Annie,

OMGosh, I can't believe you didn't pump up da tires. hehe. Keep them at max pressure. I think it's 60 lbs per sq in for mt bike tires. There's no way you can pop tires!! Most people don't know that bicycles can handle 500+ lbs, especially mountain bikes. They are over-engineered.

When you pump up your tires, you'll go faster and smoother! With them low, it's like riding through mud.

Hugs and luv,
Ratkitten

I always kept my wheelchair tires well pumped up. It made it much easier to push. I did have one burst on me. At a baseball tournament one of the other kid's dad took my chair over to fill up at a filling station, and he didn't have a gauge. It sounded like a bomb going off.

I can't wait. My new bike comes in Tomorrow! I have bad problems with my current moutain bike. Never since the day I got it would the gears switch smoothly despite many trips to the bike repair shop! Its a metalic teal green with silver. Now I just need to get a new helmut. The burgandy one matches the old bike but come on girls gotta be co-ordinated! It hopefully will make my big butt look smaller to be co-ordinated!

Anne, those dreams can do a number on us, can't they? I've had some really weird dreams and they just seem so real. That's alot of clothes you ended up with. Saves tons of money when it comes down to it. I've been a 3x most of my life so I don't have smaller clothes so I have to go out and buy new stuff and then wear it til it looks so huge and bad I HAVE to throw it away.
So you did pretty good shopping thru your clothes.

Johnnie, you did great walking the two blocks!!!

Annie, wow!! that is fantastic about the yard sale. You did great! I'm so glad you got your Wii too. I think you'll really enjoy it. Good work on bike riding too. You reminded me of a little kid with their first bike just enjoying the breeze in your face and pedaling all over the place. I can't wait to get mine!!

Ratkity, Hi!!

heather dw, Great NSV....be proud of yourself!

Carol, YAY on getting noticed for your weight loss!! I'm sure more and more people will be noticing now.

Battle, I'm stretching my hand out to you to help you jump back on the wagon with us!!!

Our seedlings were getting too long and spindly so I looked that up on the internet and found out our lights were too far away. So we replanted some more seeds and moved them up closer to the light. Hopefully these will turn out better. Learning as we go.
It's been sunny here but cold. Suppose to be getting thunder storms maybe later. Weird weather.
I've been staying OP but not getting my water in. LOL If it's not one it's the other.
I wanted to say congrats to all those who did the 5k. We all did alot of miles!! It was fun thinking of all the others doing their's this weekend. Made it seem like I wasn't alone. Let's all keep up the good work.
Have a great evening!
Debbie

Today was better. Only 199 calories over instead of 1000+ yesterday.
But, I'm struggling with my water today.
How far is 5K? Is it close to 3 miles??? I'm totally clueless. When are all y'all doing another??
I wrote a letter to my mom today to bury with her. It's like a big weight off.
Really weird.
Congrats to all who had a good day and the rest of us, let's just keep on pluggin away. Like the little engine who thought he could. And DID!!
Hugs,

It's just a small amount over 3.1 miles. I don't know when the plan is to do another (it might be somewhere in the thread). I suspect it will happen again sometime.

Ok so i didn't post this am before work cuz I was sulking LOL my pride was hurt after jumping on the scale LOL

I went to work and after just a few mins a teacher from outside our area saw me and asked me "OH MY have you been losing weight!?" LOL even though I gained a pound this morning that made the world of difference in my day! LOL

As far as the Geometry project and my DD she took it in today rather excited about it......to find out that the teacher is giving everyone 3 more days LOL she had been emailing her teacher asking her questions over break etc...and the teacher never told her LOL but there were alot of people that haven't completed theirs I guess.

Well I'm gonna have to run out to the store for some things......

Hope all did well today on their goals and Hugs to all that fell short.....tomorrow is another day!

Your
Sis-in-loss
BErNICE

I actually wore a pair of black capris and a black & white button down top that I had grown out of last year.....the capris are 24's as is the top....but the top wouldn't button properly before........now it is loose fitting...but not hanging yet.....I did try another black top that I just love and it HUNG so bad that I couldn't ware it!

Debbie & Deb both said something to me which I hadn't thought about I might be retainning water from the 5K yesterday.....my rings were snug this morning which they normally loose.....so we will just wait and see what next week gives me on the scale.

Good morning Peeps - hope you all have a great day! Looks like it is going to warm up a little for those of us still in the grasp of winter - let's move it today!!! I have been a little lazy since Saturday so time to shake it up here. Maybe I will walk to class tonight - I keep talking about it so perhaps today is the day.

The scale was down this morning from last week when I had a little gain - it's been a great week and I always love seeing it go in the downward direction.

Move your bodies, drink your water and SMILE.

Hugs to all,
Carol

Ooooopsie, I should qualifiy the "pop the tires" statement.. I meant by being overweight. You can pop them easily by overfilling them!! hehe. Especially doing that at a gas station. A hand pump is recommended. I like the hand pump that has the dial up by the handle so you can see the number. Good air pumps last 10+ years. My last one is still going at 20 yrs old, but I got another one recently (gotta have 2 of everything! hehe).

Luv,
Ratkity

Good morning ladies,
Sorry I didnt make it here yesterday. I read a little but never had time to post. I had a horrible day yesterday , one of my little boys had fever all day and i sat and held him all day long. then my daughter keeps one of the kids when her mom is on seconds shift and my dd had a thing about college and i had to babysit her till 9pm. I went to bed as soon as she left. NO exercise yesterday.
Hubby had his dr appointment and she cut his glucose meds in half! She also told him he needed to be on 1500 ADA , he had a 5lb loss since his last visit. She also told him i needed to be on 1200. Im glad she isnt my dr anymore. My new dr told me 14-1500 per day. Huby cholerstal was good which is amazing seeing how he eats eggs everyday almost. I use eggbeaters but he wont even try it.
We had a hard freeze here last night. I hope my flowers are ok. I covered them and still havent uncovered them yet
Well I gave up on helping my sister diet. She only needs to lose about 20lbs and she is in the mind frame of eating 1000 or less a day. I told her that she is still losing eating 1200 why go below that. She wants fast weight loss. SO this morning i told her she was on her own.
We planted seeds in the little greenhouse thingy from walmart and only a few have sprouted. So far its been 9 days and we have 4 sunflowers and 2 squash plants. I wonder why nothing else has sprouted. the ones that have sprouted are really growing.
well i need to get a few things done around here today seeing how i didnt get anything done yesterday. oh my pedometer is acting strange,....is it counts more or less steps than i am taking. Maybe i need to recalculate it.
have a good day
debi

Morning all!
After yesterday's walk outside, I'm thinking of doing it again today! It's going to be sunny and a high in the low 60's today. I'm sitting here thinking of whether I can find an outfit that doesn't make me look huge. It seems like the longer I try to lose weight, the more weird I get about clothes.

just throw on some sweats and go Heather. You will be so glad you did.

I was hungry early today and fixed salmon and brussel spouts. It was really good and only 240 calories for it all. I had 2 servings of brussel spouts. I had never fixed the salmon filets before. I just stuck it in the toaster oven for 12 min total.I put a little garlic powder and pepper on it.

I think dinner will be a salad with grilled chicken on it.
has anyone tried crasin?? LIke rasin but made with cranberries. They are really good. I bought them and the little kids loved them. Good source of fiber.

This is my quite time...the little ones are napping maybe i should try and get some work done.
debi

Anne: I wish I had a pool to work on. I adore swimming and I hope you have a blast with your pool. When we lived in CA we had an inground pool every house we ever bought but in Idaho well, let's just say it is April 15th and it snowed this morning. lol. Unless we win the lottery so I can have a heated indoor/outdoor pool, no inground pool here. lol.

Ratkitten: Yep. it was slow and bumpy with low tires. lol.

Julia: Okay I am so clueless about bikes and haven't even been on one in over 20 years that I don't know how to shift gears or why you would do it. Please help a real bike dummy. lol.

Catherine: Yikes. I was afraid I would blow them up sitting on them. I hadn't thought about putting too much air in them.

Debbie: I want to plant some things too. Do you plant tomato plants from seeds or do you plant them from little plants? When is it time to plant. I'm afraid it will snow again and ruin them.

Sandy: I also did some letters to my mom. I have to say it didn't help me because I had such an anger issue with my mom. It took years for me to feel better about things and lots and lots of time talking to God about it. Please be kind to yourself no matter how you are feeling. Let yourself feel and I hope it is going to be healing. Hugs, hugs and hugs.

DMPLS: I forgot to tell you yesterday that I think your daughter's project was so awesome. I actually showed it to my perfectionist Machinist hubby. He appreciated it so much too. What a wonderful little artist you have there. Tell her please how much all of your friends here enjoyed seeing her project. So darling and should get an A++++. Congrats to you on the friend at work noticing how lovely you look. I bet it is just water weight. I am up 2 pounds today and I know it is water weight from TOM because my wedding ring is Tight where on Saturday it almost flew off my finger.

Carol: How far is it to your meeting that you are thinking about walking to? I can't ride my bike tonight to my group meeting and now I just remembered that I can't walk either because it is exchange night. I am supposed to be getting a sample and a recipe for protein bars. If they are any good, I will share the recipe with you all. It is 2.2 miles each way to my meeting and I am afraid to walk it because I may be too tired to walk home and DH works late on Tuesdays so I will not have a choice to have him come get me if I can't make it home. lol. Enjoy your day sweetie.

debimitch: I hope that today is a better day for you.

okay, woke up this am. and it was snowing! Luckily it has all melted pretty much now. This weather is so weird. I am also up 2 pounds today from my ticker. I am pretty sure it is water weight because my wedding ring was almost falling off on Saturday and today it is tight, tight, tight. I feel so icky and bloated. I may take the day off of exercise except walk around the mall or something. I am thinking about going to Fred Myer's and getting another controller for the Wii as it only comes with one. I want to be able to play with Dh at the same time this weekend. I just got a phone call from the Dr's office and they gave the job to someone else. I am okay with that and actually expected it because when the Dr. told me what they pay was I told him that was too low for me. He said they will see what they can do but are pretty set on the pay. I am hoping for that job to call that said I have it for sure about 2 weeks ago. I am so not patient. I do have a testing date for a county job on the 21st and I have an application in with the Jr college here in this area so, something will hopefully turn up. Still happy that I didn't take that job back that I just left. Glad my brain finally kicked in. lol.

Have a wonderful water drinking, butt moving, op eating day ladies.

Blessings all,
Annie

Sandy, I'm so glad that you feel as if a weight has been lifted off your shoulders when you wrote the letter to bury with your Mom. Take care of yourself for us.

Bernice, I'm still bloated. My right ankle is hurting from the swelling. Thanks for posting natural remedies for water weight gains.
I think mine has alot to do with TOM though.

Carol, glad to hear the scale is on the move downward!

Debi, Wow, your winter just goes on and on huh? Hopefully it will start to get "springy" there soon. As for the seeds, we planted ours a couple of weeks ago, and I'm just barely getting a couple peppers coming up now, so just have patience. Sorry to hear some of your little kidlets were sick. Hope they are better today when they show up.
Those craisins are delicious!!

Annie, we plan on getting beach cruisers. No gears for me!!
You can start your tomato plants indoors with grow lights which are just cool florescent lights. I started ours from seeds. First time I ever did. Usually we bought the little seedlings already growing, but starting from seeds is so rewarding. Don't plant them outside til the last frost. I looked on the seed packets, and for our areas, it's May-June. If you do start them from seeds, I get the little planting system that comes with a tray, the little round soil thingies and the clear dome to cover the tray. The lights we keep on 24/7 and keep them about 5-6 inches above the seeds otherwise they get tall and gangly. Go buy some!! It's fun.

Not much going on here...just rain rain rain...so look out Annie! The clouds are so thick you can't even see the mountains that are only a few miles away. I wonder if this will ever end. Then I'm afraid the spring is going to last a couple days and go right into summer heat!
Poor ol Sadie. One wound on her leg is swelled up. We've been trying to get it to drain by putting hot compresses on it. If we can't get it to go down, then they will have to put her out again and lance it. I hope we can fix it ourselves. I hate to see her have to go thru all that again.
Up 2 lbs from TOM and water, like Annie, my ring is stuck on my finger when it usually almost falls off.
Hope all my 3FC'er friends are having a great day and movin and groovin!
Debbie

Thanks so much for the comments towards me LOL I unfortunately have to jet out of here.....DD is having a concert at her college and its over an hour drive....plus I want to try to get to the mall before her concert she saw a purse at their mall she wants for her bday....I'm gonna try to sneak in a trip over there to get it.....if not then I will get it online at the Disney store....just hate to pay shipping LOL

ok gotta run!
your Sis-in-loss
BErNICE