WOW  i'm it seem like i'm actually going to get to post on here.  the home page is still messed up when i tried to get in, and i was signed in when i looked for the thread and now it made me sign in again. i've really missed everyone, i was trying to read up on all the posts buthave had so many inturuption from the kids, and hubby that i decided i better just posts before this site changes it's mind on me .   i've still been doing well with my exercise but not well with my eating. the kids go back to school this wednesday, and tomorrow i start a new work schedule so i'll go down to 2 days, which will be easier on me.  the baby has done 2 weekends with his adoptive family(which is also a friend of mine)he'll be  moving in with them after the holiday.  i'm suppose to find out this week if the twins siblings(ages 11mos,2,&4) are going to move in with us. and they haven't made a final decision on whether they'll allow my teenage foster child to return home when she turns 18 which is coming up. 

i was thinking we all need a fall challenge to get us all back on the same page with our weight loss goals, maybe post what weight we're at, and where we want to be by the end of sept. , oct. etc... and what are plan is to get there, ex: changing a bad habit(my milk duds) or adding a good habit (more fruits, more exercise, etc..) just a thought....

well if this post works i'll definately make a point to check in more often and keep up with how everyone is doing!  take care!

 Hello every one

Pat glad you could finally sign on and post.

Allibuzz i checked mjy garden i have a cucumber starting and a few zuchunni.Hopefully the wood chuck wont get them.I think i would just duck tape my mouth

The other day(saturday ) when we had that thunder storm about 5 mins from here they got hail.A lady brought in a picture of her back yard,it was covered in it.The temperure dropped abot 10 degress in a few mins.Possible thunder storms tonite and tomoroww morning.I wanted to go to the beach and walk,im in a funky slump.And just to add to slump,my daughter and her boy fried broke up so she got the crying bit going on.I just step back her and him have to work it out,But she gets crankie and then i get cranky.Kids you cant live with them or with out them.

Elia i just look at the wheather chanel to see where the hurricane is it looks close to were my ex sister in law is in Port Charlotte.I hope they dont get hit again.

Judfy hows the nuti system going? A guy at work was on it for ahile.Some of it didnt look to bad execept the chicken salad.

Have a good day every one

Linda

 Hello evryone! I am  back at work, not working!! Good to hear from you Pat!! hey Buzz, we must have been posting at the same time!! I am fine, if you find out which duct tape works, please let me know!! Wow, congrars on your tomatoe!! Linda, you and Buzz should get together and make a homemade salad!! Judy babe, how are you doing with the Nutrisystem? I can not wait to weigh myself this week!! I really am trying to behave on the eating side of things, no exercise yet, either!! Hey, u all today I was kind of having trouble with the site!! The storm did not do much damage, at least not in our area. There were a couple of tornadoes that did some damage, but I have not heard of any deaths or injuries in this area!! Ok, I have a check here and need to find out who the heck it belongs to!! Love u all!!

Elia

 Yahoo, today is a good day on the board, I can actually reply!  Patti, you're right, the board is a mess, wonder why they can't fix it.  I'm glad to hear school is starting tomorrow, sounds like you need a break, although I don't think you'll get it if you have three more kids coming.  Hey, a Fall challenge is a good idea, but not for me right now.  I'm into my second day on NutriSystem and my scale told me I lost 2-1/2 pounds since yesterday.  Now I've been around this block a time or two and know that it will probably be back on there tomorrow, but it made me feel good anyway.  My goal is only five pounds, but of course would love to lose 10.  I have increased my exercise quite a bit, and that's about all I can handle for now.  But you shouldn't have any problem on this board getting people to sign up for a challenge.  I can tell you my weight was 166 yesterday, 163.4 this morning, and I want to get to 159 to get into a healthy BMI.

Linda, congratulations on your cucumbers and zucchini, and Buzz on your tomato.  My gardening results are so discouraging.  I have plowed a fortune into growing tomatoes and all I have gotten is a few puny ones.  My Beefsteak tomatoes look more like Mousesteak.  I'll keep trying throughout the month of August, but I don't think it's going to get better.  Is your friend who lost the 20 pounds on NutriSystem still on the diet?  I didn't order the chicken salad because I couldn't imagine it could be anything good, but so far everything I've tried (which isn't much) has been pretty good.

Liz, how are you doing with your program?  How are all the horses doing?  I am so envious of you having those beautiful animals around.  My daughter has two horses and they sure do take up a lot of time and money, but she loves them to pieces.

Kimberley, I love the Walk at Home DVD.  I only made it through the first mile yesterday, but today I'm going for an additional quarter of a mile, and then increase it each day.  i couldn't believe I could even do that much, she really picks up the pace.

Buzz, so good to see you back on the board.  My weights are only 3 pounds each, I can't imagine lifting two 5-pounds ones.  By the time I lift these over my head 15 times, my arms hurt.  They're fun though, and I'm going to keep adding to those exercises too.  My main motivation here is New York.  We are going to Manhattan and the hotel is between Times Square and Central Park.  There are so many places I want to see, and I know it will all involve lots of walking.

Elia, have you got this job nailed?  You must if you now have time to get back on the board.  So good to see you here.  I'm watching Fay on the news and it sounds like maybe it will stay a tropical storm and not hurt anybody.  Good thing you closed all the shutters though.  You should bring Jerry to work with you so he won't be scared.

Back to work for now.  Love you guys.

Judy

 Hello ladies

Im still in a slumpy mood.I havent exercised in 3 days.Im just plain down in the dumps.There some thing going on in my personal life,but not to me some one i know and its pulling me down in a i dont care mood.Maybe tonite ill email you guys or tomorrow and tell you whats going on.

Judy the guy who did nutrisystem did it for 6 weeks then stopped.I dont think he has gained any weight back.

Elia it looks like Fay landed south of my ex sister in laws so im glad.

I notice if you try to reoly to a long forum thers no room you have to find a short one.I sent this to the tech people havent heard any thing.

 Judy big congrats!! Shoot, I may try the Nutrissystem if it works that well for you!! Now, one question, is alcohol aloowed with that plan??  Babe, Jerry would bite evryone here!! He stays on top of my bed at home!! He really does not get scared, the scary cat is Mia, she starts barking as soon as there is any thunder!!  They should both be fine!! Hey, we have only had two customers today and only had three yesterday!! I am so bored that I am falling asleep!!  Well, I do have to admit that I ate too much for lunch so that may have something to do with the sleepiness too!! Ok u all, let me go and pretend that I am working!! Love,

Elia

 Elia, it doesn't say you can't have alcohol on NutriSystem, so.....  I'm glad to hear you're bored today, that means you're back on top!  And back on the board.  Keeping my fingers crossed that Fay stays away.  Where DO they get those names?

Judy

 Aha Linda, I think you're on to something with the board, and we do have a pretty long forum.  I'm glad you wrote to them, I did too, but the response was pretty much that it was something I was doing wrong.  I've also noticed that when you reply, it indents the first character in the first paragraph by one space.  That's weird.  I'm sorry for what you are going through.  I know when my friend Craig was dying from cancer recently that I wasn't paying much attention to what I was eating or when I was eating.  Please email us only if you feel like talking about it, you know we're interested and we care.

Judy

 Linda hon, I usually do not check my e-mails, but I will be checking them in case you e-mail us! Yeap Judy, once again I am bored at work!!  Good to be able to get back on the boards!! I post more from work than from home!! Since now I do have an office and I am not in front of the public, I may even post more!! God help u all! Linda, the storm was not so bad!  Ok, as a matter of fact let me go check on my e-mails now!  Love,

Elia 

 Ok, so where is everyone?????  have a great day!! Love,

Elia

Did you know this is the 835th item to be posted to this thread?  Girls, we have been busy for the last eight months, (well, maybe not so busy at work, but busy here).  Let's keep an eye on it and celebrate when it hits 1,000.  Of course I have no idea how to celebrate other than drinking alcohol or eating, so maybe we'll just have to settle for a virtual high-five.  Elia, I'm glad the storm wasn't so bad, but I heard on the news this morning that it may circle back and hit again.  I sure hope that's not true.  I'm glad you've got your job knocked now, I knew you would, girlfriend.

I'm on my third day of NutriSystem, 11 left to go.  I lost another 1/2 pound as of this morning, so that's 3.  Three more by the end of the 14 days would make me happy.  The thing is, I used to look forward to weekends because that meant I could go off my diet and eat, but not this weekend, and not the one after.  Boring!  The food is not bad I must say, but the cravings are starting to grow, I mean a big old spoonful of Laura Scudder's Nutty Peanut Butter sounds sooooo good right now, it's a craving I will have to hold off on because I could eat a whole jar of that stuff.  The only ingredients are peanuts and salt, and it's the kind you have to stir up to get the oil distributed and then refrigerate.  Wow, if I blow my diet, it will be with that.  But I won't!  I won't, I won't, I won't.  Except tonight I'm going out for drinks, so...  I won't eat the hors d'oeuvrs, I'll eat my Nutri System entree before I go.  How bad could vodka and orange juice be?  Oooh, I know, I'll skip my fruit portions for snack and dinner and that will be the orange juice.  I don't know what I can substitute vodka for but I'll figure it out as I drink along.

Have a great day everyone!

Judy 

 I'm here, I think our posts just crossed in the cyberspace waves.  Great minds!

Judy

 hi everyone, it's definately nice to have a little bite of quite time now that the kids are in school.

i was thinking that since we're having a hard time getting to post on this thread and they're saying it has to do with it being so long, maybe we should start another one , we could just switch the order of the names or make up a code name and leave it as the last post on this thread on the end of August and then start the new thread the 1st day of sept. just a thought.

i'm happy that some of you are doing well with your weight loss, i get so discouraged. i've been wearing my step counter when i walk, and i usually put in over 7,000 steps in 50mins.  i'm still teaching 2 water aeorbic water classes and teaching my 2 weight lifting classes, and i use 12lb weights and do 3 sets of 12 on most exercise, and i change which exercise we do each time.   i think i need to just find low calorie gluten free foods, (besides fruit, veggies and meat) i'm a big veggie eater. when i make my next trip to Indianapolis for my twins check up, i'm going to stop down there and try to find some stuff at trader joes, they're suppose to have a good selection, around here they don't have a lot, and most of them are higher in calories and fat. i've tried ordering on line, but most of the sites that have reasonable shipping don't have as much to chose from and the the sites that have more, it's just too expensive, since gluten free food is as high in price and even higher then some organic foods.  just another hurdle in my life! i guess i should be happy that at least i'm maintain my weight for right now.

take care, patty

 Good afternoon every one.Im still hanging in there,not exercising much but not eating to bad either.

I think our post is ok as is,i saw another post with over a 1,000 replys its when we reply to a post were all long winded  LOL.Like now i couldnt reply to pats but  could reply to this one.I sent another e-mail to the tech people and he asked me some questions and i answered him back only it got deledted by admin13.Go figure it i only said what was happening maybe ill try again and get a different admin.

Well its Friday at last.Cant wait to get out of work.Need to get ready for work will sign on tonite or tomorrow and see how every one is.

Linda

 Hello my friends:

I have not posted lately due to being in a deep black funk that I am struggling to get out of.  Actually for the past 2 weeks i have tried to eat my way out of it but that isn't working, it is only making me feel worse.  As you all know, I am dealing with my mom and her progressive dementia.  I have 5 sibs, and they all have their own opinion as to what should be done for mom or what is best for her.  Naturally they aren't there to do it!  It is just so sad to watch her decline.  When I visited her last week I found her sobbing like a child.  When she could finally speak she said that she had been abandoned and that nobody cared for her.  She cannot remember when her kids visit so she thinks she is alone all the time.   She is still very independent in her thinking and does not want to move out of her home.  I was going to help her get a bath today but she would have none of that.  She insisted that she could bathe herself.  She has a stool that sits inside the tub so she doesn't have to lower herself to the bottom of the tub, and my brother installed a hand held shower to make it easier for her to cleanse herself.  The last time we went through this bath rotine she only pretended to take a bath.  She only changed into her clean clothes and came out of the bath room in about five minutes.  She thought she had fooled me though.  Today she did actually get a bath.  But...instead of putting on the clean clothes that I had laid out for her, she started putting the soiled clothes back on.  She actually had no idea which ones she had just removed and which ones were the clean ones.  I had to take the dfirty clothes out of the room so she wouldn't be so confused.  And I know it will only get worse.  To make matters worse, her doctor of many years died suddenly and now she is seeing a doctor she has never seen before.  He doesn't know her or her history so he just doesn't understand the situation.  I asked him for something for depression to help stop the crying bouts but he didn't agree.  He prescribed a patch for her to wear that is supposed to help with memory loss in patients with dementia.  He said he'd rather treat the cause of the depression instead of the depression itself.  This might be a good approach but I felt that she should have been given the anti-depressant until the patch kicks in, which he says might take 3 months.  Besides, it doesn't work for everyone.  Her memory loss might be too far advanced for the patch to help her much, if at all.  As most elderly shut ins do, she sleeps a lot.  Every time she awakes during the day she thinks it is morning.  And she eats her 2 boiled eggs again.  We keep a bowl of boiled eggs for her so she won't turn on the stove.  At this point the boiled eggs is almost all she is eating.  She isn't hungry because she has almost always 'just had breakfast.'   Her former doctor was against forcing her out of her home because he said she would lose the will to live because she feels so strongly about staying in her home.  And if she sits and cries all day about being forced out of her home she will be no better off than crying because she feels she is alone and forgotten.  It is just a tough situation with no easy solutions.  So...that is what I am dealing with at the moment.  I have thought of all of you each and every day, Kimberley, Elia, Linda, Judy and Buzz....send some good Karma my way.  I will be OK.  I just need to get a grip on this situation.

Liz