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Good Morning ladies. Yesterday was another successful day at exercising. I got in an hour, 15 min of Turbo Jam and 45 min Billy's Bootcamp. I'm a bit sore today but would've liked to push myself a little more in doing the Bootcamp workout. So I'll work on that for tomorrow when it's Billy's day again.

I have a lot to do today so I'm getting my exercise in early today.

Have a healthy day everyone.

Happy Thursday Everyone - I'm still staying off the scale

To everyone who asked about my Puppies in this link
http://media.putfile.com/Beach-Puppies

They are Max and Sadie (see my Avi, Sadie is on the left, Max is on the right)
We don't know how much black lab is in them because my husband found them. He was leaving a clients home (about three hours from here) and stopped to throw some boxes in a dumpster, saw a black bag move and then heard a whimper and found these two inside. He brought them home, we took them to the vet, they were very sick and we nursed them back to health. The vet estimated they were about 4 weeks old when he found them. They are now about 13 weeks old. The authorities have never contacted us to say they have found a responsible person. They are a part of our family now, they are my furbabies The vet says they are very healthy now and every where we go, everyone just adores them.

Hello, ladies! I am a lurker, infrequent poster, but wanted to drop in and say hello!

Countess, those puppies are so adorable! What an awful start to the world they had, but it sounds like it was meant to be for your DH to find them! We have a black lab as well ... Jetta ... and she is the best dog in the world!

teahoney, you go girl! An hour of cardio is excellent! I generally try to do 30 minutes a day, for now. Just started mid-January, and am working up to doing more and more. But the weight loss has been steady, so my diet-exercise combo is working for me!

Hope to get to know you all better!

SW/CW/GW: 322.8/292.6/154

Good Morning Ladies~~~

Voodoo~~ The Mothman Paper will have to be the next one I write, This one Needs to be an "Argumentative" paper,SOOOOOOOOOOO I am writing about "Challenging Lethal Injection, In humane or Stalling" I have my rough draft done, just need to critique it,, I love to write,, I excel with things like that.............But this should bring up a lot of different feelings............

As for me I am sooooooooo Tired, I blame it on Test Stress this week and Aunty M... I dont feel like I am eating enough then when I refer to my Journal I am good to go, this NOT being hungry thing , is teaching me to EAT when I am hungry NOT because I thought about food.... pretty neat feeling, I have got to start excersing though,, I cant get any equipment till the 20th or so....

Zelma~~ How do you suggest one would study for a Math Test,, Just do repative problems? the lack of attention and applying myself in grade and high school is certainly biting me in the *** now.. when It comes to Math,,, argggg................

Ammi~ Where are ya at friend? how are you?

Countess~ the puppies are just soooooooo adorable.. You and your Husband are good people to take them in,, Most wouldnt have,, sad to say, huh?, Keep pic and any info coming, I am a lab lover,, dog lover

Take Care All

Green~~ We must have posted at the same time,,WELCOME , I look forward to your posts...

Hi Chickies!

Tracy: You girls doing so much exercise just amazes me! Over an hour at one time?! WOW! I'm lucky to get in 1/3 hour walking - much less doing something aerobic!

Zelma: You sound like a great teacher! Believe me, I know how important that is! My son has always been "challenging". He's very bright, but his behaviour has always needed improvement. In pre-kindergarten summer school the teacher asked why he was there, he was ready for 1st grade...although too young. But I'd had him kicked out of daycares for behaviour and told he needed the socialization. He started kindergarten at 5, because he was too advanced to keep out till 6. He's one of the youngest in his class. As he's gotten older, his behaviour has improved, but he still has problems staying on task. It's not an ADHD type thing...more a lack of interest - or more interest in other things. But we muddle through-luckily we've had more teachers like you, who try hard, than otherwise. Elipticals are pricey here too! The cheapest I've seen that was worth considering was $400 - we paid more than that! But I do think it's a good workout and takes up less space than the treadmill would have.

Honi: Don't know what's going on...but

Violet: Looking forward to getting to know you!

Nancy: I also am spending way too much time on the net at work! I am trying to get it all in before my first appointment at 8:30, but now I need to take a break in mid-post and come back to finish this!------- Okay, back! You'd think they'd tell me in advance if the people don't speak english! This is no way to work. I have good intentions of being off this thing by 8:30...but I'm usually on in the gaps between hearings until noon! So I think I'm going to have to do what you're doing and start not being on until lunch! Oh...and I don't go very fast on the eliptical, only burn about 90 calories in that 10 minutes, but I'm getting there - and so are you!

Countess: I those puppies!!!! I just want to cuddle and snuggle and squish them! How sweet!

Garnet: FWIW, I show a 3 lb difference with my shoes - beats me how! As to the surgery - my HMO only goes to the local Catholic Hospital...which doesn't allow sterilization proceedures usually. I could get a tubal ligation at the out-patient surgery center, but not the endometrial procedure and I see no reason to be put under twice and with my heart arrythmia I want to have any surgery at the hospital! There is another hospital in town, and my Dr has privileges there...but my ins. doesn't go there! So we're working the system right now. The easiest will be for the Catholic hospital to grant a waiver based upon medical necessity. It's been done before, for women who's lives would be in danger with repeated pregnancy, so we'll see.

Jillly: Congrats on the job! Very good timing the way you've been talking about yours these days!!!

Well, appt # 2 is about to start. Time to give up on the posts for now. I'm sorry for people I missed...but I have to run. Later!

Well taking the day off was just what I needed. By the time I went backl to sleep last night..I had a hard time falling asleep but I woke up today feeling very rested...and smiling.

I knew that last night's WI was going to be bad...so I told myself that as long as the gain was under 5 lb. I was cool. It was 4.8 lbs...but I am also majorly PMSing...so some gain was expected. None of it negates anything that happened last week...and it's the very wake up call that I need. So I'm starting over. When I first began WW I was so anal about food. No sweets (except for FF/SF pudding) and no junk. That's the first thing that I need to cut out...no more litle treats here and there...because the more I eat the more I want. I'm also going to need to work on my coffee habit as well.
But I can do it and I want to do it...so here I go!

Ok, so it's coca cola, not crack

I have been a coke addict since I was 13 years old, I'd have one before school, one around 10am, one or two at lunch, another after school, and one or two more at dinner and night time. After my last baby I weighed 328lbs with a host of co-morbidities (we've counted around 40 conditions due to being morbidly obese) My doctor advised me to cut out sugar. "Cut out sugar????" Now keep in mind I don't use sugar substitutes because I quit smoking to stop from getting cancer, I don't want to get cancer from the carcinogens in equal haha
One day, on a whim I decided to try some carbonated water. It has no aspartame, saccharin, calories, sodium, sugar! Just flavor! I get 12 pack cans of La Croix brand water. They have lemon (my favorite), lime, berry, orange and plain. Now, I hardly even drink tap water. Each can is 12 oz so it's easy for me to keep track of how much water I have every day in my food log.

I know the aspartame lovers are trying to do right by their body by not using sugar but I wanted to leave you with a website to consider
http://www.sweetpoison.com/aspartame-side-effects.html

Have a great day ladies! Laura

I think Ammi's scale showed up in mine this morning. I'm not sure how many times I stepped on it, but is ranged from 321 to 331 and was different every single time! Actually there were also several times it was flashing 0, so I think there must be something wrong with it. I will try changing the battery, and hopefully that will help. I think I probably maintained anyway - I am definitely retaining water.

Also, I made it all the way through the morning without coming here once, and was very productive work wise. Hope everyone's having a good day. I am getting psyched for the amazing weather we are supposed to have this weekend. It is supposed to hit 60 degrees! I will finally be able to get outside for a !

Kayley-let me tell you a story. I went on Nutrisystem in the late '80's and lost 150lbs. I actually let people think I was sick rather than think I was on a diet. You may be too young to remember this, but that was during a time if you lost a bunch of weight, people thought you had AIDS and were dying. Admitting that I was on a diet means that I have admitted to myself that I need to change. That means I knew I needed to change before I went on the diet, but didn't do it. That means I'd have to admit that I was less than perfect. Makes complete sense doesn't it? If we were completely level-headed, we wouldn't have found ourselves in this situation. I often say that a person doesn't get to be almost 600 lbs. by accident. I've lost a couple of tons of weight over the years, and always put it back on. This time I have had to confront the demons that caused this to be successful, and I still have a long way to go. Admitting that something is wrong is a big first step.