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Rikki - I just want to say good for you making a goal sheet & grocery list! Positive changes! I wish you the best with either waiting to get pg or going ahead. You will get there. Just hang in there and keep your focus. I must say I am envious. My husband and I don't have the option for anymore children. It sucks because I would love more. But it's ok, too! I have two beautiful kiddos whom I love deeply! Anyhow - keep on track! You can do it.

Hello to all the newbies! So nice to see all of the motivated mothers! I am here to help if I can!

Ok - new check in for me. I cheated and weighed this a.m.. I was 200.5. I am addicted to weighing myself. I just want to break the 199 mark. All else is going well. I've just about reached my mid-october goal. So I am setting a new goal - to weigh 196 by oct. 8. ;)

take care all!
carafre

Carafre, I know how you feel I get on the scale like 50 times a day! I am so obsessive. I told my hubby he has to hide it from me tonight when he gets home. Or keep it in the car with him!!!

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Jenny - It is horrible! My husband thinks I 'm crazy! :dizzy: I think I need him to hide it! That is such a great idea. :lol: I just like to see where I am at, constantly! :D
take care
carafre

My hubby used to hide ours from me too. ;) Otherwise I was hopping on and off that thing a lot and I'd get so mad when it didn't change daily... or heaven forbid it went up 1/2 a lb or something! *giggle*

I'm also TOTALLY obsessed with the scales. I honestly wish we had never bought any, but oh well, it's done, plus I need them at least once a week. I need to make myself a chart with a weigh in day once a week, then maybe I can forget the scales are there until it's time...

Checking In
 

Good evening ladies. I've been lurking but not posting for the last day or two. A little bit of stress about selling our house. I really don't understand realtors and their contracts. But anyway, we've got someone to look at the house on Saturday and that's good, but I'll be cleaning like mad until then. You burn calories cleaning, don't you? (There's that one-track mind again!) With the animals and the baby, I pretty much have to keep the house clean all the time anyway. But there's a difference between normal-clean and showing-clean, you know?

Anyway, I have been faithful about exercising all week, although I was tempted to skip cardio a couple times. But checking in here really helps to keep me on track. I always read other threads and get lots of good information and motivation, but I especially like this little group of fellow Slimmin' SAHMmies!

Cindy

Catching up
 

I've got a lot of catching up to do! Some comments and questions for some of you:

Jenny: First, congrats on the loss... :bravo: As far as yoga, I've been wanting to try it too. Do you use a video? If so, who's is it? I'm afraid of picking one and buying it and finding out it's a bad one, which will turn me off of yoga.

Andrea: No, I didn't watch Biggest Loser but my husband (who's also trying to lose weight) did. He really liked it. I don't know what network it's on or which day, but I'd like to see it.

Rikki: Your gain of 0.2 is small, you'll overcome it in no time! By the way, who are you people who have such accurate scales? I have one analog scale and one digital scale (but it only weighs whole pounds). I don't trust either one so I use them both.

Alisha: Congrats on the weight loss! :D I know what you mean about the little one getting in the way, my son crawls back and forth over me when I'm trying to do crunches. I guess that adds extra resistance!

Carafre: Yay, good for you! :cp: You'll be down even more on Saturday, isn't that a great feeling? And I'm not with you guys on the constant weighing. If anything, I'm scared to weigh even on my WI day! I dread it, thinking how will I feel if I've gained or haven't lost as much as I thought? I'd just as soon weigh monthly, but then I wouldn't know how I'm doing.

Have a good evening, all. See ya tomorrow!

Cindy

Congrats on those who lost weight! That is awesome--keep it up because you are an inspiration to me!

Carafre--Thanks for the encouragement. I remind myself it will truly be fine if I don't have any more kids so chill out! I hope you make your next goal--you are doing great!

Cindy--I go to Weight Watchers and their scale is that accurate. Although, I did just buy a new scale and it weighs like that, too. If I lose even a tenth of a pound, it encourages me. :-)

I do pretty good not weighing myself until WW meeting but if I think I am doing badly, I weigh at home to prepare myself! :-) The scale can be bad because it may affect your mood for the whole day!

Well, I better get moving. Have a good Thursday. I have had one day on plan--woo hoo!

Rikki

You are all so funny about the scale!! :lol: I think thats why I have NEVER owned one, or maybe it because I never cared or wanted to know how much I weighed. :lol: I don't think I'll buy one either, I'll stick to going to WW for WI!!

Cindy, sounds like your selling your house? I hate moving, it seems like your ALWAYS cleaning!(deep cleaning), in the old house in the new house! I think I just HATE cleaning period!! I think the Biggest Loser is on Tuesday on NBC!

Any other reality show FANS out there, my all time favorite reality show is The Amazing Race!!

Carafre, CONGRATULATIOS that's great, I know it makes you fell good when you can adjust your goal because your reaching them faster than anticipated!! GREAT WORK

Alisha, How long have you been doing Tae-bo? Which tape do you do? I just started last week!

Hi, my name is Kathy. I'm new to these boards. I am a SAHM to an almost 12 year old son. I'm 40 years old and have been married to my husband Ray for just over 2 years. Prior to that I was married to my son's dad for almost 17 years, got divorced, and two years later fell in love and married an absolutely wonderfully supportive man. He is so very supportive of my "get healthy" efforts. When I met him I weighed 245. Not long after I decided to not eat meat anymore and dropped another 110-12 lbs. I now hover around 233 - 235 and am trying very hard to make that scale move some more. Prior to meeting my husband, when I left my former husband, I weighed 285 lbs. A year after I left him, I was down 40 lbs, just like that! I didn't exercise, try to lose weight, or anything. It just disappeared. I think my eating habits changed, although I didn't intentionally set out to change them. I believe that what I was eating was a reflection of what was eating me at the time. After I got out of a bad situation, the weight just fell off. Then, cutting out meat made a big difference too. I also drink soy milk, rather than use regular milk. For this last month or two I have tried to eat even better, I joined Curves again, rejoined Pro-Health and Fitness (a regular gym with an indoor walking track) and also take Tae Kwon Do lessons. (My husband supports me whatever I want to do. I am soooooo lucky! He also continues to tell me how gorgeous and sexy I am all the time, and can't keep his hands off me. Does wonders for my self-esteem!) My former husband claimed I was fat and unattractive (among other things) and that's why he refused to be intimate with me anymore (for several years, til I got fed up with it). Also, get this, when I met my former husband, I could wear a bikini and a size 10 jeans. Looking back at pics, I looked pretty darned good, but believed him when he told me I shouldn't wear a bikini, or tank tops, etc. cause it made me look fat! Stupid me, huh? For believing him. Young and naive at 19. My friend borrowed a pair of his size 27 waist jeans one time while we were over at his and his friends apartment. I, of course, couldn't wear them, as she was skinnier than me, but that is when it started. He "suggested" that I was fat then! Uggh. It took me more than 20 years to figure out he was wrong, wrong, wrong!

Sorry, I'm rambling and got off track. Anyway...I'm glad to see so much support on these boards. I have been lurking a lot but felt compelled to post today. You all sound like wonderful, supportive people.

To Andrea / Alchina

I saw your post earlier about your son taking Tae Kwon Do. We just signed up recently to take it too. My husband and son started taking it about 5 weeks ago, and I just signed up this past Saturday. It is extremely good exercise and I am sure your son will enjoy it. I've found that even though it is hard work, it is FUN! We are really enjoying doing it as a family. My son and husband tested two weeks after joining (they could have waited to the next cycle but chose not to) and they already advanced a belt!! So, they are one ahead of me! LOL

I am also thinking of doing tae bo and saw you mentioned that too. I just ordered the kids version, for my son and I to try and also the 4 in 1 pack, with the instructional dvd, 8 minutes, basic and advanced. They should be in any day. Which one do you have? Do you really like it and feel it is beneficial excercise? I'd be curious to know.

Thanks.
Kathy B.
Merritt Island, FL

Sorry,that was definitely a typo!
...dropped another 110-12 lbs
Should read dropped another 10 or 12 lbs!!

Kathy B.
Merritt Island, FL

Oh, I forgot to mention:

We have two dogs, a 5 year old German Shepherd mix (84 lbs) and an 8 month old purebred German Shepherd puppy (78.4 lbs!!!).

We also have 4 inside cats (three are special needs) AND....

14 outside cats! I have a feral cat colony that I manage, plus a few of mine are outside, for a total of 14. Most of the feral cats are really very tame now. I can hold and pet all but about 3 of them. They are all spayed/neutered and have had shots and are ear-tipped. They are so funny. I go outside and sit on the steps and within seconds I will have 6 or 8 cats crawling all over me wanting to be brushed, petted, etc. They are spoiled rotten! I did cat rescue for awhile (which is where some of these guys came from). I found homes for a few, but ended up keeping some too. The three in the house that are special needs were only 1 week old when I got them, and very sick. The mom cat either abandoned them or was killed or something. Some people found them, turned them into the shelter. The shelter called the local feral cat network and one of the girls got them to keep them from being put to sleep. But, she worked and couldn't keep them. I ended up being the new kitten mom. They had to be bottle-fed every 2 hours, 24 hours a day, helped to go potty til they could go on their own, etc. It was quite an experience. I just love them to death. They had such a rocky start though. They have been sick ALOT (but are neg. for leukemia and aids). They had upper respiratory that wouldn't go away (one still does) in spite of lots of meds, vet visits, etc. They had eye problems with the third eyelid, and two had it where the third eyelid grew onto the cornea (they had to have eye surgery. One was just done yesterday). Anyway, they have had a hard life, but are doing pretty good right now. They are my babies and I will never give them away. I decided in the beginning I would have to keep these little ones. Especially as they are special needs and it would be tremendously hard to find homes for them. But, now that I have them, I quit taking in rescue kitties. I can't expose these guys (actually two little girls and one boy) to anything else. I still have my outdoor colony but I am not intentionally adding to it either.

My husband is supportive of all this too, believe it or not. I figured if he could put up with all my animals, etc. he MUST love me! You should have seen us during the hurricanes last year (we live in Florida). We evacuted 3 times (every two weeks or so), to my sister's house on the mainland. We live in a manufactured home on an island, so mandatory evacs. I had 10 huge cages set up in her living room and it took two vehicles and two trips with both to evacuate all the cats (19 at the time), all the cages, litter boxes, food, supplies, etc. plus the three of us and one dog (didn't have the puppy then). My dear, loving, patient, supportive husband did most of the work. I have bulging discs in my back and it was really bothering me at the time (I was nearly bedridden for awhile) so he was the one that loaded the trucks, set up cages, took down cages, carted food, litter, etc. What a sweet, sweet man. I love him sooooooooo much!

We're really hoping we don't have to evacute this year!

Kathy

Welcome Kathy!

It's a sign...
 

Ok - I am laughing so hard I can hardly type - I am searching the kitchen for something to eat - it's too late for me have anything but I feel like a binge coming on ,so I open the fridge and eat a couple of spoonfuls of spagetti. Upon closing the fridge, I decide I need more, must have more. As I open the fridge door, my daughters' lunchbox falls on my head! :lol: If that's not a sign, I don't know what is! :lol: Hope ya'll are doing better than I am today.
take care
carafre

Good morning ladies! I had a really bad day yesterday (weight-wise, that is). I just couldn't stop eating! Just now I just logged everything I ate into my FitDay account and it was about 1,890 calories. Of course, I was doing it from memory so I probably forgot something. I guess it could have been worse. I just felt HUGE all day.

Carafre, after reading your post I see you had the same problem! I hate those kinds of days! And that's hilarious about the lunchbox. Hmm... gives me an idea to boobytrap the fridge, maybe that will help! Aren't you excited about weighing tomorrow, you may cross the into the realm of 1's like I did last week. Good luck!

As for me, I'll be happy if I just stay the same and don't gain this week.

Kathy: Welcome! Good luck on your weight-loss goals. And good for you for taking care of your feral cat colony. I've got 9 cats myself, all indoors. My hubby is also very supportive of the kitties. I had 2 when we met, so we added the others together. I used to work at a vet clinic so took home a lot of injured kittens to foster until they got better. Well, I guess after several years none of them are better yet, because I still have them!

My goal today is to get back on track; eat right and exercise, including weight-training which I skipped yesterday. Have a good day everyone!

Cindy