News Flash! Size "A" bras are expensive, mine usually cost $30 to $40. Fat or thin I am always flat chested. If I was going to get plastic surgery it would be implants but I know w/ my luck something would go wrong w/ them and I would be deathly ill or something. But if they were safe they would be my reward to getting down to goal weight. And bras are pretty much not needed w/ implants. It's a nice dream...

Hope everyone finds us ok in our new "support group" forum. I think it is a very fitting place for us. But I think I may put a new thread on introductions to make sure everyone does find us.

Oh yeah, the good news! I actually drug my butt to the gym this am and feel much better because of it. I took it a little easy on myself though because of the chest cold/pneumonia thing I got going on. 30 minutes of cardio and about 15 - 20 of weight machines. My dog is having surgery tomorrow and needs to be dropped off at the vet by 8AM so right after that I'm off to the gym again. Got to make it a habit.

T, Hope PT went well.

MJ

Emjay-glad to see that you made it back to the gym.

I finally got my head out of my but and decided to work out, even though I have other work to get done, and man did I forget how good it feels to excersize. I used to love to do it, but I may be sore tomorrow, but I'm looking forward to it, not to mention the natural high afterwards, why oh why did I stop?

Zandria-I have thought about joining ww but because I quit a good paying job to go back to school we are living on a very tight budget. So from here on out only the essentials. Except for a few splurges for losing weight, I already have tattoo ideas-sorry I am an addict, right now I only have one but more to come.

lady-hope pt goes well.

Well must get away from the puter-gotta fix lunch for me and my daughter. Check back in later.

Jen

Wowee em.. that IS expensive! Dang girl! Shut my mouth! BTW, I didn't know implants don't need bras! Though, I never thought of it and now that I AM thinking of it.. it makes some sense. Geeze.

Thanks for the well wishes re: PT everyone. My therapist is super nice and basically said it was my own dern fault I was in this mess. 1) because I suffered an injury and didn't let it heal properly and 2) because I don't stretch properly after working out.

We negotiated a solution. She wanted me to stop working the knee for several days. I was all then I was a little so she was all and we worked out a deal. Cut back the cardio (bike or eliptical)from 6 days a week to 4 days a week and no more than 45min at a pop on very easy resistance. She said to spend the other two days doing upper body lifting. No lower body lifting at all. All in all, not a bad plan.

Kudos to you ladies for getting the work outs in! Who Hoo! - Say it with me: move more, eat less move more, eat less

Wow, it is awefully quiet in here today ladies.

Today was a good day, stayed on plan, didn't go over my calories and got my workout in. I am afraid I am going to be a little sore in the am but anything worth having is worth working for. I also drank tons of tea, but the thing I am most proud of-I didn't have any pop today. Go me!! That is huge for me, little miss gotta have a six pack everyday.

Heres to hoping that tomorrow is a good day for all as well.

Hope more of you find your way in to update tomorrow.
Jen

Hey girls, Day two at the gym, woohoo. I did 30 minutes of cardio which translated into 2.5 miles on an elliptical, and I did a "fat burn" program as apposed to the "manual" I normally do. It was way more challenging. Even "Miss Fit" on the elliptical next to me commented that I did a good job. Which I didn't quite know how to take. She was probably thinking, " good, the big girl made it thru I was afraid she may drop half way and I may have to pause and screw up my routine". No not really, it was probably just good hearted encouragement but you never know.

T, Glad PT went better than expected. What is your frequency (how many visits per week, how many weeks)? Did they give you much work to do at home? Well look on the bright side about the upper body work, this may be a great opportunity to tone your back and arms. Don't you think as women we always neglect that portion a little cuz we are always worried about our legs and butts (thanks to our male dominated society)? Sorry, I will stay off my soapbox.

Jen, Good for you getting back in the saddle again. I know, I know, I am also one who loves to excercise, then why the he%& do I stop doing it! I know the answer to that one, "always doing everything for everyone else". Sound familiar? Wow, my mental image of you did not include tattoos. That is cool though. What do you have and where? Well hope you got you w/o in today.

Gotta go, one day off and a whole lotta house to clean.

TTYL, MJ

Feel the burn baby, feel the burn. I love my elliptical, it kicks my butt big time. It has preset programs that are wonderful. Right now I do the 30 minute program, it starts out at a resistance of 2 then works itself up to 7 then varies between 5,6, and 7 for about 20 minutes. My thighs were on fire, but the last 3 or 4 minutes are really easy doing a resistance of 3 then two. Yesterday after I did the elliptical I did some light weights. Well I thought I would do some pilates today cause I will do the weights everyother day. I felt so fat and uncordinated laying on my mat. The good news is I still have a lot of strength in my abs, I can still do a lot of the ab work, but not in as long of intervals as before.

I had my oatmeal for breakfast, not sure what lunch will be yet, I want to make a salad with chicken but my chicken is still frozen hard. I have fish in the freezer I could bake and eat with my leftover green beans from supper last night. Hmm, both sound good.

