Goodmorning everyone! How are you on this monday morning?

Jane, I don't know If I DID mention my foot but I have Lymphnodemia its a condition that causes my foot to swell and get blood infections easily. It's always swollen. So when I walk too much my ankle aches. But I'm hoping that the weight has made it worse and that when I lose much of it I will notice an improvement with my foot. But they say it's not cureable. That i'll always have this condition somewhat. We did a lot of planting this weekend. My hubby and I went to Costco and we got some palms and some bamboo plant and star jasmine and some birds of paradise. And 2 very large pots for the bird of paradise plants. It looks nice back there. (around the pool) I'll have to take a picture of my place sometime. We built a huge pool in the back a couple years ago. I will need to take advantage of that this summer.

Mindee, love the Happy Feet theme. I have to say I haven't seen the movie yet but love the previews. And I just love penguins. My nephew loves The Cars. He collects the little ones. He wants to have them all.

Sue, good job on the walking! You're doing so good.

Jules~ Yes FLW Falling water is just amazing. My house doesn't look quite like that...haha...no water flowing through it but it has the flat roof and the brick. Lots of windows.

Jodie~ I also think you look really good in red!

Christina~ Had to crack up when I read you said you heard your laundry stop. We have so much laundry and just when I think I have a handle on it one of the kids throws another huge pile in there. So I'm constantly doing laundry. And my hubby is always saying....why don't you fire up the washer! haha


Everyone else....sorry to pass you up but I have to get going! Have a great Monday! Easter is coming....are you all getting easter baskets together for anyone? I'm thinking of putting some teenager baskets together this year. The kids miss it because sometimes I think they're too big for baskets but then they say they miss it....haha....so i'll just put a more grownup toy in there.

TTyall later. TINA

Tina--I got my almost 20 year old daughter and son's almost 21 year old girlfriend some makeup and lipgloss from Avon for Easter and I will give my now 22 year old son chocolate!! I give them a little something and Valentines & Halloween too. They are so spoiled.

Karin--I try to keep up with all the comments since my last posting, but sometimes I get behind and just do a short hi.

Jane--I like your saying too. What the girl said really hit home with me. I am not one of those people who can eat anything and it's okay, I am not alone. My hubby is so frustrated because he is at his highest, but he thinks not eating is the answer and in his starve himself condition, he even made a comment that I could pass up a few meals, it really hurt my feelings.

Mindee--she only found two companies that make the corner crib and the bedding is kind of expensive so she ordered on set of sheets and we are going to go pick up some fabric and elastic and sew a couple more up.

Sassy--hugs to you!!

Jodi--you do look good in red!!

Well, back to work!!

Happy Monday, Ladies!

Hello, hello, hello...it's amazing what the sun shining does to one. I swear it seems like it has been forever since the sun was out...was feeling like a drowned rat.

MARTI...you guys don't like the color of the house? I love it! You will be amazed once you start moving how fast it will go. We closed on Wed, had a late lunch and then started loading the U-haul. Actually, Jason & Vince did. But me and Vince unloaded it. We did two loads that evening/night, a small one the next morning and then Vince and the guys from work moved the big stuff when they got off from work. I couldn't believe that we were all moved in within 24 hours. I think that was the fastest ever. It would have been even faster had we not had to wait for Steve & Brad to get off work at 3:30. It's the unpacking and organizing that takes forever, lol!

JANE...I too wondered why they need to be dry cleaned. We haven't painted the walls yet..that is coming up within the next two weeks. But the living room will be green, the kitchen red and the hallway gold. I am hoping it all flows well together. I just liked the black drapes and wanted to go dark again but not the same red/burgundy we had before. You are making me want to go to a nursery. We will buy some shrubs and trees soon but not sure how long it will be before grass. I even am missing mowing, lol! Everyone was out mowing yesterday. I am going to have to figure out how to do one a montage of Josh. Just heard from him yesterday and he said they all smell so bad and then he laughed. Eeeewww!

JODI...a new outfit does wonders for us! I always feel pretty when I get new clothes, lol! I didn't think I would feel a difference in my clothes but I am really tired of my capris. I've not lost that much weight, but a few of them I used to have to unbutton to go to the bathroom...now I just pull them down, lol.

TINA...I have bought my kids candy for a very long time. They are in their 20's now and I just gave Jason & Carrie some candy and their card yesterday. And Josh will get his in a little over a week. I just mailed 4 boxes of easter candy, girl scout cookies and puzzle books & tablets with pens to him and the troops. Was so busy with the move I didn't realize that Easter is next Sunday!

JULES...never thought about the sheets costing a lot. But then I guess they would since they are bigger and an odd shape. But it sure is a cute crib.

I just realized I was supposed to add pictures to shutterfly for VANN, or was it TAMMY??? Aaaahh, I forgot! I will add them today and put the link tomorrow for sure, sorry.

HI to everyone else

Was up early this morning. Had a ton of things to do. I did get them all done and was happy to be home. Had to run to Penneys to pick up my orders, post office to get the packages mailed, pay Josh's truck payment, run to Lowes and get some curtain rods and V's checkbook. Goofy man...got in a hurry last night and left it in the cart. OMG! We headed back there to see if it was possibly still in the cart and halfway there DD called and said someone from Lowes got it and it is in their safe there. Thank god! I think we have been living at Lowes lately, lol. Speaking of the post office...does anyone know when the stamps are supposed to go up? I heard June and then I heard May and I forgot to ask while there. Anyway...also went for a walk at the park. Did 1.5 miles and it felt good. Was going to do more but decided I should start slow. Drinking my water as well and took my vitamin. I am aiming for a loss this week for sure! I am happy that I only gained one this past week. I was so worried it was going to be more. One I can deal with but I think I would have cried had it been more, lol.

Well, take care ladies and I will chat more tomorrow.
Hugs

Happy sunny Monday afternoon.... I don't know about you, but I am having a great day here. The weather is perfect and we had our walk already. If I get a chance I am going to ride the bike this evening.
This morning when I weighed in I was down another pound. And I measured..down 1 1/2 inches on my waist and 1 inch on my abdomen..(belly fat!) My scales are the pits and don't weigh increments..but I swear it was closer to two pounds...I am just going to take 1 and hope for 2 next time.
I measured my portions starting today...I had done that before and then quit, thinking I could "eye-ball" it. But decided I would measure and be more precise...maybe help lose. With cereal it is easy to over-fill. Now, a banana is a banana...ha.

Took Mom to get her hair fixed and went grocery shopping. Now I don't know what to fix for dinner. I think I am hungry for a baked potato. I even bought a sweet potato to try Jane's trick for baking it when I want french fries. (I have never had a baked one and don't like candied ones, so we shall see)
Had some friends from over near our old house stop by and sit a spell earlier. Nice to see them.
I told DH we are going to have to walk early a.m. or in the evening as the days get sunnier. I am not supposed to be in the sun at all, and never without sunscreen due to having had melanoma. Dr. said wear a straw hat, but in this wind who can do that? haha....I would spend all my time chasing the hat. HEY...more exercise!
Okay...I am feeling positively silly...must mean I need my apple snack.
BBL for some individuals.

Hello ALL!!!

Jules- Congratulations on the weight loss (at least you didn't gain:-) like me!

Tina --Congratulations to you too!! Both of your girls get kudos from me!!!

Sue- I can relate to the hormone dance..one of the many fun things to come as I get older, but it is tough trying to loose weight!!! I feel your pain!

Christina-I'm sure you did fine on your weight --And we can help keep each other positive!!

Marti--I can't do the garage sale either..I will attend, but I can't stand having to pull one together...Goodwill here I come AND thanks for the support. I have been so good and consistently lost weight ..so this was new, but necessary to get back on track.

Mindee- The pet food thing is gotten CRAZY..every night they add a new food that should be on the list. I don't know what to feed the kittens..Thanks for liking Niko..my DS wanted to feel a part of..and even though I like Zeke better...Niko is cool too.

Jane-Niko has really added some fun to our lives..I think I want him to have a playmate and am considering a little girl..I know I am crazy, but my bigger cats don't pay him much attention. I am traveling on Wednesday --in Training on Thursday and THEN I am doing a Mom/Daughter day (NO DGKids) on Friday...we haven't done that in months..maybe a year or so..I am really excited. We are going shopping at the Mall..then to Cheesecake factory for lunch..who knows if I can abstain (LOL) But yes..a busy week...but fun..thank you so much for asking..

I am off to clean the kitchen...

Hello to everyone else..Sassy, Karin, Michelle, and to anyone else I missed

Vann- Yummmm, Cheescake Factory. HAve only been once, but it was so good. They give you way too much food however...and I wasn't even dieting then. Have fun! I do take a hormone every day and a beta blocker....and even Dr. Oz says that doesn't help with the weight loss. SO I am just gonna have to work harder.

Jane- No, I didn't see that supplement. Darn! I have been busy learning about the wildflowers that are shooting up here. We thought they wouldn't come back since the lot had been all chopped up. I am excited to try to save some and transplant some to a bed. I found a site Wildflowerfarms dot com that is super. Not for ordering, but for the pictures to help me identify.

Marti- If you can move in a day you will set some kind of record I'm sure. How long will it be until you know for sure about the house? Still wishing you good luck.

Tina- I don't buy Easter goodies for anyone anymore. But I did get a little something for DS until he left home. After I read about your bird of paradise my DD called and was talking about getting one. (she is in CA) I had never even seen one. She finally told me they are a tropical type plant...so, okay, not for Indiana. Bet they are lovely though.

Cristina- Whew! V was lucky with that checkbook. Believe me, you don't want someone to get hold of that! We had a check stolen and it was a mess.

Mindee- Sure hope the sandals solve the swelling feet problem. That can be so un-comfortable. Not much longer......

Okay...gonna have to scoot. I DID manage to ride the bike 2 miles tonight. And stayed OP today.

Jane~ You are not the only one that hasn’t seen the movie. We haven’t either!

Karin~ I hope things slow down some for you.

Tina~ Like I mentioned to Jane, we haven’t seen the movie either. But we do see the previews on tv. Right now, I have the almost birthday boy staring me down because he doesn’t seem to want to go to sleep which is driving me bonkers!! Tommy calls Logan penguin because of the way he walks around with his arms flung backwards, it makes him look like a penguin. So, we had originally thought about doing it for Logan’s birthday party, and I am sure that is what will end up happening.

Easter Baskets~ Well, we decided to just buy them each their own basket. Then we tried to see what the store had that we could put in the baskets, and once around the aisles of options, we figured it would be easier if we just bought one of those ones that was already put together and just divided it between them.

Jules~ That is a cool looking crib! My sister is giving us her bedding that she made for her daughter.

Vann~ I still haven’t been able to find a clear link for her. So, maybe I will just email her and tell her to go to the Purina website.

Sue~ Having been pregnant during this season before, I remembered how bad my feet hurt when I was in anything restrictive on my feet. And then being pregnant during the summer with Logan, I remembered how much better my feet felt in sandals.

Computer is acting really slow tonight....not sure why. But I've gotta do a flyby as I'm really tired tonight. Got about 4.5 hrs of sleep. (I'm going nuts w/the going through stuff!!)

WI today and I managed to lose .4lbs. Not much. But it's a loss. My ticker remains the same as it doesn't record point anything. (such as 10.2 or 23.6) Just rounds it to the whole number.

Off to bed I go. I'm a sleepy girl.

Have a good night everyone!

Hello ladies,

Marti - .4 is just fine! It all adds up, right? My laptop has a virus and I think I'm going to have to take it to the 'puter doc. It is sooooo slow!

Karin - good to see you!

Tina - OIC about your foot. I hope they find a cure for it, or as you said, that weight loss will improve it, at least. For Easter, I bought a little treat for Neal and myself, but I quit making baskets last year, when our Katie, (the baby of the family) was in Florida working at Walt Disney World. I sent her tons of stuff to share with her roomies.

Jules - aww, I'm sorry your DH said what he did. Maybe he said that because he's just so frustrated with his own weight, because I think you look absolutely beatiful the way you are. I'm not just saying that, either - you really do.

Cristina - the postage stamp price increase goes into effect May 14, to 41 cents. "Forever" stamps can be bought as of April 12. Once you buy them, they're good until you run out, for 1st class postage. I still think 41 cents is a good deal for what we get, don't you? Who wlse would take a letter from me and deliver it to, for example, Mary Kate in California for 41 cents! I think it's a bargain. Your home color choices sound cool. Can't wait for more pictures.

Mary Kate - it was great talking to you yesterday, and I hope you'll post soon with an update on you arm for everyone else to read.

Sue - yay! You're doing great! It's amazing when we measure food and find that we've been skimoing on some things and getting too much of others. Once I started measuring, I got MORE peanut butter, vegetables and meat, but less cereal and baked potatoes. Did you like the sweet potato fries? I spray mine with a little EVOO and sprinkle just a little coarse salt. Mmmmm

Vann - like you, I really enjoy the mom and daughter time with no kiddos. As much a I adore my grandkids, it's nice to have some quiet time with Mary w/o being interrupted 500 times, lol.

Mindee - hope you get to put your feet up today. Of course, with 2 little ones running around, that may not be possible.

A big hello to Sassy, Tammy, Jen, and anyone else I may have missed.

I am doing very well with the food, exercise, water and yes, even the vitamin, lol. I planted the dahlias yesterday and all that walking to and from the shed, plus the bending over and over must have been good for me, right? But I walked the treadmill anyway. I downloaded some snappy songs on my iPod just for treadmill listening, and I bee-bopped away, lol.

Have a good day, ladies!

Goodmorning ladies! I haven't been so obsessive about weighing in. I know I'm eating right and that it's going to come off eventually so I try to weigh every 3rd day or so.

Mindee~ Hey check out my sister`inlaws baby product website. If you go to the 'about us' section you can see a picture of her and her family. Go to www.babygott.com She lives in Australia but started this company a couple years ago.

Jane~ Thanks about the comments on my foot. It's been a real bummer for me. I am hopeful tho that it will get better. I want to be a walker again. I'm going to talk to that DR. that I'm going to see (office of www.drplatt.com) next week! I'm excited. I'm going to have a blood panel done and then meeting with the Dr. the next day. Yeah!

Sue~ Congrats on the pounds AND inches. I measured myself yesterday. I seemed like such LARGE numbers but then and wrote out my dream measurements next to it and it shows that I should lose about 50 inches and you usually lose about an inch per pound on my diet so that'd be right. So I can live with it.

Ok...EVERYONE~ My DH and I went to our store to bring payroll. And interview a kid. So then we went for a drive up in the mountains. In the convertable with the top down! It was so sunny. We went to an old ghost town. (people still live there) and it was kinda scary. Went to the cemetary to look at how old the graves were...my DH likes that kinda stuff...it kinda freaks me out. And then we went to a gift shop there too. It was one of those old towns with so much history. Then to top the day off I went to the movies with BOTH of my DS's and saw Blades of Glory...haha! Really crazy/funny.

Ok...talk to you all soon!

Tina

Ok ladies,i've been bad and i need you all to give me a good kick.I have been eating all the wrong foods and i haven't been exerciseing.
EVERYONE,LET ME HAVE IT!!i need to be set straight i'm having a hard time getting back on track.i don't want to give up and let this weight slide back on.I am so disgusted and feeling rotten.HEELLLPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!

Amy- I won't give you a kick as you are already beating yourself up as it is. I will say, been there, done that! You have to start thinking positively and just "pick yourself up, dust yourself off and start all over again." Somedays that is hard to do, but maybe find a picture of what you want to look like...or an article of clothing you want to get into. YOU CAN DO IT! Heck...I have never lost 25 pounds, so you are an inspiration!

Tina- Sounds like a wonderful day. Glad you enjoyed it. Yes, those inches aren't a whole lot..but they add up. I didn't measure anywhere but my waist and abdomen. I can tell that my legs are losing, and well they should with the walking and biking.

Jane- I hope you aren't getting the bad weather that is West of us. Yikes! True about the measuring....I got more PB than I thought and also more meat. Love that. I have done well on the food for a few days and can't say I have been hungry. Last night I wanted a salty snack about 8 and knew I had to have it quickly, since I don't want to eat after 8. Well, all I found were Mom's chips...until I remembered that before we left for Vegas I had a bag of fat free pretzels and had put them in the freezer. That did the trick and they were as fresh as the day I bought them. Thank goodness because I was almost in a panic for salt...and I am sure I would have eaten a few chips (but we all know you can't stop at a few) So a disaster was averted. LOL

Marti- Hope you got some rest. Hey, any loss is a good loss...it all adds up. (just not as quickly as I would like, but it DOES add up)

Okay...I better go get some work done. I just had to sit down for a few minutes. Did my walking early and then had an OP breakfast. I will ride the bike this evening...once the street is shady.

I know I am bothersome posting so often...but it keeps me on my toes reporting my walks and such....bear with me please.

Amy! Pick yourself up...dust yourself off...and then start fresh this minute. Don't worry about what was done a minute ago. You can do this and you want to or you wouldn't have asked for our help. So I can't wait to read tomarrow about the GREAT day you had today!

tina

Hello...

JANE...funny, there was an article in the paper about the stamps this morning. But thank you! And yes, I don't think 41 cents is that much to send a letter to someone anywhere. WTG on your eating and such. Keep up the good work.

4AMY...I agree with Sue...you've already best yourself up. So just forget about it and move on. We are here for you missy.

Hi to everyone else.

Sorry for a quickie but I got on the computer later than usual. Was cleaning the house all morning and doing final touches. Finally have everything upstairs (main level) done and put together. Well, except for curtains and Josh's room. Wasn't a big deal to get his together but I will work on that tomorrow after V puts up his blind and bed today. After that I am going to get some sort of organization to the family room and I am done! Hooray! Will post some pictures once I get them uploaded somewhere. tried on Shutterfly yesterday and I don't know what happened. Might try photobucket. Chat more next time.

Thanks everyone for the support.I will start fresh and try again.i haven't weighed my self so i don't know the damage from3-4 days of being a pig.i will try and get on track and weigh myself in a few days.i don't know what i would do without you all.thanks so much for encouragement to keep going.Tomorrows a new day and i'm starting a new month. lets go team!!!