In Search of My Body - Not the One I Ate, VOL 8...It's Never Too Late To Start Again!

[goofyfan-12]

Lisa - thank you for saying what you did. I tend to forget that the committment (is that spelled right?) part of what I am doing is the hard part. The rest is really just the results right? Again - thanks!

E - tell Riley that he is the coolest son ever for saying that!

work = suckfest today so I am calling it a night and crashing. Please pray that the folks in the state government pass a budget before I totally lose it and start to look like this

Thanks...

btw - where can I find an Annie's pretzel?

 

[AKASnowWhite]

Honestly, the whole thing left me gobsmacked!

Gobsmacked OMG that's the best word I've heard in ages.

I see it more as a challenge to fully accept the gains. And I'm very serious about not quitting until I feel at a better place. Poor you.

Oh, I can handle it Lisa. No worries.

Kelly - I fell. HARD. VERY HARD. ......

Oh and got three requistions completed. Eight viles of blood twilight people - and the little bottle fun.

Ouch on the fall! Was it before or after the blood? Were you light headed or just, um, *graceful*

I just started a BodyKombat class which is totally kickass. It is all marital arts moves done at cardio pace. WAY cool and I feel like a badass ninja at the end of it!

badass ninja

So today she says to my guy, "Why does your mom always wear running tights or running shorts?" And he turns to her and says, "Because she CAN!" Shut her right up.

Smart boy



Round 2 of dress shopping. bleh. I may have to make it myself. Like I have time for that.

 

[3DisneyKids]

OMG Nancy--no more sewing!

 

[jekajekalynn]

It's been so yucky weather wise yesterday and today. I took a rest day from exercise yesterday, but I worked out today. I took an hour nap afterwards though cause it was so chilly and rainy outside.

Has anyone tried those Jello Dark Chocolate mousse cups? I found my new favorite low cal desert. hehehe

 

[cantwaitvaca09]

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!!!!

Lisa, so sorry you fell, I hope you are feeling better!

Paula, sorry work is a suckfest but I like your soon to be new picture HA HA

Nancy, Good Luck on the dress shopping, I hope you find one soon

E, that is awesome that Riley said that, even better that he knew what NOT to say

Jess, I have not tried it, is it sugar free?

EE, Kelly, Liz, Cathie, Sunny, Meg, I hope you all have a great day. Now I am going into the basement and I am getting on that elliptical.!!!!


By the way, EE I think you told me about Fiber One Yogurt. I LOVE IT. Its low cal and it does fill me up! Thanks!

 

[AKASnowWhite]

<yawns> 'morning all.

Rainy Friday. Very uninspiring. But as ususaly I have way more to do today than time could possibly allow! Hope eveyone has a fabulous HEALTHY Friday!

 

[jekajekalynn]

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!!!!

Jess, I have not tried it, is it sugar free?

Yes it is, one of the mousse cups has only 60 calories in it. I heard the caramel ones are even better.

 

[poppinspal]

Morning all. Happy Friday!

Did Cardio Cabaret last night, it's really chair dancing but it was awesome. My instructor seems to really like me. She loves that I went from her class to hockey. It was a fun class and great ab and hip work.

I also learned at hockey last night that I have no idea when a guy is interested in me. Of course I realized too late he was asking for my number!

E- I know what you mean about the feeling you get after class. After kickboxing I felt like I was a serious boxer.

Nancy- have you tried kohls? They have some Vera Wang designs there. I got a dress that I wore on Easter and am going to wear to a wedding.

Jess- I love the mousse cups but for a similiar amount of calories I get the jello sugar free pudding. There's more in them. But I do love the mousse as a treat sometimes.

Hi Paula, Jo, Lisa, Kelly, Ronda, Kat and everyone! Have a great day!

 

[HockeyKat]

Yes it is, one of the mousse cups has only 60 calories in it. I heard the caramel ones are even better.

I *love* the mousse cups. Even better, turn one upside down in a bowl, add some raspberries and a dollop of ff cool whip, and yummmm.


I've never tried the fiber one yogurts, but I add fiber one (or other plain fiber cereal) to my yogurt.


Meg, glad you enjoyed your class! This was the last hockey, right? Want to move to NC? We are signing up for spring/summer league right now...

 

[lisaviolet]

Kat - any word on your contract?

It's on my mind all the time. Too funny.

 

[HockeyKat]

Kat - any word on your contract?

It's on my mind all the time. Too funny.

Mine too!!

Nope. My best bet is that we hear next week sometime, based on the experiences from the DIS thread on the subject. I have also heard that you hear sooner if they don't waive... I will post as soon as I know.

 

[lisaviolet]

Paula/Lisa--so proud of you both!
!

Thanks Erika. I am SO PLEASED with myself.

Look you're rubbing off on me.

Ok, so you know what finally woke me up and made me come back to the land of the living? GREAT story.

Riley has been having "issues" with this 10 year old girl on the bus. She is just on him all the time. Mean, name calling, all of that kid type of behavior. Also saying things about his sisters or our house or that her family makes more money than our family (which isn't true, not that it matters to a 10 year old)--all sorts of bizarre stuff. But I assume that is because she actually has a crush on him or something. Anyway, she has been annoying the hell out of him for weeks. And he has been handling it really well and not calling her names back or anything like that. Totally not encouraging her.

So today she says to my guy, "Why does your mom always wear running tights or running shorts?" And he turns to her and says, "Because she CAN!" Shut her right up.

And when he was telling me the story, he said that what he REALLY wanted to say was "My mom runs all the time because she doesn't want to look like YOUR mom!" But thankfully he knew not to say that (and yes, her mother has a significant amount of weight to lose).

Great story because you can.

Oh such a difficult balance in parenting, eh? Teach them how to stick up for themselves without being as low as the person trying to get at them. But still strong enough. Not easy.

Lisa - thank you for saying what you did. I tend to forget that the committment (is that spelled right?) part of what I am doing is the hard part. The rest is really just the results right? Again - thanks!

E - tell Riley that he is the coolest son ever for saying that!

work = suckfest today so I am calling it a night and crashing. Please pray that the folks in the state government pass a budget before I totally lose it and start to look like this

Thanks...

btw - where can I find an Annie's pretzel?

Hi Paula. You teach me so much. SO MUCH.

Gobsmacked OMG that's the best word I've heard in ages.



Ouch on the fall! Was it before or after the blood? Were you light headed or just, um, *graceful*


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Well nothing about the fall was graceful. Or did you mean the blood. I'm so confused. I was a mere block from the lab when I slid into second for a whole line of downtown cars - ready to speed home - to see.

So yes - after I got up - I hobbled to get my tests.

Still sore. Still.

But you know what I did think - my fitness level - made it easier to actually get off the pavement without all my parts in order.

OMG Nancy--no more sewing!

OMG. YES. NO MORE SEWING. Make a song about that Nancy and sing it over and over.

And I agree with Megan. Kohl's has such a wide variety of clothes. Some great finds when I slip over the border. Well rarely have the dough but great dream shopping. So have you gone there?

It's been so yucky weather wise yesterday and today. I took a rest day from exercise yesterday, but I worked out today. I took an hour nap afterwards though cause it was so chilly and rainy outside.

Has anyone tried those Jello Dark Chocolate mousse cups? I found my new favorite low cal desert. hehehe

Yucky weather. Get this - it was 83 on Saturday. 83 and sunny. This morning - I swear I saw flurries. Nothing stuck and they stopped but holy cow.

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!!!!

Lisa, so sorry you fell, I hope you are feeling better!

Paula, sorry work is a suckfest but I like your soon to be new picture HA HA

Nancy, Good Luck on the dress shopping, I hope you find one soon

E, that is awesome that Riley said that, even better that he knew what NOT to say

Jess, I have not tried it, is it sugar free?

EE, Kelly, Liz, Cathie, Sunny, Meg, I hope you all have a great day. Now I am going into the basement and I am getting on that elliptical.!!!!


By the way, EE I think you told me about Fiber One Yogurt. I LOVE IT. Its low cal and it does fill me up! Thanks!

Jo - I forgot to say this. The day you wrote about your book Women God and Food. I was searching for a few books in a huge bookstore. And I was back and forth to the computer book finder (I'm sure there's a better name for that like catalogue ) and almost every time I would go there would be your book typed in by the previous person. That is huge. HUGE STORE. Many people using the terminal.

I've now looked it up. It sounds like I wrote it. Too bad I won't be a millionaire.

Let me know how it is.

<yawns> 'morning all.

But as ususaly I have way more to do today than time could possibly allow!

That sounds like a happy life my dear.

I also learned at hockey last night that I have no idea when a guy is interested in me. Of course I realized too late he was asking for my number!



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Hello.

 

[lisaviolet]

Mine too!!

Nope. My best bet is that we hear next week sometime, based on the experiences from the DIS thread on the subject. I have also heard that you hear sooner if they don't waive... I will post as soon as I know.

Can't wait. CAN NOT WAIT!

 

[cathie1327]

k I have decided that I am way...way...way too far behind...so I'm going about 5/6 pages back to start responding....and hopefully my work computer cooperates lol.

Otherwise....today is a great day. Weather is FABULOUS. I'm in a great mood. Therapy is SO working. Carlos and I are really working things out. It's been a long time since I've felt this much in love....and felt this much love coming from him. It's amazing how eye opening it can be when you are BOTH being honest to yourselves and each other about your feelings...and how much you can accomplish.

I pretty much finished the cake order last night. Putting final touches on tonight before he comes and picks it up. I am SUPER excited about this one. I'll put pictures up when I get home.

Hope everyone else's day is going wonderfully.

 

[cathie1327]

The flippin computer freaked out...and ate my post. My big, giant, long one responding to the last eight pages

 

[AKASnowWhite]

And I agree with Megan. Kohl's has such a wide variety of clothes. Some great finds when I slip over the border. Well rarely have the dough but great dream shopping. So have you gone there?

yep. No luck. With dresses anyway. I did come out with a whole bag full of other stuff though

Yucky weather. Get this - it was 83 on Saturday. 83 and sunny. This morning - I swear I saw flurries. Nothing stuck and they stopped but holy cow.

I just heard on the radio chance for snow flurries tonight and thought that they MUST be kidding. It was 91* here on Wedesday and 83* yesterday. Crazy.

The flippin computer freaked out...and ate my post. My big, giant, long one responding to the last eight pages

that stinks. Can't wait for pics of the cake though!

 

[3DisneyKids]

Busy, busy day here. But good. Missing my team!

Riley is out at his first boy/girl event. Ugh. It is KILLING me. But it is totally sweet and innocent and completely supervised and all of that. It's not like it's DATING or anything, just a social event for both boys and girls. And I am, of course, DYING. Especially after the horrific parent meeting we had last week about oral sex being rampant at the middle school. I can't form coherent sentences. And then I had a conversation with one of my BFFs today and her 8th grade daughter is secretly dating a freaking JUNIOR and that sent me into yet another tailspin. This is SO hard.

You know, when I had three babies--three kids under 3 years old, I was constantly thinking to myself "OMG, this is SO hard. This is so much work..." and on and on. And my friends with older kids always said, "It gets harder when they are older." And I never understood that because I was like, "They'll be in SCHOOL. They can dress and feed themselves. They can wipe their own a$$es...you people are CRAZY."

Now I get it.

 

[AKASnowWhite]

And my friends with older kids always said, "It gets harder when they are older." And I never understood that because I was like, "They'll be in SCHOOL. They can dress and feed themselves. They can wipe their own a$$es...you people are CRAZY."

Now I get it.

Is it wrong that I'm laughing? Seriously. Welcome to my world.

oh - btw. You're only warming up. Just wait until they start driving. That's when the party REALLY begins.

 

[poppinspal]

Is it wrong that I'm laughing? Seriously. Welcome to my world.

oh - btw. You're only warming up. Just wait until they start driving. That's when the party REALLY begins.

I am obviously not a mother of an adult child seeming as though I barely consider myself an adult most days! I do like to think that around college age is a good turning point to when the worrying lessens. (Not that it ever goes away I'm sure.) Then again what do I know? I'm a 28 year old who only spends eight hours a day with toddlers. When they start getting too old I get to ship them off to preschool and I get a new set of young ones! lol


So I'm having a few issues with one of my friends. She seems to be upset about the fact that I'm doing my exercise classes with another girl. I did invite my friend but she doesn't even have a license so she can't make it out to the suburbs to take the class. (And I'd spend an extra hour driving if I picked her up and dropped her off. An hour of driving for an hour class, its too much.) So now she's making these side comments to people we work with about how I'm replacing her and all this kind of stuff. She hasn't said anything directly to me but she keeps acting like I'm doing something wrong. I just want to tell her that I actually don't care if anyone comes with me, these classes are something I'm doing for me. I'm also let down because I am never upset when she's out with other friends and doesn't invite me, it feels unfair she's upset that I'm doing something without her. I'm sorry I just needed to get this out, even if it makes no sense in my telling of it. I just think I need to take the weekend away from these girls and I'll be more ready to deal with it.

 

[Ronda93]

Hi all. I am writing from my childhood bedroom. I got wi-fi going at the farm and my mother is surfing from her recliner. Now my dad thinks he needs a laptop. I'm staying here tonight and heading into St Louis tomorrow.

DGF has remained behind in KC. Murray is holding her own. She's still interested in cleaning out our cereal bowls and will eat hamburger. She continues to give the mail man what for and greets us at the door when we return home. She's stopped going up and down the steps every time we do. She waits a bit to see if we're coming back before making the effort.

DGF is very sad to miss the half marathon and I am very sad to be away from home. That said, I am excited and nervous about the race. My brother will be shepherding my fan club around downtown Sunday morning. After it's all done I'll take an ice bath at bro's house and drive back to KC. I have Monday off work.

Kat - it's not Cinderella Castle, but we do run through the brewery! I'm told we can smell the hops blocks before we get there.

I haven't thought of anything I've forgotten yet. I'm sure there will be some buying opportunities at the expo tomorrow.

My task for tomorrow, besides packet pickup, is to get DGF's mother on to digital cable. Recent changes by Charter mean one of her fav channels has moved to the digital tier. I'll be picking up the box and they say it can be activated over the phone. I'm spreading technology cheer everywhere I go. Now if I can make the channel number display bigger.

I'll see my niece and nephew tomorrow - staying at their house Saturday night. My brother is having trouble getting her gmail account to work in windows mail. I fix that and it's a tech trifecta!!!

I hope everyone is getting started on a great weekend. Cathie, good luck with the cake.

Ronda