Larry Yes, you know what I mean. It's also funny ie: we need a sense of humor to deal with this mess. Yay for your 2 pounds!
Itsmyturn Great job on the .4! I forgot to ask about what your meals were that you made in advance.
Dana I agree! Keep the focus on the positive!
Moondance Welcome back! I am glad to be back to my regular schedule. I swear my breakfast even tasted better this morning. Odd thing is tha I ate the same thing while I was off work. Why did it taste better this morning?
Rebecca Hi and Welcome to the check-in! Congrats on the 7 pounds. A good friend of mine has been doing WW. She is actually eating more food than she was before and she has lost close to 25 pounds! WW's is a great program.
Diana - We had leftover turkey, so put it together in a homemade stew (enough for 2 meals), and then I did a pork roast and veggies (enough for one meal), then did a chicken...so I can use the meat in a quick stir fry during the week. That will only leave one supper that my DH has to cook in an evening, and he is off Wednesday night and Thursday... so works out perfectly
Rebecca - Congrats on the lost pounds already. Have heard good things on WW. I can't imagine doing an hour on treadmill when I first started...that's awesome!
Rebecca8 - Congrats on the 7lbs! I've never done WW, not enough spare cash, but I'd love to try it one day!
Haven't had a chance to weigh myself in a couple days. I'm so glad all the awful thanksgiving food is out of the house now! Now I can fully commit, continue, and focus on eating healthy and exercising more.
2 more lbs. until I my first 10 lbs. and only 3 lbs. until I hit my first goal Can't wait!
Last edited by KaylaChristine; 11-28-2011 at 01:40 PM.
So I haven't been on here for about three weeks, since our vacation. I did well on the first half of vacation but not so good on the second half. I didn't weigh for six days after we got back because I prefer to not see how much I gain after something like that. I was only a .4 up and two days after that I was at a new low, so I was pretty excited. Wednesday before Thanksgiving I was 159.8 but I haven't weighed since then. Of course I ate too much on Thanksgiving. Then on Friday, which I had planned to do really well, we went black friday shopping and ended up eating at Olive Garden. It was delicious but I'm sure it didn't help matters. We only got soup and salad but I ate some breadsticks. Saturday I think I did well, but yesterday I didn't. I did eat lots of veges but also had fruitcake and ice cream. Then last night I ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with milk, it was too much.
And four days without exercise is not good. Today I'm back on track but TOM showed up last night. Cramps were horrible earlier, I almost cried. I got in the jacuzzi for a while and that helped some but I still feel terrible. Hopefully I feel good enough later to get in a walk on the treadmill.
I feel good...the same? Not sure! I'm proud of myself but I haven't noticed any difference. It's easier to say no to them now. Last night I realized that I ate dinner and I didn't even think about a cigarette for almost an hour. I keep reading cigarette horror stories to keep from slipping. It really does help. I just hope I quit soon enough to avoid permanent damage.
Diana - Sometimes I avoid the mail like the plague too. Would rather do laundry than mail
Kayla - You are right around the corner to your goal!!! Great job!
Ruth - None of that sounds too bad, just maybe some water retention; I am betting it won't take anything to bounce from that I think a bunch of us have been way too busy to check in as often as we like laterly... but I am trying to make more effort and hope you get a chance to as well...sometimes just so hard with "life"
shish - Yay!!!!! Great job staying smoke free!!!! To be able to maintain while doing something so major is HUGE! Super happy for you!!!
Well, I've derailed something awful, pigged out on junk food last night and I'm horribly bloated and just feeling....well, about the same as I did when I was really trying and not seeing any results. So, I don't know, I think I'll just try to do things differently this time. And, the big difference is going to be NOT hanging out with people. I don't know what it is about me but I attract people and animals who do NOT treat me well. They treat no one well, because they're messed up. I guess I am the only one who tries to be nice to them but, naturally catch the flak of their problems, whether it's trauma from abuse (cat peeing all over my room) or a horse (have a huge bruise where he bit me last week on my arm, luckily through several layers, or people who have drinking or mental problems and lay into me or spread lies about me. Anyhow, it's NO wonder something as small as wanting to get some weight off just succumbs to the stress.
In any case, I AM going to take care of me and I do know how to do that...wish me luck.
Last edited by redballoon; 11-28-2011 at 03:47 PM.
Doing Ok. Still sort of in a funk, but I'm feeling a wee bit better. Today I ran errands, volunteered at the little guy's school and then raked for 4 hours. I'm beat. I've now filled 60 bags, raked the side yard leaves (about 10-15 bag's worth) to the side of the house where I plan to put a flower bed next year - so getting it a head start with killing the grass. And then raked around the front yard by the tree and I ran out of daylight. I have about 8 bags to bag up there and then I still have the area under the bushes by the deck which will be another 10-15 bags. Good grief - that's 90-100 bags of leaves in my yard only and we've spent 15 hours on it already!!!
Eating wise I'm good for today. I sure do hope I see a drop on the scale tomorrow as I've burned over 1300 calories just with raking!
Shishkeberry Maybe you didn't smoke long enough to have any lingering effects. My Mom smoked for 40+ years when she decided to quit. I think she had a rough time in the beginning. I'm glad things are going smoothly for you and hope it continues.
Itsmyturn The mail from the Christmas holidays (when we go out of town) makes me nuts! It gets delivered with these huge bands around it. This is the mail from our business. At home it's not bad. How did dinner go? I hope the transition with your DH going back to work goes well.
Redballoon Sorry about all of that stress. Good luck with whatever you decide to do.
Berry You did a lot of work today! Great job on your eating. I feel so bloated right now! It's crazy. Hopefully this will clear up soon for the both of us.
Larry Look at those sodium numbers! Great job! The water weight has no option but to leave.
Yay for your 2 pounds! 
Congrats on the 7 pounds. A good friend of mine has been doing WW. She is actually eating more food than she was before and she has lost close to 25 pounds! WW's is a great program.
Nothing wrong with maintaining right now! How are you feeling without the cigarettes?
I think a bunch of us have been way too busy to check in as often as we like laterly... but I am trying to make more effort and hope you get a chance to as well...sometimes just so hard with "life" 
Super happy for you!!!
