50+ WOMEN for the month of JUNE

Hi, Im janebrown and I joined two days ago. I am 61, a walker, but it's too hot to walk now. I could use some insite and inspiration. I was to lose 10 pounds. I'm glad to know there are ladies out there struggling, just like me.

Welcome, Jane:bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile:

This is a great place to find inspiration and great ideas. I've lost weight and inches thanks to MFP and these great ladies on this thread. I have no idea what it feels like to be down to losing the last 10 pounds but I've heard that it comes off more slowly than when you have a lot to lose.

What I've learned is to take it one day at a time,
Take baby steps
Stay open minded to new ideas
Drink a lot of water:drinker: :drinker: :drinker:

I hope to get to know you better.
Barbie

It is almost 11:00 pm here and I'm still working on the yellow sub. It's pretty big. 10 feet long, 6 feet high. I just cut it out and put it together. Now, I have to make sure it will stand. :noway: :noway: When I have that done I will paint it. What a job.

For those who don't understand. I'm making a prop for a dance studio. Not easy. My niece teaches and asked if would make it for her. :noway: Don't know what I got myself into.:ohwell:
I'm really not tired. I get all charged up when I do things like this. I have to get up at 4:30 am tomorrow. :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad: I will feel it in the morning.

I read where someone eats when depressed. I do toooooo. However, I have been fighting it for months (depression and over eating) and I think I do have it licked for the most part.

I keep looking at my before picture and really don't want to be at that place again.

OK. I have to get some sleep.

Sorry if there is typo's I'm to lazy to re-read.


Kathy

Hi Everybody,:flowerforyou:

I promised you a tale, so here it is--more like a "tail" (Peter Cottontail, that is)::laugh:

Last Friday morning after I finished work, I called to check on my good friend Thomy, who had been fighting a respiratory bug. :grumble: She sounded AWFUL:sad: --couldn't say two words without coughing herself silly (as I told her, at least now she had a reason.:laugh: (We are GOOD friends, so harassment comes with the territory:bigsmile: :bigsmile: )

The night before was that incredible rainstorm I described last week. She got caught in it while taking her son to a concert that he was to play in. She said she went through an entire bag of Hall's cough drops and still was coughing so much she had to leave the auditorium.

After listening to her, I strongly suggested she go to the doctor, but she had the misguided idea that she would wait til Sunday, :noway: :noway: after her son was off to visit his dad. She did decide to delay going to work until noon, and when she called me back an hour later, she said after getting ready for work, she felt like she was going to keel over and her heart was pounding.

At this point, I said, sit down and I will be there in 20 minutes. I am no longer "suggesting" the doctor, I am coming to get you and we are going. Period. When she didn't disagree, I knew she was really ill.

So we get to the Urgent Care Clinic, and the doctor threatens to put her in the hospital, but she talked him out of it by promising to do NOTHING for the entire weekend. He said she had a bad bronchial infection--closer to pneumonia than he wanted to think about, and he gave her multiple prescriptions and a miraculous cough suppressant. (Codeine is your friend:drinker: :drinker: )
Conveniently, one of the prescriptions said "no driving" so it made it easier for her to keep her promise to do nothing for the weekend.:laugh: :laugh:

Both my friend and her son were under the weather. Her son's asthma has been kicking up for the last week or two and caused at least one trip to the emergency room. So they are sitting up watching a movie late on Friday night--neither able to sleep--and about 2:30 in the morning, their cat returns from an nocturnal sojourn outdoors. To facilitate the cat's easier entrance into the house, the front door was ajar. As kitty begins to come in the door, there is a noise, described as "shrieking." They both assumed the cat was injured, but when her son opened the door a little more, in comes the cat holding a very much alive and quite indignant baby bunny!! He or she was kicking up quite the fuss. :noway: (I never knew rabbits made any noise, so ya learn something new every day!:noway: )

Kitty has a strong hunting instinct, but never kills anything she catches and brings home, so they took "Bugs" away from her, and checked him over for broken bones or other injuries and found none.

Now, of course the next question was what do you do with a baby bunny who has dropped in unexpectedly in the middle of the night? They got a box, poked some holes in it, placed the bunny inside with water, some carrots and grass, and locked up the cat, (just in case she changed her mind about her killer instinct).:laugh:

In the morning, the rabbit seemed quite refreshed and calm, considering what had happened. My friend contacted the pet emergency hospital, but they couldn't take a critter with no injuries. Animal control is not open on weekends, so in desperation, my friend put an ad on Craigslist, offering the rabbit for adoption.

