A quick hello...
 

Howdy ya'll! Been gone for the last two days visiting mom. We made meals for a friend who just had surgery and just kinda hung out together. Today I used one of her old Richard tapes so I was happy about the chance to work out. I even made it to my old church last night. So all in all a great visit. As always I had a nibble or two of a no-no but nothing major. Mom has so many good eats you can eat on or off plan. I think I may have actually droped a pound or two since last week. Will know for sure in the morning. I much prefer my morning to evening weight..but it's down this evening too..yay!:)

I'm so glad to hear everyone is doing well and is safe from the storm.

Sorry this is a quickie..but I am one tired gal....

Love,
Crystle

:)

Hello,

Mercy.... Hearing about your blood sugars was music
to my ears.


Gracious.... Feeling better is wonderful,but I will be glad
for any weight lose.


LKF.... I lived in New Orleans back in the middle 60's.
I was there for three years, and seen a couple of
these storms. Good luck to all of you.



Bob.... Yes, I am doing fine. I love this board
(like reading the post) more than posting something
myself. I hope you had a great day.


DEBELLI.... If I can get my ole bones moving
I plan on making the tortillas over the weekend.
By the way I saw your pictures and you are
a beautiful young woman. I wish I was your size.

BOB!!! You made me laugh my head off! :lol: :lol: I am looking forward to paying you homage one fine day. And that picture of me after Induction...hmm...I was more going for the *healthy/normal* look rather than the *bonerack* look. ;)

I plan on adding back salads, cauliflower, broccoli and zucchini because that is what I have in the house presently. Oh, and green and waxed beans too. I am also wanting some salad dressing really badly so I plan on a huge salad for lunch on Saturday. With the cauliflower I will make Faux Tatoes and then Twice Baked Faux Tatoes in which you add some grated cheese, put some in ramekins then bake with some more cheese on top. It is very yummy and I like to eat those as a snack.

Friday...forgot to mention...
 

I also lost another pound!! :cb: That is 9 lbs down and now I am weighing in at 165...only 1 lb from my signature and only 11 lbs from goal. I am feeling mighty fine!!!

JACK-K- You have done so awesome thus far I think you should just keep doing what you have been doing. That is, healthy SB eating. I am being a freak and doing something very extreme just to get a boost. I got it but you sure can't live this way! BOB said some pretty scary stuff in her post there about her sinus infection so make sure you take care of yourself. {hugs}

FILLISE- I love apple season too. We always take the family to an orchard and pick a bushel. The kids always have fun and they are extremely tasty and crunchy right off the tree...the apples, not the kids! ;)

TRANQUIL- Way to go on the 1.5 lbs loss, you are going in the right direction now!

Bob, Can you believe those lucky bucks UL? They pulled that one out of their a**s. Go figure. I know what you mean about the infection. I think it has moved to the other side. I think I will be making a call for the Augmentin. Thanks.

Jackie

Happy Friday!

Boy am I glad it is Friday, now if were only 5:00!

My computer is locked up so I need to post what I have so far to shut it down.

Went to the FSU game last nite. Luckily our seats were in the clubhouse. Our actual seats were still in the rain, but we moved up to other seats and as it got crowded, we went into the clubhouse and watched it on TV. How stupid is that. I could have watched it at home on TV in my jammies. We got drenched walking to our car. My clothes were still dripping this morning.

Little tired today. couldn't go to sleep once I got in bed. My sinuses hurt today. I guess I'm going to have to get another prescription. I'm really tired of foolign with this thing.

We got about 5" of rain and it is still coming down. Expected to stop around quitting time.

Melf, It seems this sinus thing is contagious here.

Debyj, I thought I was about over mine, but today I am really stopped up and the other side of my face hurts and teeth. Don't give in to that stress eating. It's not worth i. Hope you feel better soon.

Country, Glad you had a nice visit with your mom. WTG on keeping on plan and dropping a pound or two too!

Thunder, We love hearing from you, so atleast drop in to say hi. Have a great weekend.

Gracious, You are doing great. Another pound. I can only do that 1 or 2 days. Actually I did it yesterday and didn't even plan on it. You will beat those 11 pounds in no time. Congrats. You go girl. PS: I bet you don't look like Bob's picture either.

Have a great day. Be back later.

Jackie

I'm still here!
 

Hello all!

I got an email from the dungeon mistress this morning, so I figured I'd better check in to let everyone know I'm still around! Seriously, it is nice to be thought about. No detox dungeon for me!

I've actually been doing great with my weight. I weighed this morning and was at 219 (that's 49 pounds). I've stayed OP and have started exercising again. My neighbor and I have been walking in the evenings, just about 2 miles but at least we're doing it just about every day.

I see we have some new folks on board. Isn't this a great place?! For those of you that don't know me, I live in Pflugerville, Texas, just outside of Austin. I'm married and have a 17 year old son and a 10 year old son.

Jack-K - I watched part of the game last night, glad to see you guys won. Don't you have a cruise coming up soon? We've booked one for next year. Next year will be DH and my 20th wedding anniversary. I'm excited already. Cruising is our favorite vacation!

Fruit - Hows the weather in NO today? The Horns are coming to town tomorrow. Hook em!

Deb - Thanks for thinking of me. I'll be better I promise. I have been thinking of everyone, just haven't found time to post. It really does help, though.

Gotta run. It's gonna be another busy week-end. High school football game tonight and then we have some people coming over tomorrow afternoon to watch the Longhorn game. That means I have to clean house, ugh.

Have a great week-end everybody.

Trish

Good morning!
 

It's cool and wonderful outside. The scales are kind to me. I'm back to 154. Up down up down up down..hehehe But I always like the downward swing. Once I buckle down and start really heading down it will be so nice.

I am fixing to make a few WW tortillas this morning but will add a little fat to mine. You can take my sugar but I'm reluctant to give up my fat..probably one reason I'm still keeping on these extra pounds. :)

We are starting vacation this afternoon..I can hardly wait. Not going anywhere but there is just something about knowing you have no committments for a week. We are hoping to get to go hunting some. Some venision or wild pork would be wonderful. Both are very low in fat.

Jack-K hope those sinus' start to feel better soon.
Gracious...you are getting those pounds off quick. Will they stay off coming off that quickly? I am proud of all your hard work. ((hugzz))

Gotta run...fixing to hit some pregarage sale rummaging with my mom. Have a great day.

Love,
Crystle

235/154/140

Friday Morning
 

Hello everyone!

It is still windy and rainy here--but it is supposed to move out this afternoon! My yard is littered with tiny little branches--and a few big ones. I hope the yard folks can come early next week!

I've got to get my house into shape today. Frog is comming to do my SLAH show tonight! I can't wait to see her. I'm also ready to relax and have a little fun. I've got Deb's crustless cheesecake and some "hot pizza dip" both of which are OP. I will also have a wedge of triple creme cheese and triscuits.

Got to go==sorry no time to respond to everyone.

Susan
300/248/150

You guys are the best!
 

Thanks to all who responded to my enquiry about email buddies. You have given me a boost in my reslove to stay on this WOE AND to get my exercise in!

DEB--My gosh girl, you are so busy. I never expected you to have the time for extra emails. It's not cold here, just seasonal-about mid 60's (I was in shorts yesterday). Supposed to go up to low 80's Monday and Tuesday.:cool: We're actually getting some rain due to Isadora!

I hope everyone is keeping out of harms way with Isadora. It's bringing us the rain way up here, but we need it.

And the scale said 167 AGAIN this morning :D :cb: :cb: So I think it's official and now I can go in and change my stats!

Everyone try to stay OP and take it one bite at a time.

Bye!

Pizza Dip?
 

Fillise - Is the pizza dip recipe posted somewhere? If not, would you mind sharing the recipe. Sounds great.

I am still around.....
 

Just wanted to let you all know that I am still here. I have been in a funcky mood and have not wanted to get on line at all. I hate it when I feel that way.

As I have glanced over the board this morning I am happy to see that no one was seriously effected by the storm. It looks so bad on the news. Melf, I thought we had some bad rain when we were in NO. I guess I was wrong.

I'll try to get back later.

Everyone have a great weekend and a safe one.

Cyndi

Just wanted to check in and say hi :wave:

Nothing much happening today!! I have been OP and I am down another 1.5 Lbs. I hope I have a good weigh in on Wednesday.
Well I better get back to work. Have a nice day Everyone.:)

It looks like all of us are on a downward spiral:cb: :cb:

Good Morning Everyone!:wave:

Ahhh, my last day here! Thank goodness!

Got in my walk/jog this morning, but only did 3.5 miles today. I had a couple things I had to do before leaving and those extra few minutes I saved by doing 1 mile less was helpful, but not enough. I figured 3.5 was better than nothing and the way I've been going every day this week, I was entitled to do a mile less. If the weather is good on Sunday morning I'll do either 3.5 or the usual 4.5 miles thus getting in 25-26 miles this week, not too shabby;)

Eating continues to be good, which of course is making me feel better. I feel "smaller" though I still feel a bit big, but that may also be from TOM which is going to show up tomorrow I believe (maybe tonight). I guess I'll see how I feel once it's gone.

I am allowing myself to have popcorn. I find that I get the munchies in the evening and I'll eat fruit and other legal foods and I'm still wanting to munch on something, so I thought I'd entitle myself to popcorn. At least the one I use is just corn and salt, nothing else, no oil. It seems to help, so I'll allow myself this when I think nothing else will do. Any thoughts?

Not much new to tell about down here, so I might as well just jump in to responding to you all...

LKF, oh yes, I do have a history of being fat and on diets. I've been fat my entire life, and yes, I have baby pictures to prove it! If you truly want this to be your last "diet" then it will be, it just depends on how bad you want it to be. Don't think about if you go off, how making you feel sick as a dog would keep you possibly from going off, but focuse more so on how good you feel with the weight off and just how good you feel, period.

GRACIOUS, are you eating enough of whateveryou are eating? I can't imagine how you are eating enough with only eating protein and fat. I get 45-50% of my daily intake from carbs and just couldn't think of what I would eat in place of that. BUT, it sure seems to be working for you bigtime-congrats on another loss!!!

TRANQUIL, I'm sure those mystery pounds will be leaving soon! What movie did you go see? I see Sweet Home Alabama got a bad write-up in the paper today, bummer. May go see it any how. How's Zach feeling? How's the foot? Getting ready for the UK?

MUSIC, what I wouldn't give to have the weather in the 60's down here-those days are so far and few between here, you blink, and it's gone. I know your feelings about staying OP and I can tell you probably what's happening. When you cheat, and it's stuff with sugar, it makes your body crave more, and the more you give it, the more you want-simple as that. That's why when you start SB and detox from the sugar, you don't crave it. If you could get back OP 100% and detox totally you won't be craving that stuff. Okay, so people bring in stuff, doesn't mean you HAVE to eat it. If people who know you and they know you are watching what you eat and they bring it, then they are one of those who are trying to thwart your efforts, but if they don't know, you can't blame them for doing this. Why not post a sign on your desk asking that no goodies be brought in due to health reasons. Long ago, my cousin decided she wanted to lose weight (if you've read this before, just skip it, I've mentioned it before), and her downfall was chocolate. So, when she went off to college, where she knew no one, she told everyone that she was highly allergic to chocolate. She lost a lot of weight and has kept it off and for years, everyone thought she was allergic to chocolate. It was a great deterent! OMG, I can't believe what happened to you and the shoe! Sounds worse than ELI'S buggy ears! He's fine, no worse for the wear!!!

FILLISE, glad to hear not much going on with your area and IZZY! He's lucky I was able to hold those tweezers steady between the laughing so I was able to remove the little bugger faster:s: Glad to hear things worked out where FROG can still come tonight. PLEASE give her a hug for me, than swift kick her in the arse and tell her to get on the board for at least a few minutes to post SOMETHING! Pizza dip? Is that on the recipe board? Sounds delish! Eat a piece of cheesecake for me, would you?

JACKK, I too agree that men have a warped sense of humor, glad to know I'm not the only one who thinks that, though I knew that anyhow. Oh, for sure, ELI did NOT think the buggy was funny, but I sure as **** did!!! :lol: LMK, if you do e-mail Nance, and if you get a response. We heard that Lexington got their first Starbucks and they did wonderful the first day. Is it near you? As for the journal, I went to see what it was, but didn't get to do it, though it seems I got one-will have to let you know once I get a few minutes to figure it all out.

BOB, had it been a roach, I would of been running in the opposite direction screaming. No way would I even attempted to go near him, much less try to get it out with a tweezer. It was a mothey type of bug. You can rag his arse about it next time we see you:s:

MELF, glad to see you checking in and to know you didn't get much more than rain from IZZY. Haven't heard from RED either, hopefully she'll be back soon. I hope you get to feeling better soon, sounds like you got a lot going on inside. I can relate to stress eating, heck, I can relate to any eating! Just watch yourself and don't let yourself go too out of control, like I did. It's not a good place and definitely not a place you want to be at-I speaketh from experience!

DEBY, it must be a man thing with their holes! LOL! I can't imagine a Dr. telling your DH that he was a little tight, like it's suppose to be loose??? LOL!!!

COUNTRY, sounds like you've had a nice time with DM and at the same time, did good for someone else. That's so nice. Are you making tortillas? Which recipe are you using, if so? Fat isn't a problem, it's too much fat and the wrong fat that poses the problems. I try to get 25% or so fat from my daily intake.

MERCY, thanks for the compliment:^: Don't just wish to be this size, you CAN be this size! I never thought I could be this size (or the smaller one I was months ago), this is one of those wishes you yourself can make come true.:D

TRISH, glad to see your post. Did I make you feel guilty, or were you just threatened??? Glad to see you are still with us and doing wonderful, OMG, 1 more pound and you'll of hit the big 50lbs loss mark-that's so awesome! I can't wait til you post that information. That's great you are walking too, and doing it with a partner is wonderful, gets you out even when you don't feel like going I think-don't want to let the other one down.

Looks like that's it for me. Going to go make my lunch (2 hot dogs), which should hold me til I get home after getting Michael from school (Lauren is staying late). I'll try to check in later, otherwise probably not until tomorrow evening. After garage sales tomorrow my sister wants to go shopping at JCPenney's. They are having a sale on the pants I wear (SJB black strechy capris) and with my extra 20% off and a coupon for $10, she's dying to get some of them, and I guess I'll get a few more pairs as well, as they're the only pants I seem to want to ever wear. I just wish they'd make them in capri in other colors, it would be nice to wear something other than black all the time (though it is my fav. color).

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!!!!!

Debbie
194/1??/129
SB since 3/22/00
Reached goal 6/10/01

UGH!
 

Boogie has a cold- AGAIN!:sp: And his voice is hoarse- I have kept him in the house since Monday and plan to until next Sunday(time to leave)- plus I withdrew Ashley from school,too- AND he still ends up sick!:stress: Please pray that it goes away by next Friday or otherwise I will have to call and reschedule. And there's no telling when they'll want him to come again- probably November, when it's cold in Philly.



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