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[Great2BThin 5]

Okay I finally figured out pictures with my new camera and am posting a pic of the dress I got today. Also wanted to show you guys the trees, wreath and pheasant ball ornaments we made from all our pheasant feathers and our tree all decorated 'pheasant'. Hopefully this works. the pic with the Santas in it are Santas we used to make and sell in craft shows.

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[Charlene K 1]

Great.......love,love,love it.........and you look maaaarrrrrvelous darling! I like you Christmas decor too!

[llkb4me 1]

Lori, the dress is beautiful, just as you are.

I love the pheasant feather decorations, you are very good at making them. I love doing craft projects, I have also used pheasant feathers. That was back when I was married & he hunted a lot.

Laura K

[Apples2 19]

Lori...love the ornaments. Are those Santas some your DH carved for you. They are very unique.

Love your dress also. Not the one you planned on buying?

[Apples2 19]

Deb...we cannot control what comes out of others mouths or try to figure out why some ppl say what they do. It's for us to figure out how to either respond or walk away from it and let it go. I am working on that. We all go through the "comments" stage for awhile. It is all getting better for me.

Good going on getting your treadmill up and going again.

[Apples2 19]

Great...forgot to add how wonderful and slim you look in that dress. Looks like you've dropped weight since we met a little over a month ago.

[Great2BThin 5]

Thanks Apples, the dress must be doing it's job as I really haven't lost any weight since I saw you. Maybe 2 lbs. doubt you'd notice that. LOL It is a different dress than I had planned on. And yes DH carved those Santas, we used to sell tons of them. He didn't carve me one this Christmas though. Told him he owes me 2 next year. LOL We carved and sold so many he really hates doing them now. He's much happier making fish and birds. He's even won ribbons for his fish in carving competitions.

Laura, good job on getting the treadmill out!

Arlene,Thanks!!

[IndioGirl55 32]

Great - OMG YOU LOOK MARVELOUS BABY !!!! You know if the 10 doesn't work you can take the 12 and have it altered...

Love the decorations...

Laurak - WTG to rocking the treadmil - do you have it where you can watch tv or listen to music - I bought and Ipod and have it loaded and rockout on the treadmill - mostly fast song some slow - i do higher inclines at a lower speed on the slow songs - but gf I didn't start doing inclines till I lost the weight and needed to up what I was doing to burn the calories - when you weigh less you burn less calories - Where as when I was 250 I would burn like 200 cal in a half hour - now that takes me 1.5 miles to burn 200 cal

Yep Apples & Great - I know I might offend some pple reading this thread - but as we all know I am all about tough band love - the operative word being love -

I really do believe most pple who drop out of lbt - aren't doing well - it's been my sole support system since I began this journey 5/07

And I go and look at the main mentor thread - and see all these pple asking for a mentor (I will invite them to come and join us) - but they don't come here and we are the most looked at and active thread on the mentor thread page..

Go figure..

Well need to go see what's up for dinner

Ya Cheri - 5 minutes consume 1000 calories - here you on that one - that why I buy 1 candy bar if I really really just have to have one -

[llkb4me 1]

My treadmill is in my DD room, that's why I had to wait for her to go back to school to get it back out. I have a tv in there so watch the news in the am for 15 mins then put on my ipod for 15 mins. Then it's off to get ready for work. I am still doing zumba on thurs too. My gf & I are going to start walking at nights once we get rid of this cold snap.

Laura K

[Great2BThin 5]

Great - OMG YOU LOOK MARVELOUS BABY !!!! You know if the 10 doesn't work you can take the 12 and have it altered...

Love the decorations...

Yep Apples & Great - I know I might offend some pple reading this thread - but as we all know I am all about tough band love - the operative word being love -

I really do believe most pple who drop out of lbt - aren't doing well - it's been my sole support system since I began this journey 5/07

And I go and look at the main mentor thread - and see all these pple asking for a mentor (I will invite them to come and join us) - but they don't come here and we are the most looked at and active thread on the mentor thread page..

Go figure..

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I think you are right about people dropping out not doing well, I sure do miss some of the ones that used to post here and pray that isn't the case. But I love how you dish out the advice, Janet, I have a hard time toning it down a lot of the times, but you do so well. Hence the success of this thread.

[Apples2 19]

JB...just checking to see how you are doing. Been thinking of you

[LittleOleMeinFL 1]

Good evening everyone~~~

Great~ OMW! You look amazing! I really like that dress. It's classy and unique looking. Is the shirt the same color as your eyes? Really nice.

Janet~ We are glad you are like you are. I would rather spend time with other successful bandsters who shoot straight from the hip- than ONE minute with someone who is not doing what they should do and B&Ming that the band failed them. I had to leave my original thread from people who had surgery the same month I did. Everyone was complaining. All the Debbie downers really get on my nerves. Not sure if I told you guys a few weeks back my dr's office called me to see how I was b/c I hadn't been in since Sept.. They have a lot of people get off track over the holidays and call to see if you need to come in. DH said, you should have said "yeah, not doing too well, weight is around 400!" I am not that quick. : )

Apples~ I can only imagine how the unsolicited comments can bother you. My BFF is 5'9" and about 118 lbs. She has been this weight since 18 except when she was pregnant and gained 16 lbs with each pregnancy. She eats 5000 calories min. each day. People don't think twice about commenting on her weight. I remember when she was 6 months pregnant we went to get her some preggo jeans. The lady came over to me and patted my tummy and asked "when are you due?!" My friend was more upset than me. But people don't think before speaking. It's just so rude. I know you are excited about coming to FL! I really hope the weather warms before you come!

Laura K~ congrats on the exercise! wtg!

We survived yet another birthday party. DH went with me today, which made it much more tolerable. It was at the local bowling alley which entertained them more than the other party. The mother of the kid's is a surgeon and the father is a nurse practitioner. A lot of their friends were also in the medical field, so DH knew a lot of the fathers. Nels got to see his GF, Alexia. He was soooo happy! They were really cute bowling next to each other. : ) Her birthday is next Sunday and we will be in Miami that weekend for a conference. I know the little guy is bummed to miss it. We will get her a present anyways. The only thing I ate today for lunch was the top off of one tiny slice of cheese pizza. Tonight we had grilled marinated lamb chops and couscous with a Moroccan chickpea stew.

I hope everyone had a good weekend. I will check in tomorrow! peasout... Laura

[IndioGirl55 32]

Thanks gang - I think that we are all like minded in our approach to the band - none of us thought it was the magic wand..

So newbies & guess reading this post - we don't want to be mean and turn you off - we really are here to help - but you do have to want to help yourself too - Sorry to say the band isn't going to do it all by it's self..

But we are here to support you - give you advice - let you rant - rave and tell us all about the good stuff too..

Laura - glad you had a good time at the party - when I was 3 and 4 & 5 we went to the same beach house every yr and so did another family - there son was my bf ;0) Johnny was his name..

Apples - I pm'd Judy the other day - she's sad but doing as well as can be expected - told me to give Angel a hug from her Aunt Judy...

We should all p.m. her again - don't want her turning to food in her grief

ok I want to reply more - Laurak wtg on your exercise plan but I gotta go start dinner & lunch for the week

cbl

[Great2BThin 5]

Good evening!

Laura, my eyes are a weird green/blue color sometimes they look blue and sometimes green. I call them green. But DD really liked that blue on me as it brought out my eyes. I also tried on that top with the skirt in red. DH really liked the red, but I was afraid of that being too bold of a color. Decision was made when they couldn't get it in any size but a 6. I could button the 6 but couldn't breathe. LOL

Too cute about Nelson and his girlfriend.

JB, been thinking about your and your loss. Hope each day is getting easier for you.

Phyl, Dang, I just can't catch your scores in Suduko! But I will one of these games.

Well my leg is pretty achy tonight. Probably a little too much mall. DH & DD were so good to me though. DD would run ahead and find where the dress depts were in the store before I walked all over and DH would move the car near that store/door. So I don't htink I really overdid it, but definitely did it to the max. Therapy tomorrow might be a challenge and taking Grandma shopping and to lunch. Unless she cancels on me again, she's been doing that a lot lately. I think really she'd be happy if she never had to leave her apartment. She's getting so she hates to go out. I can sortta understand it and it's hard for her, but don't want her to get too depressed or give up either. She's fully capable of small trips out.

[Charlene K 1]

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