Good Morning All,
I say good morning but I guess by the time I finish typing this and post it it will be the afternoon. It doesn’t help that the clocks went forward in the wee hours of this morning, so there I was thinking I was getting up bright and early for a Sunday, 9.30 when in actual fact it was 10.30. Oh well good job I have only a lazy day planned and have no appts or anything.
I am back on track with my eating, mind you I don’t really consider yesterday as going off track. I knew what I was doing, I didn’t have a binge, I just didn’t bother counting points as I knew my choices weren’t going to be the lowest options
I don’t know how I will do at my WI tomorrow because not only did I eat more than I should have yesterday, I also had a nice big bar of chocolate on Mothers Day last Sunday which might have caught up with me by tomorrows WI. Oh well I will just take it on the chin and keep on going
Patti - have you snuck on those scales this weekend? Or are you going to be really good and hang in there until you can weigh on the doctors scales. Good luck with that appt by the way, I will be thinking of you and hoping it all goes well
Chimi - how are you going with keeping off the cheese? It’s only Daren who has given up chocolate for Lent, even though I am dieting I’m afraid that when I fancy a bit of chocolate I must know that I can have it
He is doing so great, I am proud of him.
Annie - did you go to your WI? How did it go? I hope you saw another good loss, you certainly deserve one
Have you heard back from Valerie yet? It’s always a worry when somebody doesn’t keep in touch. I hope she is OK.
Heather - I bet you are loving being able to buy clothes from any store now, and having so much choice at your finger tips. I have only just started to be able to buy some clothes in one store that’s not an outsize clothes shop. I still have to buy the biggest size there, but it’s so great to have some more choice and I can’t wait til the day that I can shop anywhere I want to
Lisa - I am so proud of you for going to that game, being around all that food, and only snagging one chip. I know I couldn’t have stopped at one, in fact if I was on a liquid diet like you are I would just have had to say no to even going to the game knowing that food would be there. I wouldn’t have had the willpower. You did, and you stayed strong
Michelle - I am glad the biopsy got done on hubby and I hope that it will come back clear. Poor guy had to go through worrying about you when you had your biopsies done, now it’s your turn to worry about him. And of course you both have the worry about your fur baby too. It sounds like the vet is a really good one. I hope the bloodworm results show that he will be able to have the surgery next Friday so that he can start to make his recovery
It’s not a surprise that you haven’t felt committed to being OP, it’s hard to focus on something like that when you have so many other things foremost on your mind. Just try your best and you will be back on track 100% as soon as you can be.
Zelma - it was lovely to see your post, and I love your new avatar pics, plus the ones you posted on the picture page. It reminds me of the POB, the style inspired by Posh Spice (Victoria Beckham) when she got rid of those ridiculous extensions. It’s a VERY popular style over here now. Every time I am in the hair dressers (never having my own hair done mind you lol) I always notice somebody having a Pob. I think the style really suits you and the colour is gorgeous.
Daren and I can only really go to the gym on Tuesday’s and Thursdays normally, we get there about 9.30 and stay til 11.30, that includes changing times. We then walk home in time to eat lunch, flake out and then Daren goes on the taxi run to fetch Beth from school. We don’t like to go on Mondays and Wednesdays because that’s the day that the old and overweight patients referred to the gym by their doctors spend their time there. We had the misfortune of being there on one such occasion and I swear that the women at least go purely to gossip and socialise all while hogging the cardio machines. They barely move on them because they are more concerned with moving their mouths, and what’s worse is that if the gym is busy you are only meant to go on those machines for a max of 20 minutes. These women go on for a minimum of 30 and if they are really enjoying their chats they add another 15 mins or so and carry on yapping. After constantly waiting for machines that day we decided to never go on a Monday or Wednesday again.
Other bad times to use the gym are lunch times and after work, this time because of either school kids using the gym, or loads of men wanting to work out after work. Kids use the gym because the Leisure Centre is attached to the local high school. There are only 4 recumbent bikes, 3 treadmills, 2 cross trainers, 2 steppers and two rowing machines, and one each of the weight machines to work the various arms and leg muscles. So if you go at a busy time you really are just going to spend the majority of your time waiting around. We found that Tuesday and Thursday mornings are definitely the best times to go, but of course if we have any appts crop up that’s why it can mess up when we go to work out. I did ask Daren if we could just double our work out on the weeks that we only go once to the gym, but he said it would be too much for our muscles, so I will just hope that there won’t be many weeks when we can’t go twice.
Anyway back to you Zelma, I hope when you go back to work that it all goes smoothly and you don’t get upset or angry. Don’t be hard on yourself if you do, just remember what your clinical psychologist said about not being trapped there. Good luck
Sharon - glad that the DVDs arrived though am annoyed that the cases were all broken, I mean the envelope was padded and folded over double. What did they posty do put the thing on the floor and jump on it
I just hope the DVDs will play OK after that kind of treatment.
I got Daren to take a picture of me yesterday in the size 20 jeans you sent me. I will put it on the Pic page when I am done here. I love being able to wear jeans and especially ones that are so comfortable, I don’t feel like an old woman like when I wear my normal black jersey trousers
Brenda - I have no idea what ‘Turtles’ are, but hey at least you had the no added sugar ones. Imagine how you would have felt had you had the normal version of them! Don’t feel too bad about having them, I figure you deserve a treat after hitting that 100 lbs milestone. I think we all have a little indulgence when we get there
Donna - I am sorry you are feeling so down about having some indulgences. You know none of us are ever going to get to our goals without days like you just had. Heck I had an indulgent day yesterday too. And when Easter comes I will be having another one. It’s ok to have days like that, it’s when we feel bad about it and guilty that we end up getting into more of a state because true to form we probably eat more thinking we are comforting ourselves. Personally I say we all deserve treat days just as long as the next day we can move on and be back on track
DJCJRun - another 2 lbs down
that is so great, you must be smiling like the Cheshire Cat! I have my WI tomorrow, not so sure how I will do after yesterdays indulgences and Mothers’ day last weekend, but even if I don’t lose much I KNOW I won’t see a gain
Xena - I went on a search of the Net to see if I could find a more recent pic of Elliot. Oh my goodness, I can’t believe how gorgeous he looks, I could hardly believe it was him. I think it’s great that he’s had the money to be able to make the changes, but although he looks more the singing star now, having the ‘package’ that the judges always go for and all that, I have to say I am a little disappointed. I feel like he has conformed and I thought he was lovely the way he was before. I just hope he made the changes because he wanted them, not because it would sell records.
Oh yes I think Sanjaya is sweet, and he has a voice, just not a fantastic one, and come on, you have to admit he murdered that song last week, lol. I am glad he got into the final 12 but now I just think really good singers are going to be knocked out because of his personality rather than his voice. It is supposed to be a singing competition and I am going to just scream if one of my faves goes out and he stays in. I think you’ll get the vibrations from my scream over there lol.
that’s great that you lost another 4 lbs, you are now just 1 lb away from having lost one UK stone! That’s great news
LAnne - I am pleased to hear that your lap band procedure went well and that you are recovering well. You are so lucky to not have a sore throat, every time I have had surgery I haven’t been able to speak for days afterwards because my throat kills.
on losing 5 lbs already
I hope you will post here often to let us cheer as the rest of your lbs come off
Linda - an hour and a half of continuous walking that IS a great amount of exercise, be proud of yourself. I am sad that you always think you don’t do enough, or you compare what you do to what others do. You are doing great, you are moving, you are keeping active, and as the weight comes off you will find that you can do more. For now you need to appreciate that what you are doing is brilliant, and it’s really going to help you shift the lbs and get fit
Lesley - I am so sorry that you had to hear those ignorant, childish, shallow, fools make such a rotten comment while you were out walking. WHAT is wrong with people. Why can’t they get a life, people like that make me so
I mean there you were out walking, getting exercise, doing something to help you slim down, and then you have to encounter jerks like that!!!! I know it’s easy to say, but please do try to ignore the likes of them. Pity them their ignorance, and just focus on yourself and be proud that you are trying to lose the weight and get healthy
As for your lack of weight loss in the last week, you kind of answered your own question when you said that in the last two weeks you have lost almost 15 lbs. That’s a fantastic amount and it’s only natural that things will slow down after a great loss like that. Of course you don’t want it to slow to a stop. But you just keep on doing what you are doing and I bet your next weekly WI will show a nice loss again.
Kymberly - wow passing up a cheesy lasagne for a salad, what’s your secret?? I love lasagne, the cheesier the better. Daren makes a delicious home made one and he also does his own Garlic bread to go with it, oh boy, it’s no wonder I gained so much weight since I met him lol. He is dieting with me now, so we’ll only have treat meals like that on special occasions now
Dreasam - hello and welcome back. I don’t think I remember you from before, when did you post here? I am sorry you were kind of chased away because of the way you were losing your weight. I figure if it wasn’t along the lines of anorexia and you were staying healthy then how you diet is up to you.
That’s lovely news that your hubby is now having sole custody of his kids, and I hope your adoption of them all goes smoothly. They are definitely a wonderful reason to get slim and healthy.
Erika Leigh - WOW
you are way over your exercise minutes, how great are you doing this month
Great news too on the cook out and the great food choices you made. I think you are going to be seeing some great results on the scales soon
Ok well I need to go put some washing on the indoor line and then it’s time for lunch. So take care all and I am sure I’ll post again at some point today. Enjoy your Sunday,
Hugs,
Ammi
I post a pic of it soon.
and I guess the pressure to be happy all the time can sometimes get to you. Those little huggy smileys mean the world to me. 
for both your hubby and kitty!
I hope this time around is more helpful to you...I know it is for me!
~WTG!!
Seriously I am sure you will get there very soon, heck it’s only 4/10s away.