I love Sam's Club... but I never thought of buying veggies there! (of course when I shopped there a lot, I wasn't eating lots of veggies like I am now...)

Good morning everyone,
WOW! I thought I was at the wrong place.
WELCOME...I'm so thrilled to see so many newbies. Just a refresher for everyone new. I'm a 50 yo grandmother. With an extra 109 lbs. I am focusing on moving more and portion control. I try to make curves 3x a week but lately thats been tough. This is a wonderful place for support. I try to post daily, but I work wed thru fri and miss some then.
I've been doing better on my food but fall way short on exercise.

Holly: HI! My busy friend.
Annie: I'm so glad your ok. (((HUG))) I was worried about you. We had several people disappear at once. We haven't heard from Sandi, Spores or judy. ??? Hope they are well.

Susie: You sound so up, and focused.
You go girl...

I'll have to finish personals later. I have to go 50 miles to a baby shower that I haven't shopped for yet. It's tough being so disorganized.

EVERYONE HAVE A BLESSED DAY

Susie: That is SO true. Every single one of us should be proud of the fact that we haven't quit. I just finished reading "Diary of a fat housewife" and I got SO frustrated with the author that I nearly threw the book across the room. She kept giving up! I wanted to just reach into the book and shake her, encourage her not to quit and regain the same 20, 30, or 50 pounds. Everyone who doesn't quit should be proud of that.

Jaque, you should definitely check out the food and produce sections if you've already got a Sam's membership. They have some awesome deals. My only complaint is the free samples, because they're HUGE and always very tasty. I have a hard time resisting, so I usually go first thing on a weekday morning when they don't have samples .

Debbie, have fun at the baby shower. I struggle to stay organized too. I'm just such a packrat.


I was SO mad at myself yesterday. I don't know if any of you have a Sonic restaurant in your area, but the ones here have had the Cookie Dough Blast again. I resisted for almost 3 weeks and finally yesterday I looked up the nutritional information and budgeted one into my diet. But when I went to enter it in, I'd read the nutritional info wrong. I thought that it was 380 calories, but that's the weight. 750 calories! Ick. I still stayed below 1800 because I figured that out before dinner and compensated, but I wasn't as low as I wanted to be. What a dumb mistake!

At least I have no interest in EVER having one of those again. They're good, but they're not 750 calories good. Does anyone else find that as you pay attention to what's really in your favorite foods, some of them become FORMER favorite foods? They're just not worth the calories and fat. Yuck.

gray eyed girl, ((HUGS)) I totally feel your frustration!! My lunch today was 800 calories!! And I thought I was taking the healthy route... GrRrRr!

I weighed in today and lost 3 pounds!! YaY!!!

Legalllybrunette - thanks to the welcome - I'm hoping to find the support and confidence I need again.

Caro - thanks too! I am ready to start focusing on me now. Start feeling good about myself again - it's been a very long time since I have.

gray_eyed girl - congrats on the 34 pound loss! How exciting! Keep up the good work!

that is awful that one ice cream can be 750 calories!! It certainly doesn't seem worth it does it?

Thanks so much for the welcome and the support already. I need something like this to help keep me focused. The one time I was actually successful on a diet, I had joined e-diets and lost 30 pounds in 3 months. Of course that was before I got pg with my son. And I know it was because of the support I got there. Well, I can't afford e-diets these days, so I was so excited when a friend told me about this site. I hope that I can find a way to navigate around here a little easier though - took me forever to find this board again! I'm looking forward to losing with all of you.

Talk to you soon.

Kelly

Jaque, congratulations on the 3 pounds! That's wonderful.

Kelly, this forum MOVES, doesn't it? If you go up to the top of this page, right above the first post there's a little menu tab that says "thread tools". If you click that and then choose "subscribe to this thread" then you can find it easily by going to your User CP - it's listed right there. I am subscribed to this thread, just so I can find it! You can set it not to recieve emails, so it's basically just bookmarked for easy locating later on.

