Opps - hit the enter button too soon.

Dagmar - I feel your pain. I'm not hungry either, but I just want to taste something.

Susan - I know what you mean. I always think that changing up the routine, diet, exercise would be nice. But I always seem to go back to the usual. Change is just not an easy thing.

Have a great Friday everyone!

happy weekend to all!

this was a lousy week (or at least 3 days) for me. back on track TOMORROW. not monday. tomorrow.

Iris your weekend WILL be better

OK....horrible week....virtually no exercise and many small dietary "indiscretions" (a piece of chocolate, a cookie or two, and extra piece of pizza). So I'm joining the weekenders group!

This week I taped that motivational speaker on TLC ("I Can Make You Thin" - no you can't! ....but I can make me thin!) and watched him which helped me stop going back into the kitchen to get something bad.

My whole family is headed for London England in two days. DD's high school orchestra is playing at the university in Cambridge next Wednesday! I'm so excited and I'm all wrapped up in getting dh, dd, ds, and dd's bf ready that I let myself slip. That and the NCAA basketball games.....

So Ilene, if falling down is not failure, then I'm picking myself up and praying for while we are overseas.

Is it just me or does Ally (Ali?) get that losing weight consistently is about hard work and discipline, while Kelly is still relying a little bit on the "magic weight loss fairy"?

They both are (literally) working their asses off. From their comments I get the sense that Ally is relying on herself to make and maintain the changes, while Kelly is still surprised at a good number on the scale.

I'm more and more in line with the "Ally" perspective. I can/will do this.

Cripes! I've been warming up and practicing for the body I will have by September for over 40 years. I think I'm good and ready for the reality now.

Dagmar

I have fallen asleep during Mr McKenna two Fridays in a row. I guess I thought he just talked. Does he have folks on there? Maybe I need to stay awake

I could not stand it any longer ... I ambushed my Dr at work today and asked if he could access my ct results and talk to me. Well, he read them just yesterday. I've got some degenerative changes, the arthritis in my si joints but nothing serious, nothing surgical.
I'm happy! I can, at least, move on now. I think I woulda gone nutty if I'd had to wait until the 18th. Now, I can explore suitable exercise and new shoes

YAY for picking yourself up... Have fun in London... I have a niece over there teaching and my brother and SIL just came back and they really enjoyed themselves...

OMG me too ....

Just a question Dagmar, who is Ali and Kelly? Biggest Loser I'm guessing? Or that McKenna guy on TLC?

Susan -- Great news!!

Dagmar...I cant stand Kelly ("I never get a break"). But I worry that Ali (I dont know the spelling either) doesnt have enough left to lose to make it through. I was bummed that she lost 6 last week, I wanted them both to lose just enough to stay in and no more. She is seriously smoking right now, I dont remember how tall she is, but I think she will start to look skeletal if she loses too much more.

OK She is 5'5" (I thought she was taller) and very muscular.

That great news , Susan! Exercise shoes or Fun Shoes?

IMO I think Kelly will probably be a bit embarrassed when she watches the show and realizes that she came off as a whiner.

Biggest Loser - sorry, had it in my title. What is TLC and who is McKenna?

Dagmar (still OP - no cake yet)

just trying to get more cardio out of what I do - eating is working out well but no weight loss
I have a stability ball - maybe I should look into that for more stretching?

I never look at the titles ... I've been watching it too... What I don't understand is that Ali lost MORE weight at home than Kelly lost on the set WITH a trainer... I worry that Ali won't have much to lose either, and she is my favourite...

TLC is a channel ... and this new show on Sunday nights ....
I Can Make You Thin with Paul McKenna It's going to run for 10 weeks, tomorrow night is the 3rd night... I'm not sure about it yet though....

Morning! Yes, I am aware that I'm probably the only one of us working this morning

Trailgroomer? I like my ball. I get tired of it and a few months later drag it back out. It's nice to have (cheap) variety. Do you have an MP3 player?

They're running shoes. I went to the Running Room and a very swish fella helped me.
He looked at my treadwear pattern and apparently, I'm biophysically perfect.
DH said he's been trying to tell me that for years.
And I think they're both full of you-know-what.
Asics Gel Cumulus ... not as expensive as I was thinkin' and common enough that I'll be able to find them on my own. Shock cushioning and I have to get new ones before these get too beaten down. Although, my 7 month old ones weren't as bad (from the outside without cutting them up) as we thought they'd be.

Deb? ... I don't know about heels and I'm worried cuz I've got a bunch and I like them. I've got a pile of questions for my chiropractor.

Best brush my teeth and get my lovely smelling self off to wash the masses ... ew that's a terrible nursing joke.

Susan - I know what you mean. As cute as they are you worry that they can damage. My DD had a real bad knee - I used to make her get approval from her physical therpist on any heels. LOL. He used to laugh seeing her coming in with a shoe box and a hopeful look on her face.

I watched McKenna last show on TIVO yesterday. Hmm. I don't know. He made some valid points about emotional eating and had a accupressure routine to do instead of eating. However, I think what concerned me was that he had a couple of people on the program who kept insisting that it was "EASY". Speaking for myself - weightloss is work - sometime hard work. Willpower is not easy - changing habit is not easy. If someone told me a plan was easy and it wasn't - I think I would assume it didn't work for me and quit.