Biggest Loser--Fall 2011 Challenge for Losers & Maintainers!!

[jillbur]

For anyone who is on facebook and is a runner, I have found a lot of motivation lately from this group lately:
I<3 to run

Just the kick in the pants I need some days.

Thanks for this! I "liked."

 

[trinaweena]

Hello all, sorry I havent been able to check in, we've been going right to bed after the con every night. It's been fun so far, really hard to eat well, but lots of walking. I have like no money which is stressing me out but there is notbing i can do about it

had quite the day today, when we left the con we went to go to times square to go to the disney store and actually got caught in the protest. i dont know if anyone is following this, but it was the occupy wall street protestors who apparently left wallstreet and moved to time square. we had no idea this was happening and it was quite a scary situation. we go caught in the middle of the protest and literally couldnt move. onece you got in, there was no getting out, and you didnt know what you were walking into untill it was too late. we finally managed to make it out on a side street but it was reallly scary. as we were walking away from time square we saw more cops than ive ever seen in my life, and one man (i assume a new yorker) actually said to us "you guys should really get out of here, this is not going to be a good situation"

apparently things did get really out of hand tonight, and from twitter it seems like we got out just in time. regardless of what they are protesting for, it stops being a peacful protest when you have that many people decsending on such a crowded, touristy place and making things impassable. it made us really angry and upset and we couldnt even get to the disney store.

we will be there tomorrow and i hope they are gone. all in all it was a scary thing and i did not enjoy it. but it is interesting to be able to say that i was literally there, in the middle of it.

 

[ougrad86]

This morning I stepped on the scale and stared at it for a good minute or so. I lost over a pound overnight and am back down to my 15 pound loss that I was at at the end of the summer. I have no idea how that happened since I ate absolute junk yesterday.

I had a revelation at the airport the other day. We put the suitcase up on the scale and it came out to 54.5 pounds. This was a very heavy suitcase and I realized that the amount of weight I still need to lose equals that suitcase. I can only imagine how much lighter I will feel.

There are times I eat a huge meal the day before and actually lose weight - I don't know, maybe it gears up the metabolism?

Never thought about the 50 lbs in a suitcase - kind of amazing that we can carry around that much. It is hard lugging around 50 lbs in a suitcase, much less walking around with it everyday! I lost 55 my first go round, never thought of it that way. Going for 35 - 40 this time, much easier. Losing weight did help my arthritic knees.

Thanks for sharing! You're right.... no big surprises there.... but it doesn't hurt to reinforce these facts. And I think that there are STILL folks out there that think it will be different for THEM. That they will be the ones who DON'T need to track their food or DON'T need to exercise (or have a million excuses why they can't), or, most of all, why they only need a short-term "diet" and then can go right back to their same old habits!

IMNSHO, I think that most folks out there who pick up a six pack of Slimfast or start the cabbage soup diet, or start a juice fast are only thinking short term.... about the 10 or 20 or 90+ pounds they need to lose and they want it gone FAST! I think they figure that they already "know" enough about eating right or they will learn it "later". I gotta say, I doubt that it works that way for most of them. It is a slow (but steady) ongoing process of learning.... what to eat, when to eat, how and how much to eat.... same for exercise, when, what type, how much.

We can repeat and repeat and repeat, "track your food, get regular exercise, make it a lifestyle change" over and over, but until folks are really ready for a change and are really realizing what that unhealthy lifestyle is doing to them, they won't be ready to make permanent change.

(Climbing slowly and quietly off the soapbox now!)

Agree completely. There were so many fad diets I tried when I was younger, and I yo-yo'd back and forth. Not a lot of pounds then, but enough to be uncomfortable. When I was running up and down the campus at OU and working with kids I had no problem keeping my weight down. What doomed me was the desk jobs, because then I stopped moving.

This is my third try with WW. I haven't made it to my goal because I eventually lost the motivation, and did not enjoy meetings. Ignored all I learned and gained way more weight. Was very successful the second time, online, but did not follow what I learned and gained weight again. This time will be the final time, I am sure of that...besides the fact that I donated all my "fat" clothes. I will continue to eat well, pay attention to what I eat and make exercise a part of my life. And it will all be worth it, to feel better and be able to do much more and stay healthier even as I get older.

Hope that woosh happened for you!

It happened !

QOTD 10/14- What is something you would never have thought to do, either again or for the first time, before you lost your weight?

Wear a swimsuit and have fun at a waterpark. And actually enjoy clothes shopping - I don't mind seeing myself in the mirror as much, the clothes look so much better now!

Hello all, sorry I havent been able to check in, we've been going right to bed after the con every night. It's been fun so far, really hard to eat well, but lots of walking. I have like no money which is stressing me out but there is notbing i can do about it

had quite the day today, when we left the con we went to go to times square to go to the disney store and actually got caught in the protest. i dont know if anyone is following this, but it was the occupy wall street protestors who apparently left wallstreet and moved to time square. we had no idea this was happening and it was quite a scary situation. we go caught in the middle of the protest and literally couldnt move. onece you got in, there was no getting out, and you didnt know what you were walking into untill it was too late. we finally managed to make it out on a side street but it was reallly scary. as we were walking away from time square we saw more cops than ive ever seen in my life, and one man (i assume a new yorker) actually said to us "you guys should really get out of here, this is not going to be a good situation"

apparently things did get really out of hand tonight, and from twitter it seems like we got out just in time. regardless of what they are protesting for, it stops being a peacful protest when you have that many people decsending on such a crowded, touristy place and making things impassable. it made us really angry and upset and we couldnt even get to the disney store.

we will be there tomorrow and i hope they are gone. all in all it was a scary thing and i did not enjoy it. but it is interesting to be able to say that i was literally there, in the middle of it.

How scary! Glad you made it out OK.

To bed now. Got up early for my hair appointment, and stayed up late to watch my football team - we won again (although we could have played better)! And ordered my new iPhone ( I have a really old one, and need more room)...my son will inherit the old one, since he is not quite into all the stuff I love on the iPhone.

Need to keep busy for awhile. Feel like I should be going to Disney. Have been there over Halloween the last two years, and now am not going until Spring Break...really missing the fact I won't be there this year...

 

[donac]

Good Sunday morning everyone.

SPent yesterday at a quilt class. I learned I may not be cut out for fancy quilting a quilt with my sewing machine. If I want to do something fancy it is going to take a lot of work. I don't know if I the time to put into it just yet. Maybe next summer.

TOday is a busy day. I need to go to church and then grocery shopping. I also have to make a batch of brownies for my math team and maybe one for my ds2. We then are going down to see ds2 but we can't do that till the afternoon. I don't know what we are going to do for dinner.

Tomorrow I have a math team meet so I won't get home until 5. I also have my junior field person. She will be teaching my last period class.

trinaweena I had seen that on the news last night. I had a feeling that it would not be a good situation. I had heard that they were going to be in Times Square and on a Sat that is a big problem. It is crowded enough without the protesters. I am glad that you are safe.

ougrad86 We have never been at Halloween. I was planning on taking dh this year but we couldn't swing it. We also couldn't take any personal days to go. Dh only gets 2 and he needs one for when ds graduates college in May. My dh wants to be there for his 60th birthday (in 4 years).

QOTD I am about to head out the door to a hickey game tonight (Go Charlotte Checkers!!) Have any of you ever played a sport, either currently, or in high school?

I am so old that the only sports my school had for girls was cheering and softball. My town didn't have softball teams that I knew about so I never played softball. As for cheering I sprained my neck in gym class so I didn't think I could make the cheering squad.

mackeysmom Have fun in Vegas. Congrats on the smaller size shirt.

jillbur I love natural history museums. My sons love to go into NY and see the one there.


happysummer jump right in. Pm your weight to dvccruiser76 adn rejoin. No big deal.

Disneywedding2010 have fun at dinner. I hope the memories fill you with love and not too much sadness.

tigger813 have a safe trip.

bellebookworm9 I will check out your trip report. I enjoyed your pictures of the food you enjoyed.

Off to get ready for church .

Have a happy and healthy day.

 

[tigger813]

QOTD: I played field hockey in high school and I also played community league baseball when I was younger. Brian played soccer. Both girls are playing soccer and they took tennis lessons this summer. Today Ash starts a preseason basketball clinic. Izzie will start in a few weeks with her basketball.

Off to church in a few minutes. Put the pork in the crock pot this morning.

Have a great Sunday!

TTFN

 

[pjlla]

Hi friends! Honestly, no time to chat at all.... head out in 4 minutes to visit my Mom today and do some fabric shopping for DD's halloween costume.

I just wanted to say HI so no one thought I disappeared! Yesterday was good and busy, but great with the eating until 9pm when I had a run-in with a dish of ice cream! And the ice cream WON! oh well...

I probably won't get a chance to catch up until tomorrow. HOpe you all are enjoying a beautiful relaxing weekend....................P

 

[Worfiedoodles]

HELLO ALL YOU SKINNY LITTLE LOSERS!!!

QOTD 10/14- What is something you would never have thought to do, either again or for the first time, before you lost your weight?

Definitely running. Don't get me wrong, I hadn't lost all that much when I ran my first Half, but I have run each successive one at a lower rate and faster (with the exception of the Providence Half this summer, not my best race...). I am looking forward to the WDW Princess in February, and planning to continue that tradition.

I am about to head out the door to a hickey game tonight (Go Charlotte Checkers!!) Have any of you ever played a sport, either currently, or in high school?

I've I had known "hickey" was a school-sanctioned sport, I might have been more likely to participate Thanks, that was an awesome laugh!

No, I did not play sports, ever. And I don't play any now. I do run, so maybe that counts

Hi friends! Honestly, no time to chat at all.... head out in 4 minutes to visit my Mom today and do some fabric shopping for DD's halloween costume.

Pamela -- Yes, we were clearly separated at birth! It makes me sad that you didn't feel confident enough to pursue the degree that you wanted. You are clearly a smart cookie, and those apples did not fall far from the tree!

One more crazy day at work, and then I get to enjoy this thread again. You guys have been busy learning and losing, I'm going to do my best to jump in and make some progress with you!

Maria

 

[JacksLilWench]

Wow, I am REALLY gonna have to start proofreading a little bit better! Glad you guys all got a good laugh- it's good for you!

Would you believe I don't have a picture? Mom never came to the pool with me on the days I wore it and the last day when she did, I had the other suit on!



Hee hee I'm assuming you mean a *hockey* game? I played tee-ball and soccer in the first grade-one of those organized sports things where they basically teach you how to hit/kick the ball. It was then that I determined I have absolutely no athletic ability. However, I did ride horses for one-two weeks a year for a few summers when I went to camp.

No pictures?! I guess that means you have to have to go back and take some in your bikini. What a shame, another trip to Disney!

I am about to head out the door to a hickey game tonight (Go Charlotte Checkers!!) Have any of you ever played a sport, either currently, or in high school?

Oh my, we don't have that sport in western PA

I currently do not play any sports. In school I played softball, ran track, and was a cheerleader. Now, I just stick to my own thing! My friend is harrassing me to join roller derby here. They just started a league and she enjoys it. I know it would be a good workout, but I have no desire to be a derby girl. It's just not my thing.

I've heard roller derby is a really awesome workout...but I'm like you, it's not quite up my alley. I did used to roller skate when I was in middle school, but they shut the rink down and turned it into a car dealership- a big bummer

Never thought about the 50 lbs in a suitcase - kind of amazing that we can carry around that much. It is hard lugging around 50 lbs in a suitcase, much less walking around with it everyday! I lost 55 my first go round, never thought of it that way. Going for 35 - 40 this time, much easier. Losing weight did help my arthritic knees.



Wear a swimsuit and have fun at a waterpark. And actually enjoy clothes shopping - I don't mind seeing myself in the mirror as much, the clothes look so much better now!

For every single pound lost, it takes three pounds of pressure off the joints in your lower body (knees, especially!) And I actually just got back from the Disney store here in town- I was able to fit a medium shirt, and it looks good!

QOTD I am about to head out the door to a hickey game tonight (Go Charlotte Checkers!!) Have any of you ever played a sport, either currently, or in high school?

I am so old that the only sports my school had for girls was cheering and softball. My town didn't have softball teams that I knew about so I never played softball. As for cheering I sprained my neck in gym class so I didn't think I could make the cheering squad.

Yikes! It was probably a good idea not to try out for cheerleading with a sprained neck. Something like that certainly wouldn't have helped it at all.

QOTD: I played field hockey in high school and I also played community league baseball when I was younger. Brian played soccer. Both girls are playing soccer and they took tennis lessons this summer. Today Ash starts a preseason basketball clinic. Izzie will start in a few weeks with her basketball.

You guys are all pretty athletic! My family isn't a very sports-oriented one, unless you count cheering like crazy during baseball season. It's been a very good couple of weeks with the NLCS and ALCS games going on. Good luck to Ash and Izzie! in basketball!

Definitely running. Don't get me wrong, I hadn't lost all that much when I ran my first Half, but I have run each successive one at a lower rate and faster (with the exception of the Providence Half this summer, not my best race...). I am looking forward to the WDW Princess in February, and planning to continue that tradition.


I've I had known "hickey" was a school-sanctioned sport, I might have been more likely to participate Thanks, that was an awesome laugh!

No, I did not play sports, ever. And I don't play any now. I do run, so maybe that counts

Maria

I am definitely gonna proof my next question!! I must admit, some of my favorite laughs are at myself.

I would count running, absolutely. If you need special shoes for it, it counts

 

[JacksLilWench]

Hey Losers!! (It always looks so funny when I type that, like I'm the bully in a high school movie, haha) Today's question will be nice and simple- with very few words to mistype!

QOTD 10/16: What is the earliest Disney movie you remember seeing in theaters?

Mine was Aladdin. I distinctly remember the opening sequence where Robin Williams does the voice of the guy on the camel that introduces the lamp to the story. And I've loved it ever since! The first movie I'm told I saw (and promptly fell in LOVE with ) was Little Mermaid. From age five til age...well, my current age actually, I have loved that movie. And! It's one of the movies to be released in 3D in 2013!! The article with the release dates and movies is here: http://www.avclub.com/articles/disney-realizes-youll-probably-go-see-a-bunch-of-i,62826/ The article does have a slant to it...but is a little tongue-in-cheek

 

[bellebookworm9]

QOTD 10/16: What is the earliest Disney movie you remember seeing in theaters?

Mine was Aladdin. I distinctly remember the opening sequence where Robin Williams does the voice of the guy on the camel that introduces the lamp to the story. And I've loved it ever since!

Haha we love that intro! And we frequently quote it: "Too close, a little too close"! My first Disney movie that I *remember* seeing in theaters was 101 Dalmatians with Glenn Close. I must have been visiting my Dad and had gone with my grandmother. I'm told the first Disney movie I saw in the theater was *actually* Pocahontas.

 

[EDuke98080]

QOTD 10/16: What is the earliest Disney movie you remember seeing in theaters?

I think mine was one of the Herbie the Love Bug movies. (I guess I just dated myself...) It may have been for a birthday party. The first one we took my daughter to was 101 Dalmations when she was 3. She started to sob hysterically when the puppies were stolen and we had to leave. She wouldn't stop crying even though I told her it would trun out ok.

Erika

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

QOTD 10/16: What is the earliest Disney movie you remember seeing in theaters?

Ugh, gonna date myself now. It was Fantasia, 1970's theatre re-release. I couldn't be that old because I don't remember most of it but mom tells the story of my brother popping up and asking very loudly what that funny smell was. People were smoking pot during the movie.

 

[my3princes]

Shew!! Crazy day again!! My life is never this wild unless I have something like this I've committed myself to. Murphy's Law, right? Oh well, on to the questions!

I am about to head out the door to a hickey game tonight (Go Charlotte Checkers!!) Have any of you ever played a sport, either currently, or in high school?

I've never been athletically inclined myself, but I have been known to be gooood at kickball! I would love to learn to play football, I just need someone to teach me. Someone with a lot of patience!

I'll be back on later with replies AND game recap!!

Have a lovely losing day!!

I needed a good laugh tonight I was a hockey cheerleader in High School, I guess today that would make me a Hickey Cheerleader I also played softball, even played coed adult softball after college. Now I run 5 lacrosse teams, but I don't have to actually play.

 

[my3princes]

I'm behind, and don't have time to go back and read so I'll just try to keep up from here.

Life just doesn't improve in our house. I'm not sure what we did to p@ss off God, but it must have been horrific as the last 3 years have been riddled with challenges.

I'm sure I posted that we're struggling with Nick's depression issues. We think that we may have found a therapist to start working with him, we meet her tomorrow. Fingers crossed.

Friday on the way to school Hunter totally came unglued and told me that he was being bullied at school. 2 classmates were continually interupting him everytime the tried to talk with "shut up" and telling him that he doesn't have any friends. We wound up in the Dean of Students office with the guidance counselor and they were going to talk to the boys on Friday. Hunter did say that one of them apologized later in the day and said that they were just trying to be funny. Of course I also talked to his Mom that morning as she works at the school. He also said that a boy had been hitting him in the head on the bus on Tuesday. The school will be getting the video tapes and going from there. I know the family and if the school doesn't do something I WILL.

This morning Chris got his thumb crushed in the wood splitter. We didn't call 911, but rushed him to the hospital ourselves. The closest ambulance is 15 minutes away. It looked really bad here, flat like you see in cartoons with the bone and muscle sticking out the end (sorry about that imagery). The tip is broken, but miraculously the tendons and nerves seem intact. They were able to reconstruct it and sew it up in the ER, but he needs to see a hand surgeon later in the week. He was concerned that he would never be able to use that thumb again and therefore would have to find a new career. We're hopeful that he will get 100% use back, but it may need a pin put in. Infection is the worst fear and if it gets infected all bets are off. I've known him for close to 25 years, I've seen him in pain, but nothing came close to this. The percocet seems to be controlling the pain tonight.

Please tell me that we've had our 3rd bad luck thing for this go round because honestly I'm not sure how much more I can handle. My back is hurting from stess and I was physically shaking most of the day.


Tomorrow is a new day and it has to be better than today. Friday I told my mother that I was ready to scoop up my kids, grab my husband and run away to deserted island. Now I really wish we had.

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

Hang in there Deb. The good thing id Hunter told you he's having issues at school. So many kids never say anything until it escalates to the point of no return. You are a very proactive parent and that is a great thing for a kid to have!
As for Chris. He'll be ok if he can get a good surgeon. DH crushed, actually ground, his thumb in a cam gear on a car about 23 years ago. It was hamburger meat, really bad. But with a great surgeon he has full use of his thumb. It did take about a years worth of surgeries, basically building the thumb from the inside out but unless you are really looking for the scar and looking at the nail you can't tell. One more surgery would have fixed the nail but he had had enough.
I'll say a prayer that Nick gets in to see that counselor and that she can take him on as a patient.

Big hugs to the whole family. If you need to scoop everyone up and take of for a weekend, do it. Sometimes we just need a break from reality. Heck, stay home turn off the phone and hide out with movies and what not.

 

[ougrad86]

I am about to head out the door to a hickey game tonight (Go Charlotte Checkers!!) Have any of you ever played a sport, either currently, or in high school?

Not athletically inclined. My DS had tried football, but he just couldn't do it (he is very skinny, and a little clumsy as this age tends to be), So he tried track and was doing well until he had a bout of tendonitis. He will try it again this year and see if he can.

I am very good at cheering him on, and cheering on my football team! There is also a number of sports I like watching, adore the Olympics, but that is about the extent of my involvement in sports! Unless you count playing Wii Sports !

QOTD 10/16: What is the earliest Disney movie you remember seeing in theaters?

I know I saw alot of them. The first I remember is Bambi, but it was a rerelease or something. I was pretty young, but I think it stuck with me because of what happened to Bambi's mother. I still cry at that part!

 

[dvccruiser76]

We're going to Tutto. It will be bittersweet for me. That's where Josh and I ate back in 07 when I took him to Epcot for the first time. I'm not sure what I'm going to have. I looked at the menu a few weeks ago but I'll need to look at it again. Don't know if we'll actually ride any rides while we're there or if we'll just walk around. Its suppose to be a beautiful day tomorrow in the low 80s.

Yum, let me know what you get and what you like. Enjoy

Hi Everyone
I think I have been gone over three weeks can I join again?
Missing WDW already wish I lived in Florida.

Sure thing, just PM me your weight and if you have a goal that you would like me to track, you can PM that as well. Welcome



Hi everyone,
Quick drive-by post. Hope everyone had a nice weekend. Keep those weigh-ins coming. Don't forget you have until tomorrow night at 8:00 PM EST to send them my way.

Have a great week everyone

 

[seashell724]

ADVICE PLEASE!
My weight lose is not going as planned!!! Here is what I'm dealing with and could use advice from those who have been there before.
I am trying to wean from breastfeeding little by little right now so I am so confused about how much I can or need to eat! Somedays I am down in feeds but sometimes my little one wants more milk so then I breastfeed her more.
I am soooo frustrated b/c I want to lose but need to have enough calories to produce milk but I am weaning so who knows how much that is!
BAH!

 

[buzz5985]

Good morning fellow losers Keep those weigh-ins coming. Hope everyone has a great OP weekend!

Lots of people have been reporting great losses and a bunch are heading on vacation, so please have safe and wonderful trips

Not me. I'm up a couple - blaming it on hormones!! And started getting sloppy this week tracking, etc.