Good Morning Ladies........

Thank you all for the warm wishes from my accident. The support from here is just awesome, and not always weight related. You are all the best ever!

Caro - you sound like an exercise machine, way to go. Keep up the good work.

Gray Eyed Girl - Very nice to meet you also. Congrats on the wonderful loss, only half way to go....YOU ROCK.

Dkkrf - welcome to the club! I have actually been here, off and on for not quite a year. This is such an great group, you will love it here.

Legally Brunette - 3 lbs loss, that is marvelous. Keep on truckin'.

Holly - thank you for your kind words, you always make me feel so much better.

Susie - A day off to yourself sounds wonderful. Hope you truly enjoyed it!

Hello to everyone I may of missed, not intentional....

Tonight I am joining weight watchers. I have done great for the past week, and am now ready to take the weight watchers plunge. I hope to get to my goal then become a WW leader. I feel like there is a main goal and the end of weight loss by becoming a leader and helping me to keep my weight down at the same time. I am very excited about joining, which is a major switch for me. I have about 80 pounds to lose, but feel I can do this. At home, I weight in at 262.5 which is down about 2lbs since last week. Probably due to the fact I worked out in 95 degree, high humidity 95% weather yesterday laying a stone walk down the side of the driveway. SHuweee,,,sweated like an oinker. Anyway, I plan on posting every other day, if not every day, depending on my work load here. I don't have a computer at home, so no weekend posts.

Hugs to all

Annie

Welcome to the new chicks. I will update too. Good idea Deb! Jody has been MIA too.
I am turning 40 this Thursday. I am a married SAHM with 2 kids. I babysit fulltime, sell Avon and well ,never really stop... I am losing baby weight too. My son is 6, daughter is 4. I was up to 243 and have lost 18 lbs but it has taken 2 long, slow years. It is staying off tho.My pre preg weight was 190. That is my eventual goal.


And then it is over.......
Gala Days had it’s official closing ceremony at 8:30pm last night.
I am exhausted and still dirty. I was too tired to even take a bath.
The weekend was a resounding success. ALL the events went well. There were some major mishaps but I must say our committee absolutely rocks. We pulled together and pulled through with class.
My Avon booth did very well. I booked some orders but better yet handed out over 70 books and talked to a couple of hundred. I would say the county knows where to find Avon now!!
I was at the Park from early in the morning to till 2am the next morning and back again 6 hours later. What a huge endeavour. We have 25 different events all weekend long and about 10 committee members running it. Quite amazing really.
I am proud to be a part of it.
Food was minimal. Water was plentiful. It was over 30C every day with thunder showers off and on. No rain for 4 weeks. It poured several times over the weekend but only put a minor damper on things. Farmers are happy. My yard is happy.
I was rain soaked or sweating my *** off all weekend.
Hopefully we will have a quiet day today.6 kids.
Must get groceries. All I have to offer for any meal are pb&j sandwiches.
Hubby is laid off this week til next Mon. He says he will build the front deck. I have had the $$ in the bank for 2 years.I picked up the permit and will drop it off today.
He needs to order lumber and then dig post holes. It is just sooooo hot.
I must say that in the week I turn 40 that 3 days with no sleep does show. My eyes are beyond baggy. 10 years ago it would not have showed. Other than that the big 4-0 seems effortless. LOL!!
Hugs dear chicks!! It is a new week and a new day!!!!

Annie, good luck at weight watchers!! I tried to join once, but I couldn't justify the money! So I followed it shortly at home on my own and was pretty successful!! So I wish you the best of luck The support system is great to have!

Hi, everybody! I almost have my life back....today was my first day at my new job. I'll be busy, but not crazed, and I have my own office again, so I can check in here briefly without people peering at my screen all day. I'll be leaving town for over a week soon, but by August 1 I plan to be a regular visitor again. Thanks for bearing with me!

