Welcome Brenda, I'm glad that you joined us. WTG on going ahead and getting started tomorrow. This is a great site. Feel free to ask questions that you have and someone will probably know the answer. Best wishes for your wt. loss success.

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Has again been rough - my husband got injured (had welding tanks fall on him), we ended up in ER where we sat for hours - and got very very hungry. We ended up going to eat buffet after - and I did not eat LC - I ate like a little pig. Waddled out. Haven't done that in awhile! He will be ok, has to have 2 days rest.

Lilly - thanks for the support. They had called wanting me to work extra this week - last night in fact - well I was up there - but in the ER with DH. Anyway, I said no. Would have been 5 12 hr shifts in a row for me. Too much. Am rehashing my priorities and goals, may end up changing a lot career wise to meet my own goals. Planning to go back to school for BSN soon.

Nursebrenda - welcome, we've got a few nurses around here! Good luck.

As for me, must find new strength and new resolve and get back on track in so many ways - diet is just one. I know I can do it - just got to do it!

My quest to give up soda is going well....but my quest to stay OP isn't doing as well. Made some trail mix for the kids lunches....and promptly ate a bowl of it. UGH! Well, today's another day. I'm feeling more in control though, so I'm hoping that's just a stepping stone that felt a little loose. :) Busy the past couple days and I apologize for not doing personals! I'm hoping things settle down soon..but with gun hunting coming up I don't think it will. We'll see though.

Good Morning Ladies:)

The suns out and I going to take a walk along the beach. Leo is just going for the ride.He hasn't felt well these last couple of weeks.I hope he ok for the cruise in 2 1/2 weeks.

I'm going out to sing with my singing group again for another nursing home. This time its not as far away as the first.It just around town,and they have lots of parking areas.

Thank you ladies for all you well wishes.


Have to go,will post later when I get back from the nursing home.

Hugs :) BB

Kell, glad to hear your husband is OK, that must have been very scary.
Isn't it funny how most nurses get caller ID to get their workplace to not be able to reach them on their days off? I always had to. For yrs. I would answer the calls and go in. Eventually I learned to say no, but not without feeling guilty about it. I have my BSN and have considered taking courses to become a Certified legal nurse consultant. I have always been interested in this. Lately my health has been poor (for almost 4 yrs.) and I stay home now. My DH doesn't want me to work anymore. I am much healthier since losing the weight and getting at least the hypertension and diabetes and shortness of breath under control. I don't really think I could work an 8 hr. day. I still require frequent naps and often have a lot of pain and rash due to my liver disease. Oh well, staying home suits me pretty well, I just get bored.

We ate at Golden Corral buffet last night. I had the steak, a little bit of brocolli (didn't care for it), some cottage cheese and sugar-free jello. It was satisfying to me. I do OK usually at a buffet. Sorry, you had a rough time with the buffet. I did that once too and got through it and so can you.

I have been doing great this week with both food and exercise. I'm trying to keep POP until Thanksgiving day. Wish me luck.

Brenda, glad to see you're doing good with giving up soda. I rarely ever drink it, I'm a coffee addict now.

BB, I hope Leo gets to feeling better. Enjoy your walk.

I bought the Thin for Life book last night. I'm on chapter 4. Not one of the maintainers in the book lost their weight and kept it off with Atkins. Hmmmmmmm, I'm gonna prove that it can be done. It does admit that LC is the quickest way to lose weight. I could have told them that. LOL.

Good morning, scale is down to 252.5 today. That makes 10.5 total since last Monday. I love Atkins!

Sherrry, WTG, that is fantastic. Congratulations.

Sherry! woohoo! I love to hear that kind of news!
Congratulations!

Beach bum Glad to hear all went well with your test! Plus 2 pounds is better than nothing!

lrgnlvly - Contrats on the weight loss! Keep it up!

Kel - At least your hubby is OK! I know buffets can be rough! Don't let it get you down.

Nursebrenda - Welcome!! Good for you for getting right to it. Inever knew why people would set a dat in the future to start anyway! I THe only thing I could think of is that you want to clean out the bad food and stock up on good food first. THat is the best way to start. Good luck toyou and kep us posted!

Brenda - I know giving up soda is a big deal in itself for you, so that's pretty good then!
lillybelle. glad to hear your back to losing. We have Golden Corral here too. Infact, I jsut took my daughter there this week for her birthday. I had garden salad and I pulled the reading off the fried chicken and just ate the meat. I also had some brocolli and cauliflower and a small scoop of seafood salad. Wasn't sure if that was a good move or not but I love their seafood salad. Totally avoided the dessert buffet because Ilove the bannana pudding. That probably has a week worth of carbs!!
Sorry to hear about your daughter! I'm always afraid my kids will do that when they are messing around but we have that 'key' that is magnetized to the treadmilll and the other end youclip on your shirt and if you fall you pull the magnet off and the treadmill stops right away.

NTL, I used to love the crab salad at the restaurants. I know it's made with the artificial crab. Real crab has 0 carbs. But, that artificial crab meat has like 16 carbs per one ounce serving. For real, I bought it when I started Atkins and thought I could have it. But, after reading the package, I learned differently. Good job on avoiding the banana pudding, that is a favorite of mine and one I couldn't be trusted to eat just a tiny bit of. The golden corral here always has LC jello and LC chocolate pudding and that is what I choose from.

TeHe, I got my DH to finally watch Brokeback Mountain with me but he says I can't tell anyone that he watched it. LOL, so I'm telling all of you.

I'm in the process of putting a new floor down in my kitchen. So I don't have time to eat and maybe it is a bit of exercise in the process. Scale this morning is at 251.5. (Another pound off!)

Hi Ladies:)

Sorry for the late post,had a lot of things to do ,and having Leo monopolizing the computer this morning didn't help.

I'm baking right now my plain revolution rolls,and tomorrow I going to bake cinnamon rolls using the same recipe only adding different ingredients. I guess you could call me the "Suzy Homemaker"


Lily-Thanks for the well wishes.Thanks for the well wishes,We walked this morning and he did his breathing exercisers while we walked. Sometimes he just feels blahzy.Suppose to have my friends over for Canasta on Tues., but that again might be up for grabs.He doesn't like people in the house when he trying to rest.

Sherry-Big congrats:congrat: on your 3lb weight loss & 10 point mark. WGO!!!

NeedTo-Thanks :thanks:for the congrats:cheers:, I just wish I could say that my ticker is right,its not have to lose two more pounds for that.I was happy that it went well also as colon cancer runs in my family.Which is :fr:scary.

Have to go do some housecleaning as I didn't have a chance during the week.

Hugs :) BB

Hi everyone. I have been spending a lot of time Christmas shopping. Getting a good start on it. I am almost halfway finished now. Yeah. I will buy a couple more gifts each week.

BB, you made me laugh. I feel like I'm "suzy home-maker" too. LOL. I've been doing laundry, my never-ending chore.

I didn't walk last night, but did tonite.

249.5 this morning. That makes 13.5 pounds in two weeks. Love the speed that Atkins works at!! The first time I did induction I took that much off in a week and a half, so it has slowed a little, but not much.

Hi Ladies Smile

Woke up to a bad thunderstorm last night,laid there for while, than fell asleep to find myself over sleeping.

What made it worse,I had to iron another outfit this morning as the one I pick out last night is to warm for this balmy weather we're having.Have to get ready for church, will post later.

I'm back again,to tell you another part of my crazy morning.I was late at everything to begin with,and added to that I couldn't find my car keys.Looked all over they house,in my hand bags and than again into my pockets. Could find them I took Leos keys instead. When I got to church a friend of mine lost her car keys also, and didn't realized they we're missing until after church.We went though all her steps, couldn't find them.Later she remembers that she brought a jacket with her and the keys were up in the choir loft. We than went to Friendly for our Sunday Brunch, laughing at all what happened to us. I returned home and started looking for my misplaced keys and remembered they were in my leather jacket from Last Sunday,as I haven't driven the whole week.

Wow!! Whats happening,we must be in a place called the Twilight Zone.

Going to have my friends over on Tuesday, to play canasta. Leo gave his ok,and well probably go out for a while.I told him that he could stay with us but he doesn't want to hang around with the ladies.

On Wednesday I have a senior center volunteer luncheon. I choose the scrod,veggie entree.It was the least fatting of the other choices. Don't want to blow my weight loss results just because I have this attend this function.


