I thought I posted but apparently did not.
Nice day so far. I got my red pepper in at lunch today.Took 4 kids to the splash pad and then my Mom came and picked up my 2 for the night. The other 2 napped most of the aft. I laid out on the swing for a while and then puttered in the kitchen.
Just me and DH for supper.Weird.
I will take a nap first. Gonna go get some shrimp and fruits and veg that are on sale.
That's about it!!
Hi to every. I love your thinking too Lilybutt.

Holly, I'm thinking maybe my post got eaten, because I sware I posted not long ago also!

Hi all,

Well today was a real eye opener for me. Spent the day with my mom, (whom we have a really strained relationship at times), shopping. It came to me about 2 pm, when I realized if I DO NOT change my habits, I will be in the same physical health, not to mention some of the mental health habits, and ailments as my mom. It was very scary to me today, when I was in Lowe's with her, she is 60, and she was having difficulty walking the store. Her knees are shot, she is having double knee replacement in Aug., and her weight is not at a good place. She has had gastric by-pass over 20 years ago, lost over 100 pounds, and has gained all of it back. She has not changed her eating habits, infact today, her eating habits were horrible. She grabbed a McD's mcgriddle on way into town, then at lunch ate a deepfried walleye sandwich with fries, and potato salad. I am scared. Really to be perfectly honest, I am terrified, this will be me in 10+ or more years. I am in no way judging my mom, I am just trying to identify my own fears, and reasons that I eat what I eat, and struggle with everyday. Enough of this, here is meals as of today:
B- yogurt, blueberries, strawberries, and a starbucks iced coffee no fat, no sugar
L- chicken wrap, salad little dressing
S- a subway sub under 5 g. fat, no dressings
lots of water with lime, snack was a handful of sunflower seeds,

no workout today, except I mowed lawn when I got home. Tommorrow I will work out with weight training in AM, and since DS is gone to the Cities until Sunday, I will do all of his mowing jobs. (4) 2 push mows, 2 rider mows.

Have a great evening.
Sandi

I am really not trying to bring everyone down, I was just really brained thumped today, and I didn't like it one bit.

Good morning everyone,
I did a little better yesterday. I had lots of on the job walking. I still need to get back on track with food.
B- Yougurt, and natural applesauce.
L- Chinese buffet. Don't ask, I usally try to Stay away from rice, anything fried ect. Not yesterday...drats.
D- a grilled lean pork chop sand with a little bit of mayo.
Lots of room for improvement there.
Sandi: I feel like I'm where your mom's at. I'm Having trouble walking and I've lost 60lbs only to regain it and a few more. I truly feel like I'm at a place where its now or maybe not be able to walk in a few years. When I'm out shopping a I see the large women sitting in the electric cart. spilling over the sides of the seat. I know that where I'm heading if I dont loose now.

Holly: Good morning, Are you up enjoying
your coffe out on your swing?

Annie: Glad everthing is going well.

Lily: Great insight! Its not about the numbers. Its about being and feeling our best.


I've ran out of time.
Everyone have a blessed day

Oh what, yet another, glorious day in Indiana. 78 and no humidity. I'll take it! The weekend is supposed to be awesome also, altho I have to work at Kohl's Saturday, off Sunday.

Went to my mom's last night as it was her 76th birthday. Of all things, she wanted flip flops for her BD. So I bought her 5 different pairs, various colors, and types. She was in heaven.

Had another perfect OP day on WW. I am still really jazzed about. Each day gets easier and easier, and by eating healthly food and all of my points allotment each day, I must say, I am NEVER really hungry. Several nights I have to find things to eat to finish up my point allotment. Seems strange, and yet still losing. Can't wait for WI on Monday night. My boss brought in to me the most beautiful peaches off of his tree. They are almost too pretty to eat, however I am looking forward to having one on my break.

I am going to TGI Fridays for lunch with a buddy from my former job of 23 years. She and I have lunch about once every 2 or 3 months. I found the neatest website that tells you almost any restaurant you can think of and the point value of their items. www.dottisweightlosszone.com then scroll down to the middle of the page and click on restaurant. It is a real interesting site, check it out.

Sandi - it's funny how motivated you can get with eating healthy and losing weight, when reality sets in. Kind of what happened to me. Now I am on a roll (non-edible kind, hehe) and hope it takes me all the way down to onederland.

Debbie - Don't let the yesterdays get to you, today is a brand new day, so put your best foot forward and go! You can do this, you really can.

Guess I best get to work ;^) Everyone have a beautiful, on track weekend, stay focused. Chat at cha all on Monday!

(((hugs))) Annie

I could have sworn I posted in here a day or two ago. I'm really far behind, sorry for not doing individual replies. It sounds like everyone is doing pretty well.

I met my goal on Wednesday! 212 pounds. I weighed myself this morning even though it's not one of my "official" weigh in days, and I was at 211 this morning. One pound past my goal! Very exciting.

Oh, how nice to come and see everyone who has been in!!!
Sandi~ My maternal Grandmother and Mom's older sis are just like your mom. Many, many surgeries and insanley poor health. They were OLD by 60. My mom has lived her life not to be like them. Her genetics are different but she does walk 2 hours every day and eats very well and has all her life. Sher is a slim , fit 60 yo. I am made like the other 2 genetically and have always been largeish but i am also way healthier and I care. They did not. It is hard to keep it in mind when ,although overweight, I am very fit , healthy and not inhibitied by my weight in any way. Makes it easy to slide.
Debbie~ I WAS on the swing!! It is the first and last thing I do every day. I ahve already gotten my money's worth. Hubby thinks I am u nuts because it makes me so incredibly happy.
Hope today is going well!!
Annie~ isn't it nice to be made happy with a simple pairs( okay pairs) of flipflops!!
We are having the same weather here.Love ya!!
Gray~ You ROCK!!!
Hi LB and Susie!!
Is it really Friday????
ZOOOOOOM!!! I have been stopping to smell the roses and life is still zoomng by.
Darn it!!
Kids went to the Lake for the night and are coming home sometime today. DH and i had a lovely evening doing nothing. Have I mentioned that I love my porch swing???
I slept way in and woke to a Dad hollering up the stairs,"Hey, are you breathing?”
Yikes. Too quiet here.
4 little people today.
I dug up some gravel for under the new porch to be replaced with topsoil.
Went for fresh groceries. Spent $129. sigh.
Puttering to do today.
My Sis called all excited this morning because they bought a new tv. HA, see, She loves me. I know she has been avoiding me but when anything big happens she calls. She will always need her big sis.
It is a long weekend here. We dont have any plans. The temps will be 23C up to about 27C. Just perfect. I forsee puttering in the yard!!!! (76f-83f)
Food was okay yesterday. Did better with the veggies but not great. I am lazy, cause everything is there. If I took a half hour and prepped everything I would be set for the week. So DO IT!!
Have a perfectly wonderful day!!

Hello,
I missed you guys yesterday. I am happy to say that I stayed on track even though I didn't get a chance to check in.

I had my TOPS weigh-in last night and it wasn't so bad; I did gain, but only .50 lbs. It could have been worse and I'm sure that it was until I made my confession here and got back on track.

I left that meeting last night KNOWING that it will be the last gain I have that is self-inflicted. I might gain for reasons uncontrollable by me, but it will not be because I did it do myself. I really do think more of myself than that..and I'm not going to let myself be mean to me like that again!

Food from yesterday:
B=rice crispes w/ milk, water
L=1/2 ham sub, 2 cookies, water (I skipped the chips so I could have cookies and it was a working lunch so I really didn't have that much control over the food)
D=2 p of white pizza, salad, rootbeer, 1 p of peach cobbler.


I didn't get a chance to work out much this week..next week, I'll make sure that I get those workouts in.

I'll do personal's later.

I'm down another 2 lbs today...almost at my 10% goal. Hopefully soon I will be in the 100's!

And in other news....we're signing the papers today on our new house!!!!!! It will in turn help me walk more because I will have to catch buses to get to work/school everyday, and the bus stop is 3 blocks away from the house.

I hate Friday and Saturdays! Because I don't weigh in until Sundays and by this time I'm going nuts, wishing to know what my new weight is! I mean, sure I step on the scale every day, but I don't count it, I just look at it as a measure of my progress

I did an hour and eight minutes of cardio today! I'm so proud of myself for this! And I am starting to really enjoy working out! Sure, I'm still a bit painful as I go...my legs get sore and tired, but when I'm done I feel great!

I'm thinking of calling in sick to work! I never call off, but I just don't feel like going in tonight. I would be a 4th person in my area, and therefor just standing around, staring into space all night like an idiot... perhaps I will call in...

Sandi, for a lot of us it takes stepping back and looking at the health of our parents. For me, it was when my dad had a massive heart attack (or so we thought) and while he was in the hospital, waiting for surgery to get a mechanical heart (his was so horribly ruined from the attack that he was in heart failure) we found out that he'd had many (up to 50) minor heart attacks over the past 10 years that he just didn't realize he'd had because he was so big, he probably just thought of them as heart burn So I saw him and thought "Oh, my god! That's going to be me in 20 years if I don't do something now!"

Debbie, a good plate of chineese food isn't too bad once in a while, and if we don't allow ourselves to have it we're at greater risk of cheating!

Annie, it sounds like you're doing so great on WW!! CONGRATULATIONS!! It's great how every day gets a little bit easier, isn't it?!

G.E.G., CONGRATS on reaching your goal!! I bet that was really encouraging! And one pound past! woo hoo!! My scale this morning said I'm also one pound past my goal, and I still have 2 days till weigh in, so I hope I make the most of them, and don't just throw them away!

Holly, your comment about your sister cracks me up! My sister is the same way! Swears up and down she doesn't need me anymore, yet when ANYTHING worth mentioning happens at all I'm the first on her list to call

MyChoice, It sounds like you have an amazing new attitude now! Just remember we are all here to support you if you ever need anything!

Dakota, Congratulations on such a big day! 2 pounds down and a new house!!

Morning wonderful chicks!!!!

When we bought our house 6 years ago the yard had never been used. This place was built as a resataurant/gas station in the 60’s, turned into apts in the 80’s and a single family home in the early 90’s.We are the first family with kids and who wants to use the yard as a yard. Our property was severed from a larger one and a newer house was built on the other part. Our neighbour own 5 acres that is around 3 sides of us. They are our only neighbour.It is odd to be surrounded like this. I had started planting trees, shrubs and flowerbeds for privacy and prettiness and they told me most of it was on their property.Our driveway and clothes line etc were over the line too because everything was done half assed right from the beginning.We do have an old survey with measurements off of our house.Anyhow they have put in a pool and want to put up a solid fence for privacy and safety and had a survey done yesterday. ALL my stuff is ON our property, in fact out the back where she has been planting veggies is actually our property.We have gained 10 feet of yard!! Can you say spruce trees!!?
It is soooo nice to have this resolved. It is sooo weird that in 65 years no one has used the back yard. It has also been a weird feeling to not know where our land ended. There were many stories from locals and the previous owners and none were right. I am happy it is resolved and I can continue with my gardening uninhibited.

I had an Avon meeting yesterday. I have signed up 2 new reps out here as my team. That means my name goes into a draw for a 27 in TV, 2 out 25 chances.
woohoo!
We went to a bday party last night that was supposed to be for dinner, i made a pasta salad but the plans had changed and no one called us. So at 7:30 I ran to the restaurant in town for some burgers for takeout to go with my salad for my family.
We had a nice time.
We all slept in til 9. Hubby is still in bed.
I had my coffee out on my new porch swing, on my new porch!!!!
Today is about laundry and moving gravel and dirt. I have a load of wood chips coming next week to cover everything til I plant. I need to weed and cozy up my other beds and trees too.

Food yesterday was good, water good ,not much extra exercise.

Have a fulfilling day!!

Yesturday did pretty good, although doctor scare and wait of 3 hours blew my exercising for the day.

Total Cals 1712, Water 14 servings

B = 1/2 Dannon Light'n'Fit smoothie with splenda, 1 nutrigrain mixed berry bar & water

L = salad wrap with grilled chiken breast, iceburg lettuce, baby spinach, carrots, green peppers, hard-boiled egg and a tiny bit of mozz cheese & water

Snack = one apple with peel and one Laughing Cow mini-babybel light cheese

D = 1.25 cup turkey lasagna with one piece whole wheat bread and water

snack = 1.5 oz piece of Duncan Hines moist-n-ready Devil's food cake with 1/2 tabelspoon homemade frosting and 1.5 cup of nonfat milk

** could have done better, certainly with the cake (as in not eating it ) but was stressed out

I deserved a little 's food after my medical scare

And my weigh-in today showed I lost 1 pound

Tomorrow is weigh in!! I always get anxious on Friday and Saturday waiting for Sunday's weigh in!! I can't wait to see my official weight! As of today I was down 3 pounds from last week, so lets hope it's for real and that I am down 3 pounds!!

Hello!

Just enjoying a quiet night home alone on a Saturday night...nothing much on TV!!!! Oh well...it has been a good day. Yesterday I called a friend to go have dinner with me last night (Friday)...I think I had not spoken to a single person all week, except for the furbabies!, and I needed to get out.....it was obvious...I chatted her ears off!!! Oh well that is what friends are for!

Today I ran some errands, went for a walk using a new pedometer (walk was 6200 steps..wooo hooo!), made some supper and started a new book. Tell you what guys...it is very obvious it is time for school to start and for me to go back to work!!!! I enjoy me time home and time alone...but it is time to get things started and go back to work. I have one more full week off...then two weeks of working a few days...then start back full time.

Tomorrow I am headed to Minneapolis to pick my boyfriend up at the airport.....heading up early and doing some shopping along the way...looking forward to it and I usually am not much of a shopper! Monday I am taking my car in to be serviced...100,000 miles!!! then I'm heading to the bank to make the last car payment. That will be a good day!

Eating wise...all is good here...even at dinner the other night did okay. Went to the grocery store and loaded up on fruits and veggies. I am working on decreasing the diet pop thing.....working on it is the optimal phrase there.....drinking ice tea to replace some of it and increased water.....hopefully be off it by next weekend.

Oh and the 5 days of exercise this week.....well let me think......Last Sunday went to the Y and biked and did weights, Tuesday and Wednesday walked, Thursday back to the Y and biked and weights, Saturday walked outside...all for an hour....so I DID IT!!! 5 days!!!!

Enjoy your weekend!
Lliybutt

Holly, thank you. You rock, too. I'm glad you're enjoying your swing so much. I'm jealous . How nice to gain some land in your back yard! My father's yard is similar, and he had to battle with new neighbors several years ago about their dog run, which as it turned out they were trying to put on HIS yard. They put it on the other side of their house in the end.

Susie, a half a pound could easily have been from eating dinner or retaining a little bit of water. I'm glad you're not letting it get you down. I bet you'll see a drop next week, if you continue to keep yourself inspired and committed.

Dakotamidnight, congratulations on signing everything for your new house. When do you move in? You must be so excited. The 2 pound loss is really great, too.

LB, thanks. It really is exciting to see the numbers go down. I started out at a size 22, and today I put on my size 18 jeans fresh from the dryer and they were loose enough that I could pull them on without unfastening the button or zipper. I will be back in 16s in no time. I would love to be at goal by my next anniversary (next summer). How's it going as far as weigh-ins? Did that pound stay off? I hope you lost even more.

Lisa, congratulations on your one pound loss. I think you're doing great with your food. Lots of low-fat dairy, lots of veggies.

lilybutt, I'm glad you got your 5 days of exercise in. I really struggle with soda too. One of my goals for July was no soda and I failed that one miserably. I just depend so much on the caffiene! I hope you're able to kick the soda habit.

All is well here. I am so proud, because this afternoon I met my exercise goal for July. 1510 minutes of exercise in the past month! Phew. I'm going to set my goal a little lower for August, because with school starting up and my kids starting preschool, I'm going to be really busy and I KNOW I won't get 1500 minutes in next month. I'm thinking that I'll go for 1200. Still a lot of exercise, that means getting at least an hour for 20 out of 31 days. That's a lot of workouts, really. And maybe I'll go over. I was still at 211 this morning, which is fine. I'm going to weigh myself tomorrow to get an official total for the month, and then try to go back to my weigh-in "schedule" of Wednesdays and Saturdays. I'm also doing well with the eating goal I set for myself - under 1600 calories a day. So far so good.