Hey there Chicklets

Just 3 days of the 80's & we drop back into the 70's this week, the air is smelling sooo good! But the yucky 'Ragweed'-my Worst enemy' is back on the roadside-everywhere again.... Ragweed makes me sicker than anything on the earth, so here I go w prevention till the cold temps kill-it-off.

Sundae had 4 gorgeous puppies on Sept.2, her 1st litter was Aug. 23 last year with 5 puppies. I'll remove dewclaws in 2 days & check their sex, right now we're just spoiling Sundae when she leaves her bed & we don't bother her babies. During her delivery I just sat by her bed & remove wet towels from the puppies coming, keeping her company stroking her back & giving her sips of water, back-labor hurts soo badly.

Yesterday we went to the lake/beach, so nice having 4 within 10 miles of us. Hubby caught a few walleye & I swam & kayaked.

Carri, so nice to hear from u I miss you when you don't post...
I follow Bob Harper/BL tips I heard him say on a talkshow & my evening snacks r mainly light carb fruits/veggies, protein prior to 8pm & I don't eat supper after 6pm or I'll see a gain on my scale the next morning. If I must eat supper after 6pm, I only eat 1/2 the portion I planned & I'll save the remainder for lunch or share it w my hubby if we're @ a restaraunt. After managing Burger King & Arby's in the past, I never feel silly about asking for French fries w/o salt, they keep a separate basket to drop fries for customers wanting salt-free; then I just sprinkle my own from their tiny package.
How's your Grandma doing, I hope she is enjoying the warm summer we had.

Susie, I hope that w fall coming that your job duties will b less stressful for you You've had such a busy summer w long work days. If I had your career, I'd take lots of mini-vacations After being home 1 day after our vaca, Ron chilled-out & is his normal self & he's being a sweetie again...He appologized for being overbearing on vaca & is now on the reverse going overboard being sweet....men/husbands

Monday's menu:
Breakfast: veggie omelet & coffee.
Lunch: watermelon salad, cookies & ice tea
snack: Fahita- grilled veggies on a tortilla.
Supper: fruit smoothie/milkshake, grilled walleye & cucumber salad.
snack: 2- frozen homemade pudding pops

Just a fast check in. I am watching baseball.
I had a good day and was just a little under on calories. I hope for a loss my next weigh in. Have a good evening.

Later.

Morning Ladies – had a good OP day yesterday…the work day really dragged though, guess it was because of the three day weekend spoiling me. Hopefully today goes faster. I didn’t end up going to zumba yesterday after work as I was just too dang tired…didn’t have the energy to lift my arms and legs like that, lol.

I cannot wait until the last week of September when all the shows start back new…so sick of reruns…at 8:00 I like to start decompressing from the day with some tv until I get tired…also that last week of Sept has my birthday in it …but we won’t discuss that because I am skipping it this year. Hahaha I am just gonna stay 38 indefinitely

Dee – my grandma is good…thanks for asking…ya know a couple of weeks ago I drove past her house on my way to a baby shower and she was outside trimming bushes !!! An 83 yr old woman who gets chemo every Friday was outside doing that…it put a big smile on my face to know that she felt good enough to do that…however I told my Mom and she was not happy about it, she went down there to help her and finish up, haha…so far she is doing good, the chemo is not really making her that sck, of course she has lost all her hair and has some really cute wigs she is having fun with.

The fact that Fall is coming soon is making me so HAPPY, the best time of the year for me….puts a smile on my face …and it’s the season that flies by the fastest because of that….gonna be a great cool weekend this weekend and it is the Pork Festival in my hometown of Tipton…so we will probably go there.

Debbie – Have a great weigh in !!!

Susie and Mel – Hello gals !!!

Food 9/4
Breakfast : fiber bar
Lunch : Turkey Sub and baked bbq chips
Snack: Protein Bar with blueberries
Dinner : 2 slices thin crust pizza
Snack : english muffin with whipped honey

Hello!

Such great posts! I'm sitting here reading them and smiling..DH asks "why are you smiling" and I say it's my Chickie Girls!

I have been doing very with food (other than on Saturday when I went over my calorie range.)

I really want/need to come here every day and post my food..it keeps me on track to stay in range. I will continue to strive for that daily posting.

I did have a unplanned coke yesterday..it was late in the afternoon and I went to get water and they were in the fridge in the breakroom..free..and looked so cold. BUT I skipped my after dinner dessert (always like a little something) and told myself, that I already had it this afternoon in that coke.

