Hi Ladies,

It is great to see so many post!:cb: :cb: Thanks for all your encouragement about exercising. I still haven't worked on my treadmill as I promised but I am going to as soon as I finish this message. YES I REALLY AM. I found out what my problem was. Ever since I moved my treadmill in from the porch, I have found I tired much easier when I tried to walk on it, and it seemed like such a chore. Well when my son was over yesterday he said, WOW MOM, you are walking up hill now. THAT WAS IT! When I moved it the clamps that hold the legs in place fell off and when I put them back on, I put them in the wrong position! I fixed it, so now I can get back to work.

My dh and I took a tour bus trip to NY City overnight Tuesday to Radio City Music Hall to see the Rockettes Christmas Spectacular.
We stayed in a beautiful hotel suite in NJ and went into the city to a lovely restaurant where we enjoyed a great dinner in a restaurant overlooking the city, then had a couple hours to shop and walk around Broadway, and ended up in a coffee shop having a cup, while we sat near a window looking out over Broadway watching all the hustle and bustle until it was time to go back to our hotel. The next morning we went into the city to the show. What a beautiful show it was! we then left for home, stopping at a mall for more shopping and lunch, before heading back to Northern NY. The weather was just beautiful and we had a lot of fun. NY is a great place to visit, AS LONG AS I DON'T HAVE TO DRIVE, what traffic! I wouldn't want to live there! Although we were down to Mt. Vernon in the spring with my granddaughter's hockey team and my dh, ds and gd went into the city, this was the first time I had been in the city since my highschool graduation class trip in 1957.

Dahlia, I am glad your dh was able to fix your treadmill - Now we can really go girl - lets have a race = but of course your will win!


:lol: Sal, great idea about the reward, especially one that is not food related. I think I will try that. I've got to think of something I really want!

:o today was my day to weight in and I didn't lose any more I've got to get busy. Probably getting to work on my treadmill is the answer. So here goes - I am off to my treadmill!

:goodvibes :dance: WE CAN DO THIS LADIES, WE CAN - HI TO ANYONE I MISSED, MAY YOU ALL HAVE A OP EVENING AND AN OP DAY TOMORROW

Hi everyone,

Can't believe that it has been so long since I have been here.
I am going to really try to be more consistent. I am sitting at the same two pounds. It is so frustrating but I know it is my own fault. I am exercising and drinking water but I am very sloppy about what I am eating. I eat on program but I eat more than I need to. I seem to be needing to nibble all the time.

Congratulations to everyone who has been losing weight the last while. It gives me hope that Iwill get back there.

Grandma, I had bunion surgery last year and had both of my feet done at one time. I had to be off my feet for 6 weeks but it was the best thing I ever did. Although people told me it would be awful, it was not painful even during the recovery. Now I can walk for miles and wear any kind of shoes and NO PAIN!

The glass you saw sounds a bit like what I do but I tend to make jewelery with the beads.

Hey, Cat, Carol, Terry, Meg, Pam, Dahlia and anyone else who is lurking here.

Good luck OP tomorrow and keep up the good work.

Karie

Hello - feeling a bit rough this morning, was out with the girls fro a curry last night and although it was good at the time all that cheap wine and spicey food isn't so good for a body this morning

Today I will be an angel eating wise - need to go plan my boys christmas present from their Gran before she goes shopping

Good morning,

Had a great day yesterday. I went to a Christmas festival and craft sale at my nephews school. It's an alternative school so lots of fun things for the kids and a great time for the adults.

DH bought a car on Friday! It is so nice to have two cars again. It is great not to have to try to organize one vehicle around two schedules now especially when she has to be up at 3:00 am to be at work for a 4:30 am shift. She was offered a full time position at the company last week so things are really starting to settle out.

Am going to the gym this morning. My mom and her friend (both 80 years old) joined the gym so they can go walking everyday on the walking track. They are great role models. They are totally proud that they can find their way around the rec center and even out to the coffee shop on campus.

It is Grey Cup today. For us that is like the Superbowl. Having a few friends over to watch the game so I am making WW chili and serving veg and lowfat dip. Good thing we are all on WW.

Hope all is well with folks. Drop by when you can.

Karie

Hi Ladies, Good morning to all

Karie, thank you so much for your information about bunions. After looking it up on the internet, I am more convinced then ever that this is my problem. I will now talk to my doctor. I hadn't mentioned my toe problems to him before because all this time I thought this was just part of my arthritis and all they could do for it was give me more pain meds. It's good to know surgery might be an option for a permanent solution! It would be so wonderful to be able to walk again without pain!

:dance: :dance: I finally have started walking on my treadmill again. I walked for 15 minutes on Saturday and I plan to walk again this morning. At least 15 minutes. I better get to exercising because Sunday I didn't do very good on my eating. I ate a piece of pumpkin pie and three peanut butter cookies! Bad Bad:o I better not do that very often!

Well, I better get busy and do some housework, this house is a mess - time for a good cleaning - that should burn a few calories!



:wave: Hi to everyone I've missed - Good luck to all of us for an op day.

Hi ladies,
I am glad to see us back on the board, when I looked earlier this morning we didn't have anything at all. I need to talk.. did not have a very good past few days... on thursday I came down with the nasties.. cold/flu whatever, was so achey, chilly and just darn right sick... my poor invalid husband sent me to bed for a the afternoon, I couldn't stay awake, had been awake all night, so stuffed up I could not breathe....and was so cold.....I was literally shaking like a leaf. Anyway the sleep helped and I finally got some cold/flu pills on friday so started to feel better. Then on Sunday, poor DH woke up with the room swimming, he was sick, and his b/p was soaring. Since we both have hypertension we have a machine at home to monitor ourselves. So I called the doc, and he said to take him to the er.. so we spent over 5 hrs there, they did blood work, ekg, chest xray, everything came out good, but they found he has an infection from the surgery. Seems to be a habit of our family, hope it quits. They had to give him a couple different meds to get the b/p to come down, it kept going back up again. Finally it got down to a reasonable reading so we came home.. not exactly how I planned to spend my Sunday. Today he still feels unwell, but he has a doctors appt. tomorrow. He needs to get new, more or adjusted meds... anyway... you all know son is having back surgery on dec. 4.. we got the packet and for the surgery he is giving his own blood cause they figure he'll need some.. well you can only give one unit at a time... and there is not enough time for him to go back and give another,, so his younger brother is going to donate a unit also.. our whole family has the same blood type.. so that works out good at times like these. but I had to spend the morning trying to co-ordinate getting them an appt. together. I did it.. just have to get a call from the surgeons office to send the paper work over...they make it very complicated around here to get anything done..One has to call and schedule in Lansing, to have it done in Muskegon, to have it sent to hospital in Grand Rapids where surgery will be performed.. these places are all hours apart... thank goodness for faxes.... I will be so relieved when son is back on his feet and healthy again, and dh also...I just want us all to go back to work and get on with our lives..

The rest of this year will be nothing but hospitals and doctor visits. But one think about yesterday, I only ate once all day. and with this cold, I didn't even get hungry. I have been doing really well of not eating,, but unfortunately what you lose while sick always finds you again when you recover.

Grandma G.. hope you are enjoying your treadmill again.. I have not had the strentgh or energy to use mine since I did last thursday, but I think all the stair climbing has made up for it... don't you think? :)

Ok.. well I hope I didn't bore you all with my troubles. it just feels good to talk about them...

Hope everyone is doing well, and is ready for the big day thursday,, we are suppose to go to dh's sister's but will take it one day at a time.

Dahlia

Hi Ladies :wave: i did'nt post yesterday because of the site changing servers..what a rotten time you are having Dahlia :( hope things get better soon :D i'm not doing too well...i've managed to GAIN a couple of pounds :mad: not lose them!! But i can't say i'm trying so hard so what can i expect :rolleyes:
Sometimes i find it so hard to find any motivation to do this and then all of a sudden BAM i'm gungho and raring to go :?: Wish i felt like that now..hope you are all doing well.

Dahlia hope everything picks up for you and yours soon. You are having a really difficult time of it at the moment.

I haven't been that good over the weekend, Friday and Saturday where totally of program. I have been back on it since yesterday, but have gone the other way and not really eaten enough = my body will have no idea what is going on and how to deal with the food it has.

Weigh in tomorrow - expecting a gain !!!!!!!

Hi Ladies,

Dahlia, I hope you are feeling better today. It isn't easy to take care of your family when you are sick too. Now is not the time to be skipping meals, eat healthy but eat enought to keep up your strength. Even if you are not hungry. I will be praying for dh and ds. I hope all goes well with your ds surgery.

and Dahlia, I am sure you will get enough exercise, tending all the family. Try and keep up your spirits. Do something nice for yourself when you get a few minutes free, maybe a nice hot bubble bath etc. and if you need to vent we are here for you. We have all been there in some way and we understand what you are going through. Just take it one day at a time and don't let yourself become overwhelmed.

I wish every one a very happy thanksgiving with family and friends. We are having dinner at my ds's home, so his wife can have her family over too. She thought her dad would be more comfortable going to their house then ours. It will be a sad holiday for my dear daughter-in-law and her family, within the last year she has lost her mothers sister to a heart attact, her mother to cancer and one of her brother's to an auto accident. Her father is taking it pretty hard so she wants to do all she can to help him through the holidays.

Well, I was very lazy yesterday and didn't get any housecleaning done, so I had better get at it today! Good luck to every one for an op day. I will use my treadmill - I promise!

WW today, am feeling very motivated, even though I gained a pound - after the weekend I wasn't surprised.

Have a feeling this next week is going to be a good one - well it will be if I can keep the motivation going.

