Good morning everyone.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend.
Hippy have you started back on the SBD? Thats great that you and your husband will do it together. Will he go for walks with you also? I have been trying to get mine to walk with me but so far no luck. I can get him to go on the odd bike ride though. The kids will usually walk with me if we take the dogs.

I'm going to check out that sb because if it gives you energy and makes you feel great it would be worth it even if I don't lose any weight.
So it would just be a matter of willpower to stay away from the foods that you can't eat. I am laughing at myself as I really have no willpower.

Bought a new colt this weekend. Haven't decided if this is my reward for losing weight, or if it will be Kristi's for Christmas. He is only 4 months old so it will be a while before anyone rides him.

Hi to Jolly, Raven, Chach, Tracy.

Kathy

Good morning all. Raven, I love the pictures. YOu will have to take another of you and your baby. Did you ride? How was your weekend? Lucky, what kind of colt did you buy? Working with youngsters is so fun. My dogs are both springer spaniels. Justin and Mayhem. Hippee, the scrapbooking class sounds cool. I have so many pictures, and they just sit in boxes.

I have to run. Monday looks to be crazy already. Talk later.

Good Morning!

Lucky, I promise if you can control yourself for the first 2 weeks you will be amazed. You will lose weight, you will have energy and you will feel so much better! The first phase is very strict but after that you pretty much just eat healthy. The book is worth reading. It tells how your body processes sugars and so on. Also tells how eating from the plan fixes blood sugar and helps with your heart and high cholesterol. I have no willpower either but the changes in the way I felt were so dramatic I didn't have any trouble sticking to it. We are starting today. Gary won't walk with me only because he has no time. He works 3rd shift at his regular job, sleeps during the day and has a second job that he works on Friday and Saturday and sometimes through the week. His 3rd shift is odd, he goes in anywhere from 5 till 9 and gets home anywhere from 3 till 8 in the morning.

SAcrapbooking class was so much fun. I only had 4 people here and had almost a $700.00 party. I couldn't believe how crazy they went on buying that stuff! I got $70.00 in free stuff!! WOOHOO!!

Hi girls, wish I could post more but I'm way over my head on the stupid class work and I can't seem to win the lottery so I can abandon this all for the life I truly deserve ;)

Diet and exercise have gone to the wayside, I might as well just apply for the open blimp position in the Macy's parade next month.

Hippy I was in the craft store last weekend. Saw the huge aisle of scrapbooking stuff. I was sooooo tempted to pick up some things, but held back as I have about $500 in abandoned projects in the basement I feel guilty about. But I could easily understand how a party could generate alot of interest and spending. You'll have to give us tips on getting through the first 2 weeks of SBD.

Lucky, congrats on the new colt. Sounds cool, where's the pictures??? Oh that's right, we have to tell you how to post them, don't we. Toughest part is getting them resized to the restrictions they have here at 3FC.

Raven, OMG, I am sooooo jealous of that beautiful head of hair on your daughter. Especially since mine is long too and I'm getting it cut off Thursday. It's just too frail and being long is stressing it out more and I'm getting scared of how much I'm finding on my brush. Hard to tell from the blurry pic but I pictured you as being really tall. Of course, seeing you next to a horse, that's also hard to judge since horses are pretty tall themselves. How many hands are you :lol:

Jolly, great mental picture of the puppy doing the vulture thing.

Chachee hope you are getting yourself back to day shift mode.

Gotta run now, take care and grab some me time.

Good Morning to all of you great people!!!!

I spent the day yesterday cleaning veggies, making salads and homemade chicken salad. I have a great recipe for a fat free veggie salad and I was shocked that I like it being the veggie hater that I am!! I also had to make a great big batch of no bake cookies for Jordan's class trip today, it was rough!!! I love those things but made it threw without eating what was left stuck to the sides of the pan!!!!

Happy, the most I can tell you is getting through the first 2 weeks isn't so bad. I set my mind to it and was so amazed at how much better I felt and how I didn't crave foods that I just kept going. I wish I hadn't stopped doing it but that's okay. I'm back on the program and am looking forward to feeling great and losing weight. If you decide to try it I will help in anyway that I can.

Tracy, Jolly, Raven, Chach....Are yu all still with us? Doing okay?

Hellooooooo...............Is everyone okay? I think I might get depressed if I stop and think that I am the only one that has time to post! AAAHHHHHH!!!! Is my life really so boring!? I won't be saying that in a few weeks when basketball season starts and then it will be off to academic meets.

I have made it through the first 2 days of SBD without hubby grumbling about wanting something good to eat! Guess we will see what happens!

Hope everyone is well!

Hello all. Sorry about being MIA lately. It's getting harder for me to find time to post. This switching shifts has been tough.

I am down three pounds from two weeks ago. I know it's not a big amount, but it's a start! I'm doing well with the eating, but that Halloween candy has been sneaking up on me.

I'll try to post individual later, but I am really running behind on everything!

I hope everyone is doing well. No one has been posting on the other thread. Did everyone stop?

Hugs to all!

Chach

Goooooood Morning everyone

I finally weighed myself after being too scared to step on the scale and I have lost 7 pounds. I can't believe it. I actually feel like I might be able to stick to this for another week.

I went out to buy the SBD book but I got a call and my SIL who is expecting twins went into labor and she is only 28 weeks so she got sent by ambulance to Edmonton which is an hour away from here so I drove my brother up and we sat with her until they got her labor stopped. She is now on bedrest in the hospital until the babies are born.

Happy sorry about your stress with your classes. What type of classes are you taking?

Hippy thats great that you and your husband have made it past the first few days. If hubby is happy then we are happy! Is everyone in your house basketball fans? If I could play basketball, maybe my weight would come off faster. I do go out and shoot hoops with the son, but I don't run around too much.

Chachee way to go on the loss! YaaHooo. You have been doing really well at getting all your points and it is paying off for you. Are you finding after your first week back on days it is getting easier for you? Hope it all comes together for you this week.

Hi Jolly and Raven, hope your week is going good.

The colt is a registered TB/QH paint. Classified as breeding stock as he is all brown with the white blaze on his face and four white socks. He is a darling.

Have a great day ladies and talk to you soon

Kathy

Lucky, yourbaby sounds darling. I hope you can post pictures soon. Congrats on your weight loss. Hippee, don't be lonely. I am sorry I haven't posted. Things have been very busy here with work. Plus, I played hookie yesterday. It was my birthday, so I figured I was allowed. So . . . my exercise has been off, my eating has been off. I have been a slug. Hey, for my birthday I gave myself a larger size love handles :D

Have a great day everyone. I will try to be more talkative later.

Happy belated Birthday Jolly!!!:hat:

I was picking up a birthday gift today and saw the SBD book. Was tempted to buy it but then... I have so many books here - diet books that I have only partially read and honestly, until the end of the year, I am not going to be devoting alot of time to the diet and exercise. I'm just trying at this point to behave myself instead of embarking on a big change that I know I won't be true to at this point. Lucky, I am a web developer by trade and I'm in college going for my certification at this point. I am also taking some technical classes to learn some programs for a new project I have to code and it sure is harder when you get older. Not to mention there's lots of other things I'd rather be doing BUT jobs are shakey and you have to do what you need to since I can't seem to find that money tree I'm sure I planted in the back of the house when we moved in. :lol: Hope things stabilize with your SIL - gee that's scary.

Chachee, congrats on your weight loss. I can't speak for anyone but me but I haven't posted on the other thread because I'm not keeping up with things. Perhaps I should just revise my goals down a bit to what I can manage right now.

Raven, I was going to say something other than hello but it escapes me at the moment. But it will come back...

WOOHOO!!!! Everyone is posting!!!!

Happy Birthday Jolly!!! Hope you enjoyed!

Chach, Congrats on the weightloss! Great job!

Lucky, I'm not a big basketball fan but Jordan plays on his school team so I play the part of the supportive mom! I love to watch him play, just don't like watching it on tv or anything. I have only missed 1 of his games in 3 years because I was so sick. They have a game every Saturday, sometimes 2 in 1 day and things get so hectic. Saturday's are busy days and it's hard to fit everything in but we manage. All of the parents take turns doing what needs to be done so I'm always working the door or concessions or something. We work our shift the game before or the game after our child plays and it makes for such a long day sometimes but that's okay. I'll do whatever it takes for Jordan to know that I support him in his activities.

