Good morning everyone.

Hippy, I ended up pregnant after being finished with our family - 12 years difference from my now middle and the baby. I am back on the pill but I don't know if it is generic or not but haven't had any problems. The doctor said the kind I am on will probably stop TOM from coming. I sure hope so.
Bought the SBD book last night. Will start on Monday. How is it going for you and hubby?

Jolly Way to go. To days in a row to the gym! You did it. Here is another pat on the back for you. When is your job interview?

Chachee how are things going? Everything starting to fall into place?

Happy, my money tree hasn't grown either. I think the seed I planted must be defective. Wow you sound like you have a great job. And back in college. Is it that much harder or is it that you know what it is like after college and you just try really hard to do the best you can? Good luck. You will do well.

Hello Raven. Hope all is well with you this week.

Talk to you all later enjoy your day.
Kathy

Well hi there ladies. I'm sorry about being MIA. I guess it's just been busy, and I sometimes feel like if I'm not OP and not working out then I'm too ashamed to post. I've been so so so off plan and I haven't even come CLOSE to working out in so long... And for no really good reason. But for the last couple weeks I've been slowly starting to come back to my OP mentality. I wonder if I can really get it going again. I keep trying to find that huge motivation I had when I started this back in February. It lasted for so long, then this thing with my Dad came up and boom... I just started slowly spiraling downwards. The last couple days have been huge on reflection. Nothing that I haven't pondered before, but again, it just seems like coming back to something I already knew. Know. Know very well. So here I sit, dressed to go work out for the first time in months. And I drank my water this morning, too - also for the first time in months. I need so badly to find me again, and I think I might be doing that. I hate to say "I AM doing that," because I've said that a couple times and then lost it again too many times lately.

I've also had internet issues from home, so wasn't able to log in here - but that's taken care of now and we're back online.

Anyway, I guess it's my turn to say I've been lurking, reading all of your posts, and caring very much about everything each one of you has to say, I just didn't feel like I had much to contribute of a positive nature.

I hope everyone is having a simply wonderful weekend, and now I'm going to go and work out before I get too lost in the posting and lose my motivation. I told my daughter we're going back OP this week. No more buying ice cream, no more heavy pasta dinners, we're back to lite, low fat, and healthy. All this right before the holidays. Well I figured if I didn't, by the time the holidays were over I would have gained 20 pounds at the rate I'm going. At least this way maybe I can get back to where I was before I crashed and burned.

Off to the treadmill!

Good Morning!

Great to hear you are going to work out today Raven! Such good food shouldn't be allowed to be offered during the holidays or any other day for that matter then we wouldn't have to worry about it!!

Lucky!!!!! I bet you were very shocked!! I know it sounds stupid but I have a terrible fear of getting pregnant! I just don't feel like I have the want to or the patience that it takes for a baby. My hubby has always wanted another one. I told him we would when he can have it we will!!! I hand it to all women that have more than 1 child! That **** hurts!!!! When I had Jordan we didn't have insurance so I had to go through the clinic and you had to sign a paper agreeing to no pain meds....I had nothing. My water broke and I was having contractions but couldn't feel them so they induced me and they gave me too much and my first contractions were last stage contractions.....It was a nightmare!! It took me 2 hours to push him out. I was exhausted and his little head was all bruised and pointed because I couldn't get him out......that did it for me!!!! He is well worth it but I sure don't choose to do that again!!!!!!! I want your kind of birth control pills!!!! I can't wait until menopause so I don't have to do this crap anymore!!!!!

Hope everyone else is having a great weekend!

My first step, success. I did two miles on the treadmill. I managed to run six tenths of it in one tenth increments. Not what I used to do, but I will work towards that again. One step at a time. I was going to do weights, too, but ... I have a feeling that would push me into passing out. :D I think I'll do weights tomorrow.

Hippy - I can't imagine going through what you did. Mine was not great at all, but at least when I couldn't get that baby out (and there was no way it was going to happen, her head was far too large) they did a c-section. I couldn't have cared less if they'd dragged her out through my nose at that point, it had been over 9 hours on pitocin. For the second one, we didn't even try a natural birth, we went straight to c-section, because he was even bigger than my girl. Now I figure I'm outnumbered, so no more!! ;)

Off to the pet store for flea shampoo, then to the stables to ride, then wash and pick up our new foster puppy - we're naming her Artemis (after the huntress - she's the one who was hunting Callisto so Zeus threw Callisto into the heavens to become Ursa Major - if anyone knows the story of the names of my dogs, you'll understand), then groceries, then home to carve pumpkins!!!

*HUGS* to everyone, goodness it felt good to work out!!

Good day everyone.

Hi Raven, great job on going and working out. That is your first step in getting back on track. It is amazing how we forget how great it feels to go and work out. How many dogs do you have?

Hippy I fell off the chair (honestly I did) when the doctor told me I was pregnant. I was stunned, shocked and then dismayed. I cried and all I could think of was my now lack of retirement that I would have. I spent the next few months finding all little children annoying. (And I do love kids so that was a little strange for me). Then when I was about 7 months pregnant it hit me that there must be some sort of devine intervention at work because there really was no way that I should be pregnant. Then I spent the next 2 months feeling guilty and hoping nothing was wrong with our little surprise package. We have health care here so it doesn't cost us anything to have babies or go to the doctor or stay in the hospital if you have an accident. In most of Canada there is no charge at all for health care. In Alberta it is $68 a month but that is just a tax and does not actually pay for any health care. So pain relief for labor is free. Not that I got any because he came too darn fast the doctor didn't even get there in time. Now we are stuck at should we have one more because the other two should be out at college by the time he is 8. But we just don't know.

Well have a great evening.
Kathy

I can't imagine no charge for health care! We now have insurance but I still don't want a little one!! I would be devastated but I guess you hae to go with the flow. I too love kids but after a day I'm ready for little ones to go home with their parents!! My babay now is my dog! She's 11 months old and I treat her like a kid! She is real cold natured so I put doggie clothes on her. My husband cracks up at me for going shopping for the dog!

Raven, you are so motivated! I have been so lazy! It rained here al day Saturday, Gary and Jordan were gone so I layed on the couch all day watching movies, eatinf frozen, bite size Milky Ways...... I was soooo bad!!

I'm back on the program today. Have to get my walk in before we take Jordan to the jewelers to order his Jr, High ring. Talk to you all later!

Good morning all. Ladies, I have to say, your stories work remarkably well as birth control. I don't know what scares me more about ever having a child - the pain of labor, the sleepless nights afterwards, or the thought that my kids would be as well trained as my animals :D I just don't know.

Raven - what foster puppy? Congrats on the gym. Send some of your motivation my way.


I am really having a hard time right now. I just seem to be making poor choices all around. I don't know why. I don't know what to do to stop it. I just want to cry. I need to find some motivation somewhere, somehow.

*headache face* Anyone want a puppy? *sigh* This little Artemis is the most oblivious little dog as regards going outside to go potty or manners or any sort that I've ever met in my life. She's smart though, so hopefully it won't take TOO long for her to have a lightbulb moment about the going outside to do her business. She hates being in the kennel, and barks horribly. Pray for me! :cry:

I woke up extra early so I'd have time to run. Ha. I spent all morning working with Artemis on leash training, sit, stay, and walking her outside trying to catch her going potty. Tonight is riding lessons for the kids, so no running tonight, either. The thought is beginning to ocurr to me that perhaps I'm am trying to do too much? Rosa wants me to walk ponies Friday night from 6 pm to 8 pm. You know... I need to tell her I just can't do it. That's Halloween. And really - 6 to 8 IS Halloween for my boy... that's when he'd be out trick or treating, that's when all the kids would be coming to my house.... Plus for me to get to Rosa's by 6 I'd have to leave work and drive straight to her place, then you KNOW I wouldn't really leave at 8, because she'd have 4 ponies but only a 2 horse trailer so that would mean two trips and that means I get to stay with the 2 remaining ponies while they make the first trip. In other words, I'd miss halloween with my kids completely. I suppose if I'd known about it before last Friday I could have planned around it, but ... I don't feel right just letting my kids down like that. I feel kind of caught between a rock and a hard place. I wouldn't get home till probably close to 9:30 if I go help her. Even if I left RIGHT at 8, I wouldn't get home till 8:30. I hate telling her no, but I just think I have to.

It's another wonderful Monday! Hope everyone else's day is going better!

Hi everyone.

Hippy I bought the SBD book and read it this weekend. I will go grocery shopping on Friday when it is payday so I can start on November 1. How are you doing back on it? Did you lose the 8 to 13 pounds the first two weeks the first time you tried it? I am sort of feeling not really motivated about it, but will see when it comes closer to next week.

Jolly what do you find is your weakness this week, or what are your worst food choices this week? Have you had your interview yet? How often are you able to go riding? Are you still going to horse shows with your baby or is that over for the season?

Raven how long will you have this puppy for? Oh the joys of housetraining. I would rather potty train. Don't feel bad about saying no on Friday because kids outgrow trick or treating so enjoy the few halloweens that us mothers have left of them. Kristi does figure she should take her baby brother out then noone will think twice of her trick or treating. Her dad and her are fighting over who gets to take him. I said let her. He won't remember this one anyways.

It is suppose to snow here this week so it just might be a little chilly for the big night.

Hello to Happy and Chachee. Hope you had a great weekend.

Talk to you all later.

Kathy

Morning all. Raven, dont' feel guilty for saying no. You have to take care of you, and your family too. Sometimes you just have to cut back. Lucky, your kids sound cute. What are they going as?

I am just doing a lot of mindless, comfort eating. I am stopping to buy crap. And I am not getting to the gym like I should. I did make it this morning though, and did 40 minutes on the eliptical trainer. And found I lost 2 pounds. How, I don't know. I am seriously considering trying Hydroxycut. My friend did, and lost 60 pounds. I jsut don't know.

I am still working my horse, but the show season is done for the year. Now we are just getting ready for next year. I am also trying to see if a friend will let me show her horse as well as mine. So I definitely need to get in shape.

Have a good day all. Chachee, Hippee, Msmomm, Janiq, Holli's human - where is everyone????

Thanks you two for your support on the halloween thing. I know it's going to cost me, because that's how we earn our lessons. OTOH, Nickie and I will be setting up the web site for Rosa, too. We're such geeks. We're getting her a domain, and she and I will do all the work and establish all the content. That has to count for something! We offered to put it up under our own domain, but since the domain prices have come down so much, she decided to register her own. Now all we need to do is get the $$ from her so we can set her up with the registrar and get the hosting set up. I'll take the digital out this weekend and start getting some good shots of the ring, the stable, and the ponies. I think it will be fun to set this up!

Didn't get home last night till after 9, but had a good dinner of chicken and broccoli with a little helping of potato. Then blew it all out of the water by eating a bowl of heath bar ice cream. Yes, and my snack today was a snickers bar. I'm on a roll. Or maybe it's that I will be rolling if I don't stop eating like this. Blah. I'm on my period, once that stops, maybe my attitude will improve. And of course as soon as anyone starts moving in the house, Artemis starts up with her howing and barking and thrashing about. I wonder how long it will take her to realize that isn't going to get her out of the kennel. I hope she figures out soon that the only way she's getting out of that kennel for any length of time is if she goes potty outside. Right now, I take her out and she looks at me as if to say "I know you want me to do SOMEthing, I just have NO idea what you want!" Poor little moron. It's not her fault, and I know that. But she's already learned pretty much that jumping up on us is not acceptable, and she's learning to hold still for us to get her leash on. Small goals, they make me happy. :) Now if I could just be happy with small goals with my eating and exercise and weight. d'oh.

STOP BEATING YOURSELF UP!!! Do I need to come down there and smack you??? A helping of ice cream does not make you a horrid person. You had a very healthy dinner - celebrate that! It is so hard to get back on track - you need to reward yourself for the good choices you make, not punish yourself for the wrong ones. Like I am very happy I did not go and get a muffin after my workout this morning. And that I did make it to the gym this morning. Actually, it would have been two muffins, as today it is buy one get one free. And you know I can't pass up a bargain! Smile, and praise yourself like crazy for everything today! You are great.

Good day! It's raining and cold here today. I hate it. Rain makes me lazy!! Have to blame a lazy day on something, right?!

Dear hubby has given up on Phase 1 but that's okay. I have him on phase 2 now with no complaints. I think that eating healthy will make all of the difference in the world.

Lucky, I lost 9 pounds the first 2 weeks. Then I lost another 9 to 11 pounds, scales, never agree, in the few weeks following. I tried to incorporate the diabetic plan with SB and got all messed up. I didn;t gain but I didn't lose either. I am now doing phase 2
and looking for the balance that I need to have a weekly loss like the book says you will.

Raven, hope your days are getting better. My little dog was terribly hard to house break. Sometimes still at night she won't hold it but the majority of the time she does just fine.

Jolly, I see you're still working out...YOU GO GIRL!!!!

Chach, how are you?

Take care

Good morning everyone.

It is snowing and blowing here. Had to know it would happen just before Friday, as it always does. Suppose to get 10 inches of snow tonight. My first exercise of the month I guess will be shovelling sidewalks. The sidewalk at work alone is enough to cause a :faint:
Cole will be a puppy for Halloween. That will be nice and warm for him. Kristi wants to be a hippy and is quite upset that I won't let her ride the horse into town and let her and Cole ride up to every door to get candy. Cody wants to be a hooker, but after yesterday decided it would be to cold to be that. We have to go shopping today or tommorrow to get their costumes.

Jolly way to go. Even though you are feeling bad about some choices you still lost 2 pounds. :cp: Plus you have been going and working out. You must feel a little more sense of achievement when you actually drag yourself there then when it is easy to go. And you passed on 2 muffins. :T Things are looking good. So make sure you praise yourself also today.

Raven what do your kids want to be for halloween this year? I'm sure there is lots to do out at the stable to make up for what you can turn down on Friday. Besides if you are doing a website for her that would be worth more I should think because you would not let it be less than perfect and that would take alot of work getting the right pictures and finding all the content that you would put into it.
How old is the darling little puppy who is just trying to help you fit a little walking in your day by taking her out time after time? And how long will you have her for?

Hippy that is great that you lost that weight with the diet. So what are you trying to add back in phase 2? That makes it a little easier for you with your DH doing it with you. Mine just doesn't know that he will be doing it with me also! :D Did you get Jordan's ring all picked out? Did he strut his way out of the jewelry store giving you a little chuckle?

Hello to Chachee and Happy. Hope all is well with you.
Talk to you all later.

Kathy

Hi all. I am having posting problems here. It keeps eating my posts :( Anyway, thanks for all the positive feedback. I didn't make it to the gym this morning, but that was because I got called in to work late last night with a leaky pipe. Yikes! I have kickboxing tonight though, so it is ok. And tomorrow is my big day at work. No stress there.

Raven, stop beating yourself up. One bad choice does not make you a bad person. You need to reward yourself for all the healthy choices you make! You are a great person. And where are my horsy emails???

Hippee, congrats on the loss. Lucky, don't send that white stuff down here any time soon. I don't want it. I live in a 4 family building and we are all supposed to take turns shoveling. Well, one lady is too old, and the rest . .. It is bad enough I have become the Garbage Goddess, I don't need to also be the Snow Czar.

Have a great day all.