How Rose Bud defines torture--giving up caffiene and then having to refill the coffee container in the breakroom at work.

The caffiene thing is getting easier. I went and bought myself some caffiene free diet coke the other day. I couldn't handle just water anymore. I needed variety, and KoolAid just wasn't cutting it, plus I just can't take the sugary taste of it all the time. Every once in a while ok, as a substitute for caffinated soda--not a good idea!

I get to leave work 15 minutes early today (ahh the benefits of being a full time worker--no longer need to ask for permission to leave a few minutes early when the occaisonal opportunity arises. plus its a friday. People have already stopped calling and its only 2pm) but that 15 minutes is making today go by SO quickly. Its been a long (read: haven't had much work) week.

I've hit the 10 pound mark! As of this morning, I have lost 10 pounds. I'm wearing a pair of pants I bought before losing those 10 pounds. They were a mite snug when I bought them. Now they're not! Whee!
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yeah i say torture is working in an icecream store when you've given up refined sugar. :g
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Hello all. :)

Well, yay for me, I'll get the results of my sports nutrition exam rather soon, and will be doing my personal fitness training exam in the not too distant future.

I think I've done pretty well on the exam. I didn't stress out - basically, since I am doing the course from a college many many miles away, I do the work at home, including the exam. Basically, the exam is simply an assignment which requires a lot of thought, so it's not like you can cheat at home on a question and answer thing. It took three and a half hours and I actually *shock* enjoyed it.

Well, I went to the bookshop today to buy books for university. I got:

Three more Nietzsche books
Plato
Sartre
Kant
Schopenhaur
Aristotle

I'm pretty well read in philosophy so these are the finishing touches to my collection. (although who can ever have a complete book collection?)

I also got the Janis Joplin biography and another Doors album. All in all a successful trip. Yay for spending horrendous amounts of money! ;b

Jordie
xxx
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Originally posted by Dallandra
yeah i say torture is working in an icecream store when you've given up refined sugar. :g



I so hear that. I have the joy of working at Starbucks during frappucino season. Not an easy thing to do.
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hi everyone. :)

i feel that this month is going to be a good one. partly because my boss is off for another two weeks! YAY!

but mostly because i've been sticking to my diet and exercise routine like a trooper. although today is my free day and i had some fries from wendy's!! they tasted SOOOO good!!

my girlfriend and i are going to key west for women's week in september and i want to be another 10 pounds lighter before i leave because i know i'll be cheating there. we already have planned that we're going to splurge only at night if we can help it.

we usually rent mopeds for the week but this time i think we're going to either rent bikes or nothing and just walk. :)

it so wonderful to be a co-moderator here now! all of your stories are so inspiring to me and to others. everyone ... keep up the great work. ;k
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Um, my son is the CUTEST boy in the world-even though I have to change his bum in a minute... Today after me and my mom and my son got home from the grocery store, my son starts singing Nelly's Hot in Here and shakes his booty :p Not the most appropriate music for a 3 year old but boy it is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO cute! :)

-angeles
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I cleaned my apartment today. Now my right arm is killing me. I'm a rightie and can't do squat with my left hand. Ok so I can type and play guitar, but that's about it. I also have a touch of repetitive stress/carpal tunnel, that really affects my hands which is where it hurts the most. Guess maybe laying down didn't help, since maybe it restricted the blood flow or something. Since I got up and have kept my arm moving its ok.
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Originally posted by angeles
Um, my son is the CUTEST boy in the world

:D he sure sounds cute!
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i've decided to change around my exercise routine.

i'm doing weight training on SMT and cardio WThF ... just to switch it up a bit.

:)
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where is everyone?

i hope you're all OK. ;w
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hey cooling_grrl...i'm okay. :)

i didn't get much sleep today because i remembered that my fave band was playing on good morning america---but i woke up right in the middle of their first song. "hazy shade of winter." no biggie---i've seen the bangles in concert over 8 times, they played that song the same way all 8 times. and then they played the new song off their supposed future album. it was pretty cool, i guess. i'm still mixed on it. then they played "walk like an egyptian" (:m) all the while looking embarrassed while playing it.

i've been eating a lot lately because i've been off the pill for over a month. (i was off the pill because my med coverage got canceled---i have to pay for it now but it doesn't kick in until september.) my period didn't kick in until 2 weeks after it would have started if i were on the pill. and during those 2 weeks, it was PMS hell for me. now that i have my period, i'm actually feeling a lot better now. but i do have terrible lower back cramps---something i never had while on the pill. i was on the pill for about 2.5 years. yikes. i can't wait to get back on it.
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I've just mostly been busy working and taking care of other things in life that need to be taken care of.

