Half of Me:The Story of Fat Girl Slim

Hey ali.

I have to squeeze my gym time in today during my 3 hour break from work. It will be at about 3 or so, so the gym will be a lot more crowded than it is in the morning. I gotta get my cardio in, I didn't do any Sun. or Mon. because I was so tired from working on the weekend. I need to do some weights today to, I'm just not sure what part of my body I want to work... Perhaps Chest/Back/Shoulders.... we shall see. I am just glad I'm getting it in before I get off work at 10pm tonite, when all I will want to do is go home and relax with some mindless reality tv, lol...

-Sam
 
sammyboy24 said:
Hey ali.

I have to squeeze my gym time in today during my 3 hour break from work. It will be at about 3 or so, so the gym will be a lot more crowded than it is in the morning. I gotta get my cardio in, I didn't do any Sun. or Mon. because I was so tired from working on the weekend. I need to do some weights today to, I'm just not sure what part of my body I want to work... Perhaps Chest/Back/Shoulders.... we shall see. I am just glad I'm getting it in before I get off work at 10pm tonite, when all I will want to do is go home and relax with some mindless reality tv, lol...

-Sam
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Ahhhh the lure of mindsless television...I haven't had that in a while unless you count Spongebob, which I don't...

I have to do the gym after work, but before I got back for another nightly round of torture...I can't wait, more and more it is becoming my release...

What do you do for a living that you are working until 10pm???
 
I work for a Data Center. Its full of expensive computers and equipment and due to things that can go wrong (usually they don't) or vendors showing up on odd hours to fix or install things, there has to be someone here 24/7. My schedule is kind of all over the place at the moment, being that I am technically the low guy on the totem pole and cover for other people who work here too (when they need time off). It's not as bad as it sounds but it's not the fun all of the time. It pays pretty decent and I get paid every week, and usually have overtime. It's a pretty cush job and I get to work with my dad 4 days a week, which I love:) It's not my dream though. I got about another year before I'm accepted to the Nursing Program and then I hope to work here and fit my schedule around it while i'm in school (fingers crossed). Kind of a confusing description of my job, hehe....

-Sam
 
sammyboy24 said:
I work for a Data Center. Its full of expensive computers and equipment and due to things that can go wrong (usually they don't) or vendors showing up on odd hours to fix or install things, there has to be someone here 24/7. My schedule is kind of all over the place at the moment, being that I am technically the low guy on the totem pole and cover for other people who work here too (when they need time off). It's not as bad as it sounds but it's not the fun all of the time. It pays pretty decent and I get paid every week, and usually have overtime. It's a pretty cush job and I get to work with my dad 4 days a week, which I love:) It's not my dream though. I got about another year before I'm accepted to the Nursing Program and then I hope to work here and fit my schedule around it while i'm in school (fingers crossed). Kind of a confusing description of my job, hehe....

-Sam
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Sam -

That doesn't sound confusing...and believe me I know all about (a) being the low man on the totum pole (you don't think the partners here are working until midnight?) and (b) going to school and working :) you have a lot on your plate right now...

I would go INSANE working with my mom, my dad would be cool though, it is great you have that time together...

Can I just say that it is freezing in my office today??? WTF? My nose is going to fall off and roll away any minute. Ha.
 
ali.smedley said:
So I have to go to the gym tonight instead of going this morning...it is a weight-lifting day for me so I get to attempt to share the gym with the teenage meatheads that are there...I am starting to like doing the free weights and my squats and having them look at me. I guess my confidence is building, or some happy crap like that.

For the past few days I have been so hungry, I just want to eat everything in sight - not sure what is up with that but it needs to go away, lol...

I worked until 1130 last night and am so sleepy today...sometimes I wish I worked in a less mentally challenging field, maybe I should call my old boss and see if they will take me back...haha - I could give out divorce advice to people as I am selling them their wedding rings ;)
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Hey Ali
As far as being hungry, you might need more calories because you seem to be working harder than ever, or your body is getting its blood suger to low ..lifting weights will make your blood suger drop drastically and you will crave everything in site. Must becareful with that, thats when one starts binging .. so you might want to add a little more of the good stuff in your diet, likes fruits and veggies ..to have a filur...

well ttylater
best wishes
love yas
always
your friend
natalie jo :cheers2:
 
nataliejo said:
Hey Ali
As far as being hungry, you might need more calories because you seem to be working harder than ever, or your body is getting its blood suger to low ..lifting weights will make your blood suger drop drastically and you will crave everything in site. Must becareful with that, thats when one starts binging .. so you might want to add a little more of the good stuff in your diet, likes fruits and veggies ..to have a filur...

well ttylater
best wishes
love yas
always
your friend
natalie jo :cheers2:
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Thanks natalie jo - I am still so paranoid about what I eat that I haven't considered increasing my calories...I may try it and see what happens as long as what I am eating isn't junk. I know that the workouts means I need more and I can eat more and still lose weight...I have to evaluate everything and see how it looks.

Thanks for bringing it to my attention... :)
 
Hey ali.

How many cals are you eating a day Ali? I could probably look back a waze and find out. I have upped my cals a little bit as well, to about 2000 per day. I used to try to do 1700-1800 but for some reason 2000 is much more livable for me. To think that I when I did weight watchers for a few months and had to live on something like 1400 or 1500 cals per day, I was such a bitch, lol. Weight Watchers disguises the cals with points though, so I guess your supposed to feel like you eat more or something.... Weight Watchers works for many people though, just not me.:rolleyes:

If your lifting weights more often I totally think that could be part of it. I feel like it makes me more hungry than usual sometimes. I try to get more protein too. I usually try to have a protein shake after all my workouts, I guess the extra protein can help your recovery time?

Keep up the great work. I looked at your ticker and your well over half way to your goal. Losing almost 80lbs is such an accomplishment and I bet it has helped in keeping up with your 3 year old. One of my best friends is probably getting Gastric Bypass here in a couple months and I'm hoping it will help her keep up with her child more. More importantly I hope the Gastric Bypass works for her...

Have an excellent night,
Sam:)
 
sammyboy24 said:
Hey ali.

How many cals are you eating a day Ali? I could probably look back a waze and find out. I have upped my cals a little bit as well, to about 2000 per day. I used to try to do 1700-1800 but for some reason 2000 is much more livable for me. To think that I when I did weight watchers for a few months and had to live on something like 1400 or 1500 cals per day, I was such a bitch, lol. Weight Watchers disguises the cals with points though, so I guess your supposed to feel like you eat more or something.... Weight Watchers works for many people though, just not me.:rolleyes:

If your lifting weights more often I totally think that could be part of it. I feel like it makes me more hungry than usual sometimes. I try to get more protein too. I usually try to have a protein shake after all my workouts, I guess the extra protein can help your recovery time?

Keep up the great work. I looked at your ticker and your well over half way to your goal. Losing almost 80lbs is such an accomplishment and I bet it has helped in keeping up with your 3 year old. One of my best friends is probably getting Gastric Bypass here in a couple months and I'm hoping it will help her keep up with her child more. More importantly I hope the Gastric Bypass works for her...

Have an excellent night,
Sam:)
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You know, my night started off good and ended aggravatingly...oh well, I should be happy for the part that was good and not care about the crap...except the crap is what has me sitting in front of my fridge grazing...GRRRR. I need a new way to deal with stress, damnit.

I am aiming for 1800 cals a day but I use that loosely...the reason WW never worked for me is b/c I am LOUSY at keeping track of things. So I estimate and guesstimate and at the end of most days, it seems like I am around 1800/day.

I have a really hard time losing weight and I lose it very slowly (77 lbs since 1/07) so I am fearful of increasing my intake and stalling my weight loss.

I think that the protein does help with that - I am not a huge shake person and again, I am scared of slowing my weight loss. I am sure that it won't, I just don't want to mess things up since they have been working for me so far.

I am going to have to change things eventually if I want to work on building muscle once I get rid of the fat but part of it is breaking out of the old mentality, you know?

Losing the weight has helped with so many things, I don't know how I ever got around before :) I hope your friend has success, I thought about it at one point but the permanency of it scared me a little...

Hope you night was better than mine :D
 
I understand Ali. 1800 sounds like a pretty good amount but, I am no expert and I don't pretend to be :)

I'm bad at keeping track of things too but, I force myself to do it on this. I carry a notebook around with me constantly and write down what I am eating and how many cals and grams of protein it has in it. I even write down my workouts sometimes, crazy, huh?

My friend who is probably getting gastric bypass is much bigger than you were at your heaviest, according to what I have already read about you. I hope this works because at the rate she is at right now, I only see alive for a couple more years. Pretty sad because she is only 25....

Sorry about the shitty night....

Hope tomorrow is better,
Sam
 
sammyboy24 said:
I understand Ali. 1800 sounds like a pretty good amount but, I am no expert and I don't pretend to be :)

I'm bad at keeping track of things too but, I force myself to do it on this. I carry a notebook around with me constantly and write down what I am eating and how many cals and grams of protein it has in it. I even write down my workouts sometimes, crazy, huh?

My friend who is probably getting gastric bypass is much bigger than you were at your heaviest, according to what I have already read about you. I hope this works because at the rate she is at right now, I only see alive for a couple more years. Pretty sad because she is only 25....

Sorry about the shitty night....

Hope tomorrow is better,
Sam
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I have the worst attention span in the known universe...I know enough about myself to know that I have never succeeded at writing down what I eat, I get distracted way to easily...

Now, that being said I kind of keep a mental diary of what I have eaten through the day and have managed to keep myself in check that way.

I don't think you are crazy for writing down your workouts, again if I could pay attention for longer than a millisecond, I would probably be able to do the same thing :)

I went to the gym last night, squatted 60lbs which is a new record for me ~ went back this morning and felt like I was doing the elliptical through a bed of concrete...I am sure it has to do with the fact that I am tired, things are always so much harden then.

I am moving forward, trying to eat if I am hungry, blah blah blah :)

Work sucks right now, I am so busy I could just scream! People are pissy and it just makes things so unpleasant.

On the bright side I have a small piece of ham pie for lunch today :D It sounds disgusting but is OH SO YUMMY. mmmmmmmmmm....
 
Damn it.

My day just went to hell, along with the better part of my week I think. ARGH...

this is when I would normally stuff my face, I need new habits.
 
I think I will take 'get even' for $1000, Alex...

I love it - sometimes there should be a legal way to shoot people...
 
maleficent said:
gotta voodoo it up then - gotta send that bad mojo on to someone else - i have alistof poeple if you want :D
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Thanks ~ I definately gotta pass it on and SOON...I could come up with my own list but at this point that would be my entire client base...sigh...
 
I hate breaks in routine...it always messes me up.

Tonight I had to help a friend w/her taxes and then spent my night reviewing a file I need to cover in court tomorrow...I ordered dinner and then didn't eat it b/c I had picked enough before-hand that I wasn't really hungry. No good calories there and by the time I finished my stuff I was shaking from what I can only guess was low blood sugar.

I eat a little of my dinner and only end up feeling bloated.

Ack. I hate this - I am so off balance, I have had just the week(s) from hell at work and I just can't find my groove. I am sick of looking like this and just want to get things moving quickly (yeah, I know slow and steady and all that shit but really, does anyone really believe it???) and get to my goal so I can start shaping myself.

Tomorrow I will spend my morning in the Camden County Courthouse, which, coincidentally is in Camden...otherwise known as the most dangerous city in the good old USA 2004 and 2005 (#5 in 2006 :))

That is always a good time...
 
Well...I made it out of Camden only feeling like I needed to take a shower (God I love that place :)). Now I am back in the office and starving...I have a salad, I'll eat that and see if it quiets me belly down...

I did my second day of squats at 60lbs...I am thinking I could probably take it to 65 but I don't want to push it too much. I am increasing my weights as I need to start pushing myself more and more - I don't want to become complacent.
 
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