Susan ~ I'm so glad you are standing your ground with Rachael. She will eventually see that you are doing this because you love her and you're trying to make her see what's best for her future. I really feel for you and I'm going to say a prayer for you and her. I'm really sorry about your mom treating you like she does. There is no reason for that, because obviously she should see that you're only trying to care! I could wear white, and I did, years ago! In highschool I weighed 115 pounds, and the day I got married I weighed 122 pounds; oh the good ol days!
Ginny ~ You are one busy lady and pretty soon, you will have rode so many miles on your bike, that you'll be at my front door step. I'll be waiting for you and have a cup of tea ready.
Katy ~ I hope both of your kids are feeling better and back to themselves by tomorrow. I always hated it when my girls were little and you just didn't always know what to do for them.
Today I went with both of my daughters and they each got an ear piercing, and then we went to Walmart and I got a new pedometer that I've really been wanting. They had been out of this one. I'm really excited to get started with it! I hope all of you have a wonderful evening...
Michelle, I would love to join you for a cup of tea.. .. I will continue to put in my miles.. how many do you think it will take?
Susan, I don't understand some mothers. They have a loving daughter and yet they alienate them with their treatment... I would give anything to have a daughter. I have daughter in laws, but they all have their own mothers so I can't really have a total relationship with them...this new one I am getting will be the closest to me. My mil once told me dil's just aren't the same, and I now understand what she meant.. but at the time it hurt me because I wanted to have a relationship with her, but she wanted to remain cold and distant. Now I know that is her nature. However, the past 20 years she has come to depend on me and rely on me, but now I don't need her to be...life is cruel sometimes... but stand your ground with Rach... her friend's mother needs a good kick in the butt . Giving them cigs is just plain stupid. I would not allow the girls to be together. It's a recipe for disaster for both of them.
I know you feel bad that Rachel wouldn't talk to you.. but she is angry.. I read that if while growing up your children are angry with you at times.. it just means you are doing a good job.. we can't give in to them, we are the adults and know better... we see a bigger picture than they do.
I know I have mentioned before about this crazy little bunny that runs around my yard everyday.. well he is out there again.. but today he has a friend... so I suppose soon there will be more little bunnies running around.
My dh planted some yellow lilacs the other day for me. I had ordered some from a catalog, they haven't come yet. I had an old customers come in last week who has over 300 of the 1800 kinds of lilacs there are.. they even go to Washington DC for a lilac convention... anyway I told her about my yellow ones I ordered. So the next day she comes over with 5 yellow ones for me.. I said I wanted to start a border of them.. so she gave me some. That was so nice of her..
Well, ladies, this is weigh in day... hope you are all excited and eager to step on that scale. . As you know I weigh myself everyday.. but this morning. tada
I was down another 2 pounds. I am really happy, this makes 12 so far for me.. since April 1. I just hope it continues....I can live this way... so I hope it keeps going down.. I guess all the miles must be helping too.
Ok. well I am doing some laundry this morning before I go to work. I better go switch loads. Good luck on the scales ladies.. I'll be checking in tonight to see how everyone did.
Good morning ladies!!! I had a semi horrible weekend!! Ok the weekend was not bad, I was. I don't know what was wrong with me but I ate everything in sight!!! Ok so I weighed this morning and I know without a shadow of a doubt that it has to be water weight because I could not have gained almost 4 pounds over the weekend but here it goes
239.8 lbs aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh
ok Deborah relax!!
Thank you all for your comments on my son, he is doing much better other then him waking up this morning at 5am to tell me he had a bad dream about vampire dogs in the supermarket..... he ate late!!!! lol
Sorry I forgot to say have a great day everyone!!! I'lll try to get back online later but MOndays are my busy days.
Drinking lots of fluids today ...need to shed some of those water pounds!
Deb
Oh by the way you can call me Deb.
Good Morning Everyone ~ Well with all the stress I've had in the past week, I haven't eaten very good at all! I thought I would still be up some pounds, but I've stayed exactly the same 240.
Ginny ~ I'm not for sure how long it would take you to get here LOL!
Deborah ~ Those 4 pounds will probably be gone in a couple of days. I had some sodium do that to me this past week and I was very upset, and then 2 days later, it was gone.
I hope everyone is having a good Monday morning. The sun is back out and it's beautiful here!
Came to work early because it will be a busy week! I think I will actually have to work!
Good to see you post Deb! Were missing you and Michelle yesterday! Not like Cristi not to post, missing her too.
Ginny - Congrats on the 2 pounds down!!!!
Katy- Thanks for reporting in!!! I don't know why I think we are in the military. lol psssssst, you didn't look 183 Saturday
Michelle - Yes, the good ole days!! I was pretty steady until I started this job last Sept. I look at all my summer capris and can't wait til I can squeeze into them again.
Thanks for the encouragement of Rach. I must be doing an awesome job because she can't stand me - lol . She did call her dad last night and she told him she didn't want me calling anymore and she wouldn't do counseling with me. WhatEVER. She is picking her own road to travel. Ginny - that other mother drives me nut. How dare she give my daughter cigs? I was telling my ex that having my daughter be friends with hers makes her job easier. She really needs to face that fact that her daughter needs help. My daughter in not going to join her in the craziness that she has created. I just pray all the time that Rach will have a change of heart.
Reporting for Monday weigh in!! I am down 4 pounds, yay!
Deb, I meant to add that I am glad your son is doing better. I wouldn't worry too much on the 4 pounds. That has happened to me before, drinking water and getting back on track with the eatting - I am thinking it will go right back down!
I had a dream the other night. I was moving somewhere and didn't have a u haul but walking the stuff somewhere. Some x rated video employee was helping by carring boxes up the sidewalk......wherever we were going. He dropped my box and cussed......I didn't think that was very nice.
I finally woke up (thank goodness - taking forever moving that way and I was getting bored - lol ) and thought ....why an x rated video employee??
Haven't figured it out.
*cough* thought I would share!
Funny story about roll call in Kindergarten--my friend Angie's daughter Chelsea, was advanced in reading and sounding out words--one of the things the teacher did to help the kids recognize their names was during roll call she would hold up the students name instead of calling them out. Chelsea learned to recognize the other students names along with her own and if the student didn't realize that it was their name--Chelsea would say "that's you"...
Not so funny story--last week was bad-only went on Friday to the gym, didn't drink all the water I should, ate less instead of binging due to stress and ended up gaining 2 lbs (212) instead of losing or staying at "0".
Susan--when I was 18 I ended up in rehab--my best friend, her boyfriend and a guy they were trying to set me up with were killed in a car accident and I had terrible survivor's guilt because I should have been with them. I was suppossed to move in with my Dad after rehab but two days before he came to tell me that my step-mother wanted them to not have any kids in the house for awhile (my step-brother moved back in in less than a month). I went back home with my mom and I hung around with the same friends from before and was worse than ever until I got pregnant with my son. Be strong for Rach and just keep telling her you love her even if it is a postcard or letter once a day until she gets out. Shame on your ex for not standing firm with you and being an enabler to keep her in the same situation with the bad friend. We won't even go there with the friend's mom...
Michelle--have fun with the pedometer--they gave them out here at work once-but my son who walked to work and worked as a cook in a steakhouse "borrowed" it to see how many miles he was walking and it never made it's way back to me..
Deborah--Hi to you! You and I will both do better next week!
Katy--loved both the projects. The shawl is beautiful and I laughed at the visual of you carrying your bible to church in the skull tote!!
Ginny--if you can post some pictures I'd love to see those yellow lilacs. All that bike riding is paying off--it's funny I am the opposite of what your saying about your knees--the bike makes mine ache but I can do the elliptical at Slim-n-Tone I can relate to the knee problems--physical therapist wants me to go to a specialist for my knees--I know I have to have the calcium build up cleaned out to get rid of the "creakiness", he also says when I stand still my foot doesn't look flat footed but when I walk the way my knee rolls I actually am and then there's my knee caps that are still just a bit too high. I wanted to put going off until after summer and I actually have to with my coworker out--she gets the skin graft right after Memorial Day and we are not sure how much longer she will be out after that. Due to downsizing there is no way I could be out at this time--there is just not enough of us.
Deb, I meant to add that I am glad your son is doing better. I wouldn't worry too much on the 4 pounds. That has happened to me before, drinking water and getting back on track with the eatting - I am thinking it will go right back down!
I had a dream the other night. I was moving somewhere and didn't have a u haul but walking the stuff somewhere. Some x rated video employee was helping by carring boxes up the sidewalk......wherever we were going. He dropped my box and cussed......I didn't think that was very nice.
I finally woke up (thank goodness - taking forever moving that way and I was getting bored - lol ) and thought ....why an x rated video employee??
Haven't figured it out.
*cough* thought I would share!
hmmmm, yes he was!!! He was this big teddy bear type and he was so sweet until he cussed. lol
Where IS Cristi?? Doesn't seem right without her. I hope she is ok after a rough week. Maybe she just needed to step away from the computer and do some R&R I hope. I know her birthday was coming up fast.
Enabler is right!! His actions must make her so confused.
Susan ~ I did post yesterday, but it was last night, and I don't think you posted after I did. Congratulations on losing 4 pounds! That is so great, but you have really been eating healthy all week! I think Rachael will eventually see that you were only trying to help her out to make her life better, but she might see the worst before the better.
Jules ~ I didn't get my pedometer working yet, but I will be soon. I already did my exercising this morning, but I do think it will be fun to see how much walking I do during a days time.
I forgot to mention that a lady that I talk with on another site said that a person is suppose to drink everyday half of your current body weight in total ounces of water; so mine would be 120 ounces of water every day! I'm going to try and work up to that, but I thought I was doing good with 72 ounces! My family already makes comments on how much time I spend in the bathroom, but wait till now!
I'm here! Don't usually post on Sunday except for once in a while. It's about the only day DH gets the whole day off, (for now anyway-sure they will start up working 7 days soon, like they always do this time of year) and try to spend it with him. We were up early yesterday for our morning 3 mile walk and then did some yard work.
Today went to It Figures and did my work out and then walked a mile on top of it. And I am feeling pretty good, very energized. Came home and cleaned some before getting on the computer...haven't been keeping it clean like I should...been on the computer too much!
And...WI, UGH! The stress got to me, okay so that's just an excuse but I'm sticking with it, lol! I gained a pound! But hey, it could have been worse so...just going to have to work harder this week for sure.
GINNY...you are welcome for the card. I meant to send it sooner, just got busy and sidetracked with things. Glad you had a busy day at work yesterday, and good job with all your biking! Do you keep track of your miles? I started keeping track of my miles walked and it will be interesting to see how far I go. Hey, I remember Gunsmoke! Loved that show and watched it all the time. WTG on you loss this week!
SUSAN...I think you are doing a good job with Rachel. And why in the world would she think she could see the friend when she gets out? Just stick to your guns missy. Glad your dad is fine and shame on your mom. Your mom sounds like mine, except mine is 100 times worse. Don't think she cares about us, actually, I know she doesn't which is sad. Oh by the way missy, your pm box is full again! Can't reply to you. And WTG on your loss this week too! keep up the good work ladies!
Sorry to all who gained, including me! We'll do it next week! Gotta keep on truckin'!
HI CEARA! Glad you dropped by to say HI! And feel free to drop by anytime.
JULES...cute Kindergarten story.
KATY...glad Leigh isn't coming down with what James had. Hey, love the shawl and bag! Especially the shawl!
MICHELLE...yeah, I've got to be very strict this week if I want to lose next week because we are headed to Olive Garden for lunch Friday! Hey, maintaining is as hard as losing so that's good. At least you didn't gain like me!
Well, ladies not much going on. I need to get some clothes folded and vacuum and that's about it for today. I will be back later this evening.
yay it is Cristi!! I deleted the mail box again....pssssst, send me something! lol I am glad you had a nice day with your husband.
I think my mother loves me but I think she has been so belittled by her own mother she doesn't realize she is doing it to her own children now. My grandma was horrible. Stupid thoughtless things would come out of that mouth of hers....lol
Munching on an apple now. Thinking about renewing my restraining order....(lol all these new lurkers must be thinking "whoa, who is this mom2gaby??") against Gabys father. I need to file a motion. He was pointing his finger at me in court 2 odd months ago and foaming at the mouth - tsk, tsk....and he didn't mind the judge when he was told to wait in the court room and him at my door again gives me the jibbies lol......still have time to think about it. Gaby hasn't seen him in so long.
wow, that chickies life sure turns! lol
Michelle - that is way too much water!! you will never hve time to post if you drink that much!!!!!
.. I will continue to put in my miles.. how many do you think it will take?
. Giving them cigs is just plain stupid. I would not allow the girls to be together. It's a recipe for disaster for both of them.
. As you know I weigh myself everyday.. but this morning. tada
Good luck on the scales ladies.. I'll be checking in tonight to see how everyone did.
Congrats on the 2 pounds down!!!! 
Doesn't seem right without her. I hope she is ok after a rough week. Maybe she just needed to step away from the computer and do some R&R
I hope. I know her birthday was coming up fast. 
But hey, it could have been worse so...just going to have to work harder this week for sure.
