Good Morning Ladies
I hope everyone had a great weekend. We didnt do much. Went to a couple of cookouts. Friends of ours had one. That was the hard one. Sandy went and made homemade noodles. Boy were they good. So I got seconds on those. Then we went to Mom and Dads on sunday. I was pretty good there. Then on Monday we went to a parade. And a gas engine show. There was a lady from our TOPS group there. She was helping someone with a bake sale. You know she got kinda upset with us because we didnt buy anything from her bake sale. I thought here we are suppose to be motivating each other. And she is trying to get me to buy stuff I dont need. Granted I would have liked to have had some of the stuff. But I felt good that I didnt buy anything and eat it.

FLGAL how is it going. Seems like I have been putting everything else first. And not checking on my friends here. Gonna be pretty busy the next few days. But will try and check in. Are you staying on track. I am trying.

SHERRI How are you doing. I am sure you are doing great.

SHORTSTACK Hows the new job. I am sure you will do a terrific job. Congrats on the pop-up. We had one. Just had to sell it. I loved going camping. The only thing Ididnt like about the pop-up. Was to get into the cupboards. I had to get down on all fours to get anything.

To everyone else I am thinking of you. Hope everyone has a great day. I need to get off here. Have to get my son up. Will check in later. Have a great day.
A TOPS PAL

Hi Everyone,

Coco, its good to see someone posting again. I guess everyone is having a busy time with the end of the school year and memorial day. Or maybe, like me, they don't have much to say.
Sound like you had a busy weekend. We didn't do much. On Monday, we invited our DS and DIL and granddaughter and her fiance up for a cookout, but I ended up cooking some spareribs in the oven. It was okay, but I have made them that tasted better. I'm still trying to stay OP. I was doing pretty good until today. And it's one of those days when I just want to pig out. I must have eaten something that triggered it off.
Good for you, passing up the bake sale. Most of the items at bake sales are just simple carbohydrates and don't have any nutrition in them. We are so much better off with some fresh fruit, and I have been noticing how great the frest fruit and veggies have tasted lately. We eat a lot of cantaloupes now that Florida cantaloupes are ripe.
Our local health and fitness center had a "senior Appreciation" day and I spent most of the morning there. They had a lot of exhibits and served breakfast, I got a mini massage which was great, they had a healthy cooking demonstration, square dancing and much more. I finally had to leave to get my hair done.
Wendy and Sherri....How are the jobs going? Hope you are both doing okay.
Hope everyone is doing good. I'm about to fall asleep. The computer does that to me a lot at nighttime, but I was up early and its putting me to sleep now.

Til later
Nita

Contrats on your loss this week Coco.. You did great!!

Nita

Nita,

I read the article you posted it was good. I also knew that exercise helps with stress but I tend to forget that when I need to be remined the most.LOL Oh well. It was good to read and interesting about where you put the weight on. I am heaviest in the middle section myself. Being so short doesn't help that at all.
Sounds like you had a great time at the senior appreciation day. Sounded like something I would have liked. That was great that you could get together with your family. Don't worry about one day. The main thing is that you are back in control and doing great. We all have those days where we want to pig out. You are doing great. Keep up the great work.
My job is going very well. I am learning new things everyday and becoming so creative. I love being able to use my creative thinking at work to come up with ideas and actually be able to use them.

Coco,
Glad you had a great weekend. Like nita just get back on track and you will be fine. We tend to beat ourselves up worse then we should when we mess up. It is human and we are not going to stay on plan 24/7/365. All we can do is enjoy life and our families and sometime forget about the weight. We need to from time to time. The weight seems to run our lives if we let it and we forget to live.
I am working on living instead of just being. It is important and I know everything else will follow when I stick to that. Remember what they say about idle hands they get us into trouble. And that they do. If we keep busy we don't think about eating. And not the kind of busy that we just make up. But truly live our lives and put our effort into being a part of it makes a huge difference.
Keep up the great work.
We have a pop-up and it is finally fixed we will be taking it camping for the first time for the 4th of july weekend. It should be fun. I haven't camped in a long time and I am looking forward to getting away from here for awhile.

As for me I had an extremely busy weekend and it rained all weeked except for saturday so it was a washout here.
On saturday I went and got the paint for megan's room and started taping up the walls and trim work. Then I took megan to her 1st horseback riding lesson. She actually rode the horse all by herself saturday I couldn't believe it. 4 years old and riding a full sized horse alone and controlling him. We didn't get home until 2 then put her down for a nap and started painting. Then quit around 5pm and got ready and went to a candle party that ended up being cancelled when I got there so I visited for a little bit then left around 8pm and came home picked up the paint stuff and cleaned off the bed so megan would have a place to sleep then I went to bed myself.
Then sunday I started painting. Then had to go to a birthday party in the afternoon. Did kinda bad there with food. Did great on saturday right on plan. Then left the party came home around 6pm and started painting again. Then finished painting on monday, went to breakfast and put up the border. Still have one section of border to put up just waiting for help.
So I was out straight all weekend but I liked it. I was busy with a project and I wanted to quit because I was sick of painting but knew I had to finish it. Then I was proud at how nice it looked with the border. So it was worth it and I can say I did it all by myself. So needless to say I need a day off to do nothing.LOL
I asked my boss via email today if I could start work later at 9am instead of 8. This way we can sleep longer in the morning and not rush so much. I hope it works out that way at least for the summer anyway when it is so nice out. I might not get my full 40 hours but I will be close and with my bonuses that will more then cover the couple hours I am missing each week for the summer.
We are going camping for the 4th of july weekend. We are also going to cape cod massachusettes for labor day weekend for a long weekend. I get 1 weeks vacation so I will split it up. Can't wait to visit martha's vineyards. Have heard it is beautiful on the island. I saw pictures on the net and it looks so peaceful there. There are a lot of bike trails there it says so we will bring the bikes and I have to get a fishing pole so we can fish. I don't like the fish but like to cast and reel in.LOL
Well I wrote a book. Just wanted to stop in and say hi and let you know I have just been busy I have not forgotten you.

Wendy,

Did you have another great day today? I knew you would love your new job. It was made for you girl.

Good night everyone time to do the dishes and go to bed.

Sherri