I am already planning how I will deal with the holidays and eating. It will be rough but I will make it somehow

Good morning everyone. I need a pat on the back - I made it to the gym without having to drag myself off the couch. AND I did my weight workout. At least that's something. But, impulse control is still a huge problem. I had gotten a small credit card just to make sure I had Xmas spending money. Well . . . .I went out to buy myself 2 things for my birthday with it, and ended up spending way more on myself than I intended. Someone will be doing extra shifts to pay for it :( Why can't I jsut say no?

Everyone, good luck with family, and classes and everything.

Pat, Pat Jolly! Great job on working out! AHHH! The dreaded credit cards. I hate them. We too got just a small one, then another and another. Needless to say we got ourselves into alot of trouble with those damn things. I cut them all up and am still trying to dig us out of credit card debt. I had no sense with them because I too have a hard time saying no. It made it way too easy to have what I wanted when I wanted it and girl I bought things that I would have never bought just because I just didn't have the money. Oh well, a lesson well learned on my part!

Okay girls, I have a personal question. If you don't want to answer that's okay. Are any of you on birth control pills? The reason I ask is because I have gone back on them after being off of them for about 10 years. My totm is horrible so the doc said to try them to see if they would help. Anyway when I went to pick them up they are a generic brand of Ortho Novum. Most of the meds we get are generic because that's the way insurance likes it but I just got worried if they work as well. I will be 38 and have a teenager! Sure don't want a baby!!! Just wondering if any of you take generic brands?

It's suppose to start raining here after midnight and rain for the next 4 days. UGH! Rainy days make me lazy!

Off to the grocery today and a scrapbooking class tonight. Hope everyone is well. Have a great day!

Good morning all. I made it to the gym again this morning. Almost skipped, but dragged myself out the door at the last minute. One day at a time, right???

As for the meds, hippee, I was on generic birth control and had no problems. Of course, I was not the most sexually active, but still, no children. Birth control is not 100%, but I dont' think generic pills have any higher failure rate then any other.

Have a good day all. Where is everyone??

Just a quick note.

My home computer is fixed, so I can start checking in from there.

Hippy, I was on generic for ten years and had no problems.

Chach

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.

Hello my dear ladies!

I have been MIA lately. Honestly, it's tough adjusting to this shift change. Not the sleep patterns, but trying to get everything done. I feel like I need to be Superwoman (actually, I like Wonderwoman because she had a cooler costume!) and I just am not finding time to get certain things accomplished. i.e. posting and journaling.

I had my friend pick up the new WW flex points package. I am going to study that this weekend. It's Wednesday and I forgot to weigh in. Gosh, I am such a numbskull lately.

All you ladies are having the same issues as I am right now. Although, my food choices haven't been that bad. I know that once Halloween is done the candy will go away and I won't have that temptation.

I did give myself a present. I had my hair cut and colored last night, my regular appointment. I told her to cut off three inches and we dyed it darker, almost a honey brown color. I have been hi-liting it for the past four years, so it was really blonde. I turn that naturaly blonde color in the Summer, but it was nice having it year round. Now I am back to more of my natural color in the Winter time. I love it and everyone is freaking out over it. Most of the people here at work never saw it the way it was before because they are all new employees. Kinda fun.

Raven: Sounds like your plate is full! How is the puppy situation? Mine are doing better and Buster is growing. I finally got the home computer fixed, so I am going to take a picture of them and hopefully get it posted within the next week. Peanut is still so small.

Lucky: I tried SBD but couldn't deal with the restrictions. Just a mind set that I am trying to overcome. They did have a lot of wonderful recipes, though. Good luck to you with that.

Hippy: Howdy. Have you lost more? I think my hubby would have done better with Phase II, but he has a habit of not eating all day and then overeating at dinner. I am using WW recipes and trying to control his intake.

Jolly: Girl, please don't take those diet pills if you have any health issues. I started to take the Xenadrine about two years ago and couldn't figure out why I felt I was on Speed. Plus, I had a lot of heart "fluttering". They made me feel like I was having a heart attack. Just be real careful, because there have been several people that have died taking those. Don't take any with Ephedra, Ma Huong or Bittersweet Orange. They all trigger heart problems from what I have read. Please, please, please be careful! GOOD LUCK ON YOUR INTERVIEW!!!

I better scoot!

Chach

Hey!!!

Lucky, I can't beileve you have snow! I can't wait for it to get cold enough to snow here. We are looiking at the upper 70"s the next 7 days. Jordan thought it was just grand picking out the ring. We were walking out of the jewelers and he looked down at me, smiled and said, Mom, it must be rough being short!! I'm 5'6" so I'm really not short he's just extremely tall.

Somedays I feel like this dieting is getting the best of me. Hubby has give up, well, not totally but he doesn't do so well when I'm not around to make choices for him. I'm finding it very difficult to make good choices for myself. I'm working really hard to get out of this slump. I didn't buy candy to give out Halloween because I would eat it myself!! Instead, I bought the mini bags of microwave popcorn to pass out. They are so cute, orange bags with Casper on them! I get terribly stressed out this time of year. Though the holidays are my favorite time of year it's so stressful to try to get the money in order to buy gifts for the ones that we buy for. Not to mention that Jordan has gotten very expensive to buy for. Blah, Blah, Blah....Whine, Fuss and Gripe!! Okay I feel better. Oh, just one more complaint! I am having a hard time getting my water in because it's been chilly here and I don't want cold water! I guess I'll be sucking it down the next few days. The water is a life saver for me as far as keeping me full and energetic.

So glad to hear that your kids have got plans for Halloween, how cute they are all dressed up! I guess Jordan and I will pas out popcorn! I'll be the hated lady on our road!!!!!

Talk to you girls later!!

Hi all. Real quick post before I am off to a meeting (groan) and my interview:crossed: Then two more meetings. And I work 3rd shift tonight, so will try to post more then. I am wearing a great new suit, compliments of my best friend. My makeup is good, my hair as good as it gets. I have had my morning dose of chocolate. All I can do now is go in confident, listen carefully, answer thoughtfully, and pray.

Hippee, you won't be the hated one on the street. The person that gives out raisens, or toothbrushes - those are the ones that get tp'd. I hear you on the holidays too. Rough times.

Chachee, glad you are back! I can't wait to see puppy pictures. I hope things settle down soon, and you feel bette about 1st shift.

See you tonight.

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Good morning all. Night owl checking in. I actually like doing the occasional 3rd shift. It gives me a chance to catch up on all the little things I like to put off during the daytime hours :) The only bad thing is all the eating I do to stay awake :( On a good note, I did make it to the gym yesterday morning, and did my weight work out, and did almost all of a kickboxing workout yesterday afternoon. Probably won't make it today, with the third shift.

I hope everyone is well. I am just trying to stay sane until I hear about the interview. I am not sure how it went - it seemed short. They said they would decide next week. Now I just have to stop second guessing how I should have answered the questions.

In case I don't get a chance to go online later today - have a fantastic weekend all.

Hello all

Jolly that is great that you looked your best - great hair and makeup. I slept in and was late for work to find my boss waiting for me.:o

Told him my car wouldn't start as I was only 5 minutes late - but with slept on hair and no makeup :eek:
Not only was the hair slept on but I had it cut the night before and she did the flip up thing with it and when I got home my DH asked me if the hairdresser was mad at him to send me home like that. :devil: Both kids had a little fit at him in my honor. So I could only imagine what the boss thought. I take refuge in the fact that he took me out for lunch so he couldn't have been to offended by my rumpled appearance.
The boss will be back next Thursday so I can only look better for then. Unless I sleep in once again.

Hope your interview went well. Now time will drag on for you until you hear back.

