Wow Cat! Size 8!

I missed you all. I have been taking care of my family, they are all sick with a bad chest cold with fever. So far I have not gotten sick. Work was busy this week and the time went fast it seems. It is below freezing outside and raining....waaaa, I don't like winter with my autumn. Hope you all are doing well.:grouphug:

Cruise - way to go!!

giv - good luck on your weigh in.

gardenerjoy - the leaves in our yard are on the ground, so we'll be gathering them up as soon as the rain stops. It's that time of year when our 250 year old oak tree sheds its canopy. Truly a lot of leaves.

ICU - you listen to audio programs while you swim? How do you do that?

Marie - congrats for making it to single digits. Woohoo!

dmc - grapefruit and sauerkraut? Mmmmm. Hopefully, not at the same time.:lol:

I just finished my second week at my new job and I'm wiped again. I'm so glad that I was quite fit when I started this new job. I can only imagine how much worse I'd be feeling if I still wasn't exercising and I was eating poorly.

Good morning and Happy Saturday!

Pressmaggie, glad the job is going well. Isn't a good feeling to think about how different things would be if you had not lost weight. Really helps to validate all of your hard work!

Hydra, hope that cold stays far away from you. We have also had a lot of rain and cold here so I agree about no winter in my autumn!

Giv, sending you good wishes for your weigh in today!

Gardener, I'm with you on this lousy weather. We did have a great summer but please!

Cruise, Have a great trip to get Mack. Your avatar is HOT! You look great!

ICU, loved your subway story. Alex sounds like a great kid! Very thoughtful!
Sounds like you are having fun shopping for that Ipod!

Marie, single digits, How amazing is that! Enjoy it!

WLW, great news on the scholarship! That would be fantastic!

DMC, I found my spot. Sad to day it has been there for quite some time. Asked my reg. Dr. about it a couple years ago and he said dry skin. NOT! Oh well. Munching on saurkraut! LOL!

Newleaf, How si your son? Will he be back to school Monday?

Losermom, glad to see you again! Keep coming back we miss you!

Sorry if I miised anyone! Off to do some errands. I'm hoping for a little sun today!

Saturday morning here and the weather has taken a turn for warmer temps thank goodness. I'm tired of the rain and dreariness! Yesterday I was feeling like I had no friends and that I was all alone this weekend--I really needed some Lady Time with my girlfriends. We do get together as least 2x a month. But my one gf only lives a block away and she and I made a deal a couple of months ago. When we are feeling like that, we need to call/text. Yesterday, I did it. And while she is busy today--we are going to do something outside on Sunday. Yeah me for being proactive! This friend of mine is super fit and active. Usually we take our dogs for a long, long walk and talk--that sounds good to me!

Cat, you do look HAWT (as the young girls say) in your new avatar!

Hydra, I wish everyone in your house wellness. I hope it isn't the h1n1. One of my student workers was diagnosed with the regular seasonal flu on Thursday. She offered to some into work on Friday, bless her heart! I told her no--stay home and rest.

ICU, enjoy your new itouch! I have the 8gb and love it. I listen to podcasts (Inside Out Weight Loss) while doing my cardio. We also load it with movies and fun games when we travel. DS14 and I played tons of Scrabble with it on vaca this summer.

Presmaggie, have you noticed how much easier life is when you are taking good care of yourself? I sure have. Congrats on making it to the restful weekend.

GivTLC: Yay for getting your exercise done!

Hydra: hope you get our sunshine and slightly warmer temperatures soon.

presmaggie: congrats on finishing another week -- I hope it soon reaches a point where it doesn't wipe you out.

Onmyway: hope you get to enjoy our sunshine! We're driving out to the country today, so we get to take advantage of it.

losermom: good for you for working something out with your friend

We have sunshine! I'm going to be off the internet for a couple of days -- hope everyone has a great weekend!

No loss
 

So maybe the grapefruit and saurkrout diet isn't so good huh?
Ugh. Whatever, I munched away the night and am going to pay for it the next couple of days.
I am depressed but going for my walk and maybe later hitting the gym. Back on the plan today!

Cruise, I love the avatar. You look phenomenal. It’s pretty amazing the differences in a size between the many manufactures. Enjoy that size 8 because you deserve it.

Joy, I love the idea of roping anyone who walks into the room into WATP. Too funny.

GivTLC, YEAH!!!!! on the weight loss. You're doing great. Absolutely great. I’m glad you got to try out Leslie’s workout. I know that her stuff is what started me on the path of fitness. Now it’s a bit too tame, but in a crunch it’s wonderful. If I hadn’t started with the easy workouts, I’d never be in the best shape I’ve ever been in my life. I hope the weigh in goes great.

Hydra, wow you’re only 2 pounds away from your Halloween goal. That’s awesome. I hope your family begins to recover.

Presmaggie, that’s such an awesome way to look at your life change. Keep up the great work of eating good and exercising. The new job will level off and you won’t be so tried. Also you were sick for quite a bit!

OMW, because of you, I keep looking at a mole on my back that I think is changing and odd. My reg doctor said it looked fine. Since you had that said to you and it wasn’t fine, I’m going to make an appointment with a dermatologist on Monday. I hope the removal goes smoothly and that be the end of it.

LM, great job on contacting your friend for girl time. I bet you have a great chat tomorrow.

DMC, do you chart out your weights? I have for years and I noticed a pattern every month. The third week of my cycle, I whoosh 90% of the monthly weight loss. The other 3 weeks there will be an occasional loss but mostly fluctuations up and down. As irritating as the evil scale is on those 3 weeks, I now know that it’s just the way my body is. Maybe you have a similar pattern. You’ve lost 5 pounds and are doing great – you’re 25% of the way to your goal

I spent my day off yesterday rearranging my house. I moved my piano from my living room into my bedroom and the shelving system from the bedroom. That piano was heavy. I only put on dent in a drywall corner. Oops. The piano is mahagony and the rest of my living room/great room is light oak. It always looked out of place. The light oak shelving system looks great. The room is totally matched. Now my bedroom, it's all light oak as well but I usually have my eyes shut when I'm in there. One good thing about the move is I can leave my sheet music out and might play more often. I already played this morning - the first time since I brok my wrist in April. I've been dreading starting again and pushed it off, and off, and off. So I plunged right in this morning. Both Kai and Sasha came running at the sound, jumped on the bed and watched. It was pretty cool. BTW, Sasha had her initial new dog to the family vet appt yesterday. She's healthy as can be. And she's adapting beautifully. And I'm totally in love with her!

Marie

Thanks for the well wishes ladies. I think I am past the point of catching whatever virus that my family has, they are all doing much better today.

I met my Halloween goal! I weighed this morning and wow, 30 pounds lost now, that is six pounds away from me being half way to goal. I will have to take some pics then and post them.

losermom - friends are so important. I am glad you will be spending time this weekend with a friend.

giveTLC - wow, good job on the loss! Way to go!

marie - good news about the doggie and I think it's great that you are spending time creating beautiful music. It must be very theraputic.

Hi, everyone. My DS8 seems better and should hopefully go back to school on Monday. I did a calculation -- he missed 8 out of the last 13 days of school. Wow.

Marie I'm glad you made the derm. appt. I had a dr brush off what I thought was skin cancer, too, and I was right.

GiveTLC congrats on your loss!

DMC2009 I hope your depression lifts... If it's cold and rainy where you are (like it is here) that definitely doesn't help!

GardenerJoy and LoserMom sunshine, WOW! enjoy!

PresMaggie great NSV, being able to do your job more easily!

Hydra no, I don't dress up to give out candy. But my sons keep trying to get me to wear a Star Trek dress... like that would ever happen! Remember those yellow mini-dresses that Ohura (sp?) used to wear??

Hi, everyone! I'm just checking in - it's cold but sunny and I HAVE to get some things done outside before I read all the notes. :) Went to a party last night, was "undisciplined", and I'm up 4 pounds in 1 day. I actually laughed at the scale. That's a big difference form last year! It'll be gone by Wed ... just gotta do what works.

NSV - I pulled out a pair of Land's End size 8 jeans that have been in the back of my closet since 1997 - yeah, 12 YEARS! Held 'em up, thought , hey, those don't look all THAT small ... and tried them on. Keep in mind, they're the relaxed fit with extra inches in the butt and thighs - but they went up, zipped and buttoned without a bit of trouble!

Hydra, congratulations on meeting your Halloween goal. 30 pounds is fantastic. We’d love to see pictures.

Newleaf, I haven’t made the appt yet, but I researched what doctor to call tomorrow. We don’t have any derms locally (he died in a plane accident last year) so I have to travel over the mountain. I’m really pleased I’m going to make the appt and go because then I can stop looking at the mole and wonder.

ICU, I’m just betting 4 pounds (aka 14000 calories) was not consumed last night. I bet it’s gone by tomorrow. Water weight and all. And way to go with the antique size 8’s and that was after 4 pounds of water weight!

I did the icky and tried on all my sweaters. For some reason I thought sweaters were one size fits all. My stash went from about 15 sweaters to 6 and two are baggy but still look good. I realized a medium would probably be right after goal as well so I ordered 4 more sweaters from Kohls as well as two jean skirts and a pair of jeans. I really wanted to wait on the skirt and jeans but I look in the mirror and the baggy style is ugly. So I decided it was worth spending $200 on stuff so I wouldn’t think I should fill the clothes out. If anyone is interested in size large sweaters, size 12 jean skirts and jeans, let me know. There's also a size 14 jeans in olive, a 14 jean skirt (that fits more like a 12) and size 14 jeans in blue. If you’re willing to pay the shipping, I’m willing to give them to others in this constant size flux. If not, Goodwill will get them. I offer because a swap could help some of us. If you're interested, PM me and I'll take pics and let you all choose what you'd want.


Marie

I got a Karen Voight Pilates workout from Netflix and like it, so I went out and bought the Danskin Pilates circle from Walmart. I played around with it for a while and Hubby gave it the "let's see if I can break it' test. He couldn't but he got the pads to touch.

I've kept Hubby busy this weekend running me around trying to find some clothes. Just simple longsleeve shirts and sweaters. i finally found some nice things at JCPenny's and they had a sale! The St John's Bay brand is my favorite, they seem to run large also, always a bonus in my book.

We got up this morning at 8am and it was in the 40"s but by the time we left for church an hour and half later it was in the 60's already. I walked out on the porch with my wool coat and hat on, walked back into the house, hung it all up while Hubby stripped off his coat also, and we left.

Marie, On my exericse forum we have an 'Exchange". We post lists of what we have vs. what we want, and make trades through the PM system. {workout DVD for DVD, clothes, equipment, etc} It works very well.

Cat, great avatar! congrats on the size 8!

Hydra, sorry everyone is sick! Remember to take care of yourself too!

Happy Monday Morning Ladies!!!

Thank you all so much for the compliments on the new avatar; I love the new dress it was made perfect for a "curvy" woman and does a GREAT job of hiding my number one problem area, the lower abdomen.

Patch - Apparently I'm off to the mall today to find Mack some long sleeve tees. Yesterday when we went hiking he found one in his drawer that fit.

Marie - What a sweet offer.

ICU - WTG on the NSV!!! I know it's just a number and even in my case with vanity sizing it just feels good.

Heidi - Glad DS is doing better. Hopefully the missed eight days won't put him too far behind.

Maggie - Being able to keep up at work is an excellent NSV.

Mack and I hiked yesterday; wanted to do one trail but the road was closed due to fire damage about 6 miles from the trailhead. Ended up doing a nice 6 miler with a total elevation gain of 1500' but it was a lot of up and down. It was a good workout and my knee did give me a bit of trouble but for the most part it felt really good.

Mack is back to work today and I'm off to feed the dogs and hit the treadmill.

Have a great day!!!