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WE BEAT THE PACKERS

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Hey Tina are you down from the clouds yet? TONY won.

OH CRAP!!

Just lost a huge post...(*&^&^%$^#@@_(*^&

Can't stay to re-do it...damn, it was good too!

Love to all, gotta run...

H...E..L..L..O... Ladies,

Well, the weekend almost over and I'm finally getting here to visit. Time seems to just fly by lately. I haven't given a thought to the holidays and WHAM here's Thanksgiving less than two weeks away. I definately need the holiday Spirit to pay me a visit.

Speaking of the holiday's I read this on Salle Yawitz's WW site and with the holidays coming thought I'd share:

"The challenges begin now, don't they?_ But, they're only challenges - not road blocks._ They're just meals, not LAST suppers!"

Well WI is tomorrow afternoon and I'M READY! I'm still OP. We even went to Pizza Hut for dinner tonight and I shared a Personal Pan Pizza with a friend and had a salad to go with it.

KAT: So glad your DH is okay. I can't believe no one put out flares or anything. Sheesh! Do they think we can all see in the dark?????

BAYLEE: Thanks for the chat site. I don't usually chat. I'm a lousy, slow typist, but you never know when I'll feel brave and jump in. Are those tea cookies gone? If not you'd better give away what's left over. Be VERY CAREFUL around that guy atwork. Watch your back and get a friend to keep an eye on you when you're working near the jerk!! _
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TINA & LUCKY: I know you're both on since your guy(s) won. HURRAY!!!!!

THIN: What movie were you "showgirl" at ths weekend? Did you get to see one this time??

2CUTE: How was your trip to OK? I'll bet your daughter was glad to see you.

Well gotta get my change together for tomorrow. I've been dumping my purse once a week and rolling my change for about 6 yrs. Well,I now have enough quarters and dimes, neatly rolled and stored in pretty little tin boxes, to get a nicely equipped Dell computer. My company has a deal with Dell that expires at the end of the month so, hopefully by the middle of Dec. I'll be rid of my beloved, but cranky, WebTV, and online (HDSL noless, another great offer from the communications company I work for!) with a "real" computer. Just think of me and laugh as you picture the fat lady with the HEAVY canvas bag full of change slogging into the bank.

I'll be back after WI (not Wisconsin) tomorrow,

Just gotta say one thing OUCH! I pulled something in my back this morning right across the bra line! I was standing at the counter in the kitchen and it felt like someone took the little string and pulled and unraveled the muscle across my back! Oh gosh did it ever HURT! John put some flexall on it this morning before he left but it still hurts and I cant sit here any longer!

I will check in again tonight hopefully! I start at my store today and at 7 pm I have a second interview for that credit analyst job so keep your fingers crossed and anything else crossed...I really want that job!

TTFN Love you guys! Michelle

Good Monday morning all

Can't wait till we chat I love the name.
Hope all of you have a great day.

Ok, first of all.........I'm not going to spew a bunch of nastiness on you. I am going to state a plain and simple fact: Out of the last seven days, I have been OP exactly 3 of them. Yep, that's not a typo. I said three. What happened you ask? I don't know............it could have started with the big birthday cake, or the pigs in a blanket at my birthday party. It could have been the 10 boxes of Christmas Tree little debbies that my MOM brought over! You know the ones, don't you? The ones shaped like little Christmas trees with white creamy frosting in the middle of the two yellow cakes with green and red sprinkles on top? Yep, that would be the ones. It could have been the big pot of chicken and dumplings that my MIL brought over, or it might, just might be the fact that I am a pig and can't control my food!!! I am so agrivated with myself right now, I could just scream! But, I won't. I have picked myself up, psyched myself up and I am ready to try again. I have to be truthful with you guys though, I'm not sure if I will go to my WW meeting tonight or not. I know, that's a terrible attitude, but I know it's going to show a gain and I just hate feeling like such a loser. What I will probably do is work up my nerve and go to the meeting tomorrow night, but I WILL go. Ok, that's enough for now. I haven't even read any of the posts on this thread yet, so I will need to do that.
Thank you guys for listening to my ramble today. I surely don't know what I'd do without you guys. On a happier note, Guess who the new 2002 Winston Cup Champion is?! Yup, you guessed!

I thought I'd take a minute to post and get things moving here; it seems like posts have been sparse in the last few days! My day thus far has been run-of-the-mill but good. Got up, drove hubby to work, ran a few errands, did the grocery shopping, came home and did a few chores and... here I am! I had a yogurt and a plum for breakfast and am about to have a veggie dog for lunch before heading out to the gym! Then I'm coming home to shower and eventually get dinner on. I picked up some fresh, thick salmon fillets for dinner. Yum!

We ALMOST went to see the new Harry Potter movie last night (since we have free passes to use up) but staying home and making Christmas Wishlists to hand in to my hubby's family won out. Since there are 5 kids in his family and a number of significant others, my MIL draws names from a hat so each of the kids (us) gets a secret santa. Your secret santa buys you a really big present and you still get small presents from everyone else! It takes like 3 hours to open presents at their house on Christmas morning!

My family has, as of late, been doing the Christmas present thing in the evening on Christmas day so it all works out nicely. It's nice that both sets of our parents live in Montreal (that was just a coinsidence as we met here which is a 6 hour drive away from there!). I'm starting to get pretty EXCITED! I'm looking forward to seeing my sister from Calgary (she's the one that's been sick with Lupus) and her 2 year old son! Last Christmas was miserable because she was too sick to come home and we didn't know if she'd be around for anymore Christmases to come; this year she's feeling significantly better. It's SO nice to be able to look forward to Christmas this year (as compared to last year).

Tina: It seems like your family is making it difficult for you to stay OP; it takes SO much will power to resist something they've plunked down in front of you! Sometimes people seem so concerned with the health of someone who is obese but, in the long run, are not willing to make the few changes (like not bringing bad food into their house) that will truly help the person trying to lose weight. People think it's great until they realize they might actually have to SACRIFICE or CHANGE slightly to assist us in making our goals a reality! I've had to FORBID people from bringing certain things into our house. Ultimately, no one wants for me to lose my extra weight more than me so I HAVE TO BE THE ONE TO MAKE IT HAPPEN!

Grrr! That makes me think about something that happened a couple of Saturdays ago when I was in training all day for the Sexual Assault Suport Centre. Lunch was provided; it was a big, greasy, fattening pizza. I knew that before I came so I packed myself a light, healthy lunch. When the pizza was delivered, all 20 or so of the ladies dug in and I got out my lunch.

One woman came up to me and said, "Sara! Have a piece of pizza!"

She knew that I was dieting.

I said, "Sorry, I can't eat that."

"Why not?" she asked.

"I'm losing weight. I'm good with this" I said, holding up my lunch.

She looks at me in disbelief. "Posh, who ISN'T trying to lose weight. Just have a slice or two. It won't make or break your diet."

Me, ANNOYED. "No. I'm good. Thanks."

Then she kinda muttered, in a eye-rolling kind of way, "Whatever."

That situation annoyed me to no end. The thing is, this woman probably weighs 300 pounds or so and was looking at me in disgust. While I've always gotten along with her great in the past, suddenly, I THINK she was deliberately trying to sabatoge my diet... in some kind of jealous way. The whole experience was very unpleasant although I don't hold it against her. I know how miserable it can be to be overweight and not yet at a point where you're ready to take the bull by the horns.

Anyways, despite the negativity in this post, I'm actually feeling pretty good. Gonna eat that veggie dog then head out and work it off!

TTFN
Sara
270/179/150

Sarajoy I know what you mean about people, I just wish when you tell them no thank you that they would leave you alone. My MIL is thrilled with my weight loss but I always have to take my own food with me like breakfast and snacks. She will make something for dinner and then say Im not sure you can eat this but oh well.The one good thing about it is that she never makes enough food for us to eat anyway so I always have less of what she did make so my hubby and kids can have more. she made veggies on the weekend to go with our meal and she made about 1 cup between 4 people. Then she brings out cheese cake like my all time favorite food and says can you have this, my response was i can have anything but if I have some of that I wo't be eating breakfast or lunch tomorrow, she says oh well I 'll just put it in the fridge for me later, she is stick thin. the cheese cake was for my DH's birthday but he hates cheese cake.

I think people just don't think and if they pressure us into having things then they can say see I knew they could't do it (lose weight). But we shall prove them wrong.

Afternoon Lady's,

Another busy weekend gone by and back to the drawing board, I don't even feel like I get a day off anymore,2 days is definelty not enough, I want my 8 and 6 shift back. Spent all day Saturday out, took son to hockey game, Saturday morning, he's really improving, getting more steady on his feet, they won 8 - 1. Than I went grocery shopping spent about 3 hrs doing that, looking at all the christmas stuff and getting lots of idea's for Christmas. I hope to have a picture suitable to send with the christmas cards taken, who has a good scanner, maybe you could post it for me. Yesterday I took son to go see The Santa Clause ( is that how you spell Clause, I really losing it in my old age) It's a cute movie, loved the reindeer, I was surprised he didn't want to see Harry Potter. Spent the rest of the day doing laundry.

As of today I'm back on track, no more picking and eating unhealthy size portions. As you can see by my sig, that I had to add two pounds to it, I really haven't been dieting for the last 3 weeks, and I know if I don't start again today, I'll regret it a year from now, right Sara. My body has been telling me that I'm not eating healthy, my bones ache, and I've been moving around slower again, I have a constant ache in my shoulder, ( I think it's from being on the computer so much, and using the mouse,) but when I was doing the WATP one mile tape using the weights, the pain seemed to subside, and now it's back again. Need to get some excersice in, do you think doing excersise late at night ( which is when I usually get the time ) has just a much effect as when you do it during the day, or ealry morning. Stocked up on lots of low fat foods and veggies, I really want to get back in the 200's, that sounds stupid, but soon I'll be saying the 100's right, If I get down to 220 lbs I'd be happy been their before and was really happy then, and I looked good, I can't remember the last time I was in the 100's. Probably grade 6 or 7, such a long time ago, it's time to start living again, and stop sitting on the sidelines of life.

