Sarah - I just did Jiggle Free Abs and I liked it! I still like Tammilee Webb's I Want Those Abs too, but I'll probably start alternating it with this one.

Katie - You were super close! CONGRATS. We all know how 1 pound comes and goes so easily when you are bloated.

I came down with a cold suddenly yesterday and felt horrible all day until I decided to get my butt up and go to the gym anyways. I'm so glad I did. My headache went away and I felt much better. Today I feel fine other than the congestion.

Hi Catherine! Hi Maureen! Hope everyone else is doing good!

It's such a nice day here and I think I'll see if my Mom wants to get outside for a little walk with the girls. She's supposed to be walking a little each day now.

Good morning girls:

Katie, glad you had a fun trip, I'm sure you made goal, congrats.
Catherine: I hope things are going well for you and the relations are healing.
Nori: You need to come here and be my trainer, you have such motiviation.
Serena: Hope things are well with you, where are you?
Sarah: thanks for the kind words, my eating hasn't gotten any better, I can't wait for TOM to leave, maybe that will help.

B: cereal L: Lean Cuisine S: 2 cookies (at hairdressers) When I got home: slice of italian bread with peanut butter and a handful of potato chips D: 5 pieces popcorn chicken, 1/2 baked potato with RF sour cream, granola bar...I was a bottomless pit!! Pts: I'm guessing at least 40

I decided yesterday last minute to leave early and get my hairdone because the lady had a cancellation. I had it cut much shorter into layers, I wanted a Meg Ryan look but I got nothing like it. It's so puffy on top I feel like I have a hat on and DH said I looked taller! I didn't have time to style it myself today so I'll know tomorrow for sure if I like it or not. I had highlights done too and those came out good. On my way home I bought a glass display cabinet at the Salvation Army. It was $185 and was nice. The woman there told me a man who owned a furniture store retired and his son donated all the unsold furniture so it's brand new. I was up till 11:30 last night washing and drying my china set so now I can finally display it. DH wants to stain the cabinet because it's a pickled oak but I can't decide yet.

Well soccer season is starting, DS has practice tonight. I won't miss the soccer days, they're a pain in the A$$. Working Mon-Fri then cleaning and driving both to and from soccer leave me only Sunday after church to relax and then there's always something to do then. I miss having my Saturday mornings, those were always mine for going to yard sales. Oh well, one of the small sacrifices we make as a mommy!

Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Hey ladies!! I've been taking a week off from exercise. I've been watching what I eat, but not counting calories. I find it hard to do on weekends and breaks because I don't really have structure in my days.

I have a new April plan. There are a lot of events in April and May that I want to look my best for - Prom, senior trip to Disney World, lots of banquets, my birthday, and graduation!

Food: I want to log as much as possible, and try to stay around 1400-1500 calories a day. That's working for me.

Exercise: I am going to shoot for 5 cardio workouts a week, but 4 will be fine too. Each cardio workout should be 30 - 60 minutes long. I will try to log my exercise daily at the Presidential Challenge website. I also need to incorporate weights/toning this month. I need to shape up my jiggly arms!

Weight: I want to lose just a few pounds, or maintain. I'm looking to build muscle this month and I don't know if my prom dress would fit right if I lost 5 more pounds! It's already big on me! (Which I guess is a GOOD thing!)

I hope to be back later for personals! It's supposed to storm a lot this evening, so if I'm not back you'll know I'm in the basement hiding

Hi Everyone

I just wanted to say Hi and hope that all of you are doing well. !
It's been AWHILE since I was here at all, but I now have time during the week to get on a few times and post and update and keep up with everyone ! March was a SUPER busy month here in Alabama. My son has had an ongoing ear infection. We celebrated my Grandmother's 96th birthday, my Son turned one on March 25th and was dedicated in church the next day followed by a 35 guest party. We had a funeral, and a few other things with church as well. So things are somewhat back to normal !

I want to see how EVERYONE is doing ? It would be Great to have a ROLL CALL of sorts, and see if we can get updates of who is a regular and participant in this thread. I have a feeling I am going to be private messaging (PMing) ALOT of people.
So for those are you who are active, please tell me the following:
ROLL CALL :
Username
Real Name
SW, CW
And whatever else you want to share

ROLL CALL :
I will give those of you a recap of who I am.

My user name is MommaAshley, Real Name: Elizabeth. I started this journey on January 1st, 2006 and have a goal to lose a LARGE amount of weight hopefully by the end of 2006. (The sooner of the better, but we all know it isn't always that easy !) I created this Chat/Post Thread in hopes to meet new people who too wanted to share in The Diet Journey of 2006 ~ 3FC Style !! I started the group in January for anyone and everyone regardless of age, location, how little or how much weight you have to lose !

I am 30 years old, married to J (aka DownontheFarm) for 3 yrs. Blessed with 2step-daughters ages 7 and 4. And together we have a Son Sam who just turned 1. I live in N. Alabama on a Farm where we are continuing renovation on a house. I work FT and am working on retaining my Life & Health Insurance License. (I'd REALLY LOVE to work from home )

So here's what I am doing:

1. I recently joined WW's and LOVE it. Counting my flex points. WOOHOO !

2. Giving up sugar (which I've already done, thank the lord for Splenda)

3. Giving up caffeine & only drinking one soda a day (if that)

4. Exercising at least 30 mins at day (STILL a work in progress)

5. Counting and Tracking EVERYTHING I eat

WHY do I want to do this ?

1. So I can be around to see my son, my step-daughters and future children grow up and have families.

2. To be more healthy !

3. To look and FEEL sexy

4. To grow old with my husband

And of course there are a billion more I could put !!

So that's what I am doing. . . I am really TRYING hard and so far I've lost 39 lbs since January 1st!!

SO. . . that's why I am on The Diet Journey of 2006 ~ 3FC Style !!!

I am here to challenge anyone to be a part of this thread !! I will be here to ~ ~ I will be here to ~ YOU ON!! ~ I will be here to say ~ I will be here to give you a BIG BIG !!

So what do ya say Ladies ? Here's a lil extra !


Are you with me ? ~ Elizabeth ~

Hi ladies:

Hope everyone had a great weekend. Welcome back Elizabeth, my stats are in my ticker.

I have been bad this weekend and for the first time, I won't bother to post everything I ate, I can't remember it all anyway, I grazed too much! This was just a continuation of how I ate from last week. I didn't gain anything (yet) which is good and I came prepared to work today with a lean cuisine, fruit and yogurt. I also have a big package of chicken I'll be grilling up tonight when I get home.

Catherine: I hope all is going well. Post soon, we miss you. Hope the trainer is being gentle with you

Serena: Same with you, what's new, how are the boys?

Nori: I hope your mom is doing well.

Sarah: What's new with you, what have YOU been up to?

Katie: wow, you have a busy schedule coming up, enjoy!

Danielle: Where are you? You haven't posted in a week! Your talk of cleaning inspired me to clean out both the kids closets last night. I have 7 big bags of clothes to donate on my way home. I also cleaned my downstairs hallway which was a "catch all" area. I've been bad for over a week...you can fall of the wagon, just don't fall off the wagon trail and into the valley below I guess. It's getting nicer outside, keep visiting here and posting and soon we'll be back on track together! We miss you!

Well I guess I'll sign off, I hope everyone gets back on track with posting their updates.

Welcome back Elizabeth! It's great to hear from you!!!! I'm so glad you're loving WW! I sure love it when I can get my butt there!

Katie - I bet you'll be beautiful in your dress! The Firm makes a video called Jiggle Free Arms - maybe it's just the thing you need! I'd love to have nice shaped arms, too!

Maureen - it's good you've got a plan to get back on track. Forget about the grazing.

Nori, Danielle, Serena and Catherine, can't wait to hear how your Monday is going!

Notice my ticker....I gained a little back. I'm trying to get back in control this week as well!

Hello lovely ladies! I apologize for not being here! I haven't felt here or there at all this last week. I collapsed at work on Wednesday, My doctor put me on some bed rest affter that and gave me something to help me sleep. It didn't! I was still up. The stress of every thing going on is really getting to me. It is tearing me apart. Emotional eaters beware, I think I have you all beat this week. I ate a pint of Ben & Jerry's yesterday in one sitting. Go ahead you can yell at me I did yell at myself when I was done. The FIL has a permanent room in Assisted living if we can come up with the proof of pay for it. It would be so nice. He comes back here at the house on friday if we do not get anythin worked out. Anybody have a 150,000 dollers I can use? It is nice to have a little freedom here at the house. He went to the hospital on Tuesday after he collapsed, they ended up putting a pace maker in. Me and DH still argue and it gets pretty heated. We know we are fighting because of all that we have on us and unfortunately we are using each other for an outlet. We are trying to correct that problem. Sometimes it does not work so well. As soon as I get my scanner working I will post my children's spring potraits they came out so nice. The trainer is going well. Yes, he is working me. I wish I could spend evey day with him. That would physically kill me though. My weight is holding even with TOM. I have more endurance doing some activities. Walking all the hills at the race track was a lot easier. It didn't kill me. I have read up on everyone's posts i just do not feel like personals right now. Thank you everyone for checking on me! LOL to all of you!

Hi Elizabeth!

Catherine

I"m here! My weigh in reflected my weekend!! Only down .5 pound after a fabulous week of eating on track and exercising. I "thought" I would be "OK" making chocolate chip cookies - just a 1/2 batch you know! Well, after realizing my problem as I ate about 3 cookie's worth of dough I then proceeded to eat 7 of them - this was Saturday night. I then got into my old rut of not eating anything, healthy or otherwise after that...as a sort of self inflicted punishment. Thankfully DH and I talked it through yesterday and I got out of that old cycle for this "binge" and am back on track today. This is the real world, I'm not perfect,() I'll slip up now and then - I've got to get that engrained, forgive myself QUICKLY, and move on. I know it in theory, in my head. I do wonder if I'll be able to make a batch of cookies ever again though.

Catherine - I hope you are back to 100% soon! Obviously, you just read my above confession, and even if I had not suffered a set-back this weekend myself, I wouldn't judge you! Not for 1 second! Although my binge wasn't "emotional" just "lust". You are under some serious stress. Plus, B&J's is DAMN good ice cream!! Yes, post pics of the kiddos! I'll share some in a bit here too...

Katie - You'll have to post a dance pic too! I'm sure you'll be stunning. What color/style is it? I hear you on not losing anymore weight when you have an event and have a fitted dress. I had to have my wedding dress altered 3 times after the gal finished it because I kept losing weight. Finally at the final fitting about 2 weeks before the wedding, she said "enough is enough"! Too bad I went on a honeymoon! That's when everything went downhill food wise!

Hi Mo! Sounds like you are armed with a plan today! How's it going! I know how hard it is to get back in a groove once you feel like you're in a rut. I'll happen. Just continue with your good planning and it'll click again. You're so dang busy with "your life", I don't know how you do any of it! My Mom is doing much better now. Thanks for asking.

Hi Sarah! When's the move?

Elizabeth! Hi stranger! Congrats on your continued success!! My stats are also in my siggy! Down 33 pounds since 1-5-06. My "plan" is to stay away from chocolate chip cookies!

Hi Danielle! Check in soon! Along with any other MIA's!

Here's some pics from our hike a couple weeks ago. This trail is just .5 miles up the road from our house and there's tons of trails, so you never have to take the same one. It's been great fun and equals about 2 hours of exercise each time. I guess you can only upload 5 pics at a time in each post, so I might do 2 posts! My baby Melina turns 1 tomorrow!!!

OK, a few more. Our house is sort of in the middle of the closest zoomed in neighborhood shot.
Sorry it there's repeats from first post. I couldn't remember which one's I already put up.

Catherine - good luck, sweetie. I know things are rough right now. I hope you find the money you need to keep FIL in the assisted living home. I think it would relieve so much stress in your life.

Nori, your husband and children are BEAUTIFUL. What a gorgeous family the four of you make. And what a gorgeous place to live! I keep meaning to ask you if Nori is short for anything?

We're still waiting on my husband's orders to see how they're worded - that will determine when exactly we'll be moving. But it's looking like the kids and I will move in early August! WAHOO!

Thanks Sarah! My "real" name in Lenora. I go by Nori or Nora to most people. Depending on who they are. If DH isn't calling me a "cutsy" name, I'm Lenora to him. He likes it. I like it now too. But in 6th grade I didn't and decided to go by a nickname.

That's nice you can move when the kids are on break. Not so disruptive. I guess?

Lenora is pretty, too! I like Nori - it sounds Asian.

Eric is going to be starting Kindergarten when we get there. And they have a full day Kindergarten program, so my 1 year old and I will have a lot of time left to hang out together. Which is good, because I feel like I have been missing so much by working.

Nori - did you lose mroe weight over the weekend? You've lost so much! And your pictures look FABULOUS!

I think it IS Asian. I think it's the seaweed wrapper on Sushi, isn't it? I've met 1 other Lenora who goes my Nori. I've only ever met 4 Lenora's - including my great-grandmother. For some reason I thought you already had boy(s) in grade school. I keep thinking you have 3 boys - even though you screen name clearly states "2"! I think I got confused since you referred to you DH as one of the boys once when you were counting numbers! Sorry. In spite of my cc cookie binge, I lost .5 pounds. I suppose it'll slow down my progress on the scale this week. But that's Ok.

HAPPY TUESDAY EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How's it going?