WW Clubs and Groups - Monday Morning

Welcome to the 20-somethings thread, all are welcome
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Morning All,


One hour less this weekend, the joy never ends. Anyhoo, this post is about Ali's adventures in Ottawa. Ali went to Ottawa to meet her potential roomate; we had arranged to meet at her apartment during the afternoon. My friend was coming along with me and it was all well, she even e-mailed me on Friday to tell me to have a safe trip (and remind me of the time and everything, I kept all my e-mails on the subject so I got my friends to double check for me <you'll understand later in the post> ).... guess what! She wasn't at her apartment at 3pm, so I waited a while in my car, to see if she had maybe been delayed nothing. I stupidly forgot her phone number at my place and had to call my friends to get them to check my e-mail (which included giving them my password, and I have some e-mails in there which I'd rather not have them see, nothing too bad or anything, but some personal stuff), so I call her, leave her a message and told her to call me at any point in the evening (i had my phone and plans to meet with some friends in Ottawa). She never called, I have no e-mails or anything from her. So, I'll be looking for a new roomate (which I have already hopefully found, I'm checking out the apartment next Saturday, here's the catch, I know the guy <though I haven't seen him in 2 years>, so I know I can trust him <I've known him since high school> ). BTW Ottawa is an hour and a half drive from my parent's house, so I was not happy to go all that way to be dissed like that. Sorry to rant, I was just kind of ticked.

Asides from that everything is pretty good and I am looking forward to the challenges of the upcoming week!

Well, except my WI wasn't that great, I was down .6 over 2 weeks, but I also had TOM. I am not expecting excellent results this week since I started tri-cyclen.

Take Care!

Ali

hey ali - bummer about the roomate - still at least you know now she's unreliable! hopefully nothing bad happened to her though. (i've definitely been watching too many x-files/angel/buffy episodes!).
so, who gets a gold star for a good weekend? erm, probably not me. :^: but i'll be OP all week i reckon.
lolly - i got my raceforlife stuff through! i'm number 179! if this nice weather keeps up it'll be roasting in june. i'm on week 4 of my running programme now. it's definitely making a difference to my legs, but i can also feel it in my knees and that's bad. i'm going to go check out running shoes and get a new pair.
question for lolly (or anyone else that understands me) - roses, quality street or milk tray?! ;)
emily - i'm so jealous of your house! in london you would be lucky to get a one-bedroomed flat in a scanky tower block in a dodgy area for anything less than a £100,000 (~$150,000). basically, you can't even afford to buy somewhere you wouldn't want to live! perhaps i need to move to a different city?!
belle - how did the move go?
shalyne - crouching tiger, hidden dragon is pretty good, i'd recommend going to see it. at last a film with good roles for women! and top fight scenes. i want to be a wudan warrior. actually, i'd find it quite stressful having to catch poisoned darts with my chopsticks in the middle of dinner.... ;)
jen - sorry to hear about the gain. maybe you need to completely change what you're eating, sometimes that helps. or double check your points. and write everything down! it could be a temporary abberation and you'll lose next week. don't give up cos you can do it. make sure you eat at least the minimum points, do some exercise and don't fret. you were doing the self challenge yeah? maybe you've put on some muscle, try taking your measurements cos they might have gone down, even if the scales haven't.
kierie - hope your pinky is better!
ok, i better do some work here. i got in an hour early so i will get to go home an hour early - yippee! lots of buffy/angel videos to watch. ;)
kirsty

Sorry Ali about the room mate -- what a drag!
I had a wonderful weekend with my father. It was a blast. We went to museums and watched movies and played cards -- not the most exciting stuff, but very good nonetheless.
Who's going to WI tonight? Me! (Yikes!)

You may not have even noticed that I was gone but I didn't get to check in thursday or Friday. Work was busy. I had my second to last day at one client and so was packing boxes to be shipped and such. We aldos had a yummy going away lunch for 2 ladies - wonderful. I ended up having cake 3 days last week. Then Friday was my first day at a new client and my boss was around so no computer time. Anyway, here I am again.

Here's a sort of funny WI story. I had done ok last week,. over points but majorly increasing my exercise. My scale said wonderfult things and I was expecting a loss. I went to the gym afte my new client and had a super cardio workoout and then to WW. I was going to go to the 6:45 meeting instead of the 5pm meeting since I left work later than normal. Only to get there and find out that they do not have a t 6:45 meeting on Fridays! Oh, I was so mad :mad: anyway, I finally go over it and we went to dinner and karaoke. I had a brunch on Sat am for Delta Gamma Founders Day ( my college sorority) so I went to WI first thing. I stayed exactly the same! I truly felt that if I had gotten to WI on Friday night, I would have lost. Very frustrating. Then I ate out of control on Saturday - brunch food not too bad but ate many chocolates. Then dinner at someone'se house. Yesterdya I was over by 5 but got a few exercise points through painting. Anyway, I am determined to have a good week this week and lose!

Ok, enough about me. Sorry about that. I hope everyone had a good weekend. IT was a bit chilly here but not too horrible. Definitely not spring yet.

Kirsty - I am so impressed by your running! You are doing great. I am trying to learn to run w/o a program and I am up to .9 miles in 2 segments. My goal is 2.5 miles, nothing major. Keep it up!

Ali - I am so sorry to hear about the annoying roommate situation. I hope that your new roommate situation works out better. Best of luck.

Lola - Glad you had a nice time with your dad. Mine is coming up in a month and I can't wait.

Brenda - Hope you are recovering from your weekend eating. I wish I could help but I am struggling with you.

Jen - I know how frustrating it is to gain when you expect to lose. I hope that you will decide to stick with WW. The weight will come off eventually. It is just not cooperating with you.

Hi to everyone else! I should be back a few times today. See you later.

Sarah
194.4/164.6/153WW

Kirsty: Yes of course I hope she is okay, I mean if she was in the hopsital or something I'd completely understand and everything (and feel terrible about being so ticked off), that thought had crossed my mind (I am my mother's daughter).

Yet on a different note, the apartment (which is in a triplex) did not have parking and she said that it did (I'd have to park on grass and get over a sidewalk, there was no driveway at all and no indentation in the sidewalk). I need parking.

Lola: Thanks, I am just treating it as a learning experience in general. I love looking around museums. I am glad you had a great weekend with your dad!

Predicament: Should I just send her an e-mail that says the apartment is no longer required or wait for her to contact me?

Take Care!

Ali

<<yawns>> Hi Everyone :) Monday morning yet again... hope you all had nice weekends. Mine was fine, nothing too exciting. Sort of stressful yesterday... my guy friend and I had it all out over what we "are". Discovered that the problems are arising not from where we are or what we want but that we're just calling it different things. His definition of "close friendship" is my definition of "relationship. Basically his definition of "relationship" is my definition of "marriage". <<groans>> I'm hoping now that we got that squared away things will settle back down again LOL. Geez, the complications I tell ya. Nothing much new otherwise tho. Ate horribly... gah. Shame on me. Did get some water in tho so that was good.


Ali... I would think you may as well wait for her to contact you at this point. You already did your part to try to get in touch.

Hope you are all having a nice day :)

Good morning! Monday is here again! (Groan....)

Well, did terrible eating this weekend, plus DH and I drank way to much Sat. night, I feel like I have gained 10 pounds!! So, I am pulling myself back together today and staying OP all week, I have WI on Sat. and I do not want a gain!!!!

Ali ~ I agree with Shalyne, you did your part, she can call you.

Lola ~ I am so glad you had such a wonderful time with your dad!

Sarah ~ Glad you are back! Sorry to hear about the WI deal, I am sure you will find a meeting at the time you need it.

Good morning Kirsty (or, it is probably afternoon where your at, right?)

Hello to everyone else that hasn't posted yet. I am trying to gain some ambition at work here today, but I don't think I am going to get any! It is finally getting nice here in Wisconsin, it is suppose to be in the 50's today, but there is a chance of rain all week. I just want some sunshine!!!!

Well, work calls, see you all a little later! :)

Tonya... agh I want sunshine too!! I'm sooo sick of winter already :)

it's sunny here...but i'm stuck indoors! i reckon it will be blue skies and sunshine all week and then it will piss it down with rain all weekend.

ali - i'd prob send her an email. that way you might find out what went wrong (and where the alleged parking was). and you can tell her you've found another roomie.

shalyne - men are so rubbish sometimes. so are you guys going to be "just friends" for now? or do you think something more will happen?

sarah - i want to do a 5k (3 miles) in june. and after that i'll probably try to do 20 min runs 3 times a week. but first i have to get past 5 minute runs!! i think i'll start taking my walkman to the gym. do you guys find it easier to run to music? our gym does play music, but it is very bad!
tonya - i had huge amounts of wine and cava at the weekend. ;) i was so tired after all the boozing and socialising that i fell asleep fully dressed last night while watching a terrible film called the beast (about a giant squid).

lola - good luck at WI tonight! i think i'm going to WI officially on thursday. i haven't done so for ages, so hopefully i won't suddenly get a huge gain! i think i'll be ok, but if not then i suppose i'll need to cut back on my boozing!

kirsty

Good morning ladies.

Hope you all had a nice weekend.

Ali - that sucks. I'm sorry. Last year my roommate of 5 years had to move home because her dad got very sick. Well, I had to look for a roommate. All my friends already had living arrangements... so I went online and it worked out excellent. I was really scared and wary - but I guess we were lucky.

