MM :hug: These ladies have kept me going during my slow weigh loss progress, and picked me up each time I fell flat on my face. -- You are about to meet some of the most supportive peeps! :love:

:cheers::cheers::cheers: Party Time :cheers::cheers::cheers:

Happy holiday to all. -- I am done with all preparations and now just kicking back and waiting for our company to arrive. I am not counting calories today :^:

I hope all of you are having a fun and safe Memorial Day.

I am too old for hangovers, ugh :(

Hi girls, quick fly by for me to say all is well. DS surgery went well and he is back to school today in his immobilizer.
We had a very busy weekend between caring for him and catching up on the yard, pool, house. Not much of a holiday weekend or very relaxing for any of us.
Gotta run for now. Hopefully, I will catch up with what is going on with all of you soon! :wave:

Jo :hug: I was thinking about you today and how your baby boy was doing! I am glad to hear he is already at school and feeling okay!

Hoping that Star is having fun with her folks.

I had a very nice NSV today. I went to put on shorts that were super tight last summer. I wore them because they had a belly flattening panel and they made me look slimmer...I pulled them on and they literally dropped off of me. Sometimes it feels that "I don't look that much thinner"...but I guess I am :woohoo: I went on to try another pair of shorts from last summer and they were enormous. So now, officially I have out shrank all 12's!! My 10's are getting quite roomy and I think in a few pounds I can say that I am officially size 8 :dance: :dance:

woohooo congrats sum!!

back to my routine of work and working out today...i had a much shorter time slot available for me at the gym because i have to be to work earlier than planned today...so i decided to try running again, havent done running in about two months because i had hurt the back of my knee pretty badly...

my knee didnt bother me running today although my breathing did....the asthma kicked in, i'd forgotten about that....but i did a mile and a half in intervals and a total of 2.5 miles in just over half an hour...i'm a slow runner and have difficulty with my hips taking the longer strides needed to run faster

now i'm headed to work...tomorrow is my teenager's 8th grade graduation

when he was born i weighed just over 270....now i weigh about 193....so i'm happy with that!!! :D:D

Very late check in for me today. I have nothing to report, except I--too-am TO OLD for hangovers!! UGH!! Bad late afternoon for me on Monday, but by 11pm, I was ok.

:welcome2: Mountain Momma!! Just jump right in. We don't mind!

Bunch of lushes in this thread :cheers::rofl:

:cheers:

I feel thin :dance: weight is at 144 BUT I finally lost one inch of my belly!

I just had a physical....well half of one because of TOM.
I was fully clothed and scale showed 144.8.... Made me into a happy woman :D my dr is quite heavy and is getting heavier each time I see her. She was "jealous" of my progress. I told her about MFP.

I am officially off my BP meds...:woohoo: amazing what 20 pound weight difference does!

I am crampy and bloaty, but I am having a good day :)

way to go sum!!

i forgot how terribly sore running used to make me...i felt fine actually running and fine for most of the day but by bedtime i was so sore i could hardly move...my knees and ankles hurt and my whole body was sore :( i had forgotten about that...i seriously could hardly move to get to the bathroom in the middle of the night ughhhh

so today's workout will be climbing hills on the treadmill instead and maybe tomorrow i can run again, depending on my level of soreness

No secret...I am a cheap drunk these days :rofl:
:cheers:

:present:
To me from me: New Batteries for my scale!

Kristiina - Congrats for getting off the BP meds!!! :dance: That's is awesome!!! You are making amazing progress all the way around!

Jo - Glad you were able to fit everything in over the weekend

Alaskan - Sorry to hear of all the wet for your camping, but glad you still were able to see the funny with the flying tarps

Krystal - Being a cheap drunk makes for a good date, :lol:

Sorry I haven't been checking in. Was on vacation from work, parents flown in, college paperwork all done and approved, Amber all prepped for camp, and even found time to replace the kitchen faucet! Yay! Mom and I went clothes shopping and had a blast! It was a great week and I hated coming back to work - but they require me to do that in order to keep getting a paycheck :lol: Another awesome thing is, even without logging food/calories, and not tracking my exercise - I have kept up on both well, and even lost a good amount... 183.8 this week!!! That long plateau is just a bad memory now :D Hope you all are having a great week!

Mountain Momma - :welcome: Jump right in

I Am So Sore just from that running that I did yesterday...i seriously hurt to move any part of my legs, especially my ankles...i ate good today, working towards a lower carb eating for awhile...passed up cake in the staff lounge with just a nibble of frosting, didnt take any pieces of cake at all :)

veryyyy long day, up since 7 a.m. and just now sitting down for the night at 9 p.m....felt like i've been taking tests all day, braindead...calories were higher, at 1750 tonight and then i ate a little hamburger patty, like 4 bites worth, it was very little...and im too tired to write it in my food log ughhh

going to bed now

I had to start the new thread a day early.
I have to work tomorrow & Saturday.
Here's the link:

SD w/a S {12} Serenade Into Summer