Well, it's Tuesday and once again I've not got my hunters safety homework done. I'll have to rush through it (again). It's scary cuz next week we shoot shotgun and 22's...and then the following week we have our test. I feel like such an idiot all the time (and not just when it comes to that) that I'm sure I'll flunk. There's just SO much information I'll never remember. Well, I managed to stay OP last night and I'm looking forward to after work and doing another exercise tape. Did I just say that?? WOW!

You all have a great day!!

Good morning Brenda and all to come.

Well last night I decided to go shopping in my closet and see what will and will not fit me for the summer. And to my surprise!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it all fit in fact I gave away some from last summer that were "big" clothes. Now all I have to do is get some new stuff to spruse up the old stuff a little and I am all set.
How exciting is that? I tried on one of my fancy dresses to see if it would fit for one of the weddings I have coming up and strangely the outside of the dress was kind of big but the lining was tight? maybe the cleaners did that. Well it is off shopping for me tonight girls! Can't wait.

Brenda: Study, study, study.....have to ask though...how do you study for a gun course! Shoot at things? just kidding.....you will be fine I'm sure.

Well I actually have a couple of scheduled installs today so that will keep me busy. I will check in throughout the day. Have a good one.

Hi Goils,

Just checking in to say YELLO

Today is the foot doctor, and I'll hopefully find out why my feet hurt so bad.

I did however get some of Brenda's ooomph (no not that kind) and I did 1 mile yesterday folks thats ALOT for me.

You know I remember feeling WONDERFUL exercising years ago, and that feeling is still with me, but my body hurts so much and I have such little time that I find every reason NOT to do it anyhoooozies.

Watcha all got planned for today.

Hey to all the Atkins ladies!

Froufy: It's good to see you back!! You went to Mexico, right? How was it? Where'd you go? I've been to Cozumel, and I absolutely loved it!!

Brenda: That's great that you're looking forward to an exercise tape!! It won't take long, and you'll be feeling like you're missing something if you don't exercise.

My exercise is another story. I had been in the great habit of walking 3 to 4 miles everyday. Then, my dad came to visit. I usually walk over my lunch hour. Well, with him here, we went out to eat at lunch -- not walk. My plan was to wake up early, which is a stretch for me, and try to get the walking in. Well, that happened one day. So, now, I haven't walked in over a week. I guess we did get some exercise in at spring training games -- walking to and from the car, but it still wasn't as much or as intense as I usually do. So, I've got to get back on track. TODAY!!

Eating hasn't been bad, but it hasn't been great either. While my dad was here, he got some low-carb ice cream. So, it started becoming a habit every night to have a bowl of it with melted peanut butter over it. Yikes! At least it wasn't the regular, high-carb sugary stuff, but I still don't think that's the best habit!

But, the good thing is, I had a great time with my dad. We went to five baseball games, shopping and out to eat -- my idea of a good time!

Hope everyone is doing well! I hope to be able to check in more often now.

Take care,
Jina

Jane: Have fun shopping! I love shopping now!! I've kind of turned into a shopaholic now.

Leenie: I hope the doctor can help your toosties! Let us know how it goes.

(I guess people sneak in on you when it takes an hour to post... I forgot I had started!)

Your holding back on us aren't you ?

Alllright come clean, where did you find the oooomph?

Hi Jina hang in there, it will come back to you. Christmas threw me really off wack so I understand how you feel. That ice cream can be dangerous, the only one's I feel I have control with is the Skinny Cow low carb bars and they don't give me gas or a belly ache.

Jane have a great time shopping, I'd be excited too

Good day to all!
Yesterday, I didn't eat any carbs at all so I could have red wine with friends last night. I drank way too much! Almost a whole bottle myself! Ifeel like ! My head hurts, and I feel like I totally blew what I had worked so hard for. But I still have my cheekbones, and I guess if I am going to drink, red wine is pretty low in carbs. I think it is about 2.2 per four ounces. Oh well, I had a darn good time, so it was worth it! Now for Advil and coffee!

Brenda: Have fun shooting things! and good for you on working out! I have been talking about it for a long time, but I haven't done it yet!

Jane: Have a blast shopping! Congrats on the big clothes!

Jina: I am glad you had fun with your dad. Splurging is allowed at times like that! Ice cream w/ melted pb sounds delish!

Leenie: I hope your feet feel better Keep us posted!

If I forgot anyone, hello, and I am sorry! I will get back later.

Good morning ladies!!

I am at work, busy busy day ahead, DS goes back to pre-school after spring break today, Dog is at the vet to get his tail amputated (it was deformed since birth and now it is causing him trouble so he's gonna get it fixed) Yesterday I went and bought the boys bunkbeds. They love them. And I need to go to the gym today.......whew!

Jane CONGRATS!!! Great job on fitting into everything!

Brenda Good luck at hunters safety!!

Leenie good luck at the foot doc!!!!

Jina OOOOOOO jina I hadn't even thought of the melted PB on the ice cream!!! OMG!!!

Cat girl!!! WHHHHHOOOOWEEE party girl! LOL Hope that advil works good!

Talk to you all later!!

PS: I made my weekly goal last week!!! YIPPEEEEEEE Now I have to post another one on the weekly goal thread!

Good Morning Everyone

Hope everyone is having a great Tuesday!

Brenda: I am thinking of taking the hunter's safety course. I really don't hunt, but we shoot clay targets a lot. They have some really good ranges here. Think it would be neat to take the class! Congrats on getting in the exercising in...wish I could get motivated to do that.

Jane: Congrats on the clothes fitting! I went through my closet the other day, and lots of stuff fit. I had one box of stuff that was still packed up in the building from before we got married 4 years ago. Stuff that didn't fit, and I figured never would. Everything in that box fit, and most was too big. Isn't that a wonderful feeling!I love shopping now...I could try on stuff all day. I used to hate it! Have fun shopping!

Lennie: Good luck at the foot dr. Hope he gets those footsies feeling better. And btw it's all your fault I was up so late last night... you posted that arcade, and I had to play

Jina: I know how it is when you have people visiting. Very hard to get the exercising and eating right in. I know you will be back on track soon!

Catgirl: sounds as if you had a little too much fun last night Just a little secret...when I drink too much, I take asprin or advil before going to bed and ususally wake up feeling great the next day!

TG: sounds like you have a very busy day! Poor doggie....Rocky broke his tail about a year and half ago. HE was a pitiful sight. Couldn't wag his tail for 2 months. Hope you have a great day!

Well, I am off today. Took a personal day for me. Not sure yet what I am going to do, may just be lazy! I will check back in later....Have a great day everyone!!!!

Hiya all!

Ugh. Yesterday ended up being miserable for me. I got home from work and wanted to do laundry but couldn't at my apt building so I had to run to the laundromat, which is just a frightening place in and of itself... Well, the washer I picked locked up and wouldn't release my clothing to me. I had to wait forever for the maintenance guy to come around and free my clothes. Meanwhile... I had gotten a case of the munchies mid afternoon and nabbed some sort of low carb bar I had left over in my desk from way back in January when I first started. Well, I should have known better..... it had sugar alcohols... I wasn't wise to them when I first started. So, I spent the better part of the afternoon and the evening in the bathroom. Place that on top of the fact that the laundromat bathroom is YUCK... and you get one unpleasant evening. Ugh.

I missed my BF last night so terribly, every time I rolled over in my sleep I tried to throw my arm over him.............. and he wasn't there. How depressing is that? So I called him this morning and woke up him just to tell him I miss him. Thankfully he was just as glad to hear from me or I think he would have been irritated at a 5:45 am wake up call!!!!

Brenda: Good luck with the class and I"m glad you're loving the workouts! I can't seem to move my any further than absolutely necessary!

Jane: Congrats on the clothes... that is the BEST feeling. I've been loving it!


Leenie and jdogg

Catgirl: Go easy today, nurse the hangover. Lots of water!

Mrs H: Have fun with your personal day!

Good morning, O Thinning Ones!

Brenda - Have fun with hunter's safety! If my surgeon says it's ok, I'm going shooting on Saturday, so I'll be with you in spirit

Jane - Closet shopping is so much fun!

Leenie - Hope all goes well with the dr today. You shouldn't have to be in pain.

Jina - It could have been worse! It could have been fudge on that ice cream!

Catgirl - how do you have no carbs at all? did you eat? Oy! I understand about the red wine! I can't stop myself from drinking it all if it's around me.

TG - Hope all goes well for your pup!

Mrs H!

I'm all happy today because I did get some oomph in my life last night (take that any way you want to ) and today is pre-op day! Yippee! I can't wait. I'm just bouncing off the walls and completely useless now.

Oh! And I'm down another pound! Wa-hoo! I need to do some serious summer shopping. All my summer clothes are too big since I'm now smaller than I've been in 9 years. Even my summer shoes are all to big! What a strange thing. I'm now 7 pounds away from my lowest weight ever and I just can't believe it.

Do any of you ever look at the number of pounds you've lost and just can't get around it? I'm down 63 now and it just seems completely unreal that I could have weighed that much more. When it's all said and done, I will have lost 75-80 pounds and it just seems weird. So I'm curious - is this surreal to any of you or is it just me?

Shimma - you sneaky girl! missing the person you love hurts like ****. I hope it gets better for you.

Hi Atkins Chicks,

I am still doing Atkins, and my DH said on Saturday that I "look" slimmer! I have been doing more activities too. Last evening we went and played tennis. I love that game. But I haven't been on the scales....too scared. When I do I'll let everyone here know.

Brenda, I hope you do well on your test, target practice is fun.

Jane, Sounds like you have a new wardrobe. I think I'll do the same here.

Leenie, I hope the foot Dr. can help, I know foot pain, once I had plantar facititis and it was a year in healing. I'll be praying for your feet.

Jina, That is so cool that you got to spend all that time with your dad!

Catgirl,
I had a half glass of dry white wine with dinner at my inlaws Sunday night, the next day the ketosticks were barely pink. The strips are darker now so I guess it was a shortlived setback. That is a good idea to do no carbs when a greater carb fest is planned. I'll have to keep that in memory.

Theo'sgirl, I hope your doggie is healed of the snip snip fast.


I went to the health food store and got some of that product that Dr. Atkins uses in his cookbook called Thicken Thin, some Atkins Baking Mix and a bottle of Atkins "Ketchup". The Thicken Thin (0 carbs) worked great on some meat juice for a thick gravy. And the ketchup (1 carb per tablespoon) tastes just like ketchup to me. I haven't tried the bakemix yet.

I'm having fun doing Atkins.

I see Mrs. H, Hope you enjoy a peaceful day today.

And Shimma, I was looking at low carb bars at the health food store...I don't get it, how can they have 14 grams of carbs listed in the info box and 2 grams of fiber, then say on the front 3 carbs. Sounded fishy to me, where did the missing carbs go??

StarPrincess, Congrats on the pound gone!!! You go girl. You are getting so close!

Brenda: Congratulations on your workout yesterday!!!! This is just terrific! Good luck with your class.

Jane: YAY!!! for needing new clothes. Have a blast shopping today!

Leenie: Good luck with the foot today. Hopefully you can figure out what is going on with that.

Jina: What fun you had with your dad!!! I'm glad you had such an enjoyable visit and I bet you'll get right back on track.

Catgirl: I think I miss wine more than I miss pasta! All those tannens can give you one heck of a hangover though... I cannot imagine drinking while on Atkins. Back in college, I would eat tons of carbs and grease the day after along with soda after soda to recover. Boy are those days over for me!!!

Theo's girl: My goodness you are busy!!! Congrats on making goal!!!

Mrs. H: Have a wonderful time taking it easy and being lazy!! You deserve a relaxing day.

Shimma: I am so sorry you had a hard day yesterday. It will get better!! I promise. I always feel as if the world is out to bother me my first few days on Induction. Today I woke up grumpy and in tears. I dumped a glass of water all over the futon and splattered bacon grease on my arm!! I swear the first four days are grump city for me and if it can happen, it will!! *hugs* Hang in there!!!

StarPrincess: YAY! for getting your eyes done so you never have to worry about glasses or contacts again. Wow! You must be so excited. Have a blast shopping for new clothes. I know what you mean about weight loss... not because of significant weight loss yet but just looking at pictures from before I had my daughter. I was half the person I am today literally!!! When I lose all my weight I will be half the person I am today. I am excited about that and praying since I am only 29 that my skin will tighten up as I go!!! Have a great day today and you are in my thoughts and prayers for your eye surgery.

Journey Girl: I'm glad you are having fun on Atkins. I keep telling myself to just get past the initial 40 or so pounds and then I can eat more low carb meals. It is neat reading about the fun products and foods everyone in OWL gets to eat.

Today I am back in Induction. I had to go grocery shopping yesterday so I ate low carb but not Induction low carb. Last night I watched a program on Discovery Health that really brought obesity and the importance of weight loss home to me. After a certain weight and BMI your body is literally being suffocated by the fat you carry!!! They had pictures and diagrams. I sat there and was in SHOCK!!! I checked my BMI for my body. I am only 5'5" with a small frame and my BMI is 35+ so I am in danger for SO many health problems. I got all upset for a bit and then remembered I have all the tools I need to handle this issue. I have a wonderful diet I can use for life. I have support. I know what I am supposed to do!! I just have to do it. So I woke up today with renewed commitment and energy. I have had a lot of stress but I see the light at the end of the tunnel now. Beyond that, stress IS a trigger for me. I'll know I have really accomplished something when I can manage my stress without heading to the kitchen to eat comfort food! So that is a goal now as well. I also have to accept that being fat is a safety mechanism for me. I equate being thin to some bad things that happened in my past when I was a teenager. That said, being thin now won't make those bad things come back and hurt me again. I know this logically. Dealing with it emotionally is a lot harder!

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!!! ladies for all your kind words and wonderful support. I so appreciate that I can come in here and talk to you and get and give support. I can be honest when I screw up and get encouragement without lectures. What a great group! You are all to be commended!! I cannot wait until I can show that I have lost my 25/50/plus pounds.