Gosh I can tell I'm going to enjoy coming here. The colors and graphics used in your posts makes me feel at home.
I know how hard it is to lose weight. Although I am close to what I believe is my "goal" weight ... I'm far from happy with the way my body looks. It's very disheartening to go from a size 3 to a size 18. It's the same for someone going from a size 10 to a size 24. I have a smaller frame. Gaining 75 pounds was hard. I have friends that say "I'd kill to be your size" or "You don't need to lose any more weight." I hate it when they say that. In a round-a-bout way they are trying to sabotage my efforts. I've had to steer clear of those friends lately. Recently my mother-in-law has been making comments like that too. It's so frustrating. I know what I look like naked standing in front of the mirror. It's not pretty. I'm not focused on the number, but rather how I feel and look in clothes. My goal is a size 8. I know it's not realistic to be a size 3 at my age and having three children. To be honest ... I think I looked too thin back then. I look at pictures from before and I think I look anorexic, which I wasn't. I'm ready to stop losing weight and get pregnant. My goal is to maintain my healthy eating habits and hopefully only gain about 20 pounds.
I can't wait to get to know everyone on a more personal basis. Two of my children are sleeping and my mother is going to be here in 45 minutes to go to dinner. I need to scoot but I'll try to get online later tonight. Hope you all have a wonderful evening. SunnyD I love the pictures of your home. It's very lovely and so inviting.
Location: I am from 29 Palms, California... but now live in Northeast, Ohio
Posts: 2,107
S/C/G: SW-245.5/CW-209/GW-170
Height: 5'5"
Good Friday Morning Everyone!
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Hi On-my-weigh ~ I hope that I didn't hurt your feelings or upset you I do have an idea of what you mean about seeing and knowing what you look like in the mirror verses what others see. When I was 130lbs (quite some time ago ) Joe's family got after me too --- saying I was anorexic (I wasn't!) and always trying to get me to eat. I was eating fine, just toned and watching calories. I find it much harder to do now that I am older and have some health issues, but do comprehend what you are saying. Here... you can get the support in whatever you choose to do that is healthy and best for you. I wish you only the very best! I thank you for the nice feedback on my home...
Hope you had a nice dinner out with your mom last night...
where did you go (if I may ask)?
*God Bless*
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*Hello's* out there to all you other CER's!!!
Joe is taking the day off today and we are bringing our 3 boys into the vets for check-ups and their shots @ 9:30. Joe likes to go with me... they are his kids too Really... Guido & Zeppe are very heavy @ 15 lbs. each and I cannot go alone and they hate going one without the other - so this works best. I just carry our little Domino (only 7 lbs). Then I think we are just going grocery shopping after we bring them home, cuz we cannot meet our friends this Saturday as usual. Then Joe has to go to his chiro. at 4:30 today --- he pulled a muscle in his back at work the other day working on a panwasher in one of the bakeries and now he will be going there for a few treatments. He said he was feeling much better already... just after one treatment.
Weigh- Yes, I do know how that feels when people say "eeew...you're getting too thin and in reality, only a few years ago I weighed 130 lbs. and I'm UP to 150 now. I'm really comfortable at 130. The minute they see you losing weight it's ohhhhh...don't hurt yourself now. UGH! Anyway, I know what's best for my body.
My agenda this weekend consists of still going to DH up north tomorrow in the rain, wind and cold while he puts in three heat runs in a cabin. I will bring a book, my fleecy and a chair to sit in and embrace it. We'll do a cozy breakfast somewhere and when he's done, we'll just come home. We have Life Team at night anyway.
Sunday will be church and then I don't know what.
Where is everyone? I know, just because I'm a dud doesn't mean everyone else is. For some reason I can't post the Smile faces today. Oh well.
Hello to everyone. Its a bit of a cold and miserable day here today...that sort of day when you don't know whether to put up your brolly or just get rather damp!!
I went for a swim today at the fitness centre I belong to (!!!!me! Belonging to LAFitness ) I was meant to meet up with my support worker but I was late 'cos my social worker had been on the phone, so by the time I arrived she had of course been and gone I was very surprised to hear from my s/w 'cos she doesn't as a rule work Fridays!! Anyway I decided to still go in the pool as the water was very lovely and warm and did 12 lengths before getting in the jacuzzi which usually is almost too hot to even get your big toe in to, but today it was rather more of a luke warm temperature!!
No news yet on my xray. I know its early days and I AM glad my g.p. has not rung 'cos I would be so panic-stricken about the result. Mind you..playing the waiting game isn't much fun, either!! The lump certainly isn't going away. It may well be my imagination but I think it's more painful....
SunnyD57 I love the way you post! They are always so colourful and you get great graphics in them as well.I am glad you enjoyed the movie! But please tell, how can a shark ever be "cute?" Hope the boys don't have any after effects from their injections!!
Mkay I forgot to thank you for my hug a day or so back!!! You are very kind...
Sprout I was wondering how the visit from the on-line-school-teacher go ? Did she hit it off with Priscilla? Your Anna sounds a real gem.If you ever get tired of her please send her over here!!
Haven't started that book yet but at least it is out of the bookshelf and here ready for the taking!!
Hva a lovely weekend everyone. Keep safe and warm!
Hi MKay ~ I have been wondering the same thing! Where is everyone There are about 12 - 14 people on this thread and only a few of us posting.
Good idea to embrace your day tomorrow since there's nothing more you can do - hope you stay nice and warm in your fleecy and have a very good book! I too could do without these WET, DAMP & WINDY days! Stay WELL!!!
Hi Teel ~ Thanks! Glad you enjoy my posts as well... I have always enjoyed graphics!! And quickly learned how to post them. Above are pictures of our kids Just thought you would enjoy seeing what they look like. Besides... I am a boastful mom So far all three are doing well after their shots and they did so much better then I thought they would at the vets office too. They are very happy to be home... it's chilly outdoors and they are very spoiled! The vet said it's a bummer that she won't see us till next year, but a good thing for my boys. She said they are all very healthy and well taken care of
*Shark Tales* is a cartoon / animation... so they aren't ugly really, not like real sharks
Your swim sounded very refreshing --- good for you getting to the gym!!!! What is the time difference between you and us? I never really knew...
Don't know if I will be able to get in a walk today, sure gonna try! Most times if I don't go in the mornings I just cannot get fit in... but I'll try It's kind of a rainy yucky day here also... and chilly.
I sure do hope it won't be too long before you hear about your X-rays... I can only imagine how anxious you must be feeling. Find comfort in knowing that you wait along side of our Lord... *Be still and know that I am God*
Michele ~ I am thinking of you!!!
Hope that you are feeling better, sweets (((Hugs)))
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Here's to a Great Day and a Super Weekend!!!!
(((Hugs)))
SunnyD
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It's a rainy day here too, there are even talking the "S" word here this weekend! Can't believe it. I'm not ready....
Having my lunch and my appetite isn't very good. Guess that's a good thing. Not sure if it's the antibiotic, but my stomach has been a mess too. I'm better and at work, but this thing is hanging on. We're less some people at work, so I had to be here. I'll be alone this afternoon, which i'm kind of looking forward to.
John called me this Tuesday and we had a nice chat, he offered to watch my Simba when i go to CA for Christmas. I asked him for the name of the place he takes his dog sometimes, he told me, but said he may be around and he'd watch her. I'm conflicted. I totally trust him with her and it's really nice he offered, but I'll have to be really honest about expectations. I'd like to pay him but don't know what i can afford. It goes back to that whole mess with my "friend" Byron and how that didn't go so well. Then he called me at work yesterday and asked me a favor, if i'd pick him up after work. He was taking his other truck in to get fixed. So i picked him up and took him home, i didn't go in, cuz i wasn't feeling good and it was already after 7pm.
SunnyD ~ oh no no ... not at all! I just wanted to share with others that I understand how hard it is to lose weight. I've been part of another online support group for almost a year. It seems the closer I get to my goal weight the less support I recieve. Being judged as an overweight person is hard enough, but to be judged by those you considered to be friends is even harder. Someone has to be the first one in the group to reach their goal weight and when that happens the rest of the group should be happy for them. I'm in this for the long haul. For me it's important to surround myself with a positive circle of support. That's what I'm hoping to find here.
