its beautiful Lacey!! I LOVE the tub!! congratulations!!

hope it's ok to post this, I made a printable journal that looks like mine for everyone who is pming me asking :)

http://www.iamthatgirlnow.com/iamthatgirljournal.pdf

Tenn: did you get your walking done??

ilovemike: that is awesome that you're such an inspiration to others!!

hockeyfan: you rock for drinking ALL that water!!

Congrat's on the house Lacey, it's beautiful. I remember buying our home 6 yrs. ago and being very scared. It has all worked out fine. Getting a new home is so exciting, you will have lots of room there to plant flowers and get out in the sunshine.

OMG *gasp* It's BEAUTIFUL!~ What a great house, it looks like something out of a movie :) Now I KNOW you're going to be happy there. WOW.

I got my walk in, and boy do I feel better. I walk at a greenway near my house that's all wooded, almost feels like you're out in wilderness! It rained earlier today and the smell of damp loamy earth and honeysuckle - o my, I wish I could bottle it and share it with you guys. I put a chuck steak on the stove w/some tomatoes and spices and when I got back I had a hot shower and the nicest supper. Ahhhhhhhh, love it when I can let go of the tension of the day :)

Susan, I had a house-guest for 5 months recently. It was my oldest step-daughter and her 18 month old. Thought I would go nuts. My husband wasn't ever going to make her leave, because it's his 23 yr. old daughter and his grand-baby. She would constantly say she didn't need a job, "cause dad works". She was in process of divorcing, but found out in December that she is pregnant. She moved back in with her husband on Dec. 26th. I think there is only about a 20% chance that it could be her hubby's baby, and he is planning on a paternity test. So, to make things worse, I'm expecting him to kick her out again In June, when he finds out baby isn't his. Back to dear old daddy she'll run then I'll have her, a 2 yr. old and a newborn as guests. Such is my life. If this happens, I may just find me and my daughter a new home. I love my husband very much but I am very tired of this daughter and her screwed up life. I am disabled and waiting on a liver transplant and end up being the free babysitter because "you don't work". Sorry for venting my problems, it's hard to have anyone to talk to about this because everyone thinks I'm mean : after all, she's FAMILY. But, she is a free-loader. The police actually came to my home and arrested her for bogus checks, but dad had her bailed out before she ever saw the inside of a jail cell. He is much the enabler and I guess I'm just the Bi@@h.

Lacey, the house is unbelievable! Congrats, sweetie!!! You and your wonderful family deserve it!


Kel

Lacey the house looks good.

Ok so when I went to the gym yesterday, I was down 3 lbs from the day before and now my ticker is correct. I also ran/walked on the treadmill for 30 minutes and got 2 miles in, now may not seem like much, but when I first started losing weight in the very begining and I was seeing a nutritionist, she told me that I should be able to do 4 miles in one hour, I have never been able to hit that goal until yesterday and I am so thrilled with myself. I also checked my inches and they are coming down rather quickly also and this is all right when TOM is supposed to be here, so I am just tickled to death. Ok well I have to head out to work. Talk to you ladies later. -Sandra

Sandra - way to go on the exercise. YOU ARE DOING GREAT! :bravo:

Tenn - Glad you chose the walk over not going. Always makes me feel better when I talk myself into something GOOD instead of BAD.

Lily - yuk....that stepdaughter situation doesn't sound fun at all!

AND LACEY - The house looks AWESOME!!! We are all excited for you. Thanks for sharing the pictures. :bravo: AND thanks for sharing the journal too. It looks great.

Not too much new in my world. Its my day off and I've got errands, etc, etc, etc. So I'll be busy. But you all have a great day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well then, you have a few months to talk to your husband and prepare. If she comes to you there have to be ground rules, such as, she must get a job and arrange daycare. You are not going to babysit. She has to pay XXX amount for room and board for herself and her children, etc. She may find it more to her liking to get public assistance and a room mate :)

BTW, where is her mother? Did she already get tough?

Good Morning :coffee:

Not alot planned today, might get a bit more gardening done. I picked up some weed killer last night, so Im hoping the lovely healthy dandelions are withered up today!! :lol: The weather has been so nice here, I want to get to the garden centers and get planting...but I just KNOW a frost or 2 will happen.

