A new beginning...

Thank You so much Dana for your support in my Diary! You are doing so good! Your wedding dress is absolutely beautiful but they will have to do a lot of work on it because you will be so little and cute by the time the wedding gets here. I know you can do it and your doing so well. Keep up the good work!
 
chocolate and cookies has been my weakness this month too so dont feel too bad! new year will be here soon and we can put all this holiday grub behind us! yay! :)
 
Thank you girls! Your support really means a lot. :) Everytime I look at munchies and stuff, I stop and think "Ugh I have to post this in my diary, those girls are gonna kick my butt!!" So i don't eat it most of the time! YAY!! :)

Redneckwoman: You're so welcome!! Thanks about the dress, I hope so! Then again, I don't know how much time I'll have for more fittings, haha!!

Alright girls. I totally gotta hit the gym. I have been swamped with holiday & work, I've had no time, and the snow will prevent that tonight. So its my treadmill at home!!!
 
Hey hun! Which part of Va did you say you was from? It was really coming down here today too.. but ours was mainly Ice or freezing rain! Hope your having a great day today!
 
I shouldnt have read in here.. .now I want choco covered pretzels!!!!!!!

Keep choosing wisely, cause we will kick your butt if you dont! LOL Just kiddin
 
Christinava, I'm in Charlottesville, and boy has the weather been wicked here!!! Where are you at exactly in VA? I am so happy its Friday and the ice has melted!

Christina, haha sorry about the pretzels!! Yet now.. I've had a bad bad day!! I do need my rear kicked!!
 
12-16-2005 Friday -Cheat Day (uh oh!)
I promised I'd post everyday. But I'm not posting what I've eaten today. I've been wretched. I gave myself a cheat day. Hello, can anyone else hear the screaming alarms here??! Big Mistake cause I Just ranw ith it. And why did I want a cheat day? So I could comfort myself with a cup of hot chocolate from Starbucks and a scone. Because my jobs a drag and slow right now and I didn't want to go. Yet I ate it anyways. Pathetic, because it c ertainly doesn't alter my job in any aspect!! Yet it was yummy. So this is a diary, so I'm entering like a diary. :)

I'm also feeling stressed and drained this week. The holidays are not fun for me right now and I'm exhausted. My poor fiance has had no time to get anything done. Not even his regular duties at work and he is so stressed and just worn out. So in turn I'm stressed for him. (What good does that do either of us?! beats me..) Its just been a long week!! When he's stressed he's a world away. And I can't be more thrilled that its Friday. Aren't we all?!

I will say I am relieved to announce my Christmas shopping is done after I pick up my final order at the mall. THANK goodness. Because I don't have the mental capacity to do anything else! So.. now to this evening where I'll fight my battles and temptations to do a quick and dirty easy dinner chock full of calories because I'm tired and don't feel like cooking and somehow I think yummy foods going to take away all the daily woes. Lol.. nah it'll just add pounds to my body which will add to my daily woes.. a vicious circle... !

Hope everyone else is having a MUCH better day than I am. Back on the wagon tomorrow morning and TO THE GYM I GO!!!
I'll be posting after my gym trip just because I'm making a promise to me and you girls to get my arse out there tomorrow.
 
Woop! Back on the wagon!!

12-17-2005 Saturday
Breakfast: "Weepin Onion" Bagel and small amt of cream cheese. 250 calories
Stretching: 15 minutes
Lunch: small slice of frozen pizza 310 calories
Subtotal: 560
Exercise: 25 minute walk with the dogs & 100 crunches.
Dinner: brocolli cheddar soup & bread 500 calories
Dessert: popcorn

So far so good today. I feel happy with my success for the day!! :) Hitting the gym tomorrow or perhaps a run. I didn't make it today but I did walk my dogs, who desperately needed it and my FH came too!
 
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Stopping by to see how your doing! I'm from Southwestern Va in a town called Bluefield.. Ever heard of it? lol... I'm so jealous!! I wish all my Christmas shopping was finished! I love shopping but christmas shopping is sooo stressful for me!! I hope you have a great weekend!
 
Never heard of bluefield, but now I'm going to look at mapquest!! :)Your roughly 4 hrs from me, near Virginia Tech! :) (Our C-Ville UVA rival!) I only moved here 2 years ago to be closer to my fiance, originally I'm from Michigan. So these winters are much more mild I will admit.

As for Christmas shoping, tell me about it, stressful is so true! Yesterday I picked up the final item, which wasn't really for Christmas, but the mall was insane. I swear everyone had the day off due to the weather and were all at the mall!!

Good luck on the rest of your shopping AND your weekend! I need to haul my rear to the gym shortly and shop surfing the web!!
 
Hi Dana, welcome to the forum!

I just had to post in support of chocolate covered pretzels! LOL I LOVE them too. In fact, they are an alarm food for me too - I just shouldn't have them around .... or else they disappear! Same goes for cheese pretzels and cheese crackers. I just don't buy them, but DO enjoy them when other people serve them at their houses. Now, regular pretzels are safe for some reason (must be an addictive quality to the chocolate and cheese flavoring for me), and I keep them in the cupboard for those times when I just have to have something salty and crunchy but don't want the fat from chips, etc.

I also wanted to say something about your having a hard time. I've noticed in myself also that when I'm miserable in life somewhere, I've also used food (and beer) to make me feel better inside. It does work, but it's only temporary -- it lasts just as long as it takes for the guilt and shame to set in, which only gets worse when you see your weight creeping up and your clothes not fitting anymore! ;)

What I've had to do is really clean up my life. I mean, it's the only one I've got, right? And it's too short to live it doing things I'm personally miserable doing.

I had a rough start back in November when I joined this forum too. I was just starting to make strides in changing my life to fit what I was discovering as the real *me*. I knew I had to start creating my life, not letting life toss me around on a whim.

Now, as I see my weight really starting to drop off (and drop off more easily), I can see that it's because I'm more in control of my life now than ever before. I'm calling the shots. I'm saying where I'm going and how I'm going to get there. It's amazing how many changes have occurred in just the past two months, now that I'm really looking back on it!

Think about what's in your life right now that sucks, and what actions you might be able to take to change them more to your liking. One little step today creates a domino effect in the next couple of months or so - I'm living proof!

Have a great weekend,

Barbie

 
Barbiez, I really appreciate your post. Its so welcoming to know I'm not alone in my struggles with substituing food for something else that's missing or awry. Problem is really determing what that is. :) Well quite honestly for me I know its my occupation. I am slowly progressing to getting back on top of that right now. Along with a wedding on hand and the holidays its not an easy task. But I figure, if I can do this NOW at the most chaotic time then its proof I can do it ANY time! :)
 
Hey mate just dropping in to see how you are going. Not long now and Christmas will be over (how quick did this year go) and we will all be starting a new year, its going to be the best year for all us girls.
 
Doing good so far today also! :)

12-18-2005
Breakfast: Weepin Onion Bagel w/ cream cheese 250
Lunch: Pizza 310
Dinner: cup of broccolli cheddar soup 170 calories
Sub Total: 730
Exercise: Walked the pups for 20 minutes on the trails and hit the gym 30 minutes on the bike 15 minutes of lower body weights!
SO WOOHOO to me I MADE it to the gym again finally!! I hope to keep it up all next week until we leave for my future MIL house for Christmas. This will be so exciting if I weigh my self Christmas Eve and LOSE weight again! YAY!!
 
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Just stopping in to check on you! Here lately I've had a bad habit of eating breakfast at 11am and that isn't good! Hopefully school will be on regular schedule this week and I can get back on track!! Well back on track Monday and Tuesday anyway cause school is out for the rest of the year on Friday! I didn't have my weigh in at Curves on Friday so I think I'm gonna get it over with on Tuesday.. Wish me luck!!
 
Christinava, I am sure you're weigh in will go great come Tuesday! It looks like our weather should be fairly OK this week, so you'll get to have two days of being on track! Ahh Christmas Break, gotta love that!

Doing ok here! As I posted Ive madeit back ot the gym to get on my routine of doing that also. Not sure how well that will work this week with my FH traveling out of town twice this week for work, kind of makes things a little wacky.
 
Hey- what kinda stuff are you doing at the gym? I personally am not a big fan of cardio, although I do it :eek: I actually read an article that said a 145 lb woman could burn 150 (or something close to that) calories jumping rope for 15 minutes, where as walking briskly on the treadmill- a 15 minute mile- would only burn 78 cals!! Crazy... to bad I feel like an elephant when I jump lol.
Anyways- look forward to talking more!!
 
Jess,
Well when I joined amonth or so ago, I met up with a trainer for a fitness assessment, (boy THAT was a wake up call!) so I have a scheduled list of weights to lift, and cardio to do. So three days a week I'm supposed to be training to run a 10 miler in April (weather has delayed this a bit) those three days I do two days of upper body weights. The off days, I do 30 minutes at least of the bike. Then I do my lower body weights.
So I'll eventually up the cardio for an hour each day, either, running, biking, elypitical(sp!) or the treadmill walking hill intervals. Then up my weights that I lift too.

Jumping rope really is great for burning calories. Yet, like you said, you've GOTTA like to jump! I actually have a rope and haven't tried it in years, so now you've given me some good motivation.. and at least i"m no longer living in a 2nd floor apt, can't imagine my neighbors would like it. :)

What I love best about the gym is, the TV's that I can watch to distract myself and listen to via headphones. Or I bring a book or magazine or mp3 player to distract me from the actual task of working out. It keeps me going an dbefore I know it I've completed 30 minutes! :)

Another motivating factor I have to chat abou tis that my FH is so proud of me, and loves that I'm posting in my journal what I'm eating. I told ihm all the girls here will kick my rear-end if I don't keep on track! He think its hilarous.. :)

Oh to add to my food today, I had s nack of some christmas goodies I've made ("puppy chow" if you want the recipe let me know) anyhow.. add about 100 calories on for that.

Ahh.. on to mondayh now. ack work!
 
So I'm exhausted, but proud that i've stuck to my diet etc. I did have an evening snack right now of rice chex.

My biggest woe is tomorrow morning and that peppermint mocha coffee and scone hit me! :) I have found a fairly decent recipe to make my own scones that I'm excited to try. No more 500 calorie scones from Starbucks! :) Just always want ot "treat" myself on monday mornings.. who wants to go back to the office! :) Wish me luck girls!!
 
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