My oldest son and I joined my mom for Mexican food last night. Hubby was tired so he stayed home with my two youngest (they were still sleeping and we didn't want to wake them).
I hope the vet visit goes well. Very cute kitties!!!!
Mkay ~ sounds like you're going to have a lovely weekend with hubby. I'm in California so I'm still enjoying the warm weather. Sounds like you'll be nice and cozy with your book. I love to get all buddled up and sit outside when it's cold.
Location: I am from 29 Palms, California... but now live in Northeast, Ohio
Posts: 2,107
S/C/G: SW-245.5/CW-209/GW-170
Height: 5'5"
Hey there On-my-weigh ~ I am soooo glad that I didn't upset you I love your little graphic sig!!!
You will definitely get the positive support you want here! I believe in it!! Positive encouragement!! It truly sounds like others are jealous of your success, which does happen quite often in life I am afraid. I have a few friends that are like that myself, you think you can go to them for love and support - not! Misery does love company. And so if you are no longer in that miserable place and are successful - they see that they haven't grown and you have. So they try to bring you back to their place. Hope I made sense! I try very hard to love my friends past that and I feel sorry for them because if they really wanted to they could be in the same place I am --- it is a decision & it takes work and dedication and some just want it handed to them... getting down... all done.
Sounds like you had a nice dinner out! I love Mexican, but it doesn't treat me very well EZ/ Gary (here in CER's) is a big fan of Mexican Food. He is a great guy and I hope that he will come back here soon, so you and the others that are new to this thread will have the chance to get to know him. It's great having a guys perspective He and his wife, Angie, are great people! As are the others on this thread! EZ, WILMA, SAMI, MICHELE & SUE are some of the originals on this thread. I just celebrated one year here this past August.
The vet visit went very well! All are healthy and she says that we are taking wonderful care of them!! Glad you liked the pics
And yo! Guess what time it is!
I think this is the 4th time I have been awake since I first went to sleep just after 22:00hrs! Awake....asleep...awake....asleep....awake! I don't know whether I am coming or going!!
And my smilie link isn't working...perhaps its too darn early for them too be awake he he he!!! But I will put a few in by typing out the entire box so there will be a few..
Sunny the pics of your cats are wonderful. Such great poses especially from the grey stripey one lying on someones (I suspect yours!) bed!!
Time differences are a real challenge from England! I just don't know how you or Australia cope with being at a different time to your neighbours! It must feel well weird! I think I a, 5 hrs in front of New York and that strip of country but thats about as far as I have been able to work out. I did find a very good time-zone map on the web the other day. I shall look back later and see what the net address was...then we will all be as confused as each other!!!
On_my_weigh I am jealous of you eating Mexican! We seem to have lots of international cuisine restaurants here but no one Mexican in sight!! :magnify:We have just had a Tapas Bar opened up and we have the usual plethora of Chinese, Indian (my personal favourite!) a vegetarian and a fish restaurant. I have to admit to knowing all the Chinese and a couple of the Indian! And of course we also have the usual burger bars and fish and chip places...Oh I forgot to mention the Greek and the Italian/French!!!
EZ I hope you have a great time with your daughter...its not usual you hear that daughter is going to give blood with father...usually its money they are after
Mitchpoo I see you mentioned the "s" word! Ummmm winter is coming faster than anyone thinks!! Do you get a lot where you live? I must print off a very large USA map so I can see where everyone lives!
Ok thats it for me for now. Its a bit chilly here in the study sitting in my pj's! Oooops sorry! Too much information!!!
Have a lovely Saturday. God Bless and keep you safe and well....
I'm at work this a.m. Still coughing, but keeping busy. Really would have liked to stay home and sleep. I feel over tired. Going to get some water after work (we have a natural spring nearby), and then i'm going home for a serious nap.
Teel, love your posts. Sorry you were up again. Wish i had something for you to try that could help. I heard that taking valerian can help with sleep. Ever heard of it? Maybe you could find at a natural health foods type place. About the time, Teel, do you mean that there is no time differential in Europe? I never heard of that. I soooo want to go to Europe one day, that's a dream of mine.
