Hello,

I'm new and this is definitely the thread for me. I made a poster that reads "Increments of 10" and put it on my wall. So I was happy to see this topic. BTW, those Snappy Answers were great. I really liked 1,3,5 and 6. :D Soon as I get a scale (I'm a scale addict too, so I've really be avoiding it), which will probably be this Friday, I'll be able to post my weight. But I'm really, really, really apprehensive about doing that. I haven't bothered with a scale in so long... I don't really want to see the numbers that will look up at me. But what the hay, you can't change what you don't acknowledge, eh?

~Shayla

Hi Shayla! Welcome to our group! Alot of us have been around for a while, and we welcome you!

I am 2 pounds into my first 10 - I hope that it will be the last time for the 180's. Everybody does their own plan - whether it be low carb, low fat, etc. Please feel free to post anytime...

Well, guys, I finally got a new battery for my pocket pc. I am downloading a pocket diet tracker. I am really excited about it. I will let you know how it goes!

Talk to you tomorrow!

Meg

Hi guys. Just finished inputing breakfast into my new diet tracker. I love it! Now I can do it wherever I am, not just at home using Fitday. It also lets me input new foods, tracks my weight and excercises, and has cool looking reports. I am trying it free for 30 days. I am digging it!

Well, now I need to spend some time getting ready for Oklahoma rehearsal today. I have to teach 3 musical numbers, and I need to choreograph them this morning. Luckily I have done the show before, so all I need to to is look at the old tape and write everything down. Much easier than making it up from scratch.

Hope you all have a great day...

Meg

OMG, I love the theatre and musicals and all that jazz. When I read this, I was completely unintelligible for like a minute and a half. I really want to act in plays, musicals, tv and movies. It's always great to see someone else who's got their foot in that business! Good luck to you! :)

Love and Light,
Shayla

Hey Shayla - how cool! I used to be an actress for 10 years, did some commercials, 2 movies (Poltergeist III and Meet the Applegates - speaking parts) and alot of musical theatre. Then I got tired of being broke. I went into advertising, and started doing volunteer work with my Mom for a children's theatre group. My Mom directs and I choreograph. It is 4th thru 8th graders. I love it.

Talk to you later!

Meg

Hmm, well I don't want to be broke, because technically, I'm already tired of being broke. Advertising sounds fun. What's that like? Do business reps come to you and say, "Okay, we want something that will make consumers say, 'Whoa!! I want that *points*, but other than that, we have no other thoughts on the matter. What can ya do for us?"

You sound very happy with what you do. And I think volunteering is very important. :D Well I'm off to try to choreograph a dance to a hip hop song. I've always wanted to dance, but since I lack the ability for "Spontaneous Comprehensive Dance" I have to write down everything I'm going to do before I do it. :lol:

Love and Light,
Shayla

Good morning! Where is everyone? Hope you are all having spring weather! It is supposed to get up to 60 on sunday here in Chicago!

Bought another low carb cookbook yesterday. It is so hard finding a good one - that means with photos for me. I like to see how things are supposed to turn out. I am buying groceries today for a chicken pot pie (not a lot of crust), meatloaf, and baked pancake for sunday morning.

Sunday Dan and I are bringing food to a shelter. One of our New Year's resolutions was to do more volunteer work. We are making lasagna, garlic bread and ceasar salad for 65 people. I went shopping, and boy was it alot of food! 19 cloves of garlic alone just for the bread!!!! Good thing for costco - it really saved us!

I haven't been to the gym at all this week. I made excuses every day. Very bad. And we will be making lasagna all weekend, so I won't really have time to go. I will definately get there at LEAST 3 times next week.

Shayla, how did making up your dance go? I love doing stuff like that. It really makes me feel like I have a creative outlet. I taught my kids 3 musical numbers yesterday, and it went really well. They all got it. Saturday morning they run all of act 1, so we will see how that goes. It will be the first time they run it all the way thru, insterting all the musical numbers. should be interesting!

Talk to you later!

Meg

Well, I made the chicken pot pie, and messed it up. I confused a bunch of ingredients, so it came out wierd. Good thing to learn from, though.

Hope all is well -

Meg

Hi ladies,

WElcome Shayla, it's always good to see new folks join our group.

Does anyone else find it rather amusing the people they get for these diet commerials? Take the Nutri system Nourish diet. This bony young woman comes on and says this is the best she has ever felt about her body. In the past 2 months she has lost almost 20 pounds on the nutri system and she got to eat 5 times a day and have chocolate every day... Now if this young lady needed to lose anything is debateable, any more and she'd be anorexic... do they think this gives us incentive to watch these pencil people tell us how easy it is to lose weight?

On the other hand, I have lost 5 pounds,, I had the stomach flu for the past 2 days, and even though I drank alot of water, I know I also lost water weight, but it feels good to see the scale so low...and am hoping can continue down from here.. I am still afraid to eat anything solid so maybe I can just get used to eating this way. :lol: but I am getting used to drinking lots of water. Which is a good thing. I am still weak and tired today but going to work in the office for a bit, am doing laundry and may take a nap. I"ve already missed two days of work, and didn't go to Curves yesterday. Seems since I've started exercising I have been sick more often.. hummm thought it would be different... but I guess just being around more people means more germs too.although I got this one from my dgs.

Meg, you were an actress, how cool.

Our snow is melting, the sun is shining, can spring be far away.... NO,, we got two greenhouses almost full only 12 more to go...

Ok. well hope everyone else is doing well, hope Cathy is having a good time in England, Terry hope your cold is better, hi lisa...

later

Dahlia

Good Morning!

Well, Sunday's weigh in has brought another 1.5 pound loss from last Sunday. I am down to 188! This new LIFESTYLE - note, NOT DIET, is really making me feel good, as I am seeing results. Never got to the gym this week, so next week that is on the front burner. I even went over my carbs on some days, but it just goes to show that by lowering them overall I can still lose. Bought a new low carb cookbook, and am about to make a low carb pancake recipe. I hope it is yummy!

It is in the high 50s in Chicago today. Is everyone else having great weather?
Hope so - talk to you soon!

Meg

Hey All! I know I've been MIA for a couple weeks, and unfortunately, I will continue to be for a bit. I just wanted to pop in and say hi and bid a temporary farewell. Once my life gets straightened back out, I hope to join you all again. Til then, good luck with all your lives and adventures!

Hey, Lisa! We miss you - hope you will be back soon!

Well, I am kind of down. I have been working on Oklahoma with my Mom and Sister. On Saturday, my Mom made a change at the end of rehearsal, and my sister got upset and walked out. My mom called her, and my sister yelled at her for 20 minutes. She thinks we are conspiring against her. I think she is depressed. She just went on and on, and really upset my mom. This morning I sent out emails to the family, and to my cousins and aunt and uncle inviting them to my 35th birthday party. I asked that it be adults only, as we have a small apartment, and it would add 6 more people with kids. All the other parents responded "great, see you then!". She responded that it was one of her kids' birthday's, and that they would not be coming, as they can't leave her alone on that day (she has 4 of the kids). I am hurt by this. The party is from 11am-1pm (brunch on a Sunday). Can't they have the whole rest of the day with her? Or am I in the wrong here? Any words of wisdom from you guys would be appreciated. I am too emotionally involved to be rational.

Talk to you soon!

Meg

Dahlia:

I enjoyed reading your post about the skinny anorexic pencil people and their love of diets. Sometimes, I just want to walk by one of those twig girls and say, "You know, you could stand to lose a few pounds." I figure that they are so self conscious about every little calorie that they would ignore the fact that I need to lose about 40 and say, "Ohmygawd! I should not have eaten that Saltine today! I am such a pig!" and then she'd like.. run off crying on the way to the gym.

I'm sorry to hear about your stomach flu. I've never had it, but I've heard that it's a totally craptastic way to spend your week. However, you did lose 5lbs in the deal, so it can't be all bad can it?

Get well soon!

Meg:

Yay! The scale went down! What are you doing to lose the weight. Is it like an Atkins thing. I love meat and was just wondering about the whole low carb thing.

I hope your sister gets over whatever is bugging her so that she can see that you and your mom aren't against her. My guess is she's worried about somehing else entirely - that it has nothing to do with Oklahoma or your birthday. Maybe you two could talk it out?

When is your birthday?

Me:

As for me, I still haven't bought a scale. Truth be told, I'm still a little worried about the prospect. But I will buy one! I promise! Cuz like, how am I supposed to track any progress for the week? Also, this is the week were I add exercise to my program. I was working on a gradual, add things on every week, program. So I'm starting out with the gym 3 days a week. So I guess now I have to get a scale. Up until now, I've been going to the gym whenever I felt like going. Which was like... once a week. *shrug*

Later,
Shayla

Hi Ladies, Hi Shayla :wave:

I thought i'd posted earlier but obviously not :( must have gone off to do battle with that dreaded WORM BAGLE that is going around :rollpin: i checked my email and was getting lots from admin with attachments on them but i did'nt open any because i'm always very wary but these must have been legit because one of them said that they were getting lots of emails complaining about "spam" from my email addy and had suspended my account :yikes: so i spent most of the day trying to solve the problem and i've done it :cp: its mucked up Incredimail a bit i've lost all my friends addresses but hopefully most of them are in my head :?: so it'll be alright. I can't for the life of me understand how i got it :shrug: because i have'nt opened anything :( oh well, no harm done really..just a darn nuisance.

p.s. Nice to "see" you all again :wave: