DISappearing Peeps...A fastpass to THIN! Part 4

[UtahMama]

Yayyyyy! I think I weigh LESS in the evening than in the morning. Alot less! Isn't that bizare? ((yet appropriate))

So this morning I was actually UP in weight and PISSED because I'm working HARD. So I busied myself working on my yardsale I'm having to raise the $$$$ for the final payment on our vacation. Anywhoooo. I just weighed myself and I'm DOWN a Pound, give or take a few ounces!

Now, Sandy is either up 4 or down 2 which only slightly throws the whole total out of wack for today, but, as a MIGHTY team, we've lost.....



20!!!

Sandy I gave you the -2 since that number was on friday (today) Mountain Time (Utah). Just give the smallest number on friday (if you weigh more than once) is the new deal breaker.

So. Sorry I wasn't around today. I have filled every second with yard sale preparations. The signs are UP tonight. I have everything in the garage at the ready, I just need to plop it all in a decorative manner to sell. The ad was placed a couple days ago and I'm ready! Now I just need a good night's sleep!

 

[denecarter]

It is funny though... probably 200-300 people there and only about 15-20 women. The line for the bathroom at breaks is waaay out the door for the men's room and there are like 6 people in the women's!

Now, there's a switch!

I was good... they offered dinner today and I drank some decaf w/ skim milk and waited until I got home. It was fried chicken, bbq, mashed potatoes... I just decided that if I was going to cheat, it wasn't going to be buffet style chafing dish food! They did have some healthy fruit available at snack time and skim milk for coffee, at least. I think tomorrow I might pack a sandwich in my bag just in case they have non-healthy lunch food.

Way to go! Every good choice like that adds up.

I am still worried about going just about anywhere in fear that I will run into someone I knew when I was thin and that they will be judging me. At my heaviest I was afraid and ashamed to go anywhere but work and home... even going to the grocery store was hard.

That so perfectly describes how I feel! Oddly enough, I have no problem being around the people at the gym with confidence... because they saw where I was, how hard I've worked, and how far I've come. But when I meet someone for the first time or who never saw me at my largest, that's when I get all freaked out.

Computer... $1500
High-speed Internet... $30/mo
Imaginary friends who understand things I could NEVER tell anyone else... Priceless

 

[denecarter]

I have filled every second with yard sale preparations. The signs are UP tonight. I have everything in the garage at the ready, I just need to plop it all in a decorative manner to sell. The ad was placed a couple days ago and I'm ready! Now I just need a good night's sleep!

Good luck on your sale!

 

[pigget74]

Yayyyyy! I think I weigh LESS in the evening than in the morning. Alot less! Isn't that bizare? ((yet appropriate))

So this morning I was actually UP in weight and PISSED because I'm working HARD. So I busied myself working on my yardsale I'm having to raise the $$$$ for the final payment on our vacation. Anywhoooo. I just weighed myself and I'm DOWN a Pound, give or take a few ounces!

Now, Sandy is either up 4 or down 2 which only slightly throws the whole total out of wack for today, but, as a MIGHTY team, we've lost.....



20!!!

Sandy I gave you the -2 since that number was on friday (today) Mountain Time (Utah). Just give the smallest number on friday (if you weigh more than once) is the new deal breaker.

So. Sorry I wasn't around today. I have filled every second with yard sale preparations. The signs are UP tonight. I have everything in the garage at the ready, I just need to plop it all in a decorative manner to sell. The ad was placed a couple days ago and I'm ready! Now I just need a good night's sleep!

Wishing you a beautiful day with a lot of sales!!!!

 

[lexmelinda]

IT'S A BIG BIRTHDAY FOR MINNIE MOO!
HAPPY 50th BIRTHDAY, CHERYL!!!​

Hoping you're off doing something special today!​

 

[the Fidge]

Looks delich to me Melinda!!!Happy BIrthday Minnie Mooo!!!

 

[Eventer98]

Hi everyone!

It's quiet here! Has everyone started their weekend? What are your guys' plans?

