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Straylight
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Posted: 17 October 2008 05:58 am |
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Oh, and for my food today I had:
- baby carrots
-peanut butter and honey
-split pea soup
- some hearts of palm
-hot dog with cheddar cheese (a special kind of hot dog from Trader Joe's that is nitrite and nitrate free, woo hoo!)
-an apple
-some blueberries
-cottage cheese with honey
Probably about 1550 calories.
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Straylight
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Posted: 17 October 2008 01:56 pm |
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Well, the stupid scale this morning now said I weigh 152.2 pounds total with a body fat percentage of 33.1%, making me supposedly carrying around 50.38 pounds of fat. So BLECH! That's up from yesterday, and I had a calorie deficit yesterday, so I am thinking or hoping at least that a lot of that extra weight is from water and all the stuff in my uterus that STILL NEEDS TO COME OUT! SHEESH! Now it's day 28, and I am full as full could be. My longest cycle in the last year has been 29 days which means that I might not bleed until Sunday, and the longest cycle I ever had was probably around 39 days, although that was highly unusual. Lol, usually I don't care so much about when the blood comes but I want my weight to go down! ARGH! Hurry up and bleed! BLEED ALREADY! And release those ten pounds of water and blood I know you're holding onto! LOL.
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Straylight
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Posted: 17 October 2008 10:31 pm |
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| Oh YES! What a glorious, glorious day. The blood came AND I got a letter from the Board saying that they have approved my hours and I am now ready to take the test for my clinical licensure. So, once I pass, I can then start my own private practice AND i automatically get a raise at work of like 2.5 grand a year! WOO HOO!!!!!
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wolfmonk
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Posted: 17 October 2008 11:32 pm |
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Congratulations on passing the board!
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Straylight
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Posted: 17 October 2008 11:36 pm |
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thank you! It took me five years to gather all of my hours, and then they didn't approve some of them for some mysterious reason, so I had to go and document gathering some more. AND then they rejected my photo because it wasn't on the right paper, that was nice. But they finally were satisfied and so now all I have to do is pass the written and oral exams.
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wolfmonk
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Posted: 17 October 2008 11:46 pm |
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They rejected the picture because it was on the wrong paper? There's a special place out there for paper-pushers.
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Straylight
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Posted: 18 October 2008 12:45 am |
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| I agree! Sometimes I wonder how the one neuron in their brain doesn't die of loneliness.
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Straylight
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Posted: 18 October 2008 03:03 am |
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Awww, my ninja consort called and asked me if i wanted to go out to this party with him and I told him I couldn't because I am on-call for work, and he said that in that case, he would come by and entertain me with some anime (we both really like anime). He is bringing over my favorite series--Lain: Serial Experiments. I have the box set too, but the DVDs are pretty scratched and they skip and get stuck a lot. I need to buy a new set.
So all right! He should be here pretty soon! Now I need to make sure I am good and don't eat any more! Maybe some carrots a bit later before I go to bed, but nothing else!
Yikes, and I have major, major cramps too! I think I will take some more aspirin. Gosh, these cramps are the worst! Blech!
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Straylight
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Posted: 18 October 2008 03:13 am |
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Okay, I am going to list the food I ate today, but I am basically finished with my food today and hopefully if I list it liked I am totally done that will make me stay done LOL. And that aspirin had better kick in soon. God I wish I had a weiner sometimes. FRACK!
Okay, so today i ate
-a handful of raw almonds
-an organic peach
-organic peanut butter with honey
-organic baby carrots
-small slice of cheddar cheese
-organic raspberry yogurt
-nachos made from soy flaxseed chips with cheddar cheese and tapatio
-two cups of green tea (on Friday and Saturday nights I will drink green tea in the afternoon because I don't have to fall asleep at any specific time and can sleep in in the morning, not like during the week where I have a schedule to keep)
-some hearts of palm (these are SOOOO GOOD!!!!!)
I also took some fun-size Snickers bars from work (we already have Halloween candy out), and I am saving them for Sunday (that's my free day). I am really happy that I haven't touched them and haven't really felt tempted. That is amazing, believe me! That's as amazing as the Cherry Garcia ice cream that sat in the freezer all week.
Tomorrow I am going to a No on Prop 8 party. It's going to be a beer bash, but I can't drink any beer because
1) I don't drink beer except for on Sunday, and even then I usually try to stick to wine or clear alcohol
2) I am on-call for work and have to be ready to respond to an emergency at any point until Thursday.
So, I am just going to go and hang out and show my support, but I won't be drinking or eating any white carbs or processed food. Luckily my friend JP (the host of the party) usually has lots of healthy food in addition to the more indulgent choices, as he is very conscious of his physique. I am looking forward to it. If I am lucky, hopefully my ninja consort will spend the night and then go with me to the party. But thanks to the blood there won't be any bedroom ninja acrobatics tonight. Doh!
But I am so glad the blood finally came! That scale better have moved tomorrow #%@&! it!
And come on aspirin!
WORK!
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Straylight
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Posted: 18 October 2008 03:21 am |
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Oh and I almost forgot, I did a stairs workout at the office before work today, and that felt nice. Just 14 minutes. I love super-intense, supershort workouts. I will take them over an easier, longer workout any day.
But anyway, on the way to my car, I was walking along in my workout clothes (little shorts and a tank top) and some dude stopped his truck and was hitting on me. I was definitely not into him, not my type, but it was a nice ego boost.
I was like
all right! I just barely exited the house and I am getting this nice compliment. nice!
made me walk with my head held a little higher.
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Straylight
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Posted: 18 October 2008 03:23 am |
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And wolfmonk: Yes, I had printed out a photo on printer paper that was the dimensions they wanted, but because it wasn't on photo paper, they didn't accept it.
I guess we all have to pay the bills right, but do people HAVE to pick some obnoxious jobs? Sheesh!
"I do apologize ma'am, but..."
like the people who have jobs that involve a lot of THAT phrase. Yuck! And parking ticketers. I want to string them up. They swarm all over my neighborhoos like flies on a steaming pile.
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wolfmonk
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Posted: 18 October 2008 05:04 pm |
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Yeah - parking enforcement officers - what a #%@&! job. I'm surprised more of them don't get attacked on the job.
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Straylight
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Posted: 18 October 2008 06:26 pm |
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whew, late start today. Ninja consort did spend the night, but these cramps are seriously kicking my butt. I think I am just going to rest most of the day today. I don't even know if I want to go to that No on Prop 8 Beer Bash today, I just feel like
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
but i weighed myself this morning, and the scale now says 32% body fat and a total weight of 151.6, which means I have 48.51 pounds of fat. We'll see what the scale says tomorrow. I seriously wonder if menstruating burns any more calories? That would be something interesting to look up. And I seriously need a laptop so I can lounge and be on the computer at the same time!
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Straylight
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Posted: 18 October 2008 06:27 pm |
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But I am very glad i did not eat anything else last night. Woo hoo!
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Posted: 18 October 2008 07:48 pm |
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Apparently TTOM burns an extra 100-300 cals/day. ONLY upside.
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Straylight
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Posted: 18 October 2008 08:03 pm |
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Wow, thanks Midge! That's kinda cool. I think they should bring back the Red Tent. Back in the day we didn't have to do sh.it when we were bleeding, no cooking, no cleaning, no working, no childcare, no nothing, they just piled us all in our separate tent and all we had to do was rest, read, chat, whatever. Things were really effed up for women a lot back then of course, but that was one thing I wish they'd bring back!
and check this out, I am in love with this song right now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvwK-3cQ6gE
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Straylight
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Posted: 18 October 2008 08:05 pm |
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Okay, so the drugs (600 mg ibuprofen) have kicked in sufficiently so I am off to that No on Prop 8 beer bash. Woo hoo!
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Posted: 18 October 2008 08:06 pm |
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| There is a village high in the mountains of Bhutan that still does this. When I first saw that I was like "those asinine chauvinists!" but then I realized and long as I had m&m's, cable tv and midol it would be AWESOME. (of course in this village you aren't ALLOWED to come out of the special house they have for it - but really, I don't want to be around anyone anyway!)
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Straylight
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Posted: 19 October 2008 04:49 am |
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Wow, that beer bash was great, even though I couldn't drink anything because I am on-call. Lots of fun people, good food (I had a protein cheeseburger with chile sauce, SO GOOD!) and just totally good times. Met a really cool people, including this couple that just got married yesterday (two dudes).
And okay, check this out
pretty much almost everyone there was gay, my friend throwing it was gay and it was a No on Prop 9 Beer Bash, so most everyone there was gay. But there was this one dude there that I thought was really cute, but I am thinking
okay, he's gay, so whatever, I'm not a dude, so I am sure he doesn't want to do anything with me because he's freaking GAY
and we were upstairs on the roof
which was absolutely beautiful, you get such a great view of LA, and it doesn't even look like LA, it looks like france or the mediterranean or something, and he starts telling me yes he's gay, but he has really lately been curious about women
like he wants to brush up on his orals, if you know what I mean
and I was like WHAT?
no way
is this guy putting me on or what?
but he was dead serious and he told me that he really liked me, thought I was cute or whatever and I was thinking SURE dude, I will help you brush up on your orals, I mean what chick would say no to that right? WOW!!!!
So, now, in addition to all my other consorts, I have a FREAKING GAY CONSORT!!!!
WHOA!!!!!
it's my lucky day
#%@&! it's been my lucky year
my lucky lifetime
can't believe it!
so happy!
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Straylight
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Posted: 19 October 2008 04:54 am |
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and I kept up a good calorie deficit too, really proud of that! I had about 1250 calories today, so I should be totally awesome for my big weigh-in tomorrow. Plus I have been bleeding since yesterday, so I am glad a lot of THAT stuff is out (although if I hadn't been bleeding today, darn it, I could have helped him out with his orals TODAY
but anyway
Today I ate:
-Fearless franks with cheddar cheese
-some organic baby carrots
-some Persian cucumbers
-two protein cheeseburgers (patty, muenster cheese, lettuce, chile sauce, no buns)
(I woke up late around 11:00am so I ate a little less than I usually do).
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Straylight
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Posted: 19 October 2008 05:21 pm |
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All RIGHT! This morning, the scale said I weighed an even 150 pounds with a body fat percentage 0f 31.6%, which means that I now am carrying around 47.4 pounds of fat, which is a .58 pound drop in fat since last week. AND I am still bleeding (Day 3), so I am betting the scale will fall a bit further once all the blood and retained water are out. But I am still very, very happy to see those numbers this morning.
I am going to my parents' house to get my computer fixed and then am going to a family brunch over at my grandmother's and then going to a Black and White party over by my house (free! free! and only 2 miles away!) The great ninja consort will be there, so I am really excited about that!
Woo hoo!
What a great weekend this has been. And it's not even over yet!
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Straylight
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Posted: 19 October 2008 06:52 pm |
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Okay, so to run some big-picture numbers here
Since 9/25/08, the day I started this new plan, I have lost a total of 6.2 pounds altogether, 3.99 pounds of which is fat. This loss has occurred over the span of 24 days.
:)
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Straylight
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Posted: 20 October 2008 05:05 am |
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Went to a very nice family brunch over at my grandma's and enjoyed a lot of good homemade food. It was also really nice to see my family, especially extended family. I am glad I live pretty close to them, and they are all pretty cool. I also had a nail in my tire that my uncle spotted and then my super-handy grandfather and cousin Russ were able to remove the nail and plug the tire with a kit my grandfather had, so that was nice and lucky and probably saved me a lot of money. (It turned out to be a roofing nail).
I decided not to go to the Black and White party because I was sorta pooped from staying up til 4am and then waking up around 8am today, and also I am on-call for work, and going to big loud ravey parties when I am on-call sorta sucks because I can't really hear my phone all that well and then it's hard to relax knowing I could be called out at a moment's notice, so I just came back home from brunch, reinstalled my computer that my lovely father had fixed and ended up sacking out on the couch for a nice, long, much-needed nap.
I woke up and my stomach was sorta growly, so I ordered take-out from this really good Chinese place by my house called Wok Master. I ordered pot-stickers and a Chinese chicken salad, but I could only eat the potstickers, i didn't really have room for the salad. I will bring the salad to work tomorrow and probably give it to my coworker for lunch. (I can't eat it tomorrow, because I am sure the dressing has weird, processed stuff in it, and I don't eat stuff like that except for on my free day, sunday), but it IS a tasty salad, and my coworker will probably really like it.
So today, all in all was a good day (and I didn't even have to use my AK).
I ate
-2 deviled eggs (so good!)
-piece of pumpkin cake
-two scoops vanilla ice cream
- a piece of quiche
-some cheddar cheese
-cup of green tea
-two fun size snickers bars
-some spinach salad
-half a ham sandwich
-6 potstickers
-cracker with brie cheese
-some fresh cut pineapple
-oatmeal cookie
YUMMY
talked to the gay consort a bit today and had a few laughs, so that was cool. Also talked to the Blue-Eyed Jew consort and he is reading a novel-length story I just finished writing. I told the Blue-Eyed Jew consort about the diet I am on, and he is wanting to try it out. Poor baby has Crohn's disease and I think the diet I use could really help him heal from that. (We have been struggling to find healing from that for a long time coming).
Also got to talk to a dude that I met at the psytrance party last weekend. We can call him my Liquid consort because he knows how to liquid dance really well. He is also a firedancer, which I just discovered, and I find that very cool. He landed a gig at a really popular amusement park around here doing firedancing, so I might like to go check his shizz out at some point.
Had good brief meditation this morning, and the colon cleanse continues to go well. I only had to take medication once today for my stupid bleeding pain. Back to the salt mines tomorrow, but I am already looking forward to next weekend--I am going to see Sasha out here and I LOVE HIM!!!!
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Posted: 20 October 2008 06:43 am |
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Okay, so I got the late night munchies and I ended up eating a lot of that chinese chicken salad.
YUM YUM!!!!
And the delivery guy from Wok Master remembered me
he was like
oh, we haven't seen you for a while!
that was sweet.
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Straylight
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Posted: 20 October 2008 02:22 pm |
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Weigh-in this morning after the cheat day was that the scale said total weight was 154.2 with a body fat percentage of 32.2, meaning that I have 49.65 pounds of fat. So, that means the cheat day made the scale go up 4.2 pounds altogether, and go up 2.25 pounds of fat. That is interesting. I am not worried about it though. I am starting to see a pattern. The cheat day seems to generally make the scale numbers rise the day after, then the numbers fall day by day and then there is usually a really significant drop the day of the weekly weigh-in.
Had a strange dream that my Top Advisor consort sent me a text message telling me that his doctor told him he was obese. (My Top Advisor consort is built like a Calvin Klein model). And then one of my prospective foster parents told me that the DUI they got was in 2007 which means that we can't certify them because the state will not grant an exemption for any substance-related crimes unless it occurred over 5 years ago. Hmmmm....
Today is a good day, I have a short day at work because I worked so much OT last week and over the weekend, I only have to put in 5.75 hours at work instead of the full 8 AND my remote desktop is working from my house now, so I can take advantage of that and do some report-writing from home, which is great. I have to write an incident report on that 17-year-old running away on Friday night. :( Everyone at the agency was sad about that one. She probably went to her boyfriend's though, so she probably is safe and happy. It just sucks not knowing for sure.
And tomorrow, I have a massage scheduled. I have a great guy I use that only charges $50 and he comes to your house AND he always goes longer than an hour. He doesn't really have a set time, he just goes until he is real tired and can't go anymore. He's awesome--big cool Irani dude named Bryan. I just love him! I think he's into Zoroastrianism too, which I find interesting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism
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Posted: 20 October 2008 03:01 pm |
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Oh, WHEW
I just finished my sprinting workout for the morning. Not that long, about 13 minutes. Combination of sprinting, mountain climbers, mountain jumpers, squats, and ab exercises. Intense. Good. Love it!
Did not trip over my shoelaces which made me very happy.
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Posted: 21 October 2008 08:24 am |
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Man, I fell asleep at like 7pm tonight! and woke up around 1am. Crazy! I am telling you though, once the days start getting shorter, I get tired WAY EARLY when I get home from work. Also, I didn't get that much sleep last night, I guess, probably only about 5.5 hours.
Work was pretty good today, and everything felt like it was in a nice, synchronistic flow. Heard from my ninja consort and my top advisor consort and the blue-eyed Jew consort so that was also cool.
The bleeding should be over soon. Tomorrow is the last day. And I have my massage tomorrow! YAY!!!
I had a dream about my massage, now that I think about it. My boss was here and wouldn't leave! And she ate up a lot of time, and then she went to take a picture of me once I was disrobed, so I called the police on her.
Weird!
I did pretty good on my calories today, probably had about a 600-calorie deficit.
Here is what I ate:
-organic baby carrots
-organic peanut butter and honey
-organic apple
-cheddar cheese and fearless frank
-whey protein shake (I have the peanut butter chocolate flavor MMM MMM!)
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Posted: 21 October 2008 12:04 pm |
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Frack! Weird sleeping pattern today over here. I fell asleep at 7pm last night, and then woke up at 1am and have been totally unable to fall back asleep. Now it's like 4:45am or something like that, so I figure I am up for the day. I will probably just go into work butt-early and then leave early! My coworker Kim usually comes in really early on Tuesdays because she has to commute from Orange County to Hollywood, which is about an hour and she likes to beat traffic, otherwise it's more like 2 hours! The shorter days always screw with my circadian rhythms!
Anyway, the scale this morning said that I weighed 152 total weight with a body fat percentage of 32.2%, so that means I have 49.01 pounds of fat this morning. That is a good drop from yesterday, and I still am bleeding (this should be the last day of THAT), so I may still have some water I am retaining plus my cheat day was just on Sunday, so there is still probably some weight in there from that. But it's nice to see it go down, it was like a 2.2 pound drop from yesterday (total weight) and a .64 pound drop in fat from yesterday.
My coworker Kim is taking me out for a belated birthday lunch in Larchmont, and we are always able to find these very cool organic healthy restaurants on the restaurant row there. I hardly ever eat at chain restaurants anymore, I mean the big normal mainstream ones like Denny's, Coco's Cheesecake Factory, etc.
My massage is today and I am really excited! It's been a good long while since I've had a massage, maybe half a year even! (Well, a professional one anyway, I guess amateur massages more frequently than that from the cool men in my life lol!)
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Posted: 21 October 2008 04:21 pm |
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Hey there! I figured that since you are commenting on my diary that I should do the neighborly thing and comment on yours. I was reading your diary and oh my, you seem like quite the liberal woman. Where were all the girls like you when I was single? Your likes even seem to parallel mine. But, out of curiosity, what type of work do you do? It almost seems like you're a social worker, perhaps???
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Posted: 21 October 2008 05:35 pm |
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Okay, I read further and yeah...you're a social worker. Just thought you'd like to know.
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Posted: 21 October 2008 05:55 pm |
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Straylight wrote:
My coworker Kim is taking me out for a belated birthday lunch in Larchmont, and we are always able to find these very cool organic healthy restaurants on the restaurant row there. I hardly ever eat at chain restaurants anymore, I mean the big normal mainstream ones like Denny's, Coco's Cheesecake Factory, etc.
I wish we had restaurants like that! All we have are chain restaurants. There's one place I can think of in Spokane, it's called Huckelberry's, and it's an organic grocery store with a deli and coffee shop inside. But that's an hour away from both my homes! Normally I just have to stock up on any organic food they have at Safeway (not a very big selection), so they have a huge say in what I eat. I guess one day all that fun stuff will spread from California up to Washington.
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Posted: 21 October 2008 10:12 pm |
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Hey, was just stopping in to check out your diary. Wow! I had like two beers while reading it all, lol. I have to admit that I only hit the highlights. Like about why you came here to this site, your mom, the booty chick, the gay consort.
You should really write a book, best reading I have had in quite sometime.
Anyway, sounds like your sleeping habits are about as bad as mine. Geezz, it sucks when you get all screwed up like that. I have been doing that on the weekends and it really messes up my schedule.
Well, keep plugging along and have fun on your dinner thing and most definitely enjoy the massage... 
Oh ps: Just had to tell ya. The booty chick you were talking about reminded me of this one time me and the hubby went up town. They had a booty contest - playing that song"I like big butts" and there was this chick there. Nothing was moving except for her butt, it was truly amazing. LOL, she won of course, then I had to spend the rest of the night, keeping my husband from following her around with his tongue hanging out. I think I even wiped drool off of him a few times, lol. I wonder how many phone numbers she got that night.
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Posted: 22 October 2008 12:05 am |
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Sizze: haha, thank you for telling me what I do for a living. I woke up this morning thinking
what do i do again (lol!!!) you're funny! Thank you for your compliments, sorry you didn't know me when you were single. My liberal ways are a source of much consternation for my parents, but they accept it. They are just always warning me constantly, please be careful Katie, please be careful! And I don't want to end up dead and mutilated in a cornfield, so I do try to be careful, but not as careful as they would like me to be... oh well, c'est la guerre!
Sara: That really does suck that they don't have any good, healthy organic restaurants near you. That is definitely one of the perks of living in southern california! It is of course possible to get healthy food at the chain restaurants, but it still is a challenge, and a lot of times you have to make modifications and substitutions and special requests (which the servers and chefs just LOVE, I am sure).
Cindy: Thank you for your compliments on my writing, I am glad you think my life is so interesting and entertaining. Two beers to read it, that's cute and hilarious. The girl with the world class booty's name was Angelique. I should try to russle up a picture of her, surely someone took a picture of her at that party, and then I can post it and everyone can revel in the beauty that is her perfect behind! My friend Steph can do that booty-shake thing too real perfect. She was at the beer bash last Saturday, and I kept bugging her to do it, and she was a sport and did it. I kept telling her, do the world a favor, turn around and show us again!!!!
good stuff!
Whew, big long day at work. There are money problems at my work right now, and so the Director of HR is now wanting to have a meeting with me to discuss my mileage and see if there's any cuts that can be made to my travel. There really aren't any cuts that can be made, I can't not see my clients, after all! I think he is going to try and say that on the days I have to be in Hollywood the Hollywood office is my home office and the days I have to be in Redlands, Redlands is my home office so that they can get out of paying me mileage for the times I have to commute so far to see my clients, but I have already checked it out and that is illegal and therefore unaccepatable to me, and I will tell him so. I will tell them they are more than welcome to buy me a company car, you know like a real cheap one, and then they would only have to pay the tanks of gas, which is a lot cheaper than mileage on my personal car, but that's the only solution I can think of. I usually average about $550 a month in mileage, so I don't know how the math would exactly go, maybe I would use 8 tanks of gas doing business-related stuff in a month, which comes out to about $300 a month, so that would save some money in the long run, but they would have to cough up probably about $1500 for a cheap company car, or maybe they could find a good deal or get a donation car or something.
I have the date for my licensing test (part one) on November 14th. I am going to put in one hour of studying every day, so that will give me 23 hours of solid prep time, which I think is pretty good. I am generally a good test-taker. I got As all through school, college, and grad school, so I am fairly confident in my testing abilities! So excited!
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Posted: 22 October 2008 12:09 am |
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Oh AND I did an unplanned workout today with my coworker, Kim. Combination of stairs and ab stuff. Awesome! She is so great about working out with me at work, it's great! She was like
wow! it's like we work at a gym!
it IS pretty great
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Posted: 22 October 2008 03:10 pm |
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HALLUELUAH! I got on the scale this morning, and it said I weighed 149.8 total with 31.9% body fat, which means I am carrying 47.79 pounds of fat. This is my lowest weight and body fat weight since I started this program! I have now lost a total of 6.4 pounds total weight, 3.6 pounds of which is PURE FAT! I am soooo happy!
AND I took the practice test for my licensing exam, and I got the first three questions wrong, but after I figured out how to read the questions and what they are really looking for, I got ALL OF THEM RIGHT! WOW!!!! I am so excited!
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Posted: 22 October 2008 03:33 pm |
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forgot to post what I ate yesterday:
-organic baby carrots
-free range egg fried in butter
-organic blueberries
-melted cheddar cheese with tapatio
-nachos made with cheddar cheese, tapatio, and soy flaxseed chips
-whey protein shake
And the colon clease is going good! I am probably 1/3 of the way through the bottle. Feels good!
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Posted: 22 October 2008 03:47 pm |
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But GEEZ I have taken like 3 cr.aps this morning already. Whenver I am get really happy I sh.it a lot, isn't that weird? hahah! But man, now my #%@&! is totally on fire! I don't think I can take much more happiness!
(just kidding, bring it on!)
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Posted: 22 October 2008 03:50 pm |
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| LOL, I feel your pain. I take alot dumps myself when I take lots of fiber.... Sometimes I can do with so many trips to the john.
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Posted: 22 October 2008 03:58 pm |
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haha yeah! And I haven't showered yet and I know it's going to totally hurt now when I wash my bum! LOL! Yikes!
i told my friend that I get the happy craps. Haha, it's so true! When I am really happy, my bowels act up. It's funny
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Posted: 22 October 2008 04:14 pm |
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Awww, I just got call from my boss with some really good news. I actually kinda got misty-eyed when she was telling me:
Yesterday I called one of my kids in the evening , a 14-year-old boy, and I told him that I was very proud of him because his foster father had told me that the boy had a really good weekend and was trying really hard to behave and be respectful (because this boy really struggles with anger issues and being mean and rude and manipulative), but he really has been trying hard ever since Friday to act nicer, and he even made a little chart for himself (totally his own idea) where the foster father could mark off if he had a good day or a bad day as far as his attitude goes, and I was SO PROUD of him, I mean really, how many 14-year-old dudes do stuff like that, not many! And it takes a big person to be able to reflect on themselves and see if they are acting like a jacka.ss, admit it, and then take such concrete steps to fix it. I mean grown-as.s men and women have a hard time doing that, and this young man totally did it! So I called him last night around 7pm to tell him I was really proud of him, and he sounded sorta surprised but happy.
And so then I guess the foster father called my boss this morning to say that he and the young man were so touched and so happy about that little phone call, the foster father said he had worked with a lot of social workers in his time and none of them had ever done anything like that and the young man was also so happy and felt really proud of himself that a social worker called to compliment his efforts like that. So my boss called to tell me about that, and I thought that was really great! It really made me happy, and it was such a small thing for me to do, but it was so greatly appreciated.
:)
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Posted: 22 October 2008 05:04 pm |
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That's like the movie Pay it Forward only real. Well at least the happy part of the movie. LOL
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Posted: 22 October 2008 05:40 pm |
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Wow, that is huge of him. You're right, I'd say even the majority of adults have a hard time doing or can't do that.
Haha, I was eatting oatmeal when I read about you wahsing your &#(@%(@ and how much it would hurt... I normally don't have a hard time swallowing food but you got me, lol!
I don't notice a difference in my bowels when I'm happy, only when I'm really nervous or scared. Cows do the same thing, isn't that kinda neat?
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Posted: 22 October 2008 05:50 pm |
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I never saw Pay It Forward, I should check it out. God, I have netflix movies that have sat there and sat there, I need to just put them in the mailbox and get the next thing in my queue, I am obviously not interested in what I've got...
Actually, not only do I get the happy craps, whenever I am nervous I get them too. I remember a few times on the way to work when I had something I was afraid about, I would have to pull over and find a gas station. Maybe that's what they mean when they say scared sh.itless--fear clears out for bowels. So yeah, the happy craps and the scared sh.its, that's what i get!
So, cows #%@&!, what when they are scared or when they are happy?
i remember, I used to stay up late with my brother on Christmas Eve and we would be really, really excited waiting for Santa Claus and I would be running off to the bathroom ALL NIGHT because I was so excited! It was funny, I didn't think anything of it at the time, obvious, I was a little girl, but looking back I think it's hilarious, and I still think it's hilarious!
Sorry I made you choke on your oatmeal!
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Posted: 22 October 2008 07:22 pm |
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That's ok, it was the last bite anyway.
I don't know about when they're happy, but they do a lot when they're scared or nervous. One of ours got into fight with a porcupine once and we had to pull all the quills out with pyers. I was pulling out all the ones from the face area and my poor boyfriend was getting the ones from her hind legs. She kept Sh**ing and wagging her tail in it, so he was getting splattered all over! I felt so bad for both the cow and him... but it was kinda funny, him with cow pie all over his face! I would have puked!
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Posted: 23 October 2008 03:22 am |
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haha awww
I wonder if that's like some evolutionary thing, like you sh.it when you get scared so that you can be light as possible if you need to run away....
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Posted: 23 October 2008 04:23 am |
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Hahahaha!
I've never heard that theory before, but I think you might be onto something...
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Posted: 23 October 2008 07:52 am |
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hahahaha, that's really funny
or maybe you #%@&! to scare off your predators! llamas spit and cows #%@&!
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Posted: 23 October 2008 12:41 pm |
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yeah, the scaring off predators thing makes sense too! I am sure it's an old fight or flight response.
to post what I ate yesterday, I had:
-raw almonds
-organic baby carrots
-an organic strawberry
-organic peanut butter and honey
-blueberries
-some beet chips
-chicken breast with melted cheese and tapatio
total calorie count was probably around 1500.
And today I am off-call!! YES!!! That means I can finally enjoy some of that wine I bought like over a week ago!
And yesterday was quite productive--I secured a placement in our new home in L.A. County AND got some good news that CCL finally closed out an investigation on one of our homes (some biological parents had cooked up a false allegation against one of my foster homes back in June and it finally got closed out unfounded. Yay! And for those of you who don't know, when someone makes an abuse allegation, there are three outcomes for the investigation--substantiated, which means it is believed the abuse DID happen; inconclusive, which means there's not enough evidence either way to say whether the abuse happened or not and unfounded, which means it is believed the abuse did NOT happen). This foster home is a great foster home and they would never abuse a child in any way, I have worked with them for four years, and they are a very awesome and loving family, I had absolutely no doubt in my mind that the allegations the biological family made up were false, and it was a horrible, harrowing time for the foster parents AND the remaining foster children in the home, sitting on pins and needles. The foster children were all worried the home was going to be shut down and they would have to move, and TWO of them are being adopted and are EXTREMELY close to the foster parents. But anyway, it was closed out unfounded, so there was much rejoicing in that household yesterday. Incidentally, biological parents are the number one source of allegations against foster parents. These two biological parents were total tweakers and ran a meth lab out of their house, that is why their children got removed in the first place. I guess they wanted to spread the wealth, so they decided to be mean and vindictive and make a false allegation against my foster parents. But they didn't win, the truth won out, so I was SOOOO glad yesterday!
I also studied again for my test yesterday, and it felt good!
This morning, when I weighed myself, oh happy day, the scale went down AGAIN! (woo hoo, the scale is going down like Divine Brown on Hugh Grant, baby!) and it said my total weight is now 150.2 pounds total weight with a body fat percentage of 31.7% which means I am carrying around 47.61 pounds of fat. Now THIS is the least fat I have had since I started the program on 9/25/08! That means I have lost a total of 6 pounds total and a total of 3.78 pounds of fat! (So yes, my total weight is up since yesterday, but my fat is down so that means I either put on muscle or have a bit more water weight).
AND I took my measurements this morning, and now my waist is now 30.75 inches and my hips are 39.75 inches! That means that in the last 18 days, I have lost 2 inches from my midsection! YAY!!!!
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Posted: 23 October 2008 01:27 pm |
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Congrats on losing inches on the midsection! Man, the fat there is like GLUE.
Also, congrats with your foster home - it's good when the truth wins.
as for your body fat reducing...maybe it's something to do with your overactive bowel movements. Serious! My boyf c$%^& three times a day, and he doesn't have an ounce of fat on him! Ha ha.
xxxDG
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Posted: 23 October 2008 01:50 pm |
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It could be due to the bowels--I am doing a colon cleanse after all too! I don't really care where it's from though, I'll take it whatever the source, you know?
I know what you mean too about being the troll in your family. I was adopted and my whole family is full of willowy blondes. It's like the Aryan Nation at my grandma's house whenever we get together and then you have me, the freaking brown boombastic who will never EVER be willowy no matter what, unless I break my pelvis and collarbone and get them reset so that I have a narrower frame but I won't be doing THAT.
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