Good morning. We're up early doing some yard work. I cooked a healthy bfast for us first. Yesterday was a blur. Seems I was running all day. Today's much easier. I am eating well and am doing some exercise. The roof may collapse.

Pam, I hope your tests come out well. The dump cake was a big hit. More of it was eaten than my "civilian" cakes.

Rhonda, your new exercise routine sounds good to me. So does your 4th meal. Kudos, my cousin!

Vickie, my gf and I are doing exercises in a local pool now. I think of you when we do them. I hope you get into the water soon.

Maryann, your parfait sounds delish--and patriotic!

Ems, I hope you get good news.

Good morning:

Pam, about exercise..it helps me enormously to have a personal trainer, to whom I am accountable. He is fantastic for me. About the trial...I never believed that the prosecution was meeting the "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard, and that's a standard we need to have. But, it's hard not to have resolution to such a sad story. What a messed-up family.

Vickie, for you about your sister.

Ems, don't beat yourself up about the exams. Jojo, you sound like my late sister who was also a nurse...buy a bucket, indeed.

Sandra: my hat's off to you if you're working outside. I have so much to do and the mosquitos are eating me alive. I don't even want to be out there. What's your solution to that?

Hi Ladies. I hope you all enjoyed the holiday weekend. We were busy all weekend, and I was not as diligent about tracking as I should have. We had our meeting today, I decided to skip the weigh in but I did go to the meeting. I'm glad I did -- I'm now focused to get back on track. If I skipped the meeting to skip weighing in I think I would have continued blowing it.

So, I'm back to being focused and will work hard to stay on track and shoot for a loss next week.

Ems, good luck on getting your results. Nothing you can do now - just move forward with what you need to do.

Vickie, I hope your sister is doing better. HUGS to you.

Nancy, thoughts are with you.

Its hot and humid today - I'm glad I'm at work. I was home yesterday and just running errands wore me out. I still prefer the winter cold to summer heat -- even thinking back to the 5 feet of snow that covered our yard from the day after Christmas to March. I do prefer the snow to heat. Oh well, we'll just have this for another month or so in the North East. Not sure how you texas and southern girls deal with more than that!

Have a good one!

Had some nice family time the last few days.
My grandson spent the night over last night and talked me into a hamster
that will be kept at my house. His dog is Polo so he named the hamster Marco.

My boys all had hamsters and I guess I want my grandson to have the same fun.

Thanks for being so supportive this year.. Its been a rough year but I am beginning to have good days.Today was a good day. Enjoyed my Grandson and then my daughter & son in law came for dinner.
Sold 2 big items I think (a 16 ft trailer & Table saw) I am also making good progress on the house repairs.

Well, Nancy, your GS knows a soft touch when he sees one!

Have any of you had a broccoli raisin salad? I had some that my niece made last night, then I saw a recipe for it on the South Beach thread here on 3FC. It is delicious.

Nancy Never mind 'Beware of Greeks bearing gifts' Beware of kids when they want something I say. When my cousin's son was about 12, he rang us up and asked if we would like a mouse! He wanted a pet mouse but his mother wouldn't have one in the house so, knowing I was a soft touch, he decided to lodge the mouse with us. I put my foot down over that I can tell you!

Morning. My girls had hamsters, and their friend brought his over to visit and then we had baby hamsters. I was always afraid of them. My sister once had a white rat named Willie. I spent the night and Willie got out of his cage and ended up in my face in the middle of the night. I screamed!!! Of course, she thought it was funny. I still shiver thinking about it.

Rhonda, I will check out the recipe when I post this.

jojo, we have to put our foot down in certain situations, lol.

I ate great yesterday, but up a pound today. Makes no sense. I am going to track again, so maybe I can drop a few more pounds.

Have a great day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good morning Ladies

Another hot humid sticky day. I'm not going out any more today had to put my garbage out to the curb and it wasn't comfortable.Going to visit my friends by phone. If I get cabin fever I will go down to the beach once the sun go down.

SANDRA-Thanks i just added blue, strawberries to cool whip.Glad you had a easy day comparing to t he one you the day before. What do you mean that your roof is going to collapse?? Its from all the storms that you had.


PAULA-I'm a winter person also,I hate the heat. I can't seem to breath in this kind of weather. You gals can have all the heat if you like that sort of thing.I'm with Paula 100%.Going to put the a/c on very soon.


NANCY-Happy to hear that the day are getting lighter for you,I knew it would. My dgc took me into a pet store & wanted to buy me a gerble but I told them NO WAY!!! I rather have the stuffed teddy bear they bought me for Christmas.


PAM-That pound might be just water retention.I wouldn't worry about it.


Have a great day

Maryann, stay cool. Once we turn the AC on in KY, it's on until at least Sept/Oct. It's hotter here in KY than when I spent the summers in FL. Florida, it usually was low 90's, but in KY it's closer to 100.

Nancy, I forgot to say I'm glad your days are getting better. Got distracted about the hamsters.

Paula, grew up in Michigan, had terrible winters. Don't miss it. Give me the heat!!! I do have to admit though, when I was a letter carrier, I would take winter over summer. I layered in winter, nothing you can do about the heat, couldn't strip down, lol.

It's hot and humid here too Maryann... well, that's at the moment. In 24 hours we can go from hot to cool to foggy to muggy to cold. Never known anything like it.
Last Sunday, I was so cold I took a hot water bottle to bed. On Monday night, I had a 4pint plastic milk bottle full of ice in front of the fan on my bedside table, it was so humid.

When I was living in the nurses home , a huge barn of a place with over 500 staff in it. My mate had a pet hamster in his room. Pets were against regulations so he kept it hidden when he was at work. One day it got out and it took us 3 hours (everybody looking) to find it. This same lad, found a dead owl on the side of the road and tried to get a taxidermist to stuff it. None would touch it because it had been dead some time. I sent him, anonymously, a packet of sage and onion stuffing. He soon got rid of the bird.

Don't worry about it Pam My weight can vary by as much as 3lbs during a day

I'm the same Paula I hate the heat and love frosty cold and snowy days. My contention is that, in cold weather you can wrap up nice and warm, but there's only so much you can legally take off in the hot weather

My mum rang last evening, another resident dialled it for her. She wanted to know who her father was because she couldn't remember. It upset me no end

hey girls hope your all well i lost 2.5lbs yesterday only 2.5lbs to go for my birthday goal i hope i get it. I passed 4 out of the 5 exams woohoo
xxx

Good Morning Ladies

Very cloudy this morning excepting some scattered thunder bummers though out the day. Have to out to the bank to deposit the condo fees & to pick up my meds. Now I hear on the radio that that bank was robbed and the man got away by foot. So he couldn't have gone far so I thinking about holding off and going to the bank on Monday.

Also reported on the radio was ever since the trail 4 tots [around 4] drowned in there swimming pools without any supervision. What going on this old world of ours. It seems we don't hear any good things that are going on.


PAM-Those temps or 90 or 100 is stay in an a/c house temps. Try to stay cool also.


JOJO-Don't know if that normal for England but just stay cool and don't do to much, have to reserve energy .


EMS-Congrats on your 2,5 weight loss you be there by your birthday goal.

Have to get off of the computer thunder storms are all around us.


Have a great day

Maryann, the more pools that are built, the more children who are going to drown. That's just the way it is. It takes only a small amount of water and a second of inattention, as I'm sure you know.

Congrats, Ems.

Jojo, I understand that could be very upsetting. I remember that my brother-in-law's mother, who had Alzheimers, knew who I was, but she played with me as if I were a child, as I was when she met me.

Since my knee is injured, I've been doing mostly upper body weight lifting. Last year, I couldn't do even one military-style push up; now I can do three sets of 10 to 15 a set.

Now, if I could just get the body fat to go! It gets distressing at times.

Hi ladies. Just a quick stop by to share my yummy and low point dinner last night. I had Ball Park Fat Free Beef franks - 1 point each, wrapped up in a piece of Lavash. I had 2 dogs (2 points) and I used one piece of Lavash (1 point) cut in 1/2 and did the wraps. So 3 points in total for 2 hot dogs!

I must say - for a fat free dog, they were very very good. I've tried the chicken and turkey ones and I was not a fan at all. These are worth having.

Just wanted to share.

I've been back on track since our meeting Wed. Tracking everything! I hope you are all doing well

EMS - congrats on the loss and for your exams. You did better than you thought! At least its over and you can set up a game plan for the next semester.

WAY TO GO EMS


and who didn't think she had done very well then