence and go for it! guys love confident women! good luck!

jessie: it happens to all of us! i hate how tom just makes you want to eat and eat! how far is home for you? be careful driving! we'll make it through the next 4 days, we are the orange team! just remember, all the teams have members that are facing thanksgiving!

spiked: i still feel like i am going to die trying to make it through level one! i'm on day 7! it gets better every day though, i find that each day i am doing more and more. keep it up!

anti: glad to hear that you enjoyed leslie! she gets my heartrate up! she is definitely very upbeat. sometimes when i have had to talk myself into working out it kind of irritates me! but i get through with her encouragement!

i just finished doing 4 miles with leslie and then the 30ds! i am tired, sweaty, and ready to go to bed! have to get some stuff done for tomorrow! here i come thanksgiving!

good night all!

Morning everyone

This is far too early to even think so it'll be a quick post this morning Off to a clients soon...same breakfast as usual, same lunch as usual, I'll think about dinner when I wake up. I know I don't celebrate it but

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!! Have a great day!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!
i will comment on your posts later.. not much time to chat. I drove home and got here a little after 9a.m (it normally takes 3 and a half hours, it took under 3 today!!!)
My bro, SIL, and niece have a stomach flu but are coming anyway!! not happy b/c I am sure I will pick it up.. if I don't WI on monday, you will all know why!!!!

I ended up eating really good yesterday. Instead of giving into choc, i had a choc chip cookie dough slimfast bar and ate normally the rest of the day. In fact, i didnt' eat again after dinner so i was within my normal points!!!

So far, the day is going well. My mom had lots of problems with the pumpkin pie crust, so she decided to just make teh filling! She is saving me calories! And since my bro is sick, we are having a lighter thanksgiving than normal. I am super determined to count points/calories as I know the calorie amounts for most of the stuff we are having or i can guess pretty close. We are having italian wedding soup today with stromboli and turkey tomorrow b/c of the stomach flu thing.
I hope everyone has a great thanskgiving! I will be on here again to post my menu from today!
I am not ignoring you guys.. I read through the posts but don't have time to sit here and respond, etc.... ok enough said
thanks guys for the encouraging words!!!!!!
jmb- awesome workout!
elwing- dont be soo down with teh boy!
anti- i hope your morning isnt soo bad!

Happy thanksgiving to everyone who celebrates it! I do not but I kind of envy you... it sounds like a great festive day with a nice thought behind it. I'll fill you in on our odd cultural practices around the 5th of december .

Anti: Hope the rest of your day was better than the beginning!

JessieCat: You're so motivated, even counting calories through Thanksgiving! Most people just decide "I'm going to eat so much, so it doesn't matter anyway." Very good! I hope you don't catch the stomach bug, and that the food is great.

Jmb: Thanks for the information, I'll probably download one of them soon.


I have apparently caught a pretty bad cold... my nose is stuffed and I need to blow it all the time in a most un-ladylike way . Glad I'm home alone and can blow my nose in any way I desire. My head aches and my belly cramps. Maybe I'm just a liiiiitle bit ill I hope it goes away soon, I'm celebrating my birthday (belatedly) saturday night. Trouble is, when I'm ill and it's cold and dark outside I don't want to exercise. I literally had to kick myself into doing the 30 day shred today. But I did it! Tonight I'm going to eat with friends so I've restricted a bit for the rest of the day. There is definitely place for some snacks tonight. Oh, and The Boy will also be there He just called me to ask what time it started again *swoon* I'll stop rambling now.

Talk to you all soon!

Morning!

How was everyones Thanksgivings? Hope all who celebrated it had a wonderful day! Sorry to hear about your cold though Elwing Hope you're feeling better soon! Sounds like everyone celebrating Thanksgiving has such a good time all the rest of us have a really dreadful day to balance it out

