Melissa, just remember those loose trousers luvey, you may not have lost weight this week, but inches off count too...cheer up, and don't worry about going to the gym crumpled, I seem to spend my life crumpled...besides, when you sweat while working out, you get crumpled anyway, so just figure that you cut out the middle man or woman actually, seeing as you're the one who irons.
Have a great day :)

Hope you'e feeling a bit more cheerful this morning melissa. I agress with Chris cut outthe ironing, I try and avoid ironing at all costs, even to the extent of hanging my 4 work shirts in the bathroom on a Sunday night and putting the shower on for 20 minutes to get out the creases.

Yes I am on 22 points for the powerstart. Sat last night and worked out what I will be eating for the whole week sticking to powerstart where I can. But I don't like tuna and it seems to be mentioned there everyday, so I have had to substitute it with chicken for this week. Have even written out my eating for today in a big book and I will be sticking to it

I am feeling so motivated at the moment - looking forward to getting out for a walk at around 1 today - nothing is going to stop me today

Still feeling very motivated about my eating but I am so tired I just want to sit on the couch and stay there until bed time - that would be a big mistake. Have been very very very busy at work today, will hopefully start to calm down a bit now and I walked at lunchtime. I'm not really hungry but I'm making my dinner as tonight is the boys swimming night and I am determined I am not having chips afterwards so it's a ncie healthy dinner before I go and large diet coke while the boys have chips later.

Veg out on the couch I would be so lucky !!!!!!!!!!!! Microwave has pung gotta go check that baked potato

Am hiding on the computer while the boys make toast. It smells devine but I am not giving in and having a slice I have this eating all mapped out .........

They are having lowfat laughing cow spreader cheese and cucumber on their toast so at least I have taught them some good habits. This was their choice not mine, if I was making it I would have put jam on it straight away. Think that explains a lot about my weight !!!!

OOh Carol that toast sounds lovely, could fancy that myself!!

ME TOO I WANT SOME.

Hello girls, I'm nearly off to bed, just wanted to pop in and say that I feel good! I wore a pair of capri's today that I bought last year and they've always been a tad on the tight side for my liking. Today however, they are baggy all round :dizzy: baggy to the point that the crotch feels like it's down at my knees ( I'm sure you didn't want that much info, but I thought I'd share it anyway).
It's been a beautiful day here today. Sunny and warm, so much so that I had to turn the A/C on this afternoon. It was 87 degrees, not bad for October hey.
I have actually not ben so good with my Tae-bo this week. Work has been knackering every day this week, but I figure running about after three and four year olds has to count as some excercise...yes?
I have been doing a good walk every night though with Pen and Lew, so that must add up although I don't usually break a sweat seeing as they must stop and sniff, wee and pooh every twelve steps! I reckon carrying the pooh I pick up from them during the walk will count as weight training too, sometimes it feels like I'm carrying a five pound bag by the time we get home :lol:
Hurricane Lili is down by the gulf coast today and evacuations from louisiana are happening, we might get some breezes from it in the next few days too.
OK, I think I've waffled on enough about loads of guff you probably didn't want to hear about....so I'l shut up now and head up the stairs. What's the betting I find laundry that needs folding when I get up there?
Have a great day everyone. :)

Day 2 on plan and still feeling good.

If only work was going as well. With the computer upgrade at the weekend, it has been hectic this week to say the least and since Tuesday I have been left to support 90 PCs on my own. I had over 100 calls for help at one stage and have been feeling swamped by it all. Then this afternoon I called the central service desk in Glasgow and they were all apologetic they hadn't helped very much this week, they are supposed to provide first line support - answer the quick and easy calls basically and leave the more complicated ones to second line out in the local sites. Only this week because they don't know the new systems they have just been logging calls for my site. They had training way back in July about the systems, I missed mine cause I was on holiday. But basically I thought it was nice that someone had realised how busy my site had been. But then the office manager on my site told me she'd phoned and complained that they weren't helping me and I felt kinda deflated. Strange because it was really nice that she did that - someone had to, but deflated because I thought they had noticed my workload and we were starting to pull together as one support team. But at least the next site to be upgraded will maybe not be left with just one person to run about headless and do it all.

Sorry just had to get that all off my chest

Didn't go up and down those stairs so often today, think I only went up and down about 5 or 6 times, still better than nothing. I managed for a walk at lunchtime, just got up and left. Am eating my melon at the moment, was meant to have it after lunch but never got round to it. Am going to make some WW 0 points soup shortly for my tea, am looking forward to it after the reccommendadtions it got here.

Am going to have to tidy this house this evening it is a complete pig sty. We slept in this morning so everythign just got dropped at out tails in our rush to get out of the door and the day started.

Sorry I've not been around for a few days - I unplugged the computer as I didn't think I could decorate around it!! anyway, when I plugged it back in it didn't work - all the wires had fallen out the back and I just shoved them in - funny how it didn't work really ...

The good news is I lost 2lbs this week (I shoudn't have weighed myself the day before) I am now starting to really feel the benefits of losing weight - they gym is getting easier and people commenting on my loss feels so good, although my 3 year old told her nursery teacher 'my mummy's got big boobies you know' how embarrassing!!

Carol - I've been meaning to ask - is your cockatiel settling in? (that sounded like a strange question didn't it?) I'm glad you got to WW and that your doing well - I'm not keen on tuna too - I've tried prawns (you don't get many) and got sick of checking what I could and couldn't eat so I tend to have baked beans on toast everyday - I know that sounds boring but I love it and I know in advance how many points there are in it. Are you having the hot lemon water every day? I'm sure it helps and after a while it doesn't taste so bad.

Chris - well done with the baggy trousers - it feels fantastic doesn't it?

Better go and get my fat @ss to the gym - 30 mins on the bike - can't wait!!!

Computers and wires hanging out of the back - sounds dangerous to me... I have seen enough computers this week to last me a lifetime.

I am drinking the water with lemon - I actually quite like it - sad to admit. Baked beans on toast sounds good to me, am doing the salad thing with chicken at the moment on pure points.

My decorating has gone to pot this week and we are off to a wedding reception in St. Andrews tomorrow night so tomorrow morning will be spent shopping for something decent to wear - fancy a pair of trouser and a plain shirt - then I can wear them anytime after that. There is a finger buffet and we are hoping to find a B&B to stay over in so breakfast will be a bit of struggle if we find somewhere.

Dad was taken into hospital yesterday following an accident at work. Somehow he managed to catch his pinkie and ring finger on his left hand in a piece of machinery and has had to have the top of both amputated. He is very cheerful about it, we keep kidding him on that he is so cheerful due to the cocktail of drugs he's taking, all his ones following his bout of meningittus last year and the pain killers and anti infection ones now on top. They are not letting him home until Monday at the earliest as they may need to do skin grafts on the top of the worse finger. One good thing though, this has forced the issue for him and he has decided to retire. He has been swithering for a couple of months whether to keep working or not, I think returning to work after being so ill last year has been harder than he admits to anyone. But he has worked it all out, that with his pension and benefits he will only be about £20 a month worse off and when mum reaches 60 next year that difference will be made up. I think he probably will look for a little job to pass the time. Mum is a relief lollipop lady, she only works the odd day here and there. Can see Dad signing up for the same thing in the future - keeping it in the family kinda thing

What ever happens it will be for the best. Still very determined but too tired to be too enthusastic

Just realised I said on the exercise thread I would explain the lack of swimming on this thread. Couldn't go swimming as I was visiting dad in hospital.

Maybe next week I'll get there

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I want to eat and eat and eat and eat. Need to get to bed and not give in to the desire for food ........

Hopefully it will be gone by morning ???

Well done Meliisa, glad you've got the puter back up and running. The baggy trousers do feel good, and I felt really good about myself today as one of my co-workers from another classroom passed me in the hall and said I was looking very slim and trim, so nice to get a compliment isn't it.
I have to admit to not being on my best behavior tonight though, I've eaten crisps and had a glass of wine, no dinner. I had a dentist appointment today and had a root canal finished off so was numb up to my nose...
I'll be all back on track tomorrow though. I'm not giving in this time. I will shed this stone for Santa plus more! I WILL, I WILL!!!
Carol your poor Dad, I hope he feels better soon, I'm sure he must be in shock. As for you and your no swimming, that's ok, you'll get to it next week and as for the wanting to eat, I'm sure you haven't done it, but remember this for the weekend. If you do go to a B&B and eat a breakfast after your wedding, make free soup when you get home and have loads throughout the day. You'll feel full and plus have load of liquid in you so will keep weeing, thus pounds dropping off :)
Have a great weekend everyone. I'm off to fold laundy...oh joy, there's about six loads to do this weekend...thank God for a dryer.

Well as you will have seen by my weigh in post i am not thrilled!! Hate those scales ..hate em!! I have friends coming around for dinner tonight so will probably hit the wine in a big way. Then it is back to it tomorrow in a n even bigger way. I havent exercised so much lately mainly because DH hasnt been getting in until 9.45 pm and as i walk to and from work, which is more than an hour and a qaurter each day I thought I was doing ok!! Time to dust off the rebounder me thinks. I even went cycling for 2 hours with Harry last night!! Oh well carry on regardless!! Nothing is going to stop me from getting there I will survive I am a woman and i can do it...........I just need to remind myself every few minutes or so!!

Keep smiling TQ, you are doing really well, it is only one week out of your lifetime, this week will be different.

The wedding was fantastic last night, I had a really good time and was sober. I didn't have one drink because I was driving home so we could have a long lie in our own beds instead of being turfed out before 9:30 in the morning. So I am feeling very proud of myself at the moment.

Yesterday wasn't much of a pure points day, I had a bagel and spreader cheese for breakfast, followed by a wimpy cheese burger and fries about 3pm in the afternoon and then I had a couple of sandwiches, a chicken drumstick, couple of small samso's and a couple of other savory things at the wedding, plus I danced all evening so hopefully the day balanced out healthy wise.

Today is going to be a bit of a waste of space. I need to tidy up and fold all the washing and sort clothes for tomorrow. Also need to pick the boys up from Rays sister at sometime soon.

Today I am going to be an angel and I will be going for a walk later - probably in the dark, by the time I get organised, but these are the breaks.