Biggest Loser 8 Fall Challenge -- for losers and maintainers!

[pjlla]

Okay... I'm back. I emptied the dishwasher and dish drainer, reloaded the dishwasher, made a special breakfast for the family (it is in the oven at the moment), washed the kitchen/downstairs bathroom floors, wiped the wall around the kitchen trashcan, checked the scrapbooking board, the Budget Board, and the Community board and I am back to the WISH board.

Glad to see a couple of other early risers here with me!!

Okay... here goes with today's QOTD:

How do you handle compliments? And not just compliments about weight loss and such... about anything in life.

DH says that I handle them poorly (mostly regarding compliments about my weight loss)... and he is probably right. I guess I should just say thank you and end it at that. But I always seem to downplay my accomplishment with something like... "Not at goal yet!" or "Me?? Slim?? Yea, right" I'm trying to get better about it and just give a gracious thank you.

Compliments about my kids are easier to receive graciously. And compliments about other things, like my scrapbooking, are mixed. Usually I can just say thanks for noticing and such, but sometimes I PERSIST in pointing out what I didn't do right or such. I have definitely had self-esteem issues over the course of my life and that affects the way I receive compliments. But I'm trying to improve.



Okay... my newest YUMMY food is Vitamuffin tops CORN muffin. I had bought them a long time ago and stashed them in the downstairs freezer, where they got lost behind frozen pizza and green beans. But I pulled them out earlier this week and OH MY GOSH! They are yummy. I defrost them in the micro for a bit and then toast them and put just a spritz of ICBINB spray on the top and then cut it into eight pieces. It is a great addition to my breakfast when I am craving carbs in the morning (which is every day!! ) I also tried the chocolate.... which was good, but not quite as rich as I was hoping it would be.

Now I'm off to resist the yummy baked oatmeal I made for the family (definitely NOT a light and healthy recipe! )...............P

 

[Worfiedoodles]

Pjlla -- I am sitting here eating a Vitamuffin banana nut muffin! Just 1 ww pt, and really yummy! I try to limit the Vitamuffins since I know they have ingredients I can't pronounce, but I figure one a weekend, instead of Dunkin Donuts, is a good choice...

How do you handle compliments? And not just compliments about weight loss and such... about anything in life.

I have gotten much better at this -- someone I really respected once told me to simply say "Thank You", and then change the topic. This allows me to acknowledge the compliment, but also divert to something I'm more comfortable with -- especially if you can shift the focus back to the person giving you the compliment.

Maria

 

[pjlla]

Pjlla -- I am sitting here eating a Vitamuffin banana nut muffin! Just 1 ww pt, and really yummy! I try to limit the Vitamuffins since I know they have ingredients I can't pronounce, but I figure one a weekend, instead of Dunkin Donuts, is a good choice...

How do you handle compliments? And not just compliments about weight loss and such... about anything in life.

I have gotten much better at this -- someone I really respected once told me to simply say "Thank You", and then change the topic. This allows me to acknowledge the compliment, but also divert to something I'm more comfortable with -- especially if you can shift the focus back to the person giving you the compliment.

Maria

I agree with you about the unpronouncable ingredients. I did have the corn Vitamuffin twice this week (and a chocolate one last night!), but that will be it for several days, at least. Today's bkfst was a homemade breakfast cookie (my own recipe) and a 1/2 C of fat free Stonyfield Farms yogurt topped with a bit of Fiberone cereal!................P

 

[Worfiedoodles]

I agree with you about the unpronouncable ingredients. I did have the corn Vitamuffin twice this week (and a chocolate one last night!), but that will be it for several days, at least. Today's bkfst was a homemade breakfast cookie (my own recipe) and a 1/2 C of fat free Stonyfield Farms yogurt topped with a bit of Fiberone cereal!................P

Well, now you can't tell us you had a homemade breakfast cookie and not post the recipe...

How yummy does that sound?!

Maria

 

[jennz]

Good morning everyone. Just got back from Sam's and got the wii fit plus based on reviews on this thread...going to try that today and go for a short walk w/my pooch to get back into exercise. Still not feeling 100% so it's just more of movement today.

When someone gives me a compliment I mean to just say "Thank you." but often times follow up with something like "it was easy, no big deal" or something, which of course dilutes the compliment.