A little off topic but this evening after the hubby gets home I get to go by my books, well if he comes home today, when I talked to him this am he didn't know if he had a load for today, but really doubted it. I am so excited, I also need to buy a parking sticker for my car. I am on cloud 9. To think I was considering meds for my depression and all I really needed was just a little motivation and forward action of my own.

Where is everyone else? I know we are all busy with school starting and all but I really miss you ladies, not to mention I get tired of listening to myself ramble on

Emjay-right now I have one tattoo, I have a cross with roses that I have had for about 6.5 years. When we get our taxes back I will be getting a shamrock and a s on my right hand right above my thumb. That one will be very special. It is for my dad. He had a s in the same spot and I what the shamrock cause his birthday was st. pats day. I love butterflies so after I lose weight I will be getting one on the small of my back. I want an angel on my probably left shoulder. I also want my husbands name somewhere, I know mushy. There is a pic of my face in my profile, my face is a little fuller than that cause that was taken last summer when i was at 189. There is also a link to my myspace that has pics of my whole family. Feel free to take a look. I love bragging on my girls.

Well I need to go decorate my bedroom then I will be officially completely moved in. Yay My appt may be small but it is supper cute and I love it.
Well this got supper long, sorry all, I will check back in later.
Jen

Jen, I am on a budget at the moment too, that is the only thing that has stopped me from going to ww. I am going to just try to start this journey without ww. I already know what is and is not good for me to eat, I just have to estabish all the self control and motivation over again. It would be nice to have another support group in which I could meet with people in person, but I am just glad that I accidentally found this website. Also, I have thought about getting a tat before, but I wanted it in a discrete area where it could be hidden and I was alwayd worried that it would get streched after pregnancy or something.

Lady in white, I am not sure if I am misunderstanding you...but I am still currently engaged...pretty much married though...minus the name change and the shared insurance. I am very excited to be married though. A few months ago, I kind of wished that I was going to get married sooner (we've planned on 2008 since the beginning)..but I realized that I would be very stressed out with everything else that I am doing right now...and I hope to go back to 130 or close to. But If I don't get there when the wedding comes, I guess I will have to deal with it.
**Congrats on all your successes by the way. I look up to people like you.

So it is funny that you are all talking about bras today. I buy all my Bras at VS, but I never pay full price. I get coupons in the mail that take $10 or so off of them and I wait till they go on sale...or if I have a gift card. Yesterday, one of the bras I have had from there since prob. 3-4 years ago was hurting me so bad. I was wearing it all day and I realized that it had curled up...I think its time to pitch that one.

Well today I worked out again before work. I have been working on pretty consistently for the last few weeks. Yay me!!

Well not much else to say, it is hard keeping up with all of u sometimes when I don't check everyday. If anyone ever wants to talk my sn is zanyzandria on aim or feel free to pm me

Is That Really Me I have some serious food issues. I am the same way when I am hungry, if I remind myself that I am on a diet and stick with my diet, than I am so much better off than when I give in and eat the wrong foods. Because when I give in to just eating, than I feel like I am back at the starting diet gate again. Starting over everyday is getting so old.

Tahoemom I am in need of a new scale too. I keep telling myself that when I start losing weight again I will reward myself with a new scale.

gingerjen I do fine with my water except when I binge eat. Maybe if I force myself to drink all my water even when I binge maybe I will stop overeating sooner rather than later.

AUD Those bread machines are very dangerous to any diet. I love hot bread so I have to try my best to avoid at all cost.
Sending you another truck load of day shift vibes!

ladyinwhite There is a woman who I see walking when I drive my son to school. Whether it is cold or even raining that dedicated woman is out there walking. She puts me to shame.

Collegebride I could have written what you wrote. I was so proud of myself when I had loss weight. I was so organized using weight watchers point system. I found it to be so easy and I felt at the time I could stay on that plan a life time. I never binged, I was in control. Than I got off program was not eating right, ended up binge eating. And went down from there. I am angry with myself. I am slowly getting my diet mojo back. I will be so happy when I relose the pounds I gained.


emjay71 I have taebo and I am gong to challenge myself to using it once a week. I can't do it all, but I am going to give it a try once a week.
How did your dog's sugergy go? Hope all is well.



Work has been super busy. I have been binge eating again. Sometimes I really want to give up. But I know I need to take care of myself. So once again today is a new diet day for me. I started off right with exercise. Followed by a nice breakfast. I brought some carnation instant breakfast so that I will not have any excuse for missing breakfast or eating the wrong foods for breakfast. If I start off with a good breakfast I am OP all day. Haven't stepped on the scale. Because I can look in the mirror and see I have not loss on ounce. But I am determined to stay OP all week and weigh at the end of the week.

Quick hello to everyone! Taking the princess to see Dreamgirls tonight! Eating ok today but stepped on the scales and it looks like I may have put on a lb. during the holidays.

Going to try to be extra diligent during the next week so to get rid of this weight!!

