Brat- Glad to hear you are feeling better!

Everything here is pretty good. Ya'll may remember when my dad got sick with liver problems? Anyways, he has been living seven hours away from me and the rest of our family and now he is moving closer. This is going to make my life harder as I try to help care for him but I am thrilled to be able to do it. Change is hard!

Toobig-That is a worthy thing to change your life for. Change is hard for sure. Just simply being there for a loved one who is ill is hard but yet you get a lot of memories out of it both good and bad. Despite all the stress and juggling my mom's illness caused me, I don't have regrets at all and just have a lot of memories. :-)

Hope all is well with everyone. I woke up feeling a bit under the weather due to allergies I'm hoping. One day it's pretty cool here then the next day it's super warm so I think my sinuses just don't know what the heck is going on with the weather right now despite it being so nice. Have a great day!

Thanks for the support, I'm sure glad to have people around who understand. I am looking forward to having my dad close. Hope you have a good day, I recommend allergy doctors. I went through two years of shots and they really helped.

Hi TEAM ~

Sorry to leave you so abruptly but my boss sent me out of town w/o notice and no computer! I came home tonight but will go back and work all week-end and next week...I may catch up a bit tomorrow night after I come home...

weight is the same...will weigh in tomorrow morning at 3:30am before i head out...will let you know if there is good news..lol...

My prayers are with you and your concerns as you all are always on my prayer list!

be good

Things have been really nuts around here. Work has been busy,giving the MEAP test to my class. Staff meetings, working out after school etc. Then there have been family birthday get togethers and band concerts etc. Then one night I found out my sister has stage breast cancer. Devastating!!!! She is mad and freaked out and not handling it well. She is having surgery on Wed, which includes removing her lymph nodes. Needless to say..it has been a tough week. Keep her in your thoughts and prayers.

TOM is on the way.so weight is out the window. Nothing is happening anyway, so

I will be praying for your sister.

So it's been way too long. Not sure what's happened to my motivation. All I can say is that I'm glad I haven't gained everything back. I'm up to 208... and really not happy with the way I feel OR the way my clothes are fitting. I know I need to get back on track, but again, just not feeling energized at all.

Any tips? Words of wisdom?

Toobig -- I just noticed that you & I started at the same time.. AND LOOK AT HOW FAR YOU'VE COME!!! I am so impressed.. a little jealous... and totally in awe. Good for you!

I'm up to 220 for now blah.. TOM is supposed to be here any day so hopefully that's the reason I'm up another pound. Today is also my husband's birthday and I will be making him a cake. Dear Lord help me. I'm considering making the cake into cup cakes. I was watching a cooking show yesterday and they mentioned cupcakes are so much fun and cute and also a good way to have automatic portion control. I thought that was interesting and how they explained it made sense too.

AnneL-I completely understand having no motivation and I don't know where mine's gone either. I'm not happy either with how I feel at all. I went to church yesterday and wore some black pants to church that had fit nicely on me before and wow they kept hiking up on me and bunching up and etc.

Mtiger- I'm so sorry about your sister. That sounds pretty normal for her to be reacting that way. Prayers and HUGS to you and your family.

Have a great day everyone!

I am down to 219 today.. Don't know why and it was a nice surprise this morning. But I'll take it for now! My sister in law is due today to have her baby and my father in law is here all the way from Michigan. We met them for dinner last night. He is very anxious for grandchildren and has been since the day that my husband and I got married over 6 years ago and is pushy about it. First thing he said to me was that I looked good then which really surprised me that he said that so that was nice...then the next thing was that he hoped the next time he saw me that I would have a belly like my sister in law. When I smiled and tried to politely say I didn't think that would happen any time soon he tried to argue with me and I just told him he needed to talk to his son. LOL.. I didn't know how else to handle it. We hadn't even sat down to the table at the restaurant and that was already starting ugh. He doesn't know that I may not be able to have children since my husband has never sat him down to talk to him about his pushiness. Other than that it was a nice meal at the restaurant and I was able to portion out my dinner meal and I have two more meals out of it for today. Have a great day everyone!

Anne- Thanks for the encouragement! I feel like it has been really slow going.

Brat- How have you kept from killing your FIL? Your self control is amazing! I read your post and wanted to slap someone!!! When people ask me why DH and I don't have children I always say " I'm the baby at my house".

