What happened with all the hub-bub about this site going down?

hmmm. I thought everyone said this site was going down? I am happy to see it is still here :) I am still maintaining. Hope all is well!

Maintaining is better than gaining :)

Hello, all. Just thought I would drop in and hold myself accountable. I am slowly bringing my weight back down. The span of my weight from Monday vs. Friday mornings (the two days a week I weigh) has lowered. Instead of going all the way up to 196-198 on Mondays, I am staying no higher than 194 then I have been back down to 188 by Fridays the past few weeks. I hadn’t seen under 190 for a few weeks before that. I am trying to keep my calories under 1400 most days of the week, except this week since it was Thanksgiving… I still havent gone “hog wild” or anything. I will be right back to the under 1400 a day as of Monday. I hope everyone is doing well and making good choices.

10# fluctuation in 1 week!

Long time no see, BS :) Well, I have a new job, again, at my work. I am now in charge of all of our residential services and so far, other than being really busy, so good! Sooo… I have been really working at getting my scale to go down again. I had gotten really used to it never going higher than 183. The past two months I have been struggling to keep it under 190. I did really well last week and last weekend until Sunday. I started TOM last Friday so was already bloated but then I went to a family party on Sunday and ate a HUGE meal and then ate a meal with a lot of sodium in it for dinner—so with all of that combination—the scale Monday morning said 196!!! Talk about motivation to do well this week ;) So with TOM being gone and me staying under 1500 calories ALL week, I hopped on the scale thism orning to see 186—whew! A ten pound fluctuation in one week? How is that even possible? Jeeezzz… Well, at least it was enough to scare me into doing what I know I know how to :) I hope u r all weel and making great choices~~~

Scale still going in the right direction since vacay is over and just ignore it!

Good morning, buddies. The scale was 194 Monday morning, 190 Tuesday morning and 188 this morning so vacay bloat is going bye byue! And TOM will be gone in a few days and is slowly taking his bloat with him :) On another note, I am not sure what is going on with the lovely…lady who is posting hateful things about other members of this site but… Ignore it. The more attention you give to people such as him or herself, the more fuel and fire you give their drama and theatrics thrill they so crave inside their tiny little brains. I would imagine this person’s real life is in similar shambles and so she has come on line to stir the pot up here. I know you want to defend your friends/buddies but the more you write back, the more she will come back. Be better than the little troll and get back to what is important, supporting those who want support :) Have an excellent day all~~~XoXoXo

2nd day back to work after 9 days off!!!

Good morning, all :) well, I did really well the last two weeks before my vacation because the scale had gone up a tad and I had my weight back down to 186 the Friday before my vacay began… I counted ZERO calories over the nine days I was off of work. The scale read 194 on Monday morning… yesterday that is. After ONE day of being back on track the scale said 190 this morning :) It is amazing what getting back into a routine can do for the bloat and blahs! Plus my TOM is here in full swing so I have been bloated as it is. I am back to 1500 calories or less this week. I stocked p on produce and soup to eat at work so I don’t go crazy with calories. Day two and so far so good so I plan to stick with this for now. School begins again for the fall semester a week from yesterday. I will just be going Monday nights then the following two semesters I will have internships, which I will do at my place of employment and then an internship class I attend once a week until next July. then I graduate with my Master’s Degree. I am so ready to be done. My car has been out of commission for over 20 days! I finally get it back today and I am so relieved… $2200 dollars later ;) I had to postpone my new furnace installation last week cause the car comes first. Anywho, things coudl always be worse so I am not complaining at all! I hope u r all well and making good choices ~~~XoXoXo

Going down…

Hello, all :) Happy Saturday. This begins day one of nine off for me :) My car has been out of commission for two weeks now and was supposedly to be fixed by repairing something under recall—unfortunately not the case so I am postponing the new furnace I was to have installed Tuesday. It is ok though. I will reschedule for September—thinking positively :) I am happy to say I weighed in at 186 yesterday so the scale is going back in the proper direction ;) I didn’t think I could again exist in less than 1900 calories a day but, alas, I CAN! I stayed under 1500 ALL week. I I am determined to at least get back down to 180… The over 190 crap was scaring me to say the least. I am going to do my best to maintain this week while I am off. I know I will overdue it but I won’t too terribly, esp since I don’t have much money, haha! I hope u r all well and making GOOD choices! Going swimming today so hope u all have a great day as well—XoXoXo

Doing better…

Got the scale to say 187 this morning… We will see what next week brings :)

Strugglin’

Hi everyone. Well, every since the 4th of July holiday, I have been struggling to get my weight to stay under 190. By Friday, I get it to go to about 185-187 then by Monday it is at 192 again :( I am CLEARLY eating too much on the weekends and then not restricting them enough to get it back down during the week—then not adding extra exercise in to make up for that. I know all of the reasons WHY, I just don’t fix them. All summer I have had school two nights a week until almost 11 pm. I bring healthy foods to snack on but I also eat candy and pretzels… I need to get back to where I am eating real meals but I struggle with it sitting there for hours at at time. I can’t wait til next week when this grueling schedule is over. I am NOT going to let the scale go ANY higher—I promise :)

Kinda not like a Friday, but by choice :)

Hello all :) I am working at my old work location today and tomorrow. I said I would never work another weekend again since I received a promotion back in February but my the old house I supervised is down in staff so I volunteered to help out to cover shifts. Eventhough I am salary, they are going to pay me extra for doing it since I won’t have time to take an extra day off. It won’t be what I am used to getting paid if you were to break my salary down but I am not really working to hard :) I plan to do homework most of the day… Well, with the holiday last weekend and having Monday off in obervance, my weight is up this Friday morning. I weighed 188 this morning. This causes me anxiety cause I am used to it being back down by today each week. I have been loading up on produce all week too but I have gone high in other areas and produce is not free from calories either, esp if you eat a TON of it! Cherries are so tastey!!! And edamame. If you eat the whole bag, well, that is almost 500 calories… But what goes in must come out ;) Anywho, I am not going to let it get me down. I have been in check thus far today and, eventhough I plan on having Mexican for lunch, I have plenty of healthy foods to eat later in the day and for dinner. All of the produce deals at Aldis have been great lately and with it being summer, there has been great variety. I am seriously like a kid in a candy store buying 4 boxes of cherries at a time and two boxes of strawberries, and blueberries and bundles of bananas and, well, u get teh picture :) I plan to get right back on track and get this extra five pounds or so off. I hope u all find yourselves well and making good choices :)

Never can be catchy ;)

Hello everyone :) I am never very catchy with titles… HaHa! I am still maintaining my weightloss from last year. It will be a year by the end of August. I am still doing well to count my calories all week and then taking a break from it on the weekends. I am still in the low 180s. I have been loading up on lotso fruits and veggies all week. I have been taking advantage of the summer produce—lots of fresh cherries, strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, you name it, I am eating it. Cucumber, tomato, onion, corn—somedays it seems all I am eating is fruits and veggies. And what goes in MUST come out! ;) I have started makign this delicious sald. I posted a pic of it on my facebook because I really LOVE it. It is not only DELICIOUS, but it is so colorful and pretty! It is cucumber, tomato, red onion, corn, black beans, italian salad dressing and mozzarella pearls. I pepper it too, cause, well, I LOVE pepper. I find myself mainly eating fruits and veggies on Mondays. All day. It is my official jumpstart to the week after eating garbage during the weekend. Well, not garbage, but not counting. I typically weigh 3 pounds less by Tuesday morning than I do Monday morning after detox-ing :) Then I am always back down all the way by Friday. I feel like I really am having my cake and eating it too. I think by choosing to maintain at a realistic weight for my body is really helping me. I am 5′10″ and at between 180-185, I feel and, as far as I am concerned, look, good :) I am still in grad school for this summer semester. Things have turned ugly there. I found out I have been ill advised on my scheduling throughout and now will not graduate in May. I have accepted my part of the error but I am upset, needing to get OVER it, with my advisor because he permitted me to take TWO classes without a pre req which he now says is required before I may begin my internship—never told me this before. I look at the program planner and to my naked eye of just beingĀ  a student, it shows that I have the necessary prereqs to begin but he says no exceptions—eventhough I was not advised that this is how the course would run if he allowed me to take two classes without said prereqs. We live and we learn I suppose. I am not going to let it get me down. I will go by teh mantra that everything happens for a reason. Life goes on, hopefully :) Hope u all have a lovely weekend. If you are in the States, enjoy your Holiday weekend. XoXoXo~~~

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