Good Wednesday Morning Everyone
(started this this morning, now it's after 9pm)
I am POOPED! I am sooo tired it's not funny. I was up around 2:30am when I saw Eli wasn't in bed (he worked late last night), so I got up and found him watching the boob-tube, went back to sleep but didn't fall back to sleep. He came in bed and ALL NIGHT LONG he had some weird SHAKING LEG SYNDROME (is that something real-sounds good enough to be something!). His leg would shake about ever 30-45 seconds, thus, shaking the bed. Finally, I go out of the bed around 3:45am and came on the computer until about 5am. Was finally able to fall asleep for bout a half hour-wasn't enough sleep and I'm just feeling pooped now.
Okay, the above was written this morning, didn't have a chance to finish until now, Eli was off today-surprisingly, we DID NOT GO TO BROWARD! We stayed down here, went to lunch at Maroosh
(ME rest) and ran to a few stores. By the time we ended up getting out of the house it was late morning, almost Noon.
Needless to say, I had no energy to get in my walk/jog today-my brain wanted to do so, but the body said no and the body won. THUS, I've seen a BIG increase in my food intake today with nothing satisfying me, thus, over eating today. BUT, in defense, it's mid-cycle for me and I find as much as I try to prevent this feeling, my hormones seem to go on a warpath all their own. It's like they are screaming "FEED US MORE!!!"
So, it's
WEIGH IN WEDNESDAY and I can't complain (doesn't help if you do anyhow, right?) I'm at 120 this week. Still up from my lowest of 118 by 2lbs, but thankfully, in the lower range of my cushion
I did take some measurements today and saw a slight decrease in my waist, tummy and thigh-the only places I ever measure. I sure do wish I had started measuring when I started SB. I can tell you on April 9th 2001 my waist was 33.5in, it's now just under 31. I can only imagine the 1 year before what it was when I started SB!
Thanks to all of you who joined me in the chat room last night-always a pleasure to get to speak to you in "real time."
FROG, we missed you in chat last night
Sounds like someone named BP is becoming a kitty cat as far as the cat is concerned! Hoping you will hear about the beach house soon so we can start the REAL planning!! PALEEESE 8/10 of a pound, just go to the bathroom, you'll be back down again!!!
JRED, sorry you haven't seen a loss on the scale-would be happy to try to help you figure it out. Are you sure you're eating enough? Hormones wrecking havoc? Staying OP? There's usually an explanation for what's going on-just have to play detective. Congrats on getting some exercise in-maybe that just what you need to boost your metabolism to drop a few pounds.
QUILTER, glad you're doing a bit better. THANKS FOR POSTING THE PICTURE!!!! I love it, you two look like you were the wedding couple! I have to find some of the pictures from last year and get them posted-they were on disk and gosh knows where I stuck them!
FILLISE, sounds like you did a great job last night! CONGRATS! Good for you in getting the agave-hope they will get in some more for you before the supplies run dry-stock up!
MEL, see! You kvetched for nothing! CONGRATS on the pound loss! Couldn't post on the board for some reason this evening. Finally getting on here now! Hey, at least you tried a suit on-I would never dare to venture doing that in my life ever again. There's a big picture of me in every swimsuit dept with a big slash over my face and it reads "DON'T LET HER TRY ON A SUIT!"
SOL, 37 more days til we meet again-cool! Got any ideas what we can do for the day? Are you going to join us at the hotel-we'll have a slumber party! We'll have more than a couple hours, more like the entire day! HAPPY & LAMAP aren't sure yet if they can come. ZSU is trying to get that weekend off. GATOR hasn't said yay or nay, I think. And Sunday too-don't have to leave until about 4ish I'd say. I'd like to come up on Friday evening, just so I'm not so tired on Sat.-will discuss this later with you. I wouldn't worry about the scale, remember, you're exercising quite a bit lately and I'm sure you've lost fat and gained muscle in it's place-which weighs more.
DARAMUS, CONGRATS on this weeks loss!!! Weigh to go!
HAM, CONGRATS on your 2lb loss this week-you're doing great!!!!
ROSALIE, well, if I hear of anything else that may be good between now and then, I'll let you know. There's lots of other things to do in the Orlando area besides the theme parks. On International Drive there's a water park and a place my kids loved, can't remember the name (SOL?) it looks like an upside down building and it's all hands on things for the kids-and adults-we had a blast there too! Heck, don't worry about those little fluctuations, you know it's going to go downward in due time
SHEANN, CONGRATS on not only meeting your January Goal, but for being patient. I promise you, always be patient and you will be rewarded. It's too easy to throw in the towel when you see the scale going in the opposite direction, I know from experience. Many times I had gains, sometimes 6lbs in a few days time and I wan't cheating, I was eating perfectly, no reason to gain and I knew if I just stayed OP and was patient my patience would pay off and it always did!!!
BUSDEB, CONGRATS on this weeks loss of 2lbs-being 1lb away from your half way point must be very motivating. It's like climbing to the top of the summit and then finally being able to climb down!!!
ZANNE, CONGRATS on your loss this week. Anything that takes you closer to your goal is good, even if you don't make it to your goal. At least you're headed in the right direction, right?
JMUIR, CONGRATS on your loss this week as well! So you're a shoe nut, huh? Well, maybe by the time you lose that 15lbs, the sale will be so incredibley good and worth waiting to buy some shoes.
PRAVDA, hope you feel better. Are you going anywhere on your vacation??
BETH, I bet you have lost-definitely need to get some gear that fits, sure don't want your pantaloons to fall down, do you? Hmm, as long as you don't get scale obsessed like moi, a scale could be good. Maybe you have a friend/family member who has one that you could run to and weigh once a week??
SEF, sorry the news wasn't good at the Dr.'s today-would it do any good to get a second opinion? I have to say, I do love your attitude-some people would just sit down and feel sorry for themselves, but not you-you seem to live your life to the fullest, and I truly admire you for that!!!
Time to go figure out what to throw out on the table and call dinner
Though I may not be allowed back in the kitchen, Eli says I have gas bad enough that I could smoke Bin Laden out of any cave he's in! LOL!
Please remember
TOMORROW IS RECIPE DAY so if you have an good SB LEGAL RECIPES you'd like to share with the board, please try to post them tomorrow.
Have a great nite!
Debbie
194/120/129
SB since 3/22/00
Reached goal 6/10/01