2Cute I taped Oprah so when I watch it - maybe Fri or Sat we will have to discuss!!!!

Hello everyone! Food is improving this week. At least my weight registered on my scale this morning. On Monday I was above it's limit again. Improvement--a little at a time!

I hate to not be answering all of you these last couple of days, but just don't have the time. I'm doing the last Recognition Reception at the nursing home tomorrow. The program is being cancelled for lack of interest. I can't get any family members to step up to the plate and help out and I just can't do it all by myself anymore. And to tell the truth, I don't feel as if I should have to. My dad will be dead a whole year next Thursday and I've been doing all of it all this time. It's time for someone who has a resident there currently to take on some of it, but no one is interested. It's a bittersweet thing with me. I hate that the program is dying, but it will be nice to have some time back to myself.

Sorry to go on and on about this. You all are sounding like CHANGE is in your future and I have realized that it needs to be in mine as well. I ate out for lunch and dinner today. Lunch was a grilled chicken sandwich and dinner was grilled tuna steak. So that was better than it could have been.

Well girls, my kitty is sitting at my feet begging for the treats I keep here in the office for him, so I guess I'll go and pay some attention to him.

You all have a good night. Hey, Lynne should be back from her honeymoon later this week. I hope she comes back to the thread.

"The most effective way to do it, is to do it." - Toni Cade Bambara

Wow!
I had A LOT of catching up to do! Actually, I have TRIED to post quite a few times and got interrupted one way or another by someone or another. I am so determined to get this post in, that I just yelled at my 10 year old son to stop talking to me for five minutes(NICE MOM ) In my defense, he was relating to me for the 100th time today's episode of "Sponge Bob Squarepants" AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!

I love all the inspirational messages you guys are sharing, Thank you!! I just really don't have the time to respond to each one right now...gotta get ready for work.

I was having a great week last week, and then hit that point where I manage to undo all the good I have done. I have missed TWO weigh-ins @ WW, but I will not say die!! I am back on the wagon, and will keep picking myself up and dusting myself off and starting again until I get this right!! Thanks to all of you for keeping me motivated. I will do this!

Welcome, newbies! Glad to see you guys here, make youselves at home! We are a nice group aren't we?

Last night at work, I was flipping through a magazine and came across this story about a woman, down on her luck, who came across this passage from the Bible and began to pray...her prayers were answered before she was even done praying. I'm not the most religious person in the world, but I found the passage inspiring and I wrote it down and kept it in my pocket. I glanced at it a few times, It brought a smile to my face and hope into my heart...and today after a long absence from exercising, I found myself at a park, walking through the mud and melting snow around a beautiful lake and enjoying the wintery day...here is the simple passage..."Be joyful always. Pray continually. Give thanks in all circumstances."

Simple. Very powerful.

I give thanks for all of you here, my support system...you make me laugh, you make me think, you make me realize I am not alone. Thank you all!

OK, gotta go read to my boy...see I'm not all THAT mean!

Have a great night all...

Well ladies... I have had one traumatizing evening.
I had to drive myself to the hospital emergency room.

My husband has been so nice lately and taken me out for dinner 3 nights in a row plus the movies each night. I decided to cook him some fried pork chops with a special "recipe" to return the favor. He loves fried pork chops and I never fry any more. It was going to be a surprise when he got home.

Well... I had cooked two and had taken them out of the pan. I was preparing two more to put in the HOT oil and the pork chop fell off the fork and landed in the hot oil like an adult doing a cannonball jump into a swimming pool.
The HOT oil came flying through the air and landed on ME.
It not only hit me... it soaked me !!! I have blisters on my chest, boobs, right arm and FACE !!!!

It flew aross my face and stopped just short of my eyes. Thank God !!!! I was wearing my reading glasses so that saved my sight. My lips are totally blistered and my right cheek has a pretty huge blister too. But the worst blister was under my chin. It is the size of a coffee cup.!!!! Of course, the fact that I have two or three chins might account for the huge size there. And my swollen lips ... are fat lips still in style?
I can laugh at it now... but trust me... I wasn't laughing when it happened.

I was soooooo AFRAID I would be SCARED for LIFE.!!!! My face was still burning bad an hour after it happened. I just kept crying off and on from the fear. I didn't care about my chest and arm being scared... but my face.... that was really really scarey.
My right arm is bandaged from my fingers to my arm pit.... and I have burns the entire length. I have tons of little blisters on my thumb and hand.
My chest is only bandaged just below the neck area. They did not even see the burns on my right boob and belly.
And my face... It is just white with some sort of cream.
I am going to look like rudolph the reindeer with a big red burn on the tip of my nose.
My lips are pretty bad. They are already oozing something out of them. Oooppsss..... I hope no one was eatting. LOL

This little leopard sort of looks like me. Of course...I am much worse.

The site wouldn't take my whole post so I had to divide it into two sections. here is the second half.
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Well friends.... I finally get motivated to FORCE myself to swim again... and now I can't.
The doctor said no swimming till these heal. So I guess I am going to start up an affair with ole Richard again.

I have a LOT to be thankful for this Thankful Thursday.
I am thankful my eyes did not get burned.
I am thankful that I was able to drive myself to the hospital.
I am thankful that it wasn't worst.
I am thankful that my grandbaby wasn't visiting.
I am thankful that I came home and DID NOT eat off program.
I am thankful that I have you guys to share my trauma with.
And last but not least...
I am thankful that I am as DETERMINED as ever to stay on program.
No pity party for me. Life is full of ups and downs. It always has been and always will be. And I chose to stay positive and proactive for my new way of life.

2cute, what an evening. Wow. Oil burns are painful. Take care of them and yourself. Wake up little richard. He'll keep you going until you can swim again. I'm going to drop sweat and shout for awhile. It's too chaotic to learn new steps. Maybe I'm getting old, but I do feel like a klutz. I'm going back to my other rs tapes.

Today, went really well except for the sugar withdrawals. I had a headache all day. Still have it. I found the perfect solution for vegetables. Truthfully, I dislike them, but found frozen mixed oriental vegetables from costco that tastes pretty good with lemon and a little butter. I ate two cups with a little rice and fish. It was delicious.

Tomorrow is thankful Thursday. I truly have many things to be thankful for. This forum for one. It's wonderful to have this in common with all of you. I live and work in a world of petite women. The giantress. They renovated our office and I stand 6'1" over the customers. Yikes, I'm 5'8". That's a high platform.

Dreamtime is here,

Malia

Wow Cute; {{{{HUGS}}}}}
Take care of yourself

Thankful Thursday: I am thankful that Cute didn't get hurt worse.
I am thankful for all of you my friends.
I am thankful for my family thay are so supportive.

Well I better go. I may go into town there is a good sale on at McRaes.

2cute2 be BURNED!
OUCH!
I hope you're feeling better today! I love your "NO PITY PARTY" attitude! You always inspire me! You go girl!

Well ladies.. I slept good last night. Did not take any of the pain pills they gave me and did fine.

My lip is pretty ugly. I found out I can't drink my water.
My top lip is yucky and I don't want any of that yuck going down with the water. LOL . I am going to get some straws I guess until it heals some. My top lip and near my arm pit got it the worst. Well..if you are not counting all of my chins.
Right now I am using my granddaughters sippy cup with a built in straw... but it doesn't hold enough.

I am going to go clean up the kitchen. For some reason I just wasn't in the mood to last night. LOL. I have found grease on top of my refrigerator. It went everywhere.

Ladies...If I can sippy cup my water in today... so can you.
Drink that water !!!!! Love you all.

Cute
Yes I will be your valentine. glad you are sort of ok.

I have been starving all day nothing satisfys me. I have Ladies Circle at church tonight. We have been having bad thunder storms today lots of wind damage in town.

Better go

Kat thank you for that passage. It is great and I will be carrying it with me too.

Well, 2Cute I can't believe all that happened and you still took the time to post. When do we get to see pictures?

Can you even move with all those bandages?

Be Careful from now on!!!! Maybe you should stick to eating out with that nice hubby of yours. BUT not near the kitchen!!!!

Hey gang...

Glad to see you posting, 2cute! Tell that hubby of yours NO MORE FRYING! And we thought it was just bad cholesterol and calorie-wise! It's also DANGEROUS!.
I'm glad you're doing OK, take it easy!

Grannie, I have those days too, where NOTHING satisfies me! Unfortunately, I usually keep on eating, hoping that I will find something that hits the spot! Gotta get a hobby, I think! I try to crochet to keep my hands busy...don't want to get crumbs all over the yarn! I recently saw a Drawing class offered by the local park system...I am going to give it a try...something else to take my mind off of food!

prism...here's an EASY, tasty veggie dish to try, I made this tonight in about 10 minutes...saute an onion or two and 2-3 cloves garlic in olive oil(1 tbsp or less) add one sliced zucchini and one sliced yellow squash, cook about 5 min, add a can of diced tomatoes, heat through. Can serve as is, or, over pasta. I sprinkle about 1 Tbsp low fat mozzarella sheese over the hot veggies, wait for it to melt...

Uh oh...I'm getting the evil eye for being on too long...I guess since it's for homework, I will relinquish the computer!

I'm thankful that I have two solid hours to sleep before work tonight! And I'm thankful that I'm OFF the next two days WITH NO OBLIGATIONS! Let's see waht I can accomplish with all that time!

Have a good night all...

Good job everyone. Thats the way to do it - baby steps. I started cutting out all colas, diet and regular, today. Not as hard as I thought it was going to be.



I've even created a disk at work that tracks my progress, has a sheet for planning and reporting exercise done and a journal section.

Keep on groovin, groovy chicks!

I just finish treating all my burns. Some are much better already. Others don't look so good. I won't be going out in public for awhile. Not just because I don't want people to see my face ... but I don't want to get any infected either. Sunday I am taking my daughter back to college but by then I should be okay... I hope. Not healed... just not all open blisters. I want to Thank EVERYONE for all of your well wishes.

I did not eat anything off program today ... but I did not eat everything on program either. I did not eat a single serving of veggies or fruit today. For me eating on program is more than just NOT eatting junk. It is nurishing my body. I did get a lot of water in but probably not enough. I need to focus on veggies tomorrow.

Pumpkinna... you are really groovin. It is great when you get out of colas. It makes it so much easier to get your water in and it is cheaper when eating out. I seldom miss it.

Kat.... I not only told my husband no more frying... I made him bring dinner home tonight too. He is going out of town tomorrow and won't be home till Sunday and I will be gone Sun-Mon. So I won't be doing much cooking for the whole weekend.

Luckylady... I had to post... you are my family !!!!! I feel a real commitment to all of you. As far as eatting out... I won't even let them serve fajitas close to me anymore. Those things come out steaming hot.!!!!

Prism... I can relate to feeling like a klutz doing tapes. I remember when I did Richard and it was a breeze. NOW... it is an accomplishment.!!!!

Mary... thanks for the hugs. It is nice to know I have a VALENTINE.

Thin.... hey girl... come back in here. I know you are busy.. but we need your input too.

I am off and running. I love you all. You guys are awesome!!!

I just saw that one more post and we will go to another page so I am going to go ahead and start a new thread. When one thread gets near 30 posts we always start a new thread... so ....

do not post or reply here, instead go to thread # 125

See everyone there.