OK thought I would jump on real quick since I have a few minutes to check how everyone is doing.. I still have tons and TONS of boxes to unpack. It actually feels like a surprise party everytime I open one box.. I havent seen my things for years I forgot what my stuff looked like. My living room / computer room is startuing to take shape.. My computer area has all my certificates hanging up in front of me.. ( nothing much just my GED and small buisness certificate and acheivement cert and my basic computer certificate. ) But i was told I should hang them to display the hard work I did to receive them.. Since I got them with six month of 1998.. I want to brush up on what I have learned but since I dont have the $$ to do so I guess I will wait till my son starts school then get a job to save for more schooling..
Ruthie Thanks for the warm welcome back.. Thought maybe no one would remember me .. :dizzy:
LaMorgan I am sure you are a shoe in for the job your looking into.. Dont get all squirrely it doesnt help the focus on things.. I know my kids are a bit on edge since I am so afraid to make niose since the owner lives next door.. They are great people but kids do make noise and Timmy makes alot more then he should.. He hasnt slept right since we moved in , He isnt used to city noises ( like cars driving by, fire truck sirens, etc) Good thing though He is FULLY 100% potty trained!!!!!!!!!!!! Thought he would never be off the pull ups..*doing snoopy dance*:D
Since moving and cooking for my own family I have noticed I do make some wise choices on eating.. Although I do confess I have had sauteed mushrooms(with marg not butter) more then once on my deck of card sized steak.. Mashed potatoes with chicken broth ( low fat) instead of using milk and butter. More veggies and ALOT of water (sams choice bottled water or my flavored soda water ,zero calories and zero sodium) . The water where we live now tastes funny since they put the floride in the water.. Before it tasted more chemical now it just taste grosser then chemicals.
Weather here in NH has been cold .. Once I get all unpacked I will explore my new surroundings.. I wanna see if there is a park or something close by to walk Timmy to so he can play..
Oh well I will end here so that I can get more unpacking done..
Take care all and I will talk to you all soon
Sheila

Helloooo everyone :wave:

Had a peachy long weekend. I took my best friend's advice and treated it as my little spa weekend. I got up a little later than normal, had some tea, took a long walk (in 30 degree weather!), read, took a long hot shower and rented a few movies... Aaaah... can't wait to do it again next week!!

Saturday I went to a Cowboy Poetry night at our ranch's saloon. It was a fundraiser for the horse riding club my Mom's president of and also to benefit the chapel's family center. It was SO much fun! I won the raffle for a free spay for my kitty Stella - she wasn't so thrilled with the win however... :p

Shiela - Welcome back! I don't know if I've ever met you??? I can relate to unpacking boxes being like a surprise party - my (now ex) husband and I moved into his Mom's house 1 year after we were married and ALL our stuff went into storage - 8 years later when I left and moved into my own house it was amazing to find out what I owned. I have brand new wedding presents that are over 8 years old! :lol:

Eydie - I'll add my exercise to the journal - that's a great idea and maybe it'll motivate me to do more!

Flower - I've been on Depo Provera for 8 years with no hair loss. I did loose hair the first time I lost weight (not rapid) and the Dr. said it was probably age/hormone related. I was about 23. It stayed thinner than "normal" but it did slow down after a few months. He also mentioned that it could be stress...

Lamorgan - good luck with that interview next week!!!!

Had a great week weight-wise. I had an extra beer at the cowboy poetry reading (I had planned to have 1 - one turned into 2) but all in all I had done good the entire week so that made up for the little indulgence!

