Hi and Welcome to the new girls!!!

Still here and hanging in there. Right now not counting calories.....just watching it and concentrating on eating when I am hungry. Oh yes and drinking water…..the pop addiction has gotten much better, keep it to one a day now and I think that is fine. I put the calorie counting on hold because I have had lots of “events” this week to go to. Went to the state fair and knew I would be eating fair food. I won’t share the gory details, but I went a girl friend and we ate food on a stick, but bought one of everything and shared it so we didn’t each too much. Then we went to the Big and Rich concert…those are some crazy boys!!! Last night I had dinner with girl friends, but ate a salad. This weekend I am going to go visit some relative and it will involve eating out…..so instead of worrying about calories, I am going to make good choices and go back to the calorie count on Monday. That’s my plan!!!!

Thanks to all of you for being there. It is so nice to log in and see familiar and new faces that I can connect with….Everyone have a good weekend!!
Lilybutt

Good Morning Ladies,
It has been pretty quiet aound here. How is everyone doing? I have been overeating badly for the past 2 days. It seems as though losing a few last week gave me license to go on a binge. I want to lose this weight. Somewhere, somehow I need to find strength. I just read a discussion about food ruts and if they are good or bad to your plan. For instance, eating the same lunch and breakfast for a week because you need to finish the box of cereal or deli meat before moving on and buying a new box of cereal and deli meat for next week. What do you think about food ruts? If you eat the same thing every day there is no thinking or worrying. Cereal for breakfast, turkey sandwich for lunch. Simple enough. Share your thoughts. Get the board moving again.

Welcome Newcomers. I hope you enjoy it here and find it as helpful and supportive as you need it to be.

Lily- Sounds like a great plan! I like that you will not be pressuring yourself to be "perfect" knowing full well that all of your events may make that difficult. I always set myself up for failure like that and beat myself up afterwards.

Holly- Sorry about the scales but way to go letting it motivate you back on track. The walking plan sounds great. I had to laugh at the sell a cow thing. I live in a rural area where we still have the down home small time county fair (hasn't been commercialized) with blue ribbons and pie baking contests but going to market to sell a cow has me beat by a mile. Sounds like we have very similar weather. The mornings have been perfect for me.

Annie- You are doing great! Keep up the good work.

Susie- Hope everything is ok.

Have a great day everyone.
Sue
PS: How do you get my weight tracker thing to show current weight # under my ladybug?

Happy Friday Everyone!!

Hope all is well for you!

Sue - go to quick links tab at top of this page, then signature, change the weight in the line where necessary to say what it needs to say. Save and close.

This is the weekend I take my son to see Steve Miller Band in concert for his birthday today. He is 17. My how time flies. Makes me sad my baby is 17. But then again on the other hand, it makes me happy to see such a well adjusted, happy, wonderful young man.

WW is on Monday, and am looking forward to WI.

Everyone have a terrific OP weekend, and will chat at you all on Monday.

(((Hugs)))

Annie

Only 6 kids today and 3 go home by 1!!!!!!!!
DS was beyond grouchy this morning as was a baby. ARG! right back at them.
SS meeting last night was irritating..... but we accomplished a lot. My co superintendent has been a lifelong church member. The troll that doesn’t like me has been there for years. They talk about things and people us newer folk don’t know. Rude. Then they make all kinds of suggestions and criticism and do NOTHING to change things. Where as another Mom and I do back-flips all year long and get put down by the troll. The minister and the entire congregation think the other Mom and I walk on water and are openly thankful.That means a lot to me/us.
Today I will type and email the minutes and “offer” up their big ideas with a request for leadership. giggle
We have decided to make up a nursery class of 2 and under kids. I volunteered to do it!! No more teaching lessons and no more coexisting with the troll.Woohoo!!! Can you say relieved!!!!!!
It is muggy and rainy so far today.
Food yesterday was good and I was tired and went to bed instead of munching!!
Tomorrow we have DH’s family corn-roast at the farm. Always a good time.
Love to all!

Where is everyone????
I am still tired but feeling relaxed and refreshed. I have been fighting a headache that is part allergies part stress. The stress is just the noise level from 8 kids for 5 days straight, really. Hubby and I lounged in bed til 8:30. He is making breaky.I will do a thorough clean of the kitchen and then we are off to the farm for a corn roast with his family. it will be relaxing there too. i hope the rain holds off.
I made a low fat bean dip yesterday and was super gassy all night. It was comical.
I will take a bath before we go too.
Have a splendid weekend!!!

Hello!
I was determinded that I would get here today. I got up early, did some Yoga, then cleaned house.

We went car shopping on Thursday and went back today. It looks like next Saturday, I'm coming home with a brand new car. It's exciting...but then again there is the payments! Oh well, I had planned on getting back into that in the spring...life is what happens when you are making plans.

