Finish What You Started

Alpha!!!
Thanks, there just my jammies :stuck_out_tongue: And yer funny!

Edgy!!!
Thanks for stoppin by…

Ink- oh and thanks for the thorough description, haha. Im not sure if its the ink or the pigment of my skin that doesn’t like such a light color?? I dunno…but I got little white stars and pink ā€˜moon dust,’ so I dunno!!

Hey LP-
Thanks! I’ve been wanting to add to my sun for awhile. And now I have lots of plans for my arms and upper back :smiley:

yep, 11 years…we started young. We were 18 when we met, 20 when we eloped…we didn’t tell anyone, just did it. What were we THINKING??! haha…
I believe that sometimes things just work. Of course marriage takes work. But really we’ve been learning as we go and I wouldn’t have wanted it any other way.
Its the strangest thing in the world, but I KNEW I was going to marry this man when we first met…

which is pretty freakin weird because I didn’t think I would ever ever get married. I wasn’t even interested in dating at the time. I was a man hater. Then we literally bumped into each other and the rest is history…
stuck like glue :wink: I tease because he’s gone half the time and it gives a chance to miss each other.

We’ll see what happens in 8 years when he’s done with the military. haha!

Betty, happy 11th anniversary! I’m so glad you had a good day.

That is an extremely hot picture. Nice jammies!

Happy 11th Anniversary!!! Nice ink!

Happy anniversary! Yeah, absence does give you the chance to miss a person, or at least, not to get pissed off by their flaws (socks on the floor, snoring, that sort of thing). Allows you to keep a little mystery in the relationship if he doesn’t see you with your facepack on and so forth.

Thought I should drop in, what with our similarities perhaps we can challenge each other a bit. :wink:
Happy Anniversary! The whole military thing sucks sometimes, but it has it’s moments of awesome when you get to see cool places.
Diet is always been my downfall. The best thing to do IMO is to find healthy recipes that taste like cheats.

My favorite is Moroccan Chicken(Moroccan Chicken Recipe - Food.com), tastes like some Indian food to me. Saute some onions and peppers for the rice or even better Quinoa and it’s an awesome clean ā€œcheatā€ for me. A little (3 shakes) pumpkin pie spice in a vanilla protein shake with chocolate supergreens tastes just like pumpkin pie because of the earthy taste of the greens. Spices are a godsend once you get adventurous with them. Good luck on that front.

I’m always up for a challenge. Race to 165? :wink: These last pounds are a pain to bust through.
…thanks for dropping in!

yep, I’ve made coconut curry chicken before…(curry powder, and coconut extract) not the same but ya. I know what you mean about getting creative!

One of my favorites is smoked salmon with fat free cream cheese…roll it up and drizzle soy sauce and sprinkle sesame seeds on top. Sushi! (sorta)

I’d say I’m about 2 inches away from fitting into my jeans without muffin top. I got them over my hips this morning without too much wriggling and jumping up and down :slight_smile:

September 9th…

Behold, the shrinking squishy mommy tummy…I remember reading someone saying, ā€˜I don’t see where you have fat to even lose!’ Trust me, it’s there, but well hidden…
I have a feeling some of it is also lose skin under the fat, from having two babies and gaining/losing weight over the years.
The trade off is that I didn’t get any stretch marks on the tummy, but I got em on my hips.

Today…


And this is embarrassing. Harder to put this up than the pic of me in my drawers…

Today.

But the important part is that I am making progress and I now have pics to remember what happens when I binge on baked goods!!!

I need to clean my mirrors

You are definitely on for the race!
Don’t let the stretch marks bother you. I just consider them battle scars of my weightloss, you get the excuse of little ones to go with it. ^-^ Congrats big time on the jeans though, it’s always exciting getting into the next size and it is SOOO close. What size are those pants? They look tiny.

A less gross pic of the baby abs I can make now. :slight_smile:

Haha,thanks. There my size 8s…

wore em a couple times back when my son was 3…so about 5-6 years ago.

And btw, I’d really appreciate the challenge/weight loss buddy type thing. It’s motivating!

awesome progress. keep it up!!

[quote]mom-in-MD wrote:

I have a feeling some of it is also lose skin under the fat, [/quote]

…scratches chin…

Looking awesome! Happy anniversary too!

[quote]dejavued wrote:
awesome progress. keep it up!!

[quote]mom-in-MD wrote:

I have a feeling some of it is also lose skin under the fat, [/quote]

…scratches chin…[/quote]

ya, I kinda just made that one up! lol

We are really trying to get away from buying junk at the stores that have ingredients that sound like a science experiment. I got lazy, plus we were pretty tight on cash for awhile.

Now it’s cool…

so I was paying attention to all the labels(spaghetti sauce, mamwich, ughh sweet n sour,)etc… I gotta take a trip out to the health food store to stock up today.

My kids are still young enough to convert them to healthier versions of there favorite snack foods as well. I am mindful of what goes in my body and I should be mindful of what goes in theres. (duh)

the American diet is made to be so easy and convenient. And it shouldn’t be so expensive to eat well. A can of the cheapy spaghetti sauce at my store is .99…how much do you think a can will be at the health store?
Easily near $2.00 I’m guessing…

Pegg told me he heard on the news the other day that 23 MILLION Americans are of age to serve in the military, but too fat to do so.

How convenient.

(have a good day and thank ur hubby for us.)

[quote]CBear84 wrote:
Pegg told me he heard on the news the other day that 23 MILLION Americans are of age to serve in the military, but too fat to do so.

How convenient.

(have a good day and thank ur hubby for us.)[/quote]

That’s a startling stat.
And some of these people get waivers to get in, but eventually get medically discharged because of other problems that develop(knees, feet, back problems) and then they get disability because they find a reason to blame the military for there ā€˜health issues’…argh!

Interesting new meat to try if you haven’t. Pork cubed steak.(no, not tube steak sheesh)

I never noticed it in my store before til today. For 4 oz it has 20 something Proteinz, zero carbs and 4F.