I'm back sorry I wrote you an email about why I was MIA hope you got it. I'm down from my ticker I need to make a new one. My weight is 217. So the scale has moved rather slow but it has moved. I'm not on my Alli but I'll be starting it soon again. I wasn't able to take it with all the crazy hours at the hospital and having to grab what was around and try and be good fat calorie wise.
Sounds like you have a very caring stepfather. Yoga sure makes one feel great. I have only done the videos. I'm sure the classes are better since you'll have someone help you learn the form.
I have to run my grandson keeps hitting the keys and I been having to retype this way to many times.
take Care and I hope to see everyone else return and some new faces!!
So today was a good day.....healthwise. I made the decision to go to nightshift today. I start Sunday. My BFF works nights and she says it's great. Not only are the supers more laid back, you get to leave early AND you get paid more (almost $1 more)! Today was the final straw for me in day shift. They are so full of crap. I didn't want to leave Birmingham with a bad taste in my mouth.
Car's in the shop, this time for the last time for a while hopefully. Finally decided to just go ahead and take it to the 'real' mechanics....the ones that will tell me EXACTLY what's wrong, not what MIGHT be wrong, and will go ahead and fix it. Should get it back in a week or so.
I WENT TO THE GYM TODAY! It was great! I felt fantastic! I walked there from the job. It was a nice day. Not a Shari day but nice. The sun was shining and it was warm but there was a nice breeze going so I didn't feel like I was going to die. It was an almost forty min walk then I got to the gym and did weights for another 30. My thighs were SCREAMING so I went into the sauna, first time in MONTHS. I missed it so much! Would have went into the whirlpool but TOM is here so no dice. Funny thing, a woman came in while I was in the steam room and sat down. She was bigger than me and FULLY DRESSED! I've never seen anyone dressed in anything more a swimsuit in the sauna. I kinda understand though. It took me a while to get used to walking around naked. The first couple of weeks, I just brought a huge towel from home and wrapped that around me. I'm a little more comfortable now, even though I still bring the towel when I remember. After that, I walked about five blocks to the library. I almost smacked the security guard though. He told me I couldn't come in because I had my work clothes in my bag! WTF?! He said 'rules' so I went outside, walked over to the research building (which is just a extension of the library) and ran into another security guard WHO LET ME IN!!! So the first guard was just a jerkoff. And now I'm here typing in the computer lab. And I'm going to do more walking soon cause I have to catch the bus to my neighborhood.
WOW that's a long post! Oh and I'm OP today too......including NINE glasses of water so far!
WTG!! Staying on plan. I use to work security and I tell you some ppl once they get to be a security worker they think they are The Awe And Powerful OZ!!! They are just bullies! That was the thing I hated most. A few were super cool but I found the worst ones were the wimps and felt they had to prove somthing by pushing around others. UGH
I'm going to be weighting in on Fridays. TOM is still messed up can go and stop a few times a month. So my weight can go up and down I swear hourly!
I don't let it get me down because I'm looking at the big picture!
I'll try and write a bit of something everyday and maybe before long we will have many new 10 lbs at a time losers.
Take Care
Mez
Yesterday was just a chill out day. I was so sleepy, I just went to work and then went right back home and crashed! Good thing about extra sleep, you're not eating! But back to the grind today.
Sorry for the abrupt leave. Got back together with my (former) ex beginning of July, and just got myself pretty busy.
Weightloss kind of went on a back burner. I started eating a lot, but surprisingly been pretty much been maintaining (don't know how). Though I haven't weighed in a bit, so I might have gained *scared* I think I'm somewhere in the 160's, possibly lower 170's (might sneak a peek on the boyfriend's scale before work since I haven't really been at my apt at a time where I can weigh myself accurately).
But now that I'm trying to get back into the weightloss bit. I've come to far to gain everything back. When I dated my boyfriend before, I was about 235 and he really couldn't pick me up. Now he can, and it's such a great feeling, and well, it'd be kind of mortifying if he couldn't anymore. But I don't know, I want to continue. I've come so far, and I don't want the best success I've had so far turn on me.
