When Did I get Voted Off of Skinny Island #2: Castaway's Land Ho!!!!

[gellybean]

I am happy to report that although today was probably the worst day for stress in a very very long time, I did not eat anything bad. Even though I wanted to eat a large pizza!
I got to the gym at 4:30 this morning, and did my routine. An hour later I walked out to find my car window smashed out and my purse stolen. (Yes I know, I should not have left my purse out in the open) This is pretty gutsy, because at least 20 people can into the gym or left the gym while I was there. Nothing else was touched not even the cash in the cup holder.
I took the day off work and spent hours upon hours calling credit card companies, banks, and everything. My phone, the Social Security cards for the whole family, and of course I just bought the purse and wallet last week too!

That stinks!!!

WTG on not stress eating that day away. Majorly impressive!





I did ok today. Ended up eating apples and caramel dip for dinner. Not the healthiest option but I stayed under on cals today. I'm about to download my body bugg for the day. Should be interesting to see what my burn was!

We survived the DMV. I think it's the first time in my adult life I actually got the new registration sticker before the old one expired. A day before it expired, but hey! That counts! Because it was the last day of the month I was expecting our little local office to be super busy but we were in and out in 5 mins!

So instead of going through a drive thru and getting bad food to pass the time before we had to go pick up DS7, we went to the Dollar Store and got some cute Halloween decorations for the front door!

I'm in the process of catching up on trackers. I'm about 10 days into September. Should finish tonight or tomorrow and will get that posted!

Hope everyone had a good day!

 

[MulanUSAF]

We survived the DMV. I think it's the first time in my adult life I actually got the new registration sticker before the old one expired. A day before it expired, but hey! That counts! Because it was the last day of the month I was expecting our little local office to be super busy but we were in and out in 5 mins!

on getting it done before it expired. This year I was pulled over for an expired sticker on my way home from the airport! Usually I'm very good with getting it renewed on time, but this year it expired while I was in California for two weeks. The letter with the online renewal code was sitting on my desk in NC so there was nothing I could do about it. Luckily the cop was someone I went through EMT refresher course with and he just told me to get it done and sent me off with a wink. Whew! I went to the DMV the next morning and got it done.

Okay, onto tracking for yesterday and today:

Breakfast: 1 hard boiled egg, 1 apple
Lunch: Split pea soup and half of a turkey and muenster wrap
Snack: 1 packet of almonds, a handful of dried mango
Dinner: Stir fried tofu and veggies, steamed Chinese sausage and egg pudding (sounds weird, but an old family recipe), a small serving of sesame noodles

Breakfast: 1 piece of toast with peanut butter, 1 cup of yogurt, a handful of trail mix
Lunch: roasted eggplant and red pepper hummus with lettuce and tomatoes in a pita pocket, fruit cup
Snack: 1 Kashi granola bar
Dinner: Boston Market rotisserie chicken (1/4 white), steamed veggies, 4 pieces of dill potatoes, a couple bites of mac n cheese

 

[tebi73]

My tummy was still not really feeling great yesterday, so I didn't eat a whole lot. I had to go to work yesterday even though I felt like turd because it was the end of the quarter and I am the only one there who knows how to enter the inventory. I work at a motor oil distributor at our main office, so we have a LOT of inventory. I finally left work @ 8:30 last night, so a 12+ hour day for me.

Hopefully my belly feels better today because we are having a sales meeting and this lady in my office who is an AMAZING cook is fixing lunch. It already smells heavenly in here!

Thursday, September 30th...
Bfast: none
Lunch: Wendy's 5 pc. chicken nuggets, small fry (550)
Dinner: 1/2 plain baked potato (73)

Total Cals: 623

SEPTEMBER 30TH DONE

 

[stayhomemom77]

Weighed in this morning and I'm only up 0.6 pounds from Monday's weigh in.

That's a big sigh of relief. I was banking on a 2 pound gain for sure...so this I can definitely handle.

Still planning on getting in enough exercise to cover most of those points...I have seeing that red negative number every time I log onto WW.

Sorry to hear about the purse being stolen, Sara.

Glad to hear you had an easier time of it at the DMV, Aimee. I have to renew our plates AND my license AND my health card within the next month so hooray for me.

 

[2_Eagle_Mom]

Good morning all,

Sorry I've been MIA. I can't beleive I'm leaving tomorrow. I've been running around like a mad woman trying to get everything done. Of course I haven't been sleeping well since my brain decides to kick on between and 3 and 5am (normally I don't get up till 7). I haven't tracked at all this week and except for running into and out of stores, I haven't gotten any official exercise.

Dawn & Julie - Good job getting back on the raft and pushing past those red flag days.

Allison - I'm so sorry you're not feeling up to par. Hopefully you are over it.

Sara - I'm so sorry about your purse. That really sucks, and it takes FOREVER to call all the companies to get new cards. Have you called the credit card agencies to put a fraud warning? Our old house was broken into twice and we put the fraud warning on it and it certainly made me feel more confident that we wouldn't be victims of identity theft. Did you fill out a police report? You might need that should anything come up.

In addition to getting ready for the trip lots has been going on with our family. I posted this on my PTR but I'm just going to copy and paste here so I can rant in both locations (ok, I've edited just a bit to fill in some spots that might be a little vague if you don't know all the players):

Jim – Next week while we are on vacation he will find out if he’s being offered his job. His group is going through a re-org. He says that he’s pretty confident that he’s fine. I’m trying to not obsess about it. There isn’t anything that I can do that will change the fact. Honestly, I go for hours at a time that I don’t think about it. Trust me when his phone rings I'll be a nervous wreck.

Steven – He got a job! He will be working part-time for a transportation company driving train personnel from one train yard to another. He’s a HUGE train fan and if there were a more perfect job for him, I can’t think of one. When he’s not driving he has to hang out at the train yard and the only thing to do there is watch trains pass by. He would do it for free if given the opportunity but getting paid for it is just the frosting on the cake. I think I may have mentioned it here before, but in case I haven't Steven has Asperger Syndrom which is a high form of functioning Autism. For him to find a job that he will absolutly love and a company that is willing to train him is a HUGE blessing and one that we do not take for granted. Steven's primary goal right now is to get experience and hopefully have this job lead to a full-time position so he can get off Disability.

He’s going to go to Disneyland with his girlfriend Jenny and her mom this weekend. Steven met Jenny at his program for Adults with Disabilities, Jenny has Down Syndrom, Patty (Jenny’s Mom) just called me tonight to tell me that their trip might get cut short. Her grandson (one of Jenny’s nephew’s) has been put in Hospice care and will be transferred to a Hospice house next Wednesday and if she gets the call they will be coming home early. I talked to Steven so he understands that plans could change at a moment’s notice and he needs to help explain things to Jenny and help her understand that they can go to DL another time and calm her down because this is her birthday trip, but she won't fully understand why they might need to leave early.

Brendan – Is still suffering from his cold. He’s feeling better, but still coughing. This morning he said his ears were plugged. I'm hoping that tomorrow he's feeling even better and the sinus meds work their magic. He finally packed his stuff last night. I'm struggling, should I make sure he has everything or just let him go with what he has and live with the consiquences.

Charlotte - luckily no drama for her. She actually got more hours at work this week then normal so she has a little more spending money than she anticipated.

Me – I’ve been crazily trying to get a ton done at work. I have some quarterly reports that I’ve had to create and prep so when I get the information tomorrow I can produce something that normally takes more than a couple of days done in less than one. I'm also trying to talk myself out of my frantic worry mode. When I wake up worring that the dog could get sick, or my Mom could fall, or the house could have an ant invasion, etc. Nothing is really beyond my ability to worry and think of all the terrible things that could happen while we are gone. I know that most (ok, pretty much ALL) of my worrying will not do anyone any good. I also know that I'm doing it to myself and that I'm the ONLY one that stop the madness. It's just darn hard to talk myself down from DEFCON 4.

Ok, now I'm going to be late for work. So much for an early start at work today. Dang it, I'm just going to do the best that I can during the hours that I have, take a deep breath and just keep paddeling the best that I can.

