Carol - how's the cold doing? The gentleman who helps unload the kids at DS10's school mentioned this morning that there are only 7 Fridays left for us ... holy cow!!!
kathi - with you on the strained family situations - wish mine wasn't under my own roof, but that's a project for later. We have to look out for our own sanity!
Cindy - hope your appt went as well as you expected. Let us know how the boxing goes - I'm curious.
annie - glad your back is healing up in time for your trek. I don't think there's much worse than a sore back - grr! Nice work dodging the donuts! I can resist donuts pretty well, but muffins? No way. It's a good thing they rarely show up here! Congrats on the pound!
slroth - it was only an hour's drive. Atlanta - 2 hours on the plane.
Always great to have a friend call and want to do something besides eat - can I borrow your friend?
Re my goal - no biggie because it really represents the bottom end of the 5 pound range I think I can maintain. Meaning I'm at the top of it right now - or what the Maintainers usually call a "red line". And where I'm at right now does feel like a great place to call the upper end. I just have to keep plugging away, and deal with how slowly things go from here.
kitteh-
on the allergies. Many, many people suffering through high pollen counts here too.
motivated - work chaos sucks. Is your boss tied up in the same event, and that's why he's working late?
angels - woo - sounds like you're working the FUNCTIONAL exercise route!
Jen - Can relate completely to the ultimate potential thingy. If you're familiar with the Myers-Briggs personality types, I am a full-blown INFJ and spend LOTS of time in my head.
Kim - I bombed the Vit D test as well. I took 6000 IUs (right unit?) daily all winter long, and am getting a fresh test done next month. It does seem to make a difference with energy level, and I definitely caught fewer colds this past winter.
petra - so glad to hear you're delegating! It's tough to sign somebody new into your life, even if they're there to help. Best of luck with the bloodwork. I personally paid for a VAP cholesterol test to get my dr. off my butt about my cholesterol (generally 230). It worked - I don't have to listen to the statin speech any more.
Keep us posted on what happens with the fiber uptake - that's really interesting!
PM - that's all I'm doing right now too - keeping my eye on next Saturday! Bring on May!
Quick check-in for me as well. Today is Grandparent's day at DS10's school - and he's got a sleepover with a friend tonight, a dress rehearsal tomorrow morning, a haircut, and then the school is releasing salmon fry into the river in the early afternoon. Work is bananas, it's supposed to rain this weekend, and I've gone on strike with picking up after DH. Any bets on how many weeks it will be before he notices?
I wonder how many calories I will burn? 
Have fun!
) and our road trip/hike tomorrow. I'll try to check in as I can!
but I guess my scale at home must be pretty accurate. My blood pressure was pefect 120/76. Hard to make an argument that my meds should be reduced with that. My cholesterol looked great though. Total cholesterol of 191, trig 77-last year they were 217, LDL of 138, HDL 38. HDL could be a little higher. I haven't been drinking as much wine as I usually do to try to cut back on calories and that would help my HDL some. I asked for a fasting insulin level. I want to know if I am insulin resistant and if that is part of my problem with why this is going so slowly. I imagine that is a send out test and I will have to pay for it but at least I will know. 
