Hello everyone. I hope all of you are doing Ok. It was a terrible thing that happened today. My heart goes out to all of you.

I start TOPS on Monday. Wish me luck. They want me to look after the books already. I got a phone call from one of the girls and she said the other lady want to give it up. She has been doing it for 3 or 4 years and wants to stop doing it. I do audits all the time at work so I dont' mind doing it at all. And they found out that I do alot of crafts and they want me to teach them some quick ones? I'll have to look in my craft books and see if I can come up with a Valentine's one? Got any ideas?

I ended up walking 42 miles this month. Not bad for someone who thinks she does not have any time for herself. I even got my hubby to come on more with me.

Good luck to everyone in FEB.KIM

Good Luck Kim

I hope Feb. is good to you.

By the way, where is Sydenham? I'm near Windsor.

Just curious.

Darlene :hippy:

Sydenham is about 15 minutes north of Kingston Ontario. Hi Darlene. Good luck to you this month.

I'm going for 2 different walks today. One with the Hubby and dog and the other one is for me. I go for this one to do all my thinking. I've come up with an idea to form a local group to do with weight loss and to help build peoples self esteem. I have not worked out all my deals. I've got to sit down today and tomorrow and write it all out. I've got an appointment with a very good friend of mine who owns one of the businesses here and I'm going to run my idea by her and a few other woman in our village to see if they will help me get started. I give her a breaf idea of what I wanted to talk to her about and she thinks it is a wonderful idea and we should have started it a long time ago. I'll let you know more about it if we do anything.

If the freezing rain holds off I'll be heading out to my first TOPS meeting tonight. I hope I get to go. If not I'll have to wait until next Monday. Wish me luck.

Went to the TOPS meeting last night. Boring. I hope next week is better. My first weigh in with clothes on at night was 154.5 pounds. I'd rather be weighed in the morning. Becasue you weigh less when you first get up. Oh well, I guess in a way it is your true weight if you take off about 2 pounds for clothes.
Hubby took a photo of me before I left to do a before and after photo of me. I would like to lose about 25 more pounds.
About 5 years ago I was 178. When I started with you people I must have been about 168 not 164 like I thought. Oh well, My scale is about 2 pounds off she said. So what ever I weigh at home I have to add 2 pounds to it. I did not like that to much. Oh well. On to it.

Hi everyone. I had a great day. I finished work at a good time and I got all my stuff donebefore I went to Curves for women. I had a great time. If you ever get a chance to go do it. Take a friend with you. I know here in Canada at the moment it is free for a week. Give it a try. I did and I liked it. I can kill to birds with one stone and come in to the city and do my stuff first and then drop in there on my way home. They don't have showers there so I would make that my last thing to do.
Right now if you join there is a few different fees for different things that you only pay once. after that it is 39.00 a month. You can go 6 days a week and as many times a day as you want also but they are 1/2 hour sessions. I'm talking it over with hubby tonight and I will see what he says. I'm going to pay for it myself and I think it will money well spent. I hope some of you give it a try.

Curves was wonderful. If I had the money I would buy a franchise. It is not affordable for me at this time but I loved it. If any of you get the chance to go with someone or just book yourself an appointment and just try it. I'm still feeling great today. I don't feel tired at all. It is like I can still feel my workout. I'm going to try and do some of the same ideas at home the best I can.

Hi everyone. Hope all of you are well. I had a good morning. Have to take one of my daughter's to ortho appointment this afternoon. I go to the TOPS meeting tonight. Hope it's better then last week. I don't think I had any weight loss this week.I hope so. I will let you know tomorrow. Wish me luck.

Well the meeting was not to bad. We played a game. You had to answer about 30 questions about how well or how badly you ate that day. You got points taken away for bad habits and you got points for good habit. I came in 2nd overall. I don't think that was to bad. I hope I do better next time so I can win a prize.
I'm still at the same weight at 154.5 no change at all.

Had a very busy morning at work. Then I got the groceries and did a bit of stuff around the house and then tonight was my youngest daughter's turn to go to the High School and find out all about grade 9. She said that she does not want to grow up and head there. She is the one that I thought would jump at the chance to see and do 500 new things. She always told me when she was little that she was never going to leave home.
It's funny, I'm not afraid of them heading for High School it's after that when they move away from home that I will be worried about them. I went straight from high school and at home for a year after to being married with a job so I've always had somone there with me. I just want them to grow up knowing if they change their minds and want to move back home I would rather see them come back until they think they are ready rather then not coping at all well in the real world. Then I know that they would be safe and happy until they make up their minds.

Hello everyone. Hope all is well? I had a busy morning at work. Came home and took the dog for a walk. We are going curling this Saturday. We do this once a year with the people from hubby's work. And then we have a big dinner after we are all done. I guess this year I will have to be more careful on what I choose to eat.
So far this week I don't see the scale moving. I twisted my knee last night at the High School and it is still sore. I still went for my walk today though. I thought I should try and keep it up even though it is sore.

Hey Kim! I hope your knee isn't hurt too badly!

Good Luck at the big dinner! I know how hard it is to make good choices at social events like these, but I have faith in you!

-Lindsey

Thanks Lindsey. Hope you are well. Well I've had a hard time with this knee. I only got a few small walks in this week. Not as many as I should have. I did do 2 games of curling but I had to have my knee wrapped up the whole time. When I got home I went straight for the tub and had a nice soak.
I woke up this morning to -22 here. I took the dog out to do her business I think it's the fastest I've seen her do it. And also trying to do it on 3 legs at a time. It was to cold for her feet. That is a sign that I can't take her with me for the walks because her feet can't take the cold.
I think today I should keep my knee bandaged up again. It still feels a bit weak with nothing on it.

Hello everyone. Hope all of you are fine. I finally got the dog out for her walk. It has been to cold to take her. She can't stand in the cold temps. Anyway we got one in.
Had a busy morning at work. Was glad to get home. Stoped off at the store to get fruit and veggies. I'll go in town to get the big grocery tomorrow. Tonight it dance night with my youngest daughter. She loves it. I would probably trip over my own two feet if I tried it.

Hi everyone. I finished work in good time and had time to get the groceries and have 2 walks today. I wanted to be home tonight when hubby was home. I've been doing some new workouts this past week or so and have not spent much time with him. He is working a bit later and will be home aabout 7 so I will have dinner waiting for him and he can talk my ear off all he wants. I thought since he let me have some time to myself this week to get a jump start on some new exercise that is the least I could do for him.
My work place has not been very happy these days and I'm trying not to bring it home with me. My god it's hard. My boss has been going through alot lately at work with one worker and she keeps telling me all about it. I proably should not even know about it. I don't want to tell her that though because she will think that I don't care. I care what happens to her but not the other person. She has given us nothing but trouble since she came here. We have to put up with her for 4 more years. It's not going to go fast enough. My boos does not know how much more she can take. If you tell on her she just tells the people above us that we are lying and we are the ones that get in troubel and they tell us to get along? That's what we were told at Christmas? It's christmas I want you to get along. That really solved alot. We are back to square one. This woman would be glad that I'm not the boss. I would do a few things different and I would hope that they would get rid of her. I know that is not nice for me to say but you people would have to be a fly on the wall to see how we get talked to.

Well, another not so good day at work. I came home and went for 2 walks. And now I'm here. Hope all of you had a better day then I did. It was a great day today for a walk. I just went out with earmuffs and a big sweater.

Hey Kimberly!

Sorry that you are having a tough time with a co-worker. That always makes work rough.

On the upside, way to go on the walking! You seem to be getting a lot of exercise in! You are doing Great!


-Lindsey

Thanks for the pep talk. I think I need a little everyday at the moment. I've not had a good week. But am trying to get through it. I did not do very well with the eating this week. But I still did get most of the exercise in.
If I get a chance to go to TOPS tomorrow I think that I have gained. I'm sure that I have.
But I woke up this morning and I've talked myself into starting over.