POINTS:

Julie :bravo:
Susan :bravo:
Faye:dancer:

WE HAVE A SMARTASS AMONG US!.....J. U. L. I. E. :p

Susan: From a mother of 2 grown children, I know mother's can be royal pains in the butts especially when the way they look at things is not the way you look at things. Sometimes, the hardest thing to do is to just accept a difficult parent for what they are. If you feel that speaking your mind or talking to her will be of no use, for your own good the only thing you can do is accept her rotten attitude as part of her personality and not take it personally. My mother was a very cold woman who rarely showed any warmth and I decided the best thing for me to do was to do something my sister always told me to do and that was love her to death. I became her favorite child and felt that when she died we had nothing unspoken between us that I would have to live with forever. Just love her Susan and know that WE ALL KNOW YOU ARE A WONDERFUL DAUGHTER TO HER!

I got the upstairs cleaned today, made homemade bread with a recipe that doesn't use milk believe it or not and put a roast in the oven for dinner. All in all except for recurring cramping, today went well. I figure I outfoxed the little snot from the pool as I was in and out before 9:30! :lol:

Everyone have a great night!

Tomorrow is weigh in so good luck!

Faye ;)

FRIDAY: Today is Fabulous lbs Down Friday. What did we lose this week girls?

later! 2 lbs down this week

Faye :)

Morning Ladies!

3 points yesterday. Ended up taking the kids to a lake nearby, but I didn't swim like I'd planned because of TOM and just not feeling like it. So, no exercise. Will take care of that today, though.

I really feel like this no dairy/wheat thing is helping. I feel somehow "cleaner" inside, don't know how else to describe it. I'm more awake, don't have my 1:00 pm nap now. And the intestinal problems are getting much better. So I may have stumbled on to something. Also, I know I'm losing fat, cuz my chest is BONY! Still have "the girls" intact, but up near my collar bones, I can see RIBS. Woo HOoo... Can't wait till the end of the month.

I found out we have an honest to god butchershop just up the road. Sheesh! Meat is like, HALF the price it is at the grocery store! And they'll cut it up for you any way you want......and it's mostly from local farms where they don't use all those yucky growth hormones and antibiotics. So, looks like I'm gonna be a multi-store girl from now one. Butcher for meat (oh and they have fresh herbs and eggs from a farm next door), farm stands for veggies and fruit, and the grocery store for the rest of it. I feel so 19th century!

Susan--so sorry you're having troubles at home. There is a reason that kids leave home at a certain age! :lol: All I can add to Faye's great advice is REMEMBER how you feel right now......remember, and work very very hard NOT to do it to your kids! My grandmother was very demanding and hard, and my mother was NOT....she was the best! despite very difficult circumstances. I have my moments of insensitivity, but I try really hard not to yell at my kids, and appreciate every little thing they DO do, instead of focusing on the stuff they don't do. It's tough, though, and lots of times relationships just get better when you move out for good. Whatever you do, DON"T USE FOOD TO COMFORT YOURSELF! If it gets too much, take a walk or something.

Kinda slow yesterday, huh? Well, guess it's time for this "smartass" to clean house........now where did I put that shovel??

Later babes,
Julie

Morning Girls - Well I cannot tell you if I had any pounds down this week as my peice of :censored: scale that I bought is already not working. I thought Tanita scales were supposed to be a good brand, I have only had it about a week and have been on it about 3 times and already it is not working...Do any of you have those scales? I turn it on and it has the all "8's" across it and I wait for it to go to zero so I can step on, but the 8's stay on there and finally it goes to a screen that says error. Am I doing something wrong? That is how I have been doing it....

Julie - We used to have a butcher shop like that around us and then they closed...I was soooooooo upset, the meat was cheaper and so much better.
They had everything, including chicken and fresh thick bacon - not that I need that now :lol: I am glad that the no dairy is working out for you.

Faye - Have you even seen that guy since that happened? I just wonder if he frequents the place...Great job on the two pounds down!!! :cheer:

Susan - I know EXACTLY how you feel, my Dad and I have the same relationship, only until I moved out and got married did I get any peace. I have just realized that I am not ever going to get along with him 100% and just be as nice as I can and go on...just knowing that I can go home and leave the situation is wonderful :lol:

Hope everyone has a good day....

Hello Everyone from SC,

Things are going well here. I've been having a nice time with my parents. Not that we have done anything lol. I've been doing pretty good food wise and have maintained my weight loss so far. I helped my father mow the lawn yesterday, with a walking mower, that sure was good exercise. It is a huge yard. I have also been walking with my dad. This weekend I'm dog sitting for my sister so I have access to the internet for the next few days.

Not much else going on here.

Faye - I'm sorry to hear about your experience at the pool. What I find interesting, and this isn't directed towards you, but to women in general, is that we, as a group, are so afraid of hurting someones feelings. I guess it is bred into us. The man had no right to bug you or get close to you or touch you without your permission and yet you were worried about HIS feelings. Pardon my french in advance, but next time tell him to get the f**k away from you and if he doesn't you will beat the holly **** out of him and then call the police. Men, sick ones that victimize women, count on woman's typical nature of wanting to please and not be rude, of not wanting to make a scene. When you don't react as they think you will they will look elsewhere for a victim. If he is a truly good guy he would understand the reaction and say he was sorry and move away. If I saw him again I wouldn't even wait for him to say anything to me or get near me. I would immediately tell him to stay away and what would happen if he didn't. I really hope you don't have anymore trouble with this man. I just get upset about it because it really pisses me off how these sick people's own desires are more important to them then other peoples lives. Don't think for a minute that he was trying to be nice. Men you don't know are simply not that nice to strangers. Last October some guy, pretending to be nice, offered me a ride when I was walking home from school. He was in my way, didn't want to let me by, and had to go out of his way to get to where he was where he could talk to me. He said he hated to see me walking in the rain. First of all it wasn't even rainning, secondly I had an unbrella in my hand. I finally got nasty with him and told him to get the **** away from me. He did. Not 4 months later someone was arrested for picking up women, raping them and then cutting them into little pieces. He was found doing that in the same neighborhood where this man tried to get me to go with him. He was also in the same type of truck. Was it the same man? I don't know. Does it really matter? No. I don't care how nice someone is they don't go out of their way to help a stranger that doesn't need help in the first place. Well that's the end of my rant. I just would hate to hear that anything happened to you or anyone else.

I hope everyone is well,

Beth

Good Morning
I'm 1 pound down since monday which makes it 4 pounds since I last weighed in on a friday two weeks ago. I'm happy with that :D. Afterall...now my signature is telling the truth again ;). I cannot wait till I'm past 184!!!! That is a major bench mark for me. Next week might be tricky because I'm going on a camping trip and I'm not sure what's going to happen...In my family they are notorious for "bad" food...but last year I went on one with my sister, had a bunch of milkshakes and sat in a car for days and days...when I got home...I had lost 6 pounds. Go figure.

Thanks for all the words of advise, I knew that's what it was I had to start doing...and have been trying to do...its just still gets to me sometimes...but I'll be moving out VERY SOON!

For those of you asking about the pool, he was there when I went over this morning. I looked at him said good morning bruskly with this kind of grumpy look and got into the pool. I stayed in the pool until he got in the pool then I got out. I think he knew I was pretty pissed about the whole thing because he stayed WAYYYYYYYY away from me and never said anything else, but I also kept my eye on him and it was glaringly obvious I didn't want to be there when he was. He left me alone and that is all I wanted. I am not a very fearful type and speak to anyone that comes to the pool no matter the age, color, gender whatever. Beth as far as what you said, I would normally have done so but felt that since I was in a situation where I have a broken arm and bad knee now so getting away would be difficult, he was stronger than I , the pool cannot be seen well by others, that the best thing to do was kind of push away and excuse myself and get out. Sometimes, you have to take the safest route and since I did not know what he would do if verbally attacked, I felt leaving it alone was best. Truthfully, I think now he started trying to help me because I wasn't standing straight, but figured he'd cop a feel a little! I can laugh about it now as he got the message this morning from how I acted that I was pretty pissed off about the whole thing.

Boy is it hotter than hades here. The humidity is about 85% and it is around 93 degrees. I went shopping like a dolt and carried stuff in one bag at a time with my left arm so it took forever! Jack is going to be mad at me for not waiting to have him go with me, but I hate to mess up his weekend by dragging him to the grocery store, which he hates. Bought my little guy his Gameboy Advance SP for his birthday, 2 games and 3 beginning reading books(I believe in education along with mindless playtime! :lol:) Ok, for you ladies over 40, do any of you remember Trixie Belden books? I saw one at the Barnes and Noble this afternoon when I went to get his books. They are a kind of serial book. I used to read those, Cherry Ames (who was a nurse), didn't like Nancy Drew, The Bobbsey Twins and I loved historical books like Clara Barton etc. I am still a voracious reader, probably 4-5 books a week if I have lots of time. I guess it was from having a crummy home life with lots of fighting. I could lose myself in those books and I passed the love of reading to both my kids and my dd is passing it on to my dgs.

Well, I have blabbed about myself long enough. Have to go get my honey from work and convince him on the way home to "climb the stairs" with me this afternoon! :o ;) (Julie, I only have like 2 day periods anymore and they aren't much of anything except awful cramps)

Faye :)

Faye - I'm glad things went better for you at the pool today. I just wouldn't let my guard down.