Chachee we have a little runt named peanut also. He rules the roost. You will have to include you with your new hair in the pictures you post. Wonderwoman would make a great halloween costume. Good thing it is way to cold here to dress up in something like that as my excuse would have to be "Wonderwoman in the funhouse mirror"

Hippy don't worry about the popcorn, that would be a great treat and it is in halloween packages. Kids and moms will love it. Someone once again went to all the trouble of making popcorn balls and handing them out. I don't know why because those are the first things to go into the garbage because the kids can never remember what house they came from. (No address in the bag) Went to one house and they got toothbrushes. Who do we think lived in that house? Well shortie, :D it must be hard looking up to the son! What they never seem to get is that they might be taller but we can still take em down! :strong:

Raven how was your week? Did your kids go out last night? Did you end up out helping with the horses or did you say no and have fun with the kids? Cody asked me how old was to old to go out I said don't worry you have a baby brother so you can still go out for awhile. As long as you dress up and have a little one your ok.

Happy how is your course going? Hope all is well with you also.

Have a great weekend everyone.
:wave:

Kathy

Hey Girls!

Jolly, hope you hear great news about the new job!

Halloween is over and I had 1 trick or treater. I was kind of relieved.

Thursday and Friday were rough days. My youngest brother left his wife and he is now here. She called me Thursday when he left trying to score points. My nephew was sitting in her lap crying and the whole time she was on the phone she was bashing my brother in front of his child. I have a very bad temper so I was trying to stay silent so I didn't add trouble to my brother's turmoil but she said something about Jordan and called him my f***ing kid and that's all it took. We had it out. All I know is she better be glad she was on the phone and not in my face. Anyway, Chris, my brother will be staying with us for awhile. It's actually nice, we are very close. He so dearly loves his little boy who is only 5 and so confused. It's about to rip Chris's heart out but he knows this decision will be better in the long run. I just hate to see such pain in people. The wife is one of those that you can never please. It just doesn't matter what you do it's never enough. I'm just glad his whole life won't be wasted with her. He is only 27 so he has plenty of time to rebuild his life and be happy

Today I will be busy rearranging and so on to try to make room for 1 more. We have a VERY small 2 bedroom house and it's cramped with just the 3 of us but we will make room.

I have been trying to watch what I eat and get my water and my workout in daily and I have done ok but to be honest, right now those things seem to be far from what's on my mind.

November all ready girls!!! It's in the 70"s here. I'm ready for cold November weather.

Jolly, Raven, Cathy, Happy, Chach.....Did I miss anyone? Hope you all have a great day!

It's me again! I keep forgetting to ask you all if you watch Dr. Phil's weightloss challenge? Just wondering because he said in the beginning that you don't have to count points or drink shakes............now he has himself plastered on diet bars and shakes that are called Shape Up. What in the **** is he thinking? I know his things are suppose to ward off cravings and so on but I find it interesting that he doesn't suggest bars and shakes and so on but must cash in on a bit more money! Must be **** to be a know it all. Hope I didn't offend any Dr. Phil lovers, just find his way of thinking very amusing!

Hey Ladies... Happy weekend. :)

I'm sorry about not posting much. I'm pretty much in the same boat I was in foodwise, waterwise, and exercisewise. I think I need to take a step back and figure out what's going on in my head. So for now, I'm not going to worry about my "diet" if you will. That's just more stress right now that I don't need. I need to resolve a bunch of other stress things before I can commit again to working out and eating all the right foods (which takes so much planning, it seems). Time is at such a major premium right now, and everything in my life is a high priority, so there isn't much of anything I can eliminate to create time for working out, etc.

Hippy - I used to think Dr. Phil had some good answers, but anymore he just seems to come off as a self righteous know-it-all. And by selling out to the almighty diet and weightloss market, I've lost any respect I might have had for him. Now he's just another peddler going for the buck. IMO, anyway. ;)

We didn't have NEAR as many trick or treaters this year. Which is not good, since I bought enough candy for what we had LAST year. Great... now I have all this stuff sitting here, plus what my kids got. My daughter felt a bit awkward out there, being as tall as she is several people commented on her being my son's mother. *cough* But her costume was really cool - we did the winter vampire with silver fangs and frost and the whole bit... I hope the pics turned out good, I'll post them if they did. Machine was the gory murder victim with a knife through his head and a blood plastered t-shirt and blood all over his head where the knife "went in." I guess Nickie's old art teacher from school disapproved of how gory Machine looked. :rolleyes: It's halloween, woman, get over it. Well, she's the same one who said my daughter looked like the "devil's daughter." *sigh* But they had a good time. It dawned on me last night as I watched them leave that it was the first halloween that I didn't go out with them. Wow. I missed going out. So next halloween.... get this.... hopefully by then I'll have my truck and trailer, so we want to bring in the horses. I'll dress my beautiful white (almost) boy up as a unicorn, and Nickie might go as the headless horsewoman. Shadow is so dark that she'd look awesome with Nickie up there in a long black cape carrying a pumpkin under her arm. It wouldn't be a long ride, obviously, cuz that pumpkin would get heavy after a while, but I think it would be awesome. I just hope the neighbors don't mind. They have a parade around the main circle of the subdivision with the fire engines and the cop cars.. maybe we could be in that parade.

Jolly - Good luck on the job!! I really hope it works out for you. I know from recent personal experience that not getting something like that can hit pretty hard. I'm trying to roll with it, but it's not easy. So hang in there, ok? I'll say a prayer or two for you, myself.

Chachee - Want another puppy?? *hopeful look* I'll trade you yours for mine! :D *heavy sigh* I'll get Artemis trained eventually. I hope. I'm so glad your little babies are doing well, they are just as cute as can be. I know the time thing is a killer, but hopefully you'll be able to get your schedule under control soon.

Lucky - Are you happy with your hair? I can't decide whether to keep mine short now or let it grow out again. It is wonderful to have short hair for the convenience, but... I kind of miss the length sometimes. I did stay home, and I'm glad I did. But we're making up for it by taking care of the farm tonight and tomorrow morning while Rosa and Jeff go visit her parents down in south GA. That way Nickie and Machine still get their lesson on Monday for free. Which is a good thing, because I sure as heck don't have enough money to cover it. Bleh.

*hugs* to everyone - I hope everyone is having a good, relaxing weekend!!

Good Morning all

Just a quick little note

Hippy I am sorry for what your brother is going through. That will make it very hard for the family. For your SIL to say something inexcuseable like that about Jordan shows she must have some big jealously issues. She must not have been getting the reaction she wanted from you and knew that she would get it if she insulted him! Did you get along with her when they were happy together?
I just have to tell you that Cody got some full size microwave popcorn and he was very happy. He informed us that it was his and we were not NOT to touch it but we could help ourselves to the rest.

I am fine with my hair. I really don't suit the flippy look. I had fairly long hair but I have slowly got it shorter and shorter. Now I am in the process of letting it grow again. Although I will have to start coloring it as the gray is starting to show. Oh and when I did my hair the usual way Mark did complement me. Hope the pictures turned out of the kids I can't wait to see them. Raven isn't you taking care of the farm for a weekend worth a FEW free lessons? Thats alot of work. Kristi would gladly help you. She loves doing that horse stuff.

Have a great day everyone.

Kathy

Good morning all. Very early. I picked up a 3rd shift again. I tried to find someone to cover it at the last minute, but I guess God knows my needs - and right now that is extra money . One of the cool things about my job is that even salaried people get premium pay if we cover shifts. other places I worked just considered salaried = owned!

I have to say, I am really glad you all are here. I so enjoy having you to "talk" to. I am kind of on my own little tangent tonight, so I apologize if I don't respond to all of you.

I agree about Dr. Phil - let's rake in the bucks however we can. He is so full of it. I love my best friend, but she is a total Oprah and Dr. Phil junkie. Too much!

Hippee, sorry you got caught in the crossfire with your brother. I hope things get better for him soon. Raven, I am glad the costumes turned out, even if they were "gory." I like your ideas for next year. I also agree with Lucky - if a weekend of barn patrol gets you one free lesson - you are working too cheap! Lucky, did you ever come up with another name for your new baby??

I finally started riding again this weekend. The place where I board was digging up the indoor arena for new footing. I am a little hesitant about riding my brat outdoors. So he between that and his colic, he has had about 3 weeks off. He was good Friday, but Saturday decided to be a jerk. Ah well. Plus, I found out how quickly your thigh muscles disappear when you aren't riding. I am SORE.

Not much else right now. I am trying to figure out what changes to make in my life, to get where I want to be. I really need to think on it.

Take care all, and have a great week :)