Thanks for the happy birthday wishes everyone sorry I am a day late reading them, but hubby has been on here getting his gazillion CDs into his new IPOD, so I haven't been online. I spent my birthday going from city to city, store to store, searching for a DSL Lite for DD's birthday. We finally found a Best Buy not completely sold out, but they only had white so we got it and I'm going to order her a skin online. I already brought my own birthday present, but I got a big box from my mom (she lives in Ohio) and it was packed full of bath and body works stuff, pajamas, slippers, and a card telling me how much she loves me I miss her so much.

Today is day 3 OP and also grocery shopping day. I wanted donuts really bad, but part of my plan is having no binge foods in the house, so that was the only thing stopping me from buying them thinking I'd "just have one" HA! I know better, so I stayed to the plan and passed them up. Came home and had strawberries instead...they were way way better, very sweet!

Today it's been just me and DD. Took her to cheerleading, then grocrey shopping, cleaning out the van, second grocery store, and then to the park. She rode her bike around the tennis courts and I sat on a bench and wrote in my daily journal...I started one to track my one year OP challenge, trying to write a page a day about the process, or whatever else is in my head. It was a very nice time...such a beautiful day I can't believe it is only Feb.

Would anyone hate me totally if I dropped out of the blue team travel challenge? I just can't get on here much, so now am like 3 days behind on reporting, and it's just too much for me right now I just don't want to stay in it and be so late posting all the time, driving Chellez nuts I'm sure. '

Okay, going to start a new message for personals, this is kinda long.

Zinke--YAY! Running! And I don't think 3 chicken nuggets is bad at all, esp. if you needed something more on the salad and that was all that was available. You could have done so much worse, like ditch the salad altogether and go for a big burger, right?

Chellez--That doesn't sound like a good person to be hanging out with. I'd ditch her as well.

Selina--I like your quote, it hit home with me today. Hubby is talking about buying bikes for me himself and me, so we can go riding with the kids. I haven't ridden a bike since I was like 10 probably, and I am terrified of falling off. Your quote just reminded me that I should just do it and maybe the fear will go away. Would be great family time and exercise wrapped in one.

Kimberly--How did you do with the birthday party? I hope you stayed to plan and will be proud of yourself.

Ellie-- on the pound lost!

Heather--How did the party go? Did you stay away from the McDs food

Rhonda--We are both 3 for 3

Onthetee--Did you stay out of the wine and chocolate? And did you get that exercise in? Sorry I wasn't here to kick your butt, but I can still send a big one your way if you didn't get it done.

Dionne--That's a very sweet hubby you have there...go to the hotel, get some rest, you deserve it.

I don't know if I am completely caught up or not, but I need to get my exercise in so have to get off her now. If I missed anyone, I'll get back to reading later...or tomorrow, depending what time hubby and son get back in.

Hey everyone,

No time for reading through posts. I will try to catch up tomorrow. I picked up DH last night and I am trying to spend time with him before he flys out again next week. He taking me out for seafood tonight. So, I really hope that I can stay on plan.

Have a great weekend.

Hi All,
I started reading jemima j, but currently I am very involved with my studying so I that is where ALL of my free time is going.
I have a question for everyone... Where do you workout and how often?
Friday night me and the BF went out for a beer with peps from work. Other than that, study, study, study!

Hello all!
Spent the day visiting my dad at the hospital, and running around for my mum, she is a worrier and whilst he is having his angiogram tomorrow, I got together some sewing - she likes applique and patchwork, so she can stitch away her fears.

I watched the Jane Austen Book Club recently and have decided to rediscover her books and read the ones I havent discovered yet, and I've decided to do it in the same order as the movie. So I am reading Emma by Jane Austen, and I am loving it. Anyone else seen the movie or read her books? I havent read her books since I was made to in high school, but I loved them, and I love Jane Austen.

Vixjean - I work out at my local gym. Early last year I was fanatical and went 6 out of the 7 days for an hour each day, I lost a lot of weight but in Winter time(June) it was hard to sustain being a single parent of a 3 year old and working full time, and I stopped going, consequently I put all the weight I lost back on. This year I decided to lose the weight conservatively going twice a week for an hour each time and I am making it, those nights I grab my son from daycare at 5pm, and go straight to the gym, we have reheatable left overs for dinner when I get home. I also have an abundance of workout videos to do other days but my tv is broken (has been for 3 weeks). Hopefully is all goes well Monday with my dad I wont have to rush off to the hospital every night and will be able to go drop the tv in to get fixed.

Anyway I am off to sleep - its Sunday night here and time for bed. Have a great week!

Hi Bluesers!

Hope you are enjoying your weekend. I made it through day 3 of being on-plan. It was tough! I ended up not cleaning and went shopping with the family instead. Hubby and I did the pre-planning thing before we went out. We looked up calories for our favorite restaurants. What an eye opening experience! My favorite place..Texas Roadhouse...doesn't have their calories listed anywhere. Guess that means they don't have anything remotely low calorie! We always thought that having turkey minis and the salad bar at Ruby Tuesdays was a relatively good option....NOT! There are 517 calories in two little minis...and that is before the salad bar. And, my favorite burger at Chilis...the Chipotle Bleu Cheese Bacon Burger without the fries...1090 calories! Anyways, to get back to the healthy low calories options...our best option turned out to be Applebees. We've never been big Applebees fans due to repeated poor service, however, we decided to try them again yesterday and we were pleasantly surprised. We had great service and great food and were able to stay on-plan. Of course, everyone got dessert except me. That was the hard part. But, I made it and am now on day 4!

Vixjean - I workout at home. I was blessed with the means to buy a treadmill when we moved to our home in June. I had wanted one for years! I typically workout right when I get finished with my 8 hours of work...around 4 or 5 in the afternoon.

Today, I am definitely cleaning house. Not only does the house desperately need my attention, but tomorrow is my official weigh-in day and I want to move my tickers again.

Hope everyone has a great on-plan day! GO BLUE!!!

Afternoon everyone!

Me and the dog just woke up at 11:30... I'm really a late sleeper on the weekends so it was a treat for him until he had to go potty. Now he's staring me down cause he wants some of my broccoli and rice.

I started to do personals after I got back from Barnes and Noble last night, but my parents have super slow dial up (I only get 36 K out here) so it made going back through the thread impossible. So I'm vowing that I'll be doing them tomorrow at work when I get bills done in the morning.

Yesterday I stayed on plan and I plan on doing so again today before I go home tomorrow. I need to get back into the swing of things because in 2 weeks the mortgage hits and I'm curious to see how the $$ is going to fall.

I ended up buying 2 new shirts and 5 books at barnes and noble last night. Kelly, I got 3 J.R. Ward books.... I know I got Lover Eternal and I think I got Lover Awakened and Lover Unbound. I'll have to see what order I'm supposed to read the other two in... I know Lover Eternal is next. Oh! and Rhonda... I picked up 2 Maggie Shayne books but they are witches romance not vampire. :P I'm still waiting on that pm!

Today is really a day for reading, the "race" is on so both of my parents tv's will be busy recording it (even though they are in Daytona) So I won't be able to watch a movie until later.

I may be back on later... I still have to post my new picture on my profile when I get my camera from upstairs.

Hello fellow blue-ers!
I've been struggling to stay/get back on track these past few months. I think this is showing me I should never forget it all the way like I did in December. I just can't find inspiration. I have mini goals, I have a vacation and more to look forward to but I just can't get it. I know if I work at it, I can loose inches, not dread the scale. It's just the excitement was lost a few months back. Even when I'm not on plan, I "loose" weight. Although, I am sure it's loosing muscle mass. I'm hoping this will be a new, better, great week. I have new tighhhht pants I love wearing that my mom gave me(It's nice not to have to wear belts all the time). I'd like them to be tighter, of course. I can feel that these next 20 pounds will change how my body looks and how much I like it. I want to do this. I WILL do this.

I changed my picture!

I took it last night after I had finished my makeup and was heading out to Barnes and Noble. I took some other ones but I can't get them all uploaded since this dial up is so slow. So I'll just keep the one I have on there now.

I'm making lunch right now. Baked chicken tenders with green beans and a small piece of johnny cake to satisfy the country girl in me. I'm making enough so I'll have left overs for dinner tonight.

I'll probably go to bed early tonight since I have to be up at 5 am in the morning for the dog... then its my last 2 hour drive to work until later this year!

I hope everyone is having a great OP weekend. I'm hoping our little QOTD this week and great communication helped us all achieve some weight loss!

'morning everyone!

Good job Rhonda on Day 3 and making such a great choice with eating out. That's a tough one....finding reasonably healthy food at restaurants.

Chellez - I hate dial up. We have it here in the sticks. Hope springs eternal that within a couple months we'll get broadband.

Did my Monday morning weigh-in and am back down 1kg/2.2 pounds. My overall average for the first weeks of 2008 is losing a pound a week. I'm happy enough with that - was hoping for more, but guess I shouldn't be greedy. Off to the personal trainer in about an hour....it's a cardio/boxing day which I always enjoy!

Cheers,

I was never so happy when I found out we had DSL available. We had dialup for over two years at this house before it. I was smart though and got their slowest package so that I can upgrade when this when starts feeling like it crawls. Hopefully there will be a new computer though in my future first.

I am crossing my fingers and hoping that I finally see a good drop on the scale in the morning for WI. I've been at 240 for the last three days and my calories and sodium have been really good for the last week.

I got my Jillian workout and an hour of cardio done...I wanted to do another hour of cardio but I am so tired, not sure I can push through but I am going to try. Weighing in for the challenge tomorrow AM, even though I'm doing my offial WI on Thursdays this month. I was back to 226.0 on Thursday, so the 0.8 gain is back off, but am hoping to hit 225 tomorrow and post a little more of a loss. I've been back on plan, so no reason it shouldn't start coming off again. I just have this constant fear that no matter what I do, the fat is never going to go away.

Oh, I found out today that my new size 16 jeans fit great even straight out of the dryer

Hi all. I feel a bit down. Nothings different just don't feel like me. I haven't been having a very good OP week. Its not wicked bad but not as good as I want. I'm sure I'll be down in weight tomorrow but it could be better. My 30th birthday is coming up really soon and I think its affecting me. I got my birthday present yesterday. Its a new camera. It's the size of a deck of cards and I like it so far. I need a faster SD card for it that I found out about yesterday. I don't know why I didn't just get one then. I got it cause it seemed faster than my 2 year old one but now I'm not sure. I've only had it one day so I can't really judge it yet. We're getting closer to Aiden sleeping in his own bed all night. He still needs us to fall asleep but he spends most of the night in his bed so me and DH are sleeping better. He got a new twin bed around Christmas time and its been hard for him to get used to. Talk to y'all later.

Ok, I'm really behind on reporting my money on the cruise. I'm sry but I think imma have to stop doing it too. I'm sry! Don't be mad at me. I'm trying here but have alot going on and want to use what time I get on here to chat with you all on our thread. Just takes my puter so long to even pull each thing up, just eats up all my time trying to get from one part to the next.

The ppl who put in our hot water heater up in the attic broke the attic stairs!! Yes, they were big guys but we are big too and we just went up two days b4 they did and their other guy went up b4 them too. He made the mistake of just standing on it and they just can't hold up. So luckily the owner agreed to pay for it but now i have to go buy a new set AND pay some handyman to put it in bc it takes two men to put it in.

Uggh. Life goes on.

I just blew it big time (think thousands and thousands of calories big). Makes me nervous that while I have made a ton of progress physically, my head is still a bit off. I've not had many binges since I started losing weight last May, but I don't understand how I can just instantly go back to my old ways. I thought my self discipline was getting pretty good but I guess not. Sorry team.