When Did I Get Voted Off of Skinny Island & Why is This Fat Shadow Stalking Me?

[pipersmom]

Ok, so the ice cream social was a big success. I tracked it all and the total count was 670 calories!!! I had the fat free sorbet, but then added M&M's, gummi bears and then ate some good & plentys. We did go to the Y tonight and I upped the speed on the treadmill and was able to finish 2.09 miles in 35 minutes. Also, since I put away so much sugar I'm not really hungry. I may have some soup in a little bit just to get some veggies in, but maybe I'll just skip it and go watch the AI finale.

Right now I'm at 1238 calories (goal 1240 - 1670) Surprisingly still low on fat and protein but maxed out on carbs.

May 26 DONE

I think you did great with the ice cream social, especially with still staying in your calorie range..way to go!!

My tracking:

Breakfast - 1 mini croissant (100 cals) with 2 scrambled eggs, 1/2 tbsp of butter and 2.5 slices turkey bacon ( I bought Jennie O brand this time and it's only 20 cals a slice )

I've been wanting a croissant breakfast sandwich ever since we went to Mimi's Cafe this weekend. I didn't order it there, (1200 cals or something insane like that) but bought the things to make a mini version. I think the total for my breakfast was 300 cals or something close. I have it tracked.

Snack - banana with 1 tbsp of peanut butter

Dinner - 1/2 link of beef sausage, rendered and drained but I tracked it as full cals and fat
1 small sweet potato, cubed and oven roasted with 1 tbsp olive oil, 1 tbsp of brown sugar and 1/2 tsp of cayenne, salt and pepper YUM!
1 cup steamed broccoli

2 soft and chewy choc chip cookies

Wednesday, May 26 DONE

Night y'all!!

Okay, Aimee..gotta give on the mini croissants..did you find them at the grocery store or? I LOVE croissants, and would def buy some if I could find them!

I haven't had much time this week but finally got a chance to jump on the computer...now that's it's freakin 1 in the morning! I weighed in last Saturday and was down another 2lbs!! I'm now down a total of 38lbs!

This week has been hectic, DH is working one of his crappy schedule weeks where he gets out anywhere from 8-9pm and since we're down to one car and no babysitter this week (long stories all around that I won't bore you with) that has made getting to the gym extra difficult BUT I'm happy to say I've stayed on my routine!! I just do the treadmill at home and use my resistance bands to do my arm exercises, when I get to the gym I work out on the elliptical and use the machines and then save the treadmill for home. I've also been walking with DD a lot this week, I've doubled the length of our route and we do it 2 - 3 times a day. I walk and DD alternates between walking with me and having me push her in her little pink car. The only bad thing is that like tonight...I'm not getting done with work out, shower, laundry and etc until very late. Unfortunately next week is going to be like this too, yuck.

It was so nice today (90ish degrees....in May....in New York?!) Soooo we went to the beach and the whole family had an ice cream as we walked the pier I know, I know, what was I thinkin?! I loved the day with the fam but the ice cream SO wasn't worth the cals and fat! I guess a treat every now and then won't kill us though so I'm not gonna stress it. I'm gonna go on the theory that the ice cream (kiddy size chocolate soft serve btw) was totally taken care of with the LONG walk up and down the pier and boardwalk, right? RIGHT? lol

Great job staying with your routine..and I'm totally jealous, I'd love to live close to the beach!

Right now I'm also having kind of a hard time with exercise since I got hit in the leg with a softball Friday night. I kept the ball in front of me at least It hit me mid shin, gave me a nice skin tear and a HUGE bruise. I have a huge lump where it hit, I am swollen past my ankle and I am bruised from an inch above the hit(about 3" below the knee) to my heel to my toes!! And it hurts something wicked.

So that will make ball interesting tonight. I have Mariah's team practicing tonight from 6-7:30 and then I play at 8 tonight. Wish me luck!

May 26 DONE

Tricia..ouch! I can only imagine how much that hurts!! Good luck tonight!

Hey girlies,

I was having a great morning. I've been on track all week and I weighed in at 253.6 which means I'm down over 6 pounds since Monday!! Who hoo! What a great start!

I was on a high today, until my hubby called to tell me he had been in a car accident on the way to work. Say what??

He's fine, unhurt although he may feel stiff and sore tomorrow but I guess the car is in bad shape. The car in front of him stopped suddenly and he was able to stop in time but the lady behind him couldn't so she hit him and the car got sandwiched in between the other two cars.

He asked me to call work and let them know to cancel his class (he's a lecturer at Windsor University) and to tell me that they are having the car towed to the dealership but he was borrowing someone else's phone (I have our cell phone) so I don't know what's going on beyond that and I have no way to contact him.

Oh! He just walked through the door. The lady that hit him gave him a ride home. He's quite chipper for someone that was just in an accident. Although he DID get to take the day off of work, so...

On a happier note, I chatted with him this morning about my weight loss rewards and he told me not to pay for them out of my pocket money. We each take $120 a month for our personal spending money and we can use it for whatever we want. He says a reward that I pay for out of my spending money isn't really a reward, so I asked him what the budget for these rewards should be and he just shrugged. I guess it's up to me!!

I've decided to reward myself in 10 pound increments. Starting with 249. I'm going to be there fairly soon, I think. So, what should I get? Shoes? A new outfit? A pedicure? A new purse? Jewelry?

Better go, he wants to talk.

I'm glad your hub was okay, things like that are so scary! I love the reward idea..I need a hubby like that (I'm holding out for a sugar daddy! ) I love shoes and clothes and jewelry..I would never be able to decide until something caught my eye!

Do you have the Wii Fit Advance? I have tried doing some of their planned workouts and some of the yoga stances they want you to try are just not right for big people - just sayin'!!!
I love it though - love the boxing!

Yup, I don't like the planned workouts as much as just figuring them out myself though. I tried a few of the yoga ones, but I didn't figure breaking a limb from falling off the board would be a good thing! :lol: I really like the running ones, I hate to run, but something about the running in place doesn't seem as bad.

Hey guys, just a quick "drive by" life is so crazy trying to get my father's funeral plans made/told. His wife is being uncooperative & I have so much family calling me wanting to know info that I don't have to give. So frustrating. I just want all this to be over with.

I really haven't eaten much the last couple days & I tried to run 6 miles today & bonked terribly. Oh well I was outside in the beautiful sunshine with one of my best girlfriends so the company & weather more than made up for the crappy run.

I hope to really be able to have more time to jump back in there with comments & responses soon. But thank you so much for all your kind words and well wishes. And a big fat WELCOME to all the newbies.

My pic is in my siggie. That's about 5-10 lbs from what I look like right now. Of course I have my child strategically placed on my lap which is the biggest part of me. Have always been pear shaped. I wish we could pin-point what areas we could lose in.

My food stats for yesterday: still don't have much of an appetite
brekkie: none 3 cups of coffee
lunch: turkey sammie on arnold sandwich thin w/steamed veggies
supper: half cup of taco meat with tortilla chips & some home made salsa.

May 26 done

Bree, I'm so sorry you're having to deal with all that! Don't forget to take care of yourself.

Holy posts! Wow we are a talkative bunch over the last couple of days.

First off WELCOME to the new joiners. You will find a great and supportive group here.

I can relate to what everyone here is saying about unsupportive family. I have had the same thing with my Dad. Growing up he always harped on and on at me about my weight (both my parents are skinny as can be and work out at the gym regularily) and even told me that he was embarrassed to go out with me. He was doing it out of love and concern and thought he was helping me. I guess it was his form of tough love but all it really did was drive me back to food! I have realized that I am falling off the wagon recently and I need to get back on. I was so proud of the almost 20lbs I had lost and gainning +2.4 of it back has really made my see how easy it is to gain weight and that if I wasn't weighing in regularily how easy it would be to put on 10+ lbs in a year and not even realize it. I am going to start tracking my food now since I think I am tricking myself into thinking that I know how many calories etc I have consumed in a day when in reality I have no idea. As someone said before I am scared to think of the calories that I consumed before starting this.

Okay as much as I hate to so this, here is a picture of me (I hate having my picture taken. Why does my chin stick out so much? It is all I see when I look at the picture)...

This was taken end of April at Disney

I love your picture! You're very pretty. : Honestly, I don't think I could do this without tracking my food..lol..that may be obvious though considering I've tried "cutting back" before and it obviously did not work!

Sorry about your hubby's accident, but glad he's okay.

I think 10 lb increments are perfect! We were out to lunch yesterday and I was eyeing the Miche handbags and hubby said that could be my reward when I hit 20 lbs lost. I'm right at 10 right now depending on what time of day I weigh. lol For some reason I'm weighing less in the middle of the day than morning and evening. Now I really want to get to 20 quick!

You girls have me thinking I need to figure out what my reward schedule is going to be.

 

[pwmitch237]

Welcome!! It's great that you are working on this now while you are young.

Thanks!

Love that song. I need to add it to my workout playlist. And now it's in my head. Gee thanks. Your welcome! Another one of my favorite songs is "Walk on Water" by Britt Nicole
So happy that you are tackling this when you are young. I tried to tackle it young but did it in the wrong way entirely and then just gave up for basically all of my 20s!
aboard!
You're a brave soul for taking on all us women.
I'll try to help. It's all pretty steam of conciousness but most of us post our weight on Mondays by saying + or - our differences from our last Monday's weigh in. We send a pm to Dawn with our actual weight then she plugs it into a spreadsheet to get everyone's total loss and our groups total loss.

Some of us are working on tracking our foods on here (as well as WW or sparkpeople or whereever you track) We're working on 5 days out of 7 (minimal) to get a little tracking picture in our signature. Some of us do a food journal, some do point totals or cal totals or a combination of any or all of the above.

Neither are mandatory to be part of the thread. And you are welcome to do either/or or both.

Other than that, jump on it. Somedays the topics are pretty heavy, some days we laugh our butts off, but there's no rhyme or reason to our topics of convo.

HTH!

Thanks! I'll just do my weight. I'll be out of town next Monday though, so should I just start when I get back or just send it in right before I leave?

Welcome stayhomemom77 and pwmitch237!!!

Thanks!

I guess I should post a pic of myself....now to find one that I like...
Found one:

(NYE 2009)

 

[eliz991]

Oh my God I'm caught up!

Half of you are saying "who are you" and the other half are saying "oh darn she's back!" Just say you missed me and make me feel good!

We went to Vegas as you know...then when we came back I made it through half a day of work before coming down with some awful stomach virus. DH had to take me to the emergency room that night, they thought I had appendicitis. My heart rate was 155 when I got there, so I also had an EKG ~ I kept thinking, please tell me I am not having a heart attack, I'm only 40! But I was just dehydrated, and I didn't have appendicitis, so just really bad food poisoning I guess (not that I lost any weight from it).

Then when I finally got back to work my desk was piled so high I just haven't been able to catch up, but I finally did and here I am! I'm going to jump in on the food tracking too, I'll have to come back and edit at night or the next morning though (Dawn, is it kosher to finish in the am? I'm not usually on late at night).

Found a great new site to track too, it is called fat secret. What I like about it is that you can put it as an app on your phone (wish the bodybugg did that!) and what is even cooler is it has a feature where you can scan the barcode and it will figure out what food it is for you!

Okay this is getting long so let me put in a picture and I'll do food in the next one - of course that is me in my avatar "getting my drink on" as Dawn says. That is from July 2009. Here are a couple from Feb. 2010 at DW - OMG I am so big! (I am the brunette.)

 

[eliz991]

Okay here is today's food so far! (I will warn you people in advance - sometimes I eat a LOT, and on the weekends I usually drink. And I can drink a lot. So please don't yell at me, I am just aiming for honest tracking and I promise I do not have a drinking problem!)

Oh also Gelly - I can't remember if I told you this but I have to take days off from the bugg in the summer (half the time I have short sleeves or tank tops and can't/won't wear it anyway) because it is so hot here. I emailed them and they told me I had a nickel allergy. I don't, but if I wear it too long in the heat it kind of burns my skin. Taking it off when I sleep and changing arms seems to help. I've even worn it on my leg before when my top wouldn't hide it (on my calf).

Breakfast: 1 scrambled egg, 1 package grits, 1.2 oz pepperjack cheese = 341 calories

Snack: 1 bite of chocolate chip cookie = 34 calories

Lunch: (I'm proud of this, we had a continuing ed thing with lunch brought in and I usually pig out!): 1 sandwich thin, 3 oz turkey, mustard, 1 C greek salad, 7 pita chips, 3 Tbs hummus = 439 calories

814 so far...even a good lunch adds up and I shouldn't have had cheese at breakfast! I know I will be over today because we are going to karaoke tonight which means beer. I know I will have

snack: Oikos fat free yogurt with honey = 120 calories

but I don't know what dinner will be. It may be mexican food, but my throat kind of hurts so maybe not.

Edit: it was ~

dinner: 2 margaritas, chips and salsa, about 3 nachos (wasn't that hungry after all) and 1/4 of one of DH's brisket tacos = 886 calories (this may be high as I went ahead and counted a whole order of nachos even though I only ate 3 - figured that would cover the chips and taco).

at karaoke: 6 beers = 626 calories (I know this is high, I think miller lite is 95 calories a bottle, but whatever)

Total for day ~ 2446, 946 over limit. Whoops! Well, I knew I would be over but I tracked it anyway. I'm hoping to do that all weekend so even though I will be off-track, I'll know what I'm doing, if that makes sense.

MAY 27 DONE!

 

[tlenzendorf]

Just wondering if we're all allowed to post challenges and offer a signature "reward"? I have one that I think is a good one. We have a fitness program at work and its this week's challenge.

 

[2_Eagle_Mom]

Thank you so much! That is so nice of you to say. I logged out and back in and it's working now.

We love the Royals. They're not that great, but we love to go to games.

Hugs to everyone having issues with unsupportive families. As soon as I told my mil I was doing WW, she started trying to sabotage me. Same day I told her she went and bought pie and ice cream and then got mad when I wouldn't eat it.

Ok, one thing I am learning is what kind of MIL I DONT want to be...She sounds like my mother - always offering food that is way to high in fat/calories. I'm not sure if they just don't want us to do well so they can feel better about themselves or they are just trying to make us feel weaker then themselves?

Oh Gelly!! Your story just made me want to cry!! Your family is terrifying!! I think I'd have trouble keeping my fork out of my dad's eyeball at all family gatherings if he asked my hubby that question. (Eyeball, crotch....whatever!!) Agreed, I'm normally quiet, but DANG that would have brought out a WTH response from me

My mom drives me crazy but she does it out of love. She thinks she's advising and helping. My dad never says a word. He got the lap band a year ago Christmas and has lost like 130 pounds or so since then. He weighs less than me now (yikes!!) but he has never said anything negative to me or about me...EVER!! I guess Mom's jobs are to drive their kids crazy, but at least you Dad has your back

for gelly for all she has suffered. Thank heavens we have one another here on the WISH boards.

What's your relationship like with your sister now? That was such a catty thing to say to you, poor hurtin' teenage Gelly! Tell me you at least put Nair in her shampoo bottle or something for that one!! I wish I would have thought about that one for my sister when we were growing up.

When I was 13, I could pass for 18 and I attracted a lot of unwanted attention. A LOT of unwanted attention. I'm married and mature enough to handle it now though, so I say BRING IT ON PERVERTS!! Ooooh, I think I've just found my new slogan.

Okay everyone, I have an announcement!! I've decide that part of our journey should include some form of martial arts...it'll be a work out during the weight loss process and then our form of protection from every sleaze bucket lurking on Skinny Island for once we get there.

"Hiyay!! Take that, you low-life." <Insert bone crunching sound here>


Can I get a what what for crunching sleaze bucket bones?? (And let's pretend that we wouldn't be thrilled to think that we'll be sexy enough to attract the sleaze buckets in the first place.)Ok, I'm feeling old please explain the "can I get a what what"? I assume its like "can I get an "oh yeah" type of thing, but I've just never heard that expression before. But I AM all for you taking a martial arts course - because you will need to beat them off with a stick

First of all..thank you ALL for the great suggestions ie..protein/fat/calorie snacks! I'd never even thought of some of them, which I'll admit made me feel a lil bit like a dope! :lol:

gellybean and stayathomemom (I think I'm going to have to print out a cheat sheet for the names!) I've already printed one out and I still get people mixed up. This weekend I'm going to work on a directory with pictures so I can memorize people/stats/names etc.-My holiday plan...We'll prob grill out at my Mom's for the holiday, and I'll just take my own diet friendly hot dog/sausage/steak with me. I'll also eat around it that day..will lay low on the carbs, cause she makes potato salad to DIE for! Do the best I can, and then let it go. Life is too short to stress over an off-diet day, just get back on the wagon the next day. DD has Cystic Fibrosis, and one thing it's taught me is not to sweat the small stuff.
And last but not least...here I am in all my "big fat family butt" glory! I'm on the right, Piper in the middle, my Mom on the left, this was taken in March during Piper's Wish Trip!

I'm going to jump over and read your trip report, I was reading someone else's (can't think of her name) and you met them during your trip. I've been meaning to read all about your trip. Piper is a cutie from the picture you posted.

Were you happy with the American Idol winner?I was VERY happy with the results. Not that the runner up wasn't a great singer, just not my type of music.

Breakfast - 1 mini croissant (100 cals) with 2 scrambled eggs, 1/2 tbsp of butter and 2.5 slices turkey bacon ( I bought Jennie O brand this time and it's only 20 cals a slice )So how does the Turkey bacon taste? Is it worth it? and I agree, we need to know where you got 100cal croissants

Welcome stayhomemom77 and pwmitch237!!!

Dawn I emailed you around the beginning of the month with my stats to get started on the skinny island list, I'm assuming that e-mail didn't go through because I'm not seeing my name on the list so I'll re-send the e-mail! Gotta just LOVE road runner mail and it's bootleged-ness sometimes Did you PM her or email? She originally said either, but PM works best for her.

I haven't had much time this week but finally got a chance to jump on the computer...now that's it's freakin 1 in the morning! I weighed in last Saturday and was down another 2lbs!! I'm now down a total of 38lbs! Congrats on the loss!!!

It was so nice today (90ish degrees....in May....in New York?!) Soooo we went to the beach and the whole family had an ice cream as we walked the pier I know, I know, what was I thinkin?! I loved the day with the fam but the ice cream SO wasn't worth the cals and fat! I guess a treat every now and then won't kill us though so I'm not gonna stress it. I'm gonna go on the theory that the ice cream (kiddy size chocolate soft serve btw) was totally taken care of with the LONG walk up and down the pier and boardwalk, right? RIGHT? lol Ok, how come you all are having fantastic weather? I'm in CA and our weather has been crappy all week long (today its cold and rainy - for end of May that is unbelievable) Hopefully this weekend will clear up and we can get outside.

I have not been weighing or tracking myself as of late. Had to focus on helping my mom after her hip replacement surgery....she is recovering quite well!
Yes, I do water aerobics and the teachers kicks our butts on a weekly basis!
What are swim gloves?

I don't mind posting a picture - there are pictures of me all over my trip report!@

My Mom just had her hip replaced last July so I feel you there. Is she home from rehab? I hope she is feeling better soon.

Right now I'm also having kind of a hard time with exercise since I got hit in the leg with a softball Friday night. I kept the ball in front of me at least It hit me mid shin, gave me a nice skin tear and a HUGE bruise. I have a huge lump where it hit, I am swollen past my ankle and I am bruised from an inch above the hit(about 3" below the knee) to my heel to my toes!! And it hurts something wicked.

So that will make ball interesting tonight. I have Mariah's team practicing tonight from 6-7:30 and then I play at 8 tonight. Wish me luck!

May 26 DONE

Ohhh pictures of bruised legs, cool!!! No really, I'm so sorry you got hurt. That is why I quit playing softball oh so many years ago. I was forever getting beaned by the ball. That plus putting on 50lbs made it difficult to run the bases.

Hey girlies,

I was having a great morning. I've been on track all week and I weighed in at 253.6 which means I'm down over 6 pounds since Monday!! Who hoo! What a great start! Woo Hoo!!!

I was on a high today, until my hubby called to tell me he had been in a car accident on the way to work. Say what??

I'm so glad your hubby wasn't hurt in the accident. Hopefully the woman that hit him has good insurance and it will take care of all the repair costs.

Ok, here is me on my last trip - yup, solo trip as a birthday present to myself

One of my fav pictures of myself (despite the extra chins) from my solo trip in 2007 - Getting on Soarin' during out FutureWorld Tour!

WOW a solo trip! I'll have to go and read your TR to hear all about it. My chin is one of the things that I really hate about me when I take a picture. Although looking back on pictures pre-weight loss I do see it going down. Unfortunately it still hangs there (its just not a puffed out as it used to be).

Hey guys, just a quick "drive by" life is so crazy trying to get my father's funeral plans made/told. His wife is being uncooperative & I have so much family calling me wanting to know info that I don't have to give. So frustrating. I just want all this to be over with.

I really haven't eaten much the last couple days & I tried to run 6 miles today & bonked terribly. Oh well I was outside in the beautiful sunshine with one of my best girlfriends so the company & weather more than made up for the crappy run.

I know you don't want to eat, but make sure you do get some energy into you. You don't want to get sick on top of everything else.

Okay as much as I hate to so this, here is a picture of me (I hate having my picture taken. Why does my chin stick out so much? It is all I see when I look at the picture)...

This was taken end of April at Disney

Like I said above I totally get the chin thing. If you hadn't have mentioned it I wouldn't have thought about it - its a perception thing.

Almost forgot to ask! What do you all eat when you go to the movies? I know there really isn't anything great, but I MUST have something or I will over indulge after the movie starts... Its a total weakness...

For what they charge to get into the movies these days (ok, that totally sounded like an old woman) I have no issue with bringing in my 100 cal microwave popcorn. If they provided a healthy option and not that fat ladden, artery clogging stuff then I might buy it there, but wholy cow I can't afford to blow all my calories on popcorn. I also bring in a bottle for water (just like on the airplane - I have a steel bottle that I bring in empty and then fill from the water fountain) its the loopholes - I'm not brining in a bottle of water, but I'm not paying $4 for one either. Oh, and I sometimes have some red licorice, but that can be dangerous since I can put away a whole box before the middle of the movie).

I wanted to put up my "Hot Mama" pic...just for fun!

The skirt was my first sewing project ever!!

Looks like you did a great job on the skirt!!

Wow, we got some lovely ladies in this group! I'm so honored to be on the same as you!

This is me in my happy place last year I'm planning to go again later this year so I can take another pic at the same spot and hopefully it'll look like one of those "before and after" photos.

All these pictures of Disney are making me want to go NOW!!

Thanks!
I guess I should post a pic of myself....now to find one that I like...
Found one: (NYE 2009)

Very nice picture!

Oh my God I'm caught up!

Half of you are saying "who are you" and the other half are saying "oh darn she's back!" Just say you missed me and make me feel good! We MISSED YOU!!! no, really I'm not just saying that.

We went to Vegas as you know...then when we came back I made it through half a day of work before coming down with some awful stomach virus. DH had to take me to the emergency room that night, they thought I had appendicitis. My heart rate was 155 when I got there, so I also had an EKG ~ I kept thinking, please tell me I am not having a heart attack, I'm only 40! But I was just dehydrated, and I didn't have appendicitis, so just really bad food poisoning I guess (not that I lost any weight from it). How scary - glad to hear it wasn't anything worse.

Then when I finally got back to work my desk was piled so high I just haven't been able to catch up, but I finally did and here I am! I'm going to jump in on the food tracking too, I'll have to come back and edit at night or the next morning though (Dawn, is it kosher to finish in the am? I'm not usually on late at night).

Found a great new site to track too, it is called fat secret. What I like about it is that you can put it as an app on your phone (wish the bodybugg did that!) and what is even cooler is it has a feature where you can scan the barcode and it will figure out what food it is for you! I'm going to look that one up when I get home, that sounds cool, although I don't know if my iPod Touch has a scanner?

Okay this is getting long so let me put in a picture and I'll do food in the next one - of course that is me in my avatar "getting my drink on" as Dawn says. That is from July 2009. Here are a couple from Feb. 2010 at DW - OMG I am so big! (I am the brunette.)

You two look like you were having a BLAST!

WOW that took me my whole lunch time to read and respond. I'll come back tonight and give a recap of today.

 

[officereg]

Wow…. So I have been looking for a picture for a few days. I’ve come to realize that I am not in many pictures. I don’t know why this bothers me now. I think that when my time comes my family will not have any pictures of me to look at and spark memories. The few pictures I have I am way behind everyone and all you can see is my face. Regardless if I ever lose another pound or not I vow to be in more pictures so my family will have pictures of me!

I’ve learned that we are our own worse critics. I am looking at everyone’s pictures and they say things like “my pointy chin” or “big butt” and honestly I look at the pictures and think, “wow, she is pretty”

Anyway I will scan some more for a picture. If I have no luck I will take one….ewwww

 

[eliz991]

2 Eagle Mom - does it have a camera? It just takes a picture of the barcode with the camera really. It's making me much more honest because I always have my phone even if I'm not by the computer!

Officereg - even though I dumped on my own picture, I agree with you - I didn't see anything bad in anyone else's picture and thought everyone looked really pretty and happy! Okay, lesson learned, let's not put ourselves down before someone else has a chance to! I bet we all do it lots of ways: "I like your top..." "Oh this old thing? I've had it forever....." "Wow you look really nice today..." "Thanks but my hair is so frizzy, this humidity is terrible...."

 

[Dizneydawn]

I think we have just surpassed Harry Potter in pages!

I have read all - went to quote and frankly - don't have the 7 hours I would need to respond to everyone. Who would have thought we would be turning out almost 3 pages in less than 24 hours!!!

I was outside for the garage sale do no checking in all day!

Anyway a few thoughts -

#1 Patrick - you are smart to get your health in control now! I am sure your parents are very proud of you. This thread has a ton of estrogen running through it - I told Dan (my fiance) he needs to get here more often so you have someone to help you tread our waters!!!

Yes - you can send me your weight this weekend or before Monday - no problem.

Eliz - you can always post your food within ta reasonable time. Just make sure to type in Green "May 27th DONE" when you get it.

#2 Who knew our Mulan brought to the table some Asian decadence? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller...Bueller? (I so did but you look so stinkin cute and totally like Mulan. If I had to pick a Disney character I looked like it would be Captain Smede. Not so sexy.

#3 StayHomeMom77.2WKRP in Cincinnati...Why did you post a jumbotron picture of Jesus and call him a "hot mamma?

Everyone else - I am on pain meds again for my stupid Kidney infection.



If Mulan is actually from Sweden and just looked tan - please explain it to her.

Everyone else - I will have a chance to post week 2 of the tracking challenge tom plus get that pic inventory uploaded to the intro page. Each of you are beautiful and you should believe that about yourself!!!!! I am dead serious when I say that.

 

[gellybean]

Welcome stayhomemom77 and pwmitch237!!!

Dawn I emailed you around the beginning of the month with my stats to get started on the skinny island list, I'm assuming that e-mail didn't go through because I'm not seeing my name on the list so I'll re-send the e-mail! Gotta just LOVE road runner mail and it's bootleged-ness sometimes



I haven't had much time this week but finally got a chance to jump on the computer...now that's it's freakin 1 in the morning! I weighed in last Saturday and was down another 2lbs!! I'm now down a total of 38lbs!

This week has been hectic, DH is working one of his crappy schedule weeks where he gets out anywhere from 8-9pm and since we're down to one car and no babysitter this week (long stories all around that I won't bore you with) that has made getting to the gym extra difficult BUT I'm happy to say I've stayed on my routine!! I just do the treadmill at home and use my resistance bands to do my arm exercises, when I get to the gym I work out on the elliptical and use the machines and then save the treadmill for home. I've also been walking with DD a lot this week, I've doubled the length of our route and we do it 2 - 3 times a day. I walk and DD alternates between walking with me and having me push her in her little pink car. The only bad thing is that like tonight...I'm not getting done with work out, shower, laundry and etc until very late. Unfortunately next week is going to be like this too, yuck.

We have a couple of nights like this a week, when DH doesn't get home til 9 or later. It's tough. Thankfully our gym has a kid's room but it's still hard to get up there and get everything else taken care of.
Hang in there!

It was so nice today (90ish degrees....in May....in New York?!) Soooo we went to the beach and the whole family had an ice cream as we walked the pier I know, I know, what was I thinkin?! I loved the day with the fam but the ice cream SO wasn't worth the cals and fat! I guess a treat every now and then won't kill us though so I'm not gonna stress it. I'm gonna go on the theory that the ice cream (kiddy size chocolate soft serve btw) was totally taken care of with the LONG walk up and down the pier and boardwalk, right? RIGHT? lol

Sounds like a good memory though! and I'm sure that you burned off a lot of what you ate walking around!


gellybean: I'm so sorry for the un-supportive family, especially what your father said to your DH, that's ridiculous Family truly has the ability to hurt us more than anyone in the world.

thanks. and so true. Family knows just what buttons to push don't they?

Octoberbeauty & gelly looks like we both have 2 year olds! My DD turned 2 last September so she's turning 3 soon! They grow up so fast Two has been....interesting, that's all I'm gonna say lol

Two is very interesting!! and they do grow up soooooooo fast. I've been sorting photos today to get some printed (got a shutterfly coupon) and wow. It feels like just yesterday and it's been a year since I had any pictures printed. I thought they were so 'grown' last year and then when you look back at them a year later, they were just babies. Even DS7 (then 6) has changed so much in a year!

Hey girlies,

I was having a great morning. I've been on track all week and I weighed in at 253.6 which means I'm down over 6 pounds since Monday!! Who hoo! What a great start!

FA BU LOUS START!!!

I was on a high today, until my hubby called to tell me he had been in a car accident on the way to work. Say what??

He's fine, unhurt although he may feel stiff and sore tomorrow but I guess the car is in bad shape. The car in front of him stopped suddenly and he was able to stop in time but the lady behind him couldn't so she hit him and the car got sandwiched in between the other two cars.

He asked me to call work and let them know to cancel his class (he's a lecturer at Windsor University) and to tell me that they are having the car towed to the dealership but he was borrowing someone else's phone (I have our cell phone) so I don't know what's going on beyond that and I have no way to contact him.

Oh! He just walked through the door. The lady that hit him gave him a ride home. He's quite chipper for someone that was just in an accident. Although he DID get to take the day off of work, so...

On a happier note, I chatted with him this morning about my weight loss rewards and he told me not to pay for them out of my pocket money. We each take $120 a month for our personal spending money and we can use it for whatever we want. He says a reward that I pay for out of my spending money isn't really a reward, so I asked him what the budget for these rewards should be and he just shrugged. I guess it's up to me!!

That's awesome!!!!

I've decided to reward myself in 10 pound increments. Starting with 249. I'm going to be there fairly soon, I think. So, what should I get? Shoes? A new outfit? A pedicure? A new purse? Jewelry?

Better go, he wants to talk.

Glad your DH is ok!! One night I had just hung up with hubby (he had called to tell me he was on his way home) and I was trying to change a diaper and he called back again after we'd just agreed I'd see him when he got home so I had to run and get the phone after halfway doing the diaper fastening etc . After seeing caller id, I answered by saying... Geeesh HUBBY you do realize that I do have things I need to be doing around here other than talking to you right?

And I here... sorry baby but I'm kinda sitting in the middle of the road after spinning out on wet pavement and I need you to come pick me up.

Yeah. I felt like a <insert a myriad of dirty words here>. I just thank God it was him calling and not a police officer.

He had spun out and hit the median, stopping inches from going into oncoming traffic and thankfully avoiding any cars on his side as he spun.

Hey guys, just a quick "drive by" life is so crazy trying to get my father's funeral plans made/told. His wife is being uncooperative & I have so much family calling me wanting to know info that I don't have to give. So frustrating. I just want all this to be over with.



I'm sorry his wife is being a um yeah. Hang in there. This too shall pass.

I really haven't eaten much the last couple days & I tried to run 6 miles today & bonked terribly. Oh well I was outside in the beautiful sunshine with one of my best girlfriends so the company & weather more than made up for the crappy run.

I hope to really be able to have more time to jump back in there with comments & responses soon. But thank you so much for all your kind words and well wishes. And a big fat WELCOME to all the newbies.

My pic is in my siggie. That's about 5-10 lbs from what I look like right now. Of course I have my child strategically placed on my lap which is the biggest part of me. Have always been pear shaped. I wish we could pin-point what areas we could lose in.

I wish I could pin point certain areas too!!! UGH!I wouldn't mind some things if I could get rid of others *pointing to my double chin*

My food stats for yesterday: still don't have much of an appetite
brekkie: none 3 cups of coffee
lunch: turkey sammie on arnold sandwich thin w/steamed veggies
supper: half cup of taco meat with tortilla chips & some home made salsa.

May 26 done

Holy posts! Wow we are a talkative bunch over the last couple of days.

First off WELCOME to the new joiners. You will find a great and supportive group here.

I can relate to what everyone here is saying about unsupportive family. I have had the same thing with my Dad. Growing up he always harped on and on at me about my weight (both my parents are skinny as can be and work out at the gym regularily) and even told me that he was embarrassed to go out with me.



He was doing it out of love and concern and thought he was helping me.
I guess it was his form of tough love but all it really did was drive me back to food!

Exactly! I had to really hit a point that I realized I needed to lose weight for me and not keep it on just to spite my father, to prove to him that having an overweight daughter wasn't the end of the world.

I have realized that I am falling off the wagon recently and I need to get back on. I was so proud of the almost 20lbs I had lost and gainning +2.4 of it back has really made my see how easy it is to gain weight and that if I wasn't weighing in regularily how easy it would be to put on 10+ lbs in a year and not even realize it.

Its so easy to do isn't it???

Almost forgot to ask! What do you all eat when you go to the movies? I know there really isn't anything great, but I MUST have something or I will over indulge after the movie starts... Its a total weakness...

We're seeing Sex and the City 2 tomorrow night Like Amy said on Facebook, I wish you guys lived closer so we could have done a group outing(for those that loooove SatC anyhow...)

I sooooooooooo want to see SATC2 this weekend but I have a date with my bff to watch it next weekend instead. If any of you see it, TRICIA, you'll have to let me know what you think. I'm a huge fan. Like it's embarassing really.

I've THANKFULLY never been a movie food junky. Its one of the few food situation that don't tempt me. Who knew.

Sorry about your hubby's accident, but glad he's okay.

I think 10 lb increments are perfect! We were out to lunch yesterday and I was eyeing the Miche handbags and hubby said that could be my reward when I hit 20 lbs lost. I'm right at 10 right now depending on what time of day I weigh. lol For some reason I'm weighing less in the middle of the day than morning and evening. Now I really want to get to 20 quick!

Come on Sherry's 20 lb mark! I really need to set up some goals for me!! And a weight chart or something to post on the fridge. Somedays I'm at my lightest in the middle of the day too. No clue what that's about.

I wanted to put up my "Hot Mama" pic...just for fun!

The skirt was my first sewing project ever!!

Ok is it just me or is Jesus glaring at you? I don't think he likes your sexy mama look.

And if that's not Jesus but your scary looking um I mean interesting looking uncle than I'm really enjoying this foot in my mouth that I just inserted.

Wow, we got some lovely ladies in this group! I'm so honored to be on the same boat as you!

This is me in my happy place last year I'm planning to go again later this year so I can take another pic at the same spot and hopefully it'll look like one of those "before and after" photos.

LOVE the idea of before and after shots!!!! I'm gonna have to aim for that for my December trip. My heaviest pic was taken in March of 07 but I have a ton of pics from a Disney trip in April 07 so I know I could find plenty of Before and After pic spots! LOVE IT! I think we should all try to do that for any upcoming Disney trips since this is a DISNEY thread. Even if we aren't at goal per se it'd be nice to see the progression!

Okay, Aimee..gotta give on the mini croissants..did you find them at the grocery store or? I LOVE croissants, and would def buy some if I could find them!

Um.... y'all are gonna hate me because I found them at my local grocery store that's a Texas chain only. It's called HEB and they had them in the bakery and they are 200 cals and 7 g of fat for 2. They are about the size of a typical scone size and with the eggs and bacon more than satisfied me for hours.

I'll ship em to y'all if you think they'd ship ok!



You girls have me thinking I need to figure out what my reward schedule is going to be.

Ditto!! And I think we should all post our reward schedule and a pic or story about us enjoying our rewards ** and lets keep it PG! **

Oh my God I'm caught up!

Half of you are saying "who are you" and the other half are saying "oh darn she's back!" Just say you missed me and make me feel good!

back.

We MISSED you.


They made me say it.




Kidding. Seriously glad you're back!

Hope you had fun in Vegas, sorry for the sickies and the over worked-ness. Ick.

Found a great new site to track too, it is called fat secret. What I like about it is that you can put it as an app on your phone (wish the bodybugg did that!) and what is even cooler is it has a feature where you can scan the barcode and it will figure out what food it is for you!

Bodybugg has a new mobile app for Droid I know. or at least a mobile site. Still not a huge fan of their tracking website. I feel like I'm tracking twice most of the time, once to look up cals, once to transfer into bodybugg. BUT I love seeing my deficit and all the charts and graphs etc after a few weeks of data so I'm not complaining!

Okay here is today's food so far! (I will warn you people in advance - sometimes I eat a LOT, and on the weekends I usually drink. And I can drink a lot. So please don't yell at me, I am just aiming for honest tracking and I promise I do not have a drinking problem!)

Honest is the best, no judgement here!!!

Oh also Gelly - I can't remember if I told you this but I have to take days off from the bugg in the summer (half the time I have short sleeves or tank tops and can't/won't wear it anyway) because it is so hot here. I emailed them and they told me I had a nickel allergy. I don't, but if I wear it too long in the heat it kind of burns my skin. Taking it off when I sleep and changing arms seems to help. I've even worn it on my leg before when my top wouldn't hide it (on my calf).

Good to know! Does it work as accurately on your calf? I haven't had any problems yet but wondered as it gets hotter if it'll get irritating. Since I don't work, I don't care if it shows with short sleeves! Sorry you have to be concious of yours! Totally understand though. I wouldn't want co-workers asking about it, either.

I'm going to jump over and read your trip report, I was reading someone else's (can't think of her name) and you met them during your trip. I've been meaning to read all about your trip. Piper is a cutie from the picture you posted.

Well.... when you get time, read mine too!

SHAMLESS PLUG






Like I said above I totally get the chin thing. If you hadn't have mentioned it I wouldn't have thought about it - its a perception thing.

Totally agree. We're all our worst critics me thinks.

Wow…. So I have been looking for a picture for a few days. I’ve come to realize that I am not in many pictures. I don’t know why this bothers me now. I think that when my time comes my family will not have any pictures of me to look at and spark memories. The few pictures I have I am way behind everyone and all you can see is my face. Regardless if I ever lose another pound or not I vow to be in more pictures so my family will have pictures of me!

I came to the same realization a few years ago. I told DH when we had DS2 that he better not try to duck out of pictures, cus I promise we'll both look better now than we will in 40 years.

I’ve learned that we are our own worse critics. I am looking at everyone’s pictures and they say things like “my pointy chin” or “big butt” and honestly I look at the pictures and think, “wow, she is pretty”

So true!!!!

2 Eagle Mom - does it have a camera? It just takes a picture of the barcode with the camera really. It's making me much more honest because I always have my phone even if I'm not by the computer!

I'm gonna have to see if I can find that app. Hmmm.
Officereg - even though I dumped on my own picture, I agree with you - I didn't see anything bad in anyone else's picture and thought everyone looked really pretty and happy! Okay, lesson learned, let's not put ourselves down before someone else has a chance to! I bet we all do it lots of ways: "I like your top..." "Oh this old thing? I've had it forever....." "Wow you look really nice today..." "Thanks but my hair is so frizzy, this humidity is terrible...."

AGREED!



Tracking for the day:

GULP




Breakfast: 1 packet instant oatmeal with 2 tbsp of sugar

Snack/Lunch:
1 serving ruffles potato chips
1 tbsp love dip
1/2 a banana
2 soft and chewy cookies

Dinner:

FOUR flour tortillas and FOUR slices of cheese



I was hungry and they were fresh and tasted ridiculously good.

I'm going to make the kids hamburger helper, something I don't really like and won't tempt me and I'll have a piece of fruit for a snack later and then I'll be done for the day.



Watched Up with DS7. I'd never seen it. Sat here and . Makes me want to get healthy that much more so I can live a long life with hubby and live out our adventures before one of us passes.


I was very happy about American Idol too. Runner up is amazing but the winner is more my style of music.

Gonna watch SYTYCD later when I can ff through the commercials.

Catch y'all later!!!

Edited:

Snack: 2 servings ruffles potato chips and 1 serving of Vanilla wafers!


I wish I could figure out why somedays it's so easy to stay in control of my portions and selections and not binge and other days I can't quit shoveling it in!!

ARGH!

Thursday May 27 DONE

 

[Mndisneygirl]

Wow…. So I have been looking for a picture for a few days. I’ve come to realize that I am not in many pictures. I don’t know why this bothers me now. I think that when my time comes my family will not have any pictures of me to look at and spark memories. The few pictures I have I am way behind everyone and all you can see is my face. Regardless if I ever lose another pound or not I vow to be in more pictures so my family will have pictures of me!

I’ve learned that we are our own worse critics. I am looking at everyone’s pictures and they say things like “my pointy chin” or “big butt” and honestly I look at the pictures and think, “wow, she is pretty”

Anyway I will scan some more for a picture. If I have no luck I will take one….ewwww

You know, I recently thought about this too. That's why we have done so many more photopass pics. Your kids know you as "mom". They don't think my mom is fat. That's just what you look like. They will want to have family pictures someday, and they're going to remember you that way. You don't want them wondering, why wasn't mom with us or in any pictures? We only look this way for now. When we all get to skinny island, we'll just take MORE pictures!!
I like that many of us are using pictures from WDW!!
Patrick - that is a cool picture of you.

Dawn - hope these meds kick in soon!

I went to the grocery store today and bought so much healthy stuff!! Lots of fruits! I got my watermelon and boy was it good!!! We had it with our dinner - hamburgers, but I grilled a portobello mushroom with lowfat pepperjack cheese on it. I did eat a yucky white bun. Then we had corn on the cob. I only had one, even though there was an extra one that DH said "would go to waste b/c it's no good leftover". I refused to eat it. It's still sitting on the counter!

 

[2_Eagle_Mom]

Wow…. So I have been looking for a picture for a few days. I’ve come to realize that I am not in many pictures. I don’t know why this bothers me now. I think that when my time comes my family will not have any pictures of me to look at and spark memories. The few pictures I have I am way behind everyone and all you can see is my face. Regardless if I ever lose another pound or not I vow to be in more pictures so my family will have pictures of me!

I’ve learned that we are our own worse critics. I am looking at everyone’s pictures and they say things like “my pointy chin” or “big butt” and honestly I look at the pictures and think, “wow, she is pretty”

Anyway I will scan some more for a picture. If I have no luck I will take one….ewwww

I totally agreed. I'm forever putting myself down.

2 Eagle Mom - does it have a camera? It just takes a picture of the barcode with the camera really. It's making me much more honest because I always have my phone even if I'm not by the computer! It's not a iPod phone, so no camera

Officereg - even though I dumped on my own picture, I agree with you - I didn't see anything bad in anyone else's picture and thought everyone looked really pretty and happy! Okay, lesson learned, let's not put ourselves down before someone else has a chance to! I bet we all do it lots of ways: "I like your top..." "Oh this old thing? I've had it forever....." "Wow you look really nice today..." "Thanks but my hair is so frizzy, this humidity is terrible...."

A while back I mentioned how I have a bad self image, I just don't see the change in me. I just see the amount of weight I have to lose, well the talk about "before" and "after" pictures talk started me thinking. I started to search for some pictures of me before I started losing weight. I too had to search long and hard for a picture that didn't have me hiding behind something or someone. I finally found it and I shocked myself. I'm going to post it right over my scale in the bathroom so I see it every morning as a reminder to never go back.

Glad your DH is ok!! One night I had just hung up with hubby (he had called to tell me he was on his way home) and I was trying to change a diaper and he called back again after we'd just agreed I'd see him when he got home so I had to run and get the phone after halfway doing the diaper fastening etc . After seeing caller id, I answered by saying... Geeesh HUBBY you do realize that I do have things I need to be doing around here other than talking to you right?

And I here... sorry baby but I'm kinda sitting in the middle of the road after spinning out on wet pavement and I need you to come pick me up.

Yeah. I felt like a <insert a myriad of dirty words here>. I just thank God it was him calling and not a police officer.

He had spun out and hit the median, stopping inches from going into oncoming traffic and thankfully avoiding any cars on his side as he spun. Thank goodness he was able to control the car well enough to not hit anyone else.

Ok is it just me or is Jesus glaring at you? I don't think he likes your sexy mama look.

And if that's not Jesus but your scary looking um I mean interesting looking uncle than I'm really enjoying this foot in my mouth that I just inserted.

Ok, I thought that as well!


LOVE the idea of before and after shots!!!! I'm gonna have to aim for that for my December trip. My heaviest pic was taken in March of 07 but I have a ton of pics from a Disney trip in April 07 so I know I could find plenty of Before and After pic spots! LOVE IT! I think we should all try to do that for any upcoming Disney trips since this is a DISNEY thread. Even if we aren't at goal per se it'd be nice to see the progression! I've got the before all picked out. Now I just got to work on the "after" photo

Ditto!! And I think we should all post our reward schedule and a pic or story about us enjoying our rewards ** and lets keep it PG! ** Besides getting the palm tree I think I'm going to get a manicure for my 5lb mark.10lbs pedicure, 20lbs massage? Can you tell I like the spa services?

Watched Up with DS7. I'd never seen it. Sat here and . Makes me want to get healthy that much more so I can live a long life with hubby and live out our adventures before one of us passes. I was SO not expecting how sad the movie was, but I agree, it just makes me want to live life to the fullest no matter what age you are.

Gonna watch SYTYCD later when I can ff through the commercials. I don't watch SYTYCD, but I can't live without my DVR, made AI much easier to watch without having to wait for the commercials OR I get too impatient and cruise the channels and then miss the show that I was originally watching

Catch y'all later!!!

Today went pretty well

Breakfast - Low Fat Peanut Butter, Banana and Sandwich Thin

Lunch - chicken thigh, roasted potatoes & carrots, Fiber One bar

Snack - String cheese, cherries

Dinner - Chicken thigh, Brown rice

Dessert - SF Vanilla ice cream with SF chocolate syrup

MAY 27 DONE

 

[CrabbyYetLovable]

Man this is an active thread! Good for us for hanging together!!

Not a weird question at all. I was really surprised how quickly the close started to feel lose (maybe it was because they were so friggin tight before). I'd say go out and buy two pairs of pants that you can rotate in the size that fits. Shop the sales or discount stores. The problem that I had was I one size was too big, but the next size down was tight. But girl if you can pull your pants down without unbuttoning them - you need some new pants. Just don't blow the budget on them. Maybe we could start a clothes swap? I just donated a bunch of stuff, but heck I'd rather have someone here that can use them. I know that I have a couple of GAP lightweight sweater shirts (short sleeve) in XXL that are almost new that don't work for me anymore.

Thanks for the info. I'm thinking that the next size down might be too small still. I'm hoping to go shopping this weekend. The part I bolded made me laugh!

OK, but WHEN did they all die? Did they die during the atomic bomb explosion (when the whole flash-sideways thing started)? Or did they die in the plane crash? Because if they died in the crash their entire time on the island was purgatory. But that was when they met each other and many of the relationships formed.

I'm really over-thinking this. We watched it Monday night and it stuck with me all day yesterday. I was OK until Sawyer and Juliet reunited, then I pretty much lost it.


No, you're not crazy. And I know just how you feel. I was going to hold off on buying new clothes until I had dropped some more weight. But then one day I caught a glimps of myself in the mirror and realized something - clothes that are too big look just as bad as clothes that are too small. For me, part of this whole journey is to learn to like myself again and as part of that I need to feel comfortable with my appearance. So I allowed myself to get just a few new things. If you have a Kohl's in your area, shop their clearance rack - they have some really great deals there. I bought just a few pairs of shorts a few weeks ago and already one pair is too big. But not unflatering too big, so I'll keep wearing them.

Good point. I'm starting to think that the baggy clothes are looking bad, sloppy even. I work with young children and am a college student, so jeans work for me.

And OMG, I absolutely lost it when Juliet and Sawyer were reunited. I was hanging in there until then. But from that moment onward, I was sobbing!

I was told a couple weeks ago by my boss to get some new pants b/c the ones I was wearing were too big! I was thrilled, but same problem - the next size down was still a bit tight. I do need to go buy a belt. That will get me through. But if you can pull them off - you need new pants. Ty some of the discount stores like Marshalls or TJ Maxx. Even Target or Walmart has nice stuff that's not so expensive. I like to have a pair in black, navy and tan. Goes with everything.


Lost - I loved it too!!! I have been reading some threads and blogs about it. I want to re-watch the finale (I'd love to get the whole show on DVD) and I understand that they did NOT die in the initial plane crash. The island was real and what happened was real (if bizarre and unexplainable!). The stuff that wasn't "real" was the sideways/purgatory time. You are right- that was where and when they had to figure out who they needed to be with to "cross over". I didn't know about all of the symbolism in the show until I read more. Very cool and thoughtful. I'm hoping that they include a director's cut with info like that on the DVD.

Jumping in on the LOST discussion... HIJACK!

The more prevalent theory online and what I tend to agree with is that the island was REAL. They all really crashed and spent the time on the island. And because the time on the island was so important/meaningful/pivotal in each of their lives when they all died, some on the island, some off the island, some in 2004 or 2007 or even in old age ( we don't know when everyone died) they all went to the 'purgatory' place and waited for all the other people from the island, and they were basically waiting for Jack to realize he was 'dead' and was in this 'purgatory' place looking for all his fellow Island castaways.

So when Jack died on the island at the very end of the movie, in our normal time line of thinking, that was actually the same instance as the plane NOT crashing in the sideways timeline on episode 1 of season 6 (or maybe even before that instance. We don't know exactly how far back in his life Jack went in the alternative time line but I kinda think he went back to the plane not crashing).

When the bomb went off and Juliet was trapped at the end of season 5/beginning of season 6, there wasn't an alternative timeline at all, as the show made us believe it was. The reason the hatch was still imploded and built was because as they theorized, the bomb ending up causing the exact event that Daniel Faraday had been trying to stop, thus ultimately creating the need for the Swan Station and the button and the plane still crashing b/c Desmond didn't punch the button on the day of the crash.

The cool red herring for the entire season 6 was them leading us to believe that the alternate sideways timeline was their lives as if the plane had never crashed, when in reality it was their purgatory journeys to find each other. And as time doesn't have a meaning in the purgatory world, as Christian said, there is no 'now' in that world, the whole journey could have happened in the blink of Jack's eyes after he died.

Kate, Frank, Miles, Sawyer, Richard and Claire all got off the island and lived out their real lives back in 2007 until they died whenever they died. But they were taken back to that time in their lives, in the purgatory existence, to be reunited.

It's a crazy mind warp. I know. And honestly there are gonna be some other theories. But this is the best I can figure out from watching and researching online. Matthew Fox said he knew from the beginning of the show that the show would end with his eyes closing in death as a direct opposite of them opening in life at the start of the series. Thought that was kinda cool that he knew that all along.

Sorry to go on and on. I'm a huge fan too!!!!!!

And now back to your regularly scheduled program

LOVE your take on LOST!! Thats exactly what I thought happened in the finale. I still have to rewatch it, and the whole season actually, to see what I missed! Not sure what I'm going to do now that the show is over... LOST is my constant!

Regarding loose clothing...you'd be amazed at some of the clothing at thrift stores. I've bought a lot of my boys clothing there, and one of my favorite sweaters that I get a lot of compliments about came from a Goodwill store for $4!! You wouldn't believe how many brand new clothes I've given to GW because they were too big or too little...some even still had the tags on them! It's embarrasing to admit, but I'm guilty of buying things too small, thinking I will fit into them eventually and they are just so darn cute!

Oh, and since we are talking about some of our issues...I think I have the opposite problems some anorexic. I look in the mirror and I see a THINNER person....I don't see the "real" me, unless I look at a picture. I HATE PICTURES!!!! But that being said, in the spirit of this board, here I am...

Anyway, about Lost...YIKES!!! I get confused just with everyone's interpretation!! Hence the Show title LOST... I watched every episode until this year, it just made my brain hurt.

I've never really been a thrift store shopper, but maybe I should be!? I also see a much skinner person in the mirror than I do in pictures. I'm always shocked at what I see when I look through the photos. And you should watch LOST. You can't watch the first 5 seasons then stop! Season 6 is definitely worth it.

Thanks to everyone who responded about the clothes thing. I tried to find and quote everyone. I felt like you guys would understand, and you did! Thanks! Looks like I'm going to be going shopping!! I'll admit the size... right now, I'm in a size 20 pant. Wow, that number sounded smaller in my head. Those are the pants that are falling off. Hopefully its not just because I've stretched them out! I'm kinda between a regular and a plus size. I wear a XXL (18-20) in most shirts, 1X is too small, but the 2X (20-22) stuff seems almost too big. I'm very busty, so things fit me weird. Forget button down shirts!!

And ps: A big welcome to all our new members!

 

[hanutedmansionmomma]

ok, so I figured it out but it's so small! Me and DH at Coronado Springs last xmas, anyway, if you want to get a magnifying glass and see me...ugh. Hey wait - you can click on it to make it bigger if you're so inclined...please click again when done to make me smaller tho. LOL! If only!


cereal/skim
some noodley ww thing for like 5 points
4 dark choco kisses
cheese stick
6 wheat thins/cheese
green beans
tator tots


love reading thru the posts - not enough brain in my head today to respond. Maybe after school ends tomorrow

welcome new folks!!!

May 27 done

 

[officereg]

urg posting errors. Disregard I am having trouble with my picture. It shows in preview but not when I post. I will try tomorrow

 

[stitchfan23]

Started out ok for the day and then went downhill fast. I am owning it, moving on and am not letting it happen again.

Breakfast - 1 blackberry FF Yoplait Yogurt
Lunch - leftover salad with grilled steak, 2 pcs light rye bread
Snack - cupcake
Dinner - leftover potatoes (cold and tossed with cucumber and 1tbsp light cesear dressing), 2 homemade hamburger patties

* Here is where we crash and burn. Hubby had baseball at 6:30 and hour away from home so we ate dinner early and it honestly wasn't enough that we were starving after so we ate...

Dbl cheesburger, medium fries and a medium coke zero from McD's and then I had a Twix chocolate bar Not sure why I caved in but I did so there it is over and done with. On a good note I drank all my water today.

May 27th DONE (and we won't speak of it again)

 

[pwmitch237]

My day (food wise).....

Breakfast: 1C Cheerios w/ .5c of Skim Milk = 140 Calories
Lunch: Banana (109 Calories) & 2C of V8 Fusion Lite (Strawberry/Banana): 100 Calories
Snack(sort of): Being in NOLA; Beignets (3) (Café du Monde) = 527 Calories (& 11g of fat....why must they be so good?)
Frozen Café Au Lait (Large): 50 Calories (estimate) - (their coffee has only 5 calories per 6 fl oz...and skim milk, can't be too bad)
Dinner: Fazzio's Meatball (just 1) (estimate) 250 Calories & Caesar Salad (Side) 250 Calories (estimate)

Total: 1,426 Calories.... kinda high for me.
Time to go do "The Biggest Loser, Last Chance Workout" twice.... hopefully I'll still lose weight in the morning.

MAY 27 DONE!

(I'm going to try to end every one of my posts with a (hopefully motivating) quote )

"Do you want to be skinny or what? KEEP GOING!!!!" - Jillian Michaels

 

[gellybean]

Totally meant to mention this earlier and forgot-

For all us LOSTies-

ABC came out today and said that they were responsible for the 'scene' after the LOST word flashed and the credits started rolling. The plane on the beach was supposed to give us a minute to decompress after all the drama but before the local news started.

SO the writers had no intention for us to draw any conclusions from the plane on the beach by itself cus they didn't put the scene there.

Thought that might help some people to reconcile the whole what was the island, what was purgatory issue!




I may come back and edit my previous post to DONE for today's tracking. Still not hungry. Made the boys dinner and didn't eat any. DH called and offered food from his restaurant and I turned it down.

Might be able to salvage this day calorie wise yet.

I'm seriously thinking about doing Southbeach some over the summer. I really need to concentrate on proteins and veggies and quit eating so many dang carbs. And with summer time I think it would be easier to give up processed carbs for a while with all the fresh fruits and veggies out there.

NOT giving up on Bodybugg by any means, just trying to tweak my eating habits some.

LESS carbs more whole foods. I'm really seeing a pattern in my eating habits. Eating way too many processed foods!



But that's what long term tracking is for! So for learning something!

 

[pipersmom]

Just logging and heading to bed!

Breakfast- Yopait FF Harvest Peach, coffee

Lunch- Salad w/ 2 tbs FF Italian, roast beef on sandwich thin w/ FF mayo & tomato

Dinner- WW Shrimp Marinara w/ 3 oz added shrimp *there were only 3 shrimp!! 3!!!..LOL*

Snacks- Rice Krispies w/ skim and blueberries, WW Chocolate Cookies & Cream Ice Cream bar..yummy!

May 27- DONE!

 

[CrabbyYetLovable]

Totally meant to mention this earlier and forgot-

For all us LOSTies-

ABC came out today and said that they were responsible for the 'scene' after the LOST word flashed and the credits started rolling. The plane on the beach was supposed to give us a minute to decompress after all the drama but before the local news started.

SO the writers had no intention for us to draw any conclusions from the plane on the beach by itself cus they didn't put the scene there.

Thought that might help some people to reconcile the whole what was the island, what was purgatory issue!

I heard that too! I figured it was bringing us full circle and remember the beginning of the series. Do you ever visit DarkUFO? Its a huge LOST website, covering everything. I love reading about what other people think of the show and the mythology behind it. Just a snipet from DarkUFO: the Man in Black has a name, but they decided not to devulge it. His name is Samuel. I like Man in Black better! LOL