Hi! I am starting this so I can get journal type conversation out of my first post! I will copy stuff our of my last pot into here so I can start this thread where the first one left off.


Beth, I am doing well today. We wend to Curves for the first time yesterday and although Darlene was still fatigued from the flue she thinks she can do it once she beats this bug. SHe is permenently disabled since the death of her 28 year old son in 2001 and she need to loose weight to help her heath problems she is taking 19 different perscriptions and I hope that if she can join me ( you know she tried to talk me out of helping her join?) She can still tell me no if she dosn't want to join but she really does.

r-D, Darlene is on dissability with no other support than SS and a small ammount of insurance money left from when her Son's life insurance. I would NEVER dream of asking her to pay for anything that would keep her from paying other important things like her mortgage and car insurance. Although you have a good point about most people, Darlene is not most people and she needs to go more than I do. It will help me to go just to know that she is getting the excersise she needs to help her health problems.

I am heading out today to Curves for another free visit and to the mall Bath and Body Works is having some great new sales! I also have two gift cards to Pier One buring a hole in my pocket!

That is so sweet and kind of you and your right - you will feel good knowing your helping someone else as well :D

Have a great weekend :)

OK today is going to be crazy but I am going to follow my 90/10 rule. Being good 90% of the time and allowing my self treats 10% of the time. Tonight I am going to be tempted but I will keep it down to a serving size I think I will be ok. Tonight we are going to play Magic the Gathering with some friend of ours. I hope the weather stays good. Well I hope your weekends are good and I will write more after my appointment with diettion Monday.

Candice

CandiceH:


:welcome:

Glad to see you like going to curves and it's always great to go with someone else. That is so sweet of you to help out your friend.
Have a great day.

Judy2:ex:

Hope you enjoyed your Curves today and trip to the mall! :) You've made a great start on your journey by helping a friend and it IS nice to have someone to exercise with!

Today just bites! So did yesterday. I feel like a druggie who just stopped doing crack. I am moody and I am emotional and on top of all of these changes my DH gets into a mood and totaly rearranges the living room furniture so now everything is a mess. The pictures I put on the wall all have to be moved because the furniture dosn't fit between them the paintings have to me shifted and new holes drilled. I HATE THIS. X-( I don't want to scream and yell at him it won't help the situation but I can't discuss it rationally either because I am so angry. All I can do is cry. WHY DID HE HAVE TO DO THIS THIS WEEK????? I just want to grab the quart of icecream and let it all go. I would be able to handel this so much better if I could just eat. I want to curse at him and hit him and throw things at him, and that is not me. I know I would be ok if I could just have my Vinti White chocolate mocha at Star Bucks. I just want to scream. And now that DH has left the house I have but I am not feeling any better. I am normaly a very positive person.......what is wrong with me??? :c( Tell me why shouldn't I just give in? I would be nicer, I could cope better, I would feel better. Why not?

:) Well I gave in a little. Hubby, to appease me, said we coudl buy a new entertainment center so we could make things fit in the living room again so in the car I went 50 miles to the store that had the one i wanted. Well my friend Darlene went with me and after we got the sucker loaded we saw the chineese restraunt in the same plaza. Wow was it good. I wonder if there is something about fat that works with your brain chemistry becasue after a week fo low fat I was muddle headded and just fuzzy in my thinking. After eating a butter and fried chineese dinner I am clear headed and fell like I could out think anyone. I am emptying out the old tv amoir that I had in college and getting ready to put together the new center and for the first time all week I am ready to get back to work on my current wedding pictures. So after I check in here I edit some reception pictures, head to curves and then when hubby get's home we put together the new ECenter. So I am feeling more content and better ready to tackle all of the tough jobs that come with rearranging your livingroom. Hope you day is well!

It's been a few days since I have written. I have been working on finished up that wedding so I can get the proofs ordered by the end of the week.

Well it took about 6 hours but we finished the entertainment center and I got the electronics all hooked back up and working. I wish my camera battery was charged so I could show you a picture. I have the top all decorated for Valentines day and it looks really great. I have a few more cluttery areas to pick up in the room and then once I vacuum the room all will be back to normal there. Then I tackle the kitchen and get the living room stuff, that was dumped on the kitchen table, put away I will feel much better about my surroundings. I am so sore from lifting the building that I did't make it to Curves yesterday and I hope to get there this afternoon. I found out something great! Frechetta thin crust pizza is really great calorie wise. Only 400 calories for 1/4 of the entire pizza. I was thrilled. The first day I put together "The Thing" Hubby and I got pizza because I was so tired. I was impressed how much I got for the calories. I think thin crust will be my personal choice from now on.

Well I expect to not be as good this weekend. Hubby and I am going to a weekend tournament for a Collectable card game called Magic The Gathering. It is similar to Pokemon in the way that you buy cards and build decks to play against others. We have a large collection of cards and this tournament is called a pre release where a new set of cards is used in this tournament and you get cards from the new set before their are available to buy. We have a hotel room reserved downtown Indianapolis and we should have a good time.

