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Hi Terry! You look awesome now even with residual swelling! The difference is so subtle but WOW! Great results... Things with Juan are going alot better. I know that it's not anything that he's doing because he hasn't really changed much but since I'm working on myself my outlook has really changed the dynamics of how I feel towards him. Umm, I don't know if I'm explaining myself right. Well let me try... I used to put him on a pedestal, putting him before me. When I did that I was very unhappy because I felt like I wasn't on a pedestal in his life. So like I said, I was unhappy, always bitchy, always whining. So then when I said fuck it, i'm responsible for only myself and how I feel things just started to change. Now that he's not the center of my life I feel alot happier, alot freerer and my attitude has changed. He's definetly noticed the changes but he's being cautious because he feels like it might be temporary? But we do spend time together and we talk alot more than we had been when we were living under the same roof! Whatever happens happens...

Wow, that's awesome Laura, 209! What's his goal weight?? Hi Violets!! Busy day over here. My boss comes back from vacation on Thursday so we gotta make sure everything is in order. Someone asked if our new location opened up yet... Yep, we opened up right before July 4th. Got all our permits in order. It's doing pretty good... It's out on Wallisville Road for you Houston girls... Been busy at home too, trying to get ready for these two weddings. Friday is the one we're hosting at my mother in laws house. I think Tracy asked if I was a wedding coordinator. Yes I am! Juan's mom has this fabulous property with an old victorian house that she wasn't doing anything with. She converted the house to a bed and Breakfast and we want to host weddings and special events on the grounds. This friday is our first wedding. So excited and nervous. Trying to make sure we've got everything ready for our bride. Then my cousin gets married on Saturday. We fly out Saturday morning for that one. My family leaves Friday morning but since I have this wedding to do Friday night me and Juan are flying out Saturday morning... I went and got shoes last night. Toooo cute, can't wait to show ya'll. I dropped off my dress to get altered yesterday. They had to take in 3/4 of an inch on each side. YAY! When I bought it a month and a half ago it fit perfectly... Oh and it's got these little spaghetti straps on it but I'm converting it to a strapless. Yes girls, I'm taking the plunge. I'm putting my bat wings out for the world to see. I've got to get to the tanning booth today since i've got weird tan lines on my arms from my short sleeved shirts. Does anyone ever tan? I've never ever been. Will my already tan forearms get darker? I'd like to just even out myself...

Hi pamela!! Glad you're having a great time! Can't wait to see more pics! Ditto what Laura said, don't be embarrassed. Your doctor is there to help. Just be upfront. We didn't get fat because we were able to be sensible about our eating all these years, LOL... TracyKS - How's your mama doing?? Did ya'll find another doctor? Oh, I've been meaning to ask you for your taco recipe. Please pass it along... Laura - so excited about your dad!! I'm sure he's in hog heaven!! Tell your mom to stay away if she's bad luck!! We'll keep sending him purple vibes... Does Russell miss carbs at all?? Juan always did a modified version of Atkins in order to stay fit. He hardly ever ate any white carbs. He would eat tons of fruit but stay away from pasta, bread, rice ect... Guys lose so quick, they make me sick! What's everyone up to this weekend?? I've got a few things to get ready for next Friday. We've got our first wedding that we're hosting at Juan's mom's property. I'm nervous and excited! So this weekend I'm finalizing everything with the caterers, florist and bakery. So far I've booked three weddings and the bigger their package, the bigger my commission check!

Wow, so nachos and ice cream don't work, LOL...

I got this interesting article forwarded to me today. I know we all know this but it's a good reminder... How Protein Keeps Hunger at Bay By JULIE STEENHUYSEN, Reuters Posted: 2008-01-18 11:18:51 Filed Under: Health, Healthy Living, Diet & Fitness CHICAGO - Diets high in protein may be the best way to keep hunger in check, U.S. researchers said in a study that offers insight into how diets work. They found that protein does the best job at keeping a hunger hormone in check, while carbohydrates and fats may well deserve their current nasty reputation. The study, which will appear in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, looked at the effectiveness of different nutrients at suppressing ghrelin, a hormone secreted by the stomach that stimulates appetite. "Suppression of ghrelin is one of the ways that you lose your appetite as you begin to eat and become sated," said Dr. David Cummings of the University of Washington in Seattle, who worked on the study. The researchers gave 16 people three different beverages, each with varying levels of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. They took blood samples before the first beverage, then every 20 minutes for six hours afterward, measuring ghrelin levels in each sample. "The interesting findings were that fats suppress ghrelin quite poorly," Cummings said in a telephone interview. They fared the poorest overall. "Proteins were the best suppressor of ghrelin in terms of the combination of the depth and duration of suppression, " he said. "That is truly satisfying because high proteins are essentially common to almost all of the popular diets." They also found that eating carbohydrates resulted in a strong ghrelin suppression at first, but ghrelin levels rebounded with a vengeance, rising to an even higher level. Basically, the carbohydrates eventually made people even hungrier than before they had eaten. Cummings said the findings may aid in future research on the effectiveness of different diets. And the study likely means that nightly bowl of ice cream is out. "That is a bad idea no matter what," he said.

Morning girlies!! Terry - what have you been up to on your vacation time?? Tinkering with your beads?? I've got three weeks vacation that I need to use pretty quickly. No plans to go anywhere anytime soon though and i'm not really a homebody. TracyK - my dad is healing great! He had me take out his stitches from his belly button yesterday. My mom was having a fit because he didn't want to go to the doctor to get that done. I didn't think it was a big deal. He's all healed up and the stitches knots were just sticking out. He's got the cutest belly button now!! Tiny! Laura - that is so cool about your dad!! I think I missed it but is he in Vegas?

Cute cute pic Michelle!! You're all tan from the beach! What the heck! I went onto mydailyplate.com, that's where I track my food intake, and it says that I need to consume 1700 daily in order to lose 2lbs per week. I'm eating way less than that each day and see no significant weight loss!! What the heck is wrong with me??

TracyK - when is hubby scheduled to start at his new job?? It must be so exciting for him! Suzie - how'r your toes and your knee doing?? Any word on your back? I'm having a cup of coffee right now but I'm fixin to get up and get my water. I didn't do so good on water yesterday. I think I only had one liter... I just got an email saying that sugar free gum can kill a dog... Have ya'll ever heard of that?? I don't chew sugar free but if you do keep it in the house then be careful with your doggies. Oh, I'm having such a hard time with my new email. I'm trying to export all my contacts from my other two email addresses and it's just not working... Anyone know an easy way to get this done??

Happy Birthday Pamela!! (((((TracyKS))))) I'll keep your mom and your family in our prayers.

Ack! Kat! I'm glad everyone was okay. How scary was that??? Hugs to you today... How's abbey doing?? Everything ok with her?? Yes my parents are almost all moved in. Most important stuff is over there. And yep, Juan was happy to help. He is genuinely a good man. A very complicated man but with a big heart. He would never dream of using someone in order to get his way. He just doesn't do stuff like that... Happy Birthday Michelle!!! Your plans today sound perfect! Your kids are so darn cute! Love the glasses on your daughter and your sons hat! Your kids look like they are very unique and have lots of individuality. Good job mom! Laura - Happy Anniversary yesterday!! I thought of you when I wrote a check at the grocery store yesterday. 7/7! How did Russell like his surprise? What was your surprise?? Judy!! Congrats on your next grandbaby!!! Ya'll must be so excited, she's been trying for so long! Is this your second grandchild? Terry - how'r your eyes?? My dad healed pretty quickly from his eyes. No bruising after about 10 days. Hope yours is the same!! That pic you took of your bracelet is stunning! It needs to be in a catalog somewhere... Jane - I was productive this weekend too!!! Cleaned my house and put away some paperwork from early 2007. I figure I'll be caught up with 2008 stuff by the end of 2009, LOL... Pammy!! Sounds like you're having a blast! Can't wait to see pics! Suzie - Are you taking it easy today??? Any news on your results? TracyK - Hi Mommy!! Your first day as a SAHM yesterday??? Must be heaven! TracyKS - HOT MAMA!! Woo hoo you looked hot on that bike! How's hubby's mood nowadays?? Denise- awwww, grandma, your grandbabies are precious!! You'll be so glad you have this new spacious house in order for them to run around in! Actually my parents did the same thing! Instead of downgrading to a smaller house now that we're all out of the house they upgraded and got a huge house! They say it's for the grandkids, LOL... They are almost all moved in. We have some stuff left in the garage and in the attic but my mom doesn't want to start sorting through that yet. I know that I'll have to haul home most of my stuff that I've been storing in her attic. All my old toys, stuffed animals, papers from school, old prom dresses. Everything is up there! These past four days passed so quickly!! I didn't want to get up this morning. We were go go go since Thursday. My parents had their first dinner party at their new house and everything was a success... Thanks ladies for your great advice on friendships. It's true Terry, when you said that as we get older and our lives get busier it's important to SCHEDULE time with our friends. And if she's not doing that then she's just not interested in spending time with me. What I'm going to do is to slowly phase her out of my life. I did manage to disinvite her to our 4th of July party. I just told her that we didn't know what we were doing or who's house we were doing it at and when i found out I would call her. I was giving her a taste of her own medicine, wishy washiness! Well i never called her and when she called the next day to find out why i told her that I had just forgotten about her since she's not really a part of my life... Hope she got the message... As far as "starting" over with our bandster ways.... That is so funny that ya'll mentioned it. We must have all been thinking the same thing yesterday. I started yesterday. I was just sitting at home thinking about the beginning of this journey and how excited I was and how attentive I was with what I put in my mouth. If I was going to eat something that was bad I would measure out what I was alloted and stick to that. I decided that I was going to start again! Okay - I've had nothing for breakfast so off I go to get my oatmeal ready. Sorry for the novel, I just had alot of catching up to do!!

Morning girls!! Whew, what a busy 4 day weekend I had... I gotta go and catch up real quick... i'll be back...

pam - love you!! your post is awesome and the z=y made it even better!! i was also reading it with a german accent, LOL. Tracy - so glad your hubby got the job!!! Yay yay yay!! we gotta go celebrate soon!! i gotta come back to this... situation at work just came up...

okay, i'm leaving now girls... laura - hope tomorrow is not as bad as it's been at your job... crossing my fingers and toes for you!

suzie - will you have a long talk with my hands and my mouth too, LOL! if i step back and look at my life it's actually pretty damn good. but it feels good to vent, huh suzie?? can we fill your huge whole with some water and come play in the mud??

i've always had a very high sex drive... drove juan kinda crazy actually. I always wanted it more than he did.

hurry up hurry up... are ya'll trying now?? no, i mean right now??? does he have you over your desk he he he...

anyway, again just wanting to vent with you guys...

you're right, that might be it. i guess since she's done it for so long it just burns my gut everytime she does it. i'm like, just tell me NO or YES. but you know what, that's not really it. i've invited myself over to her house before and she's wishy washy even then. ugh, now that i think about it, why have i been her friend for so long?

okay, i feel better just letting it out. i just felt like i was gonna chew her head off if i didn't vent...

she mentioned she was craving dim sum and i suggested we go next week. this is her responce: "one day next week maybe.. " another friend of mine suggested getting all of us together for girls night on thursday and this is her responce: "I maybe in town thursday evening.. but up in air ..Wait... July 4th is Friday.. I will probably be in country.. but not sure.. I may may not.."

laura - almost over girly, hang in there... girls weekend sounds like fun! wish i could go, grandma's loooveee me, he he he. so i have this friend. i've known her since middle school. we used to be best friends. here is my problem with her and i don't know how to deal with it. she is extremely wishy washy. I CANT STAND THAT. everything is "maybe, possibly, i dunno, let me see..." AUGH. every single time i ask her to do something she answers "we'll see" or "maybe" or "not sure" A few years ago i decided i would stop asking her. and i did, i just plain stopped hanging out with her. i hardly hang out with her now. i made the mistake of asking what she was doing next week if she wanted to get together and again she answered maybe, don't know. The only reason this bothers me so much is because i feel like the reason she won't committ to me is because if something better comes along she doesn't want to be "tied" down with plans with me. am i incorrect? maybe. but that's how she makes me feel. so now my dilemma. she knows that me and my family always have this huge get togethers at every holiday. she knows because she was always invited to every single one. it's been years since she's come over and now she just invited herself to our july 4th party. huh? why would she do that? i was about to send her a nasty little email but i deleted it. i don't know how to tell her politely that she can't come. even though my family loves her and would welcome her back with open arms i don't really want her there cuz i'm pretty pissed off. am i being petty? should i just let it go and just deal with it?

house - i'm in the same boat as you... i want to make the band do all the work but that's not gonna happen. there are a few people out there that can say the band is doing all the work but most people have to put some effort. exercise and having some sort of a healthy diet is the common theme from successful bandsters. I'm not there yet! my head hunger went away momentarily but i've never really truly lost it. Each day it's still a constant battle to not stuff my piehole with crap. EVERY SINGLE DAY. so...chin up, you're not alone! Oh yes Terry - I did get a new email! haydee99@gmail.com so everyone make note of it... now comes the big task of having to change everything under the sun to my new email. AUGH. I did this two years ago when I thought i was changing my name and it was a pain. teaches me not to count my chickens before they hatch...LOL...

Hi girls!! Whew, what a day yesterday... We all get over there and then we figure out that we are missing a very crucial permit from the fire department. What a let down! We were shut down and we wont re-open until next week. That sucks! House - I have to pay for my fills too but they are done under flouro. Can your doctor do that? If you have to pay for your fills anyway why don't you try my fill doctor? She's in Tyler and her name is Dr. Stephanie. She always does your fills under flouro that way she can check the flow. She's banded herself so she'll be able to help you when you struggle. Give her a call (903) 520-8847. She only does fills on the weekends. My knee feels fine, thank you for asking! It only bruised a little bit. I've missed so much!! I feel like I've been in a daze for a week now... Judy - glad you're back!! Can't wait to see pics! Laura - hope you're feeling better... I can't believe what you went through at that show! I heard about it but never put two and two together... Michelle - is at the beach. Hope you're having fun at the beach!!! Terry - how's everything with you?? loved loved loved that bracelet you made. It's gorgeous! Jane - did you get your chores done?? We are two peas in a pod. It takes me days to get motivated to do something that is only gonna take me a few hours to finish... TracyKS - did you take pics?? who did you meet? what was it all about?? details please!! TracyK - glad you're all settled in. My mom's whole downstairs is already moved. We've only got the two spare rooms and her garage to go. We're gonna do that a little bit slower since none of the stuff she has in there is crucial. Still working on the astros tickets. The dates you gave me were all gone so he's asking our rep at the astros for more... Pamela - HOPE YOU'RE HAVING A FANTASTIC TIME!!!! SO JEALOUS!!! TAKE LOTS OF PICS!!! Denise - any updates on your grandbabies? How's your house coming along?? Suzie - What did they do about your pool? Did they finally install it? How are your toesies?? That was so nice of your neighbor to come do your toenails! Kat - juan did help us move! he's a big strong boy, we can't do it without him, especially since my dad just had surgery. Things aren't weird with him. I'm working on myself separate from him and do you know what the kicker is? NOW he's reacting. Now that I'm doing my own thing and leading my life separately he's taking an interest. All these years I spent just trying to get him to take me into consideration and to pay attention to me and now when I'm ignoring he he reacts. Men! But like I said, right now I'm doing my own thing... Who did I forget??? Anyone?? I'm trying to get this posted before I run to my meeting. don't want to lose this whole big post... I'll catch you later girls!

just a quick hi and bye! we're getting ready for our grand opening for TOMORROW!! i've still got a few errands to run today. love when i leave stuff for the last minute... my weekend was exhausting. we helped my mom pack up and move her entire downstairs. even in the rain. :wink_smile: i think i'm getting sick because this morning i woke up with a tickle in my throat. Also I fell down the stairs Saturday night. it was already around 10pm, we were getting ready to go home and i was tired and i lost my footing on the last two steps. landed hard on my knee. got a huge bruise but it doesn't hurt much. that didn't even get me out of helping on sunday! sunday i went to church then afterwards went over to my mom's again. we were there until almost eleven. Whew! I was exhausted when I went to bed. But she's almost all done now. I'm going to beg off today and go home and get some rest. I'm exhausted! Okay i gotta run now. talk to ya'll later...

Good morning! Yes, dinner last night was wonderful ya'll. I wish ya'll could have been there too. We met up with Josie! She dropped off the board and dropped into the gym, LOL. She looks AMAZING! Like a freakin supermodel. Tall, thin and with blonde hair, and huge blue eyes... hubba hubba... She's an amazing woman with a great personality. Ya'll would love her. Hope she comes back to us (hint hint)... And yes, what Terry said is right. I am feeling alot better. Am dealing with this alot better than what I thought. And I do credit all the support that I've received from you girls as part of the reason that this time I'm going to achieve what I want. Happiness and contentness. That's it. That's all I want. With or without Mr. Lara, LOL. Well our grand opening is scheduled for Tuesday. We've already hit a few bumps and my boss is on me like white on rice. I've got stuff that was supposed to be here already and hasn't arrived. I've been on the phone with a few vendors pleading with them to get us our stuff by Monday at the very latest. My parents are going to start moving this weekend. They've already scheduled a dinner party for next Wednesday! Can you believe it?? I'm like "mom, are you crazy??" Looks like we'll be moving the kitchen stuff and the backyard stuff first. Oh! and my dad has agreed to put in a pool. He said it won't be until next year but that we should have it for next summer. That's awesome!! We've been begging him for a pool for years now, our wish is finally coming through! Have fun in Vegas Tracy!! Good luck! I hope you hit the jackpot in one of the slot machines!! Pammy, you're doing alot of swimming, I'm so jealous! I haven't had time to go to the pool alot. Hopefully 4th of July will be spent in the pool... I'll be back for the rest of my personals... My boss is calling me in for another meeting...