[clovey]

Hello everyone. Guess what? I am going to go to the gym. Now. I am first trying to find my trainers (I found a pair of trainer like thingys but I am not sure if they are my trainers, or sort of walking boots. I cant even remember what my trainers look like.......this is how bad it has got). I am going to (when I identify footwear) to see if one of those fit type employees there can help me devise a body firming and enhancing programme. I am thinking firm tummy muscles and a shaped back. Even if I dont lose the fat, I think I want to have some nice muscle tone. so that is what I am going to go for.

If I can find the right shoes, and if I can bear to drag myself in to that den of torture and humiliation (attitude? no, I feel upset because I have tried this so often before and all those thin fit types think I sit on the sofa all day eating ice cream.....)

[Ruthxxx]

Good morning, Clovey, and good for you! Go for it and give us a full report.

Yesterday was hectic but I did not go back to the Office after dinner. I used my sore knee as an excuse, which was true, and headed for bed by ten. Slept with the fan full blast until 2 when my drastically reduced dose of Advil wore off! Maybe I should sleep with the knee thingie on?

Today I have to take Hershey to the doggie clinic in town for bloodwork as it appears she is in "prime time". She may be going to be bred on the weekend so we will be dogless for a while. Jane comes to be with Harry this afternoon and I will go to town again, bottle wine and pick her up if she's not ready.

What's happening with you chickies? Sit on the deck and chat! The robins are singing and the sun is a blazing red ball. It'll be a hot one for the Fair Opening Day!

[Mamacita]

G' morning Chicklets

I was up at 4:30 to go "babysit" a new phlebo at one of the nursing homes. My boss is far too dependent on me for stuff like this. Sends me out to hand hold the newbies and then report back to her. I don't get any incentive to do this...just regular pay and a smidgen of milage. But it seems that I have about the best work ethic of the bunch and she trusts me. Maybe it'll pay of one day. And maybe I'll win the lottery. Can we say "cranky" today???

My lunch date stood me up yesterday I think she probably just got busy at her job and forgot. She'll come in next week for her protime and take one look at me and remember. Oh, well, I have a ready made lunch for today: chicken Caesar part II.

Ok, going to go check my eyelids for pinholes for half an hour.

Have a great day on the beach everyone! Clovey, good luck with the gym. You can do it, girl! Ruth, hope you have fun at the fair and KEEP COOL!

Mamacita

[Kiko]

Morning chickies!

Clovey I think that is wonderful! Remember that you are your harshest critic- just get in there and you will do great!

Mama Sorry your lunch date stood you up. Have a great day today!!

Ruth Take care of YOU girl!!!

Laurie I hate to hear you down on yourself. You are kicking major weightloss a$$, so do not get discouraged!!!!!!!!!!

Busy, busy, busy here. Makes me not look forward to going back to school! We have a team leader retreat today, don't let the word retreat fool you, this is not a day of relaxation! Tons of prep and things to do for the upcoming year- I just hope there is some good positive energy in the room!

Behave today ladies! I won't be back to check in until tonight.

[clovey]

Well, I went to the gym. I think the shoes I was wearing were trainers and not walking boots....

I did 12 mins on the walking machine and 7 on the cross trainer. Now that is not much, but I was not really wanting to do that stuff, but rather to talk to someone about the toning up possibilities. There was no one there to speak to about it, but I picked up some leaflets and a class time table and have booked myself in for legs bums and tums on sunday morning. Cant believe I have done so. Will I make it???? that is the question. They also have a yoga and tai chi based stretching class called body balance which is to music so I might do that. Cant do that til next week though, so maybe I will see how I do on LBT.

Ruth, sorry you are in pain No fun at all. The robins are lovely though are they not. Kiko is on retreat....they should just call those days 'locked up to do work', and mamacita is going to be rich rich rich. Hooray!

love to all

[justjodi]

good morning chickies!
well i am feeling pretty good this morning (dare i say that??) i spent some time thinking and as i mentioned yesterday i was going to try a new approach to things for a bit. (here you go jen you inquiring mind you) my main problem lately as far as i can see it is binging on junk, why am i binging??? well i came to the conclusion my binges (always at the end of the day) are based on sweet and salt. i start out with a little craving for an apple and then tell myself no trying to do p1 it is not allowed and then within the hour i am stuffing a sleeve of oreos down my throat. wouldn't the apple have been better??? YES!!! so i am going to focus for an entire week on just not binging!!! my hope is that if i can get the binges under control then maybe i can get my but back in line. i'll let you know how it goes.

ruth- i would check with the dr before sleeping with the knee brace, you want to make sure it isn't hindering your circulation. have a great fair!!!

karen hope the "retreat" goes well!!

clovey- good for you!!! hope the trip to the gym goes well!!!

mama- sorry your bud didn't show for lunch, hope you have a great day!!

to all the rest of you beauties yet to post hello!!!

[skherb]

Good Morning all!!,

Well my DD seems to be feeling better. I guess it was just a little virus. Has the sniffles but thats it. YEAH!!!

So we are off to church this am for a reunion from a class I took last year. We are all supose to bring stuff so I made deviled eggs. I figure I can eat those so thats what I will bring. They used to bring all these wonderful coffe cakes and such so I am going to eat before I go.

Now for the really great news!! I lfinally got on the scale today, was not feeling slo bloted this AM and I lost another 6lbs for a total of 9.:

Clovey: Way to go. You go there and thats a great start. goal when school starts.
Ruth You poor thing. I agree I think you might want to call the doc about the pain and the brace.

Jodi: Those afternnon are the toughest. Could you make up snack in the am so its ready when those darn craving attack. I know that is not always possible. Good luck

Kiko I just noticed you live in Mckinney! I live just down the road in Frisco. Boy you all are starting early. I don't think our teacher go back for at least another week. Hope it goes well!!

BFN
Check in Later!!!!!!!!!!!!

[weezle]

Goooooooooooooooooood Morning everyone!

Today is going to be a lovely, busy day. It's another 2 jobber day, and I'm by myself at Job #1. I'm a bit stressed about it.....I hired a good friend of mine to be my assistant back in April, and he's just not working out. I hired him because I KNOW he's smart, hard-working, a quick learner, etc. Well, he's either trying to take advantage of the fact that his boss is like a sister to him, or he really just doesn't get it. I've had to write him up a couple of times, even with a Final Warning, and he still keeps messing up. I run a lending fascility, folks. When it's against IL State Law to do something, you can't keep doing it over and over!!!!

So, MY boss said "Let's be proactive" and so I'm interviewing someone at the store today while he's gone. I'm not nervous about the interview, just about being all sneaky and the fact that I don't know if I'm going to have to fire him or not. I really don't want to fire him, but he keeps giving me attitude and complaining about how our corporate office does things, and "It's a good thing your boss wasn't here yesterday because I would have gotten fired. That's so stupid. I can't believe....." etc. Feel like saying "Ya know what? You would have gotten fired, and you still might if you DONT DO YOUR $&%*ing JOB!" He would rather play games/text message on his cell phone than do his job, and it REALLY is getting to me. Sigh.

Took 2 doses of the fibercon last night.......had 1 slightly scary ejection, and a lot of gas, and that's it. Does fibercon make you gassy? Lordie, it does me. Apparently it makes my DF gassy, too, even though he didn't take any. He's been worse than me in the last 12 hrs.

Ruth, I'm TELLIN ya, Vioxx is the stuff! I thought my wrist would NEVER feel better, and it was like 3 days and it was back to normal. Feels better than it has in 9 years. Don't make me mail you the samples of it that I have left here!

Well, better go potty and get some breakfast....almost time to get in the shower. Talk to you all later!

[smilintwins]

Morning chickies!!

I spent last night doing 2 things. Making nuts and chocolate bark for an order from a friend. The temptation to eat is HUGE but I have to get over this, I can't eat every time someone places an order. I'd end up big as a house.

Then I decided it was time to get the too big clothes out of my closet. It was liberating and rejuvinating. Makes me want to lose more. Of course, my closet is looking pretty darn bare. I also decided I want to be at my 170 goal by mid-October. I go on a annual girls weekend shopping trip and I want to be able to buy myself new clothes in a regular woman's store. Pants from Ann Taylor. Shirts from Calvin Klein.

In other news, DD new word of the week is "nnnoooooo." Right now, it is absolutely adorable. The way she says it is not demanding, but more a plea. Of course, ask me next week and I am sure the cuteness will wear off. DS is focused on "ppwwweeeaaasseee" and "thank youuuuuuu"

Clovey - on the gym. Maybe if you call and make an appt for a trainer someone can talk to you. And I think you will love the classes.

Ruth - OUCH!! Isn't there anything the doctor can do?

Mama - Sorry to hear about your friend standing you up. Stay awake today!

Kiko - Hope the retreat is productive and gets you energized.

Jodi - From one binger to another, this is a challenge. Just know you are not alone in this battle.

skherb - I just KNEW you would see a loss.

weezle - working with friends can just stink, but its not like you have not given him warning. Be strong.

Off to conduct an interview. Another slow day for me at work today, but I don't mind cause I know the fall will be scary busy.

[jenne1017]

Morning Early Birds!

On top of it all, WORK's internet service was down for almost 2 days! I felt so trapped.

I had a very bad eating day yesterday (see my journal linked belowif you REALLY want to know). I had to get it in writing and not run from it, but admit the binge. I don't know what came over me. Stress from work perhaps?

Have a good day all. I need to go find my strength to get back OP

[little chick]

Hi chickies I am sorry I have been so neglectful but I have been so busy I really have not had time to do much in the puter line. I try to get into check my emails but that is it. I have totally cleared out the kids play room as we are going to make that into our bedroom. So I have to try to decide on paint for the walls and we have to finish stripping the floors so they can be varnished. Our bedroom is going to become the dinning room. My head is spinning from it all. I also have been working on my new pricing for my daycare which I have found stressfull I have not increased my prices in 11 years since I started and I find I am charging about half of what I should be. So I had to do up a letter for my parents which I have to start giving out tomorrow. And that is just a small dent in what I am doing. I have been feeling guilty and my clothes are feeling tighter which makes it worse.

Ruth- I am sorry that your arm is still feeling badly. But I hope you have fun at the fair. I hope that you are also going to be a grandmother to the four legged babies soon.

Clovey- glad you got to the gym. Maybe you could put your walking boots on and give me a swift kick to get me started again.

Jenn- You and I seem to be on the same wagon or off it. Have a great day and take care of yourself. Let's get our butts back on track.


smilintwins- can't imagine making bark I think I would have my head in the bowl lickin it out. I am sure that you will be at your goal by Oct. A shopping trip is a great reward.

weezle- I feel for you being in that position. I too hired a friend to work with me so far so good I hope I don't have to be in your position. Good luck with it.

skherb- glad your wee one is feeling better.

Jodi- are you getting excited yet? I am with you on the craving thing. I find one thing just keeps leading to another and another. Hope we can figure out away to meet next sunday.

Kiko- Have fun at the retreat. Are you looking forward to going back to work?

Mamacita- remember for every good deed you do you will get it back someday. Hope you crankies go away.

Beach and Ellis hope you girls are doing alright. Take care and have a good day. And a big Hello to all yet to come. I must go and get lunch for the wee ones.

[Barb0522]

Good Morning, chicks! Finally down a half pound this morning so I think I have broken this plateau. I finished tiling the dining room yesterday so today I can spend my last day of vacation doing what I want to do.

I started the day by getting my regular skin check at the dermatologist. He didn't see any moles that needed to be biopsied this time so I don't have to come back for 9-12 months. Yeah!! I've had 5 dysplastic ones in the past. I have to watch since my sister had melanoma which puts me at a higher risk.

I saw a recipe in the food section of the paper for refrigerator pickles. I love sweet pickles and I know we aren't allowed to have them so I'm going to try substituting Splenda and pickling some cauliflower/red onions and see how it tastes. If it's good I'll get some pickling cucumbers at the farmer's market and try that.

Kiko and Skherb - seems like all the school systems around here start at different times. I think Plano is August 4th, Richardson is August 19th and my doc mentioned that Frisco is August 16th. I'm not ready for summer to be over yet.

[HistoryChick]

Good morning ladies,

Well I woke up this morning with a pain in my neck...I dunno what I did to it...My dad thinks I either pulled something or that I'm just really stressed out. I've had a crick in my neck before last Fall....but I dunno...it hurt so bad that it made me cry....it still hurts really bad so I've taking some advil......put a hot water bottle on it....took a hot shower...and even put ben-gay on it.......it feels a little better.......but maaaaaaaaaaan it hurts....I'll have my mom look at it when she comes home...she's a nurse....it took me forever to get out of bed this morning....well I'm down half a lb this morning...but I dunno if I should count it? the scales said 223.5.......I haven't been that in ages! Well I'll be back later

[beachgal]

Morning, Beauties!

Clovey, I am so proud of you for finding your shoes and for going to the gym! That is awesome! I totally feel your pain on dealing with stick skinny fit people who know-it-all and assume you have spent the last five years guzzling ice cream on a huge couch. Poo-poo to them, I say! I hope you can find a nice one! The classes sound fun...hope you go!

Ruth, yay for robins! I hope that all goes well with Hershey and that you are not dogless for long. In time you'll be run over with four legged furries! : Ruth, are you going to go somewhere and help put wine in bottles? What does "bottling wine" involved in Canada? Whatever it is, I hope it is fun! Please take good care of yourself...your poor wrist and knee! Have you seen the doctor at all since the stomach upset?

Mamacita, --love the eyelids for pinholes comment. I'm going to have to try that sometime! So sorry your lunch date stood you up! I'm sure you are right...I have done that before and felt horrible about it! I just lose track of time. But I would have gladly had lunch with you yesterday, especially since you provided the food! I hope you guys can get together sometime! Sorry your boss is abusing you! I hope that gets worked out!

Kiko, we are missing you! I hope that the retreat is much more positive and productive that usual. Those can definitely be frustrating when everyone wants to gripe. Thank you so much for the lovely comment. Sometimes I need to be reminded of the wonderful loss I already have done...instead of thinking of all that is to come!

Jodi, I love that you did all that thinking yesterday! I find confronting those thoughts and feelings so tough! Good for you...and I think that you have learned a lot from it. I wish you tons of in beating back those binges!!!

SKHerb, CONGRATS on the weightloss!!! That is awesome! Glad DD is doing better!

Weezle, good luck with the friend/asst. What a mess that is! Hope it goes well. He has to know that he's heading for being fired...don't let him tell you that it's a surprise. I've never heard of fibercon making you gassy...sorry it did that to you! Maybe a laxative would have better results?

SmilinTwins, the kids words are adorable! How fun! Cannot believe your will power with the bark!!! That is incredible! The clothes sorting sounds great! I'm looking forward to being thin enough to do that! Right now I can still use a safety pin and wear my pants, so I haven't needed to do much with the closet. The shopping trip sounds glorious!

LC, we've missed you! But please don't feel guilty! You have so much on your plate! Good for you with all the house redecorating/moving stuff. That must be fun when you have the time to just concentrate on it! How are the day care kiddos taking all this? I'm glad you are increasing your prices. Day care prices are sky high around here and they can't be as great with the kiddos as you are! I know it's hard, but your clients know how great you are and are not going to be mad. They know they have been getting a steal for a while now!

Barb, so glad you got a good bill of health! What did you do with the tiling? I can't believe you are done so fast...good for you!


Me:
Well, I think I might have pulled out of my pity party yesterday. I went to the gym after work and did my arm weights and that made me feel more with it and happy. We had the Sesame Baked Chicken (really not worth making again) from the SBD cookbook and that amazing broccoli cheese soup (in the recipe forum) for dinner last night. The soup was great! We had the Steak and Mushroom kabobs from SBD cookbook on Monday night and those were fantastic!

I painted my toenails again...not too happy with this one. I did white with an iridescent overlay, then put a star rhinestone on each big toe and tried to make a comet trail with glitter polish. Didn't come out very well. But my toes are sparkly! And I can bend over to get to them easily now, which is such a hoot!

Got on the scale this morning and am back to 275, which was a relief. Think I'll give the extra starch thing one more week to see what happens, although I really want to go back to the one fruit one starch and try to meet my July goal...but that probably wouldn't be healthy. *sigh*

Have a great day on the beach girls! :

[beachgal]

Jess, we posted at the same time! I'm so sorry about your neck! Hope it feels much better soon. And congrats on the loss. You sure can count it!