Hey everybody,
I haven't been spending much time on here. Hope everyone's doing okay.
Missy that's a lot of change all at once. Take it a day at a time, conquer a craving one at a time if you get them. I had a bad craving the other day as I drove near the Subway restaurant. I was craving one of those bacon & egg breakfast sandwiches ( I used to eat those often). I didn't get one. Mostly because I reasoned if I ate that.. well, I'd already had oatmeal for breakfast earlier, and then those calories would seriously cut into the rest of my days cal allowance. I just sat tight and told myself that the craving would pass. I drove home, and it was okay. Whew I'm glad I didn't eat one.
PMS is coming for me within the next week or so, I can feel it creeping up on me. I get these crazy crazy dreams/nightmares for about a week.. and they've started. There's always one disaster or another in my dream - last night I was hiding behind a dumpster because I'd walked into a situation where someone was getting shot, and I was hiding so they wouldn't see me. YIKES that's (hopefully) nothing I'm used to seeing in real life. WHERE does this stuff come from??? I looked online and the websites I read says this is in fact a PMS symptom. CRAZY. I hate it.
Anyway, hubby left again on Monday for 6 wks so boo hoo to that. I hate it. I always do. I think I would mind less if I could talk to him more.. but hey if I can ask for things, it'd be nice if he didn't go for more than 2 wks at a time. I am being selfish I know.. some are gone MUCH longer than 6 wks. right now. I feel for you wives/husbands of those gone away for so long.
I'm sticking to the plan, but I think I'm at a bit of a 'pause'. I won't say it's a plateau yet, but things have slowed down for a while. I went for a nice walk yesterday, which helped me mentally. Also I measured myself again - first time was end of August. I lost a BUNCH of inches all over, I should add them all up. Anyway, that felt good, cause I have not lost a lot of actual pounds in the last month, but the inches definitely are going. My original pants that I have had since I started, they are very loose, the legs in them don't stick to me at all anymore (they used to stretch tight). so woo hoo to that huh! I see lots of differences in little things as I go along.
married2asoldier:
I haven't lost as much as you have, but I do see a small difference in my face. You probably do too, I bet if you took similarly posed photos from the beginning to now. You just get used to it daily in the mirror so it's not as apparent, I bet. Keep taking photos and comparing them. Try on clothes that you had before you lost, that will show you I bet. Remember though, when you lose it's all over, a little here, a little there. Think about where you last filled out on your body the most.. usually you'll lose that first. (at least it happens that way for me). Don't lose motivation! You're doing great. I know we are all hardest on ourselves. But wow that's almost 70 pounds girl!
Clydegirl: hope your halloween candy stayed away from your lips! hehe
Me, I had a couple of pks of liquorice (the red stuff) but otherwise I did okay. I did not buy my 'favorites' - the bars and chips. I knew that would be my undoing. Unfortunately since hubby is gone, I had to do the treat thing for the kids - otherwise I would have made him do it and I would not be near the candy.
Hope everyone's having a good day. I have my weekly painting class this morning but otherwise it's a pretty quiet day work wise. I'll probably go for another walk this afternoon if it does not rain too hard. If it does I will exercise at home.
Bye for now everyone.. keep up the good work
~ Angie
Man Halloween bites with the candy in the house makes me want to stay home and not take Hailee trick-or-treating. But that would make me a mean mommy since she already has her costume, we are not going very many places though. They are going to have something for the kids at the quad so I think we will go there and then come home and give the candy away that we get to the trick or treaters we have here at the house.... haha. Anyways I am some how down 4lbs this week even though aunt flo has arrived.... which i am amazed about but I think that it has a lot to do with having got my resisitance bands to go with my taebo tapes. Man does that make the workout intense. Hope everyone else is staying strong. Have a good rest of the week 
to all the new girls - I haven't been all here this week due to possibly changing jobs, and feeling under the weather and beating myself up 
for not sticking to either my eating or my workout plan as well as I wanted to this week. Good news is, I DID work out 
, and I DID eat right, about 75% of the time, but that's just me making excuses for my bad behavior, so SHAME on me!! I know I won't meet my OCT goal which SUCKS, I can't even lose 2 lbs in a month, come on, I'm seriously kicking myself for this one because it's my fault. I'm not going to make any more promises, other than I will try. This time of year is so hard, and I'm finding that I'm turning to food when I am stressed out - I need to figure something else out!! Hope you are all doing well 
on the 7lb loss. That is awesome!!! Keep up the great work!! 