Back home!

I am afraid it probably won't be good news on the scale in the morning....

I will return then.....

Toobig-Well thank you for saying I have good self control. I sure was trying to be nice. Yesterday he started in on my husband this time at the hospital in front of some other people that are not family and was being a bit argumentive again after my husband first tried to just be polite and my husband finally said to him that we were not trying or planning any time soon to have children and that he and we didn't wanna hear anymore about it. It was so quiet in the waiting room for a moment you could hear a pin drop. He left early this morning and after yesterday that is a good thing since he really got on my nerves at the hospital the whole day. I so wanted to say yesterday that I am not a baby making machine. But we are officially an Aunt and an Uncle now! Mom and baby are completely healthy.

I'm still 219. I worked out Thursday night and was a bit sore yesterday. My eating and my working out has been completely disrupted due to my FIL being here this week and us waiting on the baby since she was three days late etc. I did pretty well I think. My in laws noticed how I was eating and how little I was eating etc. The places we went to ended up eating at ended up being a lot of fried stuff. So my stomach has been rumbling a LOT this week. My FIL got here in TX a full 24 hours early this past Saturday and surprised everyone and threw off everyone's plans. Then my FIL showed up Wednesday afternoon on us at my husband's job unannounced when he was supposed to be at our house Thursday afternoon. Then he acted disappointed when we weren't taking off Thursday from our regular schedule like school and work but that's why you were supposed to be here on Thursday night and not Wednesday! It was good to see him but it was time for him to go home since he was not communicating with anyone and just showing up at places. We and my sister in law and her hubby are all on a very tight budget for different reasons so we couldn't afford to take off work or change our daily living schedules unfortunately for him. Now I've gotta play catch up on all of the homework I've put off while trying to entertain him at night here at the house. Have a great weekend all!

Hi Gals ~

Well I weighed in at 187 this morning so I actually lost some weight out of town the last two weeks...nothing to brag about way better than a gain.

I will be around more for a while...the last few months were hectic with work but now I won't have much for a few months it looks like, unless we pick up some remodel work we are bidding. We do have a large project going but my services won't be required until end of the year.

Sheepishly...I threw that "I wanna a grandchild" out to my kids and spouses right after they got married...all in fun...but then I got to thinking maybe it was a bit much....I stopped bugging them...but then they started asking "didn't I want one?"....guess it is all in the presentation and the receiving sometimes....

I did stop and pick up a used playpen that a lady had in front of her house marked free to a good home...we know her..she was excited to hear my dil was pregnant....tole her we would keep the playpen at our house, she brought down some toys and left them on our porch the next day....cool...

BE GOOD TEAM ~ We will rock again yet!!! And that is no baloney!!

EZMONEY- It is definitely a matter of how you present the subject for sure. :-) I would also say it depends on your relationship as well. For example, my FIL acted like he hated my guts before my husband and I got married. Then on our wedding day his whole tune changed. It was very disconcerting to have a man go from behaving like he hated me and wanted nothing to do with me to wanting me to pop out a grand child for him. He did the same thing to my sister in law's husband as well and treated him very rudely as well. At one point my mother and grandmother spoke to me privately about the behavior they witnessed from my FIL towards me and asked me if I was sure about going through with marrying my husband since I would have to tolerate that behavior for a long time. My FIL is the oddest person I have ever met. The list of inappropriate behavior and comments he says goes on and on. Unfortunately his own children don't even like him and just tolerate him. I think his children have hope that someday he will change. And as long as my husband hopes for that, all I can do is try to be supportive and kind. My husband did however finally put his dad in his place yesterday since my hubby got a taste of what his dad does to me in regards to having babies. His dad tried to argue with him about us having children soon, so my husband told him that the topic is not up for discussion anymore. You could have heard a pin drop in the waiting room is all I can say.

That was very nice of that lady to do that and drop off those toys! I hope your dil isn't too sick from the pregnancy. Glad you are down to 187! Have a good night.

Down to a new low weight this morning. Considering I went to a BBQ yesterday and ate steak and shrimp and chicken and a darn brownie I have no idea why I am down this morning. I have the weirdest body.

Hope everyone has a safe Halloween!