General Diet Plans and Questions - Doing Our Own Thing #6

Good Morning, my weekend was a total bust, no water, no exercise but lots of food. Getting a grip this morning and back on track. DH is off today but I see that most of us are having to work. :mad:

Dyan, I have this extra bedroom that I need some help getting organized, want to add some more stuff to your yard sale!!!

I'll be back later, got to get the payroll done.

Exercise, check! My days go so much better when I get exercise in first thing in the morning! Also, decent breakfast and a bottle of water, check, check!

Weighed in this morning BACK at 187...down from last weeks 189. I'm on a mission to see 185. Hey, babysteps!

Has anyone heard from our fearless leader?

SEMO ~ Why not? If you can get here, I can sell it :D ( That's my sale's man face! TRUST ME!!!)

Does anybody have any info on Tiff, like another email address, phone number, anything? I was getting ready to see when she posted last. Has anyone PM'd her? I thought she had given out some of her personal info to someone. Kayla, do you have any information?

OK, I feel terrible now. I PM'd Tiffany to see where she was and found that she had sent me a PM back on Oct 2 (I think) and I never even saw it. Tiff, if you're reading this, come in here and give me a good kick in the ......!!!!!!!

Tiff, I need you!! Actually, I need all of you guys. Went to the eye doc. today. Well, he was my eye surgeon. OK, let's go backwards. About 3 years ago, I went in for that laser surgery to correct my vision. Turns out my eyes were too BAD for it. Corneas were too thin. They couldn't do it.

But ... there's always a but ... they had this new procedure where they put in an artificial lens. Same as cataract surgery but they don't take out the eye's natural lens and replace it with the artificial one, they just put in the artificial one to help the natural one. Sounds OK to me.

But ... see, always a but ... it's not FDA approved yet. I became a guinea pig. One of only about 20 people in the country at the time. Before, I couldn't see a person sitting across the desk from me. Now my vision is 20/20 in my right eye and about 20/30 in my left. No more coke-bottom glasses. No more extra expensive cause they're extra strong contact lens. :cool:

But ... again with the but ... they were still learning. They've improved the procedure since mine but some of us earlier ones have had problems with the lens shifting in the eye. My left one has.

So next Wednesday (yes, the day before my biopsy) I'm having eye surgery.

Do I know how to have fun or what? :rolleyes:

I pm'd Tiff, but haven't heard from her. Kayla had her email address, cuz she sent her a photo. Miss Kayla?

I'm beat. Shoveled, trimmed and mulched in the yard for a few hours. The combination of the fresh air and the work....phew, nap time anyone? My arms are really sore now. They were already a bit sore from lifting weights. I probably wont be able to brush my teeth tonight. :p

Hey,
I HAD her address...im trying to find it..ill post if i hear anything.....

Just a little note to say HEY to Kayla. <smooch!>

Aw, what the heck, smoochies around. :)

I'm worried about Tiffany too. I understand about RL taking over for a while, but I just wanna KNOW, ya know?

Jello, I can't believe it! 2 things at once! I wish there was something I could DO. Hang in there, sweetie.

Gotta run, on a short leash today at work.

Now I feel bad about starting up the new thread, you guys were holding out for Tiff, right? You know she should be off work today, working for the county and it being a holiday. Or at least our courthouse is closed today. Hope she is just taking some R & R.

Work is kind of busy today, the weather is beautiful, was cold this am but now it's perfect, I WANNA BE OUTSIDE!! :stress:

Oh my gosh Jello. Did it hurt the first time...the eye stuff?

DH goes in for knee surgery this week. He's looking forward to a few days off work. I'm looking at a few days playing go fetch. :p

I'm so tired. Going to bed EARLY tonight. I always say that, but hard to make it happen.

:df:

Semo, don't you dare feel bad about starting the new thread!!!! Those of us with slow 'puters NEEDED this! :)

Tig, didn't hurt at all. 15-20 minutes of seeing weird lights and stuff and I could see clear for the first time in many many years!! I still have people ask if I'm glad I did it and would I do it again and I still say "like a shot!". Now, knee surgery sounds scary to me. Ouch. :(

Maybe Tiffany's 'puter has gone haywire or something? I'm trying to think of any reason she'd stay away so long from those who love her! :cry:

We must find that girl!!

Well, I'm about outta here and Rich has agreed to take me out for a beer or two to drown my sorrows. OK, light beer. But still... :^:

Semo, no worry, Tiff will find us.

Jello, it's DH second knee surgery. Same knee, different problem. He could use the laser eye surgery too! Then, I wouldn't have to clean his glasses anymore. :p

Boys gone at football practice again. Youngest got to go along. Gotta like that. Going to tidy up around the house, then put on the kettle for some tea. :cloud9:

Hi everybody,

Just popping in for a minute....I pm'd Tiffany, also, last night. Never heard from her. Not the same without her...

Dyan...I'm with ya, girl, on these pop-ups...I try to put them down and my connection freezes most of the time!

Tiger...isn't it nice when the big kids take the little ones. I have to smile when mine do that....it's like I'm in fantasy land.

SEMO..thanks for starting the new thread. I'm sure when Tiffany is back, she will slide right in. I admire your energy for the yard.. I'm barely getting the inside done these days.

Tomorrow, I'm gonna keep track of my points, water, and exercise. I didn't post on the Halloween Challenge 'cause I barely posted here and I missed the 1rst of the month. I will just follow it from this thread.

Jello...I've not heard of that procedure. I hope it continues to be a success since almost all of us in my family have contacts/glasses and would love to be without them...

Hey Kayla....hope you're having a good week!

Huntress...hear anything from Tiff?

Gotta go...my show is coming on!

:flow1: "Bright"

Hi girls!!!

I cant find tiff's addres....im soooooooo sad. I miss her so much. but i KNOW tiff, and i KNOW she didnt leave us by choice, something happened, maybe her computer broke, or her daughter is sick or something, i dont know but i know tiff would do everything she could to get to us....i miss her!!!!! im worried! I want everyone to say a prayer that nothing bad happened!

Semo, Hey babe!!! I miss you guys, I tried to stay away, cause i thought i was bothering you all...but i just luv you all too much!!!!

Cafe- And a bit *Smooch* back to ya!!! hehe, how are you??? good i hope!

Jello- am i missing something? jello cant have any sorrows! cause i love jello! and people i love cant have sorrows! haha!!!! :dizzy:

Bright- well, im definatly having fun! ive been busy like a beaver, but im doing well and having a blast!!!!

Tig- Hey! how are you??? you sound like you are getting tons of exercise, good for you! im proud!!!

well; girls, im off to study!!! i hope we find my tiff soon,:cry:

well girls! goodnight!
luv
Kayla

cafe- its supposed to say, and a BIG *smooch* to you too!!!

Good Morning. Brrrr. Just took Belle out to potty, she usually wants to sniff around....not today. She drug me back to the house. It looks like some of my flowers got zapped last night. Impatients get the ugliest after a frost. They turn to slime.
On the positive side, the freeze will kill the infectious mosqitos. One less thing to fret about.

Today is Cardio for me. It's so much easier for me to do the weights. I don't think it's cuz I don't like cardio...I think it's cuz I don't have a good cardio program for "at home". Need to work on that.

What's everyones favorite lowfat healthy supper to fix? I am in a cooking rut! I need to make the soup recipe Tiff gave us....if I can find it. :p

Hm, it's only Tuesday. It's going to be a lllloooonnnnggggg week. :tired: I spent a good part of yesterday working on a project for the production manager (no, I don't know why he thinks I work for him :rolleyes: ) and now he thinks he's going to "try another way". :censored: Yeah, like I've got nothing better to do.

I crashed and burned yesterday as far as staying OP and just didn't care. Didn't drink half of my water. Spent an entire 5 minutes playing around with my exercise ball and the floor mat. And I ate and ate and ate and ate..... :ink: Didn't earn any points and still got on the scale this morning. Quite a glutton for punishment, aren't I?

Tig, your little dog is very smart. Mine wants to wander and sniff around even if it is below zero, 2:00 AM and there's 3 feet of snow on the ground! BTW, "your" frost is supposed to hit my area tonight. I'm kind of glad. I planted bulbs and I'm afraid they're going to come up thinking it's spring and then the frost will kill them.

So anyway, I've not been involved in the Halloween challenge. Maybe it's too late? Besides, I just don't have the ambition at the moment. I'm hoping once next week is over, I'll feel revitalized and ready to join the next challenge. I'm looking ahead to the rest of the holiday season. Yikes! Hm, 44 days till Thanksgiving, 71 days till Christmas, 78 days till New Years Day.

Hmmmmm........ :chin:

71 days till Christmas! OMG! I've barely even started a shopping list. I've got to get organized.....story of my life.

Oldest son stayed home sick from school today. So, the youngest rode the bus for the first time alone. He's such a little trooper. Didn't seem to bother him....as much as it did me.:^:

I'm hungry. What's new. I have oranges....but they don't sound good. Hot chocolate and toast....wheat toast w/no butter....hmm.

:wave:

Good Morning! Not much going on here, but the weather is beautiful.

Soup, did someone bring up soup......Tig if you don't find the soup recipe let me know cause I just printed it off my computer to make tonight. Guess sisters think alike, or maybe mothers and daughters...........;)

Don't EVEN want to think about the holidays, I am not ready for that. BaHumBug. It's not much fun when you don't have little ones, so can I just skip it. This year will be a little different for us because we now have a new daughter n law so we will have to work around the kids visiting her mother too.

Boss is out today so I'm having to stay up front, see ya later.

Soup - mmm.

Good morning, everyone!

I spilled a grande coffee on my keyboard this morning.

Yeah.

It's draining over in the trash can... No milk or sugar so maybe it will work again someday. So after I unplugged everything, cleaned up my entire cubicle (because what the heck, I might as well dust) got a new one and plugged everything back together... It now looks pretty nice around here.

Yesterday went pretty well, except that all this exercise is making me hungry! WW is flexible about letting you eat a few of your exercise points if you have a certain number - which saved me last night. I brought home half my dinner (went out with a girlfriend after a brisk hour-long walk) and sat down to add up the day... and I swear if I hadn't been able to transfer points at that moment I would have eaten the rest of it. You know that "if I blew it already I'm going to..." feeling? But because it worked in I was determined to stay on target. I just closed my lips and went to bed early.

I weighed in this morning and I swear I had my eyes closed for the longest time... but I lost a half pound. I'll take it - I lost my food point on Saturday and Sunday (although I was very active) and I was worried. :) I'm encouraged now to keep trying just as hard.

I wanted to call out to you, but I'm out of time!

:grouphug:

~Cafe

Quiet here today. :chin: Me, I'm feeling a bit blah and am debating whether I want to go to the gym. Don't really want to but think I probably should and would feel better if I did. But I'm feelin' blue.

Eye surgeon's office called and said I have to get a form from my regular doctor signed before they'll do the surgery. So I had to call and plead with the dr's office to squeeze me in. They weren't happy but maybe they'll rush me through and just sign the stupid form and be done with it. Anyway, I'm going tomorrow at 2:00. Good thing the boss isn't in this week. :sssh: He never has to know.

The good news is that I got my plane tickets for North Carolina at Thanksgiving delivered today. :dancer: Hope with all these appointments, I still have vacation time left by then!

Gotta go. Little more work to do before I'm outta here. Yeah, I guess I'll probably go to the gym. It's just what I do..... :^:

Jello, YES YOU ARE GOING TO THE GYM. just incase you needed to hear it.

I put down more mulch today, moved some rocks and dug around in the dirt a little. I just love fall. Wish I could play outside all day. But, drats....I didn't buy enough mulch AGAIN. So, moved myself inside. Laundry needs done anyway. joy.

Jello - Yeah you ARE going to the gym. (what Tig said.)

Tig - mulch over laundry any day?? Hm. Methinks laundry smells better.

So I went to the old fashioned candy store a few blocks away - because I wanted just ONE piece of candy. And would you believe when he asked "just one" someone behind me said "maybe two?" I looked around but there was no one there and in the meantime the candy was already in the little white paper bag.

But I looked up the points online and had only one. Know why? Same reason Jello's going to the gym tonight. The quote that always gets me - "A year from now you'll wish you started today."

We WILL do this, this time!!

Hey There...

I didn't walk this morning and didn't lift last night. I have been so tired the past few days....and then yesterday I got a flu shot and today I felt like poop! Made homemade vegetable beef soup with barley and had two large bowls but was still within the 1900 cals. I give myself everyday.

Unfortunately, the glucose level continues to crawl upward. This morning it was 116, highest fasting I have had in the morning. I am in deep do-do....the Nurse PRactitioner who I see just 'cause she is so much better then any doctor I have ever gone to....is sending me for an A1C which measures your glucose over 3 months time...don't ask me how....but it is very accurate....she said if it is normal then we will just monitor my glucose with diet and exercise for the next few months...if not I have to go on medication.....

This is all a direct result of being too fat for too long....and my body doesn't care to deal with it anymore....and I am really scared...there is no turning back....if I don't bite the bullet and do the right thing now I AM SO SCREWED!!!! I have run out of the choice to lose weight and exercise...I must or the road ahead is going to be terrible down the line.

Thank God you are all here....I could not do this without knowing you are all struggling along with me on each of your own personal journey.

In the meantime I am religously watching every mouthful.

Hi all.........

I'm not doing to well in the eating, drinking or exercising lately. TOM showed up yesterday and after running the streets last weekend I'm tired and ready for Friday already. My boss is going out of town for the rest of the week so at least I won't have him breathing down my neck. Hope you all have a good day.

LJ

Ducking and dodging....

Um, Tig ... Um, Cafe .... I, um, didn't go to the gym last night.

WAIT!!!! Let me 'splain!!!! :fr:

I just "couldn't". There've been times when I really didn't wanna but did anyway. But last night I just ... you know ... couldn't do it. Just didn't have it in me.... :(

Buuuttttt........

Went home, put on some comfy clothes, dug out and blew the dust off several old work out video tapes .... where'd these come from, didn't know I had these.... :?: Finally chose Richard Simmons Sweatin' to the Oldies and plugged it in. Half an hour later, I'm, well, sweatin' to the oldies!!!! :cool: He got to the point where he said "OK time to cool down now" and I thought "huh, already???" So after that, I plugged in Kathy Smith's Walk and Roll video and did that for another 15 minutes or so.

I just so darned proud of myself, I may have to weep for joy!!! :cp: I think I got a better workout than I would have at the gym! And no one watching me stumble all over and screw up the moves. Wooooooo Hoooooo!!!!!!!

Huntress, hang in there girl. Friday always shows up eventually. :^: I know how it is to have the boss gone. Me too this week. Whew. Take time to breathe.

Nurse, I've heard those flu shots can knock you out but you'll be glad you got one. I know I should. The flu bug can knock you out even more. I'm sorry to hear about your health problems. I don't know much about glucose and all that stuff but it sounds like the nurse practitioner is on your side and will be able to talk to you and offer guidance. Sometimes that's something you can't get from a doctor.

Tig, I'm so jealous. I love the fall too and I want to be outside doing stuff like that. Instead I'm stuck here and can only look out the window and sigh.

Cafe, congrats on the one piece of candy. That's the toughest thing to do! It's even harder to just buy or eat one than it is not to buy (or even see) any! If I'd been in that candy store .... Well, don't even want to think about it!

Guess I'd better get to work now. Have to tell the little phone princess that she may have to skip one of her hourly 15-minute cigarette breaks this afternoon while I'm at the doctor's office. Poor baby. :rolleyes:

Talk to you all later! (Uh, maybe Tiffany too???? :( )

Ok, I give up. I really thought Tiff would be back by now. My imagination of what might be wrong is driving me bonkers. Bonkers I tell ya.

Today is going to be hectic....on second thought, the next few days are going to be hectic. Doctors appointments, surgery, foot ball, band concert.
Making myself exercise is going to be hard. I'm just not strong enough to put myself first yet. I know it in my head, but making it happen in my life is whole different.

Jello, you did good. Mabye you needed a change of pace.
Cafe, good job w/the candy. I might of had a breakdown.:^:
DNW, :grouphug:
Huntress, while the cats away...:mouse: :mouse: :hat:

:df:

Hey, everybody, I've got an idea to get us REVITALIZED for the 2nd half of our 31-day challenge!

I don't know about you but I think I might tend to lose momentum. But I was thinking this morning that the challenge is halfway over, so...

What if we all figure out how many points we have so far (with Mistress Dyan's help, maybe :^: ) and SET A GOAL to beat our own number during the 2nd half of the challenge. This should be totally possible because we have an extra day (15 days - 16 days) and none of us have a perfect record so far.

So what do you think? Sounds to me like a good way to get pumped up about the last couple of weeks! And it's possible for ANYONE to be a 2nd half champ.


DNW - I'm sorry to hear about those crappy health issues. :( I think it's something we all know is there but don't want to think about - that overweight causes/contributes to problems down the road. I think that's a big reason I'm here. Both my grandmothers were overweight and diabetic with age. It's literally only a matter of time before I'll be in the same boat, without changes. But it's not too late for the changes you make to help!

One book I found especially interesting was Barry Sears "Entering the Zone" (he has several books now) because it's all about losing weight by keeping your blood sugar totally stable with the right ratio of potein/carbs/fat. It takes a little math :dizzy: but I did really well when I was on his plan and I still try to apply the same principles. I notice the difference when I don't. The book will tell you not only how get the right mix but how much you need to eat and how often to sustain optimum energy levels. I've been meaning to get back toward that approach but it's been easier to just eat "normal" and restrict total intake. But it's not that much different with the Zone, just more planning around WHAT you're going to eat. I felt awesome, much less tired.

Jello - you did the right thing, baby! WTG.
Huntress - maybe this is the beginning of things getting a little easier...? Hang in there.
Everyone else :grouphug:

First fire in the fireplace for the season. Warm Fuzzies. :)
I just love the smell of a fire.

DH will be home from work early today due to his doc appt. I'm forseeing him being home with the knee stuff throwing a monkey wrench in my 3FC visits. So, if ya don't see me around much next few days....I wont be MIA....worse thing that could happen....I could be gone 'til Monday. But, if I get a chance...I'll slip in here.

Off to stoke the fire....

Just wanted to let ya'll know that I have somethings going on right now, but I will come through them, and be back in no time.

Cafe, I'll try to get those numbers posted for the 2nd half of the challenge. I'm up for it!

I'm thinking of you all.......

Back from the doctor's office. I go to a group and got "assigned" the new young doctor back when I joined the group back in February. Reread the words "young doctor". Hm.... Makes me want to get sick more often. ;) Anyway, it was hardly worth the trip. He just had to sign the form for my eye surgery next week. Doctor's handwriting - heck, I could have done that and no one would have known the difference! :rolleyes:

It's pouring rain and the wind is whipping tree branches and wet sloppy leaves around. Just "yuck" in general. Tig, that fire sounds so nice! I'll be right over, 'k? Yeah, I'd like to build a fire at our house too.

Of course, we'd need to get a fireplace first, I suppose. :lol:

Anyhoo, got to get to work now, I guess. Haven't had lunch yet and my stomach was growling while Dr. Cutie-Pie was examining me. :devil: Embarrassing. :o

Later!

Just a quick hello, our electric has been off all day and just now getting it back. Almost 3:30 here...... I'm taking off tomorrow, my friend (the one having surgery to remove the tumor) and I are having a girl's day out. No time to read the posts will catch up later.

Here's where everyone is at at Mid-Point on the 3 point Challenge. Out of a possible 45 pts.....

Cafe: 31
DNW: 33
Dyan: 36
Jello: 31
Semo: 25*
Tiger: 20

Is everyone up for the challenge? I'll have to response to post later.....

Looks like a fragmented day/week for everyone.

:wave:

Thanks, Dyan, for getting the numbers together! If I'd a known you were busy I woulda volunteered.

_______________________________________

So there's 48 possible points left for this month including today... Can YOU beat your score above during the 2nd half of the month??
_______________________________________


For some, it really may NOT be possible - I'm not trying to put anyone down!! I know we are all experiencing a varying degree of turmoil in our lives.

For me, if I get just 2 points every one of those 16 days I can beat my number. Not that I won't try for 3, but it's giving me some incentive to hang on during tougher days and not just zero out.

For those who aren't on the list... Hey, it's all up from here!!


Ciao, and hang in there chickies!

P.S. Anyone else seeing snow flurries?

Well, well, well. Look what the cat dragged in. :hyper:

First of all, we lost our computer. Totally lost it, as in...had to buy a new one. Now, as you all might remember...I have no internet access at work. And even if I did...I WOULDN'T HAVE TIME!!! It has been so crazy. I have put everything in my life on hold and I am TIRED of it. The good thing is...tomorrow is our deadline for getting new voters registered, so that will relieve some of the burden! Then once the election is over, things will be calm again. I have been going in at 7 and leaving at 7, so I am trying to cram everything else into a few hours of the evening that I have left.

Crazy, I tell ya. Crazy.

But being away from here made it worse. I was seriously having withdrawal.

Anywho...I am back, alive and well and I will be posting in the evenings as usual. I have a million posts to get caught up on, as well as laundry out the wazoo.

Thanks for worrying about me! Love you all!
Tiff

Well hi there:wave:
Don't leave us ever again :nono:
Cause we miss your :cb:s
And :cry: like :bb:s
when you're not here
Didn't know what to do with ourselves:shrug:
We just love you to bits.....:grouphug:
your our 3fc :angel:

Love,
SNW

OMG.....Tiffany! Girl, I was SO worried about you. I'm glad that you're back and there was nothing more serious than your computer going out, missed you something awful.

OK ladies, I am seriously stuck in Funkytown. I really, really want to get this weight off but I just can't seem to find my motivation. I don't know what's wrong with me :( Any suggestions would be appreciated. I don't even think a good swift kick in the rear would do any good.

Gotta go, the shower is calling my name.........

LJ

PS....Thanks for the words of encouragement, I didn't even read the second page before I posted earlier. Wish I could get on here during the day at work, but because of some things going on in my office I have decided it would be in my best interest to stay away from that office. Think I told you all I work with my family and things can be kinda tough sometimes, you know, toes get stepped on and things get said.

Anyways..............hope you all have a great day!:dancer:

LJ

... Tiffany who? :snooty:

Oh, I'm kidding!!!!!!!! Tiffany's back!!!!! :cp: Our Tiffany's back and you're gonna be in trouble ... hey, na, hey, na, our Tiffany's back!!!

Yeah, I've lost it. But I'm so glad to see ya' girlie. I feel like my dog. I'm so happy, my tail's wagging my whole body!!!

Now there's a vision.... :hyper:

Anyway, I got up this AM and my left eye is all red and swollen and very sensitive to light. Hurts. :cry: Actually feels better to cry.

... Ain't that always the way?

Going to the gym tonight for my final session with the trainer. She's going to measure and weigh :o me and I've already rehearsed how I'm going to explain GAINING 7 pounds since my last weigh-in 5 weeks ago. I'm so disappointed in myself. And yet I can't seem to get motivated. I'm hoping that by this time next week (OK, a week and a day) it'll all be over and I'll be able to concentrate on getting back on track.

OK, enough about me me me me me....

Tiffany's back!!!!! :love: Have y'all heard!?!?!

Huntress, if you happen to come up with any map outta' Funkytown, be sure to let me know. Meanwhile, I'll do the same for you if I come up with anything.

Nurse, loved your last post with all the creative smilies. But, um, "missed your bananas" sounds a little ... well .... Never mind. :lol:

Cafe, I like the way you look at things. You're right. It's not necessarily "all or nothing". I'm going to try for 3 points but hang on to each and every point I can get. Hm, I have to beat 31. Hm..... BTW, snow flurries!?!?!?! Augh!!!! We just got our sunshine back!

Semo, guess you're probably gone already but I'll be thinking about your friend. It'll be nice for her to have you to "hang out" with. Have fun.

Dyan, thanks for the tally. Yeah, I'm in for the challenge. I'm hanging in by my toenails but I'm not down yet.

Have to run now. Going to fill the water bottle and tell everyone I see "Hey! Tiffany's back!!!!" That's sure to get me a few looks. :?:

Went to the therapist last night and talked about the fact that I have not exercised in 3 days. Explained about the flu shot reaction and also just being so-o-o exhausted from work I can't do anything when I get home.

Also told her how I am obsessing about not exercising when I say I am going to and also feeling so guilty when I don't follow my program perfectly...this is what she said..she also specializes in eatind disorders, et. al. so here is some "food for thought"...no calories here so eat up!!

She said that if I drink my water each day that's a positive
She said that if I follow my food plan that's a positive
She said that if I exercise each day that is a positive

Conversely if I do none of these things they are not negatives since I didn't do them before so I do not go below the number "0" in my efforts to lose weight.

She said if I lose a pound that's a positive, but if I gain a pound then-n-n that's a negative, because I am dropping below the point I started from by gaining weight.

Point being made is that I am thinking too much about what I am not doing right and not focusing on the things I do right everyday which are positive numbers if you want to think about this on a number scale...she also said that once I realize I haven't done somethng to let it go and the next day start all over again without bringing in any negative thinking from the day before so I don't start my day feeling bad about myself and my effrts.

I don't know if this is of any interest to you all but it helped me out of my funk!!

Semo: Have a fabulous day with your friend and give her our love and prayers!!

Dyan:Thanks for doing such a great job following up with the number of points.

Huntress: Know exactly what you mean about Funkytown....how about just starting fresh tomorrow and forgetting about what you didn't do today???

Cafe: Thanks for the second part of the challenge..will seriously condiser it.

Tiffany: Again we missed your dancin' bananas (does that clarify what I meant Jello? LOL..you nut!!!!)

Kayla: Now is it your turn to be missing??

i have no idea how that smiley with the lip smacking got into my post...but it looks weird so I want Dyan to know I didn't put it there

Nurse - Great Post!!! :)

Instead of saying "I ate a doughnut and that's bad" I should say "I ate only one doughnut and then stopped instead of eating half a dozen like I would have in the past". I've got to learn to look at the positive too!

P.S. If you type a : and a T, you get the :T smilie. Maybe you slipped and put a : in front of "Thanks"?

:T - one of my personal favorite smilies....

I justed wanted to Congratulate:

Cafe
&
Jello

For not getting a single "0" day on the first half of the challenge!

So.....CoNgRaTuLaTiOnS :cb: :cb: :cb: :cb:

So I posted on the Halloween Challenge thread that I'm headed for Funytown. I can see the sign, and am looking for the next exit, but there doesn't seem to be one. I'm trying to stop or slow down before I hit.

The past few days have had my stomache in knots. Now I'm not so sure that my conract will be extended. My contract ends the 13th of Nov., and my GB surgery is on the 15th. If my contract ends I won't be eligible for disability, not mention I'll be beyond broke. My boss was out of town for a few days, which also left me on pins and needles. He has said that he is in the process of extending my contract, but I'm not sure I believe him. My co-worker got an email from him, asking how many dollars do I manage. I reconcile Inter Company returns. So I don't know what exactly he's asking. I haven't been able to see, as this seriously puts a monkey wrench in any kind of plan we may have had.

My step daughter and her mom were at each others throats and she called crying, saying she wanted to come live w/us. Now, I love her dearly, but when you get her and Cheyenne together it's not fun. This past weekend, I heard Cheye crying saying, don't slap me, so I went and stood by the door and ease dropped (hey, I need to know what's going on). Adriana was tellig Cheye to slap her as hard as she could and she wouldn't tell. Now what was that all about? When I did finally go in the room, Cheye told me Adriana slapped her and when I asked her why, she said to get her attention!! What the ffffff? I was livid. This isn't the first time. I mean the kids fight and all the time, but one time I walked into the kitchen and Adriana was repeatedly slapping Cheye in the face. Not hard, Cheye wasn't crying or anything, but still. When I asked what the :censored: they were doing, they both stared at me like, they didn't understand english!! So I'm not sure about the living situation.

