Morning! It snowed last night, but I know it will be gone soon. Shut up, IT WILL!!

One of my goals is to get in a good elliptical session today. I've been doing other cardio lately, but I think I haven't had a great cardio workout in a while.

IT HAPPENED!!! I am past the 90lb mark..in fact im at 91lbs off!! Cant wait to see what I can do in the next few weeks!!
Its amazing after weeks of cutting back my calories nothing happened. I increased my calories and got in some exercise and WOW!! IM seeing my med dr today and he wants to look at my food journal. IT will be interesting to see what he thinks. He is the one who told me to cut down to 1300. He thought it would jump start me again and it just caused my stall to be worse!!
Got a day of cleaning planned, I have the day off from kids.
hugs to all and drink your water!!

Let me be the first to say congrats!! Yay! for you!

gramie -

Madamruppe -

Sounds like the weekend was one for Olive Garden. I went too! It was my son's pick for his birthday dinner. Unlike you sensible ladies, I love Olive Garden. Especially the breadsticks and anything with cream in the name. I admit, this weekend was an overeating spree. Starting with pizza and cheesecake on Friday. Followed by WI at WW where I found I'd gained 3.8 lbs and now am only .8 from where I started last July. I really don't know why I'm spending $40 per month on WW. I've lost nothing in 9 months. My friend I go with has met, and now exceeded goal. Sure she only had 20 lbs to lose...but she lost it. So I did the usual when confronted with the facts of my failure and ate out. That was the Olive Garden night. Anyway, even last night was bad. I'm picking myself back up today though and I had a healthy breakfast that will be followed by a healthy lunch and dinner.

I don't actually expect to see any scale progress this week though...My anniversary is Wednesday and DH and I have a four-day weekend off. We are planning on spending part of one day shopping for new tile. I don't know if I mentioned it before, but we were going to put down the laminate we bought years ago. We had an installer come give us an estimate, but it turns out we don't have enough. We need 288 square feet. We have 285. And he also said that with our two hyperactive dogs, we should go with linolium. But I think we've decided to go with tile instead. Our tax refund was supposed to pay down a credit card, but I honestly think I want this more! We have an installer coming tomorrow to give us an estimate. Anyway, the rest of our anniversary "celebration" will be stripping wallpaper and painting the kitchen and dining room. I suspect we're going to be doing a lot of sanding. I pulled off the paper behind the fridge, and while it looks good, it is heavily textured, which isn't a look I'm fond of. So, we'll see..... But at least it will be done! After seven years of planning!!!

I need to get to work. You ladies have a good day and try to stay warm! What happened to SPRING?

Hi Ladies,
Just wanted to let you know that I've posted the results for the first week of the challenge. I did it different this time and just put in in the weigh in thread instead of a whole new thread. Hopefully it will be just as easy to see the results.

Thanks to all who stuck it out the last challenge and I hope more of you make it to the end this time. It's really a good way to check yourself and see how you do, and even if you don't lose alot, the main thing is not to give up.
Let's finish this together!!!

Have a great day!!
Debbie

Thanks!

I must say that sounds like one sexy anniversary. We have lots like that around here.

Must be quick this morning, ladies, have an early meeting and want to run the car for an oil change before I go there...

Madamruppy: Welcome!

DG: Congrats!

Heather: It NEVER stopped snowing here yesterday. ARRRRGGGGGGHHHHH. Did you get your second workout in?

Lilion: Hugs! Enjoy the long weekend. Is there one small thing you were doing when things were working better that you could add back in?

Yep...Really sexy with all that crazy STRIPPING! I bet we'll just make ourselves exhausted.


Heck Angela, I did everything better back then. Exercise most importantly probably - but not eating every thing I happen across probably helped too. I'm having a very hard time with sweets lately and I need to get them out of the house big time. I want to exercise - really - I'm just so exhausted every morning I can't get moving in time because of the lack of decent sleep. I know that would make me feel better with the meno problems too. But it's the night sweats and waking up all the time that's making me so darn tired! I'm giving the estroven one more week and then I'm calling my doctor and tell him something has to give. He wanted me to give them a month or two...I can't make it a month or two.

