Pam it sounds like you are having some wonderful days there except hubby playing with the puter! :D

I tried the EFT and by jove i think it is working. I did it yesterday for cravings and well i did not have them but i still ate some frenchfries only not because i could not resist them but just for the texture. so today i have been totally OP and passed all the cookies i have in the house!!! that is wonderful!! I feel so great about that i coulc just flip!!!

It is just a start. But i have passed the cookies!!!! i do not even want to go for them. I think in a few days with a few more tries at this i just may have found what helps!!!

well anyways today is a great day out side. DD2 DS1 DS2 got hair cuts DDBF and DD1 got their hair colored. what fun for the day. no cleaning or exercise. so tomorow i will be back OP all the way. diet for today!! and that is a good thing.

Computer is up and running well. Hubby spent five hours working on it and all is well in my universe. Sorry girls about the spelling on the Spring and summer update from Alabama but that keyboard is my personal nightmare. Hard to believ it was my lease on life a few years ago. Now I only use it when I cannot use my computer. I am OP and al is right with the world although I haven't yet gotten back into the water swing and I am really quite good about that normally but it has been a few false starts so far to get back on the water as I have been relying on crystal lite. I know , I know water , water ,water. I will go right now and make a promise to me to be faithfull again to my water intake. Pam

Good morning all,

Many thanks and hugs to you all!The support and understanding and acceptance are really appreciated and needed.

Sue I loved the quotation. How true and inspiring.

Pam HUGS to you. My goodness I enjoy your ability to descibe your world> I am glad the computer is fixed. The fussy things. I shudder when DH adds a program

Dana where are you? I feel you slipping away. I am where you were or are. We can do this. We just have to find our way.

Melody I hoipe you are feeling better

Terri how was the derby?

Lee I hope you are lurking

I think that is the roll call

A new week


I am in once again

My Darlings I am OP and water intake last night was lower than I like it 82 oz. but I have my water in hand as I sit here. Gulp, gulp.
Today is a dreary day and i am rather listless. Blossum is laying on my leg serene in her world (Chi my child of the fur) the sky threatens to drown the parched earth. I have to run down to the upper garden and cut collards for dinner but here I sit and with family soon to be here you would think I would be blazing with modivation to get things done. Today I sit languid. Ah well I must go and do dinner. Spicy chicken wings and collards tonight.
I wrestled with my inner demon last night as mac and cheese called and beconned to me from the fridge. I did eat some chicken thighs ...two sort of , my children have to get their share of course so naturally I really didn't get much but it was enough to dull the voice I struggled with . So all is well.
Pam

I am here holding my own. I had 4 potaote chips. that is all!!!

good things are going well. I am hungry and there is dinner ready and nobody to eat!! :(

water is going good here too. I have been peeing all day but that is from the 6 lbs i gained in fluid yesterday from that salty ham!! but is sure was good!!!

I have a really busy day tomorow. work out, then meeting for diet at 10:30 some more things in the afternoon, then diet workshop in the evening!!! and i do have atleast one comming!! I am soo excited!! I am giving a half price special for the month of may!!!

POOOOOh on derby day
 

hello all,

I stunk at Derby day...I didnt have the winner but I had picked every horse behind him....ahh well...another year...

Oh, and we are getting ready for our trip to Fla...and we are leaving the kids here so we will have a lot of time at the dog track......maybe I can hit something there....good lord, i am sounding like quite the gambler....hehehe:D

Well, I got back OP last week, dropped 8 lbs and have stuck there ever since....I did indulge a bit tonight ( AHHHH.. WHY DO WE DO THAT???) BACK at it tomorrow.....

I may be going full time when I get back from vacation....I have been offered a fulltime position and its one I have been wanting for years.....I gave my 2 weeks notice last week cuz I just got fed up with things and decided I wasnt going where I wanted to be going there...I felt stuck!!!! so anyway, he called me in his office and offered me this position with a raise $$$$.... oh, what to do, what to do??????

I will talk to ya all later.....need to start planning for trip next week, so I wont be online to much but I will try to pop in before I go....... take care all

Question for Sue
 

Hello, its me again...

I meant to ask you, Sue, what is the EFT???? just curious...

Thanks, Terri

Darlins ,
I broke down and had bread , two slices with two hot dogs last night. The result is my stomach has been touchy all day. Funny how sensitive the body gets isn't it? My water has suffered to day due to tummy but tomorrow will be a better day and getting an upset tummy may be a blessing . I sure had no desire to slip up today!!!!! I wanted to laugh when I took note of the dress I am wearing today. It was just below my knees and now it is totally floor length!!! I am not unhappy about this at all!!!!!!!!!!
Craving were driving me around the twist but a sick tummy certainly shuts up those naughty voices! So I am very OP today.
It is nearly 11:15 and still 77 degrees. I really think it is pool time.
Time to open that puppy back up. I love the water. I love to lay on my back and float after water exercise. Look up into the soft blue skies and watch the birds dash about the trees. The sound of water gurgling in my ears. The sun warm and water cool. Suspended in pure serenity.
Pam

Goo Morning all,

Well I could be doing better. This house thing is driving me to the max stress level. My goodness. But I am in some kind of holding pattern. Cravings are worse with the stress. Had ice cream yesterday my downfall. Water is OK.

Terri Congrats on the job offer! Sorry about the derby. I too wondered what those letters stoodf for.

Pam, You really shoulb be a writer! You have such a way with words.

Both you and Terri are right wht do we do it for that milisecond of pleaseure and the resouinding gulit and physical discomfort.

How are the rest of us doing.

If I was closer I would hunt down Dana! It's gotten to that! YOU DO HAVE A VOICE I DON"T CARE IF ALL YOU HAVE TO TALK ABOUT IS THE COOKIES YOU ATE TODAY I NEED TO HEAR IT!

Well ....


I digress

Hey Sue, Melody I feel that we are losing the little steam we had!

Come on girls!!

Pat I am going full bore!!! although i did nibble a bit today but i was soo good all day, it was samples for boyscouts.

Terri EFT is emotioonal freedom techniques. it is a cross between self hypnosis i think and accupunture. it is a series of tapping in special places and sayint a "trigger sentance" It is really neat. it seems to work for me.

I will have to email her pat. i do miss her!!!

Terri good luck with the florida trip.

Pam you need to have some foods on occasion!!! that are carbs. your body does not need them but there are occasions that we will eat them. you need to relax a bit on the carbs. that way your body will not react so hard when you do have them.

Pam i need to get all the info on low glycemic foods that i can get. I have a cliet that is interested on any info that i can get. do you rmember where the list was that you had wrote out long ago.

Good morning all
things are the same

Do you have a web site or soures fot that EFT thing?

here are those web sites for lo glycemic stuff

http://www.mendosa.com/gi.htm

I also read on Syndrome X and Paleolithic diet.
Go to our sugar busters site and they have a library thread with tons of articles.
You all have a great day
Pat

http://www.mercola.com/article/eft.htm this one talks about what it is in a nut shell but I followed the link and found it. It does work!!

Here is the link to EFT site www.emofree.com keep an open mind it is a downloadable book of 80 pages I printed it out and read it that way.
I will check in later but have tons to do.

things are going well. I did a good work oout today!!!

Sue Bee, I am so very proud of you! It is so good to hear about the classes and know you are making your dreams come true. Roll on Girl!!!!
It has been a busy , busy day. Hubbys Birthday is today and I made his favorites, shrimp salad and carrot cake. The lit candle played Happy Birthday and he really enjoyed it. I did have a sliver of cake for his Birthday but just a sliver.
I made and decorated his cake sewed rugs for the kitchen, scrubbed the ceramic backsplashes and counter tiles in the kitchen, pulled everything out of the pantries and reorganized it,
made 30 half restuffed potatoes for the freezer, made cabbage rolls for tomorrow, folded and put away laundry, washed a ton of dishes and pans off and on all day, and took a wonderful shower and now is my down time. My lower back has been a real pain, (pardon the pun) today so it had better be ok tomorrow I really have so much to do. Windows, swedish meatballs to make ahead and freeze, stroganoff to prepare for oh, I also stripped three beds and remade them spraying a hint of scent on the bottom sheets. A lovely fresh crisp scent. So when they pull back the sheets it will be inviting. I have a whole new room to turn into a bedroom and decorate tomorrow. Everything must be done by Tuesday so I don't when I will get back here to post but hopefully I will get back before the 19th when Sissy leaves. We shall see.
I have prepared a basket of wonderful shower and bath items in the main bathroom for everyone from scented soaps to loofahs, silky powders and softly scented lotions. Scents like Magnolia, Freesia, peach, cool cucumber splashes and various other items all trimmed out in a lovely basket and all around the handle I wove in silk roses, ribbon and greenery spilling down. I hope they enjoy it all. I have to make three new floral arrangements to , I almost forgot. Well my Darlins it is about time to rest. You all take care. I shall return as you well know.
Pam

It is purely summer here now ya all. It has been in the 90 all week and with no sign of a change except higher. I recon when Hubby come back from Missouri we will just open the pool and not wait. The sun shines and life has erupted from everywhere. I really should build on a wrap around porch to spend those long evenings with a mint Julip in hand and the night sounds as a lulaby. I am dashed off my feet at the moment and soon my family will be here. Next week I shall return. For now , my Darlins
I must go stretch out and hopefully go to sleep early (for me). I have a crazy weekend but I want to take Monday to rest so I won't be swollen and worn out when everyone arrives. I will have you all in my heart and prayers.
Pam

Hello Everyone.

I am so sorry that I have not posted recently. I have been gone forever, and no one noticed!!!:mad: HA HA! that's okay...you guys were all still typing at me, and I guess no one realized I was not in the mix.

On 5/3 friday, My baby sister....she's 21....had a really bad car wreck. that is why I have not been online. I had just gotten to my Mom's house and parked my car right behind my baby sisters. She came out of the house and asked me to move it, which I did...man I wish i hadn't or at least had waited awhile...but anyway. I was looking for one of our puppies. My dog had given birth to 3 adorable pups, nd one was missing, and we didn't even hear Autumn when she told us good-bye...well we never found the Pup, and I gathered up my kids and headed to my house. I walked in put the baby in her crib and walked into the kitchen to start dinner when the phone rang...it was one of my older sisters calling on her cell phone...all I heard was "Autumn had a car wreck at the end of the road, and I can't find my keys!" I said "okay I'm going" so I yelled a BF and ran out the door and drove to the end of the road. In the back of my mind I really did not think she was hurt....I was thinking...fender bender. When I got to the end of the road her car was sitting in the middle of the intersection and the whole front end was gone...still I was looking for her to be walking around...then I saw them working on someone beside the road in the grass...I recognized my sister's shoes and I took off running. A woman stopped me and told me I needed to calm down, that Autumn would be okay but her face was cut up really bad, and I needed to calm down so I wouldn't scare her. The State trooper had a shirt laying over her face, and when I walked up to her, he removed it so I could see her. I just fell to my knees beside her and said"oh baby I love you." Her lips were sliced to pieces and she had a gash running down her face. It broke her nose, and the bone behind your eye that your optic nerves run through. She had glass in her eye, and 13 pieces of glass in her upper lip, and one big one in her cheek. They took her to the hospital, and then they transferred her to Lexington to UK. It took 2 plastic surgeons 2 and a half hours to put her back together. She gets all her sticthes out today, and the stint in her nose will come out. She has been through it. She is still really swollen, and the medicine she has to keep on her face broke her out really bad. But I think after the swelling goes away, and the redness that she will be amazed at how good she will look. She had her seat belt on, and her air bag deployed, but she got hit from the side, and she got knocked into her driver side window which was half way down, that's where all the glass came from....She was very lucky, and I thank God everyday that he did not take her. Her car looked like someone had dies in it. It's just amazing....

Then BF got arrested, and got beat up b the police....I am not kidding....I would tell you guys more, but the lawyer said not to discuss it. They broke his hand, and he's a maintenance man...he is trying to work, but they may have to put him on short term disability because they are running out of things for him to do.

Then as if that wasn't enough....BF grand father...he's 82, he got pneumonia and was put into the hospital. Luckily though he's a tough old guy. He's suppose to get out today...

So I guess all in all we have been lucky in a way...everyone is pulling through okay so far. I have lost some more weight, but I am unsure how much. With a life like this, I should be losing weight!

Well everyone have a super week! I will check in again later!

love ya!