New as well( sort of)
 

Hi, before I introduce myself I want to say hi to Nancy, and I am soooo glad you are not going to extremes, but have come here instead. You CAN do it, and I can do it too, darn it.
Welcome to Melly as well,- don't give up.
HI Amanda- I made it here
OK- my name is Kimberlee and I am 30 years old and a mommy to 10 mo.old boy/girl twins. I work 25 hrs/ wk and I have an otherwise simple life. My husband is great, lazy, but great:p I an 150 lbs. currently and want to get back to 120. (Last time I was here I lost 10 lbs.- since then, NOTHING!) I was 130 pre-preg, but still could've gone down some as I am 5'1 1/2. I do have a jogging stoller, but as it is winter I have used that as my excuse. Yesterday I went for my first hr long walk in a month or 2 since my MIL took the babies to WV for the weekend.
So thanks for having me, I am so glad to be back.

:welcome: Nancy & Kimberlee!

Amanda- Did I see you are down one more pound? Do I get to add that to our group ticker?

My really tough day at the theater is over, only two shows to do today. Tomorrow I will be able to get back to my regular workout schedule. Eating hasn't been ok. It's tough at the theater because snacks are a carb fest. I need to work on getting more water in though.

Have a great Sunday everyone!

:welcome2: Nancy & Kimberlee!!!!

Nancy- I read your other post and :hug:!!! I don't think you'll fall down the anorexic path this time since you're conscience of your actions this time and want to be a great role model for your DDs. Are your DDs in any sports? I'm not sure what the weather is like in Nebraska but is there any sort of sport/activity that you can do with your girls? And you're definitely not alone- that's why we're all here, we're all struggling with this weight thing! I know I once thought about being anorexic or bulimic. Fortunately I love food too much ( which is obvious, that's why I'm here) and I can't make myself vomit. So, :cheer: to you for coming here to look for support instead of going to the fridge.
I'm totally a stress eater. I was on the phone with my mom a few weeks ago, and after a heated conversation about her DWI, I hung up and dove into the kids leftover halloween candy. Anyway- Welcome!!

Kimberlee- You sound like you're so busy- working and having to take care of infant twins!! That's great that what you're MIL did for you guys. My oldest is 4 and the only time I have been away from her for more than 2 nights was when I was giving birth to my sons. I'm so jealous!! I just joined the YMCA last month and it has free day care if you're a member. You're allowed to leave them for up to 90 mins. Getting 90 mins to myself is motivation enough to get myself to the gym!!

Amanda- :bravo: Congrats on the loss!! How was the birthday party? I agree with your challenge. We're going to the inlaws and I'm so worried about not getting my workouts in. I know I'll be eating more while I'm there. I'll have to make more of a conscience effort.

Michelle- How's the show going? Do you have any pics you can post for us to see?

I'm down 2lbs this week!! :carrot: So, I met my goal (lose 10 lbs) and get to buy a new pair of running shoes. My next goal is to lose 5 lbs but I'm not sure what my reward will be. Thinking maybe a new pair of jeans or maybe some workout clothes. Haven't decided yet.
Dh is working all weekend. He didn't get home until 9:30 last week. He's leaving in about a month for Afghanistan so I really want to spend some QT with him before he leaves. DS2 had a fever last night. All day yesterday he wanted to be held and whenever he would wake up from a nap he would cry. I think he's feeling a little better today. I told the kids we could have a slumber party on the living room floor last night, the kids love it!!
I went to the gym yesterday morning and did more of my running program. I walked for 5 mins and then ran for 25mins. It was about 2.8 miles and I burned 354 calories!!! I have 3 more weeks of the program to go and hope to enter a 5k in the spring.

I hope everyone had a good weekend!!

Congrats Lori! I'm going to go update our group ticker right now!

Updated Group Ticker
 

:hug: We are so close to a group loss of 30 pounds this month! :bravo:

Hello everyone!!! and a BIG hello to all the newbies!!!! Just wanted to check in while I was at work so that you didn't think I died!lol

DS was sick this whole weekend while we were visiting my folks, had a fever of 103 and that lovely hacking cough. 2 days later and the fever is gone, now we have the cough to battle...hope it goes away soon!! Luckily he is easy when he is sick-he always has been-- and he has been really sick in his short life.

