Good morning/afternoon girls Today is Michael's 7th birthday. I can't believe he's SEVEN!!! Where does the time go??? I went to Sam's Club this morning and picked up a chocolate cake w/buttercream frosting and some ice cream cups...I am so sabotaging myself. I know I can't resist that darn Sam's Club cake and frosting! I was contemplating skipping my weigh in today but I think I am going to suck it up and just go. I need to buy more weekly coupons since it's cheaper if you buy in advance rather than pay every week. I thought for sure I would have a maintain or a gain last week, but this week it may have caught up with me. I dunno though, I think I am just going to go and get it over with--after all, I am only cheating myself if I skip. Hehe, I can be glad for one thing today though, at least I don't weigh as much as I did when I gave birth ....

Angie, I know how you feel about the munchies! I have been indulging one too many times these past few days. I think I am craving salty, then right when PMS acts up I go for the sweet stuff like chocolate.... I found these awesome snacks though, they're called mini Soy Crisps, I found them at Costco and they're like those 100 cal packs of cookies and crackers. Yummy for a sweet crunchy treat.

As far as the tickers, 3FC is limiting the siganture lines to only once per thread for now, that's why the siggies don't show on every post.

Kempy, I usually have my 'free' meal at dinner. What I mean by that is that i track my points through dinner and lunch, and by dinner time I usually have around 15 pts left--which as you know is a lot. Then I just eat whatever my mom cooks (I know, pathetic aren't I ) but I just eat one serving. I stay away from it if it's battered or fried. Then I try to figure out the points from the food finder book. It's kind of a backasswards kind of way of doing things, but it works for me.

Cal, so what did ya ride at Disneyland? Did you find any of the collages?

Hey to Julie, Cherie, Red, Dips and everyone. Gotta run for now. Have a good one!

Hey guys. I am home for just a little bit. I have 2 more clients today.

I am just going to weight in on my own in the morning. We are leaving and I will not have time to go to the meet at WW. Hey, at least I will save $11. I hope that I have drop at least something since last week. Joe ans I are going out to eat so I don't have to clean the kitchen tonight and I think I might want sushi. That is really good for me to have and it is easy.

I don't have time to post much. I need to get packing since I will be at work late. I'll post when we get back. I hope you guys have a great weekend.

Noelle we are so much alike. I LOVE the Sams club bettercreme icing!!! That is a huge reason why I gained every single pound of weight back. I would do my grocery shopping at Walmart ever week and I would grab a few packs of the cupcakes(because they have more icing) and just pig out all weekend on them. My favorite way to eat them is when they are nice and cold. YUM!! Makes me hungry just thinking about it.

Now what I do is bake a white cake mix (omit the oil and egg yolks) just add the whites and water. Then for frosting I take cocoa powder,powder sugar and hot water and mix it until it is really thick. Then I microwave for about 30 seconds until it melts and I spread it on the cold cake and put back in the fridge until it is nice and cold. That is my Saturday treat and I have to admit the kids dont get much of it. I eat as much as I want on Saturdays of it.

Kempy, You going to be gone for the rest of the week? Have fun. We will miss you.

Hey girls I am back from my weigh-in and I should just shut-up about it already (all the moaning and groaning about maintaining or gaining...) I actually lost 1.4 lbs this week...a total of 27.8 so far. I am stoked! I dunno...I guess I feel like I wouldn't have lost weight if I didn't go all out on the exercise like I normally would, but you know what? I am OK with the fact that I am not able to lose 3 lbs a week every week. 1 lb will do me just fine! By summer I should be at a more comfortable weight where I feel pretty in my own skin again.

I found a WW brand cereal at Sam's this morning as well. 2 pts (or roughly 100 cals) for a 3/4 cup serving. It is called honey/almond crunch or something like that and it has real blueberries in it I can't wait to try it for breakfast tomorrow. I also bought some Lean Cuisine pizzas (pepperoni and some spinach and mushroom ones) for quick lunches. I love to have me some pizza once in a while. Michael wants pizza for dinner but at 5 points a slice I can't eat very much of it. This way I am safe. I can eat the whole little round pizza for around 6-8 points and be satisfied.

Kempy, good luck at your weigh in tomorrow, I know you will do better than you think. I eat sushi like 2x a week, sometimes more. I pretty much eat whatever I like, except I stay away from those made w/mayo--like a tuna salad sushi (yes we have those here) or even a scallop w/mayo sushi. I think if I eat nigiri sushi I eat about 10 pcs and that is to get me feeling really full. That is only 5 pts!

Angie, I am going to try your cake recipe...especially since it has frosting The WW leader I have just takes a cake mix and puts one can of diet soda (diet coke for dark cakes) or diet 7up or sprite for white cakes. No eggs, oil or water, just the soda. Then I think she uses ff cool whip with ff jello powder for flavoring or fresh fruit like strawberries. Hmmm, I'm getting all worked up for cake I think I am having a small slice of cake for Mike's b-day tonight, but I am going to have to hide the left overs in the fridge downstairs so I'm not tempted to have a piece every time I walk by the kitchen upstairs. That is going to be hard because I just LOVE that cake from Sams. I have to remember to get a walk in today too

Cal, Cherie, Julie, Dips and Red....holla back!

WOOHOO NOELLE!!!!

I knew you would do great with your weigh in!!! You are awesome!!!

I AM SORE!!! I got my free personal training session at Bally. That dude tried to kill me. But I needed that intense workout. It pretty much let me know that if I want to be fit for vacation it's gonna take some serious work. No BSing! The sad part is I know i'm going to feel it twicw as much tomorrow Anyhoo

Noelle, you hardcore diva, you! I am so very proud of you. Even with all your injury woes, you still manage to melt the pounds away. You are going to do so well! BTW I got the best massage after the workout so I finaly got a hottie to rub me down just like you AND he was straight! Can ya dig it?!

Angie: You are doing great as well! You and Noelle have me thinking about cake though. I could use a slice of tirimisu. That'll be my reward when I reach my goal and not a moment sooner! BTW I see your babies are growing up fast. Happy B-day to your little angel.

J- Hope you're enjoying the getaway!

Hi Red- I'm glad you're pushing forward and spreading your motivation to other forums. So long as we're your favorites

Kempy- Pat yourself on the back sister! You are doing it just like I knew you would! Your cruise sounds awesome. Puts my trip to shame. Have a blast!

Cal- How's it going. Still enjoying some fun in the sun? I'll get there soon.

Okay girls, I have to stretch some more and hopefully I'll minimize the soreness that's sure to wake me tomorrow.

I'm checking in. Can I just say that W2 season for payroll sucks? This month as been the most hectic one yet. I keep thinking, it's almost over, it's almost over....

Yesterday, I went to the orthodontist where they took xrays (got a really cool one of the profile of my skull) and took molds of my teeth and then shoved in spacers between my teeth, 6 in all. Yesterday, was pretty miserable. My jaws ache and I'm having a hard time eating. And this is just with the spacers in. Can't wait for two more weeks when I actually get my full set of braces.

Today, I have my yearly well woman exam.. really looking forward to getting that OVER with. I know I will hear about me gaining 10 pounds since last year.. but I am trying to find my motivation to lose. Just not very motivated in trying.

Happy Birthday Michael!!! 7 years old! I KNOW! Where does the time fly.. I hope he had a great birthday.. and I hope you didn't enjoy the cupcakes too much. :-)

OK.. I need to get back to work.. I've been trying to get ahold of a live person in the State of Georgia for the past two days.. need to get back on that this morning.. Talk to you guys soon!

Cherie

Good Morning. It is freezing rain here today so everything looks like a bottle and all the schools were cancelled. Gotta love this weather. First it is so cold and ry that my hands crack open and then it is rainy then freezing... AAAGGGHHH!! I cant wait until spring is here.

Dips, I hope you arent too sore this morning. At least you got a rubdown. Was he a cutie?

Cheire, Hi girl. You sound very busy. Good luck at your yearly.

Jay went and bought a laser for the cats. BOY, do they like that. It is like 3 little dopes flying through the house. Helps to tire them out though. Daisy is like a dog. At night she will sleep on the top of the cat condo but she likes to be in our bedroom at night so I said "Daisy wanna go to bed?" And she jumps up and runs down the condo and goes to bed just like the dogs do. She is a sweetie. I cant let Teddy and Tyson in my room at night because they play and attack us all night. I tried it the other night and had to kick them out. I have never seen such hyper cats as those two.

Well, I gotta get in a workout. I hope you all get a chance to post today.

Hi Girls! I am stopping in for a quick post. I just dropped my daughter off at preschool and now it is time to go help out at my son's school. Lately I feel like I don't have enough time in a day, LOL. I dusted off my excercise bike yesterday and did a full fifteen minutes! Not to much but my leg muscles felt the burn after not using it in a ling time.

Happy Birthday Michael

Hi everyone!

Hi girls, I just had a late breakfast about an hour ago but I am already thinking of lunch It's a short school day and I have to help Michael finish a project on the planet Uranus (did you know there were rings around it? ) so I think I will finish up my payroll and get the heck out of dodge

Angie, so what are you guys doing today? Enjoying the warmth of the bakery? I had a laser once and the inside cats (Tiger and Scully) just looked at me like 'what's the big deal?' They are a lazy bunch.

Cherie, I didn't know you were going to get braces You are lucky that these days they are much smaller and the treatment is a lot faster. Still, I know it isn't fun having them, but it is fun to have beautiful straight teeth afterward...I had braces from the middle of 6th grade to the summer before 9th grade, so about 2.5 years. Those monthly tightening appointments were a pain! But only for a day or so, so don't worry, you'll do fine. Eeewwww, your yearly exam My doc just called me to day to let me know my last ultrasound exam was negative--meaning they found DIDDLY SQUAT! I guess I am VERY normal but yet... :lol Hope everything goes well for you. At least it's only 10 lbs--not like my 40!

Julie, good job on getting the bike out and riding it. It's a start to something good for ya.

Dips, I hear ya on the pain of a workout. You know, I'm getting a little tired of my massage after working out. That guy does that deep tissue stuff and it hurts like ****! But I feel good afterwards, it's getting through it that sucks.

Hi to Kempy, Red and Cal....have a great day.

Happy Thursday!

Okay, so at work we have a little weight loss challenge of our own going on. We all had to put in 25 dollars and form teams. The team who loses the most weight wins the pot! My disadvantage is that my teammate has little to no will power but I am very VERY comepetitive. I told her I will kill her if we don't win. there are 5 other teams so can you imagine how much money is at stake!! Anyways, I'm out to sabotage the other teams. Everyone is motivated right now mut in about 2 weeks time I'm dropping some krispie kremes off in each of their offices I'm terrible, I know. But I'm rutheless during competition!! Anyhoo

Noelle- There was no deep tissue business with my massage. The whole thing felt great from beginning to end! I loved it! I wish I could get him to do it after all my workouts but ofcourse I would have to pay him

Cherie- I have to schedule one of those exams myself. In fact I have to hit up the eye doctor, dentist and anyone else who can check my health. I'll work on that for next week.

J- Way to go on getting yourself started. You should be working your way up to being on that bike for at least 30-4 minutes but you will get there, just keep it up!

Angie- Ya know, he may have been a cutie but since he was 6'7" tall, I only got to view his chest most of the time but he had a great chest! And yes I am still sore but it's cool. It lets me know I'm really working. Anyhoo, hope you get over that cold weather soon and you can wish the same for me. We were enjoying such a warm winter (45-55 degree temps) Now the true winter of NY is in effect! It was like 20 degrees last night. Th egood news is that we're going to warm back up to the 40s and 50s for the rest of the week. YAY

Hi Kempy, Red and Cal. Hope everyone is chillin and happy and getting lighter! I'm off to the gym this morning before work. TTYL

Good Morning.... Thank goodness it's Thursday.... two more days of dredgery... I just LOVE work.. can you tell?

The doctor's appointment went well, and he didn't talk about my weight gain... Noelle.. I've gained like 10 pounds since last year.. but I still have like 40 to lose myself... I think he was trying to be sensitive about the appointment.. he did ask me about my ex because at the last appointment, he knew that he had cancer. So other than that and the actually appointment.. it was ok. My mouth is still uncomfortable... but I know it's worth it. The dog is doing well.. this week, I am making a solid effort to crate train her. Keeping her in her crate all day long, coming home at lunch to let her out... and keeping her in her crate at night. So far.. she hasn't had an accident. I was getting really tired of cleaning up the laundry room where I was letting her roam free during the day. I still don't like the idea that she is in the crate all day, but until she gets older and I can get her trained.. I guess it will work.

OK.. back to work...

Good Morning girls!! I got in my workout even though I really dont want to do it. I am up 1/2 pound this week and I doubt I will get in a loss at all. It is really doing a number on my brain the way it is fighting so hard. I dont want to be as strict as I used to be to lose weight because quite frankly it sucked. I couldnt eat anything and I am NOT doing that again....certainly not for the rest of my life. I dont know. I am just getting sick of it all. I wont give up though.

It rained out so bad yesterday but thankfully when the rain stopped the wind picked up...big time. It blew all the extra rain off my walkway so that is good. It was a nice little ice slick yesterday. We dont have hardly any snow left now, more like a thin coating of ice and that is it. I can see grass in a few spots. The kids snowmobile is pretty useless right now.

The kitten found out how comfy Jay's pillow is so that is where she slept all night. She is a cutie pie. She really tears it up with Tyson and Teddy now. The other 3 cats are all old (14,10,7) so they just look at them like they are crazy.

Well, I guess I should go get something done today.

Hi Girls, one more day till Friday!

Angie, I totally know what you are saying about being to strict with yourself. That is exactly what I do. That is how I got to my goal and then went crazy eating things I did not let myslef have....but I think you are doing it totally the RIGHT way. Keep it up and let yourself have those Saturdays free. I know it is hard though, last week pms just about killed me! I ate entire bag of butterscotch chips in two days!!!! Okay I am embarrassed now. But I am going to be 20 pounds lighter by June 1st!

Noelle I hope you got the project done. My daughter just was working on planets in preschool and I couldn't remember all the names, I guess I forgot alot of things being out of school,LOL.

Cherie I did not know you were getting braces. Nothing beats a great smile!
I feel bad leaving the dog in her crate too. They just give you that look. I know it is for the best though when we are not home. That reminds me I have to make my yearly appt. too. Fun fun....

Dips I like the idea of the challenge at work and you naughty thing with the krispie kremes....too funny.

Hi Cal, Kempy and Red!

This morning I ate one of those low carb oatmeal bar things and they are loaded with vitamins and it is kind of upsetting my stomach. Yuck. I think I will stick to natural foods and not these super vitamin muscle man bars, haha.
I better get some work done around the house today since I have been gone all week. Check back later

Hey all. How's it going? I'm busy with my other thread, the 21-day challenge, which is my main thread as I organize it. We're so busy these days that it takes me way to long to reply over there and there just isn't any time to come in here and chat. Besides, my last mega post here was met with so much quiet that I felt abandoned. Don't you just hate that? I guess I am just too out of sync with ya all!