The amazing shrinking woman (I hope!)

Hi TP!!

Just in town for a few minutes to recharge!

Hope you are doin ok....seen a lil blurb about an unwoosh and a banana split. I've been unwooshing for about 2 weeks. I know its gonna hurt when I jump on the scale next week. (I aint going to ruin my vacation befroehand! )

Hope youa re doing ok and lookin forward to some motiviation next week!

Take care and have a great weekend!
 
Flumes said:
Hi TP!!

Just in town for a few minutes to recharge!

Hope you are doin ok....seen a lil blurb about an unwoosh and a banana split. I've been unwooshing for about 2 weeks. I know its gonna hurt when I jump on the scale next week. (I aint going to ruin my vacation befroehand! )

Hope youa re doing ok and lookin forward to some motiviation next week!

Take care and have a great weekend!
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HEY THERE!!! Thanks for taking the time to stop by while you were home! I can't wait to hear about your nice long vacation - I have to live vicariously thru other people's vacations this year because I don't think I'll be taking one. I used ALL my sick and vacation time last winter when I broke my arm - so now I have to wait till it builds up again before I take any long vacations.
 
Well, got home tonight to find that my oldest and youngest had just finished having a cheese whiz fight in my dining room. Spray cheese EVERYWHERE!!! My husband had been on the phone in the other room when war broke out. I was NOT HAPPY! :cuss:

Today was supposed to be my rest day, but I was so mad that I changed into shorts and a t-shirt and hopped on the treadmill. I was going to run till I wasn't so ticked off. But then I started to have some clothing problems... I was lazy last weekend and didn't do laundry, so this morning I was forced to wear my old undies that don't exactly fit any more. And as I was running, they kept falling down and hung down below the bottom edge of my shorts (which was the only thing keeping them from falling completely off). I was trying to run on the treadmill and not fall off while reaching into the back of my shorts to fish my undies back up into place when my husband walked in. :blush5:

I thought he was going to die laughing as he asked me if I needed some help. I told him yes, he could stand behind me and hold my panties up while I finish running! It made me start to laugh though and I couldn't be mad any more. I was also giggling too much at what I must have looked like that I couldn't really run decent any more - so I quit for the day.

So now I'm relaxing, sipping a glass of wine and reading journals. Then I REALLY need to get some laundry done!
 
Tigpuppy said:
I think I've been spoiled for the first part of my weight loss journey - I had a pretty steady downward trend until recently. It seems like the closer I get to my goal, the slower the weight is coming off.

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But I think it's important for those watching me to see if I can reallty accomplish my goal by changing my lifestyle enjoy occassional treats like this. So many of them won't even try to make the least changes to their eating habits because they think what I'm doing may be to restrictive for them, and therefore they won't even attempt it.

Well, I'm off to catch some Z's because I have to get up at the butt crack of dawn tomorrow to drive up to the city for work. Hope all you lovely losers (weight losers that is!) are doing fabulous tonight!
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I have heard that it is sometimes harder to lose weight the closer you get to your goal. I'm sorry it's starting to get difficult for you. But you're so close and I know you won't give up now. Keep pushing. You will reach that goal. :)

And I agree, it is really important for them to see what you're doing because so many people are just completely unwilling to make the sacrifice. You are setting the example of what making some sacrifices can do. You never know... you could be the example that changes the mind of just one other person so that they do what it takes to live a healthier life, too. :)

Hehe, it's amusing that we're losers. We are that, but as corny as it sounds, we're winners too. :D

Also, I loved the story about the frogs. It's little moments like that that make me really want to have a family. It's precious. Hehe, I'm sure it didn't feel that way when it was happening, but it was precious for me reading it.

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For the first time today I was brave enough to wear what I call a 'skinny top' to work. We had casual day today, so I got to wear some jeans from about 10 years ago (I think they were a size 8 or 10 - I can't remember) and a t-shirt, the type that teens and 20 somethings wear and is longer (down to my hips) and is very clingy and form fitting (size medium 8-10). I would NEVER have dared to wear something like this in public before because everyone would be able to see my rolls, especially on my back. I was really self concious at first, but after a while (and getting many compliments) I felt more confident.

Tonight after my run I was talking to my mom on the phone (she called right as I finished up my run and was cooling down) and she mentioned how much she admired me for losing all this weight and getting into shape. She said she has a theory though... Science has proven that all matter is constant - it just changes form and shifts around. Her theory is that all the weight I'm losing is flying thru the air somehow and landing on her!
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Wow, I am so pleased for you wearing that outfit and feeling so confident. I can't wait for the day when I can do that, as well. :)

Your Mom's theory made me giggle. :D But it is really nice that she admires what you're doing. I would love to hear that from my mother someday and even more than that, see her follow my example.

Tigpuppy said:
Today was supposed to be my rest day, but I was so mad that I changed into shorts and a t-shirt and hopped on the treadmill. I was going to run till I wasn't so ticked off. But then I started to have some clothing problems... I was lazy last weekend and didn't do laundry, so this morning I was forced to wear my old undies that don't exactly fit any more. And as I was running, they kept falling down and hung down below the bottom edge of my shorts (which was the only thing keeping them from falling completely off). I was trying to run on the treadmill and not fall off while reaching into the back of my shorts to fish my undies back up into place when my husband walked in. :blush5:

I thought he was going to die laughing as he asked me if I needed some help. I told him yes, he could stand behind me and hold my panties up while I finish running! It made me start to laugh though and I couldn't be mad any more. I was also giggling too much at what I must have looked like that I couldn't really run decent any more - so I quit for the day.
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This is so funny and sweet and endearing at the same time. I'm glad that it helped you feel better. Perhaps you should wear underwear that don't fit well more often when you're mad? :D
 
Tigpuppy said:
Well, got home tonight to find that my oldest and youngest had just finished having a cheese whiz fight in my dining room. Spray cheese EVERYWHERE!!! My husband had been on the phone in the other room when war broke out. I was NOT HAPPY! :cuss:

Today was supposed to be my rest day, but I was so mad that I changed into shorts and a t-shirt and hopped on the treadmill. I was going to run till I wasn't so ticked off. But then I started to have some clothing problems... I was lazy last weekend and didn't do laundry, so this morning I was forced to wear my old undies that don't exactly fit any more. And as I was running, they kept falling down and hung down below the bottom edge of my shorts (which was the only thing keeping them from falling completely off). I was trying to run on the treadmill and not fall off while reaching into the back of my shorts to fish my undies back up into place when my husband walked in. :blush5:

I thought he was going to die laughing as he asked me if I needed some help. I told him yes, he could stand behind me and hold my panties up while I finish running! It made me start to laugh though and I couldn't be mad any more. I was also giggling too much at what I must have looked like that I couldn't really run decent any more - so I quit for the day.

So now I'm relaxing, sipping a glass of wine and reading journals. Then I REALLY need to get some laundry done!
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LOL, I was drinking tea while reading that and nearly choked on it. :D
 
I've been crabby, so didn't want to come on here and spread the crankies. It'll be that TOM in a week - so I'm sure that's why I'm low on patience and in full bitch mode. And believe it or not, but with 4 little girls in this house - they experience a kiddie version of PMS too. They misbehave more, get into more trouble, fight with each other more, etc, etc, etc.

My 9 year old has been giving us attitude all weekend about getting her chores done, about eating meals, about picking on her sisters - everything it seems like. She was supposed to load the dishwasher before she could go out to ride bike today. After 3 hours of nagging, she finally got it done. She puts the soap in and I usually check her work, then turn on the dishwasher. Well, after I turned it on I was doing some other stuff in the kitchen. I turned around to find a river of foam coming from the dishwasher, flooding half my kitchen! I shut off the dishwasher, then hollered for my daughter to get her butt back in the house. I was fully prepared to ream her a new one cuz I was SO MAD!!! But her eyes nearly bugged out of her head when she saw the mess. Of course she refused to confess to anything, but I KNOW what she did. I just said I hope she learned a lesson, now grab a bucket and some towels because she was going to clean up the mess she helped create. We hauled 3 or 4 buckets full of soap suds out of the dishwasher, soaked almost every bath towel in the main bathroom with the mess on the floor. Later my 2nd oldest told me that her older sister was mad at me for making her do her chores, so she figured if I wanted clean dishes, she was going to get the REALLY clean and put regular liquid dish soap in the dishwasher, along with the regular dishwashing soap.

So with PMS week in full swing at my house I have to wonder if I have COMPLETELY LOST MY MIND!!! The reason is because I am planning a mini mother-daughter vacation for next weekend. My husband is leaving for the weekend with some buddies to compete in a 2 day shooting competition, and my 9 year old daughter is supposed to compete in the state archery tournament at the same time. So me and the girls (all 4 of them) will pack up and head to a hotel with an indoor water park near where the archery tournament will be held. By the time I get home from a weekend by myself with 4 misbehaving girls, I may be ready for a padded room and straight jacket.

The one good thing about the kids misbehaving so much lately is that it makes we want to run, run, run till my frustrations are gone. Which is probably why the scale said 148.6 yesterday morning when I stepped on! For once I think I'm going to pull thru a weekend without going backwards a bit in my weight loss.
 
That sounds stressful and you still have their teenage years to look forward to ;)
The hotel should be fun and I'm sure they will be too entertained there to misbehave so try and get a bit of relaxation in yourself.
Well done on losing more weight. You need to update your ticker You're about 4lbs lower now :)
 
eyckmans said:
You need to update your ticker You're about 4lbs lower now :)
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I know, but I'm kind of afraid to. Every time I do, I bounce back up about 3 lbs. When I finally moved it to 154, suddenly I was back up to 157, then when I changed it to 152, I jumped up to 155! I figured I'd give it a day or 2 to see where the scale wants to settle for this week... :)
 
I was looking thru my food log last week and I noticed that I tend to eat the same things over and over and over and over.... So for this week I have made a pact with myself to try 1 new thing a day, just to see if there are more things I'd like to add to my list of healthy foods.

And today I actually tried 2 new things! For breakfast I usually either have cereal with fruit or yogurt with fruit. This morning instead I had cottage cheese with a dash of pepper, a dash of all season salt, a dash of garlic powder and some diced onions. Oh man was it GOOD!!! I had also brought an apple along with to eat, but it didn't exactly go with my zippy cottage cheese. Would have been better with some veggies. OH!!! I bet that spiced up cottage cheese would be awesome as a veggie dip!

For lunch today I had h'orderves I guess you could say. Flumey-style. :coolgleamA: I put a spoonful of tuna on a garlic and herb pretzel cracker, placed a slice of cucumber on top of that, a bit of salt and pepper, and half of a ripe cherry tomato laying on top! Popped about 20 of them in my mouth and chowed down because they were SO YUMMY!!! Perfect for a hot summer day.

I seem to be on some sort of garlic kick lately - can't seem to get enough of the stuff! I put a lean roast in a marinade last night that I normally use for brisket. My family loves my melt in your mouth brisket, but it's so fatty I wanted a healthier alternative. Normally I make 20 or 30 lbs of it at a time, let it cook all day long, clean all the fat and icky stuff off, slice it, pull it and freeze it in single meal servings. They prefer my brisket for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner over turkey or ham even. So instead of slow cooking in the oven with all that fat, I'm trying a lean cut of meat in the crock pot with the same marinade (which by the way contains beef consumme, soy sauce, LOTS of minced garlic, lemon juice, and liquid smoke). I'll slice it and pull it like I did with the brisket. We'll see how it turns out I guess. It better turn out good because my mouth is already watering just thinking about it!
 
