In Search of My Body - Not the One I Ate... Vol. 6: Goddesses just want to have fun

[goofyfan-12]

Amiee - sorry to hear about the crappy work schedule... enjoy your veg time.

Erika - have fun on the trip and yeah on the tennis and workout.

Family dinner night was fun. I am going to miss them for the next month as mom takes a well deserved vacation from them. Went to the gym afterwards to get a cardio workout in. Intervals on the bike and it was good...

Lisa - the human mind is an incredible thing. Even when it doesn't function the way we expect them to. interesting...

I am fading fast tonight. Hope you all have a great night.

 

[lisaviolet]

Hi everyone!

Working like crazy to get ready to leave tomorrow. Camping for 4 days. Way up north. Sorta excited, sorta not. We love, love, love our camping trips. But they are just SO much work.

Anyway, I will be offline after about 3pm tomorrow.

Exercise is coming back. I found out today that I am anemic, so I will get a shot of B-12 tomorrow and that should help. At least now I know why I have been so lethargic. But the good news is that I played tennis today and played REALLY well. And it looks like I am going to be captain of this new team, which is a surprise. Only one teammate from my old team came with me up the ranks to this new team, so I wasn't expecting it.

In addition to tennis, I got in a short run, 100 squats, and 100 lunges. Still need to do core.

Erika!!

Creepy. C-R-E-E-P-Y. You know I told you all about this Costa Rican Carao Juice - Jean has been severely anemic her whole life and is an athlete.

No guff Erika. I've been having these thoughts about sending you some for over a month. YOU. Literally - I would get a "send Erika some". And I went, "what?" and the thought kept coming and I thought, "crazy - you've gone crazy". I'm like shut up or they're going to take me - or us cause who's the voice - away.

So PM me your address and I'll send you some. Life changing. Jean almost cried the first day she took it. She said she never knew the difference on the court/field (bball - soccer).


The tennis talk is killing me. I've got to get back. Once upon a time that's all I lived for - was the courts. Days and nights and days.....

Congrats on the captain.

 

[lisaviolet]

Amiee - sorry to hear about the crappy work schedule... enjoy your veg time.

Erika - have fun on the trip and yeah on the tennis and workout.

Family dinner night was fun. I am going to miss them for the next month as mom takes a well deserved vacation from them. Went to the gym afterwards to get a cardio workout in. Intervals on the bike and it was good...

Lisa - the human mind is an incredible thing. Even when it doesn't function the way we expect them to. interesting...

I am fading fast tonight. Hope you all have a great night.

Paula - are you feeling better or the same?

 

[AKASnowWhite]

WAKE UP!

 

[AKASnowWhite]

foggy & misty here this morning- no bike ride for me. Headed to the gym instead. Erin is on vaca (awwww too bad ) so I'm on my own!


Busy one for me - gym, work, "taxi" to drivers ed, 4H meeting...

Erika - glad you got that anemia thing figured out! Get yourself back to "you" again! Enjoy camping- hope the weather is simply perfect!

Paula - I can understand Mom taking a break from family dinner. They can be a lot of work. Gonna miss hearing Mom's menu Oh - how's Dad? Still making wine?

 

[goofyfan-12]

Paula - are you feeling better or the same?

I am getting there. Just need a little more time I guess. Thanks for asking...

WAKE UP!

Aren't we fiesty this morning. So glad we didn't give you a whistle yet.

foggy & misty here this morning- no bike ride for me. Headed to the gym instead. Erin is on vaca (awwww too bad ) so I'm on my own!


Busy one for me - gym, work, "taxi" to drivers ed, 4H meeting...

Erika - glad you got that anemia thing figured out! Get yourself back to "you" again! Enjoy camping- hope the weather is simply perfect!

Paula - I can understand Mom taking a break from family dinner. They can be a lot of work. Gonna miss hearing Mom's menu Oh - how's Dad? Still making wine?

I can too... mom is tired and needs a break so they are spending the next month at their camp. Last night's menu was chicken parm and steamed zucchini and yellow squash with onions and tomatoes - yum... She also made this potatoe thing, but shh.. don't tell her that I didn't like it (too much cheese and stuff in it). Dad is doing well. He is back to work and is starting to prep for this year's wine making. Things get going in September for that.

I am starting to look forward to next week. I am taking next Wed, Thur and Fri. off and heading to opening day at the track and then going camping with the cousins for the weekend. I think I just need some time away from the dull goings on at work to reboot my spirit so this should be good.

OK - off to review some field changes and prices. I'll catch up with you all later.

 

[cathie1327]

Good morning all...

Hope you have a great day!!!!!!

 

[3DisneyKids]

Running like hell...trying to get out of here. Ugh, packing for camping is the worst, and we have it down to a science!

 

[honeymo78]

Good afternoon all.

Erika, have fun camping.

No puppy walk last night, got caught up playing lawyer for the inlaws. Why do people assume I know everything about every area of law? On the bright side, I only had one serving of dinner. No time for the gym at work today since I have some errands to run on my break, but I'm looking forward to walking Stitch tonight.

 

[HockeyKat]

Good afternoon all.

Erika, have fun camping.

No puppy walk last night, got caught up playing lawyer for the inlaws. Why do people assume I know everything about every area of law? On the bright side, I only had one serving of dinner. No time for the gym at work today since I have some errands to run on my break, but I'm looking forward to walking Stitch tonight.

Same reason people think I know everything about computers...

Sorry, not much to say, just lurking around.

 

[AKASnowWhite]

Quiet day here today <yawns>. I'm in the same boat as Kat....not a whole lot to say right now. Lots of frazzle in my brain - nothing overly major, just lots of it. I'm feeling very distracted these days.

Aren't we fiesty this morning. So glad we didn't give you a whistle yet.

Air horn. That's what I want to get my kids out of bed these days! :laughing:

I am starting to look forward to next week. I am taking next Wed, Thur and Fri. off and heading to opening day at the track and then going camping with the cousins for the weekend. I think I just need some time away from the dull goings on at work to reboot my spirit so this should be good.

Sounds like fun Paula!

Running like hell...trying to get out of here. Ugh, packing for camping is the worst, and we have it down to a science!

Gonna rain pretty heavily here tonight. I so hope it doesn't come your way!

 

[adsrtw]

Hey gang ~

Working lunch was rescheduled! Yay! I need my time away from the building. Tomorrow is another story. Jam packed day. We have a training session full of pizza and breadsticks during lunch. I am allowing a slice and a stick (bringing something to eat before). Lucky me, I have to pick it up. On top of this, we are losing an employee and I am going to have to pack her desk. She has a ton of crap too. Agh!

Way of life news ~ I'm following my eating plan (healthy most of the time with an occassional treat), exercise is a saving grace these days, and water is getting easier.

I hope everybody is have a good one!

 

[honeymo78]

Yesterday was a pretty good day for me. I had a late afternoon snack of some pretzels and then just had some cereal for dinner since I wasn't very hungry. I also got the puppy out for a walk in between rain showers.

I'm planning on hitting the gym at work today, hopefully it will be a quiet day.

 

[cathie1327]

Good morning everyone! And happy Friday!

The past couple of days have been a little challenging for me, but I have made sure to track everything I'm eating (even bad stuff, blah) and drink all my daily water

Going to a theme park tomrorow with the beyonce, 10 am to 9 pm; lots of walking! I'm excited!

 

[lisaviolet]

Hi guys!

Those on my email list got my new address. Hmmm - why does my first thought go to sending me American chocolate bars? Cause I love chocolate.

Some delivery nightmares but too tired to bore you all.

Amy - if you're reading - miss you - hope you're having fun.

Okay - off to more unpacking.

Oh no - first. Listen - I don't know where I'm at compared to my lowest weight (March) but here's what I do know. Do not freak. Just a week or so on track has made a tremendous difference. Feels much better in the body and head. Much better.

I hang on to when I came on here - last August - I came on because I felt I was beginning to creep up on a loss and didn't want that and voila gone - it's not as big as we all think in our heads. Just sharin'.

 

[cathie1327]

So I just wanted to share with everyone this revelation I had...


So last year around this time, maybe a little earlier, I had joined weight watchers. And after a few weeks, I quit. I didn't make a conscious decision, per say, but I quit going to meetings and slowly the number of days I tracked dwindled until it was none. I was so frustrated and it seemed easier to give up than start over.

So last time I'm writing in my journal, and I realized, that this time feels so much different. And I couldn't quite figure out why....and then it hit me.....I expect myself to mess up. Now, for a perfectionist, that's a hard thing to wrap my head around. It's generally all or nothing for me. But I realized, that this is a hard thing to do, and I CAN NOT be perfect at it, and every little mess up I have, is okay. As long as I don't give up after that mess up. As long as I pick myself back up, and start over the next day, next week, whatever, as long as I tell myself it's okay you'll do better. Now, not to say that I am trying to justify my slip-ups ever, but it's like I finally accepted that I WILL mess up, and there's nothing I can do to change that, but learn from the mess ups, and eventually they will be less and less frequent.

Probably boring, but a slight peek inside my head I guess.

Having a positive day, for the first time in a while, it feels like it's been a LONG time since I had a positive day. Last night I cleaned some of the clutter in the closet of a room that is my current living space, and took a serious look at my financial situation, as I'd like to stop living with the family as soon as humanly possible. I wrote in my weight loss journal and personal journal, and came to terms with a lot. I had a brief moment where I got very upset concerning the apparent loss of what used to be my friendship with someone very important to me, but I picked myself back up, and rather than wallowing in pity that I'd lost that friend, I picked up the phone and called one that I have gained. I even picked up my bible, and for the first time in a while, it seemed like I was getting an answer, even though I didn't really know I was looking for one. I really feel like I'm starting to sort my life out, finally, and get back to where I need to be to move on, with everything.