Ok, rant/dump over.(for now)

 

[indimom]

I am happy to report that although today was probably the worst day for stress in a very very long time, I did not eat anything bad. Even though I wanted to eat a large pizza!
I got to the gym at 4:30 this morning, and did my routine. An hour later I walked out to find my car window smashed out and my purse stolen. (Yes I know, I should not have left my purse out in the open) This is pretty gutsy, because at least 20 people can into the gym or left the gym while I was there. Nothing else was touched not even the cash in the cup holder.
I took the day off work and spent hours upon hours calling credit card companies, banks, and everything. My phone, the Social Security cards for the whole family, and of course I just bought the purse and wallet last week too!

Ugh, that just stinks! Good job maintaining through a stressful day.

Good morning all,

Sorry I've been MIA. I can't beleive I'm leaving tomorrow. I've been running around like a mad woman trying to get everything done. Of course I haven't been sleeping well since my brain decides to kick on between and 3 and 5am (normally I don't get up till 7). I haven't tracked at all this week and except for running into and out of stores, I haven't gotten any official exercise.

In addition to getting ready for the trip lots has been going on with our family. I posted this on my PTR but I'm just going to copy and paste here so I can rant in both locations (ok, I've edited just a bit to fill in some spots that might be a little vague if you don't know all the players):

Jim – Next week while we are on vacation he will find out if he’s being offered his job. His group is going through a re-org. He says that he’s pretty confident that he’s fine. I’m trying to not obsess about it. There isn’t anything that I can do that will change the fact. Honestly, I go for hours at a time that I don’t think about it. Trust me when his phone rings I'll be a nervous wreck.
Praying that it all works out and you find out quickly so you aren't worrying through all of your trip.
Steven – He got a job! He will be working part-time for a transportation company driving train personnel from one train yard to another. He’s a HUGE train fan and if there were a more perfect job for him, I can’t think of one. When he’s not driving he has to hang out at the train yard and the only thing to do there is watch trains pass by. He would do it for free if given the opportunity but getting paid for it is just the frosting on the cake. I think I may have mentioned it here before, but in case I haven't Steven has Asperger Syndrom which is a high form of functioning Autism. For him to find a job that he will absolutly love and a company that is willing to train him is a HUGE blessing and one that we do not take for granted. Steven's primary goal right now is to get experience and hopefully have this job lead to a full-time position so he can get off Disability.
That's awesome.
He’s going to go to Disneyland with his girlfriend Jenny and her mom this weekend. Steven met Jenny at his program for Adults with Disabilities, Jenny has Down Syndrom, Patty (Jenny’s Mom) just called me tonight to tell me that their trip might get cut short. Her grandson (one of Jenny’s nephew’s) has been put in Hospice care and will be transferred to a Hospice house next Wednesday and if she gets the call they will be coming home early. I talked to Steven so he understands that plans could change at a moment’s notice and he needs to help explain things to Jenny and help her understand that they can go to DL another time and calm her down because this is her birthday trip, but she won't fully understand why they might need to leave early.

Brendan – Is still suffering from his cold. He’s feeling better, but still coughing. This morning he said his ears were plugged. I'm hoping that tomorrow he's feeling even better and the sinus meds work their magic. He finally packed his stuff last night. I'm struggling, should I make sure he has everything or just let him go with what he has and live with the consiquences.
Hope he feels better soon.
Charlotte - luckily no drama for her. She actually got more hours at work this week then normal so she has a little more spending money than she anticipated.

Me – I’ve been crazily trying to get a ton done at work. I have some quarterly reports that I’ve had to create and prep so when I get the information tomorrow I can produce something that normally takes more than a couple of days done in less than one. I'm also trying to talk myself out of my frantic worry mode. When I wake up worring that the dog could get sick, or my Mom could fall, or the house could have an ant invasion, etc. Nothing is really beyond my ability to worry and think of all the terrible things that could happen while we are gone. I know that most (ok, pretty much ALL) of my worrying will not do anyone any good. I also know that I'm doing it to myself and that I'm the ONLY one that stop the madness. It's just darn hard to talk myself down from DEFCON 4.