I'm doing well with losing weight, I'm only 8 pounds over what I used to consider my "heaviest" weight. So that's my mini-goal right now, is to get back down to what I used to think was the heaviest I'd ever been.
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hi leina rose and christine. i'm glad you guys are doing well.

i know life's been busy for most of us ... i just thought it was weird that no one had posted in a day and a half.

no biggie! i was just checking in on the peeps here.

:)
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haven't been around much this week. just kinda got into the routine of not going on the internet in the evenings after dinner.

my allergies have been acting up like mad this week. luckily I have mild allergies so I'm not suffering too badly, just with a kinda stuffy nose and sneezing. they seem to act up more at work than at home. guess because at home i'm too tired to notice! ;)
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Originally posted by Rose Bud
haven't been around much this week. just kinda got into the routine of not going on the internet in the evenings after dinner.

christine ... that's an excellent idea!! i should take your advice.

i'm still plugging away at BFL. i still want to lose five more pounds in the next two weeks. (i hope that's possible.) i know my trip to key west will put a dent in my routine a little bit. but boy do we ever NEED this vacation!!

things at work are changing quickly! i should be designing full-time by the time i get from my trip. YAY!! the only downfall is that i'll be doing it at another one of our properties ... 20 miles south of here and all my co-workers.

but it's what i want to do and i know i can benefit the papers in our chain more by designing the hell out of them.

:)
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I've actually managed to work out for the complete week! yay me! 1 down, 51 to go :)

I must be a complete and utter nerd! This past week I've been studying so when I start Fall semester a week from tomorrow, I'll actually be ready! It keeps me busy :) And I'm enjoying my two weeks off :) Oh, and I got a job (which is awesome because I've needed a job all freakin' summer long!). I am now currently employed in the periodicals and media section of my university library. What's even better, I think I will actually enjoy working there also! :) yay me!

-angeles
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i think i'm going to be going to las vegas with my boyfriend for new years, so my goal is to look real hot by then....that means i should lose around 20 pounds or so, i think. i'm going to really start trying once i get back to school (aug. 28th) because i belong to the gym down there and i'm pretty good about exercising nearly everyday....but i need to tweak some things...i'm going to try and start doing aerobic workouts in the morning (since my classes don't start at 8 AM) and i need to get myself into a good weight-lifting routine. i think this will mean getting a friend to lift weights with me because the "good weights" are in the big part of the gym where all the guys go, and i feel stupid lifting weights by myself when there are a bunch of guys around.

i really need to start working on my eating habits. i mean, i don't eat a lot of fast food or anything like that and i manage to eat somewhat healthily (i don't eat any meat except for fish) but i am a major carb whore! i think i'll try to buy some whole wheat pasta (even though it tastes like crap) and look through my mom's suzanne somers' cookbook :)

and i need to work on my ice cream obsession...maybe only once or twice a week instead of everyday. and maybe the low fat/no sugar added kind. *sigh*
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Originally posted by getupkid
and i need to work on my ice cream obsession...maybe only once or twice a week instead of everyday. and maybe the low fat/no sugar added kind. *sigh*

I was going to post this in the victories thread, but since you mentioned it, I finally went a whole 8 hour shift at BR without eating not one taste of ice cream. :d
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ugh, I haven't been eating well lately. Put on a couple of pounds. Kinda made me realize why I wanted to stick with it for the long haul this time. I think my recent habits are making me think. Even when you are working your hardest to eat well and exercise--its impossible to be perfect. Everyone deserves a treat every now and then. And everyone also slips up every now and then and strays off of their plan. I need to realize that ONE day of eating slightly off of my plan should not sabotage any work I have done to get where I am.

