Hi all!
OMG! All these fresh vigins! We're going to have to beat them off with sticks!
Congrats to all of you that are now working on Virgin Fat!!! You Go Girls!!!!
I had my Dr.'s appointment this morning. This is the first time in a long time that I've been to a Dr. that I can actually talk to. She's a skinny minny, but that's ok. I actually thanked her today. She kinda looked surprised and then I told her "because you are the first Dr. that has not dwelled on 'losing the weight will cure all your ailments'". She told me that it wasn't that she wants me to blow off the idea of losing weight and I assured her that that was not going to happen. But I also told her there was a BIG difference between a Dr. being understanding and being condescending. It's a very good feeling to be able to talk to a Dr. just as it's a good feeling to have friends like all of you that we can share with.
I told her that my blood work will not come back looking very good as I really messed up the meds for the past 6 weeks. I'm getting that back together now but my blood pressure was elevated this morning. She changed the medication and we'll see what happens. I also told her I would like to take her up on her offer for a referral to a Dietician. She said she thought that would be a VERY good idea. I told her my intention had been to do diabetic research here on the web, but that I never seem to find the time so an actual appointment with someone would probably be a better idea.
Hopefully that and a renewed effort here in weightloss will put me on the road to healthier.
Angela: Did you get all the letters off? Doesn't sound like fun at all.
Joyce: So you're going to be playing mom again, eh? Of a teenager, no less. I'm guessing your daughter must live pretty close because your granddaughter will need to go to school. WOW, big changes at YOUR house. Is that going to mess up your plans to go to California? Sure hope not!
Lilion: I agree, it makes no sense that when they leave ingredients OUT the dang stuff costs more. Why??? It's one of those unanswerable questions, I suppose. * Funny you should mention about the old WW program. That's how alot of us felt when the "flex" points first came out. We had all had some pretty good success with the points ranges and then they threw the "flex" at us and there were some of us that just didn't do well on that so we stuck to the regular points program. I'm sure your "old" program will do you just fine!!! *Congrats on the 5 pounds! Good job! See, that "old" program worked just fine!!!
2cute: Hope you have a nice trip???? Did you decide to tag along with your sister? You know the drill, inquiring minds and all that!!!
Julee: "then deciding to not track anything after that were both mistakes...mistakes I won't be making again this week." You did great! You figured out what you did, you owned it, and you know what you're going to do to fix it. That's what this whole thing is all about. Learning from the mistakes and making better choices the next time. Good for you!!!
Catherine: Oh honey, BIG [[[HUGS]]]. What a wonderful person you are to take in someone who needed you, including their kids, raising them and putting yourself on the back burner for all these years! That is truly the sign of someone with a BIG heart!!!! I'm glad you feel like you can come and vent here. Hopefully that will be some relief for you. I'm also glad that you are now able to get out of the house and do something for yourself again. I'm sure that some of your motivation for losing all this weight (and I still can't get over what an awsome job you've done so far!) is to be able to get out of the situation entirely. That should be some real inspiration. Keep talking. We're good listeners. AND we're pretty vocal about advice too if you get to asking.
Barbg: I hope that you found your new Dr. to be one that you are comfortable with like I am with this one that I've found. It makes such a HUGE difference when you can actually talk to a Dr. without getting all their condescending attitudes. I'm really sorry that the reason you had to change was the almighty insurance company, however. I do believe they rule the world!
Jill: Just my 2 cents: Do you think that maybe a quick call to the GYN telling him/her about these symptoms might be worth it? There's just so much out there about this drug, that drug and all the side effects that go with them all. I guess I'm just suggesting better safe than sorry. * Hope the TOPS meeting suits you and you decide to join up. Every little bit helps.
Scooter: Those Cheddar Bay Biscuits are the BEST. I have a lightened recipe for them around here somewhere. I'll see if I can find it and post it over on recipes. *BTW, the pic is GREAT! Thanks for posting it.
theotherjen: Glad to see you checking back in today.
Loki: Good job on another pound gone! 9 in 2 weeks is really GREAT!!!
mnemosyne: I love to hear you talk about your garden plans. I've been building my front garden for the past two Summers. I had Honey and #1 Son tear out all the old shrubs and I decided to go with perennials in the bed. The only thing I left was a small Red Maple tree which works as a sorta "bookend" at the left side where the house ends. The bed is "L" shaped with on leg of the "L" along my front porch and the other leg along the front of the house. I put in an Astilbe bush, a butterfly bush (which I tore out last Fall and gave to a friend) and one other "bush" whose name escapes me. The rest are hostas, cone flowers, coreopsis (several varieties, I'm hoping the purple one comes back this year. I understand they're not that hardy). I've got a Shasta Daisy patch, but they disappoint me because they only bloom once.
I have a carnation and a couple of other "oldie" varieties that I found last year like Lamb's Ear. Oops, you got me started!
SueMarie:
ok, I'll be rrrreeeeaaaalllll quiet. I've been up, down, up, down, up, down......I'll tell ya, I've been up and down more than a whore between the sheets!
Seriously though, I'm just not as low as I was once after the new year so I can't count any NEW pounds off yet!
Julee: No apologies necessary! * "pin the afro on Richard Simmons" yeah, that's what we do!!!
Last year 2cute hosted Fling I in Tulsa, OK. We went out to dinner on Friday night, and then back to the hotel for get to know you games. Then on Saturday after breakfast we went on a sight-seeing trip, to a casino and to 2cute's house for munchies and games. Then out to dinner and then we stopped for Cement for dessert. Back to the hotel for yackin' it up. Sunday we got up, had breakfast and got on the road. Basically it wasn't "what" we did, it was the good time meeting folks face to face and talking,
talking,
and more talking.
It dawned on me last night that I should say PLEASE don't think of Fling as a clique-y thing. There were plenty last year that couldn't come and that's understandable with everyone spread across the country and beyond as well as the different schedules and family obligations. The announcements have been posted here periodically and regularly so that everyone has had an opportunity to join in if they wanted to. At this point I have done some mailing. The mailings were NOT based on trying to specifically invite anyone in particular, I mailed to who I had addresses for and 2cute had a couple of addresses that I didn't have so I sent stuff to her to address to those individuals so that no confidentiality has been broken.
I plan to continue to send out some stuff occasionally, but from now on it will only be to those that have expressed at least SOME interest in the POSSIBILITY of coming. I don't want anyone to feel bad that they aren't coming (or aren't able) and I don't want anyone to feel badgered by my constant mailing either.
I hope that kinda clears things up. Please, please, please, I just don't want anyone to have hurt feelings or feel left out. Just know that whether you come or not, this thread and area will go on and we're ALL in this together.
Ok, it's
SURVIVOR NIGHT!!!! Is there romance brewing? After Rob and Amber and Jenna and Ethan we'll have to rename it the Dating Game!
Did we all go through withdrawal without
Desparate Housewives on Sunday? Just when Terri got me straightened out about who's who, they don't have an episode. A girl just can't win!!!
How 'bout
Apprentice? Anyone still watching that? Or am I the only one? It looks like there will be some drama there tonight too.
Did anyone catch
Fear Factor this week with the reality show contestants? I only watched it to see Omarosa go up against Jenna and Ethan. Gadds, what a B1^@H!!!!! YIKES! She thinks she's all that and then some, doesn't she. It did my heart good to see her face in the worms!!!
Is anyone looking forward to the new
Law & Order? Sounds like it will be more courtroom drama than crime scene. That kinda stuff interests me, so I'll be watching. Besides I really like Jerry Orbach and he will be in the first couple of episodes.
Ok, kiddies, I'm off and running. Honey just IM'd that he's on his way home. I've got 45 minutes to hang up the curtins I washed last week.
See you all later. Love
ya bunches!
I shouldn't be worried I suppose as I haven't cheated once, I drank all my water and I even managed to get in walking twice. But all the same I keep hearing that WW program has changed drastically since 1999, which is the year I got the program materials I'm using! Darn it, it worked for me then, why'd they change it? Now I keep worrying that when I think I'm eating 3 pts I'm actually eating 10. Stupid really, because if it worked then it'll work now....another symptom of my anal personality rearing it's ugly head. Well, we'll know in a few hours if the old program still works!
I know that it felt great to read the scale today...I will weigh in tomorrow and I don't think I have lost as much as last week...any loss means I am on the right track, but I dread the slow loss weeks too.
Lilion!
made me do that. I have actually made a low-fat version at home with a recipe from "Top Secret Recipes - Lite", but they weren't the same.
Queen of the 2-hour lunch hour!
