130/120 Club?

I'm looking for a 130/120 club, but I don't see any topics started.

If anyone knows of the proper topic, would you mind letting me know?

Thank you :)

Carrie-Dressing my husband is so difficult.  He thinks everything looks "gay" (no offense to anyone, not that he means gay as in homosexual, but you know just the slang gay).  And I mean EVERYTHING.  He certainly won't wear anything fitted.  Jaime is so not fat.  Like as far from fat as fat gets.  Did he buy the shirt hoping to feel better in it in a few months? Or that's just what he was saying?  I totally want to come to the Black Christmas. 

I wish you all would come to Black Christmas!  I know what you mean by gay :)  We have a very good friend who just 'came out of the closet' and we always say that things are gay around him just to tease him!  Poor guy.  My husband doesn't use the word gay but he thinks things are too 'hipster' and 'trendy'.  It's silly.  And he did end up buying the shirt, it looked good on him.  He was just trying to figure out if he would fill it out in the right areas.  I think he wants to look like Arnold Schwartzenager (however you spell that) and he's got some extra love on his chest, that I adore :)  He just doesn't adore it.

Hey there

I am having the BUSIET day ever.  BUT i had an amazing run on tuesday.  6 miles at an 8:20 pace through central park.  For those of you who haven't been to the park, it is amazing to run because it has some intense hills so it is a great workout.   NO knee or back pain!!  It had been 3 weeks since my last run (which was only 3 miles) and that was the only run i have done since September so I guess my other workouts are keeping me in running shape.

Ali- I mean.....pine nuts on the attack!  I laughed out loud, but I can imagine that you must be miserable.  Fingers crossed that it goes away very soon!

Tracy-I think this is the first time we have crossed paths on this site.  The photos are amazing.  You look much thinner that 130 in those pics.  Love the dress.  My twin bro just got married.  She is now a wedding planner but used to be the PR director for versace so i was very in the loop of all things weddings this past summer.  Their pics have such a similar look to yours.  Your photog was great!!  so nice.  I love urban settings for wedding shots.

Carrie-feel better.

I love the "gay" talk.  I have about a dozen gay boyfriends which is probably why i don't work too hard to find a straight boyfriend.  But your posts about your husbands made me laugh.

Okay.  back to the grind.  I will try and stop in tomorrow!

Oh, today was the first day that I didn't feel fat at all.  Nice.  Perhaps my 3 glasses of wine last night dehydrated me into a smaller size.  NOT SMART!

Hello all,

Having a pretty good day today. Hopefully the same for everyone else.

Ali- Sorry to hear about the pine mouth. I have never heard of it. Crazy. Hopefully it won't last too much longer. I don't eat pine nuts, they are just not popular around here but I guess that's a heads up. Hmm learn something new everyday.

Ingrid - Sorry your trip is not going that great.. I have never been there but have wonderful images of it in my head. I guess they are not that accurate.

Carrie- Glad to hear you are feeling better. Oh and I love yoga too but an hour is about good for me. 90 minutes is too long I think. But it's only once a week so I can swing it. It's funny all the talk about your husband and clothes. My husband is fairly picky with his clothes. He gets bored of them so quick and wants new ones. He does appreciate my opinion though. Usually if I say something looks good on him, he'll buy it. BTW.. Lucky you to have a whole week off to work on your girls gift... Not me but I will have it mailed out by the end of next week also!!

Greta- I'm glad I'm not alone with balancing something healthy that will satisfy my family. Luckily for me my husband can't afford to be picky. He doesn't cook AT ALL!! So really he will just eat what i feed him or else it's canned soup LOL. But I do try to make sure what I make is something he will like or can be modifyed accordingly. I'm not totally selfish although healthy food will not hurt him!!

Oh and about the exchange. I was so bummed out. I had a great Idea for a gift for my girl (not homemade, purchased but not expensive at all). I went to get it and turns out you can only get it online. I don`t have time to wait for it so now I have to think of something else. ERGGH! I guess I better start googling.

So my doctors appt was ok today. My blood work came back with everything good (it was my annual bloodwork so everything was checked). However I explained my symptoms to my doctor and he explained that the bloodwork only checks the òverview of everything. So he is sending me for more blood work to check deeper into things. He said it could be my thyroid, anemia, or a vitamin b12 deficiency. He also said my antidepressants may not be managing all my symptoms since the weight and fatigue are the hardest to treat. But he doesn`t really want to increase my dosage again SOOOOO what he told me to do in addition to getting more bloodwork done is to make sure I am exercising ALOT!! He actually said that.`You need to exercise alot`I guess because of my  thyroid and depression my metabolism is very touchy so not having a regular schedule for eating, exercise, sleep etc can through me out of balance and depending how long my schedule is off for it can take a few months to recover. Who knew..I guess now I can`t really make any excuses to not workout. I am medically prescribed to workout 5-6 times a week. If that`s not motivation I don`t know what is.

Well we are having tuna melts for supper. tuna on a ww english muffin (just reg bread for my husband) with ff cheese melted on top and a salad on the side.

Oh and Sarah- Yay for not feeling fat. I have those days way more often than  not it seems.

Sarah I'm glad you had a skinny day :)  Those are the best days, espcially after a good night of wine like yours.  And congrats on that amazing run, I love reading about the runners in here (since I've cut back) you love running so much you make it sound like the most enjoyable part of your day.  It's refreshing to read about.  I can only imagine running in central park like you do.  Sure beats Birmingham by a long shot.

Stacy!  No good on the blood work.  At least you know you have to workout 5 days a week, stick to that p90x and see where you are in a few weeks, I'll bet you'll be doing much better.  I had a bad experience with tuna melts in my childhood so I'm afriad to try it now.. are they good?  I do like tuna cheesy pasta but that's not nearly as healthy as what you made I'm sure.  Keep us updated on the rest of the blood work you're having done ok?

Rebekkah we miss you!!!  I had yogurt last night again and thought of you.

New Moon comes out tonight ya'll.  I'm going tomorrow so I can feel like a kid again. 

Oh!  and I got another solo with EWTN so you guys that missed me can tune in on December 18th, I'm singing part of Handel's Messiah.  It's slow and kind of boring but still :)  I'm super excited.

Sarah-When I went to NYC I packed running clothes just to live the dream of running in Central Park.  I would die if I lived there and could run there all the time.  So lucky.  And, SO awesome that you had such a great run and felt good.

Carrie-You have to remind us when Dec. 18th gets closer.  I really really want to see it!  I'm super excited too :)  Have fun at New Moon.  I think I've decided not to see the movies because I like the story in my head :) 

Stacy-It's kindof a good thing to have to exercise "a lot" per the Dr, but then I was thinking you might feel pressured to do it and not have as much fun with it.  Hopefully that doesn' happen!  And no one wants to be told they have a touchy metabolism.  That sounds like it would make me cry. 

I don't know what to do today.  A storm is blowing in and it's depressing--like 60-70 mph winds.  I hate the wind.  It makes me not want to do anything.  And I would usually rest today, but if I run 3 miles today and 6 tomorrow, I would have a 30 mile week--and I've eaten so bad this week, I probably should run an extra day.  But my body hurts so bad in the morning when I get out of bed, I feel like maybe I should rest.   I don't know!

Happy Friday ladies... Awfully quiet in here today.

Sarah - oh yeah, congrats on the amazing run. Central park seems so beautiful. NYC is definitely on my list of places to go. I don't run though. But I do walk and I'm sure it's just as nice to walk there as it is to run.

Greta- Ahhh sorry to hear about the weather. I don't like the wind either. I find it takes your breath away and makes it hard to any sort of vigorous outdoor activity. BUT I don't think one bad week is going to hurt you too much if you didn't get a run in today. You are hurting so a rest will do you some good. Hopefully the weather is better tomorrow and you can get at it full force. Oh and about the DR. I probably would have cried if I wasn't already on meds to keep that under control!!! I'm hoping my new orders to exercise more will just encourage me to keep a routine.... We'll see.

Carrie - the tuna melt was delicious. Tuna melts are so simple how could you have possibly had a bad experience!!! It's the first time I made them and I think I will be making them again. I'm with Greta... Make sure you remind us closer to the 18th so we can all see and hear you on TV. I don't even know if I have that channel but I will check it out. What does EWTN stand for...

New Moon. Lots of hype around that. I have never read the books which are apparently better. I watched twilight but I thought the acting was terrible. THe story line was ok but the acting turned me off. Apparently New Moon is better??

So I had a not so good day today. I had timbits... Eeek (if you don't know what they are they are donut holes from Tim Hortons). I also forgot to take out the pork tenderloin I had planned to cook for supper so we ended up just having grilled cheese and soup for supper. Then on top of that I got busy helping my mom with stuff this morning and forgot to eat breakfast... Urgh!! Well on the bright side.. I have been faithfully doing my P90x workouts this week. Yay for me. My diet was a little whack so I don't expect to see anything huge on monday when I get on the scale but hopefully I will be the same or less. Fingers crossed.

Oh so great shopping day today. I went to Costco today. I only went to pick up protein powder and protein bars and ended up finding all my personal hygiene needs on sale!! I love sales.... I saved like $20 and I'm all stocked up for like 4 months.

So remember I was saying I was bummed because the gift for my girl for the exchange was only available online. Well I am happy to report that I have a new idea and it's even better than the first one... I will be ready to mail by the end of next week for sure.

Oh and one more thing. Remember like 30 pages ago Carrie was talking about her Nuvaring and how putting it in was awkward because things didn't feel like the picture. I had mentioned at the same time that I was with her and sometimes thought my cervix was not in the right place. Well yesterday while I was at the DR getting my IUD string cut shorter I finally just came out and asked because I seriously didn't think my cervix was in the right place. Turns out that it's not!!! I'm not crazy.. My cervix is actually tilted to the side. I know TMI but I felt the need to share that I am not a crazy loon that doesn't know what the inside of a woman is suppose to look like!!!

Anyway that's my ramble for the day... Have a great weekend ladies.

 

Stacy you are so funny!  I'm so surprised that you asked your doctor.  I don't know how I would start that conversation... so doc.. my insides don't feel like the picture looks.  lol.  How funny that you found that out though, very enlightening.  Perhaps I should ask my doctor about it :)  I don't know if it's my cervex though.. I don't know.  Maybe the tuna thing is because I don't really like tuna and my mom usually makes very bland tasting food so I don't have much to pull from.  And yay for your gift ideas!  Yay yay yay!  I found out a similar thing as you, something I was going to buy and I can't find it now.  I'm going to hunt some more.  Maybe like you I'll find something even better than what I imagined.

Greta that wind sounds horrible.  Is it still that bad now?  You put on fb that it kept your son awake, is that for real?  That's intense.  Birmingham is prone to tornados.. bet you didn't know that did you :)  We have tornado sirens that are tested the first wednesday of every month.  But I still haven't had wind like you.  Weird!  Did you get your run in anyway?  And today was a long run day too right?  Too many questions?  I'll stop :)  Oh and yes I'll remind you guys about the 18th.

EWTN stands for Eternal Word Televsion Network.  Mother Angelica and all.  I do the morning mass on Tuesday and Friday.. but now that the holidays are here I'm doing them this Sunday and not next week.. etc etc etc.. weird schedule.  I get to sing at 11pm Christmas Eve.. neato huh?  Way to ring in Christmas right?  With the Catholics.

I have to tell you guys that I weighed in today at an all time low.. I haven't weighed myself for several days because my eating has been sub par.  and to be completely honest yesterday I cut calories since the night before I ate my body weight in yogurt and chocolate.  So that might have something to do with it but I've found that this system is working for me.  Am I crazy?  Is this just how you have to do it?  Anyway, today I saw 128.5 for the very first time :)  That 128 number just lit up my day.  Lit it up!

I'm also going through some nervous issues right now because I dropped my dogs off to get groomed at a new place and it looked like it was kinda in the ghetto... and the store was nice, the lady was nice, but I'm always nervous that someone is going to steal my dogs (because I obviously think they are the most wonderful things in the world).  We'll see how that goes down.  Churchill was very very upset for being left by me in a strange place.  I could hear him in the parking lot... poor baby.  They will be beautiful though when they are finished and Churchill gets a free tooth brushing :)  Oh, and I took before and after pictures so I'll have to let you guys see those.

Stacy-I was laughing too at your cervix's expense.  Timbits?  I don't know what they are, but they sound good.  You should be thrilled with your P90X performance this week.  Way to go!  And who doesn't love Costco? Except the age old Costco adage--I leave there with 4 items and spend $130. 

Carrie-Thank God the wind stopped yesterday around 4:00--then the snow started.  Not very much though.  After wind like that I want to see some real snow!  We haven't had wind like that in about three years.  It topples trees, fences blow down, you name it.  I went to Toys R Us and walking from the store to the car I got a mouth full of dirt, literally, and poor little Luke was not liking it!  Of course I knew you had tornadoes!  Hello?  Jacksonville!  They would have to run in from the baseball field when the sirens sounded.  I was able to run today....all treadmill this week :(  I am so happy for your 128.5!  Apparantly what you're doing is working--so keep it up!  I'm about to go jump on the scale myself...now that I've sweated out every single drop of water from my body ;)  Ha ha.  And, I think that ringing in Christmas with the Catholics sounds very festive :)  Hope your little doggies are doing okay at the groomer.  It makes them so nervous to be away from home (at least it makes mine nervous!).

So--I ran my 30 miles this week!  I haven't done that in probably two or three months.  Yes, I had to run 6 days in a row to accomplish it (so not like me), but I did it!  And, I threw away the rest of Luke's birthday cake.  I had too much.

i can't wait to see sweet churchill's photos! he seems like such a sweet adorable (fur)baby.

nick and i have borrowing his oma's dog for walks in the park. so fun for fall!

new moon! we're wating until thanksgiving weekend to watch it so my sister and i can see it together. even nick wants to see it!

 

Awe, Heather, fur-baby!!  Well the dogs did alright at the groomer except the little one, Huxley, came back with burst blood vessles in his left eye.  Poor little guy.  Jaime took him to the vet right away and got him checked out with medication and sent him home with eye drops.  So.. now we're going through the whole ordeal of getting the groomer to reimburse us for the vet bill because the vet said that the cause was that someone tethered him too tightly while cutting his hair.  Isn't that horrible?  No wonder I was nervous.  Anyway, it was their fault.  Seems like the past few weeks have been a ton of issues in my life.. one after another.  So there is that story, I will take pictures because they really look darling.  Huxley looks like an entirely different dog!

New Moon!  I watched it and Twilight yesterday, it was a Twilight day allll day long, with my girlfriends.  It was great.  I know that they aren't as great as the books and they are really ... cheesy.. but I figure it's like a different view of what I had in my mind but it's more of what I think was so good :)  Jaime says that it's my porn...

Hope you enjoy it Heather!!

Greta I'm sorry about the dirt in the mouth, and snow?!!  Wow!  It's pretty windy here right now but nothing like putting dirt in your mouth, and congrats on the 30 miles for the week! That's huge!!!  And good for you for throwing away Luke's cake.. I'll bet it was delicious.  Ahhh Christmas with the Catholics, it does sound pretty festive now that you mention it.

Thanksgiving is coming up!!!

Hi everyone! i am new to CC, but not to calorie counting.

I am  5'2" 133.5 pounds = ) not sure what my goal weight is because i have never been slimmer than this. Right now my short term goal is 125, and long term is 120. I try to limit my calories to 1350, but if i am really hungry i allow myself 1500 calories ( especially on work-out days).