Howdy all!
It's a warm, humid day here in Texas! I wore a t-shirt and shorts for my walk and was wishin' something could come off! Welcome to sauna land.

Hey Ruby, my Cassady has expressed an interest in a few activities: martial arts and tennis plus this Saturday I plan to enroll her in the local summer swim team. She does swim well. It's obvious at this point that team sports are not her bag. What she really wants to take are classes in cooking, painting, sculpture...great stuff that keeps you seated.
Good for you in staying on top of your DS problems, though I can't imagine my girl wearing contacts for another 4-5 years. At least with our private school, the principal really cares about cruelty issues.

Kathly -honey, you gotta be bigger than that food. (like I listen to those words myself) How many times have all of us let our inability to react responsibly jeopardize our health? When I walk lately, I've been mulling over all the things in life that "caused" me to eat. Well, the real truth is that I caused me to eat cause I have poor social skills and don't know how to deal with life. (My poor DD, the blind leading the blind!)And now, how many of those life moments are even important?
In the grand scheme of things, you're 15 pounds lighter than you were last year. Yeah!!

Hey, I logged 35 miles of exercise last week!! BUTT - I way overate three days running (can you say fried catfish, barbeque brisket, baseball mega-nachos.etc) and undid all the good. At least from the scales point of view. I am liking the feel of these new muscles. My goal for my DD September birthday is to have some visible muscle.

Somebody help me out. How in the world do I use the new smilies? And now I forgot where I saw the key. At least the old ones still work!

Y'all take an extra walk for me today!

Well, I haven't written in awhile because I have been having a very stressful time. I got in big trouble at work over what? a silly email joke I sent a friend who messed up and sent it by mistake to our boss...that was so brilliant of her I could just scream ..I am a stress eater and even tho last WI I lost 1.5 I am up 4 pounds right now. It is Tuesday and Thursday is WI!!! I have done my 1.5 miles everyday but I did go over points at dinner three nites in arow and because of my stress level I am holding on to it...So...Dora and kathleen I can relate! Sometime Life just bites!!!!

Anyway if it wasn't for the support of my DH and My Mom (God bless them both!!!) I think I would go insane....

HI to everyone, Ruby, Michelle, Lauren, Dora & Kathleen...hopefully this too shall pass!


Patty
trying to smile in Michigan
303/220(at last WI)/185

Yikes, Patty! I can imagine how tough that would be. Hope everything works out. Hang in there.

How's everybody doing?

Well, I weighed in today in part because I'll be out of town next week and also in part because I tend to weigh less on Saturdays because I get up later! I think I'll move my regular weigh-in to Saturday. Today the scales showed that I dropped a pound, which means I finally hit that 60-pound mark. I told myself when I hit that mark, I would take a long soak in the tub with mineral salts. So that's what I'm going to do this weekend. And I'll bring reading material, too.

I also went clothes shopping last night for the first time in a while. (I need summer business casual clothes for this business trip next week. Everything I have is either too casual -- I wear jeans to work usually -- or too dressy and/or hot.) It was fun trying on clothes for once. I found I spent too much and am going to return a couple of items today. I think I just got carried away due to actually looking good in some of these things!

Hope everyone is doing well. I'll be incommunicado for a while due to business travel next week and then Easter, but I'll try to check in.

Onward and downward,

Lauren
274/214/down

Just back from FL. Kids were on spring break, so we went to visit the in-laws for a few days. Except for 18 hours in the car with 2 kids whose chief entertainment is fighting with each other, it was a good trip. Short and sweet.

Also need to report on the U2 concert a week ago Friday. The concert itself was marvelous. The best I've ever been to. But the best part of the evening was having a 'date' with DH. I bought a new outfit, did my hair up, actually wore make-up, and if I do say so myself, I looked pretty good. I felt beautiful in a way I haven't in a very long time, and DH definitely responded to the vibes I was sending. We had such a wonderful time together.

I haven't been counting points since the concert. Decided to give myself a vacation. I have been consciously trying to make wise choices, though, and have been exercising every day. Hopefully the damage will not be too bad. It's back to counting points tomorrow.

I'm supposed to be unpacking now, so I won't make any personal replies, except to say, woohoo to Lauren for hitting the 60 lb mark.

Have a great week everyone. I'll be back to check in later.

Michele

Howdy all,
Let's give April a new thread of it's very own, what say?