I stayed home from work today and just slept all day. I guess I am really tired.
I stayed the same at my weigh in. I'll take that!
I just wanted to check in. I hope to make it back here this weekend.
Keep up the good work gals! We can do this!
Susie

a little update on my stats! I've reached my 900 min goal *yay* and lost a total of 3.5 lbs! I started at 215.5 and now I'm 212, I was expecting to lose only 2.5 :D
I'm starting a new 540 mins exercise goal for 2 weeks today, will be concentrating on losing a few inches off my upper arms :)
I'm realizing the whole "goal" thing is working really well for me, I'll probably be sticking to making those mini goals for every month starting April. anyone welcomed to join :D

OK, official weigh in today, I lost another 1.5lb for a total of 13.5lbs! I am so pleased and it's made a terrific end to my week! (which started rather badly! lol) The pain in my side has lessened even more and I feel great today! I actually feel thinner too! lmao

Well done on the 3.5lbs and all that exercise jigglybits! Yay! on no gain Susie!

Sarah

Sarah: You are doing great! I bet people are starting to ask "how much weight have you lost". Keep up the good work.

Jiggly: It does look like the goal thing works for you. Keep up the good work!

Well, my DH and I are out of sorts with each other. I'm not sure why other than sometimes I just feel like I'm all alone out there striving for things in life. I've been going about my business and doing things I like to do instead of just waiting around for him to join me and I honestly don't feel like we need to be together 24/7 but he does, as long as I'm sitting and doing the things he likes and talking about what he wants to talk about. It just FRUSTRATES me. I feel all jumbled inside...not a good feeling. I also feel like the only grownup in our relationship. I've tried to talk to him about it, he gets very defense. I've thought about writing letters to him...I don't know. I do know that I'm just going to be quiet for now. I need to quiet my insides. I feel like I don't know up from down at the moment.

I'm working on cleaning house this morning and getting things in order. That always calms my insides a little.

I know that we will work past this but I just want it to be that we get past it, not over it, not around it, but past it.

I feel like I can be so much more, but I feel held back. I don't like feeling this way.

Thanks for letting me vent. I know that these sort of feelings have a lot to do with my being overweight. I don't want to be overweight anymore..that's the bottom line.

Susie

i have a question to all you fellow ww gals i need help,on the last plan i was on i was to eat 6 times a day,on the ww do i eat six times a day or just breakfast lunch and dinner,help please,i can't find anything about that part in my ww stuff.

Charlie, as long as you stick within your points, you can eat however you like. If you find it easier to stay OP with snacks, then have them, so you don't get overly hungry. You are suppposed to get a certain amount of fruits and veggies adn milk though. I can't remember how much but it was in the literature.

They say small and often is better for you but I have to force myself to eat 3 times a day as it is!

Susie I understand totally about the 24/7 thing. DH and I run a business together and we are together all the time. My alone time is often a long laze in the bath as even if dh goes on the road he is only a radio call away!

These humps in life are meant to make us stronger right!!!!!!!!

Sarah

Evening ladies!! Oficcial WI was down 1lb, but now i am at where I was when I started this challange. So no ticker movement! But I am happy to report that I had two people at work say I look thinner, One who knows that I am trying to lose and one that did not. So I am in good spirts.

((hugs)) to all the lovely ladies

Good morning,
I got caught up on my housework and I did stay quiet yesterday; I'm feeling in a much better place. DH and I finally said our peace with each other. I'm not sure that it solved everything but we at least told each other how we felt.

I'm going to be gone this afternoon with a friend. We are going to see Chonda Pierce (she's a Christian comedian). I'm looking forward to the outing.

I made an effort yesterday to stay away from refined sugars and I can't believe how much better I feel today. I've got to remember this feeling when I'm tempted to fill my body with that sugar. I really am an addict to it. Once I start I can't stop. On the weekend my DH likes to make a big breakfast with french toast, or waffles, or pancakes. I asked him to only make me eggs and bacon so I wouldn't have the sugar to start my day off with. It really worked.


Sarah: Thanks for the understanding of the DH thing. It's so great to be able to be real here. Most of the time my DH and I get along great but then when things go bad they are bad and intense. You are right about the stronger comment. I can tell you that the older I get in life I feel like a much stronger person and I really like who I am now as a person as opposed to my 20's when I was a real people pleaser. I still am to a point but not like I used to be.

UPS: Those compliments do so much for us don't they? Just keep floating on that cloud and use it to have another loss this week. I know you will!

Have a great day!
Susie

Susie, so glad you managed to get some things out in the open with DH. I always used to keep things bottled up yet with DH I've always been able to be pretty open. The older I get the more I know I can tell him what's bothering me and it really does help me too. It's hard to tell the person you love most in the world that they are...a lazy bugger/that they take you for granted/that they smell/that they don't cook enough or whatever your gripe may be cos you know it may hurt them, but I've found that it works! I would never have done that in my 20's.

I had a good ole phone conversation with a friend of mine in California last night for the first time in ages. We met thru a PCOS forum and she can't get on the computer as much anymore as she has problems with her elbow that she is having surgery on in 2 weeks. I was telling her about this site and this thread in particular. It's weird, I've made lots of friends on various PCOS forums cos we all share a common syndrome but most of the women just want to get pregnant. That was never my goal. Mine was to educate myself about PCOS and what I could do to help myself and I somewhat gained that knowledge but it always came back to these women taking fertility drugs and bonking at certain times of the month and how their periods were etc etc and I felt like I really didn't fit in. Staci (the friend in Ca) on the other hand is in the same situation as me, in her 40's and given up on the idea of ever having a child so we have the same goal. On this thread, and site, we all have the same goal, to lose weight and be healthier. Even tho we are all using different methods we are all striving for the same thing. Don't get me wrong, I have made some wonderful friends on the PCOS forums, but I talk to them on msn or yahoo or on the phone where we DON'T talk about fertility etc.

The support I feel on this thread alone spurs me on to get to my goal. I thank all you lovely ladies for that! I have realised where I made my mistakes before with low carbing (it was boring) and I really didn't have any support (cept for family who couldn't really give me advice just encouragement) but here, well you all know the story...lol

To quote my fave singer, Jon Bon Jovi, Thank you, for loving me...I love you all!

Sarah

Well I am on track!!! For the first time in a long time!!!! Been eating healthy and even better, two days to the Y!!! Walked 2 1/2 miles and did some weights Sat., and swam 1/2 mile today!

I changed my ticker to a smaller mini goal.....I think I need something more easily attainable to I can see the end.

Susie...your comment about staying away form refined sugars is true! I also fine that eating a protein in the morning helps me stay satisfied!

Well off for another week.....keep on keeping on everyone!
Lilybutt

HI Ladies. I have not been a great cyber friend lately.
I took a week off babysitting for March Break. my kids went to my folks for 3 days. I did a lot of spring cleaning and Avon work. Getting my focus back.

DS off to school!!! Without a conflict!!!!! Yeah!!!!!!!!!

Today I will make Avon follow up calls and work on Laundry.I am wearing PJ's because there is nothing else.
All my PJ bottoms are FUN for at home kids stuff.These ones have pink kittens on clouds!
I would be embarrassed to wear them out tho. Must wash jeans.

It is bitter cold here but extremely sunny!!!

I am happy. I signed a new rep to My Avon team yesterday. I have cleaned bags and bags of kid's stuff out of our house.
I am very worried about our income but have a plan.
Our sitter downloaded PETZ 5 from her disk onto our computer.It is a virtual pet world. it is FABULOUS!! My kids are loving it. I highly reccomend it.
Hubby is back to fulltime work. Hockey is done.

HUGS!!!!

Hello Ladies - just a quick update as I need to get back to work after reading all the stuff I missed! So sorry if I don't do a personal for you! I left my eating journal at home over the weekend on purpose. My goal was to stop eating when I was satisfied and make good choices. I tried, but I did eat way too much at times...my plan is to follow my points this week and go on as usual, and I bumped my cardio up 5 minutes to 60 minutes this morning, and will try for the rest of the week. There's no reason why I can't continue to lose at weigh in on Saturday.

Susie & Jiggly:
Great jobs!!! Hooray!!!

Susie:
My DH and I are doing our own things when it comes to food and exercise and I wish we could be together in this...but I know that once he starts seeing how well this is going, perhaps he'll join me. Every week he says he'll go to the gym with me, but I can't nag him - he has to do this on his own!!! But I really wish it wasn't so hard when we make meals and stuff. I usually do have dinner for us, but I typically lay off the carbs as much as possible at night.

Charlie:
Sometimes I feel like I'm constantly eating on WW. I never miss breakfast, lunch and dinner, and I have granola bars and things in between meals. So I'm never hungry, but never overly full. Those points are there for you to use, so use them! :) If you want to use the 35 extra points, do that too.

Holly:
Does Avon still carry the circle of friends bracelets and necklaces?

Girlie

oh, I forgot to update my sig- I'll do it now. I weighed in on Friday during lunch and was down 1.8 pounds. I'm getting closer to 10 lbs down!

for the losers, :cb:
I'm a LOSER, and not in the good way as I'm up this week, sucks!!!!
1 lb up.
I'll have to make an effort I guess :o