So, I still haven't gotten that scale I said I was going to buy. Friday is payday so definately then. Don't let me off the hook girls!! Anybody have any suggestions? Do you have a scale that you totally love? or hate??? I have no idea what I want or should have so any suggestions would be great!

Do great things out there girls!!!

Amanda-- how was the bday?

Need a lifeline
 

Morning ladies,:flow2:

It is 7 am here, and I think I'm finally ready to add my first post. I too had a lightbulb moment recently. I decided to step on the scale, BIG mistake :stress: in the past month I have gained 10 pounds, which is odd because I don't think I've been eating that bad. Anyways I am now at my all time heaviest and am severly concerned that I am going to get bigger. I need a place like this where I can find support, my husband is great but he tells me he likes me as I am. I can't seem to make him understand that I don't like me as I am.

I'll tell you a bit about myslef and my WL struggles. I'm 32 (just turned Dec 12), I have 2 beautiful children, my husband and I run our own business and I am a part time nursing student. In January 2001, I had another light buld moment so I joined WW. Sure enough I had 70 lbs to lose. No Problem. In 12 weeks I dropped 25 lbs, I was feeling great,:dizzy: . Then I learned I was pregnant. :dance: , there went my weight loss. After I had my son I couldn't get rid of that extra 20 lbs he blessed me with (not to mention the small belly). I got on with life, tried WW a few times, never worked, and in 2004 I gave birth to my daughter. During the pregnancy I had only gained 5 pounds because I had lost 20 being so sick. Needless to say I was 17 lbs lighter than my Pre-preg weight by the time I left the hospital. Unfortunately, I gained it all back during her night time feedings.

This brings me to today, another 10 pounds heavier. It's so upsetting.
I'm thinking about joining WW again but we have a new leader here and she's just not motivating. She makes it so rigid and dull. :shrug: (she was my leader the last few times I failed) Anyway, I am hoping that I can come here and get some support from other women trying to lose weight because you know what I am going through.

I know this is long and wordy but from now on they'll be short.

Have a great day
Dawn:wave:

Hello, all- thanks for all the welcomes, I am going to try to post while the babies are still babbling away in their cribs., lol. Well, I understand with this group there is a " group" weigh in of sorts, but I am not going on the scale but every 2 weeks. I used to be TOTALLY addicted to it and DH finally took the battery out, lol. So my official starting weight today is 150.6 and my mini goal is 148 by Jan 5th. (I'd LOVE to be 145, but not too sure that's realistic).
Lori- Congrats on your loss and thanks for the heads up about the YMCA, I am a bally's member, but never go- their daycare is for 2 yrs+. I am thinking quite seriously about getting my AA at the community college here and I hear they have a GREAT pool. But for right now walking is going to have to be it. I do have a goal to do the Baltimore marathon in Oct., but my running has been minimal since the babies. We'll see. I am always so motivated and optimistic right after my coffee in the morning:coffee2: . The afternoon is a totally different story, lol.
Chellefox- Sorry to hear about your son, dealing w/ healthy kids is hard enough, hope he gets better soon. I
I should probably go check on them- have a great day everyone! Here's to making wise decisions.

Welcome Dawn, you must've been posing at the same time as me. Well, babies will do it to you :) . I have never done WW, but I have been here and being accountable w/ people who care really does make a difference. Good luck to you, and keep the long posts coming!

:) Happy Monday!

Today I am going to try so hard to resist temptation. After reading the posts I feel so empowered, that I can do this!!

This morning I ate a light bagel for breakfast --- a huge improvement from the microwave cheddar cheese popcorn I normally would have had :o ! My plan is to eat low fat and low calorie, with no real number in mind, at least initially. And to ride my excercise bike. I was wondering though, how much water should I be drinking? I'm embarrassed to admit that right now I drink Diet Coke all day and all night.

