Hey everyone-

NANCY~Hope the thing at work gets better whatever it is! I agree about the weighing. I try to just weigh once a week. But sometimes I have to peek! I love that show LOST! I wish they would just tell us whats on the island already! I have heard Battlestar Gallactica is a good show. Congrats on losing 2 pounds!

LAVANDEL~Congrats on losing two pounds! I struggle some days with eating enough. My body is so used to my bad habits of skipping breakfast and lunch sometimes.

KATT~congrats on your loss!

POCHITA~Hope to see you posting more! Jump on in here!

VALERIE~Congrats on getting the job!!!

ANDIE~Thats great you thought to get exercise in the parking lot while wating!

AMMI~Glad you are feeling better!

ZELMA~Glad TOM has come for a visit! Never thought I would tell someone that!

ZIGGY~Hope everything went well from the move!

WYLLENN~Wow what great NSVs. That must make you feel proud! You have come so far! And yes there is hope...sometimes hard to see that but there is!Thanks for sharing!

KATT~Congrats on closing on the house! You must be excited!

MELISSA~Sorry you are having a tough time hun! You have come far! Losing 30 plus pounds is awesome! The thing is I guess we can't beat ourselves up for messing up...we just have to do better when we do. Ok so you had a few days or a few weeks of bad eating...tommorow is a new day! You can do this! Hang in there!

Well I didn't get exercise in AGAIN today. But we did go to the beach and I got quite the workout from walking in the snow/sand. I guess that does count as exercise! I do want to get back on my routine though. My sleeping schedule keeps getting messed up by DH shift work. And it just throws everything off! Anyways...I will try to get my walking in later today. Well I am up late 2 am here! DH went to work 2 hours ago. I better get some sleep! Hope you all have a great day!

***also I posted some pictures in the picture page thing. Just a pic from yesterday at the beach. The first pic is of me...sort of hard to see me though. It was 7 degrees outside!!!! I was freezing!

Oh and today my jeans and jacket are getting way loose! I may have to buy a lower size jeans before we go down to Anchorage in Nov.

Have a great day everyone!

Michelle

Good morning everyone, and happy Friday!

Welcome to the newbies! And if any other lurkers are reading this please join in and don't hesitate. You ARE very welcome here!!!

Yay, it's Friday... 4 AM and here I am up again getting ready for work.

Congrats to those who have had visits from the FFM.

Katt, LOL I cracked up at your comment about the FFM visiting me "on a regular basis" or something like that. After 6 weeks I FINALLY got the scale down another two pounds... and it is up 3 again this morning. That doesn't feel like anything close to a "regular basis" but hey I am happy with what I get and at least it seems to be moving a bit.

Ammi, so glad you are finally feeling better! Yay!!!

Keep OP everyone!!!! When you are tempted with the "bad stuff" remember the consequences and you do NOT want them!

Melissa -- It sucks to feel that way. If the "breaks" are bothering you, you are right, you can't take them so much. Does it help to ask yourself why you think you need them?? You're rewarding your weight loss with food! Are you rewarding yourself because you feel deprived? Then maybe it's time to give yourself permission to have small bits of the things you want? Or are there other reasons (fears?)

I don't have the answers, but my question is always "Why".

Anyway, you know it doesn't help to beat yourself up about it. You can't change the past. But you can change the future.

And coming here and ranting isn't a bad thing!

good morning everyone .Melissa hang in there we all have those kind of days! just take it one day at a time.Congratulations to everyone on their losses. i was lucky again to day my scales moved down again.. oh happy me!

Morning Chickies!

Michelle – Saw your photos. Those were yesterday? Suddenly, I feel a lot better about it being 52 and raining here! You've mentioned the sleep problem and the 24 hours of darkness thing. Have you considered buying a sunlamp or even lots of florescent lights? I know plants grow under grow-bulbs or florescent and they use sunlamps for people with Seasonal Affective Disorder…might help you.

Melissa – It's so easy to "deserve" a "cheat day" or so. DH and I once got really burned out and decided we were going to have a weekend where we just wouldn't think about it. I had biscuits and gravy and all the old, bad foods. "Just one weekend" I told myself "Back to work on Monday"…NOT so easy as it sounds. I get so TIRED of thinking about food…but it is much harder to get back OP than you might think, as you know. The fact that you are paying attention…the fact that you WANT to be in control, is something to go on. I imagine in the past, you didn't think about what you ate or care about it that much. If you can think of getting back in control I believe you can do it!

Heather – Your story was so funny…about people not recognizing you! I bet Zelma's had that happen too! A while back a woman stopped me on the street and said "Oh my GOD! How much have you lost? I almost didn't recognize you! You look GREAT!" and we chatted a moment. I walked away thinking - "Who the Heck was that???" Apparently, I've lost my mind along with my weight!

Jilly – I'm sorry you are feeling so cruddy! I hope you get better soon! Hey, at least you did WATP – that's impressive the way you feel. Have you ever posted at the official WW site? I wondered because I saw someone with the user name Jillybean there.

Patti – Glad to see you had a scale victory!

Well all, I overate in a really stupid way yesterday. I wasn't hungry really for dinner and couldn't think what to eat. I had 11 pts left! I ended up making chicken salad with canned chicken, FF mayo, grapes, celery and ginger and it was okay, but not great. I got two pieces of flat bread and made two roll-ups and ate them BOTH even though I was full after one. The stupid things you think when overeating…the flatbread is getting old and needs eaten…there's not enough chicken salad to bother putting in the fridge…stupid! Especially when I'd been thinking of getting ½ a Roly Poly sandwich for dinner…not two! Didn't go over on points, but still…why stuff myself? Then, bless my hubby's heart, he'd gotten a candy bug and decided to make Peanut Butter balls. I LOVE them…ate FOUR! That's 8 pts right there! And I wasn't even hungry! Ah well, I still have plenty of flex pts and it's done now. Now if only I do well at the Halloween costume party tomorrow. Cupcakes and Cookies and Snacks – Oh MY!

Time to run! Hope you all have a great Friday and a good weekend if I don’t get back!

Thank you ALL for both your good wishes and all the congrats on my new job! I’m excited – expecially about actually getting control of my own paycheck! My tax returns last year SAID $55k, but all of it went through hubby’s hands and I only got the money necessary to pay the horse board (usually late) and money for food, which he whined went too fast. Control of my money, my life and time at home were the things I wanted, and while I’ll be working 12 hour days at this new job, at least the $$$ is good and the control of it is mine. I used to LOVE driving when I first started, and now I find I’m loving it again.

Thru yesterday I’ve still been recovering from a combination of Bill being home, the popcorn ball fiasco, attack of TOM, and whatever other excuses I could come up with. But as of today, I’M BACK! OP 100%! I actually started using the log sheets for food, exercise, water and vitamins that I made up last week. I’m off to a good start with my 90 minute workout, and food logged of: apple, peanut butter, asparagus & salmon so far, plus I took my vitamins & downed 4 cups of H2O, ta boot! The next question is, do I go play at the new gym today, or do I go over to Borders and use my $10 gift cert towards the “Loser” workout video with Bob??? Maybe I could stop off at Curves on the way back? Ah, decisions, decisions. I better enjoy my last few days of unemployment while I can!

HEATHER, Those two failures to recognize you were two of the coolest NSV’s ever! Made me wanna just GIGGLE with delight!

ZELMA, Congrats???? On TOM. I suppose when things haven’t been working quite as expected, it IS quite a relief to have them back to normal… and in this case, then gone again. I hope your usual sweet, non-monster self is back already and you’re feeling good again.

AMMI, It’s so good to see you perking up and feeling better. That tummy bug had to be horrible, especially because it lasted SO long! It’s good to have you back, and I’m sure that you’ll find your stride again with the exercise and eating again in no time. You’re a leader in that regard, and I have absolute faith in you!

KAYLEY, Good luck with those exams, on Monday and the Spanish one. I liked Spanish in high school, but after I took first year, they didn’t have room in second year, so they jumped me ahead to third year Spanish. Can you imagine? Just SKIP a year of a language?? Needless to say, I flunked out. I’ve wished I knew it on many occasions, so I commend you for taking it.

KATYDID, That’s tremendous, the success you’ve achieved in your everyday tasks getting easier. It’s wonderful when you can FEEL the progress of your efforts! Things will just keep getting better, too!!! Good for you!!!