I am SO tired. And hungry, but I'm not eating lunch until after I weigh in. I weigh in in 45 minutes... so i'll keep you all posted. I was under everyday but one and I exercised four times... so if I don't lose weight everyone better watch out!!! :) I'll be a wild woman.

Oh - and I stuck to my plan. I didn't drink AT ALL! I was even pressured. We went out for a friend's birthday and everyone got wine and drinks and they were like "coem on, you have to drink for the toast." but I stuck to my guns and toasted with my diet coke.

THEN Saturday we went to this AWESOME bar downtown, and I only had diet cokes again. I was having such a good time, my roommate was like "are you sure they didn't spike your diet coke?" and I was like "yeah." I was just having fun and dancing around - totally sober :)

So - i'm telling you girls... I think this is the day. I think I'll reach my 10%. I'll let you know as soon as I get back. woo-hoo. ANd like I said, if I don't get there... I'll be freaking out because this week I was SO GOOD and OP.

Hi Sarah. Kirsty, Shaylyn, Tonya, Lola... hope you had nice weekends. I'd say more, but this morning has been CRAZY!

You girls have a good day. I'll check in after weigh in.

Lisa

I am here. Ate bad this weekend, but walked a ton at the competition event. So, I think I evened things out.
I have to get back to work, but hopefully I can lurk later.
Have a great day!
ps...I love getting an extra hour of daylight, but I don't like giving up an hour of sleep!!

OMG - more pizza in the cafeteria. NOTHING has ever smelled SO GOOD in my entire life.

just say no to the pizza. it's the smell that's nicer than the taste. so inhale it as much as you want and at the same time eat something else (low-point!). and pretend!

This is the second time I’ve been on WW. The first time I was 13. I lost 10 pounds but it was too hard to eat different meals from my family. It took me 10 years to come back! 2 ½ years later I’m still here fighting for a healthy lifestyle.

It’s Monday and I want to be outside in the beautiful weather! It's supposed to be upper 60's (f) today.

I’m not happy with myself. I doubled my daily points on Saturday. I can’t say I feel better for actually counting it, but I guess it’s better than nothing right? Then I was determined to stay to the low end of my points yesterday, but caved in a bought Peeps at the grocery store. Marshmallow covered in sugar. Yummy! That put me 4 over. I did work on the yard a lot though, but I’m not sure how many points to count that as. I was thinking 2, what do you guys think?

I wish you could all se my yard. I went crazy at Wal-Mart (and just about died when the register amount came up!) and got cute stuff for the yard. I made my own cactus garden (I’m so proud of myself), bought outside coasters that look like rocks, found these things that look like stepping stones – one has a butterfly and one has a dragonfly in my wedding colors - purple and blue (did you guys know that the dragon fly means success & luck?). Then when my dragon fly spike candle holders come in they will look perfect with the stepping stones in the flower beds in front of my house. My DH’s grandparents used to live in this house. Seeing as they were retired, they had plenty of time to work on the yard. We’ve barely been able to keep up. The people who lived there before just let everything go so we are finally feeling like we are making headway on it.

I won free registration to PL National Conference this summer! (Out of 1500 raffle tickets sold – for the American Cancer Society) My luck has been really good lately. I have a PL workshop tonight and there are going to be Margarita’s :eek: I’m trying to figure out a way to have one. I can do it if I eat veggies for dinner. I think this is the smartest way b/c I know that I won’t be able to turn down a Marg and this way I will end up mid range. I think I’ll take some carrots w/me. There will be chips and salsa – anyone ever try carrots and salsa? Sorry for being so long, I just had to share with you girls!

Ali: I can’t believe she stood you up! That’s so rude. Not even an E-mail or anything? :rolleyes: Congrats on the loss!!

Kirsty: You are an inspiration! Maintaining weight and the running program.

Sarah: We’re all on that weekend bandwagon. I keep trying to find a solution. I think exercise is the solution for me. I’m really not getting much :(

Lisa: !!!! What a wonderful job you did this weekend. That’s some major will power to turn down all those drinks, even with ppl pressuring you! Stay away from the pizza. The spit culprit is back again!

"Imagination is the eye of the soul." -- Joseph Joubert

Hi girls! I'm back from Florida, tan and rested. I could have checked in over the week, but I didn't feel much like sitting at the computer. Too much like work, and I wanted to get away from work as much as possible!

I had a great time, but I didn't count points, so it'll be interesting to go to WI on Wednesday. I don't think I did too horribly, actually. I think it's easier to eat more healthy in hot weather. I never feel like eating as much crap when it's hot. One day I went for lunch at a seafood place, fully prepared to get a fried clam roll. Instead, I ended up getting a seafood salad. So good for me! And my mom cooked most of the week and she was watching my points for me ... :)

Going through a whole week's worth of posts might take a while, so I'm just going to jump in without reading. I hope everyone's doing well.

