Glad you decided to join us. How much have you lost and what did you do to lose it? Great job!
I'm a low tech kinda gal, so I was only able to manage one quote, but thank you to everybody for such a nice welcome. Having read this thread over the past months, I feel like I already know all of you -- so I already knew you were nice!!!
I have told my family all about this group
-- followed UtahMama here from her trip report, and played my husband the video of Norah's hissy fit on the airplane. Too funny!
-- congratulations to all the mommy's-to-be, and I'm definitely not drinking the water here..
-- been following trip reports from Eventer, Punkin, Winkers, DisneyFreak, and loving all of them!
--my family waited with baited breath for the outcome of Melinda's daughter and her passport situation. Glad it all worked out in the end.
--Following Wonders on her date (not in a stalking way, though)
--Cheering for Sandy and her running (and yes, I promise I'm sucking it in as I'm typing this).
--Admiring Linda's gorgeous photography.
--Praying hard for Miss Bee
Etc...............................
So, anyway, here's a little bit about me, just to be fair:
I'm 39 years old, married for 16 years now to a saint (or so he tells me), and we have an 11 year old daughter. God help us all.....she's going to be a teenager soon, got the 'tude already.
I never worried about my weight when I was growing up, I think because all us kids were so active in those days, always running around, playing outside and stuff. We didn't have much in the way of video games like kids do now. Probably very good for us that we didn't, you know?
Didn't start to gain any weight until I went to college, and became a slug. (it's true - I really did! I went to University of California at Santa Cruz and their mascot is the banana slug. Sorry, drifting a little off topic there...). Anyway, still didn't worry about it too much until I had my daughter. Came to the realization about 4 years later that there seemed to be a lot more of me to love and it didn't seem to be moving (except in an icky jiggly way).
Long story short, started doing exercise videos in my basement, and when I got brave enough to face the world, I started taking classes. After a year or so of that, the folks running the exercise program, asked me if I wanted to teach for them. So, I've been teaching this aerobic dance class for the past 7 years.
The interesting thing is that I've taught this class at all different weights over the years, with a range of about 25 pounds. About a year ago I picked up a second class, which is what finally kickstarted my progress again and brought me close to goal. I'm now within a couple pounds of where I want to be.
I love my class -- it's the absolute highlight of my week, and it's what I would be doing all the time if I didn't have to make a living. So in real life, I'm an accountant.
The exercise has never been the problem for me, it's always been the food. And I'm very eager to get HockeyKat's perspective on this, because I know she is very active with sports. I believe it is very hard to lose weight when you are already an active person and exercising. I find it impossible to go with the 12 x your goal weight calculation for calories, because if I had to do that, I would fail in my food plan inside of a week. I have discovered that I just need more fuel than that.
So, what I did is modify that formula, plus it up by about 250 calories. I discovered if I followed that plan, I could actually lose weight, but anything less and not only would there be no weight loss, but I'd also be extremely unpleasant. So, my feeling for any of you getting caught in eating binges, try increasing your calories intake a little bit, see if that helps.
Well, gotta get moving. My daughter needs help untangling her mop of hair this evening. I'll post more tomorrow. Have a great night, everybody!!! And thanks again for letting me in.
Hey, on the upside, at least I got in my calcium today...right??
in your siggie it say's you are 32 wks along right ? that is crazy to think i had mayson at 32 weeks and he was healthy but very preemie. and i say let them eat cake..
. We are the 
Well, tonight I walked by at just the right 
We noticed two of my former students and a third guy coming out of the parking lot (they were on skateboards which our 
The other always gives me 
looks. As we went into the parking lot they had just left, I heard a strange noise. I noticed a 4th young man walking away from one of the school doorways and into the dark toward the park. Wish I could have 
a little better. Well, it was 
that we came by when we did... because one of the glass doors going into the school was shattered into a gazillion pieces. Nobody works Fridays - Sundays, so it wouldn't have been found until Monday. 
I didn't have my cell phone, but I had my keys to the school with me, so we went in and called one of the assistant principals. Once he arrived, we went to the park to walk the 
you are super dog walker 
private eye
(belated) to Stacey!!
and 
to any new peeps -- you're going to LOVE it here!!
You do have a great preggo belly. Today I am 28 weeks and I feel every bit of 28 weeks.
