Just lost my last post--don't know what i did..but here goes again..

Katy--that is a really cool website. My DH loves lentils!! The burrito stuffing sounds good.

SuzyQ--I hope Rach does good now that she's home--what about the evil runaway friend? Is she out of the picture?? How's Beck? Poor little Gaby--I hope she feels better soon. I should tell you my story sometime--and my son's escapades from 8th grade to quitting school--to spending the night drunk in jail on his 18th bday--oh and then getting picked up for underage drinking on his 19th bday--he called me to get his own money to bail himself out that time--thankfully he came through on the other side and is doing really well--he joked that I should look on the bright side since this year he turned 21 that he would never go to jail for underage drinking again.

Michelle ma belle-your daughters are beautiful!! which one has the nutty MIL?

Cristina--I will only get to go to Olove Garden if I can convince DH--he will not want to drive that far--my son wants to go to a microbrewery in Frederick(www.brewers-alley.com) There are so many more restaurant choices there.

Well DH is calling--his doctor's apointment is 9:30 tomorrow morning--hopefully they wil figure out why he hasn't been feeling right. He thinks he might have a hernia that went in instead of out. We will see...

Goodnight everyone!!

Mari--your story is inspiring. Keep up the good work!!

Stessing some. I had a piece of coffee cake (so yummy) and a 1/2 a cheeseburger from BurgerKing. I need to stop this now!!!
Jules - Rach seems fine. She is into country music and wants to move out to Oregon City,,,,lol - Oregon City is out from us. It has a wonderful high school though and the best in girls basketball. She made a lot of friends that she says are her brothers and sisters. I started to cry.
Mari- Hope you do ok on your dinner out!!
Katy- Payroll just said 25% of my monthly net. I think when you think of spread you are thinking of manure....lol haha,,,,,I just want to get it over with. I am a good problem solver. I think we will do away with the babysitting and I can take the bus to work and save on gas - I spend 40 a week just on that.
I better get. Rach was asking to see Paradise Lost - something she saw while away. So we are going for that.
Trying to stay away from the coffee cake. Gaby is still not feeling good but doesn't have a temp. Might take her to my mothers again in the morning.

Night everyone!! Deb we miss you!!!!

Susan ~~ My youngest daughter goes to OC High School. She will be a senior next year. I'll be so glad when she's done with school, and I'm done driving her to and from school, and dealing with all the high schoolers who think they know how to drive in the parking lot...NOT! They don't even look when they're backing out of their parking spot, and I've seen many so close calls happen.

Good morning ladies,

The sun is shining already, so today will be one busy day I am sure. Didn't have a chance to post last night, my Josh and his fiance' are home and ds#3 came over for supper, then the fiance's mom came over for another wedding planning session, and I had to do payroll and I didn't get to my dishes till 10 pm last night. After that I was to tired... anyway remember when I said how deaths come in threes, well the third one happened. We have to go to the funeral home now after work on Sunday. My sister's mil died. She'd been sick a long time, she was about 85.

I have to ask all of you a guestion. Are your body sides equal? I'm serious. I know our bodies are not symetrical but they should look like they belong to the same body. My left side is larger than my right. I have had two doctors comment on this. It started off when I was nursing way back when....my doctor says my left breast is bigger. I had noticed it too. Then many years later my back specialist asked me why my left leg was bigger than my right. He is asking me, like he's the doctor, tell me. If you look at just my legs, you would not believe they both belong on the same body. They are shaped differently and the one is definetly larger. The same with my arms. I've tried to look this up but haven't found anything helpful. Just wondered if anyone else had this problem.

Welcome to the newbies, sorry I can't do individuals I don't remember most of what I scanned thru last night quickly. This coming week will be the wildest then it should settle down again.

Well, have to get moving, need to accomplish a few more things before I head out the door.

Have a great day.

Ginny

Well, it has been a long night, my dh has been up all night throwing up and has the poo poos, he called in to school this morning and they said 20 other people are out today with it. so its either a food poisoning or a stomach virus. hopefully its food poisoning, cause i dont want it.....im working 11-9 today...........so im getting ready to go workout. need to make my protein shake and a blueberry kashi waffle with no sugar added syrup.....havent tried them before so it will be interesting. im going to do cardio and upper body workout today. tomorrow will be rest day, were going on a double date with some friends of ours, not sure what i will be eating, but i give myself a cheat meal once a week, so i guess that will be it .....ok off to burn some calories....ttyl
shawna

(also posted on 1200 cal thread)

Well everyone...it appears that my honeymoon is over. After 3 weeks in a row of loosing 4 lbs each week....

WEIGH IN DAY: -0 LBS LOST


Ok...so....honeymoon is over. Now time to get to the real work! I think this is the period most people give up on a diet...I WILL NOT FALL FOR THAT!!!! It is more important now than ever for me to be strong!!!

From now on, I will expect to see more of 1 - 2 lbs lost each week instead of 3 or 4 since I am out of that "starting new diet" faze.

Ginny--my right breast is definitly bigger--so much so that I keep telling my hubby that I wish I could get it reduced (and both lifted) I finally found a bra at Lane bryant that had these little plastic things to lift you up--well I left it off the right one and put it in the left side and it seems to help a little. When I do tape measurments my right arm and upper thigh are just a little bigger than the left. There was a three year period starting my junior year in high school where I went through 4 sets of 3 deaths. It was really hard. When oour two friends were in the hospital I keep waiting for the third.
How about them searching for Jimmy Hoffa in MI again after 31 years???

Michelle ma belle--I used to take dd to school in the mornings & she rode the bus home in the afternoons or rode to work with her friend until she got her liscense and could drive herself. I am suprised their are not more accidents in the parking lot.

SuzyQ--it sounds like Rach got some of the anger out--hope she meets & makes some new friends--maybe it wouldn't be so bad to start fresh at a new school so she doesn't go back to hanging with the same people.

Hi to everyone else---gtta get a shower so we can go to DH's DR appt.

Hi Shawna--the Kashi waffle are a little different but not bad--sometimes I use a little honey instead of syrup.

Bep--I lost 10 pounds in January and have been stalled ever since--I am losing inces and clothes are looser--I'll take what I can get!!

Good morning ladies...

Gotta do some quick posting because I have lots to do and Josh just called and said he got an earlier flight. So instead of 11:44 tonight he's coming in at 3 today! I'm so excited! And I probably won't be posting this weekend. Depends on what we do...just want to spend all the time I can with him. But he may have other plans, lol. I know he's missed driving his truck, actually just driving period. But if it's not too hot tomorrow we are going to bBQ tomorrow evening. Anyway, hope the balloons are delivered early so i can go do my running around. Had V order 24 red, white & blue balloons for his 24th BD that we missed and for his coming home! He'll be surprised for sure.

SUSAN...Rach is a sweetie! Hope she stays that way from now on. And hope Gaby is feeling better today. I too was wondering why they had to take such a big chunk from you, seems they could have broken it down in smaller payments. But then like you, I would want to get it paid and out of the way as soon as possible too.

GINNY...I think that is awesome that you and Josh's in-laws to be are friends. We've never had that in our family except once. My sisters in-laws were the sweetest people and we had them over lots. Hope you have a nice visit with all the planning/shopping for the wedding. Oh, and my left side is definitely bigger than my right. I am always having to try and pull my right booby up and position it in certain bras because it is a little smaller. My left hand is different from my right, even my fingernails are different. Kind of funny.

JULES...okay, think I would go with DS and go to Brewers Alley...the place looks so nice. Good luck to DH on his doctors visit. I hope they find out what's wrong and it's nothing serious.

KATY...keep coming with the ideas for the bulgur. The burritos sound good and I think I am going to have to buy some and try it. And that is such a cool site. Didn't look at all of it but will go back later and check out everything. I've been trying to get into some reading but not happening yet. V even gave me a Barnes & Noble gift card for my BD and already got some of the books in the mail yesterday. Hoping with some new reads I will start up again. Too many books out there not to read.

SHAWNA...hopefully whatever DH has he feels better today. Can't imagine either one would be too good. I had a stomach virus once and it was the pits!

BEP...hey, I always say no lose is better than a gain and than in itself is a NSV! You'll get back to losing, it maybe one pound or two but any loss is good. Just hang in there.

Hi to everyone else!

Gotta go move the sprinklers and then post on a nother thread and then I am outta here for the day. Hope to be back sometime this weekend, maybe after my early walk tomorrow morning.

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND LADIES!

Christina,
I am home to get an email order which hasn't come thru yet, so I figured I'd check in while waiting.. I notice you have a cute littel tracker for your walking, how and where did you find it? I want to do one for my bike miles but I tried tickerfactory and it wouldn't work so it is one referred to by this forum.. I see your on line so maybe a quick response..?

Ginny

This may not seem like a big deal to some people, but I find it to be to myself. I always try to include everyone in personals, but for some reason, I'm left out quite often when it comes to personals. I have invested a lot of my time here, but I feel it's best that I back away from this group and not say anymore. Sorry I had to bring this up AGAIN, but I've been feeling this way again for the past couple of days.

HI Everyone!
Hope your Friday is going well. Today is a dreary day outside. We have been having 80 deg weather and today it is like 55 and might rain tonight. I guess I didn't look at the weather reports since I sent Ryan to school in his uniform shorts only to realize when we got there that 80% of the school was bundled up!!! He didn't mind so I hope it will be okay!.

Susan: Dinner was good. I must have spent like 15 minutes trying to decide on what to have. It seems that not many places just carry steamed vegetables - this was a BJ Brewhouse like a Red RObin and they had all types of food but their salads were definitely not fit food!!! It was a struggle but when I came home I indulged in my Jenny Craig Double Chocolate cook, yummy!

Jules: Thank you for the nice words! On another subject, I have been wanting to research a breast lift. It seems that with the weight loss has come other issues to deal with. I heard about sagging skin and things like that but I ddin't give it much thought until now. I feel like I want to do something. Anybody have any tips? I am going to try strength exercising and toning for four months to see if I see any improvement.
Ginny: My right side is bigger too, I even notice it in pants on my right leg. I thought it was just me but I guess it is like that for others.
Bep: I remember around the month after I started losing I was so excited to be losing like 4 -5 lbs a week and I remember coming home so sad and disappointed when she told me I lost 1/2 a pound and I did everything the same that week!! So the next week, I added 10 minutes of Tai Bo (sp) I couldn't do anymore than 10 minutes!!! and I changed my walking to instead of straight walking I would do 2 minute jogs and then 5 minuts walk and then 2 minutes jog, etc. Well it did work since the next week I lost 2.5 lbs. I try to change it up but I don't know what to do now!!! Since I am stuck with that dreaded P word. Tonight I am going to try and do an OLD Kathy Smith Video. (I found it in my old boxes and remembered how I liked it!!!)

Michelle: Thank you for the kind words, I feel like I can share my story here. It is so weird since I know that I can't even talk to my 3 sisters about any of these but I feel like I can share with you all. Thanks for being there!!!!

Help! What is an NSV???? I keep reading it all over the place, but what does it stand for?