Obviously it didn't work. Anyone know how a picture has to be saved for it to come across? It's a bitmap file now. Humph! Any help would be appreciated

Hi all!

Yesterday I did good on the self challenge. I walked for an hour and I stayed in points range (although I consumed my 5 activity points that I had accumulated this week!) I am just soooo hungry. Today I am doing o.k. I am at 13 pts and it is only 11 am here! I gotta get my mind off of food/growling tummy. It's just so hard to do!

I am planning on doing my stretching on the weekends with a tape that I have got. It's a pilates/yoga tape. It's quite challenging, but you feel so relaxed afterwards.

Becky: I love butterflies to, they are so peaceful and beautiful. AHHH. It's kind of like watching a fish tank, it's just relaxing.

Brenda: not sure how to get the pic to come through, but I was wondering the same thing myself. Anybody?? I am computer illiterite. LOL

I gotta run, I have to much to do and no time! *sigh* my favorite saying is "this to shall pass!" I have to repeat it frequently with toddlers.

I'll try to come back and chat soon

Jen ~ You are too kind. I did wait til I was done having my children before I got the belly button pierced. Somehow I didn't picture myself 9 months pregnant with a ring in my button!!!!

Trish ~ I think I am going to make the peanut butter pie I think onebusymomma? posted and a relish tray. That should be pretty healthful!

Brenda ~ We are buying 35 acres of land, really nice. Has trees and sloping hillsides and no close neighbors. We hope to build our dream house a year from this fall.

Well, I walked 2 miles on my lunch hour (actually in a half an hour), and I feel better. I haven't worked out since last week, I was feeling tired alot, I always feel like I have more energy when I walk and such!

Thanks to everyone for the concern of my son. He has brochial asthma, I received a nebulizer and am giving him albuterol treadments 2-3 times a day. So far it isn't helping much, but I think I need to give it some time. He also has a terrible case of bronchitis on top of it, so he is on pediapred, zithromax and claritin, the poor thing is a walking pharmacy!!!! He's happy though, and it doesn't seem to bother his mood too much, so I'll go with the flow!

Well, back to the grind....check in later!!

Trish: Only got ½ hour more last night than I have been lately (thanks Mom). I’m working on it. Things are actually getting better with my new leader. I love her as a person, it’s just that whole breaking in period that sucks. Now today it’s my boss who is being crunchie! OK, sounds like you are supposed to start this thing on Monday, so do we shoot for Monday then?? I can get on at work btw.

Ali: My parents didn’t let me get my ears pierced the first time until I was 13. All through HS I wanted them double pierced. My dad told me ‘not as long as you live under this roof’ When I had to get my own place after running out of college money *sigh* that’s the first thing I did. Literally. I think I was out of the house maybe 2 weeks or so. My dad was so mad at me *evil grin* About tattoos, that’s what I’ve heard with the pain. We’ll see!

Emily: A friend of mine closes her eyes and repeats: ‘I love my kids I’m a happy mom, I love my kids I’m a happy mom.’ as fast as she can. Cracks me up!

Tonya: You have to take your ring out when you find out you are pregnant. 35 acres is a great piece of land! Wow! Do you have prints done for the house you want? I’m sending *hugs* to your son!

OK, I still need picture help!! How do I convert a bmp file to a gif, jpg or txt?? That's what the attach file thing at the bottom of the reply screen says it has to be to be valid.

Brenda... do you have a Photoshop or other picture type program that lets you do edits to a pic?? If so, open the picture up in that program and save it as another format! Hope that helps!!

I am not feeling any brighter today... maybe a little. At lunch I went shopping an bought the cutest dress. Hubby rolled his eyes about it! I am nut he says! I also bought a bottle of Coke, but will work the points in! I will not let a little downer blow my SELF CHALLENGE!! I drink Soda very slow. This bottle will last me all afternoon! A can usually lasts me a couple hours. I take small sips. That bugs hubby beyond belief.. he chugs them! Needless to say, we never share, because I usually get NONE!

Tonight Emma and Hubby are supposidly going to Menards. How weird is that?? I go to my get together and he drags the baby to a home building store??

Tonya.... Hug your little one for me. Emma was horribly sick 2 weeks ago, but is better now. 3 babies at daycare came down with RSV... luckily we didn't let Emma get that bad, but if we would have waited a couple more days, I am sure she would have gotten that bad. Those poor little coughs break my heart, because there is nothing we can do to help! I hope your little guy gets better soon!

