Hi. Turtles,

Well, it looks as if we're all super busy tortoises this week. It's been almost a week since anyone posted. So, what's been going on?

I've been super busy. I'm workng madly on my proposal. Mainly I've been reading. But I've been getting little flashes of insight about what I need to do to make this story work. I'd like to nail it down so I can target the reading in the gaming books to the parts I need to tell the story. This is a huge world and there is more material than anyone can get through in the time before the deadline.

I've been noticing that some of my eating habits have been sliding into the ones that put the weight back on. So I'm making an extra effort to plan my meals so that I'm getting in all the fruits, veggies, whole grains, etc. that make a nutritious, healthy diet. But I'm not exercising right now. When I go grocery shopping, my back aches from my worn out shoes. So, I'll start walking next month, after I replace them. I've had these for maybe 3 years, so you can see why it's a problem.

Everything else is going great. I'm always in a better mood when I'm writing. So, that helps everything else.

Happy turtlin'! :cool:

:chef: Lin

Hellooooo all Turtles,

Pretty quiet on the thread!! Hope that means everyone is enjoying Spring and just busy.
Lin- sounds like you are completely immersed in your writing project. Sounds liek you have a plan to handle the "immenseness" of it . Again- hear you on the shoes and hope you are able to replace soon. You are so conscious of your eating- I need to be and that is why I need to journal more religiously. At least you notice the "slipping back to old ways" quickly.
Hope all the rest of you are "turtling" along. I had a rather rude awakening when I clicked on the Easter pictues on my husband's desk-top- I was horrified at how I looked on screen. A definate reality check. I have been really really working on getting veggies in as my major food group. I think that is key for me. Along with adequate water (which I was slacking on) it really keeps me on the right path.

Hope you all can check in just for a quick hello.............

Hi, turtles.

Lin, I hope you can get those shoes replaced soon.

Torty, I hear you about the reality check. I need those on a regular basis, I've decided. Maybe I should just have DH photograph me!

I haven't been eating well again since Pascha. Not surprising, but irritating. Like Lin, I've been eating the past few days the way I used to when I gained all my weight. I got on the scales this morning and am back up again.

Stepping on the scales was a good check for me. I hate to do it when I know I'm up, but I need it in order to get me back into reality. (The tight pants weren't working, apparently.) So today I write it down again and work toward getting back within my points. Those two things are the biggest keys for me. I haven't stopped exercising, just am not doing it regularly. (Walked 3 miles a few days ago; it was a lovely weekend, and DH and I walked to the ice cream place! OK, kind of counter-productive there, but at least it was FF yogurt ...:o )

TOM is very late. I don't have a lot of PMS symptoms, just emotional ones, and they're reasonably mild. I'll keep up with the soy milk.

My schedule has been zooey lately (in case you couldn't tell) and promises to remain so until mid-July! Ah, well. At least fresh produce season is almost here (in Michigan, that is -- I understand things are different for you lucky Californians).

Onward and DOWNWARD,

Lauren
274/193/180 by my birthday (August 4)