Friends for Losers (the good kind of loser....)

Hello all!!

A big shout out to my girls from the "Lose 10 lbs by date, 2008" post.   ( :    Since starting that post, I am down almost 18 lbs.  

People asked about a new post.  Here it is! 

Weekly Friday weigh-ins?
Motivating friends? 
Friendly challenges to get moving, eat and drink right, and be conscious of all we do?

This is the place for you!

All old friends --JOIN ME!!!!  ---  new friends always welcome!

Actually, I hope that this post can bring people in from all my different cc groups....that way when we all meet one day, it will be like one huge reunion show!  ( :

TODAY WEIGHT:  166 
GOAL WEIGHT for next payday (7-20):  160

((((((((((((((((CHRIS)))))))))))))))) &n bsp;  good to see you, girl!

lucky you -- off that time.   ( :     what have you been up to?

how is everyone else?  

hey hotties!

I have been sick this week, so I will take a maintain week at 154.   ( : 

hope all you losers are well and happy! have great and healthy weekends!  xoxo

Rats I missed the scale first thing again! I was 133 after coffee and an english muffin so I'd guess about 132.8 -- up half a pound from yesterday. Eh, not enough one way or another to worry about.

I'm home until Tuesday and have sooo many projects I need to do around the house! I'm already upset with myself for being behind 'schedule'. I've got to get a handle on DH's paperwork (acccckkkkk!), finish the upstair bedroom, transform the house for Christmas, and now the hall seems to be calling to me "fix my walls...."

J101, I read your journal post about your house. You know, a lot of that stuff isn't as difficult as you might think. If the guts of your toilet aren't working properly, you could fix it yourself. I've replaced the stuff myself several times. The directions come with the kit ($12-20) & you can find directions on the internet. You drain the water into a bucket out the bottom of the tank, unscrew a couple of big plastic nuts, put in the new stuff, tighten nuts & make a couple of small adjustments. No biggie. You don't need some stinkin man for everything...YOU ARE WOMAN...ROAR! ()

I got a toilet kit and it seemed easy enough.   I would not have been smart enough to think to empty the tank though, so thanks for that.  ( :    I will let you know!   wish me luck! 

I have done the toilet kit myself also and I felt elated when I got it done all by myself!!!  I did not do the bucket thing.  I turned off the water and flushed a few times to drain all the water.  But like Chris said the directions do come with the kit.

132.5 but I have been having tummy issues .

The kids and baby are going to drive to Sheridan WY today to visit birthmom.  I will not say anything mean although I have so much rambling in my head.  Sorry God!!

 

deep breaths, Omie/nana  (did you decide??)

God knows you have those kids' best interest at heart, RIGHT?   everything will be fine, and they KNOW all you do for them and BETTER appreciate it too!!!!

I saw that the repair job didn't go exactly as planned. Oh well, next time! I cut the crap out of one of my fingers last night while working on the house so you got off easy! lol!

Kim, hope you got some mental/physical rest time while they were away! Babies are exhausting!

how are all you losers?  ( : 

I saw a low number this week, 152.6, but I started TTOM, so I refrain from freaking out this monring at the number.  ( :   I did jog my heinie off this morning in the COLD.   

have well behaved weekends, girls!!!!!  

EDIT TO ADD:  HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHRIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   you are awesome!

Thanks dear! Ug TOO MUCH BIRTHDAY CAKE!!! I was 131ing it last week and today 135! I know it won't hang on completely (praying anyway) but it's sure a wake up!! call.

Been quiet on the forums lately....  hope all of you are hanging in there ok.

As for me, I am coming to some realizations I would rather not admit.    Makes me very sad, but what can I do, but accept and move on as best I can?    (NOTHING)

glad your bday was good, chris!!  ((HUGS)) for the big 50.    ( :    get anything fun?

Well, DH gave me a bottle of Godiva liquor.  Wickedly good! The kids got me candles and clothes...good things too. I think I also developed a chicken neck overnight.

chicken neck- haha you are so full of it!!! :) Sorry I missed on the birthday wishes! Happy belated birthday!

lol at chicken neck too!   =P   crazy girl!  sounds like a fun bday for sure....

J is threatening suicide after I worked up the nerve to tell him we should stop seeing each other again....     that is what was making me feel so guilty and bad...     I am sad too, but I have to get back to the business of settling into being single.   all I did was fall back into a 2 nights a week with him.   dating basically.   we got close again.    this sucks now.     but it must be done.    his letter was so caustic and airs all our dirty laundry.....  hope that doesn;t all get out....      scared he will do it.   hope he doesn't.      I called his shrink, waiting on a call back.   what the hell.....?     

I wish my car wasn;t frozen to the driveway by inches of snow and ice.  I would get out of the house and go look for a job.   I will at least walk in the snow later....   

I feel totally GUILTY for letting him get his hopes up and dashing them down again....  just rambling now.     I feel so bad.   like starting over on the break up meter.  that sucks --and if he does it, I'll be...well.   bad. 

Hope you're feeling better by now, dear. What a sucky day for you! I wouldn't worry about what other people read in his rambling...it just makes HIM look bad. Any time I've ever witnessed a relationship 'scene', I only remember the person making the scene; not the one they were making the scene about.

thanks, chris. 

feel like trash, but that is to be expected, I figure. 

 

GOD, I did not think I could feel worse.  was wrong.  

 

thanks for the support, girl    [ :    sigh...

 

sorry I've been quite on here. been busy playing in the snow.

Happy belated bday Chris! Sounds like fun

Omg O! So sorry you are dealing with this! Don't feel guilty. Don't go back! Singles not so bad. It gets lonely at times but it can be fun too. Hang in there!

thanks, miss sarah!  ( : 

I hope he can take care of himself and not doing anything permanantly bad.  

As for me, I will survive.  

Nice to see this forum being active again.  We can usually see what each of us is up to in journals but it is nice to get a "conversation" going.

O - break ups suck and you have to go through a grieving process.  Give yourself that so if you want you can go into a healthy relationship with someone new.

I know you are right, kim, but it sucks.    I was almost over the whole grieving/healing part, and I screwed it all up for both of us by being weak and reaching out to him.  

I will feel responsible if he actually hurts himself, but there is nothing I can do, so I might as well take a deep breath and give that one to the big guy.  

How is the grandbaby and dear daughter??  

just a maintain for me this week, but I am ok with that.   I thinki perhaps 153-155 is my body's comfortable set point.   I am happy (mostly) with the way I look, and I feel good about what I do workout-wise and food and all, so that's ok, I think.   Still WANT to keep going, but seriously 152 is the least I have ever weighed as an adult   (I was in 10th grade last time I weighed that for more than a few months).   I know this time at 155 is way different than the last time I got that way doing Atkins.  this IS something I can maintain as a lifestyle for myself.  Atkins was not.  ANd for me, Atkins was way too restrictive and not healthy feeling.    anywho....  how are all of you??

Last night had fun with friends probably hang out with them again.   It's just nicer to be out of the house......  I have to work Monday, but it's just a work day, so today is the last day with students.  WOO HOO  ---   today is also our Secret Santa reveal/XMas party for work.   My person gave no clues and non-personal gifts, so it's not clear to me who it is....  guessing a boy from the lack of effort.  =P  lol 

have good weekends -- hope you all are well and happy!