Stacey... I hate those "supervised moments". Good Lcuk!

Well, gotta get back to work... blahhhhh

Hello all. Well, I am so excited that I foud the little profile picture thing. I picked that ugly little dog because his name on the list was "Tiny." It was wishful thinking.

Brenda: OK, Monday it is! Maybe this is what we need?!!? Ok, now I am excited! Oh, you sound like me with my folks when I first was in college. I had these really cute tight jeans with rips in them (it was 1990) and my dad HATED them. I was so not alowd to wear them in HS. As soon as I got to college, had them on all of the time...and always when I went home.

Jen: we are a week behind (sometimes it takes me longer to get on with a good thing) but we will work at it with you all! Maybe you shoudl check with your Dr. re: a little bit of the blues? even if Emma is 4mo, it could still be that? anyway, I love new dresses!! Bet yours is so cute!

Tonya: Have fun tonight. That sounds yummy!

Ali: it is funny when we do things without any input. I am 30(gasp) and still run some things by my mom. But there are others that I don't tell her about at all. But now it is my hubby that gets all the questions.

Hello to eveyone else. Must get back to work.

Trish

Hi everyone! Just had Cuban food for lunch, but I don't think I ate too much. I'll eat light for dinner just in case. I've got to get my willpower back. Yesterday, after swearing to do better, I went home and made baked chicken for dinner. Then a friend came over with a rental movie and a bottle of wine. I had three glasses, and by the time I went to bed, I was so mad at myself. You'd think I would have learned by lunchtime! Argh! Brenda: I'll go register and Sunday sounds like a good day to start!

Ali: I've often thought I'd get a tattoo when I reached my goal. I was thinking shoulder blade or foot area. Not sure what I'd get, maybe one of the symbols that stands for my astrological sign, Libra. My sister has a tattoo on her foot of a little daisy and it's really cute. I've never gotten into the whole piercing thing. One of my ears is double-pierced, and I keep a little earring in there but hardly ever wear earrings in the regular holes! It's too much of a pain when you're talking on the phone so much like my job requires!

Becky: If you get by Roanoke we'll have to meet up! I've been here about two and half years, and the time has flown by. And I love the star. It cheers me up everytime I see it, and when I've been out of town, it reminds me that I'm home. Girls, the star we're talking about is an 88-foot-high electrical star made of neon tubing that sits on a small mountain in Roanoke and shines down on the city. It goes on every night, and it's so cheery! When I first moved here, I thought it was tacky, but it's grown on me. There's also a park and a zoo on the mountain that you can visit, and it's a fave spot to go late at night. You can look over the lights of the city. During the day, you can see the mountains that surround the city. Roanoke's nickname is "Star City of the South."

But while it's a pretty place, Tonya, it's given me the same breathing problems your son has! I have bronchial asthma, which i developed after living here a year. Because the city is in a valley, all the stale air kinda gets trapped in the "bowl" and it aggravates allergies. I'm sure the weight might play into the asthma a little, though, because since I lost 20 lbs I'm already breathing a little better. I'm on the same sort of meds ... I use one kind of inhaler twice a day, and have another for emergencies. I also take Singulair once a day. Every January I seem to come down with bronchitis, and then I'm on antibiotics and steroids until it's over with. This year wasn't bad, but last year, I had bronchitis for about 2 months.

Well, I need to do a little work. I'm off tomorrow, because of all the hours I worked last week, and I can't wait. Brian's off too and we actually will have THREE whole days together. I can't remember the last time that happened. I don't even hear him come home at night anymore. And when I get up in the morning, he's sleeping.

I just ate an apple. Yay, me!

I forgot to mention about my dress..... THE SALES LADY WAS NICE TO ME!!!!! Hah... I think I am boycotting that other store from now on, I am still a little steamed about it!!!!

I just joined the Self Challenge.... Now I gotta start stretching. I have a short flexability workout by Kathy Smith, perhaps I'll use that.

Kim: Cool! I am a Libra too(My b-day's Oct 2). Yeah I am waiting for goal either way so it gives me some time to think (actually I'll probably wait until I make lifetime). Wow three days with your significant other, that's great, have a wonderful weekend!

Trish: I think the thing is, my mom and I are very close, so I generally tell her everything and consult with her on everything. She's a cool mom though, she's never been smothering and all my friends like her. She also dances to dance music in the kitchen sometimes, she's a free-spirit!

Jen: I am often a sipper of soft-drinks as well, I take my time.

Brenda: I was 12 before I was allowed to get my ears pierced, right before I turned 12, my dad tried to extend it to 16. My mother let me get it done anyway. I can understand why she wanted me to wait, I am sensitive to a lot of metals (as it was today I had to buy the more expensive studs, but they're fine) also friends of mine who had them done young had tons of troubles (often due to wearing dangling earrings before they were ready for it).

Tonya: walking at a pace of 4 miles an hour is supurb! I am really sorry about your son though. I was diagnosed as asthmatic as a child, but now they think I had whopping cough (another girl had it as well at the same time as me and we both got the asthma diagnoses).

Emily: Congrats on the SELF challenge! I have a big dinner on Saturday so I have been banking all week!

Stacey: Another October Baby! Cool, I am as well.

Take Care!

Ali

I just joined the Self challenge, too!

Ali - Yeah, I went to U of C to get my degree!!

I don't have toomuch time here to post, so I am gonig to post the paragraph I emailed to Kim earlier today....

I know just how you feel about things coming back to haunt you -
I have
hit a huge plateau and even when I do thing RIGHT I am not seeing
results. I don't know what to do to get out of that, I wish
there was a
trick. I don't have advice for you obviously, but your post
triggered
me to think about why we are at 3FC. B/c we will struggle with
weight
for the rest of our lives, it won't go away. We will lose the
weight,
some of us will gain and some will maintain it, but it will
always be an
issue. 20 years from now we will still have to watch what we eat
and if
we splurge it will come back to haunt us, we will probably not
like
"regular" exercise still. That is why we flock together on this
medium,
to know we aren't alone and hold eachother's hands when we have
these
bad feelings, and to remind eachother that we will encourage
eachother
to become thin, but that we will be thin people who work at it.
Together. It sucks to be in this boat sometimes, but I think
people who
struggle and work at things like weight are better people really,
cuz
they look beyond those things and like on our site, we have this
wonderful humanity going on - we genuinely care for one another
and want
eachother to succeed. Its amazing, and comforting that we are
not going
through these feelings alone.

Anyway, those are my deep thoughts for hte day...and now, off to dream up a communications strategy!

Have a good day girls, I hope I get more 3FC time tomorrow...might have to come in early...

Belle

Belle ~ You just made me cry. That was beautiful. And so true.

Kim ~ I just realized that you're from Roanoke. I visited there last summer! My best friend worked in Vinton and in Roanoke. She worked for the Blue Ridge Parkway desiging ADA trails and then at the Outback steakhouse at night to make money. It was one of the best trips. We hiked flat top mountain, went to every winery within a days drive, and basically had a great time. I don't remember the star (I guess we had too much wine ). Good luck on the Self challenge! I started it, but I didn't do it yesterday.

Good afternoon to everyone else!

WARNING... LONG VENT TO FOLLOW. IGNORE IF YOU WANT TO!!


Belle.... so true. I am glad you posted that here also, because it really made me think.

I have a confession... I used to post on this thread back in 1999 when I was on WW for the first time. this thread really didn't accept me into it's "clique" and I was frustrated. So I started my own under Clubs and it was wonderful. After having Emma I came back and decided to give this thread another try. You all accepted me immediately and made me feel like part of the "family''! Thank you!

Kim... Every time I see your posts... I look at that dog pic you have and giggle. That dog is sooooo cute with his huge floppy ears!!!

45 minutes of work left. HUUURAAAAAAYYYYYYYY. I still don't feel like being social. Honestly, it bothers me. I want to be, yet I still don't feel like it. Sometimes I think my extra PG weight makes me self conscious and causes me to withdraw. Not sure, but I think that may also be part of my social problem lately. Also, if I have never told you about my MIL you are lucky.... she is very mean to me and judgemental! She makes me feel aweful about myself! I hate that. Hubby doesn't much care for his family because of the way they treat people. We are on a break from them at the moment... which makes me sad since I don't Emma to be hurt by aweful g-parents! AND, a couple weeks ago she called and told hubby that if Emma was not going to be home (she and I were at a party) there was no reason to visit.... her son didn't even count in her book!! He was hurt. She only lives 45 minutes away.... AND (I could go on and on)... when Emma was born, she invited all these people to our house and hour after we got home from the hospital, without telling us, and I was so overwhelmed I sat in the bathroom and cried! Then she said to me.. Give me MY baby.... Yup you read that right! It is an aweful twisted mess and I jsut needed to vent that out! Gee the more I think about it, I have a lot of things that are making me blue at this moment!

