WELCOME !!!

We want to invite everyone to join us in our journey.
We share laughter and tears.
We share what works for us and what doesn't.
We recently started a Topic of the Day.

Monday........Motivation Monday
Tuesday.......Tuesday Tips
Wednesday.....Wednesday Weigh ins
Thursday......Thankful Thursday
Friday........Friday Facials, Fingernails and Fun
Saturday.......Sit-up Saturdays - any physical activity
Sunday.........Soup and Salad Sunday - recipes

We chat on Wednesday and Sunday at 8:30 EST, 7:30 CST.

These are not required topics ...just ideas to share. We have found them very helpful. We also share heartaches and fears...joys and celebrations.

WELCOME!

WELCOME to our 500th thread !!!
A LOT of people have come and gone over the years.... and I appreciate EVERY ONE of you... and especially those who stuck it out even when they wanted to quit. If we all had quit... there would not be a 300+ thread. THANKS

I will try one more time to get this roll call correct... but I am not adding anyone else. LOL ... I have messed up for the last time.
Well.. I am adding Terri because she is writing me via email because she can't get into 3fc at home. She can get in at work but not allowed to post there .. but at home she can't. It is very frustrating for her. She must have virus or something... I don't know ??? Any ideas out there?? Thin... ask your computer savy sons... what could cause her not to be able to get into 3fc from her home computer??

1.....2CUTE
2.....Kat
3.....Lucky
4.....Syn
5.....KantSing
6.....joe anne, Joanne
7 ...Pat / paperdoll
8.....Barbg
9 ...Jen
10....Thin
11...Wanda
12. BarbPA
13 ... Terri
14 .. who is next

This is our ANNIVERSARY thread so you don't want to be left out.

put me down for # 14. please, and thank you.

2Cute: Try sending Terri the link to the site by email thats on the home page and see if she can sneak in that way.

1.....2CUTE
2.....Kat
3.....Lucky
4.....Syn
5.....KantSing
6.....JoeAnne
7 ....Pat/paperdoll
8.....Barbg
9 ....Jen
10....Thin
11....Wanda
12....BarbPA
13....Terri
14....Audrey
15....Duckie

I don't know about Oxycise but I have a muscle disorder and KNOW it is important to get oxygen to our muscles - isn't that one of the things all exercise tapes stress????

I feel very motivated today but fear it's only the "day before that TOM" feeling.

Well, have to have my lunch and then get back to work.

what is this role call list everyone keeps adding their name to? I'm always here lurking around!!

I'm wondering what the roll call is too. I'll be here Mon-Fri from now on (no computer at home so no posting on the weekends).

I got on the scale this morning and I lost 4.5 more lbs last week. Yippee!!! I had plateaued the week before and stayed the same as the week before. I'm trying to lose 2 lbs per week so that made up for last weeks plateau. and this weeks loss plus .5 more. I started dieting on 1/12/04 and I've lost 25 lbs in the first 8 weeks. I'm very pleased with that. I have 155 more to lose to reach my ultimate goal.

Thanks for listening everyone. Hope we all have a great and productive week.

Ingrid

Beginning weight 1/12/04 350
this weeks weight 3/8/04 325
short term goal 5/31/04 300
ultimate goal 8/05(?) 170

CONGRATS ingrid you are doing great. wow that is a lot of weight in only 8 weeks. keep up the great work.

Every so often we do roll call to see who's still hanging out with us...actively or lurking. Feel free to post a message too...not just sign in. Some people like to do replies to all and some just post what they've been up to lately...Either is fine. Everyone is welcome!

We're off to the dentist. My son needs to have a few baby teeth pulled...he's having braces put on next month. Tin grin!

Survivor was pretty boring last week. So glad to see Sue Hawk gone. Is it me or is she way over-reacting?? Rupert did say she said she was gonna sue him (Rich) for $10 million. Hey, who need Survivor bucks if you can get that?

Anyone watch the Sopranos?

Gotta run...

Hi Gang!
I hope everyone is having a good Monday. I am feeling rather blah today - I didn't sleep well last night and the weather today was a crazy mix of rain/snow/hail/sun. Weird! I think it's just the weather getting to me. I am so ready for sun/spring.

Quite honestly I don't have much to say, but I'll babble for a minute. Saturday night dinner with friends was fun. They were not a group we normally hang out with and we really enjoyed it. Sunday was fairly low key - Hubby went into the office to get a head start on some work for today. I watched "Unfaithful" and did some laundry and little things around the house.

Work was fairly non-eventful today. I am not going back into the office until Friday - or maybe not til Monday. I have a test tomorrow at my reproductive Endo.'s office, on Wed. I have to get a crown on a tooth and on Thurs. DH is going in for a minor procedure and I'll be going with him. So, I have a lot on my mind this week. I am trying not to fill the stress with junk food, but I have found my emotional eating side getting the best of me and eating a few no-nos here and there. Grrr.

Now I am going to spend some time with DH and hopefully get to bed early.
I hope you don't mind that I don't feel like going back to do replies right now!

Love to all!
Barb

Hello Ladies,

Newbie Lurker here.

Thin, thanks for explaining about Kathleen and I. (blue hair fawn and Kantsing75). I showed kathleen the forum and she joined, and then I couldn't sign on. Kathleen cleaned out cookies, she also set up my avatar (I collect faeries) and my signature and such. As you can tell, she is the computer savy one in the family. Hopefully we have it straightened out. We have different e-mail accounts we sign on from, so I don't know what the deal it, maybe our IP addres, we have cable modem and aol, and I have short cuts from both to get here depending on what I am doing.

2cute & thin - I really enjoy your posts and your humor. I took a clue from 2cute and I am making notes now when I read posts, and it is helping keeping everyone a little bit straighter.

Lucky - I am so sorry you have had such a rough time this year. I am sure it will turn around - it sounded like you are hanging on to your sense of humor and your plan with both hands and that is great!

Pat - pizza is one of Kat's no no foods - thanks for mentioning your pizza, it's something we can use. Sometimes it is a challenge -Kat is doing a vegetarian plan, and I am doing atkins.

Ingrid woohooo !!! congratulations, you are doing great. May I ask what plan you are following?

I started Dr. Phils book when I started my plan almost 4 weeks ago (again), but I didn't add hardly any to it last week. I am procastinating too much.

I went to the doc last Friday. Kat and I stopped walking last week, I was having a problem with my feet. Doc said the right one is probably a bone spur - it didn't show up on x-ray and the left one is athritis. I know nothing about athritis, except I don't want it. We are going to start walking again, we just might have to reduce how often or how much.

Barb - I hope things go well with your hubby's surgery!

I'm going on a business trip next week to Michigan. I will be at a training center with no transportation, and limited to eating what they serve. The meals will be okay - it is the snacks that are a problems. They keep big baskets of snacks stocked all day for breaks and then they leave chips, candy bars, cookies and so on in the kitchen of the lodges (along with adult beverages). I have such a hard time passing this stuff up - surely I can do it? boy that sounded weak.
I need cheese to go with that whine!

Kat wants on - I'll lurk aroung tomorrow.

thanks for sharing ladies.

Hey everyone. Could I be added to the roster please? It’s Monday, the suggested topic is motivation, so I hope I have a few wise words…or at least an interesting read.

Right on Ingrid, you rock, keep up the good work!!!!

Barb, don’t sweat the small stuff.
John Quincy Adams:
“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.”

Sounds too good to be true right? But think about it, how easy is it to be patient with a child? Or how easy is it to be patient with a loved one? How passionate do people get in defense of those they love? I know I am always much more persistent if you make me angry on behalf of someone I love. I am also more patient and forgiving of those I love. So I try to consider what it is that makes me assume I am not worth that same amount of investment. The time I take with others, and the gifts I give to others are always greater. I am willing to endure more deprivation, more pain, and more trials on behalf of OTHER PEOPLE. So I’ve decided NOT to sweat a candy bar, or a coke. I figure that if I can understand the weaknesses of others and help them work around them, and invest time in aiding them, then I can do the same for myself. Learning to forgive myself for my imperfections has been a real issue for me. So you know you’ve had a few of your no no’s, but I believe you have an inherently undeniable ability to persevere. I know you can do it, because I know I can do it, and if I can do it, you most definitely can do it. Good luck! My thoughts are with you, as are my hopes.

Momma:
“Look in those eyes... Listen to that dear voice... Notice the feeling of even a single touch that is bestowed upon you by that gentle hand ! Make much of it while yet you have that most precious of all gifts. Read the unfathomable love of those eyes; the anxiety of that tone and look, however slight is your pain. In after life you may have friends, fonds, dears, but never you will have again the inexpressible love & gentleness lavished upon you which none but a mother bestows.”
- Macaulay

You know more about me than anyone else because I can let myself be weak in front of you. I know that no matter what I say or do, I will always be your most beloved. I know that no matter where I go, or who I go with, I will always be on your mind. I know that my life is the most important thing to you. I find strength in this because I want to live up to those gifts. I hope you find strength in me too, because you’re certainly worth the investment.

Ok I wanted to post just a general encouragement to everyone. I really enjoy being a part of your group, and I just want to say a short thanks and offer up some words that I thought were really inspirational and encouraging.

“Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth.”
Joan Chittister


Joan Chittister, OSB has been a leading voice on spirituality for over 25 years. Sister Chittister is a noted national and international lecturer whose keynote addresses and conferences focus on women in church and society, human rights, peace and justice, and contemporary religious life and spirituality.

Interesting huh? Well, I thought about it, and I fail a little bit every day. I fail when I decide not to have a single piece of chocolate, or when I intend to exercise but do not. I fail when I have a 32 ounce coke, and when I decide to make something quick for dinner instead of something healthy. I fail in lots of ways in lots of places and I know that small failures are constant. What I realized is very important, is that I don’t fail the big stuff. The biggest things are knowing that I am worth the trouble, and the time. The big successes are successes over spirit and mind. To be 464 pounds is not a physical problem, but a psychological one. I did not get to be that weight just because I ate too much chocolate. There was something going on in my head, so I have decided to let myself breathe more, and to love myself more. In that I succeed almost every day, and in those big successes of self is where true success lies.

I also wanted to add that I hope no one minds religious reference. As far as inspiration goes I do not prefer one religion over the other. I like to take wise words from all sorts of places, so I hope some of the religious quotes that are found here do not bother anyone. The source is not meant to exclude anyone, or anything.

Sincerely,
Blue