Well, I thought I was going to have time to post-NOT! Hubby just informed me that his DD is on his way here, gotta go. Try again tomorrow.

Good weigh-in wednesday to everyone! So happy to see all the losers and maintainers today! I am also happy to report that I have broken new ground! 219 this morning. That makes 51 pounds gone! YIPPEE!!!!
Today was a huge walking/hiking session with some people doing a master plan for a town park(500 acres park), and they wanted a forestry perspective. I managed to sweat thru all the layers of clothes I had on. And somehow managed to miss lunch...
so I'm skipping the treadmill today(because my feet still hurt).

Some replies:
Arcayne - I too am a scrapbooker and use mostly all CM products - I do pick up stickers and paper from the local craft store. But I love CM's tools!
SuzyB156 - It seems like quite a few of us love CM! I have most of their "stuff". I'm working chronologically and may never finish, but I'm having fun! I also host an almost weekly scrapbooking night, definitely social, and people can bring other crafts projects that they're working on.
I'm going to go curl up on the futon with my crochet and watch TIVO for awhile, and do laundry. Have a great night everyone!

Barbara
270/219!/135

PS: Deb - please remember to slow down and breathe!

Hey everyone!!!
I just got back from Outback Steakhouse....mmm i did very good...steak w/onions, steamed veggies and salad. I even have enough steak left over for a steak omelet in the morning...mmm

I won the bid on those WATP tapes on ebay. the 3 tapes and the weights for 25.25 with shipping...i didnt think that was bad.

Pancho- Im sure you did great on your test...let us know when you find out.

Barbara- Congrats on your weightloss!!!I cant wait to get there also!!!!

Heart- Nice of ya to stop by, hope you can stay longer next time...lol

Monet- Hope all is well, we miss ya.

Deb- your gonna have a burnout real soon if you dont slow down. Im glad your trip is coming up. You really need it.

Well, thats it for now...congrats to all the losers and stayers...I have one week to lose 2 lbs (my own goal). Wouldnt it be cool if we all did ??

BOB - Glad to hear you are feeling better, it is amazing how bad this virus is - it started here with Zachary, then myself, then at work it has been one person after another falling down with it - even clients have come in with its beginnings - sore throat, incredible sinus pain, fever, awful.... and with DEB having it - hmmmm... I am thankful for my antibiotics, Motrin, sinus medicine and Flonase..... I will definitely share my photos with you when I go - I am going with DS only - just a Mommy and Me around as much European countryside as we possibly can fit in ... hahaha.... I cannot believe it will be less than 30 days till we leave! Starting to look at fashion mags and Paris boutique sites to see ideas for clothes to bring - meanwhile I wish you were closer - you could help me so much with the shopping bug that has attacked me - we could go to the Millenia Mall and Florida Mall in Orlando and shop, shop, shop - doesn't that sound dreamy???? hahahaha

Country - HI!!!! How are you doing!!!! I know, long time know hear.... sorry - sounds like you have done well with your weight - even if it is a little up here and down there....

Sef - I understand very well about pushing the limits when wanting to have fun and keep up with others - I tend to do the same thing, and only end up sick as a dog and miserable...or sore, sore, sore.... But, I am sure you will be well cared for, well fed, lots of laughs, and watched over :) I must look for this one woman show with Patricia Rutledge... I loved Hetty Wainwright!!!

WoodFrog - WAY TO GO ON 51 POUNDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!

JackieO - One pound is great - I know that next week I am looking forward to seeing what the scale says for me, but not right now....just because of water weight.... But keep up the good work.....

Pancho - I would be a meer whisp of fluff is I weighed 121! hahahaha - You LUCKY YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well tonight I really have not eaten too much because my taste buds are still off whack from the smeller being stuffed up...Sugar free Ice Pop to the rescue and Diet Coke...not very nutritional - but hit the spot.... poor Serene, I am smelling things, told her I thought she smelled, come to find out it was the chili being eaten for lunch and my whacked out nose!!!! I sure do apologize for worrying her - hahahaha - I am so NOT FUN to be around sometimes....and that is no LIE!!!!! I just also want to say it is such a joy to have my parents close to me now - after living thousands of miles from them for the past 17 years - this is such a pleasant change....

Too doo loooooooo, Sabrina

Good evening buds!

Sorry I've been MIA again. I'm trying to get school stuff done and get my house ready for the par-tay!

DEB: I sure hope you feel better soon cause you are gonna need all of your energy girl to hit some parades!!

BOB: As for what to bring...good question! I won't know more until next week. It can be 40 degrees one day and 70 the next. So, I'll let y'all know next week!

ASHLEY: Girl...save some of that money for par-taying!! WOOHOO!!