*sigh* I guess my point is that I need to work on my mental state right now. I had made some progress with not emotionally eating, but I'm still working on the eating while bored and just because its there. I guess I should have looked at the signs--I wasn't practicing my guitar as much as I should have, watching way too much tv, even not been posting here much. Any time I was at my parents house, I'd just let myself snack when I was there.

I had done so well. I had gone from my high of around 255 down to 239. And now I'm back up to 246. :( I've gained SEVEN pounds from being LAZY. I know this is going to be a hard road, I just now have to find my way after losing my direction for a bit.
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There's always tomarrow! Just keep posting here and we'll keep you on track *crack of whip* ;)
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Yo,
Been rilly stressed latelee - thus sheddin' da pounds . . . not feelin' hungree at all. Dis sux, havin' to force myself to eat and then feelin' like vomittin' . . . bleh. I guess it's all good tho' - finallee losin' dem few pounds I put on dis summah eatin' waaay too muchos.
Ah, life is all about balances.
Me, the FLea
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feeling like things are getting back to the way they should be with me. I had to do some running around for work, and I got hungry for lunch while I was out (since I was gone from 11-1). I wanted so bad to eating something junky, like a hot dog or pizza. So I satisfied my craving by getting chinese, some beef and broccoli with white rice. That way, I at least got a good amount of veggies in my lunch. (broccoli, carrots, water chestnuts, etc.)

Been SO busy today at work. Don't think I'm going to get a chance to call my doctor for an appointment today, guess I'll have to call tomorrow. Since I'm pretty sure the vast majority of us here are female--Aunt Flo is almost a week late. Now I know I had some cycle issues earlier this year, but I know those are totally gone. Come to find out, I wasn't getting Aunt Flo since I wasn't ovulating because I was so damned stressed out. But I *know* I ovulated this month. (The hubby and I are trying to get pregnant, so I've been tracking my cycle since Aunt Flo returned) I've taken like 2 home pregnancy tests, and both were negative. I'm not gonna spend any more money on them, with what I've heard about them. Know how they say they're 99% accurate? Wrong! My cousin is a Medical Assistant in a gynecology office, and from the doctors that work there, they say the accuracy is more like 50% or less! (and my cousin works at a pretty reputable place, Stanford U.) So I'm just gonna let the doctors do the testing now. I've even heard stories of women being several months pregnant, and taking a home test, just to have the results for posterity, and it came up *negative*!! All the more reason for me to call a doctor.
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good for you, christine. i'm glad you're going to call a doctor for this one. :)

LOL

i call my "aunt flo" gert. three years ago when i was working my ass off at work to prepare for hurricane gert, i got mine. LOL

i've been exercising a lot more during this BFL challenge. (i would go maybe four days with exercise during my last challenge when i should have been doing six!)

linn and i are preparing for our key west trip next week! RA! i've already looked up fitness centers in key west to see if i can join for a week. (they'll probably make me pay $5 a day which is all right, i guess.)

my diet is going to be the hard part. :: sigh ::

i'm glad everyone's doing well. :)
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Darn doctors can't see me till Sept. 25! That's nearly a month from now!! I was a bit upset about that at first but I'm alright with it now. I mean if it turns out I am not pregnant, well at least they may be able to tell me why Aunt Flo is acting all funky again (and do something to help if it *was* more than stress...)

I'm beginning to feel the, uhh, digestive effects of eating better. More veggies in general means more fiber...and well we all know what happens when you get more fiber....guess my tummy just needs to adjust.
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Yo,
Boo to Aunt Flo, she left me but a week ago and I am still a woman scorned by her wrath.
I am goin' home dis weekend to clear my mind about certain personal probbies goin' on. I thought livin' alone would help me collect my thoughts, but all it doez iz makes me loco! Lemme tell ya bein' sans tele, phoneline, computer, radio SUCKAZZ. Technology has made me itz biotch.
I tink I should lay off da weight trainin' on my legs, dey are becomin' rilly nice and toned, but I am definitelee bulkin' up like a soccer playa or sumfrin - which I didn't rilly intend . . . bah, too bad dat's like my favourite thang to do at da gym.
I tried to do a Step Aerobics class so dat I could add sum variety to my exercise . . . man oh man, I SUCK at dat. Har har, I hadda leave 10 minutes into it and I wuz at da waay front. How embarassin'. :f
Me, the Flea
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