Oh the weather is soooo gorgeous out! The scary part is they're saying snow showers tonight!! LOL It's just too nice out for that tho!

I saw BJ over the weekend and really enjoyed it.
I laughed out loud a few times and was personally appalled at my own neurotic resemblance to Bridget. I was sort of bothered by the two running themes of the film, Bridget (and others) talking about her weight and the endless scenes of Bridget getting humiliated, either by her own error or at the hands of someone else. I felt embarrassed for her. But I imagine that was the point, no?
I thought I was chubby at 136 pounds and had family members who agreed. When I see pictures of myself at that weight I think I look positively gaunt. To think of all the time I wasted obsessing about my shortcomings when I would give my firstborn to weigh 136 again. Funny though, I'm infinitely happier at 200 lbs., all things considered, then I ever was at 136. I'm looking forward to knowing what I know now at a healthy weight.
So my first meeting is tonight.
Thank you for letting me post among you even though I'm not 'official' yet. I appreciate your support.

slinko

Mental Health Day
 

hey everyone! I haven't read the BJ book but am planning to see the movie tonight with my cousins-it's been getting good reviews on TV and apparently here on this message board as well!
For the survey I put more than 1/2 hour-i try to run 5 days a week but it turns out to be like four. I started 2 years ago and couldn't even run half a mile-now 2 and a half is my minimum, my average is like 4-5 miles....my friends are trying to convince me to train for the NY marathon this year...but 26.2 miles seems really far when I get tired after 2!!! So to anyone out there who is thinking of taking up running-if I can do it, you can too...just go slowly and walk a lot at first...
Angie-hope your pain lessens-it must be hard to stay OP if you can't move around much and are near food all day...congratulations....
Lolly-Enjoy the time with BF...I know how it feels-I'm away for a month right now but not as far away as you guys!!!
Congratulations to everyone for getting back OP after the Easter weekend...I have to admit that seeing how many of you went off program made me feel better about my own lapses;) I guess misery loves company!??

bye for now-lori

Happy Tuesday
 

It was supposed to rain/snow today and I don't think it is going to so I am very happy :) I am in a good mood today and was last night too. I ate 24 points yesterday and exercised 4 points. DH wasn't able to make the WW meeting last night but asked me to go with him to join tonight. I am so proud of him for doing this and excited that he asked me to go with him.

Istarted running recently. I only run on the treadmill. I started off at 2 minutes at a time and cannow run a total of 1 mile - walk, run .8, walk, run .2. I am very pleased with myself. I can not run outside yet. I think it is the moving sidewalk idea of the treadmill that keeps me going. Eventually I would like to be able to run a 5k racre. No hurry though :)

I am eating pizza for lunch today, yummy. I posted my recipe for Strawberrry Pie on the Recipes thread. I hope you like it. It is super easy and my favorite!!!My MIL said she would send me some more recipes soon.

Lori - I am very impressed with your running!!!! Enjoy the movie tonight.

Slinko - Welcome! I loved BJ. It didn't bother me about the weight becasue I know that plenty of people have a distorted sense of themselves. I think it is important to be happy with yourself, as you are.

Becky - I only started running recently and used to abhor it! I am not saying that I enjoy it now, but I don't mind it. You are doing some great activity anyway, who needs to run??

Lolly - Have a wonderful time with bf. I know how excited you are right now!! I think it is great that he has come to visit. I wish that DH (when he was bf) could have come to visit me in France when I was there for a semseter.

Trish - Although I haven't read the book yet, that was the impression that I had about BJ's opinion of her weight.

Stacey - Way to go on banking points!!@!!!

Lisa - Hope you are feeling better soon. I don't think that going over by 8 points even on 3 days is that bad. It sounds to me like you did great. You should be proud of yourself for making progress.

Casey - I hope you have recovered from your binge. I know where you havwe been as well. At least you know that you don't want to do it anymore, good for you. Yoube back on track in no time.

Angie - I am so sorry that you are in so much pain. I also have arthritis but mainly in my hands. Do you take any medicatipon? I am on Celebrex now although this is the 4th medication I have tried.

Ali - I don't think 36 points for Easter sounds too nad. If you run for 45 mintues, you can earn back a lot of points :)

Kirsty - I hope you enjoyed your holiday. I wish I had gotten an extra day off!

Shaylene - I am glad that you weren't tempted to binge on Easter. I am lucky we didn't do anything big otherwise,it just would have been worse!

I hope I didn't miss anyone. Hi to Tonya and Belle. I only have 3 hours left!!! Yipee!!

Sarah
194.4/165.4/153WW

Quick post!
 

Hi ladies!

Quick post~~

I can't wait to see BJ!!!Conception of weigths is very different when you are bigger. My friend who went from 250 to 200 said that she is glad she knows what 250 feels like so she can put being 200 into perspective. she is still on her weight loss journey but she has an amazing outlook on it. She said when she was 150 she felt like a whale and wishes she could still be there. Same thing for me also, remembering when I was 150--160. I still wanted to lose then, I wish I could have just focused on maintaining it!!!!

I used my x trainer machine last night!! woo-hoo!! I yelled at bf though cause he kept interuppting me :( Bad me! I really had to grovel later to make him forgive me. I should have told him before hand that it was best to leave me alone while I was working out.

Well~ have a good rest of the day. I need to get something into my body. Work is busy!

HI girls.... I forgot. I didn't drink at all while I was home. We even went to New Orleans one night, and I was the designated driver.. so it all worked out. I mean, I was over anyway while I was home, so good thing I didn't drink!

Trish - yeah. she seemed to have a body image problem. And, we as WW prob all cringed when she said she weighed in every day. Because we know that body weight can fluctuate from hour to hour.

