Good Morning Everyone, Well last night I was very restless, because it was just so darn hot! Yesterday it got up to 95F, today it's supposed to be 100F, and tomorrow 102F. I do not do good with anything above 80F, so I'm not getting my exercise in again. Today I have to go pick my DH up because he has been out of town since Wednesday for a union conference, since he's the Union President. Tomorrow we're going to go out and do something for the day.

SHAWN... Believe me girlie, I know exactly what you're going through with falling off the wagon big time! I've been there several times, and this past week was also one of those times. Just restart over and you will start to feel better, and know that we're all here for you no matter what!

RYANMI... CONGRATS on the 2.2 pounds down!!! That's great!!! Thank you for your very kind words. I know this is a very hard trying time, but I hope things get much better soon. My mom called me last night, and for the past couple of times calling me, she has actually been more calm and sounded like her old self again. I'm going to also be making a trip to Target on my way down to pick my DH up. I bough my DD a cd player yesterday, and it's faulty so I need to return it.

LINDA... There are so many people everywhere that are talking about the storms hitting right now. I just wish we could have our weather back from just a couple days ago, because I'm with you on not liking the heat and humidity!

ERIN... That's so great that you got new furniture. I wish we could get a smaller reclinder loveseat that is much smaller than our huge couch we have right now. It takes up so much room! Thank you for your kind caring words, and I'm happy I can always come here and know everyone is here for me!

LOUIE... I also did house cleaning yesterday, so today I'm going to just try to stay cool. Thank you so much for your kind words, because they do mean a lot to me! I still don't understand why people on that other site had to be to harsh and critical with me, but that's okay, because obviously they have a problem.

Hi everybody . . .

SHAWN . . . so glad to see you back, kiddo. Don't beat yourself up; we all fall off the wagon once in a while. Heh, stuff happens. This is a very long and bumpy road. You've already taken the most important step by picking yourself up and getting back on track.

RYANMI . . . YAY!!! Wonderful that you are seeing such a great loss so soon. Keep it up, girl.

ERIN . . . Glad you are having so much fun admiring the new furniture. Yep, I've had grandma beads but certainly not from gardening. I'm allergic to insect venom and gardening is not one of my hobbies. Don't forget to eat, girl.

LOUIE . . . It's still stormy down east, too. Heh, where's Tina? I think it might be drier in the middle. Enjoy your day of relaxation. You'll be back to work soon enough.

MICHELLE . . . Sorry to hear about your temperatures . . . at least it is a lot cooler than that here. Glad your Mother is feeling better and you just forget about those other so-called cyber friends. Makes you wonder what happened to their compassion, doesn't it?

Not too much new around here. Weather is still yucky but I'm still managing to avoid the migraine by taking numerous small naps. The weather is supposed to stay like this until at least Wednesday, unfortunately, and I am getting tired of it.

Anyway, gang, here's a dose of to help us all keep moving and shaking in the great downward direction. See you soon.

I actually lost 3 pounds. I can't believe it. I just made small changes this week like upping the water and cutting some (not even all) of the snacks and I drop three pounds. I'm very happy.

YAY, Tracey . . . WAY TO GO, GIRL. Keep up the good stuff. Whoopee!

Hey ladies, sorry I haven't a chance to check in all weekend. It's busy quite busy and quite hot around here. I've been keeping busy and cool by either at the splash park with my daughter or shopping in the malls/stores. Then I got started at moving my furniture around in my bedroom (thanks Erin! LOL) and cleaning floor to ceiling, washing my blinds 4 sets and window coverings..everything!! Feels so good to have it done. I'll be back tomorrow to catch up with you all! See you then!

~Tina

TRACEY... CONGRATS on the 3 pound loss! That's GREAT!!!

LINDA... Yah, it's amazing how inconsiderate and cruel people can be. I went back to read a thread where someone had asked me how I was doing, and another lady plopped her post in and gave me her opinion. She told me that I have full control over my situation, should put myself first, and that two weeks ago it was very hot for her too, but that she just still did her exercise and got through it. She said that you can do anything to set your mind to, and did I need her to throw some ice at me, but what she's not thinking about is that she's already 72 pounds less than me to begin with, so maybe she can handle the heat a little better than me. Maybe I'm just taking things a little more personal right now, but I really think that her comments were cruel and rude, and I won't post there again.

TINA... You have been a very busy girlie, but hoping you will be able to stop and make a visit here with us tomorrow!

Evening Ladies...Sorry I was MIA yesterday, just under a lot of stress and in a rotten mood. I pretty much stayed cooped up in my sewing rooom with the door locked, music on and sewed on my quilt. Fairy Fat mother paid me a visit this morning, I'm down 1.2lbs.

Louie...What a nice surprise for you at work, flowers and dinner. Bet that put a smile on your face.

Michelle...My heart goes out to you. Don't feel guilty, just know that your Mom will get the care she needs and it should give you some peace of mind and maybe a little less stress. I don't blame you for not exercising in the heat. I don't handle heat well either. You can exercise your arms though, sit in front of the air conditioner, reach for a nice glass of ice tea and bring up to your mouth. Repeat as often as necessary!

Linda...Hope your migrain is gone and the weather is sunny. We had terrible storms on Friday, with tornados only 10 miles away.

Shawn...Don't you dare feel guilty. We all have slipped, and will probably slip again. You are here, and it shows that you are committed. Go back to page 12 and read the positive things that we should say to ourselves each day. It's what I learned at last weeks WW meeting.

Ryanmi...WHOOHOO!!! Isn't the fairy fat mother nice. Great job girl!!

Erin...Can't wait to see the pics of your new furniture.

Tracey...Congrats on the fairy fat mother visiting you as well. 3 pounds is awesome, girl! Small changes will do the trick.

Tina,Tina, Tina....I have lots of windows you can clean and cobwebs that have house guests. As they say on The Price Is Right, come on Down.

Well ladies, I can hardly keep my eyes open and have to get up early to take FD to volleyball camp. Have a good evening and I'll see you tomorrow.

Cheryl

Good morning Ladies!!! Hope this monday finds you feeling good and enjoying life!!! I have a busy week ahead of me but am looking forward to tackling it with energy i am going to have to find somewhere!! Ya'll got any you can float my way!!! Whew! Good weekend but still so much to do! Glad to say though ticker is down another 3 pounds. Was actualy 4 yesterday but was up a little this morning so recorded that. I can tell in clothing that things are changing everywhere but in my waist. I have a particular style of shorts I am kind of using as my success meter and the rest of them have gotten much looser but the waist is still very tight and they are 26 where i have gotten into some 24 shirts and pants??? Very frustrating, guess i need to get back to WATP for abds and hit it pretty hard if i want that to change. Have to admit I am getting kind of weirded out. The lowest I have been in about 5-6 years has been 247 and that is just 10 pounds away. I am a pro at self sabotage and have been fearing hitting that point and actually being successful at this whole weight loss thing. Which by no means is that at my ultimate goal, but I guess i never really thought that goal was attainable so i didn't really see myself getting there. Now I am beginning to think that may be possible and that really freaks me out!!!! I don't know how to function as a smaller person! Okay really weird I know just ignore me and go on!!!

Ryanmi - YEAHHHH!!! wow that is just great! I am excited for you! Just think the longer you are off the steroids the more you can get off. You are doing great! You must have been posting same time as me yesterday cause i didn't see yours until this morning. Just wanted you to know i was not ignoring you yesterday! So what did you get at Target?

Louie - I am more relaxed just reading your post you sound so calm and I am so frazzled!!! Have a friend from New Orleans that may be coming by with her 4 kids later today, lots of cleaning still to do and hove to do some of that work that earns me money too! Lots of little projects before I leave for PA too. I will suck off some of your calm and use it to get me through the day!

Michelle - I feel your pain, our 100 degree days were last week we have cooled off to the upper 80's low 90's at present and that has seeme to help my feelings a little. I agree 80 is my limit for sure, i really like 70 with a cool breeze if i want to do anything while i am outside. Hope you have a good time together with hubby today! Glad to hear your conversations with Mom have been a little calmer!

Linda - Sorry to hear you are still having bad weather. We seemed to miss all the showers yesterday somehow. That was supposed to be our day of highest chances too. Oh well. All my missing of meals due to being too busy caught up with me yesterday, I could have eaten the house!!!! I did have a Di Giorno frozen pizza with wheat crust. It was pretty good, still a lot more fat and calories than i would like but at least it wasn't regular which would have been worse on the blood sugar. By the way thanks for the explaination on the elevate blood sugar a few posts ago. That really made sense and helped explain a lot!

Tracey - YEAHHHHH!!!! WOOO HOOO!!!!!! Three pounds is fantastic!!! I am so glad for you. Seems like whenever you fall of the wagon just subtle changes can have a huge effect and that gets you motivated to keep going. I know you are going to do this just keep at it one step at a time!!!

Tina - so are you as sore as I am from cleaning and moving??? I do love that feeling of having it all done though.

Cheryl - WOO HOOO YEAH!!!!! Fairy fat mother has really been making her rounds this weekend! Glad to see she stopped by your house too! Sorry to hear about the bad mood though. Sounds like you were very productive with it though and yeah on not eating your way through it! Glad to hear the tornadoes missed you!! I am always paranoid about them. Knock on wood, since i have been in my current house we have missed all major weather out breaks! Hope you have a better day today!

Well girls gotta run, the day is already getting away from me and it is only 7:05!! Hope ya'll have a great day and do what works for you!

Good morning, ladies! Gosh, I feel like I haven't checked in ages. We had a busy weekend, though, and I just never got around to it. My stepkids are spending their 2 summer weeks with their mom and my kids are spending their 6 summer weeks with their dad so DH and I had the weekend all to ourselves! It was great. What that led to, though, was being out a whole lot, so eating out several times, and while my choices weren't as bad as they used to be, they still weren't great. The scales were up this morning and that leads me to my next question. Since I haven't been paying close attention to my weight I don't have this answer for myself. I'm about 4-5 days from my time of the month. I've noticed that my chest is starting to get that heavy, slightly tender feeling. Do you all actually show a weight gain right before you start....or is it just a failure to drop any weight? Or does it not affect you at all. I don't want to just write off some of the eating I did this weekend....(like yesterday I made brownies...with Splenda...but instead of 1 I had 3...DARN IT!)....but I'm wondering if the slight upwards movement on the scale could have more to do with my time of the month that with my eating.... Is that just hopeful thinking???? haha Anyway, I know that everyone is different but I would just like to know how it affects your weight. I'm going to now wait to move my ticker until I'm finished just to be certain.

I'm getting ready to head out of town for a few days and may not check in. I'll be at my dad's house so I'll have the capability if I find some time. So if I don't, talk to you guys on Friday....Have a great week!!!!

I think that's one for each of you!!!!

Tricia

Good morning girls. Once again I couldn’t seem to find the time to get on the computer over the weekend. Maybe one of these days I will figure out how to fit in some down time into my weekends. I appreciate all of the congrats for the 1 pound I was down on Friday but now everyone can take their congrats back. It didn’t stay down. I am back to 237 so good thing I didn’t move the ticker. Gonna try to fit in some quick personals before I gotta clock in, if I miss you please do not be offended.

Tracy – Congrats on the 3 pounds. WOW that is a big loss. You can do this just remember to keep coming here and posting.

Louie – I bet you feel better now testing is over. I will keep my fingers crossed for you to get excellent marks.

Michelle - I can’t ever figure out why people have to be rude to others when they are already feeling down. We are here for you and will listen to your worries about your mom, we may not have advice that really helps but know we care.

Shawn – My advice that I seem to give to anyone that falls off and disappears for a bit. No matter how you are doing just do not stop posting. I would have fell off the wagon a long time ago if I had not kept posting. Anytime I am down these ladies bring me back up. It doesn’t matter if I go on and on about how I feel they listen and then give me a good kick in the rear. We are here for you tell us about your ups and downs.

Ryanmi – YAY for you on the 2.2 pounds, you deserve a good loss. I know it has been rough on you with the steroids. Keep going.

Erin – New furniture seems to perk up the whole house. It even makes the clutter seem not so bad to me. We got new Living Room furniture in January and wow it made the house look so much better. I can’t wait to see pics. Congrats on the 3 pounds. I know if feels great.

Linda- please sprinkle a little extra dust my way I think I might be in a tough spot. I have slacked off on my water intake and also on keeping close count on the calories. I need to get myself back in gear.

Tina – Sounds like you had a busy weekend, I did too. Now I am jealous of your clean house, I can never find enough time to really get mine clean.

Cheryl – Hope the visit from the FFM helped put you in a better mood. Did you get lots done on the quilt? Congrats on the 1.2.

Tricia – Must be nice to have a house all to yourselves, I fear I will not know that feeling for about another 14 years. LOL On the TOM question, I always show about a 1 pound gain right before.

Well girls got to get to work

Good Morning Ladies

Today marks the beginning of my week of holidays before I go back to work...oh what will I do ?!?!? Hubby and I are leaving tomorrow morning to head up island for an evening and do some golfing, other then that I will probably just relax. I also pulled out some tole painting projects that I was working on last time I had a break from school and so I will endeavor to get those finished.

Michelle ~ hope you were able to relax and stay cool yesterday. It was a hot one here as well, but the fan in the bedroom helped me at least get a good nights sleep. Enjoy your monday

Meowee ~ not sure what I was thinking when I posted yesterday.. obviously I wasn't !! I meant to type out east and typed out west.. DOH !! We have actually been having very warm weather.. no storms for us. Glad to hear that you have been able to ward off those migraines !!

Tracey~ yahoooo 3 lbs is awesome. You should be very proud of yourself for making some changes and sticking with them.

Tina ~ another busy weekend for you. Sounds like we are having similar weather, although I am sure that it is warmer there. We at least get abit of the ocean breeze here.

Cheryl ~ sorry to hear about your bad mood, but it gave you a day to yourself to work on your quilt. How is it going, you must be close to done? Congratulation on your FFM visit..whoohooo !!!

Erin ~ yahooooey 3 lbs kicked to curb.. well done !!! It is funny that you should say that my posts are calming. That is actually one of my stronger personality traits that seems to really work for me in both my personal and work life.. so I am glad that it comes through in my posts

Tricia ~ sounds like you had a wonderful weekend with hubby. It is nice to get the chance to just spend time together. Hubby and I don't have kids, but even for us it is hard to find those times to just spend together.. so kudos to you !! I wouldn't worry too much about a slight gain due to TOM... I know that the scale generally shows a gain for me then. Enjoy your week away

Robbin ~ ahh the dreaded scale demon got ya... down 1 up 1. Not to worry you will get him back !! Did we ever decide on a group challenge ??

Shawn, Ryanmi and Liza ~ hope that you are treating yourselves well and had an enjoyable weekend

Well gals the coffee is calling my name, so I am off to endulge. Ciao

Morning everybody . . . it's STILL raining.

The work project is on hold for a few days again . . . but that probably just means that July will be a terror of activity. Also, I made the mistake of getting on the scale this morning instead of waiting until wwi (Wednesday weigh-in) and it says I've gained 3.6 pounds in 5 days. Obviously that is impossible since I have been good with the eating so it must be www (weird water weight) from too much salt or something. Just hope it's gone again by Wednesday. Anyway, just to let you know this is not shaping up to be one of my better days.

TINA . . . Wow, you are a lean, mean, cleaning machine, girl. If you run out of things to clean, just let me know.

MICHELLE . . . It's hard not to take things like that personally but sometimes things do seem to come out differently when they are printed than the way they are really meant. Hopefully she really didn't mean to be cruel to you.

CHERYL . . . Sorry you were having a bad day, but CONGRATULATIONS on the F-F-M visit, and at least you put your bad mood to constructive use.

ERIN . . . CONGRATULATIONS on your loss, too. Know exactly what you mean about the self-sabotage. We all seem to practice that from time to time. Hopefully we can all get through it together.

TRICIA . . . Tickers are not meant to go to the left . . . at least not unless you are absolutely positive it is for real. So many things can make us retain water . . . TOM (even at my age) . . . a little extra salt . . . hot, humid weather . . . too little water intake. My guess is that you can expect it to disappear again just as mysteriously as it arrived.

ROBBIN . . . You've probably just got a little www, too., but here's your private dose of dust, just to be sure.

Some interesting stats for today's FFF . . .

In one year, the average person consumes . . . 100 pounds of refined sugar . . . 55 pounds of fats and oils . . . 300 cans of soft drinks . . . 200 sticks of gum . . . 18 pounds of candy . . . 5 pounds of potato chips . . . 7 pounds of popcorn . . . 63 dozen doughnuts . . . 50 pounds of cakes and cookies . . . 20 gallons of ice cream.

Have a good day, gang. Keep moving and shaking and moving in the great downward direction. Stay cool and I'll see you soon. Here's some for the rest of us.

Sorry, LOUIE Looks like you were posting while I was digging for FFF's. Glad to hear your weather is better than I thought it was. Have a good week of doing as little as possible. You deserve it.

Welcome Back LOIS We have missed you. Glad you finally got things straightened out with the computer vendor. Congratulations on selling the house. So sorry about the trouble in the workplace for your hubby. Stuff like that can be really hard to shake. The move will be good therapy for both of you. Not much time to think about the sad stuff. Rest assured everybody around here will be happy for as much time as you can spare us. See you soon, girl.