And just another great bit to all of my fellow losers...thanks so much for being there and supporting me. I feel like I've been a great big whiner this time around, and I don't mean to be. It's been one thing after another, but isn't that how life is? My (old) normal would have been to quit, but I'm glad I posted my gain, put it behind me (sadly literally as well) and moved on...I am missing my mom to complain to and hear her tell me it happens and keep going and am SO GLAD you guys are here to cheer me on!!

 

[tigger813]

QOTD:
When someone compliments me, I say thank you and that I feel great. I sometimes say that I have a way to go but I'm going to do it! I have worked hard at getting to where I am today so I enjoy it! I had my neighbor ask me last night if I had lost weight and she also asked me what I did!

Quite tired this morning. DD1 and I went to church and to the grocery store for a few things. We came home and fixed nachos for lunch. I only ate 20 chips total with lite Mexican cheese on it. Got a bit of a headache so I will wait until later to do the elliptical. Need to take the Halloween decorations down and start putting up my Christmas village. Don't have too much for Thanksgiving and we are going to a friend's house that day. I have a lot of pieces for my village including my DMIL's old stuff.

 

[tinkamom]

Hello everyone!

After losing and re-gaining the same 20lbs over the last couple of years I've finally decided its time to get serious and lose them for good. I probably need to lose at least 40lbs altogether but I'll start with 20 as a short-term goal so it isn't so overwhelming.

Now that I'm in my 40's it seems to be getting harder to lose weight. But it sure goes on easy!

I'm looking forward to making new friends and reconnecting with old friends so we can help each other reach our goals.

QOTD:

How do you handle compliments? And not just compliments about weight loss and such... about anything in life.

A lot of times I'll just say thank you, but sometimes I'll downplay the compliment. Like if someone says dinner was good, I might mention how it usually comes out better.

 

[Colleen27]

Tuesday QOTD: What is one thing you can commit to do today (or tomorrow if you're reading this late) that will help you in your weight loss journey?

I will cook today, no matter how much I don't feel like it!

Wednesday QOTD: What is your favorite meal to fix for your family that's healthy enough for you to eat it without making any special adjustments for your diet?

I do a lot of stir-fry with chicken breast or lean beef and tons of veggies. Some of my sauces are healthier than others, but none are really bad in the quantity included in a serving.

We have Special K fish! DH found the recipe on the Special K website and then I changed it to make it healthier and we all like the healthy version.
crunch up some special K in a dish add some orange rind, and other spices (I change it everytime I do it, so far, I like garlic and parsley the best).
Dip the whitefish into orange juice or lemon juice to get it wet, and then into the special K mix. If the special K mix doesn't want to stick, I just sprinkly some on top and dribble a bit more juice on it. Then put into oven safe pan and bake at 350 for about 15min.

Original recipe called for putting the fish in melted butter and then into the special K mix, but I didn't like the buttery taste, so reduced the fat and went with juice.

I love that idea! I'll have to try it next time I'm breading fish. I've tried butter and think the taste tends to overpower the fish, but egg makes for a heavier breading than I like. OJ sounds like a good alternative!

Tracey- I think the wii fit goal weight is low too. It puts your bmi at 22. The top of ww scale is a bmi of 25, and for me that would be 155 pounds, which I would be thrilled with. My first big goal is just to be overweight, not obese. You're doing awesome!! 10 pounds is fabulous in 5 weeks!!

I agree about the Wii goal - it set my goal weight at less than I weighed in high school, when I was swimming competitively and training hard 6 days/week! I'm just not built for a BMI of 22; I have broad shoulders and what would most tactfully be described as an athletic body type (as a teen, I'd have said "boy with ****s" ). At my very lightest, my BMI was 23 and those "best weight" charts in the teen magazines were the bane of my existence because they said I should lose 10 more lbs!

My long term goal is 159lbs. I'd actually be fine at 165, because that puts me in a size 11 and looks good on me, but 159 is the very top of the normal BMI range so that's where I set my sights.

QOTD Thursday: If you were at WDW right now and were committed to staying OP for your vacation, what would you eat today?

OP and on vacation don't go well together for me. We do the deluxe dining plan at Disney, which means lots of great food, most of it not so great for me! If I were trying to be good, my day would probably look like this:

Breakfast - Iced tea & a fruit cup or yogurt parfait.

Lunch - Colony salad and sorbet at Liberty Tree Tavern

Snack - Dole Whip

Dinner - Tomatoes & mozzarella, grilled swordfish, and mango sorbet at Narcoosees.

I do share everything with DD8, who is starting to get bored with kids' menus, and with DD1, which helps a little with portion control.

Question of the Day - Friday 10/22
How do you handle life's little unexpected curve balls? What do you do when "life" gets in the way of your plans?

Unfortunately, I usually order out. That's one of my big diet challenges - it isn't even that I want the junk food. There's no good takeout in our town to speak of. But when I'm busy or stressed, the first thing to give is my motivation in getting things done around the house. So when we've got a lot going on, I forget to take something out of the freezer or don't feel like cooking or cleaning up, and we order take-out. It is something I really need to work on, because the crap we can get here just isn't worth the calories - McDs, bad pizza, so-so Chinese, but no really good food.

Question of the Weekend 10/24 & 10/25

What song(s) get you motivated or inspired? Is there a song that everytime you hear it, it just makes you say "that is just how I feel"

Lose Yourself by Eminem. It so isn't my usual style, I'm more a country/rock girl, but I love the lyrics.

You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime

Well--no one has ever spoken to me like Trent Reznor (NIN)--Closer, Heresy, Head Like Hole etc.-- I feel those songs with every fiber of my being. Also I'm afraid of Amercans--Bowie and Reznor.

I feel the same way about NIN & Reznor. I have the entire Pretty Hate Machine album on my mp3 player, along with a couple tracks from a bootleg of a live NIN/Bowie show I went to many years ago.

I also like kind of obnoxious, angry music when I'm running

Me too. I've got a lot harder/angrier music on my run/walk playlist than I listen to when I'm relaxing. Nine Inch Nails, 'One Step Closer' by Linkin Park, 'Never Again' by Nickleback, some Slipknot, older Metallica, etc.

Question of the day - Tuesday 10/27

What simple swaps have you made to make your favorite meal more healthy?

Most of my cooking tends to be pretty healthy. I'm weird about meat, can't stand it if it is too fatty or has bones/skin, so we eat a lot of chicken, lean beef, and center cut pork. I stir-fry a LOT; my wok gets far more use than any other small kitchen appliance. So the changes I've made have been minor - organic ketchup & BBQ sauce to cut out the high fructose corn syrup, switching to 2% cheese for my Mexican cooking (been using part skim mozzarella & ricotta for a long time), things like that. And adding more veggies to make for a better meat-to-veggie ratio, because I know I tend to plan too large servings of meat & starch and not enough veggies.

TMI question for everyone. Do you usually gain, lose, or stay the same durning TOM? It takes me a few months of trying to lose to figure out when that is for me. Seems kinda strange but I have the Mirena IUD and I don't get TOM but I get the symptoms that go with it. Is it a week before. after or durning that you notice this gain/loss?

I gain, from a few days before until it is over, sometimes as much as 3-4lbs. I didn't realize it until we got the Wii because I wasn't weighing myself often enough to make the connection, but I can look at the graph of my weight over time and see exactly when TOM was. So now I'm not so bummed when a show an inexplicable gain for that week.

Question of the Day - Wednesday 10/28/09

What weight loss, fitness, health related websites do you read? Do you subscribe to any diet, fitness health related e-newsletters?

I don't. I signed up with SparkPeople but haven't been active there, and I'm registered with Running Ahead to map/track my walking/running, but that's it.

Question of the Day - Thursday 10/29

Halloween is just a few days away...What is your strategy to stay out of the candy bowl?

I'm not a fan of candy, so it isn't much of a challenge.

I have never been interested in sweets!
My food issue is too many meals in the day. I graze and keep on grazing (like my cubby horse)
But never sweets. DSis loves chocolate and cookies -they are always around but I'm just not tempted. So......
In spite of no sweet tooth I'm still very overweight
Its St Paddy's Day not Halloween thats my big holiday

I'm the same way with St Paddys Day! Halloween is an easy holiday for me, but if we're talking corned beef & potatoes, soda bread, Dubliner cheese, and Guiness? That's when I'm falling off the wagon in a BIG way, probably worse than even Christmas and Thanksgiving!

Todays QOTD:
What kind of support system do you have (outside of the DIS) to help keep you on track with your healthy lifestyle? Maybe you are attending WW meetings or keeping in touch with people on sparkpeople, or exercising with a friend. If you DON'T have a support system, what could you do to help build one?