I worked from home last night for about 3 hours after I got home and did my 1 hr walk (3 miles) with my walking partner and at my dinner. I was proud of myself for going and doing the walk. I thought about skipping so I would have more time to work and then I told myself..I need more time to live!

Dee: From your mouth to God's ear about my working hours! This role is very busy and has a lot of responsibility supporting at the Associate Director and Director level..but I do love what I do and our payscale is very good....it reflects the work level we do.

So, you have puppies!!! I bet they are cute.
I saw you did kayaking. We had a work outing where some did that and I didn't, and to tell the truth I didn't do it because of my weight---didn't want to embarrass myself in front of those I work with. That was a recent event that said to me "time to get real about this". When my weight holds me back from something then it's time to really work hard on getting it off.

Carri: I think you might be onto something with the carbs.
That is just great about your Grandma and I smiled when you said, she had a lot of cute wigs and was having fun. That is the best part of aging...some of those things that botherd you before, just don't anymore.

I haven't gotten to that place your Grandma is yet but I can tell you that the things I let bother me at 37 don't bother me at 47. It's a very free feeling.

Debbie: Yeah for you for staying in calorie range and so glad to see you post.

Mel: How are you?

I am up and ready for another busy hot day. Hopefully we only have a couple more over 100f days. I am really worn down.

My weigh in is tomorrow but I checked this morning and I am down a pound.
Last spring I was losing 1 1/2 - 2 a week now the scale creeping down.
I should be grateful because it has creeped up about 5lbs over the summer.

Hope everyone has a great day.

Morning Gals …hope you all had a good evening last night …I did.

I have decided that along with my zumba classes I am going to start taking a spinning class after work once a week…mix it up a little…maybe start it next week…just signed up…also since it is going to be so nice and cool out this weekend ( like Fall ) I am going to walk outside a couple of times with dh.
Look at me – Little Miss Exercise …who’da thunk it ? lol

Susie – You really are in the right mentality right now for losing…great job on skipping your after dinner treat due to the coke…WISE choice !!! And you know I too have a soda weakness ( and like you said I want it cold and frosty ), and I had a couple this weekend, mmmmm …but I digress….haha…
I also find it very helpful to post my food on here…makes me more accountable and makes me take a hard look at what I am doing daily.
I can’t wait to get older and not care , haha ..although truth be told I am like my Grandma a lot and we both have never really cared what other people thought …I was thinking the other day what a difference a decade makes…how much different I am now at 38 then I was at 28 , and I am sure this will be even more true at 48…

Debbie – congrats on the loss …I am trying to not get on the scale for a few weeks, I have just been driving myself nuts with the ups and downs.

Hi Mel and Dee !!!!

Mel – any word on your test results ?

Have a great day everyone, and stay OP !!!!!!

Food 9/5/12
Breakast – Lean Pocket Breakfast
Lunch – chicken breast and one ear of corn
Snack – 1 slice wheat bread with 1 T Peanut Butter and smidge of honey
Dinner – homemade fried rice ( low in cals, used brown rice ), and 5 lower calorie steamed dumplings
Snack – 1 cup Barbara’s Puffins cereal

Good afternoon Chicks
A beautiful fall day today @ 84*. But we have had high humidity all week & so we were in the pool @ 9pm to cool-down for bedtime. I said 9pm BEcause I HAd to watch my MC/HK/BB this week @ 8pm while the final episodes r finishing up.... Christine is my fav on MC, HK???, BB Frank deserves to win for fighting soo hard to stay in the game, Dan from MI promising on his dead grandpa is a a-hole & Ian also for voting out Mike Boogie after Mike gave Ian $3,000 when he could've given it to Frank, etc. Tonight will b a night to Not miss w a double eviction.

Carri, I want to b in your adorable family cause each of u r fabulous I am available for adoption if u ever need another Loyal/silly/dependable gal.
Great going w planning a health program to reach your goal. Birthdays r a virtual tracker that u can celebrate, better than being Dead & stuck @ the same age; sooo enjoy every year u r older

Susie, I've owned my kayak for 4 yrs & I Luv it. There r kayaks sizes for different weights, so don't ever let weight stop u from enjoying yourself. Once u sit down inside, nobody can tell how big/small a person is, so go rent one & try it & you'll Luv the peace & freedom u have. My dh prefers his canoe because it hold 4 people & he fishes from it. We've taken river trips canoeing w friends & floated a case of beer & mixed booze & pop in a tire tube w us w a picnic basket to go on-land to feast, soo much fun for 1 yearly trip. Some of our friends do that tubeing, but I don't want my swim bottoms catching & ripping off my cheeks

Debbie yay for u for staying in calorie range & taking that pound off. We're here for u, 'keep it up Debbie'

Okay, I had my tops WI this morning & I turtled again 7 straight weeks @ 144 pds. OMG I am sooo tired of that number. I'm going to start walking on my treadmill 10 minutes @ 8am & again @ 9:30am & @ 6:30pm to kick-up my metabolism, @ 3mph to prevent injuring my bad knee. TOPS friends r supportive about me weighing 144 pds & our other 6 kops. But I am stuborn & I will Not give up on being 141 pds, OMG it's been almost 5 yrs since I've seen that on my scale.

Mel, how's the school week going for u now, w the boys gone?

Wednesday:
Breakfast: 1 egg on English muffin, coffee.
Lunch: fruit shake, bowl of grape tomatos w cucumber slices & egg salad w hard salami & ice tea.
Supper: chocolate milkshake, eggplant lasagna, big bowl of concord grapes from our vines-so tart & yummy.
snack: ice tea

Have a fun weekend you'all Dee

Morning Girls, not much exciting going on here except that its FRIDAY !!! Might get some bad storms tonight, which is okay by me cause I will be curled up on the couch in my pjs, haha

I was SO hungry last night, nothing could satisfy me….only went over calories but only by about 300 …but what’s that anymore …this stupid plateau is making me crazy, I just hope it breaks soon …I could handle being stuck at like 160 but not at 198 ….this number needs to freakin drop !!!!

Dee – dh and I have kayaked and I did really like it, it is a lot of fun. I was heavier then and I didn’t worry about the weight of it, so Susie you should just do it !!! Thanks for the kind words about my family …we are very female driven on my Mom’s side and I love that …my Grandma is the true matriarch who everyone goes too…I just pray the meds work for her and she can be with us more years. Thanks for thinking of her. And you are right I would much rather get older than the alternative.

Hi Susie, Mel, and Debbie !!!

Hope you all have a great weekend !!!!

Food 9/7/12
Breakfast – English muffin with peanut butter and little honey
Lunch – lean cuisine pizza, deluxe
Snack – Kind bar ( love those )
Dinner – Hot ham and cheese sandwich, one serving of chips
Snack – mini bag of popcorn

Quick post as I just don't have it in me tonight to do much more than that.

LONG week with all the prep for my Director coming (she is only at our site on Monday and Friday, those are the only days I am responsible for her; the other days she is at the GO and really I can't help her much when she isn't in the same building as me) and the United Way Kickoff. These two things happen Monday and Tues of next week and I'll be so glad to have them over with.

I had a small gain at TOPS and it really bummed me out. But I didn't go binge, I just thought, next week the scale will show my efforts.

I will post more tomorrow when I can think straight again.

We had some lovely storms tonight and tomorrow and Sunday is going to be in the 70's! I am looking forward to that. I love summer but it's time for a bit of cooling off.

We had a great time at the wedding and I did very well with the appetizers that were there to nibble on while we waiting for the wedding party to arrive at the reception.

I also did well with the meal and I only had one piece of wedding cake. I did the cupid shuffle, the eletric slide, the twist and almost won the longers married couple in the anniversary dance. The couple that beat us out had been married 27 yrs.

I wore these sexy red peep toe pumps and my knee is KILLING me to day. But my husband told me I sure looked HOT yesterday! lol

Today we were tired and I felt like we needed some down time so we didn't attend church services. We slept in a bit. I got up at 8:30 and he got up at 10:30. We just spent quiet time, I read, wrote two letters, did a daily devotion and he read the Sunday news paper. We then had brunch, he went to the grocery and I cleaned house. I FINALLY have my home office clean and it order! I also organized my purses in my "dressy" closet.

Still a lot of things to get done before it gets cold and we are shut in the house...I have to have it organized or I go crazy! I really do feel unsettled when things aren't orderly. And when I feel unsettled I tend to "let my emotions control me" and "to use food to r ....dull my senses"

It was a very cool weekend here and it was a welcome break from the heat.