Hang in there ladies!!!!!! :cool:

Terri

b'bye 250's!!!!!! :wave:

Hello everyone. I notice my hair falling out just as much when it is short. It is not breakage like normal, these have the root on them. I am going to ask to be checked for thyroid, 3 years ago I was borderline abnormal. I also want to be checked for diabetes. The wierdest thing is that I have really dark rings around my eyes. Not just under but my eye lids too. Almost like I have 2 black eyes. It is real noticeable in my work bathrooms. My mom commented on them yesterday, I haven't had racoon eyes for awhile and now they are back. I am not strick dieting but my red meat consumption is low and my soy consumption in high. My soda habit is back. I picked up a multi vitiam yesterday with iron and calcium. By the way, everyone at work loves my hair short. I interviewed for a visual designer at the Great Indoors. I will find out at the end of the week. I think I would enjoy that a bit more. ~flower

Hello to all and good morning!

My 9 year old gets dark circles under his eyes when his food allergies are acting up. I've just noticed lately that he has been over-emotional and a little freaky, so I've told him we are going to be more careful what goes in him again. He was not pleased... Back to soy milk... My 5 year old loves soy, and recently I tried this Green Tea Rice Milk by Yu, and he liked it... Strange little guy.

Today Evan and I are going ice skating. The first ever time for him, he is the 5 year old, and the first time I've gone skating for over 20 years.

I must admit to feelings of nervousness.

He can use a chair thing to push around... I don't think they have them for adults! lol

I hope it all checks out for you, Flower.

Yesterday I picked out new glasses, $216. (Yowch)

They are kind-of funky, with square wire frames and thicker, plastic arms. When I had my eyes tested last week it ends up the glasses I've been wearing for 3 years are too strong.

I'm just blathering on... need to go eat a grapefruit. I have this urge to devour everything in my fridge. Period due in 3 or so days, and that's probably why I've been so agitated lately. When I don't drink lots of water, I really do have more difficult pms.

L

Hello again :wave:
Today my daughter is home again because of a stinking cold.. She has had it now for 5 days I am TRYING hard not to catch it since I just got over dealing with viral infection.. It is cold and breezy out
I been doing alot of thinking about my weght issues. A little inner voice wants to convince me that since both my parents sides of the family are on the "fuller figure" size that I am destined to be big.. Looking over the family reunion pictures from last year I noticed that my moms side have a fuller hip and butt then what I would think is a normal size. She is the baby of 14 ( 7 girls 7 boys) There is only one of them that is what I would consider a healthy weight. Their children are big and the childrens children are on the big side as well.. My Dads side are all fuller figured types but they are big all over (moms side , sad to say has big butts like ducks)
But despite all that inner talk I am still convincing myself that I CAN be a "normal size". But my focus and willpower needs to be in full effect. That is why I am here.. You ladies have been able to keep me focused.

Punkinseed : I think I met you once quickly when I had a quick chance to log on.. You just started on here.. So glad to see that your still here.. You make a great addition to our supprt family :D
Funny thing I am weeding out all the wedding gifts we received when we got married (17 years ago) lets face it I am a pack rat and I would have felt terrible if Aunt "Nellie" stopped over and she noticed that the towels she gave us werent in veiw for her to see.. ( those towels were so threadbare now that I have no choice)

Flower: I have the "raccoon eyes" look alot of the time.. Sometimes they get so bad I look like I was in a bar room brawl. Never thought of trying to see if a multivitamin would help.. See you teach me stuff even when it doent come to weight loss.. I think you will do fine on your career endeavors..

LaMorgan The ice skating place I wanted to try out DOES have skating assistance props for the adults.. But I still chickened out. I didnt want to embarrass my kids if I fell on my butt in front of their friends.. I have a "thing" about falling, I hate it..I dont fall very gracefully..I have never been on skates.As for glasses I had to buy new ones last year to pass my driver license renewal test.. I spent $329 on one pair but they had a deal buy sunglasses for $99 and a second pair of prescription glasses for $50 off. So I got away with a pair of reg and a pair of sunglasses ( both prescription) For $378.. I hope I dont need to buy new ones for a LONGGGGGGGG time.

So far for daily exercise all I have really been able to do is unpack and set up and postion furniture..Not a real exercise but I do get tired from it..Plus now we have steep steps to the kids rooms and I hit those stairs ALOT, especially when my 4 year old is a bit too quiet
Food intake is better now then when I was at my moms.. I can cook the way I want without having to ask if it is OK with everyne
OK I think I blabbered on long enough for now.. I will jot down more when I get a chance later today

Till then Take care
Sheila

Yikes! Girls, I've got to pull myself together here---my eating is out of control and I don't know why. You know how that can be when something's just eating away at you [Ha! :lol: ] and you can't put your finger on it?

Oh goody---more soul-searching...Does it ever end? I'm at the stage where none of my clothes fit well and I feel mushy. I'm doing this back and forth thing a LOT these days and I'm quite sick of it!!!! It's just embarrassing at this point. :(

I'm even thinking of doing a one-day fast just to get my appetite in check. Pretty drastic for me. Look for me on the food journal tomorrow--come **** or high water!

[Hoorah! Sheila's back!!!
:D ]

Good Evening all! I have a class chat at 8pm, so I'm just hanging around until then.

I skated, and didn't fall! I was very nervous about falling, I don't think I'd do it nearly as gracefully as Evan did. I was very careful for the first 1/2 hour, and then I relaxed and did ok for the next hour. Evan had so much fun, all smiles each time he ended up on his bottom, nice to see he has a less negative attitude than his 9 year old brother who can be dark and negative at times, when things don't work out perfectly right away.

I certainly feel a slight stiffness in areas that don't get addressed when I walk!

I think that February is really tough to get through.

See ya in the morning!

L

Hey Sheila! :wave: Good to see you back, and so glad things are settling down for you. I owe you an e-mail, and will get to it soon, I promise.

Flower, it's liberating to chop all that hair off, isn't it? I do it every year or so, to varying degrees. Hope you find out what the hair loss is all about. Could just be stress with the change in your daily routine, working longer hours, not sleeping enough, etc.

Ruthie, how is the evening battle going? Hey, if you're exhausted at 6pm that would help with the evening munchies, wouldn't it, if you were sleeping? :)

Lamorgan, don't you know the trick is to push the kid around who is hanging on to the chair? :D

I'm still feeling so-so and really getting fed up with it. Although I'm paying attention to my food in a different way, my focus is getting back to feeling halfway normal, not weight loss.

That's it for now. Have a great Wednesday!

Not too many calories in muffin batter, is there?? Ha Ha. They were at least very healthy muffins, full of bananas and oat bran and spelt flour.

And yes, I did hang on to the chair-thingy for the first little while 'helping' Evan. :)

My goal is to drink lots of water, and get through the rest of this month with as little damage as possible.

My computer is not feeling too healthy lately, my eldest thinks we should reboot. So much work, I'll have to save my bookmarks and my email addresses, plus school stuff.... Maybe over the weekend we'll get it done. The hard drive is really making some horribly sick sounds.

Til later,
Lois

Hello lovelies...

What a boring/crazy day. I never knew I could be so bored and so busy all at the same time. I guess I'm just busy doing things I've been doing since I was oh, 16?! and it's just become menial... Yaaaaawn. Time to go home soon.

Flower - do let us know what the Dr. says about the hair loss and dark circles - I'm concerned... I'm sure it's nothing, but still, let us know.

Eydie - Does the soul searching end? Nah, never. Just this week I was entertaining the idea that it was possible I had a spiritual "hanger-on" who was living out their previous lives' food addiction through me. Then I realized that the problem was probably all me and not some ghosty with a taste for Ho-Ho's - but HEY, at least I was expanding my open mindedness right?? :rolleyes:
As for the fast, that might be a good idea. I did one when I started with almost a ritual feel to it. While I was drinking all the fluids (water, tea, Crystal Light) I kept imagining all the negative food cravings leaving my body and the cleanness of the water purifying me. So far, so good... :cool:

Lamorgan - ice skating?!?!?!?! OOoooooh, I miss ice skating!! My parents met while ice skating - my Dad was a speed skater and also worked at Sutro's in San Francisco (Peggy Fleming practiced there during that time), and my Mom was a figure skater. I used to spend every week at the rink... oooh, I miss freezing my little butt off in my little yellow dress and thick wooly "nylons". Ok, gotta belt out a little Barbra... "Memories.... like the shadows of my miiiiind, misty water colored memmmmories...."

Everyone else :wave: HELLO!!!!!

I better get back to work...

Terri

wELL, i WENT TO THE DOC'S. I told him about my hair loss, my dark circles and my heart racing at times. I also mentioned that I have this awful cruddy cold. I also told him that the nurse practioner said I had an extra heart beat at last visit. (Jan). Well, he heard it too and I got to have my first EKG. How exciting. I thought there would be more to it. The diagnoisis-irregular heart beat. Nothing too serious. I had an abnormal thyroid test in 98. He completely believes we will find a really abnormal reading. I fast Friday night and get tested first thing Sat morning. A regular blood screen plus the sensitive thyroid screening. I go back in a week or 2. I also have antibiotics to get rid of this crud in my sinus' and lungs. Thyroid will cause my sleepiness, hair loss, heart racing and irregular heart rate and it will cause me to not be able to lose weight. Imagine that....`flower

Hi All I am Back
Flower Good Luck on the tests .. At least if it is an abnormal thyriod you will have the answers of weight..Hmmmm something you said about the test though... I never fasted for my tests therefor maybe my results were inaccurate.. My doctor really must have graduated by the skin of his teeth in Med school he isnt the smartest doc I have ever met..:eek:
Punkin: I stay at home so I guess my days are always dull as a spoon. Soon my son will start Kindergarten so I can get a job or increase my marketabilty in the career feild by going to school.. I havent figured that out yet.. I just need to get my house unpacked.. I am running outta room for my junk and I guess a trip to the goodwill is in the future.. ( but I buy more junk when I go there)
LaMorgan: Hmmmm I dont know if the muffin batter has many calories.. I know that the cooked ones do.. I think the oven adds them so I think your safe :lol: Well of course you held on to the chair thingy afterall you had to instruct your lil one the proper way to hold on to it.. That takes a proper way of place the hands so you were doing the right thing
Eydie : My soul searcging is always on going.. I always over analyze things to the point of making no sense at all.. (After all I did try to convince myself my weight is due to my "fuller figured" parents and there families. ) But I best kick that thought out because I will start to beleive it.. My clothes I hate my body I dislike. I hate looking at me in the mirror ( but I have been able to look at my face to put on my "face" when I have to) SO I WILL LOSE THIS WEIGHT DESPITE of heredity
Wildfire; Yes you do owe me an email but due to your being a tad under the weather I will excuse it for a bit.. BUT once your better I wanna hear from you.. :dizzy:
OK Tomorrow I have a docs appt so I can finally ( I hope) get rid of this nasty yuck in my lungs that causes me to wake up most the night in a coughing fit and asthma attack so bad that I have to go out in the freezing cold to stop it.. I sleep in a living room chair upright all night in order to not have attacks.. If they cant figure this out I am looking for a new doctor.. My sleep pattern is so much in an upheaval that my daily routine is WAY OFF kilter..
At least I can also find out if I lost any weight from drinking bottles and bottles of water to purge my system and keep my throat from drying ..
Talk to you soon in the am .. Sorry for my snippyness just tired I guess
Take care
Sheila

Hey gals. I had a good food day yesterday! Yay! Wildfire, you joked that if I was too tired I might not eat, and that was actually a thought that had crossed my mind. My thought, though, was more along the lines of making sure I work, work, work, study, study, until I'm ready to drop, and then go to sleep. None of this couch potato stuff where I migrate from the sofa to the kitchen. Walking is going GREAT -- I LOVE it!

Sheila and Flower, I hope you both get your medical problems straightened out. Wildfire, actually, you too with the IBS.

Terri, congrats on leaving the 250s!

Lois, good for you skating! I also have fond memories of ice skating, but for me it was a social thing from 6th thru 8th grades -- all weekend long my friends and I were at the rink. My best friend and I were hockey skaters, for some strange reason. We didn't play hockey, but we skated hockey-style; I never learned figure skating. We dominated the ice, though! :lol:

Eydie, I so know what you mean about needing to get in control! I have no advice for you except to stay focused. When are we going to see you on the food thread as promised? ;)

Aight, chicks, have a great day.

Period due, and I feel tired and cold. Want to curl up on the sofa with a blanket. But my bathroom has a wonky smell so I think I'll be heading up there with a pail of hot, sudsy water and clean that sucker instead.

My tiny cat Tipsy brought us a rabbit head this morning... (BLETCH!!!) She was quite determined to bring it in the house to share with us, but Mat and I somehow managed to remove the rabbit head and dispose of it all the while telling her what a good kittycat she is for helping out by bringing us such lovely gifts.... :p

'Tis a sure sign that spring is on it's way soon, but I hope it wasn't the lovely little rabbit that lives at the end of the street that I see hopping around every once and awhile....

One Easter morning 3 years ago we arose to find the Easter bunny in three pieces on the Kitchen porch...

Sorry I'm so grusome this morning. Can you believe what is going on with that Cremation place? I find myself scouring the paper for bits of news... It's so much like an X-files show.

Have a great day!

Lois

Hi everyone :wave:
OK went to the docs and this is what happened I been using my inhalers wrong.. I used flovent (a steroid) for occasional attacks when I SHOULD have been using it twice a day and 1/2 hour before strenuous workouts. I used my albeturol faithfully every 2-3 hours when I SHOULD have been using it for relief of attacks and 4-6 WHEN needed.. They also put me on a nasal spray to stop my sinuses from going haywire ( yup a steriod nasal spray) and they put me on a decongestant to clear up the yuck in my stuffed sinuses Good news is I weighed 264.8 pounds on the 7th, today........263 ..............I lost 1.5 pounds!!!!!!!!!!!!! :spin: :spin: :spin: I am soooo proud! My next appointment is the 28th for my yearly physical..

Awwwww LaMorgan you are obviously well adored by Tipsy. I had a cat that loved to bring me mice and snakes AND DROP THEM ON MY PILLOW WHILE i SLEPT.... She never killed the stupid things I would wake up with grass snake slithering across my neck or little mouse squeaks when Mittens smacked the mouse to keep it in place.. Ever wake up with a mouse in your sheets??? Not a pleasant thing...I miss that cat :cry:
That cremation place is just eerie and what I cant figure out is how come the families didnt know that those urns didnt have their beloved in it..Urns arent sealed ..Anyway your right like an Xfiles theme..
As for the camper that someone bought in Arkansas that they found a baby in a tote. That is something I want more info on.. That camper had NH plates and I cant understand what kind of sick people would kill a baby girl and leave it in a tote in there camper wrapped up in plastic..Who ever did that should hang..(NH is the only state in the US that has not removed hanging as capital punishment) but I know they wont use the option. I am a somewhat kind person but that sort of stuff really pi**es me off..(forgive my use of nastiness but that is the "cleanest" word I could think of)
Ruthie congrats on your good food day yesterday !!!You just reminded me that I need to eat I havent yet (and I am typing this at 3.20 pm) well I did have a slim4less bar ( a walgreens knockoff of slimfast) at about 11 am. I bought some slimfast shakes I will give them a go for a bit. It is much easier to do then figure out what to have for breakfast and what not.. I am too tired to cook for me in the am or even think of eating anything.so I will just drink my breakfast..LOL
OK I yapped on long enough for now I have stuff to do....
Take care ladies
Sheila