Hi Ladies It's Me Jessica I Haven't Been On Line In Alooooong Time I Hope Everybody Is Good And Hello So All The New Members I Fell Off My Diet But I Got Right Back Up And Started Working Out Again I'll Talk To You Guys Soon Take Care .

I just wanted to say a quick hello to everyone while Im awake. I fell alseep for about 5 hours today. I want to go back to bed now but Im trying to keep myself awake. Im not taking that antidepressant tonight. I refuse.

Y'all are just gonna laugh at me. Nic and I went into a petshop the other day. Its a nice store but they're terrible to the animals. They had a kitten in a birdcage!! With a turtle in there too. No food. No water. The kitten is probably about 2 weeks old. Its way too young to be without its mom. It also has conjunctivitus on its eyes. Poor thing couldnt even see anything. The guy wanted 50riyal(about $13) for it, I said no way. I told him I'd give him 20 riyal and that was just for the blanket that I was going to take him home in. So, I took him. I cleaned his eyese and have been giving him formula from a bottle every 3 hrs. Yea, go ahead, laugh at me. I couldnt resist. Nic wont admit it but he adores him. He thought I was asleep and I caught him in the bathroom playing with him:) Anyway, Ill have pics of him tomorrow for anyone who wants to see him. Hes the size of a cigarette pack.
Ok, now that Ive rambled on. I hope y'all are having a great day. Mine was good, stayed on the diet. Just have to stay on for the rest of my life :)

Have a great day!!

Love,
Deanne

((( hugs Kim))))
I'm so sorry about your dad...I hope all works out and keep us posted.

deanne~~ great site...

I have been so busy yesterday and today.Yesterday, Jim wanted to look at a car and I'm shocked about this. It is a two seater sports car. Granted I have one child in college and another to leave in 2 years.. but c'on.. I asked if he was having a mid life crisis, he said yes!! He is 43. Give me a break. My friends say that It could be a mistress so be happy about the car. I'm wondering if or when i'm going to have a mid life crisis, and if that will cost him a hefty car payment ( can you tell i'm alil annoyed?) anyhoo
I stayed within pts yesterday but today, forget it. I feel very dizzy today and I think weaning of the zoloft is the factor. I'm on 12.5mg. I think I might go to 25mg and stay there. I can't be dizzy right now I have too much going on and certainly everything is around food.
I have dinner plans tonight, we meet mike for the first time ( jamies new bf), tomorrow night I have dinner plans and sunday I'm invited to a tea hosted by our town. Tea with the best pastries around. Carrot cake, strawberry shortcake, torte's... yea ok.. I'm gonna stay within pts...HA HA
I'll post latah..

aloha vixens.. and howdy jessica.. welcome back
I"m going out to dinner soon.. wanted to stop by and say hi...

WOW...where is everyone??


Love,
Deanne

Thanks Jessica, Lynn and Deanne for your words of encouragement and the hugs from Lynn! That is so sweet! You are all a great group of ladies. Your support is very much appreciated more than you know. I went to see him today and he actually was feeling better. Mom said he looked better today than he has been looking. He said he felt better today than he had been. YEA! He still has a positive attitude. So please keep us in your thoughts and prayers.

Deanne, I went to your website and left a little message for you. I hope you will realize it is me! I love your hair!! You look great!! Sounds like you have become a mom after all! Bottle feeding and everything! You crack me up!

Well, Kim and I got side tracked this morning, and we are going to walk this afternoon. It is so warm here! Yea!!!!!

Lynn, let us know what you think about Mike! ;)

Oh, I DID SOOO GOOD WITH MY CAKE DECORATING! I DIDN'T LICK MY FINGERS AT ALL!!! OR THE BOWL!!!!!!!! WHOOO HOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! :cb: :cp: :bravo:

OMG I'm not sure how in the world one person is supposed to handle all the stuff i have going on around here. We had ball practices at 10 am and 3 pm a birthday party at 2pm and I had to work from 1-4:30.. Hubby did ok helping out but he got called out to a job and had to drive 2 hours away to fix a problem for them. Which left me with the rest of the issues to handle on my own. Not to mention my house a a wreck and I have so many loads of laundry to do it isnt even funny. Tomorrow wont be much better either. I have to finish up that job i'm working on and we have practice at 2:30 and a meeting at church at 5pm. ARRRRRRRRRRRGHHHH.. and just when am i supposed to clean the house and get the lawn mowed and edged????
My diet has been going pretty well. I havent been on the scale in a few days ( i know i'm only supposed to do it once a week) so i'm not sure how the scale will reflect my efforts. I've walked every day and painted at least 3 days so taht's gotta count for something lol

Hey chickas!!

Well, all the things that I don't like about this place came in with the heat yesterday. It was about 90 degrees here yesterday. I love hot weather. Many of the people here do not use deoderant and the smell can get very bad. The smell is quiet "peppery" as my husband calls it. Yuck. The thing is is that this is nothing. The heat will get up to 130 in the summer. Crazy.
I did buy a trampolene yesterday. I have read that its amazing exercise and affordable. I can do it right in front of the tv :) I also want to buy some resistance bands.
Diet is going well. We ate out for breakfast this morning. I asked for a club sandwich. Not great but I kept the portion wayyy down. I will just eat a light lunch to make up for the fatty mayo.

Kim- I will go check out the message. Thanks!!

Goddesskim- Those pics of your work are AMAZING. I showed them to my husband. He likes the red one in that office. I wish you were over here to do our room!

Ok, I hope y'all are doing well. All except for Kery maybe are alseep.

Love,
Deanne

Hi all...
Wanted to stop in quick and drop a line. I wanted to post to everyone but I have to leave in a min.. so I hope all is healthy in everyone's life for today.

we met mike and he is very very nice. He was nervous, we could tell. We are very homey down to earth sorta family. Most people blend in comfy shortly after meeting us. But he was nervous. He is a workaholic, at the age of 22 he is teaching HS math part time and works full time for the national weather service as a meterologist for the Albany metro area. He has a very strong personality and so does my daughter, I'm wondering how that will pan out in the future. I can hear them debating now. I wish her well especially after all the heartache she has had.
Well I have to run.. I have that tea... I feel like an old fuddy-duddy... tea in the afternoon ( eyeroll) who woulda thought... LOL
love ya all...
LYNN~

aloha vixens...
where is everyone??? exercising I hope???? I'm back from the tea... I'm full and very tired...
I'm starting very very strict tomorrow.


Deanne~ How is the kitty? I love cats. I have one and she is my baby, her name is samoa ( yes after the girl scout cookie)

Stay healthy and strong vixens...

Hey girls!
Its about 7am here...and Im just waking up. Im finally on a good schedule. I think Im going to go walking down at the boardwalk. Its about 2 miles. Not sure if Ill walk the whole thing because its so hot here.
Anyway, Lynn...I told my husband about your kitty, he says we're going to name ours Thin Mint. No seriously, we havent come up witha name yet. Help me out.
Went to the doctor,finally. She put me on Effexor and Tegretol. Im hoping it will work. I took the first one yesterday and it gave me a big burst of energy. Yay. Plus it gives me really awful dry mouth. Which makes me drink alot of water. See how that works?? :)

Ok, Ill post later.

Love,
Deanne

So, since Ive was off the wagon, I havent weighed myself in about 3-4weeks. So, I finally did it today. Turns out, I was maintaining my weight. I didnt lose or gain. Which is great, I dont feel like Im starting all over again. Yay! So, Im still at 163.

Oh and Im thinking about ordering some of the WW foods from the UK website. Ive only been able to find a few products here.

Well, I hope you're all sleeping well! We really should start posting more. Maybe we need another challange. How about we all come up with one thing that we can do for the challange. Then, we'll put them all together.

Karen- we miss you! come back!!

Love,
Deanne

My challange idea: To find the "little things" that keep me motivated. Write them down. No matter what it is or how silly. Motivation is motivation and we can all use it!!

Deanne, thin mint is cute.... and the word "thin" would be spoken often.. LOL that might give some motivation. We have animals named after states, dakota, montana... etc... then it was candy.. snickers.. LOL.. our ducks were named biscuit, crackers...

The weather here is suppose to be very warm today. I want to walk, but I have a giant blister on the back of my heal from walking the other day. I have the eye doctor today... and then this afternoon we pick up our new sports car... ((eyeroll)) I should say jim's new sports car. It is costing us a fortune, it is a mercedes XLR convertable, I call it is MO JO..
I wish everyone a great day... stay healthy and make great choices..
for today, I am drinking all of my water and eating all my fruits and veggies..
Deanne~~ my friend takes effexor and is doing great on it...good luck.. write me let me know how it is..
Love
Lynn~~

Ok, dont have a bunch of time to post this morning. I'm supposed to be getting ready for my walk with Kim in say... 10 minutes!!!! But i weighed in this morning and lost 2 more pounds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOO HHOOOOOOOOOO I think I'm going to phase 2 starting today. Wish me luck.

First off, Kim...CONGRATS CHICKA!! Thats awesome!

Lynn- A mercedes XLR?!!!? Not fair. Holy crap. Girl, you are gonna have fun in that!! My husband and I are car and motorcycle fanatics. We cant afford them so we might as well enjoy looking at them. We saw a $400,000 Koenisegg the other day. It was purty!

So far so good today. Stayed on the plan. Just have to eat dinner soon. Thatll be a lean cuisine. As usual. I hate cooking. I would marry a microwave :)

Talk to y'all later...have a great day!!

Love,
Deanne