Hello everyone wow some good sound advice from everyone! I enjoy hearing new ideas, whats worked etc. As far as exercise goes sometimes when I exercise the scale goes up. The muscle weighs in higher than fat go figure. At any rate then I CK on how my rings, clothes fit etc. But I still like the scale lower. Today was my scale day still the same as the other day when I had the 1.5 loss. I guess thats okay but would of been nice to see lower numbers. I have to say this weeks choice making took some extra thought. Yesterday I did okay but once I was out of my office lunch in the community sounded good. But I went back and ate my prepared lunch. Then at dinner time I was running late and almost stopped to grab a sub. But came home and made sauted veggies and chicken. I did have one handful of chips. But I was able to limit myself. On saturday we are going to my sisters for a picnic now there is always a lot of snacks and foods. I am going to try my best to be good. Maybe going on the scale in the morning will help? At any rate Nikki I am happy that you are going to add a few healthy calories on it may help. Many people eat 6 small meals and have done great. I sometimes plan a morning snack and afternoon one as well. Just fruit, yogurt or counted out crackers to ensure only one serving. Good luck and any good info. from Denise is welcomed here. I like her line of thinking after all take a look at her now that is incentive alone. Nice tea party sometimes helping others is such a high. My person is doing well thanks for asking all moved in yesterday. I stopped over in the afternoon and she was like so relaxed and happy acting. This is a positive move for her and the family is very greatful. Nice to be a part of such a nice outcome. Hopefully it continues to go so nicely. This type of situation makes me realize that my job and efforts are all very worth it.
Have a great day everyone and hang in there. The scale is the devil but for me also the balance I need. Cause without it I stray a way and sometimes its not good. So I still have 2.5lbs to lose to get back to where I was. If I had used my means of the scale I would of caught it sooner. Oh we live and learn so clothes fitting alone doesn't work so well. You need the balance of it all or I do at least. Marie I agree we just have to undo damage we could of avoided right along. So when its up a little here and there its upsets us but at least we know and sometimes it is water wt. But if its there a few days take it seriously. Have a great one.

Hi everyone -

So I went down from 162-163 yesterday to 159-160 today. I am not going to give an official weight until I get on my digi scale which is at my boyfriends. I will record a weight tomorrow morning to show my loss or gain for this week.

Marie - good luck on your weigh in. As for the swimming who knows maybe it is just that your muscles weigh more after swimming. Yesterday I did aerobics 30 min and 40 minutes of swimming. I can barely walk today so I will forgo my workout.


Carol- 6small meals sounds ideal I know when I did Weight Watchers they told me I was not eating enouh calories. I just can't seem to wrap my brain around it. More food to me = more weight.

I can't wait to get my TOM so I balance back out.


Nikki

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Good Morning All, Hope everyone is doing well today! I have to work the weekend and wanted to say hi now because I won't be here for a couple of days.

Nikki, I know it's hard to add food to lose weight, but sometimes too few calories makes your body hold on to every little bit because it doesn't know when it's getting the next food. A well balanced diet, with enough calories, is healthier and you do lose more weight because your body is more ready to let it go. And you may gain a little initially (oh no)! But a diet has to be something you can live with for a long time, not something you're constantally fighting.

cacmsc, I always plan in a few healthy snacks too. I make menu's for a week and make sure the food is in the house. I portion out a serving and put it in a baggie. It's too hard for me to just take a serving out of a box. I know me, i'll end up getting too much!

Pen Pal, The parties sound so lovely, and I know the ladies must have enjoyed them! It is hard to diet when you aren't the one in controle of the food. But, we're always in those situtations, there is always something going on, graduations, weddings. We just have to make the best choices we can at those times. If you know you're going to be tempted maybe save a few calories fromthe rest of the days's food?

Marie, I feel so much better when I exercise too! I think my body just tries to remind me that I NEED it! And i've had a hard time sleeping since menopause, and I find that if I exercise i sleep much better. Congrats on the weight loss!!!! Every little bit helps!!

every one have a happy, productive weekend. Freda

Just a quick 'hello' for my Friday weigh in. I lost 1.5 pounds of the two I gained last week, so I'm at 187.5. Sometimes it seems like one step forward, two steps back, but at least I'm heading in the right direction. I think I'm still hanging onto some of the water weight from the heat wave last week (rings still very tight) so hopefully I can lose a bit more before next weigh in.

Hope everyone has a great weekend! :)

Weekend is HERE!!!
 

Hi everyone!!! I hope the afternoon is going good for the chickies. I got off a litle early today because I still had a little time to use before the end of the fiscal year(today). So I'm home alone. DS, GF and DGS went to town, so I have the stereo on (a little loud) and I'm vegging out with my puppies.

Since I weighed in yesterday, I didn't weigh in this am. So no news there. I'm just so happy I've lost 18 pounds so far. I actually only have 1 pound to go for the July 17th mini goal. I just might make this one. :D

Well, I'm going to go play in my pool and listen to 12 Sharp (by Janet Evanovich). For Mother's Day I had bought myself a waterproof case and earphones for my ipod, so I'm going to go float/play in my pool. It's gorgeous outside. I'll chat more tomorrow.
Marie

HI eveyone....

Marie.. the floating/splashing spunds wonderful we are in for a scorcher today.

Despite my thursday gain to almost 164 yesterday I weighed in at 158 so I maintained last week. I am aiming for 3 lbs to lose by July 17. 17 days to lbs I can do ! Marie awesome to you on the 10 lbs. You are going to meet your goal WooohoooI bet you even exceed it!

Penny- Congrats on your loss !!!!

have a cool one
Nikki

Morning everyone. I just love weekends. Perhaps I struggle with food just a little bit more, but not much. Overall, I just love the quiet of weekends. DH and I are going to go rollerblading or hiking his morning before it gets hot. Then tomorrow we'll do whatever we didn't do today. Both days I'll be in my pool, that's for sure. I weighed today and was the same as Thursday morning so I think the loss is permanent. So here's the stats for June 1 to 30th. I've lost 7 pounds and I walked 84 miles. Total since April 25th: 17 pounds lost and 191.5 miles. Wow-wee!!! I'm actually proud of myself. Yesterday I made a promise to myself not to "settle" in a couple months for less of a weight loss goal then I want now. I have 60 more pounds to lose and I'm going to make it. In the past I let my brain con me into settling for less. Not this time, I'm making a pact with myself to make it the whole way. I'm hoping by next summer. That would be 5 pounds a month. Hopefully I can do that. But if it takes 2 years, I'll stick make it.

Nikki you're doing great. Were you weighing on a different scale than you're usual one this past week when your weigh fluctuated everywhere? If yes, bring your regular scale back and forth to your boyfriends. Only use one scale. No need to make this harder on yourself than it already is.

Talk with you later.
Marie

Marie - You really know how to relax - floating and splashing in your pool - that sounds so great. Makes me wish we had a pool. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to take a soak in the bathtub and imagine!

Nikki- Glad you're heading the right direction again weight-wise.

I've had quite an 'exciting' day. Our friends came down from Washington and we went out for lunch at McCormicks in the new Bridgeport shopping center with them, together with our son. Then, surprise, surprise, we got stuck in the elevator in the parking garage! For the first ten minutes or so we thought it was kind of funny, then we realized nobody knew we were there because the emergency alarm didn't work! Between our five cell phones, only one got a signal and it was our friends WA phone # so 911 had to be patched through to the local emergency. It was hot as h*** in this small elevator with the five of us and there seemed to be no air. To make matters worse, our friend has severe claustrophobia (he actually goes to a shrink every couple of weeks trying to overcome it) and he was just shaking all over and looked like he was going to pass out.

Anyway, after about 45 minutes, the fire dept. got us out. Then the security people from the shopping center finally turned up. The management offered to pay for our lunch - so did we sock it to them! Luckily the service was slow, so we had time to stop shaking and settle down before we ate. I had to exert quite a bit of willpower not to go totally overboard with the calories. I did indulge in a very expensive glass of wine and a large dungeness crab cocktail and some grilled salmon. We had Irish coffees all round (except hubby who was driving) and were quite merry by the time we left. I will definitely take the stairs next time though!

I hope everyone had a good weekend.

Penny congrats on your loss. Your headed in the right direction.
Freda some good sound info. thanks. It isn't always so easy stayings focused with the holidays and get togethers. It was hard at my sisters. I didn't do to bad but the spicy chicken wing dip was my down fall. I will give myself a couple of days before the scale comes in. I am going to my other sisters on tues. for a picnic. I think maybe I will bring a healthy snack to share and chicken to cook for me at least. Some control is in order.
Marie congrats to you too! You will make your goal and then some. I have 14 days left! Better get on the stick huh. We are ordering chinese for lunch today as we have a small group who are the only ones working today. Crazy holiday time. I am going to order on the lite side and no egg role, brown rice instead of white and will plan a healthy dinner.
Penny that is one heck of a shopping trip and a lovely ending to a crazy day. One your friends and family will laugh about down the road for years to come. Thank God the outcome was so good. A few years back I was leaving my building and its very old a few of us got caught in the elevator between floors. I had my cell and we called mtg. to come. In the mean time this guy had a panic attack as well and hated some areas. He started to laugh after awhile as we all tried joking he. Told his buddy on the phone security man that better get me out of here soon as these two woman both wear glasses and if I start stripping there is no hope for me. He was referring to his size. HAH HAH! I thought I would die laughing it was a funny experience. If I get on and it makes any noise I am off in a flash most of the time I take the stair case better for me and no elevator worries.
Well sounds like we are off to a great week girls. I am going to take my exercise clothes with me today and my suit in case I decide to stop at my sis's and swim laps instead. Looks like a great day. Our addition is coming on slow but sure. My sister in law had fun this weekend we went to pick out a new couch , chair and bed. She bought a thera peutic bed much better for her. A bit expensive but I encouraged her to get it. She is going with a twin so she has more room in the bedroom. We made the living room bigger bedroom smaller. So now its an adjustment time. I did well for her with the salesman got her price down on the couch 200.00 and he threw in the bedframe and a special pillow for her bed. Not to bad never did it for myself but a friend told me to try asking for a bette deal and I did. It was so easy people must do it often. Well be good make healthy choices and Nikki you will be eating more but the calories are better for the choices your making. good luck. I just made my schedule for the week for charting intakes and exerciser.

Morning Everyone -

Marie -I was using a different scale. I brought my regular one back home with me. Right now I am up a little bu I'm expecting ToM any minute so I'm not worried.


Penny- My god I weould have freaked being locked in an elevator.


I missed my workout show today but I am going to swim to make up for it. I have to figure out how to tape my show because right now if I miss it I don't get to do it and it is on at 7 am!!! I needed to sleep today and the 45 minutes extra I slept killed my workout.

Nikki

Morning Nikki, good for you bringing your regular one back with you. I swear those white boxes can play with our minds. Today mine read 1.6 pounds lighter and I wa so excited I told DH. Then I couldn't remember exactly what it said so I stepped back on it. Lo and hehold it said exactly what it said on Saturday. So I did it again 3 more times, exact same as Saturday. Why or Why did it tease me???? Oh well, no gain is great.

If you have a VCR you should be able to stick a tape in it and program it to record daily. I have TiVo and it's even simpler. Take the couple minutes to do it then you can exercise on your schedule.

DH and I are going Rollerblading this morning. We went on Sunday and it was fun. Today should be good. We go early to beat the heat. Then I think I'll swim later this afternoon.

Carol, good for you in packing your own picnic items. That's the only way to really stay in control. Eating off plan just isn't in the cards for me no matter if it's a holiday.

Penny, I'd go nuts in a stuck elevator. I'm claustrophobic but not horribly severe. I can't sit in the 3rd row of our Durango because I feel trapped. Different goofy things like that.

We're grilling a turkey on the Weber grill today. It's the best turkey in the world. I'm very excited for it since I haven't had it for years. We're also throwing baked potatoes and corn on the cob on the barbie. Easy to clean meal. YEAH!!!

Talk to you all later.
Marie

Marie you are doing so well that scale was just messing with you. They can be tricky but that was crazy.I did okay at the picnic until dessert time.Then I lost it a little bit. When I can home I tried to drowned it by drinking lots of water. I am sure not going on the scale until friday. Today I will swim and go for a walk after work. First the walk then the swim. I need to get in the swing of exercising again. I have been slipping up in that area and I feel it. It looks like a lovely day so far out. I had the little guy overnite. He is so cute. Hope when he starts school in the fall kids are good to him. He is so sweet and sometimes others take advantage of that and he will be only 4 until Oct. Oh well grandma woo's! His dad was at the new Adirondack Museum opening he did the sound system and theater room. The hole project they said was a 30 million dollars. But the natural sights and preserving of nature sounded wonderful I saw the article in todays paper. They paid him big bucks to be there yesterday to ensure that nothing went wrong during the opening. I don't mind having the little guy as he is so easy. Well its off to work I put a salad together at my sisters last night so lunch is all made up. That is so nice to have ready in the morning. Oh has anyone else tried the ww bagels? I picked some up not bad 100 cals. I like bagels but the calories are always so high these aren't as crispy as I like but good. Well have a great day and make good choices. I have my water supply , workout clothes and swim suit ready to go along with my lunch. I hope to have a lovely day.

Morning ladies-

After over sleeping again today I programmed my VCR so I don't miss my show. The little white boxes are so hard Marie. I am sure you are still as thin as you were. You are doing great.

Cacmsc- sounds like you have a nice day planned. I am hoping this rain clears out so I can swim but I'm not sure it will. I love sittingby the pool and reading. Then when I get uber hot I dive in and do some laps for 15 minutes come out and repeat !

Today I weighed in at 160 with my TOM I am sure those 2 lbs are water weight I also treated myself to 2 coronas yesterday but that was the extent of my bad eating. I can't wait to balance out .

Nikki

Okay, I didn't fall off the face of the earth! I didn't have as much access to the Internet as I'd hoped last week while I was traveling, and I've been out of all of my routines the past couple of days. It was good to be back in New Orleans, but also sad and maddening. I met with a lot of good folks who are dealing with health and clean-up issues--it's a bit overwhelming. I also saw an old friend, walked around a lot, and ate some great food--but not as much as I would normally....of which I'm very proud, I love the food there:D . Since the weekend, I've been getting ready for two groups of overnight guests, so lots of shopping and housecleaning--between power outages. We seeem to lose power whenever a thunderstorm comes through my neighborhood, and we've had some real doozies in the past few weeks.

There's too many personals to catch up with, but I need to give a huge shout-out to Marie :carrot: , and to everyone else for hanging in there despite the ups and downs. Let's make this the month where we all get over the hump--whatever that means for you! For me, it's keeping on program when life isn't 'normal' and I'm dealing with random factors (and random temptations). What would it be for you?

judy

Hi everyone, well it was back to work today. Drove up and police were there. Vandals had smashed two windows. Fun way to start the day. Since the glass is special they had to order it and it won't be here for two weeks. So there are boards up instead. Looks just lovely.:D

Diet wise, everything is going great. The BBQ'ed turkey was divine and lo-cal. I skipped my potato and had more white meat. I LOVE turkey. For lunch I put 4 oz on my salad today. Tonight - probably more turkey. I think I could live on turkey, peaches and strawberries for the rest of my life. Cool thing is they're all lo-cal. I did the WATP this morning and started my day off good in that regard. Water intake has been a tad lower since I'm in a diet pepsi mood. But I've stayed at the 75 oz - I just have had to force it down.

Judy, good for you in controlling the food in NO. That's not an easy task. My DS#2 is at tech school in Biloxi and he describes the mess quite often. Before the hurricane, he'd been excited the base had its own beach. Now that he's there and the hurricane destroyed much of the city/base, he said they aren't allowed to use the beach since it hasn't been cleaned up. Very rude awakening for my spoiled child.

Nikki, that scale is sure mean to you. I think you should drop kick across the floor. I sweat they torment us just to make us gve up. But we will never do that!!!!

Carol, enjoy the little one. I like being a grandma but I've noticed that it's painful to keep biting my tongue when I really, really disagree with some of the parenting choices. Maybe it's bad since they live here. If they didn't, I wouldn't know. :D

Tomorrow is DS#1 birthday. The big 21. So we're oging to a casino since he wants to try it. Doesn't want to try alcohol at all - how cool is that??? Makes a mom's heart proud. Anyway, we're going to go and DH and I don't gamble so it should be a blast...:devil: Oh well, it's his day and we'll just play with DGS.

Talk to you tomorrow.
Marie