The other week I went to the gym for the first time in almost 4 months. I'd like to go again after work, but I'm not sure if I can. I'd been too occupied to go before, and then when I was ready to go back, ended up with a staph infection (twice), and now that I've been healthy for a few weeks may have another staph infection coming back, so I don't know if it'd be a good idea.
One of the things that's irritating beyond belief is that it seems hard to try to even think about losing weight while I'm with my boyfriend. I'm practically living with him (I haven't slept at my apt in almost 2 months let alone spent more than 10 minutes there in a few days time). His house is packed with some of the greatest foods, and a lot of times it is hard to resists (him and his dad are really good cooks - his dad has a side catering business).
Any suggestions? I was doing okay at first, but then I got really comfortable about eating, and now I seem to find it difficult to stop.
But anyway, I plan on getting back on track and coming back and posting here more. Missed you all and was wondering how everyone was doing.
Shari - Hey I know how you feel. When my grandkids take their naps I just want to crawl in bed myself.
Spunker- Welcome back! Congrats on getting back with the BF and maintaining.
Now for some hopefully good advice about all those good eats around you. This is what I did when I was MIA - Now bear in mind I wasn't eating on plan but I did manage to lose weight around 5 lbs not alot but it's a loss and not a gain so I'm going to pat myself on the back for that.
I try to picture two things in my mind before I eat. I picture myself now and then think of what I want to look like. How I feel I would eat at that weight. Then most of the time I eat only a small amount of the high fat/cal stuff and load up on veggies/salads. I try to use only vinager salad dressings. Sometime I do slip and I try and make up for it later by maybe not eating as much my next meal or trying to get a 10 min. workout be it dancing to music in the bathroom (So no one can see me or bugg me) What was a great help was when I went shopping and they had one of those trick mirrors for halloween and I walked by and it make me look my idea weight!! That maked me feel great and I still have that "high" when I think of what I looked like.
Just don't ever give up and never beat yourself up tomorrow is another day and you'll do it!!
Hello Ladies I hope all is going well on your ends. I got a mail from curves the other day I'm thinking of giving it a try. Anyone out there doing curves?
*FAINT* I stepped on the scale and I was up 3 LBS from yesterday!! I'm thinking it's water weight from TOM. Anyways I'm going to try and get it off as quickly as possible!!
Thanks for the info on Curves. I think that is what I need right now maybe a kick start to fitness.
70 mins Friday and 70 mins yesterday, all walking. Hoping I can get to the gym tomorrow.
So I had a total WTF? moment yesterday: I was delivering the dinner trays in MICU and one of the patients was looking at me and crackling when I was setting him up. As I was leaving, he said 'You got a fat face....but you're pretty.' Ooookkkaaay. I just looked at him and left. I wasn't hurt or angry, it was just 'Huh?'
Humm I don't know what to think about what that guy said. Other than your petty the rest was bla bla bla... Honestly some men do have a way with their words. One guy told me that some guys say something good like him finding you attractive but are fightened that you'll reject them so may add something rude to make them feel safe.
Well I weight in again today. Still 3lbs up! UGH I did start my Alli and am going to eat on plan. Which is kind of hard since my grandkids love to share their food with me. My grandson has caught on that I'm faking bites so today he faked eating his lunch.
Well I better get this house pickedup. Grandkids are gone and I need to pic up and take a nice long bath.
60 mins of walking today. We had a very pretty day. It was kinda dark, threatening rain, and the wind was blowing (well, it was pretty to me!).
Someone noticed today and it was weird cause I really haven't lost anything and when she asked, I kinda denied. She then asked me if I was trying, I said yes, and she said it showed. Not sure how to feel about that.
sorry I wrote you an email about why I was MIA hope you got it. I'm down from my ticker I need to make a new one. My weight is 217. So the scale has moved rather slow but it has moved. I'm not on my Alli but I'll be starting it soon again. I wasn't able to take it with all the crazy hours at the hospital and having to grab what was around and try and be good fat calorie wise. 
And now I'm here typing in the computer lab. And I'm going to do more walking soon cause I have to catch the bus to my neighborhood. 
everyone! 