Good news is that I did the exercises the PT gave me after I worked out today and WHO HOO! My leg/knee feels awesome!!! No pain today. Can you believe it? Who knew? Those dern PT chicks know what they are doing!

Have a great Friday night!

Move more! Eat LESSSSSSS!

You know what the funny thing is? My fiance knows that I want to lose weight, and he is always trying to help me and motivate me. Yet, he still bought a large bag of christmas m & m's that were on sale and stuffed jalepenos last night. I don't understand why he acts so supportive yet doesn't think when he buys food. I have told him before that it is hard for me to have self control once its in the apartment, but if its not I won't buy it. Well luckily, I controled myself enough to only eat 2-3 jalepeno poppers. Yum!! Darn guys and late night snacking!

FINALLY found us again - gotta figger out that bookmark thang.

I am so beat tonight - just wanna say how great it was catching up with everyone and send you all the best!

Talk more when not zapped . . . 'night.

You guys are all so inspiring! Was soooo beat last night but really relaxed and absorbed the motivation late last night reading away in this Thread!

Was so glad to see you at the end of the Thread Lilbbee . . . always think to myself that if you are hanging in there - I can too! Here's something I've done a couple of times this week:

Determined that I'm not really hungry for breakfast and on two occasions--lunch so just had a couple of bites of each at close intervals in the day for fuel purposes etc.

THEN in the evening had my planned supper - later when I felt like snacking/overeating/mindless/unconscious etc - I ate all of my breakfast AND lunch leftovers and went to bed.

I'm still losing and this satisfied my psychotic need to eateateat a lot at bedtime.

Whattyall think?

PS: I want a boob job too---my years of yo-yo'ing/breast feeding that had never really affected my large bust have caught up with me this time - ie - the droops/less full. Anyone know if there is a way to hike these puppies up w/o implants - wishing they could just sew 'em to my chin and I'll take it from there!

Helllo all,
gonna make this short, I will be running out the door here in a few minutes to go see my mother. I won't have time to workout today, but that wasn't the initial plan. She called this morning with my sisters address and she sounded kinda gloomy and wanted to know when I would be bringing the girls down again, well there isn't much I won't do for her so we are gonna go see her. It is a good excuse not to work out, I will just make up for it tomorrow, I have never worked out on Sundays so we will just sneak on in.

The caffine headaches are gone, yay, this is day three with no pop. But it will be a test, being in the car for long periods of time always gets me into trouble on the diet front, I get bored and munch, but I am going to buy some beef jerky, I love beef jerky and it makes a wonderful snack, I also bought some of those 100 calorie snack packs, I am gonna get my peanut butter fix without the peanut butter.

Aud-glad you found something that works for evening snacking. I don't necessarily save the leftovers-I save calories that way I can have popcorn or something and stay in my daily limit. Actually last night I had 260 left over, was gonna go to popcorn but got busy and it got too late to eat anything-I don't like eating late, don't know why.

Collegebride-my hubby tried doing that last night, he wanted a big bag of jumbo m&ms. I put my foot down and said absolutely not. If he wants to eat that crap do it during the week when I don't have to watch. He did get to bring his pepsi home so I wasn't totally cruel-and I had a small glass of chocolate milk with supper so I got my chocolate fix in for the day.

My quick post turned into another novel, will check back in tonight or in the morning.
Jen

Aud, boobs sewn to your chest...Idk, sounds kind of painful

Jen, have fun hanging out with your mom and sisters. I know what you mean about the munchies while on car trips. You could always have dried fruit with you for next time though?! I never get bored on our monthlyesque car trips w/ my fiance, only when I drive by myself. We talk about a lot of stuff, because we don't always have loads of time to talk. And then we make a good music list on our ipods usually! Anyway, hope you had fun!! Maybe you'll go shopping today...good way to burn calories right?!?

Hi chicklets - I've been so busy lately I've only had time for my journaling. Quick update: The knee feels soooo good. I'm shocked, I am genuinely stunned that the PT is working. I'm a believer now let me tell you! I'm doing my exercises like a good girl!!

M: PT is set for 2x a week for the next three weeks culminating in strength training after being so lazy for the rehab period. The home exercises are pretty easy, mostly just really specific stretches to do every day, especially after working out.

collegebride: My bad: I read your nick college BRIDE and assumed you were married. You know what they say about people who assume

aud: I'm right there with you re: wishing my breasts were where they used to be. I'm always asking DH to shorten up the straps on the bra I'm wearing to try to give the girls a lift! I'm such a baby though, no way I could go for actual surgery. Besides, If I were to ever get any sort of "work" done, I'd liposuction these thighs up one side and down the other!!

Jen: Good for you telling the DH to keep his candy off the premises! Nicely done!

Well, I'm headed to bed early tonight, spending tomorrow in NYC. Hubby and I are taking the princess to the Met to see an art exhibit then tickets to Spamalot at 7. Going to be a long day and a late night home.

Play nice!