Like I said, having a positive day

 

[goofyfan-12]

Cathie - you gotta love the positive days. I am happy you are feeling it right now.

Lisa - you are unpacking!!! As much work as that is, I am so happy for you. It has got to be heaven to finally be settling into your new home.

Hi to everyone...

We must be an introspective group this weekend since we have been so quiet. Things are starting to look up here and I am finally starting to see the end of my funk. Still feeling somewhat funkish, but getting better.

Work wise, things are starting to look up. The big job I have been waiting for is finally here and it looks like we will start working on it in the coming month. That is a huge relief as I will have something of substance to do again. And as if that wasn't big enough news, I finally found a cheap place to park my car. I am going from spending almost $2000/year to park my car to paying only $300/ year to park it. I am so freakin excited that I can't stand it. I found out about that yesterday and when I was telling Jesse the news, I immediately added, that is like your training costs for the foreseeable future. Needless to say he, was happy too.

OK - back to work. Need to wrap up a few things before I begin the quest to find a dress for the track. BTW - when did I become a size 20? Been trying on dresses in that size and am still in a total state of disbelief that they not only fit, but look good on me. That totally snuck up on me. Don't get me wrong, I am totally physched about it, but still - whoa!

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

 

[lisaviolet]

So I just wanted to share with everyone this revelation I had...


So last year around this time, maybe a little earlier, I had joined weight watchers. And after a few weeks, I quit. I didn't make a conscious decision, per say, but I quit going to meetings and slowly the number of days I tracked dwindled until it was none. I was so frustrated and it seemed easier to give up than start over.

So last time I'm writing in my journal, and I realized, that this time feels so much different. And I couldn't quite figure out why....and then it hit me.....I expect myself to mess up. Now, for a perfectionist, that's a hard thing to wrap my head around. It's generally all or nothing for me. But I realized, that this is a hard thing to do, and I CAN NOT be perfect at it, and every little mess up I have, is okay. As long as I don't give up after that mess up. As long as I pick myself back up, and start over the next day, next week, whatever, as long as I tell myself it's okay you'll do better. Now, not to say that I am trying to justify my slip-ups ever, but it's like I finally accepted that I WILL mess up, and there's nothing I can do to change that, but learn from the mess ups, and eventually they will be less and less frequent.

Probably boring, but a slight peek inside my head I guess.

Not boring at all Cathie. We have a few perfectionists - all or nothing personalities on this thread. . Nancy and I discuss this exact issue regularly.

You can't hold onto that trait and be successful unless one likes white knuckling life and eating - someting I'm not fond of - nor will I choose. If I've learned anything in this last year on here - it's that I'm okay right now. I have goals - am/will go after them but now is fine. I seem to have a weight that I can "deal" with and feel okay. And I'm there. But I do want more. And will have it. I'm laughing - - I don't who the he!! is speaking but I like her!!!!

Anyway, Elvis lives. He's here in Collingwood. Probably hundreds of them. I have to go out and check this out. Collingwood has an annual - huge - Elvis Festival - apparently they come from all over the world. People have their own happy places, eh? For some - Elvis.

 

[lisaviolet]

Work wise, things are starting to look up. The big job I have been waiting for is finally here and it looks like we will start working on it in the coming month. That is a huge relief as I will have something of substance to do again. And as if that wasn't big enough news, I finally found a cheap place to park my car. I am going from spending almost $2000/year to park my car to paying only $300/ year to park it. I am so freakin excited that I can't stand it. I found out about that yesterday and when I was telling Jesse the news, I immediately added, that is like your training costs for the foreseeable future. Needless to say he, was happy too.

OK - back to work. Need to wrap up a few things before I begin the quest to find a dress for the track. BTW - when did I become a size 20? Been trying on dresses in that size and am still in a total state of disbelief that they not only fit, but look good on me. That totally snuck up on me. Don't get me wrong, I am totally physched about it, but still - whoa!

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Yeah, it feels great Paula. Thanks.

Loved your post. Loved it! The parking - oh the parking. I know. We never bought a parking spot in either condo - so I know that joy!!!! That is so cheap Paula. Let me do a dance for you and in turn Jesse. We used to spend as high as $200 a month. Jean and I did this little joke when we moved here - "where you're gonna park? How much? Where you gonna store this or that? How much is maintenance this month?" And then laughter and high fives.

Size 20 - Outflippin'standing Paula. Wow. Nice.

 

[adsrtw]

Hey everybody,

A quick check in before heading to the 4H Fair. Had one resign to our receptionist today and one termed. Oy! Stuck with one slice of pizza and chased it with two breadsticks. Yum!

Be back later.