I want to thank everyone for welcoming me to this group. The support here is just fabulous. It is great being around others who are rooting for each other, not sabatoging each other. Thanks again Amanda for the heads up!:)

Alsbttrfly ---- my dds are in Tae Kwon Do, which they love. Both of my dds have come to me recently (but seperately) with their concerns that they are fat. I told them that if it bothered them, the best thing to do would be to make better choices with food --- have one sugary snack a day, other then that grab fruit, or carrots and ranch dip instead --- and for them to get moving, maybe practice their forms each day. Anyway, I hope I told them the right thing. I had a friend growing up whose mother kept hammering in "size 6, size 4, size 2" that friend is now morbidly obese.

Anyway heres to a great week!!
Nancy

:welcome2: Dawn! It's great to have you join us. If you like the WW "plan" but just don't like the leader in your area, you might try doing WW on line.

Nancy:drill: Your mission is to drink at least six 8 oz. glasses of water today. It should be a minimum of eight glasses, but I'm cutting you some slack for the holidays!

Chelle- I hope your son is feeling better today. :hug: Sick kids are hard!

Kimberlee- The group ticker is not anything "official" every week, it's just as you have a loss you post it so I can add it to the group loss for the month. Group goal is 30 pounds a month.

Amanda- :shrug: Where are you?

I for one am glad the weekend is over! Now to just get through this week with DH being home. That always throws my schedule off.

Have a great Monday everyone! :dance:

:wave: I am here. Just slow to recover from yesterday's birthday craziness. Oliver did very well no mager meltdown. If I can figure out how I'll post a pic. I am doing horrible on the excersize front but well on the not overeating front. I just tried the cake today. Not bad but after spend 2 days baking and icing it I just couldn't stomach eating it. It fact I ran in to work this morning and took them a big hunk of it and all the yummy cheese crackers that i had made. I love cheese so it was best to rid my house of the temptation. My biggest temptaions are salty things not sweet things.

I am so glad our little board is growing, the more the thinner.

Dawn, the first weigh-in is the hardest and is all a part of "owning" your weight than putting it up for sale.

If I can figure out how to post pictures, I'll share some of the birthday fun.

Amanda
on the NordicTrack tonight and committed to 4 days of excersize this week.

Cute picture Amanda!

Thanks for the responce everyone. Michelle, I thought about trying WW online but to be completely honest I need to be held accountable to someone in person everyweek to make myself stay committed. Terrible as it sounds if I try to do it at home I think I'll get into trouble. I've decided to join but I probably won't stay for the meetings unless I am having a bad week, that way I can still weigh in and stay on track. Wish me luck. I know that first weigh in is the worst but I can put on my game face.

Well ladies, ds is now healthy except for a cough and he is bouncing off the walls with energy....unfortunately he shared his illness with dh and I and we are dragging tail! Perhaps this will end posively and I will lose some weight since I don't feel like eating.:D

I am so happy to see so many new faces in our little group. Welcome everyone!!!

What happened to our 30 lb ticker? I don't see it anymore... did we meet our goal? Maybe we should up it for next month since we have so many people now? Any thoughts on that?

Is everyone ready for holidays? I will finish up the shopping on Friday and then we are done. We do have one (make that 4) small problems....our cats like the Christmas tree and have been climbing it and this morning they actually knocked it over. I am thinking about putting an electric fence around it lol:p I can just picture Christmas morning now...Santa has brought the presents and just layed them upon the tree instead of under it. Dang cats!!!

Well, I will talk to you girls tomorrow.

Chelle the ticker is there, we have 7 more pounds to go to hit 30. I figured if we reached 30 lbs, we'd try for a second 30. We still have to make the first goal though. :D

Good Morning! Where is everyone????? It feels good to be able to say that I'm finally back to working out! A week off, felt a little like torture. My arms are jello now though.

Hope everyone is having a good day!

I am here, of course. Looking for support and a good vent before I am forced to go to a mexican restaurant and eat the biggest bowl of queso dip ever!!!!!!!

Just got back from the grocery store and I had to mentally talk myself out of a frozen pizza, a bag of chips or a pack of hot dogs. I am stressed about money and all I could think about was food. Food is cheap everything else is not. Our car needs to go into the shop and we are guessing it will be a huge bill. Completely the wrong time of year for a major breakdown. The car or me.:( I know my husband does not think I worry about these things but I do. I just don't show it like him. I am much more the keep it bottled inside until it explodes.