Lolly- have fun with your boyfriend!!!

Grace - well... you walked at least. And now you're back on track... so good for you!

Shaylene! Can you believe this? Rain/snow mix? Hello!! It's April. Can this madness end already? I was just home for Easter in Mississippi, and it was 85 and sunny the entire time. Needless to say I did NOT want to come back!

Sarah - I'm the same way. I need the treadmill. For me, it's my pace. If I'm walking outside, I enjoy it more, but I can't keep my pace up. The treadmill forces me to walk at a certain pace. I need that or I'd be strolling along at 3 miles an hour or soemthing.

Slinko! Good luck at WW. Have a great meeting and great first week.

Well ladies... I think i"m giong to head home early and rest. Everyone here is prob hoping I'll go home so they don't get what I've got.

Brenda??? Where are you? GO AVS!!! How about Drury's goal the first game! That's my boy :)

Lisa

Can't break this binge!
 

I am so awful.

Well as I said earlier I did really bad easter but I need to clarify, I don't mean Sunday as Easter I mean Friday night through now.

All my family came in fri for reunion so fri night we ate. My grandmother tried to feed me 4 times. She apperantly thinks I'm not eating at all so I escaped next door to my aunt's so not to eat anymore and was greeted with candy and margaritas leaving me at 39 points for fri.

Saturday- Family reunion, fish fry at BF's, fight with BF, total an astounding 41.

But wait I managed to eat more. Sunday- Easter at grandma's (but I did get in exercise points although I don't know how many by chasing around my little cousin Carly and jumping on the trampoline.) Then I went to BF's and ate not one but two bologna sandwiches to arive at 55 points :eek: which is roughly what I should have in two days.

Monday- I woke up so sore from the trampoline and in stomach distress from the food that I stayed home from work and ate more.

Arghhhhhhhhhhh!! I am so discusted with myself. :mad: :mad: I need to go to WI to break this binge. There is nothing healthy in this house and I have been eating fudgesickles and leftover hamburgers for two days.

I am sorry about the ramble and almost to discusted to post this but I have to be held accountable. :cry:

Hi all! I am still alive! :D

Buying a house is a pain in the butt. So is moving. I am so glad this is a final move~I hate it!.

My eating has sucked the last month cause I have been so stressed out. Today is the first day I have has some sort of control over eating w/o emotional binging. I've also gotten back into my excercising the last few days after not really doing much the last month as well.

Angie~I hope your arthritis flair goes away soon. DH has the begginings of it in his wrists and it gets pretty painful.

Well, can't stay on. I just remembered I have to get ahold of the carpet cleaner guy! Chat soon (I hope!)

Emily

food is yucky
 

Casey: I hear you, girl! I've been binging all week and I CAN'T STOP MYSELF! Even today, I TOLD myself I would stay OP and I've failed miserably and it's only 4 p.m. I'm out of points for the day, too. I had a egg & cheese croissant sandwich from Dunkin Donuts for breakfast and figured I'd have a light lunch. But then a friend who's leaving for Hong Kong Sat. invited me to lunch and I really wanted to see him before I go so I went. It was a Mexican place, though, and I only ate two of my 3 fajitas, but of course ate chips and salsa and all the beans and rice on my plate. I felt positively sick afterward. Reading your post, I realized I've felt cruddy all week, and I'm sure it's because I've been eating out so much and not cooking for myself. ARRGHH! I'm scared to WI tomorrow. I'm even going to go to the gym tonight to try and get myself back a few points.

I LOVED Bridget Jones! I laughed so hard. Yeah, I noticed they changed some of the story line, but it didn't really bother me. I'm sure they only did it to fit the movie into a 2-hour slot, although I noticed the Elaine change too. And they called her GF Sharon/Shazzer — Shaza? Where did they get that? I don't think she looked chubby at that weight (and she shouldn't, anyway!), but I noticed they dressed her in outfits to make her LOOK chubby, like that bunny costume. It's funny, when she had the see-through shirt on her boobs didn't look that big but that outfit? I thought she was going to fall out of it! Anyway, I really liked the movie, although it's a definite chick flick. Kirsty: My BF refused to go see if and a male friend of mine hated it, so I don't know how good it would be for guys! That's cool that your man liked it, though! I think guys SHOULD see it!

As for the poll: I can only run a few minutes. So I'll sometimes run/walk. Plus, I have bad knees, so running isn't so great for them. I tore my ACL about 3 years ago and I didn't have it reconstructed, just cleaned up. So my left knee doesn't have much strength. I used to run in high school and college, back in my soccer days. But I never really liked it. Running is really boring, when it comes down to it, I think!

Well, I better get going. Everyone who's seeing BJ tonight: Enjoy!

Hmmmmm, everything seems a bit hazy in my memory. Points range? What’s a point range? Where did all that determination run off to? Oh, that’s right, into the kitchen with all the ham, potato salad and candy. WI? Hah!! I’m going with every reason to expect a gain. That never seems to help though b/c a tiny part of you always expects some miracle to happen.

Tired once again b/c I tried to stay up and watch the Av’s game. Started falling asleep on the couch 10 mins before the 3rd period was over. Went to bed, got up this morning and the DJ’s were talking about the game but neglected to tell me if they won or not! I finally had to look it up on the net when I got to work! We won! My boy (Peter Forsberg) scored the game winner in OT. That was the epitome of a playoff hockey game. Phew!

Sorry I didn’t have time to read or respond. I did the above two paragraphs this morning and then got distracted for the rest of the day. I’ll try to catch up tomorrow. Wish me luck at WI, that’s where I’m off to. :eek: