Hawt Biker Chicks! (and dudes) 2015!
 

Happy New Year!! I got a cold :( :( I always work out on Jan. 1st just for the theory but I don't think I should today. And I'm working..and going in an hour early! ugh. Hot shower and pain reliever should help.

Now that it's January, at least to me it seems biking weather is a little closer on the horizon :cool: "only" 3 1/2 more months for us :D

Wishing us HEALTH and Hotness :devil: oh and some wealth, that's never bad, and a TON of happiness for 2015

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Holly I also came down with a cold Tuesday night and needless to say I made it through last night with alittle liquid help, but today feeling even worse, so I think instead of shopping I am going to lay on the couch!

Hoping this will be a much healthier New Year for Mind and Body.....

Thanks for getting the new thread started :)

New year, new thread, new avatar and new ticker. :celebrate:

I am catching up.... this is super long!
 

Happy New Year!!!!!! I wish you all (and us) the happiest/healthiest/best year ever!!!

Ok, sorry for being MIA once again..... I am a schmuck. to not at least check in on the holidays. But, I did do some reading of the past forum to catch up.
I guess I really have no good excuse other than that depression bug and just laziness got me.

I invited my DS2 to Christmas I had even bought them gifts (with the possibility they may not come).... they declined 2 days before and posted pictures on FB instead of their parties and things..... so for that reason and another relative that continually does the "suicide dance", I have shut down my FB. It is a struggle dealing with him.... but I am starting out the new year better....and with the attitude he knows I am his mother.... he knows where I live..... and anything else is just his loss. Enough about that.

So, as you can see my weight is 10 below where I had originally planned. I am trying to maintain now. When I got the BEST JOB IN THE WORLD EVER, it just started coming off.... and the stress level is way down except for the above mentioned junk. I work for the company I worked at before.... but AT HOME!!!! I wish I had known this world existed years ago. lol.

So, to join in the SOA talk. I watched it faithfully for awhile.... but then none.... but the ending was just off the charts. It is just mind blowing.
Do any of you all watch The Walking Dead? I am not into the zombie thing.... but I really like this show.

Holly, you are rocking the exercise..... so, I know you say you struggle with sweets and such. You are such a talented cook... why don't you spruce your recipes up with like protein shake powder to make them more "south beachy"? There is a lady who had weight loss surgery and I found her blog.... it is "theworldaccordingtoeggface". She does low carb revisions of favorites.... so I got some of my inspiration from her.... but as talented as you are.... you could take it and run with it. I just got high protein brownies out of the oven to drink with my coffee (I guess that is the official sign of getting old- loving coffee with sweets). Lol. Just an idea.

Reda, OMG, I cannot believe Karly is 2.5..... that is just mind blowing.

Aaron, glad to see you back.

Sunster, I have been wrapped up in those spokes too many times to mention, but you are so determined.... you will take them spokes and shove them on that wagon's rear axle (if at all possible-- lol).

Colleen & Dawn-- HELLO!!!!!

Ok, so now for my Christmas present from DS1.... you all may or may not know.... but I am also a crazy dog lady.... maybe issues with DS2.... but I have 4 inside dogs. 2 weenie dogs... the male borrowed a nickel from Moses he is so old (he will be 17 in March). A female weenie dog that is 14, a lab that was a shelter rescue which we think is 10ish-- and 125 pounds, and a crazy Boston Terrier (7ish). So, it all started bc DS1 gf (the best one ever) wanted a puppy for Christmas. So I found the perfect Boxer puppy. We drove 3.5 hours to get it..... and it was the best present ever for her. She cried when my DS gave it to her. The problem with that was he was the last one left in the litter except for.... THE RUNT..... which I declined to see when we were there. So the next week when puppy fever was in the house when she brought her baby over.... the 3 of them (DH, DS1, GF) decided b/c mine would probably not make it another year..... that I should get the runt..... well I did.... and he is the cutest thing EVER. I plan to use him as a running buddy...... His name is "Bo-Booger" b/c it looks like he has a booger coming out of his nose.... I know it is really lady like, but that is what popped into my head. Lol.
So potty training in the winter..... not such a bright idea. Lol. Also having 2 boxers in the house when DSGF comes over (which is frequent b/c DS1 works all the time at the medevac place)....... The boxerbrothers are a handful, but they are giving me my workout for sure. Lol.

So, I think I have spilled my guts enough.... I plan to be on here more often. I do miss yall when we do not talk. Oh, and I have decided I am gonna ride like I did the year I was married..... my RoadQueen will not be set up this year.... even if DH knee is not better.... btw, he is STILL not recovered...... another story.....

Wowsies Tammy.....10 past goal!!! What does that feel like?