You might have guessed that my day got worse yesterday...I got home in the evening, had dinner and went to bed at half 7 as I just didn't want to be awake any more. First my boss tells me I might not be able to have a week off in May to go to Portugal with my fiancé and his family because the schedule is so busy. She's doing the same work as me that week, why can't she do it herself?! She's done it before! So now I have to wait for her to decide...I figured 6 months notice would be more than enough but apparently not. That made me miserable all morning. Then she and I were supposed to be doing the work at the client's place together so she decides that since she's so close to home she'll leave at lunch time and not bother coming back until lunch time today. Nice! So I'm sitting there with all these papers in front of me not knowing what I'm supposed to do! It made me so mad, I've been doing the job for 3 months, no previous experience and she just leaves a trainee on her own for 2 days. If the report turns out bad she knows where she can shove it Ijust sat there and cried, haha! Sounds pathetic but I was so fed up I had to call my fiancé and he talked some sense into me and I managed to get some work done. I'm blaming TOM for that

Sorry ladies, didn't mean to go off on a rant there, feels better getting it written down though On a lighter note, I sneaked onto the scale this morning and I'm down another pound since Monday. Woopee!

Hope you all have a great day...or at least a nice average all-round day

Hi everyone! Ok so im sorry I have been MIA! I didnt mean it i swear! Ive just been working a 6 day week with crazy overtime and havent had much time to myself. But i wanted to let you all know that im here. My current weight is 218. (possibly more now after the holiday) Im joining a gym here very soon as an xmas present to myself.

Hi Marineswife85! Great to see you on the forum

Just to let you all know, I'm going away for the weekend so I'll be back on Sunday Going to visit the fiancés parents so wish me luck with staying OP...it's gonna be a tough weekend!!!

Anti222: Good luck with staying On Plan during the weekend! And grats on the loss, that's just great. Don't we all need a good cry every now and then? I know I do (I also know it tends to shock boyfriends beyond comprehension, but that's another story ). I hope it gets better at your work. Your boss doesn't sound like a very reasonable person .

Marineswife: I'm glad that you are back! If you post your weigh-in on mondays again you can step back in if you want.


My cold hasn't exactly gotten better, more like worse I wonder if I have a fever. I woke up at 5:30 this morning and couldn't sleep anymore. After an hour of tossing and turning I admitted this and left the bed, but had this slightly hangover-ish feeling coming with too little sleep. I bought presents for a friend this morning. I tried to write on my paper but I didn't get much done, and my room is also still a mess. Oh well. Tomorrow morning there's still time. I ate 1556 calories today (I counted!) and also went swimming. I had half decided on a late 30 day shred, which means for me that I might also not do it. But then one of my friends called and she said (among other things): "I think it's so good that you make time to exercise all the time. You really inspire me." After that, I could hardly stay home, now could I ? I didn't swim as long or as hard as usual, the cold is to blame. And the guy swimming in front of me, he was ssssloooooowwww, and positioned in such a way that I could not pass him. We have a part of the pool set a part for beginning swimmers! Go be slow around there!

I hope you are all in for a great weekend. Good luck, and stay strong!

Well, I'm torn on how the date went. I had fun... but he wasn't as cute as he was in pictures. There was no spark. But I'm trying not to be shallow, and I'll probably set up another date with him (assuming he wants one). One good thing was that we went to the zoo, so I at least got a bit of walking in today. Now it's off to do my 30 day shred. I can feel my muscles complaining already.

Elwing: Hope you feel better soon. Don't push yourself too hard though, rest is usually the best thing when you're feeling icky.

Spikedpunch: Let us know what you decided upon!

I celebrated my birthday yesterday. And I ate a lot. And I had alcohol. And I did not exercise. But you know what? I don't really care. I'm not going to restrict on my birthday. That's a day I didn't lose weight or maybe even gained some. Tough luck. Today and tomorrow are going to be better. I got new running earphones, and I'm going to try them in order to hit my november fitness goal of 30 minutes running. And, um, boy, yeah. I'm getting kind of desparate, there was this great moment to tell him that I like him but I did not. Now I contemplate to email it to him because I just want him to know. I know I'm going to be so sorry when I do not take this chance. What do you think, is mailing it too desparate? Time is getting short because he is probably moving to England or Germany somewhere in february.

Ouch, my room is a mess. I'm going to have a busy day.

See you all on our monday weigh-in!


Edit: I ran my 30 minutes! Yay it was tough but I carried on. I get kind of emotional when I think about it. 4 months ago I never could have done that. I can't believe I have changed my lifestyle so much. I honestly had not expected I could do this.

Edit no2: I've grabbed together my courage and mailed the boy that I like him. Now for waiting .