Anj

When I logged onto the best site ever (BuddySlim) this morning I couldn’t believe I had 16 comments to yesterdays blog!  In all the blogs I have written you all chose to comment the most on what I did in the shower.  Well, me and my dumbells are clean, but you guys still have dirty minds, LOL!  Thanks so much for all the comments, they were all very funny and they are ones that I will revisit often when I needed a good laugh!

 Who knew that coffee cost $42.63 cents?!  I know you aren’t supposed to go to the grocery story while hungry and I wasn’t until I got into good old Walmart.  I desperately needed to get coffee…just gonna go in and get out.  Somehow the coffee ended up being really expensive.  And came with 4 bags of extra stuff for free!  LOL!  I did pretty good though, got more veggies, some grapes, some 12 grain bread, some veggie burgers (never had them before), and some stuff for the hubby and daughter.  Not a bad trip, just an expensive one.

Last but not least, I reached my mini goal today!   Time to move it once again, but I am waiting until I figure out exactly where I want to move it to and how long I want to give myself to get there!  Well, I need to clean the office today so I gotta get going, I will check in on everyone later!  Have a great Friday!!!!!!

How is this for multi-tasking…needed to deep condition my hair this morning and the stuff has to be in for ten minutes.  Since it is just easier for me to do it while I was in the shower I was trying to figure out what I could do to kill the extra time.  I decided to do my upper body strength training!  LOL!  I did the wall push ups against the back of the shower while letting the hot water knead the muscles in my back.  I even took my 5 pound weights in (how pathetic am I?) and did my bicep curls.  Now that I know I can get creative with time management saying I have no time is no longer an option!

Over the long Easter weekend I really missed my buddies.  There are the buddies that hold me accountable for my actions.  My buddies that make me smile when things are rough.  My buddies that let me vent.  My buddies that love to razz and THINK they are gonna keep the trophy this week.  My buddies that I can share kids’ stories with…well you get the point.  Today a very special buddy of mine gave me a “pat on the back” that I didn’t even realized I deserved.  She sent me a booster telling me that she can’t believe how close I am to my mini-goal.  I sat back and thought, she must have me confused with someone else…I don’t remember being close to any goal….I just know that I keep plugging away and hope that my weekly weigh in is a good one.  But then I checked out my graph and low and behold she is right!  I am only one pound away from my mini goal!  WOOHOO!

 So thanks Chai for being such a great buddy and making my “okay day” turn into a WOW type of a day!  A girl better count herself lucky to have a buddy like you and I’m proud to say that I have several!

Just wanted to take a second to let everyone know that I was MIA for the past two days because of my daughter getting a case of head lice from school.  She is back in school today with a healthy head and I am back where I belong…with my wonderful buddies!  Because I have been out of work for the past two days, I have alot of catching up on here.  So THANK YOU for all the booster notes and I will try to slowly chip away at blogs over the next two days.  If I miss your blog, I am truly sorry! Have a great Wednesday!!!!!

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TGIF and skinny jeans!  Okay, I am just as excited as everyone else that it is finally Friday!  I am also excited to share my skinny jeans story.  Even though I am not as skinny as Kama (yet, but I’m getting there), I had to go shopping for jeans last night.  Yuck!  I hate clothes shopping.  So I started with the 18s…too big.  Hmmm, let’s go to the 16s…wait…still too big!  Got my first pair of 14s in over 8 years!  AND they fit.  I mean really fit, not lay on the bed, suck in the gut, and pray to everything holy that you can get them zipped up!  If that isn’t fantastic enough they were $1.50 (yes, one dollar and fifty cents) AND they are Calvin Kleins!  Goodwill and Buddyslim are now my two best friends!  Oh yeah, and I also hit my “30 pounds gone” mark today!  WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOO!  Now I am off to make my skin jeans turn to fat jeans. :)  Have a wonderful St. Patrick’s Day weekend! 

dietary fiber.  I guess it was last week that I realized I probably wasn’t getting enough fiber in my diet.  I went back through my food journal and realized that yep, fiber was definitely missing.  So I beefed it up some.  Whole wheat bread…check, beans…check, brown rice…check, green veggies…check, and have been doing really well with getting it in, but was quickly getting bored with the food (except for the veggies).  So finally by the time I was ready to settle down for the night I was digging in the freezer for a supper plan for tonight.  Stuck between the frozen chicken breasts, rump roast, chicken nuggets and frozen veggies I saw my half gallon of ice cream.  Don’t worry buddies, it’s no fat, no sugar added and only 90 calories per serving.  Hmmm…I could use the treat.  I don’t know what posessed me to look at the nutrition guide on the back but I did.  Guess what?!  My yummy ice cream has 20% of my daily fiber intake per serving!!!  That was the last place I expected to find it (many of you might now be saying, well duh, we all knew it was there).  So now I am calling all of you buddies to tell me where else I might find the hidden fiber?  I just know that it has to be there somewhere!

Okay, let me preface what about to say with a little background.  My boss has also been my best friend for the past 14 years.  We work in a one room office with a wall seperating us.  I am up front in the office (playing gate keeper) and she sits in the back of the room by the bathroom.  It is only the two of us here.

Lately she has not been at work very much because of some personal things (which is fine by me.  She is the owner of the business and should be able to come and go as she pleases.)  She is also “plus size” but carries her weight well and is hapy with herself so I am happy for her.

This morning she comes in and the first thing she says to me is “WOW!  Look at how much weight you have lost, you are looking skinny girlfriend!”  Don’t get me wrong, that was wonderful to hear!  We talked a bit about what I was doing, how it was going and the amount of weight I have lost so far.  She kept saying that she was really proud of me, which also made me feel good.  This afternoon she told me that she was going to go run some errands.  Here comes the not cool part:

She comes back to the office with lunch.  Not just for her, but for me too, to show her appreciation.  Don’t get me wrong, I was grateful that she thought to bring me lunch (even though I already had one with me), but she brought me THREE soft tacos from Taco Bell, a Carmel Apple Empanada (which is apples and carmel that is deep fried in a pastry shell) and a 32 oz Mountain Dew!  When I just looked at her, she said “you have lost 30 pounds…you deserve a lunch like this.”  Well, I may deserve it, but I DON’T WANT IT!  So I ate one taco, discreetly put the other two in my purse along with the empanada (Hubby can have them).  But the Mountain Dew is still sitting on my desk.  Staring at me, calling my name, begging me to take a tiny sip.  No fear buddies…I haven’t even opened the straw.  I just can’t dump it without her knowing. 

My feelings are really hurt and I haven’t figured out a way to tell her that I do love her, but that was not cool!

Thank goodness I have my water bottle!  I will drown my feelings in H2O!  And thanks to all of you for letting me vent!

Hey buddies,

Since I am not on the net over the weekends I just noticed that I have a TON of blogs to catch up on!!  I see alot of my buddies have been busy blogging and I am sorry that it is going to take me a bit to get to comment to you.  I am going to try to get to them as quickly as possible,  but please forgive me if you don’t here from me for a day or two!

 Love to you all!

Anj

My arms are trembling

My knees are weak

My breath is so ragged

I can’t even speak

My buns are sore

My abs on fire

I can’t believe this is my desire

My shirt is soaked

My hair is drenched

But with my water

My thirst is quenched

My breath is slowing

My heart rate too

I realize this isn’t torture

Thanks to all of you!!!

 Have a great weekend!