walk up in the world & cut the lights off / confidence is a stain they can't wipe off

Alyssa, beautiful job! Is it evil to want the relatives to notice? F$%^ no! Dammit you are putting in the work, be noticed! Bask and revel in it! My family knows what I did but they are still amazed, and nothing equated to when my cousin met up withme over the summer. She walked up, said "holy shit!", and then proceeded to grab my shoulders and tweak them saying "wow, and these are new too!" because I was never ever muscular in the past as well.

Enjoy it milady, even if there is an aspect of anything resembling vanity involved, if it helps to motivate...

Yay on the good looking clothes too!
 
Hey Cab,
Thanks for the confirmation on how un-evil I'm being by being showy to my awful relatives over my weight loss. I think maybe I still know its a bit vain and evil, but was looking for confirmation that maybe it's not so bad? Ohhh, I'm just the worst :)

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Have to hit the gym again today, which I'm not overly-psyched about... I don't like going two consecutive days; I like a little recooperation time, but Wednesday is going to be insane getting ready for Thanksgiving, and I'm obviously not going ON Thanksgiving; won't be able to make it in on Black Friday or on Saturday (both days 11:00 doubles at work, boo), so I'll be lucky if I have the time, strength or energy to make it in on Sunday.

We also now have three additional Thanksgiving guests, which I was not planning on. They're bringing extra food, which complicates my plan to budget the night before.

Sounds more like a challenge to me.
"And I will accept that challenge!" -Barney Stinson
 
Hi, I've been seeing you pop up in diaries so thought that I would come and read yours and I'm glad I did because I really enjoyed it and found it very inspiring.:)
About your auties, definitely not evil and make sure you look your absolute best when you see them and enjoy watching their jaws drop in amazement.
Val
 
ecky said:
Hi, I've been seeing you pop up in diaries so thought that I would come and read yours and I'm glad I did because I really enjoyed it and found it very inspiring.:)
About your auties, definitely not evil and make sure you look your absolute best when you see them and enjoy watching their jaws drop in amazement.
Val
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:) Thanks, Val, I appreciate it. And congratulations on moving in on your goal!

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I survived Thanksgiving!
Neither sloth nor turkey nor Bud Light slowed me down in the slightest.
Of course, it was a rougher week than usual both food and fitness-wise (I managed to sneak in a gym session yesterday after work, and I'm not used to working out so late in the week), but I lost 1 pound anyway, and I call victory.

On a sadder note, I had to try on probably 15 different shirts today before walking out the door, because I feel like everything I own is now unflattering, too big, or makes me look boxy. It's really, really frustrating. I still felt fairly stylish in the clothes I was wearing almost 75 pounds ago, so it makes me sad to see all my favorite clothes go to waste.

But on the brightest note of all, I went out to the mall this past Wednesday and bought 3 -- count 'em, 3 -- pairs of size 14 jeans.
I about dropped.
In June, I was in 20's and nearing the point of 22's.

:) Life...
is good.

Next stop: spend the next 3 weeks cranking out cardio, toning, and sheer discipline, so that my aunts won't have a thing to jaw on about come the 18th.

Hope everyone enjoyed their holiday; cheers!

Oh, I almost forgot --
1. Still using Weight Watchers; don't know how many people here are familiar with the program, and the "points" system, but at my current weight, I am allotted 28 points per day. I was skimming through an old journal of mine and found a page that tracked roughly how many points I was consuming on an average Sunday, around the time I started losing weight -- 72 points.
That blows my mind. I think my stomach would explode if I ate anywhere near that today.

2. Within the next couple days, I'll have pictures from Thanksgiving up, which I'm excited about -- the new pictures will show a 15-pounds-lighter me, and I'm jazzed to show them off!
 
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Hey soco,

COngrats on the new jeans. Its such a buzz getting a newer smaller pair. I can't wait to fit into s14. Wow that was so nice of the lady in the shop to complement you. Sometimes people are too embarrassed, but its such a buzz for us aye...

I'm ready to do some hard out exercise for the next few weeks as well. Its a great goal to be looking fabulous for you family do... show those aunties! :)

anna
 
Glad to hear life is so good!! Moving to a smaller size in jeans must been so exciting! I thought that I needed a size smaller when I tried on a pair of my skinnier-type jeans the other day... Then I noticed that to counteract the skinniness, I had apparently purchased the jeans one size up from all my others! Argh!

I feel your pain on the clothes being too baggy. I always liked my shirts a little loose, and now, with less than a 15 pound loss, I am finding my clothes to be ridiculously huge. Partly because of the loss and partly because I'm just a tad bit more confident now and want to show off a little more! Just think of the potential shopping spree, though! 100% justified!
 
Hey there, great diary, best of luck with 16th of december and those aunt soccer-moms you have to see... give them hell :)
 
Thanks for stopping by, everyone!
I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one with both clothing victories and clothing woes.

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Pre-note sidenote: Michigan chooses December 1st to, for the first time this season, throw some snow on the ground that actually STICKS. Hallelujah!

So, no new pictures up yet. Forgot the camera to load them, but they're cute. Part of me wants to wait another 10-15 pounds before I put up new pictures, to show a 25-30 pound difference instead of 15, but I get impatient.

Went through my clothes yesterday for the first time in probably a year; ditched probably 1/3 of my clothes, most of them because they're now too BIG! I'm not used to that; usually in my clothes-sorting, I'm ditching clothes because they're too small.

I also re-discoverd a few choice outfits I haven't worn in a long time because I've been too big for them, and now they fit just as well as they used to :)

Staying on track for the most part food-wise; will have managed 4 cardio sessions between my last weigh-in and the one on Saturday, but the stress of trying to find a job (or, as would surprise my mother, NOT trying to find a job until the 11th at the earliest) is distracting me a bit.

I can't believe how grateful I am to have this forum to visit.
Everybody is so ace and so positive and so inspiring and so very, very wonderful, and on days where I know I should go to the gym but don't have the fight in me to do so, I just come here, and after a half hour or so, I'm rearin' and ready.

'Cause "if you want a revolution, the only solution? EVOLVE.

Cheers!
 
I'm not crazy about double-posting in one day, but I'm off to the gym, and this is the music currently keeping me jazzed up:



"My head is swole, my confidence is up.
This stage is my pedestal, I'm unstoppable.
Incredible hulk, you're trapped in my medicine ball
I could run circles around you so fast, your fuckin head'll spin, dawg
I split your cabbage and your lettuce and olives
I'll fuckn' pick the world up and I'ma drop it on your fuckin' head."
-Eminem and Lil Wayne

If you gettin off track, and you wanna get back, it may take a lot of work -- won't break your back. If you wanna revolution, the only solution? Evolve."
-Kermit Quinn

"Now eveybody watchin' what I do. Come walk in my shoes, and see the way I'm livin' if you really want to. I got my mind on my money and I'm not goin' away. So keep on gettin' your paper, and keep on climbin'. Look in the mirror and keep on shinin'. Til' the game ends, til' the clock stops, we gonna post up on the top spot."
-Rihanna & T.I.

"This time, I'll have no fear. I'll be standing strong and tall.
Turn my back towards them all.
And I'll be awful sometimes... weakened to my knees.
Bnd I'll learn to get by on the little victories."
-Matt Nathenson
 
Clothing clearouts and buying new sizes RAWKS!!! Best feeling in the world (well...nearly...!!) Congrats on the progress, keep on going AND

Stick it to the ugly (personality) sisters!!! *Jay says with a VERY evil smile*
 
:) Thanks, Jay.

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New pictures up in my Before, After and In-Between thread entitled '60 pounds and stoppin' for nothing'. Lookin' jazzy, that's for certain.

Nothing much new to report.
The eliptical I was on yesterday had some strange incline setting, and I have no idea what the standard is that I usually use, so I sort've got my ass kicked. My thighs are killing me.

Oh well, that's 600 calories that won't be settling in my system!
BOOM!

Have a good one, everybody.
 
This week... was a bad week for weight loss.
On the same day I posted last, I made the brilliant decision of heading over to my best friend's house to watch Sunny in Philly and a movie.
Somewhere amidst that decision, we worked in drinks, smoked twice, ate our body weight in cashews, and ate probably the most buttery popcorn I've ever eaten in my life.
And it was delicious, but I gained a pound. Boo.

Myself only to blame, on Saturday (my official weigh-in day of the week), I started a "Get Back Up 7-Day-Challenge", because I'd like to lose another few pounds before the 18th (the dreaded reunion with my venemous aunts), so I'm not using any of my extra food allowance this week, and am hitting the gym for an extra 5 minutes every time I go. Small sacrifices. Hardly hurting me so far.

On a better note, I finally feel like my arms are taking shape, toning up, losing fat, might be acceptable to wear in fairly short sleeves, etc.
Feels like a strange body part to have been self-conscious about, but it feels good to get over it.

Anyway. I hope everyone has an ace week; wish me luck!
 
Best of luck with this week, I need to take a leaf out of your book and actually get to the gym in the first place...
 
Hey SOCO, your evening sounds pretty fun. Maybe worth it I think? I like the idea of a 7 day challenge, and also the adding 5 min. Let us know how you get on :)

I've decided to ad 4 lenghts each time I go to the pool (until xmas - then a new goal I think).

anna
 
So it's been a rough couple of days.
Food-wise, I've done well, but in terms of exercise, not so much.
I ended up hitting the gym on Monday, but got a call right before heading in that informed me that my best friend's boyfriend took the liberty of smashing her face into a steering wheel the day before, so I was stressed as all hell from that, and only got in about a half hour.

I gave myself a day to recouperate, and was planning on heading in today, but last night out of literally nowhere, developed what feels a lot like a stiff neck, but also happens to extend down my back some? It's all on the left side and has left me in pretty intolerable pain.

Sooo, bad or not, I'm cranking up the illegal painkillers and hoping this goes away by tomorrow.

It's just been
one'a those weeks :(

PS: A link to me being adorable --->

and

A link to me being very angry about my recent slump --->
 
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I hope the stiff neck eases up for you.. everyone around me has been coming down with some sort of illness lately, my flatmate is practically bed ridden claiming flu, colleagues are off work- must be a massive case of seasonal affective disorder spreading around or something! Good luck with the rest of the week.
 
Hey love the photos, you look great!
That's great about your arms, I'm getting there too thank god. I've always been a big arm hider but now they're starting to look so much better. Yay for doing all those reps with hand weights every day!
Sorry to hear about your mate, hope everything is OK...
 
Thanks, Jess, as it turns out, the friend thing was a big misunderstanding. Actually sort've indicative of a bigger problem, but at least no one's laying hands on her.

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SO I'M NOT SURE THAT ITS THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR!!!

Not with all these work shifts, and me coming down with an upper respiratory infection. I'm trying to ward it off as much as possible, and hit the gym as many times as is humanly possible before I cough up a lung. Gotta keep it up. King-Leonidas style.

My weigh-in on Saturday put me at 189 pounds -- a loss of 6 pounds for the week (though I have good reason to believe it's a culmination of the past two weeks, as I gained a pound the week prior), and oh yeah... putting me in the 180's :)
It has been a very, very long time since I've seen that number. I was very proud of myself.

Three more days until the dreaded trip up to GR to stick it to those awful aunts of mine. I think I should do fine :)

Hope everyone's staying warm!
Cheers!
 
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