Good Morning Fulfig...nice to meet you! Good luck with adding to the family!

Well, not much happening here this morning. Just another day of work! Hope that everyone has a great day. I'll check back in after work this afternoon!

Lisa

Fullfig: Congrats on the weight loss and have fun adding to the family (Congrats if they're in order---you mentioned tests to confirm )

Lisa: Doesn't work suck? I think we should have just as many NON-work days as work days....but get paid the same

Well, this morning has started out drizzling outside and gloomy. What better way to start the day of working with the witch? ARGH!!!! I keep telling myself "keep your MOUTH shut". Hopefully the 4 hours (today through friday) go SUPER fast so I don't have to put up with her long!! I'm getting an ear infection or something.
Other than that things are going ok as far as this WOE. Strawberries were a disaster (and um...ended up eating candy bars again). But who knows what I'll figure out tonight. Maybe I'll use my moms' recipe for pumkin bars. They only have 3 (or was it 2?) grams of carbs and were delicious!! I'd really rather not have ANYTHING but the body's saying "feed me seymour". So what's a person to do?
Hope you all have a great day and I'll check back later

Trazzie: Glad the heating pads are working. I've started getting monster cramps and it's what saves me!! Hope you're feeling better

Shimma: How's the sinuses today??

Morning All!

Funny how as the week turns towards Friday I start getting in better and better moods. The sinuses are finally draining... into my lungs. I'm so congested this morning that I didn't even want my morning cigarette (go ahead and lecture... I smoke about 5 cigarettes a day). So... they're getting there. If I would remember to go pick up my Allegra I would probably do even better. Oh well. The BF and I booked a little cottage for may 7 and 8 and I am sooooooooooo looking forward to that!!! Yippeeee!!! Down 2 lbs this morning but I'm only taking one of them.... I don't ever trust a 2 lb loss.

fullfig: I think I remember you checking in before. Your stats look great and good luck with the family addition!

Morning Lisa

Brenda: Thanks for asking about my sinuses! I hope your ears aren't too bad and that the boss has larangitis so she can't annoy you!

Fullfig: It has been too long! So good to hear from you. We have often wondered about you. Also glad to hear you mention Supersize. How is she doing? Tell her I asked about her. You are still in Turkey I take it? If you are pregnant will you be coming back to the states to have the baby? So many questions................

Mrs. H:

Brenda: Sorry about work. Just bite your tongue and get through the day. Would love to see that recipe for Pumpkin Bars.....sounds yummy.

Well, I seem to still be on my eating binge. Can't seem to stop. Isn't helping that TOM is here and for some reason this month I have the cravings from ****. And someone please tell the people at work to STOP BRINGING IN FOOD! There are chocolate chip cookies and pastries in the kitchen right now.
I am terrified to weigh myself. I so wanted to make my goal by the end of May but I know now that this isn't going to happen. It is my own fault and I can accept that. The one thing I have noticed though is that this "break" if you want to call it that, has made me realize that this is definitely a WOE and I know that I will get back to it. I am actually looking forward to it. That in itself is so strange because any other plan I was on was like a forced march. This plan is just a way of eating and when you do it you lose and when you don't you don't! Simple as that.

Well serman is over. I hope you all have a wonderful day and I will check in later.

Good morning Shimma: I just gave up cigs on Friday. I used to smoke all the time and then quit about 6-7 years ago. For some reason I started taking 1 or 2 here or there and then this past 4 months I was smoking all the time....well maybe only 6 or so a day but still. I just wanted to stop again. I think that also may be why I am craving some snacks!
Not lecturing....just comiserating with you.
A cottage for a couple of days.....how nice. I really want my dh and I to go away this summer but we have 3 weddings to go to this summer and they are going to strap us a bit for cash.

brenda, shimma, and mrs h--thanks for the well wishes with baby planning. i am not yet pregnant. we are just getting ready to start that venture.

jane--supersized is fine. she is still plugging along with atkins right now. i'm just a couple of pounds heavier than her right now. i'm planning to have the baby here, if i conceive in time. we have 14 months left. i was planning to wait until the end of the summer, but got to thinking about how we might not get pregnant right away. i was almost 29 when i got pregnant with dd, but am now 34 and dh is 39. i figure that age will factor in somehow. so, we will see how it goes. we do have the choice of delivering in germany or the states, if we would prefer. unless there are serious complications, i'd rather be here with my dh at that time. my dd asks on a daily basis about when God is going to put a baby sister in my tummy. sometimes when i tell her that it has not happened yet, she asks me if i really prayed and asked God to do it. she assures me that she has already and asked him to give her a baby sister. she will be 5 in july. i'll try to get super to start posting again. she has been really busy with work and getting one year repairs on her house. while i was there, we got our mom to try atkins. her cardiologist was so pleased that she had lost so much with atkins ( i think 25 or so) and said it is a fine plan to be on. he was also pleased with the fact that she is walking 4 miles a day. we are so proud of her. super gave me a bunch of her clothes while i was there. eventhough we are about the same weight and she is 2 inches shorter, i wear a size bigger than her. she is in large, and i'm in x-large. i'm just so proud to be out of the numbered x's. super is smaller boned than me. i'm bigger boned with wider hips and shoulders. i'll make sure to tell her that you asked about her. neither of us have been on computer much lately. i'm getting ready to email her shortly.

mrs h--it's nice to meet you too

shimma and jane--good luck with stopping smoking.

Good moring ladies!!

WOW Fullfig great to hear from you again!! Gald to hear supersize is good as well! Congrats on continueing to loose!! I was the same way with my 1st pregnancy I couln't exercise but with the second I had gotten used to it and that pregnancy was much more enjoyable and easy! So CONGRATS!!!!

Mrs H have fun at work, I will be there soon myself! YUCKY!! hahaha

Jane I know exactly how you feel I felt the same with my break over Easter and I have done so well at this re-induction because I was so happy to get back to WOE and feel good. Bite the bullet girl, get on the scale and see the damage (or no damage) and that will make you get right back on WOE, also I did the weekly goals because I knew it would be harder to cheat if I had to write down that I didn't make goal. I know you can do this, when you are ready just hop back on!! We are right here for you!

Shimma (I won't lecture cause i am sure you know!! hahaha) CONGRATS On the 2 pounds though even is it only turns out to be 1!!!

Brenda hope that weather perks up for you soon!!!

Well I am off to work at the vet today. I stayed home from the gym last night cause TOM cramps knocked me on my A**!! so now I have to go on thurs fri sat sun, but oh well. Tonite I will try my resist a ball at home. Feeling great on my re-induction and my clothes are falling off!!! I could pull down my pants yesterday without unbuttoning or zipping!! ahahahahahaa!!!!

OH YEAH.....I forgot how to post a picture, I got my before picture all ready to post then I forgot how so if someone please leave me instructions that would be excellent, then you can see how hefty I used to be!!! ROFL!!!

OKay I figured it out, my before shot is now on the progess pictures thread.

Fullfig!!!! Welcome back! I'm so happy to see you! Tell you sister to stop spending so much time with that HOA and come back

Mrs H - Happy slogging through work!

Brenda - Pumpkin bars sound yummy and I have a whole can of pumpkin that I've been wondering what to do with. Will you share the recipe?

Shimma - No lectures on cigarettes here! With all the time I spend out drinking, you'd probably guessed that I smoke. I'm not a daily smoker, just a out-drinking-at-the bar smoker.

Jane - You're gonna be great! The WOE realization is a big step in the right direction.

TG - Oh baby, I hear you on the cramps! I'm dying! So I'm all drugged up on advil and practically wearing sweats to work. I'm so glad I only do this 4 times a year. I've actually been told that exercise helps make the cramps go away so I'm gonna find a good cardio workout to do today and see if it helps.

So aside from being on the TOM bandwagon, not much is new. I made it successfully through a Tuesday night without any bad behavior so maybe the bad girl-ness is out of my system for a bit.

I've been working 10 hour days this week and I'm tired! We've got plans for the weekend so hopefully I'll squeeze some sleep in somewhere. Have a great day!

I got this web site from my sister last week which came in handy because I just started the Adkins Diet. So far I have lost 5 pounds. I have been reading your messages all week and I think you all are so great and I wanted any good tips from anybody. I'm having a hard time with the no beer or wine thing for the introduction part. Ive been sneaking a glass of red wine here and there. I also have had a low carb beer. So far it doesn't seem to stop any weight loss. What do you guys think about the drinking part???

Hi Ladies

Welcome Andimac8
and
Welcome Back Fulfig

So far so good....no cheats today. I have eaten all of my snacks though so don't know what I am going to do this afternoon. Getting back on this wagon is tough. I brought a low carb bar to work with me just in case....I will try and drink my water and see if I can make it without it.

Hi Andimac- Im an old newbie too....Congrats on the loss! Don't want to speak for anyone, but although I havent lately, Im 4 square in favor of social drinking.

As far as smoking, I've never done it ( too busy eating) and its probably a good thing since I have an addictive personality....but I will show myself as REALLY dumb and say that I thought about starting once to try and lose weight!

Im now officially into ketosis (spits out a mouth full of pennies) and have learned to just check once a day instead of 20 times....
However, I havent stepped on the scales in a couple weeks....the 5 pound fluctuation thing just defeats me so Im gonna guesstimate...