Happy Monday Ladies.....

Hope everyone is doing ok, and OP.

Holly - what a sweet DD to bring you your coffee in bed. I remember my kids, when little, brought me breaky in bed for mother's day once. It was toast, bowl of cereal, coffee, and juice. They were a little upset cause they could not cook me anything. They had to have supervision for stove cooking. It was so sweet, and I went on and on how great it was, made my eyes leak, actually.

Stacie....Try not to let DH detour you on your track to a healthier better you. Keep on, keeping on.

Susie....good to see you, try not to be too tough on yourself. It is a new day, the heck with the cookies.

Debbie - Happy Anniversary!!

Nan - Baby steps and one day at a time.

Suzy - Day gone cheddar fish. The pizza ones got me yesterday.

Went to Steak n Shake last night with DS. Had a salad and Chili Mac Supreme, looked over and there was the weigh in lady from Weight watchers. GUILTY as charged. She just smiled and waved, and that was all it took. So got a Jr. Strawberry shake to go. haha

Today is a new day.

So far. Grits for breakfast. We are having an all-site, company pizza/salad/soda/cookie feast, due to the starting of tax season. I am planning on drinking water and eating salad. I brought my 64 oz Speedway gas station Coffee pot to go, and have filled it with water, my plan is to drink the entire thing before I go home tonight.

I belong to Curves and have not been since before the holidays, which is pitiful as they are taking 29.00 bucks a month out of my check and I don't even go. I AM GOING, I AM GOING. I AM GOING. Say a prayer of motivation for me.

I will do better today, I will, I will, I will. Being fat stinks and I do not like myself much when I am like this.

Hey to anyone I may have missed.

May the weight loss God's be with us all in full force.

(((Hugs to all)))

Annie

Good morning all,
I thought I better peek in here when I had some time. I'm about to begin my day at work. Just waiting for all my emails to print out so I can work on the requests of my customers.

I am happy to report that last night I did not have any more cookies, and we had egg sandwiches for dinner; instead of having chip (because I already had enough calories with the cookies), I had some raw veggies with my sandwich. I worked out hard at the Y. Did a 2 mile walk, used the stepper for 4 min..breathing hard and feeling good about it..and did weight training.

I'm keeping my focus today by getting here and drinking my water. I'm anxious today and that's when I eat. I have a dermotogilist appointment to have this spot on my leg checked out. I'm very anxious about it. If you don't mind saying a prayer for me I would appreciate it.

Stacy: I'm so PROUD of you for getting out of that store with no more than you went in for. Great job!

UPS: How are you doing today. Just for today tell yourself you will stay on plan...come on..I'm going to do it with you.

Debbie: M&M's..wow those sound good. I bet there were...ok..you had them...move away from them..you are still on plan.

LabChick: You did great with the choices you had before you at the work lunch.

Ladies, we must celebrate those little victories...we are overcoming an addiction here and we must look at it that way and every day that we stay on plan is just like an drug user staying clean, or a smoker not smoking.

Have a wonderful day!
Susie

Good Morning Everyone,

Susie- I am happy to see that you recovered from the cookie incident and put it behind you. You worked out, ate well, and came here. Terrific. I will pray for a positive appt at the dermatologist for you. I wish nothing but good reports.

Annie- Oh, the goldfish. I can't stop once I start. I enjoyed your weigh in lady spotting story. Many moons ago my husband and I were going to the Sat 11am meeting together and afterwards we would go two doors down to the restaurant and have our post weigh in splurge meal. We were always afraid of getting caught by a leader but instead always caught our fellow members doing the same thing we were. We would would all just laugh at each other. It was the funniest. Sounds like you have great plans for today. I am wishing that you are able to stick with it.

Nan- Great job at lunch yesterday. One slice of pizza is a huge accomplishment. I wish I could do that.

Debbie- Sounds like a good day to me. You worked out, ate well, and had some mini m&ms. Do they really have to be a bad thing? Can't they fit into your plan? One serving of those little suckers is probably like 100 of them anyway.

Ellen- Take it easy on yourself. We are all adjusting to our new lifestyle and have to learn how to make these things fit into it. You can do it. Today is a brand new beginning.

