I am such a talker today. Tomorrow I have things planned so I am getting on here now. I hope everyone's day is going wonderful. Hi everybody!!

Hey girls, I'm back in the office eating my breakfast, Kashi Good Friends cinna-raisin crunch w/ff milk. I need to go and find my vitamins...that always seems to help w/warding off the cravings. If I eat right and take my vitamin I can stay on track. Sheesh, why is it so hard to follow a healthy way of eating? I think all of us know exactly the right things to do to lose weight, I could probably recite to you in my sleep what works for me to lose weight, why can't I just do it? It's such a head game, ya know? I have to psyhe myself out to go for a walk this evening when it cools down, I always get really lazy at the end of the day. I have to remember how energetic and alive I feel when I get some good exercise in. Must remember....seems so long ago

Julie, good luck w/getting both kiddos down for a nap. I would love taking afernoon naps w/my little one, most times I'd fall asleep before he would, then wake up to him staring into my face asking if it was time to get up yet I think Michael's class has a little nap after lunch, maybe 30 minutes or so. I don't know exactly but I do know that I had to buy him a little padded fold up mat so I assume that's what it's for. Hey, did you see that Regis and Kelly show where she got up on the scale in front of the audience? She weighed like 105 lbs, that skinny little waif.

Cherie, your weekend sounded wonderful. What did you have planned for May? A weekend getaway? Hope everything works out for ya. I agree w/you on Meet the Fockers, funny but not outrageously so. I'm going back to Blockbuster at lunch to return that and the movie Birth, w/Nicole Kidman. That one sucked big time. Don't even bother. It's the one where her husband dies suddenly, then a few years later when she's about to remarry, a 10 y.o. boy shows up and says he's her husband reincarnated. It's weird, has slow timing and ends badly. That was a waste of time. Plus Nicole is a beautiful lady but she had this really short, cropped butch hair cut and it made her look way too angular and thin. Blech. I know exactly how you feel about looking at pictures of yourself. At least your weight doesn't show in your face. My face is so round and my double chin, yuck, scary! I think we are our own worst critics though.

Angie I would love a Summer vacation home near you. Now if only I could afford a house of my home where I really live! How are you doing today girl? Back on the wagon? I'm trying, I really am. I think w/all of us trying we're bound to do some good. Let's do it, I'm tired of being fat.

Cal, good to hear from you. I wish you luck on finding a new school that suits you. I totally agree it's unfair for the whole school and teachers' performance to be judged poorly when it's only a small portion that may be failing. They have got to revamp those standards for the NCLB. My mom taught ESL students for a long time but she retired at the end of the year before those laws were put into effect. I feel for you. How are you feeling these days? Still getting those afternoon group walks? It must be heating up for you guys big time. I had an offer to go to Vegas in June for my nephews soccer tournament but I said, no thanks, too hot for me.

OK, what happened to Kempy again? And Gina? Summer, Dips? Hello to all, hope all is well and hope you guys can drop in sometime. Have a great day.

Hi everyone, this has been the first chance I could sit still long enough to post today. Well, I started my diet today and I have been totally on track EXCEPT for me and Jay split a raised donut with chocolate crunch on it. The crunch was a new product that we bought and we wanted to try it. It tastes awesome but it looks kinda funky on the donut with the light of the donut showing through. I had every intention of coming home and excersising today but I havent found a spare moment what with cooking and deposits and orders etc. You get the drift.

I made a smore cheesecake today for the bakery. It is a good thing I cant slice it til tomorrow because that baby came out looking awesome!!! That should be a big seller this summer with all the people going to their camps and RV parks.

We had a dozen or so women from the Red Hat Society hold their meeting out front this morning. They had a good time. It was nice to see so many people all sitting out front at once.

Well, I gotta go find some supper. Talk to ya later

PS: Noelle, I know exactly what you are talking about. I am having the exact same feelings you are right now. We can do this though....heck we have done it enough times already. I have to admit that I was so depressed when I stepped on the scales this morning because the reality sunk in that I am so close to my highest weight ever that it feels like I wont be able to do it again.

oh I forgot to tell you guys but Brit tried to have her tongue peirced last week. They actually got the needle through but as they were putting the stud in her reflexes made her pull her tongue in so he said to let the hole heal over and to come back in a day or two and he would redo it for half price. That kid is one brave girl. I could not willingly do that to myself. YUCK!! Jay said she squeezed his hand really hard but she says it didnt hurt that bad. She wants to get it redone so we will see. She is just waiting for us to get the time to run her back up. It actually healed overnight. GROSS!!!!!!!!

**shudder**

Ang.. I ditto what Noelle just said! OMG~!

Girls.. we all can do this, and we are all doing this together.... we each have our obstacles, but with each other's support, we can have a great summer dropping this weight!!

((((((((((HUGS)))))))))))

OK.. I need to go get serious with my treadmill! :-) Talk to you all soon!

Cherie

Good Evening Girls

Noelle I can't believe Kelly Ripa only weighs that much. I think she is like 5foot 4inches!! She just must live off of coffee or something. Wouldn't you love to just know what she eats during the day?? Hope your workday was good. You are right I think we do all know what it takes....but it is hard. I didn't do that well at supper. But could have been worse. Did get my excercise in today though about twenty minutes low impact. Btw great job on that healthy breakfast and taking your vitamins .

Cherie are you going to tune into the Bachelor tonight?? They go to hometown dates tonight so I might watch. Thanks for the motivational words. Keep them coming!!

Oh my god Angie, tounge piercing?? Ouch. Yikes.... The smore cheesecake sounds great and I bet it will fly off the shelf with all the tourists. Whats summer without a smore and add cheesecake, yum. Great job staying on track. And great job splitting the donut with Jay. You could have ate the whole thing. Baby steps and you will start to lose.

Well I think I am going to go fill up my water glass again. Bye for now.

Good Morning.. It's Payroll morning, so this will be short! :-)

I got my treadmill work in last night, 75 minutes (while watching the bachelor) 5.32 miles. I would have gone for 5.5 but my sister called me right at the end, and I lost my motivation to finish.

The girls loved the Fit Kid's video by Denise Austin. It's a 20 minute video for the kids (there is also one for family, but we didn't do that one) and it involves so standing cardio, some floor strength training, warm up and cool down, and it's just a fun video. They both had a great time doing it. Hannah wants to do Dance Dance Revolution tonight ... so I will try to get her to do both.

Well, after my great weekend, I am up 1.5 pounds from Saturday. It seems I am going to be stuck in the 150's forever. Not going to give up ..... I'll be back on the treadmill tonight.

OK.. back to work! Have a great day.. I'll be back this afternoon!

Cherie

Well, I finished payroll.. it's been transmitted and out the door. I forgot my lean cuisine for lunch today. Luckily, since I am trying to add a few more calories (I don't think I am eating enough) I had a piece of whole wheat earthgrain's bread and a tablespoon of peanut butter and a banana extra today. So, that, with my yogurt and cheese was my lunch today.

I wish I could take the rest of the afternoon off... but I only have 2.5 more hours to go, so I should be OK. Tonight is the Amazing Race, so I will try to be on the treadmill during that. I am also going to fit in my pliates since I didn't do it last night.

OK.. well, it's bathroom break time... I'll be back later!

Cherie

Good afternoon!! Today is my sisters 30th birthday. She hung out at the bakery with us all day. My s'more cheesecake came out awesome and I am very proud to say that I had only 1 small bite to see how it was!!!!!!

My new big prob comes next week when we will be starting Bagels. I LOVE garlic bagels. It is a total tease but so many people want them that we should probably do them.

Cherie, Congrats on all your exercising. I wished I could figure out a time to get some in. At least I am on track right now so I take that for a bit of a victory.

I gotta go to work. Talk to ya later

Angie.... your cheese cake sounded wonderful. I just love cheesecake. YUM. I guess that is why I don't make it anymore.

What kind of bagels are you going to make? Panera Bread makes some cinnamin raisin ones with a crunch brown sugary topping on it.. and those are my favorite... and the walnut spread.. YUM.

I still love food...

Thanks about the exercise. I am just fitting it in while I am watching TV. Otherwise, I get too lazy to do it, and I don't get up early in the morning, I am not a morning person. The girls do a great job entertaining themselves, so it leaves me time to do my workout.

Hey girls just found a minute to check in. I have been running around like a chicken with my head cut off. Actually I am making baked chicken in the oven right now. Haha....

Oh Cherie, bringing back memories....I lived off peanut butter and banana sandwiches. I still love them. Earthgrains is a great bread. I hope your afternoon goes by really fast for you. So you can get out of there!! I am glad the girls enjoyed the video. DO NOT give up. You will start seeing some numbers like bam all of the sudden. I remember when I was in the 50's I took a break from the scale and weighed in several weeks later and I was out of them. I am glad you are adding more calories. I am trying to do the same. But you time is always an issue to make something healthy. So for lunch I had a yogurt with some nuts in it. And it was really good.

Angie happy birthday to your sister. That reminds me I got my big one coming up this summer. You know I love garlic bagels with cream cheese. Gosh I use to eat tons of those when I was a teenager. I am a carb addict for sure. Congrats on the small bite. Proud of you.

Noelle how are you doing today?? Lets see it is just after breakfast time by you....so you probally had your Kashi. Did you find time to fit an evening walk in last night? It has been raining all night and all day here. So no walk outside for me. To cloudy and wet. We needed the rain though. I wonder what the theme is going to be on AI tonight? Did you know Const. band is going to release an album? Isn't that breaking the rules?

Well girls these kids do not give me a minute to sit. SO I have to go. Get me this, that and the world . Oh well burning calories waiting on them. I need to go to a spa in a warm state. Yeah that sounds good right now. Check back later. Hi everyone else.

Cherie those bagels sound so good, the combo with the cream cheese . I love walnuts to, they are so good on candied sweet potatoes. Okay gotta split. Check back soon. I LOVE food too. I once had an aunt who would not eat any sweets, bread, cake, ice cream, soda, nothing I mean anything with sugar. She was as skinny as a rail. Darn, my sweet tooth.

Hey girls, been a busy day for me but I ran away in the middle of the day to have lunch w/my best girlfriend who moved back from Seattle last month. I saw her in Septebmer of last year but she, her husband and little boy are all back here to live now. It's so cool to be able to pick up the phone and chat w/someone and not have to worry about the long distance bills . I am not doing so good on the diet front. Not that I did bad, but I did skip breakfast, left the cereal box at home instead of bringing it in to the office. I had an awesome lime-grilled chicken breast on top of a big green salad. There were some chips in the salad (tex-mex style?) that were locally made from get this, purple sweet potato, tomato and corn--looked like Doritos but were made in the restaurant. I loved the tomato ones w/their spicy salsa. The guy said you can even request them baked instead of fried ... I didn't know that but I ate the fried ones anyway. I skipped breakfast so I justified eating the entire salad I did not get to go walking last night because I got home late and my parents were out. Today looks good though, I'll be wrapping it up and heading home as soon as I transmit my payroll.

Angie, to Wendy right? So did ya hit her up on working at the bakery during the summer when it gets crazy busy? Good job on just a taste of the cheesecake Right now I could just see myself eating a nice gooey slice of something sweet like that. (bad me!) Mmm, garlic bagels. I love bagel chips too, esp. garlic ones. must get mind off food...

Cherie, I'm a p-nut butter/banana gal too. I like to use these sweet bread hot dog rolls we have locally. Yummy! I think it's so great you've got your girls doing something fun and keeping them active. You are so good with them. I can see you all getting mistaken for sisters in a few years

Julie, I didn't hear about Constantine's band releasing an album. He's been pimped so much on AI it'll probably go platinum. Yuck. He is very charismatic I'll give him that, but come on, this is supposed to be a singing competition. How 'bout going for a spa treatment in a foreign country? OMG, the spa treatment you can get in Bangkok is unreal. You could get a full body massage, a facial, then your hair and nails done. All for probably more than 50% off what you'd pay in the good ole US of A. BKK is hot and tropical year round, your US dollars are worth a lot there and you can go shopping to your hearts content. THere I go fantasizing again.

Well, I gotta say hi to Kempy, Cal, Summer, Gina, Dips and everyone else. Have a wonderful evening.

Hey guys. Sorry I have been MIA again. We were at the end of LA this weekend for the blessing of the fleets. I had a great time but I felt like crap all day yesterday.

I didn't get to read all of the past posts but from what I skimmed over it looks like we are all trying to get back on track again. I think I have gain back half of what I lost this year and that was only 8 lbs. So, I will join in whatever you do. I may not be able to get on and post every night but I will do whatever it takes to get in shape. We are going to the beach in Aug and I don't what to feel to gross.

Noelle I just got your e-mail of the dog today. I told you I have been busy. I havn't even checked that in a week. That looks just like something they would do.

I really don't have much to say except I am going to try my hardest to get here in the morning.I think I need to read some positive things to get me going.