I remember why summer is so bad here now...the heat, and humidity...ugh I have been absolutely miserable the last few weeks. Add to that a miserable sinus infection, no money, the stress of having no money created a lovely case of the shingles...blah!!! Somewhere during all the phone chaos I lost Mr Hottie. Darn!
Oh and I found 3 pounds that I thought were gone forever. I need to update my tracker. :P I have slacked on exercise, I have to figure out a way to walk early in the mornings now since school has started. I would have no problem with slipping out of the house to walk at 5:30 am except I would never get my son out of bed and he would sleep so soundly he would let the house burn down around him even with smoke dectors in every room. ( I know this because I burnt breakfast one morning and every single alarm went off... Yeah, I have skills ) So would it be totally evil of me to set the clocks ahead an hour??
Thanks everyone who wrote and made me get back in here and back on track.
Btw Lane Bryant has been sending some great email coupons....anyone that wants me to forward them email me through here.
This stupid thing just ate my seriously long post...lesson learned do not try to preview post just throw it up there and hope for the best...
Since I am not capeable of cut and paste here either and it's been a sucky day...I'll do it later...need chocolate,....need caffine...cannot type....send help
First confession time, I sucked at exercising this week!! We finally got our 100 degree weather and our 90% humidity that has been missing all summer. My total exercise for the past 7 days consisted of 1- 5 mile walk, and 1 bout with the Evil Exercise Ball, and one pilates workout. The results no weight loss:P
Being in the house all week is not good for me. I am like the ADD kid who is denied recess, I just freak out and go bananas...lol
So I had to teach tax class this week too. I thought I'd be cute and send my 'freind' a teasing text message. I did it on Monday with my cell phone and then went to work. Well got to work and never heard from him, and didn't think much about it decided he must be out of town all week. I got ready to go back to work Friday night and looked in my brief case for said cellphone...Not there, opps, not good. Decided I must have left it at work. Nope not there either. Where else have I been? My moms....uh oh....hope he didn't send a message back. I was kind of ticked at myself because this usually signals a big bout of ADD stupid ass behaviors on my part. You know I just can't focus...lol....I have already lost one cell phone this summer. ACK!!
Well I got home Friday night and there was a message from my friend "Why haven't you answered my text messages?" OMG!! I had to send him a message back letting him know I had lost yet another cellphone so was now without one. (I hate telling people when I do something so stupid!) Now I'm imagining my mom over there at her house picking up my phone which is identical to hers and wondering who this person is asking her if 'they can come over to play'...OMG blush...blush.....
Fast forward to Sunday...more ADD moments...I get ready to take ds to a birthday party because even tho' it's his dads weekend...I have to take ds because obviously since the Troll has a broken leg, the Crypt Keeper must stay by his side and if my son wants a social life it's up to me to give up my weekend and chauffer him. (he went to a birthday party saturday too). I pick up ds to go to the party and my seat starts ringing...OMG!! It's my phone, I found it...and the battery is still charged. :) I take ds to the party and sit out in 100 heat making small talk while little sticky babies pat on my legs....I finally get ds home and I'm so elated that I jump out of my jeep and lock the doors. With the keys still in the ignition....OH NO!!! Of course the doors to the house are locked, the windows are locked and the alarm is on....ggggrrrrr I have a friend who has a house key and she should be back in town around 9 pm tonight. AARRGGGHHHH
I look in the old truck to see if there is by chance a house key in it. NO no house key but you know what I did find. Yep, you guessed it MY OTHER CELL PHONE!!!! Yippie!!!
Aw crap now I will have 3 as I just bought another one....gggrrrrrr It should be delived Tuesday....aww hell!!
So now I'm sitting in the 100 degree heat trying to figure out how the heck to get into my own house.....I look at the garage door and wonder....hmmmm I think you can lift it up a few inches before the catch locks.....I lift it and it doesn't even open as high as my shins...I bend down and look and think nope, I'll get stuck and if it falls I'll lie here and bleed to death before anyone will find me. Then I think I could go get a neighbor kid to crawl under while I hold it up....I walk up and down my driveway so I can see the neighbors...all of them are gone...sooooo I laid on the ground and scooted right under the garage door!!!! whhoooohoooo I had room to spare!!! Yay !! I'm not so fat after all!!!
My door into the house from the garage was unlocked so I got into the house, went outside with spare jeep key to get other keys out of the jeep and my cat was so excited about all the time I had spent outside with her while trying to figure out a way into the house she has gone out and gotten a love sacrafice to lay on our door step. UGH!!
I'm taking this as a sign that exercise helps keep me focused so I will not skip anymore!!! LOL
I was hoping for another amazing week but I guess if I could have those every week this wouldn't be hard and would not have taken 3 years so far. I am down a pound though. I'll take it!!
I looked at digital scales at Bed Bath and Beyond My Budget last night...found a beautiful one that looked like brown marble. My mom was horrified that I would spend $50 on, *gasp* something so non-essential as a bathroom scale.
Non-essential my ASS!! Of course my mom is thin, has always been thin, as a kid she was to skinny...as an adult underweight, and in middle age finally got to 'normal' range, now in her 60's she's still normal...UGH!! We won't even go into the way she was the tyrantical ruler of the 'clean plates are happy plates club' and how to her 'food is love'.
I don't think she knows how important that scale will be to me. I have had many scales over the years but they were my enemy. They told me how much weight I had gained, how overweight I was. ( Maybe how unhappy I was, was in direct correlation to my weight?) This new scale would be my 'friend' it would signify good things, how much weight I have lost. How well I have done, and how far I have come.( How happy I am?) I don't know about you, but I don't want some ugly rundown beat up 9.99 walmart scale for my new freindship. I want the sleek ultra modern brown marble slab with big digital numbers for my new friendship!! ( And my eyesight because bending over to see the little lines on my current scale can add a pound)
I did not buy the beautiful brown scale, mainly because it is as the stores name suggests, Beyond My Budget!!! I know that being poor is temporary but dang!! Another year or two of this crap!!! I am so ready to finish school, get the house in my name and work only 1 job most of the year and have my summers off!!!
Wow am I in a weird mood today or what??
Other unrelated stuff in random order because that is how my head works..
Oprah is looking for weight loss success stories...damn wish I was at goal, and I hadn't publicly ranted about her bra show...lol
This is totally evil and petty of me but I need to share. The Troll broke his knee (didn't know you could really do that and thought I would have to pay someone. Karma is truly a wonderful thing) He did it at work thank goodness,so is looking at 2 months or more of Wworkman's Comp payments. I see the potential withholding of childsupport whine coming. It usually goes like this, as the check approaches 29th day of being late...
Troll: Well you know I am hurt and can't work
Me: You still get workman's comp and are required to pay
Troll: I only get 80% of my pay and no overtime
Me: You have AFLAC file a claim
Troll: I still have other bills...the house, the new RV, our trucks (meaning his and the Crypt Keepers, I drive a POS)
Me: Well aren't we lucky that you married someone with a good job. If you want we can go before the judge and see what he says, oh and there is the matter of that 401K and the divorce decree and TN law state you were to pay me 1/2, which is 13K ,
I haven't got that yet.
Which is followed by a lot of nasty name calling (he has such foul pet names for me :) ) as he writes the check...Sheesh I hate drama...Have to build myself up for it and I know how it will end, he knows how it will end, but yet he drags me through it all the same. This little drama played itself out 4 times during his last workmans comp claim. He's only been back on full duty about 6 weeks from the last drama/accident.
Okay enough mindless rambling I have to go get my son from the Evil Trolls cave and take him to a birthday party at my walking partners house. Swim Party...OMG!!!
I warn you guys....disturbing visuals may occur if you continue to read...Okay, I know you saw the word BOOBIES and now you are on Auto Pilot..Continue on if you must...BUT I WARNED YOU...
I watched Oprah the other day, the kids were napping late and I indulged in a little couch time myself. Her show was one of those 'change your life' shows...about BRAS...I thought yeah how hard is that, snoooze........zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...I know I wear a 38D down from a 40 D...
I woke up a few minutes later and the English chicks from What Not To Wear were abusing women on the street and telling them how hideously they were dressed and what was wrong with their boobage...and they were grabbing the women's boobs!! Note to Oprah staff, That crap would not go down in the south, grab a redneck woman's tit and we will show you real fast we don't play that stuff here, you will have a bloody stub where that hand used to be..
Then a woman came on and said more than 80% of women were wearing the wrong size bra. I sat there smugly and thought "Duh how hard can it be to buy a bra." Then she said if your straps are always falling down your bra is the wrong size... Really?? Uh oh...that's me.... She said if the back is riding up...wrong size....I have one that does that also....ugh!! She went on to point out all the other things like, if you have 'extra' boobs coming over the tops or out the sides, back boobs or back fat coming over the strap...etc etc...Pretty huh?
I'm still thinking 'I used to sew, I know how to measure my chest'...duh....Then she mentioned that most women haven't measured their chest recently. Ha! I have to! I measure every week for my tracker on extrapounds.com!!
She said if you've had recent weight loss or weight gain it will dramatically change the size of your bra... Ha! Wrong, Oh Expert of the Brasserie. I am still hovering in the 38-39 category... Then it happened...she reminded us you also must measure the ribcage under the breasts... I indulged her and got out the tape measurer....pulled out 38 inches and lifted my arms put the tape where she said.....and uh...oh my! 33 inches...Wow
She then explained that the cup size is the difference in inches between the middle of the breast...and the ribcage measurement.. 39-33=6... 1=A 2=B 3=C (My dream size where all the cute bras are) 4=D 5=??? DD 6=???? = What? What the hell does a 6 inch difference get you?
A spot in a freak show?? Do they make bras like that?? If so I ain't never seen any at our Walmart. (Whole 'nother rant about Walmart's placement of the bras in their store coming on)
What happens as I continue to lose weight, my ribcage will get smaller and my boobies will stay enormous and I will need what? Bigger cups??? A crane to hold me upright??
WTH am I supposed to do?? It's almost impossible now to find a bra...(Remind me to tell you about the guy who was sooooo interested in me and my moms conversation about my selection in Lane Bryant) I mean it's bad enough that the manufacturers think if you have big boobs you don't need any padding...Heeelllllooooo frozen food aisle, need I say more???
Every big girl needs a 'cold weather' bra unless her girls have just lost all feeling. My twins are an excitable pair and although I don't get many dates, I prefer not to attract attention in that way.
So now I know, I have it all wrong, My boobs could look better and I could 'change my life' if only I knew where to buy bras for the freakishly endowed on a tight budget.
Thanks Oprah, thanks alot, something else for me to worry about fixing. Losing 100 lbs couldn't be enough, oh no, Now I need to go on a bra buying adventure probably every time I lose 10 more lbs...Our society has organ donors, tissue donors, bone marrow donors, can't we have boob fat donors?? I mean if someone would pay for me to get a nice perky pair of size C cups I'd donate all the extra gladly.
Whew that rant is over but now I have 2 or 3 more to get off my ummm....chest...
I was reaching over one arm with the other one today and noticed something weird...What the hell is this dent in my arm on the inside near my elbow?? OMG!!! Am I sick?? Is it a tumor??? Am I dying?? Oh hell no! Hey I'm getting muscles Dude!!! Heck I'm getting 'cut'!!! Heh, can you tell I spend all my time with 10 year old boys??
I am motivated to work out more. Mr Hottie has been less than attentive the last few days so I am ignoring him for a while and going on a date with someone new this week. (Not that we have a committed relationship or anything, but damn he's HOT)
I mean how dare he have other interests or a life or God forbid be dating some skinny, bleached blonde bimbo. I don't know that is what he's doing but that is where my 'fat' mind goes.
Anyway since I am like a bazillion years old I figure I shouldn't sit home waiting for another time we can get together and totally miss out on life.
So for the first time in years I'm going riding on a Harley!!! Whooo hooo!!! I gotta go find my helmet!! It'll be nice to go for a ride. When I was 265 lbs The Troll, my evil ex, refused to take me, told me I would blow out his rear tire. Of course the fact that he weighed more and was the same height was never an issue at all... Maybe I'll get Mr Ex Cop biker dude to ride me by the trolls cave so we can wave and him and his broke down Harley!!! Sometimes it's just impossible to be the 'bigger' person. Life is sweet!
Today was offical weigh in day....Yesterday I jumped the gun and recorded 169 lbs because I was so excited...today I weighed and it's between 168 and 167 so I went with the heaviest!!! Dude!! I'm out of the 170s and in the 160's....how cool is that!!!
I think I have a renewed interest in seeing my pounds drop off again. I guess miserably hot heat works when dieting.
We are on our way to baseball yet again. We have a game today in this horrible heat. I hope they win-kind of. If they lose we are done playing until August. If they win another week of practice and another weekend of tournament play....
Hmmm maybe I can drop another 5 or 6 lbs before I have time to see Mr Hottie again. He's within 15 pounds of his goal and is already toned and working on an incredible 6 pack. Men suck they can lose weight at the drop of a hat and then poof they are all toned and firm. I lose weight and I'm left with the stretched out sweater skin bagging everywhere... So not fair.
Wish us luck, the sauna/diet/ ballgame thing is working so why mess with it. I'm off to baseball because if ds does another running slide across the livingroom floor the All-Stars team is going to be minus 1 catcher.
I lost 6 freakin' pounds this week. Can you believe that?? Actually it might even be more like 7 but that is just so unbelieveable I went with the 6...lol You know I can remember being so elated that I could finally see my feet from under my belly. Now that I can see the numbers on the scale, I can't 'see' the numbers (lines) on the scale. It really sucks to have to put on your contacts just to weigh in. I showed a big loss yesterday but figured it was a fluke. When I got the same results today I figured I was going with it. I guess all this baseball and the heat and exercise have hit the right combination for me. Yeah figures, I hit the right combination of heat and activities and our team LOST last night. We aren't out of the running yet we have another chance tomorrow night. If we win that one we are still in the running to go to the state playoffs. I haven't had a vacation since Disney last year, I'd like to go away somewhere, just anywhere even if it's to a ball game.
I found a cool site that shows different exercises for target areas of the body. It has a virtual model that demonstrates for you!! Because some of us are visual like me, it's a lot easier for me to figure out if I can see it done. http://www.lhj.com/lhj/health/ I couldn't find a virtual model for the pilates ball. Bet she got pissed and quit. :)
I wore a pair of shorts yesterday that last year almost cut me in half. One of those run in the store and grab a pair off the shelf type things. I had put them on the top of my closet for 'someday'. Hah Someday is finally here.!!! I have a really cute pair of capris that have been stuffed up there for a while also. I may try them on this week. I need clothes for teaching tax classes for the next few months and really don't want to buy any so it's the ole broomstick skirts from 1990 that I rescued out of the attic and T shirts. I refuse to buy more clothes until I can wear a 12.... and then only a few. I wanna be a size 10 again dagnabit!!
No more bids on Barbie, sigh I bet she doesn't sell. Maybe I'm not ment to be an Ebay seller.
I spent two hours yesterday trying to list some stinkin' collectible barbies on ebay. I almost gave up but kept on trying and finally got them listed. They were something that no longer held any revelance to my life and actually made me sad to see them. I look forward to seeing the last of them. Kind of how I feel about all this extra weight I have been buried under for so long. I posted them with the whole pathetic story of how I got them. Glory I have over 600 views at the 24 hour point!!!
That led me to wonder, hmmm if I could contain all the pounds I have lost could I sell them on ebay?? People have sold some weird stuff there. Maybe there is someone out there who is in need of an extra 100 lbs or so.
I cheated today and stepped on the scale a few days early. OMG I hope it still goes there on Sunday. I will not change my ticker but it was huge!!!! I mean more than 3 lbs huge. I guess my plateau is really broken. I was so happy I gladly did the abs workout on the ball and even did it without calling Gunner any ugly names. Well Okay 1, but that was all I swear. Then to celebrate I did the Windsor Pilates Buns and Thighs :)
I have been real lax about exercise but promise to get with it after the weekend. Our team goes to Jackson to play this weekend. The boys are so excited! So are the moms....lol.
:( Our schedule has been so busy I haven't had time to catch up with Mr Hottie. Our communication this week has consisted of missed text messages and I.M. messages. Darn I kind of miss the guy! He doesn't have a game with his team tonight and I will be out of town with ours...GGGRRRR
Now to spend the weekend at the ballfield again, I think I am going to put a cooler in my truck and keep some low cal food out there. I want to be able to post a big fat loss this weekend.
I am bummed. It seems I will never achieve my dreams of a 36 inch chest...It seems my work outs are having a strange effect. My chest is getting bigger. ACK!! Not good.
I did my measurements again today. I have good news my waist thighs and hips are getting smaller!!!
6/24 waist 35.5- 7/10 waist 33
6/24 hips 44--7/10 hips 42.5
6/24 thighs 24 7/10 thighs 23
*** crap I remember having a 23 inch waist.....and I thought I was fat!! I wore a size 1 then, my junior year! I went to work in a clothes store so I could actually find size 1s. I worked in the back unpacking, hanging, tagging all the new clothes...LOL
My chest isn't the only thing growing, my calves have gained an inch. My forearms are half an inch bigger. Okay I understand that it is because I am gaining muscle mass but could we move it from my lower legs and arms to my upper legs and arms??? The vanilla pudding legs are not attractive at all!!
I didn't work out as much as I should have last week but still managed a 1 pound weight loss!!!
I spent the whole entire weekend either running errands or at the ballfield.
**WARNING BORING PARENT BRAG**
Our allstars team kicked butt!!!! We won all 3 games and by at least a 10 point spread!! We get to advance to regionals!!!! Whoo hoo!!! We play again tonight and then go out of town to play all weekend, which means hotel rooms and eatting in restaurants. blah $$$$$ and fat grams yippie!