Well hubby is working from home today and is ready for lunch. Have a great weekend all and I will be back Monday.

Oh boy what a weekend. We didn't win to much but like I said I was going to, I blew my healthy eating. I am back at it again but I find I am wanting to get back into old habits like comfy pajamas at christmas. I want to crawl in and nap peacefully. I know I need to get back to healthy stuff but for some reason Mac and Cheese has been haunting my dreams. (no kidding I actualy dreamed of eating Mac and Cheese) I was good last night and we had some baked salmon and Green Beans but I really wanted Mac and Cheese. I will try to do better today. I am going to Curves today after I finish the last of the reception pictures. I will set them to uplaod and then I will take off. I hope all of you are doing better than I did this weekend. I really miss my foods. I really really want Mac and Cheese.....anyone have a good recipie for low fat Mac and CHeese? That would be so great.

You're not alone, I was really bad this weekend too and like yourself I LOVE mac & cheese. I haven't had any in a while so it's getting easier to resist. Just hang in there, the cravings will get better :)

Hi Candice. I can relate to your difficulty sticking to a diet plan. When I feel stressed, depressed, bored, or tired I feel a compulsive need to eat......the wrong foods. It is partly due to habit. I learned this habit of pleasing myself with food, whenever I feel a need for nurturing. I have to keep reminding myself that its no treat to continue being overweight. It really does not make me happy, and actually makes me feel worse about myself. So I am trying to unlearn the old habits and learn some new healthier habits. It helps to think of some way to pamper myself in a way that doesn't involve eating......like reading a good book, taking a long bath, etc......anything pleasurable that doesn't involve food. 8-|

Hello everyone! Well today shoulde be a better day. Hubby is working from home today (which holds me more accountable) and I went grocery shopping yesterday and got a bunch of fresh fruit and veggies to help. I think part of my problem is my monthly visitor it came and stayed ALL MONTH. UGH! I think if I would have had more water too I wouldn't feel as starved.

Linda, thanks for the advice and the reminder. I need to get back to the 90% of my diet and forget about the 10% for a while. It is so easy to make excuses when you are not home or preoccupied.

I have finaly finished the 300 proofs for my bride and groom. I am just starting to work on their album. I have attached a link to the first page of the album so you can see what it will look like. It took forever to inlay the pictures of them on the christmas balls. Tell me what you think.


http://chaase.home.insightbb.com/page1.jpg

Well hope you all are doing better than I have been. Have a great weekend.

Candice

Well I go pick up the kiddos today. I think I am going to stop at my favorite restraunt on the way though. Qudoba Mexican Grill. Their Buritos are a very healthyful choice with fresh salsa and veggies with grilled chicken and Celintro Lime rice. Yum. I hope it dosn't breat the bank calorie wise but I have been thinking. The more shortcuts I take during this year. Low fat sour cream, low fat margirine instead of butter, whole grains and brown rice instead of white, NO sugar drinks of any kind, think crust pizza instead of pan, lots of water, ect. The easier it will be to loose this weight and not totaly give up all the foods I like. I wonder how that will work out? Well I guess we will see.

Hey! Didn't anyone like my picture? I really would like some opinions. Hope you all have a great weekend!

its very pretty picture, they look happy together. You sound like your having some real problems getting used to it. Some of the strongest advice i have got on here, and from everywhere is to think of food not as a means to fight anger or to deal with stress but as somthing we need to live. I also try to think about starving children when im over eating, and think, why should i scoff away my problems when they dsont get the option. WQe all travle on a journey on this site. once you have really got into healthy eating, u realise u can replace cravings with better food, that taste just as nice. You have already lost 2lbs which is great, just keep going.....
i hope the advice is ok, i just hope you can achieve somthing u really want. :-)

Well the weekend turned out pretty well. The kids were here and I always do better when my kids are with me. I want to feed them healthy stuff since they don't get that stuff at their mom's house, so I work extra hard to get veggies and good fresh stuff in their diet. I feel like I am coming down with something though. I have this tickle in the back of my throat and I have had a headache on and off for two days. I hope I am not getting too sick. Well I will take some extra vit. C tonight and hopefully that will help some. Oh good news! My sister called and she is 2 CM dilated and coudl have my baby niece any time now. She was 2 CM with Russell my nephew for almost 2 weeks before she delivered so we are not sitting on the edge of our chair but I can hardly wait to see her beautiful face.

Hope you all had a good weekend. Talk to you all tomorrow night at chat.

Well I have Bronchitis, Sinustitis, and an ear infection. I am on 4 medications and one in a inhailer and boy I am so not hungry. I hate the feeling of being sick but I must say I have always lost the most weight when i am sick so I almost welcome the lack of appitite in exchange for feeling crappy. :D I am feeling a little better thanks to RX drugs but I need the inhailer a couple of times a day so it dosen't feel like there is a mack truck on my chest.

I recently posted the completed album I am working on for the newleywed couple who's wedding I did at new years.......thought you might like to see it.

http://www.gardenrose.net/braggalbum.htm

I go to get my kiddos again today. Hope you have a great weekend!

Candice