Hi all!
WW went a little better than expected actually. I was only up 1 pound for this past week's indiscretions! That is a good thing!
My new week/new you program has started today. I'm terribly tired, usually get that way when I'm PMSing. Hey, it beats getting too Bi^c%y, doesn't it? I just take naps.
I had one of those Nouriche smoothie things this morning for breakfast (yes, I said breakfast) with an apple. Those are not the best possible choices I found out once I got out my WW slide. Geez 5 points! Won't be buying those again.
Then for lunch I had a left over piece of grilled fish and a small chunk of left over mashed potatoes from the other night at the steakhouse.
I am planning to grill Mahi Mahi for dinner. I splurged and bought that at my supermarket job today. I love Mahi out, now let's see if I can not screw it up at home.
I'm climbing on the back of that wagon you all got going around. You may have to get together and do a collective pull as I didn't realize how tough it is to stop eatting $hit cold turkey after you've been being bad for so long!!!
Yesterday was fun. I shipped the guys off and I lazed around and then went shopping. I thought of our old friend Malia from Hawaii. I have a long porch, that instead of running parallel to the street it runs parallel to my garage. I've never really liked to sit out on the porch because of it mostly facing my neighbors garage. But honey bought me this bench for Mother's Day and I've planted perenials in the flower bed that runs along the length of the porch and it's beginning to fill in nicely. There's a trellis on one of the porch posts that's actually right in front of where the bench is and I have a purple Clematis climbing that so I don't see much of the neighbor's anymore. I had planted a pot of vines and red petunias to sit at the end of the bench and got some beautiful red begonias in hanging baskets to put up along the edge along with my two windchimes. So yesterday I went out and got 3 plant stands of different heights and headed out to Home Depot to see what they had in hanging pots that I could take the hangers off of and sit on the stands at the edge of the narrow end of the porch where the front step is. Now I have my very own Secret Garden, hence the reference to Malia (in case you all were wondering if I'd ever get around to that!
) It is nice to go and sit out there and read. Max loves it until I keep yelling at him to stay on the porch and have to chase him. Guess I'll have to keep the kitty treats and the squirt bottle handy and get him back in the groove of summers on the porch.
Terri: I loved the pictures. Ginger is beautiful. I remember on the other thread you writing when you got her. I'm glad you finally put a picture on. I love horses. A friend of mine in high school had an apoloosa and and she would take me out to the stable where she boarded her and she had permission for me to ride an old retired race horse. She taught me to groom, etc. I was great fun.
Deb: I was a Pepsi-holic when I started WW. I found I had to just go cold turkey with it. One day I woke up and said today is the day. I had horrible headaches for 3 weeks from the withdrawal, but I stuck with it. After about 6 months or so, I would order a Diet Coke with a meal in a restaurant and was able to drink it, but trying to sub the real thing for the diet just didn't work for me until I was totally off all that sugar. As for snacks, it depends on whether you're liking salty or sweet. I'll put some pudding recipes up for you. When I'm doing well, I always have these available in the fridge already portioned out into 1 cup servings.
Sandy: Ok, girlfriend, you're on. You go for the 21, I'll go for the 30. We'll see who gets closest.
Michelle: How nice of you to check in while you're on vacation. I hope you're having a wonderful time and getting in some R&R while you're gone.
Barb: That posting thing has happened to me more times than I can count. And like Kat said, it's always on the ones that have taken an hour to put together.
Mary: I'm still digging for books to send you. I will get it together here, I know I will. I haven't forgotten you.
Amanda: Well, honey, I wish you the best of luck working with your DH. That's a little too much 'togetherness' for me! Remember I wasn't the nosey one that wonders what kind of 'work' you'll be doing!!
2cute: Nice to have you back, sweetie! And don't you just know it's all coming together when you can lose 8 pounds without even making a conscience effort. Yeah, girlfriend. GREAT JOB!! You're living the NEW life already!
Kat: The quotes were great! I love 'em! Could you give me a hand with the wagon thing? I need all the help I can get.
Lori: Glad your 'meet up' with Brian went so well. Sounds like you had a nice weekend. And no, I wasn't "curious", it was none of my business.
Tina: "Slap my butt and call me Ethel"????? Oh God how you make me miss living in the south!!!
Hope you don't mind if I use that one a time or two. My poor honey won't know what to think. BTW, have you thought of being a short story writer? You have such a way of putting things sometimes, if nothing else it would be entertaining.
Ok, ladies. I need to run and take back a little table I bought yesterday for my front porch. It's too tall and flimsy to serve the purpose I was looking for, putting my cold drink on it so I won't have to bend over!
After all, what's the sense of enjoying an afternoon in a secret garden if you have to keep bending over to reach your lemonade??? Oh, Speaking of Lemonade. Minute Maid (a Coke product) puts out a
light lemonade that is very good.
Anyway, I'll see all of you later.
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
- Elmer G. Leterman
My turn...
what I eat now, since I've already blown it" attitude! Mind control...it's all about that.
. I'll add more as I think of them. 
Now mind you this guy is only 5'8 and 180 pounds, but the minute he spied me, he comes over, gives me this bear hug, then proceeds to 
It's a wonder the guy didn't give himself a hernia.
Well........
Miles and Minutes
First off the job I was doing with hubby was loading tree limbs on to a truck and hauling them to the burn pile. The bad news is the man who hired him wasn't that pleased with my work. (Although he was very kind about it.) The good news is he is pleased with my hubby. So I did a half a day and then hauled my tired butt home. No reason to pay childcare when I don't have to. I'm really not all that upset about it. With the pending move if this had worked out we wouldn't have had any free time at all. 
So this frees me up to do more of the things we need to do to get ready to move. We also figured out that if my hubby works with another guy for 6 10hr. shifts he will actually bring home more money than we would have brought together minus childcare costs. So that is the route we plan to go.
I'm going to try keeping up the walking and the schedule change and then as soon as possible I'm going to start doing Body for Life. 
I hope the pounds just roll away. I may not be helping hubby with his business this year, but I will be next year. 
