Well, it's the end of the day here and I'm excited to go home. Tomorrow my mom and are going to a HUGE Arts and Crafts fair, it may take up 5 - 6 hours to cover the whole thing. Definately getting my exercise point for tomorrow!!!

I have had a good week, earning my food points every day. I started counting calories on Monday and haven't gone over my 1800 limit. I am hoping to make a scientific experiment out of this. I believe I need about 3000 calories a day to maintain my weight, so if I can keep my calories at 1800, I should see a 2 lb loss each week. I realize there is water to consider and stuff, but I'm kinda making a game out of it. It was time for something different.

Yesterday was made easier by the fact that I had gum surgery. FUN!! NOT!! So it was easy to meet my calories. Hubby told me to go get a milk shake since I could only have cool liquids and soft foods. I told him that I didn't have enough calories. He said he didn't think I needed to worry about that and having some dinner was more important. There was a time that I would have found this to be an "excuse" to go off plan, but not yesterday. I told him I thought it was about time I worried about it and I had some mashed potatoes and chocolate milk, and stayed within my points. Go me!!!

I hope everyone is well. I will try and not be such a stranger!!

Awesome, Sandi! Now, if I could just get something or someone to kick me in the a-double-s and kickstart the thing in my head that should be telling ME that it's about time I did something about it...

Way to go Sandi!!! Keep us posted on how the "experiment" is going. And I hope you recover from the gum surgery soon!

Well, wish me luck... I joined a gym & today is my first day. I'm going down for orientation & then to work out for a while. Then, next week, I am starting classes -- one is a step class & the other is a sculpting class. Hopefully I can keep up with everyone else!!!

Hope everyone has a WONDERFUL Friday!!

Agh! I'm so frustrated!

I haven't lost a single pound this week and I'm worked out eveyday and stayed OP. Grumble grumble grumble!

When I jumped out of the shower after my workout this morning, I woke up my boyfriend to complain about it. He grogily said, "You lose everything else, your keys, your purse, your check book... you're bound to lose those pounds." I had to laugh.

Usually I'm not strict about my food plan on the weekends but I guess I'll have to watch it this weekend.

Darn it!!!

Hello all,

I forgot to tell you all what happened to my baby last week. I was at work and got a call from my daycare lady. She told me she was changing her diaper and she kicked her feet up and there was a hugh purple toe. There was hair wrapped around here toe which cut off the circulation. Well we took her to the doctor and he said she was OK but the skin would peal off her toe and the toenail would fall off. It would take 3 weeks to heal completely. Wow that was an ear full. I took her back in on Monday and she was doing better. The toe was just raw and drained. It's looking good right now. I check her PJ's every day before I put them on her now.

This week has been really good. I still have not heard from the jerk. He is making me more angry with him. I don't know what to think if he is not calling because he doesn't want to or he isn't calling because he has unresolved feelings for me. Or if there is something else going on. Well this weekend I have a TOPS insparation meeting. I am going to go and have fun. Tonight my son is going to be in a big performance on stage. I can't wait to see him out there. He's only 5. Well I guess I will get going and see you all later. Take care all and see you thinner later.

Hello all,

I had a kindof good weekend. My ex called me on Friday around 8:00 PM. I was not home. My son had a program that was for the public. He had so much fun up there on stage and singing. I hope he continues to enjoy it. Then Saturday I didn't change my plans to much for him but I did change them alittle. I told my ex I had to go to a meeting in the morning and I had one in the afternoon that I would miss. He said OK he would be in town around 1:30PM. I got home at 1:30 and my son went to his birthday party at 2:30. He showed up around 4:30PM. He stayed until around 8:30. I was a little upset with him because if I had known he wasn't going to show till 4:30 I would have gone to the afternoon session. He of course apoligized for it. Like normal. I told him at least 24-48 hours in advance. I won't change the plans for him next time if it's less. But it won't happen to long. When he signs the papers I will start the overnight visits and I will just have to wait on him to pick them up and bring them back. That will be scary. But then I will make some plans to go out with friends at night. Well Sunday was also a fun day. Stephanie got a slight ear infection her first one. She was so crabby. She didn't want to sleep and didn't want to eat. I got her to sleep around midnight and she woke up 3 times at night crying. She was still cranky today. I will call daycare and see how she is doing. Well I will talk to you all later and I need to get back to work. My break is over. Take care all.