Almost immediately, she received a call from someone who referred her to the Audubon Society. No this was not a rare flying rabbit.:laugh: It seems the local chapter has a program for caring for wild baby rabbits who are found minus there mothers. These little guys don't do well if they are raised away from other bunnies, so they raise them together and when they are old enough, they are released into a nature preserve in our area.

You may remember my friend couldn't drive due to her medications, so some other mutual friends, who have a four year old son, decided to make a field trip out of taking "Bugs" to his new home at the Audubon Society, which is about an 18 mile drive from where we are.

All is well that ends well. Despite the excitement, my friend has made enough of a recovery that she invited me to lunch tomorrow (Friday)@ TGI Fridays.:drinker: :drinker:

So, that is my "tail" for today. As usual, I am going to bed too late to be getting up at 4 am. :yawn:

Barb

Hi and welcome to the new members:flowerforyou: This is a great site and has a lot to offer. I wish you all the best. Join us often

I have a really busy day ahead...cleaning, laundry, getting the trailer ready for our first adventure of the season, getting some exercising in, cutting the grass just to name a few things

My scale is hedging up and down and is driving me crazy...anyone want a scale real cheap:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Even though I am varying my exercise and watching my calories it doesn't seem to be working...time to go back to the drawing board and reevaluate what might be happening. (Probaby that darn (wo)menopause:grumble: Maybe just my body trying to figure out what/where it should do. However, I am not giving up. I have come to far to let those thoughts enter into my hear:noway:

Hope everyone has a wonderful day and you remember to do something nice for yourself:flowerforyou:

Marie

Amazing the difference a day can make. I'm feeling like my cheery self again today. Still don't know what was up yesterday... maybe it WAS hormones. :blushing:

Today is my regular mowing day, but since we've had so many thunderstorms lately everything is greening up, so I had to not only mow the part we keep watered, but the rest of the yard too. It took me 4 hours and made me VERY thirsty, :drinker: so I have more calories than I could possibly eat for today and am way ahead on water too. :happy:

Now to bathe the dog and get to the grocery store. I'm out of fruit and salad fixins. Happy Friday ya'll!

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Welcome, Jeanne, you have come to the right place.

We are at a great RV park near Yakima, Washington. The park has a walking/jogging path that is eight tenths of a mile around and it gets a lot of business especially early AM and later in the day when it's cooler. I walked around it five times this morning and will go out again later with Jake.

We are with some kindred spirits who loved our plans for healthy meals so we've been eating together (chicken kebabs with pineapple, peppers, tomatoes, onions, mushrooms) and salad on Wednesday and homemade low sodium turkey chili and steamed broccoli on Thursday.

Jake has been telling people about the Isagenix program we've been on and several people are interested in finding out more.

I think the fact that we've lost a lot of weight is making some people uncomfortable. I told one woman what I'd been doing and she said "I don't like drinking water" and that seemed to end the conversation for her. :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

My goals today:
walk more
drink a lot of water (I've started keeping a paper to tally each time I drink 8 oz) :drinker: :drinker:
not be affected by what people say. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

The internet keeps going in and out so I haven't been able to read and post the way I want to.

You are all with me wherever I go.

Have a great weekend.
Barbie

:flowerforyou: Ladies, I don't envy those of you who work every day at a job. I did get through my week at the Post Office in good form, but I would much rather be home with my children. The girls and I had our last weigh-in for the Central Nebraska Healthy Challenge today. We had only lost a total of 6 pounds this time:sad: But, even though the challenge is over, we are going to continue eating healthy and lose down to our goals. I had changed my goal to 175, but I want to make it to 150. That was my original goal. I appreciate you ladies and know you know how I feel and the struggles that I face trying to change my mind and habits when it comes to eating. I feel like I've gotten a good start to taking pounds off and keeping them off!! Have a good weekend!!:flowerforyou:

Happy weekend everyone!!:flowerforyou:

Welcome to all the new members!! If you want to change your life, this is the place to be!!:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

Here is an update on Mai Li, my Lhasa Ahpso's weight loss journey. She is the one in the picture with her best friend "Mr. Banana":laugh:

I am happy to report that I stopped at the vet's office today just to use their scale, and to my very pleasant surprise, she is down to 25.3 lbs from a high of 29 lbs. about the time I started my journey in mid - April. This means she has lost about 12% of her body weight, and is about 3 lbs away from being a good weight for her size. Like Garfield, she always thought she was not "overweight" but "undertall":laugh: (Funny how I always felt the same way about myself!!!:laugh: ) Apparently all the exercise is rubbing off on Pepper the Shih tzu as well. He dropped from 18 lbs. to 16.5 lbs, so he is looking very buff!!:drinker:

As for me, tomorrow is weigh day, so we shall see how I do. I have been staying within my guideline for calories all week, and even stayed below a time or two. Tonight I had dinner at TGI Fridays and since I checked out the calorie count on a couple of menu possibilities, I had no trouble staying within my range.

Tomorrow I need to get at least 7 miles in, as I haven't been walking every day like I was at the start. It is hard to fit walking into my schedule if I don't do it at mid day. At night if I walk, it makes me go to bed too late, and then I need a nap the next day and so I don't walk that afternoon and so the circle continues. I still get out for at least 30 minutes with the doggies, but haven't been hitting the trail by myself as much.

Hopefully I can update my ticker w/good news this weekend. More later.


Barb

Good morning-
It was so nice to finally see the sun shine yesterday afternoon. I hope we see more today. Am sick of humid, rainy weather.

Susan, you made me exhausted reading how much work you did yesterday. I try to help mow, but I only last for maybe 30 minutes. I can’t believe you did 4 hours and then went to bathe the dog AND food shop. What are you - Super Woman?!:laugh:

Welcome Jeanne. :flowerforyou: This is a wonderful group of women. Very friendly and supportive and encouraging.

Barbie, sounds like you and Jake are having a wonderful time. It’ so nice that the two of you are in synch.

Anne, hope you are feeling better. :flowerforyou: Good for you for using the before picture for motivation. That is a great idea.

Doobiedoo – you are still losing weight so that’s great. :drinker: Keep at it.

Barb, I am so impressed you were able to stay within your calories all week, especially out to dinner. :flowerforyou:
I have just not been disciplined so my weight keeps yo-yo-ing. The only good thing is that I stop all calorie intake by 9:30 at night and that is saving me from gaining. I just need to find the self-control. Any tips?

Anne, you had some great perspective on mood eating. I will try to keep all that in mind, but, while I do sometimes engage in mood eating, sometimes I’m just bored or CRAVE certain tastes or textures or I’m hungry and want something immediately AND satisfying.
For example, on our way home last night from my sister-in-law’s, I had a hot dog and cheeseburger, buns included, and shared a strawberry milkshake w/my husband. I had already had some hors d’oeuvres and chocolate chip cookies, but I was still hungry and that really hit the spot. But, that spur-of-the-moment drive into the hamburger joint as we passed by really put me over on the calories and I definitely did not make healthy choices. :grumble:

So, my big issue is finding the motivation/discipline to go for the healthy choices when I just love the taste of everything else. I have a very hard time depriving myself. I know I need to change - I'm just having a very hard time doing it. For some reason, the week-ends are the hardest. So, feel free to tell me what works for all of you.
Zaza

Good Morning ladies,
It seems like forever since I talked to you. I have tried to keep up reading each day, but the free internet does not always let me send messages. Thursday, I typed a long message and then it shut off while sending so I just gave up. We are having a good time. Had a few crazy moments but just something to laugh about later. The first concert got called for bad weather. We waited in the car until 11 pm and when started raining we figured they would never finish it so came back to hotel. Guess what we were wrong, started back up at midnight and finished at 2:30 am. So we missed it. I could kick myself, but oh well cant cry over spilt milk. It has been really nice. We decided to sleep in this morning and wait until afternoon to go to river to hear concerts. Tonight is my favorite night.
I have been doing great on eating. One day for lunch we went to place downtown and the menu was limited and choices seemed bad. I just got a chicken sandwich. figured it was fried and would just have to only eat half. when it came to table it was grilled. I squealed with delight. my hubby thought i was crazy. We even got a few workouts in. Each day we walk across a bridge to get from parking to downtown. Not a walking bridge, but a car bridge turned into a walking bridge. It takes us 10 minutes to cross and my HRM says 100 calories each cross. That works for me. Okay we are getting ready to go workout, so I'll close now. Sorry I was so lengthy. Talk to you later. Welcome to new ladies.
Vicki

