gary- I am disappointed. My birthday is an awesome holiday. I mean the whole country puts out their flags to celebrate it and everything. Hey, I am a mother.....and I have been a father too. This is my race isn't it??
What did I miss? What terrible thing happened in Dutch country?
Yay for running. Yay for eating right. yay for being strong and determined to have better lives. (Well Gary is determined to have another beer for the team).
Rock and roll peeps. Man, that sounded stupid.
J- I gave into the hype and read Twilight. It was awright, just awright. I can watch the movie now. I have a shocking revelation. I love cowboy romances, so I recently ordered "Cowgirl Up and Ride". I think it is straight up porn.
Jeannette - same here!!!!!!!!! EXACT same number - 197.4 - maybe here is a conspiracy??????? Good for you for working out, too. I was going to the exercise room but I feel really tired today (emotional fallout?) and the BF is taking this test online (all day - it's the final for one of his MBA classes) and it just doesn't quit. So I decided to give myself the night off, instead. And had 4 little tiny pieces of (very good) chocolate and a glass of wine - haven't had chocolate in a month. I was amazed at all the good nutrition on the label...10% of my daily iron along with all that chemical feel good stuff.
Little off plan - but still way within "deficit". Instead of 972 calorie deficit - an 800 calorie one. If this is a lifestyle change then so be it. At least I'm learning how to go a little off plan with big satisfaction results.
Now...do I wait til Sunday before getting on the scale again...can I do it...?! I don't know...
Checking in while I wait for Angie to get home from the yoga studio. She got home from school just in time to eat an enchilada I made then off to work at the studio. She must be feeling better.
I will see you all tomorrow...
I hope to start May in the 70's....I started went from 179.6 as a low and 183 as a high (one day only) for April....most of my days were at 181...
Mindy, what happened was that on Queens Day the country becomes one big party and the queen and her family visit a few towns in the country. This time they got a tour in an open-topped double decker bus. Yesterday some madman drove into the crowd, through the security fences and tried to hit the bus.
Bodies went flying, 4 people died immediately, a 5th later in the evening and there are a number of people very seriously injured. He did not get close to the bus. He ran his car into a cement pole and got severely injured. He is still in critical condition. All this was live on tv and it was awful.
As a country we are perplexed and hurt.
There was always kind of a sweetness and innocence about Queens Day.
I hope we haven't lost that because of some nut case.
I pray for the victims and their family, but also for the guy who did this.
I cannot imagine that he is anything other than mentally ill.
J- I gave into the hype and read Twilight. It was awright, just awright. I can watch the movie now. I have a shocking revelation. I love cowboy romances, so I recently ordered "Cowgirl Up and Ride". I think it is straight up porn.
You should get Brokeback, hehe.
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Jeannette - same here!!!!!!!!! EXACT same number - 197.4 - maybe here is a conspiracy??????? Good for you for working out, too. I was going to the exercise room but I feel really tired today (emotional fallout?) and the BF is taking this test online (all day - it's the final for one of his MBA classes) and it just doesn't quit. So I decided to give myself the night off, instead. And had 4 little tiny pieces of (very good) chocolate and a glass of wine - haven't had chocolate in a month. I was amazed at all the good nutrition on the label...10% of my daily iron along with all that chemical feel good stuff.
Little off plan - but still way within "deficit". Instead of 972 calorie deficit - an 800 calorie one. If this is a lifestyle change then so be it. At least I'm learning how to go a little off plan with big satisfaction results.
Now...do I wait til Sunday before getting on the scale again...can I do it...?! I don't know...
Sounds to me like you're doing well!!! My scale was up another 3 pounds this morning. Am I eating cheeseburgers in my sleep? What's going on????
Dutch, I'm really sorry to hear about what happened. That's really horrible.
Dutchgirl, that's so sad that someone would do that! I really don't understand what gets in to people's minds sometimes when they act out like that.
Wow, today is May 1, huh? Better get my calendars changed! I didn't weigh this morning. I've been feeling plenty bloated and have to give a presentation this afternoon. I don't want some bad scale number bringing me down and making me self-conscious!
I hope you all stay strong this weekend. Tonight I am going to an end of the year banquet for an organization I belong to... no idea what's on the menu so wish me well!
So I decided to eat five guys today because I've been craving it for about a month and I have been REALLY good. It was disappointing. And I wish I would have eaten Subway instead. Less calories and less fat.
*sad*
Oh well. I'm still working out tonight, so...*sigh*
Well, I gave up my scale today. Boy was it hard! I thought I was really going to be able to get some useful information out of "patterns". Doesn't take much to get addicted to something else does it? I literally had dreams about it and terrified something terrible would happen if I didn't weigh-in.
I'm happy to report the sky didn't fall in, and well - hey, I actually had a good day. I didn't start eating my weight in bratwurst (always the ever present danger). I don't know what I weigh. And that's OKAY. LOL!
I'm not giving it up completely, though - just the daily weigh-in. Going to see how once a week goes. I'll let you know EZ how the magic pill is doing on Sunday. The thing is my mood ended up being totally tied to that number - good or bad. Argh. That's not a lifestyle change. That's letting another monkey get on my back - and not a cute one. GRIN.
Hoping to refocus on my original commitment to change my life - how I view food and myself.
I've had things like that Jeannette - where I really looked forward to something and it just wasn't as good as I remembered it. Sigh.
You know what really prompted me to finally commit? I wasn't enjoying dinner anymore. My BF and I love our gourmet dinners and glass of wine. We are definitely foodies. But I felt so guilty and ashamed and ugly - I had stopped enjoying them. All this beautiful food and I ate mindlessly through it - just wanted more wine to wash down the pain. So I thought - I want to be able to eat a meal again without feeling guilt...really enjoy a piece of cheesecake and not wonder if I looked like a pig at a trough eating it.
Of course I can't go back to my old ways - that guilt free dinner will have to be paired with a lot of workouts - but I'm glad of this journey to learn how to "eat responsibly"! I just know food is going to taste so much better without the seasonings of guilt and shame!!
