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:

Good morning ladies,

Cat, my incredimail was messed up too; kept telling me my provider was rejecting it... they said it was fine on their end, so I ran my adaware and virus programs, a thorough cleansing and now it works fine... those darn bugs crawl in from no where :( .

I am getting frustrated... I have been going to curves faithfully now since Oct. and I have lost quite a few inches all around. But my weight just stays stagnant, I go down some and then up again.. I am being very good about my eating, but it just don't seem to make a difference.. then being sick for 2 days I lost 5 pounds water weight, of which I've gained back 2, just what do I have to do to get that scale to fall down more drastically? I am working full time again, bending, lifting, walking moving alot, pllus still going to curves, I just don't know what more I can do short of just not eating at all. But then sure I'd be skin and bones,, but I don't want to be a cadaver. :dizzy:

Another thing frustrating me is these stupid pop up ads.. I have two count them 2 pop up ad zappers on my computer and I still get pop ups.... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Other wise am doing well. Hubby is recovering from the flu now and son, so hopefully its run its course around here.. hubby just called me to tell me he just saw two robins courting in the front yard of work, so spring must be in the air. Yippeee......

Nothing else of any interest going on.. so now that I have vented my frustrations I can go off to another day at the grind stone... I figure I will complete my enrollment at curves and give it the year, I guess if nothing changes then I have to make mental changes and accept me as I am....and just be happy.

Have a good day all,
Dahlia

Morning Ladies,

Dahlia, i would'nt worry about the pounds at all if i was losing inches ;) as long as it gets you in a smaller size why worry? :shrug: we all know that 2 people can weigh the same but look very different if one is toned and the other flab :lol: just keep plugging away at curves..i would :) as for the pop-ups i never see any so i would try another program if i were you..i use PopUp Killer ;)

Got on my scale this morning and :nono: OMG (Macauley Culkin face here) i've got to get OP and sort this out :( still to unpack and get this house in order but at least we have something to eat now and i have'nt bought any junk :cp: intend to keep it that way too.

Good Morning!

I went to the gym and lifted for the first time in a few years. I also did 10 minutes of cardio. When I got home I did another 20 minutes on my mini trampoline. This morning I did 20 minutes on the trampoline, and am going to try and fit in another 20 today sometime.

Cat, good luck unpacking! Dahlia - can you mix up your routine even more? That might be a good way to bust those pounds off. Don't worry - 2 pounds will be easy to lose - it isn't 10!

Hope you all have a good day!

Meg

Hello Ladies,

I finally broke down and bought a scale. Looks like my starting point is 195. Hmmm... *sigh* So, my current goal is 185. Yay, doesn't seem so daunting. I can do 10lbs right? Yeah. Of course I can. :?: I'd better exercise today. I'd been wanted to start running again for a while now. I guess I could start today. But I HATE it when my CD player skips. I bought it specifically because it was advertised for "joggers." The damn thing isn't supposed to skip! :( But that's no excuse not to get out there. The weather isn't crappy, so I guess I have no excuse at all.

I also had issues with my email. It didn't shut down, but i got a ton of useless mail with attachments. I was deleting email for two days straight.

Dahlia, don't worry about the pounds. If you're losing inches, but not pounds, it may be that you are losing fat but gaining muscle. And that muscle is just gonna burn more fat. So, yipee for Dahlia!

Cat: I hope you can stay OP and not buy junk food. Why does stuff that that's so bad for ya taste so good?

Meg: Keep up the gym thing. I tend not to go because there are so many thin college students there (Archbold Gym ;) ) and I feel so upstaged. But it sounds like you are doing well with exercise in general. Good for you!

~Shayla


*edited to show my favorite smiley :tread:

Shayla,
The emails that i've been getting pertaining to be from admin, support, staff @ my addy were the scam!! that is the virus :( it comes in the form of a letter telling you i.e. that there have been reports of spam coming from your email addy and that it will be terminated in 3 days unless you re-sign by opening the attached file using the password in the form of a number that comes with it :yikes: so i thought OK i'll just let that email addy die because hey i've got others but today i discovered that yesterday when i tried to sign in at my website to see if it was true i'd used the wrong password so believed the emails to be legit when in fact they are not :spin: so today i found my correct password, signed in and my account is still up and running :crazy: and was full of those :censored: emails..so i've deleted the lot. I don't ever intend to open another email again unless its from someone i know :lol:

Ok ladies,
Where is everyone? The thread fell off my screen, so I thought I'd better say something to keep it going.

Spent the day with my granddaughter yesterday, we had a blast. Cathy, how was your trip?

Shayla who is the man in the picture? Anyone you know? :lol:

Not much to say, we are getting more snow again...hope it don't stay for long. Got spoiled with the nice weather this last two weeks. Have to skip curves tomorrow as I have to go to a funeral out of town. One of my sister in laws died. She was 76. Yes I have old siblings,,,, it's a long story.

Well, hope someone posts soon. :coffee: have some coffee.... catch ya all
tomorrow.

Dahlia

Hi Dahlia,

Yep, it sure is quiet around here is'nt it? :lol:

My trip was good, really enjoyed the short time i spent with my daughter and grand-daughter :love: hate leaving them tho' :cry:

Did my first exercise since my return yesterday..a whole 2mls :lol: but a start..just wondering whether to start W.W. again or count cals :chin: i really need some plan that will keep me at it :rolleyes:

I've got to check out the new smilies too ;) i'm a sucker for them :lol: BBL

That my dears, is :gossip: ERIC BANA!!! ;) That yummy fellow from The Hulk.

~Shayla

Hello Ladies!

Shayla - Archibold. Wow! That brings back the memories. Have you ever been down to Syracuse Stage? I lived across the street my jr. and sr. year. I can't remember the name of my dorm. Are you in a house? I was a KKG.

Cat, glad you had a great trip! Dahlia, sorry to hear about your SIL.

I have been sick with the flu for the last few days. I even got a flu shot this year. This is the first flu that I have had since 1993. I had 101 degree fever. That is high for me - I never get sick.

Anyway, I should be back on track tomorrow. Haven't worked out since my last post. Kind of upset about that. I need to be more committed - but I don't think you are supposed to work out when you are sick.

talk to you soon!

Meg

Shayla - Delplane? Delplaine? Is that the name of a dorm? If so - that is where I spent freshman year. What about you?

Good Morning Ladies,

Walked another 2mls yesterday :cp: side of left foot is hurting me tho' almost feels like a sprain :rolleyes: keeps coming and going..hope it does'nt keep me off the treadmill.
Ate a little too much yesterday mainly due to the fact that i did'nt want to throw some Pizza out so ate it instead :lol: but i made that my dinner and did'nt have the roast beef that i was going to.

Hey T, got your email now where are you? ;)

Cat - great job walking yesterday!!! Hope your foot is feeling better. Don't want that to turn into a long term injury.

Feeling better. Taught the rest of the dream ballet to my kids yesterday. It was a 2.5 hr rehearsal, and I was exhausted. The flu really takes it out of you. Today I work and then have to go shopping for knitting supplies - I am teaching knitting starting tomorrow. I think I will hop on the rebounder tonight to get in some cardio. I know you aren't supposed to excercise when you are sick, but I feel pretty good.

The good news about being sick? A 1.5 pound loss. I don't think it will last, so I am not counting on it. Hope you all are enjoying your coffee!

Meg

Hi Ladies,

Meg, Well Done with the weightloss :D Think i've got the flu as well :( thought it was allergies but my head is splitting, hot and cold sweats and runny nose and the meds don't seem to help, i might nip out for some hot lemon cold remedy later.

Darn Foot is still hurting but i'm not going to let it stop me :strong: i walked 3mls this morning (before i came online ;) ) and i've just had blueberry pancakes for brekky :T not 10am yet so this is a good start to the day :) and a lovely day it is too, i might even get my bike out later and go for a ride.

