newhope4me

the eating on a schedule thing is super important to me. if i don't eat on time, then i feel like im starvin and always end up eating too much and/or too fast. i also just had another fill, now relearning about mushies, and to eat smaller quantities

it is finally getting light, maybe by thursday it will be over

I've read that the more you get it, the more you want it. To keep with that suggestion, before we go on a weekend away i masturbate more, to encourage my body to want it even more for the time we have, lol. I am looking forward to next week. we are going to nashville for a week, just the two of us. the days will be busy as hell for me, but im hoping the nights are busy for both of us!

After I was banded, I changed our families lifestyle. The only sugar we have in the house is hubby's soda (can't get him to quit that) and I let him and my daughter pick out their favorite cereals. I even try to buy low or no sugar foods. I just wish I could buy some items in the same sizes that I used to be able to get in regular foods, i.e. low sugar ketchup is a small bottle, I used to buy a huge bottle and it would last forever. The only time I have sugar is TOM, i have to have my dark chocolate. But its usually one small square or so.

I'm assuming they did it in August because I'm guessing there's no game around Halloween to do it then.

That's understandable. Therefore, I found a similar outfit online to show you. The only difference between the pix and the actual outfit are, there was no bare midriff, the girl wore a tight fitting shirt under the white shirt. The skirt was black as well as the laced topped thigh highs. The girl wore her hair the same as in the pix.

minor league i'm guessing. it's the city's team, hubby said he was wondering if it was triple A or what, but I don't know. I did ask my 21 year old son what he thought, and he agreed that since there were kids, it was inappropriate. he said even if the girl had been hot, because there were a lot of kids, it was wrong.

Just found this Military spouse section! Hubby is a Marine. We met here in Yuma (5 yrs ago), so this is suprisingly the only place we have been stationed. Couple of close calls with recruiting duty, but both times decided to send him to Iraq instead. We like it here. I have a great job, my daughter is in a great school. But we are willing to go any where. We look at it as an adventure.

i shave everything down there. it is difficult, lifting the tummy flap, but i, like you, prefer everything clean and hairfree. I do try to get the hairs out from the lips, usually end up missing some, which irritate me later. As far as the nair idea goes, that has never worked for me, even on my legs. (actually i believe the label says not to use it near the genital area, i think it would burn if it gets too close to some areas). I have thick, dark hair and i believe that's why nair (or any of those products) work for me. Regarding the laser hair removal, a coworker had this done for her upper lip. She had 6 treatments and still has hair. she said it was not worth the time or money she spent on it. I have considered it for my facial hair, until hearing her story. I couldn't imagine doing it down there.

I love my wii fit! I like that it tracks your weight and bmi and the time you spend on it. I like seeing my mii compared to other mii's, helps me to realize what size i seriously am. (my son's friend's girlfriend set up a mii, I always thought i was larger than she is, but when i saw her mii, i was smaller.) The two weeks prior to getting the wii, i was working out in the mornings to exercise videos. But I am sweating way more with the wii than i did with the videos. My favorite is the stepping. I hope they make a full game involving the steps.

Finally! I got mine yesterday. Hubby got it for our anniversary. He said he didn't want to since its not very romantic, but he knew how badly I wanted it. We each set up mii's on it. We had fun. I think he's going to enjoy it as much as I am. He's a Marine and a bit overweight to their standards.

This is a great tool. Thanx!

I use shampoo on my legs, seems almost ironic, lol. But with my hair, I don't spend much on shampoo, the conditioner is where I put my money. Therefore I don't want to use the expensive conditioner on my legs. Then I use olay for all over body wash. For razor, I dated a bodybuilder (who got me interested in it for a while, best shape of my life, until I fell back into depression) he suggested the Mach 3. It is awesome! I've never been nicked since using it. I use it even in intimate areas.

I'm sure I'm not the only Marine wife here. The Marine Corps Ball is coming up in November :Dancing_wub:and I refuse to look like I did last year! (I don't know when other military service members have thier events, if around the same time, of course you are welcome to join us!) I would like to combine weight to lose and exercise accomplished in this challenge. This is mainly to keep me motivated. I was on a plateau for a month; the scale was teasing me, getting close to 160 but never under. When my daughter started school, I decided that instead of trying to grab a few more winks after dropping her off, I am going to workout. That must have been what helped break the plateau. Finally this morning I was under 160. I started out super slow, can't believe it's even helping, but its something. Right now I am only at 15 minutes in the morning. I just find usually a cardio workout on OnDemand, with an ab workout when my legs just ache too much. Also, if we have previous Ball pix, let's post them. I will try to scan mine and post it (the un photoshopped one, lol, i photoshopped it before we sent them out) Name............Beginning Wt............Current.............Goal......Left to Lose NewHope4Me.......................159.6.......................159.6.....................140...........................19.6 Wish everyone the best of luck!

Well, looks like I may be the only Marine wife getting ready for the ball. But I'm doing this for me, so still going to post the pix. The black dress is from last year's ball (i'm a little tipsy in that pic). The other pix my daughter took. (both were taken with phone, so not the best quality. The pix i have of the ball on my computer have been photoshopped so it doesnt look like a thigh is hanging from my shoulder) The weekend of Sept 13th I'm meeting my mother-in-law (and to think tomorrow is our 5th anniversary and I haven't even met her yet); I'd like to lose at least 10 pounds by then. That will be my mini goal; with the ball my next goal.

It wasn't my first NSV, but I must share! The other night hubby and I were intimate and when he had his arms around me, I could feel that his hand could reach further around me than he had previously been able to. It made me feel so good. I told him about it the next day, but he didn't seem to understand why what seemed like such a small thing meant so much to me.

I would venture to guess not a member of the whore club.

Yes, my family is. I only know my mother's side of the family. My mom has struggled with her weight for as long as I can remember. In fact due to always seeing my mom on a diet, I raised my daughter to view people differently. We discuss healthy and in-shape compared to when I grew up all i heard was how fat my mom was. My grandparents (maternal) are both extremely overweight. My grandfather had a heartache when I was a preteen, grandma has diabetes. My mom has blood clots in her legs and other health issues due to her weight and her constantly dieting. With me turning 40 in a few weeks, I wanted to avoid some of the medical issues. I already feel better, having only lost 40 pounds.

Tomatogirl, what kind of IUD do you have? I have an IUD but my periods are from hell now. I have cramps so bad, I can time them, they get to be 7 minutes apart, and for about half a day every month I go through that. Plus they are heavier since getting the paragard IUD.

I use Instead and it is great! Occassionally when I don't want to deal with the mess, I use tampons. But I special order Instead because its not available in any stores around here anymore. A lot of the places don't even know what I'm talking about when I do ask. Its just easier to order it, I order enough to last about a year.

I prefer small or average size. The way we all feel with society pushing bony models on us and influencing many of us to feel inferior, men have the size thing to worry about. Toys or men, I prefer smaller. I see some of the larger toys in the catalogs and it just looks painful, not enjoyable. And, I have an embarrassing story about kids and "toys". One morning when my son was a toddler, I went to answer the door, and while I was there talking to my mother who had stopped by for a second, my son comes toddling over with a vibrator in his hand. How sweet, huh. The night before hubby and I had used it, and I thought hubby had put it away.

I think it may be a combination of you are hitting your sexual peak (men hit it late teens-early 20's; women early to mid 30's) and your new found confidence. With all that going on, who wouldn't feel more frisky? My sexual peak seemed to last at least a couple of years. Or maybe it was because I was newly single again and it seemed the men I attracted were much younger and in thier peak. (A couple I even carded to be sure). My husband is 13 years younger than me (6 years older than my oldest son). Enjoy your peak! Now that I'm nearing menapause, I am fighting it tooth and nail. I want to do things, but I have no desire. Men have viagra, I use alcohol, which sucks with the empty calories. For a while hubby thought it was him, even though I tried several times to explain. I say, enjoy it, you only live once.

I didn't get to scan last year's pix yet. I had my daughter take a pix of me before I went to work yesterday, but I don't want to post it without the "before" pix. Wow, you're getting married in Hawaii, awesome! I know you are going to be gorgeous. Is it going to be on the beach? How exciting!

I'm so excited! The scale has been teasing me for weeks! Finally this morning, it was below 160! WoooHooo! And to think, I am so sore I was going to skip my workout this morning, but this gave me even more motivation to follow through! When I first signed up for this challenge, I wanted to get to goal by the 22nd, my anniversary. It doesn't look like that's going to happen, but at least I feel motivated again. Name.............StartingWeight....Current......Goal.........To Go Bunkey1965........220.................197............189...........8 CQQlgirl..............200.................198............190...........8 Cadets71............239.................226.5..........219...........7.5 Dreamsize8.........216.................216............190...........26 FeliciaLevy75......286.................243............240........... 3 Gayle21..............190.......... ......190............175...........15 Jeni 85................189.................182............169...........13 Laura bough........215.................205............190...........15 Liz_hager............172.................163............150...........13 MMarg.................220.................214............199...........21 Newhope4me......163.6...............159.6..........150..........9.6 NukeChik.............227.................227............197...........30 Scrappy_friend....222.................222.............200..........22 TexGirl................202.................198............180...........18 Thininside28........271.5..............256.............245...........11 Wannabthin.........199................199.............179...........20

when you lose weight during that time of the month (since you're tighter) instead of gaining