Posts by hbbroadbent

tracy! i loved looking through your photos! your phots are too gorgeous for words. and love the shoes! i hope you had an amazing day and many memories for years to come :)

stacy- i'm not doing the whole P90x routine, but i did do Ab Ripper last night. P90x buddies!

aww carrie. NOT YO|U|R FAUL|T AT ALL|!!!!

i'm actually off to teh gym with nick before i have to scoot to work, i'll be back later! i miss you guys!!

i've been a little awol, i missed you guys! nothing up, just time kept getting away from me so i missed the time i can go on and write.

last night was out annual halloween party- i think the best one yet!!! i was elvis. i'm putting pictures up on facebook. weird, i didn't have one piece of candy last night, just didn't feel like it. at the part i had one piece of cake, one hot dog (with some chili on top, but not a bowl), and one side serving of nachos with cheese. though my cals were probably more than made up with the hot apple cider (and captain) ;)

i'm so exicited for a holiday exchange!!!

i always wish i were a better swimmer too! and then time will pass, and i'll think, why haven't i been swimming at the gym, by now i would be a better swimmer! i can swim pretty good, but i want to be a really strong swimmer, an effortless swimmer, and fast.

so nick got laid off, work dried up (he's an electrician, so obviously this is a bad time for new construction. everyone in the trades was praying we'd get the olympics, lots of construction, but obviously it went to rio. but lord knows i'm sure they need jobs too.) but anyway, the point is with him off work i get to see him mon, wed, and fri mornings when i work afternoons!! (which is also why it's been hard to write ;) so we're going to the gym together :)

egg beaters: of course you can't receate the taste of fresh veggies loaded in the eggs, but if you're going to try egg beaters and like that, i'd recommend the peppers and onion egg beaters. tasty! but the ham and cheese egg beaters is nasty.

i'm a little up in weight right now, but that's ok, it's a sexy weight, boobs juicier, etc. (you know how it's always carried differently, same weight sometimes feels flabby, sometimes strong). i'll weigh in this week!

pampered chef garlic press:  looks like they run about $15.99 on ebay, incl shipping (new.)

Judaism: One, i've got a thing for Jewish boys, so there was a time I could  see myself converting if I got married. But two, as a Christian, I really wish we still celebrated the older Jewish traditions and holidays. We stemmed out of Judaism, the chosen people who worshipped the one true God. Then we added Jesus to the mix, which is great and of course important to me, but what about the traditions and holidays that venerated God, who is still our God, to begin with? I just wish we had some Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah, at least a mention or a marking if not an outright holiday. But I'm a person who likes history of religions, so maybe that's just me. It's funny because my favorite Christian holiday is Maundy Thursday (day before Good Friday) which is the last supper. And basically we're re-creating the last supper, but they were celebrating Passover so we kind of do a Passover meal but they add the words of Jesus and (at my old church) the minister washes your feet and you always leave in silence.

carrie: you should be so proud of yourself for having the big raise talk with the boss! now you'll sleep good tonight.

generator 8: I can't wait to hear some of your recipes!

carrie: why don't you use a garlic press!? And it you just rinse it right after the cleanup is a nonissue.

with hpv/the ring, it seems from my limited internet research that a positive of the ring will be a lower dose of hormones, but the issue isn't oral versus ring, it's the estrogen. it seemed some women were saying b/c of the risk their dr. switched them to progesterone only pills. the ring has both estrogen and progesterone, but it has a lower dose of estrogen than combined pills.

crazy news guys- i think my company is going on strike!! friday? for some reason the clinical staff at my job is part of the teamsters union (wtf?, haha) and we've been in contract negotiations since JANUARY with it finally coming to a standstill. i'll know more tomorrow, but it's so weird how it's not like a secret to management, right, but NO ONE IS TALKIN ABOUT IT!! it's driving me crazy. i want to know whether to call my client's and tell then not to bother to make the trek, or if they will come and someone else (like management, non-union) will provide services...

the plan seems to be a short term 5-6 day strike, then reevaluate/hopefully contract, then posibly a longer term strike like 10 days.

WEDNESDAY WEIGH-IN

132.2 I'll take it. My tummy's not poochy and that's the real test. Off to run, I'll respond more to others later!

greta: congratulations on the race!!! you didn't just break your 10 min mile you smashed it!! and with a stroller. the cords look fab btw.

things i can't wait to make from that website Annie's Eats: Soft Pretzels, English Muffins, Apple Cranberry Galette. The pictures from her son's first birthday are incredible. for the Twilight fans, how great for your pre-New Moon viewing party? http://annies-eats.com/2009/01/15/twilight-cu pcakes/

My sister and I plan to get together, rent Twilight, then go see New Moon together. Guess what this weekend is? The NFL season opener and the Bears are playing at Green Bay! unfortunately we are not off work Monday, but we may go up to my sister's (in Green Bay) anyway. (Nick might have to work all weekend though :(

the Green Bay stadium is dropped in a residential neighborhood. like you're sitting on your friend's lawn  and the team buses drive by and wave. Last year for the Bears @ Green Bay game we all dressed up in Bears gear then made jello shots in Bears or Green Bay colors and offered them to fans, their choice of team color. Doing are part in promoting good will between Chicagoans and Wisconsinites ;)

anna: your salad sounds WONDERFUL.

rennai: thats for the lower back strengthening exercises! that's exactly what i want to do.

amanda: you and your sister will have so much fun in Spain! I took a whirlwind 2-wk trip several years ago, wish I could tellyou more of my favorite places, but the names of towns and what happened where are a blur now. Wow, running the household of 6, i caa't get it all the way together for the 2 of us ;) work in progress. you will definitely be ahead of the game with your own house.

tracy: yes we need dress pics! i know it's still a work in progress, but i can't wait to see! i bet it's goingt o turn out even more perfect than you originally picked.

carrie: 25!! Happy Birthday! I love French Silk pie, I have never heard of this french silk ice cream!!I will have to try it.

who else has the birthday? Happy Birthday!!

rebekkah: 9/9/09?

greta: that's funny you should mention the fiber one oats and chocoalte bars! we went grocery shopping last night and ended up picking up a box of the fiber one bars in dark chocolate almond flavor. i had one this morning and it was sooo good! it's weird because i almost never get stuff like that but i'm really glad i did!

greta, i'm the same way with the weight training. i know i should do it, and want to do it, but i don't want to do it over easier for me cardio, and therefore never make the time :(

rebekkah: running a half marathon the morning of graduation!? that is so rockstar.

carrie: your porch sounds huge!! just imagine sitting out there during thunder storms. or decorating for halloween and handing out candy! that's so nice your boss is moving the piano.

new shoes: would you guys believe i run in the shoes i bought for when i was going away for a summer program... when i was 16!? I know i should go out and buy some actual running shoes to protect my body, but i hate breaking in shoes/ the cost/ laziness of finding a store/ these seem good to me/ blah!

rennai: i loved stats. send the problem to me!

margo: can't wait to read your journal entry about reunion/vaca :)

WEDNESDAY WEIGH IN

 blah, so 132 today. i have to get the eating piece in check to balance with the regular work out piece which is going great. i guess the carnival food did not melt off me :) i finished day 2 of week five of couch to 5k, go me! Friday is run 20 minutes straight day, dun dun duuuuun! ;) today was so easy i fel confident about Friday. today was 8 min run, 5 min walk, 8 min run.

Day two of week one of Couch to 5K completed! 5 min walk, 3 min run, 1.5 min walk, 5 min run, 2.5 min walk, 3 min run, 1.5 min walk, 5 min run, cool down walk.

130.8 today, so basically same as usual. It'll go down though. I have an ally at work now, she wants me to help her with healthy eating and wants to lose ten pounds.

carrie and rennai your exchange was making me laugh :)

danni: thank you for the advice. i definitely tend to walk and run with one foot on front of the other. I consciously tried to adjust my form yesterday. i also took three days of rest instead of one. (really not by choice but because we needed to go to Nick's mom in the hospital so workout got pushed back.) But so far so good, no pain today.

rennai: thanks for posting the blog! i ended up sending the link to all my friends. ooh, steven fox. dr. sex pot.

margo: your poor dog and poor family. he can rest now. :(

rebekkah: see if the weight dropps in a few weeks, but if it doesn't, with the working out you're doing, i would suggest more than 1350 cals. take your sedentary/base burn rate, add on your cals burned through exercise. then subtract no more than 500 cals. that's how many cals you should be eating. if you go more than 500, in my experience, it can extend a plateau.

olive garden makes a fat free version of their salad dressing, you just have to ask for it.

amanda: we always welcome new members! you're going to love this group.

i'm 5'7" and right now about 130. my goal is 125ish, maybe  a bit under. no rush for me because i get there then float back up to 130+ then check it and go down again.

i live in the suburbs south of chicago. my name is heather.

carrie: take a pregnancy test right now before you keep taking the birth contraol pills. what if you are pregnant? would you want to bathe your baby in hormones? there's pre-ejaculatory fluid with plenty of sperm WAYYYY before you pull out. you probably aren't, but end the maybe factor! :)

if we go on a cruise we can run the deck every morning around the whole ship!

facebook thinks i'm a lesbian becaus i have pictures of my sister and her wife, so anyhoo, they advertised to me a lesbian cruise! we could do all sorts of girly stuff and then husbands and boyfriends can't feel left out. haha ;)

so yesterday i weighed in at 129.8 and today 130.8. so the weight is starting to drop. but my newest glitch is night eating. when i get home from work 8:30/9pm M/W/F, i am eating too much. or too many indulgences. like nick bought a brick of cheddar and i went to town on it wednesday. yesterday night i came home and there was double chocolate cake. so i have ot plan to balance out with more eating in the first half of the day and a substantial mini meal/snack while working evenings.

greta: that's so great to hear you actually have and use the baeba! when it first came out here i was like, that is perfect, i definitely need one of those when i have babies. and then i thought, do i really need one? could i accomplish the same thing with other tools i already have? so i'm glad you're giving it an endorsement! i want one :)

i finished day 6 of my couch to 5K program! Woohoo!

rebekkah: talking about the egg yolks and cottage cheese, that reminded me, i used to mix egg yolk with cottage cheese (in lieu of mayo) and some mustard to make deviled eggs. the cottage cheese really stretches it, so you only need a little yolk. i've always liked cottage cheese, but to me it's more of a savory think and i like it with salt or pepper or curry powder. to me, the fruit/ sweeten it up stuff sounds gross. but i should try it sometime, i might find something new i like!

if you're finding you're full but need more cals (like if you plateau at the lower cal intake), eat a small spoon of peanut butter. and i think there's too many foods out there to eat something you don't like, you tried it, move on :) i also use cottage cheese in place of ricotta to make lasagna. or instead of sour cream in tacos or on chili.

twilight movie- i heard that the old director was horrified with the tiny budget they gave her for the special effects in the first one, said ok, now it was a blockbuster and you see fans were not impressed with the half- ash job on the effects, there's a big increse in needed effects for New Moon (hello, shifting?) I NEED MORE MONEY! and they fired her/ or she left refusing. the producers wanted her to do it for the same budget, greedy knowing how profitable it will be at the box office, and i think disrespectful to those fans who will be paying the money. anyway, i personaly think the clash could also have something to do with her being a woman director demanding what she wants.

SOOO writing that last post was great motivation for me. i saw in black and white how i justify my non-exercising. so i got up from the computer Wednesday, and went to the gym! and right on carrie for your frankness! I value truth, and girls have a tendency to put up/encourage others bs even though they don't agree or see a mistake. avoids confrontation, but at a definite cost. (ya know, i'm thinking like when your friend is telling you about her horrible boyfriend and you're like, oh, you're right, he was probably just stressed from work instead of saying, you know, i don't agree with him talking to you like that under any circumstance.)

Now what month are you guys doing the half-marathon? I think I'll train for a 5k that month, my first one, half-marathon not appealing to me AT ALL at this point, but i'll leave room for me to surprise myself. ok, i just found it in the posts, OCT 4. In Chicago there's the Elvis 5K August 6th and the Pumpkin Run Oct 17, but that's my sister's bday. I can check NW Indiana too...

traci: my favorites are 1. you guys walking the dogs and 2. framed in the archway. very nice pics, vibrant colors too. i think you chose your outfit very well, love it!

soraya: I watched for your sister on Entourage- her wink in the limo was killer! I want to live in CA, but I worry that maybe actually living there I wouldn't like the superficiality of LA or it would affect my (future) children... But I guess I'll never know until I try it! Because I really want to love it. I've only been to LA once for a long weekend and stayed with a girlfriend who was living there, visited a friend who's lived there all his life and loves it.

biatchita: 3.5 lbs this month- way to go! I'm glad you went back and looked at the numbers.

rebekkah: the 9-5 transition is definitely hard. For me, it takes time to settle into a new routine and see where you can now fit in the workouts and your eating routine. so try to have patience, and good luck. you WILL settle in and you'll fit it in.

I was talking with a work lady and she's talking serious about joining a new 24 fitness by her child's school where she goes everyday to get her from practice. Her plan is to go everyday and lose 30 lbs by Christmas. (At first I thought that was crazy talk, but she does have more to lose.) I was telling her, you're really inspiring me too! I found a gym down the street from work where I might go during lunch break. RIght now though I need to work through most of lunch so we'll see...

I went grocery shopping yesterday and stocked up on too many veggies, as in I better cook every night to use them up! That was the plan! But then naughty me, when Nick got home at 9:30 I let him talk me in to eating fast food. He said that was his last night, he's starting dieting tomorrow. Today at work is cake and ice cream, oh boy. Still 131.4. I'm calling it right here- by Halloween I'll be 120. And dressed like a hoochie ;)

I forgot about True Blood when we were talking vampires- i LOVE that show. Especially Eric and Lafayette.

you guys, i'm growing my hair out (i think) and I'm hating it :( I need to find a salon I trust to do my color and take me through the growing out looking good and protecting/planning for my hair for the real color I want when long... I had a genius colorist before (and CHEAP!) but I moved away. With the super short I was just bleaching it at home.

Wednesday Weigh-in

LW: 130.0

CW: 130.0

GW 125/120

I'm holding steady at 130 which is not a surprise because I haven't actually done anything different yet ;) And I'm happy I maintained through a work birthday potluck and Nick's birthday bbq over the weekend.

rebekkah: carrying the sofa 3 flights of stairs definitely counts as a workout!

biatchita: so will you be a nurse nutritionist or what? I've been interested in becoming a nutritionist as maybe a future career and I'd like to hear more, I hadn't thought of combining a nursing degree and nutrition, that sounds good.

glad to hear you're getting great results so far! you sound like such a positive person.

we talk about moving to california one day. we're in chicago, so definitely cold winters here.

dani: i like the canary too! but i've seen the watermelon in wedding party photos and it does pop.

rennai: love walking lunges too! i lunge past all the people tied to their weight machines.

i'm definitely LESS stressed about work and have settled in a lot more, but there's still a ton of work to be done. and i still wake up thinking about cases :) so it's still staying late and coming in early. it will just take time to settle in further and get more life balance.

omg i loved the ring.