Shelley, don't worry about the ultrasound, it's better to be on the safe side. How about weighing in the evening or right after you make it home from school? When I was in TOPS, I weighed at night and if I tried to wear the same clothing, there would be a scale loss. Or, could you weigh in the nurses office at school?

Janice, I told my hubby today I should dry ice a baggie of snow to Shelley! Although, one can never truley appreciate the beauty of snow, not until you have below 0 temps, wind blowing and ice freezing!! LOL! Just try the best you can Janice to stay OP. I'm sure some of the weight is water weight. Remember, even if your not currently losing, you are not gaining if you are still watching your food program. I lack motivation too... I use to be able to diet and stay strictly with the program, now I have 1 good day, then 2 bad days, etc.

Sherry right on girl. I am so proud that you have joinned ww's. You are going to great. Now you can help motivate us all. Give us the weekly info that you get at the meeting. I am so happy for you.

Gayle hang in there. I know what you mean it is so hard to stay motivated. What keeps me motivated is when I think about all the minutes exerciseing that I have to do to burn off what I want to eat. You explained the ice damming a lot better than I could of.

Janice try to journal, it might help. Sometimes we don't realize all that we are putting in our mouths. I am not motivated right now either. I am going to journal tomorrow. I know about cold because I am from manitoba. Don't you feel sorry for the ones here that don't understand cold? Yeah right, I love to switch with them for a season of winter.

Shelley if your rings are tight it is just water retention. Hang in there and it will drop. I am glad that you are going for the ultra sound. I don't like the sounds of the night sweats.

Gayle-I would love some snow! That would be so cool (excuse the pun!) Seriously, thanks for the explanation of damming. It's supposed to turn cold here again tomorrow (50's.)

Janice-Keep trying to stay OP. You are doing great. I don't change my ticker either, unless of course it's a loss.

Hello :wave:

Well I joined WW last night!! :cp: They were running a special that I didn't know about so that was a nice surprise. It was $19.00 to join and it's $11.00 a week for my meetings.

After dinner tonight I will have had 25.6 points and I'm allowed 26. So first day went well! :)

Now the bad part! The lady weighed me twice because she said she couldn't believe my weight. She said I carried it very well. I weighed 209!!! :( I have NEVER weighed 200 in my life and I have let myself go. But all that's behind me now and I'm truely looking forward to loosing, looking better, feeling better and being healthy again. Anyone care to join me on this new journey in my life? I will do everything in my power to help motivate and give support to you. There will be days when I'll get off track but I'll pick myself up and start over!

I need to go and finish dinner so I can watch America Idol. Love to all....

Sherry way to go. Now that is an attitude that I love. That's my girl. You are a great inspiration. You will get down there my dear. I am going to see that ticker of yours slide all the way down. So you didn't say....where is Wayne working and when did he go back to work? Is he back at his old job?

Shelley cold in the fifties. That would be balmy weather here. If only...I really don't feel sorry for you though. lol Love you though.

Sherry-I would be happy to hear any WW tips that you might have! I weighed myself this morning and was back down with the exception of .5 lb, so that's what I logged. I don't know if that is considered cheating or not. I just can't face the scale when there is a gain.

WOW! I woke up to such a beautiful face this morning! GREAT new picture Shelley! You seem to just glow!!!!!

Dee, yeah, poor, poor Shelley, suffering thru this cold spell... I feel sooooooooooo sorry for her, I hope she survives that aweful 50+ weather.... LOL!
It was 13* here this morning.

Sher, you will do super now since you have some local support. Are you going by yourself or do you have a friend going with you? It seems like we all need to get in the "zone" before we can lose and continue to maintain. I'm lacking the "zone" right now, struggling daily. I remember posting one time that I couldn't even remember the last time I had ate something and went off plan. Now I would be happy if I could remember the last time I stayed OP for the day... Lets all try to re-motivate each other and see what happens. Good luck sweetie, I believe in you.

Shelley - what a lovely picture of you.
Sherry - Good for you joining your local group. I think I might too. I have a hard time staying on program. I know I can do it because I have before, just have to find my motivation.
Dee and Gayle- Do you think spring is ever coming http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/36/36_11_19.gifWe just got a new snow storm this morning.
How do the rest of you know what season it is?? 50 degrees - that is a nice spring day here.
I have changed my ticker, because I am making a fresh start today. This was me last week http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/36/36_11_15.gifout of control I was. The more I ate the more I wanted. I am off to go get loads of fruit and vegetables, looks like the snow stopped.

Cute ticker Janice! Now that's a girl! Go stock up on healthy foods!!! Make you a batch of the breakfast brownies to have around when the hunger monster hits. Remember we are here for you!

Do you guys think Vicki is ok? It was way before Christmas since she posted. Have any of you heard from her??

Janice your post looks so interesting with those little guys. Your ticker is neat too. You will be motivated here. You did a good thing buy picking up loads of fruits and veggies. gayle had a good idea about the brownies to snack on. We are also getting snowed on.

Gayle I haven't heard from Vicki. Get motivated with Sherry. Maybe that is the name of a new thread that she should start. Or maybe a motivation thread of ideas and recipes to keep us going. I have been eatting some treats and sweets and wasn't logging in my journal. I felt really bad but thought that I would jump on the scale this morning since my homecare worker didn't come this morning. I weigh myself nude so I didn't want to scare her. Guess what I faced the music and I didn't even gain. I need a ticker to keep track but since the may long weekend I have lost 13 pounds. Yippee. I really thought that I had gainned but I guess going to the pool really helped. Now to keep going down while on vacation will be a challenge. Lots of fish and walking may help me maintain.

