carol- could you tell me how to make taco soup. I love it and so does hubby. I need a few new recipes. Im jealous that you have gotten to play in the dirt already. I can hardly wait!! I love being outside and working in my flowerbeds and garden. I feel so alive when i have been in my yard alot!

debbie - I bet the baseboards look great. I think its is such a good feeling to do things in the house. I love even rearranging to make things look fresh.

san - sorry things are not good for you at work, I love the idea of a little reward when you get to a mini goal. I havent really thought about that. Guess I will plan my first reward for 25lbs. I seem to be having a slow time jsut getting to 20lbs.

dmpls- looks like we have some nice weather headed our way finally. Hubby and I are going to try and walk tommorow evening if its warm and not raining. Its also a weight lifting day.

I am throwing a shower next sunday for my soon to be sisterinlaw.
We are having a pampered chef shower for her. I am making sandwiches and a relish tray. I am determined to stay away from the cake. I am going to start trying to brainwash myself into thinking how sicky I will feel from eating all that sugar in just one peice of cake.
My house is clean and it feels so good, I started a pile in the bedroom of clothes that dont fit right now. I have really noticed that sleeves are longer on me now.
Hope everyone has a wonderful week of healthy eating and drinking water!!
:)

Annie-that's my goal to get off all my meds. I'm down to two HBP meds now. I guess I'll never get off the thyroid though.

Sandy - Thanks! I will dig my camera out at some point and point and click - my kitchen is closet-sized, but hey, it's bigger than most kitchens in NYC!

Worthapenny - congrats!

Wenny - I totally feel where you're coming from. I'm single too and am not seeing too many of my friends during the week right now. Right now I'm living and breathing lifestyle change. I work really long hours and now I'm including exercise time in too - doesn't leave too much time for socialization during the week right now. I just keep telling myself that this is a lifestyle change and it may take some time to integrate these new changes into what I'm used to doing. If you're schedule is bumming you out - look at ways to change it around....this may sound totally aweful to be up that early, but maybe you workout before you go to work, to leave more evening time?? Or work out at lunch? Just a few ideas...

Bernice - great work with the graphics! Really smooth transition with that background! On Yoga - there's some Yoga tape out there that is designed for those of us in the plus category - they show you how to alter the moves to work with our bodies...I think it's called Just My Size Yoga (yeah like the pantyhose, bad name I know...)

I used to do plus size clothing swap when I lived in SF - it's great! Not sure how it would work virtually, but it's worth thinking about. I think about all the nice clothes that I have and when I get to the point that they are too big, they should really be passed on to someone...

Annie - wow you are my hero - what amazing progress! Truly an inspiration. I like the idea of rewarding yourself with each goal...I've been making a wish list of really expensive makeup that I like. I can't really afford it, but maybe if it's between 20 or 30lbs of weight loss I can!

And for all of you in the snow, I AM JEALOUS! NYC is so great when it just dumps snow and we've not really had that this year.....

The time change is really screwing me up. I couldn't stay awake on Sunday, so I took a huge nap and now I'm up at 2AM and my body is ready for Monday. EEEk. I haven't exercised as much as I wanted too last week, so I'm going to try really hard to step it up this week. I've got the gym membership now, so it's just a matter of establishing a new routine. Eating well is actually a lot easier than I thought. I'm finding that when I crave things, it usually has nothing to do with hunger, so that's good that I'm not giving in!

It may be early, but Happy Monday everyone!

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