In Search of my Body...Not The One I ate...#3 "Crowning Goddesses As We Go"

[DisneyWorld Delight]

Paula, ummm, nachos. My favorite.

Hi Gang,

Reading here, just too busy to stop and write. It's crazy, crazy, crazy. The next few days will be socialite. Friends in town, Rob and Richelle - who took my before pics -and Nick has a work function every night.

So, Erika...very awesome. Great victory for you.

Amy, i feel you. The economy has hit me, too, I am sad to say. The weeks before the end of the year will be hustle, hustle, hustle for work. I hate hustle. I have my fingers crossed for you.

I'll post tomorrow after WW, or at least call one of you and let you know how I did. Miss you.

xoxo

Liz, crazy busy girl, miss you too.

STEP AWAY FROM THE BUTTERFINGER!

I know! I know!

 

[3DisneyKids]

Hi Gang,

Reading here, just too busy to stop and write. It's crazy, crazy, crazy. The next few days will be socialite. Friends in town, Rob and Richelle - who took my before pics -and Nick has a work function every night.

So, Erika...very awesome. Great victory for you.

Amy, i feel you. The economy has hit me, too, I am sad to say. The weeks before the end of the year will be hustle, hustle, hustle for work. I hate hustle. I have my fingers crossed for you.

I'll post tomorrow after WW, or at least call one of you and let you know how I did. Miss you.

xoxo

Ugh! I hate it when you have to work! Totally cramps my style!

Wow. And I know what you mean. Getting caught up in the excitement. It IS going to be fun.

And you know, I have come far. While I'm not "losing" weight. I am now of the mindset that I have to workout. Kwim?

I definitely know. You are doing the internal work first...which is WAY harder than the external part. Once you work through that, the weight is just going to fall off you.

And as for the running...yes, I am well aware of the irony that I took it up so I could get in quick work-outs. And now it monopolizes my life.


My MIL will make their costumes. She is the seamstress and loves to sew for my girls. She literally would be upset not too. I know you've seen this before, but here are the costumes from 2 years ago. My favorite.[/COLOR][/B]

Phew. Thought you were gonna sew costumes. Scary.

 

[HockeyKat]

Erika Thanks so much for sharing your how I got to running story. I was not athletic AT ALL during any part of my life. i was strictly a band dork.

I was such a band dork too! Never played a sport in high school, and only got into fitness at all in my mid 20s.

Instead of running, I took up ice hockey. Go figure.

Sorry about the job situation. I know what being laid off is like, and it isn't fun.

E, size 4. Holy Crap!!

Did I mention I bought plane tickets for Dec? Y'all are really stuck with me now...

 

[3DisneyKids]

And did I mention how psyched I am about that????

 

[MunkyMe13]

WELCOME BACK! Report coming, right?



First, cute kiddo! Loving the costume. My girls have that one, too.

PM me your e-mail address and I will send you all of my training plans that my coach devised for me. These include the tempo runs.



I know, Lyz is totally fierce, right?



GREAT news, Sarah! I know that you were hating that schedule, so I am sure this is happy news for you!

Wow. And I know what you mean. Getting caught up in the excitement. It IS going to be fun.

And you know, I have come far. While I'm not "losing" weight. I am now of the mindset that I have to workout. Kwim?



Ha. Butthead.



That is amusing.





She's precious!



Sarah, that is great news!

Nancy, bout time you checked in. I want to hear about your adults only swingers camping weekend.

Tonight we got material for the girls costumes. Molli wants a masquerade ball dress and Maddi wants to be a cat with a red cape? Supercat anyone? Boy oh boy, did I push hard for a princess, but, not gonna happen.

My MIL will make their costumes. She is the seamstress and loves to sew for my girls. She literally would be upset not too. I know you've seen this before, but here are the costumes from 2 years ago. My favorite.

Thanks!! I can't even begin to say how happy I am about it!

 

[3DisneyKids]

Morning all! Wakey, wakey!

Busy morning for me so I won't be on except for now. It is Weds. so that means half day for the kids, which means that I have to get everything in my life done this morning. Yikes! And I have a training duathlon scheduled, so most of my morning will be taken up right there.

On the plus side, I am all but done with trip planning! Phew! Got everything in under the wire. And you know, I got just about every ADR I wanted.

Have a great day! I'll check back in this afternoon.

 

[DisneyWorld Delight]

I'm up. I'm up.

I'd like to know the ADR details.

Off to walk.

Oh and heres one for you. My left knee has been killing me. In January, when I was walking, it was killing me then too. Feels stiff and swollen. Not in pain, execpt for when I try to hunch down or curl up my leg on the couch. It went into February, and our trip to Disney, it was so magnified. The Pain. Then I came across Allieve. With which I was able to sleep. I got home, quit working out and the pain went away.

Then to July, when I again started walking on the tm. I was worried about my knee, so I started taking an Allieve per day. Walking pretty regularly. My knee never did bother me. Eventually I dropped off the Allieve, cause really, you shouldn't take pain meds all the time.

2 weeks ago, the pain came back. Which makes me kinda depressed. I don't know what to attribute it too. For starters I had two weeks where I let my workouts slite. Week one, just tired and lazy. Week two, out of town.

Do I hurt cause I stopped working out regularly? Cause I'm not hooked on Allieve, (or maybe I am)? Cause I've been walking on a flat surface as opposed to tilted?

I googled it and the data said, if your knee is stiff and sore, it's probably one of two things. My front thigh muscles aren't strong enough to keep my knee cap in place or two, I've got bigger problems, joint health and such and it's not going to help if I ignore it.

You guys have an opinion? Walking shouldn't be this hard.

 

[amykab]

Thanks again for all the good job thoughts! quiet so far here.

Unfortunately I will not be running against the PMS man. We've invited him to 5k's before and he refuses. I honestly think that he is afraid one of us girls would beat him. He is in good shape but really only lifts weights with little cardio. We think his goal is to be able to wear shirts from the little boys department!

I'll be running against the coirker that I had a long talk with last week. She's lucky though, she'll probably get to keep her job since she has had some "relations" with the program manager. That's how things roll around here.

My MIL will make their costumes. She is the seamstress and loves to sew for my girls. She literally would be upset not too. I know you've seen this before, but here are the costumes from 2 years ago. My favorite.[/COLOR][/B]

LOVE the pirate costumes!!

I was such a band dork too! Never played a sport in high school, and only got into fitness at all in my mid 20s.

Instead of running, I took up ice hockey. Go figure.

Sorry about the job situation. I know what being laid off is like, and it isn't fun.

E, size 4. Holy Crap!!

Did I mention I bought plane tickets for Dec? Y'all are really stuck with me now...

I think it is SO cool that you play hockey.

I'm up. I'm up.

I'd like to know the ADR details.

Off to walk.

Oh and heres one for you. My left knee has been killing me. In January, when I was walking, it was killing me then too. Feels stiff and swollen. Not in pain, execpt for when I try to hunch down or curl up my leg on the couch. It went into February, and our trip to Disney, it was so magnified. The Pain. Then I came across Allieve. With which I was able to sleep. I got home, quit working out and the pain went away.

Then to July, when I again started walking on the tm. I was worried about my knee, so I started taking an Allieve per day. Walking pretty regularly. My knee never did bother me. Eventually I dropped off the Allieve, cause really, you shouldn't take pain meds all the time.

2 weeks ago, the pain came back. Which makes me kinda depressed. I don't know what to attribute it too. For starters I had two weeks where I let my workouts slite. Week one, just tired and lazy. Week two, out of town.

Do I hurt cause I stopped working out regularly? Cause I'm not hooked on Allieve, (or maybe I am)? Cause I've been walking on a flat surface as opposed to tilted?

I googled it and the data said, if your knee is stiff and sore, it's probably one of two things. My front thigh muscles aren't strong enough to keep my knee cap in place or two, I've got bigger problems, joint health and such and it's not going to help if I ignore it.

You guys have an opinion? Walking shouldn't be this hard.

Not sure about this. Are you stretching before/after? How many miles do you have on your shoes?

 

[DisneyWorld Delight]

Amy - no I don't stretch. I need to do that.

My shoes - not sure how many miles. They are getting worn. I've been thinking of a new pair. Do you think that'd affect my knee? Oh, maybe pronatining my foot and screwing with my knee?

 

[goofyfan-12]

I was such a band dork too! Never played a sport in high school, and only got into fitness at all in my mid 20s.

Instead of running, I took up ice hockey. Go figure.

Sorry about the job situation. I know what being laid off is like, and it isn't fun.

E, size 4. Holy Crap!!

Did I mention I bought plane tickets for Dec? Y'all are really stuck with me now...

Band Dorks unite.... whoo hoo... on the plan tickets... 47 days until I leave...

And did I mention how psyched I am about that????

To quote Erika - WORD!!!!

Not much going on around here this morning. Thanks to two nights of first aid / cpr training (which please god don't ever have to make me use it), no exxercise for me since Sunday and I feel very sluggish.... I am off to the pool tonight for some much needed calorie burning...

My voice is still on vacation without me. Needless to say, the guys in my office are having a great deal of laughs at my expense... One of my inspectors can't even listen to me without laughing... Hopefully, it will come back soon... I kind of miss it...

Have a great day everyone... I am staying on my eating plan and counting the hours down until I can get my groove on in the pool...

Talk to you all later,
Paula

 

[DISNEY4XMAS]

hmm... I do love a good bonfire... how far away are you again????

Congrats on the tops being too big... that is a good thing... The folks at JC told me that the belly is the last to shrink when you are losing weight, but it will shrink... stick with it... (I was whining about how I lost 2 - 3 sizes on top but on only one on the bottom....)

Paula

I am about four hours NORTH~ It would have been only 1.5 if you had MOVED NORTH! LOL I know not your fault that you didn't move!

I have news. The new jeans arrived today. I went upstairs immediately to try them on. I knew that they would be too tight, but I wanted to see how tight they would be.

Um, they fit. Size 4. They like really FIT. I would be more excited, but I am still stunned. I am wearing them now...circulation is not cut off. Pretty comfortable. Just....stunned.

UMMM HOW GREAT IS THAT! AWESOME job Erika!!!!

I've been reading and keeping up just not posting. I'm in a bit of a funk, as of tomorrow I could be laid off at anytime and definitely before the end of the year. We do have a plan so I am not too worried about the financial impact, but it still stinks to get laid off. And the coirker drama has gotten so high school. I am so over it. Everyone is in their 30's. Grow up. for example, the other 3 members of our group went to a local job fair a couple weeks ago, and failed to mention it to me and another coworker. I could see maybe not discussing like really specific jobs you might be applying for, but a job fair where it is kinda open to everyone. And one coworker even went so far as to tell me she was at home from work because her DS was super sick. Whatever.

In the long run, being at a new job, maybe only working part time will be a very good thing for me as an individual and for our family. It just sucks right now.

SO I was telling the BB boss that you were going back to school and that I was trying to recruit you for our hospital and she said GREAT SHE CAN TAKE MY JOB! I will give it to her! (she is still mad that they fired her lover! THE MARRIED DIRECTOR OF THE LAB)

Wow. And I know what you mean. Getting caught up in the excitement. It IS going to be fun.
umm so jealsous I am I would love to get away without kids and husband! If i hadn't bought this house!!!!
Nancy, bout time you checked in. I want to hear about your adults only swingers camping weekend.
NEED DETAILS ON THIS!!!!
Tonight we got material for the girls costumes. Molli wants a masquerade ball dress and Maddi wants to be a cat with a red cape? Supercat anyone? Boy oh boy, did I push hard for a princess, but, not gonna happen.

My MIL will make their costumes. She is the seamstress and loves to sew for my girls. She literally would be upset not too. I know you've seen this before, but here are the costumes from 2 years ago. My favorite.[/COLOR][/B]

I love that your MIL loves to sew costumes. My mother used to but now has to be in the mood to sew! When I first started at the hospital she made me a dozen scrub tops and when Sam started Skating a Dozen skating dresses. In fact one mom complained because her daughters were jealous because my daughter never wore the same dress for a month (they skated 2 days a week) and how it was wrong because she couldn't afford to buy her girls all theses dress! OH WELL! then all of a sudden my mother put her sewing machine away and that was that now she only takes it out for sewing for the skating show! Last year she even bought an embroidery machine to make us stuff for our disney trip, I haven't see that out lately.

I'm up. I'm up.

I'd like to know the ADR details. ME TOO

Oh and heres one for you. My left knee has been killing me. In January, when I was walking, it was killing me then too. Feels stiff and swollen. Not in pain, execpt for when I try to hunch down or curl up my leg on the couch. It went into February, and our trip to Disney, it was so magnified. The Pain. Then I came across Allieve. With which I was able to sleep. I got home, quit working out and the pain went away.

Then to July, when I again started walking on the tm. I was worried about my knee, so I started taking an Allieve per day. Walking pretty regularly. My knee never did bother me. Eventually I dropped off the Allieve, cause really, you shouldn't take pain meds all the time.

2 weeks ago, the pain came back. Which makes me kinda depressed. I don't know what to attribute it too. For starters I had two weeks where I let my workouts slite. Week one, just tired and lazy. Week two, out of town.

Do I hurt cause I stopped working out regularly? Cause I'm not hooked on Allieve, (or maybe I am)? Cause I've been walking on a flat surface as opposed to tilted?

I googled it and the data said, if your knee is stiff and sore, it's probably one of two things. My front thigh muscles aren't strong enough to keep my knee cap in place or two, I've got bigger problems, joint health and such and it's not going to help if I ignore it.

You guys have an opinion? Walking shouldn't be this hard.

I would go see your doctor on this because SAM has been complaining for almost 3 years that her knee hurt and We went to the Orthopedist yesterday and it is a band that is going over her condile of her bone, it may just go away it may need surgery. So I suggest you go see a DOC and have him look at it. Try icing it too for 15 mins three times a day that is what sam is trying now! She has to ice and motrin for a month!

OK off to clean up todays mess! and then head to the oncologist for a check up and then off to work! Doesn't that sound like a thrilling day!!!

 

[DisneyWorld Delight]

Unfortunately I will not be running against the PMS man. We've invited him to 5k's before and he refuses. I honestly think that he is afraid one of us girls would beat him. He is in good shape but really only lifts weights with little cardio. We think his goal is to be able to wear shirts from the little boys department!

Ha. Funny.

I'll be running against the coirker that I had a long talk with last week. She's lucky though, she'll probably get to keep her job since she has had some "relations" with the program manager. That's how things roll around here.

Oh my!

 

[DisneyWorld Delight]

Ohh, Ice on the knee. I don't know if I can do that. I've been sleeping with a heating pad.

Thanks for the offer to open the pool. lol. Not during a bonfire with your family!

I was only joking about "swingers weekend." lol.

 

[amykab]

Well as of 845 this morning I am no longer employed. I knew it was coming, but it still sucks. Severance was what I expected though, so we'll be ok through the end of the year.

I'm at home now. Plan on going out in a bit to do some errands, then pick DD up from daycare. As much as I have hated her being in daycare (getting sick,bitten,etc) there is a part of me that will be sad that she won't be going anymore at least for awhile. She really enjoys it and has made some friends.

 

[DISNEY4XMAS]

Ohh, Ice on the knee. I don't know if I can do that. I've been sleeping with a heating pad.
HEAT BAD !!!!! ice GOOD!!! Trust me one with back injuries and kids in sports ice is ehat you need to do. Put a wash cloth over the ice pack and ice the knee for 15 mins three times a day
Thanks for the offer to open the pool. lol. Not during a bonfire with your family!Oh come on we are all big girls! My SIL is the smallest and she is a 16.

I was only joking about "swingers weekend." lol.