Even tho we can ride yr round here, I let go and fell off the wagon in the fall and holidays. Now I'm ramping up in mind and body to go cross country in May. Lost 7 but the real challenge is maintenance, right? I mean just how many times do I have to lose this same damn 20lbs?

Very nice to see y'all here!
Sun

Sunster, I feel u! Maintenance is sooooo hard. But I am trying really hard!!!! I am keeping it in the back of my mind that people gain the weight back all the time from this surgery.

I am jealous u get to ride soooo much. Lol.

Hi gals. I hope you are all doing good. My wife and I are going to start the dash diet, it sounds like low carb to me. It will be close to 3 months before I can ride, maybe if I lose some weight I will fit back into my leather pants!! I want to lose 40+ pounds.

Wow Tammy that is awesome you are rocking it and that is great! New puppy sounds so fun, but just not home enough to have any pets at our house. Glad you are loving your new old job :) Hope DH gets to feeling better soon as well.

Well my back is out or something, I went to work but couldn't even move plus it hurt to sit, stand or walk so went to chiropractor and he told me home to bed no sitting today- but of course I cant just lay around so I had to get on computer for a bit...... Need to get to feeling better as we leave in 2 weeks for our Cancun trip whooo hooo!!!!

Well I suppose I better go get some ice and lay back down :(

Hi Holly, Colleen, Dawn and Aaron

I hadn't heard of Dash Diet until Leatherman mentioned it here. Now, I hear it is the #1 diet listed by... http://health.usnews.com/best-diet.

Hey Reda and all...are u going to Sturgis this yr? Wow, Cancun sounds wonderful!!
Sunset

Just finished all my food for the day...and it's 3:30pm!! I'm going to have to figure this out when I try for the first successful maintenance of my life.

Anyone going to Arizona Bike Week or Sturgis this year?
Sunset

Hi!! wow everyone's here :D (except colleen and dawn)

Tammy thanks for the long post telling us what is going on in your life, I am SO happy for you about having 'the best job in the world' AND working from home!! that must have been the final solution cause any remaining weight melted from you! SO very sorry about DS #2 but will leave it at that :hug: congrats on the puppy!!! and Yay for decision to ride more this year! :carrot:

and I WILL check out that website, thanks!

Sunster Hi!! LOL @ the SAME 20 pounds, girl I hear you :rolleyes:

Reda hope your back is better by now? and YAY for Cancun soon!!!:carrot:

Hi Aaron! glad to hear from you :)

Well our Harley Raffle on Sat. went well, no problems, and I got lots of congrats on mc'ing it as President, yet I'm looking at pics and I looked stuffed in my clothes, yet at the time I remember thinking I looked okay..yet simultaneously thinking I felt fat..this distorted image I have and my CONSTANT conflicting self-worth is just such a big part of my life. WHY do I care so much, why can't i just enjoy my day??

Hi Gals. Well I made it,:carrot: the first week is done. My wife and I lost weight, I lost 8 lbs, and my wife lost 5.8 lbs.:D The diet limits exercise to low intensity and only 1/2 hour a day, they would like it if you took two weeks off from exercise. All I did for exercise was ride a stationary bike for a 1/2 hour 5 times this week and I did do light yoga/ stretching, for 10 to 25 minuets . I was after better flexibility from my yoga, so I wouldn't count it as exercise. In one more week we will start adding things back in to our diet. I have to go out for supper with my in laws tonight, and I am struggling with what I will have to choose from to stay on my diet. I hope I can find something that is good for my diet that I actually want to eat.:D Here is what I eat for food each day, breakfast, I have a 1/2 cup of egg beaters with a little green pepper in them, with some ham. snack is 1/4 cup of unsalted nuts, and a string cheese. Lunch is 3 lunch meat and cheese rollups, and some baby carrots or pea pods. Snack is 1 string cheese, and pea pods. And supper is 1 cheeseburger without a bun, and some fried mushrooms with onions, and green beans, and jello. I also can have a yogurt with my snack if I leave out the string cheese, and I can have jello with any meal. This diet is a low carb type diet. The only thing I don't like about this diet is everything it seams like everything I eat is cold.:( Well I can't wait to see what I lose this week.

Go Packers!!!!:yay::yay::yay::yay: (halftime)

OHMIGOSH ...what a game.:mad:

Hi Girls and Aaron--WTG Aaron on your weight loss this week!

I checked out the dash diet and it sure does seem very doable, so did you sign up and do the 3 or 6 month program? Is it all online, or do they send you the information through email?

I have decided when I get back from vacation that I need to start watching my diet and continue to exercise, no more free for all!!!

Holly I thought you looked hot in your pictures posted but of course totally understand the struggle as well!

Sunster, yes we will be going to Sturgis this year but I think we will only be going for like 4 days instead of 9. Not even sure where we will be staying at might just be a campground somewhere when we get there :)

Oh I do have to say I bought the Pivotal Living band that tracks your steps, sleep, hydration, calories burned, and activities. Through Amazon it is $15 but you need to have a compatible phone (IOS or Android) to download the AP, very easy to run and use. THe band is actually pretty slim compared to alot of them I have seen- You can youtube it and actually see the size. They say yearly renewal is going to be $12 so hey not bad at all- just started using it today, but haven't decided if I am going to take it to Cancun yet or not. Just thought if anyone has been looking for a good one without spending $100 plus dollara this one isn't bad at all :)

Well I suppose I should get off here and get to bed I got a lot to do tomorrow before taking off Friday

Oh and yes what a game! :cheer3: and boy did the Seahawks put a butt whooping on the Colts! :cheer:

Hi Gals. Well my last post disappeared. So I will redo it, Reda we ordered the dash book from Walmart.com. Today I am back down to where I was the day I cheated.:D

Hi Gals. Well today I am down 1 more pound, that makes 9 lbs. so far.

Alright Leatherman!! Aint it great being up here on the wagon?! I've lost 11 of the 20 I need to lose.
I'm facing a huge challenge starting 2nite. Ish my bifday wknd and at an event 2nite will be the most yummiest heated Brie w/ peaches in it, not to mention a wide array of fab food. 2morrow nite is sushi (saki). On Sat morning I'm meeting friends at a bar (bloody Mary's) before we get on the the party snow-train to Reno (box lunch/beer/champagne) and that nite, there's a huge party with burner friends with food and booze again. After a month of hard work, I really don't want to gain an ounce. But, sheesh, I'm going to have to be rock solid and stick with the plan!!
Reda, remember when I went to Vegas w/ the same dilema?? I had one drink there and survived. Well, booze is most of what got me into this mess, anyhow.
Hey, I've always lived in the moment and only look ahead with a plan when I'm on Frank! That's when I'm clearest, free-est, and happiest. Uh...but anyhoo...it's time to change some of that behavior because I am SICK of losing this same 20-30 pounds Again!!
Ok...thanks for listening, reading, or whatever it is we do here. My goal is to be looking good on Frank and a barstool!! This wknd will be good practice.
Sun

I made it past the warm Brie last night :carrot: Now, to do sushi w/o Saki tonite. Then, no Bloody Mary in the am but I'll have a bit of champagne on the train and take it from there. Phew...this is no way to live...or is it?

Hi Gals Well I have lost 10.8 lbs since starting my diet 2 weeks ago. I am going to stay on the starting program for a full week more then the diet book says to. I hope this makes up for the cheat supper we had at the end of week one. We think we would have lost more weight if we had stayed on, and not cheated. Our weight loss stopped for 3 days , and we had been losing weight fast , around a pound or more every day, and when we started up again it really slowed down. I am not saying that it wouldn't have slowed down anyway. I hope all of you have a good weekend.

Hi Gals, Well today was a bad day for my diet, it is my moms birthday today and my wife's tomorrow. My dad died a few years ago and my mom wanted to go see American Sniper, and also wanted to go to a buffet. So I tried to be good, and just had a little bit of this and that. I know that tomorrow I will see it on the scale again, but I will try real hard to lose the extra weight this week. I was 258 yesterday and hope to be below 255 at the end of this week.

Leatherman, Sounds you are off to a great start. Let us know how the DASH diet does.

Sunster, Happy Birthday! And I think I am the queen of losing and regaining. But, I hope this time is different.

Reda, That bracelet tracker sounds great. I bought a "FitBit" and it lasted 6 months.... and just died??? So, I need to try that one you got.

Holly, I agree with Reda..... I have never seen any pic that you don't look hot in. Even at what you say was your heaviest....you were smoking hawt!

Colleen..... hope you are well.

Dawn.... are you pulling a Tammy and going MIA?

Well y'all..... I don't have much to gab about. Oh, wait... I do. I hit my 100 pound loss today.... in less than a year. I don't think I will keep my weight "this" low..... at 148. But I do want to gain muscle and shape up a little. But, other than that.... nothing to gab about.

Wow!! 100 lbs...Bravo!!
My five day long birthday was way phun and now I'm back on the wagon.
Nuff said.
Sunset

I think Reda is in Cancun, right?
Saw almond blossoms today. Already rediculous spring here. Big trouble for Cali but *****in' weather to ride in.
Sunset

Howz everyone doing? I'm feeling good up here on the wagon. Decided not to weigh for weeks. That dang scale can make or break my day and I hate the control it has over me. Ok, hope y'all are well! :carrot:

Halooooo.....anyone around here?! Well, I was gone for months, so it's only right I hold down the fort!
Anyhoooo....I heard a great analogy for maintainence, when I get there again. Maintainers have to look at processed foods like vegetarians/vegans look at meat. As in NEVER. It's those, "Just one won't hurt" that Re my downfall. Oh well, just thought I'd share that.
Hope you're all well......Sunset

...a tumble weed rolls by......