This question really hits home with me. I DON'T have any close personal friends. My DH is not at all supportive of my healthier lifestyle. Not that he intentionally sabotages me or anything like that, but he is a very unhealthy eater and doesn't exercise at all and that is very hard for ME to be around. I have to continue to be surrounded by ice cream and popcorn and potato chips and beer and cookies. He constantly wants to order pizza and I have to either put on a brave face and eat salad while the family eats pizza, or put my foot down and insist that we eat a healthier, home-cooked meal. I LOVE him... he is a wonderful man, a great provider, and a great Dad, but I worry about his weight/health and I get frustrated that I don't get the support I could use.

DD (14) tries to be supportive, but as a typical teen, she is very wrapped up in her own life (and a very busy life at that).

I wish I could find a way to make some really good IRL friends (other than you all....) that I could chat with and such... but I've never been very good at that. Guess I should work on that... not sure how, but now I've got myself thinking about it at least!

I'm in the same boat. DH doesn't intentionally sabotage me, but he's not interested in keeping the chips and other junk out of the house for my sake either, and he doesn't exercise. In his defense, he doesn't have to - his work is physical enough that he's in good shape without making any effort and in spite of a soda habit that would put me in a diabetic coma. He isn't so bad about wanting to order out like your DH, but his "solution" to me being tired, sick, or just plain crabby is to order out so that I don't have to mess with getting dinner ready. It is a nice thought, but not exactly the most healthful solution. He's gotten better, though; Subway has made it onto his list of places to go, even though it is a little further and takes a little longer than pizza or burgers, and he knows to order a salad with the pizza these days. And I'm an introvert/homebody so I don't make friends easily. My two best friends now have been my best friends since elementary school, but neither of them struggle with their weight so they're not a great support just because they've never been there, you know?

It's funny.... we also have an "out of sight, out of mind" thing with the holiday candy. My rule has had to be that we throw it away when the same holiday comes up again!! Last year's Halloween candy will go out today (if there is any left)... same with Easter, Christmas, etc. They will eat it like crazy for a few days and then I put it up in my cookbook cupboard and they forget about it. (Although I will pull it out when we go to the movies and let them pick a handful to bring along so that I can skip buying the overpriced movie candy!!)

We do too. I'll put the candy away in the pantry, and though we all know it is there and everyone but the baby can reach it to help themselves, I'll end up tossing a fair bit around Easter. I won't keep it a full year - the Halloween candy (and Christmas, if we have any, but Christmas isn't a big candy holiday in our family) gets tossed in preparation for Easter, and the Easter candy gets tossed before Halloween.

Today's QOTD:

What can you do THIS WEEKEND to help prepare you for the week ahead (food and exercise wise, of course)? Could you do some cooking ahead? Cut up some fresh veggies to have on hand for snacking? Plan some crockpot meals so that you don't end up at the drive-thru after a busy day?? Schedule a walk with a friend or a workout with a trainer??

My schedule tends to go just the opposite. As a SAHM with 2 of my 3 kids in school, I prep things on weekdays to get through our busy weekends! Today, I have 7 kids in my living room, all hopped up on Halloween candy and playing the Wii; tomorrow I'll have 8 hours of relative peace and quiet. So I do my recovery from this weekend and prep for the week's meals when they're in school. I'll sit down tomorrow and plan the week's menus, do the shopping, and cut up some quick snacks for the kids.

 

[lisaviolet]

Hello everyone!

After losing and re-gaining the same 20lbs over the last couple of years I've finally decided its time to get serious and lose them for good. I probably need to lose at least 40lbs altogether but I'll start with 20 as a short-term goal so it isn't so overwhelming.

Now that I'm in my 40's it seems to be getting harder to lose weight. But it sure goes on easy!

I'm looking forward to making new friends and reconnecting with old friends so we can help each other reach our goals.


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Yeah!


Pamela - thanks so much for recipe.

 

[LuvBaloo]

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Worfiedoodles

Your kids look adorable. Did you make the costumes? Where did you find such great masks? I totally understand the need for finding costumes that they can stay warm in! I think we might get lucky this year and have a fairly warm Trick or Treat night.... now if the rain will stay away!!

