Good morning everyone.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend.
Hippy have you started back on the SBD? Thats great that you and your husband will do it together. Will he go for walks with you also? I have been trying to get mine to walk with me but so far no luck. I can get him to go on the odd bike ride though. The kids will usually walk with me if we take the dogs.

I'm going to check out that sb because if it gives you energy and makes you feel great it would be worth it even if I don't lose any weight.
So it would just be a matter of willpower to stay away from the foods that you can't eat. I am laughing at myself as I really have no willpower.

Bought a new colt this weekend. Haven't decided if this is my reward for losing weight, or if it will be Kristi's for Christmas. He is only 4 months old so it will be a while before anyone rides him.

Hi to Jolly, Raven, Chach, Tracy.

Kathy

Good morning all. Raven, I love the pictures. YOu will have to take another of you and your baby. Did you ride? How was your weekend? Lucky, what kind of colt did you buy? Working with youngsters is so fun. My dogs are both springer spaniels. Justin and Mayhem. Hippee, the scrapbooking class sounds cool. I have so many pictures, and they just sit in boxes.

I have to run. Monday looks to be crazy already. Talk later.

Good Morning!

Lucky, I promise if you can control yourself for the first 2 weeks you will be amazed. You will lose weight, you will have energy and you will feel so much better! The first phase is very strict but after that you pretty much just eat healthy. The book is worth reading. It tells how your body processes sugars and so on. Also tells how eating from the plan fixes blood sugar and helps with your heart and high cholesterol. I have no willpower either but the changes in the way I felt were so dramatic I didn't have any trouble sticking to it. We are starting today. Gary won't walk with me only because he has no time. He works 3rd shift at his regular job, sleeps during the day and has a second job that he works on Friday and Saturday and sometimes through the week. His 3rd shift is odd, he goes in anywhere from 5 till 9 and gets home anywhere from 3 till 8 in the morning.

SAcrapbooking class was so much fun. I only had 4 people here and had almost a $700.00 party. I couldn't believe how crazy they went on buying that stuff! I got $70.00 in free stuff!! WOOHOO!!

Hi girls, wish I could post more but I'm way over my head on the stupid class work and I can't seem to win the lottery so I can abandon this all for the life I truly deserve

Diet and exercise have gone to the wayside, I might as well just apply for the open blimp position in the Macy's parade next month.

Hippy I was in the craft store last weekend. Saw the huge aisle of scrapbooking stuff. I was sooooo tempted to pick up some things, but held back as I have about $500 in abandoned projects in the basement I feel guilty about. But I could easily understand how a party could generate alot of interest and spending. You'll have to give us tips on getting through the first 2 weeks of SBD.

Lucky, congrats on the new colt. Sounds cool, where's the pictures??? Oh that's right, we have to tell you how to post them, don't we. Toughest part is getting them resized to the restrictions they have here at 3FC.

Raven, OMG, I am sooooo jealous of that beautiful head of hair on your daughter. Especially since mine is long too and I'm getting it cut off Thursday. It's just too frail and being long is stressing it out more and I'm getting scared of how much I'm finding on my brush. Hard to tell from the blurry pic but I pictured you as being really tall. Of course, seeing you next to a horse, that's also hard to judge since horses are pretty tall themselves. How many hands are you

Jolly, great mental picture of the puppy doing the vulture thing.

Chachee hope you are getting yourself back to day shift mode.

Gotta run now, take care and grab some me time.

Good Morning to all of you great people!!!!

I spent the day yesterday cleaning veggies, making salads and homemade chicken salad. I have a great recipe for a fat free veggie salad and I was shocked that I like it being the veggie hater that I am!! I also had to make a great big batch of no bake cookies for Jordan's class trip today, it was rough!!! I love those things but made it threw without eating what was left stuck to the sides of the pan!!!!

Happy, the most I can tell you is getting through the first 2 weeks isn't so bad. I set my mind to it and was so amazed at how much better I felt and how I didn't crave foods that I just kept going. I wish I hadn't stopped doing it but that's okay. I'm back on the program and am looking forward to feeling great and losing weight. If you decide to try it I will help in anyway that I can.

Tracy, Jolly, Raven, Chach....Are yu all still with us? Doing okay?

Hellooooooo...............Is everyone okay? I think I might get depressed if I stop and think that I am the only one that has time to post! AAAHHHHHH!!!! Is my life really so boring!? I won't be saying that in a few weeks when basketball season starts and then it will be off to academic meets.

I have made it through the first 2 days of SBD without hubby grumbling about wanting something good to eat! Guess we will see what happens!

Hope everyone is well!

Hello all. Sorry about being MIA lately. It's getting harder for me to find time to post. This switching shifts has been tough.

I am down three pounds from two weeks ago. I know it's not a big amount, but it's a start! I'm doing well with the eating, but that Halloween candy has been sneaking up on me.

I'll try to post individual later, but I am really running behind on everything!

I hope everyone is doing well. No one has been posting on the other thread. Did everyone stop?

Hugs to all!

Chach

Goooooood Morning everyone

I finally weighed myself after being too scared to step on the scale and I have lost 7 pounds. I can't believe it. I actually feel like I might be able to stick to this for another week.

