A lot of congratulations due this morning! Bette Jo.... you showed such maturity dealing with 'the bitch'. Way to go, and with the pizza as well, you are gaining control over way more than food. Strange how when you take back control of one thing, it seems to spread into other areas of your life. You are getting stronger in every way, so happy for you! Julie, what a great dress...you look terrific. Too bad you weren't feeling as good as you looked! Good luck at the doctor today. I'll bet Mike is mighty proud of you. Way to go. Rhonda I loved your dog, but it's nice that we are getting a chance to meet you, too. Megan I agree, enjoy your night out..... no need to quit doing/eating all the things you love. Just remember, it's a once in a while thing, and enjoy. (you don't have to go completely crazy with it.... you can still enjoy your faves... maybe take home half for dinner the next night?) Most of all, don't ruin your evening worrying about it.

Originally Posted by Bette Jo

Good Morning!
I am proud to say I have been back on track for two days now! It has been a rough week! I have let my emotional eating get the best of me! First we were camping last weekend! I was so bad! Then we get home, and I go back on track! Then my dog, Bear, passed away suddenly and I went on another binge!
Yesterday, we had our begining of the year meeting at work. I don't like going in there. There is one co-worker that has been horrible to me almost from the day she started. She has done so many horrible things to me. I hardly go in there because of it. Even a few weeks ago, when the Branch Manager was on vacation and my hubby was in charge, she came in and started flipping out on him about how I was spreading rumors about her. I don't go in there, I hardly see any of the people that work there! Hubby called the branch manager and he talked to her, she couldn't tell him what I had said or who had told her I said it. She finally admitted to the boss, she had been treating me the way she did since she started because she had been told by another co-worker she better watch what she said around me and my husband because we were back-biters. She knew she could not treat my husband bad since he is also a boss, so she took her crap out on me. She judged me without even knowing me. He told her she needed to apologize to both my husband and me for her crap! Well she had apologized to my hubby and she said that she would be aplogizing to me when we had our meeting! Guess what NO apology! Do I care? Not really because if it is a forced apology and not a sincere one it doesn't mean anything anyways! I think I burst her bubble yesterday, she always does and says things to make herself the center of attention. Yesterday, just being me I felt like the Queen of the Ball! When I first got there for the meeting and I was walking in the door, the boss looked at me funny for a minute and then he smiled and said I love your haircut, I did'n't even recogize you! Everyone loved my haircut and many said I looked 10 years younger! My friend Ruthie was like, Girl, you are melting away! I will not let her get to me like I use too! It is not worth it! I am me and I am proud of me and I don't have to stoop to crap to try to make someone else look bad in order to try to make myself look good!
They ordered pizza for after the meeting and I knew ahead of time, so I took a salad with me and I ate one piece of pizza, so all was good there!
I don't know what the scales will show on weigh in, but I am good with it, because I know I flubbed up, but now I am back on track!
Hope you are all having a great week!
Biggest HUGS to all of my amazing Buddies!

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WOOHOO! Way to go girl! The lady in your office sounds like she has the mentality of a junior high student.

Dont worry about what the scale says! You have been thru alot in a short period of time. You just hang in there. Focus on yourself and how you feel. All the rest will fall into place when its supposed to.

Originally Posted by 11874

Just wanted to post a quick picture of me from last night's meet the teachers night. MY hubby took it before I left the house.

JULIE! You look terrific!

Good afternoon all you fabulous Heartbreakers!!

I hope that each of you is having a terrific day. It's almost the end of the week ladies. I want to let you all know how I feel about the teams and weighing in. I believe that you are more than a number. More than the lbs you lose or gain or maintain. Sure we are in a competition to be the "losers" every week,but what is sincerely more important to me is how you feel at the end of each day...at the end of the week. What makes this team great in my eyes is the love & support we give each other no matter what happens on Saturdays. If you gain 5 lbs and you are upset, I totally understand, but I am gonna be right here helping you thru whatever is going on in your life whether its a good week or a bad one. I don't know all the answers myself and neither does anyone else on the team, but collectively we know a whole hell of alot!

I just wanted everyone to know you are doing a wonderful job. With not only losing weight, but with helping each other & having very positive attitudes.

For those of you having a bad day or a bad week, come on in, take your shoes off & lets have a cup of coffee or some iced tea. Its all gonna be ok because tomorrow truly is a new & amazing day.

Originally Posted by 11482

Julie[/b], what a great dress...you look terrific. Too bad you weren't feeling as good as you looked! Good luck at the doctor today. I'll bet Mike is mighty proud of you. Way to go.

Thank you! Actually it is a skirt and a black tank top. I was going to wear black heels that I found in my closet but without stockings they were too big.

Originally Posted by 12024

Good afternoon all you fabulous Heartbreakers!!

I hope that each of you is having a terrific day. It's almost the end of the week ladies. I want to let you all know how I feel about the teams and weighing in. I believe that you are more than a number. More than the lbs you lose or gain or maintain. Sure we are in a competition to be the "losers" every week,but what is sincerely more important to me is how you feel at the end of each day...at the end of the week. What makes this team great in my eyes is the love & support we give each other no matter what happens on Saturdays. If you gain 5 lbs and you are upset, I totally understand, but I am gonna be right here helping you thru whatever is going on in your life whether its a good week or a bad one. I don't know all the answers myself and neither does anyone else on the team, but collectively we know a whole hell of alot!

I just wanted everyone to know you are doing a wonderful job. With not only losing weight, but with helping each other & having very positive attitudes.

For those of you having a bad day or a bad week, come on in, take your shoes off & lets have a cup of coffee or some iced tea. Its all gonna be ok because tomorrow truly is a new & amazing day.

That is an amazing post Tiffany! Thank you! I needed that today!

Ok, so I am back from the doctor with news. I was right all along, I have arthritis in my knee pretty bad arthritis. I was told no walking for a few more days. My doctor said that if it gets worse to let him know. I am going nuts with not being able to do my walking as much as I have been. But I think my body does need the rest.
On other news... I got an unexpected visit today. TOM showed its ugly head two weeks earlier than I thought that it would be here. I guess it is a good thing it is coming more "regularly" about every other month, but I have so much work to do on my classroom tomorrow I don't know how I am going to get it done. My first full day is always really bad, and the poor art teacher is going to have to deal with me cuz he is driving tomorrow! So i am thinking that maybe my craving for salty chips earlier this week was due to me getting my TOM. That would make sense. It doesn't really explain the being tired in the afternoons, but the doctor said it could be due to the bit of depression I have been experiencing.

So I guess I had an ok day. I am glad to know what is wrong with my knee but also sad to know that it is something that isn't going to go away completely and that will hinder my walking for a long time to come. The hard thing is that there isn't a lot to take for it at least for me right now in case I end up pregnant on my own. I can't be on a lot of the meds.
Well I am off to lay down on the couch for a while, darn TOM!!!!

Hi ladies!! Sorry I haven't been on to much this week I've had a heck of a week at work it's been swamped and my co worker doesn't help me at all! (We're the only two in the department), so when I get home at night I'm exhausted I eat dinner and go to bed. Except last night I had to go shopping after work to get Kylie some gym shoes she can leave at school. These schools require so much! I had to work early today and I only got about 4 1/2 hours of sleep so I didn't exercise this morning and I have to work the same shift tomorrow so I don't know if I'll be able to exercise tomorrow morning or not. Maybe I can exercise after work since I'm working a shorter shift tomorrow. Julie I hope you feel better soon, you look awesome in you pic! Betty Jo, don't let that woman get to you I used to have a co worker who harassed me all the time too, if you show them it doesn't bother you that irritates the heck out of them! Tiffany I loved your post you're such a good leader! Megan, it's about moderation not deprivation! If you give up all the foods you love then you won't stick to this. Maybe you can consider this a cheat night? I'm gonna go now, sorry this was so long!

Hope everyone is having a good week! Mine started off pretty crappy, but I can't let my feelings rule my eating! That is how I gained all the weight in the first place. I know I will still have bad days, maybe even bad weeks, but hopefully less and less of them. That (bitch) at work use to get to me, but I'm not letting her anymore. I use to go in to work inbetween runs on some Fridays and go to lunch with my hubby, but I quit doing it because of her. Well when the new school year starts, I am going to start doing it again. I enjoy seeing my hubby and going to lunch and I enjoy most of my co-workers company so I am not going to let her ruin what I enjoy anymore! Then the crap with my oldest sister being so rotten because she doesn't think I go see my mother enough, well I know I love my mother, and my mother knows I love her and I go to see her as often as I can, it is not up to her to worry about my relationship with my mother it is up to me. She is not going to get to me any more either.
I have been totally back on track for 3 days now and while I can't promise a loss, I will be happy with a maintain. I have been here for over two years now, and I really thought I would have reached my goal by this point, but I haven't but I have lost 96 lbs. I will reach my goal no matter how long it takes me!
You are all a wonderful bunch of buddies and I wouldn't be where I am at now if it weren't for all of your support, inspiration, and motivation!
Big HUGSG!

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Hi There Heartbreakers,

Hope You All Had A Great Day. Prayers Are Needed Over Here Becuase Looks Like A Hurricane Is Headed Our Way And People Are Alreadyleaving New Orleans. So If You Dont Hearfrom My By Monday More Than Likley It Hashit Us And The Eletric Is Probable Out.


But Other Than That I Have Had A Wonderful Day.

Laterz