Hello again!
Well I am finally home and waiting for Tanner to get sleepy so we all can take a nap, lol.
Leigh, enjoy your dinner tonight. I've never heard of that place but it sounds neat! I'm sure you will do great there. When is your kit suppose to arrive?
Michelle, sounds like you have kept yourself busy today! I haven't even made my bed yet. But that is normal on fridays. I'll do my morning routine and all that after nap time.
Penny I have heard of those happy meals, none of our mcd's serves them yet. but then again I don't really like salads so I don't know if they will work for me. But great choice! I too had mcd's for lunch, but since I was using flexpoints I didn't get anything healthy, lol.
Jessi don't feel bad for posting when you aren't OP. That is why we are here. I remember once a year or so ago no one was losing weight or OP hardly ever yet we still posted everyday just to see how life was going. So stick with us! You'll find your motivation very soon!
Melinda, congrats on the 2# gone!!! That is a great WI! You too Cindi!!! Keep up the good work!
Ginny I forgot all about warmer weather causing us to gain a couple of lbs. Ugh. One more thing to look forward to this summer, lol. Have a great day!
Well... I rented a few movies for the weekend and got all my grocery shopping done so I feel good. I will go tan tonight and then stay put all weekend. What does everyone else have planned? I know Geri will be having fun at that b-day party!
TTYL!

Penny - Does the pedometer really work? I was thinking of getting a Go Active meal to get the pedometer. Probably just one more thing for me to get obsessive about, counting steps. Thanks for the nursing advance. JW pulled up in his crib this morning. We lowered the matress and took out the bumpers,but now he is sticking his feet out the slants. He is using the bumpers to climb though. Now we are over the SIDS thing, but I am worried now that he will climb out.

Leigh - You are like us in the eating out. We used to eat out 4-5 times a week, now we have narrowed it down to just the weekends. I have the Conusmer Reports stuff on the jogging strollers. I don't know if it is worth the money. I am not really a jogger. I might feel stupid walking behind that big thing.

Spryng - Errands done. How often does flylady say clean the sheets. I do mine once a week.

I am going to a Mother Daughter Banquet with my mom,both grandmas, my aunt- godmother tonight. JW is going to MIL house until dh comes home. That is about all for the weekend. No bigs plan. The moms club is having a garage sale on the 22nd,so i hope to get some junk out of my house.

Michelle, you should be able to go down to the county recorder's office and look up the property information there. You are correct that this is public information, and it certainly sounds like you need it! I would not only make a phone call, but also write a letter documenting your request. Its obviously no secret who called the cops on them, so why not give the landlord a little extra ammo to get them out?

Good job everybody on your WI's this morning, it sounds like everybody's had a little struggle this week...must be in the air. I lost 3lbs water weight overnight, and am back to my 165, which makes it a "maintain" week. I'll be looking forward to the end of next week, when the ol' TOM problem works itself out, and I can see a true wieght. I'll be pissed though if its a maintain week again. I am really working hard to cut those calories! Thanks to whomever it was that suggested the Fitday.com website, I LOVE it! I think it will be my most valuable tool to keep everything under control.

I ate about a cup of blackbeans cooked with a small amount of chorizo for lunch, and >oz of queso fresco, with about 32 oz of water, I am so full.....I'll bet I'm starving within 3 hours though, that can't possibly be enough food to keep me full till dinner.

Oh, Michelle, one more thing, thanks for reminding me to take my multi-vitamin with teh increased water...that hadn't even occurred to me.

Great job this week everybody, looking forward to another great week next week!

Lisa

Okay, this is going to not be personal either, I'm making a habit of this. But being gone all day it's like crazy, all the dang posts, great but crazy.

Spryng, glad you got your errands ran. Me too. My oldest is at my mom's. So I rented some movies too..."The Last Samurai", "Matchstick Men", and "Looney Toons Back In Action". I'm glad you mentioned those flex points. I had talked about doing that with calories. And today I used some. I'll do good the rest of the weekend and I didn't exactly binge today. I had a few bites of an oatmeal cream pie, only 3 bites and then I got all the kids a shake at sonic and I just drank some from each of theirs. It probably totaled 1/2 of one or maybe a whole one. But believe it or not, I used to have those shakes probably about 3 times a WEEK or so and that was the first in months and months. Tomorrow I'm going with my mom and my kids and one of my sister's kids to the zoo. We're packing our lunch, so I'll be able to do well. I'll just consider today my flex cals.

Penny, I went to McD's today too and I didn't know they had those happy meals for adults. I got the same salad as you and it was good, but I didn't get the rest of the stuff. I'll try that next time. McD's is all the way at the other end of town and I don't hardly ever go there.

Michelle, sorry about your neighbors. That's why I LOVE the country. Our closest neighbor is my step FIL and his family but we go days w/o seeing them and obviously never hear them. The country is the best.

Ricci, I would certainly say your scale needs to be dumped.

Jessi, that's okay to not be OP, I went three days last weekend, binging just about and doing bad but managed to not gain a lb. from that. Of course, the point is to lose but when I don't gain after an incident like that, I'm just as thrilled as I would be otherwise.

Lisa, sounds like you are doing great. It's okay to have a maintain week, better than a gain.

Melinda, hope you have fun at the banquet.

Cindi, great on the loss girly. You know you'll get your house back in order in no time. You've got the whole weekend to get back into it.

Well girls, I'm gonna get off for a bit. I just got home and need to read through the mail and put away some laundry and vacuum before dh comes home. Hope everyone has a great night if I don't get to post again. I'll be gone early tomorrow to the zoo, it's about an hour and a half to get there. TTYL

Hey girls!!

I have gotten my house sorta together again. I did the floors, the kitchen and the dining room...still need to do several loads of laundry and sanitize the bathrooms. It's nice to feel human again! I wouldn't just die if someone came over, as long as they didn't leave the living room

I think Flylady says to clean the sheets as part of the home blessing hour which is weekly.

I don't know how I will celebrate my 20# loss, any ideas?

My ds brought home his baby simulator, so I am a grandma for the weekend. Have you all ever seen these things? They are quite cute. It's a boy!!!! But he hasn't named him yet!!

I'll check back in after I watch Days! LOL!!

Hope you are all having the greatest Friday!

Good evening Ladies!

Lisa - Thanks for the info about the county recorders office I had no Idea where to go to get the info. Way to go on working hard and staying on plan!! Keep it up girly!!

Jessi - Glad to see you posting!! Now quit hiding and come see us when you need support!!

Crystal - Wow sounds like you have a fun weekend ahead of you!! I hope you have a great time!

Melinda - Have fun at your mother daughter banquet!!

Spryng - I rented some movies also, I got Gothika, Peter Pan, and Hope Springs. I can't wait for the kids to go to bed tonight so hubby and I can have some time for ourselves lol.

Well I got my grocery shopping done and went to Target and got Teagan an infants swing to put on our swingset in the back yard I'm sure she'll love it. I also went to Wal-Mart and I found Taylor a light summer jacket for 3 bucks, and its not even ugly lol!! Dinner was turkey meatloaf, a crap load of squash and a crap load of cauliflower lol!! But the good news is I got up to 1190 calories today which is great!! I had cottage cheese and smoked turkey for breakfast and about half way through I was choking it down lol. No exercise today but I'm gonna double time it tomorrow one right after the other so I get a good workout in.

I'm gonna go watch Peter Pan with Tay and hubby. I hope you all have a great night.

Michelle

Another quick hello. I came down here to balance the checkbook and pay some bills and of course I had to stop here and TRY to catch up on all the posts!!

I forgot to mention that Tony's been taking about 3 steps for about 3-4 days now!! Then yesterday he picked himself up off the floor before he took his steps to me rather than crawling over to a piece of furniture. My baby's getting sooo big! Will didn't walk until he was 14 months old. I think Tony will be really moving along in a couple of weeks. He laughs and smiles so much when he takes his steps.

OK, proud Mama just had to brag. Sorry not to get personal but I have work to do..lol

TTYL!!

Ricci,
Did you get you another scale yet woman!? That is nutts! There is no way you gained ten pounds in a couple days! Now, if you have a scale that says you lost ten pounds in a couple days..... I'll buy that one from you

Jessi,
I know exactly how you feel! I do the exact same thing. When I am off plan I never post. PM me when you get a chance if you want.

Leigh,
If you need some temp info on ww I posted some of the forms on our webpage if you want to check it out!

Cindi,
Congrats on your 20 pound mark! You are doing awesome!!!!

Lisa,
Congrats on maintaining this week! I always say I'll take it over a gain anyday! But I know that you would rather a loss! You are doing great! Keep it up!

Crystal,
Have fun at the zoo tomorrow! I tell ya you could have used the pedometer tomorrow! Is the zoo big? I know the ones here are and it is alot of walking!!!

Spryng,
I wonder why dh is checking out your bod lately YOU ARE ON FIRE! Congrats on the loss!

Geri,
Did you get everything ready for the party, huh huh huh???? Hope it is a wonderful day for the boys! Save me some cake !

Tonight was my night to splurge on whatever meal I wanted when we went out to eat....The resturant has a healthy section on the menu... Well, I ended up having a grilled chicken breast with tai sauce, a small side salad and shrimp n corn soup! For some reason, when I got there I just didn't have a craving for anything other than the things I have been eating! And being that my weigh in is on Sunday I didn't want to blow it!

Our family reunion is tomorrow. I saved the other chicken breast from the restuarant for lunch tomorrow at the reunion. Everyone is bringing there own food so I don't mind bringing my chicken with me!

Spryng,
I will let you know soon what my weigh in is! You only have a couple more days to wait......... LOL J/J It is not like ten pounds or anything.... lol

Ok Ladies, I hope you all have a wonderful night!

OH BTW,

Geri,
CONGRATS TO TONY!!!!!!!!!!



That is awesome!!!!!!1

Good evening all!
Well I am not usually up this late but I just finished watching Matrix Revolution, I really liked it. I had seen the fist one when it came out a couple years ago and liked it but when the second one came out I never saw it until about two weeks ago (it was on hbo) and I remembered why I loved the first one (of course Keaneau is sooo adorable) and this last one was really good. Looks like there might be a 4th someday.
But anyway, let me get personal...
Penny, thanks for your sweet words!! I don't feel like am "on fire" but we never see ourselves like others do, do we? lol. But I'll take your compliment!!! Sounds like you did great eating out tonight!!! Good choices! Your WI will be so great on sunday! Have fun at your family reunion!
Geri congrats to Tony!!!! Isn't it so cute to watch them walk? Tanner is still mostly crawling but he can walk accross the entire house by himself. I think he knows he can get there faster if he crawls, but he's getting better everyday! I figure in another week or so I won't see much crawling anymore so I'm enjoying while it lasts. Don't forget to get pictures!!
Michelle, how did you like Peter Pan? My kids LOVED it. I'll have to buy it soon. My dd watched it twice a day while I had it here, lol. I liked Gothika too. Never heard of that other one though. I rented The Matrix, A Man Apart (with the scrumptious Vin Diesel, lol) And Out of Time. (and Bambi for the kids which they love)
Cindi, sounds like your house is coming right along. I didn't do ANYTHING in that department today (I didn't even make my bed) but I will spend the entire morning tomorrow cleaning, but the house still looks great despite taking a day off. Well, I did do something. I picked up the living room and the kids rooms before bed time, so I guess that is a little something, lol. Now I don't feel completely lazy, lol. And to celebrate your 20#loss??? What about clothes!!! I love new clothes. Or maybe treat yourself to some great bath products or a massage or facial or manicure or maybe you can buy a charm bracelet and every time you lose 5, 10 lbs you can buy a new special charm for it? Everytime I've hit a milestone I've bought myself clothes though. I LOVE clothes and shoes. lol.
Jessi, I guess I didn't know you did WW. How do you like it? How long have you been on it? Maybe you've told me before and I forgot, my poor dead brain... or is it brain dead, LOL.
Crystal, you'll have to let me know how Matchstick Men was, I almost rented it today (I LOVE Nic Cage) but then decided not to. And I loved the last samarai, but I cried like a baby through alot of it. But it was a great movie. Now I am anxious to see Troy. Enjoy the zoo tomorrow! Your zoo is the same distance away as our zoo is. So it will be a long day for you all. Have lots of fun!
Lisa, I LOVE chorizo!!! No one else in this family does though. I love to make it with scrambled eggs and wrap it in hot tortillas. Mmmmm.... when I was on atkins I would eat it all day long.
Melinda, I hope you enjoyed your mother daughter banquet! How nice to spend quality time with your mom. Always cherish that.

Well, I need to get in bed. I had a diet pepsi earlier so I am still not too tired but I know if I don't force myself to sleep I'll pay for it tomorrow. Oh, I do have some good news! I bought a new workout dvd today on amazon.com. I went to that collagevideos.com and checked out all kinds of workout tapes and narrowed it down to ones that weren't dance or aerobic but toning, and not just any kind of toning, but weights and FAST results toning. And I found one tape that got excellent reviews on that site and amazon.com, it is called Crunch-Boot Camp Training and it looks very good. It's 30 mins of intense toning with weights (dumbells) anyway, I am soooo excited about it! Alot of people who wrote reviews said they lost inches right away and saw results just after a few sessions. So it should be here in 4-10 days and I can't wait to start it!!! I really am ready to start a strict exercise program of at least 3x's a week but possibly more. I want to lose inches so badly. But anyway, just wanted to share my find and excitement with you all. Ok, I'm off to bed now! TTYL!

Great morning girls. I slept okay, woke up about 300 or 330 and didn't get back to sleep until 430. Oh well, it's usual. I'll be leaving in a couple of hours to get to the zoo so I won't check in until much later, so let me get personal...

Jessi, glad you checked in. If you're able to check in about 3x a day, you should, it gets addictive, really.

Cindi, I knew you'd get that house picked up, wtg. Have fun with ds's baby simulator.

Michelle, wtg for grocery shopping, I don't like to on Friday's, it's too crowded all day. Teagan will love her baby swing, hopefully. One of mine actually didn't. Andrew, though, LOVES it. Have fun watching Peter Pan, I wanted to rent that but dd said she didn't want it.

Geri, so happy for Tony's steps. Now he'll never slow down. Have fun with the Big Birthday Bash today.

Penny, our zoo isn't real big. Actually there are bigger, closer zoos, but this one is cheaper and it's farther east and East Texas is Beautiful so the scenery is great. It's perfect in size actually. We'll make it through the whole thing and feel great that we didn't miss something. Sounds like your splurge wasn't much of a splurge, sounded good actually. Hope you have fun at the family reunion.

Spryng, All of the Matrix's are good because of Keanu, I don't understand most of them but who cares. Also, A Man Apart is good and Vin Deisel is gorgeous. Out of Time is good and has lots of twists, Denzel is great. I like him. You and I both like Nic Cage, I love him too, started loving him in Face Off with John Travolta, which is my other favorite actor. We watched The Last Samurai and I didn't cry but it was good. We'll watch the other tonight probably.

Well girls, I decided to give myself Fridays to be off plan. Since I am anyways, if I plan it that way, then if there is something I'm really wanting, I'll save Friday for it. I think I'll feel alittle better straying abit if I've planned on it. And my FIL which lives next door has a ton of weight machines in his shop and in the winter it gets' dark too early I can't get out there, but I think I'm gonna start using them. If I walk hard for about 20 minutes I can finish off with 25 or 30 minutes on a machine. I love lifting weights, it makes you feel good. Besides, I'll have a better chance of getting down by my trip at the end of June. I'm already buying some new outfits off of Ebay and I'm between sizes. One size is too baggy and the other is too snug, so I'm buying the snug size and making myself fit into them. So I think lifting weights may help.
Well, I'm gonna start getting ready for the zoo, I'll chat later. Hope you all have a great day.

Good Morning Ladies!!

Spryng - My hubby likes to think he looks like Vin Diesel lol just cuz they both shave their heads but man too bad he doesn't have that great deep voice mmmmm. Ok ok I went off in to fantasy land for a few Gothika scared the crap out of me but it was very good, I had never heard of Hope Springs either but it has Colin Firth, Minnie Driver, and Heather Graham in it its a love story. Taylor loved Tinkerbell in the movie but thats about it, I think shes still a little young but I thought it would be fun for her to watch lol I think I need to stick to the cartoon movies for a bit lol, but hubby and I liked it.

Crystal - Have a wonderful day with the family at the zoo today!! We don't have a zoo here but I could take the girls to glacier national park and see some wild animals, sometimes we're lucky and even see a few bears, but I think I won't take them to the park til they are older, lots of hiking and lots of driving and so much to learn. My sister wants me to take Taylor roller skating at the roller rink with them today but again I think Taylor is too young, oh well lol.

No big plans here for the weekend, I think we are going to weed out our basement there is so much stuff in our storage room that we don't use so I think I'm going to pass it on to Goodwill. I'm going to get a walk in today and maybe hubby will let me buy a bike lol we'll see.

Well I should go get my workout done and out of the way.
Hope you all have a great day!
Michelle

Hope your all enjoying your weekend. I've been pondering my weight lately. When I went to see my midwife for my annual exam, we were discussing birth control options. I wanted something I didn't have to think about every day- I forget to take the pill because I have so little time and am more scatterbrained since Liam was born. When we discussed the patch, she said, "Well, I'm not sure I'd recommend that for you because in heavier women, it tends to be less effective." She wasn't saying this judgementally, just as a statement of fact.

But I felt so sad and ashamed of myself. I thought: Wow. Well, it's true . . . I'm overweight, so I'm technically a "heavier" woman. For some reason, being put in a definite category affected me so deeply. But perhaps it's a wake-up call from God who's saying, "Hey, it's time to do something!"

I almost didn't share this story with ya'll, but then realized that's one of the points of this group

Spryng - Let us know how you like that work-out video. Sounds intense!

Lisa - I'm glad that it was a "maintain" week for you. It has been for me too, so at least I won't be starting WW even heavier

Jessi -No, Tapas is not Brazilian, but we have Fogo De Chao here which is Brazilian and delicious. We went a lot when I was pregnant because I couldn't get enough red meat Tapas is a Spanish style of eating (popular in Spain), but the Tapas places don't serve Spanish cuisine necessarily - if that makes sense. It's basically like a menu full of various appetizers, you order a bunch, and everyone at the table shares them.

Cindi- The baby simulater always sounded interesting yet tiring! How is your son dealing with it? As for celebrating the loss, what are some of your favorite things? Maybe a charm, or plant your favorite flower, tree, etc?

Crystal - It's good to know your still making wise choices. I know exactly what you mean about maintaining. Let us know how the zoo goes - do you like zoos? I love them.

Michelle - Don't you love bargains in children's clothing? Yesterday, my mother and I went to my favorite baby/children's consignment store. It's in the ritzy part of town, so all the clthes are beautiful, but very inexpensive.

Geri - congrats on Tony walking!!! Liam can't wait to walk

Penny - thanks for the WW help - that's so sweet! You made wonderful choices at the restaurant . . . fill us in on the family reunion! How was it?

Have ya'll gotten inspired for Father's Day yet? I'm trying to figure out what to do for DH. I'm thinking a combo gift: massage at a day spa here, some time to edit his movie (about Liam's first year), and a nice dinner.

Have ya'll noticed Oprah is looking even thinner now? She was maintaining one size for a while, but in her new shows she looks like she's lost more weight.

You snuck in while I was posting, Michelle Good luck with getting a bike! I'll send positive energy to your DH.