OK, this got way to long and venty... Sorry about that. I guess I had a lot of steam to release. Thanks for reading....

Jen: I just want to jump through the computer and give you a huge hug! I know some of what you are going through. As I you will read below, my mom doesn’t like my hubby – that’s actually an understatement. While our situations are very different, the basis is that it hurts – and hurts A LOT! Every once in awhile I have to cry about it. My own mother had to force a smile for my wedding pictures and you can tell by looking at them. I don’t know what advice I can give other than it will take time to find a way to deal with the situation, but you probably won’t ever find a ‘solution’ per say. It’s been very hard for me to accept that fact with my situation. My heart goes out to you. Just remember what you DO have. Your own family!!

On the computer stuff --That did help but now I can’t get the picture small enough for 3fc’s to take it. It also gets fuzzier and more unclear the smaller I make it. You have to understand this is the first time I have worked with pictures at all. I guess hubby wants to start her early on being a tom boy huh?? I had to laugh at you and the nice Saleslady!

Trish: I hear you on the mom thing. Unfortunately my mom doesn’t like my hubby and is VERY judgmental, so she knows only selective things about my day to day life. It’s very sad b/c she used to be like my best friend. I just have to learn from it I guess. Monday! Monday? I’ll probably register this weekend if it will let you choose your start date. I’m getting excited about doing this! Kim’s with us, what about you Jen?

Kim: Looks like it’s Monday actually that we are starting. Did it let you choose your start date? Isn’t it funny how that wine can sneak up on you?

Ali: I got my belly button pierced a few months before the wedding and had an allergic reation to the nickel in the metal. They told me to use bactine to clean the piercing with and it turns out I’m allergic to that too! I ended up with my whole stomach puffy and red. I swear it was 12” in diameter. Sorry if TMI, but anyone considering it should use Gold if you have sensitive skin. I had to take mine out 2 days after I got it. I don’t know if I’ll ever get it done again. We’ll see once I make lifetime!

Belle: What you wrote was wonderful and absolutely true! If not for you and everyone here, the chances of me quitting would be much greater. We are a kind of family that in a way is much more important than our own blood. We KNOW exactly what the other one is feeling and thinking. Just knowing you all go through the same things I do helps. There’s always someone in a good mood to help those in a bad mood. Have you noticed that we take turns at it? No matter where life takes us or what we do, we will always carry a piece of each other in our hearts forever.

“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.” -- Epicurus

If felt good to hear that someone understands. About my MIL, she liked me until we got engaged. Then she got all freaky and told hubby that she was losing him. HUHHHH??? He wasn't even living there. Ever since that, I am on her crap list. She made our wedding miserable, even made me cry at the rehearsal dinner! And I am one up on you.... she NEVER smiles in any pictures I am in... even the wedding ones! She was even holding Emma on the day we come home... and she has a scowl on her face. UGHHH. It have been 4 weeks since we have talked to her, and we both dread the next call, thinking it will be her.

GET this.. This one is a topper. 4 weeks ago, they decided to come over without calling. Just Emma and I were home. BUT, I was in the basement cleaning up some things and Emma was napping. I didn't answer the door. SO for an hour they drove back and forth past the house till hubby came home... then snotted at me when they stormed in! He was furious they did that. The funny part is that I was on the computer about 15 minutes later and looked out the front window and swore it was them driving by.... AND, our garage door was open, so you could tell my car was there!

UGGGHHHH... Maybe this was more than anyone cares to hear.... but I felt I needed to get it off my chest. Thank you again for reading!

OHHH... forgot... I am 28 (gonna be 29 in May) and hubby is 25.... the age difference really bothers her!!!

I feel like I am dealing with children when it comes to them!!

Hope everyone has a nice night, don't let my downer day get you down!