I went out to buy the SBD book but I got a call and my SIL who is expecting twins went into labor and she is only 28 weeks so she got sent by ambulance to Edmonton which is an hour away from here so I drove my brother up and we sat with her until they got her labor stopped. She is now on bedrest in the hospital until the babies are born.

Happy sorry about your stress with your classes. What type of classes are you taking?

Hippy thats great that you and your husband have made it past the first few days. If hubby is happy then we are happy! Is everyone in your house basketball fans? If I could play basketball, maybe my weight would come off faster. I do go out and shoot hoops with the son, but I don't run around too much.

Chachee way to go on the loss! YaaHooo. You have been doing really well at getting all your points and it is paying off for you. Are you finding after your first week back on days it is getting easier for you? Hope it all comes together for you this week.

Hi Jolly and Raven, hope your week is going good.

The colt is a registered TB/QH paint. Classified as breeding stock as he is all brown with the white blaze on his face and four white socks. He is a darling.

Have a great day ladies and talk to you soon

Kathy

Lucky, yourbaby sounds darling. I hope you can post pictures soon. Congrats on your weight loss. Hippee, don't be lonely. I am sorry I haven't posted. Things have been very busy here with work. Plus, I played hookie yesterday. It was my birthday, so I figured I was allowed. So . . . my exercise has been off, my eating has been off. I have been a slug. Hey, for my birthday I gave myself a larger size love handles

Have a great day everyone. I will try to be more talkative later.

Happy belated Birthday Jolly!!!

I was picking up a birthday gift today and saw the SBD book. Was tempted to buy it but then... I have so many books here - diet books that I have only partially read and honestly, until the end of the year, I am not going to be devoting alot of time to the diet and exercise. I'm just trying at this point to behave myself instead of embarking on a big change that I know I won't be true to at this point. Lucky, I am a web developer by trade and I'm in college going for my certification at this point. I am also taking some technical classes to learn some programs for a new project I have to code and it sure is harder when you get older. Not to mention there's lots of other things I'd rather be doing BUT jobs are shakey and you have to do what you need to since I can't seem to find that money tree I'm sure I planted in the back of the house when we moved in. Hope things stabilize with your SIL - gee that's scary.

Chachee, congrats on your weight loss. I can't speak for anyone but me but I haven't posted on the other thread because I'm not keeping up with things. Perhaps I should just revise my goals down a bit to what I can manage right now.

Raven, I was going to say something other than hello but it escapes me at the moment. But it will come back...

WOOHOO!!!! Everyone is posting!!!!

Happy Birthday Jolly!!! Hope you enjoyed!

Chach, Congrats on the weightloss! Great job!

Lucky, I'm not a big basketball fan but Jordan plays on his school team so I play the part of the supportive mom! I love to watch him play, just don't like watching it on tv or anything. I have only missed 1 of his games in 3 years because I was so sick. They have a game every Saturday, sometimes 2 in 1 day and things get so hectic. Saturday's are busy days and it's hard to fit everything in but we manage. All of the parents take turns doing what needs to be done so I'm always working the door or concessions or something. We work our shift the game before or the game after our child plays and it makes for such a long day sometimes but that's okay. I'll do whatever it takes for Jordan to know that I support him in his activities.

I am already planning how I will deal with the holidays and eating. It will be rough but I will make it somehow

Good morning everyone. I need a pat on the back - I made it to the gym without having to drag myself off the couch. AND I did my weight workout. At least that's something. But, impulse control is still a huge problem. I had gotten a small credit card just to make sure I had Xmas spending money. Well . . . .I went out to buy myself 2 things for my birthday with it, and ended up spending way more on myself than I intended. Someone will be doing extra shifts to pay for it Why can't I jsut say no?

Everyone, good luck with family, and classes and everything.

Pat, Pat Jolly! Great job on working out! AHHH! The dreaded credit cards. I hate them. We too got just a small one, then another and another. Needless to say we got ourselves into alot of trouble with those damn things. I cut them all up and am still trying to dig us out of credit card debt. I had no sense with them because I too have a hard time saying no. It made it way too easy to have what I wanted when I wanted it and girl I bought things that I would have never bought just because I just didn't have the money. Oh well, a lesson well learned on my part!

Okay girls, I have a personal question. If you don't want to answer that's okay. Are any of you on birth control pills? The reason I ask is because I have gone back on them after being off of them for about 10 years. My totm is horrible so the doc said to try them to see if they would help. Anyway when I went to pick them up they are a generic brand of Ortho Novum. Most of the meds we get are generic because that's the way insurance likes it but I just got worried if they work as well. I will be 38 and have a teenager! Sure don't want a baby!!! Just wondering if any of you take generic brands?

It's suppose to start raining here after midnight and rain for the next 4 days. UGH! Rainy days make me lazy!

Off to the grocery today and a scrapbooking class tonight. Hope everyone is well. Have a great day!

Good morning all. I made it to the gym again this morning. Almost skipped, but dragged myself out the door at the last minute. One day at a time, right???

As for the meds, hippee, I was on generic birth control and had no problems. Of course, I was not the most sexually active, but still, no children. Birth control is not 100%, but I dont' think generic pills have any higher failure rate then any other.

Have a good day all. Where is everyone??

Just a quick note.

My home computer is fixed, so I can start checking in from there.

Hippy, I was on generic for ten years and had no problems.

Chach