PS: thanks, as always, amba (or is it amber?) you're absolutely amazing with your support... always making me smile

My name is Amber, but my husband and his best friend from boston call me Amba. Because they can't say "r's" Like Heatha, for Heather and caw for car.

Haha, you had me cracking up with the bullock comment. ewww.

That's amazing about your body fat percentage going down! Keep it up- you can do it!

And maybe raising your calories will do it...sometimes mixing things up is the best way for the body to drop the fat.

thanks for dropping by callie

man oh man, i forgot how awesome this forum is. i've been away for a couple of days, busy hanging out with friends before school starts up again. i joined the fall semester challenge, which i think is an awesome idea. i hope i can drop 20 pounds this semester. weight loss has been excruciatingly slow for me thus far... so i dunno if i can pull it off. but we'll see. i'm going to keep up with being healthy for sure, and try very hard to lose as well.

i'm going to make a new ticker that displays the weight from my new scale. which adds quite a few pounds... haha. it says i'm at 164 right now, and since it's the scale i'll be taking to school, i'm going to stick with that number.

life's been good. i went out on my friend's boat with 10 of my best friends from high school after that we went out to dinner (i got a salad with chicken breast and NO dressing, thank you very much) and then spent the night at a friend's house. so it was 10 of us at this guy's house! crazy, but terribly fun. i'll miss these people when i head back to school.

i'm going to list my current music on these entries, because it's what i want to do and it's MY diary!

[current music: paradise by the dashboard light - meatloaf]

there's the new ticker

[current music: bohemian rhapsody - queen]

i sweat a lot today at the gym must've done at least 100 squats throughout the 1/2 hour with the trainer. squat jumps, squats with the stability ball, wall balls... my quads are a bit unhappy. oh well, they'll get over it i'm sure.

i'm going out to dinner tonight with my friends from high school. it's the last time we're getting together, the big group of us, before we head back to our colleges. olive garden is where we're going, which is good because i can just get a salad and then come home and eat some protein so i don't have to worry. i'm quite concerned about getting all of my calories for the day. it's hard work, eating enough. i just don't get hungry!

i wonder if there are ways to increase your appetite. because that would be wonderful.

[current music: america the beautiful - ray charles]

Ugh. Squats. Hate squats. However, maybe if I did as many as you, I wouldn't have such a flat butt!

Yeah, catching up with old friends is so much fun.

I was wondering how tall you are?

I just updated my diary because I dropped 2.2 lbs this week, and an inch off my hips.

Keep up your hard work- it will pay off! Do you have to eat in a cafeteria or do you buy your own food?

Edit to add that my mom doesn't hardly get hungry either., I've heard that if you start feeding your body more it realizes that it can get what it needs and then your metabolism goes up. When your metabolism goes up, you start to feel hungry in between your meals.

it's been a little while since i've posted, but woohoo! the weight is starting to come OFF!! not by much, but it's consistently going down. over the past week i've lost .8 lb, and i am ecstatic. i've been eating so much more, i'd hardly call it dieting. in fact, i WOULDN'T call it dieting!

amba... my trainer says he's going to rename squat swings after me (you hold a dumbell vertically, like on one of its 'heads,' with both of your hands... then you squat down and as you come up you swing the dumbell up above your head) since he knows they're my favorite...

callie, i'm 5'4". right now i get my food at home, which is awesome because i can run to the grocery store and cook whatever i want to. i'm going back to school on thursday, and we have restaurant-style dining. basically, there's like 30 restaurants on campus and we get "points" to spend at these restaurants. there are some healthy options... i'll explore a whole lot once i get back. and i think you're right about the metabolism... i find that i am getting much hungrier since i started eating more!

i am happy that this hard work is finally starting to show on the scale.

today was my last day working out with my trainer, and i know it sounds stupid... but i cried. in the car on the way home.

see, it's not because we were super close or anything like that. all he really did was count to various multiples of five and tell a few jokes here and there (okay, so perhaps i was a *little bit* attached ). the thing is, i'm bad at uncertainty, especially when it comes to people. in other words, i'm bad at dealing with the fact that it's never certain when you're going to see someone again, if at all you do. and that makes me sad i want to pocket all of the people who've had an impact on my life and carry them with me wherever i go.

anyway, so my last day with the trainer. he asked, "are you ready to work out? i mean really, are you really ready to work out? because i'm going to work out with you today. let me go change into my superman outfit..." and he walks out with this skimpy dink sleeveless shirt on. and i knew he was a bodybuilder, but holy shit. i mean, this guy has an 18 year old son, and he was doing 30 pullups, 100 situps, 70 pushups... IN A ROW. and i have decided, i want that to be me. i don't just want to lose weight, i wanna be AWESOME. and i'm going to be, i swear it to all that is holy. i don't care how long it takes. i'm going to achieve greatness.

Knowing my Klutziness, I'd swing it up over my head, go too far, hit my head and knock myself out.

hahaha that reminds me of this one time... my trainer told me to do "wall balls" where you throw a medicine ball up against the wall at such an angle that you can catch it when it bounces off. the first few times were okay... then i threw it weirdly and it came back and hit me in the lip

so my lack of an ethernet cable is seriously hindering my ability to write in here. bah, i hope to get one soon. as in today.

i've been taking a spinning class here at school every day because i love it so much, but i was so angry to find out that they're going to start charging a dollar per class! that's ridiculous! we already pay a gym fee plus forty thousand more dollars per year. we shouldn't have to pay more to stay fit and happy! so i wrote an angry letter to the head of the aerobics department. bwahaha

diet's been ehhhhhh. i try and eat healthy, but portabello mushroom pizzas tend to throw me a little off course

hey girl it's good to see you are still at it. I just returned to college recently too and I am working my lifestyle into my new schedule. I've lose close to two sizes now. Yay for your new ticker number! It's so much fun isnt it? I think Ill go update mine now.

I'VE MADE IT TO THE 150'S!!!!! my goal was to get here by the end of the month. lo and behold, on the very last day of august, the scale read 159.6. three times in a row. yeahhh baby!!!!