[soon2Bfab]

I'm back from Curves....tomorrow is weight in/measurements - wish me luck!
JENN - HI, welcome back. I read your site every once in awhile to see what you & HB are up to. Love the pic....you look great!

[Stephanie Osborne]

Ok so I am saving you all from reading my serious post. I figure it and my frustrations don't belong here in the daily thread. I always try to keep it positive in here but I am in need of some help and advice. I will post it as a new thread.

Kelly - I think your snow may be coming to my house, boy is it cold out there today.

chipper - you are so faithful to your treadmill, I wish I was as inspired as you.

Schatzi - Don't get blown away yourself hun!

weezle - Sounds like my husband, he would try to lull me out of sleep by suffocating me too j/k. I know how sleepless nights go. Have fun at volleyball.

w2b - I agree with Kelly about just pressing on. Binges are going to happen as long as they don't happen everyday I see it as normal and just something you have to accept and move on from.

cottage - chili sounds delightful on a cold day like this. Props to you for getting the dinner makin out of the way early.

sarah - I am sorry to hear about your frustrations hun. Life and especially career life very rarely goes smoothly and makes us face some really tough decisions. You just have to have faith in yourself and your ability to do right by yourself without doing too much harm to others. I have a friend who is in real estate and another who is a broker assistant. I understand the importance of commission. I think you are making the right (but hard) choice.

batt - Have fun at the gym girl and do some cardio for me too...lord knows I need it.

soon - Have fun at curves.

[Rachel2]

Hello everyone! Today is my first day on Phase 2 so I decided I'd better drag my butt over to this thread so I can stay motivated!

My name is Rachel, I'm 25, married for 3 years and have a 2 year old son. I work evenings so I'm pretty much a stay at home mom during the day. This is my second South Beach attempt and I'm proud to say that this time I made it all the way through 2 weeks of Phase 1 and lost 6 lbs!

I'm looking forward to getting to know all of you and hope that I can keep up with all of the posts

[Barb0522]

Welcome back, Jenn! Good to "see" you again.

I've been swamped today. You know it will be a busy day when you turn off the shower and your pager is going off. I got on the phone and started working and this did have to take a break to throw some clothes on and wake up Brian. We actually have two separate issues we are working today so it is crazy. I have a little break now so I'm eating some leftover soup. It is the Chicken soup with mushrooms, leeks, and brussel sprouts. Not bad.

I had fun last night meeting with the Wolf den to tell them about summer camp. Tonight my den has a den meeting. I need to remember to bring all my empty oatmeal containers so we can make drums. Fun!

[tar675]

Hey girls! How is everyone? Life has been sooo busy lately! I'm gonna have to start waking up earlier so I can get on here with ya'll and chat. Here lately I get up in just enough time to shower, make coffee, and let Shy out to go potty! Then the kids start arriving! Daycare is filling up so it seems that every minute of the day is full. Right now everyone is napping so I do have a few minutes to catch up on everyone's posts. Tonight I'll be out to the ball field most of the evening. Austin and Aaron both have practice. Matter of fact, I need to get my roast started so they can eat dinner before they go. I think I'll make the eggplant parm for me. I've been so terrible with my eating these last few days! I feel really down on myself. I see I'm not the only one having problems with self control, which makes me feel a little better. I don't know why I start out so "gung ho" and end up goofing it all up! I get so angry with myself when I do this!
This weekend we stayed busy outside cutting grass, weedeating, disassembling the old swingset(junking it), staining the back deck, taking the cover off of the pool. Dh insisted on taking the cover off of the pool which I thought was silly because we'll just be dumping chemicals into a pool that is not warm enough to get into yet! Big waste of $$ Can't tell him anything though...he has everything figured out
Well, I better go and get our dinner straight...I know once the children wake up they will be ready to go out and play! Have a great day girls. I need to make it here every morning atleast so I will feel like I have to be held accountable to someone! I'm back sliding BIG TIME! I just sat here and ate 4 Reese's cups! Chat with ya'll later! ~TARA~

[JanaM]

Hey everyone. Sorry I didn't get to post earlier. It's been a crazy day - kind of like Barb's. Last night I got a call at 11PM from DB (in my case, that's "Dear Boss" ) with a problem on one of our programs. We talked through options and being the nice guy that he is, he let me off the hook and let me go back to bed. Unfortunately, even after looking at it today, we still don't have it figured out. We have a way to work around it, but it's one of those "vague" errors are such a pain in the arse. Okay, enough rambling.

Sounds like there are lots of people struggling this week. I'd been doing pretty well this week, but today's stress has me teetering on the edge. Thanks to everyone for posting - makes me realize that I'm not alone and that it's my decision whether to eat a salad with chicken or to call Pizza Hut and devour half of it before I realize what I'm doing. Think I'll opt for the salad.

Off to make dinner and then watch Idol. Everyone have a great evening!

[chipper15173]

I found the new Coke Blak. It taste like a cream soda. It's suppose to have a coffee flavor. I don't taste that. It has been hard to find. We found it at Hess gas stations. Not all of them. They are just putting it in trial places right now. It's good, don't know if worth 45 cals. My first thought was to mix with rum or white Russian. Now I not a drinker. Haven't had a drink in over a year. Hungry girl said to mix it with soy vanilla milk. I did that too, taste good.
Well, off to take a breathing treatment to keep the asthma at bay, mowed lawns this afternoon, now the dust is getting to me. Don't want to upset that cart again. Was just getting back to normal.
See y'all in the morning.