Ammi i am blushing .. i have taken a sneak peak on the scales... no news to report there! however i only step on them once a day instead of after every meal lol!

Crock - thanks for feeling sad for me, I shall try my best to be happy for you if Katherine wins as I know she is the one you are rooting for But for now I still say GO TAYLOR

How are you doing anyway, is the rain still there. It was supposed to rain here and gale force winds today too. So far all I have seen is a breeze and sunshine. Typical, we would have gone to the beach today had we NOT listened to the weather forecast

Patti - lol SPRUNG I'll let you off though seeing as it's just a daily, not every meal time weigh in. So how are you doing, have you seen a loss??

Hugs,

Ammi

i am holding steadt thank goodness. now i am just trying to get all my water in to boost up a loss if possible. its so frustrating to be so close to being under300 i can almost taste it... no pun intended! i too am sorry your Elliott was voted off but i stand behind my man!

Good Morning Ladies,

Today is my weekly weigh in day and I am down 4 more pounds! I am so excited to see the scale going the right way. LOL.

Ammi: So sorry about Elliot. I'm sure he will do really well though in the music business. He is a wonderful singer.

I'mnotfluffy: I'm sure that you will get great support and no one will judge you here. We are all in this journey to health together and it will do no one any good to be cruel or unkind to anyone else. I'm positive you won't see that here. I think you will enjoy all of the wonderful ladies here and that you may find yourself coming here so much for love, encouragement and support that you haven't gotten so far. Please don't be afraid or nervous around us because we are not in your same age group. Like Sharon said, we have more experience at being over weight.

Misti: I know you will be in your cute clothes sooner than you think. Great NSV.

Dusty: Wow! -15 is a wonderful way to start. GOod for you. SO happy you are here with us. Hope to have more posts from you.

Everyone have a blessed day,
Dogpal/Annie

all right girls,, I took a pic of me today, I just got into these jeans,, I tucked my shirt in to show the belly difference,, I hate to tuck my shirt in,, plus.. I am wearing that green shirt again, I had on my other pic... Deed I do have other shirts..LOL

Dogpal that is great news! and wonderful for you tooMs. Crockett.

Ammi: I'm a daily weigher so I do it in the morning before I eat or drink anything. No loss this morning though.

brandnewme: Congrats on the NSV! I'm jealous you get to swim though.

Sharon: Keep up the good work on the exercise. One of these days I'm gonna get my butt in gear. Did you just have a baby too?

imnotfluffy: just jump in and join conversations. I'm new as well and I think thats how it works. I'm pretty sure no one will be mean to you here - so no worries. Stop in lots and stop in often. And I agree with Sharon, to measure yourself with a measuring tape. You'll want to see where you started at once you start losing if you don't have a scale. Trust me, been there done that.

Dusty: Hi and .

Dogpal: Great work on the 4 pound loss!

Crock: Wow, WHAT A DIFFERENCE in your pics! I'm secretly jealous.

This will be day 7 of eating responsibly OP. For me its been a busy day getting groceries (not usually an effort, but add in a baby, whilst hurrying to get done before he fusses cause he's hungry and you have a workout). Now its almost 5pm and where has the day gone. Oh well, less time to binge on stuff. I was good at the grocery store too, buying more fruits and less junk food so I'm proud of that. Its been a LONG time since I've come back from the grocery store without nasty foods thats for sure.

I'm not into AI but I do watch pretty much everything else on tv. LOST last night was a bit of a letdown. I'm pretty sure it was the season finale and I thought we were supposed to get some big revelation. If we did, I missed it even though I rewinded several parts. If anything it was more confusing than anything.

Then there was America's Next Top Model, and the Amazing Race. Both winners were my picks so that was pretty good. (I won't spoil it for anyone in case you have it taped.)

We finally got at the top of the list for some newer release movies from the library today: Wedding Crashers, and Wallace & Gromit Curse Of The Wererabbit. So I'll have something to watch this weekend. Yay! My poor boring life!

Everyone keep up the good work and drink your water!

Dogpal~ congratulations on the 4 lbs lost.. you are on fire.. yippy

Hi All,

I used a WW recipe for Turkey Shepherds pie, and oh my goodness, it was DELICIOUS. I made it for the whole family and even the kids loved it. I will definitely be making it again.

Patti - glad to hear you are holding steady with the weight, hopefully by the time you weigh officially you will see a nice loss. Those 200s are looming!!

Annie - Woohoo another 4 lbs You are really doing fantastically well, I am so thrilled for you. Keep it up, you are doing so brilliantly

Crock - another amazing photo of you. You are looking slimmer and slimmer, you must be so thrilled.

Heather - your baby is so adorable, what a gorgeous little boy!! You are weighing the same time as me, except I only weigh on Monday mornings. Sorry you didn't see a loss this morning, but it was only recently that you lost another 1 lb to add to your 5, so don't expect too much.

Congrats on getting through your first week of eating responsibly OP. I think the first week is always the hardest. You have got through it, so you have made a wonderful start.

MariaLucia, Brenda, Lori, Val, Christine, Catherine, Vicki, Mel, Wyllen, Jill, Julee, Dusty, Imnotfluffly, and everybody else I haven't mentioned hope you are all having a great day, and Nancy, hope you are having a wonderful holiday

Hugs,

Ammi

Well, nothing to report from the scales...but staying the same is as good as a loss for me these days.

On the other hand...I PICKED UP MY WEDDING DRESS LAST NIGHT!!!! I didn't try it on since I don't have the slip or the long line bra to try it all on together properly..but I have it. I also have some of the skirts for the girls and my veil and headpiece..which are both just as pretty as I remembered them

Sarah still has not acknowledged my email so I am writing her a letter and being done with it. I am also fully disgusted with one of Jason's friends(a total liar and womanizer)...who sent him and email last night asking him if he has been faithful since he had been engaged and how could he not be looking at other women when there are so many of them out there who want to hook up. UGH! Pig.

Taylor and Katherine....bah. Everyone around here has ben going CRAZY for Katherine. Did you see the part where they did the pep rally at her school? Yeah...that's walking distance from where I live. No thank you America, I do not have the McPheever. When I watched all of the stuff with Taylor's homecoming I wanted to cry...because that's where I used to live, shop, etc and I recognized very last place he was. Next week will tell the tale. I need some happy news since my fave guy got kicked off of Top Chef.

Welcome New Chicks...don't ever feel you have to hold back here...ask lots of questions especially if we say something you don't understand.

Maria...GRAET NSV for you!! I totally understand that one...so empowering to feel like you are physically useful again!

Lilion: Yes, we come in here and schmooze. Yay Yiddish.

Smooches all!

Elaine - I just hit the little "remember me" box, and I never have to log in.

Ammi - We used to go pier jumping all the time...until one night, we went back to a friend's house to stay, and when we got up the next morning, we watched the local news, and they found a body RIGHT WHERE WE WERE JUMPING....it had been there for 10 years, I guess.....Haven't done it SINCE! That rebellion will be over probably by the time she's my age...lol...so you've got THAT to look forward to!

Fluffy - I think you'll find loads of motivation here....no matter anyone's age! I'm only 19...for about another couple weeks...but if you ever wanna chat, lemme know! Good luck!

Dusty - to the board! I'm also a college student, up over in Michigan. This place is great! What with the exercise thread, and the friends you WILL make...this is the BEST place to be! CONGRATS on the 15 pounds! The first ten is the hardest!

Annie - You are on FIRE!!! Those Curves sessions are PAYING OFF!!! Nearly 25 pounds gone already!!! AMAZING!!!

Crock - Great new pic! You are definately showing that loss!

Heather - The first couple of weeks OP can be the hardest! So glad you're MAKING IT!!!


Julee - OOOH!!! If I got a wedding dress, I don't know how I would be able to STOP myself from getting into it! I'm a sucker for getting a prettied up sometimes! lol Definately the right decision to boot her out of your wedding...has she continued to post stuff on Myspace, yet ignore your e-mails? Ugh. A vast majority of men are pigs, and he is a shining example. You definately are getting a lot of stress thrown your way lately! BAH!


Another day another day. Went out job hunting as per usual...haven't exercised yet, but going to do some fat burning in about 10 mins. I'll be back LATER!

I am just going to post a ‘brief’ (yeah, right Zelma) update, but I will have plenty of time later to write individuals hopefully.

I’ve been on a little (well… pretty big really) bit of a downer over the last few days. I don't think the ‘skin cancer’ stuff really struck me until Tuesday. When I got to school and told my student teacher, she was really shocked and wanted me to sit down. She seemed surprised that I wasn't more upset about having skin cancer. She told me that I should have a few days off work. I have a feeling that I may have seemed a little 'unusual' in her eyes, but I couldn't feel it in myself at first. During the day, I think things started to sink in gradually. I had to talk to a couple of girls about calling another little girl "fat", which is something I simply will NOT tolerate, for obvious reasons. I was LIVID! I told them that the last time I had to talk to them, I gave myself time to cool down, so that I wouldn't yell at them, but this time I was simply TOO angry and wasn't giving myself time to cool down. I was pretty 'loud' at one point and both of them jumped when I said something. I felt bad about that and tried to calm down, but they still got a good talking to. I thought about it later and wondered if I would have dealt with them differently if I had been in a better frame of mind.

I simply went downhill that day and by the end of the day realised that I had been on the edge of tears all day. Just feeling very fragile. So, I asked around and got a relief teacher in for Wednesday.

On Wednesday I went to the doctor for my first B12 shot and to get a doctor's certificate for the day. When I told her how I was feeling she said that this wasn't surprising at all with all that had been going on in my life. She still feels that a lot is to do with still getting over the trauma that my body has gone through, with the weight loss, and adjusting 'mentally' to not exercising as much. She talked about getting over an addiction (as in my exercise addiction) and how it can affect you. I told her about my talk with the two little girls and she said that we are all human and if the girls deserved to be yelled at then I didn't do anything wrong. I kinda feel better about that, but may still try to talk to them a little more on Monday. She told me to take the rest of the week off, to simply rest.

I went in to school yesterday morning (doc new about that) as I had some professional development that I really couldn't miss. We were being trained to use a computer program that we have to train other teachers to use and I didn't know how else I would get the PD. It was fine though, because I didn't have to be 'up' for a class of kids and I knew that I could go home at any time if I didn't feel up to it. It was actually really good as I found it VERY interesting and it took my mind off everything.

I am SO glad that I have such a competent student teacher in, because I could just run over a few things with her and either she will take the lessons herself, or she will be able to tell the relief teachers what to do. Usually I have to spend hours preparing just for ONE day for a relief teacher, so this is such a novelty. I wrote her a nice card and gave her a couple of little gifts (which made her cry) as I appreciated it SO much.

I had a VERY long nap yesterday afternoon and plan on doing very little over the next few days. I didn't exercise Tuesday or Wednesday as I have an inch-long wound on my back with 8 stitches that I didn't want to 'jiggle'. I cycled for 30 mins yesterday morning and this morning and may do that for the next day or so. Cycling doesn't create as much 'jiggling' as the treadmill.

So... that is my last few days. Not great, but I still believe that it could have been worse, so I am continuing to look on the bright side. I won't breath a total sigh of relief until next Wednesday, when I get the results about whether the doctor got all of the cancer, but I will try to stay positive until then.

I am SO looking forward to these B12 shots making me feel more ‘awake’, and when I can finally post that I am feeling incredibly wonderful, and upbeat, and energetic… etc.

Catch you all soon.

Take care,

Zelma

Evening Ladies..WOW these threads just fly by. I have been slacking on the exercising!! I know that will show tomorrow when I weigh in at my last nutrition class. Guess that is what I get. I think it is the heat we are getting..after living in Arizona my whole life you would think that I would be use to it by now.

On a better note...I had my yearly review...I did well and got a good raise.

On the AI thing...I was sad for Elliott. It is like he knew he was gonna get voted off. I dont have a favorite like I did last year with Carrie Underwood. But next week should be exciting...then I can have my life back lol

Wow the difference is incredible! Congratulations and great job!

Hubby and I rode our new bikes to the park near our home. I did buy a larger seat, and now can ride it comfortably. I absolutely loved it. I really need exercise that has a point, or I give up too easily. Exercise is yucky, but play is fun. Which is why I'm trying to find DVD exercise videos that sound fun enough to keep me interested. There's a couple bellydance and hula videos I'd like to buy when I get a chance.