Posts by ofeliajones

I moved to Europe with 60 bucks when I was 20 and I'm still here. Yes it was stupid, but I'm sure glad I did! I've been to Dubai, London, lived in NYC, Berlin, S.F. and Switzerland, spent months in France, vacationed in Spain, Holland, Hawaii and have a hard time being in one place for more than three years. Women like to travel. I have a daughter and she comes with me everywhere.  The best people you'll meet and the greatest experiences you'll have is by travelling and keeping an open mind. Avoid tourist traps, look for adventures (following a stranger down a dark alley at 3:30 in the morning led to an adventure that I wouldn't have had if I'd been chicken) and don't travel with loud American frat boys who only want to drink Jaegermeister and you'll be fine.

Go Mrs D! That sounds amazing. I just had a very big burito, using kidney beans I made refried beans with water instead of oil, my own guacomole and put lots of fresh tomato and lettuce hearts in it, not the most low cal thing in the world but good.

Laura- Your new pic looks amazing, isn't it great to see lovely cheekbones? You look hot.

I had two gigs in a row this weekend speaking of too many cals (BEER) over the weekend. My husband took me to my favorite sushi restaurant for our ten year (!) anniversary and bought me a new tattoo (a big monkey on my arm) and we played for a crowd of 400 at the music festival on Sunday. It was the first time in a year that I got major stage fright, my legs were shaking so bad for the first two songs. So I have a lot of work at derby tonight, I think I gained since I was drinking from Thursday to Monday night. I think I need a pause from waking up with hangovers. I'm gonna try really hard this week to see 199 on the scale by Wed. Wish me luck!

I live in Germany too, and love the fact I can take my baby out to ice cream a couple times a week  (it's practically a requirement here in the summer) but know that my one scoop is max. 70 cals. The portions are soooo different, Americans would have a hissy fit if they were served such small scoops of ice cream. I never had a mcflurry, but the Italian place on the corner is so amazing I need a tiny scoop and I'm satisfied.

HI new girls! I'm too lazy to list the names and give you all a personal greeting...but welcome! This is a great hangout.

Shizz-LMAO " wow...the longest I go without solid is food is while I sleep...!" hahhaha. Me too

Laura- i swear we were sisters! Here's to being 201, girl. Isn't it great?? I can smell 199 it's so close.

This whole losing weight thing is beginning to mess with my mind. My husband says I'm more insecure now about my looks than before (believe me, I've never been the insecure type so it's coming as a shock) and from all the attention I'm getting it's sorta weird. Like now I don't have to be funny or even all that smart (ha) to have guys lining up to talk to me. On WEd I put it to the test, and tried to be really boring and two guys (one a friend I've known FOREVER) said that they've fallen in love with me. I told the friend to go to hell and left. He was getting quite insistent and pushy and even called me the next day, not to apologize but to ask me out for Sat. I said I'm staying in the whole weekend. Lie, but Berlin is really big. One guy (musician who played that night from USA I think he sucked) I was tired of being stupid pretty girl and sorta let loose with my mouth, (but maybe I told him he sucked and that's why he left! :)

Anyway I'm rambling and incoherent because I;m starving and just wanted to get a little off my chest, I wonder if any of you are going through the transition of funny fat girl to just pretty girl that doesn't have to open her mouth? Its weird and flattering yet disgusting at the same time. Kiss

Sharpie- it's still gonna be a great party, yes he's an @ss, I feel bad for your sister but don't focus him, focus on getting your drink on and getting tons of compliments for a job well done. It's your week and feel like a princess!If they start the party by saying "If only it was this and this" the great mood goes down.

Shizz- It sounds better with twangy guitar and the drum stops...hah. It goes well with our other drinking hit "You Only Like Me When Your Drunk"

I did my Vision board today, and right at the top it says 80 Kilos in big black marker. I put it on the scale too. That's 176 pounds. It's all part of the "Secret" but basically says if you can visualize and really feel something it will happen. So i made a collage of all the stuff I want in my life and hung it up next to my computer. I have a picture of Kim Catrell looking fab at 50 in a black two-piece, because that's what I want. I am currently visualizing 90 kilos (198 pounds) by next week, to break the 200 mark! I can do this, I have 4.5 pounds to go. Easy!

Gonna go make lunch, green beans, cottage cheese, tuna over leafy greens. This week I'm really zig-zagging cals, to push myself and tonight is derby which is a 1500 cal workout!

Great job! Stick with it, it's so worth it. This site rocks!

Hey gals! I've been lax about logging in, busy busy, but I missed my girls.

Laura-I told my husband and my BF how happy I am that you are making your dream come true, how much weight you lost and a great reward, getting your tummy tucked. I am so happy for you, and you've been in my thoughts! I want to lose 20 pounds by July 23rd, because they scheduled us to go live on a morning TV show that will air nationally in Germany, what if we really try to motivate each other to reach both of our goals? We've always been "twins" in fact I think you are thinner than I am right now...I'm 206 but I have TOM, so I hope next week it's back down to 203. We are soooo close, lets just race to the finish. You motivate me without even knowing it, so maybe we can help each other? Kiss

Sharpie- Red is definitely your color! That dress looks way more expensive than 26 bucks, and that's due to you. I know what you mean about motivation, I had to miss Derby practice yesterday because Ruby burned her hand (not bad)  but I wanted to stay home...but I didn't go on my machine.

Shizz- OK, moving sucks, but at least your mom is open to having discussions with you about making healthier choices.

OK, my update, Derby rocks, I feel so much stronger and i upped my training to 3 days a week instead of 2. The only thing I can't do is jump over a damn box, i'm the only one that can't do it, but I'm scared. I gotta get over that. I'm riding my bike everywhere now, I got a baby seat and that makes life so much easier.

I went out last Monday to Country night to see "Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band" OMG they rock, they are from Indiana (?!) and you guys should look them up. They are big, but man can they move! The best part was how many compliments I was getting, totally pumped my ego up. Guys that saw me even last week were like "April, what are you doing, you keep getting prettier!" It made my night when TWO people that hadn't seen me in 6 months didn't recognize me. One of my best guy friends, moved aside to let me pass and I actually had to tap him on the chest. OK, I changed back to blonde, but still. I will post pics soon because these are old...

I fit into a stretch 12 two weeks ago! And I went shopping and everything 14 fit perfectly. I am in the middle of a 12/14, and it's blowing my mind. I haven't done that since I was 13. Have a great weekend, and even though I don't log in much, you guys are always on my mind!

Mothers...Even though I live thousands of miles away from mine, she can still get under my skin. She's the one who took me to Weight Watchers when I was 12 for a "mother daughter bonding" (there was NO way I was fat, I was just a head taller than her and it freaked her out) and now, when I tell her I lost over 50 pounds, and have 20 more to go, she's worried that I'm gonna look too skinny. Aww...I discovered she can never say the right thing to me, I always react the same way, so there are certain topics I dare not broach: Religion, sex, marriage, raising a toddler, weight, God, uh, this list goes on and on...What the hell DO we talk about? Ha.

hey Ladies! happy monday! (blegh)

Wow, was last week a total mixture of good and bad. Bad- I ate a whole package of chips (crisps, Laura :)) and half a box of cookies after drinking a whole bottle of wine by myself...Good- i went to two MONSTER and I mean not being able to move the next day or the day after that- workouts for roller derby.  I know it's just PMS eating because I usually don't "binge" like that. So i'm great on the workout thing, bad on eating this week, but I'm down a pound at 207.9 now!

I really gotta start logging in my cals... Gotta run pick up Ruby from Kindergarten...

hey ladies! Wow, lots of new faces, that's great! I've been really busy in the last two weeks, in the studio and my husband has been gone, so I haven't posted, let alone checked email!

Laura- Can you say jealous??! Size 12, that's great! I'm still riding the 14 wave.

Mrs. D- Thank god for savings, right? Things have been tight around here too, and I've been really creative with the food budget. Two weeks ago I managed to stretch 50 euros for the whole week with really healthy food, then we got some money in and I splurged as usual.

Ladies, I joined a roller derby team! I haven't been on skates in 20 years, but I'm doing it, and let me tell you, it's a monster workout. The whole time you're in squat position, and because I'm so tall, I need to be lower than the other girls. Practice is twice a week for two hours, and each time I come home drenched in sweat.

The downside of this workout plus my normal stuff is that I'm justifying eating that cake, and have been stuck on the same 209 pounds for awhile now...blah. I thought I was too good for logging in all my food...gotta go back to that. I mean, I keep telling myself, ok, I lost 46 pounds, the last 30 should be a breeze, but I keep getting stuck. My arms are looking quite good though, I'm up to 16 pushups when I couldn't do one a couple months ago.

Have a great week, and just a little advice, Rachie, why don't you try logging in your cals here before you go on a "diet"? There is no magic diet, just math even though sometimes we (me) want to think there is. anything restrictive is just going to make you crazy in the long run. Why not have pasta and make sure it fits into your cal intake? All the older (I mean log in wise!) members of this forum have loss lots of weight following this site.

I am now going to take my own advice (gah, I hate it when that happens) and log in my cals.

Ciao!

This is not a race, this is your life. Even making small changes in your habits by your birthday is a good goal. You should start by fixing how many times a week that you want to excercise and stick with it. Ditto with counting, at the beginning you should log in everything if you are serious about it.

It sounds like you are setting yourself up for failure, by choosing such an unrealistic goal. Make a new one of 10 pounds by your birthday, so that if you lose more than that it's a success. Stop focusing on time lost, and start living your goal in the now.

Hey! You're not a freak, I promise. I felt the same way yesterday even right after I had food and a cigarette. It's this edgy feeling that your body wants something else, right? I attribute this to my addictive personality and either drink a tea or have a small piece of chocolate and it goes away. I try to distract myself with doing something else, and it sort of works. I find that if I have something sweet right after lunch or dinner (something small like fruit or chocolate) I don't have edgy cravings and it fits into my cal count for the day.

<embarrassed> hi? Hi!

Can I come back? i missed you guys! February and March for me were hell, and I totally slid into a depression. But now the sun's out and if I didn't completely dissapoint you all, may i rejoin??? You guys are doing so well and look amazing. I love the pics. I'm too embarrassed to get on the scale until another week or two, i don't want to know what I did to myself in the time "away" but I really did miss you guys, and thought about you all a lot!

I've told everyone my opinion on fries. The last time I ate them was for Christmas when my husband made them, because they were amazing. But if you are just going to McDonalds for fries, don't! I call that a waste of calories. I know that if I really want something, I'll eat it, but make sure it's amazing and not taste like crap. Like last week with TOM visiting, I wanted ice cream. I rarely eat ice cream, so instead of getting a low cal fat free thing, I got the richest bar I could find, had one, and haven't had it since. I figure since it's about once a month, why not indulge? But there is no way I would eat french fries 3 x a week unless as Mrs. D says, you're baking them and watching portions. I also picked up a sugar-free, sweetener-free ketchup with like 4 cals in it.

ok, drum roll please, the scale said 209.4 lbs this morning!!!!!!!!

Check in later, ladies.

Sorry I haven't been posting ladies! I spent this week getting ready for this weekend, and yesterday we played the country music festival on this huge stage that scared the crap out of us. But we rocked it, even though we weren't quite what they expected! Tonight I have another concert that should be really fun, really punk rock. I'm wearing my new mini-skirt, and this morning I am down to 211!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yeeeehaw, 11 more to go and I will have cracked 200. laura you do look hot! shizz, you are doing way more than me, i haven't touched my elliptical in 3 weeks. blah