XTC2 (Ex-Thick-Chick Club)

Hello all....

This website changed my life. ( : Sounds overly dramatic, but it is true. I hope to look back a year or so from now and think, "I am forever grateful......"  Anywho, I think my favorite part of cc, aside from all the great educational information, is the overwhelming support and friendship I've found here. I guess most of my life I've only trusted and truly befriended a handful of unique women---I hold my friends in the highest regard and do not take camraderie lightly. The women I have met here are seriously my spiritual twins! I always felt very alone in my weight loss journey----no more!

That said, I think my cc girls, and you know who you are, are the best! ( :   My buddies, my pals, my soul sisters =P Chat away to motivate yourself and others! ( ;

~~Olivia

now that's ironic ..

 

IT IS SOOOOOOO usually me who is the only one in sight in the evening.   My date cancelled, so I passed out early on the couch.   party animal, I know.    =P  

 

Hope your Fridays are good....  I will be helping more in kitchen demo-land myself.   Tomorrow that semi-kinda-date might happen --  I kind of want to blow HIM off, but I don;t know..... 

missing all of you LOTS.  

 

It is 9AM Saturday morning.   ALready wish it was Monday = I have a purpose.  

 

Got a LOT done at S and K's on the kitchen last night.  Started painting finally, and the can lights -- I spent many hours on --- went up.  and look AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    ;     YAY ME!!!!!!!!!

 

Skipped running today on 10 degrees.    ouch.       tomorrow......  or at the latest, next wek - supposed to be way warmer = me jogging every day.     :)   

 

stay strong, hotties.  I MISS YOU ON WEEKENDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I got drunk with my coffee probably starting right after that last entry.   I am such a screw up.   No more drinking this week --- try to be better next weekend.  

Had a date with a different/new boy late Sat night ---  the guy that cancelled on me Thursday never did call back about rescheduling Saturday  (weinie)

I did not get up this morning and jog.  too cold.   I did help S and K with the kitchen some more ---  done sanding can lights for the rest of my life.  

miss you, girls. 

did I run all you off with my sadness and bad choices?  

 

hope not. 

oh come on:) it is not so bad

am still here. was good yesterday with my cals, and if i do not mess up tonight (it is 9 pm here so hopefully not) this day will be ok too. i have tried to plan my menus for the whole week, with the exception of veg/fruit which shall depend on what looks nice in the shop. will see how it works out

 

hey ka!  missed you..... 

Good for you and keep up the good work!   I wish I could make myself plan a week in advance.   I do buy my food based on loose menus in my head I know work for me and are easy and tasty, but I am too impulsive to plan like that.  

I love the fresh fruit and veggies though....   had a sweet potato lately?  I got some on a whim, and they ROCKED!!!! oh and clementines!  my mom got them for me for vitamin C when I was sick, and they are so sweet and yummy (and easy to peel -- bonus!)

Good morning everyone!! I skipped work yesterday to hang out with D for another day and just be lazy, it was great! I had a training session with V and he kicked my butt again, yay! I just wish I would start seeing results already!! I haven't weighed myself but my measurements are depressingly the same.

Olivia~ Of course you didn't run us off! I guess it's the fact that I sit on the computer all day at work all week that I don't even want to open my laptop on the weekends! So no it's not you! Glad you met a new boy, do tell!!

Things at work are FINALLY slowing down for a few weeks hopefully so I'll try and be on here more to chat!

  sure, sure.  lol

glad you an extra and extra nice day off, abbs!  that rocks.   you did a ton of work at home though, super productive woman! 

I am positive your body is changing though as hard as V works you...     is D any happier wth that ehole thing now?

missing all you other ladies too

OH -- edit:   the boy....  met online.   pretty cute, cool.  single dad.   about 45 minutes away, so casual.    still fun.   and nice to be looked at in a way that makes me feel good.  J alway

hello. i di detour from my plan, shame on me, hopefully i will make it ok again... this road is full of bumps but i am not giving up:)

sweet potatoes are not available where i live but there is plenty of good, lo cal foods around:)

D's getting better with the who V thing but he still has a little attitude towards it which annoys me.  I just feel so much better after my workouts with V.  He encourages me and pushes me and D just pushes?  I don't know how to explain it but it also helps that V does new exercises.  Oh, so the other day D and I were working out on my off day with V and I came around the corner to meet him on our normal machine and he wasn't there.  He decided to "change up" our routine and do some other exercises.  WHAT?!  That's what I've been asking him to do for months now and he just kept adding more sets and weight which made me really angry.  With V I do 2 sets of 15 instead of 3 sets of 10 and I like it better.  The last 5 are always hard but after two sets we're on to the next machine/exercise and I know it's over.  Also, we do two things at a time, so one set of this, one set of that and back to the first.  There's NO downtime so I'm dripping sweat by the end of my 30 mins and I'm sore in the morning meaning I'm working muscles really well. 

So yeah, I hate how much it costs but I really enjoy working with V, especially on boxing day!!  D can just get over it, hopefully very soon.

Hi Ladies!

I'm streaming all of the inaugural stuff which is just so exciting!

At any rate, RING ~ my trainer works that very same way - and it works, as far as I can see :) Interesting the D made the change to the routine afterward ;) Silly men. Go figure.

J ~ glad you had a nice date!! That's a good step in a great direction :)

Ka ~ where do you live? Hope you are having a good day staying on track.

Hi to everyone else, if they show up!

Um, Janay, I think it's ME who scares everyone off in here! LOL I'm the string killer...

NAH -- lol.  I think my negativity is getting old too = hard to talk these days  =P  we love our daizy!

I just got busy at work personally.  Now it's lunch and I am enjoying my leftover butternut squash from last night.   it's a little boring ---  should have seasoned it more in the lunch bowl before I packed it this morning, but I will do better tomorrow.  GOD -- that thing made a TON.   had a bowl last night and ended up with 5 more 1.5 cups servings for lunch/dinner this week.   good bang for the buck.   :) 

I did not get to watch the inaugaration.  :(   boo working. 

the date was pretty nice.  just sat around talking and watching Idiocracy, the funniest movie ever made.  =P   (no arguing!) 

I wish I could shake my funk and get back to being me.  once I get to work, I am mostly ok because the kids demand nothing less, but home sucks.    oh well.  can;t last forever.  (RIGHT?)

I went to the gym at lunch for a quick quick workout (but still broke a sweat) and then off to lunch with a friend.  I met her at the gym and we started chatting and decided to bring it up to true friendship status and have lunch and she invited me to her jewlery party on Friday night.  I'm not sure if I'm going to go or not since we may still be up in Waldorf but I'll consider it. 

So today I followed D around on the machines but did my own exercises instead of the ones he was doing and he seemed ok with it since I never took a break inbetween sets. 

Then as soon as I got to lunch I remembered my 1pm meeting so I got back just in time for that and just got finished with that. 

I'm about to journal for the second time today, stay tuned.

Damn, J, that must have been a BIG squash! YUM! What did you put in it? Sometimes I put in a little bit of brown sugar or maple syrup or cinnamon, other times I just use garlic salt and pepper. I'm making myself hungry now!

And yes, you will get out of this. You will!

Ring ~ yay for new friends! I need to do that. It gets so much harder to make friends the older you get, I think. Most people my age have families, so they make friends with their kids parents. We don't have that option, so the friend thing is left to work and social settings. I work with almost all older people - not happening here. Social settings - hm. Not sure how to approach that one. It does get lonely sometimes, even though I have J. Sometimes you just need a gal pal to hang out with, you know?

Will check for journal updates after my meeting!

Daizy~ try the gym for making new friends!  The aerobics classes usually have a dedicated following which is how I met my friend since we always walked to the locker room to change afterwards.  Sometimes it's odd to strike up a conversation while changing but it gets easier after the initial "hello" in your bra :P

Oh and I got my fruit this weekend!  Delicious oranges and hella good grapes!  I've eaten almost half the bag and my tummy is telling me to stop but I know they won't be this fresh tomorrow so I want to keep eating!  But i will stop before I get sick.  I have chili in the crock pot for dinner tonight, yummy!!  Only 20 more mins of work and them HOME!  Now that work is slow I am aware of the time and I want it to go faster!  My how things change! 

Morning ladies.  I'm in a bad mood today, D pissed me off this morning for absoluetly no reason and now he's all mopey and depressed and sometimes I just don't know what to say to him anymore.  I guess he either doesn't see or doesn't care about me the way I thought he did and I feel like it's ending. 

  I love you, abbs.    (((((((((((((((((((((((HUGS)))))))))))))))))) )))))

I am sure it is just boy poopy morning, PMS.   

sending all my bestest vibes to you!!!!!!!  

at least you are not an alcoholic like me..... 

Still have no cc at home............trying to fix that problem, but that is why I have been mising on the weekends and stuff.

 

How are you all?

I am ok, val.     we miss you!!  :) 

Still the same on my end.   need to stop drinking, get back to my workouts / but need it to be warmer at 5AM!!!!!      I did see a 150.2 this morning.    : D  

where are all of you hotties???