Ms Jen

That's Great Judy! YOU GO GIRL!!! Laura, Good for you!!

Thanks Tracy for posting the pictures for me. :clap2: I appreciate everyone's compliments. I hate to take pictures since I have gained so much weight, but I'm on the right track now. I went to a convention today and saw many of my friends who haven't seen me in quite awhile and most were suprised and commented on how great I looked. I see the difference with my before picture and I'm wearing smaller clothes but my brain hasn't caught up with my body yet. My girlfriend complained that I'm obsessing. Everytime we talk I'm either on my way to, or at the gym or on my way home from the gym. She is my #1 supporter in my weightloss journey and begged me to take a day off from the gym. ...But she doesn't know the 'Nazi'.

Well, I guess you all have figured out that I don't know how to add my before and after picture. But I did figure out had to put one on my signature.

TracyinKS, I just sent you a private e mail.

Hey Jennifer, I see you're on line. what's up???

For all you Idol fans, Mandesa (sp?) has a book out where she talks about her life & food additions and her CD has been released. (Heard it on the radio this am where they were interviewing her. She's a bright young lady, a graduate from Fisk University.

Judy, sorry to hear about your spill. Glad you had your helmet on. Maybe you should check it out to make sure that you didn't crack it (sometimes they're like a air-bag). We surely don't want your band to be for naught! Have a good night.

Oh, oh,oh. I got this one! Saw the answer on The Tyra Banks Show yesterday as I was doing the tread mill at the gym. "By all means wear your swim suit! You have nothing to be ashame of. You will be surounded by people who both love and admire you, and you may inspire others to feel more comfortable with themselves whom you may not know that have issues about their selves."

Terry, as one of my friends says; You're just wrong sick!

I forgot to give you the details about the aniversary party I went to on Sunday. Everyone was asked to wear casual white. I got there real late because I had to work and the store stayed open and extra hour becauase of the tax-free back to school weekend. Anyway, It was going full swing. They had every kind of food one could think of. AND 'CAKE', chocolate cake, coconut cake, pound cake, white cake, carrot cake... bananna pudding. You name it, they had it!!! I won't tell you all about the wonderful dishes they had (too much food porn). I saved my calories and carbs for the day and had cake, and yes I did, I had 2 pieces and they were wonderful. :hungry: There was a DJ from one of the local radio stations and the music was jammin'. And I danced, danced and danced some more. Even showed the young ones how the old folks do it!!! We did the electirc slide, jungle slide, Cuban slide and all the old school dances. We danced the young ones right off the dance floor. I danced for and hour easy! It may be a big deal for some, but I hardly ever dance more than once or twice when I'm out, but with my weight lost I actually felt cute, light and not out of breath.

Yes the library has the ABs Diet but they had to order it for me. I'll have it on Friday(?).

Thanks "Band Buddy" that web site was interesting. I think I'll try to find that book at the library when I go today.

Good afternoon all. I'm having a great day!!! I went to a party yesterday evening. There were about 100 people there and I know about 80% of them. Many have not seen me for a while and all were commenting on how good I look. It really made me feel good about myself. I even felt cute! And at work earlier in the day, one of the police officers that does security at the store walked by my office, smiled at me and called me "sweetie," I blushed. Latger on during the day he stopped and we talked for a while, asked if I had cut my hair again (I cut my hair in April so that when I exercise I can wash it and go, so it is very short and curly afro about 1/2 inch long) THEN he said "you sure are pretty." NOw that just made my day. No one but a older lady I know and my mom has said that to me in years. It just made my day, no, my week. Someone thinks I pretty! Gotta shower and get ready for work. TTFN

Good morning! No time to read post. Went to gym this am now I'm off to showerand to work. (Have to be ther by 10:30 and its 9:50) TTFN

Tried to correct my last post. Should read I'm not computer literate.

I did see that!! You should know that this old lady is computer literate and I'm going to have a friend take my before and now picture and upload it soon. Just have to tie one of them down to get it done. I love those shows too!!

Ok St Louis Violets I guess we'll me next to meet. We'll be a cheap group we can share an entree and a dessert. :hungry: I'll be the one looking like Star Jones' before picture less 100 #'s and with less hair. (I cut it all off pre-surgery so I could simply wash and go after after my workouts. )

Now that you all have seen each other, I guess you'll be meeting up soon!?!

Good morning everyone! I'm down 3#'s this morning. While I was updating my ticker, I went to the history and noticed a trend. I only show a weightloss at the beginning and end of each month with nothing inbetween. Maybe we should all check the history of our weightloss and see if there is a pattern to our losses then if so we can stay off the scale and not torture ourselves the rest of the time. :frusty:

Thanks!!! everyone!!! Terry, my scale has never been my friend. Just like a dope dealer isn't a druggie's friend but we both keep going back. :funscale:

I'm on fire this month! I have completed 23/20 exercise sessions and walked over 70 miles. By Tuesday I hope to be at 75 miles!:flame: I added weight training to my program so I expect not to loose much in pounds but it will more that make up my lost in inches an din the long run the pounds will just drop off (I hope).

:hail::hail::hail: Yeah Kat:hail::hail::hail: :clap2::clap2::clap2::clap2:Way to go!:clap2::clap2::clap2::clap2: :rockon::rockon::rockon:You rock girl:rockon::rockon::rockon:

Denise it's on page 344 about the middle of the page.

Great picture!!!!

Forgot to tell my Violet's, that I wenT to my primary dr and he took me off of all my meds but 3. I was on 12. I'm sure my insurance will be happy. The cost for them was well over $1,500 a month and my cost went way down too. I think I'll set the saved money aside and save for a trip or something. :clap2: Have a good evening!