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Charlene - I understand the struggles - I have my own - My pants are fitting just a tad snugger - so you know what I am going to do... Tomorrow is mex food day - they deliver to the office $6 for 1 c Beans 1 cup rice and 2 enchilladas - now I can't eat it all (well the day it was relleno I did I ate the whole relleno 1/4 c beans and 1/4 rice) Well tomorrow I am going to skip the mexican food and stick with my spinach/tuna salad - and I am going to the gym tomorrow night (Thrus & Fridays are my days off) I keep thinking I need a tweak - but really - I need to be more aware of what I am eating it is so so easy to slip back into bad eating habits - I can't eat all the food but the food I am eating has more calories 500 for the mex food than my salad 240 cal- I am Going to lunch w/gf on friday - but we will go have salad. Yes Phyl we know you aren't as early riser as I am - but you are up an about by 9 when you are here isn't that when your Water arobics starts... Ok why are you going to use your scooter instead of walking - is it a long block !!! I was wondering where you were - hugs on the gyno issues... Laura K and you inspire me to be more aware of what I am doiing - Like I have said before - I get just as much from you all as you do from me... But GF I am a BIG BIG Beliver in a food diary - I weighed and measured all my food for the 1st few months and I kept my food diary till I reached my goal weight... Ok gang I am going to go eat my dinner - Talk to you all in the morning hugs J

Delos - OMG you know I have 50+ eyes - but you lost 2 pple WTG !!!

LOVE LOVE LOVE IT YOU LOOK SO LOVELY Well if you were here - I have the bottle of liquid (why don't you ask for that instead of pills - it will work faster) plus I have pills.. Well girl I see you found it... I was at the gym .... Glad to have you back and your DD too !!! I love your signature !!!! Doing good - when you want a treat look at yourself in that BEAUTIFUL DRESS !!! Tomorrow is Mex food lunch day - but I think I am passing this week ( we have these guys who make the food and bring it to the office - $6 for enchillada rice and Beans and some great hot sauce - i don't eat it all but still it's not about how much you are eating but what you eat) and I am going to hit the gym on my day off and maybe friday too.. I haven't gotten on the scales but my pants are feeling a little snug.. I think I need a tweak - but in all reality - I need to move more and eat less..

Hey there Linda - Glad you popped in - Teeth are ok - It was an impluse thing - I am still trying to get use to them - it's only been a week and I had that gap for 48 yrs.. Had teeth cleaned today - am feeling really bloated - might have something to do with the feta cheese - then watermelon w/salt this afternoon - I haven't gotten on the scales - tomorrow - but I did go to the gym last night and leave in just a few for arms tonight.. I haven't heard from Karri - and haven't seen her on FB - I saw that Steph posted there today - I will email Karri and see whats going on - I think her ankle is pretty messed up - she talked about an injury prior to the walk but never said what it was - so I am taking it - it was her ankle and the walk didn't help - you know our Karri - can't keep her down even when she should (yes darling I know that you can read this - so I am not talking bad about you lol) Well it's time to head out the door - cbl Hugs & Love J

Congrats on the 113 - but sounds like you may have over did it a tad... Call the doctor yourself and tell them to you need an immediate refill.. Hell 4 oz of wine isn't going to hurt - but I don't think you should listen to me I am a child of the 70's we mixed drugs and alcohal all the time :tt1:)...

Sitting here eating watermelon and salt - thinking of Apples - aren't you back from the lake .. Linda we haven't heard from you in a while Great & Charlene ???? Joann - Korea - can't get to LBT??? Well back to work :0)

Just a quick ck in - Candice I guess only you and me can ck from work - Phyl's out climbing mountains ...

Cheri - Hugs GF - OMW this is the 1st time I have seen you be down - you usually are so up !!! But we all understand - we all have this things (what if's) and just life that brings us down - I think we look at our age and think - isn't it suppose to be easier by now.. Like you said - it's never easy no matter what age we are.. Like you said you had some cheetos but nothing like before and that in it's self is great - hell I know we all freak when we turn to food - but heck the skinny pple turn to food to when they are upset - the diff is they don't do it every day - we no longer to it every day either - so a once in a while (long while :sad:) food pity party is ok Hugs on the arthritist - I am lucky that I don't have any major physical issues - I hyper extend my knee leg every now and then - have some minor lower back issues - but nothing that stops me from exercising.. Hugs - Hope today is better... Meredith - you go girl with your exercise !!!! Ya I don't think I would like locker room showers much either - but sometimes we gotta do it... Julie WTG to recomitt to your band - yep alot of pple find that the 5 day pouch test gets them back on track - I think that getting off the carbs helps too - after 3 days of high protein we don't crave the sugar/carbs like we do when we are eating them.. Gitrdone - Ya I had fun and it was worth it - and I don't think I made too big of an A$$ out of myself :0) I wish I could exercise in the morning - if I were retired I would go to the gym at least 5 days a week - around 7-8 a.m - I have the energy then and am least likely to talk myself out of it in the mornings..

Karla - the whole thing about teaching and doing so much work on your own - would be a killer for me - I sorta remember - you talked about changing carreers when you 1st joined. Well I sorta plan out my time - come home 4:15 gym till 5:30 or 6 depending on if it's a training day or not - come home - computer for hour or 2 - inbetween cook and feed animals - and pay bills on the 1st of the month - Off computer between 8-9 tv for an hour - bed - up at 5 and repeat. So for you - exercise 3-4 times a week right after work - 1 hr - then 1 hr for grading - then hopefully time for us :0) bed and start over - get up sat morning - do your exercise right away - then allot 2 hrs for school crap.. then the rest of the day is yours.. What I meant about the exercise - is I don't think I would want to get all sweaty on like a 1st date kind of thing.. Hey Marcy !! Karri has had a TT but you don't know her - we adopted her - she's the only one who has had TT - She had a great doc in Oregon but she was at goal - She lost 105+ then got tt - going for breast and upper tummy this Dec Are you going to be able to find a doc to do a TT with losing 50 lbs. Why are you not trying to lose any more??? Karla OMG I can't beleive your insurance cost you so much - My dental is like 60 cents a month for me - my employer pays $15 - Delta Dental - my medical is $96 a month my employer pays 485 - and we are a small group.. Hope open house goes smoothly - You had my lmao on Phyl hiking mountains !!!! You are too funny... Good Morning Gang... Not much to report since last night - I have dentist this morning at 11 - cleaning - they called last night and asked if I needed the gas - I said - nope - I only need gas when they bring out the drill.. Well best get my butt in gear - CBL

Karla - I don't think I would go on an exercise date - uhg and I didn't take it the other way - my mind isn't in the gutter :0) Ok - you need to slow down and find your groove... When you cook dinner - make enought for lunch the next day - and then all you have to do it grab it in the morning... School crap - well I can't help with that - it sounds like you teachers have too much to do on your own time.. Plan your menu for the week - for me it's always been pretty easy - I would make a one pot wonder for lunch for the week - and would eat that all week - and I eat the same dinner most nights fish rice veggies - like tonite - I cut the filet in half - one for tonite the other for tomorrow - I made enought rice so all I will have to cook tomorrow night is veggies.. Just keep eating healthy and exercising the weight will come off - you just need to find your groove and you haven't found it yet - how did you manage last year :0)... OH ya - remember you are suppose to ck into places we could stay next July in your neck of the woods - I would like to see your area. I liked Kari's idea of coming this way next year - but July is too hot for all you cold blooded pple :0) and with our Teachers it's hard to schedule easter break together So how about Phyl's area Washington !!! it would be close enough for Karri to come and I think cool enought for the rest of you.. Karri where are you and Steph... ok my dinners done - so I am saying good nite cb in the morning - sweet dreams and Phyl you are going to be out walking me within a month :0) ..

OMG PHYL CONGRATULATIONS CHICKIE !!! WTG !!! You deserved that extra cosmo !!!

Melissa - the weekends are my hardest time - I tire and get out of the house - if I don't I have to be very very careful - boredom is a BIG BIG food trigger for me.. I am lucky I would say my band is the same 24/7 - stress and exercise will make me tight - but other than that - I am not that tight - and sometimes I think I could use a tweak like maybe .1 but again I think I need to make better food choices - I may have a mexican lunch once a week - and I really can't eat that much but it's high in calories.. I'm not always good on my water and rarely get 64 oz in - I am close - Those fiber one bars are very good - 140 to 150 cal - and I don't find them all that filling - but I will have them for bf sometimes - like you I eat at work EXCERCISE GF - I think that is what you need and to be a little more careful with your weekends.. Julie - Yep I think DH's main purpose in life is to take out the trash - and deal with car problems and put gas in the car too - Those are about the only thing I miss about my DH Eva - A few of my #7's quilt - it's beautiful but I don't have the patience for it - I don't think - too much measuring and being exact !!! Have fun w/you sister - I talked to mine today -- it was so so.. I need to go fix dinner - so won't get into the details - but it was a bad one - but still didn't solve the problems but again I don't think they will ever be solved... Ok gang I gotta go put my fish in the oven - I'm hungry it's 7:30... cbl...

Karla - You better listen to us !!!! Guess you didn't expect all this when you joined the Lucky #7's did you !!! OMG you are one of us - if feels like you have been with us from the start !!! Ok take a picture of the outfit (gosh haven't you guy's learned - that' this is what we do since we can't come see it - remember my fashion show for my commercial) - I think I might go gray stockings and pewter shoes or a very sheer black stocking and pewter shoe or black shoes - if you have open toe make sure you have the kind of stockings that don't have the toe guard thingie.. Glad that you found a outfit that make you feel good !!!! I know how important that is.. What were you made at Peter about - all the plans he made to play music and not spend the weekends camping... Ok gang - 2 things happened today - when I got home from the gym (3 miles 382 cal burned) the phone was ringing when I came in - couldn't find a phone (buried in Andrews room as usual) well the recorder comes on it's my Sister... Call be back if you want - well we have a little problem her son needs to move out of the house as they are getting ready to turn everything over to the charities.. Well Marilyn told attorney last week when he told her this let Janet take care of it - Ya right it's her son and he always knew he was there temporarily - well attorney said he would call - well he tells me today that nephew is causing a stink... Told him to call Marilyn and tell her - that I wasn't going to be the bad guy - I am done being the bad guy So I call her back and she says what are we going to do - I told her that he always knew this was a short term arrangement and that it was her son - she said she tried to talk to him - but wouldn't say what she said or what he said - I told her I am tired of being the bad guy to all of them - and that I didn't want to discuss it with him - cuz all it was going to do was make me be the bad guy again - I told her I wanted this all done cuz I am so over it... Well we all know I am the bad guy cuz I didn't burn the will - even if I had - the estate still would not have gone to him (nephew) it would have went to me - her and my other 2 nephews' - They just don't understand that you can't say I want it to go to someone = you gotta put it in writing - and Michael never told me he wanted his estate to go to her son - so it's just hearsay anyway.. So I guess we will have to hire another attorney to evict him - I told her it shouldn't come to that.. uhg !!!! Then I put the phone on the charger and I see another message - it's my Aunt Dot's stepson - her cancer is back (well I don't know which one - pancreatic or breast) she's in the hospital should get out and go to the nursing home that's at her assisted living place.. Now I am really feeling jinx about putting pictures in albums... So that's my evening so far - it's 7:09 now !!! Oh gotta tell you about my great lunch - 3 oz can of tuna - fresh spinach - Mediterranean feta cheese - yogurt ranch dressing - I forgot my onion - but oh my it was good that Mediterranean feta cheese is soo tasty... Bf was yogurt & that Cereal - it's 190 cal for 3/4 cup but I used maybe 1/3 of a cup it stayed crunchy - and has 15 grms pt (well for the 3/4 of a cup) but anyway - I don't really count Protein anymore - I just try and eat healthy.. Well, I am going to start my fish ... cbl - O

Sharon - Yep laundry is so much fun - I am going to need to do a load tonite.. Snacks - I save mine for nites - it's usually popcorn - sf pudding - even a bite or 2 of chicken - I always have a rostiser (sp) chicken in my fridge - If I am starving I will have a bite or 2 of chicken - and I did have some Protein snacks I got from bariatic choice - they look like cheero's but they are like cheese puffs sour cream & chive - 130 cal and 12 or 15 grms of pt.. I need to order some more I liked them - I had some taco ones from them too - they were ok- also you get 24 chips (bite size tostedos) for like 140 cal - I will have those on the weekend with some salsa... Bariatric Choice also has these great Cookies - Peanut Butter & choc - 150 cal 12 or 15 grms pt and they are big and filling - I have both and I ususally eat them before a work out.. Hows your daughter doing - How are you adjusting to being the grandma :0) Melissa I ate 800 cal one day then next day 1000 then next day 900 then maybe 1100 one day then 1200 on day - I varied my calories 800 isn't that low - Here's all the food that you can eat 100 to 150 for bf (Egg Beater omellet 60 cal with a little ham 50 cal and a piece of cheese 45) 150 to 200 for lunch (3 oz of tuna 80 cal - 25 for mayo - 2 wasa cracker 60 - lettuce free) 250 to 300 for dinner (4 oz fish 150 - 1/2 c rice 120 - Veggies 50) 100 to 150 for snacks (Popcorn & Pudding) Plus I exercised 4-5 days a week during my weight lost phase.. I am a volume eater still - I want the most food I can get for the least amount of calories - I rather have a salad that has 300 calories than 2 cookies or I rather have 3 bags of snack pack popcorn (well I don't know if I could eat 3 - but know I can eat 2) As you lose weight - it takes less carlories to maintain that weight at 250 it takes 3500 a day to keep that weight - well now my calories are between 1500 - 1900 now to maintain 138-143 and I go to the gym 3-4 days a week - if I didn't go to the gym hell I could only eat 1000 cal a day to maintain my weight..

Laura K - I can eat almost any food - String beef is about the only thing that gives me any problems - I haven't tried a submarine sandwich - too much bread - but I can eat bread - I buy the lite sandwich bread every couple of months and have a sandwich - I don't buy sour dough bread - cuz I would eat it till it was all gone - I can eat shrimp - and when I am out to dinner - I will have bits of a roll and some butter - but really try and stay away from it for the most part - I really am more about nutrition than anything else - bread is empty calories.. Melissa - hugs - I take ducolax and they are tiny and never had a problem - did you take them after you had eaten - I usually alwasy try and take any pills on an empty stomach - so they will go down - Hope you are better today.. Meredith WTG on the Exercise - as you all know I am big on that subject - you gotta do the whole package to get healthy and exercise is key - and also when you do get to maintenance - if you want to eat you gotta exercise... HB is about 100 miles I guess - takes about 2 hrs - So let me know - I may be going to Vegas for my Girls weekend - at the end of January - but we have no def plans.. Hangovers !!! You would think at 54 I would know how to drink by now - but when I am in a party mood - watch out and then the next thing you know - I am too far gone :0)... I was feeling no pain - but not totally messed up.. but came home at just the right time - even though I didn't think so at the time - I wanted to dance some more !!! Eva - Where are you going on your mini vacation... Well gang just cking in - I read last night but it was 8 and I needed to eat and get some tv in before bed... CBL

Good Morning Gang.... Yep Karla - some morning not enough time - some morning ready 1/2 early - I was up at 5 - had my coffee 1/2 hr shower, makeup, hair dressed and ready at 6:25.. Got the kitchen cleaned up - took out the trash and Andrew was ready by 7 so out the door. Ok yep that hr of exercise does change things - we don't think an hour is anything but it is.. Some evenings it doesn't seem like I have any me time.. And I am all about me time. Ok your internet guy - next weekend is fine - The guy at the wedding "Eddie" was all over me - drinks etc - but he just seemed like a drunk (not that I most likely didn't come off that way cuz I was feeling no pain - but that's not an everyday thing for me) but I was here and there and every where - I had fun but wouldn't get caught up with him - didn't show him too much attention - was really flippan - after a while he sorta left me alone.. I just wanted to have fun and fun I did have - I think I know how to do that and not get caught up with anyone person... So - if it doesn't work just say sorry but I'm not ready - You gotta learn to say no and don't ignore the signs of things not feeling just right... Like I said if a great man fell in my lap - I wouldn't say no - but my standards are very high these days - I think I have learned from my past relationships... Well I am feeling like my old self again - I need to learn how to drink better - Once I start watch out.. Especially if I am in the party mode - the old Janet comes out.. Linda - Denise - Candice - Phyl - Karla - Kari - Karri hope you all have a greadt day... CBL

Aren't you funny .... Not !!!! So what are you going to do - have you talked on the phone 1st - I might do that 1st..

Karla I am coming to kick your butt GF !!! If you are on a dating site you are looking - Like Phyl said - BIG chicken !!! I agree - coffee at 1st - and hell aren't you 49 or just 50 - what's 3 fricken years... I had a bf who was 3 yrs younger than me for 7.5 yrs.. You are a beautiful woman - you are smart - you have a lot to offer - You need to think of yourself as a gift to someone - you are special - and if they don't see that - then they can jump in a lake an aren't worth your time - How about Saturday Morning or Afternoon coffee - at your local coffee place.. Phyl - I am glad your friend is doing better - like they say a gay guy is a girls best freind - yep drugie girls are tough Cookies - I am glad his family is with him. You are doing fantastic - I can't wait to see you walking and parking that scooter.. Well back from the gym and just like I knew - once my hour was over I am feeling more like Janet... Linda GF you really gotta try it - I was in a funk today feeling all anxious all day long - well the exercise got rid of that feeling.. Went to Target found some Archer farm Protein ceral 19 grms 3/4 cup 190 calories - I will use about 1/4 cup in my yogurt so won't be that much.. Going to have tuna spinach salad w/medertrrain feta cheese for lunch this week.. Got dinner cooking and dogs fed.. Karla - does this guy live in your town - what town do you live in anyway - all I know is montana - how many pple live in your town..

On my way to the gym - It will help with the yuks that I am having right now - you know that feeling were somethings going to go wrong - or you think it is - I am anxious - well I know once I am done with the gym I will feel better... Laura - yep - sliders no problem - eating out too I think we forget and eat too fast and don't chew. Ok it's time to leave cbl...

Well you only have 12 lbs to go - I see you were lower bmi What are you eating and how much are you eating ie 1 cup 2 cup.. Are you exercising??

Phyl You are doing so great !!! Just waiting for 5 minutes so I can go to the gym- don't want to go but I know that I will feel so much better at the end of the hour - getting those endorphines going will help my mood !!! Linda - That's a good idea for you - I know you don't like exercise - but I will tell you that I go even when I feel blah (like today - feeling very anxious for some reason don't know why) but at the end of the hour I will be feeling normal again.. Maybe it's worth a try... It can't hurt !!!

Melissa - during my weight loss phase 800-1200 calories a day and varied them.. Phyl I need the espresso this morning WTG on your exercise... Laura - I have window's xp - I think I made this disc when I had windows 95... Love your pics of Nelson - he is such a cutie.... Laura K - I think it may be root rot - letting it dry out and see what happens. I'm a day late - but no it shouldn't be a problem Laura K - you did good with throwing them away - I think we all tell our selves those things - on adtkins they are an allowed food - I know that sometimes - I eat something I think I want and it's not as good as I thought it would be. Sharon a small bag really isn't bad - I do popcorn for the crunch factor - I buy the 100 cal snack size - I need to buy and air popcorn machine - I would save me $$$.. Well gang had a hang over yesterday - slept and ate way too many carbs & fat - but it was just one day and I didn't eat at the wedding and never had any cake - so maybe it was a wash between the all the dancing I did.. Well this is just a drive by - I need to get busy and get some work done - I am still a little sluggish today... cbl

Good Morning Gang Hangover yesterday slept and ate... Had a GREAT time at the wedding - Danced Danced Danced - alot pple not recognize me - Had a guy - hanging all over me - but even though I was a bit drunk - I could tell he was a big drunk and not my type - but again - I'm not looking for a relationship - but it was nice having someone (well more than one) guy saying I looked good.. Linda - I agree with you about the pills - today I feel crappy not physically mentally just a icky day.. That happens - I don't feel like being social - so I will stay in my little cube and do my work and hopefully not have to talk to anyone today - some day are like that.. And I find that it usually happens after a day of not getting out - I could become a hermit very easily... I get emails from pple on lbt often.. I don't watch the news except maybe for the weather - just for the reasons you state - it's depressing (and it doesn't matter which side of the fence you are on - it's just as depressing) - life is hard enough with our day to day lives - the news just makes it worse - We can't do anything about it - so I just avoid it... Candice - You know I love that quilt - I love the colors and the pics just don't do it justist (sp) Phyl - You are doing so good !!! Karri - Great on the food.. Karla - Sounds like you had a busy weekend and going to have an even busier week - Well gang I gotta get to work - cbl

Ok Karla - Thanks to you I did 4 miles burned 484 cal this morning - You all keep me motivated !!! That's why I keep coming back and haven't quit posting !!! IMHO those who have dropped off for the most part are the ones who aren't as successfull - not always true - but when they do pop back in ususally they say they haven't done well.. Ok I am off to the shower - gotta go get nails done... I still want to know how Karri hurt her ankle - I sent them a note but havent heard back

Sharon Hugs and Prayer for your DD - I totally understand - my ds started drugs at 15 - quit - went back - quit when back and now is clean for 1 yr 4 months - but every time I see DIL # on caller ID - my heart skips a beat.. And I so get you on being GM - I am to the 2 younger ones - but am Mom to GS an I can't wait til he leaves the nest.. I love him with all my heart - but omg - teenagers !! I don't scrapbook - I am not that creative - I just am putting them in albums - I did it a few years ago - then didn't for a long time - and just down load to computer - that's the problem with digital camera's before you took the film to get developed . But I do love to photoshop my wrinkle - ps without the cost lol... Julie - Thanks for the words of encouragement - Truer worder never said - I do think about it all the time - it's trying at time but we have too.. It' just a fact of life.. Well, I am back from gym 4 miles burned like 480 calories sweating like a pig - now need to shower and go get nails done...