Quiet weekend - just have a minute, then have to run. Going to the hotel for DD's interview in the morning. Now she isn't sure about the iterview because BF says he likes his current job and definitely would not move with her! Oh well, the interview experience will be good for her.

Faye - Hope the allergies are a bit better. We are back in the furnace - over 90 three days in a row. Right now we are having the 7th hottest summer on record, could get worse.

I know it sounds silly, but I would not want to live without my ice maker. Can't think of any in particular that I hate - maybe ipod because I don't have one?

Big shout out to the rest of the gang - talk to you all tomorrow.
Marsha

MONDAY: today is Mission Monday and our mission this week is to try to get 50% 4pters this week. Ok girls, let's work hard to get some perfect scores this week!


back later

Faye

Morning All ... well I had a good weekend ( hope you all did too, seemed quiet around here ) , I did got to our best friends little daughters 1st b day party and they had my favorite cake from Costco, with the cream cheese filling in the middle and I did NOT have any!! Boy was it ever hard to do, geeeezz .. finally I asked her to take it to another room so I didnt have to stare at it any longer!!

PLUS I have BIG NEWS !!! I weighed in at 199 this morning !!! Back to Onederland!!! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
However we all know that I am going to the State Fair this Friday, wonder how much I could gain in one day of fair eating ... I wouldnt think it would be more than a pound, but who knows... will have to work my butt off on Sat and Sunday to counteract all the bad food calories.... hey I have been on plan for 3 weeks now, so Girls I am eating!!!

Glad to hear you are all doing well ... Faye looks like another hot one this week for us ... shows low 90's all week, and on the day that I go to the fair it shows a high of 92, ughhhhhhh ... when will it end???? Well anyhow talk to you all later ... I am on board for the 4 pointers!!!!

Hi, ladies. Had a very good weekend - 4 points both days!

Faye, my husband is eating a little more but not much. We go to doctor Wednesday.

Carri - Congratulations - way to go, girl!

Starting to thunder and lightening so have to turn computer off!

TUESDAY: Today is Target Tuesday and our target this week is food programs. Specificially white foods. Let's see if for one week we can remove just one white food from our diet, be it bread, pasta, rice, flour, sugar, whatever.

POINTS:

Susan

Carri: I am so proud of you! I knew you could do it. Have a good time this weekend!

Susan/VA: hope the dr appt goes well. I know you guys could really use some good news. I talked to my dsis Sunday and her husband is to the point where he not only can't stand, but he now cannot sit in his scooter without falling over. It is so sad, but part of that darn disease (MS)

talk later gals

faye

Hi all,

I've been having a wobbly few days foodwise, but am keeping up the exercise. My relationship probs have been getting me down a bit and suprise, suprise it's led to me overeating a bit - but I'm getting back on top of it and am determined not to let this stop me from reaching my goals.

CARRI - Well done you for getting to 199 - that is fantastic!

SUSAN/VA - Hope your trip to the docs goes well - glad to hear that your dh is doing better.

FAYE - Hope your allergies are calming down a bit.

SCUZIN - Your beauty treats sound like fun - it does us good to pamper ourselves!

Love Amanda x

Hi all,
I"m back from a weekend at the beach...and the dentist office...I chipped a tooth and have to have a crown boo. I guess that's my wednesday woe, check tonight.

Carri - congrats on the weigh in!!!!!!

WEDNESDAY: today is Wednesday's Woes so we can gripe today girls!


Susan: Sorry about the tooth!

everyone have a good day and I will check in later!

Faye

Good morning gals. Not too much to woe about today. The heat is gone and the forecast is for low 80's for about a week. Yeah! Bible school is going well, but reminds me that I am happy not to be teaching the youngest ones in school anymore - their attention spans are sooo short!

Faye - just thinking this am that your vacation is getting very close - time does go by!

Amanda - most of us that have weight problems are stress eaters. We all know a few of those people who would have lost 10 pounds because of it, but not us! Hang in there, girl. You know you have come too far to let it all slip.

Carri - I hope I am right behind you into the onederlands. Started this journey at 226 in April, but have been stuck right around 203, 204 for a bit now. Just think - the 200's are behind you forever!

Susan - still praying for anwers for DH - is he getting depressed about his condition?

Scuzin - sorry to hear about your tooth -crowns are so expensive!

I am going to get my walk in this am - then have to pick up my sister and go do some grocery shopping for our week up north. She says the list isn't too long - but it does take some grub to feed 25 for a week. Friday morning we take DM to the nursing home - guess they want us there around 10 and then would like DF, sis and I to stay for lunch. They seem like they want to provide well for her there - they plan to have a staff meeting to discuss her condition. There are things she wants them to know - like during the daytime she is not sleeping, but just can't open her eyes and would like them to do that for her. They are also letting her bring her own brand of yogurt that people we know who will go see her can feed her. Know we will all worry when we are up north, but the vacation, especially for DF, is so needed.
Have a great day and I will check in tomorrow.
Marsha