Carri- I forgot to post this earlier as I went off on a rant lol. I did try the new coke c2. It is pretty funny really. I don't have tv so I have no idea about what new products are coming out, and add to that I don't buy pop to bring home I had no idea there was such a thing as this new coke. Yesterday I mowed for about 2 hours with a push mower in 90+ degrees and when my father and I went to the store to get something for lunch I decided to get a bottle of pop as a treat. Figured I deserved it lol. I can rationalize with the best of them. Anyway, they had the Coke C2 in ice so I grabbed one. I just figured the new label and the C2 was promoting a new movie or something. Boy I guess I'm out of it. Well, I ate my lunch, with my C2 and when I was almost finished with it I picked up the bottle and actually looked at it. I noticed it said low sugar. I had no clue what it was talking about so looked closer and noticed that it also only had 45 calories and pretty low sodium as well. You could of knocked me over with a feather. I drank it in a glass with ice. I don't like to drink pop right out of a bottle or can, but I couldn't tell a bit of difference between it and regular coke. I hate diet and refuse to drink it. If I had noticed that it was low in sugar/calories when I got it at the store I would never have bought it. But I'll tell you, from now on when I want to treat myself with a glass of pop I won't buy anything else. I think it is wonderful and thrilled that they came out with something like that. I mean pop no matter how you look at it isn't good for you, but I can drink that when I really want one and not feel so bad about it. Hope you like it as well. I bet if someone gave you a glass of it and you didn't know it wasn't regluar coke you'd have no idea. Just goes to show you that things don't need all that sugar to taste good.

Well...I'm off again. (Or maybe I always am lol.)

Beth

:lol: Well Said Beth :cp: about the perverts not the C2 :rofl:

2lbs down this week :dunno: must have been water retention cuz i have'nt done anything to warrant it :o :lol:

Carri, have you tried taking the battery out and putting it back in? it may reset it :dunno: if it does'nt take the damn thing back :rollpin: ;)

Well Done Susan :cp: at least your mother problem is'nt interfering with your weightloss ;) Good for You :D i'm afraid it would if it was me :o i always hit the fridge or cupboard if i'm upset, depressed or bored :rofl:

Great Job Faye :)

SATURDAY: today is Sunny Thoughts Saturday. Let's try and be as cheerful as possible today and enjoy our weekend.

POINTS: (Thursday's program)

Julie :cp:
Faye :dancer:

LBS DOWN THIS WEEK:

Susan 1, Faye 2 Good job! :yes: :encore: :bubbles:

Beth: I solumnly promise! Thank you so much for caring so much! This is Pepsi's equivalent and I think it came out first. Have no clue what it tastes like. I only drink diet now. I hated, despised, etc diet too, until I faced up to the fact that if I wanted cola I had to go that route. A co-worker said the way she switched from a 10 drink a day habit to diet was to drink it only when eating food. I rarely drink it any other way because like you, I didn't like the taste.

Pepsi EDGE (8 fl. oz)
Contains: Carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup and/or sugar, caramel color, phosphoric acid, caffeine, sucralose, natural flavors, citric acid, gum arabic

Calories 50
Total Fats (g) 0
Sodium (mg) 25
Total Carbohydrates (g) 13
Sugars (g) 13
Protein (g) 0

Hope you all have a great weekend. It is not quite 6 am and it is already near 80 degrees this morning!

Faye :)

Hi Ladies!

Sorry I've been MIA for the last few days. I've been struglling with my PMS as always - I have gone off plan, but it has been in a more controlled way. I haven't binged or anything - but I have gone over my points allowance for the past couple of days, just through eating crispbreads and low fat cheese and stuff.(plus some chocolate - purely for medicinal purposes ;) ) This is an improvement on my previous blow outs - so I'm not beating myself up about it (well not too much!) I'm at the 'pick n mix' stage of my PMS now (where I have an overwhelming craving for pick n mix sweets) - but I haven't succumbed. I was sorely tempted to get on a bus into town just to buy some (believe me, I've done it before! :lol: ) - but I managed to talk myself out of it. I said to myself - 'yes, it will taste nice, but it will not improve my PMS symptoms AND I will feel guilty and depressed about pigging out!'

Hope everyone else is doing well!

Love Amanda xx

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Hello Everyone-

Not much going on here. I spent the day running around with my father and then took a nap lol. A much needed nap. My dad makes me get up earlier than I normally would and it is hard to sleep well at someone elses house, but I'm having a good time.

Mscat816 - I've tried Diet Rite...didn't like it. Can't stand any of the diet pops. My solution is to just not drink any. I only drink water or ice tea at home. I did like the C2 Coke which is cool for those times...rare but still there...that I just HAVE to have a bottle of pop. I think this was the first time I've had pop in about 2 months actually.

It is a nice break up here in SC. It is warm and sometimes hot, but just not nearly as bad as Florida. Of course when I go back to Florida in August it will be horrible lol.

Well, I hope everyone is having a great day. Or I should say had a great day.