Going to start counting my points from a Friday evening for a week adn see if it makes a difference, with having the weekend and then adjusting the points for the remainder of the week. Instead of eating very carefully all week and then going to pot over the weekend.

Time will tell

Hello Ladies..Happy Thanksgiving to all those that celebrate :D at least Turkey is low-fat :lol:
Carol..good to hear that you are motivated..good luck with the new plan :)

Enjoy thanks giving tomorrow everybody.

Hi all,

Good to see a folks are finding their way back here bit by bit.

Cat, I am so glad that someone else likes "Bad Girls". I love that show but haven't seen the latest six episodes. I am hoping to be able rent it at the video store one day and then have a Bad Girls weekend and sit in front of the TV for 6 hours :dizzy:

Dahlia, what a rotten time for you. I am glad you know you can come here and let us know and know that we will always wish you the best.

Carol, I am finding it hard to stay consistent right now too. I am still playing around with the same three or four pounds. I am asking for motivation for Christmas.

Last Sunday I went for coffee with some of the other glass workers here and found a fabulous woman who has invited me to come and work with her in her studio. I love to work that way.

I also decided to treat myself to two brand new weekend courses in the New Year. It is sort of like my 10 lb presents so I am going to work hard to lose another 10lbs before the workshop in the middle of January. The first one is glass blowing. I have always wanted to try it but never felt confident enough about my upper body strength. But I am ready to go for it now.

The second workshop is a weekend Blacksmithing course. I have a vision of blending metal and glass. I can hardly wait for Jan:dance: :dance: :dance:

Hey, Pam, how are things?
Terry, where are you? Put on the coffee. We're coming over:)
Grandma, are you working on Christmas presents this time of year? It sounds like you are out there playing.

Cheers everyone,
Karie

Hi Ladies :wave: all in the Kitchen are ya? Happy Thanksgiving! i had you celebrating too early yesterday..i'm a little confused with the date because i got married on Thanksgiving Day (27th) 5 years ago..i forgot the date changes every year :lol:
Karies..congrats on the "work" offer..those courses sound fabulous and you know what..i'll bet you have no problem losing your next "10" because your hands will be too busy to "feed" yourself :lol: i'm totally hooked on Bad Girls..i did'nt see the series from the beginning so its nice to fill in the gaps :)

Hi Ladies,

I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving. It was a beautiful day for us. We went to my son's house for dinner - I was afraid it would be a sad occasion for my dil family but instead they turned it into a happy occasion by remembering and talking about her recently deceased mother and brother and aunt. Not dwelling on having lost them only on their good memories of them, and sharing recent dreams each had been having about them. Then we went on to have a lovely dinner and it was very busy with their friends coming and going including lots of teenagers, because they have three teenage children. My gd brought a friend from college home for dinner (he was from Hunduras and couldn't go home for the holiday). He would have been all alone at the dorm. All my children and grandchildren were there except my daughter and her family who live in Florida, but she was spending it with his family, so they were not alone. After dinner we played Sequence, a board card game and watched a vidio we had made of my gd's first college hockey game with our new video recorder. My gs was busy making one of his famous homemade hot tubs - he is a very ingenious and talented guy. He makes a frame, lines it with a tarp, then using copper tubing and a barrel he heats the water by burning wood, and pushes the water with the pump from their swimming pool. He made his first one last winter and the whole town was talking about it, even all the teachers at school! When we left he and four of his frends were enjoying the hot tub! My dh went out and took a picture of them in the tub. The only thing bad about yesterday is - I ATE TO MUCH - and today was my weigh in day - you guessed it- I gained a pound. I am really not surprised, I have been into the sweets lately - It's time for a new commitment to LOSE LOSE LOSE!

Karie, your courses sound wonderful, I can feel your excitement! I know you will do some great work. That will also help with your commitment to your diet. You will be so busy creating you wont want to eat things you shouldn't! You wont have time:) :lol:

After reading the post on the Christmas challenge, I think most of us are struggling this time - I know it isn't easy, with the holidays, it is a hard time of year to be on a diet. Every where you go people have goodies, and they all want you to try them -BUT THAT IS ALL THE MORE REASON FOR THE CHALLENGE. If it keeps us focused on thinking about losing, at least we might resist some - and that may keep us from gaining. Even if we can maintain through the holiday season, that is an acomplishment in itself - and if we can manage to lose, no matter how little - we will have done great - we can do this, if we keep trying and keep focused, so don't anyone give up - every time you say no you are gaining control. Don't dwell on the mistakes, just recommit to do better the next day - WE CAN DO THIS, TOGETHER:dance:

It is a beautiful snowy day today. I love a snowy day, if I don't have to go anywhere. I don't think it is supposed to accumulate much, but the wind is blowing some.

:wave: Hi to anyone I missed and Good luck to all of us for an op day

:cb: :cb: The first thing I am going to do today is exercise - that will be a good start to my day and hopefully will start me on to an op day - treadmill here I come.:dance: :dance: