Jessafurr's Slimdown for Mexico Trip

Oh no, avoid that cold with everything you have in your power. The current strain is like the cold from hell, it's knocked everyone I know out for a week. Drink a gallon of orange juice, take some Airborne, SAVE YOURSELF!!! Lol.

But seriously, I still have congestion from the cold and it's been 7 days.

Good luck dodging it!
 
waa. Totally sick. Approx 900 calories yesterday and 1000 today. I'm not going to stress on it though. Being sick took away my appetite. I sure my body knows if I'm eating enough. Its hard to build calories off of vegetable soup and herbal tea!
 

awww get well soon! i know what you mean. i was ill with a cold for about a week living of soup and hot drinks...lost 6lbs but tooo damn quickly and the wierd thing is they never came back!

have a good rest

;-)

x
 
Hi Jessafurr,
I hope you'll get better soon from your cold. Looks like there's a lot of ill people around this week!

I stopped by to wish you good luck with the nys-vday challenge since we're in it together.

India
 
Thanks so much, India! Good luck to you too with the challange. I think I'm going to weigh in tommorrow for it.

I'm still sick. I actually stayed home from work today. I ventured out to the store to get multi vitamens and theraflu. Hopefully I'll feel good enough this after noon to do some laundry and cleaning. I can't get my boyfriend sick cause he has a business trip to Texas next week. I want to de-germ the house the best I can before he comes home from work today!

Again I'm just gonna try my best to make 1200 for calories. My diet will consist of veggie soup, clementines, herbal tea, water and maybe some turkey chili if I feel better later. Plus I had a fat free chocolate pudding this am to coat my stomach before I took my antibiotics and vitamens. Exercise is unlikly other than cleaning.
 
Checked out "sparkpeople" I like fitday much better. Spark people is like Too Much!! Fit day fits my needs much better.
 
Sooo. I'm feeling a little better.

I guess these three days of not eating much will help because I'm going out to a nice dinner tommorrow night with my bf. My boss is treating us to dinner at this REALLY nice italian restuarant called Cafe Fiore. Very fancy. Its super teeny it only has like eight tables. I want to be able to splurge a little: food-wise.
 
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How are you feeling? Are you almost recovered?

Have fun at dinner, you totally deserve a splurge. Man, did I have a splurge today! Wine is bad for me. Lol.
 
I lose 4 lbs!!

Thanks Lana & Angel!!

My boss told me to take another day off to get better. I do feel better but definitely in recovery mode (tired easy, stuffy head, etc).

I did venture out to weigh myself. And I lost 4 lbs!! Waahoo! I try to only weigh myself 1 time per week so I don't get scale obsessive!

I managed to get 1200 calories yesterday and I'm sure I will get plenty today cause we're going out to dinner! I do plan to splurge a little so I'm going to eat light during the day.
 
Congrats on your 4 lbs honey!!! Woo hoo! What are you wearing to dinner with your boyfriend and your boss?

7 habits is 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. It's basically one of those books that pushes personal productivity and perspective. The first rule is proactivity. It's centered around the idea that you should care about what you can control, don't care about what you can't control and be wise enough to know the difference.

I'm glad your boyfriend appreciates what an awesome and laid back girlfriend you are. I think that sometimes men forget and occasionally the universe will remind them what a great thing they have. I just hope the universe reminds my fiance before my proactivity turns to throttling him. LOL.

Btw, I tried sparkpeople too. I also think fitday.com is much better. Sparkpeople just has way too much going on.
 
Disappointed. Sad. Tired of Being Chubby.

Ugh. I'm going to vent. I don't even know where to start. For the most part Dax and I have been getting along great the past few months. But every once and a while he says something that TOTALLY hurts my feelings. Like last night I am totally sick.. you know... no make up all day, nose chapped from blowing it, hair a mess, bla bla. and he's hammered cause he's stressed at work. So I'm like 'tommorrow's still cool right?' (dinner) and he say's "Well, are you going to look as good as you do now?" (in a negative way). So I was like: 'Screw you, you're drunk, leave me alone.'

Fast-forward to today. I'm still sick. Home from work. I pull it together at the end of the day, shower, do my hair, make up, etc.... Try to look especially cute. He strolls in at 5:35 pm (Our dinner reservation is at 6:00 PM!!!!!!) showers, throws on a dirty polo. We're 10 min late for our reservations (under my bosses name who is treating us). At dinner, as long as conversation is focused on him its fine. I order a glass of wine and I say to him "I should probably have only 1 glass of wine" He's says "why, cause you're a total bitch when you're drunk?" loudly... its a small restaurant so the lady at the table next to us gives us a look. I say "no, cause I've been sick and haven't had a drink since Dec 24." So, I make sure that I let him control the rest of the conversation (we talk about his work the ENTIRE time). (**I couldn't afford for any public embarrasssment-- I mean my boss had left his credit card with the owner --who he knows-- and this was a really nice restaurant: $50/plate.**). Anyway. The rest was uneventful other than him being mildly embarrassing.

The thing that also hurt was that he never said I looked nice or anything like that. I tried so hard to look good, after his mean comment the night before and NOTHING.

Then, I'm quiet. We stop by the grocery store. He's like "What's wrong? What's wrong? Sweetie, are you quiet cause you're sick???" I'm like "yeah".

OH! also --before all this --he calls from work and asks if we can move up our reservations earlier to "get it over with". I mean, this dinner probably cost my boss $300 --for two people! (!!!)

Any way I'm just bummed. I mean I totally BLEW my diet tonight, too!! So on top of it all I feel like a bloated whale!!!

Lets see I had: GARLIC BREAD, 2 pieces, 2 glasses of wine, eggplant crepes (1.5 small), pasta (like 2 cups linguini --I ate more cause I was upset--) with lemon butter wine sauce and seafood (muscles, shrimp, calamari, scallops). Then, I had a few bites of white chocolate ice cream w/ berries.

So now I'm home. He's TOTALLY OBLIVIOUS!!! Agh. Plus, this was our date night before he leaves for Dallas, for work, for a week. In Dallas, him and all his dipshit corporate croanies go to strip clubs EVERY night.

It just sucks that here I am -- I'm working SO hard on this diet. but I've just started so you can't see it yet. So great. I don't even get a 'you look good tonight, honey.' But all next week a chick who looks like a F-ing Slutty Barbie gets him shoving OUR money at her so he can oggle her BODY! Agh! It just sucks! Usually, strip clubs don't bother me but in this situation --It Sucks

Why are guys sooo insensitive sometimes?

Sorry, Guys, that I'm venting. I'm just bummed. I feel fat (probably the 2 lbs of pasta in my belly). I feel sick still. I'm buzzed (lol on only 2 glasses of wine). My feeling are hurt.

I wish I could flash to being skinny. I know its a long way ahead. Ugh.



**Don't worry guys I'll only use this to make me stronger. I'll wallow in it tonight but I'll make up for it in Fiber, protein and cardio. *sigh* I'm not even going to log the rest of today into Fitday -- I'll just chalk it up to an "over" day.

As soon as I'm better I'm hitting the gym HARD.
 
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Hi Jessa,
I'm sorry that you're feeling bad. I know that it's hard to stay on a diet when things go bad, and in such moments we all wish we had a time machine that could take us to the end of the diet.

I think that maybe you should talk to your boyfriend about the things he does that make you mad. It's always better to have these things out. Maybe if he knew he hurt you so much, he would stop acting this way. For example, instead of dismissing your being quiet saying that you're sick just tell him that you're mad because he treated you bad and that it makes you furious to think that he's going to spend your money in a strip club. Keeping these things inside will only hurt you.

A big hug, I hope you'll feel better soon.
India
 

hey jessa!

sorri to hear you had a bad day! i really thought you would have a nice dinner!

don't let it get to you...you are doing great. keep it up! dom't let yesterday influence what you are doing so well!

i think you should hav a word with DAX and see what made him do that. guys can be like taht but they should know when they do something hurtfull otherwise they stay oblivious to it and may carry on doin it.

hope you feel better sweety and have a better day!

:hug2:

;-)

x
 
Thanks Angel and India.

I actually told Dax how I felt before I went to bed last night. He said "I'm sorry" and "you did look good".. I explained to him that telling me "I look good" after I told him that I was upset because he didn't tell me earlier doesn't hold much water. Also I told him that this situation is what makes me get upset about stripclubs. I know that guys go to strip clubs. At least he's honest and tells me. It's just hard to think of him in a place like that when he is not making me feel special or attractive.

He basicly just said he was sorry -- no details or insight. Later, he came in and gave me a hug while I was sleeping and said he loved me.

So today I woke up early. Ate a healthy, high fiber breakfast and took vitamens & medicine. I feel a bit better today (cold-wise). I left the house before Dax woke up. I think I'm going to stay away all day (we both have the day off) to let things totally cool down. (So I react tactfully not emotionally).

Right now, I'm doing laundry at the laundrymat (we're having a problem with our washer), then I'm going to do a light workout at the gym (as much as I can handle with this cold). Then, I'll clean my car. Then, maybe I'll go see a movie. Or go in and do a little work at the office.

*Sigh* I'm not going to let this derail; me but I am bummed.
 
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hey jessa!

sorri to hear you had a bad day! i really thought you would have a nice dinner!
x

Sigh, I thought so too.

I think part of it is that Dax is uncomfortable in those types of situations: fine dining restaurants...etc. (He is a skater boy who sang in a punk band for years.) The thing is, when I asked him if he still wanted to go, a few days earlier, he was stoked on going. And he has no problem dressing up and looking nice for work related fuctions. I mean I barely ever expect him to dress up or go to a fancy place for me.

Last time my boss treated us at a nice restaurant, Dax acted like a jerk also (about a year ago). I wonder if I need to resign myself to the fact that it just isn't his thing and invite a girl friend next time. Part of me just wishes he could just be cool about it -for me- once in a great while. (Instead of us only doing things that he is interested in).
 
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Hi Jessa,
I'm sorry that you're feeling bad. I know that it's hard to stay on a diet when things go bad, and in such moments we all wish we had a time machine that could take us to the end of the diet.

I agree. Thanks for the advise about talking to him. Generally, I'm not a bottler but I've been trying to take a minute and watch what I say so I don't say something rudly which will turn it all into a fight (after a fight I never get my point across! It gets all mixed up with everything else.)

Don't get me wrong he hasn't acted like this in quite sometime. And we don't fight often. I think part of it too is that my self esteem is more fragile than usual because I'm heavier than usual.
 
I'm so sorry I missed all of this happening! First of all, Dax is being a completely oblivious guy but I'm glad he apologized to you. I know we women can be totally understanding and try to look past things when the guy is stressed out about work and what not, but sometimes, would it kill them to be nice about something that's important to us? I don't think it's too much to ask, so I think you should ask. I mean, really put it out there. You shouldn't have to take something that is special (and a very generous gift from your boss) and have to suffer through him ruining it! Tell him that those dinners are important to you and that it wouldn't kill him to be a nice gentleman to make you happy. Afterall, you do a whole lot to make him happy.

As for the strip clubs, you are a much more understanding woman than I am. If my fiance was spending money on strippers he would not be welcome home. But at least you have a good enough relationship that he's honest with you about it.

If it really bothers you though, you should tell him. It's not only a respect issue, it's a financial issue!
 
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