[summer8386]

GOOD MORNING LADIES!!!!!!!!

Did I shock you awake with the hot pink????? Sometimes I need a jolt to get me going.

I've been doing OK. Had a loss of .75 last eve, so that just erased the gain I had the previous week. However I still ended the month with a 2.5# gain. I am getting really disgusted with my knees. Can't even take a nice little walk without regreting it soon after. I know lifting 90#'s many times a day doesn't help, but I can't NOT do that. Sooooooo, I really need to try to get my own excess weight off, but the more I stress about it, the more I eat and the more upset I get, so the more I stress......you all know the story......and the beat goes on............ OK, where's the better frame of mind?? I'll try to be " For A Day" around here. Grinding up some Amaretto coffee beans is a good way to start!

Linlin, looks like you have a good plan this week. Bet it works if you stick with it. Nice loss this week. WOO-HOO!

Eleni, thanks for all the wise words you put on the board over the weekend. I'm getting a tape and record them in slow words. Hopefully they will sink in. Hey, good going with your losses this month.

Beth, I hope things work out with the job hours. I do congratulate you for working in a group home. Not an easy job and there aren't enough good caring workers out there. I pray that I never have to put my daughter in one, but it may come to that eventually. It would break my heart.....she is my life. Keep up the great work.

Marie and Liz, have a good time with your chapters installations. In fact, that includes us all doesn't it? Yeah, another year to keep striving towards our goals.

Bev, enjoy TOPS and keep coming back here.

It looks like most of us are doing well with the March losses. GREAT GOING ladies! I'll pull my weight more in April. Hope everyone is doing well today and the eating is sensible. We all will overcome eventually. Here's a big for everyone.....including all our beloved MIA's! Miss Ya!

Summer

[Bev]

HI everyone,

well I officially joined TOPS yesterday. I really think it will help me unlike weight watchers ( plus it is a whole lot cheaper too.) The people there are so nice and fun. IT is like a group of friends getting together . Even though they are older than me I really don;t notice it. So this week I also started weight training also. So when the weight does come off I will be toned.

well everyone have a nice day

bev

[losinginillinois]

Hello All!

Just a quick Hi! I am off to a training for work soon! Just wanted to check in!

Congrads on your loss Summer. Thanks for the vote of confidence to. I really do like my job. I don't know if I said this but I work with mentally ill adults. They really are a great group of people and very misunderstood.

Bev glad you could finally join. I know what you mean about them all being older. When I first started I was a little disappointed just because I had hoped to meet some moms with kids my age. Sort of a two for one bonus. I was glad I stuck it out and there a few just older than me. I actually had a lady ask me today how old I was. She wants her granddaughter to join who is 21. She will probably think I am old at 30! LOl!

Well i have to run! Hope all is well! I had a 1.5 lb loss this week !

Beth

[lady06498]

Summer,

I am with you girl. I am going to lose big in april. I messed up too long to lose anything this month. I actually gained.
That is great that you had a loss this week though even if it did cancel out from last week. Remember a loss is a loss no matter what. You do need to find your frame of mind and mind set. It is all mind over matter unfortunately. You can do this. You have done it before you can do it again. How is melissa doing anyway? I miss you I will call you soon.

Beth,

Good luck with the job training. I have to catch up I don't know what job you have.LOL Welcome anyway.
Great job on your loss this week to. Keep up the great work.

Bev,

That is great that you finally joined. I know what you mean about being the youngest. I am 34 and I was the youngest in my group also. But when the people are nice age doesn't matter you just fit right in because you are all going through the same things. That is great you started the weight training. You will tone up quick with that and that means you will lose inches.

As for me I am getting myself back on track as of today. My eating has been out of control. For the first time in months I actually feel great. It is a miracle. So I am ready to tackle this weight gain again. At least I haven't given up.
My daughter has been sick all week and I had her at work with me yesterday all day. She slept all day but an hour. She needed it. We have been up with her for the last 4 nights and I was exhausted and went to bed early last night. Now we are starting to get the virus she had and she is finally getting better but not over it yet. She has been out of school all week. This is the most school she has ever missed. I am glad it isn't kindergarten. But it can't be helped she has been too sick to go and I don't want the others to get it. They said as long as she is coughing she is contagious. I am lucky that my mom could take her for me all week. Yesterday she just wanted mom so I brought her with me to work. I was the only one here yesterday so it worked out great.
Nothing else going on here but I am on plan. So lets start over summer I am with you girl.

Sherri

[Wild Rose]

Hi everyone!

I seem to be in the same boat as summer and Sherri - not losing this month, and gaining instead. I guess the January "start over" mentality is gone and the "let's get moving outside" one hasn't quite arrived yet. I am 1 pound away from where I was January 1st weighin - having gained back every pound I lost during January and February. I am still struggling with sore knees (2 of them) and have had 2 TOMs in 2 weeks (what's with that!)

I have been having strong cravings for chocolate. I bought some chocolate covered raisins so I would get at least a little bit of nutrition from them (ha!) but then hubby bought chocolate covered almonds and I was lost. They are my absolute favourite and I CANNOT leave them alone.

I am starting over in April. I am going to start walking more after the daylight savings begins and we get an extra hour of sun in the evening (April 6th). I start supper as soon as I get home from work, then we eat as soon as hubby gets home, and then I will walk right after supper.

Have a good day, ladies. I am starting over again in April!

[lady06498]

Liz,

Good for you. Lets make april a great losing month for us all that are struggling now.
I know we can do this we just have to be stronger then the urges and we can.

Christie wanted me to tell you all that her computer is down. She has to rebuild it or get a new one so it will be some time before she can return to the boards. She is very bummed about that I talked to her today.

I had a great day but one bad thing that happened is all of my dad's hard work at work for the time he has put in so far at my office was a waste of time because I lost the info. I didn't transfer the file right and I overwrote the file by mistake. One of the guys that knows what he is doing with the computer is going to see if there is a temporary file saved somewhere for him to recover it. We didn't delete it so there is hope we can get it back. I felt so bad for dad he thought it was something he did and was just feeling good about his work and getting used to it. I tried to tell him he did nothing wrong it was my fault but it was a lot of work on his part so I can understand he might have to redo it. But if it comes to that I will redo it because it was my fault and I can do it faster. It is the least I can do for the guy.LOL

I hope everyone is having a great night. Day one on plan and I didn't get hungry today.

Sherri

[Eleni]

We had our installation dinner and program tonight. It was nice and everyone seemed to have a good time. I also had a 1 1/2 # loss which was a bonus.

[LaDean]

HI, Has been awhile but i am back. i just forgot i was doing boards here. i am on several . so remembered theres a tops board here to. so proud of all the losses. that is great. i was on a losing strick then holidays now taking off 7lbs i gained. but i will do it. been in tops for 38 years and wt recorder now. but i plan to reach my goal for first time this year. that is my plan. good luck to all. i weigh in on friday am. so i am holding my breathe.ha ha LaDean

[Mickey]

I'm Back!

I haven't been on in a while. Very busy and sick! My chapter hosted the Spring ARD last Sat. and tonight we had annual awards and installation. So things have been hectic. Plus I have been ill for so long I can't remember what it feels like to feel good! Nothing serious and I know I shouldn't whine. But I have has a allergies and sinus infection. Spring brings flowers and blooming things and I always go through this. Spme years worse than others. And this has been a bad one. And yes I take allergy shots!

I haven't even been lurking, so I am way behind on everything. Hope you all are doing well. I will read up and see what I have missed.

Getting ready for SRD. First weekend inDallas TX. Looking forward to it, but will be glad when everything is over and we can all settle down.

I will check back tomorrow...Goodnight, All

Wanda