Posts by cricketro05

Lynn

i'm still alive just that my life is pretty hectic right now.

trying to put together some plans for the winter (vacation) along with keeping everything ok.

haven't weighed in in ages. not planning to get batteries until spring LOL (seriously)

Just wanted to let you know that hubby got home safely (he's at work now, should be home in abt 1 h 30 min). We didn't get much sleep last night so i'm tired now.

Cooking a turkey soup for lunch (batch cook this time) so that i won't need to worry much abt cooking over the weekend. I'll probably have to put some OT in b/c I don't think i'll work 8 hrs today...

I think I'm better off wt/out any alcohol though lol

i'm still home alone. hubby's at a funeral in his home town. i talked to him and he said he'd come back tomorrow (so he'll be home tomorrow night). miss him like crazy.

Lynn

thanks for the kind words.

here i am again home alone for cpl of days. MIL told us yesterday that hubby's grandfather died and hubby rushed over (he's in the train as I type this). I stayed home to take care of everything and work, of course. He should be back by Fri (latest on Sat)

You can imagine i'm not 100% ok but i'm coping well (sort of). he's been calling every two hours or so and i think i'm going to call him in a few b4 i start writing (i worked on an editing thing until now).

Original Post by lynnhaslost:

Cris, My doctor had me do the pod test, because he was not going to go by the charts they have set for us. He was not going to place me at Obese at the time, because of these charts. He looked at my height, and I am short as hell. I feel doctors should do what you ask of them.  

and that's gonna happen on state-paid health insurance? HUH!

there are exactly 5 free blood tests per year and none involve body fat testing or other similar things. which is crap, especially in a country where obesity is a problem starting wt the young kids *sigh*

at my HW i was 1 lb into obese so probably i wasn't "extreme" enough to worry anyone. luckily, my BP was always good so, again, no one was worried that was i actually fat.

I finally managed to get abt 1277 cal in yesterday but not all were the healthy kind (think pretzels and M&Ms ...yikes!). My "revived" batteries are DEAD. The scale didn't even turn on this morning. Oh well.

And I'm having such a hard time staying motivated to write...ugh

Ref the burn meter: it contains your BMR + activities; all these numbers are estimates though and in many cases the calculations won't get you anywhere. Some ppl burn way less than the BMR assumes while for others it's just the opposite.

I lost on 1000-1200 cal wt/out exercise and 1300-1400 cal wt burning 1000 cal a week. I am small to begin with (5'2", 127-128 lbs I guess) and I don't exactly burn a ton of cals when i work out. The smaller you are, the harder to burn many cals...of course.

Lynn

hope everything will be fine.

i don't think anyone should rush into getting married; after all, it's just a wedding band and a paper; the feelings are important, regardless of what your marital status says.

well, i had the butterflies-in-stomach all day yesterday and it was a nice day...we did have some "deep" talks at some point and it ended up in talking abt fantasies...oh boy LOL i had gin tonic (2 fl oz gin + 8 fl oz tonic water) last night but didn't eat much so i got tipsy sooooooo easily LOL

Good part? scale is at 127.7 lbs today LOL

I managed to get a 40 min brisk walk in yesterday but didn't eat enough. As you know, Lynn, I tend to work through my hunger signals and by the time i'm done wt the articles i don't feel like eating...ugh

It's 11:35 am and haven't had breakfast yet but i'm planning to go and boil 2 eggs and eat something b/c i hear my stomach growl.

Until I've got batteries, I'm going by measurements.

My stats as of Oct 31:

- waist (narrowest): 28 in

- hips: 33.5 in

- thigh (right): 21.4 in

I really don't want to lose more from the hips, but could use to lose more from the thighs and the waist, ya know. I typically measure once a month.

Well, we suck and if you play on the cork board you need darts wt metal heads; but to play on the electronic one you need darts wt plastic heads...so i'm saving the walls if we hit it wt the plastic heads LOL I really don't need tiny holes in the wall LOL LOL LOL