Tigpuppy said:
So with PMS week in full swing at my house I have to wonder if I have COMPLETELY LOST MY MIND!!! The reason is because I am planning a mini mother-daughter vacation for next weekend. My husband is leaving for the weekend with some buddies to compete in a 2 day shooting competition, and my 9 year old daughter is supposed to compete in the state archery tournament at the same time. So me and the girls (all 4 of them) will pack up and head to a hotel with an indoor water park near where the archery tournament will be held. By the time I get home from a weekend by myself with 4 misbehaving girls, I may be ready for a padded room and straight jacket.
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You are a brave woman. It sounds like a fun trip, with the water park and all, but with 4 kids... you are brave. :D Hehe, I do hope you have some good times though. I looove water parks. I'm pretty sure that if possible, I was a fish or some sea mammal in another life.

Tigpuppy said:
I was looking thru my food log last week and I noticed that I tend to eat the same things over and over and over and over.... So for this week I have made a pact with myself to try 1 new thing a day, just to see if there are more things I'd like to add to my list of healthy foods.

And today I actually tried 2 new things! For breakfast I usually either have cereal with fruit or yogurt with fruit. This morning instead I had cottage cheese with a dash of pepper, a dash of all season salt, a dash of garlic powder and some diced onions. Oh man was it GOOD!!! I had also brought an apple along with to eat, but it didn't exactly go with my zippy cottage cheese. Would have been better with some veggies. OH!!! I bet that spiced up cottage cheese would be awesome as a veggie dip!
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You're making me super hungry and after I am done writing this I will be able to be found in the kitchen, having some lunch. :p But I tend to do that, too... eat the same things all the time. I guess with weight loss you learn to trust eating what works for you, so you don't venture out as much to try new things. But it sounds like you're enjoying some yummy new treats. I'm really going to have to try your version of cottage cheese. :)
 
Hey TP!!!

Firstly, I just got caught up in your journal and am gigglin like a kid.....the frogs, then the spray cheese and then the dishwasher!
Too funny! I have two boys 7 and 9 and they are starting to develop attitude. The same attitude like you mention....like when it comes to chores, or teeth brushing, or dinner, or whos turn it is to pick up dog crap etc. Its getting more and more difficult and I can relate with the experiences you just wrote about.
The running undies was also funny!

You are doing great! And I love the humour in your thread.

Great job on the weightloss....you weighed in under 150.....so you are now in the 140's no matter how you look at it. Congrats!! Well deserved with your determination, (and doing it all while keeping a handle on four girls!)

Take care and hope you are havin a great evenin!
 
Hi Tigpuppy, I read all nine pages of your journal, and I love it. You are doing SUCH an awesome job- raising four girls and living a healthy lifestyle is no joke. Congratulations! I hear you on the weight coming off slowly as you reach the goal. But the key is to keep at it. That's what I keep telling myself. There are good days, and there are bad days, but one strives to have more good days than bad. I hope your week goes well. Next week is TOM for me too, so we can be bitchy together. Will come by and visit you more often (have been meaning to for a while as I have seen your posts in other WLF friends). Take care.
 
Flumes said:
Firstly, I just got caught up in your journal and am gigglin like a kid.....the frogs, then the spray cheese and then the dishwasher!
Too funny! I have two boys 7 and 9 and they are starting to develop attitude. The same attitude like you mention....like when it comes to chores, or teeth brushing, or dinner, or whos turn it is to pick up dog crap etc. Its getting more and more difficult and I can relate with the experiences you just wrote about.
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My 2 oldest are also 7 and 9, but at the rate they are going, they won't live to see 8 and 10! If you have any great words of wisdom on how to deal with the crap they pull, please share!
 
juni said:
Hi Tigpuppy, I read all nine pages of your journal, and I love it. You are doing SUCH an awesome job- raising four girls and living a healthy lifestyle is no joke. Congratulations! I hear you on the weight coming off slowly as you reach the goal. But the key is to keep at it. That's what I keep telling myself. There are good days, and there are bad days, but one strives to have more good days than bad. I hope your week goes well. Next week is TOM for me too, so we can be bitchy together. Will come by and visit you more often (have been meaning to for a while as I have seen your posts in other WLF friends). Take care.
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Thanks Juni! And thanks for stopping by!
 
Tigpuppy said:
My 2 oldest are also 7 and 9, but at the rate they are going, they won't live to see 8 and 10! If you have any great words of wisdom on how to deal with the crap they pull, please share!
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Well....we are not perfect parents by any means. Our kids our wild sometimes....but so far, they have been controllable.

Now, when the kids do something wrong, they get the 'dreaded three count' from me. 'One' is the equivalent of "If you kids have any explanation for what just transpired, you best be sharing it with Dad so we can resolve this without bloodshed"
Usually, what follows is a "He said this," and "He did that" and then it goes out of control again.
This is where the "Two" comes in. It is the equivalent of, "Yup Dad's serious. He's locked and loaded. If we don't smarten up, were gonna be blowin bubbles from both ends.
And if two didn't refresh their taste buds....'Three' is the equivalent of "Head to the washroom now cause its time for soap."

Now I can count on three fingers how many times they got the three count and actually got soap. And theres been about three other times where they were pardoned of the soap penalty in trade for some meaningful work...whether it was cleanup after an indoor squirtgun fight or erasing some dirty words they scribbled on a neighbours garage door <with permanent marker>.

But thats my way of dealing with them. My wife just blows a gasket and yells and screams...which is like teaching a pig to sing. It wastes your times and it irritates the hell out of the pig! The kids know shes just blowin smoke up their ass and they literally close their ears to it....(much like I do when when she focuses her voice on me lol). I on the otherhand strike when the iron is hot and stay in control. Voice is seldom raised unless it sounds the 'three'. And then you should see some sour faces.

One other thing.....From day one, I always rewarded my kids or praised them for doing good. And a saying "When you do good, good things happen" has been repeated to them since when they were young.

I don't know if that will help...and with my luck, it will run out soon as I am sure they will become more and more defiant. But so far...it aint too bad :)

Have a great nite!
 
I'm exhausted today. My husband left for his dart league and I sent the kids to bed around 8 Monday night, then got on the treadmill for my run. I had watched some videos of people running last week on some website (don't remember which for sure) and thought that they all looked so graceful, with long smooth strides. I feel like I take such short choppy steps and it makes running feel kind of awkward sometimes. So I was concentrating on trying to stretch myself out and take nice long strides like I saw in the videos. It felt GOOD! I really got into the zone and was thinking what a difference it made - I could go on like that for ages! I had just passed the 2 mile mark when I heard a crash from upstairs.

So I go up to find the kids are still up and hadn’t gone to bed when I sent them half an hour earlier. I chased them all back to bed (and stood there watching this time to make sure they were under covers with lights out) and then went downstairs to clean up the kitchen. I went to bed around 9:30 and was sleeping peacefully when sometime after 11:00 a noise woke me up. Went upstairs to check on the kids…

They were NOT sleeping. They were playing mermaids with Barbie dolls in the bathroom sink, which was plugged and was overflowing with water – all over the counter, down the front of the bath vanity, into the drawers and cabinets of the bath vanity (soaking all the extra towels, paper towels and toilet paper stored there), and ALL OVER THE FLOOR!!! The bath mat was soaked and water had seeped under the wood trim boards and was being absorbed by the drywall. There’s a good chance it’s ruined. If by chance it DOES dry out, it’ll need to be repainted because of water stains. The mirror on the medicine cabinet over the sink was also cracked.

Flumes, your counting to 3 wouldn’t even come close to being effective in this situation. I blew a gasket. I probably sounded a lot like your wife. I was positively livid with them. I mean what the hell were they thinking???!?!?! I told them to get into bed, out of my sight before I do them physical harm. As someone who grew up with an abusive father and has permanent scars because of it, I have always had a policy of not punishing my kids when I’m angry with them. I think it’s more effective to wait until I am in control of my emotions, and then come up with an appropriate consequence for what they’ve done. Plus, the wait for them is agony depending on how long it takes me to calm down. The longer it takes till they find out their punishment, the more they know just how badly they screwed up. I cleaned up the mess and went to bed. I laid there for hours because I was still so angry with them for disobeying and making a mess that I couldn't fall asleep.

It took me a whole day to figure out what their punishment would be because every time I tried to think about it, I’d get angry all over again. It made it especially hard because I was planning our mother-daughter mini vacation for this weekend. If I could have found someone to take my daughters place in the archery tournament on Saturday (it’s a 3 person team relay) I would have cancelled the whole thing. But I couldn’t, and it’s not fair to her team mates if I don’t let her go because they would forfeit. So I guess the mini vacation is still on. For now. They sure as heck better shape up though!

Yesterday was a LONG day at work, then last night I had to teach an archery class, then had a 4-H meeting afterwards. I didn’t get time to eat supper because when I got home from work they were forecasting thunder storms with possible hail, so I dashed out to hurry up and get everything picked or covered up in my garden before I had to leave for class. Finally got around to eating supper when I got home, and actually didn’t finish because I dozed off on the couch. Woke up and just went to bed. Didn’t even take time to lift weights. I guess I’ll have to do that along with my cardio tonight!
 
WHEW! Feeling great (mostly)! I just went 4 miles on the treadmill, but I walked about 1.5 miles of that. My feet started feeling REALLY hot, but I kept going. When I got off, I found I had blisters! The balls of my feet are one big blister - OUCH!

THen I lifted weights for about 45 minutes. Did a few stretches at the end, then had to go change clothes. They were soaking wet and the A/C was making me get chilled.

I just entered my foods for the day and found I'm about 300 cals short. But I'm too lazy to go find something to eat. I just want to find my bed now. Besides, I figure that I won't be eating very well this weekend on the mother-daughter mini vacation, so missing a few cals this week won't hurt.

I have to work in the city tomorrow, so I better get to bed. Not sure when I'll have time to post or read journals till we get back. I've given myself permission to skip my usual exercise routine until we get back. We'll be doing lots of swimming and walking though, so at least that's something.

Now if only I can figure out a way to make myself invisible while walking from our room to the pool with my swimsuit on! That always feels like some kind of walk of death for me.

Hope everyone has a great rest of the week and weekend!
 
That sounds like a lot of stress with the girls playing up. I remember myself and my 3 brothers and sisters driving my mum to distraction some days and she would lock herself in the bathroom and cry. I so remember the feeling of how bad we felt for making her feel like that.
I hope that you have a wonderful weekend and that you manage to relax a bit while you are there. Hopefully the girls will be so busy that they don't have time to get up to mischief.:)
 
Hi TP!

Sorry to hear about your rough night the other nite. In that case...I probably would have lost it too. lol Hope all is well there now and you got to have some R&R in there somewhere. I wish my kids went to bed at 8:00 pm lol They go to bed at 9:00 on school nites and during the summer, 11:00 (or later if we have a campfire goin at the cottage). (Can you tell we're not morning people!?!? lol)

I'm sure you look alot better now with having lost over 30 lbs and all that exercise. But that self conscious feeling is a tuff one to get over. This summer is first time in ages that I felt sorta comfortable with my shirt off....
I literally have to keep telling myself, "I look better than I did so I can do this!" I'm sure a psychiatrist would have a field day with me.

And after readin your last post...thats a lot of sweatin lol. You are doing fantastic. You'll be under 150 soon! Keep at it!

Have a great weekend and hope your kids behave.
 
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