Hi all,

Well I am still not doing brilliantly with my eating - it's been four days in a row that I've gone over my calories which is not good! I need to sort it out and stop eating to comfort myself. I wish I was one of those people who loses their appetite completely when they are low! I've been getting my water and exercise in, so 2 out of 3 ain't bad I guess! I need to give myself a kick up the butt about my eating, as if I'm going to be a single girl again at the ripe old age of 32, then I need to be looking my best! :lol:

FAYE - :cheer:Congrats on the 10lb loss - that is wonderful! :cheer: You are right to put a stop to giving your ds money - it's not like it's for life or death stuff like rent arrears or electricity bills, it sounds like she's been using your money to live it up! Bless you and Jack for being so generous - especially when you are hardly 'rolling in it' yourselves. Hope Jack's bruising is nothing to worry about - my mum went through a period of bruising really easily and it turned out to be connected to her thyroid gland and was easily sorted.

CARRI - You are doing really well! Good for you for getting out for some walks - at least it's cooler at night and you have your big strong dh to accompany you!

JULIE - Please come back hon! I agree totally with what faye has said - stop letting everything else get in the way of the health and wellbeing you deserve! Your dh obviously isn't! Good on him for losing weight by the way - it won't take you long to join him!

MARSHA - Enjoy your holiday - it sounds like your dm will be very well looked after, which must be a weight off your mind. Enjoy your break - you deserve it!

SUSAN/VA - Glad your dh is getting better - I agree that if he is eating so little then you don't want it to be something of no nutritional value. I guess at least cookies may fatten him up a bit!

Love Amanda x

Afternoon Girls ... well I just messed up and had two good sized egg rolls for lunch, so the big strong oak has fallen :lol: Well I kind of had this "I dont care" attitude today since I am going to eat at the fair tomorrow, I know that is bad, but all this time of no cheating I think I owe myself some rewards...boy I am really talking myself into this huh? :lol:

Julie - HI HI HI ... good to hear from you, thanks on the congrats...I have been working hard...I know you too can get where you want to be...your dh is doing a great job on his weight loss... how sad him and I are so close in weight, ha ha :D

Faye - Great job on the 10 pounds down! woo hoo... that is so great!! Keep it up...cause you know you will not be dieting in Vegas :)

Everyone else Hello, I gotta get back to work, not much time today, have a great day!! Stormy here today

Faye - doing the happy dance for you!

FRIDAY: Today is Fabulous Friday Follies. Tell us any funny methods you have used to lose weight!

Morning gals! It is going to be a beautiful morning, maybe because I am behaving myself and lost another 4#! BUT, I have to go to the dreaded commissary today and you KNOW how I love that!

I will be back in later and pt points and such

Faye :)

Hello folks!

I got another 2 pointer yesterday - but I am feeling better in myself today so hopefully this will be reflected in my eating! I just did a really tough cycle class and it's really got the endorphins pumping! My motto at the moment is 'this too shall pass' - I keep saying this to myself when I get caught up in things.

I've decided to start going to church again - I went last week, and although it is not my ideal church (which is one reason I haven't attended for a couple of years - there are no decent churches in my area), I have decided to commit to it because better a church that isn't 100% perfect than no church at all! It's not a bad church and I will really benefit from making some good Christian friends.

FAYE - Another 4lbs down - You are on fire woman! Don't go picking up any more men at the commissary! :lol:

CARRI - You have been working so hard - a day or two loosening the reins will not undo all your hard work - enjoy the fair!

Love Amanda x

Morning everyone!

CONGRATULATIONS FAYE!! :strong: :bravo: :cp: :cb: I know you feel great when you're losing, that's awesome.

Carrie--Enjoy your Fair day! I went two weeks ago and only had a sausage dog and a few bites of cotton candy. No fried dough, which is a miracle for me.

Amanda--I hope you make lots of friends at your new church. It's great that you're getting out more.

Thanks for the encouraging words everyone. It means alot to have such a group of friends who genuinely care about you. I haven't given up, I'm just in a "I don't feel like it" phase...laziness, I guess. I've been so hyper attentive to all the writing I'm doing...the stress gets to me sometimes. I know exercise is the only way to deal with it, but I've been choosing to eat instead. Bad.

I have been doing handstands almost daily! ME--This fat old broad doing handstands, can you imagine??! :lol: My daughter bet me I couldn't do one...well, I had to show her...and I did one and then another...I actually used to do them all the time, now I remember why--They're FUN! They are GREAT exercise for the upper body, even though I don't hold them very long. Yet.

Oh, and I also went to fight yesterday for the first time in about a year. So that's good exercise too. I thought I was done with the fighting, but I've found that I miss it. So, I'm going back but trying not to be super-competitive because that makes me crazy!

I guess that's all on the Julie front. Tomorrow I'm going to an antique fair with DH and then my middle daughter is having a slumber party to celebrate her 10th birthday. I'm going to try to be good!

Scuzin, Susan, Marsha....everyone else who I don't know :lol: ....have a great weekend!

Julie

Afternoon ladies!! I cannot even TELL you how hot it is... Does this give you a clue???:devil: :devil: I did the commissary routine (and :sssh: Amanda I think it was old codger's day cause they were all over 75! :D I had a huge hot flash in the store and was walking around in a nice cool store fanning myself as fast as I could with my list! Came home and had to drag it all in and put away, which is tough going in and out of the AC then had to go to the store again to replace my reading glasses as I broke them at the commissary. Right as I got inside the door, the frame just broke and the lense fell out. You should have seen me trying to read cal and fat with my arm out as far as it would go! :(

POINTS:

Amanda :dancer:
Faye :bravo:

Julie: Listen, I just want you to come here to destress. You'll know when you are ready to get that program going again. You have done fabo in the past and I know you will again.

Amanda: I know sometimes my mouth is a sewer, but I am truly a devout person and we aren't going to church either. We cannot find one here that isn't really liberal Biblically and we are pretty conservative. They tend to believe only parts of the Bible are factual and a lot is symbolic. What whooey! If God wrote it down through man then it happened, I say! I watch church on tv and that is not good enough. We have a huge baptist church here that we haven't visited, but Jack is "out of practice" and it is impossible to get him to go now. Funny, before we moved from Indiana, I was in charge of the payroll to missionaries, the SS attendance, taught a jr church 4-5 class for several years and taught fill in when someone didn't show up. Jack was a deacon, SS superintendent (hence the reason I was the one that always filled in :lol: ) and was the absolute best adult SS teacher I have ever heard! I remember when he wanted to start the class, I groaned because he is not a very good speaker and I thought he would be BORRRRRRIIIINNNNNGGGG! Well, he started the book of Daniel, had handouts and everything, the class was about 10 or so and when we left it was about 45 (a lot of the people from the other adult class who didn't like the teacher came into Jack's class.) He truly was amazing. He also taught all about the book of Kings, which can be boring, but Jack would do personal research about each king and tell stories about their personal lives not just the Biblical passages. I truly missed it when I agreed to take over the SS attendance job.

Well, ladies I need to go and check the laundry as I have been gone all morning!

faye :)