Well, as much I as would love to sit around and do nothing all day, I actually have work to do. It's gonna be hard ... talk to ya'll later.

and monday's no better. I will be happy if I have a maintain. UGH. I have eatend double my daily points for oh, about 4 days now. I must get my butt back on track! I have been totally stressed out over getting the house. We did find out that we have been approved for the loan, now we will be getting all the paperwork today and finding out the interest on the loan (groan, worst part about loans). I want to get crackin on re-doing our house! The previous owners were heavy smokers so we pretty much have to gut the place and start over even the carpet is a yellow color! It was originally a light blue. DH is allergic to cigarette smoke so this a must do thing.

DS got his finger cut open(stuck in between the lid and rim of an open peach can) on saturday and required 3 stitches. We even had to have 911 show up at our house to assess his finger before we took him in. It was really bad. I've just been a stressed out wreck.

Ali~How rude! I do hope she is o.k. though, just seems weird for her to do that.

Brenda~your garden sounds so cool. I can't wait till I can get mine up and going. It'll have to wait for another month or so though (paint job comes first!)

Stacey~ I'm with you on the 1 hr loss of sleep. It sucked! With my DD sick it made it even worse, even more sleep deprivation!

Shalyne~I hope everything is settled between you and your guy friend soon. That sucks to have to different versions or mindsets of what you are.

Sarah: Avoid that cake! Sorry to hear about the screwed up WI times. That would really suck and make me mad to.

well, gonna run for now. My ds is awfully quiet. I need to go check on him. See ya' all later! :D

Hi Kim~Glad you had a great time in Florida!

I have to tell you guys about my DS. He cut his finger, which I mentioned above only it was the middle finger. Well the bandages are so big that it makes it stick out really bad and to keep him from pulling it off I have been putting on other bandages such as blue's clues, toy story and winnie the pooh. I've been telling people that my son has the most colorful middle finger on the planet (as he's flipping them off, don't ya know) LOL. Just had to share. Gotta run!

Agh! I'm eating Wendy's... see what happens when I don't go shopping! LOL


As for my "close friendship/relationship"... I think we're just going to keep doing what we've been doing and see what happens. Basically our views of what we are and how we feel are almost identical...we're just calling it something different. It's strange to me...but I can live with it as long as I know how he feels about me. I have a hard time communicating my feelings and that's something I need to work on anyways. So I guess we'll see...

YAY!!!!!!!!!

Girls, I have you to thank for this. I made my10%. I was down 3 pounds this week. (good thing or I would have gone mental) :) But it feels great. Down 23 1/2 all together.

And to think... I lost 3 pounds and had enchaladas twice this week :) I think the no alcohol thing makes a huge difference.

Kirsty... thanksfor the tips. When I came back from weigh in, I had to wakl past the caff... but after losing 3 pounds, I realized that felt better than eating pizza could ever feel.

Brenda, I wouldn't worry too much about saturday. it happens. I went 15 point over last week... it sounds like it was a tough weekend for a lot of people. I'm suer you're back on track already.

To the rest - thanks for all your supprt.. doing this without you all would be a lot harder! Have a good day girls.

Pizza tastes SO GROSS.

Lisa

Hi Ladies,

Daylight savings stinks. I am so exhausted. I like it much better when we get to put the clocks back an hour.

Well, I ate way too much this weekend. And now my NYC trip is just 18 days away. I know we are going to do a lot of walking that weekend plus I would love to be able to wear this black skirt I have. I feel so bloated....yuck. I didn't even dare step on the scale. I will be good this week and check again next Saturday.

Bf is sick with what I had last week so I feel really bad, he works 12 hour days now and I am the worrying type. But on a good note, I met his neighbor and his neighbor told him later that I seemed nice and a "keeper". He said I seemed to have the house under control and stuff. I thought that was so sweet. It's so nice to be accepted!!! :D

Ali~ I got a roomie from the newspaper and she turned out to be psycho so it's good you know this other guy first.

Brenda~ I went crazy at Walmart on Friday too! It's so funny when you get all these great deals and then the totla doesn't seem to be such a great deal :) THat's alright....shopping is a great high.

Shalye~ what movie did you end up seeing~you are right about heartbreakers not being a good one for guys. I definately wouldn't let bf see it. I had an ex that was so set on not calling or relationship a relationship or that i was his girfriend. Guys are just afraid of commitment...too bad.....they miss out cause with commitment come a lot of great things....trust, caring, and someone alwasy being there for you.

Sarah~ don't worry about staying the same....I bet you gained muscle from the workouts.

Well, must go~ I can't wait to be done with this place....it sucks!!!

Tilley!! Congratulations!!! I too am in the losers club-a pound this week-I was psyched. I was a little off over the weekend but generally did ok. I am moving to NY for the month to live with my mom while I work an elective... things have been really stressful-trying to go away and tucking in all of my patients is difficult but I think i did it...BF and I looked at houses all weekend...it was kind of fun, actually, and very educational-More later-Lori

Congrats to the losers this week! :)
I am so ready to go home. I've got the worst case of burn-out possible. I can't take any vacation though b/c of the honeymoon in July. I'll have 2 days left after I get back, but I need it for later in the year.
~sigh~
I hope everyone is having a wonderful day. I guess I'll try to get back to work. The big boss decided to play golf today...huh. Must be nice.
I'll be around later.
Kim: Welcome back! I'm jealous of your tan! I burned yesterday b/c the sun was playing hide&seek with the clouds and I didn't even think about sunscreen.
Ok. Back to work.
Bye

Hi girls! Well, its over - Saturday we did the entire move and unpacked the whole place (my 2 sisters, their husbands, brother in law's brother Keith and my b/f). Sunday went to Ikea and dropped some coin - that was FUN!!!

I really like it so far. B/f stayed over the past 2 nights withme, though its further to his work so I am thinking he won't do that often....but oh well! He did it for me last night, and it was nice. He has been very tender and attentive, which is also good. He just let me rule the roost all weekend, what ever we did and with whomever, he even offered tohelp fix things and clean upmy mom's house with us girls next weekend. So, I guess things are looking up!?

The best part of the weekend was Keith. He told my sister in the car that it was the first time it really hit him how much weight I'd lost. then later in the day he said to me 'get your skinny butt over here' and I said, 'I don't have a skinny butt, you must be referring to someone else' and he was like, no your butt is getting pretty skinny' and it was the topic of conversation for a good 10 min (my butt). I was so pleased!!!! YAY!!!!

Ali - that sucks about your roomate, what a wiener!! I hope it works out for you....

tilly - congrats on the 10%, but don't thank us, thank yourself - you did it all by yourself.

Brenda - My stepmother made me join when I was 12 - I was about 170lbs at the time and I was horrified. and I had to eat different too, which sucked.....

Kirsty - I wasn't a good girl either, so I guess we are in the same boat (too much beer!!)

Suzanne - I am with you on daylight savings...YUCK!!

Kim - hey girl! I am glad you enjoyed your trip - you SO deserved that.

Well, I gotta run - work is busier than ever.

Take care!


Belle

Ok ladies, 'I have nothing to do at work today. I filed a few papers and did a few small things but I have been goofing off the rest of the time. I have 2 more hours to waste until I go home and I think I am going to die. I have looked up everything known to man on the internet - furniture, bedding, baby stuff, anemia, etc. It was interesting but a stretch.

Tilley - WOOHOO! congratulations on your 3 pound loss and making 10%!!!! you are doing great. I agree on the alcohol thing. Way to go on passing up the pizza! :D

Emily - Sorry that you had such a stressful weekend. I guess I missed it, I didn't know that you had bought a house. (Is that correct?) If so, that is great! I am doing some home improvement stuff too.

Belle - I am so glad that you had a good weekend and are in your new place. It is so fun to start fresh. Congrats on the compiments. Sounds like things are going well with bf too. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.

Stacey - I am ready to go home too!!!!

Lori - I love looking at houses! Eventhough we already have one, I still like looking for ideas.

Suzanne - I hope that I am gaining muscle and that is why I didnot lose this week. My jeans are fitting better so that is nice. I am glad that you are better, sorry that bf is sick though. I am sure that you are a "keeper"!

shaylene - As long as you are happy, it doesn't matter what you each call your "relationship". I am glad that you feel the same way about eachother. Now go to the grocery store so that you don't go to Wendy's again! I am going grocery shopping tonight!

Kim - Sounds like a great trip to FL. You have a great attitude about your points while on vacation. I am going to FL this weekend for 4 days. Maybe I'll get some color too :)

Brenda - You are so lucky winning your registration. I think it sounds like you are doing really well eventhough you went over on Saturday. I have doubled my points as well and probably did on Saturday also. I did WW the first time at age 16 and am now on my 5th effort. We'll get there eventually though.

Stacey - that 1 hour of sleep makes a difference! I was so sleepy when the alarm went off this morning. zzzzzzz

Kirsty - I can now run 5 minutes at a time but (6.5 min and 4-5 is more like it) for a total of .9 miles. I hope I get to a mile soon. Keep up the good work!

Already, enough goofing around here. Off to find something else. Have a good afternoon.

Sarah
194.4/164.6/153WW

Hellooooooooooooo everyone!!! Can't believe Monday came around so fast ... hope everyone had a cool weekend, and if you went over points, well, put it behind you and start again. I had a good one, lots of wandering round the city and looking in second hand bookstores. I am trying to find books by the author I'm writing my thesis on because nothing of hers is in print and all the ones I have are library photocopies, but I keep getting sidetracked by other stuff. I love old books, they smell so good. And even better if they have notes written in them. Anyway, all the walking was good, the weather is really hotting up (31 celsius yesterday which must be way over 70F) and I went to see State and Main, which was fab. I loved it! OF course, really I'm just waiting for Bridget Jones to open, but ... Oh! And I ran 25mins yesterday morning. YIPPEE!!

Ali - bummer about the roomie, but sounds like you have found a better alternative. I guess sometimes these things are meant to be (though I agree it was weird of her just to disappear...),

Kirsty - it HAS to be Milk Tray. Roses and Quality Street make me think a) of my grandparents and b) of the huge tins we used to keep scissors and stuff in at Junior School (don't ask me why, they were always chocolate tins ... what does that tell you about teachers?!). And YAY! on the running ... I just sent you an e-mail ... I entered the raceforlife as well so now we really have to do it :)

Sarah - there are loads on online running programs if you want one - runnersworld.com is one, and they have loads of links with stacks of info for beginners (if you're still looking for things to do today!...)

Lola - good luck for WI. How long have you been maintaining? Between you, Ali, and Stacey you keep me going, it's so good to see people who started where I did and have made it all the way!

Shalyne - glad you and blokey had the talk. Communication is the key!

Tonya - here's hoping you get sunshine today!

Lisa - WOO HOO!!!!!!!!!!!! Congrats on the 10%! And you know, I haven't drunk nearly as much since starting WW and I don't miss it at all. I def don't miss the hangovers! Glad you had such a cool weekend on diet cokes!

Stacey - what competition events? Horses? Cars? Did you hear all the sports stuff in England got cancelled because of foot and mouth?

Brenda - yup, I did WW at 14, with my dad. I wish I'd kept my card, because I can't even remember how much I weighed when I started or how much I lost. I know I went from 21? to 19? but apart from that ... My Dad was really into it but he went about it all the wrong way, he would skip meals all day then pig out at night. I took Slimfast to school for lunch for 3 years! No wonder I ended up like I did ...

Emily - YIPPEE! on the loan, it must be so exciting to be able to do all the stuff you wanted to do.

Lori - YAY! 1lb down!

Belle - glad the move was good. Sounds like you have a dead supportive family. Look at you now - in your own place, skinny butt (!), lovely bloke ...

KIM! Welcome back! We missed you, but I'm glad you had a rippy-skippy time in Florida. Did you see any alligators?

Hugs to everyone I've missed and take care,

love
Lolly
xxx

ps: Blokey's coming here 2 weeks tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!

o.k. I am really stressed out. The home guy is stringing us along on this house buying business. On friday he tells us we've been approved for the loan and that the house is ours. Well, I went walking down there today and there were people looking at OUR house! I was so shocked I walked back home and called DH at work. So, he calls the mortgage guy and asks him what's up and the mortgage guy told us that we not quite yet approved and that he has been showing the house all weekend and has other interested buyers. We find out at 3:30 if the house is ours or not.

I am about ready to cry I am so depressed about the whole thing. I had a chocolate protein bar to avoid binging.

I guess it's not so much that he's showing the house (that's his job) it's just that he keeps saying one thing and doing or saying another thing in a different conversation. I hope I am making sense. I'm kind of distracted right now.

I'll check in later. :cry:

Hi everyone! I don't have a lot of time, so I have to make this short :(. Way to go all of the loosers!

Lisa~ Congrats on the 10%!!! That is awesome.

Emily~I hope all is Ok with the house! My DH and I are going through that now. The housing market here is very tight and we can barely afford the area we want a home in. The only problem is that the houses in our price range are a little older, so they require a lot of work. The house we fell in love with was sold the same day we looked at it for over the list price. I was kinda sad. DH and I still have a few months left in our lease, so I guess that buys us a little time. Good Luck!

Lori ~ I love looking at the houses also. Unfourtunately most are way too expensive for us. Maybe we'll get lucky and find a steal!

Hello everyone else!

Lolly~ Does "hola guapas" mean hello beautiful women? I don't remember all of my spanish.

Well I think I'll do OK at WI this week. I have been smoke free since Saturday. DH and I slipped and had one Saturday night, but we got right back on the wagon and have been good since (over 42 hours). The only problem is that I have been eating a ton of hard candy. Oh well, I'd rather have cavities than black lungs!

Work calls, I'll check in later,
Kay

I went outside and read for lunch. It cooled off the longer I sat out there, but maybe I got a little sun on my arms :D Boy did it feel good to sit in the sun. I'm feeling really icky and fat today :( I know it's the onset of TOM and the candy I have eaten. Must get up and exercise tomorrow!! *sha!*

Kim: Welcome back! It’s great that you have your mom to help you with counting points. I wouldn’t have been on the computer either. I thought about getting online while DH and I were on our cruise, but we had so much laying around the pool to do, it just wasn’t a priority :lol: Great choice on the salad too. Don’t worry about WI.

Emily: Girl, you need a long hot bath or something. It’s just one thing after another for you lately isn’t it? Had to chuckle at you son and his middle finger! Don’t let the whole house thing get you down. I tend to do the same thing when people are straightforward. It would be nice to just have someone be honest. Just keep thinking positive about it!

Shalyne: Relationships are hard enough without having to worry about what means what. Sometimes I think the challenge is not to figure it out, but to learn to live with it. Very frustrating at times!

LISA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everyone on my floor looked at me strange as I did cartwheels down the hall!! I’m so excited for you! Way to go :spinning:

Suzanne: I’m feeling icky today too. Seems to be a trend :mad: Was determined to do well on points, had such a good week last week and I’m sitting here eating M & M’s. WI tomorrow too. Grrrrrrr

Stacey: I feel your pain on having to save vacation for my honeymoon last year. I’m warning you, it gets much worse the closer you get to the wedding, especially with it being summer time! The honeymoon will be well worth it though. Oh! I’m sure I’ve told you this before, but go to Pancho’s Backyard in downtown Cozumel when you hit the shops. They have killer guacamole salad and wonderful food. You can also drink their water b/c it’s purified – we did and had no problems. There’s also a great store there with everything you could imagine.

Belle: roflhBo!!!! Hmmmm, nothing like a good butt conversation!? So glad you got moved. It’s so cool to have a new place, especially the first of you own!

Sarah: My day is dragging too, and normally Monday’s go quickly. Tuesdays are even worse and I dread them.

Lolly: I’m so proud of you for keeping up on the running!! I can’t believe how many people were on WW as children. I don’t remember how much I weighed then, but I do remember having to get on a scale when I started High School. I know I was shorter than I am now and I weighed 140. Obviously that experience scarred me for life to remember the exact weight. I was mortified. How funny now that it’s the top of my weight range. It’s also what’s on my license :lol:

Dang, no more posts to respond to. *sigh* DH and I were talking about this one time. He made the comment ‘When I get bored I get lazy’ That’s the boat I’m in. I feel so unfulfilled in this job. I need to make a difference, I need to influence people, do a job that means something. OK, get out of the slump! That’s why I’m doing PL, it’s just a matter of time! It’s the time that is killing me though :rolleyes: All day at work I’m thinking of all the things I could be doing to improve my business. I guess I’ll call it constructive brainstorming time eh?

Have a nice evening and afternoon girls.

Suzanne, I agree with you. It was just getting easier to wake up in the morning with the sun shining in my windows. Now it's dark in the mornings again, and I just don't want to get out of bed :(

LoriD - Thanks and congrats on your loss too!!! :)

Belle - sounds like things are going awesome with the b/f. I'm so happy for you. :) And by the way, I know I lost the weight myself... but i didn't do it all by myself. I had you guys for support. I definately haven't felt alone in this.

Sarah, thanks for the congrats. And enjoy that down time at work while you have it. I'm swamped lately and I miss being bored!!!

Lolly.. Posting Queen! Wow... what a mouthful. Great job on the morning run. And I did have a hard time sort of not drinking on Friday. I just wanted to join in with my friends. But then on Saturday when people were saying if they didn't know any better they would have thought I'd been drinking... just goes to show I can losen up and act silly with diet cokes too... kind of showed me "who needs the extra calories." I think I'll make that my goal again this week. But in two weeks I'm going home for easter and we're going to New Orleans. I have a feeling I'll drink there... but for this week at least....

TxAggie - Congrats on the smoking. That's so awesome. I'm glad you're quitting smoking. It's SO AWEFUL for you. But wow - I commend you on doing both that and WW at the same time. Now that takes discipline.

Brenda!!!!!! :) Thanks for the cartwheels :) I wish I could sit in the sun for lunch. I can't remember the last time I saw sun. It's still in the 30's every day. In APRIL! I can't wait to visit home for Easter. it should be warm there. And sorry about the Av's on Saturday. Like it matters... they're No. 1 even if they lose the rest of the games in the regular season. GO AVS. I really think this is their year!

Girls, have a great evening. And thanks again for all your support! It makes each week not seem so hard.

Lisa
HW238/ WW Start 220/ CW 196.5!!!!/ July 25th goal: 170

WEll, I just talked a very nice parent. Ver yvery nice. But I big time fumbled my words and now I feel like a goober. I think I was just so ecstatic to talk to someone that believs in what we do here and stuff.