Monday, I get a call from a place in Idaho, telling me to call my friend Julie. She's in a Psych. facility. Apparently her husband has been cheating and wants a divorce. She OD'd on some pills and the police committed her. One she goes to court they'll let her out and she's going to come stay at my mom's (upstiars from us). My mom has an extra room and an extra car. When Julie and I first met she was happy and carefree. She had lost tons of weight at WW and had met her soon to be husband/now soon to be ex-husband. Over the years she's gained back the weight and he didn't want to have anything to do with her (intimately). She said she would wake up in the middle of the night and he'd be taking care of himself. Which of course did nothing for her self esteem, which caused depression and more eating. Add to that, she's bipolar. So I told her I'd call her ever other day to see how she's doing.

There is still so much more going on....I'd have to write a novel. Bascially last night it all really came crashing down. I got really depressed. I over slept yesterday and didn't lift. That also depressed me, so I ate, and that depressed me, it was just ugly. I was yelling at my kids, I just wanted to be left alone. So like I said in the begining....I can see Funkytown up ahead, but am tryig everything within me, to not get there.

Huntress: I wish I could help you and Jello find a way out, but unfortunatley, I am not the wonderful one :( .

Jello: I am so sorry to hear about everything you are having to go through. I know in the that you will be doing so much better.

DNW: good luck w/ your blood sugar. I had gesational diabetes, and it wa horrible. I had to inject insulin twice a day into my stomach. I cried EVERY single time. I have a needle phobia! My father also had diabetes, and I dont'want to go there. So I also have to do this for that reason. I also ad to check my blood sugar 6 times a day. My fingers were like pin cushins.

SEMO: have a great time w/ your friend.

Tiff: So glad to see your back. We all missed you and were worried to death :grouphug: . Don't do that again. Next time you better just march yourself to the libary or one of them computer cafe's and use their computer and let us know your alive and well.

Tig: saw something in a magazine and immediately thought of you. It was something about gardening and how many calories it uses. There was a website and everything, and wouldn't you know, I can't find it. David Horowitz had something to do w/ it. Sorry, I'll look for it when I get home tonight. I do remember something about burning about 400 calories pushing a lawn mower for 1/2 an hour.

Gotta run, this has gotten long enough...

Dyan:

I'm pretty sure health benefits are paid month to month so I believe you may be covered until the end of November, but check with your benefits person about that. My husband worked for the state of NJ and he left before the end of the month and when I called benefits they actually told me that they paid a month ahead each month so he was actually paid for the next month and to the end of that month.

In any event if you are not covered than the HMO should be able to bump your surgery up a few days. Ask your doc to intervene. The state is going to wind up paying anyway if you have to have emergency care and you have no money to pay for it. Kaiser should be able to make this right!!! Ba$tards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why are we all in Funkytown right now? I thought it was just me but after reading your post today it seems I have plenty of company.

Dyan - I'm so sorry about your friend. I don't know what to say except that after reading what you wrote I want to cry. ****, what am I saying, I AM crying. I don't know anything about your situation with your insurance and all but I do hope that your contract is renewed and you are able to get your surgery, I will pray for it. Sending lots of :grouphug: :chockiss: :chockiss:

DNW - I like what your therapist said about being positive.
I am positive that I ate only 8 tootsie rolls instead of the whole bag after lunch today.

One of my brother's friends dropped by the office today and boy was I shocked, she lost 45 lbs in 12 weeks doing Quick Weight Loss but it cost her nearly $2000. What's up with that? All she had to do was eat nothing and drink water and save her money. Oh well, she's still young, guess she'll learn eventually.

Gotta go, cookies in the over are almost done.........yum, chocolate chip

LJ

Computer cafe?? I basically live in a corn field. I wouldn't even know where to begin to look for one of those. LOL....

Here for a sec, then the girls have some sporting crap at the school, so I get to run them around. Woo Hooooooo...I can't even begin to express my joy.

Oh yes I can....:dz: but I won't. Cause I am a lady. HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Back later!
Tiff

TGIF!!!

... Have you guys noticed how I seem to write that every Friday? Interesting. Hm, I must really hate my job or something...

I went in for my final weight loss program session at the gym last night. I got weighed and measured. It was not pretty. But we sat down and talked for almost an hour and I told her my whole life story and all about my miserable week. She is sooooo NICE!! :angel: We've decided that I'm going to take it easy on myself until after next week is over. No, that doesn't give me license to go eat anything and never get any exercise, etc. But I'm going to worry about the things that need worrying about and leave the rest for later. Then, after the surgery and the biopsy and I kill my boss, I'll ....

.... :fr: What'd I just say!?!? Kiddin'!! :s:

What I mean is that after next week is over, I plan to regroup and start fresh. Suzanne (the trainer) said I should call and set up an appointment with her toward the end of November and she'll weigh and measure and go over any plan or menu or schedule I come up with. We also talked about some of the classes they offer at the gym and I made her tell me honestly whether or not there are only spandex-clad nymphettes with big hair or if there are "real" people in those classes. :rolleyes: I've decided that I may try one or two of them, such as the Muscle Tone class (working with weights) or the Trekking class (on the treadmills and elliptical machines). I think I'm going to give one or several of them a try. There's also yoga that might help with some of the stress.

Anyway, I'm currently psyched about starting fresh. Hope this feeling lasts. I've also decided to plan a weekly menu on Sunday, buy the week's groceries on Monday after work and stick to it. And then there's the exercise schedule. And then.... well, you guys get the picture.

I'm rambling. Sorry. But my mentality is looking at this like "I'm going to be on a strict program for 5 weeks." That way, it seems like there's an end in sight. Now, I know that I can't just do this for 5 weeks and then stop, but I'm going to try playing mind games with myself. :twirly: Let's just see what happens.

Again with the rambling.... :dizzy: Any of you still reading this?

Dyan, on a serious note, are you sure your friend's name is Julie and not Jo?? She sounds like me towards the end of my marriage and her soon-to-be-ex sounds like my ex. A real :censored:. I'm sorry to hear she's having a tough time but I've found that, cliched as it sounds, that which doesn't destroy you makes you stronger. It did for me. I'm also sorry you're having a hard time, yourself. I wish I could offer advice but, having no kids, I never offer child-raising advice. I'm sending you :goodvibes:

Tiffany, the rule is that if you've been gone for a while, you have to post big long juicy posts!!! Hey, I don't make the rules, I'm just passing along the info.

Huntress, put one (but only one!) of those :cookie: in an envelope and send it to Jello, care of Funkytown Station....

Yes, folks, I may be in Funkytown but I'm at the station and, sooner or later, the next wagon will come along and I'll be on it!

Gotta run now. Later!

Oh my gosh, so much to read. :dizzy:
DH's knee surgery went fine. The BoneHead went to work today. He was suppose to stay down for 48hrs. He's not real good following instructions. MEN.

Basically, I made a pit stop in funkytown myself. Stress+too busy=BAD CHOICES! :s: Donuts, Burger King....:devil:
But, I'm off to exercise RIGHT NOW. I have to work off the sugar cereal I ate for breakfast.:( And, plan a healthy lunch:D

Tiff, welcome back chickie!
Good wishes to everyone for the weekend, staying OP, pulling out of funkytown and getting through life!

:df:

TGIF!!!

Okay all you Funkytowners, I've decided to grab the bull by the horns, and there's a wagon attached. I'm heading out of here, so come on and get back on the wagon!

We have GOT to STOP making excuses! We have got to set a goal and reach it. What's an excuse? Something we tell ourselves, to try to justify something we should have or should not have done. It's time to say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

I mean let's think about it. There will always be stress in our lives. There's just no way around it. It could be work, kids, DH, you name it....Well if we don't STOP the excuses, we're going to "excuse" ourselves to the point where we're no longer evening TRYING to do what we know we need to.

If someone said they'd give you $100 everytime you exercised, would you do it daily? I know I sure as the **** would :smug: . What if they gave you $10 for every glass of water you drank. I'd say lead me to the ocean! You know what I'm saying? So come on! Let's do this. Don't we want to be the ones that OTHER people are amazed to see. To hear "Man, you look GOOD!".

Personally, I HAVE to get up at 4:30 am to get my exercise in. Is it fun? What do you think? You may be thinking, I could NEVER do that. Well, if your lucky you don't have to. You have some other time during the day that you can exercise. But for me, it really is the best time for me to do it. No kids bothering me, no phone calls, etc.....Plus! I feel good afterwards. By the time I get to work, I've already gotten in my exercise and half my water.

We need to reevaluate what is really important to us and do whatever it takes (within reason of course! Don't want Jello whacking someone :nono: ). We need to make those sacraficies (?). We need to think positive like DNW said. But no more excuses. I think that was how I felt when I missed my work out the other day. I was so disappointed in me. I turned the alarm off and fell back to sleep. Oversleeping, to me at the time, was an excuse. No matter, that it was an accident. I did not intend to fall back to sleep, but I did. Not only that, I made an excuse as why I didn't do it later that day. UGH :mad: !

SO are ya'll with me? I am now getting off my :soap: ! I'm pulling out of Funkytown and headed to Motivationville!! YYYEEEEHHHHAAAWWW

Dyan - no more excuses????!!!!? :fr: That's downright scary, LOL! But it's TRUE. We've always had stressful lives and made allowances for making poor decisions with regards to our self-care because of that. But is the stress ever going to totally go away? No.

Stuff still happens. But we can rebuild ourselves stronger than we were before. We do not have to allow ourselves to spiral out of control. Instead, we can focus on the positive and concentrate on doing the best we can on any given day. I try to tell myself that there is NO excuse for not getting my water in, at the very least. I try to tell myself that knowing I might not get my food point is not an excuse to pig out further.

So I'm on the train that's tooting at the station - leaving Funkytown in the dust. I definitely need to be motivated to stay strong for the last 2 weeks of the 31-day challenge.

After all... Ultimately, it's ALL ABOUT spending the time doing the right thing to get the weight off. Rome wasn't built in a day and neither was this body!! It WILL take months of consistent effort to reach my goal. But I have made the commitment not to give up this time, but instead to keep starting over until I get there.

Jello, I think it's great to plan ahead for your fresh start. Diet-wise, menu planning and careful grocery shopping make the difference between smooth sailing vs. crash and burn <for me>. Exercise is also something I have to set a time and date for. If I am not scheduled to do it on a specific day/time it is TOO EASY to put it off. So yeah, use your time to plan. Knowing what you CAN eat and being ready/able to make it without a struggle is powerful.

Tiger - I'm glad the surgery was a success! Maybe if you hit him in the good knee he'll stay home with his leg up?? :devil: Just kidding, of course!

DNW - I loved what your lady said about each thing you do being better than what you would have done before. Results are a cumulative effect of lots of small efforts. Positive thinking sure makes things easy, instead of a drudgery (with a pit of guilt waiting to catch you if you slip - who needs that!)

Huntress, hey sweetie! Come get on the train with us! Aw, okay, we'll let you drive. Maybe I'll hop in and we can race the train. :hyper:

Tiffany - lovely to see you dahling! Glad everything is okay with you. Sorry to hear about your computer. I'll bet your new one is faster? :s:

Kayla, Bright, SEMO.... :grouphug:

My goal for the second half of the challenge is to not get a single "0" day. Water is every where so there is no excuse for me not to drink it. Saturday is my free food day and Sunday is my free exercise day, so I know for at least 2 days a week I will not be getting 3 points. The other 5 days...well it's on!

All aaabbbboooaaarrrdddd! This train is jumping the track!

My depression left just as quick as it came on (Thank goodness). I have definitely learned alot these past 5 months.

I want to thank you all for your thoughts and prayers regarding my surgery and my friend. I'm going to call her in a bit and see if she knows when she'll be released. I've already told her that she's gonna be hopping on this train w/ me. Of course I can't MAKE her. I haven't seen her in over 2 years, but she said she's gained A LOT more weight. She's 5'2" and is up to 278lbs. I'm not good at telling how much a person weighs, so I'm assuming she is gonna be "round", for lack of better term. No offense to anyone. I just hear numbers, and I am just getting below her in numbers. Anyway, I told her we can do this together! I can't wait.....a live person to do this with. We probably won't exercise together as I will still do mine in the morning. But it couldn't hurt to also take the kids for a walk after work ~ weather permitting. It's starting to get a little chilly here. I didn't have the heart to tell her that I've lost 45 pounds. I don't want to depress her anymore. I know that even though I may be happy for a friend that's lost weight, I also feel sorry for myself. Wishing that that was me. I mentioned my friend Jamie who's lost tons of weight. I'd say about 100 pounds in the last year. She looks awesome! But at the same time I wished I could have done it with her. I want to look good too :( . But seeing as how I was pregnant while she was on her journey, I try to take it in stride. She doesn't have any kids, but hopes to one day. Hey maybe when she's fat and pregnant, I'll be the one looking good :s: , I know....I'm so evil!! :devil:

Hello little inspirational chick-a-dees!
Exercise done, water half drank, food in recovery mode! I'm all set to have an OP weekend!

:df:

Just checking in one last time to wish you all a great weekend! Tomorrow, we're going out to a factory warehouse to buy windows. Oooh, ahhh.... It'll be breakfast on the road and lunch at a restaurant of some sort. Getting in water (or rather getting rid of water ;) ) will be tough. But I'll be good. :^:

Hope you all have a great one!!

Conference Room. 2:30 on a Friday afternoon. 20+ people file in.

Cake. Not just sheet cake, but good bakery cake with lemon curd filling between layers and buttercream icing.

~and~

Ice cream sundaes. Hot fudge and hot caramel, whip cream, cherries, pecans, bananas. Vanilla ice cream.

I'm telling you, my work environment is downright HOSTILE!

But wait a second, there's vanilla fat free frozen yogurt, if you can believe it. :)

So I was not an angel, but I had planned ahead by eating a decent but low impact breakfast and lunch. I indulged and still have 6 points left for the day. Not bad!!

This must be how skinny people do things. Eat less early in the day on dangerous Fridays.

Anyhow, I did something that I haven't done before that was super easy for work. I brought a can of soup with me and a can opener. Not the kind of soup that needs water, but the dump and nuke kind. It worked out pretty well - and alternative from the frozen stuff but still FAST to grab and carry in the a.m. and easy to read as far as calories, etc. go. Also, I can run down to the cafeteria on any given day and get a roll or breadstick for 37 cents.

I'm looking for creative ways to vary what I eat and enjoy it when I carry my lunch. I find that lunch can be a pitfall if I haven't brought something from home. My willpower is less strong in the evening, so not eating a big lunch helps. Anyone who has creative ideas for lunch at work, shout them out! I'm so tired of the rut I'm about ready to bring sardines and crackers and stink the place up!

I'll try to check in on the weekend - you gals have a good one and I'll hope to see you here.

Hi Everybody,

Sorry I've been missing...my ISP is crappy again and kicks me off so frequently that it's been difficult to post.

Cafe-- thanks for the group hug. I take some of the Uncle Bens entree bowls to work to nuke them. They run about 300-400 calories and are delicious! My favorites: Shrimp/penne pasta with peas, vegetable lasagna, and many more. It's a great change. My work is horrible about food at this time of year, also. All these Ice Cream days, cookies, cakes and I have no will power right now!

Huntress---I know about the Funkytown. I've been lifting weights 2 times/ week and eating like a horse! Is the wt. lifting causing this tremendous appetite I have? I haven't been good this week....the scale is a pathetic machine, right now.

Dyan---tomorrow, Sat. Oct 20th is the day I will begin again. Please save me a seat on your wagon! You are an angel to help your friend thru this time. We all have tough times but it is our family and friends who take us through the tunnel...

Tiff---so glad to see you back...I can't imagine being on the inside of an election at this time a year. Must be a zoo!

Tiger---the fire sounds great! My next house will have a fireplace..I decided that long ago. Right now, I guess I'll have to settle by buying an electric blanket this year to keep warm.

DNW, Kayla, and Jello---have a great weekend.

Okay, tomorrow is the day...I'm developing my plan and will be ready for the next challenge. I need to go with a plan that works and keeps me from getting hungry...combo WW, BFL, Michael Thurmonds program? Need to go while the house is quiet....

Take care, all. Wish you an OP weekend!


:flow1: "Bright"

Hey my ladies!!!!!!

Today was a real pip...was supposed to get off work at 1 PM and worked to 3. Went to the supermarket and flew home, put food away and went for a 2 mile walk...came home and made dinner, changed clothes, kissed deadnurse goodbye and wen to an OA meeting, had tea with a friend and now I am bidding you all hello and good night...this old 54 year body is mightily pooped. But I did lose another hard won pound so now I am down 7.9 lbs. I am so happy yet so-o-o hungry...oh well it will pass.

Brighterdays: If you're hungry all the time you need more protein...and try mini meals (5-6) if you can....I lift too and get too hungry if I don't have enough protein....I supplement with a sugarless protein dry powder that I get really cheap on Puritan.com, a vitamin mail order site. It has no sugar so I put in Splenda and skim milk and it comes out to about two hundred calories, but keeps me going a long time. If you put in a very ripe banana you can go about 4 hours without being hungry. I keep a blender at work just for starvation emergencies...keeps me away from the candy machine. You can also use plain water with it too....but I am post-menopausal so I need all the calcium I can get.

Dyan: I hope you and your friend have a wonderful time together, just don't lose sight of your own needs and goals. It's so easy to do this when we are trying to help others, especially very dear firends...been there and definitely got many t-shirts for this. Also tell your friend she will find someone one day who will love her; pounds and all. I had a boyfriend like her husband, way back when, way-way before deadnurse and I got together.

This guy never thought I was thin enough and eventually we drifted apart...however I live in the house his mother owned before she died so I see him often as his sister lives next door.....his wife is very ugly and fat, his child is a monster, he hasn't worked in years, and is always depressed....poor guy who knew???? BAWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! By the way did I ever tell you guys how crazy deadnurse is for me...tell old boyfriend how happy I am every chance I get....just to see that downtrodden look on his face.....revenge is so sweet and it has absolutely no calories.

Ah...but I digress...

Jello: New windows..and a day out....hope you have a great day and I'm praying everything goes OK at biopsy time.

Tiffany??????????????? Semo?????????????? Kyla???????????

Where are you all?

Love,
DNW

Tiger: You sound great...what a trooper you are....doing a million things for others everyday and ready to get right back on track with your program!! Wish I had your gumption when I was your age...

Cafe976...gee do you and I work for the same company.....?

Good Morning and Happy Saturday to you all........

Jello - consider it done, the cookie I mean :cookie:

Cafe & Dyan - I am ready to board the train outta here, there's a whole world out there and I'm never gonna see it sitting here feeling sorry for myself. Come on with us Jello and Brighterdays.

Tigerlily, SEMO, Tiffany, DNW & Kayla - howdy! Hope you're all doing well.

I made a mini-start yesterday drinking my water for the first time in a few weeks. Decided that since that was where I originally got started might as well get going slowly if that's what it's gonna take. I've been fortunate that Funkytown didn't cause a weight gain for me, that's always a plus. There's nothing more frustrating to me than to work hard then backslide and gain half of it back. I'm still jealous of my brothers friend who lost 45 lbs even though I guess I shouldn't be considering how she lost it. Guess I've learned from past experience that when you lose that quickly it comes back just as quick if you stop doing the diet, but it sure would be nice to lose at least a little of this fat quickly. Once again I find myself wanting to hurry up instead of doing it the right way a little at a time.

Well, I've rambled long enough, got a million things to do today so I'd better get moving.

LJ

Hi all,

DNW---you have a point on the protein...thanks for the info. I DO feel better when I have more protein and lately it's been lots of carbs (easiest to get a hold of when you are HUNGRY!). I'm using my Michael Thurmond plan with my WW plan and getting that protein in... I should feel better. It has the mini meals idea and I have to deal with hypoglycemia sometimes. A blender at work? Wow, we have a microwave and I'm feeling on top of the world!

Huntress---count me in...I'm ready now....appetite back and needing control...GAINED wt. with this pigfest I've been on....and it's time to take hold the reins. Did you see the article in FIRST magazine! It mentions this site and has 3 friends who met thru another site, I think Ediets, and lost weight together and then the magazine flew them to meet each other and have a photo shoot. Wouldn't that be great?

Happy weekend to everyone else. We are having cloudy, rainy weather but I have already decided what indoor projects I HAVE to get done. Should stay busy and away from the refrig...I always think I should post signs everywhere, when I start a new challenge, to keep my motivation up but my kids would think I'm nuts.... :dizzy:

Well...here goes...already had a good breakfast...one down, 5 more mini meals to go today! And we're off....

Take care,:flow1: "Bright"

Hello Ladies. Gotta tell ya that I was hiding quite confortably under Dyanm's soap box and guess it's time to sneak back out and confess. I had lost about seven pounds on our challenge and now I'm right back where I was. So knowing that there is no way that I can possible loose 10 pounds by the end of the month, I'll just start over and do what I know works best for me. Don't know why I keep trying different things when I know what I should do. Anyway starting today at each meal I will do the very best that I can and stay lowfat and low calories as best I can. I'm not going to journal, nor am I going to weigh everyday. Hey I lost 35 pounds doing this and that's what I'm going back to. I feel less guilt and no it's not fast but it's steady. Of course I will drink the water and exercise so I'm not quiting anything except the Halloween Challenge.

Thursday was a wonderful day with my friend and I think that she is as emotionally ready as she is going to get. We went to three antique places and just had a great time, rested with a nice long lunch before shopping more.

Friday the internet system was down all day at work, man I missed you guys.

Okay gotta get in gear and get this place cleaned up. Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Hi all.........

Rainy, wet nasty day here too.........guess who was out and about in it. And I HATE driving in that kind of weather!

Hey Brighterdays - I haven't seen that article yet, but I do usually read that magazine. In fact I am a magazine junkie, I'd hate for anybody to see my desk drawers at work. I have two desks and all the drawers are overflowing. I'm staying in tommorow, have lots of household chores that need taking care of. This is the time of year that I usually become housebound anyway with the cold and yucky outside. I think it would be great if we could all meet!

SEMO - Don't beat yourself up over your gain, we all slip up sometimes even with our good intentions. What's most important is that you recognize where the problem is and take steps to correct it. I too have lost my weight without journaling and counting, that is except for counting glasses of water and sometimes I don't even do that. I would never lose an ounce of weight if I did those things because it stresses me out. Simply listening to my body and learning not to overeat is what has made the difference, if it works for you do it.

Tiffany - where in the heck are you, I figured you would post this weekend. Hope your new computer isn't giving you fits.

Talk to you all soon.

LJ

Huntress ~ "Giving you Fits" thought that was a Missouri slang!:^: We lived in St Louis for about six years and I worked as a teller, everyone made fun of my little remarks and sayings. Fixin was one that they really raked me over the coals with.

Dyamn, you are so great to your friend, but please don't let her pull you down. In the end it's up to her to get her life back together. (just don't want her to get you depressed over something that you have NO CONTROL over) If it gets to be too much have a heart to heart serious talk with her.

DNW ~ Think you are so right about the protein, Since weight training I seem to be hungry all the time.

Hi to everyone else. I didn't get as much done yesterday as I had planned, so I'm back to work on this house, think some of my kids are coming in next weekend.

Ok, I am SO mad. I was typing like crazy, filled up about one whole page by myself and I guess I was typing so fast I hit something I shouldn't have, cause all of a sudden, THE WHOLE THING WAS GONE. I am so mad. :mad:

Anyway, I am going to take my walk and then I will re post.

CRAPPY COMPUTER. :lol:

Tiff

Grrr...I did it again. I typed a big long post and then Internet Explorer preformed an error and shut me down. I'll pretend like it isn't a bad sign, and I will try again. :P

Well, I went for my walk. 45 minutes of ****. LOL, my shins and calves were aching. My skin was tingling and I actually stopped and shoved my hands down the back of my pants and scratched my butt, right there on the walking trail. At least there weren't any people there. My skin was itching so dang bad. Increased blood flow, I suppose.

When you were all at the train station boarding the train for Motivationville, I was bent over tying my shoes and missed the damn train. So, I caught the next one, this morning. I have been drinking water and exercised and at almost 6 in the evening, I am well within my calorie range with calories to spare, so I guess I am officially back. I will whip out my Kathy Smith tomorrow and get with the program. And I will be in the challenge for the remainder of the month.

I have used being busy as an excuse to not take care of myself and that is precisely why I DO need to be taking care of myself!

So, my Halloween challenge is moot now, so I am revising it. My goal was to hit 225 and I have now creeped back up to 238. Imagine my horror. So, now my goal is to hit 232 by Halloween. 6 pounds in 11 days. I can DO it. Or at least come close.

Well, I am officially back.
Jo, I hope the eye surgery goes well.
Dyan, how is the contract extension coming along?
Kayla, you are ALWAYS welcome here, you are a part of us.
DNW, thank you for the warm welcome back!
Tig, are you getting close to that 185?
Huntress, I'll meet you in Motivationville!
Brighter...you are inspiring me! Keep it up!
Semo, I missed you girl! Let's finish up the challenge the best we can!

Hope I got you all! Missed you all, and I am so glad to be back!
Off to play pool with some friends. I am taking a granola bar in my purse and I will be drinking Diet Pepsi!
See ya tomorrow. Weights for me tomorrow night! I'll post my points for today in the morning!

Much love,
Tiff

Hi all,

Had a soup day...always makes it a little easier to stay OP.

Tiff....good to see you hoping the train!

Not much to write...laundry day....housekeeping and old movies day...gotta always think about Monday am. Wish I didn't do that....Monday comes too soon, anyway!

I'll try to get on more often this week. It's one of my goals for this week.

Gotta get off fast before my internet connection starts popping up those ads and I my connection is lost. Seems like it happens more and more now....anyone else noticed that?

Take care all,

"Bright"

Finally drug myself out to buy a few groceries. I bought two diet vanilla cokes........didn't like those at all. Anyone else tried them?

Have to leave early in the morning for a employee benefit meeting, secretaries are meeting at one of the other locations. Don't know who plans those things but our year end close is FRIDAY, I've got inventory to check and tickets to run. I'm hoping that it won't last too long so I can get back. Thing is it's about an hour drive one way, then lunch on top of the meeting.

Tiff, when my computer acts up like yours I post on my word program then copy and paste it here. Can't use all the smiles but if you lose it you still have a copy of it on the other program.

I have managed to get my exercise and water in but could have done better on the food. Al well tomorrow is a new day.

Well better run, probably won't have time to get back on here tomorrow so everyone have a good Monday.

Good Morning All

Spent most all day cleaning house yesterday! I have a big walk-in closet in my bedroom and I couldn't even walk into it. My oldest daughter has the worst habit of leaving stuff here and it usually always ends up dumped in my room. Thank goodness I got that messed sorted through, now at least I can find my clothes in the morning when I get ready for work. Then later that evening I relaxed with some old Michael Bolton I haven't listened to in a long time, sure was nice.

Tiffany - It's good to finally hear back from you, glad you caught the train out and are back here with us.

Brighterdays - I love soup days too, usually means cool/cold weather. Hate those pop up ads they will sometimes freeze my computer and I have to reboot.

SEMO - I don't like the vanilla or lemon diet cokes either, nasty.

Cafe - I had a rough one this past week at work too, almost every day someone brought in doughnuts, kolaches, sausage rolls. I wish these people would get a life and stop bringing this kinda junk in.

DNW - shame on you, but isn't revenge sweet

Dyan - How are you feeling these days? Any news yet on your job?

Jello- get all those windows picked out yet?

Monday calls, have a good week all.........

LJ

Kayla - I haven't heard from ya girl, hope you're busy having lots of fun.

Tigerlily - 185! I'm so jealous, but I'm heading that way. Better be careful I'm gonna catch up to you.:lol:

I wish it was 185. I am at 186 now. Down one tub of flub.
My Halloween Goal of 174 is also lost in the witches brew. Tiff, 6 pounds by Halloween? Ok, I'm gonna try it too.
I'm dreading the Halloween Candy my kids haul home. I used to look forward to it:o

Last week was a long week, and look'n like this week will be the same. Parent/teacher conferences, early dismissal school days. I am SOO ready for a regular boring week. Is that too much to ask?

This weeks goals....
~Stay OP all week. I tend to start off strong on Monday, then dwindle off by weeks end.
~Make copies of KS food log and FOLLOW it.

:df:

Hi gals..........

Well started waking up about 4 AM this morning with that "world's gonna end and it will take me with it" feeling...really down in the dumps until I remembered that this is what used happen when I was a drunk a million years ago and.................

this is what happens when I overdose on sugar.....which I did mightily this weekend......it's called the sugart blues and I got to thinking how everyone was talking about "funkytown". I wonder if there is a much closer connection than what we all thought to our moods and what we eat....I mean I know we all know that but when we are eating clean and then we stop and go off the wagon so to speak....I think it is worse for all of us.....I know that I will be glad when I get to the end of this day sugar free and know definitely that by tomorrow morning my mood should pick up...

For myself I am going to try very hard to remember how badly I felt all day yesterday and this morning.

Love to you all....

Go Morning Ladies....

They went and did it again! They added new thingies......They're trying to kill me....ya'll know I love those things....here they are :lucky: :balloons: :crossed: :drill: :high: :bravo: .

Okay I'll be back to play w/ these little critters...

:mad: :mad: :mad: :censored: :censored: TOO MANY SMILIES IN MY LAST POST......LOST IT!!!! :censored: :censored:

Oooh!!! :balloons: New smilies!! Too cool!!!

Having a tough time getting moving today. I'm officially obsessing about my eye surgery on Wednesday. I'm not worrying about the biopsy yet though. :^: Actually, I'm not too sure what to expect with that so I'm not worried. (Does that make any sense?) The eye surgery I KNOW is unpleasant.

Bright, I'll have to try those Uncle Ben's bowls. They always look good in the commercials. :lol:

Cafe, locked in a room with sheet cake and ice cream sundaes!?!?!? Augh! However did you survive? I would have eaten my way out!

DNW, thanks for the protein info. Makes sense and I know I don't get enough. Sorry to hear you're feelin' the blues though.

Huntress, thanks for the virtual :cookie: . Anyone got any skim milk they can email me? BTW, a "mini-start" with the water is just what my trainer told me when I told her I crashed and burned. Start slowly with something like water and then work on food and/or exercise, etc. It's always been "all or nothing" with me.

Tiffany, sorry you missed the train to Motivationville while you were bent over tying your shoes but .... Wait a minute!!! :o You can bend over to tie your shoes!?!??! I can't do that!!!!!! Wow.

Semo, that diet vanilla coke is YUCK!! Their diet lemon coke is pretty bad too, I think. Good advice to Tiffany about writing your post in Word and then pasting it in. I usually type here in the forum but if the post is getting long with lots of smilies, I make a copy and save it in Word just in case it doesn't go through.

Whew! I'm having trouble getting caught up with you guys! Saturday we drove for hours in the pouring rain out to buy some windows. Yes, we did get them and got some ideas for other home improvements. ($$$) One thing at a time though. Just like this old diet thing....

Boss is back and running at full steam today. Guess I'd better get back to work. Yeah, like he'd even notice. :rolleyes: Hm, haven't told him I won't be in on Wednesday yet. He's probably forgotten about Thursday too. Yeah, I wonder if he'll notice I'm not here. What a doofus!

!!! Haven't used that word in a while! But it fits. :joker:

Later!

Darn, It looks like I missed the party this weekend!

In spite of my good intentions, this weekend turned out to be a whirlwind and I didn't get on the computer at home. I always feel on Monday as though I didn't accomplish half what I needed to - and yet I did lots of good things. But I wasn't home so the place is a wreck, still. :( On the other hand, my office is nice and clean. :D

I had missed my grocery shopping routine last week so it was a relief to get restocked and have a plan for menus. I really need that - my food points suffered last week. I had things around that I could cook, but the added randomness + PMS made it hard to stay in my range. Slippage this week is not allowed.

It's also nice to have the cupboards full because we've seen a lot of snow here. Nothing sticking but hours of white flakes coming down steadily to melt instantly on the sidewalks and roads. Some cling to the roofs and leaves and grass and empty cars. Time to make some more Turkey Chili.

Tiffany - I love seeing your dancing banana. WTG on the long walk. I've been walking in the early evening lately with a buddy who has no $ for the gym right now. It's been fun to bundle up and step out in the cold and walk while it gets dark. The calf ache WILL stop after a few more times.

Bright - Thanks for the tip about Uncle Ben - I haven't tried those. I brought a HUGE mug to work today for my soup - I'll keep it in my desk drawer with my 2nd best can opener. Soup days DO make it easy to stay OP.

DNW - Sorry about your sugar hangover. That's the worst. I feel a little like that sometimes, and it's like I've been cheated because I definitely haven't been out drinking. One thing I've learned is that while popcorn is a lo-cal snack, it can directly lead to me to overeating on fats when my blood sugar spirals down into the dumps afterward. I have to eat something 2 hours later before it gets ugly. Or avoid the popcorn altogether. Whoda thunk?

SEMO - I'm glad you and your friend had such a nice time. She'll need those emotional reserves. Sorry about your gain - hopefully there's some water there that will drop off quick.

Tiger - I struggle towards the end of the week too. I'm with you - will try to be strong ALL week.

Huntress - WTG on the closet clearing! I bet you just upped your sanity level 2 notches. I need to do some of that.

Dyan - You have a lot of irons in the fire! Remember to do your internal checks and and balances so you don't burn out. Friends help friends during rough times and I'm glad you'll be there to help your friend get back on her feet.

Jello - Taking window shopping to a whole new level. :lol: Don't let the boss man get you down.

Kayla - If you're lurking, HI!

Can you all hear my youngest scream'n his head off?! He's throw'n the king of all tantrums cuz he didn't get to go to ftball practice with the big boys tonight. He's in his bed, my request. I'm hope'n he falls asleep. :^:

Grocery shopping today was ok. I did the Aldi thing. Aldi's...anyone else have them?

--------------------little boy break, he came out of his room. got snot all over my shoulder. we're gonna go read some books.

good evening!

Well, so far so good today:D

Got most of my water in already, walked after work and I've been good with the food too. Had lean cuisine for lunch and a thingy of applesauce followed by a tootsie pop. Interesting, haven't had one of those in a long time. I don't know how many calories are in them but it definately cured my sweet craving. I sucked on it for a long time instead of biting. I'm the worlds worst about needing something sweet after lunch, wonder if they sell them individually since that came out of some Halloween candy that I bought.

I'm pumped and ready to go! I looked at the calendar today and there are 10 full weeks left in the year and I fully intent to lose some before the beginning of next year. I'm thinking that part of my problem has been the stress of having a messy house and now that I'm cleaning it out I'm feeling better. Yes, Cafe, you are most certainly right! Clearing out the cobwebs in more place than one.

Gonna go have some dinner now, then off to the shower and watch a little TV before bed.

LJ

Ate totally clean all day long and drank my water too; feel much better...told deadnurse I will definitely not do that again....reminded me too much of my last days as a big ol' drunk...a very ugly time of my life I would rather forget....but the body remembers....as one of my old therapists used to say...and my body definitely remembered being overloaded on sugar...I was an amzingly low bottom wino in the end of the major drinking years........yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck......................

The pop-up ads are invading already...I'm surprised I can post!

Huntress...did drawer clearing out this weekend also....I had to let go of some things and it felt pretty good. Now I can find my stuff!

Dyan....I like those new smilies, too. Maybe I can use more later when the pop-ups have backed off.

Made it pretty good on the water today, no cardio but I have wts. and tai chi tomorrow so I double dose on Tuesdays. Food is doing better but I understand Huntress' craving for something sweet.

Not gonna make my Halloween wt. either, Tiger, but I'm going to have to lower my expectations till I get more control. And it's coming....I can feel it.

Have a great Tuesday everybody!

"Bright"

Hi Brighterdays, hey girl what's up? Those friggin popups drive me crazy too! I'm having a garage/yard sale this weekend and hopefully can get rid of some of this junk. Don't know why I have let it go for so long, I hate clutter and mess it makes me a crazy person. After the sale I'm going to clean my house from top to bottom, EVERYTHING.

DNW - I was a party girl many years back after my divorce so I can sorta identify with what you're talking about. I hated that hung over feeling too, wonder why I continued to do it. Can't say that I've ever gotten a sugar rush like you're talking about though.

Jello - I will be thinking about you tommorow and praying your surgery is successful. Will they be just removing the lense or replacing them?

Dyan - NEW SMILIES! I love them too!:lucky: What ever will they think of next :D

I just realized that the time change is this weekend and I am NOT looking forward to it. Bad enough that it's dark within an hour of getting home as it is. Oh well, what cha gonna do about it.

The train has definately pulled into Motivation Station for me, just making sure that I have plenty of company there..........Tigerlily, Dyan, DNW, Jello, Cafe, Brighterdays, Tiffany, Kayla.......OK, who'd I forget? Ah, SEMO, how could I ever forget you sweetie. Come on ladies, not you all know we can't go to those fabulous holiday parties without looking our very best.

C'mon and ride the train and ride it, C'mon ride the train, it's a choo choo train. Any of you ever heard that dance song? OK, let's get moving............

LJ

I'm with ya Huntress!! On my way out the door to get to work, but Gggrrrllll, back in the day....that was one of my jams :D !

C'mon ride the train......

Exercise in already today :strong: Makes me feel so much better when I get that done first thing in the morning. It's a load off in more ways than one!

One of my favorite lunches right now is a 98% fatfree tortilla shell spread with a small amount of shredded cheese, melt it in the microwave....roll it up, then chop it up....along with a diced tomato. Gives me all three...starch, protein and fruit/veggie.
Don't know how easy it would be to do at work...real work.:dizzy:
It's been a few years since I've been in an actual "breakroom".

Jello, good luck w/your peeper surgery. :goodvibes:

Well, DS forgot his saxaphone. So, this mom has to hit the shower and get it to the school before band class starts.
Hope everyone has a good day.

:df:

Hi Girls! Well they are changing our health insurance company again....it's an inprovement if you work at the corp office in Memphis. For the rest of us that live in the boon docks it sucks. Hey we're luckly to have a hospital much less one that's in the PPO directory. Oh but I can take a day of vacation and drive to Memphis to use the $15 dollar copay. It pays 80% after deductable but only on their reasonalble and customary charges and of course all our dr's exceed that amt. Okay I'm through whinning, but the cost keeps going up and for us the benefits keep going down. Okay, I'm really finished now.

Check this out:
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I'ts my Holloween "Trick or Treat to You" Now you'll have another song that will stick in your head all day.:lol:

Gotta go, end of the month and year on Friday, I won't be on here much the rest of this week.

Good morning chickies!

I remember the tune. <giggle> Just what I need - some musical motivation! Not to delve too far into music trivia, but does anyone remember the Gap Band version of that song from 70's or very early 80's? Come on ride the train, come ride the party train...

Congrats to Huntress and DNW on GOOD CLEAN DAYS! It's the best feeling, isn't it?

I hope that Huntress and Bright can send a little of that good cleaning energy my way - I need it. Can't seem to get started? But the clutter is back and it's got to go.

Tig - Some snot on the shoulder is a small price to pay for some little boy cuddles, no? Awww. Missing my nephew right now, reading about that. He can be strong-willed, LOL, but a darling boy.

Weigh-in today, lost another half-pound since last week. Like I said last week, it isn't much but I'll take it! TOM here in full force yesterday. So I made it through PMS. <whew!>

~Cafe

Hello everyone! Well, it's official. I'm having nightmares about eye surgery and biopsies. I'm officially stressed. :stress: I'm going to take the fact that 3FC just added the little lucky smilie :lucky: as a sign of something good.

Tig, we have a couple Aldi's around here but none too close to home. I go in there occasionally to stock up on non-perishables.

Huntress, I'm with you. I have to have something sweet after a meal. Just a little something. Congrats on not biting the tootsie pop. I've never been able to do that.

During the eye surgery tomorrow, he's just going to reposition the artificial lens they put in a few years ago and "lock it" in place. Sounds kinda' freaky to me. :yikes: I have to remember to ask him if he's going to want to do the same with my right eye since I had the same procedure done in both eyes. Oh, now there's something to look forward to.

I have to get to the gym tonight since I won't be allowed anything strenuous after the eye surgery. Something about building up blood pressure behind the eye. Sounds gross. But I have to get in my pumpin' time :strong: or I'll never be able to catch up to that train to Motivationville. Don't want to be stuck here in Funkytown for too long.

Well, if I don't get the chance to talk to you all again today, I hope to SEE you all again soon. Send vibes tomorrow morning and again on Thursday morning if you don't mind. Thanks. :^:

Love you guys!

Tig - just saw your lunch idea... I could bring that along I think- chop the tomato at home and do the tortilla/cheese here... It sounds yummy. I'm putting it on my list of ideas!! Thanks.

The hard thing about lunch downtown isn't supplies - microwave, dishes, silverware all available as well as fridge space - but the fact that if I totally have no interest in what I brought it's too easy to slip into one of the many restaurants... and because I get hungry in the evening I can't afford to spend many points early in the day. Also, there's some mental game there. If I feel deprived by eating something unsatisfying, I'll still have the desire to eat all afternoon. Not good at all!!

SEMO - We will be thinking of you although I hope you can at least drop in. What can you do? Sometimes you gotta work!

Our benefits just went up too. $160 a month for me and DH. It's ridiculous! We used to have great benefits though his union - they took out all of 25 cents an hour. Of course there were union dues, but they were about $160 every 3 months. We've actually been flying without a net this year, so it's time to think about how I'm going to afford this next year. If we were even 5 years younger I'd just blow it off, but DH is 36 and I'm 31... no longer in our indestructable 20's.

Hey girlies. I am playing hookie. Shhhh...don't tell anyone. The stress was killing me. This is a day for me. All mine....Bwahahahaha.....

Well, I am doing better than I expected at getting back on track. Although, there is this woman at work....we decided to do this together and kind help each other out. Bring our lunches and walk at lunch, etc. Well, yesterday...THE FIRST DAY....she says she has to run to the store real fast on lunch break, but she would be right back. She is gone, and gone, and gone. Finally with 5 minutes left in the lunch hour, she comes back. She had got some lasagna from the hot bar at the store and sat there and ate it before coming back. She said, she went to get a salad and then saw the lasagna. I told her, she should have taken me with her, and I could have manually restrained her from the pasta. Made me mad.

Then all damn day long I kept finding Reeses on my keyboard. She was so mad at herself that she kept trying to get me to mess up too. I hate that crap. That is MESSED UP. :mad:

Anyway, I didn't eat them. And I ended up not getting 3 points on Sunday or Monday by 200 calories or less. But still, I feel good, because I am back in control...or at least closing in on it.

Jo, try not to worry about your surgery, they will fix you up better than new and you will be wonderful!!!!! No worries mate!

Hunt, I LOVE that song...and now I am singing it. C'mon ride the train!

Tig, your tortilla does sound good. Yum...

Everyone else...glad to see ya! I'm off to throw in a load of laundry. It keeps MULTIPLYING! Then maybe lay on the couch in the silence and read a book!

Later gators!
Tiff

Good Morning Ladies.....

I had typed a super long post (which I lost) and got too mad that I just couldn't get myself to type it again! So, today I am calm, and will not even attempt to retype everything from yesterday.

Tiff ~ Good for you! Co-worker, family and "friends" that try to sabatoge our efforts are the worst! :mad: I just get so mad. I've been known to let people know how I feel when they pull that crap. Who cares if I hurt their feelings, especially when they are trying to take away something I'm working so hard at.

Huntress ~ So glad we're on the train together. My house is a complete disaster area, and it's very depressing to go home to it. We had a yard sale this past weekend. It was cold and windy, so not many people out. We made $70 over he weekend. I didn't have as much to sell as I thought. My mom on the other hand, has boxes and boxes of stuff. We cleaned out storage a few weeks back (it looks good in there now!). I sold the big stuff, toybox, swing, walker, etc.....Obviously most of my stuff was baby stuff. Everything else I loaded into my car when we were done and I donated it to St. Vincent DePaul's. So now I feel good. 1. to not have all that crap in storage and in my house. and 2. I made a little money. Enough to buy diapers, formula, etc... I swear it's always about the kids. Love 'em dearly, but sometimes......argh...... Also, I want to congratulate you on the water. Sometimes we need to take "babysteps".

DNW ~ You took the first step, in admitting your gain :bravo: , which is one of the hardest things any one on this journey can do. But we'll work together and get through this. :grouphug: .

Jello ~ First off here are some vibes for your surgery tomorrow :goodvibes :lucky: . We'll all be thinking about cha. Secondly on the challenge.....what measely 1 point? Everything counts on this journey. Water is a good thing!

Cafe ~ My co-inspirational maker, how are ya? I am in dire need of a clean house! Nothing is better then walking into a clean house. It really lifts my spirits. But I once read that trying to clean your house while you have kids is like trying to shovel the driveway while it's still snowing! So true, so true. They like to follow me and take out everything I just put away, the little pains! :D .

Tig ~ I totally agree about working out in the morning. This is week 3 of my routine. I get up at 4:30 am to get my workout done. This morning, by 7 am, I already got in my miles and all my water :D . Now it's all about the eating. Only have a real problem with that in the evenings. I'm fine at work. I usually eat gold fish crackers. I don't bring any money and they took the ATM out. Can't get far my "good looks" :lol: .

SEMO ~ Our end of the fiscal year is next week, so I feel ya there!

Kayla ~ where ya been?

Brighter ~ I am the smilie queen :queen: , which is what gets me in trouble. So I think that will be my last smilie for this post!

So I took my kids to get there pictures taken at Wal-Mart last night and that was a complete BUST! They would not cooperate! Plus, Cheyenne and my nephew, Dominic, decided to both stand on the side of the shopping cart that Lucas was in, so guess what? It tipped over on top of them! And Lucas came crashing down. No one was seriously hurt, thank goodness. Lucas did get a bump and "skid" make on his forehead though. I was thanking my lucky stars that Kaleigha wasn't in that cart, she's my 7 month old. I had her strapped in the cart in front of me. Needless to say, I was not happy!

Quiet today! Just checking in before I head home...

Jello - Missed your post at the same time as mine earlier. I'll be with you in spirit tomorrow and Thursday. :goodvibes: Hang in there - and like Tiffany said, don't think too hard. Be Scarlett for a day.

Tiffany - I hope you had a good day playing hookie! Sometimes it's all just too much. Man, your coworker. :( Still, you beat her at her own game by NOT eating those Reeses.

I think you've done awesome the past couple of days. I have a mindset where even if I don't get my food point for the day, if I miss by 2 WW points or 3 I go to bed happy that I didn't go wild when I realized that I wouldn't end up within my range. It's still discipline, and something you wouldn't have done otherwise. Pat yourself on the back.

Dyan - I don't have kidrens and I can't get the house together!! Fat-free Kudos to you on the Big Storage Blowout Sale. :D

Seriously, that's a lot of work - and getting rid of the leftovers immediately was VERY smart.

Been reading at flylady.net to help me learn a different mindset about my housework... Her idea is to take small, positive steps to get chaos prevention into your routine so that it becomes effortless instead of an ordeal. I think that fits every aspect of my life, LOL.

Applies to weight loss, too. Can't explain exactly but getting rid of my perfectionist all-or-nothing attitude is humbling and freeing at the same time. Accept what I can do today without criticism but don't allow myself to slack because it's not "IT" either.

Heh, deep thoughts. But I feel like if I can really get this down, I'll be better at everything I do. Because I'll be doing it instead of waiting for something that isn't going to happen...

~Cafe, introspective at quitting time.

Hey guys! Another successful day. I'm thinking about buying real estate here in Motivationville. Nice place to live.

Got all three points today and then some. I even drank EXTRA water. Wow!

I SO enjoyed my day off and loved having some ME time. Well worth any flack I get at work for it.

I just had my bath and ate a bagel with a little peanut butter on it and some blackberry hot tea, and I am full and sleepy. What a wonderful way to end the day. I am hopping in my bed now to read a little bit and then I will rejoin the real world tomorrow. LOL...

I just wanted to say how impressive you girls have been since I was away...It was so nice to come back here and see things alive and moving and everyone hanging in there. That is the best thing about this group. We don't quit. We have rough patches and we lose our will, but we find it again and we come back strong. We are growing emotionally and becoming stronger and wiser and I love it.

Well, I am off to bed now!
See you tomorrow night.
Tiff

Good Morning Ladies. Just a quick stop to say hi and then I'm back to the salt mines. :( I didn't do my cardio yesterday and I'll tell you why. I went to the bathroom yesterday and there laid my neck chain in the floor. I looked everywhere for my diamond pendant and I mean everywhere. Well about an hour later I got this terrible neck pain on the left side. I've never had this happen before but I know it was because I was stressing over that pendant. Now it's not a real expensive piece of jewelry but I am just sick over it. Anyway I wasn't able to move my head yesterday or last night. I do feel much better this morning so I did my cardio before work and will try the weights tonight.

Anyone check out the full moon site I left yesterday? :rolleyes: I thought it was cute.

Jello, good luck today, I'll be thinking about ya girlie. :yes:

Dyanm, any word on your contract?

Think we could have a house cleaning challenge???? Oh well just a thought. :rolleyes: DH is leaving Sunday and won't be back until Wed night for a training class so I'm getting that bedroom cleaned and de-junked while he is gone. :yes: I need a :drill: sargent to keep me from straying. :rolleyes: Gotta run.

WTG, Tiffany! And hooray for us, too.

I was not quite as successful yesterday - actually I had a great day OP... until we had some company over after a religious meeting and I opened and offered some raspberry-infused dessert wine... which would have been fine if it didn't lead to the men running out to bring back some cheesecake. :o

I feel sad because my determination wasn't that low, in fact it was pretty high. It was the situation. This wine is like nectar and it was the perfect complement to cheesecake. It was a situation I could not pass up - I bought that wine PLANNING to sip it with dessert. It wasn't like I blew it on the M&M drawer or something. But I'm not working hard for nothing, here!

Well, I only ate half of my piece. And it wasn't just food it was an occasion. And I'm not even close to giving up or anything like that. It's not going to rob me of my ultimate victory. I guess what's really bothering me is only losing 3 pounds so far this month (21 days). I.want.the.weight.off.now. But I'm not giving in - I can keep my motivation as long as necessary through continual renewal.

SEMO - I might be up for a weekend housecleaning challenge! Keep talking.

I hope you find your diamond. As usual we post at the same time.

Good Morning!:wave:

What a night! I was a cleaning machine! All the talk about cleaning, I guess, really motivated me. As soon as I got home I tackled the diningroom. Have had boxes in there forever. Couldn't even remember the last time we ate at the table! So last night we ate at the table. I think the kids enjoyed it and will start doing it again. We used to do it everyday, when DH and I worked the same hours. Anyway, I cleaned the diningroom. Went through the boxes, swept and mopped the floor, cleaned the table and highchair, etc....then ran to get Cheye. Came back, fixed dinner, sat everyone at the table, ate and cleaned it back up. From there, I went crazy! Put stuff in my car to go to storage. I have a wicker and rod iron sleigh that's been in the living room forever, so that went in the car. Even though I will be bringing it back home for Christmas. I usually put gifts for friends in it, w/ a stuffed Santa. I digress....Boxed up an "extra" car seat seat and some other stuff, put those in the car. I picked up, sorted, dusted, cleaned glass, and vacuumed. I was FINALLY able to rest at about 9pm! And boy were my dogs barking!! But it felt so good to look around and have that feeling of accomplishment. The look on DH's face when he got home was priceless! I didn't get everything done that I wanted to, but I can still do it before the weekend. I'm one of those people that sets high expectations without realizing the physical aspects. I wanted to shampoo the carpet too. When I told DH, he kinda chuckled. He knows me so well. It's his turn to clean the kitchen, so I told him that today he needs to clean the kitchen and Lucas' room. I still need to clean off the desk (That oughta be fun, NOT), and clean the bathroom. The next big project will be the laundry. Haven't done it in weeks, and it's overflowing everywhere! We probably have about 15 loads :yikes: . But this weekend we're taking the kids to the pumpkin patch on Saturday and then carving them. Then Sunday, the city that we live in has a little thing for the kids. They have the kids walk in a parade (in their costumes) and they have games, food and entertainment. So that's basically why I need to get my house cleaned, so I can go do this stuff and not feel guilty about my dirty house. Plus, it sucks to come home to a mess. Oh, and honestly I REALLY wanted to put out the Halloween decorations and that just wasn't possible when my house was looking the way it did! I really am a BIG kid! So after I got done cleaning, the decoration came out. :cb:

Jello~I'm thinking of you today and am sending out good vibes! :goodvibes .

Tiff~ Girl you could have knocked me over w/ a feather when I read that you drank EXTRA debil H20!! Go Tiff, Go Tiff :bravo: Stand strong girlie...that evil, evil, co-worker may try to get cha! Hehe

Cafe ~ I've been to flylady.net, but didn't really stay long. I need to go and REALLY check it out. I've heard really good things about it.

SEMO ~ I'm so sorry to hear about your pendant. :( I hate when I get that sick to my stomach feeling, when I lose things. I left my purse out on the bench in front of Costco. My heart was pouding! Luckily someone turned it in, with EVERYTHING still in it! In my mind I was already thinking about everything I had to do, like cancel my credit cards, get my cell phone shut off, etc... No word on my contract, and it's killing me!! :shrug: I am sending you my magic cleaning fairy :wizard: , may she be as productive for you as she was for me last night.

I'm in the process of drinking my water. I did KS this morning, lifting and then before I came to work I went to storage and emptied out my car. Got here at about 6:15am.

It's funny, my mom envies my energy and thinks I have too much :lol: . But I feel like a lazy slug most of the time. HA! Go Figure!

TTFN

Hello!
3 days of exercise in a row! My body is probably in shock! I wore my arms out today lifting weights. I'm actually looking forward to feeling the soreness tomorrow.....know I'm doing some good.

Parent/teacher conferences are today. I don't know why I dread it. My kids do good in school, and don't get in trouble.

I guess after conferences, I'm gonna have to come home and clean out a closet or something. The fever is spreading.
I got a book at the library yesterday "Ready, Set, Organize!". It isn't as good as I thought it would be. darn. I forgot about flylady...will have to go back there...surfed passed it once.

off to get ready for the conferences...

:o Hi there I am new on the block and trying to find a place to fit in . Not sure on how all these forums work. This one looks like a place I may fit in. So if anyone has any advice to get me going I would love to hear them. I have only been around for a few days and I really don't now much:?: . I am hoping that I can get the support I need to get this weight off. I am so tired of being chubby:sorry: if I seen a little slow on the draw but I really need some support. Thanks for listening.;)

Hi little chick! We are all just struggling along, trying to do our best and pass on some helpful tips when we come across them.

This has to be my best tip....I write down everything I eat. Everything that goes into my mouth. It helps me feel in control. I have days where I want chips, and instead of grabbing the bag, I measure out my serving and then write it down. If I want more, I measure out another serving and write it down. That way, even if I AM overeating and having 3 Lean Cuisines, I am holding myself accountable and I know exactly how much I am eating, AND I still have a feeling of being in control because I am tracking everything.

Anyway, I had another great day. I'm heading off to do my weights and then hitting the hay. I am taking my vitamins and drinking my water and getting my exercise and eating healthy. This is the best Christmas present I can give myself.

Jo...thinking about you...and sending you love and hugs.

Cafe, hang in there girl...you are my cheerleader.

Semo, I hope you find your diamond...

Dyan, you seem pretty chipper today. Love to see that!

Tig, how were the conferences?

Huntress, where are ya?
Brighter?
Kayla, stop hiding and participate. It isn't the same without you.

Off to pump iron!
Tiff

Good morning all..........

I was running around like a crazy person all day long yesterday, didn't have time to post and then pooped out early.

Jello - how did your surgery go?

Welcome little chick, we are all here for support so make yourself at home.

WooHoo, today is Friday for me since I took tommorow off. Even though I have a lot to do around the house the 3 day weekend will be nice. Things have been slow around my office and it just kills me to sit there all day with nothing to do. I have a drawer full of old weight loss magazines so I've just been re-reading them. I'm doing well, yesterday marked 3 good days of drinking all my water and eating OP. Gonna pop that tape in this morning and dance to the train. I know you all probably think I'm crazy but I refuse to walk in the dark and rain. I've been walking in the evenings anyway.

Have a great day all.........

LJ

Good Morning!
Conferences went fine. Boys are both doing good...but they talk too much. No surprise there. I had the same problem.:o

My chest muscles are sore. :D Muscles!

Semo, any luck finding the diamond? When I first got my new diamond ring, I was always checking to make sure it was there. One time I knocked the diamond out on the refrigerator door. Go figure, the frig.

Tiff, tell us about the new pc. Is it heavenly? What happened to your other one? Whenever mine acts up, I have to make a trip to the library pc lab. Yep, I'm an addict.

huntress, I'd be scared to walk in the dark too. :p Great job staying OP!

Welcome little chick!

:df:

Good Morning and welcome Little Chick. Still working on inventory and we got an email yesterday that there will be five un-announced audits on Monday and Tuesday of next week. Gosh I really, really hope we're not one of them.

My friend was going to have her surgery this morning but they found something with her heart that they want to check plus an aneurysm within the tumor. Please keep her in your prayers.

I haven't found my pendant, I even swept the floor here yesterday! (Have I mentioned what slobs they are!!) I'm hoping that the cat found it and stashed it at home, that's about the only hope that I can hang onto to finding it. My neck is still really bothering me and I've stayed on ibuprofen trying to get over it. Didn't do my weights last night for fear of more injury, but will keep up the orbritreck. (no neck movement there just legs)

Well got to run, have a fun filled, on program day. You can do it you know :wizard: , even without magic.

Hi guys:

Welcome Little Chick you are in the right place....evryone here is really nice and very supportive.

Semo: Sorry about the pendant....I hope you find it because it sounds like it meant the world to you...take heart though...I once lost a pair of earrings in my aprtment for 5 years and only found them when I was moving...odd isn't it?

Dyan...I hope you find out about your contract soon...have you been able to get anywhere with the people at Kaiser to up the date? As for the cleaning...I do it like that too when there's a lot of stress going on....helps me to sort things out in my head if I can sort them out in the house....it's a kind of meditation for me.

Tiffany sounds like you are doing great....you are right about righting everything down because you can be in control of what you eat, even if we do overeat at times....at least we are being honest with ourselves and that's first step to self-love....but I really envy your enthusiasm....it keeps us all going

Tigerlily: Sounds like you're really ahead of the game now with sore muscles and all..you are my new hero!

Jello: I hope everything is OK with your eyes and now we just need to pray you through the biopsy...lots of love and prayers sent from me to you

Kayla: Where are you?

Huntress: Walking in the rain and dark are risky...I don't do it and I have been walking for a long time. Tapes work just as well and as long as we're moving it's call exercise!

For myself I haven't been able to exercise in about 5 days and I am starting to feel it....was sick over last weekend from overdosing on sugar, then my achielles tenden in my left foot was inflamed for 3 days and now I have a sinus infection...all I can say is I was fine before the sugar binge.....so what does this tell me??

Love to you all!!

Good morning everyone!

A good day for me yesterday. One day at a time, forget about the scale except on Tuesday mornings. I'm learning to achieve the balance of being enthusiastic enough to stay on plan but not so goal-oriented that I keep trying on the same pair of jeans every other morning to see if they fit better. :dizzy: It's like, it IS about results but it ISN'T. Most of it is just about staying on plan.

SEMO - A thought about your pendant... Could it have slipped down inside your bra and wound up in your bedroom? :o Or could the chain have popped itself at your desk and the pendant dropped beneath while the chain hung on until later?

I'll put your friend on my 'happy thoughts' list right by Jello.

DNW - Sorry to hear that you're sick! Hope you get rid of that sinus infection soon.

Huntress - WTG on 3 good days in a row! We are on the train to motivationville and we are going to keep going until we reach the station. Dancing in the dark is better than walking in the dark. Provided you close the curtains, LOL!!

Tiger - Maybe I'll just call you "muscles." Glad your conferences went well. You're still afraid of the teacher, eh?

Tiffany - you are doing fabulous! By the way, did you hear about Tiger and the banana chips while your computer was out? She actually talked about putting them in the dehydrator after slicing them... I guess she likes them when they look like they've been through a wood chipper!!! :eek:

Dyan, Dyan, Dyan - the cleaning MACHINE! I read your post 3 times and was still speechless. I think you deserve +3 housekeeping extra credit points. I'm still amazed. Can I kiss your ring or something? :queen:

Bright, Kayla.... HI!

Little Chick - Welcome. Our little corner of the forum is a lot like a support group, since we're each following a slightly different plan that we've tweaked and tailor-made to ourselves. Basically, it's all about the 3 things that work - diet - water - exercise. Since we're in it for the long haul, we tweak our plans as we go along.

There will be NO sadistic acts performed on bananas while I am away. They are the sacred fruit. Long beautiful yellow visions of beauty.

Ahhh...another good day and again with the water. WHAT IS UP WITH ME???? I am loving this week. Well, I was. I just realized that tonight is cardio night. Blech.

Anyway, I want to get out of these pants. I am bloated beyond repair. Dang TOM anyway, but I know when the bloating stops, the results will be nice.

Someone at Mike's work asked me if I was losing weight. I said, quietly and demurely, "a little". What I really wanted to say was, "**** yes I am!!! 35 pounds of fat lost through sweat and HARD work!" "And it's ABOUT time you noticed."

Oooh, my friend called from Missouri, I think I will give her a buzz and see what is new there. AFTER I get these pants off.

:)
Tiff

Tiff, I ate soooo many banana chips my teeth were sore! Wish they weren't made with oil & additives. How great someone noticed the weightloss! :smug:

cafe, I keep trying on a size 14 button up kakhi skirt.....but not every day. I want to wear it for Thanksgiving. I did the same thing with a pair of size 16 capris this past spring. Eventually they fit....or got stretched out.:lol:

DNW, sugar...the enemy!:devil: Hope you are feeling better.

semo, I feel like we should all be crawling around on the floor looking for your pendant. Any luck yet?

Today, I'm making the dreaded drive to my Grandma's house. It's the DRIVE I dread. Two hours in the car with the boys....one way.....ugh. To top it off, it's raining. But, don't see her very often and thought it would be a nice way to spend the day with the boys off school for fall break. I'm just gonna load the car with some good cd's and duct tape the boys mouths.....or, give them a dose of cough syrup before we leave:s: no, wouldn't do that. Like to, but wouldn't.

Today is weights. My armpit/chest area is still a little sore from Wednesday weights. Stomach muscles haven't gotten sore yet, so I'll pick on them today.:D

Oh, Grandma will be fix'n lunch today. All bets are off. I wont over eat, but there is sure to be a small sliver of homemade pie in there somewhere.

Jello? how'd it go?

Have a great day ladies! :df:

Hey, Hey, Hey It's Friday....It's Friday..... Glad to be getting this week behind me. Hubby will be gone from Sunday afternoon until Wed night, I'm going to be a cleaning machine.:hyper: Can you all get anything done with your family around? It seems that when he is home all I do is set with him in front of the tv.:yikes: That could be part of my poundage problem. YA THINK!

No luck on finding my pendant, thanks for asking. I even checked my draws, and my shoes and socks. Guess I can kiss it goodbye. I'll know it if I ever see it on anyone tho, cause I had it made from a bracelet and there shouldn't be one like it anywhere.

Raining here and looks dreary outside, we're finishing up our counts on inventory and corp is shutting off entering anything in the computer by 2pm today. So what's not fixed will have ride.

You gals have a great day.

READ THIS VERY SLOWLY...... IT'S PRETTY PROFOUND.

Too many people put off something that brings them joy just because
they haven't thought about it, don't have it on their schedule, didn't know
it was coming or are too rigid to depart from their routine.

I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who
passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night in an effort to cut back.
From then on, I've tried to be a little more flexible.

How many women out there will eat at home because their husband
didn't suggest going out to dinner until after something had been thawed?
Does the word refrigeration" mean nothing to you? How often have your kids
dropped in to talk and sat in silence
while you watched 'Jeopardy' on television?

I cannot count the times I called my sister and said, "How about
going to lunch in a half hour?" She would gasp and stammer, "I can't. I have
clothes on the line. My hair is dirty. I wish I had known yesterday, I had a
late breakfast, It looks like rain." And my
personal favorite: "It's Monday." ....She died a few years ago. We
never did have lunch together.

Because Americans cram so much into their lives, we tend to schedule
our headaches. We live on a sparse diet of promises we make to ourselves
when all the conditions are perfect!

We'll go back and visit the grandparents when we get Stevie
toilet-trained.

We'll entertain when we replace the living-room carpet.
We'll go on a second honeymoon when we get two more kids out of
college.

Life has a way of accelerating as we get older. The days get
shorter, and the list of promises to ourselves gets longer. One morning, we
awaken, and all we have to show for our lives is a litany of "I'm going to",
"I plan on", and "Someday, when things are settled down a bit."

When anyone calls my 'seize the moment' friend, she is open to
adventure and available for trips. She keeps an open mind on new ideas. Her
enthusiasm for life is contagious. You talk with her for five minutes, and
you're ready to trade your bad feet for a pair of Rollerblades and skip an
elevator for a bungee cord.

My lips have not touched ice cream in 10 years. I love ice cream.
It's just that I might as well apply it directly to my stomach with a
spatula and eliminate the digestive process. The other day, I stopped the
car and bought a triple-decker. If my car had hit an iceberg on the way
home, I would have died happy.

Now...go on and have a nice day. Do something you WANT to......not
something on your SHOULD DO list.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could
make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Make sure you read this to the end; you will understand why I sent
this to you.

Have you ever watched kids playing on a merry go round or listened
to the rain lapping on the ground? Ever followed a butterfly's erratic
flight or gazed at the sun into the fading night? Do you run through each
day on the fly? When you ask "How are you?" Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done, do you lie in your bed with the next hundred
chores running through your head?

Ever told your child, "We'll do it tomorrow." And in your haste, not
see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch? Let a good friendship die? Just call to say "Hi"?

When you worry and hurry through your day, it is like an unopened
gift....Thrown away... Life is not a race. Take it slower. Hear the music
before the song is over.

MAN!! I am LIVID.....LOST MY POST!!

Bye......

Dang it, I lost my post too Dyan!

Anyways...........just wanted to pop in and say "HI". I took the day off and haven't done a single thing that I intended to. Gotta get moving, almost time to pick my daughter up from school. Have a great weekend all!

LJ

ps.........notice anything different 'bout my numbers? yep, I have officially lost 35 #'s now...........woohoo............actually the scale said 188.5 this morning, but I'm not gonna change it yet

Hi everyone! Happy Friday!

Jello - wherever you are - I'm thinking of you.

Been a little busy stirring up the fire in my workplace. There are going to be some changes around here, and this time I will be getting what I want. I hope. :lol:

It's funny, but even thinking about the different factors stirs up so much passion in me that it's stressful! Now that I've decided that it's finally time for some action, I'm realizing the built-up energy from waiting until the time was right is almost explosive. LOL, settle down, Cafe.

WAY TO GO, Huntress on making the 35 pound mark!!!

:bravo:

Hope everyone is all set to have a nice weekend - I know I am.

:grouphug:

Edited because I'm an idiot and forgot to congratulate TIFFANY on being NOTICED!

Way to go Tiff! It feels good for others to notice does't it, just sort of makes you happy all over. We're proud of ya girlfriend.

What happen to Little Chic? C'ome back and play with us, we'll be nice.

Okay Cafe, fill us in on the demands and changes you put in for at work.....give us the dirt on what made you go over the edge. :yikes: :hot:

Jello: Let us know how your doing. I'm still sending :goodvibes your way.

DNW, hope your feeling better and back to walking today. I've got to get going again this weekend. I'm thinking that my neck may be okay enough to try the weights tonight.

Dyanm, does this mean that I can have Ice Cream????? Oh please, please.... You notice that that's the message I get from your wonderful story. I know I'm such a :ink:

Tig, hope your having a great time at Grammies house.

Huntress: :goodvibes :dance: :hat: GREAT JOB!!

Okay, where's Bright and Kayla???? Come out, Come Out.

If I missed anyone, I'm sorry, but I'm old and forgetful. (that comes in handy at times) :dizzy: You guys have a great weekend, chow.

Hi Everybody,

Welcome, Little Chick. It's okay....we really play nice.

Huntress...way to go, girl! 35 #! That's great! :high: I took off, too, the entire next week...I've made a list of to-do's but the last de-stress article I read said, "Make the list, then tear it in half and throw away the bottom half!". I may have to do that since I already have about 14 items on it! Gonna do some ME things and have some time to myself and get ready for Halloween.

SEMO...so sorry you've lost something so precious! You never know....the house cleaning, you have planned, may cause it to turn up. Got my fingers crossed for ya.

Tiff... what I wouldn't give for that compliment on your wt. loss! What a great feeling that someone noticed! WTG on the good days in a row with your water and pts.

DNW...glad you are back on track. Know what you mean with the sinus infections. We fend those off every fall and spring, it seems.

Jello...hope you are doing well. What determination to get that wt. lifting in before surgery!

Cafe...good luck with the job makeovers. Could use a few at my workplace, also!

Dyan....nice post. One of my favorite sayings is, "don't forget to stop and smell the roses". It kinda says it all in this fast paced world we live in.

Tiger....hope Granny's was fun. I'm picking up the pace a little with my wt. program, also, so I am a little sore at times, also. Funny thing, at least I know what the soreness is from and don't randomly blame any little pains on "getting older". I'm at 2x/week consistently these days. Difficult to get to 3x/wk but occasionally I may get to increase....

It's that time of year again....you know...the get-out-and-find-a- nice-outfit-for-the-Christmas-party-at-work time of year. I think it's about 4-5 weeks away so that will be my goal to work towards. I'd even be happy just to be able to get into some of my former garments from years past!

Hey Kayla....how are ya? Hope you're having fun! Miss your bubbly posts.

I'm feeling like the weekend warrior...seems I can't post until Friday or Saturday these days. :sorry: I should be able to post more this coming week.

:flow1: "Bright"

Happy Saturday!

Tiffany - Where are you going? Girl, you are doing SO great, looks like you may have beaten us to Motivationville! Must have caught the express, cause you are truckin'

Jello - How are you doing? I can imagine that it would be difficult for you to look at the computer right now, but let us know you're OK when you can.

Brighterdays - Good too see you, an oooooooo am I jealous! A whole week, hope you get some R&R as well as getting things done.

SEMO - How's your neck doing? Have you tried a heating pad or better yet standing in the shower and letting the hot water beat down on your neck? I'm so sorry about your pendant, but you never know it may turn up some day when you least expect it.

Cafe - Could you please come do your magic at MY office? Pretty please.

Dyan - I enjoyed your post, think I had read that one sometime before, really makes you stop and think about things.

Well the yard/garage sale was canceled due to bad weather but that's OK just give me more time to get it together and do some more cleaning this weekend since it's too nasty to do anything outside anyway. Think I'm gonna go buy a cheap VCR for my bedroom since the ones we have are in the kiddos rooms. Maybe now I can take advantage of the exercise tapes I have that haven't been used in a gazillion years.

Off to Wallyworld, talk to you all later.

LJ

Hey All! Visiting Grandma's was nice. We took Harry Potter audio tapes, so that helped with the ride a little. Grandma made an apple pie and gave me a tin full of my favorite cookies. I put the cookies in the freezer and will try to ration them out.

Looking forward to weigh-in on Monday. Most weeks when I've exercised, I have a small loss. Fingers crossed!

Off to clean house. If someone came to the door right now, I wouldn't answer it...that's how bad it is. How does that happen?!
:dizzy:

Hi fellow weekenders,

Huntress...wow! are you ambitious! Send a little my way! I am not good at garage sales. I like to sell all the stuff, I just don't like all the time it takes to get it together and tag it! I'm thinking about a small TV w/VCR in my bedroom, also. I need to be able to do/watch something,while on my treadmill, that is not so boring. I checked on a book rack for it and they want $45.00 at one place. Seems like alot to invest in a metal piece with a gooseneck and a clamp.... :shrug:

Tiger....your Granny is just like mine was....always having to send something home with you. Cherish her...you miss them when they are gone. :( My oldest son learned to read, when he was 4-5 years old with audio tapes that matched the book....best investment I ever made! They can follow the words in the book while the audio is playing. Is it time change tonight in your neck of the woods? I was reading that some portions of Indiana don't observe daylight saving time, or observe two time zones (depending on where your live). :?:

My sis is after me to join WW officially...she has been talking to some friends who have lost the amt. of weight that I want to, with WW, and she thinks I need that kind of help. She,herself, is at her ideal wt. and my other sisters are close. Makes me the heaviest and I'm not too happy with that (no one to share the misery). I'll look into our local chapter this coming week, I guess. I already have all the stuff but I guess I'm gonna make it offical.
:yes: I lost 15# last time I joined and was committed to it. :cb:

:grouphug: Hope everyone is having a nice weekend.

Gonna go look up more soup recipes..cool and cloudy here today and the kids are looking forward to some soup.:chef:

Take care all,

:flow1: "Bright"

Good Morning all, it's Monday again........

Wow, my 3 day weekend sure went quickly! Now I'll be counting down the days again until Friday......am I pitiful or what.

Have a good day!

LJ

"Rainy Days and Mondays always get me down" :rain: (we need a musical smilie)--untrue today...I'm off this week and I'm gonna get out and run around!

Signing up with WW today and gonna get thru these holidays without a problem. :cb:

Fun weekend---carved pumpkins, did a mini hay ride, and visited with lots of family. Lots of homemade soups/chili/sandwiches. Kept it under control as best I could.

Hope everyone has a good day.

I'll probably be back later. :wave:

:flow1: "Bright"

Hi Ya'll. It rained last night and the weather is cool with temps to drop the rest of the week. Sent DH off yesterday about four and managed to get everything cleaned except the two dreaded rooms that I'm going to start on after work. My utility room is just to the right of the back door and everything gets dumped in there. Thankfully I put folding doors there when we built the house! :yikes: I'm taking off tomorrow and going to finish cleaning and move some stuff to storage and my nieces for our yardsale that we're supposed to have. She has a huge building where we can have an inside sale.

I'm still in Funkville, just keep missing that darn bus. :cry: But I'm not giving up and I WILL catch it. Don't know why but I go through spells where I just give up ..then all of a sudden I'm strong again. I better get strong pretty darn quick, cause these jeans are getting tight. :tape:

Gotta get some stuff done if I'm taking off tomorrow. :wave:

Hey guys! I'm still trying to get caught up with all of you and seem to have absolutely NO time to post. :cry: But I'm alive and kicking.

Wednesday's eye surgery - the worst part was waiting around in the pre-op room thinking about it. Then going into that very scary operating room. The surgery itself was not so bad. I was awake for it and half-way through, they were talking about what they were going to order for lunch!! :o It was pretty funny actually. Made me feel better. Though still not hungry. :rolleyes:

I'm still a little blurry today and on 4 different eye drops 4 times a day but it's not too bad. Actually, pretty amazing when you think about it.

Thursday's ultrasound and biopsy - they didn't see anything they didn't like in the ultrasound so they did the biopsy and sent it to the lab instead of getting immediate results. I have to wait 2 weeks to hear but no news is good news apparently. I'm going back on Nov. 7 to get results and decide what we're going to do about my evil Aunt Flo. P.S. Biopsy of that area of the body = PAIN!!!!! :cry:

I was back at work Friday (swamped!!) but feelin' punk. Spent most of Saturday in bed with movies. Worked the breakfast on Sunday but am still not allowed to lift anything heavy or do much about exercise. I did get on the treadmill last night and walked a mile at a nice leisurely pace but nothing too strenuous is allowed. Hey, it counts! :p

Well, I'm sorry I haven't checked in. And I have to go now. Too much looking at the screen still gives me headaches. But I wanted to thank you guys for the :goodvibes: and all.

Hi all....

Jello: THank God you are alright you were on my mind alot and we really missed you on the boards and threads.

Semo: Com'on honey...you can do it....don't give up before the miracle comes....us experienced older women have to be good role models for the youngins' here.....get back on the horse...I'm gonna boost you right back on the that old food horse...there ya go...now stay on for a while....remember yestereday is gone and tomorrow is not here yet....just focus on one day at a time...you are so very, very worth it.

brighter: your weekend sounded like so much fun....and homey too!

Huntress: I am with you when is going to be Friday again...already I am bored and pooped at work.

Tig: Will your Grandma adopt me....my family is indisposed and decomposed if you know what I mean....LOL...if I don't leaugh about it I will cry....so I choose to laugh!

Cafe: Hope everything went smoothly at work for you...and I hope you got to have the upper hand....no one wants to be on the receiving end of a shakeup!

Kayla-a-a-a-a-: Where are you

Tiffany: I am so happy for your loss of weight and you deserved to be noticed all the time....you have such a great personality and are very funny to boot!!

Love you all

YOUR NOT GOING TO BELIEVE THIS!!! I LOST ANOTHER POST THAT'S 3 IN A ROW!!!!!!!!!!!!! I DIDN'T PUT ONE SINGLE SMILIE IN MY LAST POST. I GOT A SERVER ERROR!!! I CAN'T POST FOR A WHILE!! I'M AFRAID I'LL END UP BREAKING MY COMPUTER, ONCE I THROW IT ON THE GROUND AND START SMASHING IT!

Happy Monday! (still trying to hang on to that positive attitude.)

Re: work, for those of you who asked (the rest of you can skip the next 2 paragraphs, LOL!) my boss is going to another division of the company. That means more work in an understaffed department and after 3 years in the same place... it's time to move on. Any extra-mile kind of stuff that I've done in this job hasn't resulted in opportunities to advance in my current department yet and I'm not going to hold my breath without my chief champion around. So it's either stagnate and develop a bad attitude or move on.

I had a little meeting with someone in HR last week and got some hints about internal options. I also spoke with my current boss who will approach her manager to let him know that he's close to losing me - just to see if that inspires him. And I spoke to a few other people who might have ideas of their own... In a nutshell, I stirred all the pots vigorously and now I'm just waiting to see what bubbles up.

I've been hanging on to this job because I work for such great people and have all the cool office toys (scanner, cd burner, digital camera...) and it seems like such a sweet deal for admin work - mostly I work on projects. But just going through the motions of change made me realize that I was actually really ready for a change. :?: Bittersweet, and more emotional stress than I was prepared for. Trying to shake it off and recover my balance. Ironically, being back to the grind is better than thinking about it over and over during the weekend.

Jello - glad you're doing fine and everything went smoothly!!

Everyone else - it's great to "hear" you! I have more to say but it will have to last until tomorrow. Bright - gimme some of that soup! hee hee.

Dyan, maybe you could type in notepad, copy and paste and then edit your post later to add smilies? Sounds like you're getting timed out because you're typing for too long. (?)

Hi girls, the end of the week was fabulous and then the weekend came. We had 2 Halloween parties on Saturday and then a birthday thing at our house on Sunday. So...Sat and Sun were a wash. We had too much party food on Saturday and too much cake on Sunday. So, anyway, Monday came, and I am back on track and THANKFUL that this weekend will be calm and sane.

I will say that the scale is looking promising. It was 238 last week when I finally got brave enough to get on it and look, it was at 234 last night after the weekend binge, so we shall see what is says tomorrow for my official weigh in.

Jo, so glad to see that you are back and ok. Sorry for the pain you are going through....poor little thing.

Kayla, don't EVEN make me come looking for you!!!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Monday. LOL, that was meant to be sarcastic!

Love,
Tiff

Good Morning

Hi Jello, glad you're back! I kinda figured that it would be rough looking at the computer right after your surgery, just take it easy and we'll be here.

Cafe - I hope everything works out with your job, you deserve a promotion. Have you heard anything from your friend, is that still a possibility?

Brighterdays - Your weekend sounded like fun. I'm gonna come go with you to WW. I've been trying to talk a friend of mine into going back, but I can't get her to commit.

Hey Tiffany - Glad to see you again! Are they still working your little fingers to the bone? I miss you when you're gone. BTW, congrats on being noticed, I know I'm late, sorry. It's so great when people start noticing!

Dyan - Post, post, post............please. I know it's frustrating when you lose them, but I miss you. How are you feeling? Any word on your job/surgery?

Tigerlily - How did weigh-in go?

DNW - I hear ya'.........work has been slow lately and since I can't get on the computer I've been bored silly. I have lots of things that I need/want to do at home and would rather be there but since I've used up all my vacation time already I don't have a choice.

Speaking of vacations, did you enjoy your week off Brighterdays?

Guess I'd better get up and get moving, another dull day awaits.

LJ

I'm stress'n. DH invited the jr.ftball team TO MY HOUSE this Saturday. I'm freaking out. 15 ftball players and whatever parents want to stay....possibly some brothers and sisters. OMG!
So much to do, so little time. We're buying pizza, so not much food to prepare. I'll have some chips and snacks. A veggie tray. My brain is race'n. I need to go make a list!.....and take some tylenol!

Gee, I've missed you wonderful guys! :love:

Cafe, hang in there. Hope it works out for you job-wise. I KNOW how it is, really I do! :mad: I'm hanging on by a thread myself. Waiting until the end of the year and next January's reviews. Then I may have to dust off the resume. We're such a small company that moving internally is not an option. I hate the idea of a job search but the stress here is soooo not worth it.

Tiff, how'd the weigh-in go!?!? Sounds like you're doing OK girlie. Don't worry about the weekend "binge". ... oh yeah, look who's talking. :rolleyes: My big hang up. I'm thinking we should all post on Friday with our plans for the weekend. Then we'll have to stick to them. Like, Saturday, I'm going to rake the leaves. Sunday, I'm going to vacuum upstairs. Etc. Hmm.....

Dyan, maybe it wasn't you yesterday - losing the post I mean. I tried to get on this forum all yesterday afternoon and kept getting "page not found" errors and getting kicked off. I agree with Cafe's suggestion. Type in a word program and then copy and paste?? :?:

OK so who was it that was cleaning the fridge recently? That's what I did last night. Yikes! :yikes: See the headlines? Woman attacked by strange green fuzzy stuff last seen crawling out of her fridge. I wonder what that used to be!?!?! Ewwww!!! And why is everything stuck fast to that bottom shelf?

Makes you wanna' come eat at my place, eh? :no:

Hey, did I mention? I caught the train outta' Funkytown on Sunday. I started over with a timid step on the scale. OMG!!!! Since then, I've been drinking my water and getting at least a little exercise on my treadmill. I've been eating right and it's lasted for a whole TWO DAYS!!! Like, wow. We've even restocked the newly cleaned fridge with all sorts of fruit and veggies and sugar free jello snacks and chicken breasts and low-fat this and low-calorie that.

I've challenged myself. 12 pounds in 8 weeks. That's my goal. October 27 to December 20. I'm going to call my trainer at the gym and tell her to schedule me for a weigh-in and measurements, etc. around that time.

Gulp. :stress: Am I up for this challenge?

OH YES, I AM!!!!!!!! :cool:

Um, the view is very nice from my window here on the train. Anyone else wanna climb aboard?

Okay, I’m typing this in Word and will cut and paste it into a post…..

On the job front ~ Good news and bad news. Good news: I still have a job. Bad news: I have to take a pay cut! I have to options. 1)Remain the program that I am in and get bene’s, PTO (Paid Time Off), Vacation, holidays, etc…..w/ an $8 an hour pay cut or 2) become a regular temp, w/ no bene’s etc…..w/ a $3 an hour pay cut. Sounds like a no brainer, huh? Thing is, is that company is closed for 2 weeks at Christmas, which means no pay! Well, since DH covers the family on his medical and dental, I have opted for option 2. My new contract takes effect Nov 14th, so that means that I’ll still get my disability (100% new pay rate) for the 2 weeks that I’m out. My co-worker and I looked at the calendar, and after Christmas I will only have to endure 2 more days off w/o pay, with my contracts 6 month span. When my contract is up in May, I’m done! We’re headed to Utah to try and buy a house and make a better life for our children.

This weekend we took the kids to the pumpkin the patch (on Saturday) and then let them carve or paint them that night. Then Sunday we got them all dressed up and took them to the park to walk in the parade. I have to say, they were so adorable. Cheye looked so sweet as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, and please don’t get me started on Lucas the Cowardly Lion ~ everyone loved his costume, and thought he was the cutest thing! I couldn’t have been happier w/ the way Kalei the Scarecrow looked. I swear, I will try to get a picture up of them. Adriana was the wicked witch and that was pretty much how she acted ALL weekend! I was more than ready to send her packing Sunday night! All she did was complain the entire time. Forget that we waited for her to get home from a birthday party on Saturday, so that we could go to the patch. Forget that I got up real early to head over to Wally World, to buy her green face paint, a nose w/ a wart and black finger nails! I was so mad! I told her ~ We don’t do these things for us (me & her dad), we do them for you guys. So YOU can have fun, and all you’ve done since you got hear is complain, and not only that you have NEVER ONCE thanked us for everything we do for you. Cheye may not say it often (she is 3), but at least she says every now again. Thanks, for taking my to Target, or thank you for taking me to the snow, but YOU, you have never once said it. Can ya tell I’m still a little heated? Trust me I could go on.

Crap….I’ve got to head to work….I promise to try and post more from there…

Good Morning everybody,

Just stopping in before I head out to do errands.

Jello---you sound wonderful! Glad the eye surgery and biopsy went well.

Huntress---couldn't get to the WW signup yesterday but going today. Glad to have you with me, girl. We all can do this! My week off is this week, so good time to start, for me.

Dyan--my kids are older but we have a busy night on Halloween. Our street is considered very safe and we have 300 kids who came thru last year. I remember a sweet little cowardly lion (I took a picture of him and I don't even know who he was!). Sounds like you had a wonderful weekend except for the lack of thank yous. I know how you feel....I teach my kids (and alot of times, their friends) to say thank you also... I'm hoping those habits don't die as they get older and on their own.

Tiger...wow, that's alot of kids to entertain! Good luck!

Tiff...good to see you here...election time is next week, right?

Cafe...we really had lots of soup this weekend. Sorry about your job. I know it's so stressful to work somewhere that you don't feel people value your "extra mile" work ethic. Been there done that. Hang in there...when they learn they may lose you, magical things may happen!

DNW...gettin' on that horse myself today. Hope you are all better now and blood sugars are evening out.

SEMO...jump on that horse with Huntress and I. You can do it!

Gotta go do all those errands. Be gone most of the day, doing what I want to do...Feels great just saying that!

Take care all and hi to little Miss Kayla who is still hiding somewhere....

:flow1: "Bright"

232...this morning. I am happy with that. I am so stressed with work that it is a miracle that I can stay focused and not eat my way through the election. LOL....

We are doing mandatory overtime, and I just walked in the door. I have to run to the store, the dog is out of food and is laying on the floor like he is dying, and we are out of milk. Like I don't have enough to do without making 50 trips back and forth to the store. :)

So, I am off for now, I swear things will calm down after the election, but right now, I am SO proud that I am staying on track.

Oooh....I am donating blood tomorrow. I am curious to see if I am still anemic. I have been taking vitamins for quite a while now....

More to come....
Tiff

Good Morning all.........

Not going to do shout-outs today, I just had a thought and wanted to ask you all about it. PLATEAUS..........any of you ever feel that you've hit one that you just can't break out of? I know that some of us have been struggling for a while now, but we seem to be doing quite a bit better now. I personally have lost a couple of #s recently but that darned scale has stopped moving again. Guess I'm just wondering why I can't lose on a consistent basis even when I know I'm being good. Even though I don't journal I can guarantee you that I'm not eating as many calories as I was even a few weeks ago, AND I'm drinking that debil water faithfully every day. Anyhoo............if any of you has anything to share regarding this let me know.

LJ

Hello. This week is going too fast. ekk, Saturday will be here before I know it. Can ya believe I'm not looking forward to a weekend?!

Huntress, I read something in a Bob Green book about plateaus. It can be something as simple as changing the time of day you eat your meals. Making sure you eat breakfast and quit eating two hours before bedtime if you aren't already could help. Easy for me to say.:o

Tiff, I am soo ready for elections to be over. The mud slinging over this way is getting terrible. The President is even making another trip to South Bend to back his man. Hey, overtime pay before the holidays....sweet.

later taters!

Huntress, I have something to share with you. The plateau! :( Sadly, no cure for it. Sorry. I wish I had the answer for you.

Dyan, sorry your little one gave you a tough time but the kids all dressed up in "Oz wear" sound soooo cute! :)

Tiff, no no no! Doing all this overtime work simply will not do. It's cutting into your posting time! :mad: Good luck on your blood donation. I used to give blood every 4 months or so but haven't in a long time. I hit the 5 gallon mark (40 pints!) and just stopped. Don't know why.

So yesterday, I was sitting here minding my own business and a guy came to the door with a flower delivery ... for me!! Huh? Is it my birthday? What's the occasion? A friend of mine sent me flowers because it's been one year exactly since my divorce was final. Fought for 2-1/2 years but it finally ended October 29, 2001. She remembered. Too funny! Gorgeous flowers! :flow1:

Last night, I went home in the sleet and freezing rain :( had a quick HEALTHY dinner and went back out in that mess to go to a meeting at the VFW only to find out it was cancelled. :mad: Grumble. So I stayed for a light beer or two (Rich was driving) and went home to get on the treadmill. Got in the exercise and, even with the beers, I was still within my calorie range. Three whole days in a row! :cloud9:

OK, I've rambled long enough. Lots to do. It's still rainy and miserable today and we're supposed to have more sleet and some snow tonight. I'm not ready for winter!!! :(

Anyone have any winter exercise plans? Learning snow-shoeing? Taking up cross-country skiing? Buying new thermal clothes and boots to go walking in?

Gotta run! Boss alert!

You guys are just too much. You can take an ordinary day and add so much light! Love your stories.

Well I cleaned all day long yesterday in just one room! (that should tell what a mess it was in) Took clothes to the consignment store and got my hair cut. I still could use another day to finish up in the bedroom and start on the utility. Wish I had a big dumpster then it would go a lot faster. Keep or dump only two choices I need when I'm in a cleaning mood.

Made the mistake of buying halloween candy.........don't need to say anything else do I.

Be back in a minute.

Hello! You guys make me so happy. :)

I've had a little setback but I'm determined to stay on track. A few days worth of screw-ups and I was up 1.5 when I weighed in yesterday. Made me so mad. But I'm going to assume it will drop back off before next week. I can't have really gained that much fat in a couple of days. :?: I didn't totally binge or anything, just didn't count. But I guess that teaches me that I don't have to go WAY far astray to suffer the consequences.

I know exactly what it was - too much drama, making me feel like cutting corners instead of putting in good effort. Discouragement is a powerful demotivator. But there's nothing negative about what's going on with my job situation - I'm just facing facts and getting ready to make the decision to move forward with a plan that's right for me, instead of maintaining the status quo... I guess anytime we decide to push beyond our comfort zone there's some emotional backlash to deal with. It's the same thing with dieting... like housecleaning, in a way.

I could analyze this, but I'm late.

hugs & kisses

~Cafe

Hey Everybody...

Wrote a nice post long earlier today but like a few other shere is blew away..defintitely going to use the cut and paste menthod the nect time.

Lost another .5 lb for a total of 8.9 in 7 weeks and I am very happy with results since I am not starving and came up with a plan I can live with for the long term. Back on track with exercising and glad you all are here.

Off to work again......

Hey, for all of you who don't like to drink the debil water...!

Try spending the day typing up 60 letters, stuffing them into envelopes and then having to lick them all! :p

I'll do anything to get that taste outta' my mouth. I need to be fortified to hunt down whoever stole my little spongy thing!!! :mad:

Have a good evening everyone.

Hey! No new posts since mine!?!? What's up with that!?! :(

Miss you guys already!

Hi All! busy, busy here. But, still checking in...keeping up on my reading.;)
Today, went to kindergarten fall party. 17 little ones all dressed up. Cute, but loud. Very loud.

I'm still trying to get the house ready for the ftball pizza party. I don't think DH has a clue what turmoil he has caused! men. On the bright side, the house will be cleaner than it has been in a long time. LOL

DNW, great job on the loss. :strong:
Jello, how's your licker?

head'n outside to rake a few leaves and put down my last little bit of mulch...

Hi all,

OP for 2 days now...that's really good for me. Headache today and yesterday..get them once a month---must be some hormone fluctuations. Got alot to do to get the house ready for Halloween tonight. Got family coming and a parade of kids who come down our street.

Everyone sounds good and busy. Only one I haven't seen is Kayla...must be busy with Halloween plans?

Talk with you later,

"Bright"

Busy, busy day and no time to play. I did copy this from a email that I got and thought you or someone you know might appreciate it.

POSITION: Mom, Mama, Mother

JOB DESCRIPTION: Long term team players needed for
challenging permanent work in an often chaotic environment. Candidates must possess excellent
communication and organizational skills and be
willing to work variable hours, which will include evenings and weekends and frequent 24 hour shifts on call. Some overnight travel required, including trips to primitive camping sites on rainy weekends and endless sports tournaments in far away
cities. Travel expenses not reimbursed. Extensive
courier duties also required.

RESPONSIBILITIES: For the rest of your life. Must
be willing to be hated, at least temporarily, until someone needs $5. Must be willing to bite tongue repeatedly. Also, must possess the physical stamina of a pack mule and be
able to go from zero to 60 mph in three seconds
flat in case, this time, the screams from the backyard are not someone just crying wolf. Must be willing to face stimulating technical challenges, such as small gadget repair, mysteriously sluggish toilets and stuck zippers. Must screen phone calls, maintain calendars and coordinate production of multiple
homework projects. Must have ability to plan and organize social
gatherings for clients of all ages and mental outlooks. Must be willing to be indispensable one minute, an embarrassment the next. Must handle assembly and product safety testing
of a half million cheap, plastic toys and battery
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Virtually none. Your job is to remain in the same position for years, without complaining, constantly retraining and updating your skills, so that those in your charge can ultimately surpass you.

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On-the-job training offered on a continually exhausting basis.

WAGES AND COMPENSATION: You pay them! Offering
frequent raises and bonuses. A balloon payment is due when they turn 18 because of the assumption that college will help them become financially independent. When you die, you give them whatever is left. The oddest thing about this reverse-salary scheme is that you actually enjoy it and wish you could only do more.

BENEFITS: While no health or dental insurance, no
pension, no tuition reimbursement, no paid holidays and no stock
options are offered; this job supplies limitless opportunities for personal growth and free hugs for life if you play your cards right.

You know me. Super busy right now. Scale said 229 this morning. Moving down girls. It was food day today and I only had a small bowl of taco salad. I had a granola bar for breakfast and a Lean Cuisine for dinner, so I did good. Changed my weight schedule to T, T and Sat, so tonight was cardio. Didn't do it. But I AM doing the weights. I WILL get back into the cardio, but I really hate it.

Still drinking the water and feeling strong. Gave blood the other day and I was NOT anemic. Miracle. Those vitamins must actually be working.

Well, it is Halloween. Spent 28 bucks on candy and had a grand total of 6 trick or treaters. Lovely. So now we will be eating candy until Easter.

Well, tomorrow is Friday. Thank God...I need a weekend. Bad.

Taking my 14 year old TPing...I know, I know....excellent role model aren't I? Her boyfriend dumped her and we are going out to get revenge. Easier than shooting him in the street.

Later chickies...
Tiff

The panic is on..countdown until the party. Figures DS has a dentist appointment today...going to take away from my "getting the house ready". I will probably colapse when all this is over. I haven't been very good OP, BUT...
When I look back to this time last year, things have changed. I didn't exercise AT ALL. So, even twice a week is an improvement. I was eat'n BAGS of candy. A few pieces here and there isn't so bad compared to bags. I was drinking almost NO water. I drink 2 plus bottles a day now. Plenty of room for improvement, but have made progress.

Walked forever last night trick/treat'n with my boys. Fast paced too. I think my youngest thought they were gonna run out of candy. :lol:

Tiff, tping, those were the days.

:hyper:

It's November! How was everyone's Halloween. Oh, I guess we already know how it was for Tiff and Tig. We had a huge bag of candy left over after trick or treat so it came into work this morning and was dumped on the table in the cafeteria. Hope it's gone very quickly. I was sooooooo bad last night. It's amazing I'm not still sick today.

Tig, good luck with the party. While DS is in the dentist's chair, you take a few minutes to BREATHE!!!! :stress:

Tiffany, Tiffany, Tiffany... TP'ing? Really? How could you? ... And why didn't you invite ME!!!! Uh, not that I'd ever do something like that!!! :o

Well, as I said, it's November. A new month. A new start. Maybe a new challenge???? 4 weeks to Thanksgiving..... :?:

Think about it.

Ok...I'm a loser Easterner..but what is TP'ing?

Oh, Jersey girl! You don't know this!?!? Well, grab a roll of your finest Charmin and come with me!!!

Pick the house of someone you don't like, like very much, want to win the big game, lost the school's big game ... any reason will do ... and wrap house, porch, trees, lampposts, family pets, etc. with TP! :P It's especially effective if it rains afterward....

When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping! I had to buy basketball shoes for DS, picked up shoes for DH, got some spongebob boxers for the youngest and a pair of jeans for myself. I was trying not to buy any pants until I dropped another size. No control. I reasoned....my 18's are falling apart and falling off me...my 16's are from before the 18's...out grew them, now back in them. Needed something a little more stylish, sorta dressy jeans. So, I bought another pair of 16's...even though I wanted my next purchase to be 14's. I tried the 14's on. LOL My cheeks looked like they were poured in! On the positive, I could snap them up.:dizzy:

By Thanksgiving, I would like to drop under 180. My Halloween goal of 174 was too ambitious, and think that got in my way. Reality has set in. Slow and steady.

Gotta fix lunch for the dentist boy before we go.
later taters!

Thanks Jello: We do that here too, except we never did when I was a girl back in the days of Moses...but they do it in my neighborhood all the time after a big game...thanks for bringing me up to date...I'm so freaking old!

Old as Mosses.........not me I'm just an antique little girl. :dizzy:

Okay, I'm trying to get back on the wagon, I've got one leg thrown on and hopping along with the other. But this is a new month and certainly a new day. Did like crap on the last challenge but I am so ready to get some control back, especially going into the holidays. If I can show a nice loss by the middle of December and then just hold steady until after January first I will be happy.

We're still busy so I better scoot.

Hope you all have a great weekend!! :)

Thank you GOD. It is Saturday. Ahhhhh....this week kicked my BUTT.

One good thing. All the chocolate is gone from the Halloween bowl. All that is left is suckers, and sour things and gumballs and chewy crap that I don't like. So, that is a plus.

Election is Tuesday. You have NO idea how glad I will be to get this behind me. I have been eating healthy at work and then about 9:00 at home, I start wanting to munch. So, I have had some candy, etc. But the scale is still fluctuating. Last Tuesday on my official weigh in, it was 232. I was happy with that considering I had got back up to 236 and there was no end in sight. ;) So, the other day it said 229 and now it is hovering around 230 and 231...so I am exercising the rest of this weekend and Monday too, and watching that food and maybe on Election day morning, the scale will start my day out right.

The TP'ing was fun. Gosh, it had been so long since I had done it. We only ended up getting one house. I am too old to be up until the middle of the night, so we went out about 10:30 :lol: Got one boy's house pretty good. All the trees and bushes. Got their car, and then just rolled it up and down their yard and secured it around bushes. It was MOST impressive. LOL...The nice thing was, we didn't throw it REALLY high in their trees, so clean up will be able to be accomplished without a ladder. (the mother part of me came out at the last second.)

Tig, I agree about the challenge. Although, I think my goal was do-able...I just didn't apply myself. (OOOOH, there is a phrase from high-school. :D ) So, I am with you. Slow and steady will win this race.

Glad you all are hanging in there. Now, we have Thanksgiving and Christmas to get through. We can do it. I know it. After Christmas, we have that BIG PUSH to get everything accomplished before summer comes. Now remember. We were going to be CONSIDERABLY smaller this summer. No fear of the bathing suits, etc. We need to get busy right now. I don't want to hear any crying this summer. We have about 6 months of active time to get this done. Figure out what 6 months means to you. Some of us are heavier and it stands to reason that we can lose more in a month than some of you that don't have AS much to lose. We need to figure out what is reasonable and able to be accomplished. For example...if I were to only lose one pound a week....from now until the 1rst of June, I would lose 30 pounds. There is almost exactly 30 weeks from now until June 1rst. IF I lost one pound a week, I would lose 30 pounds by then. Would I be at goal? **** no. But I would be roughly at 200, HOPEFULLY below and that would make me happy. To know that within the space of ONE YEAR, I had lost 65 pounds. Over a pound a week on average. I started this diet the end of May 2002. Where will I be the end of May 2003? Where will YOU be?

Let's make it a goal to lose one pound a week for us heavier people. If you lose more....YIPPEEE....if you just lose that one pound, you are doing great!

For you people with less to lose, make it a goal to lose 1 pound every 2 weeks...that is certainly do-able.

Let's not make the mistake of aiming TOO high or being unrealistic.

Let's do the weights, that isn't too hard to do. We can fit that in. I have been doing them before I go to bed. At least I am getting it in.

Let's drink the water. If you are at a restaurant, order the water instead of the soda. If you are thirsty during dinner you WILL drink it. Plus, it's cheaper. Drink the water first and THEN reward yourself with the soda. I have been making myself drink my water first. IF I drink all my water by the end of the day, then I can have a soda. If I REALLY want a soda, I drink that devil water and get it out of the way. I NEVER thought I would EVER be telling people to drink their water but our bodies really need it. I find now, that if I am out of water at my desk, that I start to crave it.

That makes me happier than a pig in crap, let me tell you. That was the biggest thing that I needed to implement into my life.

Yes, I need to work on that cardio. I will master that. I am in control of this body and it WILL do as I say. Unfortunately, most of the time I say no. :s:

Anyway, this turned out to be me on my :soap: , so I will let it go for now, but think about what I said. We only have 30 weeks until bathing suit time again. Let's not waste it and then still be feeling bad next year. I want us all to be SO proud of what we have accomplished and where we are when summer rolls around.

Much love to you all, I am off to do something nice for myself this weekend!
Tiff

Dear Tifany:

I'm in with you...at first I was a little dissapointed that I was only losing 1 1/4 pounds per week. B

But then I thought, you know what Carol, your not straving yourself, you have dessert once a week, you have the most beloved pasta once a week, and a hearty portion at that; you feel better, your underwire bra is no longer cutting into your heart muscle, and you only wheeze now and then.

So I said to myself....this is working, don't fix it because it ain't broke....I want to be the Tortise, not the Hare....the Hare always puts all the weight back on plus more...

Slow and steady does do it and I up for the next 30 weeks, who's with me and Tiffany on this?

I guess I am just tired of the word diet.
I am tired of the hunger late at night. I want to be comfortable and eat with my family, and just really learn to eat more healthy and learn portion control.
I don't want to obsess about weddings and holidays, and what I am going to eat there.
I want to eliminate most sweets from my life and substitute low fat alternates to my favorite things, but not refuse them completely if I feel like I need them.

My life is so fast paced and I hate the idea that I spend it like this, letting my weight and my weight loss efforts affect my every mood.

I really just want to make these modifications and I think I will come out on top. Who wouldn't, if they exercised and lifted weights and ate healthy and drank their water?? :D

So anyway, I am off to buy a new pair of pants. Back later,
Tiff

Tiffany & DNW, I agree with you 100%. We will all have the satisfaction of knowing that next summer that at least some of the weight is gone, whether we are bathing beauties or not. For me at least I will be able to say that I am not as heavy next year as I was this year, and the year before that. At this point in my life I can not longer do the starvation and dieting like I did when I was younger and look where I ended up anyway.

I really thing making small changes that become lifelong habits will eventually be the key, even if it takes a couple years to get where I want to be. There is more to life than just dieting and I don't know about the rest of you, but I want to live my life to the fullest and as Tiffany said not have to stress out about every holiday and special occassion.

Anyways, it is raining here AGAIN, it's cold and I'm going to take a nice hot bath and relax with a movie and go to bed.

Good weekend to you all.

LJ

I took the liberty of starting the thread for the Thanksgiving mini-goal. Hope to see you there. I was not so successful with the Halloween goal, but I did learn a few things that I think will help me be successful with this month's challenge. So...let's do it.

Sunday, beautiful Sunday. I had a scare last night. Went to McDonalds to have a Fruit and Yogurt with no granola for my dinner and I got in line, ordered it, got home and it was SMALL. Very small...tiny even...I was SO MAD. They downsized my fruit and yogurt. Then I did some investigating and discovered they have a snack size version on the 1$ menu. I was simply given the snack size version instead of the BIG ONE. Whew. Should have heard me complaining.

Well, did a Kathy Smith tape last night...Functionally Fit. She does the interval training, the 2 minute bursts of high intensity activity and then a cool down, that consists of slow lunges and squats, etc...and then another 2 minute interval, etc. I was feeling it when I was done. Thought I was going to have a heart attack. LOL, I guess that means it works.

New body ache....my right hip is really hurting. I have NEVER had any hip problems, so I don't know what this is. Started about 2 weeks ago, I noticed it at work. But with this busy time at work, I am sitting-standing-sitting-standing, all day long. But the exercise is really aggravating it instead of making it better. I don't know what this is...some kind of arthritis thing, or some kind of hip replacement thing. :D But I don't like the way it feels. *sigh*

So, I will take a walk today and see how it feels.

Hope your weekends are filled with exercise and low fat delights. :lol:

I survived! I survived 15plus kids in my house! I'm so glad that is over. Talk about a monkey on my back. whew.

It sounds like everyone is move'n forward with a good attitude. I'm in! Thinking about next summer already....I wanna show some leg!

My next big event is a buisness trip with DH. It will be all people from his work...and me. I'm using it as my motivation. The trip is Thanksgiving weekend. I already have voices in my head. "I can't believe he's married to her" voices. ugh. Hopefully it's mostly men going on the trip. :s:

Monday Funday Everyone! That's what my little DS calls it. :)

Morning all....

It's Monday and I have the ho-hum's. Not exactly in Funkytown, just feeling blah. Haven't stuck to any kind of plan since last Wednesday and am angry w/ myself.

I got a call last Wednesday from my friend. She was crying hysterically, saying she didn't know where she was. After I FINALLY got her calmed down, I was able to get her to find out where she was. Then I called up DH and we set out to get her at 8:30 that night. She was in Winniemucca, NV, 6 hours from us! We got to her at about 2 am. She and I went down to the casino so DH could get SOME kinda sleep. Went back to the room and got him up at a quater after 5 in the morning. OMG!! I thought my nose was gonna fall off! It was colder than a witches tit outside. It was something like 15 degrees! Had to wait for the car to thaw out. DH drove our truck and we followed him in her car. We got home about 12:30pm on Thursday (Halloween). It all felt like a dream. I have no idea how I was able to function. When we got home DH took a nap, so that he could be to work at 2:30. I swear, I was running on auto pilot or something. Got the kids ready and took them trick or treating at my sister's, an old baby sister's and then around our apartment complex. I was done, and apparently so were they. Thank goodness. I could barely keep my eyes opens, Thursday or Friday. I even fell asleep at my desk on Friday. I heard someone saying are you okay? But didn't realize they were talking to me, until she said, Are you okay, Dyan? Then I sat up w/ a jolt. Can I tell you , that I was so embarrassed! I explained that I was just tired, etc.... No exercising for me Thursday or Friday. Saturday, got up early and took another walk....needed to clear my head and think about what was really going on. My friend is a mess, BUT she's doing so much better since we got to the house. She's no longer talking about suicide. She's supposed to be calling around for a new Dr. today (one that takes her insurance). So.....Like I said I haven't been OP's for a while, and when I stood on the scale Saturday, I was not surprised to see a 5 pound gain. Which means I came no where near my Halloween goal :mad: . I was SSSOOOOO close, before my set back. I only had 3 pounds to go in 2 weeks, but in stead I gained. Not OP'd at all this weekend, so I stood on the scale and it way back up there. 2 weeks ago I was at 264, and this morning I'm at 273. A gain of 9 pounds total, in 2 weeks! TOM starts sometime this week and I have been eating salt and chocaolate, like there's no tomorrow! My jeans a cutting into me and I can't get my wedding ring off.....Could be why I have the ho hums. Well, today is the start of a new week, and I did lift this morning. Man are my arms feeling jello-y right now.

I hope everyone had a good weekend, and I promise to send out shouts, next post! I still need to catch up from last week.

TTFN....

Monday Funday!?!? Hmm..... Nah. Just can't look at it the way he does. Wish I could. :p

OK, so I didn't tell you guys on Friday but the old *itch and I had it out big time!!! I won't go into details - it wasn't pretty. I didn't sleep at all this weekend. Couldn't concentrate. Couldn't stop stressing and obsessing. Couldn't eat.....

.... see? Something good comes from everything! :^:

Anyway, I finally composed an email letter to the old *itch. Girls, I sooo took the high road. I went on about how we used to work together and how I always admired her for what she'd achieved being a female executive, etc. How I learned a lot from her and how whatever I must have done to alienate her and make her so angry with me, etc. I apologized for it. I told her that I was done with it. She could either accept my apologies or not, it was her choice. But I was too tired and life is too short, etc.

Anyway, I was sincere about being done with all this. I mean, there important things in life and things to worry about and stress over and her moods and comments are not on that list for me. The end.

I bcc'd my boss (who is also her boss) and the head of human resources and I know everyone, including her, has read it. No comments from anyone but, ya know, I feel so much better! And that's all I care about at this point. Gotta look out for Number 1! Woo hoo. :hat:

Tig, congratulations on your survival! I bet everyone had a great time!

Tiff, thanks for starting a new challenge thread. I'm in. I just have to think about what my mini-goals will be and then I'll post. Hm, I haven't tried those McD's fruit and yogurt things. But a snack size one sounds like a good way to try it. Sorry about the hip though. Too much dancing with those bananas? :cb:

Huntress, I'm with you. I may not be thin next summer but I'll be "thinner". That's what I'm shootin' for.

And speaking of shooting, I'd better get to work or the boss will shoot me! :yikes: Hope you all have a good one. Me, I'm trying hard.... So far, so good.

Good Monday Morning To All. I'm still dragging that one leg trying to get on board. I'm thinking with all the positive post that were on here, that I can get my act back together. DH has committed to getting back on track, so with his help we can both do it. He's not overweigh but has a little tummy.

Would anyone be interested in doing a challenge for minutes exercised? Like to commit to doing X amount of minutes by the end of November? If you think this would be fun I'll start a thread.

My friend came home last night from the hospital. I talked with her and she said that she feels really really bad. I'm sure that each day she will feel better and stronger. Just wanted to say thanks for everyone's thoughts and prayers, I know that they helped her.

Gotta get busy, I'm leaving at 2:00pm today for my mamogram or THE BIG SQUEEZE, as I so loving call it. Just one of those things that ya gotta do.

I'll get back later to see if anyone would be interested in the challenge. Chow.

I could use the motivation......:strong: :drill: count me in

Unfortunately I do not plan to join in on any challenges, etc.... this month.

Not sure how much execise I'll be able to do, etc....

Having GB taken out next Friday, then the week after going on vacation to Utah, and then there is Thanksgiving. So I would be happy to get back to what I weighed 2 weeks ago, if at all possible.

Hey everybody,

One week OP and I'm doing well. Weigh-in tomorrow. My scale is 2-3# lighter than the official WW scale---hate that since I just bought this digital one.

Just sneaking in for a minute before bed. Had a good week off (last week)from work but had a headache 3 days of the week. These hormonal migraines really get me down lately---can't take my usual Ibuprofen (hurts my stomach) so extra strength Tylenol is the best I get. Doesn't do the job and I feel rotten for 3 days, off and on.

All of our Halloween candy was gone in an hour....need to live on a busy street, girls, it really helps!

Take care and I'll buzz by later this week.

"Bright"

Hello. Long week already. Went from Monday Funday to "it's only Tuesday?!"

Dyan, sounds like you had a trip to the twilight zone. The road to funkytown is closed, so don't head that way!

Jello, kudos for your dealing with the *itch. Don't waste anymore of your brain power thinking about her. How are your eyes feeling these days?

SEMO, the big squeeze, LOL. I haven't had one yet. Turned 36 last month...my time is coming.

Bright, I didn't have ONE tricker/treater! On top of that, my kids hauled in the candy! Lucky for me, they are getting older and would notice if I stuck my paws in their treasure. :s:

Tiff, hope you are surviving election day!

I'm off to get groceries and a new toilet seat. Mine broke! Not a good sign.:o

Tig!! You in a parallel universe from me or what!?!?! :yikes: I bought a toilet seat last weekend after mine broke too!! Very weird! Doo doo, doo doo.... Actually, mine was fairly new. Only had it about a year or so. Bought it when I could no longer stand the old plastic-disguised-as-wood one that Rich had for about a hundred years. Yuck.

OK, too much information I guess..... :lol:

Anyhoo, I was too stressed to eat yesterday morning. However, we've reached a sort of "uneasy peace" here at work and I felt better by lunch so what did I do? Well, pigged out, of course. :mad: Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Scale (yeah, I'm a scale-hopper too!) this morning was very displeased with me. I'm very displeased with me too.

Bright, I'm sorry to hear about your migranes. My roommate in college used to get them and it really took so much out of her. I can't imagine. {{{Bright}}}

Dyan, is that this coming Friday or a week from Friday? Either way, I'll be thinking of you. Just think how good you'll feel when it's over and done. I don't think you should have to worry about weight loss when there's so much other stuff going on. Just don't go too overboard. ... That's my job. :rolleyes:

Semo, I'm thinking seriously about joining in on that minutes exercised challenge. :chin: See, this is me thinking.... :twirly: Does thinking count as exercise?

I have to go now. The french visitors have rescheduled for next week and we've all been polishing and cleaning and shampooing our red carpets for them. :rolleyes: Man, you'd think this is the world peace summit or something. I've got to order lunches for next week. I told some people I just needed to go home and dig the snails out of my garden.....

On that note.... :snail: Later!

Good Morning.....

Feeling tons better! Could have something to do with my scale. Like Jello, I do hop the scale, and this morning I was down 6 pounds from yesterday. I know the gain is from PMSing. I couldn't get enough chips or chocolate over the weekend :nono: ! I was a muching freak :yikes: and it also didn't help that I sat in front of the TV late in the evening, enjoying my snacks! :^:

Yesterday was OP and feeling good. So according to the scale only 3 more pounds to get back to where I was 2 weeks ago. It would be nice if I could hit my Halloween goal this month. This morning scale said 267 and my goal for Halloween was 261. I'd be happy. :D That would a total loss of 51 pounds. I can't wait to shout that out to the world!

Jello ~ As always, your a hoot! Surgery takes place on the 15th (next Friday). Gotta be there at 6am, it appears I got the choice spot. I'm the first of the day. Hoping to be home by no later than 2pm. I am assuming of course that there will not be any complications. How are your peepers :fr: ?

Tig ~ Thanks for reminding me to swerve! I came this [] close to becoming a resident of Funkytown! I can't believe you didn't have a single kid show up! WOW. It's weird, because every year, less and less people give out candy. Either there's a sign saying no candy or the house is completely black. It's really sad when we think back to when we were young and went out trick or treating.

Tiff ~ Thinking about you on this Election day. My mom and I usually go together, so I'll be going after work!

Brighter ~ Man....sorry to hear about the head. I can so relate! There are days I wish I could just rip off my head and replace it with a block of wood! :lol: Now wouldn't that be a sight?

Cafe ~ Where are ya? I haven't been able to get on as much, but I never did get your missing days, on the 3 point challenge, and haven't seen ya here either. Did something happen at work? hhhmmm
:chin:

SEMO ~ So when did you start getting the BIG SQUEEZE? I'm 35 and have no idea at what age we should start getting checked. I'm very uneducated about certain things.

DNW ~ I totally agree with you, about not fixing a good thing. If it works, don't mess with it. There are times when I really have to fight the urge not to try some fad diet. As a matter of fact as I lifting yesterday morning, there was infomercial for "Peel away the Pounds" or something like that. It had me mesmorized for about 3 minutes! :o , but luckily I snapped out of it! I just kept thinking about my plan now. That this infomercial was full it. A patch would not make you lose weight, and IF it did, you'd just gain it back after you stopped wearing it. I kept telling myself, stick to what your doing now! It may not be going as fast as you like, but at least it's something you can live with for the rest of your life. I kept repeating 45 pounds in 5 months.....you've lost 45 pounds in 5 months......

Huntress ~ How's it shakin bacon? I know that if we continue to support each other, we'll all get to where we want to be! I still say....LET'S GO TO VEGAS!!

Good Morning Ladies, I'm going to start the exercise challenge after I post here and anyone that wants to sign up can. I know that it's very difficult for me to lose weight without exercise and as someone said yesterday if I only have 10 or 15 minutes then I can log that on to a daily total. So this will be good for me to have to actually report it.

On the mamogram (:o (AKA the big squeeze) I think the baseline should be done about 40 - DNW correct me if I'm wrong. I have had to have them like forever because of fibro cyst. Thankfully those have pretty much ceased.

Where's our Kayla? Think that we have been dumped?

Statements are going out today so I better run. What a yucky day, it's cold and raining. Didn't stop to vote on the way to work but will on the way home.

Ta Ta.

Hi, Dyan! I'm here - Just caught up on posts as a matter of fact. I'll have to look at my planner and see if I recorded those last few days of the month. You know how it is - once it's over the total doesn't matter so much as the effort?

30 weeks until swimsuit season!! I like that! Let's go!

Weighed in today - down a pound from last week - so only a net gain of a half pound... This week has been borderline funky but I'm all about the wagon

Gott jet!

HEY! WAKE UP! Where is my morning reading material?!:p

:lol: LOL, Tig. I'm thinking the same thing!

Girls, my Aunt Flo just dropped in. She's so early! What's up with that? Needless to say, I'm not feeling too good this morning. Blah. I'll have to call my gyn. to see if he still wants me to come in tomorrow. Actually, I think he just wants to discuss the results of the biopsy and it won't involve any kind of examination.

Last night I ran into my friend who'd been talking about hiring me. She said her business is picking up so there may be a place for me in the next 3-4 months. A light at the end of the tunnel. Meanwhile, I'll keep on keeping on. :crossed:

Cafe, I like the way you think! 30 weeks to swimsuit season. Not only does it give me incentive to stay OP but it also makes facing the winter :halfempty: a little easier to be thinking about the summer :halffull: !

Dyan, my peepers are OK, thanks! :cool: The left one is not quite as clear as I'd like but I'll take it. My eyes used to be so bad without my bottle-bottom glasses or expensive super-strength contact lenses. I couldn't even carry on a conversation with someone sitting 3 feet away without them. This eye surgery thing is amazing!

I found something on the MSN website this morning...

- Use stationary activities as opportunities to work out your muscles. Flex your abs or clench your rear while standing in line at the grocery store. Do calf raises while talking on the phone.
- Always take the stairs, whether you're at work or the mall.
- Do stretches in the shower. Roll your neck, touch your toes, do shoulder shrugs.
- Take advantage of your TV time. Do crunches or bicep curls with cans from the pantry while you watch. Jump up during commercial breaks and do jumping jacks.
- Walk around the building during your lunch break. Wear a backpack to increase resistance.
- Get a dog. That's a surefire way to increase your daily activity level.
- Plan vacations that include physical activity such as hiking or swimming.

Just a few tips for a little extra exercise. A few extra minutes for those of you in Semo's exercise challenge maybe? Interesting.

Gotta run. Later!

Kinda bummed! With 3 sick kids and little sleep, I ended up over sleeping this morning and didn't lift :( . I'm not even gonna sit here and "lie" and say that I can or will do them later today. Again, sick kids, plus a house guest, really doesn't leave me time to do much.

My house is a disaster area AGAIN, I'm thinking that that is part of why I have the ho hum's. Talked DH into taking all 4 kids somewhere on Saturday so that I can be a cleaning machine. I want to shampoo the carpet. Want to get it dome before we leave for Utah, but not sure I'll be up to it after the GB thing. So it's now or never.

It's surprising what you can accomplish once you set mind to it. Not onlyu w/ house cleaning, but also with weight loss. Again, scale hopper and this morning I was down to where I ws 2 weeks ago :p , 264. Aunt Flo should be arriving anyday now, and think that 9 pound gain I had something to do w/ all the salt I was eating/craving.

Tiff ~ Just so ya know.....My mom had to drag me kicking and screaming out to vote! :^: . Hey! I had 3 hours sleep the night before and did I mention 3 sick kids? :^: . I wasn't about to go anywhere. Ah, the guilt that only a mother could give!

Jello ~ Glad to hear about the peepers. My husband wants to do the laser eye thing, but we're not sure if our insurance will cover it. Myself, I have the coke bottle lenses, and have to pay boocoo bucks to have them made thinner! I can where regular contacts. I have the disposables, because I don't where them often. My co-worker said that her husband (may be what you have), had some eye thing, where they put the lens actually on his eyes, plus he wears contacts or them and then glasses! I don't know! But it's something CRAZY!

Cafe ~ Glad to see your alive and kicking, and trust I can relate to the funkytown adventure. Come on girl, let's help each other get through it. I know what my problems are, and why I'm borderline. 1. TOM 2. Can't function w/ little sleepy 3. What I think is the main reason ~ MY house is a mess. Does that sound silly?

Good Morning.

Dyanm, having a wrecked house very much alters my moods. If it's all nice and clean I can't wait to get home, on the other hand if it looks like a train wreck it makes me feel horrible. I can't even imagine how you keep yours remotely straight with small children.

Okay....:drill: I'm not seeing enough names on the November Challenge thread. Come on guys join us, please, pretty please. I know that I would not have done my exercises last night without the challenge, it would have been oh so easy to have just skipped it.

Anyway just kind of hanging around today without much going on. My niece called earlier and I'm going to meet her for lunch and that's about the most exciting thing so far in my day.

Chow.

Almost done here today. Almost time to go home. :^: Ah, life's small pleasures.

Think of me tomorrow girls? Meet with the gyn. about my biopsy results in the morning. Then lunch with friends. Then have to see the eye surgeon for a follow-up check in the afternoon.

Hm... The toughest part might be the lunch! :lol:

But could you send me some :goodvibes: just in case?

Pretty please? :crossed:

Jello: You will be fine no matter what...God didn't carry you this far to drop you...be strong...and anyway...wouldn't they have called you right away if the news wasn't good? I'll be praying for you tonight. About the *itch...taking the high road never feels real comfortable because stabbing her in the eye with a knife would have been so satisifying...but we are ladies so we can't do that can we...ah....but we can dream! Glad you didn't lower yourself to her level...there is one in every department, in every company, and I have met most of them...they should all rot...

Semo: You are too cool...thanks for whipping us back into shape to keep on keepin' on.

Tiger: How are you doing...I know you're glad last weekend is over-r-r-r!

Dyanm: Messy houses can really make you crazy...if my apartment is not is not clean I am a mad woman.....and with 3 sick kids you really don't need anymore exercise than you are getting...God bless your strength and your youth!

Tiffany: You must be exhausted. You know all of us voted....just because of you...we couldn't bear to see all that work you did go unrewarded.

Huntress: How are you and I hope you're steering clear of Funkytown....you know the road's down for good so you can't go back there.

All my warm thoughts to anyone else I may have missed.

By the way I have now lost a full 10 lbs. in a little less than 2 months and I am still going strong....I really, really couldn't have done this without all of you....we are each other's strength when we have no more to give...each one holding up the other.

Hi all!

DNW - Thanks for asking about me, no I'm not in Funkytown just under a lot of stress right now and haven't felt like posting. Congratulation on losing 10 #'s woo hoo way to go!

Dyan - So sorry your little ones are sick, I hope they get well soon so mommy can get some rest.

Jello - I will be thinking of you today, praying everthing is good.

Tiffany - With the election over now hope to see you around more.

Brighterdays - Where are you? Guess after having a week off you are swamped at work huh.

Cafe - Hi girl, how are ya?

Hope you all have a wonderful day.........

LJ

Good Morning Girlies.
I started my day with a cheese danish. :devil: I wonder if the extra sugar running through my veins from Halloween is trying to push me on a bender? Maybe some green tea and lots of water today will help.

We've been really busy working on our downstairs. Hope to have our oldest sons new bedroom done by year end. There are actually walls going up now! I'm getting ahead of myself looking at bedding and paint samples. I'm probably more anxious than my son. :o

"stabbing her in the eye with a knife" :lol:

Good Morning Ladies and a happy Thursday.

Jello........Here ya go sweetie :goodvibes :goodvibes Hey that felt pretty good so here's another :goodvibes

Tiger: How long have you been remodeling? And are you and hubby doing the work or some of it? Must have a strong marriage to get through remodeling!

Huntress: Anything we can help ya with on the stress. I could look up some info on back magic and then sew you up some little dollies with pins to poke it with. Maybe I should send Jello some too!:lol: You know that 90% of the stuff that we worry about never ever happens. I'm not making light of the situation but you have to find a little humor in life. :^:

DNW: All I can say is :bravo: :dance: :flow2: :balloons: Way to go!!

Hey to the rest of you gals I gotta run.

Hi!
SEMO, DH and I are doing the work. It's dreadful sometimes. We started with a garage project...tore down old building and built on existing foundation. The downstairs project got started this past spring. Tore out all the walls downstairs...starting over from scratch. Holy Headache! It would be nice to hire someone, but with me staying home with the rugrats...$$...DIY.

TIFFANY? What did you do, run off with Miss Kayla?

I just ruined hard boiled eggs. Boiled the water clean out of the pan. I forgot all about them until the strange smell hit. Good grief. Burned hard boiled eggs.

:df:

Hi Gal Pals!!

After reading that "angieME" was able to make an avatar of her own picture I wrote to her to and asked her how to do it...she responded right away and I thought I would pass the information on to all of you.

She says, "I have Picture It in my computer. I saved a picture in my computer and opened it with Picture it and saved it as a web ready picture. Then I went to edit options and scrolled down to the bottom and clicked change avatar. It will take you to another page then you go to the bottom of that page and click browse and pick the picture out of your files. then press change avatar and it should work. I had bee trying for the longest time to do it but all my pics were to big. Last night I figured I would play around with the Picture It software and got it. Good Luck.

TGIF............TGIF..........TGIF!:dance:

Where the heck is everyone????

Doing good on my exercise, but still lacking on getting control over eating. But will say that it's improving as well.

Anyone have great plans for the weekend? I'm staying home and just going to relax. DH and I will probably go to the movies tomorrow night and eat out. That's about our only entertainment and we go often in the cooler months. No yard work to do and with the time change there isn't much else going on. Remember, I live in the boondocks. Know what it cost us to go to the movies? $3.50 per person :yes: and from that you can guess what kind of wages I make. :yikes: Near nothing......... Property and other living expenses are high though.

Well, gotta get to work, later.

You bettcha! TGIF! I am so ready for a "no alarm clock" day. I imagine we will work downstairs most of the weekend, maybe tie up a few loose ends outside....oh, then there is the football awards banquet...carry-in thingy. I cheated, bought lasagna to take. Last year, the food I took was gone before our table got called up to eat.:s:

Jello, what happened with the test results?

SEMO, movie and eat'n out sounds nice. My list of movies seen in a theatre the last year tell the story....Monsters Inc, Shrek, Harry Potter, Spiderman...hmmm, think that sums it up. Life with a house full of boys. Oh, forgot...Lord of the Rings.

DNW, so...where's your pic? we expect to see it on your avatar ya know.

Darn dryer is buzz'n again. I never would have imagined this much laundry with boys. ha.

Just a quickie. I am SWAMPED today! Should never take a day off! :rolleyes:

Good news on both doctor fronts!!! :D No cancer seen on the biopsy. Dr. did however prescribe BC pills to help with the visits from Aunt Flo. Now THERE'S a woman I'd like to stab in the eye!! :mad: He says the insurance should pay for the pills because they're not for contraceptive use. We'll see.

Drove an hour in road construction to the eye doc. Sat in the waiting room 20 min. Saw the doc for (you guessed it) 30 seconds. Just long enough to tell me everything was fine. Actually, he looked in my eye and said "perfect!" and I said "aw, shucks, thanks". :lol:

Meanwhile, I got up yesterday morning and turned on the news radio station as I usually do in the morning just in time to catch the latest news. National Airlines has declared bankrupcy and has ceased all operations and will not refund any tickets. National Airlines the "official airline of Las Vegas". Um, and I'm going to Vegas at Christmas time. You all see where this is going? :tired: Thankfully, my credit card company is reimbursing me for my tickets and my travel agent's digging to find us other flights. I guess I should be thankful it's now and not the day before we're scheduled to leave, eh?

Did I say this was a quick post? Hm, so I lied. ;) But the boss is on the prowl and grumbling loudly and I've got a ton of work to do. I guess I'll go. Thanks to all of you who sent the good vibes! Gotta run. Hope you all have a great weekend.

Hello ladies, It has taken me about a day to read all these posts....lol you are all so supportive. Little about me.....been here done that over and over I am sure everyone I know is sick of me saying I am on a diet. So I am no longer saying that. I am changing my way of life. I am not going to diet nor am I going to deprive myself of something if I really want it. I will however, eat more fruits, veggies and protien and less carbs. I am not a chocolate person but love my chips so those will be the one thing I cut out and I will cut back on my pepsi to 1 per day for now and maybe I can wean myself from that completely. The biggest change in my life will be taking time for me. I drive everyone, everywhere and stay to watch all there events then the rest of my days are at work or cleanning the house.....well no more sisters.....lol I will still drive everyone, everywhere and watch their events and I have to work to pay for all those events....lol. But I am now master of deligation. Everyone will have jobs that have to be done in the house DH,DD and DS will have chores to do. I am guaranteeing myself 45 min a day to exercise. Now that will mostly be walking with the family but that is good to. I am also going to work out in the morning because I know once the evening rolls around I haven't time to even tinkle...lol

Wow that was a vent, sorry ladies I am not always this grumpy but time for me. I am 36 and weight in at 180. I lost weight about 2 years ago by eatting less and moving more and if I wanted a piece of pie I had it just not seconds and I lost 20 pds so I know this works for me. My goal is to be 165 by Christmas. 160 by my hubby's b-day mid Jan and 150 by my b-day late Feb.

Glad to know you all sorry this was so long.

Have a super day.

Hey Everyone,

Just popping in to say I'm alive and Howdy. I'm having a super bad week and hope to come back to this pit (work) on Monday w/an attitude adjustment and a clear head.

Have an awesome weekend everyone! I plan to clean my friggin house, which should help with my whole out look on things.

I'm alive. I will be posting on Sat, Sun, and Monday! Talk to you soon!

Tiff

Hi To All My Gal Pals and the Newbies on this thread....real fast because tis' late and I'm fadin dear ladies..

Jello: My heart swelled to know you are Ok, and there is no cancer..thank God.

Tiffany: Watch cha' doin with all your free time at work now...just kidding

Tiger: Smaart move with the store bought lasagna...I have killed myself at pot lucks and never got to taste my food either...and like yourself...I'm a real good cook.

Semo: You put us all to shame with your enthusiasm and drive. But I am jealous...$3.50 for a movie....we pay $9.50 here so Deadnurse and I don't go...says me cause I do the finances...Warner Bros. is rich enough and I still don't own a house..

Dyan: Yep those house cleanin tranquilizers always do the trick for me....scrub and contemplate my navel...always calms me down.

Huntress and Brighter: All my best goin straight at ya

Kalya don't love these old ladies no more....sniffle, sniffle...

Shh!!!! :sssh: I'm supposed to be working. But I'm doing something so much more important. Posting to you guys!! :love:

I'm at work on Sat. to clean! Do ya' believe it? Stupid frenchmen are coming on Tuesday and everyone's acting like they're the second coming or something. I'm here with about 4-5 other folks and everyone's cleaning and painting and hanging pictures. Wish these folks would come to MY house! :lol:

And of course, someone brought doughnuts. Actually, they're the doughnut holes which of course makes them so much easier to eat lots of them! I'm trying to be strong..... :ziplip:

Say, where'd our donut smiley go????? :?: Am I really so tired that I don't see it there on the list???? Am I just imagining that we ever had one???

Oooh, I'm rambling. Must be all the windex fumes. Well, back to it. Talk to you all later!

P.S. Hi Hockeychic! Welcome to the best place on the forum! If I do say so myself. :smug:

Hey wouldn't it be nice to just come home everyday to a clean house with dinner in the oven and someone to clean the kitchen afterwards...........Okay I'm snapping out of it... that's only a dream. I should have been born a male, I don't really like to cook, clean, do laundry, iron, shop for groceries in fact I'm not sure if there is anything that I really like to do. I think I still like to do crafts but who knows cause I never seem to get around to doing any. Alright, I'm through whining, guess I'm just putting off starting on this house. Gotta get my lazy butt in gear.

See you guys later.

Am I the only person working today???? Hope you guys are doing something fun. We saw My Big Fat Greek Wedding Saturday night and it was cute, you can really relate if you have a big family.

Exercise is coming along well but eating stinks. I mean really stinks. If nothing else I can be fit, or at least in better condition, right!

Gotta jet, hope to see some of ya'll later.

Gooood Moooorrrnninnnggg Ladies :wave: ,

I'm back and with a new attitude :D . This place can go to H E double hockey sticks! :smug: My boss is a back stabbing, scum sucking S.O.B. that can take his :censored: :censored: job and shove it up his :censored: :censored: ! But I'm not mad tho' :D .
Hehehe.

I'll get back to that later. I had a busy weekend. Got the front part of the apartment clean. Meaning the kitchen, dining room, and livingroom, it works for me! Actually got down on my hands and knees and scrubbed the floors. I also shampooed the carpet in the living room. I was like a blur......did it again.....did ya see me? HA

Cleaned house, went walking, went to storage, bought food, etc.... I swear, I was on a mission! There was just no stopping me.

Weighed on Saturday and I'm back to where I was 2 weeks ago!! YIPPEE.... now if I could lose 4 more pounds this month, I would be in heaven. So I'll try my best.

Only 4 more working days, then I'm out of this pit for 2 weeks!! YYEEEHHHAAAWWW!! So speaking of the pit. I get a call from my agency on Friday, saying that the scum sucking SOB wants to retro my status BACK to the 4th of Nov. Meaning he wanted them to pay me the new rate ($3 less an hour) for this pay period. They told him no way! I aso talked to the HR lady and she said legally he couldn't do that! That means as of today, I am now on "temp" status w/ no benes and less money! This wasn't supposed to take effect until Thursday! So I was pretty much running around Friday, trying to find out what I needed to so regarding my last check, my direct deposit, my disability etc....I did find out that they have to put my PTO together w/ my last check!! The rat ba$tard$
:mad:

Oh well, I'm okay. I'm alive, my house is shaping up and I'm back to what I weighed 2 weeks ago 264. So f 'em all, because I will survive! :dance:

Jello: Glad to hear the great news

Hockeychic: Welcome!!

All my other peeps: Come out of hiding and have an awesome day!

Happy Monday everyone!

Dyan, I don't know what those SOB's are thinking but obviously you're not going to let them mess with you. Good for you! Hang in there!

Hockeychick, Hope I spelled that right! Welcome! Good for you - you can give yourself a gift that lasts for life.

I've been busy, you guys! Sorry about the lapse in posts. I'm going to be sitting at a friend's table at a craft fair this Friday, and I've been trying to get some things of my own ready to sneak onto a little corner of the table. I'm making beaded bracelets. I'd take pics and post (just for fun) but the boss has the camera at a tradeshow.

Anywho, I'm hanging in there although this weekend wasn't the greatest. I went out with my mom for gigantic beers on Saturday night because my DH was out with Pop at the outdoorsman store. I'm dreading weighing in tomorrow, better start drinking my water NOW!

Someone I was doing a little volunteer work with this weekend said that what she likes to do for lunch on the go is potatoes in the microwave. Like cook a sweetpotato and mash some cottage cheese into it - some salt, pepper and a little tobasco. Or an idaho potato, cut in quarters with a little olive oil and garlic powder - nuke in the microwave and eat with cottage cheese, S&P, etc.

I have access to a microwave but hadn't thought of potatoes. But that would be filling, and combining it with cottage cheese would add some protein which would make it LAST. (If I don't have protein, the M&M drawer starts calling my name at 3:30)

I'm still on my soup kick, right now, but I'm always looking for ideas to feed my face, healthily.

Well it is the start of another week:yikes:

Going to be a good one I can feel it.:goodvibes

I did pretty good over the weekend, other than a few cocktails on Saturday...oh well still gotta live right:cb:

How are you all doing? I am slowly become familiar with everyone and hope to be up to speed soon.

Oooppss boss just walked in gotta run.:wave: :balloons:

Have a super day.

Been quite as a :mouse: around here today. Hubby is heading for the woods on Friday morning to deer hunt with our youngest son. Not only is it good for the two of them to have some bonding time but I am so looking forward to a weekend to myself. Think that I will just stay in my jammies and OD on HGTV and Trading Spaces all weekend. Not too exciting but I can totally use a melt down. Think that I have been living on stress for so long that now that my life is somewhat back to normal that I'm just kind out of wack. Sounds weird but that's how I feel. :dizzy:

So how's everyone doing? We've got some MIA's that we haven't heard from in ages. Come out, Come out where ever you are. At least just stop in to say Hi.

I have a regulatory meeting all day Wednesday so I'll be out of the office. I know they are necessary but gosh what a long and boring day it will be.

Well, guess I'll hang up my pen for now, see ya later.

Hi ladies!

It's 2:00 am and I've already been up for an hour. Went to bed early cause I broke a tooth over the weekend and it's bothering me, can't get in to see the dentist until Wednesday. I HATE going to the dentist!

Anyways, not much going on around here, just running around like a crazy person as usual. Going to move after the beginning of the year and been scouting out areas around town. My weight is holding, not up or down and for now I think I'm going to just try to hold my own until after the holidays. I figure that if I can keep from gaining it will be the same as losing, right?

Hope you'e all doing well, will catch up with you all later.

LJ

Hello. Sorry I'be been MIA. Got the flu. It's hasn't been pretty. I'm out of the bed today, trying to move around. My whole body aches and haven't been able to keep any food in me. On the plus side, the halloween sugar is out of my system. :^:

Hope to be back posting full force soon!

Hi EveryBody!

Semo: Ah a weekend without the men, yet I love it when I get to play single woman again, and I also am a HGTV addict...I clean on Friday and just watch the house stay clean for the next two and 1/2 days...but this only happens twice a year when Deadnurse goes on retreat:( Sounds like you are doing great considering all the stress for you lately....

Tiger: E-e-ec-ck-k the flu, I am really sorry you are so sick, I hope this doesn't last much longer for you. :crossed:

Huntress: Sorry about your tooth:eek: and now you have to find a new place...hope it's inexpensive and beautiful, and that you have lots of interesting neighbors around. And you're right about the holidays since you have to focus on moving maybe the status quo on your wieght is the best to hope for now.

Dyan: Sorry about your creepy boss...what rock does he live under, I will smash it for you:devil:

...I am always amazed at the scumsuckers out there who succeed in business...but then they sort of go together since big business is the worst...sorry for all your heartache with this job, but I hope Friday's GB removal goes well with you....you are going to feel so much better.:dance:

Cafe: Gigantic beers with Mom...sounds wonderful...tomorrow is the 7th anniversary of my mother's death and this year has been particularly hard, and I don't know why...it was getting much better there for a while. I wish I could sit around talking with my mother just one more time...there is no one like our mothers.:love:

Jello: You sound great, even though you have to do all that work for the Frenchmen...hope they appreciate it. I am trying to lasso Deadnurse to see if we can get a decent picture of me on for the avatar, but with all his volunteer work it's been hard gittin' that rope around his neck! :s:

Hockeychick: I am so glad you are with us..this group is the-e-e-e best! You soun dlike you are right on track with your program and full of enthusiasm...this group, even when we are not doing the best, still looks on the bright side, and we always get right back on track with help from each other. :)

Speaking of Brighter, where are you my dear? Is everything OK.:?: Bring us up to date please.

Well I must go back to work...and if I missed anyone let me know I almost have everything straight in my menopausal brain!!! :^:

It's 9:30AM and the place is crawling with frenchmen! :headache: I was here until almost 7 last night and in at 7 this morning. I made their :censored: french roast coffee and served their :censored: doughnuts (didn't eat any!! :smug: ) and got them all settled for their big important meeting :rolleyes: with the big important people. La-de-flippin'-da. Well, with any luck, it'll keep the boss busy for a few days and I get crawl back into my little corner and get some real work done. ... At least until their lunch shows up.

Tig, sorry to hear you've been bitten by the flu bug. :( Doesn't sound too pleasant. Getting up to move around is a good idea but don't overdo it! Dr. Jello's orders. Take it nice and slow for a while longer.

Semo, I'm so jealous! A weekend to myself sounds just too wonderful! I love Rich dearly but sometimes he (like most men) just gets "underfoot". :lol:

Huntress, sorry about the tooth! :tired: I hate the dentist too but I'll bet he fixes you up right.

Dyan, your boss and my boss - locked in a big wooden box - pushed over a waterfalls into a lake full of alligators.... What do you say? Sound like a plan? Mine is going to be paying me overtime for last night and this morning. He doesn't know it yet but he is. Or else. :devil:

Ah well, I think they've all finally settled down with their yucky coffee and their sugar fix and are starting to get down to work. Hm, wonder if I can lock the conference room doors from the outside.....

....Just wondering..... ;)

Hello Everbody! Did a Firm tape (older one) for upper body last night. OMG, I was moaning, groaning and sweating up a storm. I must be getting stronger because afterwards I even cleaned up the kitchen and did some laundry. Well, after about a ten minute recovery time. Normally I would have hit the sofa and DIED!!!!:yes:

Jello, is it true what they say about Frenchmen??????? I'm a romantic at heart. Please don't tell me that they were short, fat and bald.

Dyanm, it's not like you to stay away for so long, what's going on with you? Is it this Friday that you have your surgery?

Tig, get well soon :goodvibes :goodvibes

Huntress: Why the move? Looking for different neighborhood, are the kids excited?

HockeyChic: I'm still waiting for you to send me some of your motivation.......... Great job.

Cafe: Craft fair......Don't spend all your profits. Sounds like loads of fun.

Tiff, where's that post that you promised?????

DNW: I don't know about the clean house part, but I'm really looking forward to my ME time.

Bright, hello and come play with us.

Gotta scoot and do something productive around here.

WOW - do we have a lot of stress going on here or what? Let's all go to SEMO's house this weekend an veg out for 2 days!! Broken teeth and bosses we wish were broken, the flu and the French, and the threat of moving... Not to mention Dyan's GB surgery! Whew!

Dyan, I will especially be thinking of you as you get that painful sack taken out once and for all! :goodvibes:

SEMO, you are so right about not spending the profits! We'll see if I make any at all. (shrug) Either way it's fun to have something to work toward.

I'm up a lousy half-pound at weigh-in this morning but considering I don't drink alcohol often and didn't drink my water right I'm hoping I'm retaining a little... It's always so much easier to be good during the week!!

:grouphug: Catch you chickies later!

Good Morning

I am really tired so this is gonna be short, I got up yesterday morning at 1:00 am and didn't go to bed last night until 9:00. Anybody know whats going on with Tiffany? I saw where she said she would be on this weekend to post but didn't come back. Did I miss something?

Dyan - I'll be thinking about you Friday, hope your surgery comes off well and that you have a speedy recovery.

Jello - Like SEMO said, I wanna know about the Frenchmen.

SEMO - I've been living around the corner from my parents for the last 10 years and I work with them also, hence the reason for the move, they're driving me crazy. For some reason they still think I'm a little girl even though I'm 43 yrs old.

Tigerlily - I'm sorry that you are sick, feel better soon. Want me to come make you some chicken soup?

Hockeychic - Welcome!

DNW - How are ya sweetie

Cafe - The craft sale sounds like fun, I haven't been to one in years. I suck at making stuff but I still enjoy doing it.

Brighterdays - Where are you girl?

Got a call from an old friend yesterday, seems they are having a big anniversary party at a club we all used to go to and they are trying to get everybody out to go. Thinking that I wished I had worked a little harder at losing more of the weight so that I wouldn't have to go weighing 40 pounds more than I used to AND I don't have anything to wear. Of course it doesn't help that TOM showed up last night. Oh well, guess I can't hide here in my little shell forever. Who knows, getting out amongst good friends may just be the inspiration I need to get moving.

Well this turned out to be not so short after all..........guess I'm just a really big fibber, but I am still tired.

Have a great day ladies.

LJ

Phew, feeling better today. The house is a mess, boys been running-a-muck with me sick and I'm actually excited about getting it cleaned.
I kept thinking when I was sick that at least I would lose a couple pounds. WRONG. Not even half a pound. Weigh'n in at 185. Darn it anyway, I was looking forward to seeing a lesser number, even if it was only water weight.

Huntress, I feel for ya on the party. You are right about not hiding in a shell and getting out with friends would be great.
Reminds me of something...I didn't go to my 15yr class reunion. A couple weeks after the reunion, one of my classmates died. Heard he was at the reunion and wish I would have gotten out of my shell. So, go to the party and have a great time!

Tiff, did you break the new pc already?:^:

OK OK! The french are a very short people apparently. :lol: There are 5 of them and they're all around 5'4" or so! One of them is kinda cute and very nice (actually spoke to me!). The rest are snobs. :mad: And our American coffee is too weak for them, it seems. I made a "special blend" and put it in the serving thermos this morning. Let's just see how they like that. :devil:

On the dieting front - I'm screwed. :sorry: I simply cannot get my act together. I keep eating all sorts of junk, can't seem to get in my water and have not been to the gym in so long I've forgotten how to get there. So what do I do? Something's gotta change soon or I won't be able to get outta' bed, much less fit into any of my clothes. I don't wanna buy new BIGGER clothes!!!! :stress:

Whine whine whine..... OK, I'm done whining. But I just don't know how to get myself jump-started.

One thing I did do though. I've switched days that I leave here early. Instead of Tuesday and Thursday, I've switched to Monday and Wednesday. There are a couple new classes at my gym and I want to try them out. Monday's is called Trekking and it's a 45 minute "routine" done on the treadmill. Wednesday's class is a toning class done with free weights. Hey, maybe something new and more structured is what I need. :^:

Tiger, glad you're feeling better. Bummer about the lack of weight loss though. It's not fair, is it?

Huntress, good luck at the dentist today! BTW, go to the party! Buy yourself an outfit you look FABULOUS in, walk in there with your head held high and knock all their socks off!

Ahem.... TTTTTIIIIIIFFFFFFFFFFFFAAAAANNNNNYYYYYYY!!!! Where are ya girlie? :?:

Gotta go. Au Revoir! (Hey, what can I say? I took Spanish in school. :lol: )

Darn it! Jello, I was dreaming that these French guys were tall and dark with a suave accent that made us women melt like butter. Now all my dreams are ruined.........:lol: Send those guys back and tell them next time to send over the young handsome ones. Girl, you gotta stop the insanity NOW before you gain any more. Just a suggestion, but how about forgetting about the work "diet" and just relax and concentrate on getting your water in. Drink as much as you can, that alone will fill you up some and keep you busy. You know they say that sometimes when you think you're hungry it's really thirst. I'll bet that if you drink your water and get back into the gym before long you'll feel better and will stop wanting to eat junk. Besides, I think that somebody put dynamite on the tracks back to Funkytown and you can't get back there, OK

Tigerlily - I'm glad that you're feeling better, just don't try to do to much and give yourself a relapse.

I decided to go ahead and go to the party, I don't think my friend Russ who's making us all go will let me miss it anyway. Still don't have a clue what to wear, I would go buy a dress today but the news at the dentist wasn't good and I will be giving him all that money that I don't have to fix this tooth. $2800 to be exact. It is one that had to have a root canal many years ago and I somehow managed to crack it. He says there's no way to save it and I will have to get an implant. Yuk, thank goodness it is in the very back of my mouth and you can't even see it when I smile or anything. Let that be a lesson to any of you who like me hate to go and practically don't go to the dentist to get there before it's gets bad. I have beautiful teeth and I brush and floss everyday but I guess it's just not enough as you get older. I'm sorry to go on and on about this it's just that I'm stressed about losing the tooth and having to spend that kind of money. I'm mad at myself for putting off going and I'm probably going to need more work. Since I don't have dental insurance I'll probably have to get a part time job to pay for all this. On the bright side, maybe since my mouth will be in shock I won't be able to eat and can lose some weight. You know, I always say when life gives you lemons..........make lemonaide.

Gotta run, have a good day all!

LJ

Holy cow Huntress, 2800 for one tooth! My Dad is getting dentures this Friday...I think the whole deal was around that much. I had a rootcanal a few years ago. I was in so much pain, I could'a planted a big wet one on the dentist when he was done. I'm a good girl, go to the dentist every 6mo, didn't see the rootcanal thing coming, my tooth just died. lucky me.
You are so right about the water/hunger. I find myself searching the cupboards for that junk food I try not to buy when I'm not really hungry...probably just thirsty.

Jello, no buying bigger clothes! How long are the frenchmen going to be in town? I don't know how they can be so picky about coffee...isn't it their women who don't shave their pits?
The new gym classes sound like a great idea.

I'm off to help DS study for a test...state capital type stuff. Great review for me. I'd forgotten most of it. :o

Morning,

Being that I've been having yet another bad week, I didn't want to come here and post. I don't mean bad "diet" wise, but just in life generally. I was informed yesterday that my services will no longer be needed after Dec 20th! That's a nice Christmas gift, don't cha think? Originally I was under the impression that my contract would be renewed for 6 months, so from Nov to May of next year. Then all the status stuff happened, and they changed the date of my contract to a 2 month dealy, ending Jan 14th and now it's Dec. 20th. I'm to the point now that they can honestly take this job and shove it their :censored: :censored: , because I really don't give a flying :censored: . DH told me yesterday to go ahead and quit. But can't do that, I need to collect unemployment. Plus with the surgery in the morning, I just have too much going on. Add to all this, we're leaving next week to go to Utah and I have my friend here, staying w/ me. My mom had offered to let her use her extra room, but it's full of crap that she wants to go through first. So my friend has been sleeping on my couch the past few weeks, which has made it almost impossible for me to work out (But I'm doing what I can). Then last night she asked if she could just stay w/ us. That she didn't know if she could stay w/ my mom. My mom is all stressed about alot of things, and has been really weird lately. Also, my sister (17 years old) is getting on my friends nerves. Well, she asked if I could clear one of the rooms for her. Remember, this is the friend that tried to kill herself (not that that has anything to do with what I'm talking about, well maybe it does). I invited her to stay with us, so that she wouldn't be alone, and then my mom offered her a room and I thought great. She'll have her own room and what not. I'm trying to think of a way to tell her that it's not going to happen. I live in a dinky 3 bedroom apartment and there are 6 of us in it, 7 if you include her. So there are two bodies in each room, and although I think she should have her own room (which also benefit me and my workout) I don't think I should have to move out both my kids so that she can have her own room, while the rest of us would have 3 people per room. So when I get home I'll have to break it to her. Something I'm not looking forward to. I told her this morning that we'd have to talk about it next week, while I'm home. I swear I'm getting an ulcer. I'm under so much stress that I have a rash that is acting up and I'm breaking out. And let's not forget the two knots next to my shoulders, from all the stress. What was I thinking?

If I don't get back here today, I'll try to post over the weekend.

Sorry to be a downer, but wanted to let ya'll know that I'm here and lurking and what was going on......

Dyan, poor thing. When it rains it poors. Good luck talking to your friend and with your surgery in the morning.
:goodvibes:

Dyanm: No, No, NO do not allow this to happen. You cannot rearrange your whole life for your friend. Besides I think that she is being selfish to even ask that you give her a room to herself with space being what it is. Offer to help her find a one bedroom apartment if she doesn't want to move in with your mom. It puts a strain on any relationship when you have a house guest even for a short time. I don't know about your husband but mine likes to sit around in his old ratty pj bottoms and take naps when he is in the recliner. My baby sister lived with us for five years and I know what a strain it can be. Good luck tomorrow, we'll be thinking about you.

Huntress: So sorry about the tooth. Parents treat you like a baby girl do they..... That would be hard, but they love ya.

Tig, glad your feeling better.

Jello, what a let down about the frenchmen. I'm where you are about the eating, I am exercising almost everyday tho. I've decided that, okay, I can be fat but I will be fit. Hopping that I can gain some control soon on the eating.

DNW: Hope your feeling LOTS better. A good shopping trip always puts me in a better mood. Plus gives me insentive to keep working. :lol:

Cafe, Hey a girls weekend would be great, come on over!

HockyChic: Where are you, come on and jump in with Mamma Brags, or anything that's on your mind.

Gotta get to work Ya'll.

Dyan, I'll echo what Semo said, you can be there for your friend and help her out but not at such a cost. You have too much other stuff going on. Think about YOU first! That's an order. :drill: (Oh and I'LL be thinking about you too tomorrow morning. :love:) As for the job, I'll bet you'll find a much better one when all this is said and done. Didn't sound like a place that I'd want to work.

But as I said, worry about the most important things first. Take care of yourself (and make other people take care of you!) after the surgery and then enjoy your trip to Utah. Worry about the new job "stuff" when that time comes. Tonight sit down with your friend and tell her you love her and support her but .... Well, you get the idea.

Whew. :soap: OK, I'm done.

Huntress, 2800 bucks!?!?! Yikes! Although I do like the way you look at the bright side. :)

Tig, yeah that coffee I've been making for them sorta smells like those unshaved pits..... Ewwww! I cannot believe I just said something so gross! :tape: Well, the truth must be told.

Well, in Jello's world, I've started yet another program. This one is from the Mayo Clinic's website. Sounds fairly easy to follow and is based on nutrition as well as exercise and that ol' debil water too. Today's day 1 so I have nothing to report on this 12-week program but I'll let you know.

BTW, I found this. Just something interesting...

A Ladies’ Home Journal survey looked at women’s attitudes on losing weight. It found:

• 89% said they could stand to lose some weight.
• 57% said they would like to shed between 5 to 30 pounds.
• 52% said they would give up a year of their lives in order to be at their ideal weight forever.
• 57% of single women would be willing to trade longevity for their ideal weight.

What do you guys think? Agree? Disagree? Let's have a rousing discussion.

Meanwhile, there's a turkey and lettuce on whole wheat calling my name from the brown bag in the fridge.....

Dyan - It's good to hear from you. I'm so sorry that things are in such a mess. I agree with SEMO and Jello though, and something else to keep in mind, I know you love your friend but she needs some counseling and she is an adult and ultimately responsible for taking care of herself. I think that she is asking too much from you, you already have more on your plate than most people can handle. Something that comes to mind...........when I was going through my divorce I was a really whiney, miserable person. I had gone with my best friend to visit one of her friends and while we were there this girl got tired of my whining and told me that I needed to stop being such a baby and move on with my life. It pissed me off but I realized that she was right. Please don't take this the wrong way, OK, all I'm saying is sometimes what we REALLY need is a good swift kick in the butt to make us wake up instead of someone to enable us to keep whining. Make sense? Anyway, the MOST important thing is for someone to take care of YOU and get you through your surgery and the rough time you're going through. I will be thinking about you and sending you lots of love and prayers.

LJ

About the survey...
I agree with the first two.
The third...Giving up a year...well, think I'd gain many years living at ideal weight. Dont ya think? So, in the end...it would be a gain in years. Make sense?
The fourth one....not single. :p

Regarding being out of control with food. You know what we ,all go through these times when we think we are out of control...but the fact we can even discuss it with others means we are not, if you were really out of control with the food, you wouldn't even realize it. Sometimes we want a break from being so good, so now thsat some of us have had that break, and it's time to jump back on the wagon. I was the same way this past week...but I started thinking about how hard it was to lose the damn 10 lbs. I lost and I just can't let that go to waste.

Besides maybe we should all be really good and then just gorge on Thanksgiving and Xmas Day...that's my plan...anybody else got any ideas about how to fight the FAT DEVIL??


Dyan:

The rest have said it all about your friend...so I am just going to wish you a very easy time tomorrow...you are all in our thoughts and prayers and we all will be relieved when this is all over for you and that damn GB is out...you have been though so much with your job and everything else...you really deserve a break.

Jello: you and those Frenchmen..you're right the coffee does smell like stinky armpits!

Having lost both parents, and many others in my life so far...and sailing into my middle age...I wouldn't give up any of the time I have left to be thin. I'll get there without paying the devil his due, that old fat devil...

Love to the rest of you and glad to see Kayla's back..we missed your posts...you make everyone smile and feel very young!!

where is kayla?

Tigerlily - I haven't seen her post on our thread but I did see that she had posted on another one recently. I'm afraid she may have felt out of place here amongst us older women. That reminds me, she sent me an email at my work address which I didn't realize I had since I rarely even get on at work and I never got around to responding to her, so Kayla if you're reading this I will email you 1st chance I get.

So I went to the party last night, didn't stay long but I had a good time. It was nice to see my old friends, but I'm gonna kill me a couple guys. One of them asked me to dance with him and when I got on the floor they ganged up on me and started doing the nasty dance while the girls were laughing and taking pictures. Guess they were just paying me back for never coming out to see them anymore. So I promised to come out with them a little more often and then went home early since I rarely drink anymore and I have a 45 min drive home. Considering that I get up at 4:00 am and usually am in bed between 8-9 pm it was already way past my bedtime. Don't know how I used to do it, go out on a week night and drink then get 2-3 hrs sleep and go to work. Guess I'm just getting old.:lol:

LJ

Huntress, I remember when it would just kill me to stay at home on a Saturday night and now it kills me to go out! My, my, how times change.;)

Daynm: :goodvibes :goodvibes and an extra for good measure. :goodvibes Thinking about ya.

Did I hear our Friday song??? No, not yet. TGIF, TGIF!!

DH and son were all packed when I left and probably have headed out for their manly weekend by now. I'm all ready for my weekend too.

Well sort of quite around here, just about all the guys have taken vacation today and gone hunting too. After this then they love duck hunting and somewhere in between I've got to take the rest of my vacation of five days.

Hope everyone has a good weekend and I'll be back later.

:chin: Just sittin' here thinking about Dyan.... :goodvibes: goin' out to her!

Let's see. The frenchmen are here for an extra day. Um, don't you guys have a plane to catch or something? But the company president is not in today. My boss is leaving at 1:30. And most of the other folks involved are wondering how we can get them to leave already :mad: and still get the big contract. I made them more stinky :lol: coffee this morning but no one's asked about ordering lunch for today. Hope that's a good sign.

Meanwhile the *itch is also taking the afternoon off today so I just have to get through the next few hours.... Me, :headache: I just wanna go home to bed.

Ooh, know what I did last night? Blew the dust off my Kathy Smith March Madness tape. Then after I stopped sneezing :sp: from all the dust, I plugged it in and started bouncing around the room like a not-too-graceful elephant in sweatpants. Good thing no one else was home. My dog was hiding in the corner before too long. It wasn't pretty but I made it through the 30 minute routine without dislocating anything or causing any structural damage.

Dinner last night was 2 slices of pizza with all sorts of "junk" on it. Know what? It was very heavy and greasy and made me feel kinda yucky afterwards. Maybe that's a good sign? :?:

Huntress, glad you went to the party and had a good time. I probably would have chickened out and regretted it.

Semo, sounds like while they're off on their manly weekend, you've got a girlie weekend planned. Oooh, I'm so jealous!

Just about ready to join Semo in the TGIF song.....

Hi All!
I'm feel'n the hum-bugs. Youngest DS came down with an ear infections. zap 50bucks copay/rx. Oldest son has been getting headaches. Made eye appt for tomorrow. zap 50bucks...dont have vision insurance. Dread if he needs glasses.
Bills are just now starting to come in for DH knee surgery and DS broken thumb. Hum-bug I tell ya.
Christmas is so materialized, wish I could pull my family out of it. Kids are used to getting too much, plus too many others to buy for. Oh, and DS has a bday party to go to this weekend...gotta buy a gift. drats. I need to go buy a lotto ticket. :devil: vent, vent, vent.

Anxious to hear how Dyan is doing. :goodvibes:

Jello, good job getting yourself moving. I seem to have lost my exercise drive since I've been sick. Allowing myself the weekend off and will start back Monday...yeah, that's the plan.

SEMO, enjoy the peace and quiet! You lucky dog!

Off to fetch little one from kindergarten...
:df:

Hi everyone. TGIF!

The past couple of days have been really stressful for me... But not horrible! I'm not complaining! After catching up on the posts... we all have it rough this week, sounds like.

OK, so diet-wise, not too much to report. I've been pretty good. I'm not counting every point but I've been doing well and drinking water. (you know how you KNOW.) Exercise has been lacking. Aunt Flo came to town today so it's been a challenge, to stay away from chocolate! But the good news is when I slept in until a GLORIOUS 9:15 in the morning on Wednesday I got on the scale and it was 207, not 208 like on Tuesday. So while that is not a loss, it's not the gain I thought I had either. Hopefully Aunt Flo will take a pound or two with her... (pretty please? let there be some water weight in there?)

But Thursday and today have been... difficult. Too many things going on at once! And hormonally emotional. I'm ready for a weekend in a big way.

:goodvibes: to Dyan...

Everyone have a great weekend!!

Hi to everyone I just lost a huge post and I am too tired to write again...when will I learn to do it in Word first then cut and paste...A-G-G-GH-H-H!!!

Dyan: Hope you have lots of Percocet or no pain...either way I've been thinking about you today and send hugs!!

Okay Girlies, sounds as if we need a little Holiday Cheerfulness! Life is full of peaks and valleys. The reason that we have both is that you wouldn't appreciate the peaks if not for some of those lousy things that happen in life. If you're in a valley, just remember that you ain't gonna be there forever, and baby when you get to the peak hang on for dear life! This isn't a Confuses says it's a SEMO says!:flow2:

I found this site yesterday and I'm going to give it a try. It's www.flylady.net it's all about getting organized. and Lord knows that I need a lot of help in that area of my life. Check it out when you have time, I'm going to shine my sink today. (Her starting point)

Did I tell you that I found/saw a muscle the other day! I was drying my hair and there it was... a little muscle showing through. I think, no I know this weight lifting is WORKING!

Gotta run...... Hope you all have a great weekend.

Geez, I can't spell or type today.

Hi Everybody,

Just have a bit to post. I read all the posts I missed....been some crazy things going on!

Dyan---wishing you well on your recovery....they are all right, you know. Pleaseeeee take care of yourself...your family needs you. I have to say, I had a friend who came to stay with me one weekend with a daughter and a small baby. While I enjoyed having her around, I lived in a little two bedroom house and our lives were turned upside down! Her small child was sickly and didn't sleep well at night and we struggled with having enough $ for groceries, etc. All the time, I was holding down a fulltime job and she was a stay-at-home MOM in a near divorce situation. I had to sit her down after spending several sleepless nights and tell her to go back to her husband and arrange something or head home to her family who were out of state....I JUST COULDN't DO IT ANYMORE and my family said she was taking advantage of my generous nature. You are not responsible for her---SHE IS!

Jello---I went to the gyn doc and she gave me patches of low dose hormones to try during TOM. I haven't tried them yet but I'm hoping they will help.

Semo---I have deer hunters, also. Makes the house all women a couple W/Es in fall...Kinda nice. We do the shopping thing and get together over coffee. I'll try the www. flylady.net. I'm with you on getting the Holiday Cheeriness going on....

Huntress---Moving? I hate moving but, you know, you gotta do what ya gotta do... Go to the store, buy something fabulous and go out with your friends. You deserve it, girl.

HockeyChick---welcome. This is a great site to join. Everyone is supportive and kind. You can just hear the encouragement and enthusiasm in their voices/post.

DNW--hey, lady keep up the good work....you'll make it. I am fortunate to still have my mother but I don't visit as often as I should. Gonna try to fix that....

Hey Tiff....guess you'll be a weekender like me....can't seem to wrangle the computer from my kids during the week. They are MSN messaging or doing research for school all the time right now!

Hi sweet Kayla! Hope you are still having fun!

Hi Cafe....been busy too?

Hi Tiger...I know what you mean about Christmas...I struggle each year to make something memorable out of it since my children are older. So sorry the flu caught up with you...hope you are stronger now.

As for me, I've been OP for 2 weeks now and lost 5#. However, the WW scale is 2-3 # heavier than my new "accurate" digital scale so I don't know if it's a legitamate weight or not. I'm leaning toward celebrating just so I can have hope! I'm gonna have to fix my signature to match the WW weights I'm getting. How confusing!

I smell something cooking and I know that means "check on me, Stupid" so gotta go!

Happy Weekend to all,

"Bright"

Hi Brighterdays! It's good to hear from you, and congrats on the 5 #'s. WooHoo Way to go!

I've finally convinced that friend of mine to go back to Weight Watchers so hopefully I can lose a few pounds during the holidays. If not, at least I can keep from gaining any. Not sure why I always worry about holiday weight gain since I rarely gain more than a pound or two and in the past have actually lost since there is so much running around to do, guess it's just a mental thing and this year I've managed to lose weight that I don't want to show back up at the 1st of the year.

Not much going on this weekend, just relaxing and enjoying the time off. Hope you all are having a good weekend. See you next week.

LJ

PS.........Dyan, how are you? Sending you lots of hugs & kisses (smilies aren't working for some reason)

Just jumping on real quick, to thank you all for your thoughts and prayers. I'm doing very well, considering. I'll try to get on and read all your posts tomorrow or sometime this week.

Thanks Again!

Monday Funday! Ok, not really fun..but I can pretend.

Dyan, glad to hear you are doing good. How did you end up dealing with your house guest?

Huntress, I think getting back to ww for the holidays is a great idea. I've never joined myself, but any motivation not to go hog wild during the feeding season is great.

Bright, great job on the loss!

SEMO, I've seen the flylady site before. Good site. I thought someone here mentioned it before too. Did you get that sink sparkl'n?

So, where is everyone at this morning? I'm usually scared I'll be pages behind on Monday since I dont get on during the weekend.

Took oldest son to the eye doc Saturday. He needs glasses. Today, youngest son goes to the dentist to have front tooth bonded. Enamel didn't form all the way for some reason, there is a concave discolored spot on his tooth. Can't have that. Boy, talk about havic on the holiday budget. I'm starting to feel shortness of breath.

I was attacked by those darn 4 for $1 candy bars. Told myself I was buying them for DH lunch box. Bought 8, DH got 2. :(
*beating my head on desk*
But, it's Monday...a new week, a new start!

Happy Monday, all!

Nice to see you, bright! Yesss, I've been busy. But busy is good.

So a big good morning to everyone! I'll be weighing in tomorrow and I'm dreading it with hopefulness, LOL! My sister's husband went on a longish business trip so she has come out for a visit with her boy! They're staying with me, and with family and friends over this weekend I did a lot of cooking but with all the hustle I don't think I ate that much of what I cooked? So we'll see. The scale will tell me.

Dyan! I'm glad to hear you're doing well. Hang in there and focus on your healing! When do you leave for Utah?

Huntress, Tiger, SEMO, Jello, DNW, hugs to all!

Tiffany, Kayla - come out, come out, wherever you are!

and Hockeychic, don't be afraid to post. We don't bite... until we get to know you better.

Things are hoppin at work this AM already. I'll drop back by if I can.

~Cafe

Good Morning Ladies!

Dyanm: Glad to hear from you and hope you are feeling even better as the days go by.

Tig: You bet ya my sink is shinning like a new penny. Believe it or not it stayed that way all weekend. Of course I was home alone.:lol: I totally enjoyed my weekend.

Cafe, you sound very good/happy this morning hope it's because you're in a great mood.

Huntress: Good for you joining WW. Holidays are way too hard for me to stay on program.... I don't usually cook that much for just the two of us but when we have company I just go wild.

BTW my dinner guest list is growing for Thanksgiving.... my sister called last night and wanted to know if her family could come too. Let's see, that makes a total of 10 so far. I'm taking the day before as vacation so most of the prep work will be done ahead of time. Looking forward to having everyone over.

Hello to the rest of the gang, It's Monday so that means payroll.

Guys, I'm blue. :( Every winter, I get that gray-days-and-long-cold-nights depression. Usually, it doesn't kick in until after the holidays but this year.... Ssssiiiiiggggghhhhhh........

I know what my problem is. I'm fat. I swore I wouldn't be by this time. I even did well for a while there and lost 40-ish pounds. Then I fell off the proverbial wagon and gained most of it back. I've got closets and dresser drawers full of smaller sized clothes that I cannot wear!!! :mad:

I joined the gym and went gung-ho for a while. But now it's been almost a month since I've been there. I keep blowing it off for one reason or another. I've been trying the weight-loss plan on the Mayo Clinic website but it's too complicated and hard to understand and follow. :?: I need something a little easier - like take a pill, go to bed and wake up skinny. :^:

I am planning on going to the gym tonight and trying out this trekking class but instead of looking forward to it, I'm dreading it and just want to give up and go home instead. I keep trying to find excuses. Even my water bottle is starting to turn green on the bottom from lack of use. I got a phone message from my trainer from the weight-loss program at the gym asking how I'm doing and did I want to come in and measure my progress....? NOT!!!

Yeah, OK, I'm whining. Any of you still with me? Here's what I'm thinking. I'm thinking about going back to WW. I'm not strong enough or brave enough to go back to my old Sat. AM class with the same leader but I know I need something with some kind of structure. And I do not want to wait until after the holidays when I'm even fatter or more depressed about it.

I've lost track. How many of you guys are doing WW? For how long? How's it going? Any advice? I nnnnnneeeeeedddddd something!!!!! :cry: Rich (typically) says he'll support me in whatever I decide.

... why can't "I" support me????

Done whining now. Sorry. Off to sing ... rainy days and Mondays allllwwwaaays get me dooowwwwnnnn.......

Hi Jello, do you have a friend that could participate with you? Sometimes it's a really big help when you have someone else to help motivate you or even compete against. You know, who can lose the most weight and make the other one jealous. I haven't started WW yet, but am planning to do it this weekend.

Good luck with whatever you choose to do, and remember you can do it!

LJ

Ahhhhhhhhh Jello, :goodvibes :goodvibes I'm so sorry that you are so down. We have all been exactly where you are and some of us (me included) are also mad at ourselves for not doing what we know we should. So okay what are we going to do about it? We can sit here and be in this same spot this time next year or we can make up our minds that we will do something about it. What's it going to be?

I vote that we (you and me and anyone else that wants to) make a decision today that we will take steps, even little steps, to improve our lives. We should post what we will do today that would be an improvement and do it. Then when we feel confortable with that we can do an add on, we do the first thing then add another, etc.

Here's mine ~ Since I've already blown breakfast and lunch (and I can't really go back and change any of that) I will eat a sensible dinner and with no second helpings, just a NORMAL serving of what we have. What do ya think?

Jel-l-lo-o:

You will be fine. You're only human and thank God you are. I vow we all stop saying we are going to be "x" amount of pounds thinner by next year and say "We are going to be healthier this time next year!". That's it plain and simple. Let's try to be as fit and healthy as we can...and the pounds will follow. As much as we want to lose weight...sometimes we can't do what we think we can do...that's why thinking and doing are mutually exclusive of each other. I know because I am struggling with trying to lose weight in menopause...which has been terribly difficult...

Additionally, all of us have a lot of stress in our lives and we do the best we can. And you Jello have had more than your share. Count your blessings with Rich, he has much the same attitude as my husband, deadnurse. Not everyone has this luxury.

Semo you are so great to cheer us all up and we love you for it.:angel:

Dyan: Please post today.

Tiger: :fr: OMG the attacking candy bars....you know today their cousins the "attack donuts" have been chasing me all over the office and I am so glad it's almost the end of the day because I am running out of energy. I almost succumbed to an especially scary powdered one (my favorite), but slipped away just in time.

Hockeychick: How are you doing deary?:wave:
Huntress how are you doing.:wave:

Tiffany we need you now more than ever...please post!!!:faint:

Cafe: Thinking about you and hoping all is well.:wave:

Brighter: thanks for the posts and congrats on your loss.:bravo:

OK! Let's say it all together...repeat after me, "WE ARE ONLY HUMAN...WE ARE ONLY HUMAN...WE ARE ONLY HUMAN...".

The blessing is we get back up and don't stay down....we are the real winners...not the weight loss:grouphug:

we are only human...we are only human...

Took DS to the dentist. Got his tooth all fixed up. Good thing too, since it's so huge. You know, adult tooth too big for head.:D

This evening, older son has his first basketball game. The return of the consession stand! eeekk! We all know I've had enough candy to last for awhile.:^:

Leftovers for supper tonight. Comfort food.:devil: I made chicken and noodles with mashed potatos last night. I need to find some fat cutters for this family favorite. I do serve corn with it. :smug:

Jello, have you ever tried using a tanning bed for your winter blues? Toasty warm, bright.:cool:

Cool DNW, you got your pic up..........that is you right. Maybe one of these days I'll get off my lazy side and put mine on there.

I noticed they put Holiday stuff on the front page of the site, I LOVE the holidays! So much fun shopping and decorating, baking and singing. Mostly I love the Christmas bonus I get from my company!:D Have any of you thought about your New Year's Resolution yet? I quit doing the one about losing weight, I simply choose to be a happy, healthier person.

I finally decided that after the beginning of the year I'm going to join the gym. I've been mulling it over for a while and decided that I'm ready to do it. I will be 44 in March and even with diet cannot achieve the kind of results that I need. I thought about doing a program like you ladies are doing but I am much too lazy to do it on my own. My sister-in-law works out regularly and said she would love for me to go with her, so I am going to use her as a crutch for a while.

I hope that everything is OK with Tiffany, it seem so strange for her not to be here.

Dyan - How are you feeling sweetie? Hope everything is going well for you and you will be back with us soon.

Jello - I think I have SAD too, but it is especially prevalent in late summer. Try the tanning bed idea or I think I heard there is some kind of light you can get that helps. As far as your weight goes, quit being so hard on yourself we all have rough times. You will get through this, I promise.

Cafe, SEMO, Tigerlily - Hi girls, will write to you more later!

Have a great day all!

LJ

Let's see, we had Monday Funday...how about Terrific Tuesday!

I have two thoughts....Tiff didn't play nice and broke her new computer....Tiff got arrested for T P'ing and is wait'n to be bailed out of JAIL. :?: Tiff?

The Today show did a bit on the Atkins diet today. I'm going to look it up at msnbc.com. Just thought I'd share incase anyone else wanted to read it.

DS basketball team lost big time last night. But, DS played good for his first game ever. Defensively stuck to his man like glue. But ya know, they charge to get into those games. It's gonna cost over 50bucks to attend all the games. What a crock. Have to pay to join, pay for pics, buy bball shoes, team tshirts. I'm just on a financial hum-bug right now.

SEMO, I'm with ya...baby steps to getting back on track. My water bottle is growing green stuff like Jello's.

I've lost almost 15pounds...the first ten was easy. The next 5 were slow and painful. But if I could lose just 15 more, I would be in the high in of healthy for my height. Probably intended for a man's weight, but that's ok. I'd take it!
So, I'm off to eat a balance breakfast!
Hope everyone has a great day!

hmmm, dont see atkins story at the today show website.

Good Morning Ladies, well I crashed and burned from my own advice from yesterday. Did great at dinner but was up until midnight and the hidden Halloween candy kept calling my name. Gotta get rid of that stuff. And not by me eating it!:yikes: I'm doing so well with the exercise yet my scales are still creeping in an upward motion. Could it be muscle, I seriously think, NOT!

I'm leaving at noon today, going to the hospital to visit my friend. Please remember her she has had a big set back.

Been trying to get organized at home and cleaning like a mad woman. Don't want to leave everything until the day before Thanksgiving to get it done. I need to get started on my menu and then shopping. I'm taking the day before as vacation so it won't be too bad.

Well gotta run, you all have a good day.

SEMO, you are braver than me. I just freak when guests come to my house. I avoid it if at all possible.:o
We do Thanksgiving at my parents house. Just my parents, my sis & her family, me & mine. 11 total. I'll be taking pie this year. I ordered it from my sons school, called Market Day. Hope they are tasty. I'm also scared to cook for others. Boy, I have issues dont I? LOL
I ate my balanced breakfast, balanced for me anyway. Oatmeal, a banana, and yogurt. Starting to get hungry, but going to drink some water and wait until I get home from fetching little one from kindergarten to eat.

come on out and play girls!

Been scrubbing down the cabinets in the kitchen and gonna' paint the living room with Deadnurse this weekend...having my two sisters over for Thanksgiving..just the five of us but it will be nice hopefully...my older sister can be really obnoxious but she's on a new anti-depressant this year so hopefully she won't piss me off too bad....already told her..one strike and your out...she has ruined holidays for years and I only have so much compassion...I will never understand people who need to have everybody's attention all of the time...you would think that would be entirely too much stimulation for person...oh well..

Huntress: Happy upcoming 44th; and you are right about not being able to lose weight the way you used to. 44 was just about the age when my metabolism motor came to a screeching halt...the rest is history as they say.

Dyan: How are you doing honey...are you able to eat solids yet? We miss your posts.

Semo: Could be some muscle in that weight so don't get all feeling bad and everything...but the candy devil he don't help things none. I had no idea your friend had a big setback...write me and let me know what's going on and I will also remember to say a prayer for her.

Tiger: I hear you about the fees for your sons, even though I don't have children my friends do and they have spent hundreds of dollars on their kids sports activities. Sports for kids are supposed to be fun, not send mom and dad to the cleaners! By the way those damn attacking donuts are still looming in my office..if they are still there tomorrow I am going to toss them in the garbage :s:

Cafe: Glad you had time to spend with the family...I can't wait to see my younger sister MaryLou at Thanksgiving...she lives in Long Island, but if you guys ever knew had bad the traffic is we hardly ever get to see each other...but we talk almost everyday so the connection is always strong.

Tiffany: Please write soon we all really miss your posts...we worry when we don't hear from you :?:

Brighter, Hockychick: Where are you guys?

Maybe I jinxed the thread by putting my picture up...or scared everyone off...but really I don't have bags under my eyes...that was just a shadow cause Deadnurse didn't use the flash;)

Love to all and somebody write something...send upa flare...anything!:(

Hi Everyone!

I'm here, a couple days early!

DNW :flame: (only flare I could find tonight!) What a nice picture! Good to put a face with such a witty woman...

Tiger---I know what you mean on the sports expense...it gets a little overwhelming, doesn't it? I did Thanksgiving dinner at my house several years ago and was so exhausted that I never enjoyed a bit of it. Some people handle this better! Atkins diet doesn't work well for me....dysfunctional gall bladder, I think.

SEMO---send some of that cleaning Magic my way, huh? So sorry about your friend....this time of year is so difficult in the hospital---I'm sure she enjoys your visits.

Huntress---I love the holidays also but I'm one the people who gains either during the holidays or the cold months afterwards. Thanks for the support with my loss. I slowed down this week to 1/2# loss but I think TOM is drawing near and I made this marvelous zucchini bread recipe and when I counted up the points, I about fainted! Good thing I only ate 2 pieces and froze the rest (kids weren't very interested in it and it would be good ole mom to the rescue to eat the WHOLE thing!). Saving it for company or to take to a family get together. I haven't been to the gym yet this week but hopefully can go tomorrow---work has been a bit difficult and my lunch hour has been busy last few days. I have been faithful to my workout 2 times per week ( for 3-4 weeks now) and surprising myself. Now, to get the cardio on board for 3 days/wk... They say if you do anything for 28 days it's a habit....come form a habit, girl!

Jello--I know how you feel....I have problems with the gray days too. I'm trying to come up with a solution to that this year. I was thinking I'm gonna try to go out into the snow and walk around....usually I'm fighting it, shoveling it, and trying to drive thru it, but it's been a long time since I enjoyed being out in it. I wish grownups had "snow days" like school kids do...

Cafe---sounds like you had a wonderful weekend. Friends and family can make us busily happy, can't they? We have the same weigh-in day. Do you secretly think, like I do, that maybe a two hour walk on the treadmill, on Monday night, might yield better results on Tuesday? I tried, but I only made 20 min.... so much for that idea.

Dyan---still up there in my thoughts and prayers, girl. Hey, I heard being the first case on a surgeon's schedule is a good thing...he's well rested and more alert early in the am. Hope your recovery is fast and healthy!:crossed:

Tiff and Kayla---hope all is well, girls.

Well, gotta go. May not get back till the weekend so I'm wishing all my friends a good week and lots of willpower while we enter the Holiday Zone.

Take care, all.
:flow1: "Bright"

Good morning to you all!

Don't remember who was talking about it, but there has been some stuff on the internet the last couple of days about new research that suggests the Atkins Diet is actually healthy and helps people not only lose weight but raises good cholestrol levels and lowers tryglicerides. I find this interesting and even though I doubt seriously that I could follow this plan to the letter it does make me think that I could make an effort to cut out some of the white junk (refined flours/sugars). I would never give up fruits and vegetables to the extreme that they talk about (I do not have the specifics on the diet) but wouldn't it be just as good to slowly extract these items from our diets/lifestyles to a point that we are simply eating mostly clean, natural foods. Of course this is nothing really new, since it's something we've all talked about before. I guess reading the articles just kind of peaked my interest again. The only problem is I find it difficult to put into practice, maybe I need to just start out again like in the beginning taking things out of my diet slowly.

Anyways.........now that I have rambled on and on..........have a perfectly lovely day ladies and I will be back later to bore you some more.:lol:

LJ

Good Morning!
Hair cut day for me. Heading that way after I pick DS up from school. Then, another basketball game tonight. Wish I would have thought ahead and had something ready to throw in the crockpot this morning.

Huntress, I saw a segment on the Today show about Atkins. I've never tried it. White junk is one of my biggest downfalls. Wonder if it wouldn't be a good plan for me...maybe to jumpstart my loss again.

I've been trying to keep the Kathy Smith plan in my mind when selecting my foods, but not being strict enough with myself. I think DH could follow Atkins w/o even knowing it. Sounds like his type of food.

Off to make beds and clean the catbox. Ah, the life of a SAHM.

Hello? It’s me, Jo. I’m typing this in Word and will try to post it up when I’m done. No smilies though. Our entire computer network at work went kaboom sometime Monday night. It’s not pretty. Printing, getting to the server, emailing – it’s all hit or miss. And problems accessing the internet!!! Augh! I’d better not make this too long.

First, thanks to all of you for your support and good vibes! Love you guys. I’m feeling a little better. And here’s what I did.

Monday night, I went to the gym and at 6:00, I walked into the Trekking class. Me … and half a dozen skinny and/or in-great-shape, athletic looking people. … And me…. Spandex-clad, bare (flat) tummy, perfect hairdo instructor. … And me…. Sigh. But she was nice and I hopped on the treadmill and she helped me get started and told me to do my best and not try to keep up with those who’d been doing it for a while, etc. About 15 minutes into the class, I wanted to die. I was thinking “I have to do this for another half an hour!?!?! No way!!” But I kept going. I was going slower and on less of an incline than the others, but when she said “speed up” or “raise incline” or whatever, I did. It was intervals of slow and fast and up and down, etc.

And I did it!!!!! I was sweating like a piggy and my legs were sore but I kept going for 45 minutes!! I was so incredibly psyched!!!! I can’t wait for next Monday’s class so I can go do it again!!

… who said that?

So are you surprised? I was. OK, ready for more? Last night, I took a deep breath, held my head up and marched myself back into a weight watchers class. It was a different class with different people and a different instructor (OK, I’m not THAT brave) but I did it. I felt a little unsure and nervous but also … well … “home”. I’m going to give this thing another try. And yes, I signed up right before the holidays. Hey, it can only help, right?

So now I’m looking toward the future. But I’m taking it one day at a time too. I’m planning (menus, gym schedules, etc.) but I’m also going to do the best I can and if I fall down, I’ll get up and try again and not beat myself up … much.

Whew. I’m done rambling. Did I say this would be short? I always seem to do that. Sorry. Hope I can get this out to you guys without my computer exploding or something. Just a couple quick notes…

Semo, wrap up that Halloween candy and mail it to someone. Throw it in the fireplace. Take it to work. Abandon it on the nearest street corner. Trust me.

Dyan, thinking about you girlie! How ya’ feeling?

Bright, I still wake up on winter mornings and hope for a “snow day”! But going out to “play” in the snow sounds so much better than worrying about it for months.

Huntress and Tiger, I don’t think I could follow Atkins either. Too much to give up.

Nurse, painting the living room the weekend before Thanksgiving!?!? How brave of you! Wow!

Tiffany, send us a signal!!! If you’re in jail for that TP incident, we’ll spring ya!

Now I really do have to run and post this. Hope to be “on line for real” soon.

Jello:

Didn't mean to leave you out of my last post...all my girls mean the world to me!! Also I am so proud of you...it's so hard to get back to it again...and you still persue the work that we all need to do so we are healthy and happy..notice I didn't say thin, because that's not what it's about anymore...it's our well-being that really counts and you have such great resolve. What a woman...

Also there is a great new magazine called "grace", for plus size women that I find very encouraging. All of you should try to get your hands on a copy. All the models are plus size, right up to size 20 or so, and they are beautiful!!

Take care!

Oh my gosh, I've had this page up since I got to work this morning and am just getting to post. Geez, you would think that work was really important stuff around here. :lol:

Hope all are doing well and having a fantastic day.

Back to the salt mines.

Hi! Just pop'n in real quick. Busy day again today. Taking DS to pick up his glasses. Then, need to get groceries and dig up some bulbs...flower bulbs, glads & cannies.

Chance of snow here tonight! I love seeing it on the trees in the woods behind the house, but not on the road. :p

Hope eveyone is having a good day and those that are MIA find their way back to us!

:df:

Okay, I don't like this......... I pull up our thread and no one has posted???????? What, everybody went to a party and didn't ask me to go?????

I'm lonely, oh so lonely................

yeah, been kinda slow around here lately. maybe everyone off christmas shopping.

Good Mornings Everyone!!

Yes, where is everyone:?:....I know I started going to the stinky men's gym, but I shower when I come home and don't post til I get to work so what's up....this is getting spooky because ever since I put my picture up everyone dissapeared ( I don't sound too self-absorbed do I). Did I scare everyone off:sc:...Jello and Semo..should I take it down:lol:...

Where shall I go...what shall I do...where are my smelling salts I feel a faintin' spell comin' on from the sheer lonliness of it all...oh complete and utter sadness...

Good Morning Who's Ever Left Out There!!

Yes, where is everyone :?:....I know I started going to the stinky men's gym, but I shower when I come home and don't post until I get to work so what's up....this is getting spooky :fr: because ever since I put my picture up everyone dissapeared (I don't sound too self-absorbed do I).:s: Did I scare everyone off :eek:

Jello, Tiger, Semo..are you still there....am I still here....oh the philosophical implications :o

Where shall I go...what shall I do...where are my smelling salts I feel a faintin' spell comin' on from the sheer loneliness of it all :faint:...oh complete and utter sadness :bb:

Roll Call:drill:

Tiffany, Huntress, Cafe, Dyanm, Kayla, ...where ya' be??????????????

I'm here, just came back to see who was here today.

What are ya'll having for Thanksgiving Dinner? I need a new salad or green veggie recipe, any suggestions.

Nursie? :faint: Nursie, speak to me!! You OK?

... hmm.... What's that smell??

:p Just kiddin'!!!!! :lol:

I'm here, just workin' entirely too hard. A little stressed. :bomb: OK, a LOT stressed. And to top it off, I've got to call my gyn. and ask about this spotting I've been having for a couple days. Is this normal when you start taking BC pills? I don't need more stress, dammit!

Still being good. Still hitting the gym with a vengence. :strong: Didn't go to the toning class last night (was too busy sweating on the elliptical machine :smug: ) but I snuck over for a peek. Once again, a class full of skinnies but maybe I'll join anyway. It'll have to wait until I'm back from vacation next week though.

Darn! Have to run. Stupid boss...makin' me work... grumble grumble grumble.....

Jello: If you are taking a low-dose bc pill spotting is pretty common from what I remember of those days...but do check with your gyn anyway just to be safe. P.S. thanks for reviving me :cloud9:

Semo: Hm-m-m green salad or veggie dish :shrug: ...can't help you cause we don't have salad on Thanksgiving, and the greenest I am getting is peas sauteed with onions, butter, and garlic powder.

Deadnurse usually likes turkey, corn, and mashed potatoes, and sweet potatos. I'm making bread in my bread machine and serving Pillsbury's Grands, cause DeadNurse wants them...(yuck) they are not worth the 200 calories and million grams of fat each one has.

I make the mashers with fat-free half and half and "I can't believe its not butter light", with a little garlic powder, salt, and pepper, and I use the red potatos and leave the skins on...and they are fabulous. And pretty much fat-free, in fact I think I am going to use the I can't believe its not butter light in the peas too.

I am making apple pies with Splenda and unsweetened concentrated applejuice, and I use macintosh apples that are naturally sweet. Everybody is really used to the pies made this way and really love them, because there is no sugar aftertaste. I am also going to use low-fat evaporated milk and Splenda in my Pumpkin pies. Also making a Mince pie 'cause you guessed it... the little piglet Deadnurse wants it.....

I am definitely eating at Thanksgiving with no guilt 'cause I've been good and I promised myself this. :dance:

P.S. The Turkey stuffing will be sausage, with mushrooms, celery and butter, and stuffing mix.

Are you hungry yet?:lol:

DNW: I am going to dump my dinner guest and head to your house!!! Everything sounds very good.

I make homemade yeast rolls, this is a must have from my youngest son and oh so hard for me to stay out of.

Semo, swing by for me on your way to Nurse's house, OK?

Mmmmm! Red potatoes with the skins on, mashed with garlic ..... Yuuuummmmmmmmmmmyyyy!!!!! :T

Actually, we're heading down to Rich's parents' in North Carolina for Thanksgiving. Don't know what's on the menu exactly but I'm making plans. Got to avoid the munchies during the football game, drink lots of H2O, aim for the white meat and hope for lots of veggies. Plan to eat very slowly and try to enjoy the day more than the food. That's the plan.

... unless I get detoured on the way to the airport and end up in NJ on DNW's doorstep.

...could happen. :rolleyes:

P.S. Thanks for the info, DNW. The nurse I talked to at my doc's office told me the same thing. Should take about 2-3 cycles before my body figures it all out. I guess I can live with it.

Hi all!

Sorry I haven't had time to get in here today. Went out last night and didn't get home until midnight which means I got up late this morning. Dentist today.........need I say more. Bad news, I have gum disease and will be seeing her every 2 weeks beside having that broken tooth fixed.

Anyways, I'm tired so I'm going to go take a hot bath and crawl in to bed.

LJ

Forgot to tell what the appetizers are...can't forget those...:s:

Crab Dip:
Fresh Lump Blue Crab chunks with artichoke hearts, white wine, brie cheese, and other ingredients to numerous to mention, baked in the oven and served very warm.

Fresh Shrimp Cocktail

3 Layer Cheese Spread in a Mold:
made with alternating layers of Reduced-fat cream cheese, pesto made with pignoli nuts and fresh garlic and fresh grated parmesean cheese, and a layer of minced sundried tomatoes served on French bread toasted to a crisp in the oven....

Bruschetta and Cold Marinated Peppers and various cold vegetables....

I'll give you a map to my house, you all are sure welcome to come.... ;)

Oh DNW.........you should not tempt me so. Everything sounds so delicious! Here I am probably not going to be able to eat for a year or so;) and you're giving us recipes for some yummy things. Be sure to send me that map:s:

I'm sorry to be so down ladies, but I am a baby when it comes to dentist. On the bright side, guess I'll be losing lots of weight since I will be in too much pain to eat for a long time to come. I promise not to torture you any longer and am going to drop the tooth-talk here and now.

Dyan - come out come out wherever you are. Seriously though, I hope you're OK and just too busy too come see us.

Cafe, Tigerlily, Jello, SEMO, Brighterdays and anyone else I may have missed - Have a great weekend and oh yes...............

TGIF!

LJ

PS.............Looks like the thread is getting pretty long, what do you all think about starting a new one?