Hi there,
i haven't had time to read each post.... really only read a few when i do my weigh in and measurements
on saturday. i am 3 weeks down with the fitnesspal site and i am happy to say that i have lost 9 pounds and about 2 inches off my waist so far. yippy skippy!
i am thrilled with my progress. what it shows me is that if i make wise choices and
make an effort to change foods to a healthier version and leave the potato chips and cashews
alone, i can do this. :-). i get hungry between meals which is actually nice. i am not going hungry.
there are plenty of low cal vegetables and fruits now to make things easier for getting started.
i have even had McD's ice cream cone twice and ice cream at home once.
i can't however get the alloted amount of water in me on the day's i don't work.
i tried to drink water while working at my hand crafted cards friday morning and
ended up spilling a pint glass all over the table and carpet. thankfully not on my precious hand embroided and 3D'd greeting cards which are a labor of love since i haven't found a place to sell them.
anyway, i don't get enough to drink i am sure on some days, others, probably more.
i will spend the rest of my day making food to take to church tomorrow for a big pot luck as it is
the start of our annual bible conference.
if i am lucky, i might even get to see my dad who lives in pennsylvania. he said he might be coming out
with another family who lives where he does, all the way to Iowa. that BTW is how i met my hubby 36 years ago. i came to iowa for bible conference from PA.
we'll be celebrating 35 years married this fall. :-)
thanks for listening.
martha in iowa

WISHFUL, I AM ONLY 5' 3" SO I HAD MY SON PUT ANYTHING I THOUGHT WOULD TEMPT ME UP ON THE HIGHEST SHELF AND THAT WAS FINE FOR ME. IF I HAD TO THOUGH , I WAS READY TO BUY THAT LOCK BOX. :laugh: GOOD FOR YOU FOR MAKING THE EFFORT. YOU GAVE IN THIS TIME, THERE IS ANOTHER TIME COMING, BE PREPARED FOR IT. WE DON'T WANT TO REPEAT ANYTHING THAT WE KNOW WILL HOLD US BACK FROM REACHING OUR GOAL. :noway: YOU CAN DO THIS AND SO MUCH MORE IF YOU STAY DETERMINED.:flowerforyou:

ZAZA, I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START. I AM CERTAINLY NO EXPERT BUT WILL GIVE YOU SOME THINGS TO JUST THINK ABOUT. FIRST, YOU SAID YOU WERE HUNGRY. WHY WERE YOU HUNGRY?
IF IT WAS REAL HUNGER,YOU JUST CANNOT LET THAT HAPPEN EVER. YOU WERE GOING OUT,SO YOU HAVE TO DO AS BARBIE DOES AND MAKE A PLAN. KNOW WHAT THERE WILL BE TO EAT AND DECIDE WHAT YOU WILL ALLOW YOURSELF. YOU HAD COOKIES AND HORS D'OEUVRES. IF YOU ATE THOSE AND HAD NOTHING EARLIER, THEY WOULD SET YOUR APPETITE ON FIRE. WITHOUT BEING BORING AND SCIENTIFIC, THEY WERE VERY BAD CHOICES AS YOU SAID. SO, NOW YOU ARE HUNGRY AND YOU ATE SOME VERY HIGH CALORIE THINGS, ALSO BAD CHOICES. YOU DON'T NEED MOTIVATION/DISCIPLINE. WHAT YOU NEED IS JUST STRATEGY AND PLANNING AHEAD OF TIME. ALSO YOU USE THE TERM DEPRIVED. YOU SHOULD NEVER FEEL DEPRIVED. YOU CAN HAVE SO MANY OF THE FAVORITE FOODS YOU ALWAYS ENJOYED. YOU JUST HAVE TO PLAN FOR THEM TO BE INCLUDED IN YOUR CALORIES FOR THE WEEK. ZAZA, I HAVE DONE WHAT YOU DID MANY TIMES AND I AM SURE MANY OF THE PEOPLE WRITING HERE HAVE DONE THIS TOO. SO, NOW YOU JUST FORGIVE YOURSELF, MOVE ON TO YOUR GOAL AND LEARN FROM WHAT HAPPENED HERE. THERE ARE ANSWERS TO EVERYTHING. YOU HAVE TO THINK HARD ABOUT ALL OF THIS AND THAT WAY YOU LEARN FROM IT AND DO MUCH MUCH BETTER THE NEXT TIME. I SURE HOPE THIS MAKES YOU THINK. THIS ADVICE WOULD COST $1,000 PER HOUR IF THE DOCTOR WHO WROTE ABOUT IT HAD YOU ON HIS COUCH.:laugh: I AM REALLY TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT THE PRICE. HE IS A BIG SHOT IN THE DIET FIELD . I USED MANY OF HIS STRATEGIES AND FOR THE FIRST TIME, I DID REALLY WELL AND CONTINUE ON THAT PATH. AS FOR THE BOREDOME EATING, IT'S HARD FOR ME TO IMAGINE YOU BORED. YOU SEEM SO BUSY ALL THE TIME. IS IT THAT YOU ARE BUSY BUT NOT HAPPY AT WHAT YOU ARE DOING,THEREFORE YOU ARE BORED? ANYWAY, I THINK YOU SHOULD FIND WHATEVER IT IS THAT STOPS THE BOREDOM. DO SOMETHING YOU REALLY WANT TO DO. IF YOU WANT TO EAT, BE SURE IT IS ONLY HEALTHY FOOD. ALWAYS WISHING YOU SUCCESS.:flowerforyou:

Just finished working out. Did 20 min on elliptical and 20 on treadmill and about 20 swimming. feels good to work out. Resting for a while then heading down to the river. Talk to you tomorrow.
Vicki

:flowerforyou: Hi Everyone!! Happy Saturday!!:drinker: :drinker:

Since I am limited by what I can do while my hair color is processing, this is a good time to catch up on another post. This time around, I will be the 'answerwoman" with what I hope are worthwhile comments for some recent posts:

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:flowerforyou: ZAZA....I decided to prevent the misplacing of walking shoes from keeping me off the trail. Last night in Sears I found some for about 1/2 price so I bought another pair. Now I have TWO pair to misplace, so that should be more difficult, I hope!!:laugh:

In your post earlier today (Saturday) you asked if I had any tips for self control. When it comes to restaurants, planning ahead and knowing some viable menu options before walking in the door helps. As far as a husband who is attracted to establishments that serve only burgers, fries and milkshakes, I am not sure what I can offer. I only have myself to blame if I stop somewhere I shouldn't. The closest potential tempter in my life is my neighbor, but we usually know where we are going before we go there, so I can usually come up with something that will solve the problem.

I guess it just comes down to imagining yourself as a train on a track and not letting anything derail you--not even a semi truck full of strawberry milkshakes, or chocolate sundaes!!:laugh:

I see where our wiseone, ANNE, posted since I started my "novel" and has some good advice about avoiding temptation. Another thing that helps me with appetite control are those little cans of V-8 juice. They only have 30 calories, and I use the low sodium ones. If I drink one of those and maybe add a glass of water and 8 almonds, that is less than a 100 calories and it can keep me from being hungry for up to 3 hours. I usually do this when I get home from my morning shift at 10:30 so that I don't need to eat lunch until about 2.:drinker:

:flowerforyou: KATHY (Plantlady)...Thanks for your personal messages. I read your post from Wed and hope that the rest of the week went better for you. I always manage to log food and exercise, but sometimes I delay reading our thread until I have more time.

Can't wait to see a pic of the "Yellow Submarine.":noway:

:flowerforyou: BECKY (Swissmiss) We miss you. I hope you are coping with the effects of your meds (you mentioned on Wed that they made you "loopy"--hopefully only temporarily!!

:flowerforyou: HEATHER (Benson)...On Wed, you mentioned walking in the rain. I find an umbrella can be very handy on those days where it is raining too hard for my hat to keep my glasses somewhat clear. It is hard to walk when all I can see is raindrops on my glasses!! Hopefully the weatherman will let you put that umbrella in the closet for a while. We have been lucky here. No significant rain in over a week, just a misplaced shower here and there, refugee clouds from the thunderstorms that develop in the Cascade Mountains.

