Happy Easter !!! Hippity Hoppity, the Easter Bunny has already been to my household!! My kids are super excited. I love Easter!

We went to our church, and then to my DH's Grandmother's house for lunch. I knew what was coming. I had no salad or anything to take for me, and it causes major hurt feelings when I bring my own food anyway. So...let me tell you about this spread: Fried chicken, biscuits from scratch (oozing with butter), home made gravy, fresh corn cut off the cobb (with about 2 sticks of butter in it), green beans (seasoned with bacon, oil...), rice, a potato casserole with a stick of butter in it and tons of oozing REAL cheese on top, cole slaw (made with real mayo), cantaloupe (which I detest!). By the time we got to her house, I was so hungry that I was nauseous and had a headache. I had to fix my kids' plates and feed my baby. I caught DH and whispered, we must get the he** out of here as soon as you guys eat!! So, I noticed she had boiled and colored easter eggs, and I got one of those and ate the white, and about half of the yolk, and I ate one bite of chicken, and I got a diet Coke. My headache went away, and I did not give in to the rest of the meal. I am not bragging. I am just really excited - excited that I have truly changed, and (at least in some situations) can not just pig out for the sake of some butter and grease. I came home and had my taco salad.

I am thinking of you guys today!!!! I hope you all have a fabulous Easter!!! I am so blessed to have you guys. You help me through it all, you really do!
Gotta run, eggs to hide, etc......

((((((((((lots of hugs)))))))))))),
Lisa

Happy Easter everyone. My family is mad at me because we arent going to the family easter thing. Gosh arent we aloud time together? Well thought i would vent. I am still loosing which is better than gaining. I am calling tomorrow to get my gym membership. ive been waiting since i go to college i get 1/2 member fee off.

Happy Easter right back at ya, girlie! I'm thinkin I would have had a great big serving of this and some fried chicken considering how hungry you were! YUMMY! Kudos to you chickie for not caving! Those 5 lbs are gonna melt right off of ya at this rate! Good job!

Sorry to hear your family is mad at you on Easter! That's no fun! But glad to hear you are still losing and that you are going to start your gym membership tomorrow! Way to go!

Well chickies, today is Easter and I feel pretty good! I did eat two cookies at church this morning because I was sooo hungry! I missed breakfast getting ready to leave a little early and just didn't make enough time! I will remember to not do that next week!

Have done my full body toning/weights and 25 minutes on the bike. Got interrupted by DD and really wasn't into pedalling today! But I did it cause I know I HAVE to or that tazer is going to be threatened again!

So after my workout I had about 5 oz. left over hamburg from yesterday, 1/2 cup coleslaw and 2 pineapple rings. Did have coffee this morning (had to wake up) with about 1 & 1/2 TBSP low carb creamer. But the rest of the day I have been drinking water! Last night I drank about 40 oz. of it after 8 pm! What the heck is wrong with me??? I was just so thirsty! So, I am going to even the water drinking out over the course of the day instead of drinking it all at once before bed! Then maybe I won't be doing aerobics in the middle of the night to get to the bathroom!

Well chickies, I have a few more things to do here on the computer. I am going to try to attach a photo of DD when I get it off the camera onto the computer a little later! Have a great day!

OH...BTW, there were snowflakes falling from the sky this afternoon! AAHHHHHH! I want Spring and warmer weather!!!!

Here's the picture I said I would show you all! I hope it comes through!
Hugs,
Julie

O.K., enough food temptation is enough!!! We went to my DH's Parents' house for dinner. I had run all day and didn't have time to go to the grocery store. Well, they had all fatty foods: ribs on the grill, slathered with sauce, cole slaw, chips, hot dogs,...etc. I hurt their feelings by not eating. I just couldn't. I didn't want that food. I really don't even like those items, and I wasn't gonna eat just to get a smile. (Was that wrong???)

I am under my points today by about 7 points. I'm glad this is in writing, because it probably will never happen again!!! I'm just not hungry.

Julie - Your daughter is PRECIOUS!!!! What a sweetie pie. Julie, I am glad you had a good day, and your exercise sounds lots better than mine!!!

Oreo - Don't worry, your family will forgive you. Happy Easter to you!!!

Good night chickies!!! Talk to you tomorrow!!!

Just taking a quick minute. I bombed today. Not in a good way either. Way too much food. I tried to limit what I ate, but my aunt made absolutely amazing homemade bread (carb addict? YES! Have you ever had a mashed potato sandwich?!) And then desert. UGH. Tomorrow is a new day, start of a new work week, and I have officially until Wednesday to weigh in. Sooo, I have time to repair the damage. My stomach feels terrible, big and bloated. That's what I get!

When I got home, I started cleaning out my walk-in closet, winter out, summer in. I had forgotten all of the cute summer clothes I have that really aren't going to fit, or look anywhere close to decent enough to wear in public. MOTIVATION! Not to mention, the 3 bathing suits I bought this year already! I'm very lucky that the 10-15 lbs I want to lose make that big of an impact!

Lucy - I had a crease revision from a breast augmentation originally done last November. One of the gals was riding a tad low! See why I need to get into my bikini and mini skirts? But because of the new suture line in the chest muscle, my upper body activity is pretty limited.

Julie - What a cutie pie your daughter is!

Oreo - I don't get the whole thing with families feeling obligated to have a huge get together on every single holiday. I wouldn't mind some smaller and more private celebrations anyway. Your family will forgive you.

Hikein2005 - What a wonderful surprise from your hubby! You must have looked REALLY good in that bathing suit!

Lisa - Good job with your Easter dinner. Wish I could say I did as well! Live and learn!

I guess it's time to get ready for bed. I'm gonna get up early tomorrow and do some time on my stepper before work!

sw 155.5
cw ???
gw 140

Good Mornin' Chickies...
Well we all made it through the holiday weekend...and that's a good thing! I must say some of the will power in this group (Lisa) is amazing! I'm pretty sure I would have HAD to at least tasted SOME of that food! And no...it wasn't wrong for not eating. You do what you are comfortable with and if you don't want to eat, then so be it! They can just deal with their own issues!

I made it through yesterday without any sneaking into the chocolate (the good stuff is gone, anyway...I love DARK chocolate...but I need to remember that it makes my tongue get tiny little cracks in it...almost like an allergic reaction, so I have to watch it...maybe it's one of those "signs") So yea me! My food was right on target yesterday. Had a most delicious porterhouse steak on the grill yesterday that hubby marinated most of the day! It was soooooo tender and juicy! I ate about 6 oz.! Yummy! I'm not usually much of a steak eater, but this one was exceptional! So score 2 for him this weekend!

So food eaten yesterday:
B- coffee w/ creamer, 2 cookies at church (counted them, though)
L - hamburg w/ ketchup & 1/2 cup coleslaw
s - 1/2 zone bar
D - 6 oz. steak, 1 cup gr. beans, 1 cup milk (FF)
S - the other 1/2 zone bar
I figured with all the beef eaten yesterday plus the coleslaw, I had to have had my alloted fat #'s for each meal! Today I will eat chicken!

So far today...
coffee w/ creamer (that's only 1 carb with my low carb creamer...it would be 2 with the other stuff)
4 mini waffles, 1T syrup (lite), 3 sausages, 1/2 cup fruit (strawberries/grapes)

For lunch I am going to my work. They are having a pizza party for the great job we did in our annual fed/state survey that took place last week and with all the changes having gone on in the last month or so (new Director of Nurses...started last Monday; New Administrator...this is only his 3rd week; fire in dryer 2 weeks ago; fire marshall inspection 2 weeks ago; state surveyors last week just to name a few!) So since I am a department head, I am going in just to make an appearance and so Kaleigh can see my residents. She loves to go! I may have one piece of pizza without the crust and have some real lunch when I get home!

Plan for exercise today is a power walk this afternoon with DD riding her bike! Hopefully she will be in a mood to go!

