hey singles! another boring rainy day here! i am feeling a little better today.

lilybutt - glad to hear your still hangin' in there. things at school will get better, just give it time. think of exercise as your destressor. when i have a bad day i take the girls(dogs) and go for a long walk to calm down and then i feel better.

sheri -glad you are getting back to normal. i finished the book and it was ok. i wouldn't recommend you spend the $ on it. i didn't learn anything from it. it was like someone was writing scenes from my own life.

well, off to do some surfing. have a good thursday!
kathy

Hello all,

I've actually HAD work at work, so haven't had as much time on the net as usual! Always a shock when they expect you to actually DO something to earn your money!! I spent the weekend with friends and ate and drank way too much, but it was a much needed break from my mom. She has sold our house, so now she has many new things to stress about. She is a person who will go and find something to worry about if there isn't something obvious! On top of that, all her friends are worried about me having to find my own place!! As if I've never before been away from home, or lived on my own!! (Have managed very well for the past 14 years!!!)
Even with all of that, I'm managing to stick to my new plan, although the strength moves are really tough and I'm still stiff from my Sunday session! Much better today, but have more of the same tonight. Hoping that some time on the bike will help the very stiff hips! Being stiff and sore from the exercise makes my knees and hips creak and crack even more than usual.
Our weather is really coming round to summer, but Sunday was weird and cold. Quite possibly we're still in for one last cold spell before the heat really sets in. I can't wait!!!

Must go and finish some drawings before my engineer gets back and he will be VERY stressed and he passes it on to me by osmosis! At least if I've done these 3 plans, he'll be slightly more up to date.

Have a nice day everyone.

Meg

Hello all,

Well the long weekend is over and for some reason I am kind of depressed about it…..I guess it is back to work tomorrow and no real break no until Thanksgiving. I get this way every year…I will go to work tomorrow and get busy and be ready to go again!

Didn’t do tooooooo bad this weekend, didn’t count calories like I do every other day, but I was pretty good, just watched it and didn’t stress…..so on to a new goal!!!!

Better get ready for work!
Lilybutt

Are you all singles? Awesome! I'm 34 and still single, but I am a single mom to two children of the four-legged furry kind. Gotta use my mothering instinct somewhere!

I'm counting calories over the weekend. I worked Sunday and today (Monday) and am doing okay on my diet. Today I slept in. It was my day for my bi-monthly mail run into San Francisco, but the post office was closed due to the holiday so I'll go tomorrow.

Hey everyone! I've been in Philadelphia, PA over the Labor Day weekend and just thought I'd pop in and say hello. Considering that I was staying in a hotel and eating out the whole weekend, I think I did pretty well on choices. I also walked EVERYWHERE so that helped a lot in giving me a bit of wiggle room in my eating. Hope everyone is doing well!

hi singles! welcome victoria! i too am the single mother of 2 furry daughters i refer to as "the girls"!! glad to have you join us!

i was having problems again getting to this site???i don't know what is going on. not much happenin' here, had a quiet long weekend myself up to the lake trying to resolve some friends' relationship problems. drank quite a bit of wine.

i guess "they" say that the tuesday after labor day is the second time of the year that people make resolutions to change things. personally, i'm still struggling with the same things. lol!!

well, have a good weekend!
kathy

I also have daughters...both of them. They are felines and are different as night and day. Xena I got from the shelter as a 6-week-old kitten and is well socialized. Abby I found on the street with kittens and I couldn't leave them out there. I eventually gave the kittens away, but I still have the feral mom on my hands. She's a real sweetheart and understands how lucky she is, but she's so skittish.

Wine is my passion, too. I couldn't even give it up during the Induction phase of my program like I was supposed to! But since I have to count the calories I try to keep intake down. Plus, when my body is burning alcohol, it's not burning fat.

My new start was September 1 after a horrible, gaining August. I'm going to get through this month and then reevaluate where I am before setting any October goals. If I can just get through this month, that'll be a victory. Luckily, my girls don't care what weight I am.

Anyone still awake or alive around here?

Hello All,

My excuse is that I've actually HAD work and have HAD to do it. Quite a shock to have to work during office hours and not just sit around surfing the Net or reading!! I do suppose that this is why I get paid, so I just have to grin and bear it!

I've actually managed to lose some weight last week - it's really amazing what sticking to your diet/eating plan can accomplish!!!! All my pants are starting to get too big in the waist and I have to pin them. It's either that, or wear long shirts so that I don't show my panties to all the Engineers here! One told me last week that I should get a really small, really short company t-shirt that shows off the belly ring and tell the boss I'm doing marketing!!lol Given the present amount of flab, it's quite a scary thought!

Anyway, let me go and finish the drainage at the new hospital and then I can surf some more.

Meg

i am still alive, thank God! awake, however is another story. i do seem to be sleeping a lot again though. sorry for the long absence! i will try to be better.

last week at my tops meeting i hit my highest weight ever and that sent my into a serious blues mode. however, this week i have bucked down and am doing better. i know i have lost and i have walked 3x this week. i know 3x isn't a lot but it is a start. i didn't go today because of the weather. i was bouncing on my mini tramp for a few minutes. i think that is something i have to get used too because it makes me dizzy.

meg - congrats on the loss! i'm sure the male engineers don't mind seeing a little pantie! lol!!! what is it you do for a living??? sounds interesting...

victoria - wine is absolutely wonderful. i live right in the heart of the finger lakes wine country and i love to go wine tasting. i don't do it often, because i could get carried away. my fave right now is Hazlitt's Red Cat. yummy! my girls are pooches, molly and missa, i might be acquiring a couple of kitties soon. not sure yet. my friends are splitting and trying to decide what to do with the animals. maybe a rottie too... i live in the middle of nowhere with no neighbors and 6 acres for them to run on. i hate to see them go to strangers or worse and me with my big heart said i would help out.

sheri - how goes it with you??anything new and exciting??/

i am working this weekend so i am taking it easy. i will stop back tomorrow to check in. have a good sat. nite!
kathy

Got room for one more???

Hi there,

I used to post a long, long, long, long time ago. When I re-registered, it said it had been over a year since my last post. YIKES

A bit about myself. My name is Leanne, I live in Tennessee. I have 2 cats, and am single. I have tried Atkins (but I don't care too much for meat) and Weight Watchers (the far more successful of the two) I weight well over 200 pounds and need to lose weight. I am as fat now as I have ever been in my life.

Right now I am sitting here, feeling depressed and eating a peanut butter sandwich. Okay, it has jelly, too. So, you can probably guess I need some serious motivation.

I would really like to make a commitment to myself...again. I don't want to do it to get a man (puhleeze) but I am sure sick and tired of not being able to stand up from a chair without making grunting. Also, I ain't as young as I used to be and I am seriously worried I may be on the brink of some serious health problems.

So, that's me in a nutshell (cuz I'm a nut)

I hope you'll accept me for who I am.

Night,

LA

I am around too! Just haven't felt like posting. My diet has been in the tubes...just unmotivated....and I have been stressed with work and home stuff...nothing bad....just things all seemed to come to a head and I had to focus on getting things done and under control to the detriment of my diet and exercise....but it looks like the worse has passed for now so I am back on the wagon.....I guess I know that I should be in better control in times of stress, but I do what I need to do to get through it. sometimes stress makes me not eat, sometimes it makes me eat, and i just have learned that I need to go with it...it will pass.....I was not totally out of control, just not on my program......so back at it!!!!

Lilybutt

hey singles! i said i would check in and here i am. just woke up from a nap. i had to work all weekend, suck up that OT because i am broke.

welcome back Leanne! you sound a lot like me. i will be 40 in a few weeks and i am worried about health issues too, but yet i really struggle with my weight. i am an emotional eater. ususally out of boredom or lonliness. i know the cause, now i have to do something about it. easier said than done sometimes.

hi lilybutt! glad to hear from you too. funny what stress can do to a person!

did anyone watch the "biggest loser" this week?? i watched it last nite. i think it's interesting to watch. i couldn't believe what those people lost in their 1st week. of course, if i could put my life on hold and just concentrate on losing weight i could probably do the same. that's what i need, something like a boot camp getaway from life..lol!!!

well, i'm off to make dinner and to watch the end of the football game, then the emmys. have a great week!
kathy

Leanne, welcome back!!!

Kathy, congrats on the walking! Good job and keep it up!

Hello all! Sounds like a lot of folks in struggle territory. Hang in there!!

Nothing too exciting here...just continuing to do that thing I do...which is to eat healthy and exercise 5 days a week and lose NO weight. Usually, when one does something right, one gets some sort of payoff. It is frustrating to not have lost weight in a year...other than that lovely pound down, pound up dance that I do so well. When I get like this...where I want to throw something and scream "It's not FAIR!!!!!", I remind myself that the alternative to maintaining a 30-pound weight loss is gaining back the 30 pounds...when I look at it that way, I feel so blessed and thankful.

I've found that's the secret of this lifestyle, kids. Sometimes, you have to find the silver lining in something that otherwise feels pretty sucky. It's all about the long haul...cuz we can all push ourselves hard enough for a week or a month to make the scale go down, but what matters is finding a way to keep it going in a way that we can live with for a lifetime.

Please don't do what I did...wait until turning 50 before getting serious about making a lifelong change instead of just dropping temporary pounds and gaining them back, which is what I'd been doing for a lifetime.

Hugs and prayers to all of us for the strength and grace to give ourselves the gift of health.

P.S. Yes, I did watch Biggest Loser II. That one dude who looks like a giant Commander Riker from Star Trek: TNG is already getting on my last nerve. I love some things about this show but hate that they show people losing 22 pounds in 10 days like that is something the average person can achieve (or should try to achieve). Those people chowed down like it was their last meal on Earth before the first weigh-in...of course, their weight loss is going to be dramatic. They need to say, even if it's on the way out to commercial, that 2 pounds a week is considered healthy weight loss. 22 pounds a week is NOT considered healthy weight loss.

Hello ladies,

Glad to hear that you are all still well. My weekend was ok, but my eating was just waaaay out of control. Better today thought - always easier when you are in routine. My really good news is that I finished my one month Self mag programme and although I only lost 1,5 lbs, I lost 2in from my hips and 1in from my waist!!!! Will taking it a bit easy this week as summer has arrived here with a big bang and the temps are already creeping up to 30deg C and it's a bit of a shock to the system. I found that I couldn't do much last week as a result! Will be pushing the cycling this week and then start weights again next week.

corningkat - I'm a draughtsman working for consulting engineers (electrical and mechanical) and I also do typing and answering the phone. Friday was rough as we had a tender doc to go out and then discovered that the plans were not right - panic stations!! We managed to get the docs out in the end though.

Sheriava - nothing sucks as much as watching your eating and exercising and then seeing no results on the scale. I've noticed that if I change my cardio for a week or so then I lose weight. I'm 32 and have decided that as my knees are already a lost cause and my other joints are going the same way, I'd best do something NOW!!

Almost home time.

Have a nice day y'all