recent adventures

sorry i haven't been around here too much - everything is pretty crazy here and i just don't have the time to read and respond like i want to. i am up to about 70 pages of my binge eating dissertation and just have one chapter left. i REALLY need to fini**** between this weekend and next weekend. i recently taught a training seminar about binge eating and obesity, which seemed to be well received and wasn't material that most people had seen before.  and i got to use my fun stick-people binge/diet cycle graphics. i've started doing serious cardio intervals with my trainer, which has been a different kind of challenging. in exchange, i'm trying to cut down on the aimless non-challenging cardio that i do way too much of. still a few pounds more than i want to be but i spent the past few weeks really cutting carbs and the weight has stayed exactly the same. i'm thinking that this is just where my body likes to be. i know i've gained some serious muscle and my shape is looking pretty good. this giant 6' something 330 lb arena football player at the gym came up to me and my trainer and said he had been watching me and that i was looking good. not sure how i feel about this. its funny to know that people have been watching you over the months enough to notice a difference. weird.  new food finds: steamfresh brand of frozen veggies started making rice (brown and white) using the same steam in the bag concept. i HATE cooking rice, so this has been great! i have only tried the brown rice and it was good. i also discovered a bagged salad "asian" flavor that is really good - it includes snow peas, cabbage, orange sesame dressing, wontony things, and dried cherries (although i don't eat those). i throw in some grilled chicken and hard boiled egg whites and its very filling. last weekend i had to go home to get a dress for a formal wedding i'm going to in april. i officially hate designer clothes! they are not made for people with boobs! both me and my sister (with same size boobs) have to get the dresses severely altered. of course the designer man and my mother keep saying that that is normal for these kinds of clothes to need to be that altered but it still makes me feel weird like that they don't really fit. one dress they only had a size 4 so the boutique man called the designer and he is making it for me (i feel like project runway). i also got theses crazy tall manolo shoes that i'm sure i won't be able to walk in. for some reason, i always feel like one's body is more on display when wearing fancy or formal clothes. maybe because they are fitted? i dunno.  i also got a bunch of clothes from anthropologie where i have never shopped before cause their sizes are generally small. and a white dress. i have never owned a white dress since i'm so pasty to start with, but it fit just perfectly, so i couldn't turn it down. anyway, i hope everyone is doing well and hanging in there. miss you guys!

LOL - feeling conspicuous in designer clothes!  I know.  While my dress i wore to my fancy dinner in Palm Springs was not exactly designer, I felt the same way.  I am not real endowed, but lot more than many ladies, so the men's eyes about popped out, and that kind of made me feel self conscious.  I think Biggest Loser featured those steam fresh packets - great idea for a single person meal! Or a family for that matter.   Whatever happened to your Ladies Home Journal gig????? Glad to hear from you.  yeah, we are holding down the fort around here. Miss you as always. I too seem to come in at the tail end of discussions, but I go ahead and throw in my 2 cents anyway when I can get here.

70 pages and still not finished, WOW!  I was wondering where you were.  Boy, sounds like you've been a busy woman!  I always like reading  your thoughts and ideas.   Make sure you poke your head in occasionally. :)  

And ya know some women have all the luck, be proud of what you got!  Wish you could give some to me. :) hehe