Hi to all.  Finally have my internet fixed.  After six days of online/offline, it was very frustrating.  I didn't get to read or post to anything.  There were are few brief (10 minutes at at time, if I was lucky), moments that I was able to get on.  I have an E..ay business and it's tough trying to make sales when you are offline.  Told the cable folks, if they want me to pay them, they to keep me going!!  I think that was to deaf ears.  :o) 

I'm going to spend sometime today catching up on reading posts, wasn't able to the week.

Take all and Happy Saturday!!

Carol

 my stomach is doing a happy dance.They had lobsters on sale this week 3.99 a pound.They just shed there shells so there small,so they go on sale.it was so good.Also because of all the rain in June the fresh veggies have just started to really come in.so i went to the farmers market and loaded up on veggies.plus people who have gardens at work have started to bring in there extras.so i got some fresh beets,cukes and zuchinni the other nite.plus they had haddock on sale for 3.99 a pound.so ill cook up some this week.

Carol good job on the 1 pound loss.

elia i had achicken sandwhich and i put some avocado on it and some tomatoe and lettuce.i love avocados (espically dip with chips and salsa and a beer).lol

Judy are you behaving? no more undies on the porch.

Linda

 girls were unlocked.I checked the message i had posted on the tech board.and it said to try it.

Linda

Hi Everyone,

I am sorry to see that you were all locked out. You know that I check-in on you, but I didn't see that this was happening until now. I'll keep an eye on this and make sure that it doesn't happen again.

Betty Kovacs, MS, RD

 Thank you Betty, no wonder we love you so much!!  I have to tell the rest of the gang to come on back! Judy and Linda were worried that we were behaving so badly that we had been locked out of Alli! I knew better, shoot I have not been deleted in ages!! Have a great week. Love,

Elia

 hello betty

thank you for checking up on us.we need it.but i had a good laugh over the chatmod post.

Allright girls were back .so where is every one.

well we just had another thunder storm,but its not so humid as last week. 

linda

Judy,

You've got my belly giggling with your puppy stories. The hamper and trying to drag it through the doggie door. He's so naughty. Maybe he's getting his exercise or teething or something. Our two dogs, Harlie and Davidson ages 7 and 9 still act like pups sometimes, especially when we bring out a stick or tennis ball.

I'm adding you as my friend so you don't have to send a search party any longer. Elia told me you were looking for me but i couldn't remember where i wrote to you at. I told her 'i'm all over the place.' Isn't Elia a great source of inspiration and info; she's great! All you ladies are great.

So you went to the Kentucky Derby? How cool. Did you get to wear a pretty dress and a big/humongous perty hat to match? I think those places are so cool b/c you can get away with wearing a big flouncy hat and look like Princess Di without the funny looks. I need to go one day. Have to put that on my bucket list for sure.

Re: teas. I have an invite to a Debbie Macomber thingo at some tea place. She's a local Christian author but is on the ny times bestseller list i think. Anyhow she's going to be talking about her most recent book this fri over tea and scones and such. i can't wait and i get a copy of her latest book, signed. woo hoo. can't wait. i'm going to partake in the tea/coffee and maybe nibble on the scone or eat half or something like that. for sure i'm gonna forget the butter and jam. I loved your story about the turkey sandwich. it sounded really good. I think you are doing fantastic. I read somewhere that somebody was losing weight and her skin was softer/not as firm. Mine is getting that way too. What does that mean? it's getting rid of the fat so now i have to tone it and fill it with muscle? woo hoo. i just saved myself 18k. My sister a yr older than i just had a breast enhancement, tummy tuck and lip done on my torso/thighs/buttocks. She's in a lot of pain from the tummy tuck. I sure can think of a lot of things to buy with 18k. For me, i say exercise and portion control have really helped me. This weekend i got some curried chicken take out from a restaurant and was so proud of myself. instead of eating it all in one sitting i had it spaced over three separate meals. i use the medium plate now, not the super tiny one yet. those big plates should be outlawed. lol.

well, i'm so glad i found you again. hope you are doing well. can't wait to hear more puppy stories. he's keeping us entertained too.

take care my friend and have a great week.

nita 

Hey it's been crazy here, the kids went back to school last wk on Wednesday, and then that night the tornado hit and damaged part of the town and the middle school so the kids were off school on thurs. they ended up closing off part of the school and boarding up window so they could get them back in on Fri.  we were lucky this time and didn't have any damage, last two years we've had storm damage. got on the scale this morning and definately not doing the happy dance!... over 130 i haven't been there in over 15yrs yuck!... also got two little girls today, one just turned 2 last week, and the other one is 5, so i'll have to sign her up for kint. after the caseworker gets me all the paperwork.  tommorrow it's off to work, as of last week, i got cut in classes, they've had a big drop in memebership with the ecomony and with a new YMCA opening in the next town, so they've dropped a total of 10 classes a week. hope everyone is doing well! i'm looking forward to getting back into a schedule with the kids so after i find out whether the 5yr old will go to all day or half day kint. i'll get a routine going again!

take care!

Judy,

sorry, i just reread my posting to you and i told you my sister got some lip (sic) done. she actually had lipo done and it wasn't to me it was to her own body. i guess i need to reread my postings before sending. how funny is that. lol.no  no lipo here that's for sure. i'm all natural. like i say 'slow and steady wins the race'. my race is a lifetime and change of lifestyle, not a quick fix. so far so good; it's working. woo hoo.

nita 

 Hey everyone!! How are you all doing? Patty good to hear from you! Hon, once you get back into your routine you will start losing again!! Linda, I guess we were posting almost at the same time!! Wonder what is up with Judy?? Nita hon, so glad to have you here again!! Hon, you got it right, we can do this slow and easy! I know I have to kick it up in the workout department! I sure wish one of you lived close enough so that we could workout together, it is so much better when you have a workout buddie!! My housemate is trying to walk, but she does not follow thru and I sure as heck am not a good example to follow!! Doing good with the food and the scale is behaving, telling me that I am still at 134.5, so... I really do need to get moving if I want my scale to be nice and start moving in the right direction!! I am afraid of telling her anything in case that it  just gets half the message, the moving part, and starts moving up instead of down!! Judy any more mischieve from Mr. Charlie? How is he treating Spencer? You all do try to behave! Have a great day,

Elia

Hey gals, I actually did write a post yesterday but before I could send it I was interrupted at work (the nerve) and I had to quickly shut it down, and of course lost it.  Today if I'm interrupted I'll hit "Write a Post" first, (which is weird wording, why doesn't it just say "Send" or "Submit") .  Oh well, at least we aren't locked out anymore, thanks once again to our dear friend Betty.  I'm not sure I could stay on this program without you guys!  I think we're what they call co-dependent.  Can I blame the fact that I have been misbehaving on the fact that our thread was locked?  Hmmm, didn't think so.  Caroline and Carol, you can blame it on that if you will just come back to us.  Caroline, the tea is getting cold!

Nita, you made me laugh with your story about your sister getting her lip done.  Wow, I wouldn't spend 18K on that either.  I've always wondered if insurance covers any of that.  I didn't go to the Kentucky Derby, although I wish I had.  Each year for the Kentucky Derby my daughter and I go up to Reno (only two hours away) and spend the weekend and bet the races in the sports bar.  It is a lot of fun, but it's a far cry from the real thing.  Judging by the crowds in Kentucky I'm not sure if it isn't better to be in a casino.  So no hat, no fancy clothes, no Mint Juleps, just a screwdriver in one hand and a wager slip in the other.

Pat, what a wild life you lead!  School finally starts and a tornado hits, and then you take on two more kids.  You don't have time to eat, girl!  Don't worry you'll be doing the happy dance before I do.  I have been behaving badly, although yesterday and today have not been too bad, and I'm going to stick to a salad for dinner tonight.

Linda, artichokes were on sale here for .50 apiece, and they were huge.  I bought two of them and cooked them last night, had one last night and will have the other tonight with my salad.  I didn't think they were in season right now, but they were fresh and really a jumbo size.  Yummy, even though I didn't use any kind of a dip for them.  Avacadoes are pretty dinky right now but I buy them anyway and usually have a half of one on my salad at night.  All my fruit trees (all - I only have four) are through for the year, and my tomato plants are drying up and about done.  Now if the weather cools off, that would be nice.  It's in the nineties every day and supposed to be in the low one hundreds by the weekend.

Elia, you quit complaining about your scale, or I'll make you trade me.  I want mine to say 134.5, that would make me do the happiest dance, (actually that's about 20 pounds too low for me).  You asked about Charlie.  What I can say is he is a huge brat!  A week ago today he was neutered, had a hernia repaired, had a dewclaw removed and had a bacterial infection cleaned out of his ears.  Poor baby.  That would keep a normal dog down.  Not Charlie!  He came home with the dreaded cone on his head and I figured he wouldn't be able to figure out how to get outside through the pet door with that thing on.  Wrong.  He just charged right on through the first try.  He doesn't even care if he has a cone on his head, it doesn't slow him down a bit.  The ear infection didn't go away, so I had to bring him to the vet today.  It's a yeast infection!  He doesn't seem to know he's a boy, not supposed to get those.  Anyway, the doc cleaned his ears out and put some goop in there that should stop it.   She said she could give me some stuff to take home and put in there once a day or she could put some stuff in that would last two weeks.  I said please you do it, he is too strong and wiggly for me.  He only weighs 7 pounds but he is one feisty little brat.  And Spencer still hates him!  But guess what?  In spite of his orneriness, he is so darned cute, and I just love him.  Little Broby, I think I told you why I call him that, so won't bore you with it again.  Some times he's Charlie, sometimes he's Broby, and sometimes he's something I would get deleted for.

I'm going to get back to work.  I'm so glad we're back together, my sisters, my friends.

Love, Judy

 Judy,

That must have cost a mint with getting Charlie all fixed up. He's so funny not letting the cone stop him. i tried putting one on Harlie for her ear problems; she gets allergies yearly, she stood in the front driveway and didn't move, just looked at me with this pathetic look like 'im going to stand here until you take this nasty thing off.' if it were a test of wills she would have won b/c i took it off right away knowing how stubborn she can be. It's so bizarre the different personalities our animals have.

Elia,

I think i'd like to switch scales with you. That would make my job of losing a lot easier. lol. I'm just so ecstatic that i'm on the decline and will savor every pound lost. my skin is getting looser/jiggly. does that mean it's making way for muscle or that i'm just losing fat?

Hope everybody is having a great week. I certainly am. Found out today my husband doesn't have to worry about his carotid arteries and that he's fine. the vascular surgeon is going to write a ltr to his doctor to look for neurological symptoms. so the mystery isn't solved yet but we're getting closer. could be a pinched nerve or something.

savor life ladies. it doesn't get much better than this. you gotta love it - each and every day is a blessing for sure.

peace

 nita

Oh boy, I can't blame this one on the moderators.  I was almost finished with a post and the fire alarm went off in the building and everyone had to evacuate.  Now I'm not going to leave my little personal posts sitting here on my computer, so I had to shut it down.  It was just a drill of course, but we had to stand outside in the heat (about 95 I'd say) at 2:00 pm for about 20 minutes, for some obscure reason.  Of course I didn't even get here today until about 10:00 am so I guess I shouldn't complain.  I had to stay home and wait for the pest control guy to come.  Some type of rodent has gotten into the wall between my bedroom and the backyard.  I can hear it scratching away in there.  Charlie stands there and barks at it, but it isn't anymore afraid of Charlie than he is of it.  The guy set up a big enclosed trap outside to lure it/them out.  It isn't anything I have to look at or deal with fortunately.  I think they just eat the poison and go off somewhere (hopefully not back in the wall) and die. 

Nita, Charlie's bill for all of his surgeries and procedures was remarkably low.  I took him to the Animal Spay & Neutering Clinic that the County subsidizes.  The neutering was only $20.  I called a few vets first and the prices were anywhere from $200 to $350!  The clinic experience was great.  They were very nice there and when I told them he had a hernia they said they would take care of it too since he was going to be under anyway.  They only charged $20 more for the hernia.  While working on him they found the dewclaw and removed it for $5.00!  And the cleaning out of the ears was free.  Now the vet visit yesterday was a different thing, it was $93 just to clean out his ears and squirt some stuff in them.  They did have to look at some of his gunk under a microscope or something to figure out the diagnosis, so I guess that's what made it add up.  Anyway, he is such a happy little puppy today, and the cone is finally off his head, and it was all worth it.  He's still a brat, and Spencer still hates him, but he really is making progress.  And he's so darned cute!  So you took Harlie's cone off right away.  Did she heal okay anyway?  I'm happy to hear your husband's arteries are okay, that is some scary business.  And you know the loose jiggly skin you're experiencing?  I don't think that goes away unless you gain the fat back to fill it up, at least mine is still swinging away.  I guess you could fill it up with muscle, but that means exercising........????????   And I agree with you, savor and appreciate every single day - no matter what you're going through, somebody else is going through something worse.  Live it and love it.

Where are our other sisters?

Judy

Judy,

That Clinic sounds wonderful. I'm going to have to check around here and see if we have one of them. Harlie is good. Her ears are fine but sure enough once a yr we have to take her in for medicine and they have to check under the microscope and such.

I hope they catch that critter in the wall. how scary. yikes.

About the loose/jiggly skin i think i'll try to do the exercise thing and get more muscle but i'm not sure if i can fill the entire jigglyness with muscle. who knows. and i still have to lose another 50 or so pounds. maybe i can stuff some packing peanuts in there. lol.

i'm reading this book right now that takes place in England and Scotland and is around the time of one of the Henry Tudors, fiction, and they keep talking about these bread boats filled with porridge or stew and it makes me so hungry. you know like comfort food. They needed food like that back then b/c they worked so hard. The Lassie in the story was kidnapped and put in a Lords dungeon and fed some bread and cheese and wine. They're also drinking wine a lot in this book. I'm almost done with it; it's really good. Now that I read Dominick Dunne died today i might have to go out and read some of his books. I really liked him. He lived to 83. I think i'd be ecstatic if i make it to 83 with all the cancers around. It's frightening. Breast, liver, lung, bladder, ovarian, bone, skin, brain, cervical, on and on it goes. The great thing is we're doing something about staving off a lot of those cancers by eating healthier and getting exercise. I know the "e" word. yikes/lol.

You have a great one.

That's funny about the two dogs. Does Charlie know he is disliked?

No more fire alarms please, unless it's before the posting or after. lol.

Nita 

 hello sisters

Its really cool here,patty it must be cool where you are.And oh no another hurricane coming up the coast.

Im watching paula deene on tv,boy does she love her butter.yesterday i went to the meat market to get some cheese we love,its a sharp american,so good.well when i walked in there was a camera there so i was getting my stuff and i heard a voice i reconized.It was marianne esposito,shes on PBS on Cio italia.she was doing a segment on pork i think.when i went up to pay for my stuff i said to the owner you have a celebrity here so he called her over and we talked she was so down to earth.the owner told her i was getting my weekly cooper cheese,and she asked me what i did with it.now heres a famous chef and i had to tell her i make grilled cheese with it. but  the simple things in life are good.

judy the last time the fire alarm went off i was in the bath room.  LOL

well i need to get some laundry done.

Nita glad on the good news on your husband.I was checking my arms,im pretty jiggley to.maybe ill get out the soup cans and do some arm exercises.(maybe) lol

elia hows it going,i have been looking at that hurricane to see where its going.i hope it stays off coast.

Linda