Lisa's Final Countdown, The Good Days, the Bad, & the Ugly

great job with the 4 pound loss in less then a week!!! You are doing GREAT! You have found your niche! Stay with it girlie. I'm so happy for you!
 
douknowjello said:
ZOMG!!! Holy CRAP!!!! My weigh in days are Friday so I weighed myself today two days early just out of curiosity. 328.8

I'VE LOST FOUR MORE POUNDS!!!!!

I'm shocked...I'm having better results than on any strict diet, I'm not having horrible cravings or starving myself or beating myself up...and it hasn't even been a full week and I've lost FOUR more pounds?

WOOHOOO!!!!!:party:
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:cheers2::party::cheers2:

You Da Bomb!!!
 
Thanks guys :D And I've never been called "da bomb" before. Been told I blew up the bathroom yes....."da bomb" no, lol. Can ya tell I'm tired and don't care what I write atm? lol. Anyways I so appreciate having all this support, it's making all the difference.

This week has been crazy though, and one of the most stressful. Weird that I'm having one of my most successful times of weightloss in the middle of chaos where nothing else is going right. That's reassuring to me because if I can do this now, when I've never been able to hold it together in these circumstances before, then that's something.

I'm probably starting to sound like a broken record by now, sorry. Guess after having an "epiphany" I'm just still so shocked. Society has us convinced that weightloss is supposed to be complicated and hard and if you don't suffer every step of the way then you just don't have willpower. Then of everything I've ever tried just trying to eat healthy and counting my calories and I'm losing more weight than on any strict crazy diet. I'm definitely SOL though because when I've lost 200lbs I could never write a book on it and make my fortune...too simple and would never take up more than a page, lol.

Anyway SO glad I'm feeling better healthwise too or I'd have had a nervous breakdown yesterday. The awesome job my husband got fell through, AFTER he had already quit his other job. He was told it was his but since they'd had so many people quit after the first week they told him to come in this Monday for training and if he liked it, it was his. At the end of that day they were very pleased and the hiring guy was setting up the rest of his training when the owner walks in and says hold up, he had to talk to him first. End result apparently the owner gave the job to some other guy who'd done the route before without talking to the guy that does the hiring and shoved my husband out.

I guess on the upside my husband is top on the list now if another opening does happen...which is rarely. But part of me says why would he want it now...I'm seriously pissed. And they KNEW he put in notice and quit his other job. So anyway upside is that my husband was able to get his job back but he hasn't been making enough money there in the first place and now we're going to be short a two week paycheck. Plus his schedule is completely different and we won't be having any days off together at all now.

Needless to say I'm a bit stressed about finances considering we just bought our first home in July. But things always have a way of working themselves out so I'm telling myself to not stress, God has it handled.

I'm going to go catch a nap I think but then I have to study for a huge exam next week...I'm so behind on my studying for my classes its not even funny.

On a happier note, I can't wait to weigh in tomorrow and log my weight for the sept. challenge :)
 
Hey Lisa. Figured I'd drop in and say hello, since I haven't visited before. Also wanted to thank you for the well wishes in my journal.

Looks like I stopped in at a good time. Scale is heading in the right direction.

Congrats. :)

Sorry about the finances and your husband's job. I hope all things work out.
 
Lisa, that really sucks about the money issues... I feel ya, but...

You're still doing excellent on the weight loss and getting healthy, don't let stress sabotage you. You're right, things generally ahev a way of working out somehow, they just usually need a little push sometime.

I'm pulling for you.
 
I know what you mean about the money issues. It really sucks that the company did that BS to your husband! That even makes me mad for him! Good luck with weighing in tomorrow! I can't wait to hear the good news. Hope your nap and studying goes well!!
 
Steve said:
Hey Lisa. Figured I'd drop in and say hello, since I haven't visited before. Also wanted to thank you for the well wishes in my journal.

Looks like I stopped in at a good time. Scale is heading in the right direction.

Congrats. :)

Sorry about the finances and your husband's job. I hope all things work out.
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Hey Steve, I have you and Mal to thank for talking to me when I got restarted and helping me get my head on straight about this dieting mentality and getting motivated. It's weird looking back at what I was doing now and seeing how compulsive and NOT helpful it was....I was setting myself up to fail and making myself sick doing it. Now I can work in getting compulsive about the exercise instead, lol. Thanks for the support :)

And thanks about my husband's job, I'm ok now though...just needed some sleep.
 
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bmohearn said:
I know what you mean about the money issues. It really sucks that the company did that BS to your husband! That even makes me mad for him! Good luck with weighing in tomorrow! I can't wait to hear the good news. Hope your nap and studying goes well!!
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Thanks Brandy, my husband's friend who told him about the job called my husband today and when he found out the end result he was MAD and called this guy to chew him out. So I felt better, even if he didn't do it and was all talk I'll pretend he did because somebody needed chewed out about this, lol.

Plus don't worry too much...once my hubby got his job back the crisis was averted but I guess I was stuffing all this until things were ok and venting after the fact. I was looking at our bills and I have worked alot of overtime the last month so we should be ok, plus we had a little bit of savings left even though I had alot of car repairs this month. We'll just have to watch it. Which eating at home and healthier instead of eating fast food all the time I'm sure helps :D lol

But anyway my nap turned into me sleeping until 2am :X. I missed dinner and got up and ate some cottage cheese and pineapple. For once I guess all this stress has been good on my calories cuz I'm not turning to food...actually forgetting to eat. I'm not complaining, lol. Thanks for bein supportive *hugz* ~Lisa
 
Oh and calories yesterday, and yea I'm counting the cottage cheese and fruit even though it's after midnight. It'll even out anyway, lol.

Total calories for Thurs.: 1,681
 
Hi Lisa,

I'm glad that everything is working out with the financial situation. That is so wrong that they did that to him! I am on the same page with you as far as missing hubbies goes. I'm a wreck. My broken record: It won't be forever. If I keep singing that song, it just may stick in my head eventually! Keep up the great work! I can't wait for your weigh-in tomorrow! (and mine too! hehe!!)
 
pastelroses said:
Hi Lisa,

I'm glad that everything is working out with the financial situation. That is so wrong that they did that to him! I am on the same page with you as far as missing hubbies goes. I'm a wreck. My broken record: It won't be forever. If I keep singing that song, it just may stick in my head eventually! Keep up the great work! I can't wait for your weigh-in tomorrow! (and mine too! hehe!!)
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Yea it sucks we finally find the right guy and then never see them, lol. But I'm not in as bad a shape now as you....I was going days without seeing him. Now I'll see him at some point every day just not have a full day off with him.
 
Meh....I screwed up my weigh in today, lol. After taking a "nap" that lasted until 2:30am and missing dinner, I got up and had cottage cheese and pineapple and drank a ton of water. I wasn't able to go back to sleep so now at 6:30am I thought I'd weigh myself. Since this isn't my usual morning "weigh in" of weighing on an empty stomach after I've slept I was bound to be disappointed. The scale said 330.4. So no biggie...weight can vary so had I done a normal weigh in I'd probably still be lower but being honest I logged the weight for this morning for the Sept. 1% challenge instead of Wednesday's weight. 2.5 pounds is still great :) And I'll just be padding for next week :X. I'm not changing my ticker until I get a second proper weigh in though!! lol
 
The scale can be so fickle! It's still great that you have a new low to bounce in between though. I only update my ticker when I hit a new low. It keeps me encouraged to see the smaller number instead of going back and forth!
 
Me too Brandy! lol


Oh and Kristi...fickle is not the word. So check THIS out...just to support what everyone in this forum tells us when the scale freaks somebody out.
I went back to bed finally because I got tired...around 8am (I work midnight shifts so this is ok, lol). I just got up and all I did was pee.....lost a whole pound, lmao. Tell me that's not crazy? So Friday weigh in 329.6. You can bet I'm takin that...goin to edit my challenge right now, lol.
 
So today's calories so far: 1,000...on the nose, lol.

And I'm not hungry and it's 8pm. Soooo...I think I'm going to take some fruit with me to work and leave it at that because tomorrow morning I think I want some hashbrowns & gravy :) lol Once in a while on paydays when my hubby and I used to work same shift we'd go to the bank in the morning and also get breakfast at this little diner. He works midnight tonight like me for the first time in a LONG time so that's what we're probably doin in the morning...unless he's too tired and cops out on me.
 
Congrats on the official weigh in, nice work!!

I hate scales... I have found as a rule that I can lose typically around 4 -5 lbs just by going to bed and getting up in the afternoon! Never quite worked it out... I'll get up to pee a couple times, but...

I have been trying to ignore the scale this week, it is scaring me :eek:

I'm up like 4 lbs from Monday... I tend to do this, because of my weird schedule, I tend to rise slightly towards the weekend. Then come monday, I turn my schedule around again and drop weight. I Actually dropped 8 lbs once from saturday to monday... (of course there was a lengthy period of time spent in a hot tub that saturday, involving alcohol and very little clothing:sifone:) Sorry, TMI.

See ya!
 
We could market that....the amazing Nakid Hotub diet, lose 8lbs in a weekend, lol.

So yesterday I had some fruit so my ending cals ended up bein 1,170. Didn't go to breakfast though cuz hubby was too stressed...another story. Anyway I'll be back on later, time to get some sleep!
 
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