Posts by brigidt36

deflepfan, I totally feel your pain.  I had two impacted wisdom teeth removed a little over a year ago.  Worst pain in my life and I've given birth 4 times and let me tell you, I'd rather give birth.  I missed two weeks of work, and was still swollen when I went back to work.  Lived on cooled scrambled eggs, kraft macaroni and cheese and french fries, mashed potatoes, stuff you didn't have to chew and could swallow whole if you had too.  Also ate a lot of yogurt and baby food.   I  managed to avoid the dry sockets but I ended up with an infection and had to be reopened up 6 months later after several months of feeling like I was being such a baby complaining of constant pain. You are young so you should bounce back pretty fast.  Don't worry about your exercising yet, eat what you can and give your body the rest it needs to recover.  Good luck.

~Brigid 

Hi Ani, Welcome.  I don't know anything about ED's but I do like havin friends.  Please feel free to add me as a friend if you'd like.  Good luck to you and nice to meet you.

~Brigid

welcome back

~Brigid

I  have to say that I have enjoyed this topic tremendously and hope it doesn't get removed.  I've been laughing and smiling from the beginning......what a great way to start the day.  Sure hope this doesn't get removed, and yes.....have to admit, I'm a little jealous too ;)   What a HOOT!

Tree, I think you have to actually ingest 'it' for the calories to count.  I would definetly not worry about it.  Besides, you've probable burned more calories in those 8 times then I'll burn walking 3 miles on the treadmill, lol

~Brigid

maybe you just have to mix-up your exercise routine a bit.  Good luck and be patient....don't talk yourself into giving up

~Brigid

ddugan, know that Krista and your family have been in my prayers.  I hope the surgery went well and that all is well and good.

~Brigid

I'm here because I've slowly regained a lot of the weight I lost 10 years ago and I don't like the way my clothes fit and I hate clothes shopping.

I started exercising on my own, at home in May, and though I noticed that my clothes fit a bit better, I wasn't losing any weight.....good news was, I wasn't gaining weight either, so that showed me that the exercise had to be helping at least some.

I stumbled on this site when I was googling exercising information.  I wanted to bump up my workout and get new ideas as I was getting bored and discouraged.  Figured I had nothing to lose (but maybe some weight, lol) so I joined and started writing down what I was eating.....man, was that an eye opener.  I kept a notebook with me and everytime I ate something I wrote it down (calorie info and stuff if it was available).  I was eating stuff without even thinking about it.....then I started adding up the calories....reason I wasnt losing weight was that I was eating calories needed to maintain the weight I was.  That's when I decided to really put my effort in and I've now lost a little more then 4 pounds.  I have found that if i eat something nutritious every couple hours then I don't tend to lose all will power at night when I get home from work.  If I'm starving when I come home from work I'll make a decent caloried sandwich instead of putting a tombstone pizza in the oven or grazing thru the cabinets and frig.

This looks like fun, and maybe I'll find a twin, you never know....

Height: 5'1 1/2"

Weight: as of Sept 18th:  146.5  (goal: 120-125)

Frame:  Medium build (or what my father refers too as 'stocky'

Sex:  Female

Age: 47

Don't mind having a fraternal twin, either, lol

The other day one of my co-workers saw my lunch bag in the frig and said 'gosh, Brig, for someone who says she's on a diet you sure bring a lot of food'.  I told her she was absolutely correct, that I was trying to eat something every couple hours so I wouldn't binge later in the day, and that I knew exactly how many calories were in that lunch bag.  This is a girl who carries nothing but bags of candy in her backpack, eats cheese fries daily, and complains how much weight she has gained.  And to top off her remark she kept taking chocolate out of her pocket all day long waving it in my face saying  'come on Brig, it's chocolate, you know you want some'.  Royally pissed me off.  I wouldn't have taken a piece of chocolate if I was hormonal or if my life depended on it.  (well, at least not in front of her, lol).  I've decided to not only to get healthy and at a better weight for myself, but also out of revenge and spite, lol.  Gonna use her as a motivational tool.