just a quick drive by in the middle of the insanity i'm currently calling life. still wanting my virtual trap door to temporarily escape reality for a while... been relying on netflix for that. haven't been tracking food or exercise for a week now and it's horrible, but i'll get back to it on tuesday. tomorrow hubby and i celebrate our first anniversary we're going to myrtle beach for the day!

hope you all have a good one!

I tore a muscle in my back yesterday. This is about the 5th time for that same muscle area. You think I'd learn by now. So I won't get much done this weekend and have been using ice or a heating pad.

My back is improving but its frustrating because I have stuff to do and can't do it.

Hello ladies,

Mandy - I hope things get better for you soon. Happy 1st Anniversary and I hope you have a wonderful day at Myrtle Beach.

Penguin - I hope your back continues to improve.

I've been doing good today. Yesterday I went to the 2nd cookout of the weekend and I did okay. I had a little too much wine but my eating was okay. I stayed away from the sweets and made pretty good choices.

I was planning to go walk after work but it's raining now so I may have to do a DVD when I get home.

Today's Journal

B: Breakstone 100 Cal Cottage Cheese/Fruit, coffee w/1/2 C skim milk
L: Healthy Choice Cafe Steamer, Yoplait Pudding Parfait
S: light yogurt, 4 pcs hard candy, orange, peanuts
D: Turkey breast on sandwich round w/baby greens & sl cheese, 3 WW snack bars
Exercise - None

Good morning,

Where's everyone? I miss reading your posts. I hope you all are doing okay and just busy

I'm hanging in there. I haven't lost anything in about a week so so I need to start counting my Points again to be sure I'm not going over. I did have some peanuts last night and I'm sure I had way too many.

I hope you all have a great day

Today's Journal

B: Honeydew melon & pineapple (0) coffee (0) skim milk (2)
L: Salad greens (0) feta (1) dressing (3) crackers (4) Chicken breast (2)
S: WW crisps (2)
D: McD Grilled ckn Snack Wrap (7) Cherry Berry Chiller (5)
Exercise - 2 short walks at work - Going to hair salon after work

Sorry for being away for so long! Busy weekend ending in illness, sick yesterday (out of work), feeling weird today but ok.
In my illness I didn't track but I definitely was not eating enough calories.
Cycle started today...will get back to tracking tomorrow. Early bed now...still recovering.

My back is much better. I'm not sure if I didn't hurt it as badly as I thought or with all the practice I'm just getting much better at helping it heal itself.

Hubby took yesterday off to surprise me, he had apparently planned this before I hurt my back, but it was good timing. He discovered he has more time-off than he thought so he's trying to put some if it to good use. We hung out on the swing for a few hours enjoying the nice weather while we still have it. {I knitted baby hats and bootie sets to give to the knitting group at church, to keep my hands busy}. Weather says its going to be in the mid 90's for the rest of the week, yuck!

I was supposed to weigh-in today but took my vits with a lot of water before I remembered. Try again tomorrow. I feel like I've gained but hopefully its just in my mind.

Hey ladies. I hope you're all doing great!

In the recent past I've popped in here a few times to tell you all I'm back and ready to get going again, I confess, I obviously wasn't ready to get going again. =)

Things have been a bit crazy. I went a bit crazy. I think after 10 months of being without my husband I decided I just wanted to enjoy myself for a while. I did. We were eating out a lot and I was making some of his favorite meals and desserts for him. I think I told myself I deserved to enjoy it all a bit since I didn't get to for so long.

It definitely did it's damage. Over the last few months I've put on about 12lbs. =P I decided it's definitely time to get back on track and start going in the right direction again. I told myself I would never let myself get over 200lbs again and it feels horrible that I couldn't keep that promise to myself.

Hopefully I'll be back under soon and I'll be able to stay there for good.

As far as my personal live, things have been good. I definitely don't love Alaska, but I've just been happy to have my family together again. We found out my husband might be deploying Mid June though. =( If he has to go then he has to go, but it's definitely too soon for me. Hopefully it doesn't work out.

So I'm back, and I need to really get back in the habit of checking in on here everyday again. I always do so much better when I'm on here.

My goal for the rest of May is just to get back on plan completely and stay there, as well as working out 5 days a week.

I hope you have all been doing great with your plans!

Hello ladies,

Sorry I'm late checking but it's been a very busy day at work. In fact I'm still here.

Tavvy - I hope you're feeling better today.

Penguin - Sending you skinny vibes for your weigh in tomorrow and hopefully you haven't gained anything.

Kim - It's so nice to hear that you are settled in Alaskawith your family and I sure hope your DH doesn't have to leave next month. I'm sure that you will get those 12 pounds off pretty quick once you put your mind to it. You always do a great job with losing.

I've had an OP day. Eating was extremely good. I just need to stay on point when I get home. I am going to try and get in a short workout when I get home.

I hope everyone else is having a great day.

AHHHH I didn't track today either...Seriously though, tomorrow I will.
I have been a little (read as A LOT) absent minded thanks to antihistamines...meh.

I do have good news though...(brace yourselves)...My underpants are too big My pants have been baggy, i have been ignoring it since I am NOT going to rush out and buy new clothes every month or so...but today I realized that my panties were too baggy and not staying up as they should! Sounds kinda lame now that I typed it but o well...I'm still excited!

And my boss said it was obvious that I am losing size...though I haven't lost much weight at all. Anyhow, thought I would share!

Going to Carowinds Saturday. Already planned what I will be packing in the cooler for my meals...I'm really competitive and want to win the 5 lb challenge I'm a part of on here. My period might mess that up but I'm at least gonna do my very best!

Anyhow...personals tomorrow, sorry ladies!

My weigh-in this morning wasn't good. I'm only up a lb since last week but overall I've gained back 5 lbs since my recent low. That's half of what I had lost this past winter.

Did somebody say 'wake up call'?

Hello ladies,

Tavvy - How exciting that you're shrinking and people are noticing it. Hopefully, your head will clear from the antihistamines soon. Are you tracking today?

Penguin - I'm sorry to hear that the scale is going up but at least you're nipping it before it goes up any more. It is so easy to gain and so hard to lose. I have this next week is a great one for you.

My Journal

B: Coffee w/1/2 C skim milk (2pts)
L: Taco salad (14pts)
S: 2 pcs dark choc (3pts)
D: Fruit salad (0)

Sure did track today

Calories: 1732
Fat: 62%
Carbs: 21%
Protein: 17%
Exercise: None...was up at 2am with severe cramps and didn't get up at 5 for my workout

Overall it was ok!

Penguin: better to get the wakeup call at 5lbs than at 20! I know you can turn it around

Gettin: Your doing a great job staying OP this month! I hope you make (or exceed) your goals, you SO deserve it!

Evening ladies, with the time difference I'm probably going to end up posting now after you've all gone to bed. =)

Things are going well so far. I've gotten my full workout in 3 days in a row now. I'm doing a strength circuit in the morning and an hour of cardio in the evening. I'm trying to build my endurance back up again so I can hang with my husband on the treadmill at the gym. I can't wait till the day that we start at the same time, I actually keep pace with him and he has to stop before I do. =) So going to make that happen.

I'm trying a different approach with my eating this time. I've always enjoyed being able to share a nice dinner with my family so I am, which means I'm just keeping breakfast and lunch small and saving the bulk of my calorie intake for my evening meal. I was never much of a breakfast person anyway so the only real adjustment is downsizing my lunch some. So far it's working out well.

Penguin~ I know how you're feeling. You keep sticking it out and work for it so hopefully if you need a wake up call, you got one. Good luck getting back on track!

Tavvy~ It is so fun needing new undies! Especially since I can buy really cute ones now.

It's a 4 day weekend for us so hopefully with him being home bumming around Friday and Monday it doesn't make me want to slack.

Hope you all have a great day tomorrow!

Looks like everything's going great with you guys!
Keep up the good work (:

Yesterday I ate too much (again, I know, very stupid of me.. about 2700 calories), but today up to now I've eaten 200 calories.. I am going to have some dinner, about 400 calories I think.. I know that's bad to cut off so many calories, but I just know myself, if I won't 'punish' myself today for eating badly the other day, I'll feel bad and binge again.

But tomorrow I'm getting back on track to eating 1200-1300 calories (: