Hi choco. What a great name! How'd you lose the weight.

Wabby, Ivan is coming back to pee on us.

Not dead yet, just too d*mn lazy to post
 

Feeling like a slug. Eating like a pig. It's rainy and windy and cold - they say it's Ivan's fault. Got my hair cut and it makes me look 65. I'm crabby and my life sucks. Or is that SOCKs?

Hi choco! Wow, 25 lbs? That's excellent. Maybe you can give us some pointers.

Kiwi! Did you whiz on down to the airport today to see Cat Stevens? Wasn't me about the politics thing. I saw some website, though, where people from all over the world could put in their "votes" for Bush or Kerry. Interesting to see it split up country by country.

Hi Wabby and Bagzie and Peachy and Lushy! It's only Thursday but I think I need a margie already.

Hi everybody! Ahh... pointers...weight loss... are you sure you want to talk about that? (grin)

First I had to like myself as is. Tough to do!
Then I had to get all the junk food out of the house.
Write down everything I eat.
Count calories
Exercise (ACK! WHAT??? is that??)
Drink a ton of water
I had to develop patience to lose slowly and not freak out if I went up a pound (or 2)
but keep at it.

Sorta hit a plateau but....I haven't gained any back and Maintenance is an Art Form too doncha think? I'd LOVE love LOVE to get down to 135 lbs again, but that's (gulp) 40 lbs away at the moment and 150 looks pretty good from here at the moment.

Currently: 173
Goal: 145
Height: 5"5' (well almost)
Age: 54

I wish I could send you ladies some of our weather here in California.... it's sunny, warm, not too hot.. clear and gorgeous... balmy comfortable evenings. We could use some rain....maybe we can work out a swap? Have a great evening!

Chris =)

Kiwi-- check out this guy's blogs.... he gives great talking points for those of our political persuasion. You made a great point about lying to pollsters... but I still don't want to help the bushies out of their smarmy complacency.
http://WWW.markarkleiman.com/archive..._clarifies.php

ChocShop- welcome. I think I'm one of the newer ones on this list. What I like about this group is it is friendly but not particularly intense (well, usually). Few drama queens here. What a relief!

My nutritionist keeps saying a pound a week is a GOOD speed at which to lose pounds. If it's the end of september (month 9) x 4.3 weeks/month that'd only be 39 pounds... 25 sounds great!! (I need to remind myself of that.... 15 (out of 100+ sounds pitiful to my own ears.)

I think people's religions should be mandatory secrets. I'd like to have a conversion experience: to THIN!

Drama Queen Reporting In!!
 

Sugar, 15 years??? really? Did you dye it grey??? I just got back from the bank where one of the tellers told me I looked tired. Geez. I hate that. I wasn't tired, but once you get old like me you look it. This is after the conversation (while watching extreme makeover) w/ my DH yesterday in which he asked me what new cosmetic surgery I was interested in. I wasn't interested in any, but now I think he must think I need it. I asked him what he thought I would want - I had in mind lasik eye surgery, but he came up with "fix your neck and eyelids". Aaaaarrrrrggggghhhhhhhhh!!! Sob.

I want to be thin even though it would make my sags and bags even saggier and baggier.

I'm thinking of becoming a recluse and never leaving my house.

I have no fun things planned for the weekend. DH is going fishing on Saturday, even tho he just got back from a week long vacation. By himself. Without his wife. I think he's going to take me out to dinner tonight and I plan on having several margies. Several. Maybe I will plan a bbq w/ friends on Saturday night. I need some fun. Guess I need to make my own.

Wabbs, what a cruel and unusual thing for your DH to say...... Does he need the rest of us to come bonk him on the head and tell him the "right" thing to say is "You look beautiful to me just the way you are"? or to tell him what surgeries we'd like HIM TO GET? :devil: :devil: :devil:

I have managed to lose a few pounds during and after vacation. I might make me believe in religion... except I don't think anything but physics (Weight = Bulk + calories - exertion) were at work. I certainly wouldn't want to think that anything Almighty were being DELIBERATE about Ivan or Jeanne or Iraq or Haiti, or EVEN the Dems and Reps. humph.

Hope the margies are adequate Kiwi -- you've inspired me to get some rum and mint! oh, and splenda :D :D

Here's the good news: I am now actually at the start weight shown in my sig.

The bad news? It's been several months getting back there. :ink: :ink:

The fair we're going to tomorrow only sells organic food and beverages. Apparently there will be no cotton candy. Unless of course it is made with Maine maple syrup. Actually I had some of that last year at the Folk Festival. Mmm Organic Junk Food! No coffee though, unless someone is growing organic coffee beans in this state. Seems unlikely, but caffeine is a powerful motivator!
:moo:
We're going to see the Draft Horse competition and the Oxen Log Scooting Contest and the Harry S. Truman Manure Pitch-Off! And if we play our cards right, we might be able to catch the seed cleaning demonstrations!
:chicken:
Y'all have fun, y'hear?

Kiwi

Kiwi-- That's is the WEIRDEST bunch of stuff I've ever heard, and I thought Texas was peculiar. We are , apparently, having a big success selling fried marshmallows though... with or without chocolate. I think there have been cow-chip tossing contests in the past, but I don't know who they were named for. I liked the pig races when i went to the Calif. state fair once. I prefered the sheep competition.... what a yarn that was....
heh heh.

Hellllllllllllllllp
 

Bagzz... HOW EXCITING If you decide to carry yarn as well, be sure to let me know so my daughter and I can put you on our itinerary.

Have many of you met each other? :cofdate: It sounds like fun... even maple lattes (I usually like hazelnut or vanilla) I am feeling lonely these days. :stress: (Probably why the hershey nuggets can be heard at an ultrahigh frequency that only dogs are supposed to be able to hear).... DH hasn't felt well, and I've allowed myself to heavily rely on him for entertainment... so now I've switched my "neediness" to the net and clients... that doesn't have a happy ending. hmm. better do something about THAT! :nono:

Tomorrow is Monday how did that happen?:stress:
Good luck cowies. Enjoy the almost full moon.

Hi everybody!

I got kindof busy and didn't get back...(I'm at work, sitting at my desk eating some leftover green beans and a chicken/noodle thing I made for dinner last night....not very inspiring..) Anyhow, my computer at home is hiccuping as well; seems like every time I get online I get booted off. We have DSL too; it seems to me that a NEW computer is JUST the thing I'd LOVE to see under the Christmas tree......

Anyway.. I got seduced by a couple of Halloween chocolate goodies yesterday.. fortunately they were the 'fun size' so I don't feel TOO badly. This morning just as I was thinking I should have worn a longer top with these jeans ( to cover my JLo butt) a friend told me that I look great and so much slimmer and how well I'm doing losing! So--true or not--it made me feel better!!! Amazing, isn't it, how little it takes to encourage me to stay away from the Lure of Fattening Food.

We had a small earthquake this morning... somewhere between us and LA.
Somebody came down the hall and pointed out that the stuff in my ofc window was still swinging--then I realized that's why my computer had been moving and I'd felt kindof dizzy/queasy. Weird. ( I knew it'd been too long since yesterday's sugar for that to have affected me.... lol)

Well my food is almost gone (what a relief--really boring lunch) so I'd better stop babbling and get back to work. WORK!

Have a great day!

=)