Good Morning :coffee:

Lacey~ I sure dont see any beached whale! You look beautiful, and so happy! Your 199 and 5'9.....You look awesome!! I cant wait til I get back to 199....Im 5'9 too! I loved my face and the fact that I had the start of a waist at 199. Give yourself a big pat on the back, you're doing a great job!

Tenn~ Ive had that tiredness lately too. But I'll take it. I had about 2 days, where I actually took a 1/2 hr nap in the afternoon. Now, Im usually in bed by and asleep by 10. I like to think its my body wanting to sleep to work at widdling off the fat :lol:

Mindy~ that recipe sounds dangerous! Congratulations on the size 16's!! :cb:

Trazzie~ Im just going to ignore that recipe :lol3: There is no way Id only be able to eat just one! It looks just a bit too good!

Im up and at it this morn. Taking dh to his jobsite so I can have the truck. Groceries, postoffice, and some xmas wrapping on the agenda today. Got the house pretty much cleaned up, just a bit more organizing to do. I need to find a place to keep the 40lb bags of pellets :dizzy: Before I put up the xmas tree!! Everytime I try to simplify, more stuff seems to need to be put away! I have a total of 2.5 closests in this house! NO storage whatsoever! Can make a girl a bit nuts ya know!?!?!

Im off, have a great op day ladies!

No worries Em, just didn't want ya to think I was this horribly mean crank that was leaving this poor child to cry. But once 8 hits, I have to get my kids dressed, my truck started (especially on days like today (-15C/4F), kids teeth brushed, coats/boots on, etc. to be out the door by 8:30. Every other day, my eldest has a shower, so it starts at 7:45 instead of 8. Anyhew, it's during this time she just screams and quite frankly I'm too busy at that time to do anything. If she's fed/diapered/fine - then she can scream. It's just extremely frustrating and her screaming hurts my 4 y/o (he's hyper-sensitive to noise as a result of the autism). The only reason I still have her is I adore the parents - they're great people. When she started noone else in town would watch her (plus mom has a weird schedule). A few years ago, our mat. leave was changed to 1 year instead of 6 months, so most dayhomes changed to accomodate kids 1+years because most moms opt for the 1 year at home with baby. Plus a lot of the dayhomes want full timers. Anyway, didn't mean to turn this into a novel, just wanted to explain a bit better :).

Tenn - I totally know what you mean. My Christmas treat has always been those Terry's Oranges. My Grandmother always had one for me & since she's been gone, I get one for myself. This will be the 1st year (maybe hehehe :devil: ) I don't have one for Christmas.

Lacey - what are you talking about girl???? :hug: You're GORGEOUS!!!!! I think that's a great picture!

Congrats Mindy - that's wonderful. :carrot: :cp: I tried on my 18's yesterday and they were still so tight in the legs :( I didn't even bother trying to hike them up to my waist. So still in sweats for now as I don't ever plan on buying another pair of jeans in the 20's and of course I got rid of the ones I had last time I lost weight 'cause I was NEVER gonna be this size again :eek:. Oops.

I'm with you Robin - 20 servings - 1gm per....I'd be using up all my allowed 20g's on the cookies :lol:. Sounds like you have a busy day ahead of you! I'm so sick of organizing everything and the house still looks trashed. House is too small & there's just not enough room to properly organize everything it seems.

Thanks for the recipe tho Trazzie...I am going to copy that recipe for a treat when I'm off induction or at goal...whichever comes first :lol: :D.

Have a great day all. TTFN!

Just a quick hello for now.
 

Hi everyone.

Sorry, but I'm just popping in for a quick hello right now. That will insure me to stay OP for the 7th day in a row and doing great. :D I have a busy day, just caught up on reading this thread, and then I'll get back on the computer for personals later. Everyone have a great day! :rain:

Sonny, where in CA are ya? I'm headed home (Hemet & San Diego) in three weeks :)

HAHA Isn't that the truth? We contstantly give men questions to which there is no good answer. Either way we have a comeback :lol3: "Honey, I think I look skinnier today, don't you?" "Yeah, you look so skinny!!" "So what are you trying to say...I was hideously fat before!?!?"

YAY! 65lbs gone as of this morning!! :goodscale

Have a great day! It's almost Friday!
Andrea

Sometimes they just cant win! Poor guys :lol:

Your mentioning friday made me freak out a bit........monday I weigh in, and I dont feel like Ive lost anything this week :( Just a feeling, and its not a good one. Ive been op to the letter....I should drink up more water maybe.

Good going on your loss Liv!! :bravo:

Dang, didn't have time for personals this morning. I had a MIT (moms in touch) meeting, and right before I was going to walk out the door the dog got sick RIGHT IN FRONT OF IT...not once but FOUR times!! She's a huge dog so you can figure out the mess she left. So I had to clean that up. ARGH! I've discovered why I'm so blasted tired---TOM is coming. Why is it that it seems to NEVER be gone as much as it's here??? This weekend making cookies w/my mom...and it's going to be SOOO hard not to dip my fingers into the cookie dough (I've done that for as long as I can remember!!)! Ok. Time to go catch up on other stuff I've neglected. :wave:

dear god Brenda. I think I felt another 5 pounds slip off of me just by listening to your description of dog vomit :rofl:
EM

Andrea, Congrats on your 65 pound weightloss! You are a beautiful chickadee!

I have to say 199 is beautiful....I want to be there!

Sorry to keep spamming the group, but whats OP?

I just received some awesome news!!!!! My dd will be spending christmas holidays with me! :cb: :cb: I am so thrilled!! The ex was planning on going away and he asked dd if she wanted to go. Of course we had talked about it, and I didnt like it. But my thoughts were, ****, he never took me anywhere, Im not going to stop him from taking our dd. He even buys her jewellery!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Something I NEVER got, and he refused to buy! Anyway, Im off topic......dd changed her mind, and no tickets were bought yet. I just had to share! Im filled up with happiness!!

Great news Robin. How old is your dd? I can't imagine being away from my kids at Christmas, you must be super relieved!

Ewwww Brenda - yuck (times 4 LOL). What a way to start the day. Hope it got a LOT better after that :).

Sonny - WTG staying OP!

Em - OP means On Plan.

Liv - Congrats on your 65lb loss. That is awesome!!! :carrot:

Have a great evening all - don't forget the H2O!! :snow4:

She's 9...just one :) This would have been our 1st xmas apart, and it was really tearing me up. Im feeling much better about it all now :) When you have kids, its really hard to remember what christmas was like before them.

Evening Girl,
Well today was absolutly horrible. I had a huge fight with my oldest dd this morning (16yrs) and I followed it up by a day of self pity, eating badly and smoking too much. :sigh:
But the good news is.. I'm over it and tomorrow is a new day
I am a tad excited because today TOM was to visit me and he never showed up... so I'm keeping my pudgy little fingers crossed, I'll give it a few days before I get overly excited.

Robin.. its great you'll be spending xmas with your dd.. I couldnt even imagine what it would be like to be seperated from my girls during the holidays.. because they ARE the holiday

Liv.. YOU GO GIRL!! that is awesome and something to be pround of.. 65lbs WTG

Sonny.. Great job on your OP streak, those pounds will be meltin away before you know it

Brenda.. :barf: um lol