Good morning! It is lovely here the last couple of days. It's so nice to run errands or go for a walk with just a sweater. Does wonders for my attempts to get some nice calming exercise in and/or soak up a little vitamin D.

Gah! So I went out and bought a fancy silver and black hair clip for that wedding next weekend. Forgetting of course that I planned to wear gold jewelery. We're flying out Thursday morning... maybe I'll just cut it off and wear my gardening hat, I'm sure that would go over really well.

I've been lost in cyberspace. My computer hit the dust a few weeks ago and I now have a new Dell laptop. I was away for a week visiting BabyGS and his parents and didn't do much posting then either.

Our weather hasn't been as warm as Ontario but the snow is just as good as gone and I can wear a lighter jacket when walking. I was out in the yard doing some work today. It wasn't too cold but the wind was blowing a gale. I needed rocks in my pockets to keep me from being airborne. I'm going to try and spend an hour or so every day until the yard looks like a yard again. I have neglected it for a few years and many of my perennials are almost choked out with weeds but they are still salvageable. And I'm going to plant a small garden with food greens so I'm going to start digging out a small plot for that.

Oh, yuck. I'm watching the weather report and we're promised rain mixed with snow tomorrow. Hope that stuff misses us and goes off to sea somewhere.

Glad it's spring. I'll catch you later.

I had a wonderful day today: upon waking, I felt impressed that today was the day that I should brave my scale again and I got a wonderful surprise: I have finally hit the 200's after 18+ years!!!

I had made some changes this winter and it has all paid off; this is a great encouragement to me to keep on, keepin' on!

Nice to see so many of our Canadian friends back here to visit. Most of our latest snowfall has melted and lots of the summer birds have returned. We have Robins, a flock of Tree Sparrows, Grackles or Blackbirds, and more Starlings and of course the house Sparrows and two kinds of Doves are still here. It might be too early yet to see the red-winged blackbirds and Swallows yet though ...

My flowers are OK despite that last snowfall; it seemed to just blanket them and they look alright to me. Hope you all have a great week ... Rosebud

We had some snow yesterday too, it didn't stay though. Today it is raining lightly, overcast and cold. Brrr! I am ready for Spring. I am impressed with you ladies and your gardening. Our yard is still a mess from the Winter, haven't been out there at all. We have one corner where all the neighbours loos garbage seems to blow in.

I am really looking forward to the end of April, which is the end of tax time. I work for an accountant, so we are slammed. Seems worse this year as we have a new person in the office.

WTG Rosebud! Nice progress!

Well, have a nice day everyone!

Congrats Rosebud, you rock!

I really wish I had a Tim's honey-lemon tea right now I know my boss would just tell me to make a quick Timmies run but I don't want to go outside. So I'll have to settle for water with a crystal light.

Haha... my sister was excited to see me the other day. She says "You haven't seen me since I've lost weight!!!", she takes off her jacket with her back to me then turns around with her arms up in a ta-da! stance. Then her eyes bulge, her mouth drops open and she says "You've gotten skinny!!!".

Well, to quote Elvis ... THANK YOU, thank you very much!


It's been a long battle, but it has had a good purpose -- it has given me time to learn other ways to deal with my emotions, other than with food! Plus I learned what foods are my triggers; but I still lost inches along the way. I stalled, but didn't have a complete plateau since I still had those NSV's. My clothes are looser -- I lost a size on top and bottom, and that feels good too!


We had a couple of busy days; we went up town yesterday and got some black earth/compost soil for our gardens, plus some onion sets and a few more seeds. I decided with prices of veggies out there, I will grow all the EZ stuff here. DH said he will help me a bit too.

This AM, I did the floors: dusting, sweeping, vacuuming and that took all morning (great exercise but tiring, so now I'm resting). WE had leftover roasted chicken and veggies for our dinner tonight.

Hope you all have a FABULOUS FRIDAY tomorrow; take good care ... Rosebud

Rosebud, you are doing great. It's so good to see progress, isn't it.

We had a snowstorm, freezing rain and rain today. Everything is mucky and slushy but the snow is almost gone again. That really put a damper on my walk today. I"m going to try and get on my stationary bike before bedtime. I'd rather walk.

I don't mean to bust in on your thread, but it just made me smile so much I couldn't help it! My family has our papers all turned in to become "permanent residents" of Canada. I am so excited I can hardly stand it. I've been working for some time now for a Canadian production company from my little computer on the other side of Lake Erie and now it looks like we will finally be able to make our big move up to Nova Scotia this fall! I am trying to use that as my motivation to get this weight off!

Anyway, I am sorry to break into your thread since I am not yet OFFICIALLY Canadian, but if it helps, my grandparents settled in Montreal before coming to Ohio and my best friend lives in Saskatchewan! LOL!

TO CANADA ~ IRISH SARAH ~ well, you are almost living in our country and hope to be citizens soon ... so that's A-OK with us. Actually, anyone can post in any thread here -- we are glad you have dropped by for a visit and hope you do so again ...


We just had a quiet day at home as it was bit cold with some very small ***** flakes that fell but the did peak out and melt it as it fell so we don't have any now. My tiny yellow and purple crocuses have been blooming for the last 4 days or so; but the cold weather hasn't hurt them -- so glad for that.

We were busy on Monday and Tuesday, but I just did light housechores today. Gotta go do some more catching up. Take good care ... Rosebud

Hello! Just wanna introduce myself. My name's Amy and I'm from Vancouver. I hope to join in on this thread as often as I can!

While I'm here, are any of you from Montreal or anywhere nearby? I'm going on a vacation there next week and wanna know what kind of clothes to pack!

Hi everyone! Just found this thread! woohoo!

I am in Calgary, am I the only on on the West? I don't have an oilsands pond in my back yard, so I think we will get along just great!!!

TOday was a BEAUTIFUL day in Calgary sun is shining, a small spring breeze that isn't too cold, or hot. I love this weather! No flowers here yet, but I did notice today that grass is now almost half green half brown hehe

Rosebud, congrats!! that is so awesome!! Yay YOU!!

Sarah! Woohoo!! Do you have an idea when you will be moving? and a place to live already? Or do you get to house shop?!

Good morning everyone! Hope everyone is doing well!

Athene: I am also in Calgary. I'm very much enjoying the beautiful weather we're having and DH and I are excited that they've started sweeping the streets. The motorcycle is much more fun when there isn't so much gravel on the ground!

ap90: Hi Amy from Vancouver. I hope you have fun on your holiday to Montreal!

irishsarah: Welcome to the Cdn thread! Always glad to have new friends! Good luck with your move to Canada later this year.

Hope everyone is doing well! I had my five week update at herbal magic yesterday. Official weight 201.4! Yeah! So my totals are 17.8lbs and 30.75" in five weeks. Loving this program and loving all the new foods I've been trying.

Have a great day everyone!
Tamara

HI THERE ~ we had lovely for the last two days. We bought a nice lunch and went to a favorite lake and had a lovely little picnic today -- it was so nice with the sun reflecting off the water (now that the ice has finally melted). Supposed to have sunshine all weekend so will find some nice outdoorsy stuff to do ... fun, fun, fun!

TO ATHENE & AMY ~ we do have others from Alberta and BC on this thread; they will drop by sometime soon, I'm sure. We do have one or two ladies on this site from Montreal, but haven't seen them around lately, but you never know, they may surprise us with a visit too! Glad both you ladies found our thread; come back often, we do indeed like to make new friends, the more the merrier, I say ...


I think we are all getting an early and lovely spring from the sounds of it, but that's fine with us! Hope all our Canadians have a wonderful spring weekend ... Rosebud

Thanks for the welcome! We are going on a mini vacation over the Victoria's Day holiday to Niagara Falls. Then the next weekend I have a meeting in Halifax and this time I am taking the whole family with me! (Thanks to a generous boss.) We are really excited about the move. It just takes SO long to get all the paper work approved.

I'd LOVE to be a lot thinner and healthier by the time we move. I have a bunch of friends up there that I haven't physically seen in quite awhile and I'd like to not be worried about how I look the whole time. Plus, I have a sneaky suspicion that my best friend is going to be getting engaged soon. Just more motivation on top of all the wanting to FEEL better stuff.

The weather has been crazy here. I got in all of my gardening before the torrential downpours came this weekend. I am just hoping for NO MORE FROST! It is still a possibility with Lake Erie still being so cold and with nights in the 30's at times.