MELISSA, As Batman would have it: WHAM! ZOWIE! BAM! POW! Oh, yeah, and ! That said, I’ve just come thru a week like that myself. One day I was on a tremendous roll, going for that 20 pounds in 6 weeks, then a few factors combined at once and I was tumbling.
Like you, I didn’t just go off the deep end, but I had some things I shouldn’t, or too much of things even if they were relatively OP, and the exercise fizzled away…taking my mood with it. I went out to movie last night and to dinner afterwards, and I didn’t go whole-hog – no candy with the movie or dessert after dinner or sweet that I knew I’d suffer more for today - but I let myself indulge more than I normally know I should because I planned the deadline of this morning to get back on track: back to exercise class, back to logging my food. I’ve been struggling for days to get back 100%, but setting a specific future start plan helps me, where just saying “I shouldn’t be doing this!” “I’ll make up for it tomorrow.” “I can’t believe I’m Doing this!” – those things don’t help because there still part of a self-destructive, negative punishment mindset.
Will that help you? To plan to indulge – NOT self-destruct, just indulge a little in relatively OP items – with a fixed date/time and a set plan/schedule to get back on track with a specific exercise activity.
Look Melissa, You’ve done brilliantly so far. I’ll tell you a secret. I’m very competitive and I try to use that to my benefit. I’ve watched your exercise minutes this month BECAUSE you’ve been doing so great and you’ve been such an inspiration to me. I know we’re not competing with each other, but when you’ve been ahead of me in minutes, I’ve been driven to put in more time on the TM, or walk more, or do SOMEthing because you set such a good example. I owe you! I’m getting back to this, and I ABSOLUTELY KNOW that you can and will too! Just pick your own time when you’re ready… and then kick my butt on those minutes, K? This is your choice: We can send the FFM to your house…. Or we can send Batman. What’ll it be?

Heavens, MICHELLE, walking in the sand/snow is DEFINITELY a workout! I walk in the sand in the riding arena at the barn sometimes because I can feel it in my calves, hamstrings and butt so much more. It can really pump your heart rate up, too! I’d count those minutes if I were you.

JILLY, Yup, sure looks like your exercise is improving if you’ve increased it from 0 to 3-4 days a week! GREAT! And no, McDonald’s for B-fast doesn’t mean the whole day is shot! PANERA??? OMG! That’s one place I should definitely stay far away from! Good luck! OOP – quick, duck! ‘fore the boss sees ya!

Yes, JILL, the WEATHER! I'll have to add that to my list! Seriously, all the dark skies and rain don't help, do they? * As for Panera, I think the SMELL of the bread when I came thru the door would add a pound or two, and knowing me I'd leave with a loaf in each hand. For the time being, I just can't be trusted! But the soup & chicken salad sound yummy. I even had chicken salad for lunch out yesterday. Not a choice I'd normally make to have out because of the mayo & whatever, but yesterday was my 'indulge, but not far off the path' day. It certainly helps when the nutritional value is available.

ello ladies

Its such a good vibe in this chat. You just have to love it!

Today is exactly one month since I started with this jurney. I dont belive I managed the whole month..wow. The result is: -14,77 lb I love it!

Just wanted to say this

Im off as quick as I came lol need to do some more packing, am going away with my bf for the weekend...oh I need a few days free!

Have a great weekend all, when I come back please dont make me read how you gain I wanna see looses (I hope I wont be the one gaining )

And god please help me be OP this weekend

Ciao...

Hi Ladies
Lilion~ you weren't the only one eating peanut butter balls last night! Guilty here as well!

Val~ Congrats on the job.

Melissa~ I'm right here with ya girl! I'm having a go at it this past couple too. Hubby and I are planning on detoxing with South Beach again. I need to feel that control that I had before. I know the carbs....grrrr carbs.... are the reason and I just have to. I am going to work so hard at getting things back on track. Monday morning is it. Back to South Beach I go!! I liked it there. I was in control there. Good luck getting back on track. I am here if you need to talk!

K, I have to run again. I am going into the city tonight and have to get things in order, dinner prepped so we dont eat out and have my shower etc. Talk to you all later.

Brenda

Hi all

Melissa - Hun get the beating yourself up over with asap and get back on track ... you have to know from reading the posts on here that everyone has a hard time thru the journey ... and I am sure that over the next 2 months there will be a lot of "Oh NO" moments with the Halloween, Thanksgiving and Xmas/New Year seasons coming up ... so dont get too upset, and work yourself back into the routine again Big Huggies hun .. you CAN do it

VAL - I know what you mean about nice to have the money you earn in your own hands Im sure when you get your first pay check you will just be elated WTG hunny.

Today is a beautiful day and Scoot and I are gonna go up town to get some shopping done .. have to get him some new clothes .. I love clothes shopping ..,. for other people anyway rofl ...

Have a great day everyone ... will write more later