ANYWAYS, BF is being so sweet. We had a funny weekend. We both have a sacrcastic sense of humor and we like to make fun of each other and such. Like when we were in Walmart~I saw a dress and I sacastically said "that is the more beautiful dress I have ever seen" and he said "yeah if you are color blind" The walmart employee nearby started cackling and I told bf that she was very embarassed for me. Maybe you had to be there but I thought it was funny :)

Belle~ that is so awesome about your skinny butt! :D My mom calls me skinny too....even though I am so far from it! Plus bf being so sweet~~~maybe he's gonna admit the L word soon!!!!!!!!!

Brenda~ you are funny....I know what you mean about looking up everything on the net when you are bored. Hang in there though....like you said it's brainstorming time! :)

Kay~ that's so awesome that you and dh are quitting smoking. You should be so proud of yourself! Keep up the good work and know that you are doing such a great thing for your lungs!

busymom~ I'm crossing my fingers for you. I remember all the crud my mom went through when she sold and bought a condo apt. It really is stressful. Try to let go of the stress....everything will be alright no matter what happens. It will all work out ion the end.

Lolly~ I'm so jealous of the weather over there! I did WW when I was in 9th grade and got from 140lbs to 119lbs!!! Can you believe it! That was the smallest I have ever been!! Oh the days!

Stacey~ I know what you mean about burn out. Try to do something nice for yourself tonight....warm baths are always good.

Lori~ good luck looking for houses...sounds like you are busy.

Lisa~ Congrats on that awesome 10%!!!!!!! :D

Well, I like this time...when everyone here goes home and I have an hour until the students come in. I have just over a month left here and I am trying to take everything with a grain of salt and do my best. I think I will count the days down :)

Have a good night everyone!

Afternoon,


I am done class today, boy am I tired, I want that hour back:) Yet I like the fact that we get a longer day. This is my first time on WW, but I have been to a dietician to lose weight three other times, the first time was when I was 15 and I was 225 lbs and 5'5". I weighed 147lbs when I was 12 (5'0) and 210 (5'4")when I was 14.

Brenda: I hate those fat days, I am retaining water and feel really crappy overall... I think I may be coming down with something though. I hope you feel better.

Lolly: well, yeah, but as my mom says, it is better to find out the person is unreliable now than to find out after I have signed stuff or am living there. I am so jealous of your weather:) I did slimfast too when I was in high school.

Emily: Good luck with the house, that is dischantening though what the mortgage guy is doing to you. I hope you get it though.

Belle: The other guy who'll most likely be my roomate was my friend's roomie before and he was fine; she told me he made a good roomate. Cool comments on your butt!

Suzanne: Yeah I guess taht's the problem with stranger roomates; they're strangers. Me and the new probable roomate have known each other for years and we get along fine.

Shalyne: Men are weird sometimes, but as long as you know where you stand that's the most important thing.

Lisa: That's good that your roomate ended up being awesome!! I sometimes go dancing completely sober, no one knows the difference usually... I have a tendancy to get REALLY hyper:)

Kim: :wave: How have you been?

Kirsty: I always have my walkman with me, I usually use fast rock and alternative as my jogging music.

Tonya: Yeah I am thinking that she should make the next communication, but I am also tempted just to send an e-mail saying that I have found something else... Oh well, I'll think about it.


See you All later!

Ali

I was just reading Fridays posts and Tonya and I could have gone to the same school. Un fortunately I wasn’t allowed to go on Spring Break or anything I hear my class went wilder than usual. I didn’t get to go to many of the parties til I was out of school but most of the kids were more my age.

TOM bites! :( I’ve got to find the heating pad. The last two months have been awful as far as TOM goes.

I picked 2-3 on the poll but the first time I tried WW was for like 1 ½ months and I didn’t really try. So I’ve really only TRIED once.

Well it was 75degrees (f) and sunny this morning while I was at work bored, then as it nears 3-quitting time- clouds appear and it’s supposed to rain. Arghhh

Kirsty- What’s cava? :?:

Belle- I know that skinny butt talk made you feel good. :D That’s great.

Well I need to be walking right now but instead I'm waiting on UPS to call back they have been shipping my package back and forth between Little Rock and Forrest City for four days :mad:

Y'all have a great night. Good luck to all the monday and tuesday weighers! :spin:

I just figured my BMI on the WW site and it has gone from 38 to 32. :) Which I know is still obese but it's a lot closer to 30 which is just overweight. I don't know when the last time I was there.

WEll, there are weather warnings out and its snowing like the dickens....better now than at stampede I suppose!! I better get going. Have a great OP night - I know for me its the evenings that get me -I am a huge slacker when I get home (excuses galore!!).

BON SOIR!!!

Belle :dz: