I'm fine just been busy the last few days. I'm working on that nursery and in between i'm trying to do like 9 million loads of laundry and keep 5 kids entertained. UGH...it's fun let me tell you lol. I have found a major trigger food for me. Cake.. pound cake to be exact. My daughter wanted pound cake the other day so I baked one (from scratch even) and granted it's really good, but I can feel the weight creep back up.. i'm only up a few tenths of a pound, but you know sometimes you can tell its not just gonna be water weight... lol so i'm sworn off pound cake, i'm going to force feed it to the kids lol...
Location: Doha, Qatar but I'm from Jackson, Mississippi
Posts: 485
Lol...I'm glad Im not a big fan of sweets. There are certain types of cake that I do like. Its like if I dont have it, I dont miss it at all. Then, if I have even the smallest piece, I want the whole damn thing.
Kim, you have lost alot of weight girl! Good for you. You're super mom. You do all this stuff for your kids, paint for people, AND diet and exercise. Its amazing.
Wow i was the last one to post...where are y'all? I hope everyones ok.
hi Deanne,
I'm here! I had to work yesterday so didn't have any time to check notes or post a reply. It was my second to last day on the job. My last day is on Saturday. After the way they acted yesterday, I'm so glad I'm leaving!! :-p I don't mean to sound like it has to be all about me, but they have been completely ignoring the fact that I'm leaving. Yesterday was my last day of working with a majority of the staff, and none of them said a word --- not goodbye, not good luck, nothing. So, at the end of the day, I walked up to the area where the office manager was chatting with everybody and just said, "thank you for the opportunity of working here". She said, "oh you're leaving? ok... see ya" ... my poor lil ego sure was stung. I mean, I know I'm not all that but after being there for a year, do you think I could have at least gotten some acknowledgement that I was going? :-p GRRRRR
Oh well... I keep telling myself that it confirms that I'm doing the right thing. I felt like I never really fit in very well there from the start.
I have found a major trigger food for me. Cake.. pound cake to be exact.
Kim, I can so relate to that!! I was at a jewelry party at my friend's house last night. Somebody had brought a cinnamon bundt cake. I had a small taste of it and then ended up having two more slices.... UGH! It was so good!! :-p So, today I'm being really scrupulous about sticking close to my food plan. I've lost about 7-8 pounds so far and want to keep going.
Deb, thank your lucky stars that you won't be there anymore!! Think of that as a positive thing.....getting away from them!!!!
My dad went home today!! YAY!!! How awesome is that??? WOO HOO!!!! He went home with 21 medicines!!! I had to make a list of what he takes and when he takes it so he could keep up with it! BUT HE'S HOME!!!
Ok, so we got home, my little girl was burning up so I took her temp 102.4! OMG! Can't things get back to normal???? I have a wedding to do this weekend, which means I start on the flowers tomorrow!!!! My hubby is working 2 jobs and she is sick!!!! This is why I don't work full time! It would never work!!!! Bless her heart, she gets all quiet and cuddly when she is sick. I just want to cuddle too!!!! I hate when the kids get sick!
Ok, when Kim and I walked tonight, I figured after the fourth, I am getting back on phase 1 and getting with the program. So I am not thin for the summer.....but I will be for Christmas! And Next summer! So there!!!!
That is the plan! Ladies, if you don't have a plan, get one!!
Check in tomorrow!
Kim
Hi VIxens! Sorry for the lack of posting, this site's been awfully slow for me the past week and it takes me hours to load pages, which makes it hard t ofollow
Kim - It's good that your father is home! I hope that things will go on improving, and {{{hugs}}} for keeping your head up!
Hope that you're all having a nice 4th of July weekend. I have slowly but gradually been really slipping on my South Beach thing.... cheating a little bit here, a little bit there. I think I need to go back to Phase 1 for a week, and pull the reins in again. Purge my body of the bad stuff that I've been snacking on. Good news is that I don't think I've done too much damage weight-wise. I just don't feel good about how I've been handling my eating.
So, since I'm now done with work (YAAAAAAAY!!!), I'm going to devote my energy to getting myself back in line.
Any hoo... just thought I'd drop a note on here and see how you all were doing. Take care.
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!!!! I hope you are all having a wonderful holiday weekend! Mine has not been so good....my little one has strep, so we are pretty much stuck. I did flowers for a wedding this weekend that was gorgeous and turned out nice. My hubby is catching up on his fences. He does wooden fences on the side. My working and daughters being sick has thrown him behind. Anyway, we are planning to go to a local park tomorrow night for fireworks and a concert. It is so hot! I would love to jump in the pool, but the daughter wouldn't like me much since she can't, so I will work in the house today. FUN FUN!
Deb, I need to restart Phase 1 on South Beach too. It takes so much to go get the foods to do it though! So expensive! Its worth it, Just gotta do it!
I have been looking at so many clothes in cataloges and online. I want to be thin again, I want to look good in them!!!! It won't happen this summer! But I will get there.
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!!!! I hope you are all having a wonderful holiday weekend! Mine has not been so good....my little one has strep, so we are pretty much stuck.
Kim, I meant to include that I hope your experience with strep is short lived and that your baby is feeling better soon!
Gals!!!!!!
I have been MIA!! I'm so sorry!! My computer crashed and we had to buy another. Two days into setting it up, we had a major thunderstorm and the modem went!! Two days out to be fixed. Then we had a major health crisis. Jim's MRI came back with a suspicious lesion on his kidney. I freaked! More test revealed he has an abnormal kidney, but it isn't life threatening. I have been so out of my mind. Needless to say. I am back online now and I have soooo much to catch up on.
We leave in a week for Hawaii and I am not at the weight I wanted to be. But, I learned that life throws a curve to keep us on our toes. I am happy and grateful for our health.
Love
Lynn
Deb, Kacie is doing much better! Thanks! She just needed a few days of antibiotics to kick in and she is a new kid again! YAY! We were supposed to go to the lake, but stayed home and in the pool all day yesterday and went to a park to see fireworks, so it was a nice fourth anyway. The lake would have probably been so crowded we would have been miserable. We go next weekend for a family reunion though. I pray the rest of us don't end up with strep! UGH!
Lynn, GOOD TO SEE YOU BACK!!!! There is such a love-hate relationship with computers, isn't there? What would we do without them though?? I am so glad that Jim's Ok. I know you were freaked. You are right life throws us curves and that is ok. I am not where I wanted to be for my hubbys and mine trip, but that is ok.
Well, I have lots to do today. I just wanted to check in. The board is so slow! What is going on?????
Location: Doha, Qatar but I'm from Jackson, Mississippi
Posts: 485
Hey girls!
Sorry I havent posted. Nic was here to meet my dad. It went great. He loved them. They loved him. It was perfect. He left last night. I leave for Mississippi today. Lots of traveling. Im so ready to back in Qatar though. Ive stayed OP this whole vacation except the 3 days when Nic was here. Now, Im back on track. I lost 2 lbs the second week I was here. Not sure about the first week. Ill be able to see the total loss when I get back to Qatar and can use my scale there.
Im glad everyones doing ok. Ill post more later tonight.
good morning,
Kim~~ I am so glad you dad is doing better. You must be thrilled
Deb~~ sounds to me you made the right move in leaving. I think when you leave a job people feel jealous that they are STUCK there! What are your plans now?
Deanne~~ glad your vacation is going well!! How long of a plane ride is it home?
It is ten hours to hawaii, I dunno If I can sit that long!
The story~
Jim's back went out in south carolina on vacation and he ended up the hospital. When he came home his doctor ordered a current MRI. The results just happened to show a lesion on his kidney. So off we went to a specialist. In the mean time I was a wreck. I had chronic diarrehia for a week. I was thinking it was kidney cancer. My own doctor upped my zoloft which made me a zombie. After a week of craziness it showed he has a malformation of the collecting tube. Who woulda thought? He is 43 and this was never picked up. After our vacation he has to see another specialist and have more testing. His MRI showed that he might need surgery on his back and neck. I am trying to be more positve and not worry, but I am a worrier.
Needless to say I have not at all dieted. I have gained. I went back on points yesterday. All of you are doing so well, and right now I need your support. I need a kick in the pants..
I'm throwing a surprise 25th wedding anniversary for some friends in aug and I have to write out the inviations today.
I also have to have my mail stopped for the trip and make last minute arrangements for the pet sitter...
Heather is working in an office two days a week doing clerical work... she loves it.
Jamie on the other hand broke up with Mike, she said it wasn't working out, they both had rebounded from previous relationships and didn't have much in common. She is bummed about it, but felt she needed to do it now so they didn't get too attached.
My gardens are exploding with color!! My sunflowers will bloom when i'm away.. I hope they don't whither till I come back...
hugz to everyone.. thanx for letting me vent...
How awesome is that??? WOO HOO!!!! He went home with 21 medicines!!! I had to make a list of what he takes and when he takes it so he could keep up with it! BUT HE'S HOME!!! 
I have slowly but gradually been really slipping on my South Beach thing.... cheating a little bit here, a little bit there. I think I need to go back to Phase 1 for a week, and pull the reins in again. Purge my body of the bad stuff that I've been snacking on. Good news is that I don't think I've done too much damage weight-wise. I just don't feel good about how I've been handling my eating.