All a part of my issues that are linked to my binge eating. Owning the problem of my fatness and owning other day to day problems gets them resolved not shoving them under the rug. I am want to just ignore things and hope they magically resolve themselves, somethimes they do most of the time they don't. Pretending I was not getting fat led to eating what ever when ever.

Sorry to be the downer today. Just talking out loud. Good thing I don't like birthday cake or I would have been all over it. I feel better now writing it down. I think I'll walk to pick up the little man from daycare. That will help clear my head.

Amanda

:hug: Amanda sorry you are having a tough time today! You are turning to us for support and not food though, so that is a major victory! :bravo: This time of year can be so stressful. I'm sure things will look better tomorrow!!!

I've been cookie baking today, but no tasting. I hope they actually do taste alright! :D

I made sugar free jello cake cookies, peanut butter balls, and peppermint chocolate brownies. I can't believe I made it through with no taste testing. The pb balls are my favorite!

Michelle- I didn't fare as well. I did a little baking today and did lots of tasting!! I ate a light supper, a 6 inch subway sandwich with lots of veggies. I was really planning on doing a lot of baking this week but my ds has been so grumpy lately that I haven't been able to. I think he is finally teething.

Amanda- sorry to hear about the car. I'm much like you that I tend to keep my worries to myself, while, my DH on the otherhand lets everything out. Glad the birthday party went well.

I've been kind of weak today, giving in to my food cravings, namely the cookies. I tend to munch more when I don't go to the gym, unfortunately. Dh wanted more Sbarro's for dinner, the stuffed pepperoni and saugage pizza, I almost gave in but got the sandwich instead. I think i decided no more baking for me unless I go to the gym first.

My goal for the rest of the year is not to gain any weight. I hope I lose, but realistically, maintaining is fine. We'll be spending about 10 days at the inlaws and since I'm breastfeeding, MIL is always eagle-eye-ing what I eat and how much. She's maybe 100lbs soaking wet.

Hope everyone is doing ok and having a good stress-free week.

Lori, I love cookie dough. Love it. I was fine with the cake and frosting. I am not much of a cake person. More a pie/cobbler kind of a gal. If Oliver cooperates I am planning a little cookie baking myself. I have been getting the 12 days of cookies from the food netwrok and there are 2 recipes I would like to try.

I love to cook and bake. It is my hobby. I love new recipes and I love peoples faces when they bite into one of my butter laden creations. So, I have continued to bake but have been feeding the whole neighborhood. My new neighbors must think I am insane.

10 days with the in-laws. Not me jelly bean. I can maybe stand 3 hours. Lori, you should be so proud of your weight loss while breastfeeding. I used it as my excuse as to why I was eating so much when really if I had made smart choices I could have been losing weight. I work and I tried to diet around the 6 month mark and had a severe decrease in supply so I stopped until he was 11 months then stopped pumping at work so I did not have the pressure of producing 16 oz a day for him while he was at day care. I am very proud of committing to and completing a year of breastfeeding. His official birthday is tomorrow so I hope by the end of January we can be fully weened. He does love his nighttime feeding/snuggle sessions.

Thanks Michelle and Lori for the support. I just was bummed when I noticed the fluid leak on top of the high grocery store prices plus Oliver's birthday and Christmas. All very over whelming. Next year I vow to start a birthday/Christmas fund. Last year we didn't have to worry because everyone understood why we didn't give out presents, we had only been home 1 day!!!!!!

Took a long walk this afternoon and cleared my head.Feeling much better. This excersize thing really works.

Amanda

Roll Call :drill: Calling out all lurkers!!!!!!

:o Hello everyone!

Wow Michelle, baking all those cookies and not tasting them --- I really admire your will power!

:hug: Amanda! Everything breaks down in December, doesn't it? I also went to the grocery store today and spent over $200!! It is insane.

I'm afraid that I didn't do too well today. Today is the first anniversary of our son coming home from Korea:) :) :) So I made Jap Chae and chocolate cake! The Jap Chae is actually probably low cal, or at least compared to a Big Mac, but the chocolate cake, well, no excuse for that:o

I am drinking my water, though I'm still not at the 8 glasses mark. And I will be riding my excercise bike yet tonight, so things may kinda sorta even out. HA! However, tomorrow I plan on making much more healthy eating choices and drink much more water. Thursday my girls will be out of school so we will be baking our cookies. That is going to be a hard day. I think I may take the stance of one cookie at a time. If I eat one cookie I will not have blown it. If I eat 15 (which I have done before:o ) well, I will *not* eat 15!!

Take care everyone,
Nancy

Amanda- Great job on the 12 months of breastfeeding!! I breastfed my first 2 for a year as well. I remember how hard it was in the beginning and was aiming just to get to the 2 week mark. Thanks for the heads up on the 12 days of cookies. I haven't been watching too much tv lately. I love the food network!! I love Paula Dean's southern food, alton brown's quirkiness and rachel ray is just so cute, she reminds me of my sil. Speaking of inlaws, 10 days won't be so bad. When we moved here from Germany in August, I spent 3 weeks with them and my DH was only there during the weekends. I actually get along with my MIL pretty well, better than my own mother, but that's a different story.
My DS1's birthday is in the beginning of January, so I completely understand the money issues. He was originally due Dec 28 and came 2 weeks late, now he's almost 3. So, Happy Birthday, Oliver!!!

Well, Nancy, I think I ate about 15 cookies today!! And, I'm not exaggerating!! When you say you're son came home from Korea- was he in the army? I spent some time in Korea while I was in the army.

Dh is still at work and the kids are asleep. I really should get up and do some cleaning, but I feel that this is "me" time. I have a load in the washing machine and I cleaned up my kitchen, so my house isn't a complete mess. What's everyone planning on doing for New Year's eve?

Hi Lori.

You were stationed in Korea? How was that? Our son was adopted from Korea --- he just turned 2 in September. He was escorted from Korea, and I always wished that we could have gone there to pick him up.

Korea seems like a beautiful country, and I've heard that the people there are very friendly. The Korean's I've met in NE have always been friendly to me and to Sam.

And about the 15 cookies, realistically when I start making the Russian Teacakes it will take a mountain of will power to stop at 1 or 5 or 10 lol!!

Nancy

Hey all, I'm on my way to bed, but just wanted to check in really quick. The show went well tonight, and now we have a break for awhile. I can't believe how hard this week has been eating wise! Much harder than Thanksgiving week, and we aren't even to Christmas Eve, and Christmas day. There are just so many goodies around!!!! I fought my way through temptation at the theater tonight. I got lots of food gift items, that all look yummy. I just want this weekend to get over with! Next week should be easier.

Wow, skip a day around here an you've got A LOT of reading to do!! Hello everyone, Happy Wednesday.:)
Chellefox, I'm glad DS is better, hope you'll be better soon, too.
Amanda-Christmas if financially stressful for the best of us- and cars break down whenver you don't need them to anyway, I think it's some kind of law. I don't know how the rest of you financial life is, but if you need help in that area, I LOVE Suze Orman. - She's got audiobooks if you don't have time to read- I have vowed to clean up our finances, too. It takes such stress off of you. So, just a suggestion,- just remember it's only temporary anyway. I am glad you are feeling better though, and good job on resisting all that junk-( I couldn't- I bought oreos yesterday:p ). Oh yeah, and 12 MONTHS of bfing??? Way to go, I pumped for 5 weeks and that was it for me.
Lori- I think its great you are at a point when you're satisfied with maintaining. Good luck with that.
Soooo, I am doing ok, too darn tired to walk at night, but not pigging out during the day. I am just so sick of looking frumpy. I have refused to buy bigger clothes because I vowed not to stay at this weight, but I have like 3 or 4 things to wear, jeans, t-shirts and sweats. All I want to do is to fit into a size 10- is that too much to ask?- I don't even know what size I wear, because I am wearing my husbands sweats and my maternity jeans. :( Dh gave me some beautiful jewelry, and I have nothing to wear it with. Ok, done whining. What does everybody else do?

Good Morning Everyone!
 

It's so nice to see everyone supporting each other. I know how it feels to be stressed about money at this time of year. Nothing seems to go right, everything breaks, the credit cards are maxed, I honestly think retailers increase their prices at Christmas just to make us psend more. To top it all off my DH just spent $40 on a turkey! :?: He figured we needed the biggest one at the grocery store. 22 Pounds, I'm only feeding 5 people.:T

I'm having a hard time getting motivated to start my diet program, life has been so hectic lately I don't seem to get any me time to concentrate on what I have to do. Exercise is the last thing on my mind too, my treadmill is just collecting dust in the basement, I feel so guilty. I have stopped drinking pop (i've been really bad lately) so that's a start I guess. Nancy, I have a few tricks I learned at WW for anyone who can't drink their 8 glasses of water:

:yes: Try drinking it through a straw (this one never worked for me)

:T :grouphug: Let the water reach room tempurature or close to rt (this is the one that works for me, :carrot: sounds unpleasant but to be honest I can only drink my water like this now unless I've been exercising)

My DS is having his very first Christmas concert tonight, I can't wait to see him on stage. They've asked us to bring treats for after the concert so that means I'll be baking too, and trying to resist tasting. It's so hard though, I love cookie dough too. :nono: I also volunteered to make cupcakes for his party on Friday, again one of my downfalls, the icing!:eek:

Anyways, I wish you all luck with temptation, like Michelle said next week will be better.

Well gotta go, have a great day.:grouphug:
Dawn

Hi, all. I love the fact that most of us have the same amount of weight to lose! Michelle - I especially look at your progress because we seem to be at the same place weight wise and goal wise.

I made my goal this week! I weigh in every Wednesday morning with my husband and each week I have a 2 lb weight loss goal. I am now down from 200 to 195 (5 lbs in 2 weeks).

I have been trying to take this weight off for years. I weighed around 176 in Sept of 2001. I was trying to lose THEN even. To my husband this is the "sudden death round" as he says. If I don't progress each week from now on, he wants me to look into other methods such as this diet pill called "Meridia" which I DO NOT want to take. I took Dexitrim in middle school and it made me jittery. I don't like the idea of taking prescription drugs, either. You never know what the affects could be.

Please don't think he's a bad guy because he wants me to look into diet pills -- he is usually against drugs as well but we both feel that my health is at stake for being obese - and at this point I am obese.

Sounds like everyone is doing holiday baking. I can resist eating what I make but CANNOT resist licking the bowl, spoon, eating the batter. I have my final baking to do today - fudge - for gifts. I may take a few liberties since I don't have to weigh in again until next Wednesday.

Melly

Kimberlee- Go shopping! Buy some cute clothes that fit you now. Stop waiting! You will feel better in non frumpy clothes no matter what the size.

Dawn- Have fun at DS's concert tonight!!! Good luck with your baking!

Melly- Congrats on the -2 lbs. I'll go add them to our group ticker in a little bit. How tall are you? I only ask, because I'm reevaluating my goal weight since it actually might be to low for me. I'm 5'8" and medium boned so 136 is the very bottom of the healthy weight range for me. I just don't actually know what "thin" is for me numbers wise.

Have a fit and fabulous Wednesday everyone! :carrot:

Melly I updated the ticker with your 2 lb. loss! We are almost there everyone!

Michelle - I am 5'6. I haven't seen the 30's since high school so I'm not sure how realistic 132 is for me, but I want to get pregnant this coming fall and would like to be on the lower side because I know I'll probably gain about 40 lbs. Plus I want to wear cute maternity clothes this time, like from Peapod. Not huge old navy xxl garb.

Melly

Hi everyone,

I guess I haven't written in a couple of days.

I agree with Lori about the holidays - at this point I just want to maintain and not gain any weight. I can be pretty good about not binge eating right now, as I have so much to do that I don't have much time to eat.

10 days with the in-laws - wow, good luck with that. I'm spending like 3 with mine and that's plenty enough for me. Both of his sisters are very tiny (like size 4 or something) and next to them I feel like Jabba the Hut. I totally know what you are saying.

Good luck with weight loss and the holiday craziness everyone!

Take care.

Lisa

:snowglo:

Bear with me trying to write with a sick one year old attached to you is a bit difficult.:( Sick on his birthday, poor little guy.

If I don't get to excersizing, I'll just be maintaining over the holidays. I did walk the stairs at work and had a 45 minute walk yesterday but other than that nada. I have been good about what I eat so I think I am o.k. We will see Friday. And no Thai food (or Thai waiters) Thursday so no excess water.


Do you gals want to do the Dicovery Health Challenge together? Sign up starts Dec 30 and the program starts January 14th?
http://health.discovery.com/converge...=netmain_feat1

Here is also a link to their yummy mummy show, very cute
http://health.discovery.com/converge...=netmain_feat1

:cheer:Way to go Mellyann. 2.5 pounds a week is right on goal and a healthy pace when losing weight.

Tonkasmom, I like Suzy Orman as well. It is funny because when I see her show on CNBC, I feel a bit uncomfortable like she knows my financial secrets. Our goal this year is to cut costs and save more. I have horrible student loans that are a big part of my problem. My vow is that Oliver will never have this monkey on his back and we will be able to send him to college free and clear through med/vet/graduate school just not law school. That is where I draw the line. I'll check out my local library for one her books. I have 2 weeks off from work and need to use it wisely. Prepping for all my New Year's Resolutions.

I feel great today. And in general a very upbeat and optimistic person. Yesterday just collapsed on itself.

Oh and by the way, I was attempting to wear a very comfy but very large pair of maternity cords just before I made the committment to lose weight. Buy yourself some clothes. Although my husband hates them I love Target and OldNavy clothes. And while I am in transition I am not buying anything expensive unless it is a pair of shoes.

Well, Professor Fussbottom is getting restless,

Amanda

Hey all! Major shopping completed. I still have to get stocking stuffers, but that's pretty easy. SO everything is wrapped and under the tree. I actually shopped for, wrapped, labelled, and put under the tree my own presents. IS that weird?

Amanda- I'm willing to sign up for the Discovery Health challenge thing if everyone else wants to.

Lisa- My sils are small too, not tiny sizes 4s but much thinner than me. I'm working on that not being true by next year though!

It's my radiator:( Cracked, leaking kaputy!!!!Merry Christmas:snowball:

But something good came out of it. Spencer and I had a real heart to heart about our finances and we are both committed to making a New Year's Resolution of being more frugal.

Money sucks!!!!!

Michelle, if you bought your own presents you are sure to like what Santa brought you. No returning:hohoho:

Amanda

:hohoho: I will definetly not be returning what Santa got me. :gift2: I will refrain from listing what I got until I actually do open my gifts on Christmas.

Amanda- Bummer about your radiator! :( It's good you and DH had a heart to heart though. I guess, I avoid those like the plague!:o

And :yes: yes "Money sucks"

Count me in on the discovery program....let me know what group to register for.

I agree with and Michelle Kimberlee, I went shopping yesterday and bought myself an outfit that made me feel good, I shouldn't have at this time of year but I needed it for my own piece of mind. It just made me feel better about myself becuase when I look in the mirror all I see is the extra 10 pounds. (i'm sure they are all on my face!! :))

Michelle, I honestly don't think that 'healthly weights' given by the doctors take into account our muscle mass or bone structure. When I lost my first 25 lbs, I dropped from a size 18 to a size 12/13, which looked considerable (I'm 5'6" and have an athletic frame and large bone structure)and according to WW I still had another 55 lbs to lose to get to their ideal weight. I'm striving for 160 now but if I feel and look great at 170 or even 180 I'll stop even though by the BMI standards I'll still be overweight.

Anyways DS's concert last night was a blast, he looked so cute. Well gotta start my baking today, no nibbles or tastes today!

Always,
Dawn

Good morning everyone!

:hug: Amanda! I'm sorry to hear about your radiator. Money worries are the worst, aren't they? Just keep thinking that this time next year, you will no longer have money worries! Budgets are like diets, no one likes to do them, but boy do they make a difference in how you feel:D

I have an infection in a tooth I had a root canal in 4 years ago. The good news is that the antibiotic I'm on a) I'm required to drink a ton of water and b) makes my stomach a little upset so I'm less inclined to want to eat, much less overeat. Always a silver lining!!

Other than that everything is going well. Oh, I would love to join the Discovery Health Challenge. In fact, I was planning on doing it before I came to 3fatchicks. In a weird way, I'm really looking forward to Christmas being over with (that and the new root canal:( ) so that I can focus on my weight loss without distractions or temptations......

Have a good Thursday!
Nancy