Jilly: You might want to try overloading on water today. I had a WI a while back that I thought was water weight. I drank something like 110 oz of water and watched my sodium during the day and showed 3 lbs lighter then next day.

Worth a try.

Look, girls! I'll take the 10 pounds ANY WAY I can get them! I'm not going to complain about that too much.

I'm just a little concerned. I've bled a lot and I'm hoping the whole 10 pounds wasn't all from bleeding. Hopefully there are a few real pounds in that number.

Teahoney ~ Two words... female problems. (LOL)

Lilion ~ Well, you taught me something! I didn't know that. I hope the doctors tell everyone that. I'm not sure a lot of people know that. That is scary. A person could get really sick if they weren't told.

Ammi ~ I like seeing you guys too. Seeing you makes me feel like I know you guys even more.

Hi ladies, my name is Stephanie and I just joined today. My official weight is 388 pounds. I look forward to meeting and chatting eith you beautiful ladies soon. I've decided to take 1 day at a time and get moving with the exercise. With prayer and support I can get through this.

Hey Pumpkin ~ A big ole welcome to you!!!!!! You have made the right choice to join us! Everyone is wonderful and supportive!

Brenda :wave:

Welcome Laura and Stephanie – this is such a great place for support!

I had an amazing night last night. I got home after going to the gym and only missed a few minutes of American Idol. I made a good dinner and then used my weights and did some leg lifts and stomach crunches while finishing the show. At that point I wasn’t sure what to do. Monday night, my BF got a computer shipped to him and the box was full of packing peanuts. Well, the computer was hard enough to get up the stairs that he had to dismantle the box half way and there ended up being packing peanuts all over the house, including our upstairs computer room. I told him that he needed to clean all of it up himself since he made the mess. Well – it started getting to me, so I decided instead of slumping in a chair, I would go ahead and do something about it. I put on my iPod and ended up cleaning for over an hour. I was dancing around while vacuuming and I had so much energy, I could barely believe it. A couple of months ago I could barely get through the day and now I am not only working out, but coming home and having the extra energy to do more. He still needs to clean the stairs, but the upstairs is done (I am hopelessly uncoordinated with canister vacuums on stairs).

I need to try and save some extra calories the next few days because we are going to some beer festival in Brooklyn on Saturday. I’m not really looking forward to it, but I committed that I would go, so oh well.

Jill - ah yes, well going to the weigh in after seeing a gain is a bit of a worry. Still if you do get those red marks, just think of your next WI when you will seem to have lost a stack of weight because that water weight will have long gone.

Tasha - sorry I didn't realise that you were worried that a lot of that weight loss was down to your blood loss. That would be a concern. But having said that, when I suffered with Ulcerative Colitis, with no word of a lie, I would go to the toilet at least 15 times a day, and that was on a good day, and each time I would fill the bowl with blood. And in all the months that I lived like that, I didn't lose a single lb! It really sucked lol, I mean if you are going to be ill, come on, let weight loss be a benefit. Anyway, you might be surprised to find that there are more than just a couple of lbs of fat lost in that 10 lbs you lost!

Stephanie - hello and :welcome2: nice to have you here. You have taken the best step towards getting to your goal by joining us here. It make so much difference being amongst friends who are so motivating and supportive. I look forward to cheering you along the way as your lbs come off.

Brenda - hi, how are things?

Christine - how are you doing today, have you managed to do any exercising.

Lori - where are you, are you lurking? I hope you are ok, I think an email is in order, so watch out for your incoming mail :D

Nancy - I LOVE American Idol, we watch the shows you watch on the Friday after you. So don't tell me who gets knocked out please lol. Do you have a favourite to win yet?

Well done on having all that energy now and realising how wonderful it feels. I had a similar moment yesterday when I was exercising, I was really getting into it and enjoying it, and I actually cried. Tears of joys though because I can actually exercise again now. I am not stuck in bed getting fatter and fatter anymore, I am exercising, I am dieting, and I am going to lose loads of weight!!

Hope everybody is having a good night, just about to watch the Biggest Loser now, so better go.

Hugs,

Ammi :grouphug:

Tasha ;) I gotcha. Say no more.

Hey there guys!

Sorry I haven't been around much. Time sometimes gets the best of me. I have been busy the past few days getting ready for a bake sale. Last night I made 5 dozen muffins and 2 pans of brownies. Today I iced them and made 2 pans of marshmellow squares. I only cheated a little ( i licked the spoon :() however in past times I could have eaten one of the pans of brownies myself while making the other squares :o so I only feel a little bad :) We are starting to fundraise for our relay for life run which I can proudly say I am going to participate in this year. Last year all I did was help fundraise since I didn't think that I could walk all night. This year I am going to be there proudly and hopefully be the one keeping our team motivated and going strong! Last year we raised $2400.00... this year I plan on doubling that!

