The amazing shrinking woman (I hope!)

jjjay said:
Anyhows, the weather is a bit too cold here for hot tubs!
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I have walked barefoot and wrapped in only a towel through the snow in sub freezing weather to and from a friend's hot tub. Luckily, it was only about 15 feet from the house...

Sorry for the hijack Tig, but I'm thinkin' you're getting a kick out of the subject matter anyhow :D
 
If you ever get the chance to sit in a hot tub while it's snowing big fat heavy snowflakes in frigid weather I highly recommend it! Nothing like it!
 
I've been to a spa in Germany where they had a water tunnel that you swam out into a very hot spa pool outside by the edge of the lake - it was snowing heavily and the lake was partially frozen but the pool was like a lovely hot bath!!
 
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
50 pounds is so amazing, well done Tigpuppy!

Geez that co-worker sounds like a mole! Those 3 minute wonder machines... PLEASE!!! She's obviously a few stubbies short of a six-pack :ack2:

As for the hot tub idea, OMG I must be prude of the century because I would be mortified if I had to do that! I'm one of those 'cover as much as I can' people and have been known to even swim in jeans though lol.

You should be so proud of yourself, it must feel bloody great to know that all your hard work has paid off (that night at the bar would have been cool)!
 
Ugh, today has been a lousy day. Got into a bit of a squabble with hubby last night. We were both mad - so I locked myself in our room and he left to go to the bar. After he was gone I spent the remainder of my evening with a bottle of wine and a bag of reeses peanut butter cups. I haven't done something that stupid in a long time. Feel lousy because of being slightly hung over, mad at myself for binging on the peanut butter cups, and to top it off I woke up with a sore throat this morning and it's just gotten worse as the day has gone on.

I took the day off today because the kids have it off from school. I had big plans for getting lots of stuff done, but you know what they say about the best laid plans... So..... Spent the day feeling yucky and crabby. About all I accomplished was a few loads of laundry and sweeping the floors.

I sure hope tomorrow is a better day.
 
Tig, must be a thing. I got into it with my wife yesterday morning, which spilled into last night, which rolled into this morning... finall y we ran out of gas and settled things out, we're better now, but... oy... arguing sucks
 
Hey Tigpuppy,
Just wanted to say WELL DONE on the 50 pounds....

I hope tomorrow is a better day for you two too! There's always 'making up' to look forward to :)

Anna
 
Just had a crappy weekend because I was sick the whole time (and still am). The sore throat has progressed and moved down into my lungs. I'm coughing like crazy and my voice comes and goes. I haven't run or exercised since last Wednesday because I was feeling so rotten. Would have liked to run, but I didn't think it would be such a good idea since it felt like I was breathing fire all the time because my throat was so sore.

I very rarely get sick, but when I do it seems like it really socks me a good one. Hopefully another day or 2 of rest and I'll be on the mend. If not, I've promised hubby that I will go see the doctor about it. The silly man is worried that I'll leave it go too long and it'll turn into pneumonia or something where I'll end up in the hospital and he'll be stuck at home dealing with 4 little girls all by himself!

The one good thing about being sick is that my throat is too sore to eat, and nothing tastes 'right' when I'm sick so I haven't been eating a whole lot. Quite a bit of chicken soup, which I know is thru the roof with sodium, so I'm sure I'll be nice and bloated for the next few days. And that TOM must be right around the corner again because I've been so crabby the last couple of days. I ought to be as big as the goodyear blimp here shortly!

Oh well. There's always time to get back on track when I'm feeling better. It's not like those 50 lbs I've lost will leap back onto my body overnight or anything.
 
Only worked half a day today because I had such a head ache from coughing so much. And no one could hear me on the phone because my voice disappeared on me.

So I came home, took some cough medicine and slept all afternoon. I feel quite a bit better, but sound horrible! I'm oncall for work this week and when the person in operations called me on a problem tonight she thought she had the wrong number because she said I sounded like a man!

I sent an e-mail to my best friend from high school today because it was her birthday today. We plan to meet for lunch in a couple of weeks. I can't wait to see her again because I haven't seen her since July - and about 20 lbs ago. Oh yea - and a different hair color ago. Did I mention I colored my hair last week? It was my reward to myself for getting to 50 lbs. I went from brown (with WAY too many grays) to dark red again. Auburn I guess they call it. My husband says my hair color fits my personality better now. :reddevil: My parents never allowed me to color my hair, so as soon as I was out of there, I went blond. I was blond all thru college and for quite a few years after that. Then I got sick of keeping up with touching up my roots and tried to dye it back to my natural brown, but it turned out BLACK! It was horrible! That's when I decided to go red. I stuck with red for a number of years. The last time I colored my hair was for my sister's wedding 10 years ago (summer of 2000). I got pregnant with my oldest daughter on my sister's wedding night. They tell you to avoid coloring or perming your hair while you are pregnant, so I guess I just got out of the habit during my baby making years.

I had to give hubby a hard time the other day because he SWEARS that I am now smaller than I was when we first got married. I told him he's getting forgetful in his old age and he just doesn't remember how I really looked back then. But then someone today commented on how every time they see me I've gotten smaller and smaller and that I'm melting away into nothing. They said that I must be close to my high school size already. It made me think that I must have been so fat for so long that no one even accurately remembers how skinny I used to be back then.

Well, it's about time that I finally wised up and did something about it!
 
The hair sounds lovely Tigpuppy, good on you, you so deserve to celebrate :)
That's outrageous to be back to High School size! Well done!
That'll never happen for me, I was a stick in HS. Believe it or not I was too skinny!
 
I hope that you're feeling better soon.
I've met a lot of people like your co-worker. It seems to offend them that I've put the work in to lose weight and many don't even seem to believe that I haven't used some sort of miracle diet. It really makes me mad.
 
High school huh? I have no intention of going there. I was a scrawny thing with no muskels to speak of. The hair sounds hawt by the way.
 
I was a skinny stick in high school as well. I was always busy with all kinds of activities, so never ate properly half the time. But I was never in any sports (detested them all) so had no muscle tone on my body at all. I was all skin and bones (and boobs too I guess - those dang things have always been a problem for me!) and not very healthy looking I don't think.

Lately I keep thinking about the fact that I want to put some nice toned muscles on my body, but weight lifting isn't my favorite thing in the world to do. If I do the work and achieve the look that I want, how does a person maintain that? Do you have to keep increasing the weight you lift to just maintain? If you stop will they disappear? Or do they stay as long as you keep eating well and your body doesn't have to burn the muscle on your body for fuel?

I think the reason I dislike lifting weights so much is that I don't know what I'm doing and my form is all wrong. It feels unnatural to me sometimes (probably because I've been doing it wrong all this time). I've been focusing lately mostly on my form before I add weights because I don't want to hurt myself (I've had back problems in the past). The worst have been squats. All my research tells me that I should go down till my butt is lower than my knees, but keep my heels on the floor. I read that this is a natural position for our bodies because babies often sit this way, our ancestors sat this way, as well as people in 3rd world countries still today. Well, until lately I couldn't do it. It seemed like no matter how hard I tried, my heels wouldn't stay down. And because I was on the balls of my feet, I struggled with balancing myself as well as the weight. I was beginning to think it was impossible until I watched a bunch of youtube videos of people doing it. And to add insult to injury my kids come up to me and drop right down with their feet flat on the floor and their little butts mere inches above their heels - THE BRATS!

So, I think in addition to weight lifting to build muscle and strength, I need to do something to increase my flexibility and balance. Would that be yoga? I have no idea, I know nothing about it except that it's always been fun to make fun of people doing yoga because it just looks silly to me. How is a Dog Licking Butt position a good exercise???? Guess I'll have to do some more research...
 
Yoga is a much better workout than you could imagine, but yes, it helps tremendously with flexibility. I was in a class for a bit with my wife, taught by a friend of hers. The only guy in the class... all the ladies were telling their hubbies to come down to the class 'cuz there is this one husband... I apparently set the bar... I met a few of the hubbies when the instructor's daughter got married, we all sat together. They were giving me shit for it. I told them go for it, give me all the crap you want, but I saw all your wives in some pretty compromising positions... who got the last laugh...:smilielol5: All good fun.

Maintenance come down to you I guess. I would say you probably would just keep going at a comfortable level for you if you are happy with what you see. Me? I've never been there. I was a geeky kid, followed by being a fat adult. Now I'm finally getting in shape and have yet to see a place where I would be satisfied. I want to look like my cousin tbh, but he was a U.S. Rower in the Olympics in '96 so I'm setting my benchmark pretty high...
 
Hope you are feeling better Tig - I too have a cough/cold thing at the moment, so I feel your pain hon!

I bet it will be a HUGE kick to see your friend again after so long and so many lbs - makes you feel the buzz of achievement all over again! Almost worth not seeing people for so long just to see their suprise!

I think looking after yourself a bit more - clothes, hair, nails, feeling good, comes when you start to feel far more optimistic about how you feel in your own skin. Its not about being vain but more about valuing yourself I think.
 
jjjay said:
I think looking after yourself a bit more - clothes, hair, nails, feeling good, comes when you start to feel far more optimistic about how you feel in your own skin. Its not about being vain but more about valuing yourself I think.
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That is so true. I used to just put on any old thing in the mornings now if I know that I will be leaving the house I am really careful to make sure that I look nice. My husband is a hair dresser and I hardly ever bothered getting my hair done but now I drive him mad as I'm there all the time getting my hair coloured, cut or blow dried.
I hope that your cold is a bit better. I've also got one. I thought that I wouldn't get anything as I have been so pumped full of antibiotics these last couple of weeks but viruses unfortunately aren't scared off.
 
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