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!

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. 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

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!! 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!! I was so glad when we were done!!

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

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 "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...... .Everyone keep up the good work.............
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!!!

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 You've done great!! 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