Weight wise I am still up from where I was unofficially last week but down from my weigh in last week. (make sense?) We have officially started phase 2 of South Beach. My hubby finally weighed in last night adn he is down 12lbs for February which is awesome for him!!! He was thrilled! :) I haven't been doing much for exercise this week so far but will get back to the gym tonight. I AM determined!!

Something interesting has been happening this week at work. A lot of people seem to be staring at me :o I am hoping that it is that they are starting to notice. Most of these people just started coming back for their contracts and haven't seen me since this time last year. Many of these people adn I don't get along as I am somewhat of their supervisor and seem to think " I have it out for them" but none the less, they are looking at me alot *L* I have lost about 80lbs since seeing some of them.

Did my taxes last night adn we are getting a pretty big refund... sweet!!! I think we are going to look into getting some memberships for the pool ( they are opening a new one March 17) and we can actually pay off 2 credit cards! How exciting!!!

Teahoney ~ I gain about 8-10lbs with TOM. Pretty depressing! Even though you know that it isn’t fat.

Tashabella ~ 10lbs is great as long as it is legit!! I hope you aren’t getting dehydrated though as that is only going to make you feel worse! I hope you can get your problems under control.

Lilion ~ I am still fighting with my elliptical machine *L* I don’t use it as often as I should and someday I will get up to 10 minutes! Right now I can do 5 if I struggle *L*

Laura ~ Welcome to the boards! Everyone is great here and I am sure you will enjoy your time here!! Good luck on your journey!

Kayley ~ Happy to see that your “talk” went well! I think every couple needs one every so often. After all we have to keep’em in line!

Luan ~ Wanna come and practice on me?? I brows need a good shaping as they are growing in!! Happy to hear that you had a more interesting day at school!

Jilly ~ I hear ya on water weight…. Struggling this week too! Unfortunately I ran out of water and have to wait till I get to the store tomorrow after work before I can get more. I HATE tap water!!!! Best of luck on the weigh-in!

Nancy ~ way to go on having the energy to clean!!! I am finally feeling that way too. Unfortunately, each time I get the “rush” I end up getting a head cold and feel like crap again. I am feeling better now though and back to the gym again for me!! Have fun at the festival!

Ammi ~ Hi to you too! I love American Idol too!!!! There arent many in the girls that I like but those guys!! There are a few that are AWESOME! The bald guy that sang “dead or alive” chris maybe??? Was AWESOME last week!! I can’t wait till tonight to hear him again! Glad to see that you are back with us! We all missed your postings! When is weigh-day for you?? My hubby is a once a month weigher too!

Well that is all the breath that I have for right now. Hi to crock, sharon and Zelma too and everyone else that I missed. Hope you are all having a great week

Brenda :wave:

Ammi - I'm not sure yet. For the girls, I think my list (in order) is Mandissa, Paris and Lisa. I think Kellie, Katherine and Ayla will also make it to the top 6. For the guys, I am not totally sure yet, but I really like Taylor, Ace and Chris. Elliott is OK and Kevin is a sweetie. I certainly hope they choose more upbeat songs. I thought last night with the girls had too many ballads. I don't watch the results shows except for the final one. I'm not into the whole drawn out "let's make them wonder, feel stressed out and start to cry" thing. I just log into the website the next day to see who was voted out, or I tune in for the last 5 minutes of the show. But I promise I won't give it away. Who do you like this season? This show started in the UK, right? Do they still have a UK version too? I know they had an Australia one. I would love to see some of the other countries too. Maybe at some point they will be available on DVD, or Fox might get the rights to them and air them on cable or something. It would be totally cool if they did an international one and left the voting open for a day or something so the whole world could participate. Perhaps voting via their website? The logistics of pulling something like that off would be amazing.

Just a VERY quick hello before I get ready for work.

First of all... :hb: :hat: HAPPY BIRTHDAY JULEE!!!!!!!!!!!:encore: :present: I am allowed to get this in a little early, as it is March 2nd here. I hope you have a wonderful day, doing just what you feel like.

I am going to try and get home a little early this afternoon to answer some posts and let you know how things are going this end. Afternoons have been pretty hectic this week.

Weight is a little up, but it is wonderful reading other people's responses as I can see that they relate to me as well. I am basically still doing everything right, so hopefully it will settle again soon. I think I am going to feel a little better about it today after reading here. Thanks ladies!

Catch you all later.

Take care,:hug:

Zelma