Hello All
This is indeed a very sad week, we have a 3 minute silence at work at 11:00 am tomorrow and the whole of my building will take part. I hope we can disconnect the phones as they ring constantly and I'm afraid not everyone will acknowledge it.

I am having a good week and hope my scales will reflect this on Saturday

Name!! My name is Karyl. I keep forgetting to put it at the end of my message so I put it at the beginning ;-)
Well, it is Thursday, so congratulations to Mand for her 1st day. I'm still chewing on my shoes. lol I guess I'll get used to being hungry!! I had one day where I wasn't hungry, but I think it was due to the stress of the world's events. Well, I'm off to find pointless food. lol (things that make you go hmmmmm)

Hi gals, yes indeed my first day
So far I'm doin' ok. But it's still early. I walked my son to school this morning. I took him and my 14 month old in the wagon and had my son's knapsack on my back. Man oh man nothing like goin' up hill with 75# worth of children in a wagon. Felt like I was at boot camp. But obviously not to bad I lived to tell about it. I happy that I got my exercise in for the day. And starting to drink my water. glub glub glub.... I'm really pyched this time. You would not believe how much inspiration and support I feel posting with you all. I love you all....
Karyl~ how are ya?? Nice to have a name. And thanx for the congrats. Right back at ya. I know you've been having a tough time with the hunger thing. But you are defeating it. So keep it up it can only get easier right When do you WI? Keep me updated.
cherrycoke~ good luck at WI.

Oh yea I almost forgot I WI at 259#. I was a little freaked I have to say. But I hope to never see these numbers again as I look down.

Mandy
259/160
mini goal 230

Hello girls
Are we all being good!!! I do try and drink water but I hate the taste If it was gin and tonic water that would be different, certainly make me go HMMMMMM.
Went to the cinema tonight and I didn't have the tiniest piece of popcorn or a lick of one of their delicious ice creams
Is my halo choking you?
we went to see Moulin Rouge with Nicole Kidman, she is soooo thin, Am I jealous am I ****!!!
Post tomorrow after I've weighed

Tomorrow is "weigh day". I'm optimistic. My feet hurt though and I'm so drained from everything that happened this week. Gee Mand, your exercise program does sound like boot camp!! The best exercise is when it's not just for the exercise, though. Like a good walk to someplace you really want to be. I love rollerblading, but since I got the heel spurs, that's out of the question.

Mavis, Crystal Light counts as water and it's a nice change. Here in Florida, our water tastes horrible, so I always put lemons in mine. It looks better too! I make a nice drink bottle full of orange-pineapple Crystal LIght for morning then my water with lemons in the afternoon. I agree with you--plain water is the pits.

Well, hang in there everyone and may the world be a lighter place as our pounds evaporate into thin air!

Karyl

Hey ladies,

I know what you mean about the water thing. We have a water cooler in our house with 5 gallon bottles of spring water. I would NEVER be able to drink as much tap water. Our water here in Louisville, I'm told, is about the best processed water in the country. I grew up on well water so I always had water that didn't taste like anything. I like for my water to be cold and tasteless. When my husband and I were married a year we moved to Orlando for 2 1/2 years. That is definately the smelliest and nastiest tasting water I've ever experienced. It didn't take me long to discover spring water. I love it. It makes getting the water down a little easier.

Karyl, where in Central Florida do you live? We love visiting Orlando, we have 4 kids ages 9 - 3 and visiting Disney World and Universal Orlando. We are planning a vacation next June, we already have our timeshares arranged for June 2nd. We will be at Disney for 4 days and Universal (Hard Rock Hotel) for 2 or 3 days. I have to admit that I love visiting but I was miserably homesick when we lived there in the late '80's. We try to go every other year (at least!).

It's been my TOM for the last few days. I haven't had the motivation or drive to do much of anything this week. Besides, I've been just about fading into a chocolate coma, if you know what I mean! I'll be better this week.

Hope you all have successful weigh-ins this week.

Ruby

Hey Ruby!
I am indeed in the Orlando area and originally from Massachusetts where I also had good well water. I had the 5-gallon jugs here, but bought a filter system (which does not help!)! I buy my water then refill from the water cooler at work. Which time-share are you going to? I work for Marriott Vacation Club.

I'll be back on tonight. I hope to catch some of you ladies online!!

Karyl

Karyl,

We lived in the Conway area when we lived there. We lived in what used to be called the Habitat apartments. My husband worked for Martin-Marietta Aerospace and I was an assistant manager at a few of the KFC's in the area. We lived there from 1986 through 1989.

We are staying at Orbit One this time. We have stayed at Vistana a few times. We really like it there. According to the Island One web-site they have a waterpark for their guests and we are really looking forward to that. We bought our timeshare from French Lick on our Honeymoon in 1985. We didn't really start to enjoy it until we moved back here in '89. We love going to Orlando and visiting. I want my kids to grow up and remember all the cool vacations we went on. When I was a kid we hardly went anywhere. I went to Disney when I was 16 with my oldest sister and her family. Other than that I don't have any vacation memories with my family. I'm re-living it through my kids and we are having a blast.

If you're around when we come maybe we can have lunch or something. That would be cool. I got the opportunity to meet someone else on this board last year. Dora and her lovely daughter were traveling around the local area and came over to my house for a couple of hours. (By the way, she is just as sweet as she seems.)

Later,
Ruby

Hello Everyone, How is all going, down I hope.
I weighed this morning and had managed another pound, disappointing but better off than on.
I'm in UK so we don't have Crystal Light, we do have flavoured water but they seem quite high in Caloties and in the low calorie ones I can taste the sweetners. I bought a water purifier but it doesn't seem to help. I can manage to get it down if its ice cold and I squeeze a fresh lemon in it.
We came to Florida in 1995 and loved it, had a fabulous holiday. We spent the whole holiday in Orlando and tried to fit everything in, came back exhausted.
Ruby do you live where they run the Kentucky Derby?

Mavis,

Yes, this is where they run the KY Derby. I attended the Derby once with the "common folks" in the in-field when I was 20 years old. It pretty much is the wild party area, none of the stars or so called beautiful people hang out there. Churchill Downs is about 15 miles from my house.

We have a Derby party at our house every year. It's a big family, neighbor, and family event. My kids love Derby Day as much as Christmas. We rent a big inflatable for the kids (moon bounce), and it's a pot luck thing. We have a little bit of innocent gambling (the $1 blind draw type). It's a really fun day. It is the first Saturday of May so sometimes it even falls on my birthday (May 3rd). C'mon everybody, the party is at my house!

Ruby

Well, this has been a crazy week for all. Weight wise I have done pretty well. I lost another 3# this week at WI and I was so happy to hear that. I also just got a new job as a permanent substitute for K-4 so that means I need to trade in my larger preschool clothes for some smaller teacher clothes. I was so excited to go shopping. For the first time in a long time I could actually fit into everything that I tried on. I am now a size 22 and it is very very exciting. I really liked trying on the clothes and I felt like I looked good in them too. I also bought a lot of clothes and that felt good.

Have a good night and God Bless America!

Melissa

Well, WW is not as successful for me as Nutri-System. I've been starving all week and lost nothing on my first week. I used to take Accutrim, which helped the hunger, but I can't take it any more for medical reasons.
I bummed

Hello All,

I am a new WW member. In my second week. I have read with interest all your posts on this thread. I can relate to most everything I read. I just wanted to take a moment and say "hi".

My name is Karen and I also live in Kentucky, near Cincinnati Ohio. I have at least 100 pounds to lose, possibly more, but I've been overweight so long, if I ever get to 200 I'll be thrilled. My goal this time (yes, I've tried WW in the past) is to lose slowly, and just try to get healthy. I am 45 and since I've hit my 40's my health is suffering.

Karen

Hi girls, how are ya'
I'm at work and having a little break. I work in a rather busy intensive care unit in Toronto. And working 12 hours for the last 14 years it's a wonder how I got fat!! I find this is the only place I don't obsess about food constantly. I mean I can go all night 7-7 without food. But of course now that I' m OP I need to eat to lose. The starvation thing makes me fatter My body seems to hold on to every tiny fat cell for dear life. And just finishing day 2. Yea I know, but for me it's a huge milestone. And to be totally honest I did have 3 extra points both days. I needed them so bad. But not gonna' sweat it. I'm going back to my gym. I need the toning. My body is so flabby. As I lose weight (see how confident I am) I don't want to have my muscles and skin hanging everywhere.

Karen~Hi, and welcome. We pretty much all need to lose about 100#, so you've come to the right place. I tell ya since coming to these boards I've never felt so confident.You feel more accountable some how. So stay with us and we will do this together.

Karyl~DON'T GIVE UP!!!! Please stay OP. We will have hard times we knew that going into it. But go over your week, be really honest with yourself. Could you have done anything different?? Could you add more water or exercise? I don't mean to sound preachy. But stay with us. We need each other. And we will have our successes to celebrate.

Melissa~3# way to go!!!! You deserve a shopping spree. Enjoy!!!

cherrycoke~1# like you say better off than on. I hope I'm as lucky on Thursday. Good goin'

Hey I've been to Florida too. Just didn't want to be left out.

The water thing, what works for me is the instant light ice tea. I never even looked at the calories. OOPS I guess I better huh? But that is how I've been drinking my mine.

Would you ladies be interested in making up a title for ourselves and continuing this little group?? I know I would. Any suggestions?
2002 summerbabes


Or, I have also been posting in the counting down to 250 thread. Does anyone want to combine with that thread instead and be one big happy family.

????

Mandy

Hi all! I vote for the group. Once I wake up, I'm sure I'll have some ideas on a name. I think it should somehow reflect our beauty, which we will still have, even when we are thin. (Remember that we always have that, no matter what.)

Mand: I won't give up--this is my first time on WW and I just have to get used to it. I think I'm hungry because there is so much planning of what to eat that we need to think about food all the time. Nutri-system was so easy because you just went to the cabinet and pulled out your meals and snacks. Plus there was so much more to eat in between to get rid of the "hungries"-- yogurt, fruit, graham crackers, etc. Now I'm so stingy with my points because I'm scared to death of running out before dinner!

Well, I'm just going to keep in mind that I can always find the money for NS if I go out of my mind with WW.

So, maybe all you WW pros can give me some tips on making it through the day without hearing the stomach grumble out loud!

Hang in, everyone!
Karyl