I'm not feeling sorry for myself. Although I admit to a bit of disgust. I know I can do this. But I'm also a bit discouraged. Even when I am OP I don't lose like I did before and maybe it's the menopause thing? Or maybe it's just me. I just don't think I can continue to justify the money for WW when I lost last time without it. Maybe this spring will get me back in the swing, when I can get out of the house. Walks and yard work and such will certainly be good for me.

Time to work...

Hugs to everyone today - enjoy the day! I'm here, doing well - seems the special projects haven't diminished - I promise I'll be back with a longer update.

One quick shout-out - Terri - 2.5 weeks until the Trolley Run - you ready?

EVEr go thru spells with just not alot to say. Thats me right now! Im here food is good, exercise is happening, water is great!! hugs to all

I go through those spells a lot!

I'm doing okay as well. Not phenomenal, but not bad. I'm pleased that I seem to care more about not going off plan. No mindless, shove-food-in-your-mouth eating that I had been doing. But I'm not creating big calorie deficits. That's okay for now. At least I'm in better control... even with a lot of stressful things going on!

Morning ladies,

Wow, I have been absent for a few days. Guess not too chatty lately. I've been having bad allergies plus just worn out from the weather roller coasters. This last cold snap just made me very grouchy.

Last Friday, we drove to Arkansas to pick up our new horse trailer. Twelve hours in the truck that day. But it was a nice day and it was nice to make a road trip and have the day together. We stopped in Springfield to have breakfast with my sister and BIL at Bass Pro.

The rest of the weekend, I felt like crap. Tired and listless. And blah.

On Monday, when I got to work, I found out that one of the managers has turned in her notice and will be leaving next week. Some of you will remember that last summer, I had to apply for my job and I didn't get the reduced version of the job I had been doing. Another gal got it with no management or product knowledge experience. She wowed everyone with her brilliance and energy and worked 24/7 practically. She has been a large part of my dealing with the put out to pasture and lack of relevance the last few months. Then some of you will remember that I had a very interesting prospect earlier this year. I wanted too much money and they found someone for less money. Guess what, she got that job. That left me speechless for a couple of days. And then horrified because I didn't want to be given her job and have to be working 24/7. I talked to my boss and she is going to keep me on the special projects she has planned and will do something else.

Oh yeah, on Saturday, I met with a local horse trainer to see about taking Spanky for us to have lessons. I want to get him into different environments and experiences so I can feel more confidant about both myself and him. I start this Saturday. It will be nice that if I can afford to and I like this to make it through the winter so I can ride during the winter months. This lady has a very nice indoor facility and I've heard that she's really good. My goal is to be able to show Spanky in a local saddle club show sometime this year.

With that coming, I've been making more effort to get up early enough to do ab work, stretching and other core strengthening. I also made it to the fitness center last night for 35 minutes on the elliptical. I'm going to have to talk to my doctor about arthritus in my knees. One in particular gives me problems when I exercise. If I don't take celebrex, I feel like its weak and also that there is fluid building up.

Saturday I'm planning on a trip to the fitness center to do a 5K walk on the treadmill. Gotta get ready for the Trolley Run/Walk!

Better get this posted and back to work! to all!

Lilion: Sleep deprivation is a terrible thing. I hope either the estroven starts working or your doc has some other plan. Sorry you're going through such a rough time.

DG: Glad things are going well!

Terri: Hope those lessons go well. Hey, where is this trolley run/walk?

Carol, Heather, everybody:

Hi Gals - Just a quick hello.

I'm here, but not really chatty either. Last night I had to make the decision to have one of my dogs put to sleep. I didn't think she had much time left, but I didn't expect to have to do it so quickly. She was 13 and not in good health...over the past week a tumor developed on her head and was pushing her eye out. She couldn't hear or really see. She's in a better place, but I'm sad. It's the first time I've had to do that. I was alone in the exam room sitting on the floor with her. The kids aren't really old enough to understand. The 3yo just keeps saying "Lucy got sick and went to doggie heaven...she has a new home".

Yesterday I've gave myself a rest from the gym. I'm starting to learn that it's ok to give myself a day off occassionally. Just a big part of the mental weight loss game I play.

The scale is creeping down a bit which is nice to see since I feel like I've been stuck lately.

Sorry for the depressing post....I'll be back when I feel more up beat!

Everyone stay happy and healthy!!!