Me? I'm starting my weekend off with an exciting night of SOAP Notes and Progress Reports and some other annoying paperwork for my therapy clients. Jealous?

Tomorrow I'm baking cookies for school and finishing up some other school stuff that needs to get done as the semester is winding down. It flew by!

Notice that none of that mentions a date with A.?

Ugh. Well I was upstairs today working on a progress note. We were alone so I slipped him a post it (remember we're keeping it on the DL?) that read "I want to see you this weekend". Planted it in front of him and went back to work. He said wants to too but it's a busy weekend with school work since the semester is winding down, we have all this paperwork to do and he has a presentation this week. Ok fine. "But we'll do something" or maybe he said "we'll figure something out". I don't know. All I do know is that no date for me this weekend. I was semi-ok with his answer. He does get stressed out with school and he takes his work very seriously. No play until the work is done. Me? I get some done then play then work some more. I also don't let it stress me out as much as him but thats his personality and thats fine. But deep down I'm thinking that if he really did want to see me this weekend, he'd have figured out a time right there on the spot and set something up. And that makes me sad...that he didn't do that.

But I was feeling fine about it until my girlfriend calls me up. She is so not like me when it comes to dating and her advice usually makes me feel like crap to be honest. Tonight was no exception. She thought that he was giving me a bull excuse for not hanging out with me. I don't know. She just didn't make me feel very good. Plus I'm still PMSing. I've moved from the irritable crazy angry lady to the I can cry if my shoe comes untied lady.

So I don't know. It's just a really bad time of year for this to be happening. It's the end of the semester and we are both busy finishing things up. And next semester I will only see him one night a week in class. And we'll be just as busy. But I know that I am willing to test things out. Maybe he isn't. I just wish he'd figure out what it is he wants and fill me in. (Ok so that was sappy untied shoe lace girl talking)

Anyway, back to work for me. Have a great weekend Peeps!

Hi Shannon! I don't think he was feeding you a line but I hope you stay a tad pessimistic to protect your feelings. I know when I was single for what seemed like forever, no matter how busy I was I was able to make time for coffee or a quick phone call to tell that person I was interested. I am sure he does like you and maybe is clueless when it comes to sending mixed signals. I would hope you leave the ball in his court from now on. If he doesn't ask you out for next weekend then he may be too wrapped up in work/school for a relationship. Which might be a good thing for you....you wouldn't want a relationship with him right now if he was that busy. It's hard to build a relationship when you never get to see the other person. That's my 2 cents. I just don't want you to wear your heart on your sleeve too early!!

 

[dance2874]

Ok this was too cute! I have become a clost hannah montana fan after being forced to watch a hannah marathon with my niece a couple months ago. Sad, but I knew all the words to the song your DD was singing

Anyway, she is looking so grown up....like a little lady!

Are you going to find out what the new baby is? Or be surprised?

P.S. Thanks for the boy advice.

I am becoming quite the closet fan myself actually. There are many worse shows she could be into these days, but I still feel like she is WAY too young to be into that stuff so much already.

We will definitely be finding out what we are having. We found out with her, and to me no matter WHEN they tell you boy or girl it is a surprise. And I cannot stand waiting for things Patience is not my strongest trait.

About 30 minutes ago, I received a VERY unexpected phone call.

I've been sitting here, staring at my computer and that last line for about 5 minutes. I've been wondering if I'll ever have confidence and be happy with my body. Can I be content with the progress I've made and am still making, or will I forever be beating myself up for this flaw or that one?

I remember you sharing that story a while back.

I am with you on the body image stuff too. Sometimes I wonder if I will ever be happy when I hit the 'magic number' I have in my head as a goal. (whether it be a weight or a size...whatever) I think I will probably always still see just my flaws. Try to remember all the small celebrations you have had along the way and how good they felt though. I know for me, buying a smaller size felt so amazing, for a few minutes I didnt even care about the other 'flaws' I saw in the mirror. If that makes any sense.....

Yo - dance, did you buy a bag of glitter to take with you to wdw??? (Its' how I got my tags, AND where I got my "pixie dust" to dust those CM's!!!

No, I didnt. Sadly I think I am going to miss the trip in Sept. I have to let me deadline pass because of my sisters flaking out. I cannot afford the room alone, and I didnt get any takers who wanted to share it. I can still re-book with a room only discount and pay for the dining plan. (that is what we did last year) but I cant afford it on my own regardless. I am just so mad I counted on my sisters. What really stinks is that Amanda will be missing it, and I was relaly looking forward to our mother/daughter trip. With a new baby on the way, it will be a while before we will venture back there, and by then the 'magic' may be gone for her. (I dont see myself taking a baby and a 5 1/2 yr old next year, or really until baby#2 is close to being out of diapers at least making her close to 8.)And I will leave it at that for now...I am tearing up just thinking about missing it after counting on it for so many months now.

ITA!! oh, Monica!! So glad you chimed in - ITA about waiting to name the blessing - I had made list after list... but when it came down to it, you have to 'see" before condeming a child to a life long name!! ( I still blame dh that last dd isnt named after my grandmothers grandmother - Kerrie!! or Carrie) I should take a pic of my current stretch marks... but then no one would ever - EVER get pg again!! SO sad!

Took us close to the whole 9 months to narrow down our choices with DD. We had it down to 2, which we never shared with out very vocal family , and then when she was born I had DH choose. I loved both names and I wanted him to pick since I could not get a very good look at her. (c-section and I was VERY groggy!)

So. Sorry I wasn't around today. I have filled every second with yard sale preparations. The signs are UP tonight. I have everything in the garage at the ready, I just need to plop it all in a decorative manner to sell. The ad was placed a couple days ago and I'm ready! Now I just need a good night's sleep!

For the yard sale! Hope you do really well to get that money for your payment!


Happy Birthday Minnie Moo!!!
Hope you have a great day!!

Nothing fun planned here today. Cleaning out my closet, making room for my lovely maternity stuff. I hate my closet and I hate my maternity stuff even more. I wish I had a ton of cash to go buy cute new stuff. Funny, because thinking back I liked it all the first time around with Amanda, and I saved it for that reason. Now that I pulled it all out, I think I was crazy!

 

[Eventer98]

Happy Birthday Minnie Moo!!!

 

[jodistar]

Morning Everyone!

I decided to join all of you - - Now, a little bit about me (I still have to catch up and read posts of the rest of you -- there's so much, it's going to take me awhile).

Last year, I had made Weight Watchers Lifetime and was at that point 115 pounds -- stopped going to meetings because I was running (training for the Disney Goofy Challenge) and was losing way too much weight to stay with Weight Watchers.....kept off the weight until about February 2007, when I got in a car accident -- at least that's what started the downward spiral.

In April, I found out I was pregnant - - only to lose the baby two months later. Well, between the car accident and miscarriage - - I was pretty darn depressed and just ate (nothing else to do).

Well, I'm happy to say that I decided (now being at my heaviest weight again) to rejoin the folks at Weight Watchers because of the great support and I wanted to learn to be really healthy again. Since rejoining I lost 3.8 pounds -- yeah, it's working . In addition, I'm still continuing with therapy and trying to keep on track. I even started Weight Watchers walking challenge.

Although, right now I have rejoined Weight Watchers and plan on getting down to 115 again, I ultimately joined to get healthy again and learn a healthy lifestyle.

Looking forward to shedding all of these pounds! Okay -- have to get ready for Pilates class and then I will try and catch up with everyone and their progress.

Jodi

 

[aries1980]

Happy Birthday Minnie Moo!!

 

[punkin413]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAWN!!! sorry it is late

thank you! hope you have fun here in georgia!!! is it hot enough for ya?

And her first concert: (for some reason it wont let me rotate it, and on my computer it is right side up )


I have no idea why she sings with her eyes closed

that is SOOOOOOOO CUTE!!!!!! she's for sure gonna be a rock star some day!

I have been busy getting me,Tyler,and Rebekah ready to go to Florida tomorrow.

have fun in florida!!!!!! hope you come back with a nice tan...even if you're not hitting the beach. i'm jealous....i don't get to go anywhere until september 6th when DH and i go to savannah for a long weekend. i shouldn't complain though.... at least i get to go somewhere! we have neighbors that go camping for their vacation and that's it....i can't imagine!

I am at a nerd-geek conference this weekend. It is a conference centered around the computer programming language that is my work specialty.

my DH would be in heaven!!!!! he's such a nerd-geek, but that's why i love him. here's an example....not computer-related, but still very nerdy! yesterday i came home from work and he had a package. i called him to let him know and he made me open it because he couldn't remember that he'd ordered anything. i did and it was a huge transformer (yes, the toy) with a note from the pepsi company saying that he'd won it. he asked me what it looked like and i told him it said "pepsi optimus prime" on the box. he was soooooooooo excited and telling everyone in his office what he'd won! what a dork! he said that he'd entered a contest at taco bell to win it..... something i would never take the time to do. anyway, the saddest part is it'll never come out of the box. it'll go upstairs in our bonus room with the rest of his toys (gundam/star wars/he-man stuff). has anyone ever seen the movie "the 40-year old virgin"?......

So. Sorry I wasn't around today. I have filled every second with yard sale preparations. The signs are UP tonight. I have everything in the garage at the ready, I just need to plop it all in a decorative manner to sell. The ad was placed a couple days ago and I'm ready! Now I just need a good night's sleep!

good luck on your sale today!!! i know what hard work that is. hope you make lots of disney money!

IT'S A BIG BIRTHDAY FOR MINNIE MOO!
HAPPY 50th BIRTHDAY, CHERYL!!!​

Hoping you're off doing something special today!​

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MINNIE MOO!!!! hope you have a wonderful birthday!

i just had to quote melinda's cow cake.....that's so cute!

No, I didnt. Sadly I think I am going to miss the trip in Sept. I have to let me deadline pass because of my sisters flaking out. I cannot afford the room alone, and I didnt get any takers who wanted to share it. I can still re-book with a room only discount and pay for the dining plan. (that is what we did last year) but I cant afford it on my own regardless. I am just so mad I counted on my sisters. What really stinks is that Amanda will be missing it, and I was relaly looking forward to our mother/daughter trip. With a new baby on the way, it will be a while before we will venture back there, and by then the 'magic' may be gone for her. (I dont see myself taking a baby and a 5 1/2 yr old next year, or really until baby#2 is close to being out of diapers at least making her close to 8.)And I will leave it at that for now...I am tearing up just thinking about missing it after counting on it for so many months now.

i'm so sorry to hear this. maybe your sisters will change their mind and you guys can get the discounted room. i'm sending pixie dust your way and crossing my fingers for you!!!!!

Morning Everyone!

I decided to join all of you - - Now, a little bit about me (I still have to catch up and read posts of the rest of you -- there's so much, it's going to take me awhile).

Last year, I had made Weight Watchers Lifetime and was at that point 115 pounds -- stopped going to meetings because I was running (training for the Disney Goofy Challenge) and was losing way too much weight to stay with Weight Watchers.....kept off the weight until about February 2007, when I got in a car accident -- at least that's what started the downward spiral.

In April, I found out I was pregnant - - only to lose the baby two months later. Well, between the car accident and miscarriage - - I was pretty darn depressed and just ate (nothing else to do).

Well, I'm happy to say that I decided (now being at my heaviest weight again) to rejoin the folks at Weight Watchers because of the great support and I wanted to learn to be really healthy again. Since rejoining I lost 3.8 pounds -- yeah, it's working . In addition, I'm still continuing with therapy and trying to keep on track. I even started Weight Watchers walking challenge.

Although, right now I have rejoined Weight Watchers and plan on getting down to 115 again, I ultimately joined to get healthy again and learn a healthy lifestyle.