Cat - good job with the exercise. Hope your foot feels better! I gained the pounds back. I think I was really dehydrated. Anyway...today I taught my knitting class for the first time. It was great - they all seemed to like it and I had 2 others that are joining next week. I will have a total of 6 then.

Has anyone read Dr. Phil's book? I am thinking of getting it. I am looking for thoughts before I commit to the purchase.

Well, have to get ready for Children's Theatre! Bye!
Meg

Hi Meg, don't know where everyone else is :dunno: glad the knitting class went well :)

Foot is still no better but thats to be expected if i won't give it a rest :lol: i walked another 3mls this morning..makes 13 since Sunday :cp: just getting ready to do some mall walking too :rolleyes: not doing too badly with the food intake although i know i could do better :rolleyes: weigh-in tomorrow and i'm hoping to post some good news ;)

Just a quick Hi Ladies! I don't have time to stay. But I will respond fully as soon as I am able.

Meg, to answer your questions:

Yup, I've been to Syracuse Stage. I've been there to watch performances. :D

I was in a sorority for about a year then I left it. When I came to meet the sisters, apparently the way they acted was "front" from the way they *really* were. It was sad, but I couldn't live with the disparity.

Dorms:

Frosh - Lawrinson then Flint
Sophomore - Dellplain
Junior - South Campus
Senior - Flint then Kimmel


Later yall!

~Shayla

Hi guys! I weighed in today, and I am down 1 pound still. I am doing pretty well, and feeling better. I still have a bad cough, and now a really bad sore throat. I have to work this afternoon, and all day tomorrow. I wish I could just stay home and sleep, but alas, I can't.

Cat - Wow! 13 miles since Sunday! That is AMAZING. I am so proud of you. I need to get my but in gear! The flu has really set me back.

Well, I think I am going to make my way into work now...

Talk to you later!

Meg

Hi Ladies,

Meg, sorry to hear that you are still not well :( i'm feeling better myself :) nose has stopped running and headache has gone :dancer:

I weighed in the morning and i've lost 4lbs this week :goodscale :high: walked another 3mls too :workout: foot is still hurting and its really bugging me :( I dare'nt jog on it so i'm back to just walking :shrug: which is fine it just takes a little longer thats all :lol:

Good morning ladies,
I haven't posted all week, but I've checked in, we don't seem to be posting much on here these days, now it's the weekend so it will be even quieter.

I only went to Curves twice last week, I was to sore from work toward the end of the week and the weather got really nasty so I didn't go exercise. Yesterday I had a migraine headache, and had to have my granddaughter go home earlier than planned. I felt bad in both way, I really wanted to spend time with her but I felt wretched. I still don't feel totally well today so am going to just take it easy. At curves the other day a group of us were talking and one of the ladies had been going 6 days a week since July and had yet to lose any weight. I've come to the conclusion you have to mix it up. You can't just rely on one type of exercise to do the trick. I am still going to go 3 times a week but will try to work something else in the other 4 days. Just wish this lousy weather would warm up so we could be outside more.

Well, nothing else to write about, hope everyone is well and having a nice weekend. Hi to Terry, Emily, Pam, Grandma G., Meg, Shayla, Cathy, and anyone else I missed...we need to post more often.

Dahlia

Hope you feel better soon Dahlia :D pity you had to cut your granddaughters visit short :( but i know that you need to feel 100% to cope with them at the best of times :lol:

Not exercised today yet :shrug: i'm going out to stack some firewood in a min so i may count that as it for today ;) and miss the treadmill. Its nice out although it looks a bit windy. Springcleaned my kitchen this morning and it looks lovely :) pity i've got to use it! Hope we see some familiar bodies around here soon. :wave:

I agree Dahlia - we need to post more often! I want to post more so that I am accountable for my workouts.

I still have a HORRIBLE cough. Other than that, I am better. I worked at the restaurant yesterday from 8am to 5pm, with no break, and I was wiped. I made good $$ thought - I work at an Irish place, and it was the official St. Patrick's Day celebration for Chicago - dyeing the river green, etc. Lots of corned beef and cabbage!

