wildbeanerz

Health / Fitness Goals ...
1. 100 oz water daily (up from my usual 80) M: Yes, T: Yes,
2. No added salt to my plate M: Yes, T: Yes,
3. One diet soda daily limit M: Yes, T: Yes,
4. Walk on lunch at work M: raining but went 3/4mile anyway, T: Raining,
5. Exercise 3 times W-F (yes, this includes Thursday) W: 1hr like a boss! ,
6. List weight daily M: 274.6, T: 274.4, W: 273.2, Lost this week- 1.4lbs

Life Goals ...
1. Finish paperwork for son M: DONE!,
2. Clean house on Thanksgiving while hubby works so I can get my tree on Saturday and spend the weekend decorating instead of cleaning
3. Enjoy Thanksgiving with my family

I am feeling so good this week with goals! I don't know how much I trust this morning's scale reading. It went anywhere from 161.8 - 175 but kept settling at 273.2 so I took that. I will see what tomorrow has to say before I know if it was right. I hate when the scale plays head games. It is too early in the morning for that!

I wanted to thank each and every one for all of you comments and advice on the positive feedback I have been getting.

Quinn ... I can't believe some of the info that you say they want for the scholarship applications. That is just crazy. No wonder you are so stressed about them.

Darlene ... I love your story about how you told your hubby about concrete and I LOL'd at your son's vacuum comment and your description of his attitude!... I'm sorry to hear that your daughter is so ill. I hope that you got good news last night and got to sleep instead of making another trip to the hospital.

Cassie ... You must feel awesome right now! That is a huge compliment from your son!

Mern ... I am glad to hear that your family is doing better. Your life will settle down when you have a little less to worry about. I love the Thanksgiving picture you posted.

Amy ... Ugh! Is that how many calories are in a sugar cookie? I am totally doomed then. They are one of the boys' favorite cookies to make because they love to tint the icing different colors and decorate the cookies with icing and sprinkles. I can't resist making them because I love having them in the kitchen with me, working together and not arguing. So it's worth it. I will just have to find someone to donate a bunch of them to so that I don't eat them all!!

I got a cute poem today in my email. I'm sure some of you have seen it but I'll share anyway...

May your stuffing be tasty.

May your turkey be plump.

May your potatoes ' n gravy have nary a lump.

May your yams be delicious.

May your pies take the prize.

May your Thanksgiving dinner stay off of your thighs.

01gt4.6

This Week:
Health & Fitness
1) Lose 1 pounds
2) 4 servings of fruit/veggies 4, 5
3) Gallon of water I think so, yes
4) 3000 calories deficient (not including Thanksgiving) -679, -752 (that seems wrong though, I don't think I was THAT deficient)
5) Walk 13 miles 2.5, 0 (rain rain go away)
6) 1 cheat day (Thanksgiving) clean, still clean
7) Gym x 3 0, 1
8) 200 pushups 0, 0 (just now dropped and did 30)
9) Daily:
a) Fish Oil yes, yes
b) Vitamin yes, yes
c) Glucosamine yes, yes

Non Health & Fitness
10) Write 2 policies 0, 0
11) buy and install shocks (or struts, which ever is on the back) on GF's car (probably won't happen)


Good morning my ladies. I hope all is going well! I think I won't be hitting my #11 goal that I just added. When my gf bought her Lexus last year we discovered that it had a bad oil leak. It turned out that the idiot before her used too long of a bolt for the AC bracket and ran it straight into the engine block. We battled to try to stop the leak and I ended up taking it to someone so he could weld the hold shot. Yesterday she went to Walmart (aka big business) to get an oil change. They told her that they couldn't do it b/c she had a bad oil leak coming from somewhere. Obviously changing shock is not a priority. The car is old, has many miles and may end its life as a parts car, so the last thing I need to worry about is the shocks.

wildbeanerz

Mike ... That stinks about your gf's car. Now is not the time to be having big car repair bills or buying a new vehicle.

Just got a funny text from my son. He is off school for Thanksgiving and was apparently working out. He has my mp3 player. He texted and said "Heavy weight lifting and heavy music = awesome, Heavy weight lifting and Christmas music = not so much" LOL That boy has such a sense of humor!

taubele

Mern: It's so lovely to see/read you back!! I love the sentiment of "the list" on thanksgiving to be the hardest thing because there's too much. That just makes my heart swell up. I totally hear you on stuffing - my FAVORITE part of Thanksgiving is the turkey-flavored gravy getting all up in my stuffing and eating it by the spoonful. Ugh, so good. Thanks very much for the support - the personality flaws I've had to deal with this week aren't good ones: my tendency to avoid confrontation, yes, but also my tendency to psuh my problems on others (or blame them for my own shortcomings) and my desire to, when I realize my stupidity, just try to let it be "water under the bridge" rather than admitting to my bad behavior. But if this week has taught me anything, it's that honesty and kindness is usually the best policy, even if it's not the easiest policy. I'm happy to hear your granddaughter is feeling better

Pam: I have terrible trouble selling myself in general, mostly because I think I'm the least-smart person in the room It's good to hear that it took you a good long time, though, to come to the maturity to hold your head up no matter what. I am still learning that, but I have made leaps and bounds in the past week in trying to own up to my behavior, both good and bad. That's part of the process, right? I think next conference I will wear red just for you!!!

Cassie: BF gave me a little massage and also helped me into some stretches. My back feels heaps better today. I think I just slept funny, but I am DEFINITELY working out today. Also - FIVE HALF GALLONS OF ICE CREAM?! Wow. I'm not sure I've ever seen that many in a single-family house before.

Main80: Maybe it is not as bad as I think - and, even worse, I may use it as an excuse. I'm not putting it past myself, I can get in some pretty bad social habits. But thank you so much for the compliments! I am trying to remember the good parts about my personality in these days where I feel like a horrible person...

quinn: You're going to give me nightmares of what the college process might be like when I have kids!!! - seriously, why do they want the GRANDFATHER'S discharge records?! That's absolutely NUTS!!

mgonzalez: Hi there!

Rose: Karma for the saboteur! His contract is ending right when you want it to, I say it's cool to feel happy about it! I never did watch Lost (I don't watch much TV in general, or at least not many serial shows) but hey - geek is chic right now! Nothing wrong with being a geek. Sometimes I just feel like I have to be an all-or-none geek and I'm totally not, lol. I pick and choose my flavor of geek.

almeeker: Well, if you're going to eat cookies and cupcakes, the least you could do was give us food porn, and you delivered! Thanks! Yummmmm!

April: LOVE that Thanksgiving poem!!! You are doing awesome again this week!

Mike: Sorry about your GF's car, boooo! What an idiot. That's why I say that finding a truly good mechanic is a complete blessing, ugh.

Weekly Goals

Food, Exercise, Lifestyle Goals

1) Log food every day except Thursday - achieve a weekly average of 1200-1500 calories (excepting Thursday) M: 1,381 T: 1,154 (Week Total: 1,267.5)
2) Achieve a deficit of 4000-5000 calories (excepting Thursday) M: -441 T: -700 (Week Total: -1,141)
3) Exercise 3-4 times M: No T: No
4) 80 oz. of water daily M: yes T: No (64)
5) Multivitamin daily M: yes T: Forgot!
6) Average weekly protein of 25-30% (except Thursday) M: 30% T: 24% (Weekly Average: 27%)
7) Weigh in on Wednesday and post it here, good, bad, or ugly M: N/A T: N/A
8) Log sleep nightly M: yes T: yes

Other Goals

1) Enjoy Thanksgiving and do not feel guilty about a bite!! M: N/A T: N/A
2) Make an effort on my appearance daily M: yes T: yes
3) Skype with family on Thanksgiving - and bug them about doing it! M: Bugged 'em T: No extra bugging
4) List something wonderful that happened every day M: I caught up and had fun with two old friends last night. T: Had a great, great overdue talk with BF about an old issue we need to speak with my family about. In the past he' been touchy, but last night he was really communicative and open with me. Loved it.

My back is feeling better today - not 100%, but maybe 85%, and that's good enough to get a workout in. I was SO HAPPY that the scale said 161.3 this morning, that's really close to the low I was at before the conference, so it reaffirms that most of the weight I gained was just bloat/salt/water that's coming off fast. Thank goodness. I was seeing the ghost of the "fat me" in the mirror again. I'm really looking forward to seeing 159 on the scale - hopefully it happens before December if I'm not too crazy on Thanksgiving!

Had a very long talk with my boss this morning that's cleared a lot of the air around me. I feel lighter, and that's only a good thing. Unfortunately, I found out that the graduate student whom I'd been hoping things were cleared up with might be a little more angry/hurt in regards to our relationship than I thought, to the point where she believed that I had deliberately sabotaged one of her experiments (I didn't, and I would NEVER). I wasn't hurt necessarily that she'd told my boss instead of coming to me with that feeling (since I'm sure it'd be hard to talk with me about), but I'm rather hurt that she believes I disliked her so much that I'd do that. That tells me that things are more deteriorated than I thought. I had admitted to her that I had harbored some jealousy/misplaced anger issues that I've since gotten over, and while I had thought that would mend the bridge, instead it seems that now she's looking over our past interactions and wondering if I would do something so underhanded after my admission (if that makes sense). It speaks to a low opinion of me that I'm not sure I deserve, and was a little surprising. It was also surprising in light of the fact that she'd just complained to me about how she feels everyone "talks behind her back to the boss" and it seemed like she just did the same to me! That's part of my hurt feeling as well. It just feels like she's trying to 'get back' at me.

Maybe I deserve that a bit, though. I'll give her this one and chalk it up to karma. I'm glad my boss was direct and straightforward about it, that helped a lot.

I've resolved, however, not to confront her about it unless she speaks to me directly (which I doubt she will, at least not right now). All I can do is try to show her with words and actions that I respect her and her work mightily (which I do with all my heart) and perhaps convince her that I'd never deliberately do something like that (to make a long story short, some of the tissue that I had handled for her during an experiment of hers turned out to be below a good standard of tissue, with some tears and gouges in it. While it may be my fault as I had to rush through part of the experiment, it certainly wasn't deliberate sabotage!). I can't even imagine myself disliking a person so much as to sabotage their experiments or work. If there was that much disrespect, I probably would just excuse myself from participating in their experiments at all. I've never been a petty person, and that just smacks to me of stupid game-playing.

There may come a time when I decide to talk to her about it, but now is not that time, since I need to process the feeling of hurt and not use it like a whip or a barb. Not sure how long that will take. Maybe Turkey Day will help!

I hope you all have a lovely Wednesday!

~Terri

01gt4.6

Tell me about it. I really do need to go get a bike now, then she can take my car when her heap breaks.

almeeker

Um, 28 not 29.

01gt4.6

I need to get back to work but use that phrase with caution. (not saying that you will)You can't half-ass it if you are using it. You really have to do it up, real big.

almeeker

LOL, I love that story!!! Oh to have been a fly on the wall... Absolutely, I'm the type of woman that would help her husband pour a concrete pad, he's the workhorse and I'm the boss!

01gt4.6

um whatever. Y'all tend to forget your real age.

I was going to get back to work. I'm going to make one more phone call and call it a day.

quinnesec

I kind of like the age that I am... my 20's and 30's were way too much work and too little cash... Although the fact that most people can't guess my age doesn't hurt... lol.


By the way.... get back to work....