Hi PIC's! I'm up with the chickens, waiting for my sister, the "Exercise ****" to come over and work out with me. I'm hoping the knee will hold. It doesn't feel too bad right now. We're probably going to try my new WATP Walk & Kick this morning.

Curly: Good job on "kicking it up a notch." Sounds like you're a woman on a mission. I'm proud of your determination.

Iwmonn: Great job on pushing the water and getting your video walks in. Maybe if you kept moving your KICKS closer to his chair while he smoked, he'd get the "hint"

Angel-eyes: Your trip sounds so relaxing and gorgeous. You should share some photos. It sounds like you had a great time and did VERY well working towards OP. I'm glad you're back.

Okay, it's Monday! Where is everyone else?
Petra, Moonray, ~~Sunshine~~, Looking2Lose, LisaWY, TeaElleBee, Momx3, Deerod, Jackie, Jennie934, Purplerose? C'mon ya'll... answer up. Did I miss anyone? Seriously, did I miss anyone?

Hey Gals,
I finally had a loss!! after about a month of gains. I'm down 2.6! whoo hooo I get to change my tracker in the right direction! thank goodness. The core plan was pretty painless. I did have to cook a lot but hey, its healthier and I didn't have to write and log all of my food.

Curly, I was like you this morning, I didn't want to go for my jog, but I forced my self, I did less than ussuall because I had hit the snooze a few to many times, but at I did it. Pat on the back for both of us.

Hotcup, I'm glad you are back on the excersise track. It always makes me feel better and stay focused. Go easy on that knee though.

iwmonn, I can't believe he smokes while you are working out. How rude! but I bet his friends are saying I can't believe she works out in your smoking room! At least you are doing it, keep it up.

Angel-eyes, your trip sounds great, I'm trying to plan a three day weekend to colorado, I have friends that work at a ski resort, and I love snowboarding! gotta plan it soon.

Purple- welcome to the group. You will get lots of support here. keep posting.

Hey everyone else. I'm starting to get some hunger pains, I can't wait until lunch, I made my favorite comfort food that my dad always made, Ratatouille , yummm and a good, core friendly pumpkin cake for desert double yummm! Fall foods are so good.

talk to you all soon,
Jennie

i actually went down about a 1/2 lb but not enuff to even move my ticker! but hey I'll take it!! lol

PUMPKIN CAKE ... yum

GOOD MORNING!!! The sun is a' shining and all is right with the world!! Gosh, it feels so great to be home and sleep in your own comfy cosy bed. Vacations are great but its always nice to come home!!! Wonders upon wonders, I stepped on the scale this morning and although TOM'S coming.....I lost 4 lbs!!! There I stood, nekkid as a bluejay and actually rubbed my eyes in disbelief!!! ROFL....I should go on vacation more often After breakfast, I packed up the boys and went to the gym. My oldest protested abit since he is at the cut off age of 11, but it was only for 1 hour. I might have dangled the " if you behave we'll check out halloween costumes after the gym" line, BUT IT WORKED! It is hard to be in the babysitting room with all the toddlers and kindergarteners.

Curly......I'm so envious, I've always wanted a gazelle. Have you seen those geico ads with Tony Little? He cracks me up!!! YOU CAN DO IT!!!

Jennie......YOU GO GIRL!!! Both you and curly deserve a great pat on the back for heading off and not more zzzz's!!!

Hotcup.......Hope your workout is a good one and not too hard on your knee. Tell the excercise **** to go easy on you or she'll deal with me!!

purplerose.......where are you girl? gotta keep checking in.....or we'll track you down LOL.....

Petra......How are you? Glad to hear you survived your seminar. Those things always get me, hate public speaking. So what did you decide on to order for your new sofa? We're going to start calling you "POWER PILATES PETRA" soon, good job on making the class.

iwmonn......There's nothing wrong with stopping by the dr.s office and doing a little quickie weighin. Some of us....(not mentioning anyone ......ssshhhh) tend to be a little obsessed with the almighty scale but to each their own. A little loss might keep you on track, but a little gain might make you want to ditch the day. Good luck with whatever you decide to do.

shoot angel it was only 124$ total with shipping and tax and u can have walmart ups it right to your house... they also have a program where u can pay for it in 3 payments

Hi everyone. I was on call this weekend and was in the hospital almost all weekend but I did very good with my eating. As a result, my scale is moving in the right direction again so if I can stick with it for the remainder of the week, I should have a loss to report by Friday. I also got done early enough to go to Pilates again tonight. Two weeks in a row. I did much better this week than last week. We got 10 inches of rain this weekend and had a lot of flooding. Fortunately, my house is not in an area that tends to flood but I had to drive out of my way because of flooded out roads.

I like Power Yoga a lot Turtle- hope you enjoy the tape.

Angel-that sounds like a great vacation. I've never been to Colorado but I hear it is beautiful.

Congrats to the losers. Keep up the good work.

Hello everyone!!
Today was day one on getting serious...I didnt do to good on food but also didnt do to bad.....I walked today for 20 minutes ....Tomorrow is a new day .....This site is so cool...You guys really keep up with each other...Thanks for welcoming me ....I hope eveyone has a great day tomorrow

PR it gets easier everyday... just try to make small changes as u start and day by day u will get there!!! way to go on the walking!!!
soon u will be addicted to walking...

Howdy everyone. It stormed last night. Thunder AND Lightning! It was kind of scary for some reason. I'm glad Pooh Bear was here. I even slept a little late and now I'm short on time this morning. It's back to the work week bleahhh.

I went back to TOPS last night and after all this time, after all this up and down and deprssion and medical "issues", according to their scale I gained less than a pound. It's funny to me, thinking about all the ups and downs that occurred during that time and in the whole scheme of things, it didn't really matter.

I forgot to mention that I also bought an "Exercise Balls for DUMMIES" book. But now I've spent beyond my means and I have to wait for my next paycheck to get my fuel oil tanks filled (dude, that's going to HURT it's so high right now) and some other bills paid. But hey, at least I'll have a "Looking Good Now", an "All You" and a new book to read at work. LOL

And now that I've got my list of PIC's chicks in my food journal notebook, I can check in on you all and see who's missing. In fact, we've got a lot of chicks missing. Where are you?

Hello ladies!! Sorry I have been MIA for awhile but I have been super busy with work and today I am leaving to drive to Ventura so I have 6 hours on the road. I am still doing really well on south beach although this week when I am in Ventura it is going to be difficult. The exercise is going okay not great but I am still trying to do at least 5 days a week. Sometimes I make it sometimes I don't. I am down to a size 16 though.

Hotcup - Good for you going back to TOPS!!

Purplerose - Welcome to the group. As you can see by my ticker I started needing to lose 119 so me and you are right there together.

Petra - I can't wait to hear about your loss on Friday.

Angel - 4 pounds!!!

Jennie - 2 pounds!!!

Curly - You seem to be doing well. So sorry about BF but hey it's his loss!!

iwmonn - Good for you on the water and keeping your snacking under control!

Okay my friends sorry this is so short but I have to go finish packing. I will talk to you again as soon as I can.

Oh and since I won't be around.....

Curly... Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday Dear Curly Happy Brithday to you. Have a great Birthday on Friday.

Hotcup... Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday Dear Hotcup Happy Brithday to you. Have a great Birthday on Sunday.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GIRLS!!!!

Hi Everyone,

I'm off for the weekend!! YAYYYYY- (Tues,Wed for me) and so far so good. I find it so much easier to keep myself on track when I'm at home. I can journal my food so much easier here- and my choices are better too. Also I'm not as likely to lose my water bottle lol. I'm still struggling with that one. I tried yesterday not drinking coffee in the morning so I could concentrate on water BUT by the afternoon I had a huge headache so I won't try that one again. It was too late to get caffine then so I just stuck it out. Didn't feel like doing my video walk, but have promised myself I'll do it twice today Which shouldn't be difficult to do. I really enjoy it.
So anyways, sounds like everyone is doing well, staying on their course and enjoying life!
Nice to see you back posting Momx3
Turtle~ It must have been uplifting to hear you didn't gain like you thought you may have! Deep down I bet you are more in control of yourself than you give yourself credit for!
PurpleRose~ I'm happy to see you posting again! Great job-WooooHOOOO! I'm finding it's so much about the mental attitude and hearing stories and feedback from all these ladies helps me (IMO) Keep Coming Back!

I've got to go to town and check (snail)mail, and go shopping.

Everyone have a WONDERFULLLLL day. To each and every one of you! Thank You for being here

ok.... so I'm back and even tho I said I wasn't gonna, I did stop at the dr to weigh myself... down .5 lb. I can't change my slider but I'm happy with it, a nd now I know my home scale is good too because the first thing I did when I got home was weigh myself again. lol.. I WILL NOT BECOME FIXATED! heheheh, much.
Anyways, back on my journey again with renewed strength!

Happy Days PIC ladies!!!!!

Hey y'all.....since we got back from our trip to Colorado, ds has been
coughing. Not much at first and then some bouts of coughing. I was
giving him cough syrup and that seemed to help. I repeatedly took his
temp and it was normal. Last night wasn't a good one and this morning I
decided to take him to the drs. Turns out he has bronchitis AND an ear
infection with a fever. He has a flair for the dramatic and I really
dismissed the coughing as he had several 'coughing contests' with some
friends to see who could cough the most!!! I feel so bad now that he is
really sick!!! That'll teach me!! lol,,....UGH!!!

iwmonn.....YOOHOO!!! I knew you'd check in with the dr....hey? what ever works.

mom.....You've probably left by now but have a WONDERFUL TRIP!!! It certainly does a person good to physically leave and take a trip and more good to return home. I swear, my bed is so nice at bedtime. LOL

Mom spilled the beans alright.....looks like we've got some bday girls this week!!!! gonna par-tay!!!

Who's MIA?.....come out come out.... where ever you are?
Just drop a little line and let us know you're okay. OKAY?

I'm at work and bored out of my gourd. I ate some 94% ff kettle corn and now I'm having some 99% ff lentil soup. But the sodium in those two foods alone is probably through the roof. I didn't take enough time to plan my meals out well today. And grocery shopping will have to wait until I get paid in four days. That IS if there's any money left after fuel oil and vet bills.

I hope you're all doing well.

Iwmonn: Great job on poundage loss, whether it moves your ticker or not. Loss is loss. You go girl.

Momx3: Great to hear from you again. I've missed you. Thanks for the B-day wishes.

Purplerose: Great JOB GIRL!

Petra: Glad to see your scale finally obeying you, great job. And I'm even more glad that you were just busy and not upset about my "doctor rant". Congratulation on poundage lost.


Angel-eyes: Great job on your poundage lost too

Moonray,~~Sunshine~~, Looking2Lose, Curlylocks, Jennie934, LisaWY, TeaElleBee, Deerod, and Jackie... Miss you... come back, post.

Can anyone please tell me if I've missed anyone? I want to make sure I have a complete list of ALL of us.

ive been having a day.. i had to take chai to the vet for his shots.. last time i gave him teh cats sedative and had to cancel.. this time i gave him the meds and the car is dead..... i borrow my dadds car.. take chai to the vet and 25 mg wasnt enuff... they still couldnt get a muzzle on him or give him his shots... so re-scheduled again!