Greetings All!

Thought I would start us a new thread as the other one is getting pretty long!

Awesome pic Jojo! My oldest daughter really gets freaked out when I dress up so I don`t do it anymore. Halloween was great this year, inspite of the cold and the drizzle. Kids had a blast and that is what matters!

I am in the midst of a brutal migraine thansk to a whack of tempting Halloween candy. Chips,suckers and candy I can easily pass on but chocolate...ANY KIND OF CHOCOLATE....no bloody way. It`s like crack to me. I finally told my husband to take it all and put it in his garage. Kids were`nt overly happy but they`ve been feeling yucky too because of the junk. Plus my oldest has pink eye and I think it is from an overdose of sugar (lowering her resistance to any bugs) and she is complaing her belly hurts. Not having so much fun at my house today!

Hope everyone else is doing better!!!

Maddie - I hope you get over your migrain quickly, I know tons of people that have them but I don't get them so I'm not sure I know what you are going through but I hope it ends quickly for you.

Things are picking up, I ate some chocolate but not a whole lot. I put it on my counter at work and I really don't have the urge to take any when it's there.

I'm getting back on track. I ordered the Beck books to start, kick start myself again. I found my good pedometer while cleaning my room so that it on right now and I made plans with friends to go to the gym tomorrow morning at 6am. I'm just going through all my papers and notes on my routine. I can't wait to get back to it.

I hope everyone had a great Halloween. CMO2 how are you doing? Haven't seen you in awhile, hope my comments didn't scare you off. I think you are going awesome and can't wait to hear more of your routine.

Hello ladies,

Well I failed I didn't reach my goal of 189 nov 1.....
I have been struggling last week the scale would not budge finally today it did for the first time 192 so maybe I hit a plateau last week and now It is moving again.We will see in the am figures crossed.

Halloween was cold and snowing but the girls had a great time that's what counts!

Maddie~Sorry about the migrain I suffer from them also no fun

SnowBC~Glad you are getting back on the wagon again good luck

I see a little helper started a new thread for us; this year we seem to have more posters than in the past, but fall & winter is always busier than the spring & summer -- people are so busy outdoors and traveling a lot then.

MADDIE ~ hope you find relief for your headaches; they are no fun.

DONNA ~ glad you are finding some new ideas and resolve; I knew you could do it. Just review and regroup and restart ... atta girl!!! Yes, I agree about CMo2 -- I hope my comments didn't scare her off either, as I love her enthusiasm ...

CINDIE ~ just keep on, keepin' on and something will hafta budge sooner or later ...

We had and winds here today, so it felt a bit chilly . We went shopping for fresh veggies, etc and errand-running yesterday so I got in some extra walking too. Am trying a few new things -- ever tweaking -- but I had a great NSV yesterday .... I picked up a lovely navy suit in 1x and it fits, so all my toning exercises are working out well, so I increased the ones for my abdomen starting this week!

We had a lovely Halloween night here too; we gave the extra bags of candy to goodwill yesterday. Have a great week everyone ...

Hi Canadian Gals! Great to see you again!

Rosebud, congrats on getting that navy suit. What an awesome nsv! Glad you had a nice halloween.

Maddie: Good to hear that you hid the rest of the candy in the garage..hehe. I hope you and your daughter feel better soon. It sounds like you and the kids had a great halloween overall. I dressed up and went out trick or treating around the block with my friend. It was so funny! I mostly wanted to get out and meet my neighbors as I'm new on this street. I had a bit of candy (1 chocolate bar, two mini bags of chips). Shame, but I worked out hard this week too. I'm back at the gym now ladies! Started running, and doing weights. It feels like a big thing to get back into it..I finally kicked myself in the ***...

snowbound..awesome to hear that you are getting back into it!

cinm: don't beat yourself up too much. As long as you are moving forward, that is all that counts imo. I'm not looking forward to hitting a plateau.
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I lost 2 pounds this past week, and hope to get my 5% goal next week!!! I've started back at the gym this past week and have went twice thus far. I plan on going at least every second day. I will go to aerobics this week or next week.. I really want to turn it up in high gear to lose more. I go to the doctors end of November to see if I have to go on cholesterol pills, and I'm so hoping that my efforts will not be in vain. Have a great week ladies!

After going home yesterday with a headache and going to bed with my neck and shoulders aching, I thought I was done for but I awoke at 5am and was at the gym at 6am and home by 7am after a great workout!!

Jojo - congrats on the loss you sound like you are doing great!!

Headache is gone...YAY...and I have realised that sugar is causing me a lot of problems. Headaches ( of course) and I think it is also causing me a lot of inflammation in my body. When I eat no sugar...my blood pressure is great, if I eat any quanity of it...pressure is high. I have plantar fasciaitis (pain in my foot) and it is supposed to be "cured" by losing weight. If I don't eat sugar, I have no pain. The past week on my sugar spree...my foot killed me!

jojo-great news! great loss!

