Glad to see the page is back up, had to leave about 9:30 --
Shuttle accident is so horrible-- We take for granted that the rockets ( shuttles) go up and come back- but we really don't see how many things could go wrong until these tragedies.
But the astronauts knew - - How brave!
Today's thought was chosen hours before the accident and it's from someone who may have never even seen a plane fly much less a shuttle and yet, I see a link--
Humankind has not woven the web of life. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.--- Chief Seattle
Am refusing to work today ... taking my sanctuary early in the weekend and working tomorrow and Monday! Gather ye rosebuds while you may and all that ... still need 30 more minutes of walking to meet my challenge! Maybe later!
Anagramatic!!! Thou could never be excluded from anything!!!! Speaking of the maintenance group was only Amarantha's way of reminding us all that we WILL get there and there's definetely no reason why we all won't be there in 2004!!
I'd like to propose a maintenance subgroup as we continue on our merry, seasonal thread romps!!! As we reach maintenance (methinks perhaps Eydie shall be the first as she's almost there!!!), we can join right here on our same thread. There could be an induction ceremony and virtual placques could be given out. Hmmmm. Maintenance Seasonal Subgroupees could post in a special color and have special Maintenance Names; perhaps they could count the number of weeks/months/years or whatever they have maintained the weight loss (I intend to name a maintenance range when I reach 135, so by definition, I'll be in maintenance as long as I stay within (or below) the range. By the end of 2004, we WILL all be in the subgroup!
This presupposes that NO ONE WILL EVER STOP POSTING ON THIS THREAD OR GIVE UP THE JOURNEY TO THEIR MAINTENANCE WEIGHT! Amarantha be sure no one would EVER even THINK of doing that!
Kaylets: It is sad about the space shuttle. It is always surprising to realize once again how dangerous space flight actually is and how much courage it takes for those who pioneer up there. I hope they found satisfaction in the adventure they embarked upon and that whatever happened, happened very quickly for them.
Well, I shall go do sanctuary things now while I can. Lots of work tomorrow!
Sunday and the scale is most depressed to report a 5 lb loss! However the former owner of those 5 is doing a happy dance herself....before trodding of course.
Happy also to report that the seminar is going very well and is extremely interesting. The thorn is as obnoxious as ever but I'm just not responding. Sometimes passive resistance is best!
So am off to the "mill" and then to some oatmeal and raspberries this a.m. Need to be fortified so I can pass up those huge bagels with cream cheese/jam/butter etc.
Have a great day Ladies...will cruise by later and check on y'all.
Yo! Gonna opt out of the Valentine's challenge for the nonce! Had a sort of two-part weigh in. It is explained in my journal ... I'll still be lurking and posting until someone posts a St. Pat's challenge ... but I'm not up for Valentine's Day right now ... just want to stabilize my weight below this deuced 160 that I keep coming back to ... and stick to my exercise ... I'm calling my in-between personal challenge the Spring Fling and my personal St. Pat's Pledge when I make it will be my goal for March 16 (the day before St. Pat's Day!).
Kaylets: Be thou ok? There's no quote o' the day here and that worries me! Hope all is well!
Bye, all! I must away to the couch for a nap and then come back and work on deadline stuff. Very burnt out on this job and likely the deadline's gonna continue through tomorrow night (the ultimate last minute), as I just can't get it done!
Ever get tired of trying to be everything? Successfully employed, somewhat fashionably attired complete with a funky haircut and polished nails, smooth elbows, pedicured feet... tidy home, wonderful cook, husband to keep happy , survive the teenage years, try not to let office politics get to you....AND eat healthy, exercise, and try just for one moment of each day to actually accept yourself for who you are, and to **** with society if you can't live up to it's ridiculous standards?
Then you'll know just about where I'm sitting the last few days.
I spent yesterday in bed for the most part...when I wasn't eating that meat lovers pizza that hubby brought home. That's all I ate yesterday, you know...four slices of pizza. Oh, and an ice cream cone.
I don't know if it's winter depression or PMS or just a mental meltdown, but I'm ready to chuck it all and live in sweat pants in a messy apartment and collect some kind of government assistance. Maybe those people who work the system rather than actually working are on to something.
*sigh*
Okay, rant over...back to regularly scheduled programming....
Hey, congrats, Ceara! 5lbs is an amazing losss!
Amarantha, at least you were brave enough to get on the scale! I'm not going near it, no way no how! I hope you'll still post with us, even if you're adjusting your goals.
We have 12 days until this challenge is over. I think I'm going to do my best, and not weigh until then. It will be what it will be.
Ceara - five pounds is incredible. All those *s and t s are adding up to disappointment for the demon scale but joy for us.
Wilfire, my empathy to you! That's pretty much where I've been since Thursday (altho Friday not quite as bad). Just in doldrums, don't know where to go next, etc. I don't know if it's meltdown now that things are a mite more manageable (I'm known to fall apart after a crisis when it seems like I'd be more up) or winter doldrums, etc., etc. My Pollyanna seems to have taken a slight leave of absence. Am hoping for better from me tomorrow. I too indulged in some pizza today as princesses and their Momma were here (an event usually good for a burst of good feeling that lasts long after they're gone). Dinner tonight was grapefruit and a Slimfast bar and two cups of tea.
I'm thinking I just need some "ME" time. I did go to have hair done, etc. on Friday but it's probably over two months since I've done much else (other than squeezing in some V V time which I did do almost daily though sometimes in a stupor) that was "ME". It is two months today since dh had his medical emergency and it's been full tilt ever since and I think I'm just drained. But the miserable weather etc. has not helped. I think I'll take his dialysis time this week and devote it to my own thoughts, pursuits, whatever since he's driving himself. Except maybe on Wed. which is the day my sister's having her surgery. If I can work it out at all, I'd like to be with her dh while he's waiting.
Anyway, chalk your bed and pizza day down to a recharging and hopefully, we'll both feel like chucking the sweat pants in the morning.
Empress, hold on and follow whatever paths work for you while we await the St. Pat's challenge. I'm glad at least you had your sanctuary day yesterday.
Yo, Wildfire! Yes, I intend to keep posting here if no one minds me not being in the group challenge ... I just need a break to prepare for what I'm calling St. Pat's Pledge!!!!! Actually it didn't take bravery to get on the scale this week, as I thought I would lose. Two hours later, the weight was down 1.5 ... though still two pounds higher, which I guess I should have expected after losing three last week. So I'm taking the second weigh as gospel and going on from there. Since I can't possibly reach the Valentine's goal by next Sunday (it's against my fitness religion to weigh on any day but Sunday, so that would have been my Valentine's weight!), I'm just resigning from the challenge now. Overall, I've lost a pound in the challenge. Time to move on. I'll get where I'm going someday. Hope I'm not to old to enjoy the victory!
Mind if I join you in your messy apartment and sweatpants collecting government assets? Sounds good to me!
But where is everyone today? There's just Ceara, thee and me!
I like your quote ... it's like a little Mary Englebreit (sp?) card someone sent me once. I keep it up on the fridge. It's a little girl walking down a country road carrying a bundle on a stick. She's at a crossroads and one sign says, "Your Life," and the other says, "No Longer An Option!" The caption says, "Don't look back, you're not going that way." It's cutesy but resonates with me a lot.
I don't think we have winter depression in my part of the world, at least not the kind that comes from staying inside and not having as much light (although, actually, we DON'T have as much light, but we still have PLENTY of light because the sun shines bright on my old Arizona home 99.9 percent of the time). What we have here is summer depression, I think, because lots of people stay inside in dark rooms with their AC all day! But lots of people go outside and play then, too, so I don't really know what my point is!!!
Still have work to do, but it's going to wait until tomorrow. Finished 60 minutes of walking, calories high at 2400, but it's my high day. I find I actually lose better overall if I have high and low days. Fools the metabolism or something. Need to eat better, though.
Kaylets, now I'm concerned too. Two mornings in a row, no quotes! Hope it's just that you're having too much fun to get at it.
I'm started off with a Slimfast cappucino and a renewed focus. Not just on this food thing because I don't think I ended up TOO badly (but not good) yesterday. Just on things in general. Some sun just now and almost up to freezing and, after all, it's Monday and that's always my fresh start and reorganize and focus day.
Eleven days to go, nine till my final V V weigh in. Focus, focus, focus!
Wildfire, yup sweats and assistance sounds fine to me. That'd be 4 of us, who's bringing the tea? Sometimes I think we just get too busy and therefore overwhelmed. I (in my old age and wisdom), am learning to say NO to a few things.
The weekend went well. Food wasn't a challenge really....the lunches were a bit more carby than I'd normally eat but they didn't kill me. Kept away from the breakfast fare and the desserts. Drank a LOT of water, brought my own fruit for p.m. snackies (cake and squares provided) and overall persevered. The information was riviting, and the chairs were killers so my mind wasn't on my stomach. Went to Jose's Noodle Factory last night for dinner...with Dh, Ds and parents...so I was eating after 7, but parents and I split 1 order of fahitas...so that was oK.
Didn't trod much...10 min on Sat and none on Sunday...big foot DS had gotten on and done something...couldn't get it to run, and at 6 a.m. no one else was going to! So was back on this a.m.
Frogger, glad to see your success!
Anagram, it is hard to stay motivated isn't it? The click seems to be working for me right now. Have you read Sarajoy's journal? I find it inspiring.
kaylets-now i'm worried too!!! Let us know everything is OK.
There's really nothing to report so far today. I'm having one of those hungry days. Luckily, I am at work and there are no temptations in my cabinets. I have had my breakfast and now I am chomping on a cup of dry SmartStart cereal (the last cup in the box). Actually, it's pretty good. I have no change and no ATM in our building so there will be no raiding of the vending machine down the hall. I shall perserver with my bottle of water and my snack of dry cereal until my lunchtime. There's no reason I should be hungry. My mom made dinner for us last night. She makes the best fried chicken and desided to make that. So I had a medium breast, some mashed potatoes and some green beans. That's a big meal for me now adays. I don't think I have eaten that much at one time since before I got the stomach flu! It was really yummy though. Can't do too much of that fried chicken though! It's sabitoge I tell you!!
Mini goals for the day, drink my water and take my walk at lunch. I'd also like to take a little walk this evening when I get home. We'll see on that one.
Quote for the day: "Life's a garden, dig it"
(Sorry I watched Joe Dirt last night!)
I traded in my beloved car on Saturday - told it to be good to its new family and drove off in a 2003 Grand Vitara, fully loaded with 16 miles on it - it's an automatic, my first in 10 years! The bumper to bumper warranty covers me until 7 years/75k miles, and comes with complete roadside assistance. It's pearl (irridescent white) with silver trim and dark grey interior. Now if I could just quit trying to shift the darn thing!!!!
Anagram - I'm glad the Dowager feeling has passed... Perhaps you're feeling more Dutchess-y today??
Kaylets - Yes, Saturday was amazingly sad. I got up at 6:15am to get to the dealership early and 2 min. after I turned on the news is when they had the "breaking news" come on. After it sank in what "disappeared" meant, I just sat down and cried just a bit - then felt extremely proud of those people who knew it was so dangerous, but did it anyway for the sake of science and growth. We're going to call my aunt today to see if she saw or heard anything - she's in Mesquite, a suburb of Dallas.
I loved your quote too...
Ceara - Congrats on that awsome loss!!!!!!
Amarantha - I think a maintenance subgroup is a great idea! I personally don't mind if you're not participating in our Valentine's challenge - I know for me putting a deadline on weight loss can be stressful and often backfires on me. I know for a fact I'm not going to make it this time. I try to be encouraged by what I *did* do, but it's hard to not be down on myself for "yet another failed challenge". As long as you keep posting and don't disappear - THAT is what I care about!
Wildfire - I think what you have is called "major burnout". You needed that rest and pizza-fest. I'll grab my sweats and come over with everyone else...
Frogger - Isn't it amazing what we call a big meal now?? I had dinner with friends on Saturday night and had 2 small enchiladas and tortilla soup (which I couldn't finish) it was plenty! Normally I'm thinking "ok, you can go home and fill up" - but I was stuffed! I think that's progress that it takes less to fill us!
I love you quote too!
Well, I'm up a pound this week - not surprised considering.... No Curves all last week, no water most of the weekend, Carl's Jr. with Mom after my car stuff, dinner out Saturday (not to mention the 2 1/2 glasses of wine) and yesterday I cozied up with a bag of M&M's while watching 3 movies . I'll take advantage of the fact that it was *only* one pound and get my butt in gear for next week!
Kaylets is still not back! Where be thou, oh of Quotes ... hope all is well ... it's understandable that things take precedence sometimes or we just need a break.
Punkin: Congratulations on thy new wheeled vehicle!!! What a great feeling that must be! Thanks for kind words; Amarantha be not planning on disappearing ... usually I don't mind putting a time limit on a weight goal as I know I never make them. Just need a Spring Fling with a more amorphous goal until the challenge. If one is not started here, I'm still doing one and calling it St. Pat's Pledge and it is running from Sunday the 16th of February to Sunday the 16th of March ... Goddess willing and the wash don't rise! I think Duchess is a nice title for Anagram also. We need a "duchess" smiley.
Frogger: Congrats on holding the snacky line at work today. Actually cereal makes a really good snacky thing, IMO! Cereal eating was another characteristic of successful weight losers in the National Weight Loss Registry and I really love it. Thy mom's dinner sounded delicious!
Ceara: Thou soundeth to be doing good in handling the exercise and food on a busy schedule. Thy gym log looketh good. Did you hurt your foot?
Arabella be also kind of missing in action? to the Wood Nymph!!!
Terrible sinus infection, but I have to work now! Bye-bye! I am taping Dr. Phil as it's something about weight. Joe Millionaire be on tonight also and I need to get done (finally) ... ok, it's a dumb show, but for some reason I like it! (Apologies to anyone out there who DOESN'T think it's a dumb show!!)
Ceara, 5 POUNDS! You are the QUEEN! Come closer, maybe a little of that will rub off on us!
Amarantha, methinks your scale is possessed and in need of an exorcism. Stay away from it!
Wildfire, I'm coming over in my sweats too. Man, wouldn't that be a party? Hope you're feeling less overwhelmed now---sometimes you've just gotta let it wash over you and wallow in it. [I'm actually looking forward to my next meltdown for that very reason!]
Punkinseed, the new car sounds very cool. Is it not the sweetest thing to have so few miles on a car? Hey, I've been seeing those 'Curves' commercials---they almost make me cry every time [oh ****, okay, they do!]--they're really working that 'sisterhood is powerful' angle!
Hi Frogger and Anagram!
Completed my 30 days of Pilates experiment yesterday, and I liked it so much that I had my 31st day today!
Just popping in to say "Hi" -- I woke up 3:30 yesterday morning with a terrible cold. Unfortunately, I was hosting an Indian dinner party for 11 -- figures! It was a good party, even if I felt like crap. Today I barely got dressed, at least I've hit a time where I can take a day or two a bit easy, if not off. Take care, everyone!
Simply Saturday!
Sanctuary Saturday ...
Amarantha be sure no one would EVER even THINK of doing that!
scale is most depressed to report a 5 lb loss! However the former owner of those 5 
is doing a happy dance herself....before trodding of course.
Had a sort of two-part weigh in. It is explained in my journal ... I'll still be lurking and posting until someone posts a St. Pat's challenge ... but I'm not up for Valentine's Day right now ... just want to stabilize my weight below this deuced 160 that I keep coming back to ... and stick to my exercise ... I'm calling my in-between personal challenge the Spring Fling and my personal St. Pat's Pledge when I make it will be my goal for March 16 (the day before St. Pat's Day!).
, survive the teenage years, try not to let office politics get to you....AND eat healthy, exercise, and try just for one moment of each day to actually accept yourself for who you are, and to **** with society if you can't live up to it's ridiculous standards?
So was back on this a.m.
As long as you keep posting and don't disappear - THAT is what I care about! 
of Quotes ... hope all is well ... it's understandable that things take precedence sometimes or we just need a break.
What a great feeling that must be! Thanks for kind words; Amarantha be not planning on disappearing ... usually I don't mind putting a time limit on a weight goal as I know I never make them. Just need a Spring Fling with a more amorphous goal until the 
challenge. If one is not started here, I'm still doing one and calling it St. Pat's Pledge and it is running from Sunday the 16th of February to Sunday the 16th of March ... Goddess willing and the wash don't rise! 
