Muffie, I'm sorry about your job.

I don't post here nearly enough.

We are now a minivan family. We bought a Chevy Venture today... but we don't get it until tomorrow. That means DH has to get up at 4am to drive me to work tomorrow.

Wow, Bagzie, Muffie, Sugar, and me... our babies are so old now! My Little Guy is now a second-grader, a competent fisherman, a Cub Scout marksman, avid reader... wow. I sort of miss the baby days. It's so different now.

People at work are starting to comment about how I've lost "so much weight." It's funny. To me, I'm still someone who should be 140-145, so 174 is so huge. But they saw me at 192, so I guess I'll just accept the compliment and keep working at it.

I must say, that comments on what I write make me feel VERRRRRRY significant. It caresses my ego.... whereas when I just wrote in my paper journal the only person that saw it was Me/"Nobody". :D
I'm NOT nobody. You CAN't be nobody when you weigh more than 200 lbs. :p

DH is screaming at Monday night football... Must go see if Cowboys had a miracle. Night.

So my alarm goes off at 6:35 a.m. as usual and I hit the snooze button to give myself exactly 9 more minutes to stay in bed. Somehow in those nine minutes I manage to doze off again and the next thing I know I'm having this long involved dream about seeing my very first boyfriend's (alternate life #27: biker chick with a Masters degree.) younger sister (who I haven't seen since about 1985) at some gathering or other. She had put out a newsletter on her life and we were all reading it to catch up. Nowhere did it mention what she had done with her husband and three kids. Discuss.

Painty, I think your journal is fabulous. I just never know what to say.

Wow, Muffers, looks like it was maybe a good idea for you to get out of there anyway. I'm sure something great will come along and you'll be glad this "window of opportunity" opened up in the first place.

Hi Cherry, Wabby, Kiwi, Kat and Peachy, wherever you may be!

welllllllll---------------Cherry!! good for you---that is alot of weight to lose-----did you count points??? I am enjoying points now that i have 35 flexie points---they are great fun on the weekend-----first week-----three pounds gone-----was 160----now 157-soon i will be down to the weight i first logged on here with HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA----it think i was 154 or so------------i am totally aiming for 145 and for some reason......THIS TIME I MAY ACTUALLY MEAN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!------------- now i know this is boring to Kiwi,so i will talk about exciting things like dd17's field hockey game-----------it was great fun to watch====i wouldn't last out there for ten minutes---the girls only have ONE spare,so they are basically all out there for two thirty-five minute periods!!!!--------WHAT a workout!!!--------------that was not too exciting so i will go have my coffee and make something up.

145 rocks!
 

That's what I'm aiming for too, Bagzie. Sounds achievable. Remember when we were 147.5 or something and whining our heads off? Sheesh. What a difference 5 years makes.

Congratulations on you on your super loss, Cherry! I always follow your journal and I know how hard you've been working.

Making falafel (felafel? whatever) for dinner. I love those things. Gotta go fish the frozen pita breads out of the freezer. Lord knows how long they've been in there.

Sug: what you said is perfect. Usually it is enough to be heard, you know? (Or in this case, it is enough to be read and acknowledged.)
Happy falafal... I can't spell it either...

Hope you get a new chapter in alternate life #27 during your next cat nap. Please keep us informed. Hope your sister and her family are OK! :D

Bagzz... congrats! on loss AND determination. I'll steal a bit of your inspiration as soon as I am fully awake!

no no no!
 

It was my high school boyfriend's sister. I only have brothers. And a dh and two boys. I'm surrounded by men. That's why I come here.

I have done nothing all day except meditate and moon around. I suppose that's something.

Meditate and moon is pretty good.

I also admire the journal keepers. I lose interest in my psyche within a day or two of starting such a project.

I am so proud of successful point counters and weight loosers. I will try to draw encouragement.

Would my thighs still touch at 145? I am tired of my thighs touching. That is my new goal. I've been on target today. I am making a healthy dinner. Yesterday my water was off for 12 HOURS.....forcing me to get fattening take-out. Today, I'm back on track. I'll get to Curves. I'm about to have a healthy lunch.

This is how 145 feels - it feels pretty darn good, cowsies. At 144 my thighs do not touch. I can once again cross my legs comfortably. I can wear a size 10 with room to spare. I feel 10 years younger (until I look in the mirror for a reality check). Now having said all that, at only 5'2" I still have at least 15 pounds to lose. I don't know if that will happen, but in 5 more pounds I will be in the "healthy" range, so that will make me happier than anything. My goal for this month is to exercise and like it.

I haven't updated my journal for a long time - I can't remember my password - I quit updating when I realized how boring my life is. It got embarrassing to admit it.

Sugar, don't you just love those early morning dreams? I love to try to figure what my subconscious was trying to work out.

My very good friend from back in the days when my kids (and hers) were pre-schoolers has saved her money, quit her job and embarked on a traveling life. She's planning on seeing the world. Of course, she's no longer married and in fact decided years ago that she's a lesbian. She's a big one on switching between alternate lives at a moments notice. When I first met her, she was a stay at home mom with a cop husband. She went back to school, her husband asked her for a divorce, she became a single woman who fooled around with every guy who came along, then she decided she like women better. How's that for living alternate lives? She even changed her names a couple times. Now that might be a journal worth reading!:lol:

Bagzie, the point counting gets easier the further along you go. Congrats on the loss!

Gotta go work - be back later.

I want to count points and loose blubber also. Wabby help meeeee. I am bursting my seams today.

Wow, Wabby, you are one inspiring girl.

I have no alternative life. I feel that this is my best one. Have I set my sights too low? No, my happiness and contentment is completely due to the fact that I have not had sugar in a while. Why don't I learn???? In a week or so I'll be grazing and will throw it all away. Then it will take me an age to get back to this point again.

One more person, check in before my next visit. It makes me happy to find ONE post to respond to. I don't like to find MANY posts because that means that if I check back 1/2 hour later no one else will have posted because everyone will already have done so. So...get together, decided who it will be, then post. Thank you very much,
L

Great Job Wabby!

Peachypie, I can't tell you how to do it, because I'm not sure how it kicked in with me. The thing is that we know I've lost before, but this time it seems different because I don't feel deprived. I haven't been totally obsessive about dieting, and when something looks totally worth splurging on, I do.

Bagzie, explain flexpoints, pls. I haven't been to WW since before they started it. Will I like it?

Sorry, Lohani, with Muffie's post, this makes 2.

DH is working the long road back into my good graces. He's talking a new wedding ring for me. He's decided he likes the surgically altered new me after all. Lucky for him, since I can't change things back. I think I need to hold out for the ring plus new wardrobe, though, that still would be several $$$'s less than the boat. :devil:

Hey, let me tell you, if you'd had the dream I had before/after :shrug: the alarm, you wouldn't have gotten out of bed for hours! It was a doozy. I could make a movie out of it, it was so good. :hot: Of course, you'd have to rent it from under the counter, but still...

Bagz, Cherry -- :bravo: to you both for shedding a few!

And double wow to Wabbit for the no-touch thighs, you hot chick, you! :smoking: Glad to hear dh has finally figured it out. You will definitely need a new wardrobe to go with the new ring. :yes:

Would you believe that I have been walking 1.5 to 2 miles almost every day for 2 weeks, and I am putting on weight!!! This sucks. You wouldn't believe how far off reality those little numbers at the bottom of my posts are. I refuse to revise upward, so I'll just have to wait until I manage to get back down there again. But how? if exercise is going to make me gain? YUKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

I'm going to add new features to my diaryland diary. Working on it now. I've been wanting to do this for a long time. My sarcastic side will be uppermost for awhile. heh heh. :s: Not ready yet. Wait.

We're getting pre-Isabel torrents of rain, apparently. I'm glad I got my walk in early this morning, because I don't think there's going to be much outdoor exercise for a while.

Kiwi

p.s. to Loh --- how's about you just read one post each time you come back? :chin:

Kiwi, you made a good effort and I will reply to you. I am so proud of you for taking a daily walk. I am always amazed that exercise does not do as much as it did when I was 25. It seems unfair. I was cute then, it didn't matter if my thighs touched..which they did not. Now they do. sad.

Muffy made no effort at all. I'm shunning her. Plus she didn't tell us about Pumpkin's sleep over.

Peaches made no effort and I'm shunning her, too. I forget what her post said, so I can't pointedly criticize it.

Cherry, you are doing great. How is Zippyworld?

Wabby, you made a good effort, too. I would go for 4 pieces of jewelry...investment pieces. At least he's trying. It is sad that men are so brain damaged. I'm glad rodeo was fun.

I'm going to go have dinner then take ds to scouts. bye

Please say more about being 145. What a dream. what a fantasy. And thighs not touching! HA!
I think there's quite a novel in the story about woman with ex cop husband and multiple lovers, of all sexes. Not your ordinary suburbs... OK. I'm switching to the other thread.