Wow, look at our week! What an amazing bunch we all are! Whoo hoo!
Eleni, Congrats on your loss and take heart, once your meds are correct you will feel sooooooooo much better! And you will probably drop a few pounds as a matter of course, which is a very nice side effect.
Sherri, You are blowing my mind! Don't worry about a little junk, you have had and awesome week, so don't dwell on one tiny faux pas, focus on how strong and determined and butt kickingly well you have done so far!! Yowsers!!! YOU ARE DOING GREAT!!!
I have a job interview today, (I don't have a snowball's chance in you know where) as a Travel Agent trainee. Please gather your Cosmic vibes together and send them my way, I need all the help I can get. I plan on wowing them with my maturity, confidence and problem solving abilities as I have no other relevent skills other than really wanting the job.
I had to buy an outfit for my interview so I whipped into Regina yesterday. Guess what? My pants are size 12. Yippee!! So I may remain unemployed but I have a great pair of pants.
I don't have time for a long post today so here is a dose of {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{VIBES}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}
to help carry you through your day.
Well, gotta run!
Take care everyone and have a Fab Friday!!
CC
Last edited by flatlander; 02-01-2002 at 09:49 AM.
Good morning all.
Eleni-CC is right. Hang in there it will work out.
CC-I'm sending VIBES.
Sherri-you will be ok. Just hang in there. You are doing great.
Me-Well I did well On Wednesday coming home, but got home later on Thursday. Old habits are hard to break. Didn't get on the treadmill, outcome was as that on Tuesday. This mom and dad thing really has my sister and I running with our heads . We just cannot seem to get everything figured out. We get half information, half stories, and no rememberance on either end. Part of me wishes i could quit my job and take care of both of them, and then get someone to sleep there to watch them. Any way I could go on, and on. This is going to be a rough weekend. I'll talk to you guys later. Hopefully with everythiing going on I can buy that book I want.
You all take care
I just got home from my weigh-in and I had a gain. Again! I think that I must be a stress eater, plus I haven't been posting lately.
Eleni..... It's good that they found out what your problem was. You should feel better when the meds starts working.
CC....Good luck with your job interview. I hope you get the job.
Our chapter had their annual open house last week. I planned the whole thing, then my best friends husband had to have triple by pass surgery and she wanted me to go to the hospital with her while he was in surgery. The hospital was a hour's drive thru heavy traffic. And wouldn't you know it, he had surgery on the day of the open house. I really hated to miss it, but she is more important. Anyway, they said in the meeting today that it was the best open house they had ever had, which made me feel good. They had 15 guests, some of them joined another chapter that meets at night. Some of them are thinking about joining ours.
I am so proud of you girl. You thought that you were doing so terrible. I can tell when you don't post that you are not doing well. But you are doing great. That is awesome that you lost the 1/2 lb. that gets you closer to your goal.
My sister had to start thyroid meds last year and she could never lose weight either. Just kept gaining no matter what. Now she is finally losing and she is walking a lot also. She has a lot more energy now that the thyroid is on an even keel. You will do great once they straighten out that problem. I know you take so many other meds also. But you have to have this one so make sure you take it. You will be able to lose weight without so much hard work once the meds kick in.
I am so proud of you. Hang in there and there is another loss waiting for you next week also. Keep it going and keep doing what you are doing it is working for you.
CC,
I hope you get the job. You know sometimes they would rather hire the one with no experience so they can train them the way they want. It is hard to change someones ways once they are used to doing a certain job. I wish you luck and here are some (((((((((((((((((((((((( getting the job vibes))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) for you. You will knock them off their feet. Glad you got the new outfit. Didn't it feel great to get a smaller size. With all the glowing confidence you have in yourself right now with the weightloss it will shine on through and they will see how confident you are as well. That might help a lot. Keep up the great job and let me know what happens.
I am back on track today. I am drinking more water this week. That is going to be my goal. I will start a new goal thread for the week if one hasn't been started. I am going to the buffet for dinner but I will make sure to only eat what is legal for the SB plan. That way I won't blow it tonight at dinner. I am having a great day and with all the food I ate last week I shouldn't be hungry for a week.
Nita,
That is great that your open house turned out so well. I did everything for ours last year and no one showed up just the regular people. I was very dissappointed. All they had to say to me was see I told you no one would come. That made me madder. At least I tried. I wouldn't have any regrets about not being there. You did your part and then some to plan the whole thing. You had to decide what was more important and I would have made the same choice if a friend had asked me to be there to. See it all worked out great.
I am a stress eater to. We just have to catch ourselves doing it. That is the hard part. But when you know for certain you are stressed or going to be then that is when you need to really pay attention to what and when you are eating. I have done that and I have found out I eat for a lot of reasons stress being only one of the reasons. So we do all have to be careful and watch when we are eating. If you just get done with dinner you shouldn't need to be eating again within 15 min. your dinner hasn't even settled yet. I have done that also. We just need to get busy like wendy said and take our minds off food. Like she did when she got on the treadmill right after work.
Wendy,
You are doing great as well. I know you have so much on your plate right now. But it will work out in time. I know it seems like it will be forever but it won't. Is there any other family that can help out? You stand strong and for every day you stay on plan remember it is another day closer to goal. You had a loss last week with all this going on you can do it again this week.
I am there for you.
So far the day has gone by really good. I came home and worked on pool some. If we had not let it go to pot I could have been in it this week. It will take several days to get it straighten out but then I will try to keep up with it. Of course it will probably be cold then. I forgot the solar panels were on and pool was 90 deg but green,green,green. We have to come up with something to keep leaves out. A pool enclosure is too expensive.
Sounds like most of you are doing good.
And the rest of you will do good in time
A big Thank You to every one who wished me well though.
For the first time in AGES I feel like unhinging my jaw and pouring the contents of my refrigerator into my mouth. I guess I am a depressive eater. I have not done it yet, but boy, the urge is strong.
Well sorry for dumping on you guys. I think I will go pick up a couple movies for tonight and try to keep fighting the good fight.
I think that is great that you stayed on plan all day. I can't believe it is still warm enough there to use the pool. That is where I need to be for sure. We are covered with snow. Burrrr
Then we got a lot of rain today. I hope we don't get anymore warm days for a while until this snow melts some. I don't want to flood and the water was building up today. Thank god it got cold tonight to freeze it. Keep up the great work.
Have you started your new meds yet for the thyroid?
CC,
You are doing great girl. Don't give in to that devil calling your name. You have been so strong and so great. That is why you are almost at goal. Show the urge who is in control and stay focused. Go do something to get your mind off the food. It will pass but maybe not until the morning. If you have to then go to bed. It will be gone when you get up I promise. You have gotten so confident in you and have picked up a lot of great qualities on your journey. You did that. You stayed in control and didn't give in. You can do it again. I am sorry about the job. Maybe there is one that is waiting just special for you. Only the good lord up above knows. There is something out there for you I am sure. You will find it if this one doesn't pan out. Don't give up. Now you have a new outfit for interviewing for the perfect job.
I did great tonight at the buffet. I stayed legal with the SB plan. NO carbs at all at the buffet. So I am proud of that. They sat us right next to the dessert end of the buffet and boy was that hard walking past those great rolls I love so much. But I didn't do it. I wanted to stay on plan today and I did. Starting tomorrow I will be back at the WW plan also getting fewer calories in. Along with the exercise. I worked out for 30 min today. I might do the 1 hour one tomorrow. Which means the whole tape not 1/2 of it.LOL But we will see what is happening at the time. I already have more exercise in this week by exercising today. I don't usually exercise on friday but I took time out for me before we went to clean this morning. I got there late but at least I got in my exercise.
Good luck with the weekend everyone. I know it is the hardest time for most of us. But I am getting better about it. It is getting easier to stay on track now on the weekends.
Have a great night and stay on plan this weekend and you will have a great loss this week. We can do this.
Sherri, you are great! Check your pm's I sent you LOOOOONG one. You are absotively posolutely right! There will be a better one, but by the time I find it I will have to whip back into Regina for a pair of size 10's. Haha. Sorry for the bout of self pity, I am much better now, and I didn't go off plan, that what this journey is all about, right?
Just read all your posts and it was very inspiring. I have not done very well this week except I have gotten all the water in and I have been writing down what I eat. I weighed in last night with a gain. Don't understand it, because I have not been eating much. Been a bit under the weather. They assured me that a loss would show up next week, we'll just have to wait and see.
This has been a very stressful week for me, seems like everything happens at once. My chapter is working on costumes for SRD, we have had one work day this week and plan an all day one tomorrow. I won't be able to stay all day because another organization that I belong to is hosting a Valentine's Sweetheart Dinner and I have to help prepare for that. We set up today and will prepare food and serve. Expecting about 80 people.
Are any of you planning to attend IRD in CO in July? I would really like to, just haven't decided for sure.
Eleni... glad you are doing good. Hang in there girl, we're going to make it. Every loss is a good one!
CC...sorry about the job, but just think of it this way, if it was the right thing for you, it would have happened! Don't let it get you down, you have so much to offer, if they don't select you, it is their loss! Don't let it get in the way of you goal. (Keep that frig. door shut!)
Nita...Congratulations on you successful Open House. And I'm sorry you couldn't attend, but I'll bet everyone thought you made the right choice by being with your friend. That's what friendship is about!
I got a new SB book today (new to me). Sugar Bust fo Life...with the Brennans Part II. It has a lot of good sounding recipes. I thought I might try some of them, will let you know my thoughts after we try them! But I have pretty much been staying with the exchange plan. That seems to work best for me. I did the points system, but think I was going with too many points for me.
Sorry, didn't realize I was taking up so much space...long winded tonight!
Will say G'night. Have a great one tomorrow! Everyone stay OP. I know it is hard on the week ends. But stay focused!!! (and pray that I do too).
Fabulous Friday!
. We just cannot seem to get everything figured out. We get half information, half stories, and no rememberance on either end. Part of me wishes i could quit my job and take care of both of them, and then get someone to sleep there to watch them. Any way I could go on, and on. This is going to be a rough weekend. I'll talk to you guys later. Hopefully with everythiing going on I can buy that book I want.