I've had a maintaining week. Blah.

I got some new pants. They are a size 24. They look nice. I also got socks & undies, and 2 pairs of sweatpants & a sweatshirt.

My friend Jason wants to join a gym @ the beginning of the year--I think I'm going to go with him. I think having a member of the opposite sex there will totally help. Guys notice different things than girls.

Sandi, sounds like a plan! I wish I could be disciplined enough to count calories again.

Jessica, your boyfriend is funny!

Tamara, sounds like you're going through a lot. Keep your chin up!

Boy everyone must have started Thanksgiving early. I miss you all. I did have good news last night. For the month of November I lost 5 pounds. I was the best loser of the month. I was very happy. Even though it's partly to stress. I did however gain 1.5 yesterday but still lost 5 for the month. I guess that is a good way of looking at it.

My ex is going to take the couch out of the living room. That is so cool. I can get my exercise bike in the living room and ride it while watching TV. It won't be buried for much longer. Cool.

Jessica--Isn't it true. If only we could lose those pounds as easily as we lose our keys and purses and other things.

Sandi-- I bet you had a blast at the craft sale. I love to go to them but can't afford to buy anything so I really don't go very often.

Well I better get back to work. Take care all hope to hear from someone soon.

Hi all. How was Thanksgiving for you Americans? I forgot all about it until my soap was a rerun of Nicki and Victor getting married. Boring! It was boring the first time I watched it so I didn't bother with it. Does anyone else put the mute on when storylines come up that are just plain boring?

Anyone watch Dr. Phil? I saw this on other group that he is looking for overweight people to participate in a weight loss program. Go to his site for the into www.drphil.com BTW you know you've made it big when you are in a Who Wants to be a Millionaire question. It was 'what is dr.phil's last name? Is it....'. The guy had to use the audience to get the right answer.

My own weight loss efforts have been extremely pathetic lately. Don't even want to talk about it. There are so many things I need to do and I just feel so overwhelmed. It is school mostly that is making me feel this way. I am questioning whether I am really ready to go back to school and make it work. I really want to work on my nursing degree but at the same time I feel that I am not focusing enough on losing weight. I know that I need to put in a lot of effort and time if I am ever going to lose weight and I think that school takes away from that. Or at the very least is giving me an excuse not to focus. This way when I don't exercise or eat properly I can use my school work as an excuse or that I have such a pile of stuff to do and I'm overwhelmed as an excuse. That fact is that I am just plain lazy. If I can focus on things I can get them done but when I have more than one really important thing going on then I get bogged down. I don't know what to do. I'm still mulling it all over.

Take care all, have a nice weekend.

Me again. I've been thinking about this issue of school all afternoon and it occurred to me that why I can't get my stuff together and do the work is because it is boring the heck out of me. I want to get my degree and all but the course material is so dull that I can't get into it. So that leads me to the conundrum do I keep ploughing through or give it up until later when I might be more able to focus on the material even though I'm not really all that interested? Any thoughts or opinions?

I put on the size 14 pants I've been saving for months today, and they FIT!!!

Congrats JML!! I'll bet that really made all the work you've done all worth while!

Jen-
OMIGOD, don't quit! Just plough through it. One day, it will be done and the exciting part will begin. If you give up now, you'll be me, stuck in a job that bores me to tears and trying to get back to school. Just get the degree!

Hey, has anyone seen PNG lately? I've missed her face hanging around here!

Yes, it feels great!!!!!