Have Alpha tomorrow but no big plans. Thinking of making some soup or chili today. It's still overcast and rainy. No snow yet...but it's chilly. In the 30's this a.m.
Sorry I haven't been around. Welcome to the newbies, glad you are here.
Really really busy plus the doc is messing with my meds and I in general do not feel good and it hurts to be at the computer. Plus when I get like this my mood is in the dumpster too. Will post more when I feel better. Prayers would be good.
Don't know what it is like where you live but it is not bad here at all - definitely fall though - and they are calling for snow on Monday - hopefully they are wrong !!!
Started up my walking again - have been off it for 3 weeks now - truth is just to tired (or could be a bit of laziness striking) - but got in 1/2 mile this morning and have also put on 3,443 steps on my step counter since then. So am moving once again.
Working on making those daily changes in the food - will have to go and get weighed sometime this week and see if there has been a change - don't think there has been - not in the right direction anyway
Dom (son) is still not living at home but hopefully we are going to start making progress for him returning. He is really trying to hold onto 'being the boss' and wanting to come and go as he pleases - but think it might be slowly sinking in that that is just not how it is going to be - and that he needs to get a part time job to help purchase his own clothes (will be 17 in February).
Teel, you asked about how it went with the online teacher for Priscilla. I must say I was pleased with it - she is a lovely lady (seems we have a fair amount in common) and she was able to give some ideas that I had not thought of. We are praying that the grant will come through and with it she wants to purchase a web cam for us so that she can talk to Priscilla on the phone while she sits in from of the computer - that way Priscilla can see her while they talk. And hopefully we will be able to get a complete IQ test done on her as well. But we are some specific goals we are going to be working on for the next month and will see how it goes.
Well hubby and the neighbor are out working on our very old van - drivers window was not working - motor went - so they are taking it apart and putting the window up and fastening it that way until we can get the motor for it. The van is a 1988 so is very old but we need to keep it running as long as possible due to finances - even if for one more year would help greatly. !! Can pray for this!!!
Well, have to run, lots to do around the house - seems the work here never ends.
Thought I'd drop in for a quick lurk before I think about going in the direction of bed for the first time during this night! He he he!
Bunna I am sorry to hear you are not well today and that the medics are messing about with your medication I have to confess I don't know what meds you are on or what they ae meant to be helping but I pray that things settle down very quickly for you..
Prayers coming in your direction from lots of us on this thread I guess! Peace be with you and over you like a river so you can get a good nights sleep.
Mitchypoo it depends on where you are in Europe as to whether you have a time difference. The UK is all one time but if you get over to France or Austria or mainland Europe you start adding an hour here and there!!
Have a good evening, America...England is winding down for bed!!!
Good Friday Morning Everyone!
I do have an idea of what you mean about seeing and knowing what you look like in the mirror verses what others see. When I was 130lbs (quite some time ago 
) Joe's family got after me too --- saying I was anorexic (I wasn't!) and always trying to get me to eat. I was eating fine, just toned and watching calories. I find it much harder to do now that I am older and have some health issues, but do comprehend what you are saying. Here... you can get the support in whatever you choose to do that is healthy and best for you. I wish you only the very best! I thank you for the nice feedback on my home... 
*Hello's* out there to all you other CER's!!! 
Really... Guido & Zeppe are very heavy @ 15 lbs. each and I cannot go alone and they hate going one without the other - so this works best. I just carry our little Domino (only 7 lbs). Then I think we are just going grocery shopping after we bring them home, cuz we cannot meet our friends this Saturday as usual. Then Joe has to go to his chiro. at 4:30 today --- he pulled a muscle in his back at work the other day working on a panwasher in one of the bakeries and now he will be going there for a few treatments. He said he was feeling much better already... just after one treatment. 
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or just get rather damp!!
I was very surprised to hear from my s/w 'cos she doesn't as a rule work Fridays!! 
and only a few of us posting. 
It's kind of a rainy yucky day here also... and chilly. 
all done. 
EZ/ Gary (here in CER's) is a big fan of Mexican Food. He is a great guy and I hope that he will come back here soon, so you and the others that are new to this thread will have the chance to get to know him. It's great having a guys perspective 
