mornin' all. hope you will all have a great weekend wherever you are. i still have not located my scales, so not sure how well i am doing. i am on day five with atkins. i did okay with my husband's birthday dinner last night--just salad. i only exercised one day last week, but have been unpacking boxes for last few days. i'd better go for now--hear the boxes calling .

Good morning, fullfig. I am sure you ARE losing on Atkins and will have a great thrill when you finally unpack the scales. Good work at the birthday dinner but remember you need to eat enough if you are going to lose.

Happy Saturday to all. I am off to Ottawa shortly to do a bit of shopping and meet two friends (from 3FC) for a dim-sum lunch. I am sure I'll npt be completely OP but I'll forgive myself.

Have a super day and weekend, sleepyheads! .

So, why I'm up at this unreasonable hour on a weekend I'll never know .

to Jen our new LC chickie, welcome, and glad you're posting in the dailys, it's nice to have new people around. I don't think I'm new anymore right . Jen, I still drink fully leaded coffee, one cup first thing, then water the rest of the day. It has made no difference that I can acertain. But like so many things it depends on the person, if it slows you down or not, and baby steps are the best thing. I used to drink about 10 cups a day then the rest was diet coke, so getting down to 1 cup is amazing for me.

Got to bed super early last night, was worn right out after all the running around yesterday and I still ended up having to run into work for a bit to finish up some things that needed attention, so much for a day off. Today, I get to putter around my house, thank god, and clean up the place, it is looking sadly neglected.

Brad, I feel your pain, I have 3 spare sets of keys for everything, placed around with family that have cell phones, and I did splurge and get the ignition keys cut, just in case. I hate to get stranded anywhere. Hope it helps your sister learn a rather unpleasant lesson. And curse those darn off program meals, bet you'll bounce right back though, good thing it wasn't too high in carbs anyway, small blessings

Karen, I bet you'll be popping over to 189 on Monday, didn't you mention being 190 when you weighed in at the gym? And the exercise sure does slow down the loss but I think I'm catching up now, it doesn't seem to be slowing me down anymore

Ruth, have fun in Ottawa, and one of the greatest things we can ever do is forgive ourselves, have a great day!

Tummy

DH and DS are getting dressed and ready to leave for the camping trip, DD already went up last night with another family (they'll hook up at the campground). I'm trying to decide between, shopping, vegging out in front of the TV and a nap

It's nice to get a day off once and awhile. Some of us are getting together for a movie and dinner so that will be a nice change of pace.

Have a good one all!

*sigh*
this is obviously linked to my eating disordered past, but I don't seem to be doing very well on this. It's my own fault though; I keep on munching and bingeing, even whilst keeping my carbs low. But, I will do better...

Have a good trip, Ruth! And everyone have a good weekend!

Good morning!

I crashed last night and woke up to DH calling to say he is having a good trip. I took the kids to the toy store last night to spend the allowance the saved over the summer. Older boys spent all but $4,little man only spent $15...it was a concellation to not going on the school camoing trip.

I think we might go to the pool,

KFS i have to run an errand this pm and catch up with SIL to make sure she is comming but I am in on out girls night out.
-L

Good Morning everyone

We have had a couple really nice days here lately. Nice and cool in the mornings and evenings, and wonderfully sunny in the afternoon, but not too hot. Getting the store re-arranged. Both windows have been redone, and hubby did all new lettering for both windows. We used to have green lettering on them with the store name etc. We switched over to white lettering, and you can certainly see it now, even from the other side of the street! So hopefully this will help a bit too.

We have some new neighbours moving into the empty stores on our block and its pretty exciting. We have a hairdresser moving in directly next door, a ladies dress shop from down the road some is moving up to our block next to the hair dressers, and 3 stores over the other way, is a consignment shop opening up. It looks like everything will be open for the 1st of October. So that leaves only one empty store on our block, and its wayyy down the other end Its nice to see so much activity on the block and ppl getting excited about the happenings. Hopefully this will make for a wonderful xmas season

Karen, you had asked me a while ago what type of store we had, and I forgot about it until now....sorry. Its a little gift shop with an adirondack flair to it. Hubby has his sign business in the back half of the store. If I can find the post of my bench I'll attach it, so you can get an idea of what its like.

Have a great day everyone

Robin

Good morning

Well I knew it would happen sometime and yesterday I just had a cheat day!
First I was at, yet another meeting, bagels and crem cheese from Panarea, I thought okay, have 1/2 so I split ine with a friend, later went back and had anothe half. At lunch, went to Panera, I had thoughs of "Oh forget it.....just have a sandwich", but instead I did order the greek salad but ate the bbread that came with it.
got home at 5:30 and went out for a "girls night " with friends. Yup, drank, but it was rum and diet coke, could have been worse. Then they ordered a huge nacho platter. At first I just picked the meat and cheese off then I did eat a few chips. Now I am ready !!!! I want fries, I want candy! I want anything! Not so much a craving, but more pyschological, "ok I have blown it today, go ahead and get it over with!" feeling.
So the next place we went I looked at the menu and ordered a grilled tenderloin, no fries, salad instead, ate that, was satisfied, and quit eatting and drinking for the night!
So I am thinking that is over with now and I can get on with it. I did step on the scale this morning and NO change!!! Hopefully it ws just a slip and now it is over and I can move on.
I don't feel guilty, I just fele like, "mark that off, went off the program once and now I don't have that event looming over me, I knew I would sometime and now it is over"

On to a great weekeknd!!!!

Lily

WOW! I know I've been away for a whlie (not sticking with ANY program and embarassed to have to admit it) but I don't recognize hardly anyone here today.

Well, hopefully I'm back on track and I'll do better about stopping in and posting and keeping up on all of you. I've been really good at being low carb since we got back from our mini-vacation to Branson MO over the holiday, so that 4 full days and it's about noon here now, so that 4 1/2 days!!!

Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Hey barb, I recognize you! good to see you....I am trying to get back on track too....lets do it together.
BTW how is old alvin? more than a year out now right?
-L

Hi all.

So far, so good. I still haven't motivated myself to do any real excersize, but I'm drinking my water and posting everything I eat on fitday. I did that yesterday and was able to keep everything in line, including calories.

Wow Lily. Sounds like you had a tough day, but kept struggling to stay/get OP throughout. And by the last meal, you made it! That kind of story seems somehow more motivating to me than the stories of all those amazing people staying OP day in and day out. Especially if I happen to be struggling myself at the time. Thanks for posting!

Jen

Hi All! Just dropping in to check in! I just got back form 2 back to back soccer games! BOth kids did well but my DD (only 5) scored her first goal in her very first game ever! Mom's very proud!

Doing well eating wise although even though My keto sticks show I am in Ketosis (DARK PURPLE!) I am hungrier than usual. Could it be TOM or how much I am exercising?

Robin - Thanks for remembering! Your shop sounds like something right up my alley! To bad I dont live closer!

Well, time for laundry and then I need to jump on the treadmill! Talk to you all later!!

"L" ole Alvin's doing great. Yes he's bout 18 monts post-op (and 12 months post-2nop) But he's doing fantastic, He's lost about 230 pounds and if feeling better than he has in years. One of his goals was to be able to play golf again, and he's doing it!

Barb , good to see you back again and I love the graphic (with the weights and the kitty) at the bottom of your post. How did you do that? I think we should all have one but with different animals.
I'm not doing too well today. Disappointed again this morning when I got on the scale. I felt thinner but the numbers didn't reflect it. I havent really been eating off program but just too much of everything. Now I feel bloated.
I've been slicing and freezing peaches so finally that job is done. Then I made a Mocktato Salad for dinner. Otherwise I'm taking it pretty easy today. I'm feeling a bit tired and that's probably why I'm eating too much.
Feels like rain so keep your fingers crossed for us. We sure need it.
(added later)
Well, we did get a bit of rain, but not enough to shout about.
Did I ever have a chuckle this afternoon! I got out the Body Flex introductory videotape and watched it. This gorgeous blond in a leotard and tights is showing me proper aerobic breathing exercises. It was hilarous and every time I tried to copy her, I dissolved into hysterics. I did finally manage to get through the introductory tape and, even though I can't do ALL of the exercises she recommends (no way can I cross my legs yet), I will do what I can. I sure hope this makes a difference to my sluggish metobalism.