Today's QOTD:

What can you do THIS WEEKEND to help prepare you for the week ahead (food and exercise wise, of course)? Could you do some cooking ahead? Cut up some fresh veggies to have on hand for snacking? Plan some crockpot meals so that you don't end up at the drive-thru after a busy day?? Schedule a walk with a friend or a workout with a trainer??

first off, we got the kids masks at a dollar store. And most of their costumes were bought this year. I just had to put the white tummy onto the kitty's shirt, and put a charm on gold ribbon for her "collar' and knit her white cuffs. For the fairy, I made her the skirt. overall one of the easiest years for me, but still fun.

And for the QOTD: This week is the first week with my oldest DD starting soccer, and we bought groceries today to make it easy to have some healthy meals. This evening, I'll put some stew in the crockpot to have supper ready for tomorrow, since it'll be a quick 45min between youngest DD"s soccer ending and oldest DD's soccer starting!

How do you handle compliments? And not just compliments about weight loss and such... about anything in life.

sometimes I do well and just say thank you, but like many of you, I sometimes respond to a compliment by criticizing myself or downplaying it. I'm trying to remember that by criticizing after a compliment is rude to the person who gave you the compliment, and just say thanks.

And just another great bit to all of my fellow losers...thanks so much for being there and supporting me. I feel like I've been a great big whiner this time around, and I don't mean to be. It's been one thing after another, but isn't that how life is? My (old) normal would have been to quit, but I'm glad I posted my gain, put it behind me (sadly literally as well) and moved on...I am missing my mom to complain to and hear her tell me it happens and keep going and am SO GLAD you guys are here to cheer me on!!

Glad to hear you are feeling better about things!
It took courage to post like you did, and I admire you for opening up and sticking with the challenge

Mikamah - great pictures! You look much younger at the lower weight. And you're son looked great as the Statue of Liberty!

 

[tigger813]

I feel good!

I did 23 minutes on the Wii Fit PLUS, the 2 mile WATP and then I just watched Amazing Race and did 2 miles on the elliptical! I didn't overdo it on food this weekend so I should go down or stay the same. Gonna have my one last glass of water for the day.

I'm going to get up and do 2 miles in the morning and then I have a massage to give at 11. After that I will come home and do the 2 mile WATP. Tomorrow night is Irish Step class so it should be a great day!

 

[Eeyores Butterfly]

Today was the last day of our season at the theme park. Hallelujah! I was supposed to be off at 5, but my partner (who made the schedule) asked me yesterday if I could swithc with her and close since she didn't realize we would have to do so much cleaning. I really wanted to say no since I do have to teach tomorrow (she is a college student so doesn't have the same kind of schedule), but I decided to be nice and say yes. I tell you, dragging ginormous trashcans and hauling huge bags of "kitty litter" (stuff to absorb guest illness) will give you qutie the workout. I was pleased with how things went though and I am glad to be done with the crew from hell. One of my crew member was actually suspended for something that I have been fighting the whole crew about since I got promoted there. It was nice to see that I was finally getting some back up. It only took a guest complaint. I can't wait for next year when I get to start out with my own crew and partner instead of coming in to an already established crew at the very end of the season.

I can finally have time to read the thread instead of just posting and running too.

I've been working out a lot, the trainer has been really kicking my butt. I also am getting used to the bodybugg. So far I like it. IT's really eye opening to enter in all the food and see just how bad I am doing. I also realized I am very much overestimating how many calories I burn in a day. I'll let you all know how it works out, but so far so good.

 

[pjlla]

Well, now you can't tell us you had a homemade breakfast cookie and not post the recipe...

How yummy does that sound?!

Maria

I'll see if I can find it later. Remind me again if I don't post it later!!

Good morning everyone. Just got back from Sam's and got the wii fit plus based on reviews on this thread...going to try that today and go for a short walk w/my pooch to get back into exercise. Still not feeling 100% so it's just more of movement today.

When someone gives me a compliment I mean to just say "Thank you." but often times follow up with something like "it was easy, no big deal" or something, which of course dilutes the compliment.

And just another great bit to all of my fellow losers...thanks so much for being there and supporting me. I feel like I've been a great big whiner this time around, and I don't mean to be. It's been one thing after another, but isn't that how life is? My (old) normal would have been to quit, but I'm glad I posted my gain, put it behind me (sadly literally as well) and moved on...I am missing my mom to complain to and hear her tell me it happens and keep going and am SO GLAD you guys are here to cheer me on!!

Again, we are SO glad you didn't quit and we are happy to be here to help you out!