Stacy- Great job. The supermarket is a scary place sometimes. Everything starts to look good to you the longer you stay in there. You went in, went out, and nobody got hurt, lol. Whew!

Holly- I love potlucks. I love tasting everything at them. I love cooking for them. I love trying to make sure my contribution is better than everyone else's. Please let us know how you did.

I think I got everyone. If not have a great day and I'll get ya next time.

I had a mediocre day. I had planned out my whole day of food. Made a low fat vegetarian chili, skipped breakfast (1st mistake), had planned lunch, snacked on no salt/no fat pretzels, had turkey and swiss roll ups (two many),
changed dinner to small serving chili, and then had the dinner I had planned in the first place along with just a tad too many cookies. I have already done WATP and am working on some water. Try, try again. Today is a new beginning.

Ladies, I am doing good this am! Kids are working and I am getting stuff done. I have to work today, so we will see how late I get out. Have a great OP day! Have to run, Later chicas

Hello!

My day was pretty decent. I had a 2 egg omelet for breakfast and then some vegetarian chili for lunch and a salad for dinner. I'm hungry and really want to make a bowl of popcorn, but I've already had 1210 calories for the day so I should probably be done. I keep telling myself every night as I lie in bed with my stomach growling, "hunger is not a bad thing." Unfortunately, the other voices in my head keep yelling, "YES it is, it's a VERY bad thing." I probably sound like Sybil. ;o)

I'm too pooped to address everyone individually, but I sincerely hope all of you are on track and kicking pounds to the curb!

Nan

Hello all! Not too bad today. I had Ramen noodles with some (a ton) of mixed veggies and some cheddar cheese for lunch 500cal then for dinner I havd a big ol' salad so about 250cal then I had a sf snack bar for desert 120 so a total of 890, I had a snack this afternoon, but I can't remember what it was. so that was probably about 200-300cal, so not bad at all.

I don't usually do breakfast because the meds I'm on I have to take at least an hour b4 eating, and I have always had a hard time feeling full after I start eating. I know I should eat, but I do a lot better if I don't. If anyof that made sense let me kinow. I need to get some sleep.

Hey everyone,
I've done fair the last couple of days. I've stayed within my points range and made it to curves.

I thought when my supervisor became a manager she would help us with some of our issues, But oh no she has added to our work load. When one of my co-workers asked her about it. She said it was because she could count on us... Oh brother.
I still haven't heard anything about the full time position. Maybe by next week.

I hope everyone is well, I'm going to hit the shower and get in jammies for my big tv night.

Love you guys...Later

Hello,
I have good news to report. The dermotologist appt went well. She said the spot is nothing to worry about. It was some sort of a cyst or a boil that stretched the skin and now I have a little bit of loose skin there that is rubbing and then it causes this sack that the cyst/boil left to get infected and therefore it comes back up to the blister like thing I get on my leg. She said if it comes back again to call and get in that day or the next and they will cut the sack out. I guess they can only do this when it's inflamed. I'm really glad to know it's nothing. I am so fair and I worry about skin cancer. I have had 2 friends who have had those issues and one turned out to be melonoma.

I'm fighting a rotten cold! I stayed home from the Y tonight because I'm coughing and didn't think I needed to get hot and sweaty.

I feel like I've had a good week but I'm concerned that I won't show a loss at TOPS tomorrow night. For some reason the weight just doesn't want to move. I'm not giving up. I'll keep working at it until my body decides to give it up! Anyone have any idea why this might be happening? I know that we all have plataues but I want to get this one over with...suggesstions are welcomed!

Debbie: Hugs to you about your job. I certainly understand what it feels like to be overwhelmed at work. It's a lot better for me know (I hope that will help in the weightloss area now that I'm not so stressed all the time). I hope something full time comes available soon for you.

UPS: I have medicine I have to take on an empty stomach too. When I first started the medicine I was very strict about that because I wanted it to work. I have to take the meds 1 hour before I eat or 2-3 hours after I eat. It's really hard to snack when sticking to that, and I have to do it 3 times a day! I know that helped me loose a lot of weight when I first started it. As I said there is no time to snack....sort of like a "gift horse" sort of thing.

Labchick: I talk to my other voice a lot...lol!

Suzy: Keep doing what you are doing..you might not have a perfect day, but you are working hard to stay on plan and doing it most of the time..that's better than none of the time.

Annie, Holly, Jodi...and anyone I missed...looking forward to your posts!
I'm going to get my jammies on and head to bed!
Susie

Hiya ladies. I went to tops tonight. I had taken a leave of absence because of all my projects. I weighed in 3 lbs less than at home!! But still up from my lowest. My goal right now is to get back to 225.
Big night- a church meeting and SC meeting.Just relaxing a reading here.

HUGS all!!!

Hi all -

It's been a long time since I've posted in this thread, but I have to share the good news. Last week I was at 203.5 pounds, per my digital scale. I got sick and tired of weighing myself 15 times and having to average - so I got out my analog to compare (and used my tiny 118 pound fiance as the test dummy). The digital scale was weighing about 3.5 - 5 pounds too heavy, and really inconsistent.

So - I got on my super reliable / consistent and accurate analog scale. AND ...

I made it - I'm in One-derland!

This is the first time in 4-5 years I've been able to say that - and that's only because I was able to get below 200 for about 2 years as a freshie/soph in college. I'm at 199 now

I've spent 22 years of my life on the other side of the fence - I finally got over the hurdle!

Good to all you other chickies out there

TOGETHER WE CAN DO IT

Good Evening Ladies,
How is everyone doing today? I am having another good day using the hype from yesterday's good day to motivate me. I am trying to remember, which isn't easy, that I felt good about myself yesterday and today instead of the usual fat blob failure I usually think I am. I hope all of you are having a great day too.

Lisa- That is the best news ever! I am so proud of you.

Holly- Terrific news on the 3 pounds. Keep up the great work. Maybe you should weigh in on their scale more often.

Susie- I was thinking about your appointment and am do happy and relieved to hear that everything worked out fine. I hope your TOPS weigh in tonight goes well. Let us know.

Debbie- Sounds like you are doing better than fair. In the range and exercise. It don't get better than that. Way to go. Keep up the great work.

Ellen- Sounds like you are doing well. Let us know.

Nan- If you are hungry, popcorn sounds like a fine snack, calories or not. I don't think hunger is a good thing. It usually makes me start dreaming of all the trouble waiting for me in the kitchen. Popcorn is just the high fiber, satisfying thing to quell those voices coming from my kitchen.

Annie, Stacy, Jodi- Come on, stay in touch. Struggling or not let's hear how you are doing.

Suzy

Good morning,
I have been fighting a terrible cold. I'm so tired of coughing!
I went to TOPS last night and I had stayed the same. I'll take it.

Lisa: Hoorayyy!!!! Tell us what Onederland looks like!! I'm really excited for you.

It's great to see everyone posting. I will try to pop in later and answer individual posts, but for now I must get to work.

Susie

Hi all. I am trying to look up today. My eating has been really bad. I do fine during the day, but at night for dinner I lose it. I got on the scale today and I have gained 3 lbs back. I am going to try to do better today. I have been evercising, but it all comes down to starving myself I guess. I just need to get back to thinking that I don't need to eat so much. It is so hard with all the extra kids here right now. I am going to re-start writing down everything I eat. I will just have to make the time with everyone here. I guess I am not too down, just disapointed. Have a great day ladies, I will do better today!

Lisa~Yay!! congrats on your loss!!!

I had a Avon district meeting last night. When we introduced oursleves we were asked to say what we were thankful for. I said choices. I had the choice of being home with my kids for 7 years, I have the choice to building a home based business and so on. I am deeply thankful for these things.
My hubby was disgruntled with me last night right before bed and I dont know why. He refused to talk about it. I sat and told him I would listen...no deal. So I said I love you and walked away.
It’s going up to +8C/46F, all the snow is melting again.

DS is playing hockey at the big arena in the city tonight for 5:30 then we stay and watch our local Juniors. Very excited little boy.

Today I will pay bills, clear the darned diningroon table, finish up Avon client lists.

DD is still home sick, She has a deep chest cold.

I made tabouli yesterday enough for 2 meals. I had 1 serving for lunch and the rest for a snack. sigh

I am going up to hubby's home town tomorrow to sign up a new rep on my team. I will visit dearSIL and a dear friend!!!!!

‘Spose that’s it for now.