Good morning and a Bright and early morning! Day Light Savings time, ugh........ I'm tried already.

Cafe, ya beat me this morning, having some puter trouble this morning, and wouldn't you know that after 30 min, I call the help desk and it starts right up while I'm on the phone with them. I know they think I'm a morion! :o

Jello, Cafe, I really feel bad for you guys, more snow! Jello, hope you get to feeling better and SOON. Cafe, how's the bootie this morning?

How was everyone's weekend? I worked Saturday and then it rains all day yesterday, so I should have a good Monday. I was a slug yesterday, I did exercise, but little else. My house is up side down and ironing out the wazoo. (yes I still iron, everything!)

Hey to everyone, gotta run for now.

LOL, SEMO, I think it's okay although wouldn't you know my chair at work is more painful than my soft couch.

Know what you mean about the Help-Less Desk. If they're not making a fool of you, they're utter morons themselves. It's a bad deal all the way around.

Well I have the incentive I needed to begin anew. Today pics of last week's hockey game went around on an email. :fr: OK, it's time. Gotta get used to this daylight savings thing quick and back into my gym routine.

Hello Friends,
No sleep last night and feeling really tired today. First I thought the wind was gonna blow the shingles off the house, then the freezing rain started. It makes a terrible racket on the skylights. Then, DS had a bad dream...there's no sleeping after he crawls in the bed with us. Arms and legs flying. I don't know how the kid doesn't fall out of his own bed! :tired: I am going to bed early tonight! Nobody better get in my way.:devil:

Cafe, nothing like seeing the reality slap dab in the middle of a photo. Take the motivation and run!

We worked on drywall all weekend. I am so ready for this stage of the project to be finished. Painting, that's what I'm looking forward to.

I'm giving serious thought to starting Atkins. This week, it's gonna be planning and getting organized. I still need to pick up a copy of the book. I'm so pathetic, I need an exact list of what I can and cannot eat.:cheese:

Hope everyone is off to a good week and not working too hard!

Good Morning to All. My easy Monday was short lived and back to the real world this morning. Boss was holding a lot of fertilizer tickets, which are now looking at me on my desk!:eek:

Nothing worth wild going on around here, DH has a birthday Thursday. Guess I'll treat him to dinner out and haven't come up with anything to buy him yet. Thinking about a billfold with $ in it. I just bought him a new remote control for the tv, wish I had held it until Thrusday. You know, it's was one for the satelite with all the bells and whistles! He dropped his old one, one to many times and had to tape it together and the volume wouldn't work, he had all the numbers worn off of it too. :D (He holds this thing very close to his heart!):lol: Guess that's really more than you wanted to know about DH. Ha

Ok, so I'm going to get some work done. Bye for now.

Hi!
Semo, my DH can't watch the tv unless the remote is IN HIS HAND. He has to know where it is at all times. men.

I bought Atkins for Life. I'm going to do it. Starting date is Monday April 14th. My initial goal is to do it for 30days...then see how I feel...progress, still have all my hair.:lol: I'll be counting the days with you guys...help keep me accountable. I will also weigh-in and measure Monday. ek!

Silly dog is ringing her bell to go outside. I shall be back later.
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Morning, gals!

Now things are back to normal, with me running a bit later than SEMO.

Tig - sorry to hear bout the lack of sleep. Maybe you can sneak in a little nap today? Speaking of Atkins, I think I'd try anything right now to get a jump start.

Anyone think it would give us a little motivation to post our menus for a couple of days??? Yes, I can hear what you're thinking: we'd have to be OP for that! Exactly, LOL! Comments?

SEMO- Repeat after me, I like to be busy, I like to be busy... :)

Well I have to say that I had a nice salad for lunch yesterday... can't claim to have done quite as well with dinner... but I drank all my water and measured what I ate. I'm easing back into a full-blown plan.

Edited to add, Hey Tig! So you made the jump and got the book! I will be eager to hear the details of how the plan works for you. I'll help you be accountable if you help me!

Edited again to add, BTW I'M the one who likes the remote at my house. LOL!

Poop! I'm reading the intro of my atkins book. I need a different atkins book first...the one with the four-phase program. The one I bought is more about maintaining. I will find the other book tomorrow, even if I have to order it online. *banging head on desk*

Cafe, I'm up for posting my food intake starting Monday.
Anyone else? We could try it for a few weeks, see if it gives us a boost.

off to fix supper...

Well, I left work Monday at 2:30 and drove home in the snow, ice and slush. Four-wheel drive! Yay! Got home around 3 and went to bed. Woke up for homemade chicken soup :T (guess I'll keep that Rich guy around ;) ) and went back to sleep. Got up Tuesday just long enough to call in sick. The heck with them!!! :devil: Spent all day yesterday in my jammies in bed with reruns of old Columbo episodes on TV. Thank God! I couldn't stand Montel and Jenny Jones and Sally Jesse all day long. Yikes!

Ah but today I figured I'd better get back here. Rained all day yesterday. Still raining today. Cold, gray.... Where the heck is spring!?!?!? :mad: But I'm feeling better. I heard that the frenchmen changed their schedule at the last minute and showed up yesterday morning instead of afternoon. So sorry to have missed that. :rolleyes: Wondering if the boss is mad at me today. Probably. Well, the heck with him too. :p He'll be busy with them again today, I hope.

Like I said, spent yesteday in bed. No exercise but not much eating either. I tried to resist the "ah poor sick little me, I should treat myself" attitude. I also tried to remember the plenty of fluids (i.e. water) rule. Not really sure how I did.

Whew. Sorry for once again rambling on about myself. :sorry: I promise to be back later to talk with you guys more. But first, I have to go blow my nose (guess you didn't need to know that) and then dive into this pile of paperwork. There's a desk under here somewhere....

My poor Jello, hope you can kick that cold and be feeling better by the end of the day. Any man that cooks is A OKAY in my book! (How sweet is that!)

Tig, there is an Atkins site that has alot of info about the induction and food listings. I can check the site if you don't find it, but anyway up at the top there are some tabs and one of them list the foods and stuff to get you started.

Cafe, Good Morning. You know I hate keeping a journal, but if everyone and I mean everyone else does it, then I will too. (just a little loop hole for me:) )

Okay, now I'm getting worried about DNW and Quilter. What's going on, What's wrong? You know you can come here and talk aout anything....... can we help with anything? IT CAN'T BE THAT YOU'RE TOO BUSY FOR US!

Huntress, you too, I need you guys! Bump one of the kids off the computer and jump in here.

Bright, did you drag out the winter coat again? I almost hate to complain because we have it better that Jello and Cafe, but It's a cold 37 degrees here and supposed to get colder. Need to cover my peach tree and rose bush tonight.

I'm taking off at noon, going shopping to find DH something for his birthday. I've decided to get the billfold and an ice cream cake. Need to pick up a couple of baby gifts that I'm behind on too.

Talk to you all tomorrow!

Good morning! It's hump day ~ In just a couple more hours, the work week is half over. I would like to elect Huntress to put on a Rockette-style halftime show for us. :devil:

I've been trying to ease into a plan without experiencing withdrawal and feeling deprivation. So I've been measuring, practising STOPPING eating, drinking my water... So so far so good. I went for a walk yesterday, so I'm officially ramping up.

Tig, Hope you find the info you want soon! I know how it feels to be thwarted just when you're excited to find out about something.

Actually, I was just thinking about a couple of days with regards to posting food. Not much of a commitment. I really don't like to journal either, but I do think it would get us thinking! Plus I get ideas when I see what other people eat to feel satisfied and stay in range.

If we try for next week to have a "menu" theme (whatever day(s) you can post it, or not...) that gives us all a couple of days to think about it... I guess if we loved it we could do it every so often and if not... not. Comments?

Jello, sorry about the spring cold! I have been trying so hard not to get one. But hopefully the worst is over. I like Columbo too, especially when you're that tired. :)

Semo... I was wondering the same thing, where is everybody? I think your DH will like the present...

Hey you! Lurking! I caught you. You don't have to get a new user ID to come back! You know who you are. :wave:

I just had to jump in here real quick and post.

The frenchmen came in this morning. They had a new guy with them. :yikes: YOWZA!!!!!! :love:

I'm feeling much better now..... ;)

Hi Sweeties!!!!!!!!!!

Just a note to say I am alive and well....and well I am drowning in office work....the nerve of them!!

Smoochies!! :grouphug:

Huh!? What?! Cafe - you silly girl, you did that on purpose........:lol: I was on the drill team in high school but........

Sorry I haven't been around much lately. No excuses I just haven't felt like posting. Even though we didn't get snow like some of you we did get a little cold snap. Temps in the 30's in the am and my heater decided it doesn't want to work now. I would never have thought it would get this cold here in April. Hopefully this is the end of it.

Jello - Get to feeling better soon.

Tigerlily - Have you checked out the Atkins website? PM me and I will send you the link if you want it. There's lots of info about the program there you might not even have to buy the book.

DNW - Hope you get unburied soon.

SEMO - Hi!

Gotta go for now.

LJ

Good Morning!
Huntress, thanks for the website info. That will help me out. I might still buy the other book if I see it somewhere. I'm a book person.;)

I must admit...I'be been running around kinda willy-nilly this last week knowing I will be starting a new program. :^: I've probably gained a couple pounds. Instead of the "Last Supper", it's been the "Last Banquet".

DNW, I don't think this job is working out for us. Your gonna have to find something else. :shrug: We need our Sarge! Hope you can get unburied soon.

Today, we are having a new front door and stormdoor installed. I am so excited! Doesn't take much to please me. No jewelry, no flowers...give me a household improvement!

:wizard: May Everyone Have A Wonderful Day!

Good morning ladies!

Tig - Last Banquet, :lol: that's exactly what I'm fighting! Why do we do this? I guess if I knew that I'd know a few other things and then I'd be making a million selling my book.

Huntress - somehow I just KNEW you'd be the one to do the dance for us. ;) Are you going to try the Atkins too, then? I forget.

Jello - yowsa, huh? Do you have a digital camera at that office, by any chance?? I think I could use a little yowsa on a Thursday.

DNW - nice to see ya.

Well, I'm wearing a long, plastic-suede type skirt that's pretty snug up around the top- to keep me in line today. Man, it was a difficult day to get going, but I think I'm finally starting to feel really alive.

Opinion poll: what day should I take off work next week, Monday because I would have a 3-day weekend, with the house to myself (DH is in class that day) or Wednesday because I have an event that evening, with DH around?