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irvinehomeowner said:
Celebrate? March has been a gain month for me because all that inactivity in Jan/Feb finally caught up... I feel and look bloated. I figure it will take until at least June just to get back to husky shape.
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Right there with you IHO. Feeling and looking bloated, thanks to constant eating out, and drinking not so favorable things to the body. If I cook, I control what does in it, but it's not possible to cook three meals a day. Doing my best to eat clean and stay active.

SoCal: No clue what's coming up this summer. I might make a trip to the other side of the world.
 
Planning a trip to NY, Canada and San Francisco this summer.  Between moving into my new place, business ventures and Bart... Not sure where to find time to meet up. Will try  :)
 
homer_simpson said:
Planning a trip to NY, Canada and San Francisco this summer.  Between moving into my new place, business ventures and Bart... Not sure where to find time to meet up. Will try  :)
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Business venture.. hmm.. who owns more businesses on TI now? USC or Homer?
USC, do you have to register each of your businesses separately or all trades under one banner?
 
Cubic Zirconia said:
homer_simpson said:
Planning a trip to NY, Canada and San Francisco this summer.  Between moving into my new place, business ventures and Bart... Not sure where to find time to meet up. Will try  :)
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Business venture.. hmm.. who owns more businesses on TI now? USC or Homer?
USC, do you have to register each of your businesses separately or all trades under one banner?
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I'm just the jack of a few trades... :-X  :-\
 
I don't mean to be all "Debbie Downer" here but I try to use this thread to keep track of my progress and be as honest as possible. Kind of like an open diary. So.

I really worked extra hard this week. Increased my deficit. I DO NOT CHEAT. I do not lie on my calorie counter. I would only be fooling myself. If I go over one day, which is the exception, I account for it. It all figures into my monthly averages.

I got on the scale this morning... 0 lb. loss! Un-frickin-believable.  :-\ This is going on like 3 weeks now.

If that wasn't enough... something just happened that really put things in perspective for me. I hope I don't get a bad rap for this. Hopefully you guys know me well enough by now. Anyway, I just got back from Living Spaces over by Costco. I was alone. (My family was in the car waiting for me. Tired of shopping by the end of our trip as I was wrapping things up.) I was walking across the store. For the first time in my adult life, a "brother" came onto me. It took me a second to figure out what was going on. I was in complete & total denial. I thought, "Oh, no. Not me. He's looking at somebody behind me. Keep walking." But no. There was no denying what was going on. He was very obvious about it.  Don't get me wrong. This is not about him whatsoever. He could be a perfectly nice person. It's just that I know the types they are attracted to are different than what "my culture" considers attractive. Quite different. If it's true, which by many accounts I hear is, it just really doesn't make me feel great at all. It sent me into a little bit of a panic mode. By the time I got back to the car, I was beginning to fight back the tears. As I said, this is new to me and I don't know how to rationalize this in a positive way. Strike 2 for today.
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I'm going to use these things as MORE motivation. I have been trying hard but not hard enough. They will be serve as reminders to keep pressing forward all that much harder. That is all I can do.  :(
 
irvinehomeowner said:
Celebrate? March has been a gain month for me because all that inactivity in Jan/Feb finally caught up... I feel and look bloated. I figure it will take until at least June just to get back to husky shape.
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Well, you've gone from not caring / not trying to caring & trying. That is a definitely accomplishment. I commend you for that regardless of the outcome.

You've taken the fam for bike rides. At least one, anyway. Good effort.

Don't worry. You'll have plenty of extra time. I'm thinking like July or August.... and at this rate for me, more like 2016 if that works for everyone! Kidding. Why be hermits. We're not here to beat each other up. We do enough of that on our own to ourselves. We're only here to support & motivate.  :)
 
Well... at least me knee seems like it's getting back to normal... now I have to just be more careful when I play... although I don't do much as it is.

Heritage next week Homer?
 
SoCal- so since black guys like big girls, or girls with meat on them, junk in the trunk, whatever you want to call it, it confirms that you are a big girl?  Are you saying that previously u only viewed yourself as a little bigger (since u mentioned some weight gain) but now it's been affirmed by some black guy you think everyone else must view you as a big girl?

Just want to make sure I understand correctly. I think I recall you saying you are 5 9ish? Whatever weight you are carrying you probably carry it well
 
So, on this Huffington Post blog, the blogger reveals her weight: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brittany-gibbons/why-im-revealing-my-weight-on-the-internet_b_2949053.html?utm_hp_ref=women&ir=Women?utm_hp_ref=women&ir=Women

On this thread and our calorie count thread, we have revealed a lot of information about our bodies, but not actual weight. (IHO's range weight excluded for all logical reasons!)
Homer speaks about his journey from fat to fit, SoCal talks about how she feels heavy now.. and I think I will keep promising myself six packs some March when there isn't enough madness around to focus on my own madness.
 
qwerty said:
SoCal- so since black guys like big girls, or girls with meat on them, junk in the trunk, whatever you want to call it, it confirms that you are a big girl?  Are you saying that previously u only viewed yourself as a little bigger (since u mentioned some weight gain) but now it's been affirmed by some black guy you think everyone else must view you as a big girl?
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Sorry for the late reply. I was having a super hard time opening this thread. It was really upsetting for me.

Well. Yup. You understand my concern exactly. It scared me what might be going through his mind. That was the nail in the coffin for me. Game over.

Mr. SoCal, a.k.a. the more rational of the two of us, tells me it was probably a complexion thing for that man i.e. opposites attract, not a figure thing. (For example, I do not have a Bubble Butt.) More like, "He's probably never seen someone as pale as you before." Ohhh, awesome, thank you.  ::) And then he reminded me I told him that a similar thing happened last month when I was at Daphne's picking up a lunch order except that guy didn't talk to me, just gawked, walked away, and came back to gawk some more. He's right. I had totally pushed that incident out of my mind. In that situation, I didn't panic at all because I didn't automatically relate it to a body type thing. That brother was extremely dark skinned and also looked to be at least 50(ewwww)  -- so I thought it's got to be an age thing or an opposite skin/hair/eye thing... he was dressed a bit foreign like he's from another country so I probably look super alien to him. But now I'm putting the pieces together and wondering about that, too. That man was slim, though. The guy at Living Spaces seemed very American, late 30s or 40, a clean-cut professional, but had a quite a tummy, on the heavy side. I don't know what all this means for sure.
 
qwerty said:
I think I recall you saying you are 5 9ish?
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Wow, excellent memory. I see why you're in accounting. Last month at the doctor the gal measured me at 5' 9 1/2". I made her start over. Same with that pesky half inch... I hadn't seen that one before. *Shakes fist at sky*.
 
SoCal said:
Well. Yup. You understand my concern exactly. It scared me what might be going through his mind. That was the nail in the coffin for me. Game over.
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Well, what was going through his mind was really simple.

"That looks good to me.  I want some of that."
 
SoCal said:
qwerty said:
SoCal- so since black guys like big girls, or girls with meat on them, junk in the trunk, whatever you want to call it, it confirms that you are a big girl?  Are you saying that previously u only viewed yourself as a little bigger (since u mentioned some weight gain) but now it's been affirmed by some black guy you think everyone else must view you as a big girl?
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Sorry for the late reply. I was having a super hard time opening this thread. It was really upsetting for me.

Well. Yup. You understand my concern exactly. It scared me what might be going through his mind. That was the nail in the coffin for me. Game over.

Mr. SoCal, a.k.a. the more rational of the two of us, tells me it was probably a complexion thing for that man i.e. opposites attract, not a figure thing. (For example, I do not have a Bubble Butt.) More like, "He's probably never seen someone as pale as you before." Ohhh, awesome, thank you.  ::) And then he reminded me I told him that a similar thing happened last month when I was at Daphne's picking up a lunch order except that guy didn't talk to me, just gawked, walked away, and came back to gawk some more. He's right. I had totally pushed that incident out of my mind. In that situation, I didn't panic at all because I didn't automatically relate it to a body type thing. That brother was extremely dark skinned and also looked to be at least 50(ewwww)  -- so I thought it's got to be an age thing or an opposite skin/hair/eye thing... he was dressed a bit foreign like he's from another country so I probably look super alien to him. But now I'm putting the pieces together and wondering about that, too. That man was slim, though. The guy at Living Spaces seemed very American, late 30s or 40, a clean-cut professional, but had a quite a tummy, on the heavy side. I don't know what all this means for sure.
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i think your insecurity (im speculating that there is insecurity) about your weight makes you read into these situations too much.  you should be confident in yourself regardless of your weight. you should just take the gawking, getting hit on, etc as a compliment. based on the pic i saw here that you posted you are an attractive woman and all types of men hit on attractive woman.
 
SoCal said:
qwerty said:
I think I recall you saying you are 5 9ish?
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Wow, excellent memory. I see why you're in accounting. Last month at the doctor the gal measured me at 5' 9 1/2". I made her start over. Same with that pesky half inch... I hadn't seen that one before. *Shakes fist at sky*.
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i pay attention when people speak.  and yes, in my line of work remembering details is a good trait to have.
 
homer_simpson said:
Pics of said "bubble butt"?
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Can't help you with that one. Like I mentioned, I am not an owner of said goods. Check Google or Iho(?) for definition thereof.
 
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