I've been seeing a chiropractor for about 3 years. I started out seeing him three times a week, then down to two times a week, then once a week, and now I go every other week.

For me - it was one of the best moves I've ever made. In addition to seeing huge improvement in my neck/back, my once semi-frequent migraines are almost completely gone.

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This week's eating was hit and miss. I managed to give away more than half of the evil Chocodiles I was given for my birthday. I did keep seven of them, and have enjoyed one each night with a cup of tea before bed.

Towards the middle of the week, I came down with an awful headcold and flip-flopped between not being hungry at all and having a voracious appetite.

Since I'm leaving for Vegas tomorrow, I didn't do my normal mid-week big grocery stop. Instead, I've just sort of been eating out of the fridge/pantry in an effort not to waste any food that might not last while I'm gone. Some days it worked, others (like last night's dinner of leftover mashed potatoes with bacon bits and cheese - that's it - no meat, no veggies ), not so much.

I don't have an eating/drinking plan for Vegas. I'm just going to enjoy myself. Unlike other trips, however, I will be aware of my satisfaction point. I refuse to eat to the point where I'm uncomfortable - a habit I've had in the past, and one that is still difficult for me to break.

I DON'T HAVE TO BE A MEMBER OF THE "CLEAN PLATE CLUB" - is my new mantra.

Here's a picture of my nephew, my sister, and myself at last week's Lustgarten Foundation Pancreatic Cancer Walk. We always wear matching shirts honoring my mother (Team Nonna - my nieces and nephew called my mom "Nonna".). Last year my shirt was a woman's 3X, this year it was a ladies XXL.

- Laura

My cousin died from pancreatic cancer. She was 40 yo and left 3 children behind the youngest being 5. Thank you for walking for them. Congratulations on the weight loss.

Hi Everyone
I think I have been gone over three weeks can I join again?
Missing WDW already wish I lived in Florida.

You can come back whenever you would like.

Hello all, sorry I havent been able to check in, we've been going right to bed after the con every night. It's been fun so far, really hard to eat well, but lots of walking. I have like no money which is stressing me out but there is notbing i can do about it

had quite the day today, when we left the con we went to go to times square to go to the disney store and actually got caught in the protest. i dont know if anyone is following this, but it was the occupy wall street protestors who apparently left wallstreet and moved to time square. we had no idea this was happening and it was quite a scary situation. we go caught in the middle of the protest and literally couldnt move. onece you got in, there was no getting out, and you didnt know what you were walking into untill it was too late. we finally managed to make it out on a side street but it was reallly scary. as we were walking away from time square we saw more cops than ive ever seen in my life, and one man (i assume a new yorker) actually said to us "you guys should really get out of here, this is not going to be a good situation"

apparently things did get really out of hand tonight, and from twitter it seems like we got out just in time. regardless of what they are protesting for, it stops being a peacful protest when you have that many people decsending on such a crowded, touristy place and making things impassable. it made us really angry and upset and we couldnt even get to the disney store.

we will be there tomorrow and i hope they are gone. all in all it was a scary thing and i did not enjoy it. but it is interesting to be able to say that i was literally there, in the middle of it.

Glad you got away from the protest OK.

Hey Losers!! (It always looks so funny when I type that, like I'm the bully in a high school movie, haha) Today's question will be nice and simple- with very few words to mistype!

QOTD 10/16: What is the earliest Disney movie you remember seeing in theaters?

Mine was Aladdin. I distinctly remember the opening sequence where Robin Williams does the voice of the guy on the camel that introduces the lamp to the story. And I've loved it ever since! The first movie I'm told I saw (and promptly fell in LOVE with ) was Little Mermaid. From age five til age...well, my current age actually, I have loved that movie. And! It's one of the movies to be released in 3D in 2013!! The article with the release dates and movies is here: http://www.avclub.com/articles/disney-realizes-youll-probably-go-see-a-bunch-of-i,62826/ The article does have a slant to it...but is a little tongue-in-cheek

I think mine was one of the Herbie the Love Bug movies. (I guess I just dated myself...) It may have been for a birthday party. The first one we took my daughter to was 101 Dalmations when she was 3. She started to sob hysterically when the puppies were stolen and we had to leave. She wouldn't stop crying even though I told her it would trun out ok.

Erika

QOTD 10/16: What is the earliest Disney movie you remember seeing in theaters?

Ugh, gonna date myself now. It was Fantasia, 1970's theatre re-release. I couldn't be that old because I don't remember most of it but mom tells the story of my brother popping up and asking very loudly what that funny smell was. People were smoking pot during the movie.

