I wanna go to Mexico WAAAH.
This time last year I was in Peru. I won the airfare, how cool is that?
Checked out Curves and it is plenty moola, will try community gym. I made an appt. for tomorrow to have someone show me the equipment. I need to tone these flabby bits.

I got my haircut last night. I have lovely hair, but it does get a bit curly and unruly, so I got a short, behind the ears look. I always associate short hair with a trim body, so I think I feel good about how I look. Do you know the author Patricia Cornwell.. Well I look at her book jacket and always like the way she looks, I would like to look like that, kinda streamlined, not poufy.

Anyhow, I have this really clear vision of myself at an ideal weight. I can see where I am sitting, what I am doing etc and this haircut is part of it. Do you have a vision like this? Share?

Have a super day and if anyone takes me to Mexico I will speak my best Spanish - I speak like a very intelligent 3 year old.

I do the same thing, Kally. I get a "look" in mind then try to go for that. It's a mental goal -- which is very good for us!

I had a coke on the way to work but it was a little one, I think 139 calories is what the Sonic website says. Not too bad. And I know for certain that I won't be having beer after work because I am determined to stick with this. When I said March 1 was a good time for renewal, I took myself seriously! Tough love, and all that jazz!

Zuki seemed fine today but he's home alone. Hopefully he's not chomping down on those stitches too bad. We decided we couldn't stay home with him forever! I had a meeting this morning, then another at 1:00, then an eye appt. at 2:30 today to get back into my contacts. I got a horrible eye infection last November and had to ditch the contacts in favor of these icky glasses. I am just not a good glasses wearer because they bug me to no end! Of course, when I'm wearing my contacts I have to wear reading glasses at times, but that's different! Anyway, then after that appt. I'm going STRAIGHT home because at 4:00 at work we're having an employee mixer in the parking lot and there will be hot dogs and yes ... you guessed it, beer. Good Lord, is this a conspiracy??? I know I must avoid it at all costs, so I will pull out the whip and make myself behave!

good for you katpo. Whip and all.

Anyone else have a vision of themselves?

I don't know that I have a concrete vision of myself, but I know what I want out of it. I don't want to be invisible, I want people to notice me, and not because of how big I am , I want to be able to go up stairs or run around with the kids without embarrasing myself. I want to start my 30's (it's coming up soon) being healthy and trim, and stay that way the rest of my life. I want to be able to walk into any regular clothes store and only be limited by my height, not my size.

I'm definitely on my way to my goal now - and I could probably happily live at my current size, although I'm still quite saggy and squishy in places. I'm so glad though, that a year ago, I realized I was turning 29, and didn't want my 30's to be the same as my 20's, overweight and unhappy with how I looked and felt. (Although, to be fair, a major portion of my 20's was spent pregnant or nursing.) I just go so tired of my body being someone else's...I wanted my body to be mine again - something that helps me enjoy life, not hinders it.

Anyway, that's it for now. Some day soon I need to get a good current photo and put together a before/after thing to help motivate me. Sometimes I forget how far I've come.

Angela

I've never been skinny so i ahve trouble seeing myself at an ideal weight
I've been a 12/14 i can picture than in the short term and lol borrow my sisters body for long term goals
she's an 8 (gastric bypass)
I also have an id picture somewhere when i was at my slimmest I should find it to remind myself what i look like without extra cheeks
Angela Frouf and Lisa so nice chatting with you all last night . . . sorry I'm a bit of a nutjob
The screw came out of my glasses! so I'm typign blind!
I have to run bbl!
Kier

I spent 40 years being thin, usually around a size 6 to 8, so most of my pictures are of that size. That's why it's so hard to see recent pictures because I can definitely tell the difference.

I'm sorry I had to leave before you got there last night! Darn it!

