I'm glad you're back and had a productive work vacay!
It's too bad that you have to go back and finish up even more things... but, then again, it's another vacay in disguise!

Do you think you should be looking for a better realtor? One who will actually do what she is paid to do? Or are your options limited?

I do hope that it sells quickly but I feel sad for you that you will miss the place :(
Do you mind me asking what the situation is? I gather that this appartment is in Florida? Why does your MIL want to sell it?
If I'm prying and it's too personal, just tell me and I won't ask. Seriously. I won't be offended.

I'm glad that you only gained one pound! It's so easy to get carried away, isn't it? There are a lot of great meals to be had out there and only one mouth to eat it! lol
It's too bad that the weight gain is at the tail end of the other trip. Don't worry. Just buckle down and you will lose it again.
Let me know what a typical day (for meals) is for you. How much you eat of an item and what do you eat...
I'll try my best to help you .....
We can do this together.

On my front..
I dropped that pesky pound I put on. Yup. My weight is now 154.0 again. I like that.
I have a mini goal of losing 5lbs so that I can be in the 140's. It will be so nice to see that number again. Ah, the memories! lol

I think that I'll be able to make my goal date of mid April. I would like to achieve it asap so that I can maintain it and have a great summer!

Current weight: 154.0
Goal: 140.0
*14.0 lbs to go by mid-April

I wrote an answer, went to type something more the screen froze then just wiped everything out.

You are doing great with your weight loss.

We are selling because my MIL passed away . SIL doesn't want to keep the apt. and it's just too much for us now with daughter in College.

Eating has been measured or weighed before the vacations. now i've got to get back on track. I'm also trying to get exercise into my routine as a habit.. I know without exercise I don't lose weight. I'm also, dealing with new medication for my thyroid also. So , So far so good.

I ate a bit too much starch & salt yesterday... Had chinese food for lunch. only gained .8lb not bad as before I would gain 2 or more lbs. Ok that's where i'm at right now. With the two vacations and eating out not having the scale at the apt. I tried to eat carefully but did eat bigger portions at times. I ate what i wanted when i was hungry... walked and tried not to over eat, eat decent foods. Did have deserts at times. :).

As for the realtor we can;t get a new one for 6 months. that's how long the contract we signed is for . I'm hope that now that we communicated by e mail with her she will go ahead and take care of things.

still 154.0 lbs
lol..... I had Chinese for dinner. And I also overate the starch. I made it myself and used rice noodles but they were soooooo starchy! I had no idea that they would be like that. Of course, I did overeat them as well.
It was delicious!

I'm sorry to hear about your MIL... I hope she lived to a ripe old age and that she passed peacefully.
My children are in highschool and grade school. We are already getting a little stressed about the oldest going to university. It will be in three years and the tuition is only going up. Yikes.

Here's hoping for a better day today.

You are doing great with your weight.
Yes MIL lived into her 80's. Problem following surgery caused her death. :(.
We started a plan for our daughter for univ when she was little...however, it didn't live up to what was promised. We would have been better off saving on our own.

I hear you about overeating on the starch.. I did that when we bought the chinese food. the rice was so good I ate more than I should... at least, my weight is staying the same. hopefully with my babysteps of getting exercise in i will get back on track.

You are doing great since, you said you ate to much starch (noodles) you didnt' gain any weight ... keep up the great job you are doing.

I agree here's hoping for a better day.

I had to run out of town for a meeting yesterday with DH, first thing in the morning! So I didn't get a chance to post.
I stayed the same... 154.0 lbs. It's starting to sound like a broken record.

Today, however, I have dropped 0.5 lbs overnight!!!! Yes!!!!! This is the lowest I've been since I started this journey again.
153.5 lbs...

Now I have to lose 4 lbs to get into the 140's... as in 149.5. lol
That's my mini goal and I hope I can do it quickly so that I can make another mini goal and achieve my ultimate goal of 140 before my birthday. Actually, I want to achieve it a lot sooner so that I am already at that weight and maintaining.

I'm so sorry that you guys had to go through such a rough time with your MIL's passing. It's never easy either way...
I'm sure she lived a wonderful long life filled with happiness and laughter.

Also, I'm shocked that your savings for your D's college didn't live up to the expectations you had hoped for. That has to be so devastating. I would be livid about it!

I hope all is well with you and that you are either maintaining or losing. AND LET'S STAY AWAY FROM THE CARBS!!!!!!!

Current: 153.5
Goal: 140.0
*13.5 lbs to go by mid-April
** these are the pesky pounds. sigh.

Guess what, Zee????
I dropped another 0.5 lbs!!!!
My new weight is 153.0 lbs...
I'm getting closer and closer. It makes me wonder if I might have lost even more weight if I hadn't have had that popcorn binge last night! lol

How are you doing???

You still haven't described a typical day for you (eating wise). I can try to help you do what I do to lose weight.

Current weight: 153.0
Goal:140.0
*13.0 lbs to go

**3.5 lbs to my mini-goal

153.0 and feeling good about it!
I ate potato chips last night while watching a movie. I knew I shouldn't as my allowance was already done for the day yet, I did it knowingly. And I knew I would gain by today and it didn't seem to bother me. I just kept eating them. I gave up and enjoyed myself.

Needless to say, I was very surprised that it didn't s how up on the scale.

How are things with you?
Are you okay??
Haven't heard from you from a long time.... well, a few days anyways.

things have been hectic.. had to bring the car in for repair. didn't go on Wed. as the appt was earlier , (hubby had said anytime that day) Good thing I checked. went on Thur. dropped it off , got a loaner(rental car) didn't hear from them thur. evening. (rental had to be back on Fri) they said they were test driving the car. was on the phone for hours it seemed. turns out the part didn't fix the problem and will get a call on Monday when it will be ready. .they need to replace the transmission. the car is under 2 years old. -

I am so happy you are doing great with your eating.

my days aren't typical right now.
I try to eat: one of the following
cottage cheese and fruit , yogurt or two homemade oatmeal pancakes.

i've been skipping morning snack at times
lunch lately has been left overs try to eat a very small portion.. or a turkey /ham/cheese sandwich ..
dinner is all over the place.
last night it was a roast beef sandwich with cheese and mayo. hubby made me dinner on a roll

snack is usually a fiberone bar or a gnu fiber bar. at night or during the day

i've got to get back to eating my snacks i guess. I've been trying to watch my carbs. do my own version right now of carb cycling. just not getting the food correct right now.

Having trouble with the exercise too. do a few days in a row then skip a couple of days. Most days i'm getting in my 10,000 steps. some i go way over others i'm below. I'd have to check my log book to see how many days in a row I've gotten 10,000.

Sorry I ve been a little lax on logging in here. I've been busy with the car then yesterday i shoveled snow for 90 mins. got in was so exhausted i couldn't move. just read my book all afternoon and evening.

Weighed in today after drinking so it's up a bit. Will try to weigh in tomorrow without drinking LOL
eating not great yesterday. Was in all day will be in all day today. So I ate:
breakfast: an eggo breakfast sandwich
snack; cottage cheese and pineapple
lunch: don't remember.. i know in the afternoon I had a piece of ham slice of bread with sunbutter and 1/2 banana.
dinner : was bean soup added some sour cream less than a tbsp of asiago cheese
Night snack: Ice cream /pound cake. didn't measure :(. But it wasn't as big as I would normally take

I did Exercise for a bit.
When I first get into exercising I've noticed I eat a bit more and let go with snacks or seem to crave them more.
this time it was the same. Trying to work on that while getting exercise as a habit.
Hope you are doing well.

HI Zee!!!
Sorry for not being around lately. I've been under the weather. I finally got a full fledged head cold on Sunday morning and have still been trying to fight it. Thankfully my symptoms are not as bad as they could be... judging from DH a;nd DS. I rested as much as I could yesterday.. at least I put my feet up and watched tele for a while in the afternoon. That's something that I just don't do as often as i should.

My weight has stayed the same and had gone up one pound during this time. So.. yesterday I was 154.0 (up one pound) and today I was 152.5! Down a pound and a half!!!
This is the lowest on this journey

**12.5 lbs to go to reach my goal. I'm sooooooooo excited!
I hope I can continue with this. I know that the last 10 lbs are hard to lose and I feel like I'm in that battle already!

Maybe I should do a detox and cleanse my system... give my body a boost in the weightloss efforts!
Hmmm.... I might actually do it on Thursday and Friday!

up a half pound.... this is going to be the battle now. Up and down. Agh. These last pesky pounds!
Mind you, I'm sure it didn't help that I was gorging on some yummy food yesterday... and I mean gorging!
I'm actually surprised that my weight is not up more than that.

How are you doing?
I'm going to do a detox as soon as I can. I'm still under the weather and I'm not sure that it's a good idea for me to do a detox.

Shy you are doing great with the weight loss. Let me know how the dextox goes. I guess we all get to a point where we go up/down looks like you are still going down even with the yo yoing. Do you weigh every day?

I'm not doing that great seem to be staying above 175 lbs. :(. Have been exercising or trying to move around more. .seems the days i've done exercise i'm not always getting in my 10,000 steps/ :(. everything will balance in time. Just take baby steps. have to eat better too. We had Chinese food for dinner last night. that's very salty. didn't eat to much and only went up about .2 . so considering that's a normal fluctuation I'm ok. I used to gain 2 or more lbs with this food.

Hope you are feeling better soon. I am happy that your family gave you time to relax and get better. Let me know how you are doing.

I'm glad that you are getting a handle on your eating! I hear you....
i, too, would eat Chinese (noodles/rice) and gain so much weight afterwards. It's nice to hear that your weight is finding an equilibrium! I hope this happens all the time for you. I hope you can eat whatever you want and not gain too much afterwards... this will help in your motivation and drive to keep at the weight loss journey.

Me...
I am happy to report that I dropped weight. I dropped 1 lb. I had gone up half a pound.

New weight: 152.0
Goal: 140.0

**12.0 lb to go (mid april)

BTW... I'm still sick. I think it's a little bit of sinus and a sore throat to boot! Actually, I think I'm getting more sick... I've started sneezing this morning. I think I'm going to have a full fledged head cold.

152.0 lbs
Still a little sick but not as bad. Unfortunately, DS is quite sick and i've been busy taking care of him. He went to school today... he literally begged to go. I guess he's feeling better. I suppose the two days of antibiotics in his system did him good... five more days to go.

This is going to be a busy day. Both DD's are home since they just finished their exams and about to start a new semester on Monday. They've got to get their stuff ready for monday.
I told them each to pick something that they've wanted to do and I will help them if needed. It could be anything from organizing their closets (messy) to a project. Whatever.

I think they have ideas already.
I have to go to Michaels and buy knitting needles... one particular type that I seemed to have lost half of. I need it to finish off a sweater I started over 20 years ago. lol. seriously. It's back in fashion big time and I'm going to finish it for my daughter.
I know.... I'm a real procrastinator!!!!

Hope you have a great day.

I'm hoping that you are feeling better by today. Glad to hear that you re son is back at school I hope the girls don't catch it too. WOW knitting.. Gosh I've not don't that in years too. I have no idea where my knitting needles are either. LOL So happy to hear that you are finishing your sweater and will be able to give it to your daughter . How lovely.

I forgot to come on the last couple of days. it's been very hectic. My cousin died the other day and I was just very overwhelmed. I m so happy I got to see when we were in Fl. I just can't believe it. Also, yesterday I was out all day. had to go to Pa. to get my hubby's car. I was worried since, they were calling for snow and I was driving a loaner car that was huge it was a Dodge caravan. Well, got there and back then food shopping and out to lunch. Did ok with eating i guess. even though I thought I ate too much at my after dinner snack. Phew. I didn't eat the whole lunch. So have a snack for today LOL.
I'm glad you lost your 1 lb. So happy. you said you were going to gevbie a hint of how you are losing the weight.

Hope you are have a great weekend will try to check in tomorrow. Let me know what projects your DD's have picked to do.