Ok, now I'm going to be late for work. So much for an early start at work today. Dang it, I'm just going to do the best that I can during the hours that I have, take a deep breath and just keep paddeling the best that I can.
Have a great day and enjoy your trip!!
Ok, rant/dump over.(for now)

I tracked for the last two days, and was under on my points, but for the life of me now I can't remember what I ate. So far so good today.
We've been having a bit of drama here this week as well. When it rains, it pours, eh?
My daughter started complaining about a month ago (start of the school year) that her vision was blurry in her right eye and she was seeing double, etc. She said she could still see the board, etc., it was just getting "annoying." She's been to the eye doctor off and on over the years, just for checks, but was always fine. Matt and I both use glasses so we figured at some point the kids might need them though.
Anyway, we made her an appt with the eye doctor, and it has ended up being a bit more of an issue than we imagined. She has what they call a macular hole in/near her retina that is bleeding. She has lost basically all of her "straight-ahead" vision in that eye (just light and shadows). She still has peripheral vision, which is typical of this condition.
The doctor wasn't giving us much information, just said we needed to see the retinal specialist to find out if it was treatable. So I googled it. (Yeah, I know, I know. But I actually found more positives than negatives, and I just couldn't stand waiting to see what they would say.)
It looks like, if it is treatable, she will have surgery, possibly an overnight at the hospital, followed by a week or so where she will have to remain face down pretty much 24/7 so that an air/gas bubble they inject will stay over the repair site and allow it to heal properly. Most of the websites I looked at, gave a pretty high percentage of cases where at least some sight was recovered. So, I'm hopeful that she will be a candidate and it will improve her vision in that eye.
I just can't believe how quickly this all came on. The doctor asked if she had suffered any head/face trauma recently and we came up blank. The only major accident she's had was when she wrecked her bike last summer (2009) and broke her nose. He acted like he thought that was too long ago to have caused this. Maybe the specialist will have a better idea.
Anyway, we'll see the specialist on Oct. 27th and figure out where we go from there.

 

[zoegirl]

Hey everybody.
Just a quick post. Been a busy day running 11 miles, taking Lucas to the park & now we're getting ready to go see a production of Aladdin at our local children's theater. Whew! busy day...

Anyway here's yesterday's food:
brkfst - grits, w/1 serving egg beaters, coffee w/creamer
lunch - last serving of lentil soup, 5 saltine crackers, 1 slice deli turkey
snack - 1/2c cottage cheese w/thawed frozen berries
dinner - chicken patty on arnold thin, roasted zucchini & yellow squash
dessert - skinny cow mint ice cream sammie
I had a bit of misc eating so I tacked on 3 points for the day.

total points used 20
I know I'm under for the day, that's unusual for me. I'm not a believer in doing that but it happened yesterday so what am I gonna do?

Exercise - ran 6 miles

Sept 30 done
veggies done

sorry the post is short & impersonal. Off to get ready for date night with my favorite little guy!

~bree~

 

[stayhomemom77]

DH has been bugging me all week to adjust my pizza points. He said that since the pieces were from a rectangular pizza and were cut into squares, that I was figuring the amounts too high. He said that the pieces were like 2/3rds of the size of a triangle piece so I should only enter 2/3rds of the points I had calculated. I agreed that I had likely been too high but left it because I didn't REALLY know for certain.

Then he said I was killing myself trying to work off these points when I hadn't really used all of them anyway. To appease him, I finally shaved one point per piece of pizza (so 10 points total) but that was as far as I was prepared to go.

Then, I "killed myself" walking today (I bribed DS with Disney dollars and we ended up walking 5 miles Poor kid!! He'd do nearly anything for Disney dollars. ) Anyway, with what I earned and what I deducted, I now only have half a point to earn to get back into the black.

So tomorrow, I'll finally have gotten things squared away. It's nice not having it hanging over my head.

 

[2_Eagle_Mom]

Ugh, that just stinks! Good job maintaining through a stressful day.

I tracked for the last two days, and was under on my points, but for the life of me now I can't remember what I ate. So far so good today.
We've been having a bit of drama here this week as well. When it rains, it pours, eh?
My daughter started complaining about a month ago (start of the school year) that her vision was blurry in her right eye and she was seeing double, etc. She said she could still see the board, etc., it was just getting "annoying." She's been to the eye doctor off and on over the years, just for checks, but was always fine. Matt and I both use glasses so we figured at some point the kids might need them though.
Anyway, we made her an appt with the eye doctor, and it has ended up being a bit more of an issue than we imagined. She has what they call a macular hole in/near her retina that is bleeding. She has lost basically all of her "straight-ahead" vision in that eye (just light and shadows). She still has peripheral vision, which is typical of this condition.
The doctor wasn't giving us much information, just said we needed to see the retinal specialist to find out if it was treatable. So I googled it. (Yeah, I know, I know. But I actually found more positives than negatives, and I just couldn't stand waiting to see what they would say.)
It looks like, if it is treatable, she will have surgery, possibly an overnight at the hospital, followed by a week or so where she will have to remain face down pretty much 24/7 so that an air/gas bubble they inject will stay over the repair site and allow it to heal properly. Most of the websites I looked at, gave a pretty high percentage of cases where at least some sight was recovered. So, I'm hopeful that she will be a candidate and it will improve her vision in that eye.
I just can't believe how quickly this all came on. The doctor asked if she had suffered any head/face trauma recently and we came up blank. The only major accident she's had was when she wrecked her bike last summer (2009) and broke her nose. He acted like he thought that was too long ago to have caused this. Maybe the specialist will have a better idea.
Anyway, we'll see the specialist on Oct. 27th and figure out where we go from there.

Thanks for the good wishes. I hope your visit to the doctor goes well. Do you listen to the Podcasts that the DIS does? One of the board went through some eye isses and had to have surgery and had to be face down for awhile. You might check and see if you can find some information on the Podcast board.

I'll be crossing my fingers for your daughter.

 

[bunkkinsmom]

Indimom - you are on the prayer list for sure!!

Tracking for Friday:

Breakfast: LC breakfast quesadilla
Lunch: Hibachi Chicken
Dinner: Panera 1/2 French Onion soup and 1/2 Greek Salad

Total: 1341


10/1 DONE!!

 

[bunkkinsmom]

Breakfast: LC breakfast pocket
Lunch: Salad, LC BBQ Pizza
Snack: 1/2 portion Quaker Quakes kettle korn flavor
Dinner: 3 oz beef, mushrooms in a pepper red wine marinade
Baked potato one pat of butter
salad
one piece Texas Toast

Total: 1535

10/2 Done!

 

[pipersmom]

Just a quickie check-in..we're still at the hospital, Piper is doing well, her lung function is increasing slowly but surely. We have a about a week and a half left. I'm having a really hard time getting exercise in (long story) and am still watching what I'm eating..or was until yesterday anyway..we ordered pizza and pretzels for dinner. All I'm gonna say is the crust & pretzels are whole wheat..so 1000 cals of them couldn't be THAT bad. : It continued into today somewhat..ordered a baked chicken breast for dinner to put on my salad, and they fried it...we had the leftover pizza for lunch..a pretzel for breakfast and a late snack...and ermm.. a "share a bag" size of pb m&m's..I shared them with myself..LOL! I did look at the nutritional info..just erm..read it and then ate them anyway. So tomorrow is back on the healthy food wagon for me! I'll probably have a gain, if I can weigh myself. I've pretty much just written this 3 weeks off in my mind and figure I'll start up again once we're out of here. Glad to see everyone is doing fairly well.

 

[bunkkinsmom]

Pipersmom... you are on the prayer list today for sure!

Tracking for today (done already, huge dinner)

Breakfast : None.. woke up late
Lunch: Lean Cuisine Steak Tips Portobello
Baked Potato

Dinner: Moe's Junior Homewrecker and Side of Chips

Total: 1393

October 3 Done

 

[stayhomemom77]

Hey Amanda!

