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Carri:
Julie
MsCat
Joy
Faye

Great JOB ladies for yesterday! I would say it was a success all the way around.

Ok, we are going to have to disable Joy's smileys, I think!

Welcome to knobhody! Glad you could join us. You may want to remind that boyfriend of something, that though he may be young now, not getting fit could cause him to have serious health issues somewhere down the road! It happened to my husband out of the blue with no warning, no high cholesterol, no high blood pressure, diabetes or anything else just wham a heart attack!! You want him to stay around for a long time and we do too! We are glad to have you here and we will support you all the way! You have set some decent goals for yourself without reaching too high too fast!

Carri: glad the icks are better!

Looks like we are being overrun by the bellydancing group. Maybe we are all going to have to get on this wagon, though I think about it for me and laugh hysterically!

Got dd's house done for another 2 weeks. Gave ds his Easter present and found that he had just been to the book store and bought the very same books I picked out for him so I am going to get him 2 more and let him pick them out himself. When I left he was playing his new playstation game that I bought him, ignoring me completely until I told him I was going to keep kissing him until he told me he loved me so I got, "(sigh) I love you." More like (get out of here will ya so I can go back to playing!)

Have a great afternoon ladies and keep to the straight and narrow today!

Faye

Yeah for me: I went to the gym today! and drank all my water.
And as a small challange I am only going to have one glass of coke tonight, when the Boys come over, and then switch to water (or maybe Splenda iced tea).

About the boyfriend. He knows he is running a big risk and he is trying to eat better. His mother is very controlling and so I have to not say anything because he will take even the smallest word and react poorly. In the summer I do order him out to his bike when I go. (It was easier last summer cause neither of us was working) And he does like doing stuff like that with me but he just isn't was motivated as he needs to be. And that has to come from him.

Faye- I *so* know what you mean with the video games. i gave the bf a GameCube for his birthday and it is (almost) all he wants to do. Fortunatly for me he is distracted by building our Tivo alternative, Airship, and I can do that with him. (Computer geeks need computer geek; no one else can stand us.)

Have a good day, Ladies.

Another bellydancer! I guess Faith is right - perhaps everyone on this group should take up the sport and then we will be the only ones with that distinction! You go knobhdy!

Just a note about cola's - have you tried diet rite? It is the only cola we drink because it is made with splenda!

Have a great day everyone.

mscat

Hey Faith - what does the exclaimation point mean in the egg?

mscat

Ok, Joy, hand over the smilies and noone gets hurt!

Woo HOOOOO.........Belly Dancers RAK! (ok, that's an inside joke......"raks" is the arabic word for "dance") Welcome nhbdy...or however you spell it. I hope you can go back to class soon. Is your teacher spending too much or all of class working towards the recital? I HATE THAT!! I teach two classes a week in two different towns and am currently in production for our spring show, too. But I always make sure that class time is class time. We still learn our choreography in class, but I don't do any "rehearsing". A few years ago when another lady was running things we lost sooooooo many students because she went "show crazy" for about 3 months. They all said they would come back after the show was over, but they never did. Sounds like you have some great goals! We can't achieve them for you, but we can help alot!

Well, speaking of shows........I've got just over 24 hours to finish costumes for dress rehearsal tomorrow. Better chain myself back to the sewing machine.

Later babes,
Julie

Julie - I got no problem with my teacher, she is also one of my best friends and the class is really close. I am sure it wouldn't be a problem if I went to class now. Anne would teach most of the class and she would probably have me fill in for people who were not there. Most of the troup knows most of the choragraphy anyway cause wedust off the peices with different dancers as we need then for performances. Anne is a performance freak and so are most of the rest of us.

I mostly am not going because if I did I would feel bad for not having gotten my butt there earlier and actually be in the show. It will be bad enough to go to the performance. Thankfully I love them all.

MsCat - I have tried diet rite and yes it is better then say diet coke, but it is not the same as regular coke. One of my creeds in life is that I will not pay money for something that is not what I want. Thankfully I have the will power to also not spend money on things that I do want but that are bad for me so it mostly works out ok. The problem I run into is when other peopel buy bad things and bring them into my home. The Boys usually do this. However they seem to not have brought soda with them tonight so I may just be cola free anyways.

mscat: I am a doofus, what are you talking about the exclamation point in the egg? I am looking all over the place and don't see what you mean.

Julie: Let's not get on our high horse because we now have a houseful of belly shakers! I can make mine go 90 miles an hour and all I have to do is walk so there.......

Knobhdy: I am going to tell you what I tell everyone else. If regular soft drinks are a "problem" for you than the best thing to do is give them up. If it is an occasional thing and you don't feel they are keeping you from losing than it shouldn't be a problem. They ARE loaded with sugar and sodium, however and it was the one thing I gave up forever. I rarely drink anyting but water anymore, which is a miracle considering I used to NEVER drink water! As for the video games, dd keeps him under control and will not let him just sit and veg in front of it. He is only 3 1/2 but the kid CAN play those games. In fact, he has WON/FINISHED both the Spiderman and the Tony Hawk's Skateboard game. He gets all his brains from his NONNY of course!

For the new ladies: Tomorrow is Wednesday's woes so I wanted to explain a little bit. I belonged to a forum that everyone whined about losing weight and then did nothing about it. I decided that if I ever had a chance, I would run something where whining was kept to a minimum so I created Wednesday's woes. I feel it is counterproductive to sit around and do the pitty party thing. You have to be offensive with weight loss not sit back and hope it works out. So, it is the ultimate gripe day. You can gripe about anything and everything on Wednesday's and that includes any problems you are having with your weight loss program.

I hope all of you have an enjoyable evening!

Faye

Hi Ladies, Hiya Knobhdy

I got a 4pt day today i've never stopped so i'm counting that as exercise

The exclamation mark in the egg (bottom right under your Avatar, Faye) is to report a
"bad post" so if anyone is naughty Suzanne will come down on you like a ton of bricks i've not clicked on it..don't want to get anyone in trouble