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Meg

It is a GREAT day! Weighed in with a loss. - 186.5. I would say 3 days in a row with a loss is a loss. 1.5 pounds more, and I will be 10 pounds down from my highest weight ever of 195. My goal is to have the weight gone forever by xmas. At this rate, I am right on schedule!

Hope everyone is well -

Meg

Good going Meg, :)
Got to hit the showers just got home from work. Went to curves this morning,, we are getting a new machine in about a month, will be good to add some new moves to the routine.

Dahlia

:lol: Meg when you put - 186.5 i thought that you were going to quip that you'd given away your hubby or something :lol3: Congrats on the loss :cp: Thats a long shift without a break :eek: glad you made big $$$$

Dahlia, glad to hear that you are getting a new machine :) could'nt have come at a better time eh? as you were just saying that you need to shake things up :)

I don't feel like exercising today as the house is cold :( when its sunny the house heats up a treat and we don't need any heat on but today its dull and windy and the house was only 50 degrees this morning, i've got the woodstove going but i've only got it up to 59 so far :( think i'll leave the exercising until later ;) it should be warmer when i get back from the mall.

Dahlia - I think that new machine is just what the Dr. ordered!

Cathy - I am soooo jealous - a woodburning stove. My husband and I really want one of those!

Worked today. Boring. Not a big $$ maker. I Just went thru a pile of stuff sorting the recipes from the home ideas I have cut out of mags. Now I need to make a grocery list.

Planning on getting on the rebounder later. Have a good one! :)

Meg, I grew up with nothing but a woodburning stove, and I vowed when I got married I would never have wood, well I married and still had wood up until the last 7 yrs... we have now natural gas,,, I would never go back to wood. Sure it's warm when the fire is going, but that's just it,, you can't go away and come back to a warm house unless the fire is kept up.. I used to hate coming home or getting up to a cold house...give me dependable gas... :) I like this little guy.... sorry but just had to put in my 2 cents worth.. I love fireplaces but even though the fire is cozy and cheerful, you have the mess of ashes and wood to contend with... we are converting our wood fireplace to gas also...

Cathy, exercising warms you up... I find its easier to exercise when it's cooler and then I stay warm quite a while after too...

Well, nothing on tv tonight so guess it's early to bed, I am tired. We did a lot of stuff at work today, and more of the same tomorrow... can't wait for nicer weather.

Dahlia

Dahlia - you crack me up! Dan and I are fighting about the fireplace in our new house. I want gas - he wants logs. I told him that he will never clean up after the logs, but he insists he will. I just found out we can't get logs - gas only. I win!

I rebounded for 30 minutes today. Felt pretty good. I also made low carb meatloaf for dinner. Both Dan and I liked it, so it goes into the recipes to make again file. I also bought Skyy Sport - the low carb Skyy malt beverage drink. It is pretty good. Kind of lemony. I think I am going to follow up with a little low carb Breyers ice cream!

Talk to you guys tomorrow! Meg

Meg,
how do you make low carb meatloaf? and is this low carb stuff also low fat or don't that matter with low carb? Never heard of the drink skyy sport is that like gaterade?
I'm off to work here in a little bit. Glad you won with gas over wood, you won't be sorry.
:)

It's still cold here, only 21 right now, our high is only to be around 31. Spring starts Saturday, hope it starts to warm up. Well, hope every one has a great day. :)
Will check in after work.

Dahlia

I am cooking out of low carb cookbooks. The meatloaf didn't have any bread or anything in it. It had almonds in it which was really cool. Skyy Sport is like a beer. It is made with Skyy vodka. It tastes lemony. It was totally yummy!

Hope you all had a good day!

Meg

Good afternoon - and happy St. Patrick's day! Just got home from work, and am getting ready to go to a sewing class this evening. it is to learn how to make skirts. I thought that once I finally start my job, I can make some skirts to wear with nice sweater sets. Talk to you after class!