I think that the weather may be the reason why you have not felt like working out. It is soo my excuse. It is cold and i am not used to it. I just want to bundle up in bed with my dog and a cup of tea. LOL. I hope that you can go out there and workout this week it will keep me motivated. LOL. Thanks for always commenting on my diary it has really help to keep me focused and put a smile on my face.

rose: I can play a little bit---nothing fancy but I do want to go get a Christmas book and start practicing!

Oh I so don't want to work today.

How lucky you are!! I would love to get a piano. Oh and you'll have fun practicing Christmas songs. Sounds like a good weekend.

Have a great day.

Droppin my beautiful face by to show you my *SMILES* Hope all is well with you and I always wished I could play the piano...Im a bit jealous b/c my oldest can reciete somethings by ear...

hey katie bug. *listens for piano music*.............sounds like its all going good with ya ...........Have a great day!!!!!! STAR

Thanks everybody!

Today was pretty good....my collegue was absent today so I have my room to myself! Weehee!

I picked out a nice Christmas book and I sight-read most of them at an ok tempo....by Christmas I should have them sounding pretty darned good!

Exercises for today:

106 calories burned off the bike
100 sit-ups
100 torso twists
60 leg presses
60 abductions
30 adductions
30 chest presses
60 lower back
30 sitting rows

Howdy Kaitie! Sounds like a great day! I remember when I played oboe in our band - sight reading day was the worst!! We usually sounded like poo..lol Have a great night!!

That is so great about the piano, Kaitie! I hear that story so often from students I know. I'm waiting for my future "donor" to give me a free Steinway. *wink*

Ya ever have those days where you just feel like a freakin' huge cow. I swear, my ass feels huge today. I can't believe I'm still in the freakin' 170's...they should be nearing there end but nope--I'm closer to the 80's than the 160's. freakin sucks. I'm losing my patience and my will power. *sob* It's just to freakin' hard to keep going when the damn scale doesn't move--or moves in the wrong direction. Maybe somebody will piss me off at work today and I'll have a huge adreneline rush and bike 20 miles and do 400 situps.

I'm tired of being fat and I'm tired of those stupid gray pants not fitting every damn time I try them on. I should just return them.

I'm depressed.

you've come so far... give yourself a break... you'll get to your goal...

I'm sorry you're having a bad day... go to the grocery store and run over some people with shoppig carts.. just ram it right into their behinds or heels and smile sweetly and say, oooh. i'm sorry

hope your day improves...

lol.. thats a great idea Mal!!

Hang in there Kaitie!! Don't let the fat win! Sounds like you could use a quote too.. "Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers which cannot be given you. You would not be able to live them. The point is to live everything. Live the questions" -Rainer Maria Rilke

Sit back and enjoy the ride!!!

hey katie bug, keep your chin up and remember how much you have already sacrificed...........don't give in, you'll regret it later.....tiday is gonna pass nomatter what and you can be glad you did not cheat or pissed and depressed because you did!!!!!! stay focused and use the shopping cart idea!

At some point you have to be gaining muscle weight the way you're working out Kaitie. Maybe someone somewhere knows how to chart/calculate this sort of thing and give you some peace of mind about the weight you may be gaining isn't necessarily fat.

I kinda feel you're not gaining fat with your plan.

Hah! Yes! glad im not the only one. Some days you have 'fat' days and some days you have 'thin' days. Doesnt have any relevance on your ACTUAL weight at all, just how you feel

*hugs* take care and have fun! use it for motivation if ya can

hey katie, have you taken your measurements! i have to agree with T2 about the muscle gain. if you had taken measurements earlier, you should again-maybe your not down a whole size, but you could be on your way there! and trust me i have about 10 things in my closet i cant wear, i wont try them on for another month. wanted to also let you know that i have only one pair of good jeans that i HATE right now, because i look like crap in them-but i know that if i work hard enough and keep going i'll make it into the smaller ones!!! you can too, just dont give up, check your measurements, and if you are not making any progress there, then change your workout, try a different type of excersize, join a spin class or change the type of food you intake! there is help, and i know you can do it!!!