.......crickets.......

Lol Sunster. You are so funny.
I agree w your maintenance strategy. I am trying it right now.
So, I don't have a lot of time... But here is my excuse for not participating... U know that wonderful work at home job? Well I still have it and I still LOVE it.... But (drum roll)...... My son decided I had too much time on my hands--- so he bought a pizza place for me to run. He has always wanted to own a business...... So here we go!!!! Talk about exercising control on eating!!!!

So I will let you all think on that for a bit....... My DH is still injured w his knee-- coupled w me working 2 jobs.... Means little riding for Tammy this year!

Oh geeze....working in a pizza shop would Surely be an impossibility for me....good luck with that!

LOL Sunster, real sorry you were left alone here for a while :rofl:

Tammy - oh my gosh!! HOW will you find the time? but how exciting! and intoxicating :devil:

Hey I wonder if Reda is ever coming back or did she move to Cancun?
I want to hear about that pivotal band thing she got. Anyone else using something like it?

I thought of y'all last night. Went to a big chopipino feast and there was oodles of food and booze. I had one beer and the fish and a few grapes. Yea!! Lost a pound...wow they're coming off super slow. Not weighing again for another 2 weeks.
Sun

i don't even know what chopipino is but it sounds good, anything with the word 'feast' rings my bells :D

Hi Sunster!! way to go, down a pound. You are on your way!! :carrot: Hey could you wave your warms and send some warm air this way please :D We are so lucky we have not been pounded by any of the East Coast snow that poor Boston has..but right now it is only 3 degrees out there, that is still temperature.

Hi Tammy! did I do a CONGRATS ON 100 POUND LOSS banner yet :carrot: I should have. You .. are ... so ... slim!! is it fantastic and fun buying new clothes??

Hi Reda! I guess we don't know if you came back from Cancun, if you manage to find a way to live there please send for us :D :rofl:

Hi Aaron!

nothing new for me except I eat too much, I have not been able to get my head in weight loss mode. I do work out, but it seems to be just for 'get through the day' strength. I hope I can change my lack of motivation soon.

Had to call out a co-worker yesterday who just comes up and interrupts shamelessly..and she got irritated at ME! screw her. :devil:

today is our older son's 32nd birthday, hard to believe! will get together tonight with our other son and the fiance for dinner .

I ... Miss... riding so much!!!! come on spring :D

Hi Gals. I am still here. I have lost and gained the same 5 lbs for weeks. Just when I get the scale to move we go out and I eat to much and it takes most of the week to catch up. I started out at 269 and have been down to 256, then it goes up. I am hoping that this week I can hold on to my weight loss for more then a few days. I started on the 10 last month, so it has been just 6 weeks. I am ready to see the scale move. I will try to check in more often.

Leatherman, DO checking more often! These boards are helpful, if for nothing else, reading about others in the same boat. When I'm between meals and hungry, this is a great diversion, eh?

Yeah, we pretty much look at east coast in disbelief. It sure is splendid here (high 70's) but we all know this fab weather is masking a humongous evil.... The drought. Seems like a pipeline should be built to carry all that snow on over to us.

I ride most every day just on errands. Next big ride is Arizona Bike Week. That's the end of March... Maybe youse be thawed out by then?!
Sun

What izzit about the scale??? Today I'm waking up wanting to weigh. Something about seeing those numbers go down is so exhilarating. A total downer when they don't. I told myself I wouldn't weigh until a week from fri. Now, I wonder if I can make it to this Friday. Ca-razee!!
Sun

Ca-razee indeed! :D I think it was last year (last spring) that I just took the bathroom scale out to the garage, because it was making me so crazy. I guess it helped..I told myself that as long as I was sticking to plan, results were gonna happen.

I think a pipeline makes all kinds of sense Sunster! My wise husband sez that in years ahead, WATER is going to be the main bargaining commodity of the Earth. With all our technology, someone can't devise a simple de-salinating (de-salt-ing) of ocean water?? "I'm not a scientist but.."

so kewl that you are riding daily for errands!! unfortunately we are never thawed by the end of March, it is not until at least the second or third week of April. Sometimes not until the last week of April (as was last year)

Sunny and blue sky here today, but it is -3 right now, it's warming up :devil: It was negative 10 an hour ago.

I STILL cannot commit myself to eating to calorie restraints even for one day!! grrr!! what is wrong with me. Usually by February I am at least trying!

Today is my Saturday so I have today and tomorrow off. Yay!
have a good day everyone :cool: