I hate it when people post just to post.....

[BethFromVA 5]

Whoohoo!! I too have lost a Calista, so I can relate! We must have started at almost exactly the same stats, as we both have lost similar amounts and are currently about the same weight. Always nice to find someone who's journey closely matches your own...

Bye bye, Calista!

Now we're just trying to help her get rid of Rocco, the killer 47-pound Chihuahua. I had her running Rocco off on the tennis court. :crying:

[Gracey 7]

OK wth my wireless mouse just died and it wasn't the battery!!! grr But on a good note, the neighbor's construction has stopped after 13 hours - yippee!

[heartfire 4]

Drive by:

OMGosh! I just spent an arm and a leg! I need to invest in Target and Oriental Trading stock. Sheeesh!!!

DD's 3rd b-day is in 2 weeks and her b-day party is the saturday after. Of course what I wanted at Target isn't at the stores and the shipping was almost as much as the merch! THEN gotta buy all the goodies for the party and OT has the best prices for what I was looking for. Here come the puppy dogs! Yikes! She picked a Bolt theme and I'm adding other puppies to round things out.

Well, on the positive side, DH has 4 days of overtime so far being on the Santa Barbara fire (still there!), so the overtime will pay the cc bill when it comes in another month!

I'm exhausted and heading to bed! 'Night all!

[MacMadame 81]

What didja win?

A triathlon suit. Or a tri tank top. My choice. I'll probably take the tank. One piece suits are hard to pee in.

PJTP: I just updated my ticker and I have lost 93 pounds or the equivalent to one Hollywood starlet!

Congrats!

[plain 12]

*** Vent Alert ***

The work thing is really tough for me -

Eh, every industry everywhere has its share of assholios in management. I had a truly bad manager for a number of years. He wasn't snarky or malicious....he was just inept. He'd tack on rambling nonsense to inter-departmental email that his boss would send us, call me when I was sleeping to ask about unimportant reports, forget to order supplies, etc.

He didn't last too long (and I suspect the same will happen to your Golden Child, Beth). After awhile it becomes painfully clear who can and who cannot do their work.

Ebony, I was (and still am, really) the Golden Child of my department. As such, I've seen management pull a lot of childish, underhand "tricks" on co-workers they wanted to get rid of. I'm sorry to tell you that my gut is telling me that your boss has it in for you and is stocking up on her ammo (I hope I'm wrong, tho).

My advice (and it's not very practical) is, even if HR and your boss ambushes you again, remain professional and courteous. No need to burn bridges.....and it is possible that sometime in the future they'll lose the douchebag and you can come work for them again.

[babygrl1234 6]

A triathlon suit. Or a tri tank top. My choice. I'll probably take the tank. One piece suits are hard to pee in.

Congrats!

Well they are probably not hard to pee in but probably hard to remove to get the pee outside of them.

[plain 12]

Well they are probably not hard to pee in but probably hard to remove to get the pee outside of them.

I suspect that's why they added the swimming leg of the race.

[BethFromVA 5]

Total scale victory: Buh-bye 230's, hello 229!

[Fanny Adams 7]

Yay! Go Beth!!

[BethFromVA 5]

Yay! Go Beth!!

*squeal* I know!!

Just six more pounds and I will go from severely obese to "just" obese. I'm paying attention to all these milestones. Once I get below 220, I will begin losing the most weight I've ever lost to date (prior weight loss was 70 pounds).

[Fanny Adams 7]

Yes, losing that "morbidly obese" tag is a big milestone - it's such a horrible label! You're so close!! Go, girl, go, go, GO!!

[*slim* 2]

Yay Beth! That is great!

[gone 4 ever 6]

WOOOHOOOO Beth. that is awesome.

[Donna113 2]

Ebony/Beth -- sorry about your current/past work situations. Hopefully you'll both get into better situations soon. I had an inept, incompetent boss once for 6 weeks. That was all I could take before I told her Buh Bye and walked out.

Beth and CC -- WTG! I've been on a complete stall for the past month or so. *sigh*

G'nite all.

[BethFromVA 5]

Thanks, Donna.

My last stall was an entire month between March and April. *Sigh* is right.

I talked to my nutritionist/nurse and she said to shake things up a bit and maybe go on liquids for a day or two and then go back to eating normal. That did it for me.