Motivation

Hello all....

This website changed my life. ( : Sounds overly dramatic, but it is true. I hope to look back a year or so from now and think, "I am forever grateful......"  Anywho, I think my favorite part of cc, aside from all the great educational information, is the overwhelming support and friendship I've found here. I guess most of my life I've only trusted and truly befriended a handful of unique women---I hold my friends in the highest regard and do not take camraderie lightly. The women I have met here are seriously my spiritual twins! I always felt very alone in my weight loss journey----no more!

That said, I think my cc girls, and you know who you are, are the best! ( :   My buddies, my pals, my soul sisters =P Chat away to motivate yourself and others! ( ;

~~Olivia

Hi guys, I'm lurking today with a baaad migraine, should be back to myself tomorrow hopefully.

)  :    abbs --   better head vibes, girl.      feel better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I rode the bike 20 miles today.  wow

hope everyone is ok!        ( :

i am well... my day (at normal jib) consisted of meeting pleasant people over coffee and having nice discussions, no stressful events in there which is always nice after a nite shift:) will have to check work email but probably nothing horrible:)  also just finished dinner (lettuce, rocket, tomatoes, cheese salad) and i feel satisfied and full. i know for sure i would not be happy and reasonably full after such a dinner a year ago-i would surely have lots of bread with it, and lots of high fat dressing (i made dressing of soy sauce and vinegar this time), plus probably eat lots more cheese. so it feels like i am going somewhere:)

that is so awesome, ka!!!   you rock!        ( :

Nice ride, Olivia!!!

ABBY ~ sending healing vibes your way. I hope I didn't pass that down there to you from earlier this week - ack.

Hope everyone is having a good day today!

A nighttime post for my Olivia!!  And everyone else of course, I just know that she gets a kick out of other-than-business-hours posts!

I'm feeling about 90% back to myself.  I was in a migraine-drug induced haze all day and finally around 3pm was I able to start turning my head and NOT have searing pain in my brain when I stood up and my brian smashed itself against my skull in an attempt to detonate the ticking time bomb inside of it.  Aka, I started to feel better this afternoon.  So I stayed late yet again to make up for my extra sleep this morning. 

Olivia~ wow, 20 miles is awesome!  You're going to be a lean mean biker chick soon!  I think you should look into getting a real bike, I think they're way funner!!

Daizy~ My feet too fall asleep on the eliptical no matter how lose my laces are.  The key is to literally pick up your feet off the pedals on the "up" part.  I was just picking up my heels and leaving my toes touching all the time and somone told me to pick up my whole foot and it really helped.  I only do it when my feet start to fall asleep, not all the time but it's probably better anyway, use your muscles to life your leg instead the momentum of the pedal.  Try that and see if it helps.

Jess~ sorry about the bad sleep on the couch.  I'm guessing it was hubby's fault so HE should be the one on the couch!  Hope Brody's legs feel better soon for both of your sleeping sakes!

Ka~ What do you do in your job? 

Alright everyone, this was a great attempt to NOT do my homework but I must conclude to keep my sanity.  I think the stress of all my undone homeworks that are due Friday, my research paper due the following week (I have yet to even think about a topic) and my final the same week all combined to create the jackhammer that drilled in through my left temple and left mini jackhammers in my head last night.  Hopefully they take the night off tonight for some good sleep.

thanks abby! I'll try that suggestion tomorrow night at the gym. it's so weird that your feet can go numb while you are doing something active! glad the migraine is on it's way out. do you throw up from them? that's when i know it's bad for me....ew.

Olivia ~ where ah you?? I'm in at night, too....must be working on the awesome scrapbook....

Good morning everyone!  I'm back to normal!  Well, normal is relative and probably doesn't apply in my case so I'm just back to me!

Olivia~ I'm so excited to see how your weekend goes with J!  I'm sure he is just squirming with excitement over your surprises!  I hope everything goes as planned and you have a great time!

Daizy~ just be careful when you put your foot back down that the pedal is underneath it!  There have been one or two embarassing moments when my foot misses the pedal and it just throws off your rythem, but after a while you get used to it.  I very rarely throw up from my migraine but I have before.  Usually I'm just EXTREMELY sensetive to light, sound and movement.  I can't stand when D's foot twitches because it feels like the whole house is shaking.  Sometimes it's so bad he has to sleep in another room but I always feel bad kicking him out.  He would have slept in the other room but I hadn't put sheets back on from when my mom was here so he couldn't. 

Jess~ hope your head is feeling better!! 

lol, I was just bored, chilling.   Not working on the scrapbook at night since J is home then....    It may or may not get finished.  Seriously the static of pages + pet hair = ANNOYED OLIVIA.   oh well.....
 
I just hope he likes everything.....   He is a firm believer than bigger is always better.  Like he would rather get one BIG gift and I would rather get several smaller, thoughtful things.   He jokingly said as much to me last night again --after all this time....   Oh well.  I booked our movie tickets to see the new X Files movie.   ( :

Have lots to do today still --  procrastinating biking until I click post on this response and then it is to the scrapbook and beyond! 

Morning y'all

I CANNOT WAIT TO SEE THE NEW X-FILES MOVIE!!!!!!

YAY!!!

Are you going tomorrow night Olivia? I LOVE that show! Still trying to collect the full seasons on DVD....Can't wait to compare notes!

I hear you on the static and pet fur. Yikes. Good luck with that.

Abby - I can only imagine what will happen when I miss the step. It's bound to happen. I may be the least graceful person I know on any workout machine....this will be interesting :)

Morning Val!

I think we should devise a plan where we all lose all the weight we want to by tomorrow and we never gain it back.  But then we still workout and post here.

For a space person, I never got into aliens or sci-fi.  I never saw Star Wars until I met D and I have no interest in seeing Star Trek.  D LOVES old sci-fi movies but they're all just dumb to me.  Anyway, I have friends truely obsessed with The X-files and I'm sure they will be first in line camped out (by themselves :P) to get the first seats!! 

Morning Val!  Hope your day is going better!

Oh Val, I'm totally down with that plan.  If you think of how to do it first, let me know and I'll be right behind you!

Blah.......I had my smart ones for lunch and am STILL wanting chocolate.... I guess its good I didn't bring any. 

Afternoon ladies!  Sorry I've been distant lately, my head is still hurting...

Last night it was so bad that I was feeling sick to my stomach...

Anyway - hope everything is going well for you guys!  I miss ya!

Hey Jess!  I hope your head feels better soon!

So today we went out to lunch, it's kindof our Thursday ritual, especially when we've packed lunch for the past three days, you just need something other than a sandwich every once in a while.  Anyway, we decided to go to the cheesesteak place again where all I wanted was a mini pizza.  Well they only had a 12", 14" or 18" pizza or by the slice.  So I was good and ordered two slices.  Well they weren't that satisfying.  I knew as soon as we got them that they'd cooked the pizza earlier and when I ordered a slice they just threw it back in the oven to warm up again.  And it was good, don't get me wrong, just not the fresh-from-the-oven-cheesy-melting goodness that I craved!  So note to self: stick with the ham sub since they use the meat I used to LOVE in FL and can't find up here!  They finally started carrying Boar's Head meat, but not the tavern ham which I love!  Luckily Black forest ham is a decent substitute. 

Ok, so that's it.  I broke down and had a crunch bar, half this morning and half after lunch.  And I'm downing water because I just feel like a bottomless pit!  I'm full so it's just mindless eating that I want, not actual food so I will try and power through with water. 

And we have another 4-8 flight tonight, yay for overtime!  But I forgot this and should have gotten a sub to go at lunch for dinner because I won't have time to run out inbetween, shoot!  I have a lean cuisine but they give me horrible gas sometimes and I don't want to risk it for four hours with 6 guys crammed in a small room, no way.  I'll have D get me Subway or something, just wish I would have thought ahead.

Too Funny Abbs! 

Yes my head feels a little better now, I am functioning again, woohoo!

Anyway, the bottomless pit feeling hits home for me today...

I accidentally (sorta) ate my lunch at 10:45 this morning, why you ask, because it was there I was hungry and the snack didn't look as yummy, so then ate my snack at 11:30, had nothing to eat, so ended up making and eating an entire bag of popcorn (93%FF) but still... I almost made my dinner just because I was hungry, then realized I'd be in the same situation at dinner time then...Ugh!

We are going to X FIles maybe as a pre-anniversary fun thing on Friday, but probably Sat afternoon.   ( :

I finished the scrapbook, albeit ugly as all get out.  LOL

OH -- and val, this plan of which you speak??????    MAKE IT HAPPEN and SIGN ME UP!!!!!    : D

Morning guys.  I am just about to check journals.....

 

Bad news.  Peanut just found out that her grandmother/abuela just died.  Please everyone send wishes and thoughts and prayers.  She really needs them.