Thanks Itryharder. I do remind myself that I did not gain it all back. As for retaining water I understand we all know I have a weakness for pizza so I am right there with you.

Princess glad it wasn't as bad as your though.

Bandit congrats on the WI.

Glad it is Friday even though I went to work for nothing. But oh well. I have been doing alot of cooking these past few days. Meatloaf is cooking in the crock pot now. I found a health food store. That has like organic no salt/no sugar added tomato sauce. Not so cocerned about the organic part but the other part is good. Just have to wait till next week to get some. Hope everyone has a good weekend.

Sorry ladies I forgot to post my weigh-in for Wednesday. I guess I have been MIA. I weighed 228.6 (down -2 pounds) It has been 4 years since I have been in the 220's when my 2nd child was first born. Hoping that despite some cravings I have been having that I can continue to lose weight. Looks like everyone else is doing good. I will try to do a little better on posting. My hubby and I are going out to eat tomorrow and the two times we have gone out to eat I have looked up the site and made myself knowlegable of the better choices they have.

Cherry, you're doing great! It is so smart to check choices for calories, etc. before you eat out. Looking up the amount afterward kinda helps for the next time, but looking ahead is a greater plan! Weigh to go! You're doing great. It's easy to get shaky in the confidence area of "Am I really doing this?", but you are doing this!!!!! You are losing weight even though you have cravings. keep up the good work. I'm so happy for you.
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Yesterday was good for me. I ate my points plus because I needed them, but I also mowed the back lawn and weeded some of my garden. Getting ready w/dh for our annual luau next Saturday. I'll be buying food from the local Chinese restaurant. They deliver and everything. I can get good choices for myself and also can get things for the vegans and vegetarians that are in our crowd. Makes life so easy. They'll deliver and set up and I won't have to do a thing but provide drinks and snacks. Sounds like a plan!

Best wishes for a lovely weekend for everyone!

Princess, enjoy your family!

Bandit, share some of your weight success! :

Terri, how's your vacation?

Life4evr, here's to you and losing even more weight!

Gotta run, but good luck to all our Turtles! We are doing this!
Judy
234.6/197/180's and thinner

Hey All back to reality!

You guys are all doing so great! Everyone is seeing positive results that is wonderful! Goes to show you if we persevere and keep at it great things will happen.

Had a great,busy week off, now back to work! Will catch up later

Terri

Good morning everyone... happy Monday! Ugh, super fast weekend... again, eating was not so good and exercise never happened... my carpel tunnel is raging into high gear right now for some reason, it has never been a huge problem for me but over the last couple of weeks it has blown up out of control so I am not sleeping well with it and even wearing the wrist splints has not helped very much but with that and everything else going on this past weekend I just basically talked myself out of going to they gym... will try and get back on it this week, I have my lunch packed and am going to try and take the dogs to the park this evening.

Judy: Your luau sounds awesome!You always seem to plan the best parties!

Life: Cooking meals is a wonderful thing! Helps to stay on track!

Cherry: A huge congrats on your loss!

Bandit: Did you make it to the trailer this weekend? Hope you had a great time.

Terri: Yep, back to the grind! Ugh... how was your weekend?

Hi Turtles,
Princess, I immediately thought about you and the tragedy at the Indiana State Fair. I'm glad you weren't near there. Sorry about your carpal tunnel.
Lots going on in your life right now. : that you start healing so you can and Glad you're packed up for a walk with dogs and you'll get back in the exercise swing.

I'm not exercising either and feel ridiculous. I don't know why I set up so many roadblocks to exercise since I don't hate it once I start. My dh and I have a plan to walk on the boardwalk in september. The summer has been too hot and we thought it would be.

My food has been good and I'm slowly dropping the weight I put on during our mini vacation. Any yes, we do plan parties-----Every year we have a Halloween , St. Patty's, and luau party. We also have our kids and grandkids here for every holiday and birthdays-----so you can see that ends up with a lot of celebration, good, and a lot of food, not so good. Over time the kids have tried to knock off some weight and I'm able to offer lighter choices----I also have not had desserts for our summer BBQ's. If they want them, they can run to a 7-11 and pick up something. For the most part, that's working out well. Today I'm heading out for lunch with my book club. It's always fun and the girls are so figure conscious that I would feel ridiculous ordering something fattening. They are all trim and I'm working on it. I'd love to get back into the 180's so I'd feel better about myself. I am doing this! And, truth be told, would help.

Terri, wow----your break went so fast!

Bandit, are you feeling better? :

Life4evr, cooking anything interesting?

Cherry, how's your eating plan coming along? : to you for putting in the effort. Weigh to go!

Okay---gotta get some things done this morning. You all take care. What does Bandit say? "Drink that water."

Judy
234.6/197/thinner, please, thinner!!!!!

Thanks for the encouragement and congrats from everyone. I appreciate the support. TOM is almost here so my weight has gone up some but not bad so far so I will keep trying and hopefully heading forward.
Hi to Princess, Life4evr, Judy, Bandit, and Terri. If i forgot anyone please forgive my memory. We are finally getting a little break in the heat and we are enjoying it.

Judy: Yes, what happened at the fair was horrible and that is all that is on the news out here... we were going to go to the fair on Sunday with the family but after what happened we thought better of it and they ended up closing the fair for the day anyway. It is opened again today and they are having a memorial service followed by a re-opening of the fair itself but the special events are all on hold.

We live about 20 mintues from the fair grounds and I saw the storm coming in, we had just said goodbye to our last guest and were hurring to get the patio cleaned up before it started to rain. The storm was bad and the winds were very strong. I feel terrible for those families... I truly do.

Good luck with your food today and I know what you mean about exercising in September when the heat breaks a bit.

Hi turtles:

Princess - yes, I went to trailer Fri afternoon and stayed overnight, and got my grass up there cut. Nice relaxing night just watching some movies.
I am feeling much better, still get tired quickly but getting better each day.
I was shocked to see the news about your State Fair, thank goodness you weren't there.

Judy - You asked about my losing some weight and I am still eating alot of
carbs (bread, pizza) but the last few days have had more fruit & veggies.
I think being sick & eating lots of bread type things was a shock to my system, since I have been strick for so long. Anyway, getting back to normal now.

Terri - glad you enjoyed your holiday. I am taking last week of Aug off, so
looking forward to that.

Cherry - nice to see you posting, keep up the good work.

I am off camping this Thurs for 3 nights with 6 other ladies, so should be fun.
We have a camper as well as a tent and dining tent. We went last year
and the lake was really nice (Balsam Lake) and has a nice beach. Hopefully,
the food/snacks won't be too bad. I will miss my Tops meeting since we are
leaving late afternoon for campsite.

All - hope you all have a successful week at the scales.

Good morning everyone and happy Tuesday to you all! We have been enjoying some cooler temps here lately but I think that is getting ready to change here really soon LOL - they are turning up the heat again but not as bad as last time. Our school district started back to school today so that means a huge increase in the traffic so I got my butt out the door on time today, I pass by two high schools on my way here in the morning and with the teenage drivers sometimes things get ugly so I like to get thru the school zones way before the traffic gets bad.

got a very quick and short walk in last night but it was nice, DH and I took the dogs to the park for a quick once around. We are enjoying sitting out on the deck in the cooler evening air and the dogs like to lay out there with us so it is kind of like our living room has moved outside

Trying to get my eating back on track with little bit of exercise thrown in there to get me moving again...

Hope everyone has a great day!

Bandit: Have a fabulous time with your girl friends!

Hi Turtles,
Bandit, have fun with your friends! Tenting and camping is so much fun. My dh and I did a lot of that when we were first married. Camped on our way from NY to Winona, MN for the summer. Then when our kids were born, we camped out a lot. Have a ball!

Princess, I think a start is good. Watching our foods and exercising a little is fine. Enjoy your deck. It sounds like a great home improvement! So cute that the dogs like it too.

I'm doing quite well as far as food. Not perfect, but so much better. It looks like I knocked off the vacation weight. Now I need to lose another pound this week. Yay! DD and grandson will be back here today to go shopping, etc. Then the rest of the week will be spent on getting ready for the luau. I did not go out to dinner with them last night because I wanted to keep on track. That was a good thing.

Life4evr, how are you doing?

Terri, how are you?

Cherry, keep up the good work! :

Hi to all the turtles.
Have a great day!
judy
234.6/197/180's and thinner

Hey Turtles

Bandit have a great time, it is soo much fun to get away with a group of women, lots of laughs you will get rejouvenated!

Princess the Stage collapse is big news up here too, what an awful tragedy.

Cherry you are almost at 25 lbs what a great accomplishment, keep up the great work!

Judy Glad you are having a good week, have fun at the luau!

Life I'm on the same page as you, starting at the beginning again! hoping I get it right this time!!! We will because we are true turtles! and if we keep at it long enough surely it will stick one time or another!!!!1

So lets keep at it!!!

Terri

Good morning everyone and happy Wednesday to you all! It is a pretty day here, the temps are going up but not too bad yet. Got out for a quick walk last night, only twice around the park because there were a few people there also and they all had dogs and that distracted my dogs and made it a not so pleasent walking... LOL. I have knitting tonight so am going to go and walk the halls for a few mintues on my lunch break today. Trying to walk a bit each day even if it is only for 10 minutes, I figure it is better than nothing!

I went online and signed up at SparkPeople yesterday... it is a nice site to track and get some new ideas at, something different.

I hope that everyone has a wonderful day!

Hi everyone. JUst dropping in real quick before I go drop the car off to get it worked on.

Well I haven't been cooking recently. My mom has been taking over the kitchen lately. The meatloaf I did cook was a success even my dad liked it, he is a not a fan of vegetables. Nothing new here still waiting to hear back from the LPN program at my school.

Big news today was weigh in day I lost 2.5# I am sure some of that is becuase my TOM has ended.

Going to actually try to exercise this week. Hope everyone has a good day.

Life4evr, weigh to go! : nothing like a weight loss to keep you motivated! I love your persistance!
Judy
234.6/197/180's and thinner