Holy Moly am I a lucky girl. I only gained 1.5 pounds this week, which is absolutely stunning considering the amount of crap I ate over the holiday weekend. I mean, seriously, if it was edible and wasn’t glued down, it went into my mouth. And since there wasn’t anything edible in my presence that was glued down, that means I pretty much ate everything that was edible in my line of sight.
I hope everyone had a happy holiday. Mine was fairly decent. I think the change in my sleep schedule, an increase in medication, and the additional sugar [ ... ]
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Dec 2008
Holy Moly am I a lucky girl. I only gained 1.5 pounds this week, which is absolutely stunning considering the amount of crap I ate over the holiday weekend. I mean, seriously, if it was edible and wasn’t glued down, it went into my mouth. And since there wasn’t anything edible in my presence that was glued down, that means I pretty much ate everything that was edible in my line of sight.
I hope everyone had a happy holiday. Mine was fairly decent. I think the change in my sleep schedule, an increase in medication, and the additional sugar [ ... ]
Category: Life in General, Weigh-Ins
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Dec 2008
First of all, I have to give a shout-out and a WHOOHOOO to this guy who I am lucky enough to consider a friend and who has just reached the milestone of having lost 200 pounds!!! Go Tony! I’m so proud of you!
Secondly, congratulations to Jason who had the honor of being the 100th person to sign my Guestbook. If I knew you in person, Jason, I would throw confetti on you. Since I don’t, this will have to do:
I want to share a recent post by Sara that I think is one of the [ ... ]
Category: Life in General
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23
Dec 2008
With Christmas rapidly approaching, it’s not surprising for me to say I gained. What is surprising is for me to say that I only gained 0.2 of a pound. I know! Shocker! I guess while I’ve totally lost my mind and gone overboard in many areas of my life lately, I must have been subconsciously compensating for it in other areas. Eating more candy – less dinner. That sort of thing. Not healthy, I know, but it’s only a couple of weeks out of the year, right?
I must state for the record that I firmly believe that Reese’s sneaks copious [ ... ]
Category: Weight Watchers / Weight Loss
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22
Dec 2008
Sorry for the short post, but I just had to give a shout-out to Roni for her post about a quote by Winston Churchill.
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”
— Sir Winston Churchill
To read more about what she had to say, click here.
I have to agree with her and say that this is probably one of the most important things I think anyone pursuing weight loss can remember. I’ve often said that [ ... ]
Category: Weight Watchers / Weight Loss
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21
Dec 2008
Food-wise, today (Sunday) tanked. I ate lots of yummy things I shouldn’t have been eating. However, my day was extremely productive on all other fronts.
I trimmed an inch off of my own hair and according to my mom, I did a pretty great job! I may try it a bit shorter next weekend – nothing drastic, just maybe a couple of inches. My hair’s long enough that it probably won’t make much of a difference.
Instead of staying in where it was toasty warm, my mom and I ended up running some more errands and we are both now official DONE [ ... ]
Category: Life in General
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20
Dec 2008
I don’t know about you guys, but I’ve been cold ALL day!
My mom and I spent the day trying to finish up our Christmas shopping. I’m proud to say that I’m finally done…all except for one thing – if I can find it. Ah, the joys of waiting to the last minute, right?
It’s been freezing here all day today though! It’s six degrees here right now. Six!! They’re expecting the high tomorrow to be about 11 with a low of -4 tomorrow night. We won’t even talk about the wind chill. Yikes! I practically ran from my car to the [ ... ]
Category: Victories
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18
Dec 2008
Last week I was cleaning out my desk at work. No, don’t worry, I’m still employed. I was just going through the clutter that has accumulated over the last six years that I’ve worked here. It’s amazing what you can accumulate! Stashed at the back of one of my desk drawers was a picture.
A few nights ago, I took the time to look at an old metal cabinet where I had placed some magnetic poetry tiles. They’ve been there for years, but I’ve barely paid any attention to them for quite some time. I noticed that some of the pieces were scrambled together [ ... ]
Category: Psychology
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17
Dec 2008
Thy name is Karen.
Bitch doesn’t even begin to describe her. She is the office manager of my dentist’s office. God, I can’t stand the woman. I apologize now for my venting and language but I’ve had it. I just got home from my dentist’s appointment to have him check out my broken crowns and spent the drive home in tears, practically hyperventilating, because of this damn woman.
Every single time I go in there she talks down to me and tries to make me feel so little. She is extremely condescending. (Which is my BIGGEST pet peeve). It’s hard to explain, [ ... ]
Category: Life in General
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15
Dec 2008
Almost a year ago, I think, I had a whole bunch of bad luck hit me at once, so I sent my friend Shawna an e-mail with the subject line of “The Continuing Saga of Pam’s Sucky Life.” And her reply was that that would be a great title for a blog! I gave it some serious thought, but then decided that I really didn’t want to focus that much on the negative.
Well, damn it, sometimes you just gotta.
My weekend got off to a fairly great start – no major problems with the new meds. In fact, I was actually [ ... ]
Category: Life in General
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12
Dec 2008
I hope everyone had a happy Friday! Mine has been decent so far, but I’m still at work, so that could all change.
I wanna know whose bright idea it was to have me schedule a doctor’s appointment before work on a Friday afternoon? Huh? Huh? I know I didn’t say anything, but you all should have known and said, “Hey, Missy, are you nuts?” Okay, it really wasn’t that bad, but I was kicking myself when it was time to get up since I had to get up two hours early. It also wasn’t fun dodging all of [ ... ]
Category: Health
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11
Dec 2008
I don’t know about you all, but I am ecstatically, enthusiastically ready for it to be Friday. Work has been one series of stressful/frustrating situations after another lately, so I’m ready for another day off. Thank God for the upcoming holidays. I honestly can’t (i.e., shouldn’t) complain though since I actually do have a job, and I am very grateful for that fact.
To change the subject, I am one of the softest hearted people around when it comes to animals. I admit it. I also admit that while I am normally strongly opposed to any kind of shock collar for dogs (such as the [ ... ]
Category: Life in General
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10
Dec 2008
To quote Skye-Lynn, “I am so excited!” She was nice enough to nominate me for another award. Skye has become such a good friend that I can honestly say how truly honored I am for her to have chosen me as one of her recipients. She is an amazing woman and if you haven’t checked out her blog, you need to do so!
While I don’t actually know how “fabulous” my blog may or may not be, I want to thank each of you who take the time to post on my crazy ramblings or send [ ... ]
Category: Victories
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10
Dec 2008
I’m so far behind on my blog reading (I know, again!)!! I hope everyone will forgive me while I try and catch up!
I wanted to post though about the books I’ve read most recently. In fact, I’ve read quite a few books lately that have been pretty good.
One Silent Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon – this is her latest book in her Dark-Hunters series (Sci Fi Romance). This series of books is one of my all-time favorites. I devoured this book! I started it when I got home from work last night and didn’t stop reading until I finished it [ ... ]
09
Dec 2008
I’m sorry this is going to be short because I’ve been slammed at work and am only on a short break. I lost 1.3 pounds this week!
I’ll be completely up front with you all right now though. My goal for this holiday season is to only maintain. I’m at 188 right now and I hope to stick within the 185-195 range. If I can do that, I’ll be extremely happy. If I go under, then whoohoo! If I go over, then I’ll kick my own butt back down to that range.
But I’m not going to torture myself as I have [ ... ]
Category: Weigh-Ins
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09
Dec 2008
In my last post, I forgot to thank everyone for the extremely kind comments and messages I received on the post about my brother’s notebook. Your sweet words meant the world to me, especially at this time of year. Every day has the potential to be a struggle, but this time of year is always especially difficult.
It was raining tonight as I was driving home and I remembered that they are expecting it to turn to snow in the morning. They said we could get as much as 2 to 3 inches by the time I have to go to [ ... ]
Category: Life in General
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