Hello all!

Anagram! Only 8 lbs up??? Everything considered I call that a major victory!
I too am up about that much if not a couple more....
I'm with you.... wish it was in the pool but I will step lively on the stairs as you descend into the pool .....

Empress, I will come back to enjoy the new saga....
my eye caught "fornication w/ sugar" and that certainly was enough to give me a giggle...

sorry for such a short posting .... but hello and hugs to all....


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Thought of the day :

"Sometimes instead of climbing over barricades, you've got to walk around them."
---Bono


Question of the day :

"What's your favorite mode of transportation??? Least favorite?"

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The little white square in my palace reads I am down anothe 1 lb. its a little loss but I will take it. I will take anything that is a loss no matter how little. This is 2 lbs in a weeks time and so I am only up 2lbs. from my lowest pt. last year. Lately I have been trying harder to watch my portions, drinking lots of water that seems to help. I still haven't gotten the exercise down pat by any means. I have tried to use the stairs instead of the elevator though. The cold I had slowed me down a bit with exercising. I plan on swimming with some girls on Thurs. gotta dig out he suit. Anagram so glad to have you back. Kaylet we will keep marching forward and look to reach our goals. We have all been in a bit of a slump. I know that the Hawaii trip in March has motivated me to try harder. I also have 2 family weddings this summer. Lots of events that help motivate me. Plus some of the girls in my office are also watching their intakes so we share ideas etc. The more of us tending to what we eat and how we are changing our lifestyles the better for everyone. Good luck girls and keep moving forward! We can do this! 7 lbs. to go but every little one counts!

You are so right, casmsc (I think I'm going to go with Firefly - like that) - the more we surround ourselves with careful people the more likely we are to be careful ourselves. Yes, K, I'm grateful it's ONLY 8 ##s - when things started going south a bit around Thanksgiving and all the food was at its height - I lost all the little control I had kept earlier. Plus great neighbors have kept me supplied with great food the last week or two and I'm eating from the freezer. Getting there though. Another motivation is that the 9 year old princess has a higher cholesterol than she should so I'm trying to lead/guide her a bit without making it a big issue. She's not overweight and she does a lot of exercise (at nine, one usually does and Mom keeps her hopping with dance classes, etc. as well) but I suspect has a genetic tendencey (as did dh) to high cholesterol. She loves Laughing Cow low fat cheese now, courtesy of Mim, and dried pineapple. They are "special foods" I have for her when she comes so I'm sharing the cholesterol battle with her (though it's not been a problem I've had so far).

Today's a paperwork day. Cold, clear after a rainy, blustery night with thunderstorms IN JANUARY. Put some Slimfast in to chill - that's always a sign I'm getting even more serious. Lots of yogurt there as DS always stocks up on that for both of us when he's here and I buy kiddie ones when the young'uns are coming and I always eat the leftovers. Fruit still there too from some nice fruit baskets. So it's not all bad.

Still it's GS cookie time and I ordered 8 boxes again - at least 3 I'll give to sweetie next store. And there's a new one that looks somewhat more healthy. still have several boxes in freezer from last year so I wasn't too bad. And the ones that went were often served to other people. But a grandma has to do what a grandma has to do and one of those things is to order GS cookies.

Shh, just me, skulking round the palace in the middle of the night again. Was a heavy paperwork day. DD here. No time for exercise but a lot accomplished otherwise. Food ok, liquids ok. Not good but not outrageous either. 'Twill come, 'twillcome.

I've been skulking and lurking here at the palace too, keeping to the shadows, keeping to myself. Life has been challenging for me lately on many levels---hopefully I'll bounce back soon. I'm okay, just quiet.

Jana the Jungle Lass is also skulking; today's my day to focus on my Body For Life for Women mission statement and MYSELF!

I am forcing myself to ignore the piles of writing to do for the job and taking a day off.

Hello all,

The court system tried a few times but even my luck remained true with their drawing too and I wasn't even picked for jury consideration. So I spent the morning in the court house meeting a few other "jury contenders" and being thoroughly entertained by the "Jury Cooridinator" who had an outstanding speaking style..... I told her so too....
In fact, wanted to share with you one technique she used yesterday that made so much sense when I heard it out loud....
She was speaking to a large room but I think she' do this w/a smaller group too...Each time she had something to say she wanted to make sure we remembered she'd repeat it 3 times....e ach time with slightly more emphasis....
For instance, when she was explaining when our day would end....
She was loud and clear the first time she said " cases are heard until 5 pm...." but by the 3rd time she said it w/ a bit more emphasis than the 1st and 2nd time, you knew loud and clear that as long as the judges were there, we'd be there too.....

It wasnt long before you knew, when she began to repeat herself " Lunch is generally at 1pm but it miiiiggggghhhhhttttt be later" that you knew, THIS is something I should remember.....

So I began to wonder how I can use that same reinforcement to get myself back in the losing mode instead of "if I don't look I wont't have to see the number".....

so....
I wonder...

if....
something like.....

" I always feel so much better when I only eat the foods on plan"... ( in my case, as little refined sugar/white flour as possible)

and if I say it again, just as clearly, but a little louder and w/ more emphasis...

and then again, with even more emphasis....

The jury cooridinator told us the reason she announces things in 3 is that the first time she says it, she's afraid her audience isnt paying attention... the 2nd time, she's hoping they are thinking " I better pay attention" and the 3rd time she says it her audience is saying " I hear and understand her"....

Hmmmm

"I always feel so much better when I eat the foods on plan."


hmmmmmmm


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Thought of the day :

"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere."
--Tim McGraw

Question of the day :

"Do you have an item you always carry with you? "

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Good Morning all!!

My new vice...Diet Black Cherry Vanilla coke. DANG IT!!!! I was doing so well with only drinking water and ice tea. I'm up 3lbs. (Probebly water retention from drinking soda). I only allow myself 1 per day, but jeez, seems like that is too much now.

I am still liking that I am 1 size smaller now though.

So for today..NO SODA.



QOD:
If it's one thing, it's a hair tie. I ALWAYS have a hair tie and probebly a back up stashed too. I have WAY to much hair not to. (It's to the middle of my back again and that's after just having 2 inches cut off last week!)

Toodles!

Dang it.. I gave in....

Hi, Froggie 'n K!!! And all other s, mentioned and un ... just a flybye as am enjoyin' the dregs o' my second day in a row off. Don't really feel very well, but it's depression, not pneumonia, so that's good.

K, one idea might be to tape yourself saying (three times) whatever positive affirmations you are working on, then play back for yourself.

Sorry to be so MIA and to leave the sugar fornification saga hangin' ... almost gave in today due to some financial things going wrong. Went to store and felt the sugar callin' me all around, literally. In the end, got some peanut butter and ate on an apple as suggested in my current Bible BFLFW. Gave up the half-hearted attempt to do coherent work and took bath in vanilla sugar scented soapsuds, slept with Old Dog on couch.

Froggie, the vanilla black cherry diet coke sounds yummy.

Anagramatic, thou art doin' wonderfully well.

Hi to the two W's ... Wood Nymph 'n Wsw!

Hi to Aria.

Aaaah, had a loverly massage today - gift "in lieu of flowers" from my sister. But she also gave sizable check towards bench in cemetery. Anyway, my massage luck in relatively recent attempts had not been good. Not getting what I needed from them. So she got me one where she goes = and this gal was good. I'll be back - as part of my "be good to me" plan.

Food improving, not much exercise. But supposed to be springlike tomorrow so I WILL get in a good walk.

Now, Frogger, that's not fair. Diet soda's not supposed to put weight on. And hi there, Eydie. Been missing you - glad to bump into you on a skulk.

... Martha! She was just on the TV when I woke up from a nap (I keep the set on to discourage criminals from enterin' my abode whilst I sleep).

Dunno, I used to dislike her, still do, actually, but I have to give her credit for pluck. She seems divinely unrepentant and just short o' tellin' the establishment where they can head on out.

I sorta like that.

Just a small walk yesterday between the raindrops.

My daytime choices are a lot improved but those evenings.........

This morning I start the Slimfast for a bit - just in the mornings probably - but it's a sort of psychological thing for me. Worked well for me before - hope it will again. Still not being strict with me. Trying to "gentle" me back into line. Cut down on prednisone now too.

On other fronts, making some progress on paperwork, expect it will take forever. Still getting rid of medical stuff - now it's just prescriptions and miscellanous and sorting/filing medical paperwork. Still house has taken on more of its former appearance. All not back as it was but that's ok - looking for new/fresh ways to arrange things eventually.

Still not up to talking to many people. Each time I run into someone who offers condolences, it's like a fresh reminder dh won't be back. I think my comfort zone sometimes lets me think he's just out playing golf or something.

Sister offered me a ride to a family wedding in March. Had not planned to go. Probably still won't but it's something to think about. Another in CA in June. Not expecting to go to that either but, again, something to bend the mind around.

Drove 45 minutes yesterday to meet dd/princesses for lunch. Pleasant. Will be going to visit next weekend - another milestone - first time w/o dh - first time in more than 8 months too.

Piece by piece, step by step, pound by pound or in my case, ounce by ounce.

Hello all....

Lots of little stuff ( everyday, runofthemill) keeping me from posting....

but you are all not far from my thoughts!
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Thought of the day:


Subject: The Bathtub Test


>
>
> It doesn't hurt to take a hard look at yourself from time to time.
> This should help get you started.
>
> During a visit to the mental asylum, a visitor asked the Director the
> criterion which defined whether or not a patient should be
> institutionalized.
>
> "Well," said the Director, "we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a
> teaspoon,
>
> a teacup and a bucket to the patient and ask him or her to empty the
> bathtub."
>
> "Oh, I understand," said the visitor. "A normal person would use the
> bucket because it's bigger than the spoon or the teacup."
>
> "No." said the Director, "A normal person would pull the plug." Do you
> want a room with or without a view?
>

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