300+ Weekly Thread #1200
 

WELCOME!!

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Morning, everyone!

I'm noticing the exercise thread slowing down a little -- come on, let's get moving AND reporting those minutes!!!

Good morning all!

SNOW.. yes, that's the word for the day. My goldens are outside seeing who can make the most yellow snow. They are so funny. They get balls of snow stuck to their fur and the boy golden eats them off the girl golden. Goofs.

My redneck carport lived! I spend most of the morning getting snow off the roof of it before it totally collapsed. Then I shoveled steps front and back and the walkway. There's a nice thin layer of ice below the snow (oh joy) and I'm out of rock salt.

Dolf, LOTR was GREAT. I have bluray as well but my LOTR extended version set is not bluray. Because the bluray does some magic to make regular dvds sharper, there's not really much diff between watching bluray and reg unless you are watching some of the computer graphic animation movies. This might change in the future.

Well, I'm thawing out now. My fingers got so cold they got extreemly painful when warming up. I was on a mission to get the 6inches of snow off the top of the redneck carport and didn't stop to change gloves.

Hugs to all!
Ratkitten

IM BACK!!! The wedding was PERFECT!!! The weather could have been worse but it was spitting ice pellets pretty much the whole day but it didnt stick to the ground...It was beautiful and my daughter was radiant. My granddaughter was perfect and slept thru the whole reception!!! We had a wonderful time and my daughter and new son inlaw are honeymooning in the smoky mountians.I was exhausted yesterday but am coming around today. My body is sore and i am counting the hours of cleaning up and decorating as exercise!!! LOL I worked up a good sweat both times!!
Im up 6lbs on the scales..but I ate !!! IM back OP today and drinking water!! I also am going to exercise this month as spring is coming...We are in the 20 today for highs but 60s later in the week!!
hugs to all!!

Debi - I am soooo pleased all went well! Been praying all weekend for ya! Please post some pics if its ok with dd!

Got dinner in the oven but need to run and get a shower. will try for personals from last week later this evening!

Have a wonderful day everyone!

It will be a few days before I get any pictures online.Im waiting for someone to send me some they took. I didnt take any during it!! Hugs

dgramie ~ congrats on a lovely wedding! Sounds like a lot of work.

I spent yesterday cleaning out my closet. All the 22/24/2Xs are now too big too, so I took them and my old 26/28/3Xs down to the basement. I'm shipping them all to a friend who had WLS in December starting from a 34/36/5X and she's already lost almost 70 lbs and is now in a 4X about to be able to wear a 3X. I'm so proud of her.

I was shocked that I can now fit into most of my old size 18 sweaters and tops. It was a nice surprise though. I will be a lot more excited when I can fit into the size 18 jeans though!!

Happy Monday everyone!

Welcome back deb!

I'm so glad the wedding went well and the baby slept and you were happily exhausted after it was over. I would call that a success!!

Hugs,
Rat

Blc
 

The results are in!!

Afternoon everyone.. I'm back again after a long hiatus, glad to see that there are still some people I remember! I quit weight watchers after financial reasons stopped me from being able to afford it and quickly gained 25 pounds.. Grrr!! I'm trying to figure out how to afford WW again and trying to get back on the wagon.. I was only 8 pounds from getting under 300 too, and I was so excited! I'm trying to figure out where I stuck my motivation..sighs.

I'm also 1.5 lbs over the wii fit weight limit so I need to figure out how to get some exercise in so I can start using it again.. I knew I had to come back here as all of you are so motivational and I can use ALL the help I can get.. Seriously. I need help! :P

I'm going to try to come here every day and post and hopefully *fingers crossed* start a new blog and maybe just maybe I can get back on track.. I'm also trying to save money to move to England so I can live with my boyfriend and I'd like to be as fit as possible before I go. (Maybe 10 or 11 months)

Anyways.. so.. Hi again.. and I hope y'all see more of me soon. :)

Hello all! Going to make a better effort of being in here this week! Last week was crazy, and I think this one may be as well, due to midterms, but I'll try and pop in here at least once a day! I must go, as I have to work on a Practice Petition for a Chapter 13 Bankruptcy that's due tomorrow.

Tata ladies!

Oh, and VAMP! I'm doing WW at home. I just follow the plan, weigh in every week, and it's been working well just doing it at home. So you don't HAVE to go to the meetings to be successful. :)

Back OP again. Any time I can do it after a day is good. I go more than a day or two, and it is really hard to get back on the horse. They also had Chinese food, so even making decent decisions, my ankles are the size of Zeppelins today. It can be hard to work on home work when you have to stop every half an hour to run to the bathroom. That's better than trying to stuff swollen footballs into your shoes.

It reminds me of what a nutritionist told me. We can call ourselves lucky to be overweight because we are now on the diet that everyone should be on. Our outside might not be so pleasing right now, but within two weeks of starting a diet, your insides start to get better. I'm still a couple of hundred pounds overweight, but the angiogram of my heart showed the cleanest, healthiest heart the cardiologist had ever seen. If my outside could look as good as my inside, then I might really be ecstatic.

Point is that my normal weight brothers have always eaten everything they wanted to, smoked, drank, and I'm just waiting for a call to come that one of them has had a stroke or heart attack. Doctors do not talk to skinny people about their diets until they are in the ER with chest pains. By then, it may be too late.

Hiya Peeps - everything going well here. Very humbling to post the current weight on TBL thread. Seems I'm never to leave the morbidly obese category - which for me is at 270.

I was planning to exercise a bit tonight but after one day back on the foot and in non-athletic shoes the foot is really swollen again. Listen to the doc - maybe he knows what he speaks of.

Great OP day - hope you all had the same.

Hugs to all,
Carol