Gotta get running now...have lots to do this morning on my day off!

Happy Monday everyone and let's all get going now that the holiday is over!

Good Morning, chickies! Glad to see we made it through the weekend mostly unscathed. Excellent. Lisa makes us all look so weak-willed- that's awesome!

Lisa: the dress sounds absolutely stunning! Roar! And that 5 pounds, with all that restraint this weekend, I'm sure you're going to get thre. Amazing, girlfriend. Kick butt!

Julie: awww! What a great hubby! And Kaleigh is so adorable! What a cutie patootie! I had to LOL at the aerobic pottying...try that with a 4 cat obstacle course, where they all see that you're awake & want attention. Ay, yai, yai! Today, give Kaleigh the pizza, take a bite or 2 from that piece, and have your lunch at home. Face time, and Kaleigh time- pizza is what triggered my sweets frenzy that weekend at my mom's- step away from the pizza!

Oreo: chickie, why so miserable? Come talk & get it off your chest, so you aren't carrying that around. I know families can make even the simple things more difficult. They'll get over their hard feelings. Hope things start looking up soon.

Lucia: Today is another day...a bad meal now & again won't sidetrack us- and as long as it was enjoyed, I say go for it (shh- don't anyone else read that! LOL)

I overslept today because it was raining & dark & dreary...it still looked like night. Plus, I was up until the wee hours of the morning again. What is up with that? So, no morning exercise because of that.

Breakfast:
1/3 cup smart start
1 oz fat free cheddar
1 pineapple cottage double

Lunch: defrosting now
3/4 cup elbow macaroni
3/4 cup chili

No ideas for dinner- I do have some leftover fajita chicken that I can heat up & throw in a tortilla....but haven't thought that far ahead.

Afternoon exercise- don't know yet....still thinking, but will get something in.

Have a wonderful Monday, ladies!

My Easter was sucky. I spent it alone and sad (missing my loved ones). However!!! On a good note, I didn't eat any chocolate or candy for that matter. Perhaps it was just that I was too lazy to go the store for it, or maybe because I knew if I had, I would NOT have stopped at one or two or twenty. I ate some cereal with skim milk, but got terribly ill. Later, when I felt better, I had some rice and beans and then a bag of popcorn. Not the lavish Easter meals most people enjoy. Sounds like Java Turtle is feeling sorry for herself, no? She'll get over it. I'm going to get a new middle number if I have to hurt someone! LOL And on top of everything else making me a cranky turtle, I went to work, thinking it was my Friday and find out my days off were moved this week and I have to work tonight! Grrr. I had to shuffle and cancel and postpone my plans for the day (including grocery shopping). As a turtle, it's hard to pout when you don't have a bottom lip to stick out. Cheers everyone, I need some coffee.

Mary, I feel your pain, turtlequeen. My "Easter Dinner" was grilled cheese- not exactly your idea of haute cuisine. But it sure beat brunch with the in laws and 3 couples who are their friends from squaredancing. Eeek!

You're gonna get your new middle number. I had to cajole & wheedle with the scale, and even then, it decided to hold out an extra day before letting me see it. Dang contraptions.

Can I adopt you? I always wanted a sister but got stuck with my little brother. I promise, I'll even let you give me noogies & all the other horrible sibling stuff.

Ok, honestly... my eyes kinda got crosseyed halfway through the posts. I hadn't checked for 2 days and it's 2 pages gone by!! WOW!!!!!

Happy easter to everybody, and wtg for all of us who didn't attack the chocolate bunny day with hot fangs ready to melt that chocolate!! (don't ask, eh?)

Mine was decent. I got really icky on Saturday and ended up eating junk food for dinner and whatnot. Let's not go there. My food this weekend was less than desirable, let's just put it that way. BUT since I'm ALMOST (soo close!) to my actual goal, I'm not gonna be too hard on myself. I have been working really damn hard on getting to where I want to be, and I have done an awesome job!! I am PROUD of myself. I consider this weekend a reward to myself, not something I should be ashamed of. I didn't eat anything -that- bad, either. Dinner yesterday had a big salad in it, too!! Bah!! I didn't do anything wrong, in my opinion. I even went on a 3-mile walk in the 85-degree sun with t he hubby and dog.

OK I have to cut it super short now and explain later -- mom's grabbing lunch for us and we're heading out to my ultrasound. I'll update later and tell ya how it went n whatnot.

You guys rock!! *big hugs to all* Have an awesome Monday, chickies!! WE RULE!

Hello everyone!! Hope you are all well. I've had a hectic kind of day (what other kinds do I have??? ) DH has a terrible stomach virus. We were up all night with that. I am yawning my head off. I had to take my son to Atlanta for a Dr. checkup for his eyes and I ended up having to take all 3 boys. Let's talk about traffic in Atlanta - Goodness!!!!! I came home in rush hour. Took forever. Oh, well, we are home safely & that's all that matters anyway.

Food today was pretty good. My MIL wanted to cook for the boys tonight, because she knew we were late getting home. She had all this BREAD with warm hot butter on top and spaghetti (meat in it was not drained a bit and was probably ground beef). I was starving and I ate way too much. I had about 3 huge pieces of the bread and a bowl of spaghetti, and then had a couple of Reeces cups for good measure, I guess. I had let myself get too hungry!!! Here I was saying that I was having all this willpower!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just broke down tonight. Everyone else was happily munching away, and I went beserk. I wish I had not done that, but there are worse things in the world I could have done. It will be extra bike for me tonight, that's for sure. Julie, get the tazer right now!!!!!!! I think I need a quick zap just to keep me in check!!!

Mary - I hope you had a terrific day today!!! I am sorry you had a sad Easter. You and I have something in common - I love coffee!!! MMMMM...

Jennifer - Hi chickie!!! Hope your Monday got off to a better start after you overslept!!

Lucy - I agree - WE RULE!!! Please keep us updated about your ultrasound chickie. I am thinking about you!!!!

Ok I'm back now. Mwuahahah!!! (Why the evil laughter, I'm not too sure).

A tip -- pelvic ultrasounds =SUCK=. Seriously suck bad. EW. That was one of the grossest, most ickified things I've ever had to do. EW. *shudder* It hurt a little, but I think that was not from the wand thing, but from myself hurting beforehand, heh. Oh, well. No gigantic issues that anybody could see, but the doc is examining the results right now.

Now the waiting game TRULY starts!! Anyway, yeah.

I feel tired and icky, so I'm gonna go on a walk tonight and scrap the stepper workout for tonight. *shrug* I deserve a break after all of the crap I just went through.

I'm not even gonna post my foods for today, because it's nothing special. I had a limited diet this morning, and had to limit water and whatnot, so tomorrow is technically my Monday for the week of working out n whatnot.

So basically, let me explain a little what I said before, about this weekend being a bit of a reward for myself. When I did manage to gain just around 100 lbs, it wasn't from overeating, or even from bad habits of eating crappy junk food instead of meals. It was from medication, so I've had to really work at losing the weight that shouldn't be there to begin with. It's not an easy thing for me, and if I stop being on my so-called 'diet' (which is basically just lower cals), I don't gain. I just maintain. My body isn't used to gaining, it just doesn't do it. So honestly, I don't consider my bad eating this weekend that bad in the overall, because it isn't like I've fallen back into bad habits. I had no bad eating habits to begin with, unless you count too much top ramen instead of veggies as a teenager, hehe. For me, weight loss isn't even about getting into shape -- I -am- in shape. That's what's so weird about it. I have good muscle tone all over. I never quit being uber-active and energetic. I just got a bunch of extra fat all over my body that is hard to get rid of.

Anyway... yeah. Tomorrow is 30 min of hardcore cardio stepper w/ weights for 15 min of that, and then 550 situps.

Dinner tonight is actually not too bad -- hamburger helper w/ some veggies and some iced tea (unsweetened).

I hope you guys had an awesome day today!!