Hello All,

Well, after having a good day Tues I stumbled yesterday, but I'm going to get back on track today instead of letting it put me out for the rest of the week. Today I'm going to the science museum to see a bat exhibit with my nephew of course my sister and mom are coming too, he's just our excuse, lunch could be a challenge, mom said she'd take us but museum cafeteria food is usually not the greatest . Then my nephew is coming here for the evening, because he's supposed to go home with my mom (my sis has a dr's apt tomorrow she's pg) and she has a dinner thing scheduled. So dad's coming over picking her up and then they'll come back after dinner to pick him up. Somehow it got way more confusing than it needed to be. The upshot is that I won't be going to the gym this afternoon, hopefully I can get there tomorrow morning. I told dh to still go tonight, I might take neph to swim, they have a water slide/splash pool etc. We'll see how he behaves at the museum, he is a wild child. My sis is not so good at discipline.

Clyde - how was the game? Hope you had fun.

Clyr - congrats on the loss Not a big sports fan here either but I enjoy listening to others.

lovnmom - I love that movie. We enjoyed the exhibit in Cooperstown when we went last fall, it was even more of an eye opener. And it does make you appreciate the options we have now doesn't it.

Laurie - as the sportscaster here is fond of saying those Tigers keep snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

slash - hope you enjoy your picnic!

sznn - Strangely even though I feel bloated I usually do better on the scale when I have PMS, I just feel fat . I get that fun next week.

Well, I should get moving, I need to clean the house a little before other people see it, and I should sort laundry before I leave. How did staying home w/o kids fill with so many chores?????

-Tech

Morning girls.

My weigh in did not want to get on that scale today. I'm up 4lbs. I was expecting a gain but not that much. Must do better next week.

We had a great time at the game. Cards won 9-6. My daughter loved it, her first major league game. I had a pulled pork sandwich and coleslaw and later a small ice cream. Didn't help the weight much.

Clayr well done on the loss

Have a good day everyone.

Tech, I hope the day at the museum goes well. Enjoy the exhibit and there's always something fun with a child even if he is wild!!! Way to get back on track. We have to live life..it's all about keeping going and making good choices most of the time.

Clyde, Glad you had a good time and DD too..I'd bet most of the 4# is water from salt in the pulled pork and it'll all be gone in a day or two. Nothing to really worry about. You've been doing so well!

We're cleaning out the van for a 6 hour drive to my dads tomarrow, he's moving and is putting us to work so I'm sure to burn some calories

Diane, I don't mind the sports talk at all, I love to hear the excitement, I just don't "speak the language". When my family watches football they will yell at the t.v. and I have no idea whats going on, except for the touchdowns then I get to yell too. Actually, I need to start planning how I'm going to deal with the food and beer in these situations, since that is what normally holds my interest.

luvnmom- I Love A League of Their Own, during the ending credits the women who actually played on those teams are playing ball.

Tech- I really like bats, they swoop down and get drinks from our pool in the evenings. Hope your nephew is good so everyone can have fun.

Clyde- I agree with lovnmom, that salt always gets me too.

Hey all,

Newbie here... question for all of you How often do you weigh in? Weekly? or more often? I realize that daily is not the best since you see lots of water weight fluctuations. Do you take your monthly cycle into account? I'm 42, and starting to sputter a bit on that front. Cycles getting shorter in general, but occasionally a long one. hard to predict... How does that impact your weigh ins?

Confuddled, but still

hopefuldreamer

Hi Everyone,

I just love reading what everyone is doing! My children are grown and gone so I don't have any of those stories any longer. Since I teach, I am getting ready to go back to school in a couple of weeks. I did go into school this morning and discovered that although my library had been cleaned, nothing had been put away. So I burned off a bunch of calories there (not to mention the sweat!). I have been doing so well on the SBD (today is day eleven I think) that even after the two week mark on Monday, I am going to stick with just the proteins and veggies for a while. It is a bit boring but I feel like I am in control so for now I am sticking with it until I can't stand it any longer.

Clydegirl, I am so glad you had fun at the game. I hope you have a better week this week.

Hopefuldreamer, as I have mentioned before, this time, I am avoiding the scale for a while. It just frustrates me and I am going to go by how I feel and how well the current pair of fat jeans zip. Maybe when I have to buy a new (smaller) pair of jeans, I will finally get on the scale. I am not much help on that.

Keep posting everyone...it keeps me going. Laurie the DowLibraryLady

clayr, Wishing you safe travel and loads of calorie burning.

hopefuldreamer, when I first started my healthy lifestyle I weighed only once a month. My plan nets very slow weightloss so it was important to me to see a lower number. Now I weigh everyday. I know my body well enough I know when a gain is "real" vs. water etc...I track the number and it keeps me motivated to continue on the healthy track. As for the TOM the tracking helps there too. I can look back at last month and see that I went up 2# 3 days before TOM just like this month etc...good luck. Post often, there are very supportive people here.

librarylady, work the program to fit your needs. It's all about you! Great job getting your library back in shape and your bod too!

Did 5 miles with my girlfriend AND her hubby. He's off work and bored...He thought the hilly 5 miles we chose were just crazy!!!

Well I am back after not posting for a few days! Yesterday I rented a rug machine to do my van interior - lot of hard scrubbing for 3 hours. Then my friend, who recently had weight-loss surgery, wanted to do her van too while I had the machine. So I said "sure - come over. I'll help you". Well ... while she spent most of her time vomiting in my bathroom because she tried to eat too fast (1 tsp of food) I cleaned her van! Today I can hardly move my arms and my calves are seizing up!

I was tired most of today, but forced myself to do my walk. Took a couple of Tylenol - then walked. Actually made me feel much better.

Sorry I am not much of a sports fan - I am even a disappointing Canadian for my lack of knowledge about hockey . Can't contribute much there!

Clayr - congrats on the 2 lbs lost!

Lovn - Don't know how you log all those miles - 7 miles = 11+ km! You must go through a lot of shoes!

Hopeful - I don't know about everyone else, but I weigh myself on the same scale every Monday morning. Weighing too often can be discouraging if it goes up and down - plus I look forward to Monday morning. As per cyles, well, some gain should be expected, but if you are faithful to your new eating and exercise patterns, then don't beat yourself up if bloating causes some gain.

Just a question - does my avatar show up on my screen? I don't see it when I post.

Have a good day tomorrow everyone! Shari

Scaryshari, yes, your avatar is visible, and it's a good one!

Does anyone out there use a BlackBerry? I'm thinking of getting one. I used to have a Palm Pilot, mainly just to keep everyone's phone numbers handy, but when I changed jobs in February, I found I was not allowed to sync the Palm with my work computer (they don't allow any "outside" software to be loaded onto the laptop they give you). So now the Palm Pilot is useless. Of course I have a cell phone and I could put everyone's phone numbers/emails in there, but...I'd have to update it manually any time I change the same data on my work computer. Does that make sense?? Anyway, I might check out a BlackBerry this weekend and see if Verizon can cut me a deal.

I'm leaving work at 1:30 today to get the oil changed in my car (exciting, I know!). We have summer hours here, but I don't ever take advantage of them. But I will today!

Good Morning All,

Yesterday went well. The museum was fun and the bats were pretty cool the live show was different because most of their bats were in the main museum exhibit, so they showed nocturnal animals. The coolest was a 2-toed sloth. He was just meandering around his cage hanging from the ceiling. Going to a museum with a 6 year old is much different than how I usually go. DH and I read every sign (this is what happens when you send 2 engineers into a museum), sometimes on vacation if we do a bunch of museums I swear my brain will explode. But DN flitted from one thing to the next, what's this? No what's this?.....It went much faster . When we got home dn wanted to watch "Robots" so I put in the dvd. My parents had about a half hour to kill before they left to meet their friends so they started watching it, apparently they had never seen it, so now my movie is at their house so dad could finish watching. Then we went to the pool, not formal exercise but man playing with a kid in the water for an hour was tiring . I still would have rather swam laps, but he doesn't swim well enough for the lap pool, we hung out in the splash pool. It was fun. Today my plan is to ride my bike around town running my errands. I should log 10-15 miles then I want to go back to the gym to get in my weight training since yesterday I was in the pool while dh worked out. Then hopefully again on Sunday. That'll give me 3 times this week .

WI day today - according to my scale I'm down 4.2 from last week Hopefully it'll stick.

Shari - Wow! Sounds like a lot of work. Hope your GF appreciated it. Congrats on getting in your walk even when you didn't feel like it. I see your avatar, wonder why you don't.

Lovnmom - Too funny about your friends dh. Did you tell him hills help you work more?

Library - It must feel good to be ready for the first day of school. And your team won last night . Why can't they spread those runs out some they seem to be either on or off, no so-so play here. So do you work in a school or for dow? Just curious.

Hopefull - I wi about twice a week. Once mid week and once on my official day (which was Sat but I'm changing to Fri), sometimes I miss one of them. I find if I weigh every day I get obsessed, so I moved the scale to the bath in the basement, so its an effort to get on. My problem is if the scale goes down when it shouldn't have, I think "oh well yesterday I ate badly, and it went down so today I can too...." Not a good plan.

Clayr - Have "fun" helping your dad move. The sports I understand the best are the ones I've played. Baseball (as a very small kid), hockey (IM in college) and lately cycling. I wish they covered it more here. I have absolutely no clue what's happening during basketball, and soccer is a foreign concept to me when we watch dh's family play I'm constantly huh? what? why? I don't think dh has much fun explaining everything to me.

Clyde - Too bad about the gain, probably is just a change in eating last night. Glad you had fun at the game, it's always better when they win isn't it.

Well, gotta get moving, sorry didn't mean to write a novel. Have a great day everyone

-Tech

Techalum - way to go that is a fantastic scale victory!!

shari, ok, my daughter and I both can hardly stop laughing....( 1 tsp of food w/ the added smiley ) is priceless!!!! Great job getting your walk in even though you were sore..my DD's volleyball camp is 4 miles from home and lasts for 2 hours so I've been doing a lot of walking waiting for her rather than driving back home. I wear Avia's..they fit the carriage of my foot really well and I always buy them at Sears when they have a "buy one get one half off." The two pair last me most of the year.

letsgo, sorry no help from me on any of that! Accept I could change your oil for ya!

Tech, Glad you had a fun day...Great job on the loss woo hoo!!!

Well, I was wrong...DD does have V.B. camp today too...so MAY BE I'll walk again. Not sure...Today is all about laundry and packing for our weekend away. I want everything loaded and ready to roll today already so I can relax with my coffe and a little 3FC posting before we leave in the morning.
Have an awesome Friday all!

Afternoon girls.

A gorgeous day here. We are going to a 50th wedding anniversary surprise party tonight. Wow 50 years. Should be a nice night.

Well done Tech on the weight loss.

Way to go for that weigh in, tech. That's terrific! Glad the museum trip was fun.

I think I'll give up the daily WI for just the reasons you've said. I do become too obsessed. Even if I know that fluctuations are normal, the monkey mind just won't let it go.

Have a great weekend everyone. It's been terrific to be here this week. I am feeling more confident already, just from reading all the posts.

I'm looking forward to when my newbie 30 days is up, then I'll get myself a cool "number line" like so many of you have! Maybe by then I'll be able to move the little thingy a bit!

Hopefuldreamer

Hi Everyone

I am on late today due to a very busy day. Nice day here today...cool temps and low humidity. I went to the dr. and I am happy to report that my blood pressure reading was down (138/78), still not great, but much better. We talked and she thinks keeping with the SB phase one is a good idea for another couple of weeks. After yesterday (I ate too many ribs) I am going to work on the portion control this weekend. I don't have to go back to the dr. until Oct., so I guess that is good. Did you know that you can have a different blood pressure reading depending on which arm they use to take the measure??? I didn't until today!

TechAlum...great weight loss! In answer to your question, I am the library media specialist at Dow High School. I work in the school, not in Dow Chemical. Where are you from?


Have a good weekend everyone! DowLibraryLady