Lily-You've started before:turkey: Thanksgiving??????Thats amazing,I haven't got a clue what I'm buying for my family. Right now my mind is on the cruise,and once I get back I will think about starting. I'm glad I got most of the housecleaning done, I just have to touch up for my canasta game tomorrow.

Sherry-You got out of the 250's hello 240 big :cheer:congrats on your achievements. I love the Atkins also,it might be coming off slow but Its coming off.


Have a nice day

Hugs :) BB

WTG Sherry, you are doing fantastic. That is how Atkins worked for me. The wt. came off very quick in the beginning and then settled at mostly 2 lbs. a week. By then, I was hooked and loved it. I still love it and wish other people would give it a try. I know it works. Yes there are foods that we don't eat, but there is a lot of good food that we can eat and still take the weight off. I was always a big meat eater, so this suits me great.

BB, sounds like you have had quite a morning. I stayed up til 3:30 this morning with DH. He works a 16 hour evening and night shift tonite, so he wanted to sleep most of the day. We slept til 12:30 and then got up and had a late breakfast.

I made my Christmas list, 14 people total this yr. Some of the nieces and nephews that we normally buy for won't be here this time. So, I'm getting an early start. I want to see if I have enough money left to buy some yard decorations and such. We always decorate the house WAY up. Last yr. my MIL gave me about 50 strands of outdoor lights, she doesn't ever bother to put them up anymore. But , we had our house and trees done beautifully. We put them up the weekend after Thanksgiving.

I have been paying off medical bills. We had several of them again. I found that when I called each place and offered a 50% cash pay-off on the balance after insurance that they would accept it. I'm doing this each month and am now down to 3 bills instead of the 10 of them that I was paying $50.00 each per month on. If I continue to do this, I can have them all paid off at the 1st of February. Yeah.

Hiya Ladies :wave:

Ive been mia, because my mom came to visit this weekend. A very nice visit, she got some rest, relaxation and some shopping therapy done :lol: We didnt stay op for the weekend, I really didnt see the point. I knew once she left, Id get right back to it. Im ready, I can feel the sugar in my system, and my system isnt very happy about it being there!! But we hit Dinosaur BBQ while we were in Rochester, made a double batch of butter tarts :drool: and a pie....kinda comfort food for both of us. Cooking together, chatting and having a good time.

Then last night we went to see Trace Adkins sing. If you are a fan, and he gets close enough to go see him....go! I had a great time!! He puts on a very good show, I love his sense of humour. Of course I forgot my camera!! :( I was really happy I talked my mom into going with me!! :) She liked his wiggly hips :lol3:

I did manage to get alot of exercise this weekend...so the damage was kept sort of under control. But Im ready....and nothing to stand in my way now until thanksgiving....but thats not too hard for me. Christmas on the other hand will be a bit trickier.

hi all.
Lillybelle - you floored me with that seafood salad news! I better be more careful! Maybe that's what my problem is. I THINK I'm doing good but I"'m really not. I better start looking at labels and if I'm not sure then just omit it altogether!

Sherry! That's marvelous! I wish I could pull that off with this last 15 lbs! Ihit induction hard again these past few days and know it because I'm constipated and have a killer headache! My Mother thinks I'm nuts!!

Robin - Welcome back. Well you know, it sounds like it was worth cheating. You have made some priceless memories with your mom this past weekend! That's more importants than "watching the carbs" anyday! especially if you were able to up the exercise a bit, it shouldn't hurt that much!



Maggie

NTL, don't beat yourself up over it. It is hard to know the carb count of every single food. I didn't know either, until I bought some. I love the stuff. I had assumed it was 0 carbs just the same as real crab.

Robin, I'm glad you got to spend time with your mom. That's great. Don't feel guilty. Good job on the exercise.

:wave:

:wave: :hat: :encore: Hi Everyone. I have been MIA for awhile. Always alot to do and not enough hours in the day. Had to recently return to work. Not real happy but we need my income. It is miserable outside today rainig and the wind is blowing. Tis the season for birthdays in our family, we have quite a few of them coming up.:dizzy: I've been staying the course and have stuck with my lc eating plan, with Thanksgiving coming we'll see if that is going to be a planned cheat. Maybe if I eat everything within an hour it won't hurt too much, Like they suggest in CAD. Hope everyones holiday is wonderful, Judy H