My woe for today is a looloo! I am so upset at myself for being just a dope!!!!! I have told you all about my dsis in Ca who lives like they are Donald Trump but are up to their ears in debt. Well, she has been whining about coming to Vegas and not knowing where they were getting the money, etc for weeks to me. Well, I talked with dh and we decided we were going to help them out so I sent HER MY $$ off coupons for their room and it came with 4 free meal coupons, then we decided to pay for their room, give them a tank of gas to go home on, pay for the entertainment we were going to do together AND made reservations at this fancy Italian restaurant SHE picked out over where we wanted to go (which of course was cheaper) because their anniversary was the 4th so it is our gift to them. WELLLLLLL, I talked to the other sister on Sunday and she informed me her dd and sil were leaving for Ca the day before we go home from Vegas to visit my sis and bil and they are going to the NASCAR race in CA!!!! NASCAR tickets aren't cheap let me tell you. So , I emailed my dsis not once but twice about my niece coming out there and she ignored it both times and responded to everything else in both e-mails. I am hopping mad that we fell for that again! Last year at my son's wedding, they were so rude to dh. I got invited to go shopping with the two of them and their three dd's and dh said to go. my sis said my bil and nil would call dh about going with them! They left him stranded at the hotel with nothing to do and my stupid sis and n spent all day shopping in extreme heat in an outdoor mall, ignoring me completely like I was their chauffeur (she had rented a Lincoln Town Car and was afraid to drive it so I drove everywhere!) I thought we were going to be gone a couple hours and 6 hours later we come back and dh is in the room playing a game on his computer because he was stiffed! Then the day of the wedding, the two of them went off for coffee and rolls and ignored me completely and I had a shoe emergency (my beautiful new shoes wouldn't fit as my feet had swelled) so I called my sis on her cell and ask is she could take me to Walmarts to get a pair of shoes to wear under my dress. Yeah, they came back and got me, then shopped for 2 hours in Walmart and 45 minutes in the store next door and left me sitting in the hot car! I was a nervous wreck about the wedding anyway and they are screwing around like they have nothing better to do and it is like 2 hours before the wedding! We decided not to spend money on a rental car because our hotel had a shuttle that connected with three of their other properties on and off the strip and we had relatives in town for the wedding that could take us to the wedding in their car. My bil decided he KNEW Vegas and first off, messed around until it was 15 minutes before the wedding before leaving our hotel, then took a "short cut" that ended in a deadend and got us lost. We arrived at the chapel in a huge traffic tie up so dh and I got out of the car in the middle of the road and hot footed it to the chapel. Thank goodness the wedding before was late or we would have missed our own son's wedding. Anyway, I told dh I was never ever ever doing anything for them monetarily again. We have already given them a BIG cash gift a year or so ago. DH and I don't believe in loaning money to family or friends. If we can't afford to lose it we don't give it. She has already hinted about not having airline ticket money to go to Indiana for Thanksgiving and there is no way we are giving them money! These people probably make $120,000 between them to our $75,000! I just feel like such a moron to fall for it again!

DH takes Accupril, Metropolol sp?, Plavix and Zocor. I imagine that one of them is probably some kind of blood thinner or has that component? Anyway, he is bruising lately really easily and they get really dark purple etc. Now I don't mean to say they pop up by themselves, but for instance a week ago the car door hit him in the chest and he has a half dollar size bruise on his breast but it is very dark purple and looks awful. He did something to his inner arm at work and it turned really ugly too. Where before, if he bumped into something or hit himself with something, it wouldn't necessarily bruise but now it does. He looks like I have beaten the crap out of him! lol It just seems he is bruising a lot more than usual. I talked to my dil, who is a pharmacist last night and she said to have him call his cardiologist as they may want to do some blood work to see if his Plavix needs to be reduced, changed, whatever. I told my dil that if someone sees him all bruised up, thinks it's spouse abuse, calls the cops and haul me in and I miss my vacation, there really will be spouse abuse then! He promised he would call the dr today though.

Marsha: Sometimes having a very infirmed family member is so very stressful and you have to get away for just a little while. My older sis's dh has MS and is in a nursing home now and she is just whipped from going there everyday, her body is all screwed up from her thyroid meds and she HAS to work everyday sick or not. She was supposed to come down here to visit, but cannot afford it even though I said I would come get her and take her home so I understand what you mean!

Well, I need to go. I got an e-mail from this other dsis just now and she is complaining about their car and wanted to know if we rented one so we can use our car instead of theirs! SIGH!!!!!

faye

Afternoon Girls... Hope you all are doing well ... I have had two "4" pointers for the last two days...it has been so hot around here that dh has made me go for a long walk with him around 9:00 both nights ... I thought it would be too late to exercise and that it might keep me up but I still have been going to bed around my regular time of 10:30 ... so as long as it is this hot I guess I will keep doing it then, last night we went around 8:30 and I walked my butt off for about 40 mins...it is good to go with him because he walks fast and keeps me at a fat burning pace...so it has been nice...I just hope I do not gain like 2 pounds from the Fair this Friday ...

I do not have any Weds woe today...so that is good I guess...

Update on my co-worker/friends dad that was in the motorcycle accident, he is going to live per the Dr's... he still has a long way to go though with therapy and such... he is still on a breathing tube and has not fully waken up yet...he has also got a high fever at times, so they watch him closely...keep him in your prayers, and the whole family as his wife is paralyzed from the neck down, has been since she was 18, she got married that way and had two kids that way, what a woman!! So she depends on him alot, physically and financially, so they are going through some hard times... we are actually taking up a collection here at work to help them through.

Faye - You have got quite a big woe going on, ha ha ... I would not put up with that...it is not like you are loaded and have $$ to burn, you guys work hard for that ( or dh does, ha ) ... I would not be helping anymore ...

Amanda - Don't let the relationship problems bring you down and make you gain weight...you have come so far girlie...and you will be at goal one day...with or without him.

Marsha - I know how hard it is to get under 200, I was there last winter and then rose above it again... I hope I can stay under now for good...

Scuzin - Sorry to hear about your tooth, I hate the dentist, I think I have a cavity right now but am afraid to go, I know waiting will make it worse

Susan/VA - Great to hear that your husband is eating more, hope things go well at the Dr...

Well hope you all have a great OP day today....you can do it !!!!!!!!!!

Good Morning everyone!

Don't have much to say...just want to start hanging out here again. Maybe all your success will motivate my butt somehow.

Congratulations Carrie!!!!! I'm so happy you're back in onderland....my dh has back problems, too, if you recall, and he's lost over 30 pounds since May. He was at 201 this morning...I think I'm jealous. Know I am, actually.

Well, I hope everyone has a great day.

Julie

THURSDAY: Today is Time for Us Thursday and it is a day to give some time to ourselves. One of the ways to do this is to partake of the support here and visit with us on a regular basis!

I will do pts and replies a little later. I just got back from the pool and have to get showered and over to the library and deposit books in their book drop before it opens or my books will be later!

See you in a few!

Faye

Hey, Faye - that's me, stopping at the library on my way to work to get my books back on time. I do make good use of it.

Time for me - well, haven't done that for awhile but I'm taking a day off work tomorrow to go the Quilt Guild and a quilting class on Saturday so I'm excited.

Dr. said my husband is doing well and he has to be retested in 2 weeks and then a month later to make sure the Flagyle took care of everything. Said it hit him so hard it would be 6 months before eveything was in any semblance of order again and just to take it easy and rest a lot. He is eating better and that has me a lot happier. The darn nurse told him if he felt like eating cookies - eat cookies, etc. If I let him get started on that path again, I'll never get him back to eating sensibly. I feel he needs to eat nutritiously as possible since he doesn't eat much. Have him having the Ensure Extra twice a day for snacks since that gets a lot of vitamins into him.

POINTS:

Carri
Faye

Carri: that is the way to get in that exercise! Convince yourself it is too hot to stay indoors! Good for you and don't stress about the fair or it won't be fun for you to even go! So glad about your friend. I hope things work out for the family! Thanks for the reassurance I am not being a jerk because I don't want to give them money for Thanksgiving!


Julie: You listen to me, young lady! You started way back with me on this thread when I first got it going. You have hung in through the nutcases that posted here, those who wandered away and our beginning little group of Amanda and Carri, you and I! You can't desert us now that things are tough weightwise for you! You always preached to everyone else about the support here now we are here for YOU! Even if you are eating the house, you need to come here and get encouraged! Don't continue to let your writing, your skinnier husband, or your kids give you the excuse to stay away. No one knows better than I how devastating it is emotionally to start eating badly again and gain weight BUT remember that beautiful woman that looks you in the face every morning. Doesn't she deserve something better than giving up on her?????? I love you to pieces and want you back to being contented again as do we all!

Susan/VA: Oh, I hope I didn't borrow a book you wanted to read! Well, they are all back at the library so get your UZI for protection and go back to my library and pick it up! (Sorry just had to throw that in! We had a shooting every 32 hours in Memphis last month ) I am thrilled you hubby is on the upswing!

ANNOUNCEMENT: Faye has lost 10 lbs! I was behaving terribly food wise for 2-3 weeks then got serious and lost it over about 10 days. I have been behaving myself still working hard in the pool and rewarded myself with a new outfit to wear on the plane. Oh you guys, it is like wearing pjs and looks so cute. It is that crinkled fabric so it doesn't matter if it wrinkles, nice baggy pants and a nice full tunic to go with in a deep turquoise. Best part, on sale for $25 for the set! WOOHOO! I have enough trouble sitting in a plane seat for 4.5 hours anyway let alone in uncomfortable tight clothing. Because my *** is too big for the seat, it arms pinch somewhat and will cause my leg, at least one of them to go to sleep so I can use all the help I can get!

As for dh, I talked with the nurse last night and she was going to talk to Dr Anderson this morning to see if he thinks dh needs blood work because of the bruising. Haven't heard a peep yet though.

I am having the yummiest whole wheat flatbread ham and swiss wrap with arugula in it. It feels good to be back on track. Don't you wonder why we punish ourselves???

Everyone have a great day!

Faye