Kathy! I'm having a full fat coke and I thought of you!
I was nodding off EEEK
bbl

end of a busy day here
sounds like everyone is doing well
kudos to kathy for skippy that hotdog feast and beer....ouch
weigh in tonight
will report whether i am up or down but hope to change my ticker the correct direction!!
on the phone most of the day again with co-workers, re-orgs...yuck is all i can say, very stressful
can't wait for a day off.....one more to go....getting nails done on saturday, grocery shopping then hockey
son snowmobiled to school today....eeiickkk.....snow again.....
cheerio everyone

oh my vision, would be something slight, relaxed, tanned, fit and free

I too have never been thin (okay have been thinner!), so hard to picture myself - but they say that is a GREAT THING TO DO - we must visualize ourselves at our goal weight - what we look like, what we are wearing, what we are doing - a very good mental exercise.

I have some of my "old"skinner clothes - like mini-skirts which I probably won't wear even if I can fit into them? (like a calvin klein jean skirt and a navy blue suede skirt!)....and while i was thinner - I still had a bit of a belly and still kinda well-endowed - there is still the "genetic" body shape under all this flab - I realize I will never by 5'7 and willowy!

Congrats kathy on taking charge of your beer consumption! Will certainly help keep you on track!

Angela - I don't think you could carry me....but you are welcome to come haul the bags and such while we enjoy the beach and ocean breezes! Glad you are getting some rest!

Now for the physio event of the year!....so here is this nice looking, strapping young man - on the table with me (I had to skootch over and nearly fell off) pushing his knuckles into my left butt cheek while at the same time pushing on my left hip) - kinda painful....seems I am "out of joint" (well I could have told him that! ). Did this one long stretch lying on the floor (in this open area where everyone could see me - even from the waiting room), with my left leg up against the wall - had to hold this for FIVE MINUTES!!! Looked weird but boy did I feel better when I got up! The more poking and proding, some ultrasound stuff on lower back/upper bum area...then the moment you have all been waiting for!

THE STIMULATOR ARRIVES!!.....2 electrodes placed on upper bum cheeks (with cold icky gel), and a little machine that I get to "turn up" every few minutes to "stimulate" my muscles (feels like little pins and needles but not really painful at all)...with an ice pack placed in the middle - for 10 whole minutes!

All in all I can say it did help somewhat - and sounds like a few more sessions (next week, mon, wed and friday) might straighten me out! (well at least the problem area! ).

Supposed to apply ice 3-4 times daily for about 20 mins each time (gel pak now in the freezer).

Took myself out to a movie (too boring to go home) and saw Million Dollar Baby - did not realize it was so sad!!! Bought some popcorn - but could not FINISH THE BAG! ..brought the rest home.

I did manage to get the roast in the oven around 4 pm so hopefully we can have dinner around 6 or so?

DD just go home, must go see if she has changed her mind!

Actually getting hungry now so might have a snack before dinner (even tho scale is up like TWO WHOLE POUNDS!!!!UGH!).

Good luck on your weigh in Frannie - let us know how it goes!

Froufie

Sounds like the physio appt wasn't TOO bad... I'm glad it made you feel better!

It reminds me of one of my most embarrasing moments though. Dh had gotten me a certificate for a free full body massage at a local spa. I am not a massage/spa type of person at all, but I finally got around to doing it when I was 4 months pg with dd #2. I was still early enough along that I didn't look pg, but far enough along to be "filled out" quite nicely. I'm generally quite a prude, but thought it wouldn't be too bad, since I was sure it would be a woman doing the massage. I get there, and lo and behold, the massager person was a very attractive man, pretty much my age and quite hot! I almost left, but managed to stick it out. He was very professional, but boy was it tough to be undressed, even under the sheet, in my huge pg state with such a nice-looking guy in a darkened room with music playing, and a massage going on!! I have to admit, it felt wonderful though, and I've almost managed to forgive dh for making me go through with it! I told him it would serve him right if I ran off with the guy.

Angela

Frouf I'm ALL ABOUT THE STIMULATOR!!! Turn me up baby!
Angela I had a massage once but it was from a woman and DH was on the other table getting massaged by the less attractive woman soo relaxing But I'd have a hard time being naked (even under a sheet) with a hot massaging guy
Speaking of hot massage guys did any of you see living out loud Eddie SIBRIAN (drool) gave Holly Hunter (lisp bleh) a HOT massage all while clad in his BVDs OH MY thats all i have to say

Well I won't tell you about my masseur James - who I used to visit a few years ago - he was quite good looking and boy what hands - we ended up being a bit more than "friends"....let's just say I'm quite naive at times??? (nod, nod, wink,wink)...It was quite fun while it lasted (and I was "between marriages")....

Once we get together I can tell you the whole "sordid" story! lol!

f.f.

I love massage stories! I've only had one but it was a dud because it was the lady's 40th birthday and her DD had been murdered a few years back. It was a high profile case around here where two high school kids killed another high school kid because the killed girl had dated the boy (killer) and the girlfriend (killer) said get rid of her so they did. Then the killers went on to military academy appointments but the girl killer started talking about it to her roommates so they called police and that crime was solved PDQ. They even made a TV movie about it. Anyway, this massage lady (the mom) was saying it was her 40th birthday and I said something like well you're taking it pretty good, most people would be depressed, then she said the worst days of her life had already happened because her daughter ... blah blah blah with the story and I'm like OMG, that was YOUR daughter??? Then the whole rest of the time we talked about it so it wasn't exactly relaxing but was very interesting.

So my crappy day goes like this. It's all good until on the way home from the eye doctor when DH calls my cell phone and said call me when you get home so you can tell me if Zuki is okay. I said alright, then said dinner was ready because I had put chicken and mushroom soup in the crockpot this morning. Then get this ... what do you think he said then???

He said ... oh but you forgot to plug it in. I said well then if you saw it unplugged, you did it, right? Oh no, no, no ... he didn't. He just looked at it, probably thought to himself "the poor ol' gal is losing it -- didn't even plug in the crockpot and look there's some chicken in there that'll sit out all day long and be ruined by tonight".

I was LIVID!!! I told him I might as well be living by myself for all the help I get from him! And the freakin' Christmas tree is still up! MARCH FREAKIN' THIRD! It's undecorated long ago -- but no way can I haul a 12 foot tree from down here up the stairs then up the attic stairs. No way! And the lazy a$$ knows that!! OMG, I am just sweating I'm so mad. I almost hoped he would call back so I could ignore the phone but believe me baby when he gets home, I'm going straight to the recliner and staring straight ahead. I told him to pick himself something up on the way home from work because ... read my lips ...I-AM-NOT-COOKING!!

And now I'm doing laundry. MY laundry. His can rot in the bathroom floor for all I care. Can you tell I'm ticked with a super capital T?????

Yep, end of my 2nd FULL Core day....yeah I know, I can't believe it myself It's the posts here and the encouragement you all give to one another.
I was a wee bit tempted on the way home to stop at the store but I didn't. I had visions of Froufie doing this And I thought why in the **** are you going to blow it after such a GOOD first day. So so I didn't.
Sounds like everyone is doing well, and that is a good thing.
I am all planned for tomorrow (Day 3 ) of my Core-ous Line. Easter isn't too far off ya know. We are going to a St Patty's Day dinner on the 12th and I couldn't be happier....Corn Beef and Cabbage - my favorite!! and me being Italian....I'd take that over Lasagna any day!! And if I'm correct Corned Beef is Core, correct????
It's 7 pm and I just finished off my day with my new -I think- favorite snack, Plain FF yogurt and a bit of SF/ FF butterscoth instant pudding....makes it just the right consistency.
Well time for my dose of Law and Order and then CSI---I am in TV heaven tonight....have a good evening all. I will let you all know how I do on Day 3.
Maybe with the Grace of God and all of I can get back into the Core thing slow but sure. As I said yesterday, I forgot how Good it was to eat that way. I DO HAVE a few QUESTIONS for those who care to answer. What do you use your 35 WPA's for???? And do any of you????
I did get a sugar urge but I fought it. I think someone said once it takes about 3 days to get past that feeling.
Vickie and Frannie I HOPE all went as you wanted it to....and that both your Chick and ticker are changed
LJ

LJ - I use my 35 extras for things like whole wheat p/nut butter toast
Folgers Cafe Latte
regular or light salad dressing
regular cheese
butter
crackers for soup

Some things I just can't live without.

Lisa