Good morning - hope everyone is having a great weekend!

I woke up to snow this morning & "pretty" wasn't the word I used to describe it :lol: . Once winters set in here they are too bloody long & cold. I'm so not a winter person at all! Brrrrrrrrrr

LOL Robin - that's exactly how I feel about clutter. Move one thing just to replace it with another.

Good luck today Brenda & don't beat yourself up after falling off plan. Weddings & special occasions don't come along everyday & my feeling is just to enjoy them, but that's me. Unless of course you're from a REALLY big family with weekly weddings & such :eek:. As an only child, I rarely...no, make that NEVER have that problem :D.

Well, guess I'm off to do some shovelling...hate snow, I hate snow...I hate, hate, hate snow. Did I mention I'm not a winter person & I hate snow? ;).

Lacey - :bravo: WTG -that's AWESOME!!!! :carrot: :cp:. I think you're doing great & needn't bother with the fat flush, especially now that you know you are making progress - but of course that's JMO. Kudos to you if you go ahead with it tho. It's been a while since I read Dr. A's book (just pulled it out again the other day to re-read), but I recall reading about that flush & thinking induction is a piece of cake compared to that :eek: :lol:.

Putting off setting up our tree (it's that whole clutter thing & I have a tiny living room), but it is great to watch the kids get so excited about it - they make it more magical for me. Otherwise, I find it burdensome, especially when putting on the lights :dizzy:. I'm so buying a pre-lit tree next year :lol:.

Hi, I hope everyone is having a great day.

Sure, I keep a few like him in the closet; I'll send you one. LOL

Stacie, For sure, he is quite guy. :)

I haven't done much around the house these past few days, and so far this morning, I've just been puttering, but feel more peppy since being on Induction again. I've been working in my cluttered office and even found my lost shoe lace to my walking shoes, so that is one less excuse I have not to jump on the tread mill. I've had a huge weight loss after two days on Induction. I know it's considered only water, but still that's 11 pounds off of me, and I can feel it and see it in my face.

I've never been into shopping for myself unless it's things I really need, or an occasional DVD that I know I'll watch a dozen times. LOL A shopping spree to me is going to the store to stock up on food and to Walmart for everyday things like papaer towels, shampoo and laundry soap. LOL However last week, I went to Michael's craft store and sort of went nuts. I spent whopping $65.00 on Christmas bows for our fence wreaths (hope the neighbor enjoys! lol), 6 skeins of real nice yarns and a knifty Knitter--It's four different sized circles with pegs and knits a circle. It reminds me of what we made when we were kids out of a thread spool and small nails. We called them "cat tail makers'' Although I can knit, it's only one stitch and square or rectangle. LOL So when I get hungry or stressed and want to head for food, I'll try to pick up this knifty knitter instead. If it works, everyone will be getting hats and scarves for Christmas. :)

Sorry, I have no smilie capabilities here, even after doing what admin said to do to get them back. I'll keep trying though and use the one I know how to type, which is. :) LOL

Stacie, I've never lived where I've had to shovel snow, but already know I'm with you would would hate it. :)

Robin, I get so turned off when stores think they are fooling shoppers and raise the price for a sale.

Brenda, Good luck getting back OP. I know you can do it! :)

Lacey, That's fantastic you've lost the inches. You've reminded me to measure today.

I'll check in again later...

I had to do the control/F5 thing as mine had stopped working as well, but even tho mine will work now, it takes forever for the smilie window to open.

I think it's funny the way stores think we are not smart enough to figure out their little tricks. Our grocery stores have 15% off the 1st Tuesday of every month and I avoid that day for the very reason that everything seems to go up in price that day?!! For ex. hot oatmeal (for the kids I swear LOL) just about every day of the month is $2.50. 15% Tuesdays is $3.49 or $2.97 with the discount. What kind of flippin' savings is that??? Thanks, but I'll stick to buying it on regular days when it's $2.50 :p .

I really need to measure myself too. I really need to get outside & shovel - it's only been about 4 hours since I said I was going to do it :lol:. Funny how cleaning the toilet didn't seem as bad when the alternative was shovelling ;) :D.

There, I tried the ctrl/f5 again, only this time I was in the "submit reply" mode, and I could see it resetting on my bar. :D It's all fixed now. :carrot:

That's some 15% savings on Tuesdays. :dizzy:

I went to a small pet store last week and went to one check out. As she rang up my order, she casually scanned in one of five small items that were already sitting off to the side on the counter onto my tag. I saw them there when I walked up, so how could she not have known they were there after checking there for a while. I hate to accuse, but it appeard to be deliberate for an extra sale at my expense. I nicely told her that wasn't mine. She didn't blink or say anything and removed it from my tag and put it back on the side where she got it. Perhaps I looked like an easy pushover as I bought the kitty reindeer antler head piece for my dog. :lol:

Hi There, I hope there is room for one more. I've been doing low carb for a little over two weeks now, and have been doing pretty good ( except for Thanksgiving). I'm just hoping to connect with others to help keep me motivated and on track.:)

:lol: LMAO :lol: Perhaps, but only if you bought the red nose & itty bitty sleigh to go with it?!! :D

Glad you got your smilies workin' again. Can't believe the clerk tried that. Wonder how many times she's gotten away with it?!

Hi Mindy & welcome aboard. :) Look forward to getting to know ya a bit better!

I did it - I finally got off my butt and shovelled. I can't wait 'till I win the lottery so I can become a snowbird & get out of here during the winters. Hmmm, guess I should probably buy a ticket once in a while then eh? ;)

Newbie - 61lbs down
 

Hey everyone!

I am new to this forum and I was referred to the weekly chat by RobinW.
I posted my bio on the bio thread and my pics on the progress thread. I am 22 and I've been doing Atkins since 08/15/05.

This is my second time doing Atkins The first time I did it, I was still living at home and relying on what my parents cooked for meals and I was working at Walgreens so I had a lot of temptations. I relied way too much on the Atkins bars and low-carb chocolates and all it did was impede the weight loss and keep me in the snacking habit. That was a couple years ago and I think I lost maybe 5 lbs in over a month.

I guess I just reached a point where my weight was so bad that I had to do something and gastric bypass was where I was going, but the insurance company said that I had to fulfill a bunch of requirements, one of those being a 6-month physician followed diet. I chose to give Atkins another shot, not really expecting any results just like the first time, but this time something's different. My starting weight on 08/15/05 was 356lbs and today I weighted in at 295lbs! Hopefully things keep going this way and I don't have to give a second thought to the surgery.

I'm starting Tae Boe (hopefully getting the boot camp version for Christmas) and "quick fix arms and legs." My other activity is walking my puppy.

I've seen a lot of inspirations on here and I hope through my progress I will inspire and motivate my sister so that she can have more confidence in herself and be healthier.

Good luck to everyone!

:wel3fc: Glad you are joining in Mindi! There's a lot of support and motivation here.

Stacie~ you're too funny :lol: Ive thought about moving south too, but I'll take the snow over the hurricanes!! A couple streets over from me, a guy has a heated driveway!!! So he never has to shovel :lol3: How cool is that!

You know how you think your done all your shopping, and you go out and see a really good deal??? Then pick it up and add it to the pile of stuff you've already bought? :lol: I did that! It turned out to be a better buy than I thought when I got it to the checkout. The clerk imput the number 2x, it was suppose to be 6.99, but kept coming up at 2.48!! I went back to the rack after to see if there were any more! But there werent :(

Mindy! :welcome3: Good job on your 1st 2 weeks. Keep up the great work. You've found a great spot for support and help.

Sonny~ I hope your going to take pictures of your dog decked out in his new gear :lol:

Dh is upstairs at the moment trying to do a recovery on the pc :( Just a note....if your dont know if the disk you are about to install will be compatable with your current windows......DONT install it!!! Thankfully just last week he made a back up of all of our files. So all my pictures are saved. I didnt care about anything else :lol: I have a photo printer, I think its time I put it to a bit more use!

Well, Im off to start supper.....have a nice evening ladies :)

Hiya Liv, you snuck in on me :wave: Im glad your here!

Welcome Liv4rok :wel3fc: It's nice to have you here. This isn't my first time around either. I also became side tracked with low carb chocolate, ice cream and breads, and soon I wasn't counting carbs at all. It sounds like you're doing great. :)

Robin: :lol: They are for pictures for our Christmas cards. We got the reindeer antlers to go with my other dog's santa suit.

Yikes, good luck with your computer.


Now you're giving me more ideas. :lol:

Robin, I've seen schools with those heated drive & walkways - they are awesome! They should be part of the building code in wintery places :). Do they have hurricanes in Vegas? Maybe I can make my millions there! :lucky: Thank goodness your pics were saved. I know nothing about computers & I'd go nuts if something happened to this one?? :eek:

Hiya Liv & welcome aboard :carrot: . This is my 2nd time with Atkins as well. I was successful on my first go-'round 2 years ago, but too many things happened in my life last year preventing me from maintaining my loss. I just started doing BB TaeBo Instructional video over the weekend. I did his other tapes years ago, but never did the instuctional one, so I always looked like I was flailing around like a chicken with it's head cut off. Hoping this helps me get the technique down before I move on. Still don't think I could ever kick as high as some of them do, without breaking my leg anyway :lol:.

Sonny - definitely...we need to see pictures!

Hope everyone has an awesome & OP day!

Tae Bo
 

What normal person doesn't look like a flailing chicken doing Tae Bo?! I have the "wiggly elbow" syndrome. My dad used to be a kickboxer so I don't dare do Tae Bo with him around or I will have my own Billy Blanks dictator. "Lock those elbows, tuck the tummy in, stop your punch don't just let it hang..."
Again...what normal person can kick that high!? They are all robots on those videos...except for maybe the "live" one, but most of them have probably done it for a long time. Or maybe we're just the only inept ones who don't look perfect doing it ;) haha

Ladies, this is last weeks thead ROFL !!!! just so you know incase nobody posts after ya.

Hugs !!!!