Hubby got his deer on Saturday, so I'll be able to stock my freezer with some lean meat, deer meat is pretty good, doesn't have a real wild taste like moose. He's hoping to get another one so we can make a bunch of garlic sausage.

Gotta get back to work,

Hi everybody! WI (not Wisconsin) went well this morning. I was down a pound and a half. Yes, not an extraordinary amount, but down, nonetheless! Last week I was down a half pound so this makes two losses in a row. Is it too soon to call it a trend????? I'll try not to get too excited, but that is the first 'two weeks in a row' in a very long time.

2cute: Hope you had a wonderful time with your daughter this weekend. It's gotta be fun to get away!

Katrina: I just had to do a 'trailer check' for Harry Potter. Thank goodness, the lines were incredible, it would have been a real pain in the a$$ to count people. YIKES * Gosh, I'm glad your DH is ok. How scary is that? Running into a car in the middle of the road. And I'm with you, if others had already hit it, why was it still there? OMG!

LuckyLadyBug: Your post about someone to love made me sooooo sad. I'm sorry you have to feel that way. I can't imagine. There really is supposed to be someone out there for everyone. Maybe you just need to move to a more densely populated area! [[[[hugs]]]], honey. It will happen.

Baylee: Thanks for setting up the new 'chat'. I thought someone mentioned Wednesday too but I missed it. Are we trying for a chat on Wednesday? * How did your tests turn out? * That guy at work is a real !!! My goodness, how do you stand it???

Arabella: "Who ever marries their soul mate?" I did!!! But just because he's my soul mate, doesn't mean there aren't bad times too. Marriage is a combination of more than just 50-50. Sometimes it's him giving 100%, and sometimes I'm the one giving 100%. Some days I'm more in love with him than he is with me. And some days he's more in love with me, than I am with him. Marriage is work, there's no denying it, but it's worth it, IMHO.

Sara: You would think that people would take a simple 'no thank you' for an answer, but sometimes that doesn't happen. I'm famous for asking people twice or three times sometimes myself. I don't know if she's so much jealous of you as she might have just been trying to be nice. Whatever the motive, she should have realized that tempting you after you said 'no' was not the right thing to do. Just remember when you say "this woman probably weighs 300 pounds or so and was looking at me in disgust" that alot of US here, are 300 pounds or more. Maybe she thinks you just have no idea what it's like to be that heavy. Or maybe she's very comfortable at her size.

Mary: I was going to say 'Christmas shopping? Already?' But I guess if we don't get started soon, it will be here before we know it. Oh my gosh, it's right around the corner, isn't it? 5 weeks away!

J-ann: I was counting for 8 Mile again this weekend. Didn't have time to sit and see anything. It was either dinner OR a show. DH and I picked dinner! Sat for about the first 1/2 hour of 8 Mile and then the last 10 minutes, but that's it. We counted for 16 show times each day so we were pretty busy.

Michelle: I sure hope your back is better soon. That's really painful and especially with you on the road so much. I guess I missed what 'store' you were getting. I thought it was a property manager's job. It's not surprising I missed something along the way.

Tina: It's done, it's over. Now I get my DH back on Sunday afternoons. Yeah, God!!! Well, at least until February!!!

Dollar: It's interesting how people operate when we're dieting. My MIL and FIL went on WW about the same time I did. And everytime we're together they would ask ME how many points was in something, like they didn't have a book to look it up in. And no one ever got the idea that we could eat whatever, it is just the portion that is in question. I would much rather lose weight a little at a time, eating stuff that is normally around, than to lose quickly and find that I can never eat stuff that is put before me ever again. What fun would that be? And how do we go about vacations and holidays without gaining if we haven't learned how to incorporate 'regular' food into our program?

Well, this has gotten far longer than I ever intended it to. I guess I'll get out of here before I get too opinionated. Oops, too late! I hope to catch up with you all later. I've taken a bit of time off this week (sheer preservation) and hopefully I'll get here a little more often.

Love to all.

Oops, almost forgot, a great quote from my WW leader, Angie:
"Willpower is like a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it gets."

Hi Duckie: sorry I missed you, you were posting when I was. I would have edited, but I thought you might miss it. Glad you got a deer for that freezer. I hear that is very lean meat, and very good for you. Good job getting back 'on track'. I'm looking forward to some success myself. I'm with you, I looked decent at 220. And I can't remember the 100's either. I was around 220 when I got married, 26 years ago. Skinny was never my strong suit!!

Heck, I guess while I'm here, I'll start a new thread.

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