Well, after working all morning in the garden, I hit the gym with my gf, she got in the zone, and wanted to keep going, after 35 min I was very tired....but she spurred me on!! :lol: I was so glad when we were done!! :lol3:

Thats about it for my little corner of the world...have a great day ladies.

Lace,
The house looks so pretty.
Lillybelle: I'm sorry to hear about your impending problems. Before it gets to June perhaps a marraige counselor /family counselor could help him to see both sides of this story. My in laws deal with this from their daughter. A user just gets old and everyone gets bitter. And it has just gotten worse.
Best wishes to you on this situation.
More rain here which is great. Our lakes need the water as do all the trees. Eas really discouraged with my weight fluctuations but TOM came so going to not worry about it till the end of next week.
DH is managing much better. he was under 20 carbs for the day yesterday. After day 1 and 40 carbs he was down 1.8 pounds, so curious to see what he will see when he gets up today. He is a night OWL so he'll do that later. His blood sugar is still higher than usual though? ANyone have that problem while finding ketosis? And his blood pressure is high, figuring his blood sugar is contributing to it. If you have any advice on when he should expect his blood sugar to go down please let me know.
Thanks

Hi guys. I've been eating too much salt. I wake in the morning and can taste it on my tongue. I need to get rid of the V8 juice I bought. It tastes good, but it is making me retain water.

I've not gotten back on Atkins. I'm mainly eating vegetables and a little meat. I've had a couple of things that I don't want in my body and it is interesting that by paying attention I can tell what those things are. I had some splenda syrup on my strawberries the other night and my body didn't like it. It really tastes unnatural. Then I had a small bowl of ice cream later and that was not good for my body either. I've also had some corn chips lately. Those I am cutting out.

Everything else I've been eating feels good, tastes good and seems to be healthy. It is amazing how since my fast I can tell what doesn't work and what does. My taste buds alone are telling me "no" to certain things. It's kind of neat. I've been gaining back some water weight though because of the salt. So that needs to go too.

so I was just skimming everyones posts and I totally thought that said "I picked up some killer weed". I had to thoroughly read it to realize what you were saying

AHAHAHAHAHAH:D :D :D :D

:lol:

Morning everyone!

For the past 2 days, I have had to do nothing but pee! I'm going to the bathroom every 30 minutes. I better see a drop on that scale after all this. My rings are really loose too. I just finished TOM so I must have been holding a lot of water.

My unwanted houseguest is still there. He's leaving for Nebraska on Sunday for 2 weeks (he's a traveling salesman) and I've told John that he's not going to be welcome to come back. Yesterday, the guy got on the computer to play on-line poker at 1:00 in the afternoon. He got off and went to bed at 5:30 this morning!!! He only took a break for 15 minutes long enough to get a plate of food downstairs. He's driving me nuts!

Lillybelle -- sorry you have to go through the same thing. It is harder since she is family, but sometimes you just have to kick them to the curb and let them survive or fail on their own. Family counseling would be a good idea though.

Lacey, the house looks great. I'm so happy for you. Moving is not one of my favorite things to do. Packing is easier than unpacking.

It's still freezing cold in the office, so I'm going to Hallmark for my lunch hour -- I just love buying cards.

WOW how beautiful! I will have to post some before and after picts of my house in it renovating state! paint is progressing slowly but the house is huge. (old victorian) so it is taking longer that I thought it would.

Good Morning everyone
Hope everyone's day goes well. It's been storming here for 3 days off and on, so a haven't got much walking done..:( . I love to walk. I guess i need to pull out the exersize tapes..My scales said i lost 2 lbs, then yesterday it said i didn't. My scales are soooo old. I going to buy some new one's today. DH is going to town today to buy new tools, so i thought if he can get tools, i can get scales :D "The tools are to fix my 4 runner though"... He love's tools. Every time he goes to town he has to stop at the "Parts Store"... Like a kid in a candy store....Anyhow....Rambling....This morning i figured out why my scales said i gained.... TOM...It snuck up on me. I will be crampy for a while :( I always have a rough time through it. But, i'm still going to buy new scales i been wanting new ones...:goodscale...:D .Everyone keep up the good work.....:bravo:....:cp:....
Candy

Good Morning

Candy~ Hi there, and welcome :)

Well, Im down 6lbs this week, and Im taking the weekend off exercise. However, Im switching to eggs, veggies, and chicken or fish only for this next week. Im still really bloated, and need a week of extreme lowcarb to get rid of it. Even with the 6lbs gone, I still feel "fuzzy" headed, and tom is coming, in 2 weeks, so the big bloat is coming very soon.

Not alot planned for the weekend, I think I'll be sitting at my new drawing table alot, and drawing some cool dragons. Dh has been working on learning some new computer programs, and everything is pretty much all caught up here...so it should be a nice relaxing weekend.

Have a great saturday ladies

Hi Candy, welcome, it's nice to see you. I totally think you should have a new scale, a good digital one :). I'm just like your husband, but at Home Depot, not with auto parts. I always see some new tool, gadget, project that I need LOL

Robin, WTG girl ^5 ! Sounds like you and hubby dearest have a great weekend planned - I love those slow, lazy, peaceful times. Do you think you could get him to take a break and take a nice walk with you later?

Sue, your house sounds wonderful. I'm a big DIYer, love to work with my hands and the satisfaction of seeing results, even though I know there's always "job growth" and everything seems to take so much longer than anticipated. I'm looking forward to seeing pictures later.

Thank God and Hallelujah! I don't know if I spelled that right, but I'm doing a HAPPY DANCE this morning. Looks like whatever has been going on with my body is over, and I'm down to 230 this morning. 6 pounds, what a woosh. WOOO HOOO, I'm so relieved, I thought it would never go, and I can't wait to be in the 220's next week. OMG, I may make Onderland by July afterall!!! :carrot:

Something even better happened today that I just have to tell you all about. The weather warmed up here and I needed some shorts to walk in because I'm burning up in long pants. I pulled out my favorite jean shorts from last Summer and put them on, and they FELL OFF! I was so shocked, I just couldn't believe it (that's what gave me the nerve to step on the scale I've been avoiding for a week). I know I've lost a lot of pounds, dropped from a size 24 to an 18, but since I'm still fat it's hard for me to realize\understand how much smaller I am now. My friend Chris has a digital camera and I'm going to get her to take a picture of me in them to show you guys, it totally blew my mind. I look like a slim-fast ad LOL

It was really getting to me, and can't tell you all what a relief it is to be back to my old positive, optomistic self. Thank you so much for all of your support and will power dust through these last few weeks. I was really on the verge of a "screw it, I'm gonna eat what I want" attitude shift, even though I know what the consequences of that are.

I'm off to change my ticker and then to KMart to see if I can find some cheap shorts that fit me - wooo hoo. :)

Tenn

Oh Tenn!! Thats just great!!!! I would have loved to have seen your face when those shorts fell off :lol: You've done great!! :cb: :cb: I suspect you're going to have an awesome day! :)

Hubby actually suggested a walk at the mall....so we will see. Its hard to get him outside to walk :dunno:

Thanks everyone for the advice with my family situation. I think that if my step-daughter does return with her 2 children, that I will make her pay rent and pay a daycare. It's true that maybe then she will want to get assistance and find her own place. I have a 5 bedroom home, so I know she thinks that it's easy to move in with us, because there is plenty of room. But, NO house is really ever big enough for 2 families. BTW her mother moved to Las Vegas this past November to live with her boyfriend. Her sisters ages 13 and 16 were left to live with their other sister who is only 20 yrs. old. The 20 yr. old is working full-time and going to RN school. She is getting married in July. So, not sure what's going to happen with the younger girls then.. They don't want to live with us, which I wouldn't mind the 13 yr. old, she's really a sweet girl. The 16 yr. old is totally out of control and would make my life a living nightmare. Also the mom's boyfriend has never had kids and doesn't want any of them in Vegas with them. Sometimes, I feel my husband just needs to get a place of his own and finish raising all his kids." Step up to the plate, kind of thing". I do love him dearly but with my health problems, I can't take on this whole other screwed up family. Enough about my problems, hope everyone is doing great with their weight loss journey. I took a relaxing day yesterday with my sister and my friend and went fishing. We had a lot of fun.

OMG girls I am down 2 more lbs since yesterday and I am running my booty off. I went to the gym this morning and I ran my little heart out. I am even thinking about going back again tonight and running some more. Going again tomorrow morning. I changed my ticker to my actual begining weight instead of the weight I was when I began atkins. I am counting girls. I am so tickled. I hope that everyone else gets on a losing spree too. I have to actually thank whoever, sorry I cant go back and look who it was that said that the reason that we dont lose as good when we go our second time around cause we get lax in what we are eating. So I took a look at my self and did some evaluations and cut a lot out and I have begun losing again. So thank you ladies you are all such a inspiration to me. -Sandra

Hanging in there I will be making some big moves here soon.

After putng in 78 hours last week with 38 OT I was told we are salery and should not be having OT. and we should take time off instead. so guess what I will be takmy time off and getting my days off through most of the week. this will be fun!!! let them see how to run the place with all the nurse managers taking much of the days off due to working the floor too much. I figure that I only need to work 2 days next week with my OT this week and my extra time from last week. then I think I will take one of my remaining vacation times off the week after.

Lacy, i love the new house. I bet you can't wait to decorate!!

Robin, and tennessee CONGRAT'S on the 6 lbs loss....:bravo:...

Lilybelle, Sorry for the family trouble's. I hope everything works the way you want it. I also love fishing... hadn't been in years.

Sandra, Thats wonderful, glad to hear you are on the losing track...:D

Sue, You have been working hard. Have fun on your days off & congrat's on the 4 lbs loss.
Sounds like everyone is doing great with their weight loss...:bravo:...:cp:

I will weigh tomorrow to see if i get to change my ticker...Maybe a little... When TOM is over i hope to see more come off...
I had a frighting day today. This morning i got a call from my oldest son..(18)
My youngest son..(15) had a seizure. The first one ever. They were spending the weekend with their dad. Scared me to death. I told him to bring him home, so i could get him to the ER i didn't want to take any chance's. Their dad and stepmom's LIKE it's fine... it's normal for a 15 year old to have seizures. OH i was so upset!!!:mad:.. So i called the ER they said to bring him in...Get them to bring him home or for me to go get him.... Longer story short
he's OK... they ran a lot of tests and done a cat scan. The tests came back good. I was so relieved... They want him to see his doctor and have one more test to check his brain waves. So far he's doing good. Sorry for the long post. Everything was going through my mind even a mild stroke or something. I'm just so relieved...
Everyone have a Great weekend...
Candy

That would be very scary Candy, Im glad he is doing good!

I'm so behind on personals.. It was such a busy week, but I wanted to say WELCOME to you new ladies I have yet to greet.

Has anyone seen Brenda? Haven't heard a peep from her, unless I missed something.

Sue - Enjoy your time off! Sounds like it's well deserved! I'm off to bed.. and i'll see you all in the morning. Gotta get back into my posting. I have been having withdrawls. :)

Love to you all...

Hi Goils,

Well, as much as I've been fighting it.... I'm going to do low carb again. My doc really recommends it (not no carb but low carb) so here I am. Doc says to eat meats first, then veggies, then if I have to carbs. OY !!!

Sooooooooooooooooooo here I is ;)

Hey welcome back to the folds of low carb Leenie this is the only way I feel healthy.

I hope I can fight off the carb monster as it has been creeping up on me over the last few weeks. I am fighting to keep him at bay. jelly bean here and few more there then a handful in my pocket. well I will resolve to keep him gone as I start this week. with a new outlook and new resolve.

It's not so bad Leenie, really, I swear :)

There are things that I miss from the carb world, but once I discovered the following recipe sites, and started making some new things so I wasn't bored with what I eat, it's been much easier.
http://www.lowcarbluxury.com/lowcarb-recipes.html
http://users3.ev1.net/~fontlady/recipes.html

Also, try www.netrition.com for great prices and availability on LC ingredients, their service is excellent.

Welcome back, it's gonna be great once you're in the swing of things, and you can so do this!!!

Tenn

PS nothing tastes so good that it's worth trading a healthy body for!

Good Morning

Welcome back Leenie :D everytime I stray from lowcarb to something else, I always end up coming back to it :lol:

Tenn~ thanks for those recipe sites, I didnt have those ones in my collection.

Sandra~ WTG on the extra 2lbs gone!! :cb:

Im going to try to stay off the scale until next friday. Im getting very anxious about it. I want it gone!! (the fat that is)

Not much planned for today...we all slept in this morning, so its a late start for us.

Have a great sunday ladies!

Hope everyone is having a good day. I have hernia surgery on Wednesday to look forward to. YUCK. Thought I'd just maybe go down to the lake where my sister and friends are camping and do some fishing to take my mind off the surgery. Good luck everyone and thanks for letting me vent about my family situation, I am just trying to stay on program and get out of the house as much as possible.

I'll be thinking about you lillybelle. enjoy your time fishing.
Robin: Looking forward to good scale news on Friday. I know you will see a loss.
Sue, try to banish those jelly beans quickly.
Leenie: Welocme to the group!
Falon, I hear you about busy. Things ahve been really busy for me lately too.

Well my mom took me shopping yesterday for my birthday. Size 10 black slacks and and extra large turquise shirt. Really wish I could get that extra large down to a more reasonanble size. Hopefully in time. I did remeasure my waist though and at it's smallest point I'm just slightly under 32 inches. I was hanging out at 33 inches for the longest there, so really happy to see those inches moving again.
My wonderfull husband is still hanging out on Atkins and finally feeling better. He's pretty deeply into ketosis and his blood sugar is finally coming down better. His blood pressure is doing a little better too. We will see what the scale says soon. Currently my night owl is sleeping. He is really getting challenging to cook for. I know he will quickly move into OWL and into more choices. Hoping he can get his weight down some before visiting his dr. in June.
Ya'll have a great day! Gotta motivate to get moving and get stuff done today.

Just have time for a quick pop in. Read about all the awesome progress you all are making and wish I could say the same. My eating has been HORRIBLE. Well, not TOTALLY but enough junk thrown in to make me feel like a total oinker again. Hard to bring along healthy snacks while fishing. I do well for breakfast and supper it's the noon-time meal that stinks. And no water to speak of (except a glass before bed). As much as I love spending this time with DH it's just TOTALLY messing me up. I can't drink water while fishing because I don't have the "equipment" to pee off the side of a boat (if you know what I mean?) and holding it sometimes is impossible (as most of you know that drink tons of water and have small bladders). He's off for most of this next week as well. So once again I'll be MIA while he's home but I'll be back full strength when he's back at work. Right now just trying to keep my head and not gorge myself overly on all the Easter candy in the house. ARGH!!! Should I mention I've not stepped on the scale? Reality's going to bite me in the butt.

Thanks for the warm welcome back.... as some of you know I asked 3FC's to start an Atkins board back in 2004 when I lost 30 lbs following the plan. Well I had gained back the 30 plus 12 on top. GROWL!! I've since lost 38 of those but not on low carbing. I know I'll lose better staying away from all the junk but its so hard. Atkins is to strict so I'll be following just a lower in carb way of life. Like staying away from pasta, breads, rice which really is a no brainer for me but the really hard thing is the sweets and chips, even if they are baked.

Sooooooo here we go again LOL !!!!

Hey Brenda, betcha didn't expect to see me again ;)

ooooo baked lays :devil: They need to come up with a no potato potatochip :lol:

Hello everyone,
Welcome back leenie... You don't know me, but you were one of the ones here, that kept me motivated a couple years back in lurksville of course. Hate to hear some weight came back, but glad to have you here...:hug: ........

Well my weekend has been very Bad & Good.:( ... Yesterday when we got back from the Er and everything was going good with my son, my daughter was in a play at her school, all was going well until my oldest son called us....
The Er called and said to call them. We rushed home to call and they said the x-ray tect. took another look at the cat scan. They found something on the cat scan we needed to get back down there. The Er doctor said that he had a tumer and they was going to send him to Huntsville where they have better equipment and more advanced. The doctor in Huntsville did another cat scan...The good news is it's not a tumer..But still not good, he said he has a Atrioventricular Malformation. His blood vessels and blood vein's has infused together into a large mass. Tuesday we take him to a neurosurgery center. They said most likely surgery...we are so scared...:( ... But i won't know more till then. I guess the seizure was actually a blessing...I'd love to thank that x-ray tect. for ..."out of the blue"...taking another look.. Well i hope everyone's weekends been good... I will try to get on when i can... I hope real soon..... Candy

I didn't know that, THANKS!!!!

Just stopping in to say hi...can't even begin to get caught up on personals. Mabye I'll keep up next week.

Candy, I'm very sorry to hear the news about your son. I'll be praying for him and your family. Hope everything turns out well.

Oh Candy....lots of thoughts and prayers for your son.