[shortstack]

Nita congrats girl. You are doing awesome. You definately are my inspiration. You should be very proud. What plan are you following? The walk sounds great.
Summer-sorry to hear that your knee is hurting again. Hang in there. I hope you don't have to have it replaced.
Eleni- glad you are doing better.
Christie, coco, wildrose, ciecie, sherri, bev, oh i know there are more. Hang in there ladies. We can do it. Wanting to succeed is half the battle. Determination is the other half. Ok there is probably more into, but we can do this. It's not in our destiny to be big woman. www.mvm.com Try and go there. It's my virtual model you can make a before and after of yourself. I did it yesterday, and it was fun. Showed what I would look like at about 108 pounds. One girl goes, God wendy you are hot. Now if I could only get there. Maybe this will add a little inspiration to us.
Love ya all and thinking of you.
We can do this.

[Linlin]

Hi everyone,

Sorry I haven't posted in a while but things have been busy. Both kids have been sick with ear infections and my have to get tubes put in in July if they don't clear up.

I stayed the same this week. I'll take it since I haven't been eating well. Time to get back on track.

Shortstack - I tried the link but it didn't work for the virtual model. Any suggestions??

Have a great day everyone.

[coco99]

Hi Ladies
Hope everyone had a great weekend. Went to TOPS last night. I lost 3 1/4 lbs. Didnt think I would. But I have really been off plan today. But I will get back on track tomorrow. Not alot went on at our meeting last night. But the girls that went to SRD told us what went on. They said our state queen lost 170 lb. Runner up lost 92 or 97. But what they were complaining about was. The state queen had that gastirc bypass surgery. I guess the way the girls talked. Alot of the ladies at SRD didnt agree that she should have won. Said the runner up should have got queen. She did it the old fashion way. By dieting and exercising. So dont know. I didnt think something like that was allowed. But I guess they have changed alot of the rules in the last couple of years. It sounds as if next years SRD will be a real blast. Its "Rock and Roll". Our leader said we are going to learn some of the oldie dances for next year. Hopefully I can go. Will just have to wait and see.

FLGAL Yes I did get the camper cleaned out. Have had several stop and look. But no buyers yet. But someone will take it. Good job with the walking. You will have a loss this week. For the dinner Sun. I ate a little of everything. But passed on the cake. Everything was so good. It was a really nice dinner.

SHORTSTACK How did SRD go. I am sure you did a great job.

SHERRI Thinking of you.

SUMMER Hope you knee gets to feeling better.

MICKEY How are you. Thinking of you.

To everyone else. I am thinking of you. Hoping everyone has a loss this week. And that we all become KOPS this year. Have a great week.
Well I better get off here. Need to finish checking my messages. Everyone have a great evening.
A TOPS PAL

[lady06498]

Wendy,

I couldn't get into that site either when you sent it to me today. I would love to try it and see the changes in myself.
You are doing great. How is your week going? Keep up the great work.

Linlin,

Good job on the turtle. I am sure you were happy. Don't you love it when you stay the same when you think for sure you will have a gain. I hope the kids ears clear up. I had to have tubes in twice when I was little. I remember after getting them the first time how loud everything was. It was amazing. I had to have everyone turn things down then they couldn't hear it.LOL I know about being busy I have been busy myself lately.

Coco,

Great job on passing on the cake. You are doing great. And what a great loss you had. I am so proud of you. Keep up doing what you are doing. I am looking for a camper maybe I should come down and buy yours.LOL I would like a tag a long. I have a popup now but would rather have the other.

As for me. Megan has been keeping me real busy and work. She has been going to Tee ball now for 1 1/2 weeks. She loves it. She is the smallest and youngest on the team. Everyone else has already turned 5 she still has another month to go until she is 5. That reminds me I will not reach my goal again this year by her birthday. I have been doing good with the eating considering my life right now. It is so up in the air but things are getting back to normal. We have been spending a lot of family time together so that helps and it helps megan as well.
But we have one game a week for Tee ball and one practice a week. She had her first game on monday night this week. I got the video camera all set charged the battery and all. I started taping and it said check tape. I found out I forgot to put a tape in the video camera. I was so mad at myself. I wanted to tape her first game but at least I brought my other camera and got pictures.
So monday was a game and we had practice before the game at 5:30 and the game was at 6pm it didn't get over until almost 7:30. We have just enough time to get home from work and down dinner and get to the field. I am glad that my husband is doing the cooking now so dinner is ready when we get home. I don't cook very often anymore which is fine with me. I have done it every night for so long it is nice to have a break from it for a change. Then tomorrow night we have gymnastics. So I am keeping real busy. Work has continued to be busy but it is slowing down now. Until monday when we have another line installed so I will have to answer 2 lines instead of just the one. That will make me busier for sure especially that I am the only one in the office to take the calls and deal with them. But I am looking for office space for us. We have outgrown our place. Then he wants to bring in another girl to help me out and have me do whatever with her. Show her some things so that she can cover for me if I am not there. So I am not tied to that job everyday. So if I have to take a day off at least there will be someone there to cover for me. I feel terrible when I do need the time off or if megan is sick because I don't feel I can't be there. So it will be better to have someone to back me up.
I fired my dad from the job he was doing for me. But now he is doing something else for our company. He is going to be a Public Relations guy for us. That is more in his field and he knows how to do that. So I am teaching him what we do so he can go out and talk to people about us. It was hard to fire him but in 3 hours he made 19 entries in the computer of names and addresses. Eleni you thought you were slow I think my dad has you beat.LOL I am sure you are faster then that.LOL
So as you can see I am not ignoring everyone here. My life is truely upside down and I am trying to turn it around and make sense of it and get it straightened out. I am working on it so we will see. I miss coming here. I just haven't had the time to get here. Miss talking to all of you and I will post again when I get the chance. I try and post during work time but it doesn't always happen.

Summer,

How is your knee doing?

Eleni,

How are you doing?

Christie,

How did the girls sleepover go? Did you make it through and enjoy your night alone with jason? Been thinking of you.

Nita,

How is it going with you?

Everyone else been thinking of you all. I will be back soon.

I did start to do my The Firm standing legs tape this week. I have done it twice so far and my legs and but feel it. The scale is coming down again after going back up.

Sherri

[FLgal]

Linlin, congrats on winning the division award. You have been doing good. On the web address, we had a discussion here a couple of weeks ago and I learned that in the US, we use name.com and in Canada some of them use .name.ca Try that and see if it works. (could not use the www because it puts in an URL.)

Wendy, I tried the virtual model site, and got thru, but I didn't want to register or fill in my e-mail address. I get so much ugly spam e-mail, that I am leary about registering at any of the sites anymore. But it looked like one that would be interesting. I think you are right when you said 'wanting to succeed is half the battle, and determination is the other half.' I think that is the answer to why I have been losing this year. I want to and some weeks, I have been determined to just stay in the black. But it is getting harder. I have been journaling everything I eat and all my exercises. And I recommend journaling or keeping a food diary for anyone that really is serious about losing weight.

Summer, Sorry to hear that you knees are hurting again. It sounds like you have a lot of stress going on in you life right now. When I'm under stress, I eat too. And for a long time,I didn't realize that it was stress making me do that. I gained last year when hubby was taking chemotherapy. Take care of yourself and you will get it turned around when the time is right.

I do get enthuiastic about losing weight. I believe "rejoice and the world rejoices with you". lol Seriously, I feel showing enthuiasm in our chapter meeting is good for the group. It gets them charged up. Now, that I have made 13 weeks in the black, some of the other women are trying. One is up to 12 weeks and our chapter has lost 197 lbs. so far this year, which is good for us since some of the women have been in there for over 25 years and don't even try to lose weight.

Coco...Congrats on your loss this week. You did great. Keep it up, you are over half way to the goal that you set for yourself this month.

Sherri, you posted while I was writing this book. Good to hear from you again.

Got to go. I really didn't mean to write so much. I guess I was just in the mood to write a lot.

{{{{HUGS}}}} to all of you

Nita