Well, I'm going back to do some work! I'm glad all of you are doing well. I'm not posting my weight because of TOM! That b*st*rd is back again! Oh well, better now than next week! Nothing like trying to find a bathroom for Mardi Gras or having to pee in a bush somewhere when you are on your period! Do y'all have a visual of me doing that now? Just imagine...me...drunk and squatting behind some bush and trying not to pee on my pants. Hey - it happens sometimes! But, we sure do have fun!

Ok - see y'all tomorrow!

Missy

WIW: Still holding at 170.5, not surprised that there is no weight loss with the carb intake increased this last week - yes it was legal, but too much.

Jackie - Thanks for your encouraging words.

Deb - Feel better soon.

Pancho - Yes, FLYLADY actually is "Finally Loving Yourself" and helps with organization of life.

Country - Thanks, it's good to be back!

SEF - I'm aching right along with you and taking that extra pill or two a day also. I hope we both feel better soon. Got your email - thanks!

Going to go crawl in bed, talk to you all tomorrow.

Thursday morning . . .
 

Morning everyone - I'm tired today. I ended up staying up later than I wanted to b/c I was in the middle of a new painting project and wanted to finish it. I'm painting some sunflowers on items for my sister to put in some gift baskets that she does. They still need a lot of work, but at least I got the concept down. However, despite being tired, my head and chest do feel better - so that is a good thing.

DEB: I hope you feel better. Try to slow down a little - and dont' worry about us. We know you are here in spirit . . .

SEF: My neighbors use to have a black lab named Chloe. She was the best dog. Puppies are fun, but a lot of work. Our next dog will be an older one, probably a mutt. We use to have a pure bred Golden Retriever, named Trooper. He was great - but very, very hyper and A LOT of work. So, I'm looking for a much calmer, quiet dog this time around.

BOB: Glad to hear that you are feeling better!

VMoore: Dinner sounded really good. I'm think we might have steak and veggies tonight!

COUNTRY: Congrats on your loss! You did it! Good for you!

WOOD: I just got a flyer the other day from my CM consultant. She is hosting a few cropping parties in the next few weeks and I'm thinking of going to one of them. It will give me a chance to get some pages down while socializing with some friends as well.

JACK-K - Doubt you will read this - but thinking of you ;)

Monet - Hope all is well . . .

TALITHA: Where are you????? Hope all is okay . . .

Okay - I'm hitting the shower. Have a great day everyone! ! ! !

SUZYB

Hi All:

Going to be a good day, can feel it.... TOM has gone, and soon I will know how much weight I have lost.... I am counting on something nice :) Hello to all - Hi FRUIT!!! I have to run to work and it will be busy - so probably won't be able to post....

Deb - hope you are feeling better, you might want to go to the doctor - your trip to LA is coming up really fast!!!!!!

Sabrina

Hey, guys. Didn't go back to sleep this AM, so now I have time to post. Well, let me get my confession outta the way. I've been so outta control with my eating that I have literally made myself sick at times, and I'm disgusted by it all. I'm like a junkie. I have NEVER ate so much as I have lately, not even when I weighed 278 pounds! This is ridiculous and it has to stop. I'm ashamed at my bingeing. For some reason, I'm having such a horrible time getting and staying on track. I do good for a couple days and then blow it, and not just a cheat here and there, no we're talking large quanities of illegal foods. I'm going to have to just bear it and "start" fresh. I'm up 3 pounds from my low, believe me, if it weren't for my exercising, it would be alot more than that. Okay, now that I got that outta the way, let me backtrack. Saturday was Ashley's bday. We went skating. At first I was like Bambi stepping out on ice, then it all came back to me and before you know it, I was zooming across the rink. I didn't even fall. I worked up a good sweat and was sore the next day AND had blood blisters to go along with it! Ouch! I still have the blisters. I guess that's what I get trying to act like a teenager again,lol. I didn't exercise until Tuesday because of the blisters. But I had fun. Then we had her party at my Mom's. Ate a ton of illegal food. Ashley got way too much stuff for her bday, and mainly from us. I personally don't agree with getting her so much crap when she's been misbehaving so much lately. But DH's policy is that the kids will always have good bday's and Xmas's because he didn't. Anyway, Sunday we had lunch at my grandmother's and then went out to eat for supper. I managed to stay 100% OP that day. Then Monday was awful. Tuesday was halfway on track, and I ate everything in site yesterday plus went to the store and bought more junk food and inhaled it. The instructor at my exercise class at church informed me that she wasn't going to be able to teach class Saturday, so looks like I will be her fill-in. I'm a little nervous because my mind tends to go blank when in front of people. I'm suppossed to teach 1/2 the class tonight for some practice. I plan on doing walking aerobics based upon WATP tapes. I hope I do okay. Anyone heard anything from Jack-k yet? I've been really thinking about her. I hope she's doing okay.

278/172(UGH!)/145

Good Thursday Morning:wave:

How are all you wonderful women?? I'm doing SOOOOO much better this morning, seems a lot of the junk must of come to a head last night and this morning and I do feel better. Last night my nose starting running like a faucet all of a sudden and then in a matter of a few minutes my voice got REALLY bad, like I sucked down a frog, ELI asked "what happened?" Literally went out of the room, came back in a few minutes and a total voice make-over had occured:shrug: This morning I was sneezing like a nutball but it must of been good because afterwards I was able to bring up all the garbage that I didn't realize was down in my lungs, won't go in to color details so early in the morning. I just feel tired now, which I'm sure with some rest today, that will turn around. I want to do things in the house because you have NO idea:nono: how bad the house looks, but then I don't want to push myself too hard either and go backwords, so I'm going to take it easy today.

I heard from JACKK'S co-worker and she said:

Hi, I work with Jackie and wanted to update you on her condition.* She is doing great.* She went to the Dr. for a checkup yesterday and he said she is three weeks ahead of where they expected her to be.* She hasn’t had any pain to speak of and feels guilty being home because she feels so good!* She hasn’t been able to get online yet, but I know she would want you all to know that she feels great and appreciates all your good thoughts and wishes!* Feel free to contact me if you don’t hear from Jackie in the near future.

Happy Sugar Busting!


Fabulous news! I e-mailed her back to see if she knew if JACKK at least got our flowers. She made no mention, as you can see. Will let you know if I hear back.

Okay, just got an e-mail in the interm:

I’m not sure about the flowers.* I know she got a bunch of e-mails from you all at the hospital though!

I have so much to do, I don't know what to do first. MICHAEL is so not ready for this trip on Saturday. I haven't even begun to try to pack for my trip to LA either - who's had time? I'm just hoping now that I'm feeling better things will get back to normal. I don't know how much time I'll be able to get on the board between now and when I leave, it may just be quickies here and there, which I hope you understand. You have NO idea when we have get togethers all the crap I bring with me and have to remember to bring with me and all the things I have to do to prepare, and things to prepare, like a CRUSTLESS CHEESECAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thankfully, TOM came yesterday, which means it's going to be gone before I leave AND means I won't get any of my funky mid-cycle headaches!!! YIPEEEEE!!!!!:spin:

Okay, I'm going to check in later, for now, I'm going to do some minor, barely lift a finger things that need to be taken care of.

{{{HUGS}}}:grouphug:

Debbie

Computer Virus problems
 

Hi gals. Glad to see so many losers this week.

I suspect that someone on this board might have an infected computer that has been "hijacked" and is being used to send out spam. The reason I think this might be so is that I have been getting a ton of e-mails from various Spam blockers telling me that the e-mail that I sent was blocked. Of course, the e-mail that I "sent" was not anything that I sent, and I don't even remotely recognize the e-mail addresses. So--y'all might check out your computers. I happen to have a Mac, and they are not generally the victims of viruses. I also have a firewall, virus protector set up to automatically download patches, and I have a DSL Router, which gives further protection. My son is a computer "nerd" and here's what he said.

"There are a couple of things that could be going on. first, someone on a listserve or someone you've sent mail to has your address in their address book, and their computer got infected, and the virus sends out emails from the infected computer, inserting the addresses from the infected computer's address book into the TO: and FROM: fields, meaning that someone could get a virus mail "from" your address."

So--If I could ask a favor of everyone. If you have me listed in your address book, could you please delete me for now. Hopefully this will take care of this problem. If it does not, then I will let you know and you can add me back in. Then I will look for another problem that might be causing this. Thanks a lot.

Got my walk in today. I'm feeling lots better and took my last antibiotic pill today. Still not back on lots of veggies and fruits.

Hope Jackie is doing OK. She probably is having some pain as she had lots done.

So glad to get an update about jack..sounds like she is doing GREAT!!!

I just wanted to tell the ones who are going on your trips soon that i found something great for all your packing needs. If your with flylady they have a new Vacation planning and packing list. It looks like it could be a life saver. You could print it off and be well on your way without forgetting a thing. Its under flying lessons. You should really check it out. For those that know flylady, know she would never allow you to forget about anything...lol

Heart- weve all been there and will be there again im sure. Dont be so hard on yourself. We are here to lend you a helping hand in getting back up and started again. One day at a time. Pick your head up and smile, your back on plan. Dont it feel good?

Gotta go grocery shopping now, all we have in the house is my food and some ppl here arent real happy with that...lol, they will get over it.