Donna- Good for you to get back on track! Bet it felt great to get a workout done!

Rosebud-Isn't finding clothes in a smaller size an AWESOME feeling?! Makes my entire day!

I'm wondering if headaches can be caused by TOM, I'm sure I'm due anytime now and the last two days I've had major headaches.

The hormones from TOM always casue me a good 4 day headache. On sugar...it is a wicked 4 day migraine. Totally off sugar and it's there, but not bad enough that I even take tylenol.

Stress is bad too.

MADDIE ~ that's an interesting observation -- that sugar causes you headaches and pain in your feet. I wonder what the connection is? I did read somewhere that sugar thickens the blood; hence pressure on the vessels & veins, etc. That would make sense about the blood pressure being higher then too ... sugar may cause a lot more health issues than we realize ...


DONNA ~ I agree that hormones could cause headaches -- I think I read or heard that somewhere in the past too. Hope they pass soon; glad you felt well enuff to go to the gym today anyways ...


We had a good day; did vacuuming & dust mopping -- plus tidying up around the house which gives me extra walking to and fro. Tried a meatless pasta dish tonight with beans as the meat sub; was pretty good and DH wolfed it down. I could eat pasta and rice with veggies and be perfectly happy all the time; I'll try to sneak them at DH a bit at a time ...

It was cold and windy again today; but the did come out for the late afternoon which was nice. Hope you all have a fab Friday tomorrow ... Rosebud

Hey everyone!!! I really got to start coming in here more often! You guys are a wonderful bunch of people I just get to wrapped up in my own misery and post mostly in the depression section of the forum. These really short days don't help at all and the time change is going to make it even worse! I hate the time change! There are so many proven reasons why we should NOT do it, it's just stupid. Oh well, who am I to try change the world? Haha.

Our Halloween was very nice, a little cool but there's none of that icky stuff yet and temps have been reaching 10° during the day! Yay! (It's supposed to be cooling down now so we're enjoying the good stuff while it lasts.) Hubby and I went to a party and there were certain parts he didn't remember the next day... oops! LoL

Cimn - As long as the scale is going in the right direction it's all good!

Maddie - Odd that sugar would cause things like that, sucky too. I'm glad your headache is gone anyway. I get the occasional migraine and it's really hard to function. The husband of a friend has a constant headache... has for years and years. He's seen all sorts of specialists and tried everything.. no one can figure out why.

Donna - TOM is a big trigger for me too... makes me just look up at the sky and say "Seriously???? You give me TOM, PMS AND a headache to top it off?????"

Hi Rosebud. Since you've finished all of that cleaning at your place want to come clean mine?

Jojo - Good luck with the cholesterol pill thing. Are you boxing in your avatar? How do you like it? I've often thought of trying it since I hit like a girl... thought maybe it would toughen me up a bit and teach me how to hit in the event I ever need to defend myself.

Aunty Jam...are you taking vitamin D? I find if I don't take it, I get into a funk that I just can't shake. My naturopathic doctor put me on 2000iu per day and even said when the weather is dreary...up it to 3-4000iu a day. I found it made a HUGE difference!

THAT'S FUNNY, AUNTY ~ gee, shucks -- too bad you live sooo far away ... I spread it out over the week, so I can count it as exercise ... Actually, I (and many other Canadians) agree with you whole-heartedly that they shouldn't turn the clocks back at all; but they argue that this is to give more light in the AM for the people going to work & kiddies going to school, but it's dark when they are coming home, so I don't get it either.

Ya, JOJO ~ I just realized that you are wearing boxing gloves too; that sounds like lots of fun ...

MADDIE ~ I take Vitamin D now too; I didn't know that you could take that much though ... I also close our curtains as soon as it gets dark and turn on the florescent lights to brighten things up ... I think it helps.

We had a bit of the ***white stuff*** today, but not much; it kinda blew by ... but it is NOVEMBER, so I guess we shouldn't complain too much. I like it when it is light & fluffy, as it looks so pretty. I just stayed home today and avoided the cold ~~ winds ~~ that we had which made it feel more like -10 C than -2 C ...

Hope all our CRAZY CANUCKS have a great weekend ... Rosebud

Hi Maddie - My doc perscribed viatimin D also... it's a good thing to take but I'm not sure if it changes a funk, maybe. It certainly can't hurt!

Rosebud - aw come on.. my house is a complete disaster! I'm on the board of directors for a club I belong to. At our meeting yesterday they were asking where we should hold the next one... I just sunk into my chair and avoided eye contact.

Cooler out today but still very nice for this time of year I'm leaving for Houston again on Sunday, it's been in the mid to higher 20's there for the past while. Hopefully that will still be the case when I'm there

Did my workouts this morning at home. Pilates and WATP. The Beck Diet books came in today, i can't wait to get started.