Janice~I'm frustrated, too. I thought I had gotten down half a pound, but this morning it's back with a friend....Looking back at my chart, I have been this weight since Christmas day. It's just not fair.

Sherry~WTG on the weight loss! I'm so jealous! I think that as soon as it warms up here I'll be better. I still crave hot comfort foods when it is cold. If it warms up, I can eat more salads at dinner and that always helps.

Gayle~you had asked about Quicken and Quick books. I use Quicken for my household finances and it works ok for that. For our business, I use Peachtree. I really like it. I know there are other contractors in our area that use Quickbooks, but they are not happy with it (mainly because contractors need to have job costing, and Quickbooks doesn't do jobcosting very efficiently). We actually input everything into Peachtree and then print it all out monthly and deliver it to our CPA. I think I'd be totally lost without a CPA! And we also outsource our payroll (although we could run it through Peachtree if we wanted to).

Sherry you are doing a great job. Keep that scale moving down. How are you feeling today?

Allison the soup recipe sounds close to one that I make but I add crab to it. We really like it. I am a big soup eater when it is cold out.

Gayle make sure that you don't over stretch yourself and that your life gets out of control. Take care and enjoy the small stuff.

Janice what's the weather like? It warmed up here over the weekend. It was so cold for a couple of weeks I thought that I was crazy to stay home.
Your right our little Vouge is MIA. We will have to call her back.

Shelley I am glad that you are trying to stay positive. I can't believe the cost of your insurance! Our's is around $2000. I don't know how you can afford it.

Cheryl how are you doing? Are you swamped with work? I hope that you and Steu are doing ok. Sure was nice of the inlaws to send you flowers. Better late than never.

I think I am about ready for a nap. My bed is calling me. I hope that you all have a nice afternoon.

Janice-Don't give up! The scale and/or inches will move if you stay positive and keep everything in perspective.

Remember the girl next door that is home schooled and very protected (the one who stole some money from me a few years back?) Well, Patty went over there yesterday when her mom wasn't home. Her mom called her and Patty could hear the whole conversation. For some reason, Mom used Patty as a reference, saying that she is never home, so she is sure she sleeps around and has a bad upbringing. Patty is never home because she works and stats for the wrestling team. Can you believe how this incredibly religious and righteous person can be so judgemental? In her mind, we brought our children up wrong because we didn't marry until I was pregnant. Hello? We got married before I even knew I was pregnant. It was a coincidence, no matter what people might think. We will be married 20 years come August. We were together 10 years before that and felt it was time because we wanted to have children. Anyway, I am upset at this "perfect person". Plus, my DD had her feelings hurt, which really hurts me.

Shelley - Don't let such a nasty person get to you. What a WITCH!
You know the truth. It must make you want to confront her though. I feel sorry for her daughter.
Dee - It has been deep freeze here for about a week. Not quite so cold today -14 still cold enough though.

Boy, someone needs to duct tape my mouth shut and beat me with my Dr. Phil Diet book! I have been doing nothing but eating lately. I know the scales are up and if I don't do something soon I'm going to be wearing nothing but stretch pants! I'm trying, but I don't know what it's going to take to get myself back on track. :(

I advise against taping your mouth shut~you still need to drink your water!!!

I don't know what my trouble is either. I don't think I'm over eating. I'm logging everything into fitday and I'm coming in at about 1400 calories a day and not too high in fat. I'm exercising more than I was. And the scale isn't budging.

So we're in the same boat. We're trying, but it's not working. It is this type of thing that makes me wish for the magic pill that really works!

Shelley, I always feel that people who judge or make cruel comments are either jealous or so unhappy with their own life to the point it makes them feel better. What should it matter what you did several years ago? You have raised two fantastic daughters with high morals, that speaks wonders in todays world. I would blow off the mom to just knowing how she is, but I can understand Patty being upset, the comment was uncalled for. Hugs to Patty from Auntie Gayle and tell her some people never do grow up with their behavior and comments.

Suzy, I haven't been staying OP either, too many things going on. I do know you have did and awesome job up to this point! I think the last 10 pounds are the hardest to lose. YOU WILL GET THERE!

Allison, could you be building muscle and that is why your not seeing a weight loss? Thanks for the Quicken info.

Dee, how is our Princess snow bunny? Cold there? I will send you some of our snow if you run low. LOL!

Janice, how is WW's going?

Sher, Allison really likes her braces after the first week or so other then she can't have her one favorite food...BEEF JERKY! She has informed me that just as soon as she loses the braces her first stop will be for jerky. I hate to break it to her it will be several years before the braces come off. :-) Yes, she picked purple (her fav color) and blue this time. They still need to do her top/bottom sides which we will do in Feb. She can't have the med to relax her before and she has a strong gag reflex so they opted to do the braces in thirds compared to all in one shot.

Well gotta go! The salon is going great (more business then I can handle at this point) yesterday was challenging...almost all my clients had a form of dementia. I hope I can adjust and get a decent schedule going in the next few weeks.

Gayle-You sound so up right now. I am so happy for you!!

Suzy-I can sympathize with you. I am having problems also.

Allison-I ended up ordering the Bob Greene book to add to my collection. I am also thinking about You on a Diet. I just like to collect diet books.

Shelley, she sounds like a fidiot. Don't let her get to you!!

Gayle, at least if you do a bad job they won't remember it very long.

Y'all, I feel so bad!! I gained 6.5 pounds at my weigh-in this week--in THREE days!!!!! The thing is, today is Wednesday and I haven't "used the bathroom" since SATURDAY!! I feel SO bad! Hope that's not TMI. I just feel so bloated and like I need to GO!

Hope you all are doing better!

Cheryl, eat you a bowl of fiber cereal or have some saurkraut, I can guarantee you'll be sprinting to the bathroom! LOL! I'll say a special "potty prayer" for you today, hoping things come out ok... LOL! YOU GOTTA LOVE ME!!! :-}

Thanks Gayle! I knew I could count on you!

Gayle~saurkraut? Never heard of that one! and
that's just too funny!

I'm in a funk today. I didn't get up and exercise as is my usual routine. I woke up at 3AM and just thought up excuses as to why I should/should not get up and exercise. If I get out of my funk, perhaps I'll make it up tonight.

It's a joke with Steve & I, one time right after we started dieting, I prepared saurkraut along with some potatoes and we had this for a meal. Shortly after the meal, we both headed off to a restroom. It must of been the fiber from the saurkraut. Hopefully Cheryl won't need to go the saurkraut method, I'm sure my "potty prayer" worked.

Allison, waking up at 3:00 A.M? I could never do that. I think I'm in bad shape getting up at 6:00 A.M.

I usually get out of bed at 4:40 to do my exercising. I used to get up that early when I had to take Dana to school, so I just keep it at the same time. But for whatever reason, I usually wake up an hour or more before that and I have a hard time getting back to sleep. I don't actually get out of bed, though!

Cheryl ~ You really must feel horrible! What have you or haven't you been eating? Are you drinking your water? Have you been exercising enough? I'll add an "amen" to Gayle's potty prayer...

Allison ~ I wake up in the middle of the night like that quite often too. It's so frustrating! Hopefully you will get a full night of sleep tonight!

Shelley ~ I've been thinking about the You on a Diet book too. I looked at it the other day when I was at the book store, but I talked myself out of it by saying that I know what I need to do...I just NEED to do it!

Gayle ~ Ah...we can always count on you for our daily dose of "potty" humor! :lol: