140s want to be 130s discussion/support group *ALWAYS OPEN*

taking a page from restless_girl's book, because i don't understand why groups have to be exclusive.

me, i've been kicking around in the 140s (both extremes and everywhere in between) for over a year now, and trying to get down to 135.  at my highest i was 167-ish; that was long ago.  but it seems that every time i knock at the door of 139, i get complacent and backslide (beer & chicken wings anyone?).

weigh-in if you want, or just commisserate and support.  i'll pop in periodically ;)

lol... glad I could help! and, unfortunately, this doesn't do me a lot of good other than editing practice :) we have our own little machines that we use and can type multiple letters/words at once... it's like an entire new language.. I thoroughly enjoy it :)

i always wondered about that.  it looks like there aren't many keys on those machines...sounds too tricky for me.

there's about 20 keys... even stranger, right?! plus 10 keys for the numbers.. What's even weirder is that I have an odd talent for it so I'm just going to run with it... lol

I'm still here, and trust me.. I am the QUEEN of typos and not ashamed to tell anyone.. Anyway.. How is everyone doing, and thanks again for the welcome mat.

I got a good jog in early this morning. 5am up did my 3 miles, and felt like my legs was going to fall off. I do most of my runs on the elliptical, and with that.. I try my best to do different setting with the elliptical. I do up hill runs for 6 mins, and it's very hard. So that's how I just about end my 3 mile jog,run,walk program.

My weight today is 146. I lost 2 pounds, and I can smile a little about it. I just have to get past the weekend, because that is when I normally roll back up to 148... I'm also doing my abs program, and dancing a few nights a week as well. I have to go strong at it. Weight train Monday night, and is going to weight train tonight. I'm just working hard on me, and it's all about focus and drive.

guess what i didn't do today.

lynn- nice job on the jog! and 2 pounds is awesome! just focus on your goals over the weekend; you can do it!! :D

pg- ruh-roh.. I'm going with jog? :) what happened! oh, how did the lecture go?

well, I'm down a tad more today.. 136.4.. Like Lynn I need to watch it over the weekend.. I think Sunday may be closer to maintenance for me because my b/f's parents are coming over for dinner and he likes to impress them with lots of food.. We're making stuffed pasta shells, asparagus, a mushroom side, eggplant parm and salad... Maybe garlic bread.. we'll see.. I am going to try and make it to my Turbo Jam class Sunday but it isn't looking good... Nothing else exciting going on... I think I'm making dinner with my sister Saturday and she's trying to lose weight also so we'll most likely chef up something healthy.. I'm in the mood for a wrap... Mmmm... I got my weight lifting in last night while watching the most embarrassing team in the NFL... Weight lifting was awesome, game was horrible... whatever.. I'm so sick of the Brown's. I wish Cleveland would boycott them and at the next home game, all the ticketholders don't show... Brown's are a lost cause... Brady Quinn did pretty dececnt; pretty much what he's paid to do.. the defense was absolutely pathetic...

ugh.. enough out of me :) talk to you ladies soon!!!! :)

krrpt, the lecture went really well, and then i hung around afterwards talking to a couple of the students and the prof.  didn't get out of there until 7, and it was dark and snowing and i was hungry.  i felt bad that i didn't get the dog out for a decent run, but it was good, so, that's what happened.  today, though, i only have to be on campus from noonish to around three, so it shouldn't be a problem to get in a run.  hopefully i don't slip on the ice and kill myself, because when i got home last night it was raining on top of snow....

sorry about your Browns :(  i'm not a big football fan, but i feel the same way when our Canucks are playing badly.

i've had a crappy week weight-wise; after being down in the 142s for most of last week, i bounced back up to 144.1 for three days.  yesterday i was down to 143.4.  i know i haven't been good, exactly, but i don't feel like i've been that bad!  it's a little early for pre-menstrual weight, but maybe it's that. 

anyway, hope everyone has a good (not too good!) weekend!

edit: to correct for periodic dyslexia ;)

that is great about the lecture! and at least you didn't miss running because of lack of motivation or anything.. just normal life ongoings... :) be careful out there! having a broken hip would really put a damper on your running!

It's all right.. we still have OSU to root for.. no NFL team nearby that I like.. and I'm a typical Brown's fan.. our slogan has always been (and probably will always be) "there's always next year..."

do you mean 146.4? Otherwise an 8 pound loss overnight is pretty radical ;) Don't fret... those lovely flucuations will be a thing of the past soon!

My weekend should be good.. how about everyone else? Tonight I'm cleaning my apartment w/my b/f.. oh joy... and I have my Turbo Jam class that I absolutely love... Tomorrow I'm helping at a craft show at a church I was going to. My sister and I signed up for it months ago and forgot.. whoops. But at least I get to hang out with my younger sister. Then tomorrow night the same sister and I are making dinner and maybe going to a wine bar with a friend of mine... Sunday is the dinner I mentioned above...

have a good one all!!

oops!  143.4.

my biggest worry when it comes to the ice is that i'll hurt myself while out it the woods - and my dog is smart, but she's no lassie, you know?  i could lie out there for a long time before some redneck on a quad found me.  so--yes--i'll be careful!

maybe take a safety whistle with you.. just in case :)

huh...well, i got a bit busy last week and everything went to bits.  was back up to 144.1 yesterday - and that was after my run.  blech!  i need to get a grip.

a safety whistle is a good idea, krrpt.  i should do that.

Hello everyone, the weekend is over.. Sunday is the start of a new week, and I am up a pound. 147, but this is okay. I can handle it. I have too.. Sounds like everyone who has posted is doing pretty good. I'm just going to have to get down to business this week. I have a goal, and I would like to get close to it before the year ends out. Just let my pinky toe touch it, and I will be okay. I don't have to cross the finish line just yet, but it would be nice for the pinky toe to just touch the line. Damn, does this sounds like a vent. Maybe.. Hell I don't know, but I am so sick of the yo yo motion. I'm like.. COme on fat.. Cut the freaking yo yo motion alreay. I'm getting yo yo sick. Well, as for me. I will be zig zagging this week. Just to see if I can break this damn cycle. I did it once a few weeks back, and I don't know what the hell happen. I think it could be the stair climber at the gym. I have been giving it 15 mins 3 times a week, and I don't think I've added any more muscle mass. I've been pressing weight with my legs for a while, and I should be the same ole same ole, just working different muscle groups with the stairs. Oh well, let me shut my finger's up and get off here. I wish everyone a great week this week.

Krrpt08, thanks... That run was a rough one, and I got a hell of a run to do later on tonight to jump start my week. Watching this weekends eating habits did okay. I should have done better. Kids wanted pizza friday, and I had a thin crust one with a salad with them. Just a few slices, and Saturday. We had BBQ, and turst me.. When I say.. They really did a good job of cooking the chicken they did one hell of a job, and I had a salad with that, and I can't believe I did a good job holding my own with my calorie amount. 1500 is what I ate all weekend long, and I should have cut it back maybe to 1400, but that's the number I stuck with. I hope you had a good weekend, because I know how laid back I can get. SO laid back I forget I am watching what I eat.

lynn, you're fnny ;)  i have this image of you on some kind of carnival ride, trying not to barf.

i need to get serious, too.  i'm so much stronger than i was a year ago, but it seems that extra muscle has bumped my weight-loss barrier up from 140 to 144.  this thing is not going to do itself!!

Pgeorgian, you got that right. This weight is going to come off. I mean... Come On now.. I mean really.. How many calories do you have to cut to get a pound to stay away around here?

I see myself barfing at the sound of wedding bells. I can handle the carnival ride. I just can't handle this wedding ride.. Cut the bells, and let's run to the damn court house I tell ya.

Everyone is fussing over one damn day, and I am not fussing really at all.. Just give me a drunk preacher, and let's call this a day.. Just my luck, the preacher will sign in my hubby 2 be spot, and I will have to do the crap all over again..

As you can see.. I'm not to happy about "his" wedding day..

I'm a girl, but not a gurly girl. I love fashion, and I love weights... Make up, and crap like that, but all this fuss.. They can leave it for some real chic who wants all of that fuss.. Leave me alone. Emotional Roller Coaster.. Me! Naw!

This damn weight loss roller coaster.. Come on, and cut me some slack already. Am I the only one who feels like this when it comes to weight loss.

You burn 500 calories per-day, and on a really good day.. You just might become that jackass in the gym who is trying to burn 1000 calories, and pig out the moment you ( Me) see a Wendy's. Oh well, truth is truth, and I know bitching when I start doing it.

I'm going to workout again in the morning, and I am going to put on that fake smile like.. ( Oh yeah Tess, I really do love this move here. I can feel it in my abs.. Come on, give me a effing break.)

The things we have to do to lose a few pounds.. It comes on easy, but you got to sweat ,cuss, and kick ass to get rid of it. LOL  I mean, did the women of the 50s and 60s have to deal with any of this.

No! Because a doughnut and a hot cup of Joe was there lunch. What was mines, give me a whopper with cheese hold the onion, and up size that for me too. That's what happen with me.. That good old out the side window food.

good morning ladies! oh man did I have a rough weekend! mad props to lynn keeping it around 1500!! I maintained (NOT my weight) all weekend! 2300 cals Saturday but I burned about 500 via exercise... and 1700 yesterday, no exercise!.. ugh.. but I did sit in front of baked goods for 6 hours Saturday (bake sale at the local church I volunteered for months ago) without really doing any damage.. and yesterday I made a delicious home-made meal.. stuffed shells, eggplant parm, asparagus, stuffed mushrooms.. the works! My b/f had his family over for dinner... So I think I did okay given my circumstances.. but feel I could have done way better... back on the bandwagon this morning... or lynn's yo-yo coaster :)

pg- sorry the weight went up :( I'm sure it has a lot to do with muscle.. when's the last time you broke out the measuring tape? maybe it's just about time to do that... I've only lost about 4 pounds in the last 6 weeks, but I lost an inch around my waist.. that's all I measured, but it's something!

lynn- sorry about all the weight movement.. it sucks. .seriously.. and sorry that you have to deal with all kinds of wedding drama.. my b/f was asking me the other day if I wanted a big wedding and I said no way... It's his family we'd have to worry about taking up all the space b/c there are so many people he'd want to invite... I'm no girly-girl either.. I want a cute dress, relaxing day, friends, family, and drinks :) and I'll be happy! good luck with all of that stuff!!

well.. I should probably start working.. I've been here for about an hour and haven't done much... whoops...

so i had a fairly lazy 4k run in the woods on saturday, and a really good 4 on the road today.  yay!  it was weird, actually; i really wanted to run!  it was...like...how am i going to fit in a run today?  i need to run!  so even though it's cold (just above freezing) and raining (it turned to snow while i was out there), i went.  and i was pretty fast, too (24:25, with five potty breaks for kenya).

krrpt, i haven't tried the tape measure for awhile, but i'm an ectomorph.  my legs haven't changed in over a year, even though i know their stronger.  my hips show the difference, but my waist...well, i have a huge uterine fibroid, and at the best of times my uterus is the size of a 14-week pregnancy.  before my period, like now, it's even bigger.  if i'd taken measurements when i was 167, i'm sure it would feel good, though!

okay - gotta go.  i'm all sweaty.

Yes you can call me "COOP", the guys in the office call me that.

Dropped 1.2 pounds last week, back on the exercise band wagon (hubby started exercising agian with me) and back to soccer.   Had a couple of weeks off between seasons (outdoor to indoor), but back to it and loving it.  I forgot how much I miss playing at times.

Weekend wasn't too too bad.  Hubby and I signed up for a wine trail event for Saturday, hit 5 wineries in southern ohio.  they provided tastes, gifts and food.  It was just what I needed, work has been really really stressful, working 60 or more hours the last 3 weeks.

hi, coop! 

the wine tour sounds great.  when you say it's a "trail event" - does that mean you're running from one vineyard to the next?  if so - cool!  but i don't think i'd make it to #3 ;)

i'm down to 142.7 today after being stuck at 144.1 for over a week.  yay!  i guess getting rid of the last of the halloween candy on saturday was a good idea (now, i could have made a better choice about how i got rid of it, but...six of one, right?  right?).

hmmm..... good idea walking the trails, but I would have only made to two at most  (mostly due to drinking) HA HA!!!    the wineries were an average of an hour apart from each other, but we had all Saturday to enjoy.   It was a nice get away, we ended up about 4 hours from home so spent the night in southern Ohio.

got my working out in before dinner tonight, its been a week straight now, hopefully back in the groove.  Did manage to drop 1 whole pound  WWWWOOooOHHHHOOOO

Hi everyone!

Let's get down to business on my day of hell. I'm not going to start with the (B) so you can read this reply with ease. LOL

Today was a fair day. I made it through another day at chemo with my uncle.. Made it my business to take my walk mate with me, and I walked over 4 miles lap after lap. Giving me a hour and 25 mins of that cold air.. It was cold today, and I wished I had on sweats. Why didn't I wear them?

Anywhoooo, I didn't and I did the walking anyway.. I did have on my gym shoes, that was a plus with extra thick socks. Made it home at 4:30, and was able to get dinner ready for the kids, and get 15 mins in on the total gym.. I had plans to go to the gym, but due to veteran's day, and since the owner of the gym father is a vet. The gym will not be open until 3, and I really wanted to get into the gym before 3.... Well, I can handle it on my own until later on that night. I've missed the biggest loser 2 weeks in a row, because I took my butt to the gym. It's where I needed to be the most, but I think if I can get my butt in the gym by 4 ........... I can be out before the show comes on. I don't know who has gotten voted off lately, and right now at this point it don't matter, but I would like to watch.

Coop... What is your favorite wine. I love Gin, and that's not wine. I have not had that in 20 months, and told myself.. One drop will not touch my lips until I lost it all. I'm almost there. Hopefully by new years... I will see some GJ. Not too much.. I don't want to get drunk..LOL

Krrpt, you did a good job on burning 500 calories. I burned 2190 on sunday, and I was feeling pretty good about it. I did a little core rhythms, and a little bike ride. I didn't give this week my best, but I did maintain the calories.

Pg, Can I call you Pg? You did a lazy 4k. I don't think of that as lazy. I think whatever you do is freaking good. Better than sitting on your butt all day. I've had my fair share of that life style.. On my butt. I wish I could blame sitting on my butt for the size it is.. But No! It's my mother's genes.... I workout hard, and it's going to still be here.. Just less of it. LOL

You all keep on pushing at it.