Well.... I thought I multi-quoted a few more folks, but I don't see it here. Sorry. I'm rushing, so I will get back to the rest of you later!! I've got to hit the shower and get moving, but I wanted to get today's QOTD posted!!

Monday's QOTD:

How do you handle it when someone hurts your feelings??

It depends on the person. My Mom I tend to forgive very quickly because she is such a kind and sensitive person... she would never hurt me on purpose. My Dad is a little tougher because he doesn't always think before he speaks (kind of like me!! ), but he will apologize (in his own way) and we usually get past it quickly. DH... not sure there... he doesn't even realize he is doing it usually and I just have to get over it.

I had a close friend hurt me a few years ago... but what was worse, she hurt my son (he was about 7 or 8 at the time). I had a VERY hard time letting go of that. I didn't really like the way she handled the whole thing and I admit I carried that gruge around for a long time. I have finally let it go, but the friendship has never been the same. Which is very sad for me because in my entire adult life I have only ever had two close friends who weren't family. In hindsight I should have called her RIGHT AWAY to talk about it, but I was SO hurt, that I just sort of closed up about it and stopped communicating with her. To this day I don't think that she realizes how badly she hurt me.

So overall... I would say I don't handle it well at all!

Running late now! BBL....................P

 

[Worfiedoodles]

Monday's QOTD:

How do you handle it when someone hurts your feelings??

Here's another one I'm really not good at. Most of the time I internalize it, or complain about it to the wrong people (i.e., not the one who hurt my feelings). Sometimes I pound it out through a workout, that's probably my best response.

Maria

 

[Worfiedoodles]

Manic Monday Pamper You Time! --

Mondays are always so busy, and you need a ton of energy to get your week started! Today spend 15 minutes stretching, doing yoga, or light weights. Feel your muscles (yes, they are there!), wake them up and allow them to tense and relax. Bonus points if you do it before bed, to help you sleep more soundly.

And if you've taken that wild polish off your nails (or not!), give yourself a quick 5-minute hand scrub. Just take a bit of olive oil and a pinch of sugar, and rub all over your hands. Rinse and then apply a rich hand cream. How nice does that feel?

Maria

 

[mikamah]

Good morning everyone. Thanks for the comments on my pictures. I honestly never felt that I looked as bad as I did in the first one, until I saw the pictures from that summer. That was august, and sept i started ww. I did not do well with the candy on saturday, but was better yesterday, and back to journalling. Plus michael kept a small amt of candy and the rest he took to school today to donate to the troops. Congrats to all of you who handled halloween so well!! You should be proud.

I did make some chicken/rice yesterday and that will last a couple days, and went grocery shopping for the week, but kept is light because we leave on sunday for wdw!! Don't want to have to throw too much away.

I would say I don't handle compliments as well as i could. I think whoever said to say thank you, and leave it at that is on the right track. I tend to say thankyou and then down play whatever the compliment was. People will way that I'm a good mom, and I do so much with my son, and I will say that it's because I don't have a husband to slow me down. Weight compliments are always followed by how much I had gained, or how long it has taken. I must learn to take compliments with more grace.

When someone hurts my feelings, i definitely internalize it, rather than confronting them. I do tend to let things roll off my shoulder sooner rather than letting it simmer, and try not to hold a grudge.

5 Days til Disney!!! We are getting so excited. Michael started a journal, and decorated the cover with a pic of mickey mouse he drew, and wrote a list of his must-do's. I just went through my ww books, and my BL pages to find my weights on our previous trips. I am 7 pounds heavier than our last trip, but interestingly, my weighins after each trip was the same, down one pound, and up 0.4. So, if i do as I always have done, i should be able to maintain while we're away, and the key is to get right back on after the trip. That's been my problem.

Have a great day everyone.

 

[jennz]

5 days til Disney - how exciting! You know you'll get lots of walking in down there!

When someone hurts my feelings...that's a tough one...I guess usually it's dd or dh and I tell them that it hurt my feelings. If it's a friend I ignore it. The only "big" one I can think of in the past few years is my mom's best friend told me, after my mom passed away, that my mom thought no one in our family really cared about her - that really hurt me and made me angry and I'm not sure what the lady's reason was for telling me that, and although I think my mom might have felt like that once in a while when she was down (just because we can all feel alone sometimes) I don't believe she didn't know I adored her. Anyway - I've dealt with that by talking to my dh about it and NOT telling my dad and cousin (who is like a second daughter to my mom) and brother, even though I really want to what's the point - so they can hurt about it like I do? Okay that was kind of off on a ramble...

