[FLgal]

Good Morning Everyone,

We're having a little rain this morning, but I still managed to get my walk in.

Coco..I would like the recipe for making those pepperoni rolls too. My DH loves just about anything with pepperoni in it. Congratulations on your loss this week. You are already half way to the goal that you set for yourself this month. Good job!!

Welcome Rene'. Hope you have a good month.
Congrats to all of you that had losses this week, Linlin, Joy, Christie, Summer, LaDean, PNG and Beth. Good luck at your next weigh-in.

Bev....How are you doing since your accident? Are you still sore?
Beth..Have a great vacation.
Wendy.. Congratulations on your loss, too. You did great this week.

I'm getting ready to go to SRD and will see you there, Eleni. We are leaving after weigh in Friday morning. It's about a 2 hour drive for us, so we will make the afternoon session. It will be a busy 2 days, but it's always a lot of fun. I'm anxious to see who the new state queen and King will be.

Have a good OP day everyone.

Nita

[coco99]

Hi Everyone
Well it is kinda rainy and cool here. Waiting to see if it clears up enough to go walking. Hope so. If not I guess I will have to ride the bike.

Not alot going on here. Need to wash towels. So will do that in a little bit. Then will have to fix supper. Not sure what we will have. We usually eat our supper around 3:00pm. Son gets home from school then and is ready to eat. If I wait until later he picks and then isnt hungry for supper later. Oh well. This weekend our church is going to make Easter eggs. Mom and Dad went ahead and mixed the cherry nut and chocolate nut. Dont care for either of those. Cherry nut has coconut in it. And I dont care for coconut. And the chocolate is too sweet. My favorite is the peanut butter. They mix the eggs on Friday night. Then we dip them in chocolate on Saturday. We have to make around 370 eggs. We make them 8 oz. Didnt sell as many this year as last. But there is several other churches selling them this year also.

Well I better get off here. Need to get something done. Had to take son to school today. Then got to watching tv about the war and them u.s soliders tearing down the saddaum staute. Hope everyone has a great day.
A TOPS PAL

[Linlin]

Good afternoon everyone.

Not much new to report lately. Just been busy with work and the kids. I stayed the same last night. I was disappointed because I did pretty well all week.

We are making muffins for a fund raiser for our TOPS group. We have to make 60 dozen for next week. we found some low-fat recipes on the internet and sold them. We will have an early weigh-in and start baking.

My oldest has her school concert tonight. Should be cute. She is in JK.

Everyone have a good day and good luck with your weighins.

[Wild Rose]

Hello all!

I had a good weigh-in this week (finally) with a loss of 2 1/2 pounds. What I did that made the difference was not eating after supper. This was what Oprah said made the difference for her, and I thought I would try it: waiting for that gnawing feeling that means my body is using it's fat stores because I do not feed it.

I have not started exercising yet. My left knee is almost down, but now my right knee is starting. Maybe by the weekend they will both be down, and the weather will still be nice.

I would like to lose more weight before I go to MIL for Easter. She cooks such good food, and so much of it...and dessert every day. I usually come back with 5 pounds.

I am also looking forward to a spa treatment at Moose Jaw for my birthday.

My goals for the week:
NO EATING AFTER SUPPER.
KEEP A JOURNAL.
START EXERCISING.
KEEP A FOOD DIARY.
DRINK PLANTY OF WATER.

[Bev]

Hi everyone, well I am still very sore. THe dr said the ligaments in my neck are stretched and it will take about 8 weeks to heal. I have to go to my orthopedic dr to check my knees on tuesday because they are sore since the accident. RIght now I am trying to decide if I should get an attorney or not. I only have $1000 in medical with my insurance and I know my medical will be more than that. I also found out today that my van was totalled. This has me really depressed since I really don;t have the money to get a new one. I am mad because the guy who hit me only had $500 damage and I did nothing wrong and I know will be without a car. I don;t understand how they can say it is totaled when you can drive it. The damage is to the back of the car. But you can still drive it. We are waiting to hear from the insurance to see how much we will get it we give them the car or if we keep the car and repair it ourselves.

I am so depressed today and I am so temped to eat. So far I have not but the day is not over yet.

I don;t know when I will be able to ge back to TOPS which is a shame since I have only been there once since joining.

take care
Bev

[Mickey]

Hi Everyone!!!
Haven't been online much lately...need to get back.

Bev...I hope you are feeling better soon. Sorry to hear about you van, hope you get transportation before long. Just take care of yourself.

Hope those of you who are going to SRD have a good time. We had a wonderful time despite the many things that happened: blow out on the way, one member having to go to the hosp. , a friend from another chapter having to come home early and have surgery, our director and one of our coordinators losing a sil/husband in truck wreck a few days before (funeral the day SRD began). But with all that, people bonded/supported each other and we had a good time.

I came back motivated to lose the 10 pounds that I want to lose. I see people who have lost so many pounds and it makes me wonder why I can't get rid of these 10 pounds!!!

We had some wonderful programs and very educational.

Oh, my chapter got 2nd place in the costume contest...guess that wasn't bad...but we went for !st. But since we took 1st place last year, I guess we can share, . We got honorable mention got banner and nametag. I think the good part was that we all enjoyed making everything and bonded with each other. We seem to be a stronger chapter for it!

I hope you all are having a good week. And I hope to get back in the loop. I really need the support of you all and will support each of you.

Good luck with your weigh in's this week. But it really shouldn't be left to luck. Plan, Prepare, Evaluate.

More later...Wanda

[Eleni]

I am in Jacksonville and I am tired. We walked over to Jackson Landing and my legs are killing me. Our room is very nice. See you Friday Nita. Time for bed. Wanda Sounds like you had a terribleSRd with all kinds of bad luck.We had that last year.goodnight

[Mickey]

Eleni, have a wonderful SRD...don't get too tired but enjoy!

We had a wonderful time in spite of all that happened. BUT, we were all glad to get back home.

Janice, thanks for the info...sounds like a good fundraiser. Will tell our chapter, as I am on the ways and means committee... don't know how I get on that!

It has been cool here today and windy. Wish we could get a little rain, everything is so dry. I am ready to go to the lake. My dh went up last weekend while I was at SRD. Opened up in preparation for summer. She shut everything off for the winter. May go up for the weekend...get ready for Easter. I think everyone wants to go up there for the day. We will probably stay for a week. We have several things we want to do besides just loaf! If I'm not on for a few days, that's where I'll be!

I need to plan my menu for tomorrow. I did well today.

Goodnight everyone!
Wanda