Speaking of plans, I decided today that I would stay on track and for today that meant no Rootbeer (I've been slipping in the habit of one a day, and it's not good for the diet, nor the IC for that matter). I've done really well with that. And while I did have an ice cream cone..that's it for the sweats.

I'm going to start off each day with a small goal that will help me stay on track, get back on track, or move on down the track!

How is everyone else doing this weekend? Are weekends hard for you? I know that sometimes I struggle withnot having the structure that I have during the week.

I'm going to go relax with a book. Just wanted to let you all know that I'm still here, reading the posts at least every other day and trying to post at least every other day.

Susie

good morning girls!!
i have been MIA for a long time. i think i am ready to give it a go again, the summer was just too full and crazy i stopped spending the time on myself and it shows. today i am re-organizing myself and preparing and tomorrow morning i officially start taking care of ME again. wish me luck!! i missed you all very much and it is nice to see so many familiar faces still here! i hope there is still a spot for me!
xoxox
jodi

JODSTER MY FRIEND!!!!! It is soooo nice to see you.

Spores and Girlie have drifted off too , maybe they will drift back in.
HUGS!!
Susie~ you sound great. How was the relaxing with a book??

We had a beautiful day yesterday at the farm with Hubby's parents,bros, sil and all the kids. Much laughter and silliness and games.We stayed til after 10 for the camp fire.DD fell asleep in my arms.
I ate way too much dinner. Water and fruit and veg today!!!
DH's oldest bro is having marriage troubles. We had a good talk about it. He seem okay. I was worried about him. It will be rocky. He is planning on leaving and should. Sad tho.
Lots of housework and garden work today. Putter, putter.

Hi Everyone. I am having so much trouble staying anywhere close to on track. Not sure what is going on. Weekends are tough but this has been a looong one if you count thurs and fri, lol. Tomorrow I am leaving for a week to my parents but I can, no will, be able to stay on track there. I can also check in here. I hope everyone is having a great weekend and ready for the Monday wagon like me.

Susie- Sounds like a great plan! Good luck with the new car.

Holly- Sounds like you had a good time with family. Have fun puttering (Isn't puttering an official exercise? You'll work off that dinner in no time).

Hi Jodi!!- Great to see you again. I just got back after a long hiatus so we are on the road again together.

Have a great day everyone.

Sue

Hi,
It's a busy Sunday afternoon around here. I just got back from Walmart. Did some grocery shopping. Usually DH does it but he was baking cookies for a friends b-day. My DH is a great baker and our friends always request their special/favorite cookies from him for the b-day.

We are going to this friends B-day for a cookout as well. I'm making deviled eggs; I have them boiling at this very moment.

I got up this moring and did the Walk Away the Pounds Power Walk. I bought that DVD about a month ago to use it to fill in for my workouts when I can't get to the gym. It's only a mile walk and it's 20 min, but it felt good to start my day out on the right foot. I think that is a key for me in this Race. When I start my day with some sort of physical activity, I stay on track.
I can't believe that I actually identified something that really works for me. Now, it's time to put it into practice. I can do that by starting each day with some sort of exercise. Maybe it will be the walk tape, or a walk outside, or my 10 min ab workout, or Yoga, or just parts of the Yoga tape, even 10 min. As long as it's something, to keep me on track as the day begins.

Today my goal is to only have one serving of the food at that cookout. This will be hard, because there is always so much good food. But instead of focusing on the food, I 'll focus on the conversations, and the social setting, and let that fill me up.

Jodi: Welcome back. It's good to see you again.

Holly: I love to putter around.

Suzy: A change of location might be just what you need to get back on track.

Ok..got to go see to those eggs.

Bye!

Hidee Ho Neighbors.......

Had a very enjoyable weekend. Went home Friday night and did laundry, didn't go to DS football game as it was an away game, and very far away at that. Also got his BD cake done. Made a double fudge, vanilla pudding cake with vanilla icing w/sprinkles. It turned out marvelous. Then DS and I went to Steve Miller Band concert Saturday night for his BD. He loved it, and said it was a the best yet birthday present. Steve Miller ROCKED, he did a 20 minute rendition of Fly Like an Eagle, was very cool. Yesterday made DS his birthday meal to go with cake. I took the ultimate sacrifice and allowed his dad to come to dinner. Guess what, his dad did not show up. Nothing unusual, but was dissappointing for DS. Even tho he is 17, it was still a let down. Broke my heart and told my 19 yr old DD, their dad had better be dead as that is the only excuse. haha. I was determined to give the *ssh*le a piece of my mind, but then decided not to waste my breath as he never listened when we were married either. What a loser! Sorry to vent, however you can mess with anything but my kids. My DS tries so hard to make that relationship work with his dad, and my DD just blows him off and doesn't have much to do with him. It is sad that he has two great kids and doesn't do them right.

Anyhoo, WI is tonight, looking forward to it once again. Aunt Flo came in last night, cramping going on now, and what a delite.

Everyone have a wonderful Monday, try real hard to stay OP! May the forces be with you.

(((Hugs)))

Annie

Hey everyone,
This was dh weekend off. So I had trouble getting here. I started off good, then boy I really blew it today.
When he's home we stay on the run and eat out way too much. I have no self control with fast food. No big news there. Up-side, I did go to curves this am. Not that it did any good when I ate chicken fried steak/gravy for lunch. I didn't mention the peach cobbler I had for dessert. Enough beating myself up.
I'll just have to get up and start over tomorrow.

JODI!!.. My dear friend there is always room for you. welcome back. We've missed you. (((HUGS)))


Annie: I would love to see Steve Miller in concert.
You gave DS a wonderful birthday. It's his fathers loss. Sounds like you have a wonderful relationship with your children. Just love them and keep your little family close.

Susie: Sounds like you really try to keep varity in your workouts. I have a couple of watp but almost never use them. You've inspired me to try something new. I get bored easily.

Sue: I've had a lot of trouble staying focused for awhile now. I hope it just the heat. I feel like my progress is standing still.

Holly: You sound rested. I glad you have a wonderful weekend with dh family.

Sorry I sound so down. I just wonder if I can really make the changes that I need to reach my goal. Then keep the weight off. I will really try. Then turn around and eat something I know I shouldn't have. I'm so tried of this weight. I can't give up. I just keep praying for willpower. (((HUGS)))

"Sorry I sound so down. I just wonder if I can really make the changes that I need to reach my goal. Then keep the weight off. I will really try. Then turn around and eat something I know I shouldn't have. I'm so tried of this weight."~ Deb I could not have said it better. Somedays it seems insurmountable.

Gettin in the groove.At least with my time management issues. Yes I need to plan for exercise and plan meals.

I dug and edged the flower bed on the south side of the house yesterday morning for over an hour. The boys moved and spread mulch. The girls and toddlers made mudpies. It was cool and wonderful. We had a scotch mist all afternoon. I stood on the front porch a few times letting it mist my face.
Hubby tidied the kitchen, DS cleaned up toys, DD went for a sleep over, I had a 3 hours sessions meeting for church.
Much was sorted out and decided. I am going to be the communication liaison for our church between all the groups. I will do a monthly newsletter.It wont be too fancy but helpful.
Our photo directory proof was in .
I dropped into bed and zonked out.
I set my alarm for a half hour earlier. Getting ready for back to school and the possibility of doing some form of exercise in the morning. My biggest problem is I like to be up late and sleep in. My clock has never adjusted even tho DS was up by 5am for the first 5 years of his life. I like to stay up til 1 or 2 and sleep til 9.
My late hostas and lilies are blooming right now all pink and white.
I need more mums. I only have 1. I need a couple in the back and out front. Maybe next year. Although we need to save to do the floors. Renos are almost done really , compared to where we started.
I don’t really have a “plan” for today. It is pretty wet out still but there is yard work. A shrub to be moved,2 bleeding hearts to cut back and divide.
Ragweed counts are at their highest hence the stuffy head.
Only 7 kids coming today, LOL!!
A few phone call to make.
I probably should wash the pots and pans.Darn kitchen fairy didn’t come again.
Best get to work. HUGS!!

Good Morning, Good Morning!

What a wonderfully beautiful day in Indy! Wish I could of stayed home and enjoyed it even more! I WILL take a 30 minute walk at lunch today as I did yesterday!

Debbie - here's to strength and empowerment to get back on track and run with it. I know you can do it. We can all do it.

Holly - sounds like you have a plan for the day. Only 7 kids today, sheesh kind of light isn't it? hehe

Susie -great job on WATP, all of it helps so much towards getting to our goals.

Well ladies....... I had -2.8 loss last night at WW. A total of 18.2. I am so pleased and excited. My clothes are starting to get a bit baggy, can't wait to move down to 18s. I have a lot of beautiful pant suits and skirts in that size. I have a gorgeous 16 size pant suit that is brand new and can't wait to get into.

Must get to work, we have about 10 visitors here today, and I need to play hostest.

Stay focused girls....(((HUGS))) Annie

Good Morning ladies :) I know this is only my 2nd or 3rd post, but I've been offline for a little while due to technical difficulties :lol: I hope everyone is doing well and still striving toward their goals.
By the way Annie, congrats on your 2.8 loss!!

I actually got to change the numbers on my tracker for the first time since I joined the race!!!Woo-Hoo! I'm down 2 lbs. It seems like a small number to me, but when I visualize what 2lbs. of fat looks like compared to 2lbs. of muscle, it kind of puts things into a realistic perspective for me. Anyhoo, just wanted to share. Hopefully, I'll get motivated to really start working out this week. Best of luck to all you lovelies. Don't ever quit! :flow2:
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