Thanks! You are so right. I'm doing all ofthe above! I went and scheduled as many things as I could this weekend. Lots of time with people visiting from out of town (of course most of them live in Boston so hopefully soon I won't have to wait for them to visit haha). Movies, breakfast dates, tv marathons, with lots of healthy snacks. And when I'm with people, I always tend to eat better. I have that one slice of pizza, rather than that entire box.
I'm kind of jealous of your busy schedule with friends! Tell me all about it so that I can live vicariously through you!!
Well, I have parents like yours as well. They really are not happy about this decision. My mother and I don't get along very well, and its mostly because I have my father's sensitivity, and not her critical outlook on things. So, she speaks her mind very freely, and in cases like this - it is very very difficult to talk to her right now. I know she wants me to be happy, but her version of happy (in her Upper West Side high rise apartment with her extremely well paid corporate job where everything revolves around NYC) is very different than mine.
Hopefully Mom will come on board to support your decision, even if she doesnt' fully agree with it. Sometimes when we are very happy and content with our own lives, it is hard to see how someone else might not like living that same life.
I love NYC and I know I'll miss it, but I miss... driving! I miss deciding one weekend to take a trip to Salem, or Cape Cod, or the beach - just because! I miss culture readily available without paying astronomical fees! Of course it is blasphemy to say it around where I am now, but I miss Red Sox games!! I feel like Boston is the perfect blend of what I want from a home and I honestly can't wait. Oh, I could go on...
So glad you are excited for everything that is coming in the near future!
Regardless - THANK YOU! I really appreciate it, Mama Hen
It sounds like you are a great mother to your kids. And thanks for your offer to help! Maybe once I'm up there, I'll investigate some Boston-area Dismeets!
Maybe we need to organize a New England area WISH meet!!
I really like this one from Steve Jobs:
"You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever."
I think many highly successful people in this world are the ones that go with their gut and do trust karma.
Ahhh! Sorry you didn't have power last night! Man, the weather gods really won't give you a break! But, happy today is nice and relaxing with the movie.
And the fact that we had snow flurries this morning and predicted highs by Monday only in the 20s....I'm getting a little stir-crazy!!!
Well, if if someone was paying the bills AND I had a different skill set, I always wanted to be a pediatrician, but MAN, do I suck at all things science haha. Social science - I love it, and I'm good at it. But, put me in a biology class and I fall apart.
With my skill set, I really think School Psychology is the right path for me. I'm pretty sure I'll have to just stick to a master's, but if someone else is paying, I'd love to get a doctorate. My last name starts with Y, and it is crazy hard to pronounce, so I always dreamed about being Mrs. Y.
Glad you have big dreams but are aware of your limitations... and don't forget, with a doctorate you'd be "Dr. Y"!!!
I'm sorry the scale is not showing your efforts, but maybe you're right - maybe you need something to kick start your weight loss again. I'd say go for it - worst case, you have to stop. But, if you can do it (and I know that you can), who knows what progress it could kick off?
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think I will give myself one day "off" from being so strict, enjoy a small splurge or two an then hit the juice fast on Sunday morning. Fingers crossed that it kicks that metabolism in the A**!!
Okay, think I'm all caught up!
Guess what, friends? I joined some clubs today. I joined the 150s club, I joined the I'm in the Recommended Weight for my Height club, I joined the Lost 20 Pounds club and I joined the I LOVE RUNNING club.
Okay, that last one isn't a real thing haha Last night, I was really stressed out about my test results, my big move coming up, the job search, and things not being so great at work right now, that I decided to walk home. Now, home is 5 miles from where I work. I didn't have anything to bring home, really, and I was dressed very comfortably in sweats. So, I walked! And I had forgotten how much I missed moving my body forward, and not inside a small apartment, that I ran some of it! I would just run a block and then stop and walk for a bit, and then run 2 blocks and walk again. It was wonderful and I felt great, and I'm sure it is what gave me my great number on the scale today.
I feel great about it. I had kind of suspected because I find that with all the layers I wear (since I'm always cold), weighing myself with clothes on adds about 3 pounds to my weight. Since I've been to the doctor a lot this week, they weight me at 162, which I thought was weird, because without clothes, that would put me at 159. But... that's where I am.
I cried a lot on the scale today. Lots of tears of joy. Its also - I really believe in signs. I'm one of those people. And making a big decision like I made this week, if my weight had gone up, I probably would have started to question moving. It's completely irrational, but the fact that it went down THIS WEEK, it just makes me feel like the universe is saying, yes, you're getting warmer, this is the right path, just keep going.
So, I am FILLED with happiness today! I hope everyone else is too! If not, I am spreading
to anyone and everyone!!
but some days I think I'd like to go back to a culinary school and open a l cafe with really good food and desserts. But I think that might have me straying from some goals! I've started a cooking blog, but I'm really bad at posting. I have to get better at it because I'm still cooking and I just bought a new camera
Someone needs to be here incase any more appear and I'm off today so I can go later, he can't. I know it's an accident, but it is a pain in the butt to explain to management that the guys they hired did this!
), celery and carrots (organic 
),oranges, lemon and kiwi. Then, because I was making so much juice, I had to stop a few times and empty my discard bucket, plus the pulpy papaya caused a clog in my juice spout and it overflowed on the counter....
But it is done (and cleaned up!) and have two GALLONS of delicious bright magenta juice for the next 48 hours! I already had a huge serving that I blended with a half a banana, grated ginger, and two handfuls of baby spinach. It was yummy and I am hoping it keeps me full until at least lunch time. 
If you know ANYTHING about me, you know that I LOOOOOOOVE movie popcorn. Suffice to say that "just a taste" turned into .... well..... too much. It was late, I was bored and tired (a LETHAL combination for me) and we'll just leave it at that. So a full week of great healthy LOW CARB eating was tossed in the trash thanks to the SIREN CALL of cheap popcorn!!