I was wondering when you were going to pop in here again.

Did you see me and Dawn frolicking in the water and jump off your raft too??



I'm firmly back on my raft, I'm happy to report (sorry to anyone who had to see my hind end as I hefted it back out of the water ) but I'm still nervous about tomorrow's weigh in.

Oh well. Nothing I can do about it, I guess.

But....

I'm hoping for a miracle!!

Check in again soon...k??

 

[gellybean]

My daughter started complaining about a month ago (start of the school year) that her vision was blurry in her right eye and she was seeing double, etc. She said she could still see the board, etc., it was just getting "annoying." She's been to the eye doctor off and on over the years, just for checks, but was always fine. Matt and I both use glasses so we figured at some point the kids might need them though.
Anyway, we made her an appt with the eye doctor, and it has ended up being a bit more of an issue than we imagined. She has what they call a macular hole in/near her retina that is bleeding. She has lost basically all of her "straight-ahead" vision in that eye (just light and shadows). She still has peripheral vision, which is typical of this condition.
The doctor wasn't giving us much information, just said we needed to see the retinal specialist to find out if it was treatable. So I googled it. (Yeah, I know, I know. But I actually found more positives than negatives, and I just couldn't stand waiting to see what they would say.)
It looks like, if it is treatable, she will have surgery, possibly an overnight at the hospital, followed by a week or so where she will have to remain face down pretty much 24/7 so that an air/gas bubble they inject will stay over the repair site and allow it to heal properly. Most of the websites I looked at, gave a pretty high percentage of cases where at least some sight was recovered. So, I'm hopeful that she will be a candidate and it will improve her vision in that eye.
I just can't believe how quickly this all came on. The doctor asked if she had suffered any head/face trauma recently and we came up blank. The only major accident she's had was when she wrecked her bike last summer (2009) and broke her nose. He acted like he thought that was too long ago to have caused this. Maybe the specialist will have a better idea.
Anyway, we'll see the specialist on Oct. 27th and figure out where we go from there.

That's nuts!! Sending prayers her way that she will have a complete recovery from this!!







This weekend has had it's highs and lows. Drama on the school front with DS7 led to some Chinese food pigging out on Friday. No excuses, just the way it was.

Haven't done too bad today. TOM is imminent. ( I hope!! ) so I have no clue what to expect from the scale tomorrow.

But I'll be here with bells on. Still working on the trackers!

Hope everyone had a great weekend! Good luck tomorrow!

 

[indimom]

Okay, I blew my tracking on here for this week AGAIN! But, I did stay within my points all week, except Saturday (We went to King's Island's Halloween Haunt and I had to have a soft pretzel and some potato wedges, but I planned for it, doggonit...).
I also walked 6 out of the 7 days, three miles each time. So, I expected to see a loss, but I STAYED THE SAME... Grrr!!!
That makes me so stinkin' mad. I know I went over my points on Saturday, but I had flex points, and I didn't even use all of those! Just very irritating. I'm trying to NOT let this throw me off track for this week also.
I admit I didn't do well with the water this week, and didn't eat quite as many veggies as I had been, so that is where I'm going to place my emphasis this week.

Thanks for the good thoughts and prayers for Emily's vision. We have a lot of family and friends on board for prayer and I know that goes a long way.
And, I keep reminding myself (again and again) that even if it's not fixable, her other eye is 20/20, so she will get by just fine, especially since she will keep her peripheral vision in the injured eye. The job of the macula is to provide fine detail, focus and color for what's straight ahead, so her peripheral vision shouldn't be affected, or so I understand. And that will make a big difference with driving, etc. in the future.

Hope everyone else had a better weigh-in this AM than I did.

 

[zoegirl]

Morning!

Indimom - for Emily. Hope everything turns out ok. Seems like you have a great attitude about it.

Amanda - So glad Piper is doing well. Don't beat yourself up too much about eating badly. Seems like you've done pretty well considering you've been away from home a couple weeks.

Aimee - Chinese is a total weakness of mine, can't say I blame you for falling into that temptation

Julie - I understand why you were killing yourself to get back into the black. Did you make it?

I did pretty good over the weekend. I ended up having about 36 activity points along with 30 flex points. So I did a complete pig-out and ate a 5 Guys burger with some fries Saturday afternoon. I was so hungry from my 11 mile run on Friday that I ate that burger in about 5 seconds! My DH said "Where did your burger go?" I said 'I don't know?" It was primal!
Anyway so I got back on the raft after that & kept right on paddling.

I am happy to report that I am down -3 for the week. 3 down 13 to go!

I'll be back later to list what i ate all weekend.

~bree~

 

[hanutedmansionmomma]

I just can't believe how quickly this all came on. The doctor asked if she had suffered any head/face trauma recently and we came up blank. The only major accident she's had was when she wrecked her bike last summer (2009) and broke her nose. He acted like he thought that was too long ago to have caused this. Maybe the specialist will have a better idea.
Anyway, we'll see the specialist on Oct. 27th and figure out where we go from there.

yikes! So hard to wait for for answers. Keep us updated


+1 this week. I wonder if it was the wedding on Saturday? Nothing like a table full of cheese and open bar 2 days before weigh in

Starting a program through work today called Naturally Slim/True Thin. One more level of accountability can't be bad, right?

Have a good week everyone!

egg/bun
tuna/noodle salad
a few chips
pasta/chicken, green beans, 1/2 roll, salad
cheese/crackers
3 glasses vino
1 champagne
coffee w/ amaretto
wedding cake
exercize - the wedding march and polka
10/2 done
cereal/skim
big salad, goldfish crackers
baked chicken, one spoon of mac/cheese, baked potato/butter
skim milk pudding serving
10/3 done

 

[Dizneydawn]

This is our God-given right as women.

This needs to be in the constitution!!!

I did get my body bugg out and charged and got all the old memory dumped and started a new 'program'. Figured out what my calorie target and burn targets are and am set with a goal of New Year's Eve. A loss of 24 lbs ( I think) 1.8 lbs a week.

Glad you got that sucker back out! It is so easy to fall off the wagon and not get back to all the tools we used when we were on. I am going to WW tom for the first time in like 3 weeks. I need to face the number and I need to just go on. YOU CAN DO THIS!!!!

Ummmm.....

Those freaking tomatoes are ruining my life!!
This made me have visions of tomatoes stalking you...

I also wish we were closer because I would have enjoyed a boat load!!!

An hour later I walked out to find my car window smashed out and my purse stolen. whole family, and of course I just bought the purse and wallet last week too!

I am so very sad this happened to you. Why people have to ruin somebody elses life to better there own I do not understand.

Carsyn had her purse/wallet stolen out of her gym locker at the YMCA, 2 years ago and lost a ton of stuff so I can appreciate how hard it must be for you who has so much more than she did. I hope it all clears up easily for you.

Steven – He got a job!
Whoo HOO!!!!

I know that most (ok, pretty much ALL) of my worrying will not do anyone any good. I also know that I'm doing it to myself and that I'm the ONLY one that stop the madness. It's just darn hard to talk myself down from DEFCON 4.
Truer words have never been spoken for sure!!! I need to write this on my mirror!!

My daughter started complaining about a month ago (start of the school year) that her vision was blurry in her right eye and she was seeing double, etc. .....we'll see the specialist on Oct. 27th and figure out where we go from there.

Is there nobody who will see her before then? I would have googled too and I would be stalking the office. I could not handle that wait. You are a saint for being that patient. How is she handling all of this?

Then, I "killed myself" walking today

So tomorrow, I'll finally have gotten things squared away. It's nice not having it hanging over my head.

Really proud of you! I walked 2 more times this week so got most of mine gone too.

Just a quickie check-in..we're still at the hospital, Piper is doing well, her lung function is increasing slowly but surely.

Take care of yourself and her for us. I know how hard it is too be healthy in a hospital - you would think they would have better choices in the cafeteria! Focus on what matters and do not worry about the weight - do what you can with what you have available. We are all thinking of you both.

Thanks for the good thoughts and prayers for Emily's vision. We have a lot of family and friends on board for prayer and I know that goes a long way.

So happy you have support close and far!!!

I am happy to report that I am down -3 for the week. 3 down 13 to go!

Whooo HOOO!!!!

+1 this week. I wonder if it was the wedding on Saturday? Nothing like a table full of cheese and open bar 2 days before weigh in
Cheese...mmmm...cheese! You should be happy you are only up 1 pound then!!!! I would have been up at least 2!
Starting a program through work today called Naturally Slim/True Thin. One more level of accountability can't be bad, right?
Heck no...let us know how it goes!!

Well I am down from last week. From last Monday - I am down .4 on my scale but I am going to WW tom. so I will use that number as the official tracker. I need to go to eye Dr today so I can't make the usual Mon one.

I will say that I went to Lane Bryant yesterday. An outlet and got some awesome clothes for the trip.

I was wearing a 24 when we went to Charleston and I bought all 20's for pants this time and 18-20 for tops. So although September netted me nada for weight loss - my total down of almost 20 is still holding and I wish I would have gone shopping earlier. Wearing the big shorts and pants that you need a belt to hold up does not make you see yourself as smaller and if anything, when I saw myself in the full length mirror yesterday, it was an eye opener how bad I looked. My @ss is smaller and so are me legs so the shorts I was wearing made me look so much heavier than I was.

I asked Dan why the heck he did not say something and he said he knew I did not have a lot of choices in my closet.

Umm...hello...you need to tell me what I cannot see so I know what to do to improve the situation! I appreciate the fact he loves me as is....but sheesh...I looked like I was Mrs. Potato Head.

I am not at goal weight by a long shot but I have one more week to really push the exercise and track and I can get closer to that 30 pound loss I wanted!!! So motivating to have new clothes.

Plus everything was huge discounts. Like 80% off or more. Saved $250 off of the regular prices!! Can't wait to wear them!

I also got a new pair of tennis shoes from Nike Clearance center. I needed them because my old ones were 2 years old and giving me blisters when I walked 2 miles. Not cool for WDW!!! I can post pics here if you want to see them or I can wait to post them to my TR when I wear them! Which do you prefer???

 

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Hellllllllllllllllllooooooooooo!!

Dawn, you had me crying from that tomato attacks picture. Thanks for that. DH just looked at me like I was an idiot and wanted to know why I said that the tomatoes were ruining my life. MEN!!

I thought about you guys constantly while picking the tomatoes, but I just couldn't rationalize the road trip necessary to deliver. Ah well!!

Hooray for a loss this week!

And a giant HOORAY for new clothes at such great prices.

I hear ya about the whole Dan thing. My DH loves me no matter what and rarely comments either against OR FOR on my weight. Which doesn't really matter cause the times he does say something makes it really special...and because I have no problem announcing my success to him whenever the mood strikes me.

I learned long ago, however that when it comes to clothing...sometimes the best thing to do is try and squeeze into the smaller size sooner rather than later. This is a large part of why I obtain clothing in various sizes. Then I always have choices. And when things are discounted 75 to 80%, one can afford to buy several items at once.

Bree: Great loss this week! Keep up the good work.

I did manage to get in the black...I had exactly 2.5 points left over when I went to bed last night (activity points). While I was proud of making it...I hope never to do that again. I HATED having it hanging over me like that...it's much nicer having the points banked rather than going into debt.

Aimee: Hey we've all had our weaknesses this week, Taco Bell, pizza, Chinese food...I think it's nice we're not beating ourselves up over it.

And with TOM on the way...well, I think you're doing great. Hang in there and hopefully it'll get better next week.

I think it's awesome you got the ol' body bugg out again. Nothing wrong with double tracking if it helps you succeed. I'm hoping you find something that works for you so you feel more settled. We're rooting for you!!

And now....the moment you've ALL been waiting for....




...drumroll please...




...yes, I AM obnoxious...




...deal with it...




I am down 0.4 this week.



Which probably feels anticlimactic to you but since I was expecting a small gain....thrilled me to my very core!!!!