Looking forward to shedding all of these pounds! Okay -- have to get ready for Pilates class and then I will try and catch up with everyone and their progress.

Jodi

WELCOME!!!!!!!! this is a great group, as i'm sure you've already figured out. we weigh in every friday and utahmama or lexmelinda keeps a tally of our combined weight loss. you don't have to post your weight - just what you've lost or gained (or if you've stayed the same). we also share tips, accomplishments, help each other get back on the wagon, and just talk in general (obviously!!!). hope you like it here!!!

 

[denecarter]

to all the new Peeps!

Happy Birthday, Minnie Moo!

I am with you on the body image stuff too. Sometimes I wonder if I will ever be happy when I hit the 'magic number' I have in my head as a goal. (whether it be a weight or a size...whatever) I think I will probably always still see just my flaws. Try to remember all the small celebrations you have had along the way and how good they felt though. I know for me, buying a smaller size felt so amazing, for a few minutes I didnt even care about the other 'flaws' I saw in the mirror. If that makes any sense.....

Makes total sense! I did have one of those moments yesterday... at the end of yoga we were doing some pilates "roll ups" (think super slow and controlled sit ups). Well, I DID them... all the way up and back down, without cheating. First time ever. I was so excited I had to tell the instructor at the end of class.

Sadly I think I am going to miss the trip in Sept.

I really wish I could go with you... but the trip is during the school year.

anyway, the saddest part is it'll never come out of the box. it'll go upstairs in our bonus room with the rest of his toys (gundam/star wars/he-man stuff). has anyone ever seen the movie "the 40-year old virgin"?......

DD19 and I went to see Transformers at the late showing. Two of the teen guys who work at the Y were there with their friends. They the movie... even brought some "toys" with them they got at Dollar Tree! I just didn't get it ... not sure if it was my age or my gender.

 

[denecarter]

Oh, Harley!

Cute new guy in yoga alert! There was this muscular guy in the back corner at yoga this morning. I just HAD to keep sneaking peeks in the mirror to watch him (I love to watch guys work out).

I think he may have done yoga before (because he wasn't too far behind moving from one pose to the next), but he hasn't done it much. He's not particularly flexible... must be all those muscles.

Unfortunately, from where I was I couldn't see his ring finger... but he wasn't set up by a woman and he was out on the treadmill by himself afterwards. Hope he comes back...

 

[dance2874]

Makes total sense! I did have one of those moments yesterday... at the end of yoga we were doing some pilates "roll ups" (think super slow and controlled sit ups). Well, I DID them... all the way up and back down, without cheating. First time ever. I was so excited I had to tell the instructor at the end of class.

I know those roll ups! We did them in pilates. When I was loyally going a few times a month, more like once or twice a week, I could do them. I remember the first one I did without cheating too! Felt amazing.....I will get back there again!

 

[punkin413]

as i told fidgie i would, i'm posting proof of why my family calls me punkin.....

not as good as her picture of a baby actually IN a pumpkin, but you can see the layers of fat my mom had to put up with!

where's everybody at today? out enjoying the summer weather i suppose. i just laid out for about an hour and it's so HOT here! i'm going to take a shower and then i think i'm gonna go through my closet and start either packing things up to be stored (i don't want to shoot myself in the foot and throw away everything that's too big.....you never know what can happen!) or putting them in a bag for my mom to try. she's lost like 28 pounds now and can fit into a 14 and some 12s, so she may want some of it. hope everyone is having a good weekend!

 

[pigget74]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MINNIE MOO!!​

Morning Everyone!

I decided to join all of you - - Now, a little bit about me (I still have to catch up and read posts of the rest of you -- there's so much, it's going to take me awhile).

Last year, I had made Weight Watchers Lifetime and was at that point 115 pounds -- stopped going to meetings because I was running (training for the Disney Goofy Challenge) and was losing way too much weight to stay with Weight Watchers.....kept off the weight until about February 2007, when I got in a car accident -- at least that's what started the downward spiral.

In April, I found out I was pregnant - - only to lose the baby two months later. Well, between the car accident and miscarriage - - I was pretty darn depressed and just ate (nothing else to do).

Well, I'm happy to say that I decided (now being at my heaviest weight again) to rejoin the folks at Weight Watchers because of the great support and I wanted to learn to be really healthy again. Since rejoining I lost 3.8 pounds -- yeah, it's working . In addition, I'm still continuing with therapy and trying to keep on track. I even started Weight Watchers walking challenge.

Although, right now I have rejoined Weight Watchers and plan on getting down to 115 again, I ultimately joined to get healthy again and learn a healthy lifestyle.

Looking forward to shedding all of these pounds! Okay -- have to get ready for Pilates class and then I will try and catch up with everyone and their progress.

Jodi

Welcome!! This is a great group of people who will help enourage you when needed. Good luck with everything.

PUMPKIN---your picture is adoreable.

Today I went shopping for some mat. clothes for work and bought a good deal for baby as well. Then came home and used the shop vac to help get rid of all the sheetrock dust--that was not fun. Still have to redust and mop everything again.

UPDATE ON RYAN---he was discharged from the hospital and is in an apartment near the hospital for at least another month. He is doing great and even the Dr's are amazed at how well he is doing. The pain that he was having in is belly and chest was not from the transplant or the medicine. It seems that when you are on a very bland diet and almost no protein for 8 years and then introduce protein to your system--your body does not know how to digest it--the pain was just big ole gas and indegestion pains from the new foods he is getting to try. He had chicken fingers for the first time and like all kids he loves them. His little brother is getting to go visit him next week and they are all excited by that. Thanks again for your continued prayers. GOD IS GOOD!!!

 

[eeyore45]

IT'S A BIG BIRTHDAY FOR MINNIE MOO!
HAPPY 50th BIRTHDAY, CHERYL!!!​

Hoping you're off doing something special today!​

Looks delich to me Melinda!!!Happy BIrthday Minnie Mooo!!!

Well Lookey Lookey

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHERYL



Had to quote all the fun stuff, but was afraid I copied too many smileys!!

I wish for you my friend - much happiness, and of course

 

[eeyore45]

Pigget thanks for the update on ryan - too cute it was gas!! (and not something serious!) and Indeed... God is good... (may I hear the people shout "AMEN")

Well I got up at 6am - drove to a WalMart, picked up Harry Potter, drove another hour and half and sat in the park overlooking the lake (and swans) and read the first chapter... *sigh... (oh, that was a contented sigh, not related to the book, no spoiler zone!!) Then around 9:15 I was there when the cabin came out to take a group photo!! Didnt recognize dd (counselor gave her french braids, and pigtails!! lol, she looked cute!)

She said she was going back next year... and they went to chapel... I didnt think we were invited - so I packed her gear and moved the car (so someone else could park close) and I heard this LOUD shouting... I couldnt resist, I walked in... They were shouting, and dancing and moving... all for the Lord!! I wanted to cry, it was such a beautiful sight!! The whole ride home 2 1/2 hours she talked about her faith, and wanted to know about God... such a blessing!

Then my cousin called (we're close, like sisters) she wants to go to Disney in august, can I help her? I quickly decided to detour to her house - and got online showing her how to log on to wdw.com and showing her "no availabilty" over and over... so then she decided she really really wanted to do a budget trip, but her son needs to go, and they want to only go to 4 parks, but they only have to get 3 day tickets... (budget minded) so then I explain dining plans, and then she looked at all the resorts and decided her son would have the best time at... AKL!! so again I explain the resorts (but she thinks the values are too kiddyish... but I like them too!) So I go online again and explain the resort seasons... now she is determined to do AKL, and I explain AKL is closed in August (she keeps saying "how do you know this?? )

Now she thinks maybe she should go during Spring Break!!

 

[denecarter]

as i told fidgie i would, i'm posting proof of why my family calls me punkin.....

How adorable!

(she keeps saying "how do you know this?? )

I always wonder "how can you not?"