Mad Manatee Mentors, Part 2! CLOSED (Page 68)

This gave me a smile, obviously your sense of humor remains intact. So sorry about the weather and your job. Their loss. And so happy for your DH. I'm sure it'll all work out for the best. 

OK, recent job discussions in here have me wondering about everyone's jobs. We may have covered this in the beginning, but I'm lost at this point. What does everyone do for a living?

I'll start this out. I am the DBA/Sr. System Analyst/Data Processing Manager at a small multi bank holding company. This entails overseeing the team that is processing all of the checks and electronic payments for the banks, maintaining integrity of all databases (SQL) and keeping 3 or 4 primary Info Systems running properly.  I have a background in management, IT, and, oddly enough, cooking (we owned a small diner for 10 years).

OK, what about the rest of you????

FREAK OUT in progress!! 

Last week, I started training for Big Sur 9 mile.  I hired a personal trainer to help with the strength stuff and weight loss efforts.  I gave up sweetners/sugar on Ash Wednesday (so almost 2 weeks) and have been eating fairly healthy (wine on the weekends, but that was really it for slips).  By Friday, I felt like crap.  Totally fatigued, sick, sore, etc...  I talked to cutie patootie trainer guy and he suggested that I drop to the beginner running program for a couple of weeks until my body adjusts to moving regularly.  I did that and it does seem more doable.  Now for the freak out, my weight has SKYROCKETED!!!   I am up 5lbs since Friday, when the fatigue started.  I am scary close to a decade I have NEVER seen, even 9 months pregnant. 

Already have the sweetners gone, so today, I go full on primal.   Is there anything else I can do?   Where is this gain coming from?   It can't be muscle, its only been a week. 

I was able to find a dress for my step-daughter's wedding that has a long black skirt to cover all the dimples and dents.   I couldn't believe that in 1 month since I have shopped, my size has gone up again.   This is unreal.   I am the incredible, enlarging woman.  Must stop this.  Suggestions?

Now you need to make a million copies of it and plaster it all over the place.  And change your profile pic. 

Good thinking there Manatee!

Congratulations to him!  Sorry the CA opportunity didn't work out for you. 

I am an attorny for a law enforcement agency which means I get to do a lot of exciting things as well as the traditional boring lawyer stuff.  I also have the joy of being on call 24-7 for 2 month blocks where I have to make sure to always be available to the agents by phone.

Jo, my input would be to relax, not change anything else and keep steady for a couple of weeks. Give your body the chance to "catch up" to what you are trying to do. After that, only use the scale once a week. Examine yourself at that point, analyze the food choices and the training time that you have done. If it is sensible, make 1 small change, maybe dumping a meal and replacing it with a filling salad, or adding another 30 minute workout to the next weeks training schedule. Small tweaks along the way will probably do a better job than a huge change, as those are more challenging to maintain over any period of time.

Good luck, the road is tough, but you are tougher!

I'm sorry but the DL is full.  You cannot injure yourself.

When you were on the bike, was your upper body relaxed?  Shoulders down?  Hands on hoods, etc.  Sometimes people ride the trainer like they are sitting on an uncomfortable chair watching TV, not like they are riding a bike.  Make sure you you are in outdoor riding position.  And yeah, it's probably just your body saying, "I thought we were done with this?  I wanna RUN!"

Glad that you were able to get a workout in.  I'm sure that your coworkers appreciated it

Well, it would be nice if we were having halfway normal temperatures.  I know that would improve my mood!

Hang in there!

I'm a computer support specialists at NC State University.  I support the Cooperative Extension program which has offices in every county in the state.  Right now I am doing website and event management (cvent) and related stuff.  We just did a big equipment rollout to our offices and I got to image hundreds of machines so this is a good change.

I am active US Army Black Hawk Mechanic/Crew Chief in a Medevac Company. I am a SGT (E-5) so I am also the first call for all kinds of mess-ups by my guys, on and off duty. While we are deployed I get to assist the Medic with the wounded. Here is a video of what we do, although not my unit.

http://www.arrowheadfilms.com/documentary/when-i-have-your-wounded

Previous career in the entertainment industry as a technician. I did the lighting, sounds, staging, rigging, make-up, (all the backstage stuff) for theatre, concerts, weddings, trade shows, cheer leading events etc. I did this for 17 years. During the previous career I ran my own business for 57 years full-time which including everything. I also picked up some web programming and play around some times with a couple of websites for friends.

Woo hooo... one person caught on... 

Hey everybody... I think I have bad news.  Yanti is travelling, so I'm pretty sure today's episode of "YaltyJo" will be cancelled.

Safe Travels Yanti.

Those look awesome...

Love this story... 

I currently do route sales for a wine distributor.  I drive a truck full of wine to a regular route of convenience stores and sell what I can.  I HATE MY JOB..!!  The work is ok, the money is piddly, and my boss is horrible.  

I also build websites on the side (self taught developer), and as of late have started swim coaching (which I love doing).  

Thought I was a shoe in for that 911 operator job.. 

Still focusing on getting into triathlon coaching and still looking for a day job (need medical and dental benefits).  

I'm currently self employed driving trucks(think they are called semi's in America???). Used to have my own haulage business until it went belly up in 2009 due to the mess the banks have got us in.  Still running the business, but it is a shell of what it was. I'm just running it in order to clear off the debts it still owes rather than it going bust/bankrupt. It's been a long old slog, £109,000.00 owed in 2009, £63,000.00 left owing today. In my spare  time, I am studying for a Bsc(Hons) in Natural Science leaning toward geoscience. I'm about 2/3rds of the way through, but must admit that I have fallen behind on my study since I started training in October. So much so that I am thinking of cancelling the module I am sitting at the moment to redo next year. The amount of assessments that I have missed so far will drag my grade down, so it might be best to redo it next year. I'm not studying for a career change, although that would be nice, it's more to do with my interest in Geology. So Yanti, you are in my dream location where you live with all the volcanoes along the ring of fire. 

Thought this may interest Salty, being about Mo Farrah. Makes you proud to be American LMAO:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/video/2013/feb/26/mo-farah-us-tv-video

Oh.....and my birthday is 16th July, 2 days after I attempt my 1st marathon

Haha, that's right, you were skeptical of that fried chicken I was raving about a year back 

I'm a designer. I specialize in environmentally sustainable design. Currently I do retail design internally for a large corporation but I have also worked for a small firm doing everything from single family residential to educational facilities. 

Those are so cool!! No wonder you're feeling better. 

Hugs for your little one. I got to snuggle with my little E. Artemis last night and that definitely helped.  Of course, I fell asleep rocking her and she looked up, poked me in the nose, and said "mamamamama" in a "why are YOU sleeping?" kind of way.  Gotta love them.