Car

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I'm into zephyrs. I like hearing the sheets knocking against the masts of sailboats while they are berthed. I like the wind during rain storms, while I'm safe inside. BUT 100 mph winds (without other weather) are just a little over the top. It is quite usual for us to have breezes that go from 40 - 125 mphs. These winds snap the tops off of trees, blow in windows and shake even 1 story houses. We are required to have hurricane clips on our roofs, if that gives you a feeling for what our winds are like. My skin crawls even thinking about them. You are a better woman than I.

Hi Priscilla, To update your weight tracking graphic, put your mouse over the image and click or double click. That should take you directly into the application. Then, all you'll need is your old password. Good luck.

Hey Steph, You're my mentor! Where you go, I go! Can we work on dropping those final pounds together? How about a morning support call or email? There's always Web cam...oooh, bad idea. We seem to have the exact same challenges. :laugh:

I would love to see a study on the effects of winds on mood. I usually feel like someone is running their nails down a slate blackboard (you know, one of those things in a class room which used chalk? -- tongue firmly planted in cheek)

Hi Everyone, This afternoon is my backing-off-a-little-on-the-fill appointment with my surgeon. I'm just going to have itsy bits removed until I'm not PBing all the time. Without a fairly heavy duty band constriction I'm lost and I know it. Did get up the courage to weigh myself this morning and I'm 0.8 lbs from goal of 140. Did I just jinx myself? Steph - I'll send my brittanys out there to find that pig ear. Neither rain, nor snow, nor blah blah..could keep my dogs from a pig ear. Want to come down next weekend and do some pheasant hunting over dogs? The pups are primed and ready to go. As to stinker spouses, I am of the opinion that men, on the whole, are extremely self centered prepubecent (sp?) boys (men are still from Mars). I love my husband, but he can be the biggest baby sometimes. I can just imagine what he would really like to say e.g when the sleeve of my heavy winter coat is touching his arm when we are driving...."You're touching me. Mommy she's touching me. Make her stop!"....or "I'll do it if I want. Screw your opinion!" Ladies, How about a chorus of "Eat rocks and die"! As to self inflicted (?) fills, I'm sure that medical grade saline can't be all that difficult to get hold of. If all else fails, we can use the sterile saline packaged up for eye use. Although the idea of using gin (with tonic and lime of course) or another suitable substitute for fills would be a gas, I don't think that I would get the optimum benefits of the solution. Now, maybe if I imbibed one prior to the fill..... I think we have to work on the sterilization of the needles, though. Bet we could get disposibles from a vet supply house. Northerners - It is supposed to be in the 50s today and tomorrow, but unfortunately that always seems to come with the winds. I'll take cold over wind any time. Can we say "wind turbines"? Desert Dwellers - This is certainly your best time of year. If I remember correctly, you even have flowers blooming outside. What a novel concept. Well, work calls. Only 3 more hours until the de-fill. Later....:laugh:

Hi Everyone!!! Soooo, I've gone off on vacation for 3 weeks and all of you guys have gone wild. Hummm! I went through the holidays in the most interesting mode, an overly tight band. Wow, 4 weeks of hell. Having a teeny bit of saline removed tomorrow, yippie! Have been having problems keeping down anything solid since a little after x-mas. And, of course now I'm so tender that I can't stand much of anything that is not milk based (no fruit included). Thank goodness I have access to my protein shake ingredients again. Going to restaurants has lately included checking for the rest room as soon as I enter. So rough that I even got a sore throat from the PBing. With my luck, probably put on weight while not being able to eat anything. Will work up the courage to get on the scale tomorrow before going to work. The National Western Stockshow is in town which means "stockshow weather"...temps below 0 F. Heavy snow today and heavy winds and lower temps expected again tomorrow. Lost a bunch of tree to wind while we were gone. Oh well, got to consider it just nature's way of thinning. Everyone keep your chin up and well wrapped in scarves. You northerners be especially careful. Remember that we don't have as much insulation as last year. xxxo Car Ladies, the new photos are fabs.

Touche!! This is the first time that I'm not afraid of maintenance. I was a WW mavin. I would carry around with me food diaries so that I could count servings. Big pages, small pages, colored pages. Then I switched to the WW electronic calculator. Anything to keep myself interested. Now, I'm relying on my body to tell me correct portion size and my conscious to keep my nutrition in line. Hey, where's Steph?

So, do I get to wax philosophical? (I'll stay away from my Zen side.) I've been there, done that. Having to expend energy 5 days a week in a job you hate just drains you. Although it's really hard, try to remind yourself what is truly important in your life and concentrate your energies there...your health, your family, the things you love. The rest, the fighting kids, the crappie weather is just static. I wish you the best of luck. Car:thumbs_up:

Hi Karri, Thanks for the Wii info. I think the competive thing come with the name Karri/Carrie. I can come across as all lovey-dovey, but scratch the surface and you'll find that I would love to rip your heart out to win. I used to fence (i.e. as in swords) with my first husband and instead of doing any of the acceptable moves, he would stand there and just circle his foil. I would get SOOOOO MAD I would attack for blood!! The instructor finally gave me the name of The Wild Cat (actually, when my name is mispronounced in Hebrew it means "wild thing"). I guess I went for my Ph.D as a sneaky way to compete with my co-workers. Didn't get me anywhere. I spent so many years counting calories, carbs, servings.......I burned out. I now just TRY to make sure that I'm eating nutritionally. Different strokes! Stay strong.

Kari, I've been holding off on investing on a Wii. Are you playing tennis or ???? Am REALLY interested on your feedback. I'm not interested in game playing but participation in sports. Seems to be the best way for me to exercise. Thanks.

Karrie, Didn't we decide that we were far too young to be grandmas? At 58 we're just at the pinnacle of middle age! Car

Thanks. Is that a happy snow dance you are doing? It was 7 degrees F at our house yesterday AM. Went to work in full length knit skirt with thigh length socks and knee high boots. Of course, 2 sweaters on the top. Seems that I get a lot colder now that I'm not carrying insulation around with me. Stay warm and dry.

Thanks! I'm not as talented as your GS, but my work requires that I have multiple security packages running at once. There ain't no such thing as multi-tasking, but multi-computering can be interesting. Good way to foul things up. Later

Hi Karrie, Do we do that because we can, and we deserve it and if I want to take 3 and leave 2 then I will and my dogs can have the rest d*&^%n it!! I don't ever remember being told to clean my plate, but to me food seemed to be a gift and to not finish it was to reject the giver. I'm sure a shrink could have a field day with that. Along that same line, I broke down and got some wasabi peas from my bosses drawers. Peas 1 -3 tasted good. It's been downhill on 4 -? I'm putting them away. Yuck. Burp! :wink_smile:

Hi Group, I seem to have spent this weekend doing techie things in preparation for our 3 weeks in France. I think that I have it all sorted out now. I really hate working on this type of garbage that has to do with multimedia. Certain site don't like it when they see that I'm sitting on a computer in France. Sigh... Anyway, I'm down to 144.4 lbs. Woopie!!! Steph, Thanks for reminding me that I have to go shopping for a black hoodie tomorrow for the mother I selected from our "angel tree" at work. I think that I'll throw in a few extra goodies that hit me as fun when I go shopping tomorrow. Better do that early as it is supposed to snow AGAIN!! How is the snacking doing? I have removed myself from the source by working upstairs, plus DH is finishing up installing French doors in place of our slider in the living room before the weather hits. It currently it is a bit chilly down there. Have one computer on my lap and another by my side streaming a video. What is wrong with this picture? Well, think I'll limit the computers to 1 by signing off this one. Good night everyone.

Hi Karri, And then the kicker of the > 1 is that the others don't taste any better and make you feel overstuffed. It's the ability to take more than 1 that seems to be the cause of the temptation. Maybe I just need to take the extra then feed it to my dogs. Bad thought, my DH and I decided last night that our 2 younger dogs need to slim down, so maybe I had better stop feeding them my food overflows. Ain't our minds great contraptions?

Hi Stephanie, Hey, remember I had the same problem a few weeks ago. That's why I went with a fill....life was just too good! It's still a fight to stay away from the carbs and they go down sooooo good. And the snacking seems to be my Waterloo. At least I can limit that to wasabi peas, but I've got to get out of that stinkn' habit. :cursing: It's only been a problem for the past few months. Not so much now with the tightened band. Maybe I should take the peas down to my bosses treat area?? Humm... Anyway, we're in this together. I think I'll get my butt in gear and get those peas out of my reach. Keep me informed. Car

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Wow, ladies. Things are pretty bad when I am the first to post for the day. Are you all getting ready for Thanksgiving?...That's no excuse for our Canadian member! Yoo, whooooo. Car

Cand- Of course everyone knew that you were doing a rendition of the Beatles birthday tune..."da da da da da" gave it away. Feeling MUCH better today. Food with the Lipitor fixed the problem. For those of you out there who cannot throw their uncooperative pets out into snow drifts, sand dunes should make acceptable substitutes. (Good thing that brittanys have their dew claws removed, because I would spend a awful lot of time wrapped around our 3 dogs') Steph, How is it hanging? Might have snow for Thanksgiving. Stay strong.

HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY Phyl!!!!!!:thumbup:

And dehydration is an infamous problem for those of us in the Rocky Mountain West. We forget that we are actually in a semi-arid area and don't get enough fluids. Often, people here mistake dehydration for altitude sickness. Stay hydrated. Stay Strong. Car

Hi Guys, Feeling yucky today. When I had the fill a week ago Thursday, it really messed with me taking my meds in the PM. If I take my lipitor as usual before going to bed it wakes me up at about 2:00 AM with a wicked case of acid-reflux. If I take it during the AM, which I did today, I'm sick all day long. Talked to the pharm. and she suggested taking the med. with food. Guess I'll try that tomorrow. Too yucky to go to yoga. Just want to sleep. Really bad thing to do at work. Sipping on my peach smoothie. Can't handle the beautiful piece of wild salmon I have set aside for lunch. Steph, what did the MD say? My problems are minor. We are all worrying about you. Snow ladies....maybe we should have our own get together and show the other ladies how tough we really are? Can we say "snow shoes"? We just got a new Branson tractor to keep our driveway (1/4 mile long) open. With our 6' wide snow blower on the PTO, DH should have an easier time getting us out to the county road. Of course, there are always the times when he is travelling. My x-country skis have never failed me (except in the 7' snow fall we got about 3 yrs ago). Better go so I can rest my head on a nice warm keyboard. Hopefully, my boss won't notice. Car Car

What did you do to those POOR puppies? Beat them? Throw them out in a snow drift? Pooor thinggggs!