I'm looking forward to hearing how everyone else's weekend went.

Morning Ladies, hope you all had a great weekend, I know I did…weather was absolutely perfect !!! Great Fall weather, was wonderful to be outside in it. Looks like this weekend is going to be more of the same, I really hope we are done with the hot humid weather but this is Indiana and I know it can change on a dime.

My eating was bad again all weekend, dh is really a bad influence on me lately on the weekends. I shouldn’t blame him as I know I have will power of my own but it is harder when he is eating whatever he wants in front of me. Plus we were all excited about the first football game of the season yesterday afternoon and wanted junk food and soda for it, so that was that, haha.

I think I may make a pact with myself to not weigh in until the morning of my birthday ( 9/29 ), and see how that works since I am not getting anywhere on the scale…ya know I blame a plateau but I have been doing a bit of pigging out every weekend and then expecting to still lose something that same week…so I just I should be blaming myself instead of a plateau, huh ?

Susie – good for you for being so good at the wedding…and with the dancing I am sure you burned off some good calories too. Wasn’t the weekend gorgeous? We also had the storms Friday night, it actually got kind of scary around our house as the storm that came up on us had funnel clouds spotted…dh kept his eye out, so did the dog haha, and we had the basement door open and ready to run down….luckily nothing came of it but it looked pretty bad, was quite a cozy dark evening though, just hanging inside listening to the rain…I love those nights.

I hear on the cleaning and organizing, we have a lot to do in our house, mainly just dusting and cleaning…dog hair everywhere…can’t keep up on it…we would also like to do some painting soon …some of it we have to hire someone for because our entry way is two story…and I don’t need dh falling…I know he could do it but I would rather not worry about it and just pay someone else to do it. But I would like to have most of this done by Winter so we can just relax. Funny, I need a whole season to relax, haha …

Hi Debbie and Dee – hope you all had a great weekend.

Mel – hope you are feeling better today and got some sleep.

Have a good Monday ladies …as tired as I am ( didn’t fall asleep till like 2 last night ughhhh ) it is going to be a long day for me, then I have to go to grocery after work …another ughhhhhh …and zumba tomorrow after work …I am tired just typing about it, haha

See ya !!

Happy Early fall Morning to EVeryone

82* today but the air smells of fall I'm a coach for a tops member, so I drove to her town yesterday to assess what she does & she 'knows'. Okay giving advice to a person, 'older' than myself is delicate, but she listened, smiling & her final words were "thank you, for your support & telling me some things I Will definitely Change". Which made me feel positive with the 3 hours we had together as we walked & talked, w taking a 20 minute lunch break @ Subway & she even copied my egg-white breakfast muffin. She had prior always eaten a 6" sub & she estimated the 300 cal. she saved w eating the egg-white, shredded mozzarella, veggie, muffin sandwich. She was surprised when I told her I don't count calories, etc. that I eat everything I want, some sugar, etc won't kill us; I like using portion size, w Permission to use my Brain to choose to b 'a fatty' or stay the size I am, & b as healthy as my body allows. That works, just use your Brain whenever you Look @ the food & talk to Yourself & Then put it In your mouth. I retrained my shopping habits that way; Justify do I 'want it' VS do I 'need it' to *Improve my Life*??? I told her I don't want health diseases or arthritis & I Love being happy & active, she said I Did motivate her without being preachy
While I'm posting, I'm eating grapes from my garden. Saturday I removed dewclaws from our 4 puppies, we ate out once over the weekend, I did billing invoices for my clients, I ordered new business cards, paid bills online, played outdoors, swam @ home/the lake water is cold now, kayaked @ the lake taking pics of the shoreline, cleaned my desk & made a menu plan for us to grocery shop. The weekend flew, we didn't have rain & we don't need it.
I'm busy cooking for Friday/Saturday tailgate parties/football games.
MC I'm so happy for Christine & HK for Kristina the winners! My fav drama tv shows r coming back soon, Revenge, etc. I watched the Voice last night, Adam & Christina r still my favs. My 1 1/2 yr baby comes to stay for a week on Thursday, babies change so quickly from month to month learning.

