Susie, I loved this post. I've been out of control for a month now and I feel the exact same way. That is all we can do, be rational and calm, and get back on track. Like they say, every day is a new day.

Girlie

Good Morning Everyone!!!!!!!

Been a while and had much reading of posts to catch up on. Everyone sounds great.

Holly - You are far from just laying around, I wish I had half of you motivation.

Just got back to work, was on vacation since 5/26, and in the Bahamas for a week of that time. The kids and I had the most fun ever. The best vacation I have ever been on. Both my kiddies were with me, my best friend went also. We swam, drank, beached, pooled, partied. Then came home and the best part, still happy as there was no mean hubby to greet us. (divorced, two years in July). I am still high on all of it. Even being at work.

This is the first day of my serious diet, as we got the pix developed from the vacation, and OMG, talk about horrified Susie....I AM the beached whale. What a shock into dieting.

Must get to work, have 157 emails with to do items. Nothing like the shock of reality of work.

(((HUGS))) to all, I missed you.

Annie

Hello ladies! The weekend kept me busy and offline. DH just left this morning for 2weeks. work has him at some class. I hope the kiddies survive w/o him for that long (and not drive me up a wall) Have to eat lunch, I am starving!

Later chicas!

A quick breeze through. My computer at home was infiltrated by some ugly bug. I am waiting for a techie friend to have some off the clock time to pop over. Life is less busy this week.I acheived presidents club with Avon and had highest sales over last years Campaign 13. I was asked to be in a national dvd and am writing my Avon"story". All this was tempered by another death in the family and a wicked intestinal bug and good all out arguement with hubby and the kids, LOL!!Suffice it to say that they are willingly helping around the house more*grin*.
The kids are reading quietly but my computer tme is up here right now. HUGS!!!

HEY!!!!!!! Wake up chicks!!!!!!

At the library........have my Nerd coming soon I hope, the disc mailed out from my server has not come yet. arg. i need to place my avon order by Tues eve.Need to have something in place by then. I am feeling almost rested and relaxed.I am glad May is over. What a Looooong hectic month. Tomorrow we are having a yard sale and I will be at the market too.We will be up and at em around 6am. I could potentially earn around $600.00. Nice,eh. Church supper last nigh twas delish!! Hubby worked til after 7. I brought his home. Cant beat church lady pie!!!
All is good on the hubby front. He even started his own laundry last night. Didn't know how and I had to rescue him but I will print out instructions and tape them on the machine. Both kids had BIG fun field trips this week. Horseback riding and African Lion Safari.

I need to pick up lemonaide for the kids stand tomorrow too. And pick up litter to change the stinking( literally) cat litter.

Grass pollen is at a 9 count today. And every Friday afternoon everyone in the township cuts their grass. I am off for a nasal spray too. The pills alone aren't cutting it.

Love ya's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I quit WW today. Yup!, I logged on and clicked the cancellation button (I'm an online ww subscriber). No more WWing and counting points for me. I realized that it’s just not working. 11 pounds in 8 months.. That’s just crazy!
I'm going back to good ol' calorie counting, and low fat dieting.
My scales read 207.5 this morning but I'm not counting that. I'm on TOM just started last night so it must be water retention.
I've been doing so well on exercise and I won't let that get me down
I’m going to sit down this evening and work on the new diet I’m planning to follow. I need to set goal and reassess myself. Gonna look back on my old diet journals which will probably help in setting things straight.

Holly: congrats on making president club, yay for high sales!
Upswife: keep it up
Annie: welcome back!! And good luck with your diet
Girlie: Welcome back!!
Sarah: yay for low BP!

Everyone else, keep it up!!

Good morning ladies!

i've had a rather strange week eating wise and still managed to lose 2lbs! Monday I wasn't feeling too good, just a queasy tummy but only managed to eat a bowl of soup all day. Hubby asks what do I want for dinner, has to be something substantial (he nags! lol) Well the only thing I could think I fancied was big fat fries from the boardwalk! Come from when I was a kid and if was sick and would eat mum would get fries cos she knew we would eat them and have something to puke up if necessary! So, our friend that was here says he will run to the boardwalk and get the fries, hubby tells him to get pizza too and we'll have a mini Apprentice party (as a Brit was in the final) So I tell him to get 2 buckets of fries and several slices of pizza as I think he's eating with us.

He comes back with the food and then informs us he had eaten earlier aaaaaaaaaargh. Well I proceeded to eat a whole bucket of fries. Boy they were good tho AND the Brit won the Apprentice!

I spent the next day feeling like I had a rather large boulder in my stomach and very constipated! Didn't eat much that day I can tell you. The following day all **** broke loose in my bowels, omg I felt bad!

So I won't be doing that again! I was peeing like I had just started a diet the rest of the week, I totally messed up my poor body!

Holly, my hubby is the same with washing machine or other household appliances - at least he's trying eh?

Jiggly - congrats on making a decision - you can make it work YOUR way.

Well, I'm off to do some gardening...

Have a great weekend ladies! Love n Hugs to all.

Sarah

HI GALS!!!!
Yippee, GOOD MORNING!!!!!
Having a java here.
I am LOVIN the coolish temps. 10C/50F !!!!! only going up to 20C/70F. It could stay like this all month!!!
I have an Avon order due today but considernig to wackiness of the last few weeks I am not ready. I will put it in late. I will spend some time today organizing that.
This week is the week of the weeds. I want to weed gardens. I like to weed gardens. Why does work and life interfere with my gardening??? LOL LOL LOL
Never dull here, Clyde(the kitty) just puked 3 times. I just dropped a towel over it for now. So not ready for that.
((((hugs))))

I am just jumping in. My computer “Nerd"( his business name) was here for 4 hours Sunday aft. Things are running!!!!!!
I had over 70 spywares etc in my computer. So the deal is anti virus is not enough. Spyware likes to attack anything from microsoft so I have changed my internet server. I have paid for an up to date broad range anti spyware anti virus program.

Hope all is okay now with this machine.

I am feeling quite rested. Been steady busy but not crazy busy. Saturday was the town wide yard sale. The kids( and hubby) made $75 here and I sold $250 worth of Avon at the market. We went shopping after church to get their tamagochi’s.

Nice supper of steak and mushrooms and scalloped potatoes.Watched a movie on tv on Diva with Kate Hudson.
Saturday after supper I took down a toy self in the “toyroom” and moved the futon in there. ALL the toys(what is left of them) are in the basement. There are books, games and craft stuff in the former toyroom, now the games room.In the former Library, now my office, there is a shelf, file boxes,computer desk, piano and a card table I scooped from Grandma’s to do paper work on. Then, after the kids went to sleep I did the “tour of poop” and changed the rodent cages and litter boxes and went to bed and watched Trading Spaces....aaahhhhhhhhhhhh.
Tomorrow...I have some plants to get into the veggie garden and the kids bought some petunias for their own planters.I can almost see all of the diningroom.Will finish that tomorrow.
Oh, washed the kitchen floor before church in the morning morning, woohoo. ( should be a national holiday)
Later!!!!!!!

Hello,
It was a busy week for me last week, but I had great success at the scales! I lost 6 lbs. It felt so great to get back under 260. My goal this week is to get under 255.

I have a busy week outside of work. Our TOPS ARD is this weekend. We are also having a tea for the Regional Director that is coming in for ARD. I am starting a new TOPS chapter tomorrow night, the tea on Wednesday and then ARD on Friday and Saturday. I knew that I needed to make a plan to get my workouts in so I have the schedulded at lunch on Tuesday and Wednesday as those are the nights I can't make it to my workouts. I'm going to make sure those scales go down again this week.

Looking forward to reading posts.
Talk to you later,
Susie

Hey friends,
I hope everyone is doing well. I can't really explain my absence. I was having some trouble at work and I needed to focus on that. I guess it worked I went to lunch today with my GM,AGM, manager and was showered with praises for my improvements. That was a real relief. I didn't want to change jobs. The last month has been so much better.
Now for the bad news... I haven't been to curves but 2x in that month and have thrown my plan out the window. I eat ok for b-fast but the rest of the day is way off. I've gained 3 lbs but I hope now that I have gotten more comfortable with my job I can get back in the race.
I've really missed yal'll
I will post more tomorrow.

LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!

Hello ladies! Been busy here with Dh gone,but he comes back on Friday, I can't believe I am counting the days like the kiddies! We had B-day cake today for DS and DD2 and I only had one piece. It was nice, with out a lot of frosting, so it was mnainly cake and strawberries. Not too bad food wise, but I really need to get back on the food wagon. Exercise this week has been good, and I am looking forward to going tomorrow afternoon. Have to run, but will check in again tomorrow.

((hugs)) to all!!

Hi ladies. I feel so out of touch. Been pigging out on snacky stuff for a few days Not good.

HUGS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello, My name is Shirley and I am trying to lose about 15 pounds which would put me under 199 or so, but it seems to be a rollercoaster ride. I am always looking for a new diet plan and that probably is my problem as my system is messed up. I am married 22 yrs with 2 girls, 17 and 23(lives on her own) and have been struggling for about 4 years to take this weight off. To be honest I hate following a diet plan but need guidance as I can easily slip off. I do have binge days and moments and jump back on pretty quick. I joined a gym about 3 months ago and was doing great until about 2 weeks ago. First it started with my back getting thrown out for about 4 days, then I have been having dizzy spells as well as feeling like blah, no appetite, etc (no not even the possibility of pregnancy but thank you very much!!) Oh and did I mention that I am hypothroid as well? I think my meds need adjusting so that makes it a bit more difficult to lose weight. Not feeling sorry for myself but I see some people on here that have the same problem as me and seem to be able to lose the weight. The only way for me to lose a pound or 2 is to have absolutely no carbs and workout for 2 hours daily(ugh)........which gets pretty boring after awhile and carb cravings for them come eventually. I just try to eat fairly healthy, adhere to the zone most of the time but find that snacks just don't fill me up for the 2 hour window I need to make it to the next meal. Doesn't matter how much fibre is in there, just seem to be hungry. Does anyone else feel like this? Am I the only one that feels like that?

Just a quick check-in. I'm having a good week this week. I'm exercising and the food is in control. I did something last night that I've never done. We went out for pizza and I only had 2 pieces. There are two left and I will have them for dinner tonight. I usually would have eaten all 4 but it was more important to me to see those scales go down than to fill myself up on it and really, 2 was enough.

Debbie: Great to hear from you. It seems that you have worked some things out at work and I'm sure that now you will get back into your routine and get those 3 lbs back of. I believe in you! You have been amazing..keep up the good work.

Welcome Shirley: I too have a low thyroid and I am a binge eater as well. Come to the board when you feel the binge coming on. Read the posts and look at the successes and have a little self talk with yourself. As for the low thyroid it does make it difficult to loose weight, but it can be done.

Just had some eggs on toast. my appetite is enormous. I wanted a big plate of spaghetti.( and garlic bread and salad)

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Still riding this wave!!!!

todo’s-
-fold laundry, 3 calls to make, groceries to be got, general tidying.

HUGS!!!!!!
I will exercise. Yesterday I cut grass for over an hour. I am thinking on the body sculpt dvd.