Thre are too many post for me to catch up with. So I'll send a blanket cheer to all of you for being here and cheering the rest of us on. I feel like I have such a long way to go...but whenever I think of where I was (and how I felt) last winter, I am grateful for progress, no matter how slow. This has been a difficult year, but the transitions are nearly over (I hope!), and I know that the momentum will pick up again. I appreciate your support in getting this far.

hugs--judy

Judy~HI!! I hear about being grateful for the progress no matter how slow.Congrats on the job change and settling in!!! Cant wait to hear more.
Annie~hugs.

28 Days, the movie with Sandra Bullock and Viggo Mortenson was on tv last night.A fav. I curled up with a blanket to watch. This movie is is like watching clips of my life.
When she starts to recover and her sister comes to visit I sob and sob. I do find it uplifting and heart wrenching all at once. And she cracks me. Hey, I crack myself up sometimes too. Maybe I should watch it every year to remind myself of far I have come.

I did eat some pistachios and it was after my blubberfest. hmmmmmmmm
It did fill the emotional ache in my heart.
My Avon district manager is really pushing me to be a team leader. Today she is coming with the regional manager to talk about me going into managment. I dont want to. They keep telling me I am too good to waste just on personal sales.
Um...maybe in 2 years. I can see it heading that way but i have only been doing this 6 weeks. AND I really hate working with other people. I am am okay with being the boss usually but I work best independantly. Hubby is the same. Couple of rebels.
I ate too much yesterday. Started my period too.Still tired but had a good sleep last night.
Got the building permit yesterday. DH ordered the lumber. It is being delivered today.I may have a deck in 2 days!!!!!!!!!!
5 year with no front porch. It will be so nice to sit out there and watch the cars go by.

Today’s chuckle.....

Butt Measurement
> > >
> > > A man and his wife were working in their
> > > garden one day and the man looks over at his wife
> > > and says
> > > “Your butt is getting really big, I mean
> > > really big! I bet your butt is bigger than the
> > > barbecue.”
> > >
> > > With that he proceeded to get a measuring tape
> > > and measure the grill and then went over to where
> > > his wife was working and measured his wife’s bottom.
> > >
> > > “Yes, I was right, your butt is two inches
> > > wider than the barbecue!!!”
> > > The woman chose to ignore her husband.
> > >
> > > Later that night in bed, the husband is
> > > feeling frisky.
> > > He makes some advances towards his wife who
> > > completely brushes him off.
> > > “What’s wrong?” he asks.
> > > She answers: “Do you really think I’m going to
> > > fire up this big-*** grill for one little weenie?”

Good Morning Awesome Ladies....

Thought I would check in and let you know, yes, I finally joined weight watchers last night and am pretty jammed about it. Walked in and there was a lady I work with at Kohl's there. What luck! Actually she is my manager of customer services, brownie points, hehe. ANYWAY, she had a coupon, if a friend joins, the registration fee is free and she gets 1/2 off of her next meeting. SO what could of cost 34 dollars last night, only cost me the meeting fee of 12. I am going to do the points instead of the core. I think I can work that into my lifestyle better. Now I need to get some movement on this body.

Hi Judy, good to see you here. The best to you on your new job. Congrats.

Legally B...Thanks for the good wishes on my WW journey. I feel really good about it right now, hoped to stay jammed!

Hi ya Holly....

Hello to everyone! Have a simply marvelous day!!!

Hugs

Annie

Oh Holly, hahahahahah, great one!!

I saw this on the WW sight, what a cool idea.

"One woman shared that when she first started she had a picture of herself taken every WI day for 27 weeks--one photo each week on a disposable camera. (Most disposable cameras have 27 pictures.) After 27 weeks she developed the whole roll and could really see the progress. You could even bring the camera in after say 16 weeks and see remarkable changes."

Hi Annie, your egg is lit!!!!