pjilla Thanks for making me laugh about this throat. About 5 years ago I lost my voice and had sinus infections and ear infections every 6 weeks. I would get sick take antibiotics and then be fine for about 2 to 3 weeks and it would start up again. An Ear Nose and throat guy had me on very strong antibiotics for a month and several doses of nose sprays. I have not had a problem since then so that is why I am worried. Glad to hear that you are feeling better and the party went well.
Have a nice evening everyone.
Not sure if I responded to this but.....you're welcome!
The grand prize is a $1000 gift card to the shopping center where I work. There is a giant eagle there, and I can use the gc to buy a disney gc to pay for my trip.
I hate to be "debbie downer" but most stores won't let you buy a gift card WITH a gift card..... but you could use the gift card to buy groceries and then use the grocery cash at Disney! Here's some magic
to help you win!!
QOTD: What is about exercise that you love and/or what benefits to gain from it?
Honestly, I'm having trouble loving much of ANYTHING about exercise... which is precisely the reason I've been really slacking lately. But, at the risk of sounding really conceited, here goes.... when I run on my favorite TM at the Y I can see my reflection in the big window in front of me... especially when it is dark out. I LOVE seeing myself run.... I feel so powerful and strong and athletic! It really amazes me that this "former fatty" (if you will forgive the name) who never did anything more athletic than some cheerleading in high school, is actually RUNNING! And not just a short jog.... but a real RUN... for miles (okay... maybe just a few miles)!! I still can't believe what I am capable of! Looking at the reflection of myself makes me feel like I can just keep going!! It is a faint enough reflection where I can see the "power" but not the things that I don't like, like the jiggly thighs and sweaty face!!
That's about it for now.
Big Brothers, Big Sisters just called a few days ago, now that you mention it.
I forgot about Vitamuffin tops. Great idea!!
I'll look around and see if I can find a charity in the yellow pages that might come out. I think Goodwill only comes for a large furniture pick-up. But maybe that is because I live out in the back woods!!
Sadly, I opened the freezer door to discover that my box of Vitamuffin was chocolate, not corn.
If I have time I might grab a box at Shaw's.... otherwise I'll just skip the carbs with my meal... NBD. (Not that chocolate is a bad thing... just not what I had planned!
)
I love a clean house. I don’t think you want to see my bedroom. LOL
All night I kept reminding my DS.... SHUT MY DOOR! (He was in there watching TV, trying to hide out from the teens!)
I know I do better with a regular schedule, FWIW.
You ALL know how I am with a PLAN.... guess I should start making a real, long-term exercise plan/schedule.
I've also decided to let my weight loss plan take a back burner until Brad comes off 3rd. Meaning, I'll watch my food, run when I can, post often, but not stress if progress isn't strong. Brad's 20th H.S. reunion is the first weekend in Oct, so I need to at least maintain until then.Taryn
You've been a busy girl!! Good idea, to try to stay in maintenance mode with things get crazy! It might make life a little easier in the long run, and you will definitely benefit from learning how to maintain!
To everyone who offered encouragement in the great Diet Coke detox, thank you. It just occurred to me that, although I have stopped drinking it many times, I have NEVER approached it as a FOREVER type thing. Maybe this is the time to make it official.
I'm sorry that I didn't reply to everyone. I am BEAT. I don't even know why. I'm just physically exhausted. I have to tell you what happened to me this morning, though. We were supposed to be at my sister's at 12:30 for my nephew's party. I still needed to run to
Walmart to buy a gift, and as long as I was there, I wanted to grab the things on my pretty short grocery list. I knew I'd be a few minutes late, but I thought I could manage. I kept telling DD that we were in a hurry and I needed her to help me out by keeping up at the store. She told me I should drive faster and i explained to her that if I did I would be breaking the rules and I might get in trouble with a police officer. (We had seen a cop car a few days before and I had explained who they were and what they did.) So we go to walmart, and finally leave there at 12:30. I'm driving home to drop off the groceries, pick up DH and head to my sister's (less than a mile from my house). So I'm talking to DD telling her that I need her to wait in the car while I take the groceries in and, would you believe that there is a policeman behind me with his lights on??? I pull over and ask him what I did and I was going 58 in a 45 construction zone. (In my defense, the speed limit there is usually 55 so driving by "feel", it was all perfectly normal.) Okay, fine. Now I have demonstrated to DD that even mommy gets in trouble when she breaks the rules. Then I hand the guy my license and guess what! IT'S EXPIRED! I had no clue. I cannot explain why, but I just lost it. I started to cry. I guess maybe I already felt pretty irresponsible for running late and for speeding and now, I'm an idiot driving around without a license. The poor cop didn't know what to think, but I just could not stop crying. He wrote me up for the license but not for speeding. I'll have to call into work in the morning and start my Monday morning at the DMV. I probably won't have to pay a fine if I show up on my court date with a new license. I'll have to wait and see.
Oh, and when I did arrive at my sister's place, I was completely frazzled and ate everything in sight. Pizza, cake, ice cream. (But only water to drink - no Coke or Diet Coke. That's gotta count for something.) I did manage to pull it together once I got home. I ate a 12 oz bag of fresh broccoli, cauliflour and carrots for dinner. At least I get my HH point for the day.
Good night, ladies. I'm outta here.
Let's focus on the positive.... you skipped the coke.... and you got your veggies! It would have been so easy to throw away those two healthy habits due to stress, but you didn't! Something to feel good about!
Thanks so much, Lisa - Does it help if I tell you that I actually tucked my "before" pictures into my WW booklet so I always have them in case they want to talk about how much I lost? I feel like people I've just met look at me now and they don't really believe I was ever a different size, and therefore they don't really believe that I struggle.
This summer, I even showed the pictures to a trainer on the cruise and I ran into him later and he told me he'd spent the rest of the day thinking about how much I'd changed. Which was strange to me because I'd think as a trainer, he'd see that kind of thing all the time.
I love so many things about the experience of working out now. Running outside in cool weather and feeling my mood improve with every step, speeding along on a bike path through a tunnel of trees, feeling the circulation in my back improving with every stroke in the swimming pool, the fun of meeting a friend for a group cycle class. Just moving feels good, and it feels good that I'm able to do all these things as well, and not end up huffing, puffing and miserable during them (ok, for the most part!). It is cool how well the cardiovascular fitness and basic strength have translated into a variety of activities.
I also love the social world that exercise has opened up for me - I can't believe how many of my friends are runners, either that I've met through running or who have started running and asked me for information along the way. I can't believe how fun it is to run a race with a friend, too. I've done that a few times, sometimes with friends who are faster than me, sometimes with friends who are well matched or a little slower, but it is always a very special, memorable experience.
When I started, I couldn't have imagined all the ways it would benefit me. I was just hoping that regular walking on the treadmill would help me get un-depressed.
I was happy to hear what you said about carrying around a "before" picture. I was actually thinking about doing the same thing. Most people I see regularly fall into two categories.... either people who have known me for years and saw my transformation..... or people who have only met me in the last year or so and never knew me at 219 pounds. A woman at work commented last year when I participated in the school's BL challenge about how I didn't need it, etc. After talking with her, I realized that she didn't know that I had lost close to 90 pounds.... she only knew the "slimmer" me. At that moment I was wishing I had a "before" picture to show her. I even found a "good" before picture to use (good as in...
I can't believe that is me!!). Some day I'll get around to scanning it and posting it here.
I enjoyed reading what you wrote about running. I hope, some day, I truly enjoy the running just for the sake of the running. Right now I have a constantly repeating mantra in my head of "run off the chips, run off the ice cream, run off the burger, run off pizza....." Every step I keep reminding myself of why I am torturing myself!
And keeping company with other like-minded, healthy lifestyle people is an excellent way to keep off your weight!! Thanks for sharing.
Pjilla, i never even thought about boiling being bad for the veggies. Dumb question, how do you steam them?
I know someone mentioned a steamer basket.... but you can also steam without the basket. Just put a small amount of water in the bottom (like maybe 1 inch) and shut off the water as soon as it boils. Keep the lid on for just another minute or two and most veggies will be steamed and bright green and ready. Cauliflower and carrots take much longer, so I add more water, but I definitely don't cover the veggies.... I keep on high until the pot is steaming, then I turn it down to medium and let it continue to boil/steam until they are soft enough. But I second the vote for oven roasting the veggies.... most things taste better that way (except broccoli, IMHO).
Get some antibiotics if your bug turns into a sinus infection. Hope that you are feeling better soon!
Well.. it is definitely a sinus infection. I haven't run yet today because it was "scheduled" for an evening run, but my teeth hurt (sure sign of infection with me) with every step today, so I'm not sure how I will manage the run. I'm going to take a dose of Dayquil and maybe some Advil and hopefully that will help. I would like to call the doctor, but since I rarely go in (maybe once every few years) and my PCP left recently and I haven't picked a new one, so they would probably insist I come in..... I'm working tomorrow and have a carpet measuring appointment for Wednesday, so no time to head in. Hopefully this infection will clear itself with some time. Thanks for the good wishes.
Don't worry, I don't think I could skip either if I wanted to. I didn't quite phrase that properly. What I meant was I had lower calorie meals without snacking in between. When I am at work I get bored and snack all day. This particular day I was too busy to think of eating, though I made sure to stop for breakfast and lunch. And my dinner was under 600 calories, not my day.
Oh good!!! I was afraid I'd have to give you a lecture....Oh wait... I already did!!
Hope you took my "lecture" with the concerned spirit with which it was intended.
I'm still not feeling well. sore throat, ear ache and swollen glands. I'm going to see my doctor at noon. Hopefully I can get some antibiotics. Right now I'm freezing, even with a mug of hot chocolate.
Obviously something is going around... sounds like a few of us are under the weather. Rest up! (mmmmm, hot chocolate!)
A Vitamuffin is a bread product that comes frozen. You can order them online or buy them in the stores. Vitamuffin tops are 1 point, to the best of my knowledge. I know they make regular muffins as well. Not sure about those stats. Pjlla?
Vitamuffin tops are just the tops of the muffins... kind of a wide flat muffin. I believe most all of their products are 1 point each... and very yummy. Lots of fiber. Pricey, but worth it to me.
My friend said this morning "Bet you wish you'd eaten that cupcake since NOT eating it didn't make a difference on the scale." I had to think about that for a minute. Yes, not eating it might not have made a difference on the scale, but it made a difference in me, in my mind, in my mental state. I know now that I can resist and that I don't have to eat the calorie-heavy stuff to enjoy an event or a visit to an attraction. I feel like it took willpower to not eat all the tempting food and I am always one to say "I have no willpower" and now I know I don't have that excuse. Or I don't have to resort to that excuse. The fact is that I DO have willpower. I can make good choices. I plan to continue to do that with every meal, every bite, every day. You guys are my inspiration!
I disagree with the friend's comment. Glad you had time to think about it. Saying NO to that cupcake gave you POWER!! Not just willpower, but "WON'T power"!! I like what you had to say!!
New license has now been acquired and as per tradition, the picture is... Well, it's a crappy mugshot.
As for my Monday being better... I thought it would be too, but as soon as I did finally get to my desk this morning, I noticed that the juice from my thawed, frozen berries (will mix with plain yogurt for afternoon snack) had leaked out of their container and thru the seam of my lunch bag and onto my pants!
None of this is actually "bad". It's just inconvenient and makes me feel kinda stupid and I'm kinda starting to wonder... What's next?!
Oh... and thanks to the pizza, cake, ice cream bday party binge yesterday afternoon, I am showing a gain for the first week as of my weigh-in this morning. I never expected to be a gainer on week 1.
And, so, we soldier on into week 2.
Y'all have a happy Monday.
Chin up... aren't Monday's supposed to be like this?? I agree... most of this isn't "bad" or "tragic".... just a PITA and an inconvenience. Good job keeping it in perspective. I think when little things like all of this piles up on people (especially in a short amount of time) things get blown out of proportion and they start spiraling into... "Oh the HE_ _ with it" mode and such. That can lead, of course, to stress eating. Glad you are ready to SOLDIER ON!
I hope you feel better soon!
I am done with week 1 of C25K and started week 2 yesterday. YAY! I think my neighbor is addicted. She wanted to run again last night (we didn't) and was ready to do W2D2 tonight, but now she has a meeting. Her idiot soon to be ex-husband can't understand why she's working out. It can't possibly be for herself. IDIOT! Sorry for the vent!
Waiting to hear about my husband's car. Engine light came on this weekend and now I'm just hoping it's not EXTREMELY expensive to fix. Keep your fingers crossed for me. This is making me want to go into an emotional eating meltdown. I'm restraining myself right now, but barely. Fingers crossed, legs crossed..... Need some good things to happen around here. Oh and the microwave is making a weird noise. Such is life I guess.
I know the feeling!! Lately it seems like everything I look at around the house needs fixing or replacing or will need replacing soon.... siding, windows, roof, carpeting, appliances!! I think we have reached that nasty "perfect storm" time of things in the house all needing attention at once! Plus DH's car probably isn't long for this world.... and DD will need a car next year!
I hope your car repair is quick, easy, cheap, and painless!! And you can live without a microwave.... at least for a little while, right??
Pjlla-The charities that usually call us are ARC and the Lupus Foundation. Many have pick ups every 6 weeks, so if I get several projects done in that time, the stuff doesn't have to stay here long. Once the weather cools a little more, I'll go through the kids' closets again. They grow so fast!
I'd love to have a scheduled pick-up every six weeks!! Talk about forced decluttering!! We have a "take it or leave it" shed at the transfer station so I could plan to drop stuff there every 10 days or so when I go to the dump.... but usually the car is pretty full on dump days!
Good afternoon all! It has taken me an INSANE amount of time just to catch up on these pages here.... and now I have to get ready to take DD to swim and Rainbow Girls... and DH and DS are heading out to soccer. So I've only got a moment here to chat.
Still feeling lousy, as I mentioned above. I'm going to take a dose of Dayquil and attempt the run... but if I feel too icky it will just have to be a walk. It is a big hil, so it will still be a good workout.
I scheduled the carpet measuring today from Home Depot
, but of course, when I showed DH the carpet sample I chose (the man who said he would "rather be poked in the eye with a pencil than go carpet shopping.... pick what you want honey!") didn't like my choice!!
And to top it off, the kids didn't like it either (not that they have any say in it
). So now I don't know what to do. I could go with my first choice that I brought home from Lowe's last week... but I need to decide before Wednesday so I can cancel with HD. What a PITA!
I need to grab my running shoes and fill a water bottle before I head out. I won't be home until about 8:30 for dinner, so I should have a snack too. I am working tomorrow, so don't expect to be on much until the evening. Hopefully things won't fly too quickly here in the meantime!!
TTYL...................P
Now if I really did it...warped definitely! 
for your DD and her violin ensemble. As the mother of a violinist I can so totally relate. 
(And you know how hard it is to work that smilie into every day posting?!? 
once you realize how much you have to work to burn off what you eat it definitely makes you think about it! 
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), some nachos and queso, french fries and some beer. And I ate all of the fries and all of the quesadilla. (I'm also starting to sound like I have a drinking problem.
