It's officially SUMMER and the sun is shining this morning.

Unfortunately I'm still in a rotten mood -- today it likely has something to do with all the sugary garbage I stuffed in my mouth yesterday. Everytime I turned around I was eating something bad for me.

Today WILL be better.

Happy Saturday morning to everyone-
We are still alive and fairly well here. My daughter is doing better everyday, thanks to all who have asked how we're doing! I, on the other hand, seem to be a slow healer. Went for my post op check up and the doctor needs to see me again in a few days. Seems I'm not healing at the rate she would like to see me heal. She also found the problem to my my abscess (fistula). It seems I have something called a fissure. It's like a paper cut in the derriere, to put it mildly. If that isn't fixed I will continue to have problems, so another surgery may be in the happening. Can't wait.

On a positive note, I am down 2 pounds!!! All this running up and down the stairs waiting on Gable has been burning those calories. I have decided once I reach my goal of 155, I'm going to adjust it to 145. That will give me a 5 pound margin to adjust to maintenance. As long as I stay between 145-150, I'll be happy.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Happy Saturday Morning,
So good to see a post from you Chris and to hear you and daughter are better. Sorry to hear about the fissure and hope you get it repaired soon. I sure am missing the regulars and home the make it here to post soon. Wishing all a good weekend.

Happy Saturday all.... The week end is bad for me. I have an awful time with it. First I've drank to much wine and I could have done better on my eating. We had giant hot dogs and I should have only had one without bun instead of two with buns. WHITE FLOUR......... Our week end starts Thursday night. So I've got to do better from now on.

Meowee- Does it ever get better or easier. Why must we keep falling back into old patterns. I'm so frustrated with myself and sounds like you are to. Good luck with a better day.

Chris- Have you made yourself worse waiting on your daughter? What we Mom's do for our kids. Take care of yourself to. I'm glad you daughter is getting better.

Peggy-No more walking for me till Monday. I think 3 or 4 days a week is enough for me. I have severe coronary artery disease so it hampers everything I do. I to need to get the smaller portions working for me.

Ate decently yesterday and weight blipped back down but blood sugar is still weird . . .

Hey Everyone,

I haven't posted in quite sometime. I try to at least read but this week was insane. Love all the extra money I made but still..lot of working going on!

Eating hasn't been awful--but I can't say I have had a full legal day in a long time. I do pick my battles..breakfast and lunch are always legal and then fruits and snacks as well. Dinner has become a challenge as well as dessert. ice cream and just sweets are tougher. I know I am treating my body much better food wise than I ever have even on my worst days. 4 weeks until moving day and then majority of meals will be at home as so im only buying legal food. No more dinner tempteations when I get home from work.

I made it to the gym 5 days last week and last night I danced the night away. No alachol either--just breakfast from dennys at 230 this am. I ate half and took half home. I did finish the other half when I got up..but oh well.

Hope evryone else is gdoing great. Solly it's great to see you back, meowee-hope your days are getting happier..sorry your grumpy. Peggy, chris & toni..Hello.. Everyone else have a great day...

Well I'm struggling over the week end as usual. I just can't seem to get a grip on myself when it comes to the week end. I'm so mad. Hopefully the day will bring better stuff. Tomorrow I start walking again.

Gym- Its so good to see you again. Its nice you got out to dance. You deserve a break. Hope you can come on here more this week. Hope your move goes good.

meowee- Hope your blood sugar gets better. Glad your eating was good.

And a great Good Morning to all . . .

Obviously my funk mood is finally retreating . . . although I have no more idea of why than I did about why it was so rotten the past few days. Blood sugar is a disaster this morning, but the fact that I overdid the fruit content yesterday might hve something to do with that. Mostly I think it's just timing since it was fairly low at bedtime lat night. This too will pass.

Finally got really mad at the stupid digital scale since it took my 9 tries to get the same number twice this morning. Put it away for a while and brought out the big old Seca analog clunker -- the kind used in a lot of doctor's offices, if they don't have a balance-bar type -- so we'll see how consistent good old German engineering can be for a while. Trouble is, of course, analog is not nearly as precise so looks like I'm between 218 and 219 this morning -- decided to call it 218.5.

So far the day is overcast, but the forecast is calling for sun later on with a high in the mid 20's (mid to upper 70's), but with the humidity increasing too. Rain predicted for tomorrow -- we need it.

Well, better get myself moving and shaking; practicing for Gary's latest 5K and have done my first Gazelle mile so far this morning. . . . see you all later . . .

Good morning ladies.

Hope everyone had a great weekend. Mine was not exciting. We went to the wedding in Lexington. We didn't get to really stay long b/c we had left Rudy most of the day and night so we left right after the food was served. We really didn't know anyone but the bride and 2 girls inthe wedding so it was ok. Yesterday I had a shower to go to. Only new the mother of the bride and my friend there. Sorta lazy day. Last night went did a PPV on 27 Dresses. It was cute. Bob, don't know if you have seen it yet. I have been out of diuretics at home and boy my weight was up 8 lbs today. This is so frustrating. But then my eating has not been great either.

Toni, I know exactly how you feel about the weekends. Too much wine and t\bad foods. I really don't know what the answer is. We like to run and socialize soo much and that makes eating hard.

Chris, what is your answer? You have done so well with your wt loss. A 5 lb cushion is a great thing to do. Hope your DD is feeling better and you too. what a shame you have to have another surgery.

Meowee, glad your funk is leaving. Hope you can get your blood sugar regulated soon. I'm sure that has an affect on your mood.

Gym, Glad you are back posting. Have you moved into your own place yet? Sounds like you are doing good with the gym still.

I did get in a good walk this morning. We had rudy groomed yesterday at our house and he is acting so strange. He won't go out and he hides and is constantly licking himself everywhere. I tried to get him to walk today and he sat in the middle of the street and would not move. I am a little concerned. Anyone ever heard of this before? At least I got in 7 days of walking last week. Can't say it's done any good in the wt department. I'll check back later. Have a great day.


Peggy, I have never seen a cat walk on a leash. How funny.

Good Monday Morning All. Glad the week end is over. Even though I enjoyed it I'm glad to get back on track. Hope to get back to walking this evening.

Solly- My problem is exactly like you described to much wine/food while socializing. Week-ends are a big deal for me to have some drinks with DH. Sounds like getting Rudy clipped kind of traumatized him. Poor guy. Hopefully he'll snap out of it soon.

Meowee- Glad you're feeling a bit better. Hope your BS goes down today.

Its sure quiet in here today. I've had a good day. B- Oatmeal and OJ L- Bowl of homemade vegetable beef soup. S- Walnuts D- A nice big salad.
I just walked on my treadmill so I'm happy.

Good Morning . . . more or less. . . . stupid storm woke me up at 4 am and by the time I closed all the windows, I was definitely awake.

Really loving the analog Seca scale this morning. No matter how hard I tried -- on and off a few times and even shoved it around on the floor a bit -- couldn't convince it to register any number other than 215. Must have stripped a bunch of water yesterday because I know you can't lose more than 3 pounds of fat overnight anymore than you can gain it in the same time frame. Hey, whatever it is, I like the number

Too bad I can't say the same for the blood sugar . . . but I do think it is a rebound effect since it was low again at bedtime last night . . . so I'm not totally concerned -- just wish I could get it to better balance.

Hope everybody else has a great day . . .

Good morning Toni and Meowee.

Where is everyone? Have they abandoned us?

I got in a half walk this morning. Rudy is still not himself. We gave him another bath thinking something irritated his skin and he was a little better but would not walk. Had to carry him twice and then I just turned around. He walked all the way home. Go figure. I guess I will take him to the vet tonight or tomorrow night if he is not better.

Meowee, I had the same problem with my scale. I dropped 10 pounds of water depending on where I stood on the scale. If I stand in the middle with my feet close together, I weight 5 lbs more. If I stand normally, I was down 10. I'm taking the 10.

Toni, good job on your eating and walking on the We put ours away and have not got it back out yet. We haven't been to the gym in a long while either. We have been walking a night too so that should help but it doesn't seem to be. Nothing fits any different.

Started with oatmeal and blueberries and walnuts this morning. My pantry door will not open. It seems like it is locked but there is no lock. So I could not get anything out of there. Lunch will be a Lean Cusine or a wrap. We are having a free lunch brought in so I will see how much there is and what it is. I think dinner is chicken legs on the grill some way. Got to get going here. Have a great day

hey Everyone,

School is finally finished so the summer has started. The gym is going to be a lot tougher to get to now. Luckily the people I nanny for just got a brand new treadmill and elliptical that are very nice. The only problem is staying on them. I did job one lap while the kids played at the playground..LOL At least it was something.

Solly-I move out in 3 1/2 weeks July 19th. It is coming up very quick. A half walk is better tha nothing.

meowee-Congrats on the 215. I laughed at the scale thing..that's funny banging the scale around. I though i read mine wrong too..cause it said 169.5 and I haven't weighed that in 7 weeks and that was after 2 whole weeks of great eating and gym. I haven't been to the gym in 3 days and eating is only good. Not great. SO maybe the scale gods were being nice. Either way...like you said i'll take it.

Toni-COngrats on the good day and walking on the treadmill..Go you!!!

Ok well my natives are getting restless at my house..we stopped by to make a potty stop. LOL So Im off to swim class...

Hey, guys. Not much going on..just work. Went on the second interview today for the gym position..we'll see. The vacation pounds are starting to come off..actually, I haven't weighed..using the mirror and clothes as my guide. Been doing this for so long I just about don't need the scale..as long as I'm doing good that is..if I have that mindset and go WAY off plan, then not weighing is like being in denial,lol. Can be an eye-opener for when you do weigh(YIKES!). I've been kinda skimpy on working out. I wish that I did have more time to devote. But I'm going to at least try to do something every day this week. Yesterday I did Leslie Sansone's 30 min walk. Today I did her 2 mile WATP walk with 3 # weights. I'll probably hit the gym tomorrow and Thursday. Friday will be Leslie Sansone's Walk Strong(some strength training with cardio). Hopefully I will be able to do more than 30 min for Saturday and Sunday. Alright..work is calling(sigh)..