Hi girls! I'm alive, busy with no electricity but alive. :p

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Hey girls!


I've been MIA for the past couple days...or so it seems! I've been trying to come in and make quick updates but I haven't had time for individual posts :p. I've been MOVING...I HATE moving. Most of my stuff is FINALLY here and I have my bed and computer set up, so everything else after that is just minor details :p

Yesterday was sort of a setback (but hey, for every two steps forward you need to allow room for taking one back). I had Golden Grahams for breakfast (which isn't SO bad...five points with the milk)...Then for lunch I did well, i had a 6 inch roast beef sandwich at Subway...and for some reason I accidently said "yes" to the mayo..odd cause usually I ask for the Horseradish sauce (which doesnt TASTE like it's low in fat - even fat free - but it IS!)
For dinner I lost track of my points because my parents ordered from Pizza Hut (gah..three pieces of pizza and two breadsticks..)

:smug: It was good but at least I still feel confident enough about my weight loss "journey" now that it won't set me back.
So anyways....::drumroll:: I lost five pounds this week :p (maybe more, my grandmother has a weird scale and it seems to be really precarious about how you stand on it in order for it to actually read accurate numbers...I usually end up getting on it three times and taking the "best out of three" :D

I'm satisfied with my five pounds even though I know that if i was hardcore I would have lost a couple more :p I'm announcing this as my "water" week..where I wean myself onto water and start drinking less of what I really love...like DP and milk!!! (not mixed together of course :lol:)

I apologize if I am "missing" someone in this post, but I'm only going by what I see here in this thread...:lol:

Pam: I have always preferred this thread, because I have found that I just simply could not relate as well to the other threads..I know it may just be my own issues (I know we aren't judgemental)...I Just have a hard time taking someone who weighs 129 (and is dieting) SERIOUSLY :)....I know we all fight our inner "demons" and what have you..but I don't think someone like ME will be able to relate to someone who has a MUCH shorter journey to go on :cool:

2Cute: Ugh, my heart tears inside me when I hear stories like that. I used to be a nursing major, and it was literally *too much* for me to deal with. I am a very emotional young lady and I take things like people in nursing homes very very personally and I would go home at night after work in tears for these poor residents who didn't have anyone to come in and visit them. Or coming into the hospital to find out that someone had died. It takes a special kind of person to be able to into nursing..and I have some very good friends who would never do anything else with their lives and it's wonderful.

Thin: Looks like you have a new partner in the merchandising industry :lol: I have no idea why...but they send me truckloads of assignment ideas and such...so I'm leaving my other job at Filene's (at least as a regular associate) and concentrating on looking for full time employment, meanwhile I'll take up as many projects as I can I guess. :D

Tina: Thanks for the positive words, you're so right we can't live by the scale...my issue right now is FACING the scale...since I've been "off" on my "diet" for about six months now...I'm facing the grim reality of what might happen to me if I don't lose this weight soon...I am young, I don't want to be morbidly obese by the time I am in my 30's.

That's all for now..I have to go sort through my mail...eek...

I'm sorry for not being there to chat last night!! :( I was still setting up my desk and re-hooking up my computer at that point.

I'll post again tonight, you ladies have a wonderful day/and/or evening.

Melissa:grouphug: