We plan to arrive in your "Sunshine State" June 28th!! Want to drive up for a couple of days, that would be great. We could run {me walk} on the beach.
I am taking a muti vitamin daily. I am trying to eat a salad everyday (with low-fat or FF dressing). My salads always have tomatoes, cucumbers, celery & carrots. I didn't realize I wasn't eating enough....I'm always full! Thanks so much!!! I'll continue to post my meals ONLY if you continue to help me! I really need to learn how to eat right. It's like I don't want much anymore but I'll try harder to get more food in daily.
I would LOVE for you to come to Panama City for a couple of days and see us!!!! How far is it from you?
Sherry, I can't believe how great your doing!!! Those pounds are just melting off!!!! You are way past just losing water weight now, so this is the extra "fluff" just floating off!!!! SUPER!!!! YIPPEEE!!!! I am so happy for you!!!
SHERRY} WOOHOO, You keep it up!!! You are doing fantastic!! You are giving me more and more inspiration to stay on track!!!
Gayle} I do keep the books for the dairy farm, but I also work off the farm. Some of the earlier years, it has been a godsend to have a job off the farm. Any kind of farming is very unpredictable!!!
I managed to stay pretty much OP for the weekend. I hit a rough patch on Sunday and wanted sweets, but I don't think I did too much damage. I still managed to lose 1.5 lbs last week!
I have been back 100% today!
How are the rest of you ladies doing? Lets all get skinny before we meet next year!!
Carol & Deb: GREAT JOB ON THE WEIGHT LOSS!!!!!! YIPPPEEEE!!!!! SUPER!!!!!!!!!
Carol: I all to well understand the risk of farming and ranching. I grew up on a farm and still am associated with it to some extent. We are taking some of the family land and placing it into CRP just for the fact that you can expect some money off of it compared to all the expense and risk of planting a crop.
Gayle,
I can totally relate. I'm op too and not losing. I really got depressed about it this weekend but I had to remind myself how much better I feel and that my clothes aren't as tight as they were on Feb. 24th. I need that whoosh fairy (was that her name?) to pay me a visit!!!
WTG everyone on the great losses!!
Gayle and Jeanne, don't get discouraged. The plateaus are perfectly normal and one day you'll get up and it will start falling off again. Hang in there!
Thought I'd share something interesting I read today. Supposedly, people who wash frequently with anti-bacterial soap may be slowing down weight loss. The key ingredient in the soap is absorbed through the skin and suppresses the thyroid. This can cause a slow down in the metabolic process. I had never heard this before, but I thought it was worth checking out.
Has anyone heard from Lisa? It has been quite some time since she posted. If you're reading this Lisa, we miss you.
Let's keep on being a bunch of losers. Just think, when we all hit town together next summer with our svelte bodies......people will think we are there for some big reality show about gorgeous babes......They could call it "Mom's gone wild"!!!! LOLOLOL
Ramona: I use anti-bacterial dish soap......hmmm....NO MORE DISHES!!!!! YIPPEEE!!!! Hubby needs to gain a pound or two, I'm turning the job over to him!!!!
Jeanne: I sent the "Whoosh Fairy" to Doni, she needs to hurry and send her back this way! Have you heard of a plan called Stillmans? Very much like Atkins except low fat meat/cheeses and no dressings. Its for people in a plateau or people that just want to get a rush on the weight loss. I'm on day two, I can not stand this getting on the scale, losing two pounds, getting on the scale, gaining one pound stuff anymore!
"moms gone wild!!" Sher, you should of wrote to Springer!!
I guess I haven't updated you on my Hospice care for awhile. I put together a makeup and hair care kit, so I have been doing facials and cutting/setting hair for the various patients. It looks like next week I will have a new patient assigned to me, she has terminal pancreatic cancer. I am always nervous when I first meet a patient and the family, but so elated when I leave. knowing that I can not take care of the problems but hopefully I have made this day better for them, it is a great feeling.
I hope all of you are doing great! Sounds like we are full of motivation on this board!!!
Doni, Lisa, Vickster: Please post a message when you have a chance!!
Tonight was open house at my kids' school so we decided to go out to eat. We went to Mexican food and an amazing thing happened...I didn't eat the chips or have a margarita (I love margaritas!)...I ate a grilled chicken cobb salad and had a diet coke. Now this is HIGHLY unusual....I deserve to lose at least 5 lbs. for such a sacrifice...oh whoosh fairy, where are you?????
Deb 
You are giving me more and more inspiration to stay on track!!!
DOWN 1 more pound!!
