hey everyone!!!!!!

WELL NOW! you guys posted a friggin whole page today while i was WORKING MY BUTT OFF! hehehe....thats good though!
so you have all welcomed DYAN but do you think shes ready to meet ME??? here it goes!!!

HI DYAN!!!!!!!!!!! welcome welcome welcome!!!!
im only 15...but i hang out here and ya know..stalk people. just kidding. im trying to lose a bunch of weight..not doing very well...only lost 11 pounds so far! but tommorrow is a new day! and.....the journy up a mountain begins one step at a time with a slow pace.......shakespear said that......shakespears great...
so yah...welcome..and well..you better talk to me or ill have to hunt you down. just kidding...i love when people put a message JUST for me though! hehe haw haw....yeah im too hyper right now....freezie rush!


well ive had a terrible day everyone! i ate a sub....then some soup...then half a donut....then i had a sandwich......too much stuff.......oh yah and a freezie

Tonight at work (tiff this section is for you) one of my girlfriends, erin, came to visit me and we talked for a bit, and then later on...my *big bro* marcel...hes just a really cool guy and he calls me his little sister even though were not related at all.....he came and visited me and we talked for awhile......and hes like....all sad and stuff...and i totally love the kid and hes usually the one who has to cheer me up....but tonight i had to try to cheer him up...and it drives me nuts when people are sad and i just want to run up and hug them and make it all go away....especially for marcel becuase he is ALWAYS....there for me! and so yah....and i gave him a big hug before he left and he was like...call me ok and well go out for supper or somthing.....cause hes moving away to go to collage in a month...and im going to be sooo sad!

anywho! JO!!!!!!!! how are ya? we havent chatted for awhile....i kinda miss you!!!! *tear* lol...just kidding..but really! hehe!

Jen, i wish i was as motivated as you are to go work out..im so much like tiff....3 this week, one next...5 the week after! crazy!

wheres huntress been???? HELLO!!! ARE YOU OUT THERE? SOMEWHERE?????

tigerlily!!!! whats up??? just thought id say hi and tell you to have a SUPER DEEEE DOOPER day!

well ladies...im oust! its past my bedtime and i have alot of stuff to think about... have a terriffic day and i hope EVERYONE talks to me tommorrow since i talked to EVERYONE! (sorry if i missed any! i luv you anyways!!!!)

oh and one question?? do i get too far off topic girls??? i mean...you all know how much i love to talk...does that annoy anyone????

have a good one!
luv
kayla

Just wanted to say "HI" to everyone before I go to the airport. Welcome Dyan, I'm the one from Texas, Houston to be exact.

Kayla - I'm still here, things have been crazy the last 2 days and I haven't even been able to get online at work. Did you get to go back to camp? Sounds like you are having fun, well except for the housecleaning and all. Have a good weekend sweetie.

Tiffany - good luck on your new job.

Wish I had time to write you all but I'm still not finished packing. Got on the scale this morning since I won't be here this weekend. Down 2.5 lbs. Have a great weekend all.

LJ
225/197/150

Super Dee Duper? LOL....Um...ok, I'll try Kayla! You are a nut! I don't mind if you get off topic, like I am on topic 1/2 the time!

Hey Kayla, this is for you:

This one time, in my backyard...I met this woman named Jane. I thought she said Plain, and I thought, "How sad for you." Then I thought maybe she said Stain, and I wondered, "How cruel her parents must have been." Then I realized she said Train, and I got all upset cause I thought she was telling me to get on a train and leave, so I cried really hard. And my friend Bob, who used to be a woman, came over and told me that he liked my boyfriend Mike, but only because Mike used to date his mother, and because Mike eats sunflower seeds. ANYWHO....Steve, my cousin's friend's friend's ex-pool boy, came over to see why I was beating Bob with a stick and he tripped and fell in a hole and died so I buried him. Then my dog ate a bug.

I'M JUST TEASING YOU! I can actually follow your posts and get a kick out of them.

Well, I am sitting here eating my blueberry Dannon and psyching myself up to go to work. I haven't worked for a LONG time and I am a little nervous. I can't win. I like being at home taking care of things and having the freedom to come and go when I want and take care of the things that need to be done M-F during business hours...but I guess I get bored and want the money too. But then at work, I feel trapped there and end up looking out the window thinking of all the things I should be doing. Maybe this time will be different. I guess I am a victim of "The grass is always greener" syndrome.

The good thing is I am 5 minutes away from home. I get a 1/2 hour for lunch. (Nothing like driving like a maniac and shoveling in my food and then driving like a maniac back to work!) I don't want to go in there on my first day with my bag of snacks and my frozen dinner. I think I would look like I was moving in, or look like a ******. One or the other. I will give them a chance to INVITE me to bring my stuff, then I will haul my bag of stuff in on Monday, maybe.

Jo...did those yahoos ever call you from the gym? I would be a little hot under the collar. MAYBE if you complain, they will either give you all your money back and STILL let you do the program, or they will give it to you for half off since they suck at getting on the ball. Cooooool.

Ok...well, it's after 7, I am off to shower. Tell ya all about it when I get home. (That's the first thing I do, run in the door, shove the kids aside and hop on the computer. LOL)

Have a great day OP everyone!
Tiffany

Whoa!!! Gasp, gasp!! Whew!! Kayla, I'm exhausted just listening to ya!!!!! Yikes! What ambition! Did I really ever sound like that!?!?! It's been tooooo many years to remember!

No, actually, it's only been about 3 years. A little thing called DIVORCE can make a woman start to flirt and giggle and check out the guys all over again! Yeah, just because I was 30-*cough*-something..... Difference is, at my age, it tends to tire you out a bit more quickly.

Jen, hope you have a great time camping! I haven't been this year and I miss it. Maybe some pretzels when everyone else is eating chips? Maybe some No Pudge brownies? Ever have those? It's a mix and you just add fat free vanilla yogurt and bake them. They are sooo good and very chocolate!! Actually, having a couple of teenage boys grabbing for all the food sounds pretty dangerous anyway. Maybe you should keep your distance from that table! I guess lots of water and lots of walking and do your best is the only (feeble?) advice I can give.

Tiffany, you are so funny! I just love reading your posts! Brightens my day and .... hey, wait a minute! Steve!? The ex-poolboy!? The one who vanished a couple weeks ago!? Yeah, I saw that on Unsolved Mysteries! It was you!?!? Oh, man! I'm calling John Walsh!!!

Anyway, Tiff, good luck on the job!! Oops. Guess I missed you already this morning. Well, I'll be thinking of you. Tell us all about your first day!

I was at the gym last night and saw the guy in charge of the weight loss program who swears that his people tried to call me and left messages on my answering machine twice. I got no messages and I know my machine is working fine. I told him to tell them to call me at work TODAY!!! We'll see about this. It should not be this difficult! *Fume. Fume.*

Well, I got the portable basketball net that I bought for my nephew wrapped last night. 3 rolls of wrapping paper! Then I took the 4th roll and used it to wrap the basketball. Big round gift in colored paper. It looks like a balloon. Pretty funny. So tomorrow, Rich drops me off at the bridal shower (I found a skirt and blouse set in the back of the closet that actually fits!) at 2 then goes home and loads up the b-ball net into the car and makes sure the fruit salad (which I still have to buy the ingredients for and make tonight) is in the cooler and makes sure my bag with my change of clothes are in the car and comes back for me around 4 so we can go up to my sister's for her picnic/party for my nephew and I can change my clothes either in the car or once I get there and then there will be this friend of my sister's who went to school with my brother and they'll come but only if my other friend doesn't come because they don't like each other but this one time at band camp.........

Talk to you all later!

Morning, everybody!

Looks like this thread has been on FIRE! Very fun.

Welcome, Dyan! Always nice to have another new face... Congrats on losing a kid already - you're the bomb!

Kayla - well girly you might get just a *leetle* off-topic, but that's okay because we just skim through the parts we don't want to read! Nah, I'm just giving you a hard time, that's not true. I enjoy your posts, you're a breath of fresh air. I also ADMIRE you for finding a support group outside your peer group to help you accomplish your goal. At 15, that shows me that you are a very smart girl indeed. I don't think I even HAD goals at 15 - and I sure as heck didn't talk to adults about things close to my heart! But don't put down your 11 pounds lost - that's a great start.

Tiffany - I'm glad for you on the "different" new job situation. It sounds like it will be great! And either way, you're working for now - the money will roll in and no strings attached. That's what I loved about temp work - you piss me off, I'm outie!

Jello - Way to resist temptation, girl! Keep up the great work!

Jen - A camping trip sounds super-fun. This is the time of year my family ALWAYS went camping out west for 2 weeks... I liked what Tiffany said about the Creme Savers. You could go shopping and pack yourself a whole BAG of crave-stopping snacks. I personally would include some turkey jerky. It's low fat, will keep your blood sugar more stable than carbo snacks alone, and you chew it for a long time. Have a great trip!!

Huntress - Congrats on the 2.5 lb. loss! Have a great weekend!

Tiger - 12 boxes of butter... Imagine velcroing them to your clothes and wearing them around! You're the bomb. It'll be fun when people notice - but at the same time the fact that they haven't probably means you carried it well (tall) and can't be all bad news. You probably looked better than you thought starting out?

Well, it's weigh-in day for me and in spite of my new-scale-induced-two-day-funk I'm down 1.5 from my new "adjusted" weight. So it's all good, especially since I can be sure of what I'm seeing. This new scale - I get on and off 4 times and it doesn't even vary a tenth of a pound! So I feel good about that.

Still, this is no time to rest on my laurels - the next 5 days or so are critical with TOM coming. I've got to stay psyched, stay tough.

My goal for today is to find time to make some plans for an on-plan weekend. I don't have any events this weekend (which is good for dieting) but I do have some tentative plans lined up...

Thanks for the welcome, Jen519 & Tigerlily.

Tigerlily ~ How was your Tacobell?

Jen519~ Have fun camping. I personally can't handle it. If I go "camping" that means we stay in a 5th wheel, at some site and they have a club house and a pool! , I'm so wimpy. I do feel for you being around all those snacks, and I wish had some advise, but unfortunately I don't. But TRY to be .

I barely got my 2 miles in yesterday , my frickin frackin kids, were acting up. I was thinking about how nice it is to be able to tune them out (they also seem to have this ability when it comes to us! ). I just got to get through today's workout and then I get the weekend off .

I must confess that I am a bonafide "scale slave". I get on that dang blasted thing at least a few times a day. But luckily I only take what it says on Saturday, since that's my official weigh in day. Having said that.....I also have to tell you that I keep my scale in the kitchen! It helps to keep me honest . When I go in the kitchen to get something to snack on I stand on it first, look at that GIGANTIC number and usually will grab something to drink and beat it out of there. NOW mind you, this doen't work EVERY time. Sometimes the devil , shows her ugly head and then I have to explain to myself that the devil made me do it! .

Okay enough rambling, gotta start doing some actual work for a minute.

Wow, so much to catch up on. I think I need to start taking notes!

Dyan, I keep my scale in the kitchen too! One reason is cuz it's a hard surface...weighs me less. I trip over it getting to the frig! When someone comes over, I usually real quick dash it to the bathroom!

Taco Bell was ok. I had 2 chicken soft shell tacos and one hard shell beef. I did the Susan Powter formula on them, the chicken ones were 30%fat, don't want to talk about the beef one.

Today, I'm taking my boys to the mall. I will take Tylenol BEFORE we leave. It's time to start school shopping. Ten year old son is hardest to shop for. He's husky. I keep thinking he's going to stretch up and not be husky anymore...been thinking that for over 3yrs.

Tiff, look forward to hearing about your first day at work. I did temp work for Sprint a few years ago. What a trip. I removed 900calls from phone bills for collection. Ya know, 900 as in pshycic and love lines. You wouldn't believe the $ people rack up calling those things!

Hope eveyone has a GREAT DAY ON PLAN!

Okay, so when I posted a mintue ago, I hadn't read ALL the posts! Can you say duh?

Kayla ~ Thank you for the welcome and congrats on the 11 pounds! We got to start some where right?

Huntress ~ Thanks for the welcome too, you ladies are great! Also congrats on the 2.5 pounds. It's hard work. And when you think about it in "butter" terms, you lost 10 sticks of butter!


Cafe976 ~ Thanks to you too! and congrats on the 6 sticks of butter you lost . What kind of scale did you buy? Mine will give me different numbers just about every time I stand on it. Of course, I want to believe the lowest weight it gives , but I try to keep honest about the whole thing. I'm such a scale hound.

Tiff ~ can't wait to hear about your first day. I've been temping for years. I now work for Manpower as a "regular" employee, but am contracted out. It's a long story.....

Tigerlily ~ That's too funny, tripping over the scale to get to the fridge . I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one that has there scale in the kitchen.

Tomorrow is my weigh in and I'm not sure if I should be happy about it or not. If I go by what the scale said this morning, there was a loss but not as big as I would have liked. I've been working my tail off all week. Drinking my water, staying within my calorie range and of course exercising. I swear it feels like I sweat out at least a pound of day . So we'll see.....

Hi all,
Thanks to everyone for the snack ideas. Now if only I could figure out a way to get borrow a lap top computer and then somehow get online out where I can't even get a cell-phone signal! You all have no idea how much I have come to depend on you for support and inspiration. Even when I don't post, I hop on nearly every day and see how people are doing. Oops! O.K. You got me, I'm an occassional "lurker". I'll definitely post again this evening after work and this weekend until it's time to leave. I'm now really excited about the prospect of keeping my food intake under some level of control. And one very important thing I've learned here, is just because I totally blow it one day, doesn't mean I have to give up. Just start again the next.
I'm taking my journal with me and I'm thinking about keeping a food journal as well. Maybe writing down everything I eat can help me stay accountable. It's worth a try anyway. Well, I do have work to do. Bye for now.

Jen
238/226/140

The mall sucked. My five year old was terrible. I forgot to take the Tylenol before we left. We had McDonalds for lunch and when we got home the front door was wide open...poor a/c just a chug'n away. Hotter than heck in the house. Ftball practice starts in 30min, have to drag my butt back out of the house. At least the truck a/c works! To top it all off, DH has had a long, hard, hot week at work. He wont have the slightest bit of pitty for me.
There was a subway at the mall foodcourt, but the line was a mile long and both my boys wanted McD's. I was in no mood to stand in the line with them...especially if they weren't getting what they wanted.
I may just make a fruit smoothie for supper. What sucks, I still have to cook for everyone else.
Attitude. I think mine is broken.
This one time, at band camp.....ok, that made me feel a little better.

*grabbing Tig and giving her a big hug*

There? All better? Let me get in my rocking chair and you can climb up in my lap and I'll rock you night-night.

Well, the job was fine, kind of tough. It's a place called Roberson Transportation. They deal with a LOT of truck drivers. I had bills of lading, and rate guarantees, and all kinds of other crap that I had no idea what they were. They were short staffed and no one wanted to take the time to explain anything to me. So, I muddled through the best I could and really felt bad for bothering people to ask them what the heck I was doing. LOL...

But since it is only for 4 weeks or 20 days, *woohoo* I think I can tough it out.

Apparently I did well enough that they want to give me more responsibility on Monday.

Eating was good today, I had yogurt this morning and then I had a lean cuisine for lunch and a whole grain cereal bar for snack and then another lean cuisine for dinner. I feel SOOOO bloated today, (my official TOM) but other than that, I feel ok.

Well, I am going to rest now. I'm all stressed out and tired. LOL
Later,
Tiffany

Hi all - just popping in to keep myself honest.

I had a tough day. I'm so darn hungry these past few days! PMS has arrived. I was a bit emotional today too... But that's good because I stood up and said, HEY YOU GUYS, do you want me to do THIS urgent thing, THIS urgent thing, or THAT urgent thing, PICK!! I was nice, but if they want me to take care of time-consuming projects they have to back off on the fact that daily tasks take longer to get done. It's been busy, but busy is good.

So my sister brought my 5 year old nephew downtown to meet me and ride the bus home. (She and her DH are at the movies with friends.) She packed his backpack with Mac & Cheese. 2 boxes, to make sure there would be enough for everyone. I have a big weakness for that creepy orange stuff - yet have not had it since way before the diet. Just won't buy it, know what happens.

But I counted the points before I left work, and actually measured it out to have just up to the end of my daily point allotment's worth. I had to have H put the leftovers in the fridge - I seriously had to leave the room. But I stayed strong.

H took him to the park and I quickly got on the computer to come here to avoid the orange stuff in the fridge. However, I think I'm ready to move my butt across the street to the park now, too.

Every day is a journey - keep sucking down your water or you might not make it up the next hill. (Now that's a PMS parable for ya)

Stay strong, ladies! I'll be cheking in over the weekend - hope you will be too!!

I'm feeling better today after the horrid mall experience. DH had to go into work for a few hours this morning and he took BOTH the boys with him. He takes the oldest son sometimes, and has never taken the youngest before. I'm in the twilight zone here by myself. It's so quiet, listening to the hum of the dishwasher.

Tomorrow is the family reunion. I'm going to make Southwest Chicken salad....it has green pepper, onion, black olives, grilled chicken....overall probably better than fried chicken....which is usaully the main dish.

My dog is ringing her bell to go outside. Guess I'll have to do it since nobody elses is here. Have a great day on plan!

Wow, Tiger, Solitude!

Just what you need after that grueling trip to the mall.

Woke up at 7 this morning - no alarm, feeling good - and made myself breakfast. Was very nice. H got up late & enjoyed the fruits of my labor - nice for him too. Went to my Bible Study group and feeling like I have the whole day at my disposal now...

Looking foward to an on plan day. It's cloudy here today - a little breezy. Great day for a walk outdoors. Scale stayed steady - know I shouldn't hop but I'm looking for 3-4 days of steady now.

~Cafe~

Hey everyone!!!


SO GET THIS! i went into a NORMAL store tonight......and i tried on a NORMAL XL.....and USUALLY i have to wear an XXL and you cant usually find a XXL at NORMAL stores....and guess what?? THE NORMAL XL FIT!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEEEEEEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAAAWWW! so i bought myself a nice blue fox racing hoodie...very hot!

ANYWAYS! i dont have much to say! HOPEFULLY i will get to go up and visit at camp within the next couple days...im hoping for wednesday since tuesday is only the first night of the camp and RYAN wont be there then so...you know....gotta make it wednesday!!!

but yah...im exhausted! gnight yall!!!!


luv
Kayla