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HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAWPRINT AND CRAZYBEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOPE U HAD A GOOD DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

running late to get to work ttyl

Heeeyyyyy!! A lot of us are checking in and that makes me HAPPY!:bigsmile:

Crazybee and Pawprint - Super happy birthday! I'm so very glad that you were born!

Prayerful ~ enjoy your last day off! Have fun with the dogs!

Okay, the water thing I tried worked great at home, but I'm not sure about for work. I kept forgetting to go refill the glass - so it was more like I got in about 4 glasses instead of 8. hmmmmmm, i'm gonna have to figure this out......

Laughingfox ~ I'm sorry you're sick!! That sooooo stinks. Rest, drink your fluids, recuperate:flowerforyou:

Sheila ~ do you use artificial sweeteners?? If you do, stop now. They can contribute to all sorts of joint and bone pain. Hope you are better soon.

Kisses to all my teamies! Talk to you folks tomorrow~

Morning everyone :flowerforyou:

Well today's a new day again :grumble: Had a terrible day yesterday... all I wanted to do was eat... and not the healthy food... I have no idea why it was like that... it was like I couldn't get enough... was still drinking my water but that wasn't helping... that was the first day like that since I've started on this journey 4 months ago... I know this week will be a gain for me... another first since I've started I sure hope today is better... it's just upsets me to know I could have controlled it and I didn't!! Also the motivation to exercise seems to have deserted me... I have great intentions but that's all they seem to be.

laughinfox - so sorry u r sick. We had that go thru our house too, a few weeks ago. hope ur on the mend.

swignal, our prayers are with u. i hope there's another answer other than surgery

lorann, don't get discouraged. this is a process and it will take your body and mind time to adjust to the "permanency" of eating differently and living a more active lifestyle. Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and get back on track. Don't beat yourself up, only look at your past to see how you can fix the reactions you had (turning to food for comfort, or whatever) and react differently next time. Never think that you've blown it so much that you can't undo it, never think that you've blown it so much it's not even worth trying. It takes time to adjust to a new lifestyle. Think of it as your body is learning a new language. If you've ever learned a new language you know that it's hard and it takes awhile and you make mistakes, but one day it will just "click" and you'll be fluent. Same for your body.

As I write this to Lorann I'm having to tell myself the same thing - this has been an awful week for me eating-wise, and I don't even know why! Stress? Depressed? I can't even tell you what the problem is. Yesterday I weighed and I"m up 7 pounds from 228 where I was before vacation. ARGH! But I deserve the gain, in how I've been eating and not exercising. It's so very, very easy to gain that weight back right now and it's very, very discouraging to think that I'll have to be this diligent at calorie counting my whole life. But as I'm writing the above to Lorann, I realize that it's the truth. I was doing great for many mos, then hit a plateau, took 3 mos to break thru it, and never did get wholly back on track after that. Right now my focus needs to be on eating healthy and stop eating junk, make sure I am giving my body the nutrients it needs to be successful, and in exercising, which I've totally fallen off the wagon there. Right now I have to focus on those two things, to stop watching the scale and getting discouraged by what i see (even though I deserve what I"m seeing) and just focus on the little things like I did in the beginning - exercise at least 3x/wk for 30 mins, doesn't have to be extreme cardio, just starting over, and to get more veggies and fruit in me, and stop buying junk food even for the kids, as it seems I can't control myself right now. Poor kids will only get Rice Chex, Corn Chex, and Cheerios from now on.:laugh:

So today my goal is to set my training appts now that I have a good idea of my kids' bus schedules for pick up and drop off. I will drink my water (at least I've been doing better on that). I will walk to my friend's house after the kids leave for school, it's only a few blocks, and it's not really "exercise" as much as I need to get moving again. Rode a bike around the culdesac for 10 mins the other day and it made my muscles sore - time to get moving again! I'm buying the neighbor's bike on payday (1 week) and I will start riding on the nice days while the kids are in school (wonder if I can make it to losingit's house without dying? lol). Those are my goals. Please, please keep me accountable and chew my butt if I do not stick to my goals. Sometimes we need support, sometimes we need butt-chewing, and I think I need a good butt-chewing and lulu's slipper. :happy:

love u guys, have a good one

I love this group ya'll.

adopt4 - the sound of silence can be deafening! Congrats on having a little peace and quiet!

Sorry I missed the birthday girls and so much more. I went to the gym last night and was too tired to come to the computer. Off again to the treadmill - 60 minutes tonight if I'm speedy. Keeping track of my water and food today...must get back on track!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:drinker: :drinker: :flowerforyou:

prayerful... with as many cals as you burn, i do not understand your eating! i would be passing out from malnutrition! but good work on the bike, and for not letting a few flat tires keep you!

sore from my walk yesterday, from the cement, not just walking. happens every time. wonder if walking on cement more will make it better - or worse? any ideas? supposed to go bike riding today, i feel like bailing on that, one becuz i'm sore and i'm afraid i'll do actual damage to my hips, and 2 becuz one son or the other was up all night and i'm tired! altho that shouldn't be the excuse... i did just get up, so i have 90 mins before getting the other two off to school, i might be awake by then and not tired anymore! i'm actually starting to wake up a bit now... but i'm wondering about actually hurting myself when i'm this sore... that wouldn't be worth it..

yeah, losingit, I'm trying to kick the sugar addiction again too. how easily it comes back when you let your guard down!

didn't go for our bike ride, but we made a valiant effort. turns out one of her bikes had a flat tire, mine has a flat tire, so i went to borrow a neighbor's who said i could borrow it but they weren't home, went to the other neighbor who's bike i'm buying on payday to ask if i could borrow that one, no answer there either. so we tried! both of us were really sore from walking yesterday so we didn't want to walk that path again, and couldn't think of a place to walk that wasn't pavement. but at least we tried, and didn't "not" go for the wrong reasons!

Good morning,
No change in weight but I lost inches (in part due to the end of T.O.M). I lose two inches in my waist and one in my hips!!!:smooched:

SW198, GW 135, CW 171 = no change

I hope you have a great week.

P.S my husband brought a lot of furniture back from his grama's house so we'll be rearranging the house tomarrow to accomidate some of it and putting the rest on Creg's list.