I LOVE our wii fit plus! I played around on it last night and will do some more today. My goal today is to tame dd's mess around the house. I don't work today and she's at school so it's a good time to corral her stuff. I also plan to get a walk in outside - it's sunny and supposed to get in the 50's.

Jessie - I'm glad you like your bodybugg! I've always been intrigued by those and will be following what you say about it.

luvbaloo - you are so talented and crafty!! I can copy things but not so good on orginal ideas.

tigger813 and pjilla - I LOVE the details that you both post on here about workouts, activities, eating and thoughts - it gives me ideas and motivates me to get out there and move (again - I lack originality but copy well!)

worfiedoodles - will definitely try that hand scrub! thanks!

mikamah and lisa - I don't remember if I posted but the pictures of you both are awesome! You both look great.

 

[Cinderella Girl]

Monday QOTD

It is easier for me to try and forgive the person right away. The hard thing is to forget it. If I dwindle on it, i tend to mask my feeling by over snacking.


I had a great weekend, got lots of exercise in!
I had 70 + trick or treaters at my house, it was crazy! I was proud of myself because I bought blow pops to give out instead of a candy i really liked. It worked well, I didn't eat any and the kids loved them. A total win-win!!!

I am very excited for this week, because I really feel like I am going to do well!!!!

I hope everyone has a Magical Monday!!!!

Molly

 

[lisah0711]

Good morning, all!

pjlla, hope the insomnia was a one shot deal. The time change doesn't help things, either.

I stayed off the computer yesterday. I am kind of enjoying these computer free Sundays.

How do you handle compliments? And not just compliments about weight loss and such... about anything in life.

I usually say "thank you" or "no problem" and try to downplay it. I should just leave it at thank you and call it a day.

Now that I'm in my 40's it seems to be getting harder to lose weight. But it sure goes on easy!

Isn't that the truth?

Monday's QOTD:

How do you handle it when someone hurts your feelings??

This is a good question. It depends on the situation. Several years ago, I finally figured out that not everyone is going to like me, and some people are not going to like me for no good reason. This was important to learn because I was raised to be nice and polite, no matter what. People cutting you off in line, smile and act like a lady. People lying to your face, smile and act like a lady. My sister and I are convinced that we had a disadvantage in life because we had to be polite at all costs.

Fast forward to my life as a lawyer. Even the people who need your help and are calling you aren't happy to have to call you, much less the people you are fighting with for your client. People regularly unload on me and, believe me, that there are people who don't hesitate to say really rude things to a lawyer. I was in a mediation last week and the mediator said to me "that lady thinks you are a devil," I said "I know, she told me that in September." So I try really hard not to take it personally.

All three of us, DH, DS and I, have a tendency to really internalize hurts from family members and friends. We need some improvement saying "you hurt my feelings," getting an apology and letting it go. This is the hard part. DS and I were just discussing the other day that being mad at people and not forgiving them doesn't hurt them, it hurts you. (We were discussing our inconsiderate noisy neighbors -- that is another story ) They are going to continue to go on their merry way. They don't know you are still upset, and they wouldn't care if they did, so the only person who continues to be hurt is you. That is the part that we need to work on.

Well, obviously, I have some issues to work on with this philosophy.

5 Days til Disney!!!

Woo! Hoo! I am so excited for you! Sounds like you are going to have a great time! I like how Michael is getting into the planning.

jennz, I hope that you have a better week this week and, if not, you know where to come for a little TLC and support!

maria, I am loving the pamper yourself activities this week. Thanks for organizing these for us.

Have a great, OP day!

 

[tigger813]

jennz- thanks. it helps me to put it down and maybe writing it down also helps me complete it.

I'm so excited. I'm already down 2 pounds since Friday! I've been really focused and really watched what I ate this weekend. So far today, I've done 2 miles on the elliptical and the 2 mile WATP. I still have to give an hour massage at 11 and then may come home and do some Wii fit plus. Tonight is Irish Step so it will be a great day for me today! Tomorrow I have some Christmas shopping to do for DD2 and my dad from my Mom. Should get one of those 2 workouts in if not both before heading to NH. And Wednesday so far is the day to meet redwalker at the mall for our sprint!