Hey Brenda, congrats on the loss and way to go on getting your exercise in. Hope you get your water problems fixed soon. Sounds like you have a busy day ahead of you.

Morning everyone else too. Its my day off...I get to clean out my garage :( but then also get to go to the mall and a couple other places. So maybe it won't be a bad day after I get the garage done. Its :sunny: here so that makes it all a little better anyway.

:wave: to you all. Have a great day. I'm sure I'll be checking in periodically.

Brenda - I'm happy to see you are exercising!

Falon - I'll have some crab for you. I want to see the new WWII memorial in the daylight when it's not raining -- when we were there last July, it poured rain the night we decided to hike around the Mall. But being on the lawn of the Capitol for a Capitol Fourth was just fun.

Sherry -- I tried 6 different brands of the sticks including buying them from the Atkins site back when they sold a ton of products and none of them worked. I never drank water so maybe that was the problem. Or it could have been that I didn't give up my diet Coke. But I lost the weight which was all I cared about.

Sandra, that's so exciting! Japan sounds like a wonderful place to be. Our church has a couple of missionaries over there working with the military in Okinawa and they were back in Denver last week to update us on how their work is going.

M&G Mom - I'm sorry, but I can't remember your name. Would you like to come help me clean when you are done? DH still can't do anything major with his stitches although he did say he was going to clean the house today. We'll see. He said he was going to put the laundry away in the drawers yesterday and it's still in the basket.

We want to go see Ice Age 2 tonight -- I love the squirrel and the sloth!

Jackie: Sounds like you've got a busy day planned yourself! Have fun shopping and I don't envy the cleaning out the garage!

Susan: My kids tell me we have the 1st one but I don't remember ever seeing it. Let me know if you like the 2nd one :) Enjoy

Well, a hole is dug and then I stopped. DH called and when he asked where I was digging and I told him he said I was in the wrong spot. Yah, like I'm gonna continue to dig when I'm not even sure WHERE I'm supposed to dig? That's where he TOLD me to start :lol: Hey.....how many "miles" is 1 hours worth of digging a hole (hmm....now that I think about it, it's about the size of a person. Anyone need a hole?) :lol:

Sandra!! Im soooooooooooooooo happy for you!!! That is so exciting!! I wish I could be there to see the look on your dh's face when he sees is hot sexy wife!!

Brenda!! Dont be giving them any ideas!! :sssh: :lol3:

Nothing new around here, just busy, but keeping ontrack!

:wave: everyone

Robin: WTG on keeping on track! And what ideas would those be?:bubbles:

Well, the guy never showed up with his tractor to finish digging out trench. So looks like I'll be out there again tomorrow digging some more. Exercise!!!:carrot: We decided if he doesn't show up we're going to call someone else. Sure they might be more expensive but probably (would hope) more reliable! We NEED this done NOW. Might be getting another tattoo tomorrow. DH is for sure getting one. They're not sure if they'll be able to do mine--depends on the time.
My sis is having a party for my nephew (and Godchild)....he joined the Army :( He leaves on the 5th :( So I've got to figure out how to get there as well.

Well this evening the ketostix finally measured. Seems I'm up to moderate ketosis this evening. Odd how that worked this time. From nothing (beige) to a pretty dark color, nearly to the deep dark stages. I honestly feel like sometimes whether the ketostix measure or not depends on how much fat you have been consuming. I had quite a bit of "fat" at lunchtime. A hamburger with cheese and two sausages. I had a bit of homemade tomato soup (that I thought might have been skewing the results) too. That and a carbsense fudgesicle. For dinner steak, with A-1 sauce, sauteed mushrooms cooked in butter, wine and garlic, brocolli, some strawberries with cream, salad with ranch. It was a wonderful feast of a meal. Amazing to think that you can go into ketosis with such wonderful food there. Hope I can also lose some weight with such wonders to eat!

robin unless you remove the wall and place wall board up you leave the paper on as some of the paper is there to hold it all in place.

Not much here except lots of work (work to clean and work from work) so Hi to all. I did drop finaly the 4 lbs that I had filled up with last week and now waiting to see if any more came off this week. (goal for 2 lbs a week)

Still have a drainage problem from my main shower so trying to find out why if comes out of a light fixture will be the focus this next week. I do not play with electricity well, last time I did that I set the house (well the electric circut box) on fire and cost about $1600 to fix, what a mess out of electricity for 3 days!! Did you know you can not blow out a fire while you are screaming??? :rofl:

Sherry: It all sounds WONDERFUL!! Glad you enjoyed your feast and glad the sticks are turning the color you want. Keep up the great work!!!

Sue: OUCH with the electrical! And having shower water come out of a light? Sounds as messed up as my house!! Umm...I imagine it's VERY hard to blow out a fire while screaming (can imagine myself trying it!!)


Well, those 3 bouncy pounds left and took another 2 with it. The scale has registered the same for the past 3 days so I'm gonna take it!! TOM is coming so I'm going to (try) to stay off the scale. :lol: 2 more pounds and I'll actually make my "Easter dress" challenge!! The first challenge I've met in I don't know HOW long!! Well, not counting it "succeeded" until it actually happens. My SIL's wedding is next weekend so that might put a kabosh on it. We'll see. At least I know the scale can still move down :lol:

Ladies. I am so sorry I haven't been keeping up with you all. I feel bad that I joined in, and just kinda slacked off. I had (what I thought was) the flu, and lately I have been so tired and weak. I stepped on the scale yesterday and I have lost a whole 5 lbs. It was funny, because my pants were feeling much tighter, and I was getting kinda frustrated. Well, I have a good excuse...

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I just found out this morning. I had been trying off and on for five years, and had many drs tell me it would never happen. I am in total bliss right now. So, needless to say I am not LC'ing to loose any weight right now- for at least another 8 months. I know I wasn't around much, but I enjoyed my time here. I will be checking back to chat, when I can. Good luck with your goals and weightloss. :)

Oh, and everyone I have told has asked, and no it is NOT an April fools joke. Although I still don't believe it myself!

Congrats! What wonderful news.. and blessings to you, your family and new little bean on the way! :)

Congrats Dahlia....that is very exciting news.

Wow congratulations! Make sure you still eat healthy. Nothing wrong with keeping to a moderate low carb during your pregnancy. Do you have that thing that women get that prevents pregnancy? I forget what it is called, PCOS or something? The one that eating low carb helps? If so it might be good to stay close to low carb during the pregnancy. Your body may actually need it.

Either way healthy meats and vegetables low carb style can only be GOOD for the Baby.

Oh and Brenda? Congratulations to you too! Sounds like whatever you are doing is working! Those slow times can drive you nuts, but the whooshes make up for it don't they?

Congratulations Dahlia!

We went to see Ice Age 2 last night and it was soooooo funny. I thought it was better than the first one. I spent the whole movie laughing.

I think it's nap time -- I hear my pillow calling me -- and it's dark and gloomy outside.

Dahlia!! Wonderful news!! Congratulations!! Dr's told me I wouldnt ever have kids either. I have a beautiful daughter...she loves being told that she was a wonderful surprise. She used to ask if she was planned, and I explained things to her, and she loves being told that she was a wonderful special surprise. :hug: Im so happy for you!