Good Morning all!!!
Up drinking coffee and watching Little Einsteins..Wow has life changed in 3 yrs!!!!

Ok just a few more days to avoid King Cakes...That is a weakness that I have avoided since Mardi Gras season has started..Yep Lauren, that is the desert I was telling U about for the last 6 or 7 yrs!!!!!
No gain or no loss..better than nothing I guess!!!
Hello to all~~~~off to read the newspaper!!!
RR

its going to be a great week! i can feel it. i just got back from the grocery store and i am doing everyTHING low this week. lo cal, lo fat, lo carb. you name it. i need a little kick start and i want to see if ANYTHING will shrink my waist just an itty bit more.

i finished my first 10K yesterday (more about that on my blog) and well school, work, running and now rodeo will keep me so busy this week i might just lose my mind !!

another good thing is how BEAUTIFUL the weather is today!!!

Good morning! Sorry I haven't been posting much since I joined. Been doing blah on my weight loss, so didn't want to be whining and bringing moods down.

But - I had a FANTASTIC trip to the grocery store yesterday, bought me some better snacks, more fruit, salad, etc. - so I am ready to go. There is no excuse for eating/ordering out this week!

i did the same thing yesterday jenn! i need a bigger refrigerator! all that fresh produce takes up too much room!!

Good morning everyone,

It's been a whiney weekend at my house. The little guy is sick, and whew, does he ever live up to his sex's reputation for being sick! Need a tissue? Whine and cry as loudly as possible. And from the second you need one until someone can get across the room to get you the needed tissue. Repeat each and every time you need one. Until your mom is ready to jump out of her skin with the whining!

Eating was the pits yesterday, we went to IHOP for breakfast. That's not a diet friendly place. I paid for it tho, I was SO sick we had to come home and not do some shopping we had planned on. I totally do not want to go there again for an extremely long time. If ever.

Hope everyone is having a super great day!

Good morning everyone,

My name is Leec. I posted a message a little bit ago and Lauren suggested that I came here to chat with all of the 30 somethings.
For me Monday is actually starting off pretty well. Tuesdays are usually my weigh in day, but for some reason I couldn't wait until tomorrow. I think maybe its because I bought a really cool digital scale this weekend. Either way, I set a 2lb weight lose goal for myself and to my surprise this morning when I go on I discovered I had lost 5lbs in a week. I couldn't be more excited. Sorry, I had to share.

Wait it gets better. I got to work this morning and found an envelope on my desk with a letter stating that I will be recieving a raise starting March 1.

Well enough rambling, its just not very often that a Monday starts off this well.

I look forward to chatting with all of you.

Leec

Hi All,

Well, I gained 3.4 lbs. this week, but that's because I had lost 6.2 lbs. last week because of the stomach virus. So maybe I can say it's a loss of 2.8 over 2 wks.??

Karen, sorry that IHOP made you sick. But I hope it was just that, and not a virus! Hope Alex is feeling better! How are you feeling PG wise? How many weeks are you now?

Jenn, I love it..."A FANTASTIC trip to the grocery store"!! How motivated do you have to be to consider any trip to the grocery store "fantastic"?! That's awesome...and I totally know what you mean!

JJB, Congrats on the 10K! I did scan over your blog...what an adventure!

RR, Hang in there! My boys LOVE Little Einsteins too. DH bought them a DVD also.

Hi to everyone else! Have a great week!

Leec, we were posting at the same time. CONGRATS on the lose!! And the raise!! How awesome! And for goodness sakes, don't apologize for telling us of your loss!!

Sounds like everyone has a good start to the week (with the exception of a few colds) Hope you all feel better! We're just getting over that stuff here.

I had a good morning - won a radio contest and now I get to take my daughter backstage to see a band who currently plays one of her favorite country songs! She'll be thrilled.

I didn't do so well this weekend, I've been status quo on weight loss for the past week or so - and had a big celebratory lunch with a friend who just bought her first house. Ugh. Fortunately, starting tomorrow she's on board with this whole thing which will make it much easier since we work together and each lunch all the time - lunch time is going to become walk time!

Intrinsicat, which group do you get to see? I am a HUGE country fan. I don't care who it is. The only people that come to my town though is like George Jones, I think Lorretta Lynn. If I want to see someone it is at least 2 1/2 to 3 hours or more. (I don't go to Detroit) I am so jeolous!

Leec, Congrats on the two great things that happened. How exciting!

I forgot to weigh myself, however, I put on a skirt yesterday that was made for me, and it was loose around the waist. Things are starting to stress me out at school, we are coming down to the crunch time. Only 82 more days!!! And of course I will be doing a lot of (writing).

Good Morning Everyone,

Hope everyone is doing well. So far I have had enough will power to not induldge in a Paczkis. They are everywhere around the office this morning.
If one more person asks me if I would like one, I'm going to scream.

yep...a couple of people here brought King cakes..."step away from the cake"..

Okay, so I finally decided to retire the old digital scale handed down from my mom for a Tanita body fat scale. Wow, do I regret that. Apparently my old scale was giving me the benefit of the doubt by about 2 pounds. And I managed to find 2 other pounds in the past week. So... changed the numbers around a bit on my ticker there...

lppennington: The group is called Hot Apple Pie. I think they're relatively new - they're first big song, Hillbillies, gets a lot of air time around here. It's a fun song, but I haven't heard anything else they've played. Should be interesting, she's excited. She likes the braying donkey noise in the song.

Angel33 - good job on staying away from the Paczkis! I wish I could say the same. I did real good today. I had an egg and toast for breakfast with some light cheese spread, then vegetable bean soup for lunch - just barely dodging an invite for burritos for lunch. But then went ouf for dinner and had pizza and beer. Ooof! No wonder this new scale hates me already...