good morning gang

where is everybody at this fine morning?

hugs,
cathy

Hey Chicks!
I actually exercised last night! Squats Wall pushups (suprisingly hard) stretching and still Practicing My WATP moves for 15 minutes I might have hit the 1/2 mile mark with that we'll see when I start her DVD
Today we have our Office BBQ So I am in a mucous Green tshirt Go team etc. . . they will have grilled chicken I'm just hoping they have real salad and not just one that has Macaroni or potatoes
Marb when I need a Kitty Fix we'll petsit but you need to be in Tuscany with some hot stud with no Paunch and a personality!
Hey Cath Whats on your Agenda today busy LAdy!
Kierie

Here I am....yuck it is hot and sticky, I'll refrain from mentioning mold growing under my bra.....my zip drive is having a tantrum, resulting in ME almost having a panic attack, grades are kept in the file, I hope it's not corrupt.

I can't wait to get out of here....I have a bucket of frozen Margaritas waiting for me in my huge freezer..and I have salsa and chips (baked and they taste like styrofoam).

I'm being watchful of junk food at work after reading the thread on the topic....today I have a nice romaine salad, tomatoes from my "tree", a few olives and turkey breast, plus I made a lite vinagarette with extra lemon and a chopped sun-dried tomatoes, plus a cup of veggie soup. I did not *taste* the doughnuts or bagels today.... earlier in the week I had some chinese and one day gave into a slice of pizza.....

Hi there friends, things have been good here. I did some financial paperwork today and I'm glad that's done. It's definitely a chore to go through the loan process. We're consolidating all our loans and credit cars into a 2nd mortgage. Might as well use the equity in the house instead of giving $$$ to the interest mongers.

Okay, I don't want anyone to yell at me, but I made a major decision. For months (with the exception of last week) I have been near angelic in my eating and exercising. The pounds refuse to drop. I've been tested for diabeties (thank goodness it was negative) and oodles of other stuff. All along I've sworn it was my bipolar meds. So since my shrink is away on sabbatical, I decided to wean off all my meds except for the ADHD (I'm returning to work on Monday and have to be able to think). For about a year, I haven't thought the antideppresants and mood stabilizers were working that well (or they were working great and I didn't notice) so this idea has been floating for some time. So I started today. I really want to be med free - I suppose that's crazy. But I want to lose weight more than I want to stable. As I write this I'm starting to think I'm nuts but what the heck, I am. I was thinking if depression hits, I will start using my lightbox early. If mania hits, I will be shoving the stabilizers down my throat again. Does my wish and plan of course make any sense to anyone? DH made me promise I'd go back on them if needed. I did make that promise. One dr. a couple years ago asked me if I wanted to be thin and unhappy or fat and happy. I said fat and happy, but my answer has now changed. I want to be thin, desparately so. So I will be off the meds in a few weeks and then I'll lose weight, then when I'm thin I'll go back on them. Just kidding, I won't wait that long if I'm unhappy or manic.

Okay, enough of that rambling.

I swam and did situps today. So now I just have to finish off the good day eating so far by staying good and it'll be another great day.

I hope everybody is okay, April - especially the mother and baby.

Hi Leens.

Marble, I said a little prayer that your Zip drive cooperates. Terribly scary when students lives are involved. Marble, drink enough of the margueritas and the chips won't taste like styrofoam.

Kierie, good luck wiht the office BBQ. Isn't amazing how many things get thrown in our way to losing weight? Sometimes I think that the world is out to sabotage us dieters.

TTYL.
Marie

Kierie – congrats on exercising! I gotta get my butt back to water aerobics now that finals are over they resumed the classes for water aerobics hehehe…. Guess no one was going because they needed to study for final.

It’s been a busy Friday! I’ve been up since 7 am and got home around 5 after doing a days worth of errands and I still didn’t get everything done. I’ve gotta take my car in to the dealership because my “service engine soon” light came on. I’m glad it’s still under warranty. Oy… I’m going to get up early again tomorrow and hopefully can get the side yard somewhat cleared up so I can start getting the shed going. Won’t do to much because we’re going to and Angels game with a few friends. I just wish they were playing the Braves… but all their games were away …. Next year hopefully! So I can be the only NON-ANGELS fan sitting in the stadium and then get my rear jumped in the parking lot WOOHOO! NOT!

Anyways… I got an upset stomach so I’m gonna head to bed.

Take care everyone!
Sue…