You teased me come on everyone knows my fav show of the summer was SWINGTOWN, i do hope that comes back on.

Well as of 845 this morning I am no longer employed. I knew it was coming, but it still sucks. Severance was what I expected though, so we'll be ok through the end of the year.

I'm at home now. Plan on going out in a bit to do some errands, then pick DD up from daycare. As much as I have hated her being in daycare (getting sick,bitten,etc) there is a part of me that will be sad that she won't be going anymore at least for awhile. She really enjoys it and has made some friends.

OH Amy poor you atleast you knew it was coming.. When I lost my job years ago It was clear out of the blue. I lost it because I didn't fire an employee.
Well now you get to spend some quaility time with your daughter who is so darn cute! And you can't try out some of that Fall beer all week long!~
I am spending time with both my little nieces right now. MIL at doctors office, so I volenteered to watch them. I managed to get a poopey diaper right off the bat. YAY for me!

Well I better go watch them before they get into trouble!!!!

 

[DisneyWorld Delight]

Well as of 845 this morning I am no longer employed. I knew it was coming, but it still sucks. Severance was what I expected though, so we'll be ok through the end of the year.

I'm at home now. Plan on going out in a bit to do some errands, then pick DD up from daycare. As much as I have hated her being in daycare (getting sick,bitten,etc) there is a part of me that will be sad that she won't be going anymore at least for awhile. She really enjoys it and has made some friends.

Amy - Yes it does suck. Even when you knew it.

 

[MunkyMe13]

Well as of 845 this morning I am no longer employed. I knew it was coming, but it still sucks. Severance was what I expected though, so we'll be ok through the end of the year.

I'm at home now. Plan on going out in a bit to do some errands, then pick DD up from daycare. As much as I have hated her being in daycare (getting sick,bitten,etc) there is a part of me that will be sad that she won't be going anymore at least for awhile. She really enjoys it and has made some friends.

I'm sure things will work out... It does suck... I am constantly fearing that and I won't get severance... Gotta keep truckin...

 

[3DisneyKids]

Amy - no I don't stretch. I need to do that.

My shoes - not sure how many miles. http://www.disboards.com/images/editor/color.gifThey are getting worn. I've been thinking of a new pair. Do you think that'd affect my knee? Oh, maybe pronatining my foot and screwing with my knee?

YES stretch.

YES new shoes

NO to heat! Ack! Ice, ice baby!

My take is that you have to work your quads. Time for some squats.
And time to go to the gym and do the leg press. Yes, you. Yes really.

Ohh, Ice on the knee. I don't know if I can do that. I've been sleeping with a heating pad.

Thanks for the offer to open the pool. lol. Not during a bonfire with your family!

I was only joking about "swingers weekend." lol.

Well as of 845 this morning I am no longer employed. I knew it was coming, but it still sucks. Severance was what I expected though, so we'll be ok through the end of the year.

I'm at home now. Plan on going out in a bit to do some errands, then pick DD up from daycare. As much as I have hated her being in daycare (getting sick,bitten,etc) there is a part of me that will be sad that she won't be going anymore at least for awhile. She really enjoys it and has made some friends.

Oh Amy! I am sorry! Yes you knew, but it still sucks just the same. Hang in there!


As for me...I have 10 minutes before the kids are home for the day. So much for productivity! At least I got my workout in first. I did a 2-mile run, then a 16-mile bike ride, then another 2-mile run to complete the duathlon. I planned on running more and biking less, but it is what it is.

More on the flip side.

 

[3DisneyKids]

Amy--I just flooded your e-mail with training workouts! Have fun!

 

[DisneyWorld Delight]

YES stretch.

YES new shoes

NO to heat! Ack! Ice, ice baby!

My take is that you have to work your quads. Time for some squats.
And time to go to the gym and do the leg press. Yes, you. Yes really. [/B]

This is me. Crying. Squats.

I don't understand. Your kids get out early every Wednesday?

Amy--I just flooded your e-mail with training workouts! Have fun!

Lol. Amy did you ask or did she just "bless" you with workouts?