Shelley you are beautiful! You have large puppy eyes and a great sexy smile. I love the pic of you. It is one of my fav's that I have seen.

Sherry how are you doing with your points today? You did great yesterday. I am so proud of you.

Went to the doc's today. All set to go to PV. Got all my meds, just need to pick them up. The doc called me in to the office and watched me walk. He was proud of me. I had no cane. I felt like a little kid as he praised me and said look at you, you are doing so good. He said that he noticed that I have a drop foot yet but it isn't that noticable. He really didn't think that I was going to recover so fast. Even though everything seemed to go wrong and I should have been better right after surgery. I guess the main thing is I can walk. Now for the pain he said it could be recover pain or scar tissue pain. Hopefully it will be recover pain, then it will go away.

I am leaving on saturday. I will hopefully post before then.

I love you all and will be reading the posts every few days and will post too.

Thank you everybody for the compliments! I have been wearing my hair straight now, so I wanted to post a new picture.

Sherry-Don't forget that if you walk some, you can earn AP's! I need company over at the exercise thread. Cheryl has threatened to come back. This week will be a short one as far as running goes because I won't be able to run my Saturday miles. I am doing Odyssey of the Mind again this year, and have judges training early Saturday. So far I have only gotten 20 miles in, and I was hoping to at least get 25 for a short week, but I am just too tired today to run. I am going to try and run tomorrow afternoon, but I'm not counting on it. For some reason, I never feel comfortable running on Friday afternoons. Maybe it's anticipation of the weekend, I don't know.

Dee-I am so happy that you are getting better. You must be so proud of yourself for recovering so quickly. I'm sure those water aerobics are helping you not only with controlling your weight, but as therapeutic exercise for your body. Wow 13 lbs! That's awesome!

I, too am worried about Vicki. Vicki, I hope if you are reading these posts that you will at least pop in to say hi. We all miss you very much!

Gayle-You will get back OP when you are ready. You always motivate me so much!

Janice-Your post was so cute! I love your little drop in icons.

Carol-Where are you? I hope that everything is okay with you.

Ramona-I hope everything is going well for you and that your back is feeling better. I know that things are probably very hectic for you at work also, but please post and let us know that you and the boys are okay.

Cheryl-Thanks for taking the time to let me know that you will be back on the exercise thread. You did so good the first few days of the month. Please do some walking, even if it is in the malls!

I was so overwhelmed at work today. The secretary was out today, and the data person's phone was on do not disturb so she could work on FTE. Needless to say, it was Shelley all the way today for everything! I felt so sorry for myself that I ordered lunch out today. I never do that on Thursdays, only on Friday. I had a delicious chicken caesar salad. I threw out the bread and didn't eat the croutons.

This is a letter from the Skinny Post


The Business of YOU
» by jane on February 8, 2005

Have you noticed that I haven’t posted very much? Well, I’ve been busy researching some topics to write about. And there’s quite a bit of interesting stuff — like the cost of ‘good food,’ and the idea that being overweight doesn’t mean you’re a bad person, and the images we have of ourselves, and all kinds of other topics. They’ll be interesting, at least I hope they will be.

But I’m sitting here realizing that there’s been a whole lot of thinking and not much doing. And that applies to a number of areas, from thinking about not eating chocolate to my still-not-working plots to get to the gym. Elaborate schemes, no action. (Although I DO think that buying three pilates DVDs and a Tai Chi DVD counts to some extent, even though I couldn’t figure out the DVD player!)

But a conversation I had this evening offers some hope for this stalemate, at least for me. The message: I run the business of ME. I am the CEO. I make the decisions, arrange for benefits, take care of all the bills, manage the income, carry out various training programs, in general, I take care of the business.

Now, let’s be honest. I’m doing things — or not doing them, as the case may be — that I would never do at work. I’d never show up late for a meeting at work, yet I’m not keeping my gym appointments. I’m considered a key piece of the internal education program, but am I taking the time to learn Pilates to focus on my core? NO.

When I’m overwhelmed at work, I first take a few minutes and figure out the priorities and come up with a plan. It often involves recruiting other people to lend their particular skills. And what do I do when I’m overwhelmed in my personal life? Head for the chocolate!

This all ties in with one of my key personal observations. And that is that I’ve never met an overweight person who put themselves first in their lives. And here I am, taking so much better care of my 9-5 job and not of my own personal corporation.

So, my company isn’t doing as well as it should, and it’s time to re-evaluate the goals and the path. There’s ALWAYS a chance for a mid-course correction. So here it is! I now declare the reorganization of JANE’S COMPANY. The first item on the agenda is to make a list of goals and the tasks I need to do to accomplish them. The next step is to identify possible obstacles and develop strategies for handling them.

So, the first goal is that I will make it to the gym three times this week. And the obstacle is that it’s too much bother to get ready. So I’m going to try changing into my gym clothes before I leave the office. Sounds like a plan, doesn’t it???? Wish me luck! And let’s hope I don’t decide to fire the CEO!!!!