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Today I was Jeff’s date to his friends wedding.  I looked pretty good.  I had my hair trimmed and got it straightened and had my new outfit on.  As soon as I get some I will puts some of the pictures up. The wedding was small but real nice.  Jeff even had to get up to do a reading which he did a great job up even though he claims he reworded a couple of lines but you couldn’t tell.  I was pretty impressed since I would never have had the courage to go up and read something in front of a crowd.  The reception was nice also.  They had candles on all the tables and had the lights in the room dimmed with some trees scattered around the room with white lights.  I had a really good time.  I will admit also that I had my first slow dance tonight!  I enjoyed it alot and thats not just the alcohol talking!! Needless to say my points probably didnt fair well today but how can you keep track during a reception!  Wed night he’s going to be taking me to the movies for my birthday which is actually Tues but Im going to be working all day until about 930pm.  He is the nicest guy Ive met in a long time.  He’s real old fashioned  its kind of cute but it is nice to see there are still guys like that.  Well I should get going since I have to work in the morning.  Hope everyone has a good night!

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So I went and picked up my outfit for the wedding today from Fashion Bug.  Ive pretty much mantained pants and shirt size for the last month or so.  Well I tried on the whole thing once I got my shoes and all that and I was real excited about it but I had no one to show it to.  So I went over to my grandmothers and she made such a big deal about how great she thought I looked and how it looked like Ive lost more then just my little 45lbs.  She even went as far as to say I looked marvelous!!    Just by her saying that made me want to try even harder at my weight loss.  It made me feel real good.   Well I just wanted to share my little feel good story with everyone.  Hope everyone has a good night!!

rn

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Ok well here it is…..I kind of went on an almost 2 week hiatus.  But Im back.  After I had that really bad week where I gained almost 4lbs(which is my own fault) I kind of took a break.  That following week wasnt much better for me…I got lazy with the exercise and I wasnt really keeping track of my points.  It got worse when I was asked out for Thurs night(which is when I weigh in)  Then I really just kind of went all out.  Anyway I had my night of fun(which ended up being brought through the weekend) and so now Im ready to take it seriously again.  Ive already did my exercise this morning and to tell you the truth…as hard as it is for me sometimes to actually want to do it….I always feel better knowing I did.  I hope this made sense and didnt confuse anyone!!

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As for my date on Thurs, I was asked out by a guy who is friends with my friend from work.  His name is Jeff and he’s 31.  He works as a programmer for GM.  He had a really good  time Thurs night.  We went over to Cornwall Ontario(we live on the border of US and Canada) and he took me to a restaurant that Ive always wanted to go to called Eastside Mario’s.  Then we made our way over to the Galaxy theaters and we had some time to kill so we just sat in his truck and talked until it was closer to the start time.  We watched Flags of our Father.  It was pretty good.  I had been looking forward to seeing it since it came out in October.  Then he brought me home.  Yesterday he invited me to a wedding on Sat.  I’m kind of nervous since Ive never been to a real wedding and I have no idea what to wear.  Im getting ready to go to Fashion Bug now with my mother. Plus tomorrow I’ll be going to Plattsburgh to see what I can find down there.  Our friend who we met through gets the biggest kick out of hooking us up because she said he is basically a male version of me. (We had the best conversation about Harry Potter while waiting for the movie! )  So basically she thinks we are both kind of geeky which is fine by me! 

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Well anyway  thats that for now I guess.  I’ll let you know how everything goes!!

rn

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So anyway as I figured since I got real lazy last week I gained.  What I wasnt expecting was how much!  Stepped on the scale at weigh in on Thur night….243!!!  I gained 3.4lbs!  So much for not seeing the 240s again.  But this is a new week so I still have time to recover.  Sadly I havent done so well today. 

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Work was real bad.  I work in softcount at a casino here.  For those of you who dont know what that is…basically softcount counts the money from table games and the slot machines.  Like any job there are perks and downfalls.  Perks are we dont have to work a full 8 hour day but we still get paid for it.  Downfall if the money isnt counted and what we called bought…we dont go home.   When we first went over to the new systems with the slots we got a new machine.  Its a big money counter/sorter that we call the 6 pocket…cause there are 6 pockets( cute huh).  Each pocket of for a denomination like $1s, $5s, $10s, etc.  Well about a month into having the machine it breaks down on us.  since we had no other machine to count it like that does we had to do it on our small single pocket machines while seperating the tickets from the money.  We didnt get to leave until 1030p!!  Our shift starts at 830a..so needless to say that was a long day for us.   Well today our 6 pocket goes down and the guy that fixes our machines was basically on the other side of NY.  So he tells us thats he’s gonna turn around and make his way to the casino.  So I had to eat lunch at the casino which I avoid doing as much as possible.  Our supervisors boss, Jeremy I guess took pity on us and told us we could leave which was about 130p.  So we left with table games done but slots no where near completed.  Needless to say tomorrow is really gonna suck since we have to finish up todays work plus tomorrows work.  Hopefully alan got the 6 pocket up and running. 

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Plus at about 230p I found that my car was egged sometime last night to today.  This really makes me dislike older kids.  I live in a small town.  Nearest city would be Watertown where the Army base is(Ft Drum) and thats about 2 hours away.  Im about 3 north of Syracuse…so I’m pretty much in BFE…I’m right on the canadian border…drive by it everyday going to work.  Kids around here like to act like they are all big and bad and gansta like…its quite sad really.  So yea I was pretty mad when I saw egg on my car.  So with it sitting there all day plus being real cold it was really hard to get off…I still havent gotten it all off my car and it deeply upsets me cause its gonna ruin my paint.  I worked on it for as long as I could today but my hands were about to freeze off so I gave up for today and will hopefully get the rest of it off tomorrow,  It sucks to know you work so hard for something just to have other people ruin it.  What it comes down to was today was not a good day for me…hopefully things will get back to normal tomorrow and I can get back on track with my diet and exercise. 

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Sorry to vent but I feel a little bit better now.  Hope everyone had a good day and I’ll write more tomorrow!!

rn

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Wow…I cant believe its the end of October already.  Its almost the end of the year!!  I dont feel like I accomplished much either Like I had written earlier in the height and weight post, I started dieting Dec 9 2005.  Earlier this year I kinda fell off track after getting a boyfriend who was no help to what I wanted(I was perfect the way I was yadda yadda yadda).  But the way I was didnt make me happy so I wasnt perfect.  Once I finally got rid of the dead weight I got back on track….and off again until I got back on again.  I’ve only lost about 45lbs in a year.  I know its better then nothing and its nothing to be disappointed in but I guess I was just hoping for more.  Like a couple weeks ago I did real well.  I didnt go over my points at all and exercised like 6 days that week and lost 4.4lbs.  Then the next week I still stayed under my points but didnt exercise all out like I did prior.  I dont know what the heck is going on with me this week, like I havent really kept track of my points until today.  Plus this is only my 2 day of exercise. So needless to say Im not looking forward to Thurs nights weigh in.  I really need to start utilizing this site more.  I usually only post a blog on Thurs nights after weigh in.  Thats what made me post one tonight.  Just so I could ramble probably rn

incoherently(had to use spell check for that one! )  I really should post blogs more often, Im sure you guys wont mind finding out how boring I am. 

So I got home from my weigh from WW tonight.  I’m pretty happy with the results.  I lost 1.2lbs for a total of 11.4 lbs in 9 weeks.  Didnt do as good as I did with the week before but its still good.  A loss is a loss no matter how small.  So I stepped into the 230’s tonight and am leaving the 240s behind and will never see them again.  I’m really gonna try to pick up on my walking this week.  I’m not even gonna let the rain and cold stop me…I’m gonna get a poncho!!  How cute will I look in that.  I’m gonna see about getting Bane one too once I let him walk again in a week or so(he just got neutered on Tues).  Well thats all for now.  Hope all is well with everyone else.

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I dont know what is wrong with me today!!!  I dont feel like doing anything.  I basically had to force myself to exercise because I didnt do it yesterday.  I like to do it atleast 5 days a week.  I’ve wanted to get my exercise done this morning but Bane(my dog whos almost 7mos) was sick so I had to clean his crate and give him a bath this morning(hes the only kid Im ever gonna have and he gets treated like it!! )  Then got myself cleaned up.  I got dressed to exercise……then a little while after that I put a leslie sansone DVD in…..then about an hour after that I actually DID the DVD.  Maybe its the weather.  A couple days ago we had our first snow(ALREADY?!?!?)  So far today Ive done my 3mi WATP express(about 45min).  I’d like to do atleast another 1 mi or Turbo Jam.  But after doing my 3 mi I  do feel better that I did it….I dont know why it was so hard for me to do it. I got my bellydance DVD in the mail last week.  Ive watched it..and it seems that it starts out pretty easy but then I dont know once it gets farther into it….I dont know if I can get my hips to do that! I was hoping to have another awsome week at weigh in like last week but I dont know if this keeps up.  Well anyway I should go put Turbo Jam in and work my way up to actually doing it!!  Hope everyone is having a better day.

So tonight was weigh in at WW.  Even though I weigh a little bit more heavier on their scale then my own…I’m still happy with the results.  I had a 4.4lb loss this week and it put me at 10.2 total..so that means I get a new sticker for my WW book!  I should have gotten it tonight but I didnt stay for the meeting cause I was invited out to dinner with some friends…and since I dont get to go out too much it was nice to be invited and needless to say I think I really deserved it after my acomplishment this week.  I cant wait for this upcoming week and see how much more the scale will go down!!  Hope everyone has a good night!

So I’m feeling a little better about my dieting thing now.  Unofficially this morning I have left the 240s.  I weighed in at 237.4.  I’m so looking forward to weigh in on thur.  Just sucks that its not until 6p.  So I guess we will just have to see what the good ol WW scale says.  You know its amazing how with exercise and actually following my points how it makes it so much easier to loose weight.

So I know I havent posted a blog in quite sometime.  I havent really fallen off the wagon yet…Im just kinda hanging on being dragged getting ready to fall.  I’ve hit a plateau and Im having a hard time breaking through.  I cant get up the motivation to exercise more.  Work has been really stressing me out.  The guy I was seeing turned out to be a real jerk..which doesnt quite suprise me…those are just the guys I attract. Unfortunetly hes part of work.  We work together in a small dept(of 6 people).   I have some new exercise dvds coming so hopefully that will be the variance I need to get down into the 230s.  I cant wait for them to come.  Ive got a DVD coming from weight watchers and Ive got Turbo Jam coming.  Has anyone tried any of those or does anyone have any suggestions of good exercises that help them.