:cheer: TIA!

Day Four Done!
 

I'm back from Long Island/Queens. The hotel did have a (very tiny) fitness center. I ended up doing 30 minutes on the stairmaster while watching part of "Skating with Celebrities." I was watching CNN, but this other lady came in and I foolishly told her she could change the channel to whatever she wanted. Then last night once I arrived home I did 30 minutes on the elliptical. I ate a *lot* while I was up there. Nothing really bad, but more than I normally eat because I had to eat at the hotel restaurant for dinner/b'fast and at the client's for lunch. So I need to figure out a gameplan for the upcoming weeks - or, i need to up my exercise to compensate:D

Red - I did not get into Manhattan this time around. We are working on arrangements for the future though. The client has corporate apartments in Peter Cooper Village/Stuyvesant and we are trying to see if something will be available for me. PCV/S is sort of in-between the East Village and Gramercy Park (if I looked at the map correctly).

Freakybella - I agree about Kiefer!:love: I don't normally watch "24," but caught it monday night. I was telling my sister that his current hotness completely vindicates me for maintaining my crush on him during his weird/bloated years. Johnny Depp, however, will ALWAYS be my favorite!:love: :love: :love:

Hello to everyone! Have a great day!

Day 8 no Beer:hat: :hat: :hat: :hat: :hat: :( :hat: :hat: :hat:
Day 4 exercise-I had a great exercise day, but I have to tell you about it later, I have to get going. I'll post more tonight...today is one of those days where all 3 kids have places to go ALL DAY LONG. So have a great day everyone and I'll see you tonight!

Yesterday, Day 13.....24 mins. of hard cardio

Today, Day 14.....PAWS!

Originally Posted by redballoon:

And of course an athlete could be into you. In fact, it's more likely that your having once been fat would impress an athlete because they would know how much work is needed to get in shape. Just don't get involved with someone who thinks it's his mission to change you, that's a bummer.

Originally Posted by KarlaG:
I totally agree with this. I think the big thing is not to put up obstacles where there are none! What do they say--shoot for the stars and you just might get there, if not you'll get to the moon? I'm so bad at remembering those type of things...so I hope you understand what I was trying to say!

I guess there is some salt to this, and I'd agree I get erritated sometimes when my mom tries to push me, it gets old after some time. I want it to be my effort...
Thank you guys for your kind words.

Originally Posted by jollygirl:
REal quick post. I forgot one important thing. I weighed in today, and lost two pounds. I have challenge #3, to lose an average of 2 pounds a week.

I even updated my signature to admit where I am actually at - all the holiday pounds I gained :(

we aughtta shake hands... I am at exactly the same weight of 257!!!

not sure
 

Originally Posted by freakybella:

sorry bout yesturday tay i know u had a horrible day but we can do this TOGETHER!! remeber 400 sticks of butter:lol:

back on the wagon and going strong, its gunna be a 84.4 day today... drinking down those 16.9 oz bottles... i CAN do this :carrot:

arghhh i dont even wanna think of what 400 sticks of "unwraped" butter looks like...

and... i may have recruited another member to our site.. theres a girl i go to school with who is just fabulous and she has made a huge WL journey and i am so proud of her, and i gave her the address for this site today and she told me she was gunna check it out... so i hope she does :D

What is a neat way to keep up with what dat I am on?

What is a neat way to keep up with what dat I am on?

sorry

Tia, I see you're having some trouble there with your post and wanting to edit it. You can do that, instead of posting again. Just hit the edit button in the lower righthand corner of your post and change whatever you want to then hit "save changes" to go back to the thread or hit "preview changes" and, after you've checked it, then hit "save changes."

You can also go into a post the same way using the edit button and delete a post. That is near the top of the post and you have to first click the little circle that says "delete message" and then click where it says "delete this message."

Oh, and depending on what version of browser you have or your computer you may have to hit edit and then hit "go advanced" to get to the delete place. I have a Mac and it's different apparently from Windows.

As for keeping track, I have a calendar near the computer where I sometimes mark the days. That may be easiest. Another way is to always make a point of saying what day of the week it is and what day of your challenge you're on when you post. That way you only have to look back to your last post or somewhere around there if you're posting more than once and figure it out. Congrats on a successful liftoff, by the way!! :bravo:

So, where are you on your other challenges, the walking one?, or was that an A-OK on both?! :sunny:

Woooot!
 

Okay so my next challenge is not *directly* weight loss related - although it does indirectly have to do with weight loss. My new challenge is to get my lazy butt out of bed by 7am every morning - I am, however, allowed a nap on weekends as long as I have been out of bed at least 1 hour - this way I maintain my challenge but can still catch up on sleep on the weekends. This is partially so I can get to school earlier in the morning and get my work done at a reasonable hour, but also because the pool has morning swim hour from 7-8 and I want to start going - that will probably be my third challenge, but for now I'm just working on the waking up part! This is definitely a level 3 challenge as I am the biggest lazybones in the world. I have extra incentive to get up early in the morning, as I have an 8am meeting with the dean of my law school to discuss the *erp!* C that I got in his class last semester. This means not only do I have to be awake, but I also have to be bright eyed, bushy tailed, prepared, presentable and in control of myself enough not to do something incredibly embarassing like cry or fart in front of him. Puking on shoes would be bad, too - but not as bad as crying or farting in my book.

That's all for now, as I have to get some work done so I can go home and watch American Idol - still not working out due to the knees - I was able to take a whole flight of stairs today but it hurt afterwards.

Keep on Truckin!
Erin :carrot:

Day 9 is on the way.
Continuing the theme of little things.
Hmm everything in life seems to add up. Stress adds up to a breakdown, calories to extra pounds, dirty unclean look to poor overall apperance, the list can go on. But today I am going to add up what we've been adding up since first grade.... inches!
That's right. I made 13 measurements around my body.... ( for those pair ones I only counted each once), and my total inch loss was 14.81 inches in 37 days! That's 1.14 inches at each measurement!!!! I am so glad, and yes I can tell that most loss was on my legs, hence pants are fitting slightly looser.

On a separate note, based on lunar cycles Jan29 through Feb. 15 is decreasing of the moon and during that time anything that was gained will be hard to lose! That kind of sucks for me, as a friend of mine moved her b-day due to my business trip from Jan28 to Feb.4th, which falls right in this range...but may be I will be able to loose the darn 7-8pounds before my denver trip...who knows, time will tell.