Morning Ladies,

So nice to see all the posts yesterday! What a 'chapter' we have!!!!!

Well, guess what? After being gone 8 weeks from meetings, I only had a 1.5 gain last eve!!!! I'm at the top of my leeway, but at least I'm in leeway. I am thrilled!!!! Just a week ago I weighed 5-7 pounds more. Yesterday I ate very healthy, low carbs and I drank alot of water and coffee today and ate an entire head of romaine lettuce only before meeting. It's amazing the will power sometimes and then the lack of it, unfortuneately, most of the time.

Had elections tonight. Everyone has the same positions, so I remain head wt recorder. It was interesting, but we survived. Only 4 members welcomed me back.....it's so nice to be missed [said very sarcastically!]

Coco, don't ever feel guilty about letting us down. We all have ups and downs. It is not a contest here.... we are here to lend a helping hand when you stumble. It was only 1/2# and you have just lost 11.5!! You should be proud of yourself....never beat yourself up. Hope your son had a nice day. How old is he?

Sherri, I am so proud of you for not 'rewarding' yourself with the buffet day. I never could figure out why we do that since we struggle with weight issues. We used to have quite a few members that went out after meetings and really pig out. Glad that group is just about non-existant. Shopping is so much better for the self esteem. I know you will let us know how elections go...will look forward to that report.

Nita, I'm happy that you have found some time to walk and having the other lady that is struggling might help the both of you to stay on track. I'm very glad that your husbands mass is smaller. I pray that it continues to shrink and hopefully disappear.

Eleni, YEAH for you with the walking and 'affair' with Richard. Seems like when I stop exercising, you pick up the pace. LOL!!! I need to get back on my bike and join you in the activity. I send some losing {{{{VIBES}}}} for you this eve.

CC, What can I say????? You truly amaze me and prove to everyone here on this board that all things are possible when we get in the right mind frame. Almost 100 pounds gone!!!!!!!!!! I look so forward to you joining me in the KOPS circle [if I can hang on]. What insight you have also with realizing that TOPS will probably be part of your life forever. So many people quit once goal is reached, thinking that they have succeeded and TOPS isn't needed anymore. The majority of the time, we get comfortable knowing that we don't have to take it off anymore and THAT is when the pounds start to creep back on. I really think it is harder to Keep It Off and we will all be here to help you to keep on the straight and narrow. You will be a good treasurer also....thanks for taking an office.

Wendy, hope you're feeling better.

Kermie, Wow, nice loss in one month! Congratulations!!!!

Christie, nice to see you posting again. Hope all is well.

Hope everyone else is doing great. May you all have a nice year with the changes in your chapters. Take care, remember to drink your water, eat proper portion sizes and take time for YOU! {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{VIBES}}}}}}}}}}}}}} to ALL!!!!

TOPS Hugs,
Summer

Good morning all.
Summer-way to go, not bad. You can lose that in no time. Congrats on the recorder position. They say those are hard to come by, and if you get a good one, keep them.

Eleni-way to get moving.
Christie-glad to see you posted.

Kermie-Sherri-Nita-CC-CoCo and everyone, we can do this.
Everyone hang in there and have a great day. Take it one day at a time. We can do this.

Good Morning ladies
Hope everyone had a good over the hump day. Seems like this week has just flown by.
I don't want to sound as if I am bragging. But I am proud of myself. Yesterday was my son's birthday. We took him out to eat. Had a hamburger on wheat bread. No mayo, just lettuce, tomatoe, pickles and cheese. Also had a tossed salad. We had got son a birthday cake to surprise him. So it was already at the resturant. Boy was he suprised. But the thing is I DID NOT EAT ANY CAKE!! My Mom and Dad went with us. Mom said arent you going to eat any cake? Said no. Then I took what was left of the cake and gave it to the waitresses and waiters. Just a little resturant. And only brought home a piece for son. And Ialso rode my excerise bike for 4 miles.
Summer I admire you for only gaining 1 1/2 lbs in 8 weeks. I don't know that I could do that. I think I would have been out of control with my eating. I would think I don't have to weigh in. So no one is going to know what I am doing. Then at the last minute I would try and lose something. It is KOPS like you that gives me hope. Congrats on being weight recorder.
To everyone else hope you all have a good day. Take care. And remember one bite at a time.
Hi Sherri how is it going? You will make a good leader.
A TOPS PAL

Hey there Summer,

That is a great accomplishment girl. ONLY 1 1/2 lb gain over that long and all the candy you ate. See you worry about nothing. You can get that off in 2 weeks no problem. It is not if you remain KOPS you WILL remain KOPS girl. You can do it. Just get on your bike and ride, ride, ride. Just think you can meet CC 1/2 way to your house.LOL Congratulations on the Wt recorders job. At least you stayed out of the leaders box and you are letting someone else do it. I know what you mean about not being missed. When I was gone for a month no one welcomed me back. Did it feel good to be back though? I will let you know what happens tonight. I have to get a sitter because my husband has a truck he has to finish up for someone tonight. So hopefully I can find somone. I called and left a message for her god mother to take her for me. I will know later.

Nita,
I am so glad that your husbands mass is shrinking. I know you want it to be gone. I would also. But it will take time. At least it is getting smaller that has to be a good thing. You are a great wife supporting him like you do. Sounds like he is there for you as well. Remember to take care of you also. You are no good to him if you are not healthy yourself. You are doing great with your journey as well. Keep up the great work.

CoCoa,
You girl. How can you say that you let us down. 11 1/2 lbs gone. That is something to be so proud about. Try lifting a 10 lb bag of potatoes and think how heavy they are and just know that you lost more then that even. I am so proud of you. We all have our ups and downs like summer said. You have had a lot more ups then downs though. You are doing great. Keep up the great work. It could just be water weight. You will have a loss next week for sure.

I am doing great this week. My scale is still down but I never know what the TOPS scale is going to say so we will see. I did not go to the buffet yesterday afterall. We did go shopping and we came home. So that was a nice break. But when we got done shopping she wanted to go to the buffet. I said no we went shopping instead remember.LOL I could have gone but I didn't. So I am glad we finally broke that pattern. Plus it is good to let her know we can do things for the day and it doesn't have to involve food. I have to learn that myself.
I am ready for the elections tonight. I will let you all know what happens.
I am looking for a good loss tonight I hope. I have worked hard all week and ate low so I would have a loss. So we will see what happens.

Have a great day everyone.

Sherri

Hi Everyone,

I love these new little characters, too. Just wanted to see what the cow looked like.

Coco, you are doing great. I don't think I would have been able to say no to the cake. Good job on the exercise, too.

Kermie, 10 pounds since Feb. 6. WOW!! Wish I could lose that well. I have been dieting so long that it comes off very slowly for me. You are doing very good.

Eleni...The girl that gives those exercises, Rea (can't remember her last name) has made a video tape of them. I think that you have to order them from her. I don't know the details. Our secretary was telling us about it.
I'm looking forward to seeing you again. I'll give you my cell phone number and we'll make arrangements to meet when it is closer to time for SRD, which is only about 45 minutes from me this year. Yea!

Thanks everyone for all the encouraging words. I know my hubby is getting better, but I still worry about him. He and I were high school sweethearts and have been married so long that one would be lost without the other one. There are some new medications for lymphoma now that show a lot of promise.

Summer, you did good only gaining 1.5 pounds. Most of us could gain that much in one week even when we are being weighed in every week. I would love to come to IRD in Colorado Springs this year, but with everything going on here, I didn't think that it would be wise to plan on a trip there. Our son went to the Air Force academy and Jim and I loved the area and want to go back again sometime.

Good luck to all of you that are weighing in tonight. Hope you all have a loss. I got in my 2 mile walk this morning and am being very careful with my diet today. I want to have a loss tomorrow, too.

Nita

I just wanted to Sherri it will work out tonight. YOu will do all right everywhere.
CoCo-you go a head and brag. That is why we all come here. So we can say how great we did, so we can keep doing great. It helps with the extra strength. It also helps us (everyone else), cuz than we think wow, I think I can do that, I will try. So by bragging we are actually supportinhg ourselves, and each other. So you go girl. Giving up that cake was great for you, and you probably made their day at the resturant.
have a great one.

Hi to all! Had another good day! And cut a thin body (in an evening dress) out of an old magazine, and cut MY head out of photo and stuck it onto the body - and presto magic - it's taped to my fridge. Someone at my TOPS chapter said this is a good idea, has made my husband laugh....

Went out for lunch today and had an oriental salad...no bread, almonds in the salad, and some kind of roasted noodles....

Feel good - it feels good to be "in control" of that demon -

Have a good day all!

:sheep:

Well I was voted in as leader tonight. I am looking forward to a good year with a lot of good changes going on. I have been leader before but not when I had help like I will this time. It should be interesting.
I also had a loss of 2 3/4#. My exercise is paying off.

HI all,

Well first of all I had a good night. I was disappointed because again this year I did not make leader. But I am co leader and the leader said she still wants to do it together. She wanted co leader and I wanted leader but she is taking leader no problem. I think they all voted her in because she is very quiet and they probably think they can tell her what to do. So we will see. I just hope I get to help out like we planned to do. I think I will I just have to get over myself. But I really thought I would have it this year. I wish now I hadn't talked her into it. But oh well if we do it together it will still be great. We can still make a lot of changes. So I am officially Co Leader this year. Told you they didn't really want me.
Then the other good news I won loser of the week and won gifts and a total of $10.00. Which I bought 2 big jugs of grapefruit juice for my hubby. He is now drinking it as a meal for breakfast and lunch. And I bought myself a box of green tea. So I was so happy that I didn't buy any junk at all and especially no ice cream.
My loss for the week was 6 1/2 lbs
I am so happy with that. That means that I am actually down 1/2 lb for the month because I gained 6 lbs last week. So at least I am losing again. The hard work really paid off. I am going to do it again this week.

Eleni,

Congrats on the leader position. You will make a great leader. It is good that you will have the help this year. Congrats on the loss also. That is great. You are on track again girl. Keep it going.

Coco,
What can I say girl. WAY TO GAOL! You are doing great. I knew that if you would make up your mind you would be back on track and you are in a huge way. That was great to give up the cake. Just like giving up the ice cream for me. The more we do that the faster we will get to goal. You keep going and you will have a great loss this week. Sounds like you and your son had a great time last night. That was great.

Summer,

Congrats on the weight recorder job.

Christie how did you do at weigh in girl? I got the green tea and will choke down 2-3 cups a day. 2 For sure we will see about the third one.

Have a great night everyone.

Sherri

I am so excited!!!!!!!!!!
This is great!!! I am so ready to try to help as much as possible wherever and whenever needed most.

Congrats to all you LOSERS!!!!!!!!!!!
WAY TO GOAL LADIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had a gain though guys.... 2 1/4 pounds
BUT and I mean BUT I will do better and knowing that the others will be really watching me is gonna make a huge difference in my week to week struggles

Congrats to you Eleni!!!!! ( mom ) I know you will be the best leader yet

And way to goal Sherri !!!! WOOOOO HOOOOO we are Co leaders
YEAH!!!!!

Wendy- WE ARE CO LEADERS GIRL!!!!!!!!! Way to go us!!!

Summer- way to go on weight recorder!!!!!!!!!! You Kop You !!!

Nita- Know you are in prayers also, and we are all believing for that cancer to leave your husbands body and never to come back.... hang in there sis and know we are all here anytime you need us

Co Co- keep up the great work!!!!!!!!! You are doing awsome!

Well all it is nitey nite time for me LOL, and I have house cleaning to do also, BIG TOPS HUGS FROM MISSOURI!!!!!