Good Monday Morning, Chickies!!

Cottage: WTG getting to Curves! You are so disciplined about that! I really need to make a batch of those Nessa bars. This new med is really making me eat, while losing weight -- what gives?!

Ally: I do that before vacation as well, but I always end up having a blast while I'm gone! I'm sure you will, too!

Schmoodle: Don't worry, I wing it all the time! (Although I have a feeling DH would enjoy baked dog food if he didn't know it was dog food! )

phxsunflower: I know how you feel. This weekend just flew by! I considered calling in sick this morning just to get the weekend finished. I'll have to try to do it all tonight! If you have any questions for us, just let us know! You can post an "intro" on the main SB forum page. I think it's one of the threads on the top.

beachgal: Sounds like quite a feast. If they don't like it, then they just don't appreciate good food. If that's the case, you should just order them pizza and serve it on napkins! That'll teach 'em!

JessieW: It's amazing how much you and I have in common! My DH spent the weekend in front of the tv (was it me or were there A LOT of games this weekend?!) while I did the cleaning, crocheting and etc. We even did the same thing on Sunday! AND we're both trying to get preggers and lose weight in the meantime. Weird!

Ruth: Don't worry. You know we understand. We're still sending you and happy thoughts!

dixie: WTG on your jog!

Kier: I hope Kitty's feeling better now. We all love our furbabies, but they sure do throw us for a loop sometimes, don't they?

Lisa: I'm so glad to hear that things are going well for you! I'm sure the healing will take some time for both of you, but I really believe that what you did is for the best! Our puppies are banned from the bedroom as they don't like to let us sleep. Little stinkers! Hope you can catch a nap!

ME: This weekend was fairly lazy. I finished crocheting a really cute scarf for myself and worked some more on my afghan. Dh was glued to the tv all weekend although he did have time to pull up the veggie garden.

Today is just another day at work and then I've got Ladies Bible Study scheduled for tonight. Because of that, we're doing leftover Chicken tortilla soup for dinner and DH is going to have to iron his own shirt tonight. I've got enough to worry about! At least there aren't any football games on tv tonight! I need to call the doc this afternoon as she's worried that I'm losing weight too fast. I really don't know what can be done about that as my testosterone levels aren't any lower, so my dosage can't really go down. PCOS is a finicky affliction!

Well, I'd better go. I'm going to post the tortilla soup in the P1 Slow -Cooker recipe section if anyone's interested. It's delicious!

~Kim

Yes it is monday! I am unofficially diagnosing my boss as bi-polar. He calls me his work wife and let me tell you the honeymoon is over! Have ya heard the commercial for helpwanted.com where the boss is standing at the bathroom door asking his secretary to do something for him? Yeah that is how I feel every minute of the day lately! Oh enough griping for me.

Made some really good Bran Muffins over the weekend, added some pumpkin and spice to them and they turned out really moist. Used all legal ingredients and I am wondering if anyone knows of a good place to enter recipes and get nutritional information. I know some people use fit day for that but it seems there has to be an easier place?

Got to get back to work, everyone have a great day and I will check back later.

Steph

Hey chicks just a quickie, week end was busy doing not really anything. And today is shapping up to be the same. MIL is home and they put 4 pins in her shoulder, 3 mos of healing, 6 of physo. DD had a job interview sunday and hopfully will hear somthing today. Youngest dd has school cheerleading tryouts then she has 20 mins to get to her other cheerleading practice, I have two fundraising meetings one tonight and one wed. I am joing TOPS again tomorrow night just to be accountable for weigh ins. Well that is a quick run down.
Hugs and love to all that need it.
A big Welcome to the newbies.
Ruth- you are in my thoughts and prayers.
Lisa- you rock you are doing great. A big Hug for you as well
Love ya chicks but gotta to dash the school bus is waiting for me. :wink:

Hi everyone. Just checking in for Monday. I attended a TOPS rally on Sat. and the speaker was speaking directly to me on a couple of things. You know how that goes???

Does anyone know why I cannot get into the smilies? I can use the ones showing but when I push the more button it just goes "blip" and I get nothing. Oh well, I will live.

Ruth you are in my thoughts, you and Lucy.

I am off to work, we have a reservation for 32 people at 12:30 so I will be hopping to. DH is coming up to help cook for them. Keep your fingers crossed for us I think we have a buyer for the restaurant. Then DH can offically retire, I will, however, be hitting the job market. If I don't get the job I really want then I will just hang out until after the holidays then just put in applications whereever. I used to be a legal assistant and I think the DA's office is going to be hiring. Sorry, just jabbering.

Grocery shopping is my priority tonight after work. I have very little SBD food in the house. I am proud to say that even though I have not been doing SBD, I have lost from 294 to 266, but I am sick of counting foods and for me with insulin resistance I am continually fighting cravings. I know from previous experience that is not so after the first few days on the beach.

Just a quick pop in to say I got the job! Not that I mentioned anything about the interview.. but still. :P It's only 8 hours a weekish which is less than I wanted, but anything is better than nothing. It's working in the Women's study office as well as doing some side work sorting articles in Spanish (the director of the Women studies department is a Spanish professor and the undergrad department rep for that). I've never had a paying job though so I'm a little worried!

In other news, I've gained back all the weight I lost over the summer. >.< In a sense that's good because that means that my intestines are starting to heal up due to the gluten free diet but obviously we all know why that's bad :P My cravings have completely gone away though so I guess I was always eating before because I was mildly malnourished. Still annoying though as I have nowhere to cut calories out of.

I took some time to catchup on posts, sounds like you are all fairly busy. I had to cover up my garden with blankets last night to protect my cukes, tomatoes and squash from freezing. I can't believe it's that time of year already. Did we have summer?
My dh flew off to Chicago today, he said that as they were flying over Jackson Hole (about an hour from here) there was snow in "them thar hills"

I babysat my grandkids over the weekend.....ya know as an Emergency Room nurse I can handle some really tough, scary and gory things. People carrying bleeding limbs, heart attacks, vomiting....ya know routine everyday stuff. But babysitting these four darling little kids.....................it was rather scary. I'm not the mommy I used to be. I'm not sure how I had 5 kids!

Anyhoo, the house is quiet today and I'm about to tackle laundry and other things that got ignored while the kids were here. Eating has been pretty good after a few weeks of NOT good. Hope to get into my good eating groove for the next few weeks and stay that way. I'm taking my dh on a getaway to Sun Valley next month and I want to feel better about myself.

Hugs to all

Hey Bunna, check your popup/security settings. I had a problem with that before too. If your browser is set to block popups it may not allow you to open the more smileys window. Mine always said "a popup window has been blocked" or something like that down at the bottom left when I tried it, but I have Internet Explorer.

Thanks for the hugs and encouragement girls. I'm just so much happier now.

Oh, Jessie, I hear you on the clothes. Mine don't fit well either...I'm praying that I lose enough between now and when the cold weather hits to fit into some of my nice pants...or I'll have to go shopping. I'm SO excited to hear that you and DH are going to be trying! That's fabulous!!! I hope you get super healthy super quickly so you can enjoy the happiness of pregnancy!

Ruthie, darling, you just do whatever you need to keep you and Lucy and Hersh healthy, safe, and comfortable. Don't you worry about us. We miss you badly, of course, but what's most important is you and Lucy's health right now. You're both in my prayers, and I'm thrilled to hear that her condition is an operable one. That's great news!

KO, you kill me!!! "SBD Defcon 1" I'm so glad you like SARK too. She's just fabulous! Inspiration Sandwich is a really good one. So sorry that they don't have them at your library! You might check out www.half.com or www.alibris.com for used copies?

Lisa, I didn't know about you and DH. I'm so sorry! I can imagine it must be very hard right now. I hope, very much, that you continue having lots of wonderful happy discoveries about life on your own and that this experience works out for the best, hon. You're a strong woman!

Cottage, you can find the recipes for Chicken with Gorgonzola-Tomato Salsa and Sauteed Broccoli and Mushrooms by clicking on the links. Thanks for what you said...you made me feel a lot better!

Kim, I'm not a doctor (nor do I play one on TV ), but I was losing weight too fast and so I consulted several nutritionists and they agreed that it was fine. I wasn't losing muscle...I just had so much to lose that it came off very quickly at first. Eventually, about 50 or 60 pounds later, it slowed down to the much more normal 1-2 pounds/week. I hope your losses are healthy, too!

LC, good for you on joining TOPS...it's really great to have someone to be accountable with for weigh-ins.

Bunna, it's good to see you! I hope things went well at lunch today. Great work losing weight, hon! Hope things work out well with the buyer and the job search. Perhaps you have some kind of 'pop-up blocker?' The smilies show up in a pop-up window.

Hey all,

Just a quick shout out before I head to the crazy house.....I mean, work. I think Pacer and KO and I must work in the same place.

Sorry to see the weekend gone but glad it's already halfway through Monday because that means 1/5 of the way to the next weekend! I'm glad to hear most everyone had good times this weekend and are ready to rock and roll. And as always, for me, another Monday is another chance to restart my diet. Moving to Phase 2 again this week and hoping to stay there (instead of Phase 999 where you're so skinny to have to eat like a monster).

More later,
L

Liannie you me and Pacer shouLD start our own company called Sanity!
Ok I'm outta here like a SHOT!