I don't know - I may have you all beat. I remember seeing Bambi at the Meadow Glen Drive In in Medford, MA. Not the original release LOL (1942) But it must have been the mid 60's. I remember being in my PJ's, bringing our pillows.

I'm behind, and don't have time to go back and read so I'll just try to keep up from here.

Life just doesn't improve in our house. I'm not sure what we did to p@ss off God, but it must have been horrific as the last 3 years have been riddled with challenges.

I'm sure I posted that we're struggling with Nick's depression issues. We think that we may have found a therapist to start working with him, we meet her tomorrow. Fingers crossed.

Friday on the way to school Hunter totally came unglued and told me that he was being bullied at school. 2 classmates were continually interupting him everytime the tried to talk with "shut up" and telling him that he doesn't have any friends. We wound up in the Dean of Students office with the guidance counselor and they were going to talk to the boys on Friday. Hunter did say that one of them apologized later in the day and said that they were just trying to be funny. Of course I also talked to his Mom that morning as she works at the school. He also said that a boy had been hitting him in the head on the bus on Tuesday. The school will be getting the video tapes and going from there. I know the family and if the school doesn't do something I WILL.

This morning Chris got his thumb crushed in the wood splitter. We didn't call 911, but rushed him to the hospital ourselves. The closest ambulance is 15 minutes away. It looked really bad here, flat like you see in cartoons with the bone and muscle sticking out the end (sorry about that imagery). The tip is broken, but miraculously the tendons and nerves seem intact. They were able to reconstruct it and sew it up in the ER, but he needs to see a hand surgeon later in the week. He was concerned that he would never be able to use that thumb again and therefore would have to find a new career. We're hopeful that he will get 100% use back, but it may need a pin put in. Infection is the worst fear and if it gets infected all bets are off. I've known him for close to 25 years, I've seen him in pain, but nothing came close to this. The percocet seems to be controlling the pain tonight.

Please tell me that we've had our 3rd bad luck thing for this go round because honestly I'm not sure how much more I can handle. My back is hurting from stess and I was physically shaking most of the day.


Tomorrow is a new day and it has to be better than today. Friday I told my mother that I was ready to scoop up my kids, grab my husband and run away to deserted island. Now I really wish we had.

Sorry your kids are having troubles. My DS 14 also has ADHD and has struggled. I hate to say it - but it took DS to put some kid in a head lock - and told him he would beat him if he didn't leave him alone. The trouble with bulllies is that they are sneaky and seem to know when nobody is looking. My DS wasn't so smart. Many teachers observed it and DS was suspended for a day for sticking up for himself.

My DH cut his hand in half on a table saw. He was pushing a piece of wood through the saw, with a pusher when the piece started to rise, he went to push the piece and the saw caught it and just sucked everything through. I was out Christmas shopping at the time and he was home with DS at the time age 4. The police stayed with DS until I got home. I dropped DS off at DSIL and then went to MGH to see DH. He was as high as a kite from the drugs - people were coming in to see his wound. I never looked at it. All he wanted me to do was go check is saw and see if he shut it off. His surgery lasted 8 hours. In the end his left thumb is a blade shorter than his right. His left index finger is nonfunctional and frozen into a hook from the tendon's shrinking. After a year of therapy he was advised to amputate it, but he couldn't do it. He is a plumber and works around his disabilities. FRom what I understand as long as you can "grip" with your thumb (move your thumb accross your palm to you little finger) you are good to go. That is the most important function to have use of your thumb. Good luck to your DH.

ADVICE PLEASE!
My weight lose is not going as planned!!! Here is what I'm dealing with and could use advice from those who have been there before.
I am trying to wean from breastfeeding little by little right now so I am so confused about how much I can or need to eat! Somedays I am down in feeds but sometimes my little one wants more milk so then I breastfeed her more.
I am soooo frustrated b/c I want to lose but need to have enough calories to produce milk but I am weaning so who knows how much that is!
BAH!

I have no advice - but have you considered talking to a nutritionist??

Janis

 

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QOTD 10/16: What is the earliest Disney movie you remember seeing in theaters?

The earliest Disney movie I remember seeing in theaters was Candleshoe (1977) with Jodie Foster. I went with my mom one afternoon after we bought my first training bra. I felt so grown up. Why did we call them training bras? What a silly thing to remember!