:flowerforyou: ESTHER (Grammymax)....I have been following your posts and am glad to hear you are beginning to feel better. I feel for you, also, weather-wise, because I know south of where I am, you have experienced a lot more rain and thundershowers than we have. Only one group of them managed to sneak up the Willamette Valley and visit Portland and SW Washington. Hope you continue to mend and your energy level continues to improve.
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I had to take a little break to rinse off my hair color. Memo to self: "Next time you get into the shower. make sure there are towels IN the bathroom BEFORE you get in." :laugh: :laugh:

It is a good thing I live alone. The doggies, although they have "tails" can tell no TALES, or they could post one about momma running through the condo,:bigsmile: :bigsmile: dripping, in search of the towels that never made it into the linen closet after they were washed!!

I came up with a great idea for my second million (dollars), since the first one has been eluding me all these years. IT is too bad someone couldn't invent a "rinse" that you could put on to the areas of your body that need to be reduced, leave it on for 30 minutes or so, and presto chango, unwanted fat is gone. Can you IMAGINE how rich the inventor of THAT product would be???:laugh: :laugh:
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Back to answering posts:

:flowerforyou: LYNN (L-mahloy)...I got tired just reading your Wednesday post about all the tennis you were going to be playing. I applaud you for being able to stay focused and complete those activities when you are worrying about a parent who is having a hard time with aging. If it is any consolation, it is no easier to make a 92 year old do what is best for them either!! Though, my mom will usually listen to reason. It is my 82 year old dad who can be mistaken for a mule at times if he sets his mind to it, but I am blessed that both are still in good health and able to live independently, in a place that offers assistance if it becomes necessary.

And don't worry about venting. We are here to listen and offer support.

Later you wrote your mom was starting to come around, so I hope that makes things easier for both of you. And that salad--what an unpleasant surprise. I try to look for calorie info before I go to a restaurant, whenever possible, and try to pick two things from their menu that would work. Most all of the chain restaurants have nutrition info on their websites, or if you google for nutritional info it will refer you to another site with some info. Dailyplate is one of them, I think. Putting the restaurant name into the MFP food database will often return results, too.

:flowerforyou: LIANNE (Lianne95519)...After Wednesday, I don't recall seeing anything about your knee, I hope it turned out ok when you went to the doctor. If you haven't already posted the outcome, let us know how you are doing.

:flowerforyou: NANCY (committed)....The vines in your yard that you mentioned in your Wednesday post remind me of how I thank goodness every day for window coverings, so no one can look in to my condo and see what happens when I spend all my spare time on walking or other things instead of removing clutter and cleaning.

Those cookbooks you mentioned ordering sound interesting. I hope you will post some recipes in the future, and maybe the titles of the books. Also your idea for chocolate flavored water sounds like a good one!!

:flowerforyou: ANNE (FITFORLIFE1944)....I always enjoy those wise sayings that you come up with. The recent one about avoiding mood eating by not having temptation in the house is excellent.

I may have missed the post, but how did your foot start acting up in the first place? I see later you mention it was doing better.

I think if I had been at the dinner you described where the new wife loudly proclaimed no seconds for "fat guys" there would have been a confrontation. Of all the tactless behavior I have ever heard of, that beats all.:mad:

:flowerforyou: WISHFUL...Welcome. It does seem to be harder to lose as one gets older, but part of it may be metabolism. Even if all you do is walk 30 minutes every day to start with, getting moving will rev things up a bit and combined with healthy eating and watching the calories, results should come, though they never seem to arrive quite fast enough to suit me. As the prayer goes, "Lord grant me patience, but I need it right away!!":laugh:

:flowerforyou: SUSAN (suezzzque)...Sorry to hear the depression monster visited you on Thursday, I was glad to see things looked brighter in a later post. I don't know if it is menopause-related, but it would make sense if it was hormonal. In my case, I really never experienced any of that, since I went on HRT after the hysterectomy in January. I have noticed that I am a lot more "even" than I was before. I haven't had days where I can barely stand the thought of getting out of bed. Although, there are workdays at 4 am where I have lots of "second thoughts.":yawn: :laugh:

:flowerforyou: ELLEN (ellens292)...Thanks for adding those extra 10 lbs. to my ticker, even if only for a moment, I felt "lighter.":laugh: I hope to be at that point towards the end of July, if all goes well.:drinker:

CONGRATULATIONS on dropping into the "ONEDERFUL" world of under 200.:drinker: :drinker: I am hoping to do that by Labor Day.

:flowerforyou: BARBIE (Barbiecat)....Just like Willie, you are "on the road again." You actually make Yakima sound like fun. The last two times I was there, it was about 100 in the shade and significant humidity. The remaining members of my dad's family that live there only seem to pass away in the hottest time of the year, so that is when I pack up mom dad and the doggies and make the trek east up the Columbia Gorge and through the mountains. The menu you described on Friday's post makes me want to hop in the car and go find your RV park and drop in for leftovers, if there are any !! :laugh:

As for the woman you met who doesn't like to drink water, maybe she should start out slow and mix it with some scotch!!!:laugh: :laugh:

DOOBIEDOO...Silly question, do people who work at the post office have to pay by the pound when they gain any weight back? :laugh: Seriously, I hope you and all those in the Healthy Challenge succeed in your journey.:flowerforyou:

:flowerforyou: VICKI (vickim26)...Regarding your lost post. :grumble: If you are dealing with a pesky Internet connection, write your post in notepad or wordpad, or whatever word processing program is on the pc you are using. Then copy it and paste into the MFP reply window. That way if your connection goes into the toidy bowl you will still have your message safe and sound on your pc and you can copy it in again and send it. If the pc is prone to crashing, as an added precaution I would save the document a couple of times during composition to save additional frustrations. (If you are using a public pc, I would delete any saved material after my post was sent)

Sounds like you are having a great time in Nashville. :drinker: I am glad you found that chicken sandwich. Sorry you missed the rain-affected concert, but I bet it was nice to get some sleep as well.

:flowerforyou: MARTHA (stamps4fun)...As someone who works with a computer all day, here is a solution to the water spilling problem. Get yourself a water container that has a lid on it, with a drinking straw built in. If it tips, no disaster, just a couple of drops, maybe. Much better than baptizing your creations.

BTW, do you have a gift shop anywhere around that might take your cards on consignment? If they are a hit, you could probably end up with a deal to sell out of that retail store. You will probably have a better chance at a store owned by an individual, rather than a chain. Also, if there are clothing consignment shops in your area, maybe one of them would be willing to give your product a try. Just a thought. Your profile doesn't say where you are, so I can't be very specific about suggestions.

BTW, you don't have to eliminate cashews from your diet. Nuts are GOOD for you, providing a good kind of fat that helps keep you from feeling hungry.:drinker: :drinker: You don't need to eat a lot of them, but they, as well as almonds are something I enjoy regularly.

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I mentioned yesterday I was meeting my friend for lunch @ TGI Fridays, but that didn't happen. I was just too tired, went to bed too late on Thursday night. After I dropped off the doggies at the groomer and visited my chiropractor, for the last adjustment to cure my lingering aches from the bicycling disaster of Memorial Day weekend, I came home and slept for 3 hours. :yawn:

When I woke up I found a message from another friend, reminding me we were supposed to be going out Friday night. So I still ended up at TGI Fridays, but for dinner instead. They have several things on their menu that work nicely for those of us watching calories. The Key Lime shrimp is excellent. The Dragonfire chicken is another good choice for calories, but a little high in sodium. :grumble: Also, here is a link to a coupon good for buy one get one entree free that is good til June 22nd. :drinker: :drinker: Naturally, I found it AFTER I had been there last night!!:grumble:

http://www.tgifridays.com/promos/JuneBogo.aspx?source=home

If the sound is up on your computer, you will discover on opening this that it plays the sound of a restaurant in the background, talking and other noises. When it happened to me I thought my computer was "haunted" for a moment.:laugh:

I know I promised the story of my dinner last Monday night, but that will have to come later. I still have to get walking and make some attempt at housecleaning.

Barb

Good afternoon

I don't usually post on the weekends but I had to share my one more lb. lost. Not that that's a big deal but to me, its about getting back the the weight loss I had accomplished last year. Now for the last 10 months or so I have been yo yoing and so I'll put that behind me and move forward. All I want to take with me is the knowledge and strategies I have been working on that will help me continue.

Today I sat down and made a meal plan for the coming week and went and got groceries. I didn't buy anything that's not a good choice. I walked for two miles and 3 miles per hour - my foot still kills. - but I burned 242 calories. If I get on the elliptical for only 10-15 minutes I will reach my goal for calories burned for today. I have had 5 waters already. Boy it feels good to be serious about this. I only hope I can continue to take the 'high'road.

Reading the posts is a great way to stay on track and motivated. You ladies are simply the best!!

Have a great day.