Great2BThin

So how did you keep yourself from going crazy and obsessing over the scale wanting to see that mark?? I love Alaska cruising. But we have gone the last 2 years so I want this to be something different. Guess we will see what's available for a good price when we can go. I'd like to go to Europe or Panama canal. I think I want to go tropical so I can look forward for once to maybe wearing a bathing suit and not look around to see if there is anyone bigger than me at the pool before going.

OOPs I sure didn't mean you Apples when I said bad apple in every group!! Didn't even connect the apples. I am pretty sure I am going to FL but probably not til late Feb. how long will you be there? Looks like Grandma is going to be moving to Colorado but it will be at least 30 days from now and I will be going down to help her pack, etc.

No I haven't, I've been so focused on a cruise. However, that may have taken a back seat for a bit. Looks like my 99 3/4 (100 yrs old on May 1st) will be moving from FL to CO possibly in the next 30 days. I've committed to helping in the move so will be needing to ask for off work for a week to go to FL, etc. So cruise might happen in the fall but maybe early summer. Any ideas??? I know in my head that 100 will hit soon and that I am losing at a great rate. But in my impatience and wanting that magic number so bad it seems to be taking forever. I gotta stay off the scale every day. It's like when I was a little kid and Christmas never seemed to get here quick enough!

94!!!! Woo hoo!!

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Is everyone else still getting their email notifications of replies? Mine stopped for some reasone. :grouphug: Lynn, sorry to hear of your dog. We dealt with that twice in the past 2 years. Not easy and I still miss them even though we have 2 new dogs now. The scale moved this morning. 94 now!! WOOHOO!!

Wow, the nerve of that teacher. You handled it with grace. Unfortunately there are bad apples in every profession. Still am not getting email notifications of new posts. GRRRR I really like that feature and rely on it all the time. Also was having computer issues and DD's BF came and worked for 3 hours on it. It is running much better now. I am so grateful it is Friday. Not liking my early hours! Sleep in tomorrow. It will be really hard going to work next week as DH will be home on vacation. He is going to come up to the rec center when I get off at 830 though to work out with me. Speaking of which, it's so not fair. He started working out and eating less on Monday in an effort to lose about 20 or 25 lbs. He weighed today, he's down 10 lbs!!!!!!!!!!!! MEN!! LOL

I'm still around. Acutally just discovered that I stopped getting email notifications again on new posts and that's how I usually come visit and post. I figured folks couldn't be that quiet so came and checked and here you all are! I did take a nice 2 1/2 hour nap today. I was so tired after yesterday. I'm beginning to have 2nd thoughts on this job, the boss is so so. He's a young kid about my son's age, and well for lack of a better word, very immature. I've had no run ins with him yet but he's frustrating as heck. Rather than deal with one problem employee he's coming down on everyone and ends everything with 'grounds for termination' when the reality is everyone there is doing a great job but this one gal. And he reacts and blows up so quickly only to forget 10 min later what he said. Then wonders why you are doing what you are doing after telling you to do something 10 min before. But I will stick with it til spring at least. Unless something better comes along before then. No, Janet, no shopping today. LOL Am trying to behave and wait til spring. But am sure those clothes will be out soon, I saw swimsuits in Target the other day.

At everyone of my fills (and there's been many) they have drawn out all the fluid and then put it back in with the new. I think that is pretty common to check for leaks. I never feel the liquid going in but I feel it coming out and it's a weird sensation. Many folks I've read on here have done the 5 day pouch test so it must work. they usually seem pleased. Good luck with it! Cathy, glad the date went welland you had no PB's. Sounds like the guy knows what a great gal you are if he has called twice already. Still no more losses for me this week, obviously my rapid rate of losing is slowing down. Or maybe it just seems that way as I want to hit that 100 pound mark so bad. now that it's less than 10 I am very impatient and want it now! Though the piece of cake I ate last night isn't going to help me. Not sure why I did that as I usually don't: a) like chocolate and :thumbs_up: like cake. But htis was pretty dang good if I do say so myself (I baked it for a Bible study group last night). Now I have part of a left over cake on the counter. Will ask DH to either take it to work, eat it or I will dispose of it.

JoAnn, that is also my 'full' sign. that doesn't mean that I don't think I am still hungry or wanting to eat more. But if I do when I have that feeling, I'm in trouble! It took me a while to get used to that full feeling vs what a full feeling used to feel like (not that I ever got one much). Hope that's all it is. Congrats on the inches. I've noticed many times that my smallest months pounds lost wise are some of the biggest months as far as inches lost are. I hope that's true about mark downs on spring stuff. Well today was super busy. I was out the door at 5am for work and not home til 4pm as I went to the hospital to volunteer. Did lots of file cleaning and organizing. The inspectors are coming soon to the hospital to recertify their Center of Excellence rating. Now tonight a group of folks are coming over as we have a small group from our church that meets in our home on Wed nights. Wed. are a very busy and tiring day for me. Still no more movement on the scale but that's okay, 100 will come sooner or later. It's just that I am so antsy now that it is 7 lbs away.

Mimi, I will definitely post what I find out, but do know all docs are different as well as all bodies. apples, I like the idea about the Fiber One cereal. I knew they ahd bars out but they are quite full of calories. I thought of looking for Kashi as well. This might be a good solution for me as I am always wanting a snack this time of afternoon.

Is it the same Red Robin off of Arapahoe Rd and I25?? Not sure I can make it but would love to see everyone again.

Katydid, could you need an unfill? Sounds dangerous. I am not sure what a hernia feels like however, I had a hiatal hernia that my surgeon repaired when banding me and I didn't even know it was there. Denise, fiber remains an issue for me. I do the Fiber Choice tablets but the label says no more than 4 a day which is 8 grams of fiber in the day. Since Charlene mentioned the Miralax (laxative though not fiber) I've been using that daily and feel so much better. I feel like a normal person in that regard. Her dr. said it was okay to use daily. The label says no more than 2 weeks so I plan to ask tomorrow while I am at the hospital volunteering. I'd hate to have to give it up it's been that much of a lifesaver to me.

Allie, sorry to hear of the pay cut, here's hoping that bonus more than makes up for it. Teach, so are you staying downtown? Where's the hotel at?? I'm not familiar with the Hyatt Regency. Maybe it's not downtown???

Janet, hope you are feeling less blue and back in the pink of things. We miss you when you are gone. Pretty uneventful day today, unless you call 4 new tires on my car excitement. Sure would've liked to have spent that $400 on something fun!:tongue2:

YEA!!! Hope you are feeling better.

Also, I know when I posted my post and at first inadvertantly left off Mair, I didn't notice that there was another page, I just copied at the bottom of the page and when my post posted I noticed it was a new page and there were posts above me. I edited to add her back in. So be sure you are on the current page so you don't do what I did. But in many of these challenges in the past, especially when it's a new one, lots of new folks join and don't realize about copying the most recent. Hopefully it will happen less and less as the challenge goes on.

Hey Teach, well our weather changes rapidly. They are predicting 60's on Thurs. and snow on Friday. Thurs is the 'warm before the storm'. But I don't think they are predicting a lot of snow as they temp is still supposed to be in the 40's on Friday. Is the Hyatt downtown Denver? I'm not sure where the Hyatt is. I am up north and very near DIA (the airport). Will you have free time? I don't drive downtown, especially at night. Let me know your schedule and where you will be at, maybe we can arrange something. If not, enjoy our beautiful city.

WOOHOO!! Congrats Orea!!!

Me too!! I have lost about 2 since the New Year for a total of 92.7!!! YAHOO!!! I am starting to get antsy aobut hitting the big 1-0-0!!!

OMG, Jodi, when you readded yourself after having been dropped twice, you gave my current weight somehow as 268 instead of 212.7 and my goal weight of 255.. :scared2::cool2: instead of 205. I refuse to gain 50 lbs! :wink_smile::thumbup::tt2: Not sure how that happened or if anyone else's stats got messed up with the updates and folks not copying the latest post. Everyone might want to double check. Mine is fixed as of this post (unless of course someone else is posting at the same time). Good scare though and I got a kick out of it. NAME----------------------START-------------CURRENT-------------GOAL-------------TO GO 1000words..........220............218............210...........8 annjones...........277............277............267..........10 Barb12590..........185............185............175..........10 Bonnielass.........168............166............159...........7 Brandy.............198............198............190...........8 crzytchr...........250............246............240...........6 CubsGirl...........150............150............140..........10 Cutiew/booty.......224............224............212..........12 Imgoingdown........239............199............189..........10 janesays...........230............230............215..........15 Jodi_620...........160............160............148..........14 karebare714........283............277............265..........18 kikival315.........219............219............210...........9 LauraP.............170............170............155..........15 lcwils01...........227............225............213..........12 Leslie2lose........229............223.5..........219.........5.5 LilMissDiva........253............244.0..........239...........5 Long2BThin.........216............212.7..........205...........7.7 Loveislovely.......223............260............250...........6 ltgordon...........264............264............250..........14 Mair...............231............231............220..........11 Mamanmidwife.......264............264............250..........14 misskitty84........313............263............243..........20 SanDiegoPhotog.....263............191............179..........12<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p> Sistergrl25........359............289............264..........25 Tabithan...........246............246............236..........10 Terilynn112........224............224............200..........24 Tuger..............192............192............185...........7 twinmommie.........207............207............193..........14 wowox7.............173............171............163...........8

This is kindda exciting. I have lost 90 lbs so far and should reach my ulitmate goal this year. I am hoping by June which is my surgery anniversary and then maintain it. Last year at this time, I never could've imagined I'd be reaching my goal this year! I put my start weight at what it was on Jan. 1st. Name_________StartWeight___CurrentWeight______Goal________ToGo *****<?xml:namespace prefix = v /><v:shapetype id=_x0000_t75 coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" filled="f" stroked="f" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe">:cool2:</v:shapetype>************************:tt2:*********:thumbup:****** *** Brandy.............198............198...........???...........? Ebonie.............307............307...........200...........107 Lindar172..........246............246...........150...........96 Long2BThin.........216............212...........169...........43 lotzasunshine......270............270...........180...........90 Loveislovely.......216............216...........175...........41 vzghj3.............202............202...........150...........52

OUCH on the kidney stones. I hope you get relief soon, I hear they are quite painful. I was going to say to drink more but I see in another thread you said that isn't it. Hope it is passed before you leave on vacation. Are you driving or flying?? Am busy putting the last of the Christmas away. I love putting it up but hate taking it down. Part of it is, I don't want to admit it's over. It's my favorite part of the year and I find it depressing when it's over, but I don't get as down as I used to. I am learning to appreciate it more while it's here and look forward to seeing the stuff again in a year. We used to play this guessing game when we took the stuff down during the years we moved so much. We'd ask, where will we be when we see this stuff again??? Hopefully it will still be Denver next year. I don't want to move again. At least not out of Colorado.

Welcome Dixie! I track my foods on www.mydailyplate.com and I look at both protein and calories, try to think protein first.