I have 2 KOPS graduating in our club next week & it is my resonsibility to plan the ceremony & celebration party while our baby shadows me all week so I may not b back here for a week. Soo b Good & try to stay OP girls
Carri & Susie & Debbie, I KNow you'll EAch lose 1-2 pounds this week while I'm gone

Morning Ladies !! Sorry I didn’t come on here yesterday but I hadn’t watched the season finales of HK and MC yet and I was afraid someone would do a spoiler and list it in their post, lol ….by the way, I feel as if they gave it to Christine due to her disability …yes, she is a great cook and has accomplished much with what she has but I just though Josh was better …but maybe Christine winning was better for the network …who knows…just my two cents…Josh is such a good guy.
Hells Kitchen – I thought Christina would win, I wanted her too …but liked Justin a lot too

Yesterday was a bad day for me, I always get so sad and wrapped up in 9/11 when I think about it ….when you think of the many lives that were taken so senselessly and all the families who lost loved ones, it’s really just too much…RIP

So now what do we watch? The VOICE of course, haha …I just watched Monday nights last night and will watch Tuesdays tonight, always one day behind, haha …don’t know if I can take another season of staring at Christina’s big boobs…geez put those things away already…

Today is our annual work picnic and we are having bbq catered for us with Seasons 52 desserts …I am gonna partake because it comes once a year and everyone else will be doing it ….haha

Dee – now Dee, technically Fall doesn’t begin until 9/22 …but I feel ya !!! lol Thanks for the weight loss good vibes – I need it !

Hi Susie and Mel !!!!!

Have a good day girls !!!

Food for 9/11
Breakfast: egg sandwich on English muffin with some light mayo
Lunch – lean pocket ( chicken bbq pretzel one, pretty good I might add ) and serving of cottage cheese
Snack – dark chocolate Nature Valley granola bar, mmmmm
Dinner – pork tacos with pico, little cheese and sour cream
Snack – popcorn

Hi! Sorry to be MIA--it got a bit crazy on Monday and Tuesday for me. I worked at the office until 8:00 p.m. Monday night, because I had a lot of things to catch up on after being with my Director all day on Monday and then the United Way kickoff took most of my day until 2:30 p.m.

I did get a walk in last night and I needed it. My feet hurt though and I know if was because I was on them from 7-2:30 and I'm not used to that. And that is a shame! I need to sit less.

Dee: How exciting to have two KOPS graduating in your chapter. Those ceremonies always make me cry. The first time I saw the "circle of light" at SRD it was so emotional for me; I was so happy for them!

I love the "Justify do I 'want it' VS do I 'need it' to *Improve my Life*??? ". That really spoke to me. I'm at a time in my life where I'm thinking more along those guidelines and my desire to loose weight versus I just want to look good--now I want both!

Hope you enjoy time with your baby..and we look forward to you getting back here!

Carri: I have the same issue where I will eat badly all weekend and then expect to have a loss on Thursday. Really when you think about it, it takes Monday and Tuesday to at least reverse what we did on Saturday and Sunday, so we do loose weight; the salt and water weight we put on from overindulging, but we don't make good progress in the total weight loss battle.

I was emotional too yesterday about 9/11 and that is ok with me because I NEVER want to forget what happened and how I felt at the time. It motivates me to get involved in things and to remember that my freedom has always came at a price..and really not to me but because others sacrificed it for me. I also think about how I did nothing to be given my citizenship other than to be blessed to be born here.

I hope you have a great time at your work picnic.

Hi, I just had to drop-in while checking my e-mail.

Susie Thanks for the reinforcement words, backing me up on what I do for 'weight control'.

Girls about 911, we have a tops member who is a Jehovah Witness. How do I know this about this very nice, polite woman? She refuses to stand-up during the Pledge of Allegiance & said she has 'no respect for our government or our soldiers', that it is against her REligion to make that 'promise'. WTH that burns me up, I have angry thoughts seeing her sit there w a smug look on her face...It got to the point where we took a vote on discontinuing saying our pledge when we begin our meetings & now we don't say it; after saying our tops & kops pledges, which she won't say those either or stand-up

I have tops in the morning & its hard for some of the girls to speak to her even though she is very nice.....I tolerate her actions/opinions about living in the United States as if she is a 8 yr old child instead of 41 yr old & registered nurse.

I smell the blueberry cobbler for a tailgate party is ready to take-out from the oven now.

Give me your thoughts on that tops member & I'll read it when I check my e-mail again this week

Go-Kick Butt & Lose It this week Susie....Carri.....Deb.....Liz.....Mel